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The Final Great Exodus

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven." (Mt 5:17-19)

" Thus says the LORD, 'Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,' declares the LORD. 'But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.'" (Isa 66:1-2 NASB)

The following Prayer Alert is probably one of the most important ones that we have ever written. We urge you to seriously take this word to heart and bring it before the Lord in prayer. God is about to do a new thing in the earth. " It is time for You to act, O LORD, For they have regarded Your law as void." (Ps 119:126 NKJV)

The Scripture mentions two different kinds of return of the Jewish people back to their land. The first one is found in for example Ezekiel 36 and many similar passages, where the Almighty promises to bring His people back from the four corners of the earth for his Name's sake. Once back in the Land, He will pour clean water on them and restore them to Himself.

The other type of return of the Jewish people is mentioned in Deuteronomy 30. This Aliyah begins with the Jewish people's return first to the Lord, and then they will return to their land. This promised exodus (return from the nations) has received much less attention than the first, probably because we have not seen it fulfilled yet. But we believe that we are about to witness this exodus very soon. Listen to what the Lord clearly promises in His word.

"When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers." (Deu 30:1-5)

This Aliyah mentioned by Moses, requires that the Jewish people first return to the Lord to obey Him with all their heart and with all their soul according to everything He has commanded them in the Law of Moses. One of the most important commands in the Torah is Deuteronomy 18:15 quoted by the Apostle Peter in Acts 3:22-23.

"For Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from among his people.'"

This command in the Torah is referring to believing in and following Yeshua, the promised Messiah that God has appointed. It is commandment number 516 out of the 613 in the Torah. You cannot keep the Law without believing in Yeshua!

The prophecy by Moses in Deuteronomy 30 declares that in the last days there will once again arise a Messianic movement like unto the one in the first century described in Acts 21:20, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law." It will be a Messianic movement where the Jewish people will be very zealous to obey everything commanded by Moses including believing in Yeshua as their Messiah.

This Messianic movement will be more than "church with a kipa on," or Christianity with Jewish traditions. A much more radical Messianic movement is about to arise like unto the one in the first century. It will be characterized by faith in Yeshua, including careful obedience to everything commanded by Moses. Rather than just reading Moses from a Torah scroll on Shabbat as a Jewish custom (which certainly is proper), these Messianic Jews will zealously study the Torah, including the New Covenant, in order to carefully obey everything that is written. God will raise up new Ezras to lead the way just like He did at the exodus from Babel.

This Messianic movement will be mightily blessed by the Lord with anointing and power, and rather than seeking the approval of the church, it will carry the authority from heaven to profoundly change the church. This end time restoration is described in the prophetic word in Zechariah chapter 8. The chapter begins by declaring about Jerusalem,

"Again the word of the LORD Almighty came to me. This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.' This is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.'" (Zec 8:1-3)

The last verse says, "This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, 'Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.' '" (Zec 8:23)

The hem of the robe mentioned here is referring to the tassels, or tzitzit in Hebrew, that God commanded every Israelite to wear in order to remember all the commandments of Moses.

"The LORD said to Moses, 'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.' '" (Numbers 15:37-41)

It was these tassels on the garment of Jesus, which healed the woman with the issue of blood. "Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, 'If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.'" (Mt 9:20-21) (It was actually also Paul's prayer shawls and garments with tassels on, which healed and delivered the people in Ephesus as described in Acts 19:11-12. Paul was not a maker of ordinary tents, but of prayer shawls.)

In the last days it says that Gentiles will take firmhold of him who is a Jew (a completed, born again Jew) by his tassels, representing the commandments, and say, "Let us go with you!" This speaks about Gentiles in the last days beginning to walk or live like Messianic Jews who obey the Torah. The deep-seated, anti-Semitic prejudice and rejection of Moses in the church will be removed by a mighty move of the Spirit of God, where Messianic Jews will take the lead.

There will always remain a distinction between Jews and Gentiles in the body of Messiah. But Gentiles will also follow after the Law of Moses as we see in Isaiah 2:3,

"Many peoples will come and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.' The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem."

In the last days the Law will not stay in Zion, but go outto the nations from Zion! Notice that it says, "He will teach us his ways, so that we maywalk in his paths." To the Greek, religion is primarily in the mind, in how you think. To the Hebrew, religion is primarily concerned with your walk, in other words with how you live. This is also the Biblical perspective. Yeshua said that the outsiders are supposed to see the lives we live and believe. "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (Mt 5:16)

When Jude writes about contending for the faith that has once for all been entrusted to the saints, he does not mention any of the basic Christian doctrines like the Trinity or the deity of Yeshua. He writes to warn against sexual immorality and rebellion. When Paul writes about sound doctrine, he writes about how to govern your family and live a moral upright life free from drunkenness, greed and so on. How you live is the Biblical perspective on sound doctrine rather than what you think!

Notice the contrast with for example the Athanasian Church Creed that the church produced after centuries of Gentile theological debate, deciding who will go to heaven and hell. It begins,

"Whoever wants to be saved should above all cling to the catholic faith. Whoever does not guard it whole and inviolable will doubtless perish eternally. Now this is the catholic faith: We worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being."

After a long, detailed and complicated explanation it says, "Whoever wants to be saved should think thus about the Trinity." And further, "One cannot be saved without believing this firmly and faithfully." This is a "Toraless," unscriptural religion of the mind with no connection whatsoever to a person's moral behavior. The Bibles is not about mental gymnastics, but about life. It is not a Greek, Gentile book, but a Hebrew, Jewish book. “What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.” (Rom 3:1-2)

Especially the Western church has come to a crossroad today. According to a recent poll by Newsweek 78% of the population in the United States today believe that Jesus rose from the dead. From other polls we know that there is no longer any difference in the moral lifestyle of someone who regularly attends church and those who don't. The Western church has become a religion of the mind, where most Christians including Charismatics and Messianic Jews continue to live basically like the unbelievers. You might be Jewish, speak Hebrew and even live in Israel, but if you slander your brother, walk in competition and control, or watch immoral movies, you are walking in lawlessness and sin.

But something new is beginning to arise. It is a Messianic movement pointing the way to Zion, from where the law and the word of God will go forth in the last days. Many Gentiles will join these Messianic Jews. In an immoral society falling apart by lawlessness, God is raising up His standard of holiness from His Word. For centuries missionaries went out from Europe with the Gospel bringing the Christian European culture with them, but this light is slowly going out. Friends, the final culture will be the Biblical culture going forth from Zion as described in God's Torah and explained by King Yeshua. This is how man is supposed to live. It is God's standard of righteousness and holiness and the lifestyle of the Kingdom.

There is a growing hunger and thirst today among the nations to know the ways and teachings of God described in His Torah as it is written, "…the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law." (Isa 42:4) It is the wedding garments of the Bride of Messiah that are being prepared!

"'Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.' (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)" ( Revelation 19:7-8)

The Torah is certainly not just for the Jews. It is God’s eternal word and teaching to every one who believes in Him and loves Him. The overcomers in the Book of Revelation are described again and again as those who keep God's Word or commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus. Please note the combination, there must be both. But be prepared! It is also this combination that will release the most severe persecution ever in history against the true Bride. (See Revelation 1:9; 6:9; 12:17; 14:12; 20:4!)

In Revelation 22:14-15 we read,

"Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie." (NKJV)

Never forget that the new covenant in the blood of Yeshua does not give us the license and freedom to sin, but the grace to keep God's commandments. It is the writing of God's laws on our minds and hearts. God found fault with the old covenant, not because of the law but because of the people, and promised a new covenant where we receive the power to also keep the covenant. Freedom is not to do what you want, but the power to do what is right!

In preparation for the return of the Lord, God will bring Messianic Jews who are careful to follow what has been written by Moses, as well as the New Covenant, back to the land of their fathers as promised in Deuteronomy 30. They will confess with Paul, who said:

“ I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.” (Acts 24:14) In the Land the Lord will bless them abundantly and no one will make them afraid. Obeying Moses including following the Messiah God has appointed, will be the key to truly possessing the Land!

"If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes! Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever." (Ps 81:14-15)

"Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God." (Ex 34:23-24)

Last year the real Pool of Siloam was discovered in the City of David in Jerusalem. Siloam comes from the Hebrew word for apostle. We wrote that this is prophetic and that a new Jewish, apostolic movement is now arising that will heal the blindness of God's people. It will be a restoration of the original Gospel.

"Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'" (Mt 28:18-20)

Jesus was very specific that His movement to disciple the nations had to be rooted in Jerusalem just like it will be in the last days. "…repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. …but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. " (Lk 24:47-49) As long as the Gospel was centered in Jerusalem it had the power to disciple the nations. Even Paul had to submit to this divine order (see Gal 2:1-10). Habackuk 2:6 tells us that God's ways are eternal. Jerusalem will in the end times be the City of Truth once again.

The church today has lost its power to disciple the nations. We preach a Gospel void of discipleship. It is rather the world that through media increasingly is influencing the lifestyle in the church. God is about to reverse this order. Paul prophesied long ago that if the rejection of the Jewish people meant the reconciliation of the world, their acceptance will be life from the dead. It is the Torah practiced in the new covenant power of the Holy Spirit that will bring this life to the world!

We will soon see believing Jews like the first Jewish believers in Jerusalem who carefully followed the Torah and boldly confessed Yeshua, return to Israel. Rest assured, God will make a way in fulfillment of the prophecy in Deuteronomy 30. It is part of the restoration of all things that will precede the coming of the Lord.

We must pray for this Aliyah now. We ask all of you to beseech heaven with prayer and fasting for this final exodus just like Daniel did when he discovered that the time had come for the exodus from Babel.

" In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom- in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes." (Dan 9:1-3)

"…to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word." (Isa 66:2)

" These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." (Rev 3:7-8)

- Pray for the Messianic “Ezras” that are now being prepared by God in the Diasporah as leaders in this mighty Exodus!

"… this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him. …For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel." (Ez 7:6,10)

- Pray for God's favor and open doors by His mighty hand for these Messianic believers to begin to return to Israel!

- Pray for purity of heart, miraculous angelic protect ion and financial provision!

- Pray for the full restoration of the church back to its Hebrew, Biblical foundation, to become the Bride of Messiah before He comes.

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