Deuteronomy-Devarim 15:19 All the bachor males that come from your herd and from [to] your flock you shall set it apart to YHUH your Elohim:
you shall do no work with the bachor of your herd,
nor shear the bachor of your sheep. RSTNE 7th Red Letter Edition
you shall do no work with the bachor of your herd,
nor shear the bachor of your sheep. RSTNE 7th Red Letter Edition
Studies About Sheep From Scripture
Adon Yahusha The Messiah-Savior is Our Only Good Shepherd. We are His Sheep Who Hear His Voice & Obey His Commandments. He is our redeeming LAMB whom we follow wherever He leads! Our forefathers and patriarchs along with our matriarchs in Yisrael were all shepherds. Our greatest King Messiah along with our greatest earthy kings and prophets were also shepherds. This was part and parcel for their training to be YHUH's servants and His ambassadors. Much of that training has been lost, as we have become urban cowboys and city dwellers. Our family has just recently begun to also do a little sheep care and have begun to connect the fascinating reality of our kings and prophets, with our own experiences with Messiah over the years.
It is never too late to learn what our forefathers both knew and practised in order to better understand and serve YHUH, The Great Shepherd. Our website and tiny homestead is a new chapter in learning His ways, that has escaped us, despite being in the ministry overseeing His flock of born again believers for 35 years. It is never too late and you are never too old to learn new things in our walk with Him. We dedicate our new love for sheep with our long held love that Messiah has for us. In sheep, we see both our darkest realities and our best hopes for a coming peaceful kingdom. We repent for thinking we knew it all and for thinking that having sheep is a silly waste of time. After all, the world today, latter day allegorical Egypt, feels the same contempt for anyone stupid enough to raise sheep. Yet that is exactly what we have been called to do in ministry with human beings!
YHUH's way are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our wayward unstable thoughts (Yeshayahu-Isaiah 55:8-9). Most of what we need to know about The Besorah The Gospel, is found by simply grasping the character and personalities of the sheep, as well as the Shepherd Messiah Yahusha from Nazareth. Without this foundational understanding that sheep are a physical representation of the supernatural world, we will sadly lack one of the most beautiful concepts and themes in Scripture. This Shepherd to sheep relationship, is designed to better help us understand vital connections between His disciples and His love for us as our Shepherd. He guides and protects from wolves-demons and this cruel world. It is our hope that you enjoy this site, as we keep adding insights and understandings.
Adon Yahusha The Messiah-Savior is Our Only Good Shepherd. We are His Sheep Who Hear His Voice & Obey His Commandments. He is our redeeming LAMB whom we follow wherever He leads! Our forefathers and patriarchs along with our matriarchs in Yisrael were all shepherds. Our greatest King Messiah along with our greatest earthy kings and prophets were also shepherds. This was part and parcel for their training to be YHUH's servants and His ambassadors. Much of that training has been lost, as we have become urban cowboys and city dwellers. Our family has just recently begun to also do a little sheep care and have begun to connect the fascinating reality of our kings and prophets, with our own experiences with Messiah over the years.
It is never too late to learn what our forefathers both knew and practised in order to better understand and serve YHUH, The Great Shepherd. Our website and tiny homestead is a new chapter in learning His ways, that has escaped us, despite being in the ministry overseeing His flock of born again believers for 35 years. It is never too late and you are never too old to learn new things in our walk with Him. We dedicate our new love for sheep with our long held love that Messiah has for us. In sheep, we see both our darkest realities and our best hopes for a coming peaceful kingdom. We repent for thinking we knew it all and for thinking that having sheep is a silly waste of time. After all, the world today, latter day allegorical Egypt, feels the same contempt for anyone stupid enough to raise sheep. Yet that is exactly what we have been called to do in ministry with human beings!
YHUH's way are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our wayward unstable thoughts (Yeshayahu-Isaiah 55:8-9). Most of what we need to know about The Besorah The Gospel, is found by simply grasping the character and personalities of the sheep, as well as the Shepherd Messiah Yahusha from Nazareth. Without this foundational understanding that sheep are a physical representation of the supernatural world, we will sadly lack one of the most beautiful concepts and themes in Scripture. This Shepherd to sheep relationship, is designed to better help us understand vital connections between His disciples and His love for us as our Shepherd. He guides and protects from wolves-demons and this cruel world. It is our hope that you enjoy this site, as we keep adding insights and understandings.
The Rejected Shepherd Thru the Bible Dr. J. Vernon McGee
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; and the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? That you shall say, Yout servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. (Genesis 46:31–34)
They had the same problem in Egypt in that day as we had in the western part of the United States. I remember when I was a boy in West Texas that, if a man tried to raise sheep in that area, he was in trouble. He found he didn't have any friends at all, and I mean he was in real trouble. Just so, the Egyptians didn't care for shepherds.
It is interesting that the Word of YAH has had so much to say about shepherds. These people were shepherds who raised their own sheep, and they still do in the land of Israel. "Shepherd" is the figure of speech which is used to describe our Adon Yahusha. He is the Good-Tov Shepherd who gives His life for the sheep. He is the Great-Tov Shepherd of His sheep who watches over them today. He is the Chief Shepherd who is yet to appear a second time. He even calls Himself The Shepherd.
And, my friend, He is an abomination to the world. He is not received today. I am speaking of the real Adon Yahusha. Liberalism has concocted an Adon Yahusha that the world will gladly accept. They have made an idol that doesn't even look like the Adon Yahusha of the Bible. The one they talk about is not virgin-born; He never performed miracles; He did not die for the sins of the world; and He was not raised bodily from the dead. The Adon Yahusha of the liberals never lived. There is no record of an Adon Yahusha like that. The only One we have records of was virgin-born, performed miracles, died for the sins of the world as the Lamb of YAH, calls men to repentance and arose bodily from the grave. That is The Shepherd whom the world doesn't like. He is still an abomination to the world.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; and the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? That you shall say, Yout servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. (Genesis 46:31–34)
They had the same problem in Egypt in that day as we had in the western part of the United States. I remember when I was a boy in West Texas that, if a man tried to raise sheep in that area, he was in trouble. He found he didn't have any friends at all, and I mean he was in real trouble. Just so, the Egyptians didn't care for shepherds.
It is interesting that the Word of YAH has had so much to say about shepherds. These people were shepherds who raised their own sheep, and they still do in the land of Israel. "Shepherd" is the figure of speech which is used to describe our Adon Yahusha. He is the Good-Tov Shepherd who gives His life for the sheep. He is the Great-Tov Shepherd of His sheep who watches over them today. He is the Chief Shepherd who is yet to appear a second time. He even calls Himself The Shepherd.
And, my friend, He is an abomination to the world. He is not received today. I am speaking of the real Adon Yahusha. Liberalism has concocted an Adon Yahusha that the world will gladly accept. They have made an idol that doesn't even look like the Adon Yahusha of the Bible. The one they talk about is not virgin-born; He never performed miracles; He did not die for the sins of the world; and He was not raised bodily from the dead. The Adon Yahusha of the liberals never lived. There is no record of an Adon Yahusha like that. The only One we have records of was virgin-born, performed miracles, died for the sins of the world as the Lamb of YAH, calls men to repentance and arose bodily from the grave. That is The Shepherd whom the world doesn't like. He is still an abomination to the world.
Matthew Chapter 18:
11 For The Ben Ahdahm has come to save that which was lost. [1]
12 So what do you think? If a Man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek that one that has gone astray?
13 And if so be that He finds it, truly I say to you, That He has simcha more over that sheep, than of the ninety-nine who went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Abba who is in the shamayim that one of these little ones should perish. [2]
[1] That’s the whole point of His coming. To seek and rescue Yisrael’s scattered sheep.
[2] The point being that Messiah cares for every lost sheep of Yisrael, including those who still think they are just believing nations.
11 For The Ben Ahdahm has come to save that which was lost. [1]
12 So what do you think? If a Man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek that one that has gone astray?
13 And if so be that He finds it, truly I say to you, That He has simcha more over that sheep, than of the ninety-nine who went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Abba who is in the shamayim that one of these little ones should perish. [2]
[1] That’s the whole point of His coming. To seek and rescue Yisrael’s scattered sheep.
[2] The point being that Messiah cares for every lost sheep of Yisrael, including those who still think they are just believing nations.
Yochanan-John Chapter 10:
1 Ahmein, ahmein, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other derech, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But He that enters in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep.
3 To Him the doorkeeper opens; and the sheep hear His voice: and He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 And when He puts forth His own sheep, He goes before them and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This figure of speech YAH-USHA used with them: but they understood not these things that He spoke to them.
7 Then said YAH-USHA to them again, Ahmein, ahmein, I say to you, I AM the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers: [1] but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I AM the door: by Me if any man enters in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief comes not, but to steal and to kill and to destroy: I AM come that they might have chayim and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I AM the Tov Shepherd: the Tov Shepherd gives His chayim for the sheep.
12 But he that is a hired person and not the Shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away: and the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
13 The hired person runs away, because he is a hired person and cares not for the sheep.
14 I AM the Tov Shepherd and know My sheep and am known by My sheep. [2]
15 As The Abba knows Me, even so I know The Abba: and I lay down My chayim for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring in and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd. [3]
17 Therefore does My Abba love Me, because I lay down My chayim, that I might take it again. [4]
18 No man takes it from Me, but I lay it down by Myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received from My Abba. [5]
19 There was a division therefore again among the Yahudim for these sayings. [6]
20 And many of them said, He has a shed and is meshugas; why do you listen to Him? [7]
21 Others said, These are not the Words of Him that has a shed. Can a shed open the eyes of the blind? [8]
22 And it was at Yahrushalayim at Chanukah and it was winter.
23 And YAH-USHA walked in the Beit HaMikdash in Shlomo’s Porch.
24 Then came the Yahudim around Him and said to Him, How long do You make us doubt? If You are The Moshiach, tell us plainly.
25 YAH-USHA answered them, I told you and you believed not: the works that I do in My Abba’s Name, they bear witness of Me.
26 But you believe not, because you are not My sheep, as I said to you.
27 My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me:
28 And I give to them eternal chayim; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Abba, who gave them to Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to snatch them out of My Abba’s hand.
30 I and My Abba are Echad and in one accord. [9]
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[1] By definition this must include ancient “so-called” eastern masters like Buddha, Confucius and Krishna.
[2] Ezekiel 34:11-31 is where YAH Himself promises to come to earth to look for and find His lost sheep. The speech here is used to alert anyone familiar with Scripture that Messiah Himself is the one who has come to look for and return Yisrael’s wandering exiles back to the fold.
[3] A plain reference to the other fold, or flock of Yisrael, Efrayim-Yisrael, that Messiah says He must bring in by command of The Father. Note that even before He died and arose, He had two existing Yisraelite flocks, not one. Through His mission as the Good Shepherd, both folds will become one.
[4] The Father loves Messiah, because He is faithful to His primary mission of taking two Yisraelite folds and making them one Yisrael, knowing YAH.
[5] The mission to die for both houses is called a commandment by Messiah.
[6] The truth about the true purpose of Messiah's death, which is to restore and regather both houses of Yisrael, brings sharp division among the Jewish community. It seems like whenever Judah hears of YAH’s love for both houses as in Luke 15, it brings out the worst in them. The message of the true kingdom always brings division and those who teach the truth will always be labeled as divisive. Yet it is that message alone that heals and ends vexation and jealousy.
[7] Messiah was called insane and demon-influenced due to His teachings regarding His Shepherd's role in the regathering of both houses of Yisrael. Today, those Jews who proclaim YAH’s plan to reunite non-Jewish Yisrael with Jewish-Yisrael, are also accused of being insane and of promoting a teaching of demons, just like Messiah was accused in this text. Nevertheless, YAH is working in the earth, as more and more Jewish believers are seeing the two-house restoration.
[8] Both houses are being restored as blindness is removed. Judah’s blindness to Messiah and Efrayim’s blindness to Torah and their Hebraic identity, constitutes blindness removed from each house. This is healing and is not a demonic activity as Messiah Himself taught us.
[9] Aramaic: “are of one accord.” Father and Son are both one and in full power and authority sharing in full accord, yet all flows from The Father to Messiah.
1 Ahmein, ahmein, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other derech, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But He that enters in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep.
3 To Him the doorkeeper opens; and the sheep hear His voice: and He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 And when He puts forth His own sheep, He goes before them and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This figure of speech YAH-USHA used with them: but they understood not these things that He spoke to them.
7 Then said YAH-USHA to them again, Ahmein, ahmein, I say to you, I AM the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers: [1] but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I AM the door: by Me if any man enters in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief comes not, but to steal and to kill and to destroy: I AM come that they might have chayim and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I AM the Tov Shepherd: the Tov Shepherd gives His chayim for the sheep.
12 But he that is a hired person and not the Shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away: and the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
13 The hired person runs away, because he is a hired person and cares not for the sheep.
14 I AM the Tov Shepherd and know My sheep and am known by My sheep. [2]
15 As The Abba knows Me, even so I know The Abba: and I lay down My chayim for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring in and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd. [3]
17 Therefore does My Abba love Me, because I lay down My chayim, that I might take it again. [4]
18 No man takes it from Me, but I lay it down by Myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received from My Abba. [5]
19 There was a division therefore again among the Yahudim for these sayings. [6]
20 And many of them said, He has a shed and is meshugas; why do you listen to Him? [7]
21 Others said, These are not the Words of Him that has a shed. Can a shed open the eyes of the blind? [8]
22 And it was at Yahrushalayim at Chanukah and it was winter.
23 And YAH-USHA walked in the Beit HaMikdash in Shlomo’s Porch.
24 Then came the Yahudim around Him and said to Him, How long do You make us doubt? If You are The Moshiach, tell us plainly.
25 YAH-USHA answered them, I told you and you believed not: the works that I do in My Abba’s Name, they bear witness of Me.
26 But you believe not, because you are not My sheep, as I said to you.
27 My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me:
28 And I give to them eternal chayim; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Abba, who gave them to Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to snatch them out of My Abba’s hand.
30 I and My Abba are Echad and in one accord. [9]
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[1] By definition this must include ancient “so-called” eastern masters like Buddha, Confucius and Krishna.
[2] Ezekiel 34:11-31 is where YAH Himself promises to come to earth to look for and find His lost sheep. The speech here is used to alert anyone familiar with Scripture that Messiah Himself is the one who has come to look for and return Yisrael’s wandering exiles back to the fold.
[3] A plain reference to the other fold, or flock of Yisrael, Efrayim-Yisrael, that Messiah says He must bring in by command of The Father. Note that even before He died and arose, He had two existing Yisraelite flocks, not one. Through His mission as the Good Shepherd, both folds will become one.
[4] The Father loves Messiah, because He is faithful to His primary mission of taking two Yisraelite folds and making them one Yisrael, knowing YAH.
[5] The mission to die for both houses is called a commandment by Messiah.
[6] The truth about the true purpose of Messiah's death, which is to restore and regather both houses of Yisrael, brings sharp division among the Jewish community. It seems like whenever Judah hears of YAH’s love for both houses as in Luke 15, it brings out the worst in them. The message of the true kingdom always brings division and those who teach the truth will always be labeled as divisive. Yet it is that message alone that heals and ends vexation and jealousy.
[7] Messiah was called insane and demon-influenced due to His teachings regarding His Shepherd's role in the regathering of both houses of Yisrael. Today, those Jews who proclaim YAH’s plan to reunite non-Jewish Yisrael with Jewish-Yisrael, are also accused of being insane and of promoting a teaching of demons, just like Messiah was accused in this text. Nevertheless, YAH is working in the earth, as more and more Jewish believers are seeing the two-house restoration.
[8] Both houses are being restored as blindness is removed. Judah’s blindness to Messiah and Efrayim’s blindness to Torah and their Hebraic identity, constitutes blindness removed from each house. This is healing and is not a demonic activity as Messiah Himself taught us.
[9] Aramaic: “are of one accord.” Father and Son are both one and in full power and authority sharing in full accord, yet all flows from The Father to Messiah.
Genesis-Beresheet Chapter 46:
30 And Yisrael said to Yoseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.
31 And Yoseph said to his brothers and to his abba's bayit, I will go up and show Pharaoh and say to him, My brothers and my abba's bayit, who were in the land of Kanaan, have come to me;
32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade has been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say, What is your occupation?
34 That you shall say, Your avadim’s trade has been with cattle from our youth even until now, both we and also our ahvot: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitzrim. [1]
[1] Restored Yisrael is to be a nation of shepherds of truth and love in the midst of a pagan culture.
30 And Yisrael said to Yoseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.
31 And Yoseph said to his brothers and to his abba's bayit, I will go up and show Pharaoh and say to him, My brothers and my abba's bayit, who were in the land of Kanaan, have come to me;
32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade has been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say, What is your occupation?
34 That you shall say, Your avadim’s trade has been with cattle from our youth even until now, both we and also our ahvot: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitzrim. [1]
[1] Restored Yisrael is to be a nation of shepherds of truth and love in the midst of a pagan culture.
Isaiah-Yeshayahu Chapter 53:
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities: the chastisement for our shalom was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. [1] [2]
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; [3] we have turned each one to his own derech; and YHUH has laid on Him the iniquity of us
all. [4]
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter, [5] and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opens not His
mouth. [6]
[1] He brought peace and healing between YAH and man and between both warring houses of Yisrael, if the individual allows His work to be internalized.
[2] Physical and spiritual healing are both part of the benefits of the atonement.
[3] Matthew 15:24 reminds us, that He suffered for the lost sheep of Yisrael from both houses.
[4] All Yisrael’s sins fell on Him, since we were the former lost sheep of His fold.
[5] The Lamb of YAH. Yisrael as a nation was never silent in the face of suffering.
[6] As seen by His refusal to defend Himself.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities: the chastisement for our shalom was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. [1] [2]
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; [3] we have turned each one to his own derech; and YHUH has laid on Him the iniquity of us
all. [4]
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter, [5] and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opens not His
mouth. [6]
[1] He brought peace and healing between YAH and man and between both warring houses of Yisrael, if the individual allows His work to be internalized.
[2] Physical and spiritual healing are both part of the benefits of the atonement.
[3] Matthew 15:24 reminds us, that He suffered for the lost sheep of Yisrael from both houses.
[4] All Yisrael’s sins fell on Him, since we were the former lost sheep of His fold.
[5] The Lamb of YAH. Yisrael as a nation was never silent in the face of suffering.
[6] As seen by His refusal to defend Himself.
Jeremiah-Yirmeyahu Chapter 23:
1 Woe be to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! Says YHUH.[1]
2 Therefore this says YHUH Elohim of Yisrael against the shepherds that feed My people; You have scattered My flock, [2] and driven them away and have not visited them: see, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says YHUH.
3 And I will gather the remnant of My flock [3] out of all countries where I have driven them, [4] and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds [5] over them that shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be broken, [6] neither shall they be lacking, says YHUH.
5 See, the days come, says YHUH, that I will raise to Dawid a Tzadik Branch and a Melech [7] shall rule and prosper and shall execute mishpat and justice in the earth. [8]
6 In His days Yahudah shall be saved, [9] and Yisrael shall dwell safely: [10] and this is His Name by which He shall be called, YHUH -Tzidqaynu. [11]
7 Therefore, see, the days come, says YHUH, that they shall no more say, YHUH lives, who brought up the children of Yisrael out of the land of Mitzrayim;
8 But, YHUH lives, who brought up and who led the zera of Beit Yisrael out of the north country and from all countries [12] where I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their
own land. [13]
[1] All those who do not love the sheep and those who deny them equal rights as Yisrael by dividing the body into Jew and gentile, as opposed to building and regathering all in the one fold of Renewed Yisrael as Messiah has done and desires us to do.
[2] By divisive teachings such as separate entity theology and replacement theology.
[3] Please note that the redeemed blood-washed remnant will be gathered. Not all Yisraelites will return, but only those under the banner of King Messiah will occupy the land in the millennial kingdom.
[4] Both houses have been scattered to all nations, not just a select few to Europe.
[5] Renewed Covenant shepherds who understand the true plan of YAH and the restoration of both houses. Shepherds who understand YAH’s plan will feed the flock in YAH’s desired and revealed manner.
[6] The people will no more fear separation from YAH , nor of being outside His favor and favored nation.
[7] King Messiah.
[8] Messiah will rule only by the precepts of Torah.
[9] In the age to come, Judah will be redeemed by the blood of atonement and Efrayim-Yisrael will dwell safely back in the land having been redeemed and brought back safely by YAH to the land.
[10] Both houses having their blindness removed.
[11] The King here is called YAH , as it is YAH and not a mere man who will restore both houses in salvation and aliyah/immigration. Any man-made attempts to restore both houses apart from Messiah as King over both houses, is doomed not only to failure, but to His eternal unchanging wrath.
[12] The house of Yisrael is in all countries.
[13] The end of the exile of Judah and Efrayim will be so grand that it will make the historic Egyptian exile pale in comparison.
1 Woe be to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! Says YHUH.[1]
2 Therefore this says YHUH Elohim of Yisrael against the shepherds that feed My people; You have scattered My flock, [2] and driven them away and have not visited them: see, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says YHUH.
3 And I will gather the remnant of My flock [3] out of all countries where I have driven them, [4] and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds [5] over them that shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be broken, [6] neither shall they be lacking, says YHUH.
5 See, the days come, says YHUH, that I will raise to Dawid a Tzadik Branch and a Melech [7] shall rule and prosper and shall execute mishpat and justice in the earth. [8]
6 In His days Yahudah shall be saved, [9] and Yisrael shall dwell safely: [10] and this is His Name by which He shall be called, YHUH -Tzidqaynu. [11]
7 Therefore, see, the days come, says YHUH, that they shall no more say, YHUH lives, who brought up the children of Yisrael out of the land of Mitzrayim;
8 But, YHUH lives, who brought up and who led the zera of Beit Yisrael out of the north country and from all countries [12] where I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their
own land. [13]
[1] All those who do not love the sheep and those who deny them equal rights as Yisrael by dividing the body into Jew and gentile, as opposed to building and regathering all in the one fold of Renewed Yisrael as Messiah has done and desires us to do.
[2] By divisive teachings such as separate entity theology and replacement theology.
[3] Please note that the redeemed blood-washed remnant will be gathered. Not all Yisraelites will return, but only those under the banner of King Messiah will occupy the land in the millennial kingdom.
[4] Both houses have been scattered to all nations, not just a select few to Europe.
[5] Renewed Covenant shepherds who understand the true plan of YAH and the restoration of both houses. Shepherds who understand YAH’s plan will feed the flock in YAH’s desired and revealed manner.
[6] The people will no more fear separation from YAH , nor of being outside His favor and favored nation.
[7] King Messiah.
[8] Messiah will rule only by the precepts of Torah.
[9] In the age to come, Judah will be redeemed by the blood of atonement and Efrayim-Yisrael will dwell safely back in the land having been redeemed and brought back safely by YAH to the land.
[10] Both houses having their blindness removed.
[11] The King here is called YAH , as it is YAH and not a mere man who will restore both houses in salvation and aliyah/immigration. Any man-made attempts to restore both houses apart from Messiah as King over both houses, is doomed not only to failure, but to His eternal unchanging wrath.
[12] The house of Yisrael is in all countries.
[13] The end of the exile of Judah and Efrayim will be so grand that it will make the historic Egyptian exile pale in comparison.
Ezekiel Chapter 34:
1 And The Word of YHUH came to me, saying,
2 Ben-adam, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisrael, prophesy and say to them, This says the Master YHUH to the shepherds; Woe to the shepherds of Yisrael that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? [1]
3 You eat the fat and you clothe yourself with wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock. [2]
4 The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought back those who were driven away, [3] neither have you sought those which were lost; [4] but with force and with cruelty have you ruled over them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became food to all the beasts of the field, [5] where they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill: yes, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth and none did search, or seek after them. [6]
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear The Word of YHUH;
8 As I live, says the Master YHUH, surely because My flock became a prey and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did My shepherds search for My flock, [7] but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not My flock;
9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear The Word of YHUH;
10 This says the Master YHUH; See, I AM against the shepherds; and I will require My flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. [8]
11 For this says the Master YHUH; See, I, even I, will both search My sheep and seek them out. [9]
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the yom that he is among his sheep [10] that are scattered; so will I seek out My sheep and will deliver them [11] out of all places where they have been scattered [12] in the cloudy and dark yom. [13]
13 And I will bring them out from the nations and gather them [14] from the countries and will bring them to their own land and feed them upon the mountains of Yisrael by the rivers and in all the inhabited places of the country. [15]
14 I will feed them in a tov pasture and upon the high mountains of Yisrael shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a tov fold and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of
Yisrael. [16]
15 I will feed My flock and I will cause them to lie down, says the Master YHUH.[17]
16 I will seek that which was lost, [18] and bring again that which was driven away and will bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with mishpat. [19]
17 And as for you, O My flock, this says the Master YHUH; See, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the male goats. [20]
18 Is it a small thing for you to have eaten up the tov pasture, but must you tread down with your feet the remnant of your pastures? And to have drunk of the deep mayim, but you must foul the remnant with your feet? [21]
19 And as for My flock, they eat that which you have trampled with your feet; and they drink that which you have dirtied with your feet. [22]
20 Therefore this says the Master YHUH to them; See, I, even I, will judge between the fat and lean sheep.
21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder and pushed all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; [23]
22 Therefore will I save My flock, [24] and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep [25] and sheep. [26]
23 And I will set up One Shepherd over them, [27] and He shall feed them, [28] even My Eved Dawid; [29] He shall feed them and He shall be their Shepherd. [30]
24 And I YHUH will be their Elohim and My Eved Dawid [31] a Nasi among them; I YHUH have spoken it. [32]
25 And I will make with them a brit of shalom, [33] and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: [34] and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; [35] and I will cause the showers to come down in season; there shall be showers of blessing. [36]
27 And the eytzim of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth shall yield her increase and they shall be safe in their land, [37] and shall know that I AM YHUH, when I have broken the chains of their yoke, [38] and delivered them out of the hand of those that made them avadim. [39]
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely and none shall make them afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a planting place of fame and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. [40]
30 So shall they know that I YHUH their Elohim am with them and that they, Beit Yisrael, [41] are My people-Ami, says the Master YHUH.
31 And you My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, [42] and I AM your Elohim, says the Master YHUH.
[1] Our national disaster was and is still caused by the shepherds who are afraid of truth and of proclaiming truth, or who teach Yisrael how to return under man's approval rather, than YAH’s. A shepherd is to be financially provided for in all areas, to enable him to minister. But he is not to be in the ministry with solely a profit motive.
[2] Yisrael’s shepherds must be able to teach Torah and Messiah from both covenants.
[3] By exile. A true shepherd of Yisrael will be actively seeking all the lost and wandering sheep from both houses of Yisrael.
[4] Efrayim.
[5] Heathen.
[6] Which is one of many reasons why both houses were exiled. There were very few shepherds after YAH’s own heart.
[7] Too busy building their own perversion of the kingdom, such as the separate entity gentile church, or Judaism without Messiah, or the one-house heresy that refuses to search for the ten tribes in the exile.
[8] As demonstrated historically, YAH will remove all those who refuse to seek out His plan for His lost and wandering sheep within both exiled houses, both in the spirit and in the physical.
[9] “Search and seek” is why Messiah came in direct fulfillment of this prophesy. He affirms such in John 10:16-17. He came to seek, find, regather and restore both houses of Yisrael.
[10] This is a prophecy of the absolute necessity of the incarnation when YAH /Messiah would have to become as His sheep and dwell on the earth among His sheep, in order to draw, find and recover them.
[11] Personal salvation is part of the deliverance from exile.
[12] Every nation.
[13] A reference to the Great Tribulation that YAH will use to regather His people home to the land of Yisrael.
[14] The gathering is not "a rapture" but a return, as seen in
Mathew 24.
[15] All Yisrael will be regathered.
[16] The mountains refer to all the land, including the mountains of Efrayim.
[17] Because He alone is the Good Shepherd and He alone knows where to find His sheep.
[18] Quoted by Messiah in Luke 19:10. He did not come to build a “gentile church,” but to find the lost sheep of Yisrael who had become nations and return them to the fold.
[19] In the process of reuniting the two houses and feeding the starving sheep, He will feed the false shepherds with judgment.
[20] Messiah is coming to judge and settle all differences between the sheep of Judah and the sheep of Efrayim, as well as between the sheep and goats as spoken of in Matthew 25.
[21] Even the true remnant of Yisrael is constantly seduced by various deviant religions and false names for YAH , taught by the shepherds who are responsible for their destruction in the first place.
[22] Leftover rot, with such teachings as “saved nations” and “Messianic nations.”
[23] Weak ones have been re-scattered, as believing leaders sent Efrayimites back into confusion by withholding Yisraelite recognition. Rather than gather the lost sheep, these shepherds continue to gore the sheep. Until they are healed and nurtured and taught their identity as Yisrael in Messiah, they are considered diseased. Messiah came to put an end to that.
[24] He is compelled by love to bring unity and restoration by His mission to earth, since no others are able and willing, nor do they know where to look for the so called “lost tribes.”
[25] Efrayim.
[26] Judah.
[27] Over both folds of the sheep.
[28] His Torah.
[29] The greater, or the “eschatological Dawid” always refers to Messiah and not a resurrected literal Dawid as Messiah. Dawid will of course rise also to reign under Messiah, but not in place of Messiah.
[30] One Shepherd over all 12 tribes.
[31] Messiah.
[32] The true solution to the exile.
[33] The Shepherd YAH coming to earth to seek His own sheep will make the renewed and everlasting covenant with all Yisrael, to place all under the authority of the greater, or end-time Dawid.
[34] All gentile domination will cease.
[35] Jerusalem and its environment will be a blessing, not a place of gentile domination.
[36] The latter, or kingdom rain.
[37] The olive and fig tree will fully blossom again as all Yisrael dwells in safety.
[38] Exile.
[39] Foreign domination.
[40] The exile and foreign domination will be over in the coming kingdom on earth.
[41] All 12 tribes.
[42] The term “men” as connected to the men of YAH’s pasture, always refers to Yisrael, as seen often in both covenants. This term also often comes into play in the Renewed Covenant, in a sod, or mystery level of teaching hidden things.
1 And The Word of YHUH came to me, saying,
2 Ben-adam, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisrael, prophesy and say to them, This says the Master YHUH to the shepherds; Woe to the shepherds of Yisrael that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? [1]
3 You eat the fat and you clothe yourself with wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock. [2]
4 The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought back those who were driven away, [3] neither have you sought those which were lost; [4] but with force and with cruelty have you ruled over them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became food to all the beasts of the field, [5] where they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill: yes, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth and none did search, or seek after them. [6]
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear The Word of YHUH;
8 As I live, says the Master YHUH, surely because My flock became a prey and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did My shepherds search for My flock, [7] but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not My flock;
9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear The Word of YHUH;
10 This says the Master YHUH; See, I AM against the shepherds; and I will require My flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. [8]
11 For this says the Master YHUH; See, I, even I, will both search My sheep and seek them out. [9]
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the yom that he is among his sheep [10] that are scattered; so will I seek out My sheep and will deliver them [11] out of all places where they have been scattered [12] in the cloudy and dark yom. [13]
13 And I will bring them out from the nations and gather them [14] from the countries and will bring them to their own land and feed them upon the mountains of Yisrael by the rivers and in all the inhabited places of the country. [15]
14 I will feed them in a tov pasture and upon the high mountains of Yisrael shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a tov fold and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of
Yisrael. [16]
15 I will feed My flock and I will cause them to lie down, says the Master YHUH.[17]
16 I will seek that which was lost, [18] and bring again that which was driven away and will bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with mishpat. [19]
17 And as for you, O My flock, this says the Master YHUH; See, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the male goats. [20]
18 Is it a small thing for you to have eaten up the tov pasture, but must you tread down with your feet the remnant of your pastures? And to have drunk of the deep mayim, but you must foul the remnant with your feet? [21]
19 And as for My flock, they eat that which you have trampled with your feet; and they drink that which you have dirtied with your feet. [22]
20 Therefore this says the Master YHUH to them; See, I, even I, will judge between the fat and lean sheep.
21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder and pushed all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; [23]
22 Therefore will I save My flock, [24] and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep [25] and sheep. [26]
23 And I will set up One Shepherd over them, [27] and He shall feed them, [28] even My Eved Dawid; [29] He shall feed them and He shall be their Shepherd. [30]
24 And I YHUH will be their Elohim and My Eved Dawid [31] a Nasi among them; I YHUH have spoken it. [32]
25 And I will make with them a brit of shalom, [33] and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: [34] and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; [35] and I will cause the showers to come down in season; there shall be showers of blessing. [36]
27 And the eytzim of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth shall yield her increase and they shall be safe in their land, [37] and shall know that I AM YHUH, when I have broken the chains of their yoke, [38] and delivered them out of the hand of those that made them avadim. [39]
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely and none shall make them afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a planting place of fame and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. [40]
30 So shall they know that I YHUH their Elohim am with them and that they, Beit Yisrael, [41] are My people-Ami, says the Master YHUH.
31 And you My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, [42] and I AM your Elohim, says the Master YHUH.
[1] Our national disaster was and is still caused by the shepherds who are afraid of truth and of proclaiming truth, or who teach Yisrael how to return under man's approval rather, than YAH’s. A shepherd is to be financially provided for in all areas, to enable him to minister. But he is not to be in the ministry with solely a profit motive.
[2] Yisrael’s shepherds must be able to teach Torah and Messiah from both covenants.
[3] By exile. A true shepherd of Yisrael will be actively seeking all the lost and wandering sheep from both houses of Yisrael.
[4] Efrayim.
[5] Heathen.
[6] Which is one of many reasons why both houses were exiled. There were very few shepherds after YAH’s own heart.
[7] Too busy building their own perversion of the kingdom, such as the separate entity gentile church, or Judaism without Messiah, or the one-house heresy that refuses to search for the ten tribes in the exile.
[8] As demonstrated historically, YAH will remove all those who refuse to seek out His plan for His lost and wandering sheep within both exiled houses, both in the spirit and in the physical.
[9] “Search and seek” is why Messiah came in direct fulfillment of this prophesy. He affirms such in John 10:16-17. He came to seek, find, regather and restore both houses of Yisrael.
[10] This is a prophecy of the absolute necessity of the incarnation when YAH /Messiah would have to become as His sheep and dwell on the earth among His sheep, in order to draw, find and recover them.
[11] Personal salvation is part of the deliverance from exile.
[12] Every nation.
[13] A reference to the Great Tribulation that YAH will use to regather His people home to the land of Yisrael.
[14] The gathering is not "a rapture" but a return, as seen in
Mathew 24.
[15] All Yisrael will be regathered.
[16] The mountains refer to all the land, including the mountains of Efrayim.
[17] Because He alone is the Good Shepherd and He alone knows where to find His sheep.
[18] Quoted by Messiah in Luke 19:10. He did not come to build a “gentile church,” but to find the lost sheep of Yisrael who had become nations and return them to the fold.
[19] In the process of reuniting the two houses and feeding the starving sheep, He will feed the false shepherds with judgment.
[20] Messiah is coming to judge and settle all differences between the sheep of Judah and the sheep of Efrayim, as well as between the sheep and goats as spoken of in Matthew 25.
[21] Even the true remnant of Yisrael is constantly seduced by various deviant religions and false names for YAH , taught by the shepherds who are responsible for their destruction in the first place.
[22] Leftover rot, with such teachings as “saved nations” and “Messianic nations.”
[23] Weak ones have been re-scattered, as believing leaders sent Efrayimites back into confusion by withholding Yisraelite recognition. Rather than gather the lost sheep, these shepherds continue to gore the sheep. Until they are healed and nurtured and taught their identity as Yisrael in Messiah, they are considered diseased. Messiah came to put an end to that.
[24] He is compelled by love to bring unity and restoration by His mission to earth, since no others are able and willing, nor do they know where to look for the so called “lost tribes.”
[25] Efrayim.
[26] Judah.
[27] Over both folds of the sheep.
[28] His Torah.
[29] The greater, or the “eschatological Dawid” always refers to Messiah and not a resurrected literal Dawid as Messiah. Dawid will of course rise also to reign under Messiah, but not in place of Messiah.
[30] One Shepherd over all 12 tribes.
[31] Messiah.
[32] The true solution to the exile.
[33] The Shepherd YAH coming to earth to seek His own sheep will make the renewed and everlasting covenant with all Yisrael, to place all under the authority of the greater, or end-time Dawid.
[34] All gentile domination will cease.
[35] Jerusalem and its environment will be a blessing, not a place of gentile domination.
[36] The latter, or kingdom rain.
[37] The olive and fig tree will fully blossom again as all Yisrael dwells in safety.
[38] Exile.
[39] Foreign domination.
[40] The exile and foreign domination will be over in the coming kingdom on earth.
[41] All 12 tribes.
[42] The term “men” as connected to the men of YAH’s pasture, always refers to Yisrael, as seen often in both covenants. This term also often comes into play in the Renewed Covenant, in a sod, or mystery level of teaching hidden things.
Zachariah Chapter 13:
6 And he shall say to Him, What are these wounds between Your hands? Then He shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the bayit of My chaverim.
7 Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd and against the Man that is My Fellow Companion, [1] says YHUH Tzevaoth: smite The Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn My hand over the little ones. [2]
[1] Messiah.
[2] Messiah smitten and the sheep scattered in the remez/hint level of Hebraic understanding.
6 And he shall say to Him, What are these wounds between Your hands? Then He shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the bayit of My chaverim.
7 Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd and against the Man that is My Fellow Companion, [1] says YHUH Tzevaoth: smite The Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn My hand over the little ones. [2]
[1] Messiah.
[2] Messiah smitten and the sheep scattered in the remez/hint level of Hebraic understanding.
Psalm 44: 11:
You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations. [1]
[1] To fulfill the promise of physical multiplicity.
Psalm 44: 22:
Yes, for Your sake are we killed all yom long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. [1]
[1] In Romans 8:36 this verse is attributed to Roman (not Catholic) believers, further validating their Yisraelite heritage.
Psalm 78:
52 But made His own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And He led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
70 He chose Dawid His eved and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalm 79: 13:
So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture will give You hodu le-olam-va-ed: we will show forth Your hallel to all generations.
Psalm 95: 7:
For He is our Elohim; and we are the nation of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will listen to His voice,
8 Harden not your lev, as in the provocation and as in the yom of temptation in the wilderness: [1]
[1] Quoted in Hebrews 3:8 and Hebrews 3:15, substantiating that the Hebrews were members of both houses. Most of the Renewed Covenant is written to the exiles of both houses.
Psalm 100: 3: Know that YHUH He is Elohim: it is He that has made us and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalm 119: 176: I have gone astray like a lost sheep; [1] seek Your eved; for I do not forget Your mitzvoth.
[1] The cry and confession of returning Yisrael.
Psalm 144: 13:
That our storehouses may be full, supplying all kinds of supply: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Psalm 151:
1 I was small among my brothers and youngest in my abba’s bayit: I tended my abba’s sheep.
First Chronicles Chapter 17: 7-8:
7 Now therefore this shall you say to My eved Dawid, This says YHUH Tzevaoth, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over My people Yisrael:
8 And I have been with you wherever you have walked and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Matthew 9: 36:
But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with rachamim on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Matthew 10: 5:
These twelve YAH-USHA sent forth and commanded them, saying, Go not the way of the nations by staying away from pagan practices, [1] [2] and into any city of the Shomronim [3] enter not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep that have strayed and whored [4] from Beit Yisrael. [5]
[1] Since Efrayim had become the “fullness of the nations” this verse is often seen as a contradiction. Not so. It is simply Messiah telling His disciples that as they search for Yisrael’s lost sheep, they are not to go the way of, or the pagan path of the nations. This order is a mere restatement of Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 10:1-5. This is confirmed by the Aramaic Peshitta.
[2] Lamsa’s Peshitta p. 961.
[3] Due to the intense hatred between Jews and Shomronites, Messiah wanted to display His love for those Efrayimites by opening the way Himself in Yochanan/John 4. This was a crucial task and He wanted to do it right. After displaying the proper manner to reach them by modeling His love for Efrayim in Samaria, He would later command and allow the disciples to do likewise in Acts 1:8. So this is not an injunction against going to the Efrayimites in Samaria. Rather it’s a matter of timing and proper instructions from the Master.
[4] Shem Tov reference.
[5] In this broad context House of Yisrael refers to all twelve tribes and not merely Efrayim, as many Dual Covenant theologians teach.
Matthew 10: 16:
See, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Matthew 12: 11:
And He said to them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep and if it fall into a pit on The Shabbat, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? So then it is permitted in Torah to do mitzvoth on The Shabbat.
Matthew 15: 24:
But He answered and said, They [1] did not send Me but to the lost sheep of Beit Yisrael, who went astray and whored.
[1] Shem Tov reference: A reference to the plurality of divinity.
Matthew 25: 31 When The Ben Ahdahm shall come in His tifereth and all the kadosh heavenly malachim with Him, then shall He sit upon the kesay of His tifereth: [1]
Matthew 15: 32-34
32 And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divides His sheep from the goats: [2]
33 And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the Melech say to them on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Abba, inherit the malchut prepared for you from the foundation of the olam hazeh:
[1] Dawid’s throne in Jerusalem, as the kingdom is fully come.
[2] King Messiah will take all nations and look within each for Yisraelites who have become His sheep through accepting the Good News of forgiveness. A second application could be the way the non Jewish-Yisraelite nations treated brother Judah.
Matthew 26: 31 Then said YAH-USHA to them, All of you shall be offended and grieved because of Me this night: for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. [1]
[1] This speaks of the House of Judah’s scattering in 70 CE after The Messiah will be killed.
John Chapter 5:
1 After this there was a moed of the Yahudim; and YAH-USHA went up to Yahrushalayim.
2 Now there is at Yahrushalayim by the sheep market a mikvah, which is called in the Ivrit tongue Beth Chesed, [1] having five porches. [2]
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folks, blind, crippled and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the mayim.
[1] House of Mercy.
[2] For the five books of Torah, symbolizing the great mercy outlined in the Torah.
John Chapter 21:
15 So when they had eaten, YAH-USHA said to Shimon Kepha, [1] Shimon, bar Yonah, Do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Master Yah; You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.
16 He said to him again the second time, Shimon, bar Yonah, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Master Yah; You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My sheep.
17 He said to him the third time, Shimon, bar Yonah, do you love Me? Kepha was grieved because He said to him the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Master Yah, You know all things; You know that I love You. YAH-USHA said to him, Feed My ewes.
[1] This conversation took place in Aramaic. As such, unlike the Greek, there are three different words used in verses 15-17 for sheep, or lambs. The first reference is to amrea, or young sheep, or young disciples, the second to male adult sheep with the term aerba and the final reference to sheep is niquia, a female word used to refer to His adult female disciples. The Aramaic challenges Peter to look after all three categories of His disciples, thus explaining the repetitive nature of Yahsha’s questions.
Genesis 4:2:
And she again bore his brother Hevel. And Hevel was a guardian of sheep, but Qayin was a tiller of the ground.
Exodus 12:
1 And YHUH spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Mitzrayim, saying,
2 This chodesh shall be for you the beginning of chodashem [Rosh Chodashem]: it shall be the first chodesh of the year for you. [1]
3 Speak to all the congregation of Yisrael, saying, In the tenth yom of this chodesh they shall take for themselves every man a lamb, according to the bayit of their ahvot, a lamb for a bayit:
4 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his bayit take it according to the number of their beings; every man according to his needs you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth yom of the same chodesh: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisrael [2] shall kill it in between the evenings.
7 And they shall take of the dahm and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of their batiym, in which they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire and matzah; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat none of it raw, nor cooked, or boiled at all with mayim, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, with the inside parts.
10 And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.
[1] Aviv.
[2] A fascinating mystery is unveiled here in the Hebrew with the usage of the term kahal adat Yisrael, or literally the “congregation of the witness,” or “witnesses of Yisrael.” This literal meaning shows that the nation was called to be YAH’s true and eternal witness in the earth, for all His marvels and wonders among men. No other nation as a whole has been assigned with that task. The gospel itself must therefore be both a call to personal salvation and national restoration, so the witness of YAH through individuals and the nation as a whole can go forth.
Numbers 27: 17:
Who may go out before them and who may go in before them and who may lead them out and who may bring them in; that the congregation of YHUH be not as sheep who have no shepherd.
Jasher 30: 7:
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel the daughter of Lavan came to feed her abba's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Psalm 23:
1 YHUH is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside the still mayim.
3 He restores my being: He leads me in the paths-cycles of tzedakah for His Name’s sake. [1]
4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff they comfort me.
5 You prepare a shulchan before me in the presence of my enemies: You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
6 Surely tov and rachamim shall follow me all the days of my chayim: and I will dwell in the Bayit of YHUH le-olam-va-ed.
[1] He restored us because of love and His great Name.
You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations. [1]
[1] To fulfill the promise of physical multiplicity.
Psalm 44: 22:
Yes, for Your sake are we killed all yom long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. [1]
[1] In Romans 8:36 this verse is attributed to Roman (not Catholic) believers, further validating their Yisraelite heritage.
Psalm 78:
52 But made His own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And He led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
70 He chose Dawid His eved and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalm 79: 13:
So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture will give You hodu le-olam-va-ed: we will show forth Your hallel to all generations.
Psalm 95: 7:
For He is our Elohim; and we are the nation of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will listen to His voice,
8 Harden not your lev, as in the provocation and as in the yom of temptation in the wilderness: [1]
[1] Quoted in Hebrews 3:8 and Hebrews 3:15, substantiating that the Hebrews were members of both houses. Most of the Renewed Covenant is written to the exiles of both houses.
Psalm 100: 3: Know that YHUH He is Elohim: it is He that has made us and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalm 119: 176: I have gone astray like a lost sheep; [1] seek Your eved; for I do not forget Your mitzvoth.
[1] The cry and confession of returning Yisrael.
Psalm 144: 13:
That our storehouses may be full, supplying all kinds of supply: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Psalm 151:
1 I was small among my brothers and youngest in my abba’s bayit: I tended my abba’s sheep.
First Chronicles Chapter 17: 7-8:
7 Now therefore this shall you say to My eved Dawid, This says YHUH Tzevaoth, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over My people Yisrael:
8 And I have been with you wherever you have walked and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Matthew 9: 36:
But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with rachamim on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Matthew 10: 5:
These twelve YAH-USHA sent forth and commanded them, saying, Go not the way of the nations by staying away from pagan practices, [1] [2] and into any city of the Shomronim [3] enter not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep that have strayed and whored [4] from Beit Yisrael. [5]
[1] Since Efrayim had become the “fullness of the nations” this verse is often seen as a contradiction. Not so. It is simply Messiah telling His disciples that as they search for Yisrael’s lost sheep, they are not to go the way of, or the pagan path of the nations. This order is a mere restatement of Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 10:1-5. This is confirmed by the Aramaic Peshitta.
[2] Lamsa’s Peshitta p. 961.
[3] Due to the intense hatred between Jews and Shomronites, Messiah wanted to display His love for those Efrayimites by opening the way Himself in Yochanan/John 4. This was a crucial task and He wanted to do it right. After displaying the proper manner to reach them by modeling His love for Efrayim in Samaria, He would later command and allow the disciples to do likewise in Acts 1:8. So this is not an injunction against going to the Efrayimites in Samaria. Rather it’s a matter of timing and proper instructions from the Master.
[4] Shem Tov reference.
[5] In this broad context House of Yisrael refers to all twelve tribes and not merely Efrayim, as many Dual Covenant theologians teach.
Matthew 10: 16:
See, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Matthew 12: 11:
And He said to them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep and if it fall into a pit on The Shabbat, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? So then it is permitted in Torah to do mitzvoth on The Shabbat.
Matthew 15: 24:
But He answered and said, They [1] did not send Me but to the lost sheep of Beit Yisrael, who went astray and whored.
[1] Shem Tov reference: A reference to the plurality of divinity.
Matthew 25: 31 When The Ben Ahdahm shall come in His tifereth and all the kadosh heavenly malachim with Him, then shall He sit upon the kesay of His tifereth: [1]
Matthew 15: 32-34
32 And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divides His sheep from the goats: [2]
33 And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the Melech say to them on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Abba, inherit the malchut prepared for you from the foundation of the olam hazeh:
[1] Dawid’s throne in Jerusalem, as the kingdom is fully come.
[2] King Messiah will take all nations and look within each for Yisraelites who have become His sheep through accepting the Good News of forgiveness. A second application could be the way the non Jewish-Yisraelite nations treated brother Judah.
Matthew 26: 31 Then said YAH-USHA to them, All of you shall be offended and grieved because of Me this night: for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. [1]
[1] This speaks of the House of Judah’s scattering in 70 CE after The Messiah will be killed.
John Chapter 5:
1 After this there was a moed of the Yahudim; and YAH-USHA went up to Yahrushalayim.
2 Now there is at Yahrushalayim by the sheep market a mikvah, which is called in the Ivrit tongue Beth Chesed, [1] having five porches. [2]
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folks, blind, crippled and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the mayim.
[1] House of Mercy.
[2] For the five books of Torah, symbolizing the great mercy outlined in the Torah.
John Chapter 21:
15 So when they had eaten, YAH-USHA said to Shimon Kepha, [1] Shimon, bar Yonah, Do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Master Yah; You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.
16 He said to him again the second time, Shimon, bar Yonah, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Master Yah; You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My sheep.
17 He said to him the third time, Shimon, bar Yonah, do you love Me? Kepha was grieved because He said to him the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Master Yah, You know all things; You know that I love You. YAH-USHA said to him, Feed My ewes.
[1] This conversation took place in Aramaic. As such, unlike the Greek, there are three different words used in verses 15-17 for sheep, or lambs. The first reference is to amrea, or young sheep, or young disciples, the second to male adult sheep with the term aerba and the final reference to sheep is niquia, a female word used to refer to His adult female disciples. The Aramaic challenges Peter to look after all three categories of His disciples, thus explaining the repetitive nature of Yahsha’s questions.
Genesis 4:2:
And she again bore his brother Hevel. And Hevel was a guardian of sheep, but Qayin was a tiller of the ground.
Exodus 12:
1 And YHUH spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Mitzrayim, saying,
2 This chodesh shall be for you the beginning of chodashem [Rosh Chodashem]: it shall be the first chodesh of the year for you. [1]
3 Speak to all the congregation of Yisrael, saying, In the tenth yom of this chodesh they shall take for themselves every man a lamb, according to the bayit of their ahvot, a lamb for a bayit:
4 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his bayit take it according to the number of their beings; every man according to his needs you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth yom of the same chodesh: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisrael [2] shall kill it in between the evenings.
7 And they shall take of the dahm and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of their batiym, in which they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire and matzah; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat none of it raw, nor cooked, or boiled at all with mayim, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, with the inside parts.
10 And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.
[1] Aviv.
[2] A fascinating mystery is unveiled here in the Hebrew with the usage of the term kahal adat Yisrael, or literally the “congregation of the witness,” or “witnesses of Yisrael.” This literal meaning shows that the nation was called to be YAH’s true and eternal witness in the earth, for all His marvels and wonders among men. No other nation as a whole has been assigned with that task. The gospel itself must therefore be both a call to personal salvation and national restoration, so the witness of YAH through individuals and the nation as a whole can go forth.
Numbers 27: 17:
Who may go out before them and who may go in before them and who may lead them out and who may bring them in; that the congregation of YHUH be not as sheep who have no shepherd.
Jasher 30: 7:
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel the daughter of Lavan came to feed her abba's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Psalm 23:
1 YHUH is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside the still mayim.
3 He restores my being: He leads me in the paths-cycles of tzedakah for His Name’s sake. [1]
4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff they comfort me.
5 You prepare a shulchan before me in the presence of my enemies: You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
6 Surely tov and rachamim shall follow me all the days of my chayim: and I will dwell in the Bayit of YHUH le-olam-va-ed.
[1] He restored us because of love and His great Name.
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