1 I speak the truth in Messiah; I am
not lying, my conscience also witnessing for me in the Holy Spirit,
2 That I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart;
3 For I could pray that I myself were accursed; cut off, from
Messiah, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to my own tribe: 4
The people of the House of Judah. Theirs is the (The
Scepter Blessing to pass down the knowledge of the) adoption as
sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service of
Yahuah in His House, and the promises. 5 Theirs are the
patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Yahusha, who
is King over all creation (Genesis 49:10,
Numbers 24:17, Psalm 60:7). Yahuah be forever blessed!
HalleluYahuah!
Genesis 49:10
“The scepter shall
not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the
peoples.
Psalm 60:7
“Gilead is Mine, and
Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim (the House of
Israel) also is the helmet of My head; Judah (the
House of Judah) is My scepter.
6 However, it is not as though
Yahuah's plan (to adopt a remnant of the sons
of Abraham) had failed. For it is not everyone who is a
descendant of Israel who belongs to Israel. 7 Nor, just
because they are his descendants, are they all Abraham's children; but:
In Isaac will your seed be called. 8 That is, it is not those
who are the children of the flesh through Abraham who are Yahuah's
children; but it is the children of the promise to Abraham through Isaac
who are regarded as Abraham's seed. 9 For this is what the
word of the promise said: At this time, I will come, and Sarah will have
a son. 10 And not only that, but Rebekah's children were
conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
11 Yet, before the twins were born, or
had done anything righteous or evil, in order that the purpose of Yahuah
according to election might stand--not by works, but by Him Who calls--
12 It was said to her: The older will serve the younger.
13 As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.
14 What will we say then? That Yahuah is not just? By no
means! 15 For He said to Moses: I will have mercy on whomever
I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have
compassion. 16 So then, this does not depend on one's own
willingness, nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on
Yahuah's having mercy upon him. 17 For the Scripture said to
Pharaoh: Even for this same purpose I have raised you up (predestined
you), that I might show My power in you, and that My Name might
be declared in all the earth. 18 Therefore, Yahuah has mercy
on whom He wills to have mercy; and whom He wills, He hardens; makes
stubborn and unyielding.
19 You might say to me: Why, then,
does He still find fault for who has resisted His will? 20
But who are you, O man, to question Yahuah? Should that which is created
say to Him Who created it: Why have you made me this way? 21
Does not the potter have power over the clay, of the same lump to make (predestine)
one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
22 What if Yahuah, wanting to show His
wrath, and to make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels
of His wrath, prepared for destruction (rhetorical
question)? 23 (answer)
What if He did this (predestined most as mere
vessels of wrath) to make the riches of His glory known to the
vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory
(they are used to show the Elect using
comparison/contrast the value of our salvation) -- 24
To us whom He called, not from the House of Judah only, but also from
the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel among the Gentiles? 25
As He says also in Hosea (Prophet to the House
of Israel): I will call those Lost Sheep among the gentiles “My
people”, who were not (known to be) My
people (because Yahuah dispersed them and
erased their memory from among men, so they had no knowledge they were
truly His People Deuteronomy 32:26);
Deuteronomy 32:26
26 I said
I would scatter them among the Gentiles and erase their name from
human memory.
and her beloved, who was not beloved. 26
And it will be that in the place (among the
Gentiles) where it was said to them (The
House of Israel): “You are not My people (Hosea
1:9) ”; there (when I reclaim The House
of Israel among the nations Ezekiel 39:24-26,
Jeremiah 30:3,
Hosea 1) they will be called sons of the living Father.
Ezekiel 39:25
24 I dealt with them according to their
uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them. 25
Therefore this
is what Yahuah your God says: Now I
will restore Jacob from
captivity and
will have compassion on
the whole House of
Israel, and
I will be jealous for
My holy name. 26
They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they
committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land.
Jeremiah 30:3
For behold, the days are coming, declares Yahuah, when I will
restore from captivity My people the House of Israel and the House
of Judah, declares Yahuah. I will restore them to the land that I
gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.'
Hosea 1
4 Then Yahuah said
to him: "Call his name Jezreel, for in a little while I will
avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and bring an
end to the kingdom of the House of Israel. 5 It shall come to
pass in that day that I will break the bow of the House of Israel in
the Valley of Jezreel." 6 And she conceived again and bore a
daughter. Then Yahuah said to him: "Call her
name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the House of
Israel, but I will utterly disperse them among the Gentiles. 7
Yet I will have mercy on the House of Judah, will save them by
Yahuah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword or
battle, by horses or horsemen." 8 Now when she had weaned
Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. 9 Then Yahuah said:
"Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not My people, and I will
not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of
Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or
numbered. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was
said to them, 'You are not My people,' there it shall be said to
them, 'You are sons of the living God.' 11 Then
the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered
together and appoint for themselves one head; and they shall come up
out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel!"
27 Isaiah also cries out concerning
Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of
the sea, only a remnant will be elected (Isaiah
10:22, Deuteronomy 4:27);
Isaiah 10
22
For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the
sea, Only a remnant within them will return.
Deuteronomy
4:27
Then Yahuah will scatter you among the Gentiles, and
only a few of you will survive among the nations to which Yahuah
will drive you.
28
For He will finish the work, yet cut it short in righteousness, because
Yahuah will make a short work upon the earth. 29 And as
Isaiah said before: Unless Yahuah of the Hosts of Heaven (The
stars/constellation i.e. Author of The Heavenly Scroll), had left
us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made
like Gomorrah.
Host of Heaven (International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
(tsebha' hashamayim):
(1) the stars (and constellations which ‘host
stars’), frequently as objects of idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:19;
Deuteronomy 17:3 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 21:3, 1; 23:4 Jeremiah 8:2;
Jeremiah 19:13 Zephaniah 1:5), but also as witnesses in their
number, order and splendor, to the majesty and providential rule and
care of Yahweh (Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 40:26, "calleth them all by
name"; 45:12:00; Jeremiah 33:22)
30 What should we say, then? That the
Lost Sheep among the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness (based
on works alone), have obtained it, a righteousness that is
through the faith (of Abraham, The Plan of
Salvation written in the stars)? 31 That Israel, who
pursued the Law of righteousness (through works
without faith), has not attained to the Law of righteousness?
32 Why is this? It was not from the faith, but because of
that outside of keeping the commandments; by keeping their (Rabbinical
Judaism’s) own traditions (Mark 7:13);
Mark 7:13
Thus you (speaking
to the Jews) nullify the word of Yahuah by your tradition
that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33
As it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of
offense, yet whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame; deceived.
