Shalom Fellow Israelite,
When addressing the subject of YHVH's planned harvest, we need to consider an important Torah statute: "You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled" (Deuteronomy 22:9). Yeshua told a parable about a man who sowed in his field a good seed – wheat. However, during the night an enemy came and covertly sowed another seed. When the time arrived for the harvest, it was evident that two different seeds had been sown (ref. Matthew 13:24-30).
As far as I can ascertain from the Scriptures, YHVH spoke of only one kind of seed that He was going to sow into the 'earth's fields'. To Adam and Noah he told, to multiply and fill the earth but to Abram He made a promise that out of his loins would issue forth a seed that Sarah his wife would bear and birth. This seed was destined to multiply and become a chosen nation that would fill the whole earth with fruit (see Isaiah 27:6). Paul identifies this seed in no uncertain terms: "That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son" (Romans 9:8-9; Genesis 18:10, 14; Genesis 21:12 emphasis added).
YHVH has been overseeing the sowing, the watering, and the growth of this seed into its covenant destiny of multiplicity, just as He had promised to Jacob: "I am YHVH the Elohim of Abraham your father and Elohim of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your seed. Also your seed shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Genesis 28:13-14). In the same declaration Elohim also decreed that this blessing (that was first given to Abraham) would be to the thousandth generation, and that this seed will be in all nations and will bless all the families of the earth. Hence, there are several questions that this topic presents to us.
How are we going to know that YHVH has indeed been true to these promises? Has He proven His faithfulness through the New Covenant that He made specifically with this seed, (see Jeremiah 31:31-33) according to which the seed's progeny would receive the Torah on the tablets of a circumcised heart, be anointed with the Holy Spirit, and would inherit the land promised to their forefathers? Is it possible that the harvest would reveal which seed YHVH has sown? In the second part of the above-mentioned parable, the farmer said to the workers: "Let both [seeds] grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, 'First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn ' " (Matthew 13:30). The farmer knew how to take care of the tares, so that at the time of the harvest only the wheat would be gathered into his barn.
One of the assignments of the Messiah is to bring in the harvest of the seed that His Father had sown. We thus read about Yeshua in Luke 3:17: "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire." Just as Yeshua knows the sheep of His pasture, so does He also recognize the seed that His Father sowed. Because of the Babylonian nature of the religious systems of this world they will always harbor 'mixtures'. On the other hand, the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is unmistakable, because it is endowed by the Word of Elohim and has the faith of their father (ref. Romans 4:16), along with the anointing of the Holy Spirit (ref. Galatians 3:29). This is how we are able to determine who the members of the household of Israel/Ephraim are today (at least a remnant thereof): they carry the above described markings.
Expediency of political correctness is the rule of our day. By making use of dispensational doctrine and mixing it with Babylonian theology, we find ourselves misapplying certain scriptures just so as to be able to put foreign seed into the harvest bag. But in this way we diminish the testimony of "the great day of Jezreel" (Elohim's great sowing, ref. Hosea 1:11). YHVH warns that the foreign seeds will contaminate and defile the field and the entire next crop. He says to the priests: "When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it -- My house -- and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations. And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you" (Ezekiel 44:7-8).
The sanctuary of Elohim is the "house of Jacob" and until this house is fully restored by Yeshua, the rest of humanity has to wait before it can come in. If there is no restored tent of Shem, which is now Jacob's, where will Japheth serve? (ref. Genesis 9:27).
I'm very much aware of the scriptures that are used to include the foreigners. Yet we do not want to bring them in before it is time, as it will totally wipe out the testimony or witness of YHVH's faithfulness to the promises that He gave to our forefathers and their seed. It is no small matter to be a false witness. There are a whole host who have received the New Covenant that was given specifically to the "two houses" (ref. Jeremiah 31:31-33), but so far have not understood who their forefathers are, as their hearts have yet to be turned in order to comprehend this truth/mystery. We need to pray for this multitude who are being blinded by the god of this world from seeing the truth of their Hebraic-Abrahamic (through the "promised" seed Isaac) roots. If we are less than crystal clear and make compromises, how will they find their way out of the doctrinal labyrinth?
We are warned that in the last days "hunters" are going to be sent out with their swords and nets, if the hearts of the children (the seed) do not turn back to their fathers (Abraham and Israel). For more on this subject see blog link: The Watchman's Teruah. (To go to the above link, place curser on the title, right click and then click on Open Hyperlink)
Shabbat Shalom,
Ephraim
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