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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

What is The Double Portion Inheritance?

By Maria Merola
© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, August 2009

Whenever a principle or a concept is presented to us for the very first time in scripture, it is called “the law of first mention.” This is a rule or principle that is observed as a pattern in scripture, so that whenever the very same concept or principle is mentioned again later on in scripture, we can go back to its “roots” and find the underlying message. Hence, the “law of first mention” sets a precedence for how we interpret the meaning of symbols, types and shadows in subsequent passages throughout the Bible.

One such principle is called the “Double Portion Inheritance.” In order to understand what this “Double Portion” blessing is all about, we must first read about the story of Joseph and his eleven brothers. We first hear about the grandsons of Ya’aqob (Jacob)/Yisra’el as being the Egyptian born sons of Joseph who discover that their identity is not Egyptian or “Gentile,” as they had previously thought. But the day comes when their grandfather Yisra’el comes to them and says “let my name be named upon them.” 

This is when “the lights came on” and these boys suddenly could see their true identity as being “Yisra’elites” and no longer “Gentiles” or in other words, “strangers.” In Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48, Jacob is growing old and he is about to die. He has been estranged from his favorite son Joseph for many years, and now he is finally reunited with him in the land of Egypt. As Jacob is about to give the blessing to his sons before he dies, he meets these two “strangers” and he does not know who they are. Jacob is going blind and “cannot see” these little boys, but Joseph tells his father Jacob these are my sons whom I have born in this place.”

What is interesting is that Ya’aqob (Jacob) is called by his former name “Jacob” in the first four verses of Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48, but suddenly, in verse 5, he is no longer being called Ya’aqob (Jacob) but he is being called “Yisra’el” when he is beholding Yahuwceph (Joseph)’s two sons Ephrayim & Menashsheh (Manasseh). Is it possible that not only these two Egyptian born sons received a “new identity”, but their own grandfather gets a glimpse of his future posterity? Could it be that Ya’aqob/Jacob’s own destiny now comes into focus as he himself realizes why his name should be changed from Ya’aqob (Jacob) to Yisra’el? From verses 1 through 4 he is called “Jacob” twice but now suddenly from verse 5 and on through the rest of chapter 48, he is being called “Yisra’el” when he is giving the blessing to his son Joseph and his grandsons. But then in Chapter 49, as Ya’aqob (Jacob) is giving the blessing to his other sons by Leah, and to Yahuwdah (Judah), he is being called “Ya’aqob” all throughout Chapter 49. Only one place in Bereshiyth (Genesis) 49:28, when the entire “Twelve Tribes of Yisra’el” are being spoken of, is he being referred to as “Yisra’el.” Chapter 49 opens with verse 1 and closes with verse 33 and in each of these verses, he is being called “Jacob” once again.

“Come Out of Her, the Mother Harlot Church!”

Pictured here is the witch, “Circe” offering up the golden cup to Ulysses. First of all, I want to address the term “church” which is a mis-translation in all of our English Bibles. The term “church” in English is erroneously used for the Greek word Ekklesia which means “called out ones.”  This very same word in Hebrew is Kehilah, and it is the very same word used to describe the “Congregation in the Wilderness” of the Yisra’elites who left Egypt. Where does the word “church” come from? CIRCE was a Greek goddess who turned men into pigs!!

Semiramis (Nimrod’s wife and mother) was called Isis in Egypt. But she had other names in different cultures. Circe is but one more of her “alter-ego’s.” According to Homer, Circe was a witch who turned men into pigs:

“…CIRCE: In Greek and Latin mythology the name of an enchantress who dwelt on the island of Aea, and transformed all who drank of her cup into SWINE; often used allusively….” (Oxford English Dictionary).

Most of the ancient world was familiar with the Greek Odyssey written by Homer. Anybody who read the New Testament could see immediately that the woman described in the book was none other than CIRCE— the filthy witch who turned men into pigs. She is none other than “that woman Jezebel” whom our Messiah spoke about in Revelation 2:20-23 when he identifies her as one who “calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.”

She is none other than that “woman” spoken of in prophecy:

Revelation 17:1-5

1“….. I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters:





Identity Crisis in Today’s Christianity

In Malakiy (Malachi) 4:5-6, we see a prophecy about the “Spirit of Elijah” coming to “restore the hearts of the fathers to the children” and this has to do with “identity.” When the “children of Yisra’el” recognize their true identity as “Yisra’el” and no longer “Gentiles” (strangers, foreigners), they will begin to behave like Yisra’elites and no longer like prodigal sons eating and sleeping with the unclean pigs. Eliyahuw’s  (Elijah’s) ministry was all about calling the children of Yisra’el to recognize who their true Father was by his true name “YaHuWaH.” They had begun to call him by a generic “nameless god” called “Ba’al” (which means Lord or husband), but YaHuWaH was angry about this, so he sent Eliyahuw to warn them. Once Yisra’el saw that “Ba’al” or “Lord” was not the true Elohiym (God) of Yisra’el but he had a name, YaHuWaH in ancient Hebrew, they repented of their worship of “Ba’al.” This is when Yisra’el was restored back to their Heavenly Father and to their true identity as “children.” This will happen once again in the last days, but before this can happen, we read in Malakiy (Malachi) 4:4 that we must “remember the Towrah (Law) of Mosheh” given at “Horeb” (not Sinai where they sinned with the golden calf).

Horeb is where the second set of stone tablets was kept and deposited into the ark made of incorruptible wood. This is a picture of the Renewed Covenant at Horeb accompanied by the sacrificial system (which prefigured the blood atonement of Messiah). And so before the spirit of Eliyahuw (Elijah) can restore us back to our identity, we must be restored back to understanding Torah (the commandments). This is the divine order that it must take place in before we can even walk in our true identity properly! In 1st Kings 18, Eliyahuw (Elijah) called for this demonstration (orchestrated by YHWH) on Mount Carmel whereby the “Elohiym who answered by fire” showed himself to Yisra’el. But he first had to “repair the broken down altar” and this was symbolic of their broken down ways of worshiping Yah. The way that Yisra’el was worshiping Yah was patterned after the way that Ba’al wanted to be worshiped and not the way that Yah required. Christmas, Easter, Anti-Torah and Lawlessness was prevalent in the days of Eliyahuw (Elijah) just as it is today in the Christian “Church” (Ekklesia or called out ones). And so Elijah had to repair and restore their way of worshiping Yah first and this means we must keep the appointed “Sabbaths” or Feasts which he said we must do “forever unto all generations.” Elijah set up “twelve stones” after the twelve tribes of Yisra’el, and this is the “foundation” of the Torah.

This had to happen before YaHuWaH would come and answer by bringing the fire of true repentance and revival!

In these last days the Holy Spirit is calling his true remnant out of Mystery Babylon and bringing those who are the “elect” of Yisra’el to their true identity!

Ephrayim & Manasseh Realize their Identity with Yisra’el

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

And now your two sons, Ephrayim and Manasseh, which were born unto you in the land of Egypt before I came unto you into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

And your issue, which you beget after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

*Note: What we see here in the two above verses is that Ephrayim & Manasseh (who are the grandsons of Yisra’el) are every bit as much Yisra’el’s “sons” as Reuben & Simeon the first two sons that Jacob had by Leah! What is Jacob saying here? He is counting these grandsons of his as his two oldest sons!

Before we go any further, it is important to understand what the names of these sons of Yahuwceph (Joseph) mean in Hebrew. Ephrayim literally means “double fruitfulness” and Manasseh means “to cause to forget.”

And so as we progress in this teaching, we will see that Manasseh (the first born) is a picture of “Old Covenant” Yisra’el.

Yahuwshuwa Messiah went to the lowest pares of the earth to redeem the “firstfruits” from among the dead and this is “Old Covenant” Yisra’el who is Yahuwceph (Joseph)’s first fruits of his loins. But even though Manasseh  was chronologically the first born son, Ephrayim (the younger) is the one who becomes a multitude of nations, whereas Manasseh  is a great nation who is later “forgotten, forsaken” (Isaiah 54) as “Old Covenant” Yisra’el forsook the covenant and was destroyed (Ezekiel 19). The fig tree which bore nothing but bad figs was cursed by our Messiah and John the Baptist even foretold of it as he said “even now the axe is laid to the root.” YaHuWaH’s mercy towards “Old Covenant” Yisra’el extended right up until the Roman Siege in 70 A.D. as they were still able to accept Yahuwshuwa’s atonement until her final ruin and destruction was completed. But then Ephrayim is a picture of “New Covenant Yisra’el” (the remnant in Christianity) as he goes into the nations and sows his “seed” and becomes a multitude of nations. And because of this, Ephrayim becomes “doubly fruitful” and brings both houses together of Yahuwdah (Judah) & Ephrayim (born-again Gentiles). And this happens when Ephrayim grabs the skirt (kanaph, tzitzit) of his older brother Yahuwdah (Judah or Jew-dah) according to Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 8:23.

Manasseh was supposed to be the “firstborn” of Yisra’el, but because of Yisra’el’s rebellion and sin, Ephrayim then becomes “the firstborn.” In other words, “Renewed Covenant” Yisra’el supersedes Old Covenant Yisra’el as foretold by the prophet Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) “I am a father to Yisra’el, and Ephrayim is my firstborn” (Jeremiah 31:9).

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

And Yisra’el beheld Yahuwceph’s (Joseph’s) sons, and said, Who are these?

And Yahuwceph (Joseph said) unto his father, They are my sons, whom Elohiym has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray you, unto me, and I will bless them.

This is a picture of the Father in Heaven saying to Yahuwshuwa “who are these?” when we are being presented before the throne on that day. The heavenly Father does not know who we are unless through the Messiah’s blood. Apart from his blood, the Father does not know who we are! And so Joseph is a type of Messiah here, who presents his sons to his father, and his father does not know them until Joseph says “these are my sons.” Yahuwshuwa declares us to his father in heaven!

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

10 Now the eyes of Yisra’el were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

11 And Yisra’el said unto Yahuwceph (Joseph), I had not thought to see your face: and, lo, Elohiym has showed me also your seed.

We see here a prophetic picture of Yisra’el being “blinded in part” as the Apostle Paul declared in Romans 11:25 “that blindness in part is happened to Yisra’el, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.”

Yisra’el did not recognize his grandsons, and he could not “see” them but because of his son Yahuwceph (Joseph), he blessed the boys. This is a picture of the Yahuwdiy (Jews) not recognizing the Christians as being their “brethren” until their eyes are opened to Messiah. Even now there are Messianic Jews who treat non-Jewish believers in Messiah as still being “Gentiles” but this is against Torah. This idea that there are separate laws and a separate covenant for the Jew and for the Gentile is not scriptural:

Shemoth (Exodus) 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourns among you.

It is against the Torah (Law of YHWH) when a Messianic Jew treats a born again believer in Messiah as if he is still a “Gentile” or a stranger:

Wayyikra (Leviticus) 19:34 But the stranger that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am YHWH your Elohiym.

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

13 And Yahuwceph (Joseph) took them both, Ephrayim in his right hand toward Yisra’el’s left hand, and Menashsheh (Manasseh) in his left hand toward Yisra’el’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.

14 And Yisra’el stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Menashsheh’s (Manasseh’s) head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Menashsheh was the firstborn.

Ephrayim was in Yahuwceph (Joseph)’s right hand as well as in Yisra’el’s right hand. And this shows us that Hebrew Idiom called “the right hand of power.” Ephrayim being in “Yisra’el’s right hand” is the same as Yahuwshuwa now seated at the right hand of power in heaven. As believers in Messiah, we are now “seated in heavenly places with him” at his right hand (Ephesians 2:6). 

The fact that Ephrayim was the younger one points to the story of the prodigal son. The younger brother forgot his identity and left the Father’s home and squandered his inheritance (salvation) on worldly living. That is the typical way of the modern day Christian Church. The younger son Ephrayim ate with the pigs who were unclean until the day came when he came to his senses and returned to the Father’s house and his older brother Judah (the Jews) were jealous because they never left the Torah (Law of YHWH), and kept the Feasts as they were supposed to do all along. But the younger son Ephrayim discovers his identity when the Father kills the fatted calf (atonement for sin) and places the ring on his finger (covenant) and gives him a robe (clothed in righteousness). This is when Ephrayim discovers his identity and he is joined to his older brother Yahuwdah (Judah) who never left home Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem).

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

15 And he blessed Yahuwceph (Joseph), and said, Elohiym, before whom my fathers Abraham and Yitzchaq (Isaac) did walk, the Elohiym which fed me all my life long unto this day,

16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Yitzchaq (Isaac); and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Yisra’el named these grandsons of his and said “let my name be named upon them.”  Even though Ephrayim & Manasseh thought they were Gentiles or Egyptians, they discovered that their true identity was with their grandfather Yisra’el because the blood of their father Joseph was their true DNA. Just as the blood of Yahuwshuwa Mashiyach (Messiah) gives us our identity and makes us “sons of Elohiym,” we who once thought we were Gentiles are now able to see that we are “Yisra’el” and that we are “grafted into”  one Olive tree until we become every bit as much a part of that tree as the natural branches because we partake of the same covenants and promises (the root and the fatness) of the Olive tree. But we become so much a part of that tree that there is no difference between the Yahuwdiy (Jew) and Goyim (Gentile) any longer with regard to the covenants and promises.

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

17 And when Yahuwceph (Joseph) saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephrayim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephrayim’s head unto Menashsheh’s (Manasseh’s) head.

18 And Yahuwceph (Joseph) said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand upon his head.


Yahuwshuwa our Mashiyach (Messiah) came for the “firstborn” the older son Yahuwdah (Judah or Jew-dah). But the Father in heaven chose to bless the younger son (Ephrayim). Yahuwshuwa came for his own but his own did not receive him. But as many as did receive him he gave the power to become sons of Yah! (John 1:11-12). And so Ephrayim represents the born again believer who now becomes a “son” through the blood of Messiah and he goes into all nations with the gospel and preaches making them disciples until there is “a multitude of nations” who believe on Messiah!

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Yisra’el bless, saying, Elohiym make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh (Manasseh): and he set Ephrayim before Menashsheh (Manasseh).

21 And Yisra’el said unto YaHuW’ceph (Joseph), Behold, I die: but Elohiym shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

This is a prophecy about Yahuwceph’s (Joseph’s) seed, Ephrayim coming back to the land of Yisra’el in the last days, the “land of your fathers” and this happens because of the Spirit of Eliyahuw (Elijah) who restores the children of Yisra’el back to the Heavenly Father, YaHuWaH, and also the fathers (patriarchs) of the faith, Abraham, Yitzchaq (Isaac) & Ya’aqob (Jacob).


This is the double portion blessing given to Yahuwceph (Joseph). Joseph is a “type” of Messiah and he is given one extra portion above his brothers. And so the two houses in which Joseph is given as an inheritance is Ephrayim & Yahuwdah (Judah). This is seen in the fact that Yahuwshuwa Messiah, will inherit the House of Ephrayim (born again believers in the foreign nations) and the House of Yahuwdah (Jew-dah or Judah). So how do we know that Yahuwdah (Jew-dah or Judah) is the other part of this Double Portion blessing? Yisra’el prophesied that Reuben, Simeon & Levi would be scattered in Yisra’el because of their anger and their violence. And so he blesses Yahuwdah the 4th son of Leah whom he treats as the first born.

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 49:

Yahuwdah (Judah), you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of yours enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.


10 The sceptre shall not depart from Yahuwdah (Judah), nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his donkey’s colt unto the choice vine: he washed his garment in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:


Yahuwdah is the tribe from who has been entrusted with the oracles of Elohiym as we read in Romans 3:3. The oracles are the contents of the Mosaic Law (Torah). All of the kings in Yisra’el were from Yahuwdah except for Saul who was from Benjamin. Yahuwshuwa our Messiah will be that King of Judah who will execute justice and judgment from his Torah when he returns. Shiloh means “peace” and it is an allusion to the Millennial Kingdom of Messiah. All of the people will be gathered back to Messiah through the tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah). When Yahuwshuwa returns, his eyes shall be “red with wine” as he will take vengeance on his enemies on the day of wrath “Yom Kippur” as we also read about in Revelation 19 when he avenges the blood of the saints. At his second coming, Messiah will have a “vesture dipped in blood” just as the prophecy here states:
“he washed his garments in the wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.”

We see another prophecy pointing to the fact that the “ten northern tribes” of Yisra’el who have scattered into the Gentile Nations will take hold of the “fringes” or the “tzitzit” of him that is a Yahuwdiy (Jew), and will return to Yisra’el with the Jews.

The word here for “skirt” in the Strong’s Concordance is:

# 3671 kanaph “an edge or extremity; a wing, a quarter, border, corner…”

The prayer shawl called a “tallit” has four corners with fringes on it that represent the “four corners of the earth” and of the harvest field. The fringes represent the Torah. There are seven strands to each fringe, and the middle blue one represents Messiah.

Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 8:23 Thus says YHWH of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Yahuwdiy (Jew), saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that Elohiym is with you.

Pictured here are the four fringes that Yisra’elites are commanded to wear on the four corners of their garments as a sign of the covenant:

Bemidbar (Numbers) 15:38 Speak unto the children of Yisra’el, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue.

These “fringes” in the Hebrew Strong’s Concordance is #6734 and it is translated as tsiytsith.

This is also seen in the story of Ruth when Ruth (a Moabite woman, a gentile) took hold of her mother-in-law Naomi and would not let go of her. And she said:

Ruth 1:16 “….. for wherever you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your Elohiym my Elohiym: ”

Two Houses: Theory or Reality?

It all began in 1997 when I would often hear the voice of my shepherd say to me: “Maria, read Ezekiel 19…”

It would be ten years before I finally understood what YaHuWaH was trying to say to me through this scripture. I would often ask him “what are you trying to say to me, Father?.... Why are you giving me this scripture? Who are these two lion’s whelps?”

This teaching is a progressive revelation about the “Two Houses” of Yisra’el shown to me over a twelve your period since 1997.

Well the answer finally came back in the summer of 2007 during a time of intense fasting and prayer. It was during this time, that I heard the voice of YaHuWaH say “the two house theology is correct.”

During this same season of intense fasting and prayer, Yah said to me “Maria, the double portion anointing is that of Moses & Elijah…”

Also during this time, I had another dream where Yahuwshuwa was teaching me about who these two lion’s whelps were in Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19. What I heard him say to me as I was waking up out of this dream was this: “The House of Ephrayim & The House of Yahuwdah are the two lion’s whelps…”

As he said this to me, I had a vision of the Mount of Transfiguration where Yahuwshuwa was seen with both Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah) in Luke 9:30. I had a revelation in that moment and I understood that Moses represented the Law (Torah, the five books of Moses). And Elijah represented the “prophets” or the “Spirit.” I suddenly understood in that moment that these two elements of Law & Prophets, Spirit & Truth, had to co-exist in Yahuwshuwa, and that he alone is the one who brings balance to these two elements. As I contemplated these dualities which are often seen in scripture, I began to see more of these dual elements which illustrate to us the “Double Portion Inheritance” and how they come together in Yahuwshuwa Messiah in perfect harmony and balance.

Two Lion’s Whelps
In Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19, we read about a “mother lioness” and two Kings of Yisra’el. The mother lioness is Yisra’el. How do we know this? In Isaiah 29 we read about “the city where David dwelt” called “Ariel.” Ariel in Hebrew means “Lion of Elohiym.” That city where King David dwelt is the city of Judah, Jerusalem. Ariel is the “lion’s whelp” that was birthed by the mother lioness, Yisra’el.

The lamentation in Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19 continues to display the prophetic warning of what was going to happen to Yisra’el this mother lioness. In this short chapter, we read about these two lion’s whelps. These lion’s whelps are the Kings of Ephraim (Yisra’el) & Yahuwdah (Judah) who had been taken captive.

Yahuwachaz (Jehoahaz) only reigned for three months before he was taken captive into Egypt with chains. The other king was Yahuwakiyn (Jehoiachin) who also reigned for only three months and then he was deported to Babylon in chains under King Nebuchadnezzar. 

The final verse (14), states that Yisra’el (the mother lioness) has no “strong rod” to rule with and this is a reference to the last King of Yisra’el named “Tzidqiyahuw” (Zedekiah) until the Millennium when Yahuwshuwa himself will rule and reign as King on the earth. This lamentation shows that Yisra’el had been fruitful in a time when she was keeping Yah’s covenant and his Torah (commandments). But when her “lion’s whelps” were taken captive by sin and pagan mixture, she lost her fruitfulness and therefore she was like a tree “plucked up in fury” like that fig tree which was cursed by Yahuwshuwa himself as a prophetic sign of the Roman Siege that would later be manifested in 70 A.D.

But even though this chapter is about these Kings, we can see yet another layer of understanding to this prophecy. We can liken the first King Yahuwachaz (Jehoahaz) to Ephrayim who was taken captive into Mitzrayim (Egypt) because Ephrayim was the Egyptian born son of Joseph. We can also liken King Yahuwakiyn (Jehoiachin) to Yahuwdah (Judah), since this king ruled specifically over the southern tribes of Judah.

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19

1 Moreover take you up a lamentation for the princes of Yisra’el,

2 And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.


4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt).






10 Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.




14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

The two “lion’s whelps” in the chapter above represent Ephrayim (Yisra’elites who behave as Gentiles) and Yahuwdah (Judah or Jews). Both of these groups have been taken captive by some form of bondage. Ephrayim is an allegory of the modern day remnant within the Christians Church (New Covenant Yisra’el). Because of their identity crisis, those in the Christian Church who are born again and washed in the blood of the Lamb do not see that they are now part of “the commonwealth of Yisra’el” and therefore they behave as Gentiles.

Yahuwdah (Judah) is an allegory of modern day Judaism. Within both camps there is bondage. Egypt (Mitzrayim) represents worldliness and sin, and so we see this characteristic prevalent in today’s Christian Church. Many of them have gone back to the ways of the world and apostasy and so in this way they have been taken captive by Satan’s chains of bondage to sin, back to the unregenerate ways from which they once were delivered. Within modern day Judaism, there is still an affinity towards the Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, the Talmud and traditions that they learned while they were in exile in Babylon. In other words “Babylon” means “confusion.” They have an element of the Torah (Yah’s commandments) but they are mixed with Babylonian traditions. There is religious mixture and we see this typified today with famous Hollywood celebrities who have embraced a Satanic counterfeit of Judaism. Both camps (Christians & Jews) have been taken captive by either Egypt (worldliness and sin) or Babylon (religious mixture). 

Yisra’el was “like a fruitful vine” as she was fruitful at one time, but she was influenced by the “East Wind” and this means Eastern Mysticism, “every wind of doctrine” which is foreign or strange. This is what has dried up her fruit. She has come under the influence of Eastern Religions. How do we know that the “east wind” represents Eastern or Babylonian paganism? In Numbers 2:3 we read that the sun always rises in the east. This is the reason why the pagan sun god worshipers named the pagan goddess of the spring equinox “Easter.” Also, we read about this in Ezekiel 8:16 where twenty five men had their backs towards the temple (turning their backs on Yah) and they were facing the “East” as they worshiped the sun. In Hoshea 12:1 we read that “Ephrayim feeds on wind and follows after east wind” and this means that Ephrayim (the remnant in the Christian Church) feeds on “every wind of doctrine” from pagan sun god worship (east wind).

In the final verses of Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19, we see that the fire (representing the Holy Spirit) which once came out of the seven branch menorah in the temple has now brought about destruction because she has allowed “strange fire” in her midst. And because of this, YaHuWaH has allowed Yisra’el to have no more Kings since “Tzidqiyahuw” (Zedekiah), until the coming of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Yahuwshuwa the conquering reigning King.

We know that there are “Two Houses” of Yisra’el because we read about them all throughout the scriptures. The prophet Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) called Messiah a “stone of stumbling and a rock of offense” for “both houses of Yisra’el.”

Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Yisra’el, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem).

We learn in the book of Jeremiah about Yisra’el & Yahuwdah as being two houses who were both rebellious and doomed for destruction until the restoration of all things comes through our Messiah who gathers together both houses to “make of the two houses one new man” (Ephesians 2:15). He shall gather these “two sticks” of Ephrayim & Yahuwdah into one house, one stick, “one new man.”

There seems to be a resistance to this understanding of what many call “Two House Theology” in the Messianic & Hebrew Roots Community today. Both camps want to diminish or disparage the other camp in some way as to make their camp seem superior. Those in the Christian Church often boast against the natural branches and the Messianic Jews often consider themselves more as natural born children over the spiritual sons who come in through the blood of Messiah. But as I fasted and prayed to seek the answers to these tough questions about what many today call “The Two House Theory” I have come to understand that the opposition comes from human pride and Satan’s attempt at keeping these two houses divided. But what did Yahuwshuwa say about “a house divided?”

Although Yahuwshuwa was specifically addressing the issue of casting out devils and the Kingdom of Darkness versus the Kingdom of Light, we can see a deeper allegory here. In this lesson about the “divided kingdom” which was once united under David (the house of Yahuwdah) we see that both houses divided and they became “a house divided.” We can see the same principle applied to the Ten Northern Tribes of Yisra’el who were scattered and had departed from Yahuwdah (Judah). Yahuwshuwa’s mission was to gather the ten rebellious tribes back to Judah and to bring Judah to understand that their “heavy burdens” and man-made laws of the Jewish Talmud were responsible for the scattering of the lost tribes of Yisra’el in the first place.

Satan’s kingdom of darkness was exhibited in the Kingdom of Yisra’el being destroyed in Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19. But YaHuWaH’s kingdom of light had come with the preaching of John the Baptist as he declared that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” YaHuWaH had already “laid the axe to the root” of Old Covenant Yisra’el and Yahuwshuwa even “cursed” this fig tree which bore nothing but bad figs. He did this so that he could rebuild another earthly kingdom ----Messiah’s Renewed (New) Covenant Yisra’el. In Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah), 31 he said that Yah would destroy, pluck up and tear down so that he could rebuild. I believe that Yahuwshuwa was giving us a “hint” of this in his lesson about “a house divided” even though the surface text shows a more direct literal application having to do with casting out devils.

Two Divided Kingdoms: “A House Divided”

How did these two kingdoms of the House of Yisra’el become divided? After King Solomon died, his son Rechab’am (Rehoboam) became the King of Yahuwdah (Judah). The King of Yisra’el, Yarob’am (Jeroboam), sent messengers to inquire from King Rechab’am (Rehoboam) if he would make the burdens of the people “lighter” than Shelomoh (Solomon) his father. The burdens had to do with paying tribute and taxes, but we can also see an allegory of how in the days of Yahuwshuwa’s ministry, he rebuked the Jewish Sanhedrin for “adding to the Torah” and making the people’s burden’s heavier. Yahuwshuwa encouraged all the lost sheep from the house of Yisra’el to come to him because his “burden was easy and light.” Yahuwshuwa knows that in him there is no burden in keeping Torah. But the Scribes & Pharisees who “sat in the seat of Mosheh” heaped heavy burdens on the people by adding man-made laws called the “Talmud” and this is why the other ten tribes scattered and would have no part with Yahuwdah (Judah or Jews) any longer.

1st Melekim (Kings) 12:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.

This is a picture of how the Jewish Sanhedrin in the days of Yahuwshuwa’s ministry made the yoke of the Yisra’elites heavy by adding man-made decrees and laws to the Torah (Commandments of YHWH). Because the house of Yahuwdah (Jews) made it more difficult for the people to keep Torah, they gave up and scattered.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:6 And King Rechab’am (Rehoboam) consulted with the old men, that stood before Shelomoh (Solomon) his father while he you lived, and said, How do you advise that I may answer this people?

The “old men” represent the “ancient paths” of the Torah, and the wise men that Solomon consulted with.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:

7 And they spoke unto him, saying, If you will be a servant unto this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.


Rechab’am (Rehoboam) was a man-pleaser and not a pleaser of Yah. He rejected the sound wisdom of the ancient paths of the Torah and the wise old men. He instead took the advice of his contemporaries and his peers which was not good sound wisdom.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shall you speak unto this people that spoke unto you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter unto us; thus shall you say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

12 So Yarob’am (Jeroboam), and all the people came to Rechab’am (Rehoboam), the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.



16 So when all Yisra’el saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in Dawiyd (David)? neither have we inheritance in the son of Yishay (Jesse): to your tents, O Yisra’el: now see to yours own house, Dawiyd (David). So Yisra’el departed unto their tents.

When Rechab’am (Rehoboam) declared that he would make the burdens of the Yisra’elites even heavier than his Father Shelomo (Solomon), the Kingdom was divided and the rest of the tribes of Yisra’el departed from Yahuwdah and Jerusalem and they were scattered.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:17 But as for the children of Yisra’el which dwelt in the cities of Yahuwdah (Judah), Rechab’am (Rehoboam) reigned over them.

To this day, the other ten tribes of Yisra’el are in rebellion with the House of David (Judah & Benjamin) and they have assimilated into the Gentile nations, so much so that they have forgotten their identity just as the prodigal son who forgot his identity and departed from his Father’s house.

1st Melekyim (Kings) 12:19 So Yisra’el rebelled against the house of Dawiyd (David) unto this day.

20 And it came to pass, when all Yisra’el heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Yisra’el: there was none that followed the house of Dawiyd (David), but the tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) only.

21 And when Rechab’am (Rehoboam) was come to Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem), he assembled all the house of Yahudah (Judah), with the tribe of Benyahmiyn (Benjamin), an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Yisra’el, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

King Yarob’am (Jeroboam), who ruled over the ten northern tribes of Yisra’el built his place in “Mount Ephrayim” and this is proof that the ten northern tribes all fall under the “stick of Ephrayim” as shown to Yehezqel (Ezekiel) in chapter 37:16-17.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:25 Then Yarob’am (Jeroboam), built Shechem in mount Ephrayim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.

Yarob’am (Jeroboam) was afraid that if he allowed the children of Yisra’el to go and do the feasts three times per year in Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem) as they were commanded to do forever (Leviticus 23), that they would rebel against him and come under the rule of Rechab’am (Rehoboam) King of Yahuwdah (Judah). And so he devised his own pagan holidays and pagan gods not in accordance with the Torah. This is exactly what the Christian Church has done today. Because the Roman Emperor Constantine did not want to share Roman power with the Jews, he stripped Christianity of everything “Jewish” in the 3rd Century and instituted his own pagan holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc. and other days meant to commemorate Nimrod and Tammuz the pagan “Christ’s” of Gnosticism.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:

26 And Yarob’am (Jeroboam) said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of Dawiyd:

27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of YHWH at Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem), then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rechab’am (Rehoboam) king of Yahuwdah (Judah), and they shall kill me, and go again to Rechab’am (Rehoboam) king of Yahuwdah (Judah).

28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem): behold your gods, O Yisra’el, which brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt).



King Yarob’am (Jeroboam) even set up a pagan priesthood just like the Roman Catholic priests of today, not after the sons of Levi. He devised holidays “of his own heart” and not from the word of Yah to do the Feasts which we are commanded to do forever by YaHuWaH.

1st Melekiym (Kings) 12:




You will notice that Yarob’am (Jeroboam) ordained a feast in the “eighth month” against the commandment of Yah which is to be in the “seventh month” for the three fall feasts. This is what the Papacy has done in establishing their own man-made sun god festivals devised after their own hearts and not after Yah’s word.

Two Sisters Who Played the Harlot

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 23:1-2

The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

The mother lioness “Yisra’el” of Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19 gave birth to “two sisters” and these two sisters are Samaria (Gentiles) and Jersualem (Jews). In other words Samaria is Ephrayim and Jerusalem is Judah. In the last days there will be a counterfeit of “the marriage supper of the Lamb” with both of these apostate sisters coming back together again. The mother of these two apostate sisters is called MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF ALL HARLOTS. This “counterfeit mother” will be those from the House of Yahuwdah (Judah) and those from the House of Yisrael (Ephrayim) who fall away to the false Messiah called “the Antichrist.” Both Christianity (the House of Yisrael) & Judaism will have a remnant of one-third who will come out of her (Mystery Babylon), but there will be two-thirds who will remain with their mother---the Harlot System of Paganism.
Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 23:



In the Strong’s Hebrew Concordance, we see what these names mean:

#170 ‘Oholah: her tent (i.e. idolatrous sanctuary); Oholah, a symbol. Name for Samaria:--Aholah.

#172 ‘Oholiybah: my tent (is) in her; Oholibah, a symbolic name for Judah:--Aholibah.

We see once again that both camps Jew & Gentile or Judah & Samaria (Ephrayim), have the same human nature problem which is “sin” and they both need a Savior because they are unable to change their ways.

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 23:




One Covenant with Two Houses

The 23rd Chapter of the Book of Yehezqel (Ezekiel) ends with a prophecy about how Yah will punish those within both houses of YaHuW’dah & Ephrayim who commit harlotry against him. He brings their lovers against them and uses their lovers to chastise them of their harlotry and whoredoms. In these last days, the Renewed Covenant is still being implemented, leading up to the “consummation” of the marriage with Messiah on that great and terrible day of his second coming. When he “gathers his elect” on that day “immediately after the tribulation,” and his elect receive the “resurrection of the body” the fullness of the Renewed (New) Covenant will be implemented into the cosmos and the earth will be cleansed by fire and purified.

The days are still you to come when YaHuWaH will make a Renewed Covenant with both houses of Yisra’el. The Renewed Covenant has not reached its “fullness” until Ephrayim & Yahuwdah (Judah) shall become “one stick” in his hand (Ezekiel 37:16-17).

Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) 31:

31 Behold, the days come, said YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’el, and with the house of Yahuwdah (Judah):


33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra’el; After those days, said YHWH, I will put my law in their inward pares, and write it in their hearts; and will be their Elohiym, and they shall be my people.

In the end times Yah will make a covenant with both houses of Yisra’el, and they shall all appoint “one head” one Messiah for they shall all be in one accord.

Howshea 1:11 Then shall the children of Yahuwdah (Judah) and the children of Yisra’el be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Yizra’el (Jezreel).

Two Olive Trees & Two Candlesticks

Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 4





14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by YHWH of the whole earth.

Who is Zerubbabel?

Hebrew meaning: #2216 Zrubbabel descended of Babylon, i.e. born there; Zerubbabel, an Yisra’elite:--Zerubbabel.

Zerubbabel was a Levitical priest born in Babylon. He is a figure of this end time priesthood that Yah is raising up in these last days. In other words there is a remnant who will “come out of Mystery Babylon” and will embrace the “Double Portion Inheritance.”  Zerubbabel represents the New Covenant priesthood of Melchizedek:

1st Keefa (Peter) 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthoodan holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

Nehemyahuw (Nehemiah) 12:47 And all Yisra’el in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.

The Two Olive Trees: Judah & Ephrayim (Jew & Gentile)

Olive Trees are likened unto the nation of Yisra’el in prophecy and two of them symbolize the Southern Kingdom of Yisra’el (Judah) and the Northern Kingdom of Yisra’el (Ephrayim & Joseph) (See Ezekiel 37:16-17). The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) also describes “two olive trees” in Romans 11, when he refers to the “wild olive tree” (Gentiles) and the “natural olive tree” (Jews) being grafted into one olive tree.

Two Sticks in the Hand of YaHuWaH

Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:

16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick (tree), and write upon it, For Yahuwdah (Judah), and for the children of Yisra’el his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Yahuwceph (Joseph), the stick (tree) of Ephrayim and for all the house of Yisra’el his companions:

17 And join them one to another into one stick (tree); and they shall become one in yours hand.

The stick of Yahuwdah (Judah) includes the House of Judah (Jews), but also includes those of the “children” of Yisra’el (the other eleven sons of Yisra’el). The “companions” of the children of Yisra’el would be those who started out as Gentiles, but they joined up with those in the Household of Natzariym Yahuwdiym (Jewish followers of Messiah).

Hence, Yahuwdah (Judah) includes all those who use the title “Jew” by virtue of their practicing Judaism, and they may physically have the DNA of all twelve tribes of Yisra’el including DNA from Judah. But then there are those who don’t have the DNA of these tribes and they started out as Gentiles but they choose to convert to Judaism as a religion.

But the stick of Joseph & Ephrayim includes those who are physically the descendants of Joseph, and Ephrayim, but also those who are of the entire “House of Yisra’el” from both wives (Leah & Rachel) and this would include Benjamin. The “companions” of would be those within the Christianity who “come out of Mystery Babylon” and embrace the Covenant with Yisra’el into their Hebraic Roots---into a Torah obedience. Hence Ephrayim includes those who literally have the DNA of Ephrayim & Joseph and they too have companions who are “Gentiles” with no physical lineage to these tribes yet they choose to join Ephrayim by virtue of faith, the blood of Messiah and Torah observance by coming out of Mystery Babylon paganism within the Christian Church.

Wild Branches & Natural Branches

YaHuWaH our Father already has the “foreknowledge” of who will end up as Yisra’elites in the end for he knows whose names will not be blotted out of the book of life (Revelation 3:5). There is a “remnant” of Yah’s elect (Jew & Gentile alike) who are predestined according to the election of grace and he knows who will be counted as Yisra’el in the end.

Romans 11:1-5 “….I say then, Has Elohiym cast away his people? Elohiym forbid…Elohiym has not cast away his people which he foreknew…I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”

So you see all of those who do not bow the knee to Ba’al (the false Messiah being depicted in the pagan holidays) will end up as the “remnant of Yisra’el” and only the Father knows who they are.

Romans 11: 

7 What then? Yisra’el has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

11 (According as it is written, Elohiym has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

Here, the Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) is illustrating that “Old Covenant” Yisra’el was according to the flesh (DNA, blood lines of the Fathers). But New Covenant Yisra’el is obtained by being “born-again” of the Spirit. We all become “adopted sons” of the Heavenly Father (whether Jew or Gentile) when we receive the “Spirit of Adoption” whereby we cry “Abba Father” (Romans 8:15). And so Old Covenant Yisra’el did not obtain what he sought for because he would not allow himself to be born of the Spirit through Yahuwshuwa’s sacrifice on the Taw (two sticks, stauros, cross).  You, there was always the “elect” after the foreknowledge of the Father (1st Keefa/Peter 1:1-2) who were always his from the foundation of the world.

“Old Covenant” Yisra’el could not obtain the promise because of spiritual blindness:

Romans 11: 

10 Let their eyes be darkenedthat they may not see, and bow down their back always.

11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Elohiym forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

When the Gentiles realize their identity with Yisra’el just as Ephrayim did, they will make the house of Judah jealous and the Jews will desire to come to Yahuwshuwa as Messiah when the Gentiles forsake their pagan ways and come into the “fullness” of their identity, into the Olive Tree as Yisra’elites.


The falling away of “Old Covenant” Yisra’el was so that the Gentiles would be born as sons in a foreign land like Ephrayim and come into their Double Portion Inheritance with Judah in the end-times.

The fullness of the Gentiles means that when these born again believers who were once strangers (gentiles) come into the fullness of their identity as Yisra’elites, that is when the fullness of the Jews will also be realized because they will be provoked to jealousy when they see Gentiles becoming Yisra’elites, keeping the feasts and Torah. That is when the Yahuwdiy (Jews) will see Yahuwshuwa as their Messiah in the Feasts and they will be won over to him.

Romans 11:







21 For if Elohiym spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.

Sha’ul (Paul) is illustrating that the first born son Manasseh are like the “natural branches” and they did not receiving his “double portion inheritance,” even though he started out as the firstborn son. The “wild branches” are like Ephrayim who is grafted into the olive tree (Yisra’el), and receives the “double portion,” even though it was Menashsheh (Manasseh) who was supposed to originally receive it. But the wild branches are given a warning not to “boast against” the natural branches, just as Ephrayim should take heed that he not gloat against Judah.

Romans 11:

23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for Elohiym is able to graft them in again.

24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive treehow much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?


Yahuwdah (Judah), the older brother will once again become “grafted” into his own olive tree when he believes in Yahuwshuwa as the Messiah.

Romans 11:26 And so all Yisra’el shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Tziyown (Zion) the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Ya’aqob (Jacob).

When Paul said “all Yisra’el shall be saved” he is not referring to those who merely “call themselves Yisra’el,” but those whom the Father “foreknew” are the true Yisra’el.

Romans 9:6 For they are not all Yisra’el, which are of Yisra’el.

Not everyone who calls themselves “Yisra’el” shall be counted as Yisra’el in the end. It is by the foreknowledge of the Father in heaven who will be called “Yisra’el” according to the election of grace. It is by “circumcision of the heart” and not by culture, nor by following a religion. In Revelation 7 there are only 12,000 from each tribe who end up as the “remnant” and this number of 144 thousand seems like a very small number. But I expound further on this phenomenon in my other teaching entitled “Who Are the 144 Thousand?”

One New Man

Ephesians 2


12 That at that time you were without Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Yisra’el, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without Elohiym in the world:

13 But now in Messiah Yahuwshuwa you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Messiah.



The word “ordinance” in Greek here means “dogma” or a man-made decree. There was a man-made ordinance whereby the rabbi’s built up a wall around the outer court keeping the gentiles from being allowed to come near to the temple so that they could know YaHuWaH. But this was “against us” because Yah never commanded this in his temple. This was a man-made decree and this was the “enmity” that Yahuwshuwa destroyed on the Taw (two sticks, stauros, cross).  The “enmity” was brought on by the sinful prideful nature of man, and this is what Yahuwshuwa destroyed on the Taw (two sticks, cross)----not the Torah or his own commandments. Because of the sinful nature which caused “enmity” between 
Ephrayim & Judah, there was an invisible “wall” in the spirit which separated us, but we are now able to become “one new man” corporately as one body through Messiah. Paul is describing this “enmity” as being the “middle wall of partition” between us. But there was also a “literal wall” that was built under rabbinic ordinances that kept the gentiles from being allowed to “come near” to the temple of YaHuWaH.

Ephesians 2:

16 And that he might reconcile both unto Elohiym in one body by the Taw (two sticks, cross), having slain the enmity thereby:


To them that were “afar off” (Ephrayim who was born in Egypt) and to them who were near (Judah) who had returned to the covenant and to the land after the Babylonian Captivity. The House of Judah were at home keeping the Feasts & Sabbaths, and Yahuwshuwa preached peace to both houses. Once again, we see Ephrayim as the younger son and Judah as the older son in the parable of the prodigal son. And both of these are “reconciled unto Elohiym” because the enmity was slain. In the story of the prodigal son, when the Father killed the fatted calf, the “enmity” between the brothers was also “slain” and the younger brother was treated the same as the older brother who never left home.

The Corporate One New Man Child

When we read this prophecy in Revelation 12, it is obvious that “the woman” is speaking of Yisra’el because she has a crown of twelve stars for the twelve tribes of Yisra’el. But often times in prophecy we can see more than one layer of understanding. We see the literal woman as Mary/Miryam the mother of Yahuwshuwa our Messiah. And we see that the “man-child” is Yahuwshuwa himself who was born of this woman on September 11th in 3 B.C. on Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets.

*Note: See the research of Dr. Ernest L. Martin who wrote the book “The Star that Astonished the World.”

On that day, the planetary alignment showed that the sign of “Virgo, the Virgin” (Bethulah in Hebrew) was seen giving birth to “Ariel” the Lion of Judah and she had a crown of twelve stars, the moon was under her feet and the sun was “mid-body” as she was “clothed with the sun.” But even though this prophecy has already taken place on September 11th in 3 B.C., with the birth of Yahuwshuwa Messiah, it will be repeated with the corporate “man-child” as the remnant of believers who form “the one new man” (Ephesians 2:15) will become a corporate body of believers who will “rule and reign over all nations with him for one thousand years.”


Revelation 12:




*Note: This dragon is Satan who has “seven heads” (Seven Hills of Rome) and the ten horns (ten nations that form the beast power of the Antichrist).


The man-child is Yahuwshuwa, but also the corporate “man-child” is the one new man of Ephesians 2:15, the “one stick” of Ezekiel 37:16-17.

The Two Witnesses

These “two witnesses” are described by the angel to John as “four objects” and so we see that there is more to these two witnesses than meets the eye.

Revelation 11:

3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days (1,260 days or 3.5 years), clothed in sackcloth.

4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the Elohiym of the earth.

In order to understand who the “two olive trees” are, we have to go back to the first time in scripture where the nation of Yisra’el is likened unto an “olive tree.” In Jeremiah 11:16, YaHuWaH called the name of Yisra’el “a green olive tree.” Then we read in Ezekiel 37:16-17 that YaHuWaH will take the “stick” of Judah and the “stick” of Ephrayim and he shall make them “one stick in his hand” at the resurrection. But what is interesting is the Hebrew Strongs Concordance defines the English word for “stick” as “tree:” 

#6086 `ets ates from 6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks):--+ carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.

We read also in Romans 11, where Paul the Apostle describes the Gentiles as the “wild branches” who are grafted into the same Olive Tree with the “natural branches.”

“Old Covenant” Yisra’el are the natural branches who were part of the original covenant through natural birth from Abraham’s seed. New Covenant Yisra’el is the Gentiles who hear the gospel and are grafted into the same Olive Tree with Old Covenant Yisra’el because of faith and they too become the “seed” (sperma in Greek) of Abraham. Like Ephrayim who was born in a foreign nation, he was thought of as a “Gentile” or stranger, but because he had the blood of his Father Joseph (a type of Messiah), he had the DNA of Yisra’el. Likewise through the blood of our Messiah Yahuwshuwa, a Gentile born in a foreign land can be “named Yisra’el” because we are related to Yisra’el our Father through Yahuwshuwa’s blood. Judah was the fourth natural born son of Yisra’el through Leah and he gave the scepter and kingly authority to Judah. But Yaaqob (Jacob-Yisra’el) gave the blessing of “firstborn” to Joseph through his youngest son Ephrayim. These two branches are the natural branches (Judah) and the wild branches (Ephrayim).

And so who are the “Two Candlesticks?” Yahuwshuwa tells us the mystery:


Seven Candlesticks = Seven Congregations (Ekklesia, Called out Ones)

* Note: In the first three chapters of Revelation, Yahuwshuwa addresses seven congregations, and he finds fault with all of them except for Smyrna & Philadelphia. These are the “two candlesticks” of Revelation 11:4, the two overcoming congregations.

The Two Witnesses are “Judah & Ephrayim” the two olive trees. And they are also Smyrna & Philadelphia, the two congregations whom YaHuW’shuwa finds no fault with. In other words, the “two witnesses” are two groups of people, not merely two individuals.

These two witnesses walk in the “double portion anointing.” This means that they walk in the anointing of Eliyahuw or Elijah which is symbolic of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But they also walk in the anointing of Mosheh (Moses) which is the Torah. 

Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy (Elijah anointing): and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. (Moses anointing).

Moses & Elijah are the “two witnesses” seen in Luke 9:30 with Yahuwshuwa at the Mount of Transfiguration.

They represent “Law & Prophets” the elements of “Spirit & Truth.” We see these two together also in Malakiy (Malachi) 4:4-6 as being the two who bring together the “lost children” the remnant of the House of Yisra’el back to the Heavenly Father and also the faith of the fathers” (patriarchs) of the faith: Abraham, Yitzchaq (Isaac), & Ya’aqob (Jacob). In other words, the ancient paths of the Torah.

*Note: You will notice that these two witnesses do the same exploits as Elijah as he prayed that it would not rain for 3.5 years during his ministry to Samaria. These two witnesses also do the same exploits as Moses because Moses had power to turn waters to blood and to smite the earth with plagues as he did in Egypt before Pharaoh.

These two witnesses form a powerful “two witness” army in the earth in these last days as they prophesy for 1,260 days against the Anti-Messiah. After their 3.5 your ministry is finished, they are “caught up” into heaven and simultaneously there is the sounding of the “seventh angel” which is the seventh trumpet sounded in the seventh month of Tishri on Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets. This is what is commonly called “the rapture” or the catching away of the bride. We know this because immediately after they are taken up, the day of wrath, Yom Kippur comes within ten days after this event and the books are opened to determine who is in the book of life as we read this in Revelation 11:18.

Revelation 11:

12 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from Elohiym entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.


14 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were afraid, and gave glory to the Elohiym of heaven.

15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Master YHWH, and of his Messiah; and he shall reign for ever and ever.


Two Spies out of Twelve Inherit the Promise

Over and over again from Genesis to Revelation, we see a pattern of these two houses, two sticks, two lion’s whelps, two olive trees, two witnesses, and two spies. Why is this significant you might ask? Because the entire plan of redemption is seen in these two groups from the beginning right up until the end. Even in Revelation 21, we see the Tabernacle coming out of heaven, and there are 2 groups represented. The 12 Tribes of Yisra’el are seen in the 12 gates to the New Jerusalem. The 12 Apostles are seen in the 12 foundations stones to the city. These two groups (12 Tribes & 12 Apostles) represent two covenants coming together into One Covenant. The first covenant at Mount Sinai was broken because of unbelief, and idolatry. But the second set of stone tablets was not broken, but they were deposited into an ark made of incorruptible wood (symbolic of a born again new nature). And the second covenant was accompanied by the Tabernacle of Moses and the sacrificial system (symbolic of the Renewed Covenant, and the sacrifice of Messiah on the tree). Both Covenants come together as One Covenant under One Messiah in the end.

We get a glimpse of this in the book of Yahuwshuwa (Joshua the son of Nun) with the 12 spies who were sent to spy out the land of promise. Ten of these spies (symbolic of the ten lost tribes) came back with an evil report which caused all of Yisra’el to fear and to not be able to inherit the Promised Land. But there is always a “remnant” and in this case it was “two spies” named Joshua & Caleb.

We find out that Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) came from the tribe of Ephrayim, and Caleb came from the tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah). The scriptures once again give us the “hidden manna” showing us that there is always a “remnant” and that remnant can always be seen in Ephrayim & Judah.

We find out that Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) spoke to the children of Ephrayim and Manasseh:

Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If you be a great people, then get you up to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephrayim be too narrow for you.

Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) 17:17 And Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) spoke unto the house of Yahuwceph (Joseph), even to Ephrayim and to Menashsheh (Manasseh) , saying, You are a great people, and hast great power: you shall not have one lot only:

We also find out that Kaleb (Caleb) was from the tribe of Judah:

Bemidbar (Numbers) 13:6 Of the tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah), Kaleb the son of Yephunneh (Jephunneh).

Bemidbar (Numbers) 34:19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah), Kaleb the son of Yephunneh (Jephunneh).

Scripture References about the Double Portion Inheritance

Debarim (Deuteronomy) 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.



This prophecy in Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) 61 is about the remnant of Yisra’el who experience shame, tribulation and confusion because of her sins of idolatry. But when she comes out of her tribulation tried by fire and purified, then she is given the “Double Portion” blessing.

Blended Families in the Kingdom

How many of you remember the old sitcom entitled “The Brady Bunch?” I am sure that many of you who are my age remember watching the show as a child growing up. And for those of you who are too young to remember, there have been many re-runs and reunion movies about the Brady Bunch to know what the story line is all about. A widower with three young sons marries a widow with three young daughters, and the two families had to adjust to the blending together of different lifestyles, habits and cultures. At first it was rough and there were lots of fights between the children, power struggles and territorial issues. But because the parents had a strong marriage in the show, they were always able to bring stability and guidance back to the children and steer them back in the right direction toward unity and harmony.

Now I used this analogy to demonstrate that this is exactly what is happening today with the blending of the Jewish Believers in Messiah and the former Gentiles, who came out of the Christian Church. We each come from different cultural views, backgrounds, customs and ideas. Our styles of worship vary in many ways, and it seems at times that each group has a difficult time accepting the extremes and erroneous ways of the other group.

Having been a part of both the Messianic Community as well as the Christian Community, I can certainly see that there are imbalances within both camps.

The Messianic Believers have the Torah but they also adhere to religious mixture have added by the man-made oral traditions of the Talmud and Kabbalah which are from Babylon. The Christian Churches operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit but they are lacking the understanding of the Torah, and so there is lawlessness and worldly mixture. Often times because of this, “another Spirit” (2nd Corinthians 11:4) is permitted to counterfeit the Holy Spirit in their midst because “they love not the truth” and are given over to “strong delusion” (2nd Thessalonians 2:11-12). As the prophecy in Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 19 describes, both of these Lion’s whelps have been taken captive in some form and there is a destructive fire that is gone out of her branches, a strange fire that is not the fire of the Holy Spirit. When this “Mother Lioness”, Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem) is restored, she will be like those “two candlesticks” and those “two olive trees” with the golden oil in ZekarYaH (Zechariah) 4, giving forth the fire of the Holy Spirit instead of the destructive “strange fire.”

Two Brides Will Become One Bride

The truth is that there are many patterns in Torah that illustrate to us that there are still to this day “Two Houses” of Yisra’el who are in the process of becoming “one” in the hand of YaHuWaH. First of all we see Ya’aqob (Jacob)-Yisra’el as a prophetic “type” of Messiah and he has 2 brides that end up becoming one family in the end. Leah represents the 10 Northern Tribes who became known as “Gentiles.” Leah means “cow” and Ephrayim is prophetically called a Heifer according to the book of Hosea. During the Fall Feasts of YaHuWaH, the heifers and bulls are killed for the Nations while the lambs are killed for Judah. Rachel represents the House of Judah (2 Southern Tribes), and the name Rachel also means “lamb.”

In the story of Jacob, he worked for 7 years thinking he was going to get Rachel but instead he got Leah. The night that he discovered that he had been tricked, Laban said to him “finish the week with Leah and I will give you Rachel also.” And so Jacob got Rachel at the end of the “week” as he also agreed to work another seven years for Rachel. Messiah’s seven- year ministry was for Rachel (House of Judah) but that week got cut in half as he was “cut off in the middle of the week” according to Daniel 9:25-27. The daily “sacrifice and oblation” ceased to be acceptable before YaHuWaH because the House of YaHuW’dah (Judah) on the whole rejected Messiah’s sacrifice. Because of this, each your for 40 consecutive years, on Yom Kippur the black stone came up every your instead of the white stone. And the ribbon that was supposed to turn from red to white failed to turn white from Passover (Wednesday) 31 A.D. until the Roman Siege in 70 A.D. There was a 40- year probationary period for YaHuW’dah (Judah) to accept him and when they did not, he put an end to their city and their temple.

Hence, Messiah’s ministry of 7 years for Rachel was cut in half to 3.5 years. What is prophetically significant about this is that the “Red Heifer” is the only sacrifice that is done outside of the city walls of Jerusalem and the Red Heifer had to be at least 3 years old (Genesis 15:9, Isaiah 15:5, Jeremiah 48:34). Messiah was offered up as the Red Heifer after he completed his ministry of 3.5 years for the House of Ephrayim (the lost tribes). Now when the Abomination of Desolation will be seen in the Holy Place, and from this point on, is when the 3.5 your Tribulation kicks off and then the 2 Witnesses will complete the 7 your ministry of Messiah for Rachel. I don’t believe that there are 7 years left to go. I believe that Messiah already fulfilled half of Daniel’s 70th Week and there is only a half a week left to go.

When the last 3.5 years for Rachel is complete, Messiah will be married to Leah (10 Northern Tribes), just as Ya’aqob (Jacob) was married to Leah at the end of 7 years. But then Laban (symbolic of the Father), gave him Rachel also at the end of the “week” (7 day marriage with Leah). And so I see prophetically how there are 3.5 days when the 2 witnesses are dead in the streets, and when they are raised up at “the last” & 7th trumpet (when the 7th angel sounds), that is when the rest of the elect are going to be raised up also. It is at this point that Messiah goes into the marriage with Leah for 7 days (making up a total of 10 days from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur). At the end of the “week” (7 day wedding with Leah), Messiah gets married to Rachel also on Yom Kippur. This is when the elect from the House of YaHuW’dah (Judah or Jews) will look upon him whom they have pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns his only son (Zechariah 12:10). And then on the Feast of Tabernacles, both brides (Leah & Rachel) will become one stick in the hand of YaHuWaH.

Ya’aqob (Jacob)-Yisra’el is a prophetic picture of our Messiah YaHuW’shuwa. And the “man-child” in Revelation 12 is also a picture of Messiah, but he also represents the corporate body of the Renewed Covenant believers who came out of the “woman” (Old Covenant Yisra’el) typified in Rachel. When this man-child completes the latter half of YaHuW’shuwa’s seven years of working for “Rachel” (symbolic of the two Southern Tribes in Judah) with a 3.5 your ministry (1,260 days) as the Two Witnesses, then Jacob’s time of Trouble will then be complete. YaHuW’shuwa at this point will have already won Leah (the 10 Tribes symbolized by Gentile Nations), but he will also be married to Rachel (Bethlehem-Judah) and together they become “One New Man.” You may be asking “how do you assimilate Rachel to Judah (Jews), when Rachel did not give birth to Judah, but Leah did”?

It is because YaHuW’ceph (Joseph) had a dream in Bereshiyth (Genesis) 37 whereby he was shown that in the last days, his brothers (the 10 Northern Tribes would all bow down to him and serve him. Joseph is a prophetic “type” of Messiah and the “Ten Northern Tribes” became known as “Ephrayim” in 1st Kings 12 and in Hoshea 10:11.

What this means is that the families end up switching places! In other words, Joseph ends up being the tribal leader of Leah’s sons and Judah ends up being the tribal leader of Rachel’s sons in the end!

Rachel is a metaphor of the woman who had 2 children (2 Southern Tribes of Judah) verses Leah the woman who had 10 children (10 Northern Tribes of Ephrayim). It is also interesting to note that the name Rachel means “lamb” whereas Leah means “cow.” When Elohiym commanded Mosheh in the Tabernacle to make sacrifices, he used the Lamb to represent Yisra’el, but he used the Bull (Heifer) to represent the nations.

Even though Leah was the mother of YaHuW’dah (Judah), and Rachel was the mother of YaHuW’ceph (Joseph), the families “switch places” and they become fully intermingled with one another as “one stick” in the hand of YaHuWaH (Ezekiel 37:16-17). This can accurately be seen in the Yom Kippur sacrifices that were done each year as described in Leviticus 16.  The High Priest took the blood of the bull and sprinkled the veil that separated the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place. He did the same with the blood of the goat. The blood was mixed together, and the High Priest sprinkled the mixed blood on the horns of the altar of incense. The blood was also sprinkled on the altar of sacrifice to cleanse it. The remaining blood was poured at the base of that altar. What was being done here? The Bull represents the House of Ephraim (Gentiles) typified in Leah or the 10 Northern Tribes of Yisra’el. YaHuW’shuwa performed the sacrifice of the Red Heifer (Numbers 19), as well as the Passover Lamb at his crucifixion. The Lamb represents the House of YaHuW’dah (Judah) typified in Rachel as her name means “Lamb.” The blood of the lamb is for the House of Judah (Jews) and the blood of the bull is for Ephraim (Gentiles). The blood of these two animals is mixed together on Yom Kippur! What this means is that the blood of Ephraim (the bull) and the blood of Judah (the goat) become one family, one blood, one bride, one stick in the hand of YaHuWaH at the final Yom Kippur at the marriage supper of the Lamb!

It is as if Leah is the mother of Joseph and Rachel is the mother of Judah in the end. The stick of Ephrayim becomes Judah, and the stick of Judah becomes Ephrayim. This is how they become one! Now we understand why the Apostle Sha’ul said the following:

Galatians 3:28 There is neither YaHuW’diy (Jew) nor Gentile (Greek), there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Messiah YaHuW’shuwa.

Some people inaccurately use this verse to suggest that there is no more need to obey the “Jewish Law” (as they put it). They lump together the Mosaic Law (Torah) with the man-made religious traditions of Judaism and treat them as the same thing when they are not. They erroneously believe that the YaHuW’diy (Jews) must become “Christians” and therefore assimilate into the Gentile masses by embracing pagan sun-god holidays etc. But this verse is saying quite the opposite! There is no more difference in the way that the “two houses” of Yisra’el worship, for we all keep one Torah (Law) and we all worship in the same way now!

Prior to YaHuW’shuwa providing his blood as atonement for sins, the Gentiles were not permitted to worship in the same temple with the YaHuW’diy (Jews) because they were defiled with idolatry. They were still under “the Law of Divorce” according to Deuteronomy 24, and they could not come back into the same Covenant with the House of YaHuW’dah (Judah). But after the “lost sheep of the house of Yisra’el” were cleansed by Messiah’s blood, they were now welcome into fellowship with the YaHuW’diy (Jews) to keep the same Feast Days and the very same Sabbaths!

This will happen in the end as both “houses” end up deferring to one another out of humility.

We can see this concept played out in the parable that YaHuW’shuwa gave us in Matthew 13:33:


What we can see here is that the leaven is likened unto the Kingdom of Heaven, and the woman is Yisra’el. She mixes the “leaven” (her seed) into the ball of dough (the nations) until the leaven is fully saturated into the ball of dough. What does this mean? It means that YaHuWaH has allowed the 12 tribes of Yisra’el to scatter into all nations so that their “seed” would then be sown into the nations until the entire world will be like a ball of dough fully mixed in with the seed of Abraham. The seed of Abraham has produced “many nations” who would later on gather again under the tribe of Judah through the Messiah YaHuW’shuwa. In this parable, we can see that Ezekiels prophecy in Ezekiel 5:2 will be fulfilled. Two-thirds of the inhabitants of Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem) in the last days will perish while only one-third will be saved. The woman in Revelation 12 is “Mother Jerusalem” (Galatians 4:26), who is typified in Sarah & Rachel for they both experienced a time of “barreness” before giving birth. The remnant of her seed are “the third part of the stars” who “came out of great tribulation” (Revelation 7:14). These remaining one-third will come out of the fire of cleansing and they will be saved. YaHuWaH will give to these remaining Jewish people a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 36:26), forgiving their sins forever (Jeremiah 31:34). The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) spoke of this time of the outpouring of Yah’s spirit upon the nation of Yisra’el when he wrote, “all Yisra’el shall be saved” (Romans 11:26). This future time of national cleansing and restoration will culminate with the YaHuW’diy (Jewish) people accepting YaHuW’shuwa their Messiah and finally saying: YaHuWaH is my Elohiym (Zechariah 13:9).

Zechariah 13:

8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says YHWH, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.


Here, we see the dragon casting down to the earth “a third part of the stars” as he will persecute the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. They will go through the fire of affliction and they will be tested and tried for Ten Days during the “Ten Days of Awe” between Trumpets & Atonement (Revelation 2:10).

Revelation 12:




Rachel was the grandmother of Ephrayim and her son YaHuW’ceph (Joseph) is the one who inherited “the double portion.” Joseph became the tribal leader of Leah’s sons through his son Ephrayim, who are later going to be gathered together underneath YaHuW’dah (Judah)’s reign in the end. Why? It is because Yaaqob (Jacob) prophesied that it would be through YaHuW’dah (Judah) that the “gathering” of the children of Yisra’el would happen (Genesis 49:10). It is Ephrayim who has become a multitude of nations according to the prophecy spoken over him in Genesis 48:19. And these nations are then gathered together to YaHuW’dah (Judah) as seen in ZekarYaH (Zechariah) 8:23 where “ten gentile men” (Leah’s 10 sons) grab hold of “one Jew” (Judah) typified in Rachel’s son Joseph who is a prophetic type of Messiah.

Hence Rachel’s “first born son” Joseph is likened unto Judah, because Mary/Miryam’s “first born son” was YaHuW’shuwa. And so YaHuW’shuwa is typified in Ephrayim who later on became the “first born son” of Yisra’el (Jeremiah 31:9), but in the last days YaHuW’shuwa is also typified in YaHuWdah (Judah) as well because he too will receive the status of “first born” when he accepts the blood atonement of Messiah at his second comingYaHuW’dah (the one who was born 4th to Leah) also received “first born” status in Genesis 49:8-10. And so because YaHuW’shuwa (Jesus) is the first born of every creature (Colossians 1:15), he will bring these two sons Ephrayim & YaHuW’dah (Judah) together as “One New Man” (Ephesians 2:15) as they will collectively be called “the first born son.”  

In Revelation 12, the “woman” (Yisra’el) will give birth to the “man-child” who is then caught up unto Elohiym and receives redemption with a new incorruptible body.

And so now we see why Leah’s sons are now called “Ephrayim”, and Rachel’s sons have come under the tribal leadership of YaHuW’dah (Judah). The prophetic picture we saw with Ya’aqob (Jacob)-Yisra’el “switching” his hands from Menashsheh (Manasseh)’s head to Ephrayim’s head in Genesis 48:14 now makes a lot more sense!

In this simple act that Yisra’el did with his grandsons, he was illustrating that Menashsheh /Manasseh (the first born son of Joseph) is actually a metaphor of Judah (the one who received the first born status of Leah). He then illustrates that Ephrayim (the younger) is a metaphor of “the whole house of Yisra’el” in totality!

And so the families end up trading places with each other until they are no longer different from one another! In other words “neither Jew nor Gentile” as they will all be ONE HOUSE in Messiah! This is what Yisra’el’s act of switching his hands Manasseh ’s head to Ephrayim’s head really means!

Rachel A Metaphor of Yerushalayim

MattithYaHuW (Matthew) 2:



Who were Rachel’s children? Benjamin & Joseph right? Which tribes make up Bethlehem- Judah? It is Judah & Benjamin who were included in the Southern Tribes after Solomon died. Hence the reason why Bethlehem-Judah is being called “Rachel” in Matthew 2:18.

In the days of King David’s reign all 12 Tribes were ruled from YaHuW’dah (Judah). Even though it was Leah who gave birth to Judah, and it was Rachel’s son Joseph who represents Messiah for he is the one that has received “The Double Portion Inheritance” which consists of “both houses of Yisra’el” or all 12 tribes.

Leah’s children are the “Ten Northern Tribes” (the nations) who were scattered who lost their identity and became assimilated with Gentiles.  But when the “fullness of the Gentiles,” (Romans 11:25) occurs, the “blindness” of Yisra’el will be healed as the Gentile believers in Messiah will finally realize that they are Yisra’elites, and the YaHuW’diy (Jews) will also see their Messiah, YaHuW’shuwa on that final Yom Kippur called “the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.” This will be the final climax that is the result of “riches to the rest of the world” (Romans 11:12).

These two olive branche(wild and natural) will finally see that they are truly of Abraham’s seed through Messiah regardless of culture or DNA. In these last days the Gentile believers in Messiah are beginning once again to see that their identity is with Yisra’el. This is what the Spirit of EliYaHuW (Elijah) is sent to do as described in Malakiy (Malachi) 4:4-6. He will turn the hearts of the “fathers” (the patriarchs) Abraham, Yitzakh (Isaac) & Ya’aqob (Jacob) back to the lost children of Yisra’el. These “children” are like Ephrayim who thought they were “Gentiles” or foreigners but through the blood of Messiah, they are “brought near” (Ephesians 2:15) and these children in all nations are now discovering that their identity is with Yisra’el. But before the Spirit of EliYaHuW (Elijah) can restore the children of Yisra’el back to the hearts of the Fathers (patriarchs), we are told that we must first:

Remember the Law of Mosheh...” Malachi 4:4. 

Two Brothers in the Parable of the Prodigal Son

In the parable of the prodigal son, we see a picture of Ephrayim as the younger son, who left home and went to a foreign land (Egypt). The younger son squandered his inheritance or salvation on worldly living. He ends up eating and sleeping with the pigs, and at this point he comes back to his senses and goes back home to his father’s house. When he returns, he repents to his father, and he says “I am not worthy to be called your son, please let me be a servant.” It is evident that the prodigal son still has the mentality of a slave who is in bondage from Egypt. But the father declares to him “you are my son,” and this is when the father killed the fatted calf (atonement) and this is when he gave the son a ring on his finger. The ring is a “signet” or a stamp of ownership.

In ancient times, when a king gave his servant a signet ring, it bore his “signature” or his name. When the prodigal son was cleansed through blood atonement (the fatted calf) he was identified with the father’s name (the signet ring). In other words, when we are “born-again” by the blood of Messiah (the red heifer & the lamb), we are identified with our Heavenly Father’s name “YaHuWaH.” At this point, the father gave the son a “white robe of righteousness” which represents the restoration of the nakedness that Adam & Eve experienced in the garden when they sinned and the glory of Yah departed from them. 

The “glory” that had once covered them was lifted from them after they ate of “the tree of knowledge of good and evil,” but when YaHuWaH made a sacrifice for them, he made “skins” for them to wear as a “covering” (Genesis 3:21). The older brother in this parable of the prodigal represents Yahuwdah (Judah) who never left home (Jerusalem). The older brother Yahuwdah had been keeping the Feasts and the Sabbaths all along which were a sign of the Covenant (Ezekiel 20:20). When the younger son came home, and received another inheritance, (after squandering the first one), the older brother Judah felt slighted. He said “father, I never left home and squandered my inheritance, and yet you never killed the fatted calf for me and threw a big party.”

The older son was jealous of the younger son because he did not think that the younger son deserved to be welcomed home by the Father to receive a “double portion” of the inheritance.” But the Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) explained in Romans 11:11 that the “wild branches” (Ephrayim or the former Gentiles who have returned) will provoke the natural branches (Jews, Judah) to jealousy when they obtain salvation. When Ephrayim makes Yahuwdah (Judah) jealous, that is when Judah will desire the blood atonement of Messiah (the fatted calf) and that is when the celebration of the two brothers coming together will take place on the “The Feast of Ingathering” or “The Feast of Tabernacles” just after “the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.” This will all culminate at the second coming of Messiah during the Fall Feasts leading up to the Millennium.

What is also interesting is that we can see the same metaphor in reverse with the younger brother representing YaHuW’dah (Judah), and the older brother representing Ephrayim. We see in prophecy, that Elohiym called Ephrayim “my first born” in Jeremiah 31:9. It is the same picture we saw in Bereshiyth (Genesis) 48:13-14 when Yisra’el (Ya’aqob) crossed his hands over and placed his right hand on Ephrayim (as the first born blessing) and his left hand on Manasseh (the second born blessing). In other words, the younger son became as the older son, and the older son became as the younger. They switched places! Manasseh started out as the first born, but in the end he became the younger. Ephrayim started out as the younger, but in the end became the “firstborn” son!

As Ephrayim began to inherit the “double portion” through the “born-again” experience in the Gentile nations, he became as the older brother, but then Yahuwdah (Judah) became as the younger brother because he rejected the blood atonement of Messiah for his sins. When the older son Yahuwdah sees Ephrayim coming home and receiving the Father’s blessing, he will then be provoked to jealousy. The House of Yahuwdah left home (Jerusalem) in 70 A.D. during the Roman Siege because of their rejection of Yahuwshuwa as their Messiah. It was from this point on, that Yahuwdah then became as the younger son in the story of the prodigal. The nation of Yisra’el (Ephrayim) was taken captive by the Assyrians in 740 B.C. and in 536 B.C. some of them returned and joined Yahuwdah again, but many of them had not yet returned which is the reason why our Messiah came to gather them back:

MatthithYaHuW (Matthew) 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’el.

So you see the House of Yisra’el (Ephrayim) was the younger son in the story of the prodigal up until our Messiah came to bring them back home. But then in 70 A.D., the House of YaHuW’dah also became the prodigal son because they too rejected our Messiah who is “the living Torah.” But once again the House of Yisra’el (the Christian Church), has become apostate since the days of Constantine the Roman emperor when they began to “replace” the true faith of our Messiah with a counterfeit set of Laws. Likewise the House of Judah did the same thing with Judaism by making the Talmud equal in authority to the scriptures. Both Houses (Jews & Christians) are under bondage to a man-made counterfeit of the one true faith of YaHuWaH. That is why in Ezekiel 19 both “lion’s whelps” were taken into captivity and their “mother” Yeruwshalayim (Jerusalem), typified in Sarah in Isaiah 54, has been desolate and barren. But the promise of her son--the “one new man-child” is not dead! Soon the promised son is going to be born!

Just like the story of “the prodigal son,” the older brother (Judah) on a corporate level has still not received a fatted calf slain for him. When the younger son was given the “signet ring” (identity in the Father’s name) the older brother was still begrudging the younger son of his inheritance and he became jealous of what the younger son had received from the Father. When the remnant from the House of Judah (Jews) finally receive the atonement of Messiah (the fatted calf), that is when he too will become joined back to his younger brother Ephrayim and the “two shall become one stick” in the hand of the Father.

Two Conditions of the Human Heart

On a corporate level, the ten nations or scattered northern tribes represent Ephrayim (the younger son in the story of the prodigal). And this group from Ephrayim will follow Judah as prophesied in Zekaryahuw (Zechariah) 8:23. We are shown that these “ten men” (figurative of Ephrayim) will grab a hold of one Jew (the tribe of Judah) into obedience to Torah. And this “one Jew” is Yahuwshuwa himself as well as those Yahuwdiy (Jews) who are followers of the Messiah Yahuwshuwa who are keeping his commandments.

But on an individual basis, there are those who call themselves “Jews” who are only doing Torah externally without having a circumcised heart. By their rejection of the Messiah who is “the living Torah” they too have rejected the Father’s instructions just like their younger brother Ephrayim.

And so in these last days, Yahuwdah (Judah) must also recognize his fallen state. He too must admit that he is like a prodigal son that has fallen like Ephrayim, only for him to come back “full circle” to the Father and his instructions.

In prophecy we can usually glean several layers of understanding. And so we can see that there are those who thought they were “wheat” and they have to come to terms with the fact that they are “tares” before they can be “reborn” and transformed into wheat.

The House of Judah is embodied in Yahuwshuwa himself, not in Rabbinic Judaism. I am not saying that those within Rabbinic Judaism are not truly Jews, but if they never embrace the blood covenant of Yahuwshuwa, they won’t come into their fullness and neither will Ephrayim. Everything hinges on Judah accepting the blood of Yahuwshuwa Messiah as payment for their sins.

It is only by his blood that all 12 tribes will be gathered again to the house of Yahuwdah! There is no other way. He said “I am the way, the truth and the life, NO MAN (not even Jews) can come to Father, but by me”---YaHuWchanon (John) 14:6.

Hence, Ephrayim rebels against YaHuW’dah (Judah) when he does not obey Torah commandments, but Judah rebels against Messiah himself (who is the embodiment of Judah) when he rejects YaHuW’shuwa’s blood sacrifice. His blood is what accounts us all as “righteous” in the end. Only through YaHuW’shuwa’s blood are we going to be counted as “YaHuW’dah” in the end.  

Ephrayim represents more than just the physical descendants of YaHuW’ceph (Joseph). Ephrayim is also a metaphor of every human being who admits his fallen state and comes back to the Father in repentance (like the prodigal son) and then receives the fatted calf (blood atonement). Ephrayim is a picture of every human being (Jew & Gentile alike) who admits he is a sinner and repents. But YaHuW’dah (Judah) is a picture of every human being who receives “first born status” through becoming “born- again of incorruptible seed” (1st Kefa/Peter 1:23).

This condition must be recognized in the life of every person whether Jew or Gentile. We must first descend as YaHuW’shuwa descended into “the lowest parts of the earth” (Ephesians 4:4) before he ascended back to the Father (Acts 1:11).  The name “Jordan’ (Yarden) means “descender” and this is symbolic of when we are baptized into the death of Messiah (Romans 6:4). When we come back up out of the water, this is symbolic of resurrection (ascending) back to the Father. The pattern must be met before we can be raised back up to new life. Ya’aqob (Jacob) descended into deception when he supplanted his brother’s inheritance, but he was later “transformed” into as one who “prevailed” and became Yisra’el.

Once we are humbled and broken over our fallen nature, and we repent, we can then come back up out of the water to the first born status as just as Ephrayim did. Ephrayim (on a corporate level) will join the stick of YaHuW’dah (Judah) in the end and shall become ONE in Messiah, ONE HOUSE under YaHuW’dah (Judah), embodied in YaHuW’shuwa himself.

In the parable of “the wheat and the tares,” there are those who look like wheat (but are not) and there are those who truly are. Together they grow up until the harvest and we will not know who the “elect” are until the very end when the “fruit” is seen in the “wheat.” But the tares will be like an empty “shell” with no fruit. Only the Father knows who will be counted as a YaHuW’diy (Jews) in the end. Anyone can play the part of a Jew outwardly, but that does not make him a YaHuW’diy (Jew) in the eyes of the Father.

Only those who are “sprinkled by the blood of the lamb and sanctified by the Holy Spirit” (having their hearts circumcised) will show forth the fruit of the ones who “keep the commandments & have the testimony of YaHuW’shuwa” (1st Peter 1:1-2, Revelation 12:17, Romans 2:28).

Romans 2:

25 Circumcision verily profits, if you keep the Torah (Law): but if you be a breaker of the Torah (Law), your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the Torah (Law), shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the Torah (Law), judge you, who by the letter and circumcision does transgress the Torah (Law)?

28 For he is not a YaHuW’diy (Jew), which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29 But he is a YaHuW’diy (Jew), which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of Elohiym.

Here the Apostle Sha’ul tells us that outward circumcision in the flesh is only profitable to a YaHuW’diy (Jew) if they obey Torah. But if they do not obey the Torah, then their outward circumcision is as if they are “uncircumcised.” Hence the blood of Messiah YaHuW’shuwa is necessary for salvation for “all have sinned and have come short of the glory (kabowd) of Elohiym” (Romans 3:23). When a Jew who has not accepted YaHuW’shuwa as the Messiah commits a sin, he has no blood atonement to cover him. Therefore, outward circumcision is to no avail unless we are cleansed by the blood of the Lamb and we continue in obedience to the commandments of YaHuWaH.

Replacement Theology

Some would call this message “Replacement Theology” and anti-Semitism, but this is not at all about being against the Jews. This is about seeing the human condition for what it is---sinful. There is no difference in the Father’s eyes with regard to the sinful heart of man.

YirmeYaHuW (Jeremiah) 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

YaHuWaH desires to see both houses (Jew & Gentile) come together as ONE NEW MAN (Ephesians 2:12-15) as YaHuW’shuwa has abolished the “enmity” of the sinful human nature which keeps Judah & Ephrayim divided to this day. But in the eyes of the Father, once we have “the Son” we are in the Father as well. The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) declared:

Galatians 3:28 “....there is neither YaHuW’diy (Jew) nor Gentile (Greek) for we are ONE in YaHuW’shuwa Messiah.”

Ephrayim represents every human being (Jew or Gentile) who has departed from Torah (the Father’s instructions) and must come back to his identity. And YaHuW’dah (Judah) represents every human being (Jew or Gentile) who becomes born again, and has recognized his inheritance, but he begins to depend on his own human efforts instead of the blood atonement. And because of his dependence on his own human efforts he must be humbled and realize that at any moment he is able to fall just like Ephrayim.

This principle is seen over and over again in scripture, because pride goes before a fall. When we think we are better than others because of our own obedience we are shown to be just as fallen as the one who has admitted his fallen state. We see this principle illustrated by Yahuwshuwa:

Luke 18:


10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican (tax collector).





In the illustration above, the Pharisee trusted in his own righteousness by Torah obedience. But the Publican admitted his fallen state and his prayer was accepted. This is the principle seen with Ephrayim & YaHuW’dah (Judah). Ephrayim is the publican who receives mercy when he repents, but Judah represents the one who trusts in his firstborn status and forgets that he too was born with a sinful nature. Every human being must see his fallen state before he can come into his true identity in Messiah. The first becomes the last and the last becomes the first.

And it is this very principle that causes Ephrayim to receive the status of “firstborn.” Ephrayim did nothing to earn his first born status. He was helpless to receive this title. The Father simply “chose” Ephrayim because he has mercy on whom he will have mercy (Romans 9:15-18).

In YirmeYaHuW (Jeremiah) 31:9, YaHuWaH declares that he is “a father to Yisra’el” and that Ephrayim who started out as the younger son is his “firstborn.”

YirmeYaHuW  (Jeremiah) 31:9 “.....for I am a father to Yisra’el, and Ephrayim is my firstborn.”

There are many people who think that they are Jews merely because of upbringing, tradition and culture, but what about an Atheist or a Buddhist who comes from a Jewish family or lineage? Do they really belong to the tribe of Judah if they don’t obey the commandments? And even if they do obey the commandments outwardly, if they reject YaHuW’shuwa’s blood sacrifice, they reject Torah because he himself is the “Living Torah” and they are rejecting him as the Passover Lamb. And what about the Jewish people who obey the commandments and only worship YaHuWaH but they still do not accept YaHuW’shuwa yet? I believe that there are Jews who are obedient to Torah to the best of their ability who will not take “The Mark of the Beast,” and they will “sigh and cry at the Abomination of Desolation” (see Ezekiel 9). And these people will be “sealed” in the foreheads with the “mark” of YaHuWaH until Messiah returns and then they will “look upon him whom they pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns his only son” (Zechariah 12:10).

So what has to happen before they can become true YaHuW’diy (Jews) according to scripture? They must be born again! They have to admit they are like a caterpillar that needs to die to “self” in order to be resurrected into a butterfly! They must repent of lawlessness, accept the blood atonement of YaHuW’shuwa and go into the cocoon to “die to the old sinful nature.” They must die of being lawless so that they can be transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit and be born- again, into a “true Jew” filled with the Holy Spirit, having Torah written in their hearts and minds. And likewise the Christians must do the same thing. They cannot pretend to be cleansed by the blood of the lamb while they are still willfully disobeying Torah and keeping paganism. Hebrews 10:26-29 confirms that when we “sin willfully” (disobey Torah) there remains no more sacrifices for sins! And what is sin? According to 1st John 3:4 “sin is the transgression of the Torah (Law)…” Christians cannot be saved by claiming they are covered by blood of the lamb yet if they are continually and willfully sinning (disobeying Torah), they are still unclean. They too must repent of “lawlessness” and come into obedience to the commandments in order to be saved.

Matthew 19:17 …but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.

YaHuW’shuwa himself illustrates this fact that there are those who call themselves Jews but in the end they will not be counted as YaHuWdiy (Jews) unless they repent of their sinful nature.

Revelation 2:9 I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are YaHuW’diy (Jews), and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are YaHuW’diy (Jews), and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

In the story of the prodigal son, on a corporate level, the older brother will always represent YaHuW’dah (Judah). But on an individual level, in the Kingdom of heaven, we have to “die” if we want to gain eternal life (Matthew 17:33). We have to go low if we want to come up higher. We have to humble ourselves before we are exalted (Luke 14:11). We have to become the least before we can become great. We have to admit our fallen state before we can be re-created as a true YaHuW’diy (Jew) by YaHuWaH’s standards (Romans 2:28-29).

A YaHuW’diy (Jew) who has not accepted YaHuW’shuwa’s blood sacrifice for himself has inadvertently rejected Torah. For the blood of bulls and goats never did take away sin, even under the Abrahamic & Mosaic Covenants. That is why YaHuW’shuwa had to go into “the lowest parts of the earth” (Ephesians 4) to redeem the “first fruits from among the dead.” In other words, all who died under the animal sacrificial system but were righteous by their obedience to Torah, had to be redeemed by “his blood.” And so the “firstborn” status can only come through YaHuW’shuwa’s blood and no other way!

In the end, we see that there truly is no difference in the Father’s eyes between YaHuW’diy (Jew) and Gentile. Both houses have been estranged from the Father because of our sinful fallen nature, but both houses must accept the status of the “least” in order to come back up to the status of the firstborn.

Both YaHuW’diy (Jew) & Gentile alike are joint heirs with Messiah only through his blood!

The Double Portion Anointing consists of:

Mosheh & EliYaHuW (Malachi 4:4-5, Matthew 17:3-5) 
Torah & Prophets (Matthew 22:40, Romans 3:21)
Truth & Spirit (John 4:24)
Wisdom & Revelation (Ephesians 1:17)
Judgment & Mercy (Psalms 101:1, Hosea 12:6, Zechariah 7:9)
YaHuW’dah & Ephrayim = One Stick (Ezekiel 37:16-17)
YaHuW’diy & Gentile = One New Man (Ephesians 2:15)
Smyrna & Philadelphia (Revelation 1:20, 11:4)
Justification & Sanctification (1st Corinthians 6:11, James 2:24)
Wise as Serpents & Gentle as Doves (Matthew 10:16)
The Two Edged Sword (Psalms 149:6, Hebrews 4:12, Revelation 1:16; 2:12)
Two Candlesticks & Two Olive Trees (Revelation 11:4)
King & Priest = The Melchizedek Order (Hebrews 7)
Lion & Lamb = YaHuW’shuwa (Revelation 5:5-6)
Messiah Ben YaHuW’ceph & Messiah Ben Dawiyd = YaHuWshuwa Messiah
12 Tribes & 12 Apostles (Revelation 21)
Father & Son = YaHuWaH Elohiym (1st John 2:22-23)
Rachel & Leah = Yisra’el (Genesis 31:4, Ruth 4:11) Joshua (Ephrayim) & Caleb (Judah) = Two Spies

Both elements must always co-exist together in Messiah YaHuW’shuwa. He is the one who inherits the Double Portion Blessing of YaHuW’ceph (Joseph). We are all “joint-heirs” with him in this “Double Portion Inheritance” only when we have these two elements of: Blood Atonement & Obedience to Commandments (Revelation 12:11). When we accept his blood we are accepting his priestly office. When we accept his “Torah” (commandments) we are accepting his “kingship” (authority). In order to be counted as “Kings & Priests” in the Melchizedek order, we must have both “the blood of the Lamb and the word of his testimony” (the commandments):


And what is “the word of their testimony”?

Shemoth (Exodus) 31:18 And he gave unto Mosheh, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of Elohiym.

Jews claim to follow Torah but without the blood of the Lamb they cannot have the Holy Spirit. Christians claim to have the blood of the Lamb but without obedience to Torah (commandments), their sins are not cleansed and they cannot have the true Holy Spirit. 1st Peter 1:1-2 describes “the elect” as having two things: 1.) sprinkling by the blood of the lamb (justification) and sanctification by the Holy Spirit (who deposits the law into our hearts) making us obedient to commandments.

Both elements are seen here in Revelation 12:11 as: Justification by the blood and Sanctification by the Holy Spirit who “deposits” the testimony (Torah) into our hearts and minds (Hebrews 8:10).

In the final analysis the “Double Portion Inheritance” involves having these two elements: Justification by faith in the blood of the lamb, and Sanctification by having the Torah (Law) written in your heart!

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