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The One-House Josephite Messianic Israelite Association - 1MIA
Posted by Lev/Christopher on July 4, 2008 at 8:32am in Forum
Welcome to 1MIA - the Josephite 1-House Messianic Israel Association - which was formed on 19 July 2006 to meet a need for former Two-House Messianic Israelites and Messianic Jews who recognise the firstborn right and leadership of the Tribe of Joseph-Ephraim over the endtime Assembly of Yahweh and the fact that the unity of the tribes is now being made an accomplished fact.
1MIA is an international association of assemblies in harmony with the teachings and practices of Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon who wish to share a common Josephite identity and ruach in the Commonwealth of Messianic Israel in the true scriptural order.
1MIA rejects the doctrine that the Republic of Israel is the restoration of biblical Israel or Judah, and does not accept that either Judah, or the Edomite-Khazar counterfeit purporting to be Judah, has the tribal rulership in the Messianic Dispensation. We believe that the sceptre (dominion) passed legally from Judah to Joseph upon the advent of Shiloh (Messiah) 2,000 years ago, was held in custodianship by Peter (Judah) who received it from Yah'shua, and was then passed on by him to the two James' (Judah), thence to John (Levi) and Paul (Benjamin) during the transition phase. It lay dormant during the Roman apostacy, and then revived in Joseph during the Reformation (the Manasseh branch in Germany and then the Ephraimite branch in Britain) while that tribe was still preaching and practicing lawless Christianity (Protestantism). Only now is Joseph fully repenting and returning to Torah, casting off the false Judahite and Khazar accretions, as the sceptre of authority gets mightier in power in the hand of Ephraim who is finally assuming his rightful inheritance as prince of all 12 tribes, including Judah.
It is only in the last century that believing Judah, and the predominant Edomite-Khazar counterfeit, has claimed and demanded the sceptre back as some sort of birthright. This we believe is contrary to the plain teachings of Scripture. As Joseph-Ephraim has repented of his lawlessness and returned to Torah observance, so counterfeit Judah has claimed Torah to both be his own and his right to dispense under a pretended authority he has not been given. We believe that Torah can be retrieved where Yahweh put it - in Scripture - without the need of intermediary dispensing rabbinical authorities. This actual lack of credentials, we believe, has resulted in his singular lack of success to maintain unity as well as his tendency to introduce destructive heresies, as well as to hijack the Two House Movement.
Today one of the biggest two-house Messianic Israelite associations (UONYC) openly reveals itself to be Jewish Kabbalist with Ephraim invited to the table as a second-class citizen (in time-honoured Edomite fashion) and with Yah'shua tacked on as an appendage. The trick employed here is to bully Ephraim into a hungary beggar position by making him dependent not so much on Torah (which he can read for himself from the Bible without Jewish 'interpreters' fond of citing the Talmud) but on the secret mystical kabbalistic occultic knowledge of apostate Jews which they are claiming to be the 'sod' (hidden) interpretation of Scripture, much as Mormons have created a 'Christianity-plus' system with its secret occultic (Masonic) temple rites and doctrines.
In other words, sod=kabbalism is to these people, along with the Jewish Rabbis, the repository of this 'secret knowledge' (read gnosis). In typical cultic fashion, these Rabbis are chiding Ephraimites for rejecting their Hebraic roots when they reject kabbalism. I must state categorially: kabbalism does NOT equal Hebraic roots. It equals Babylonian roots. Talmud does NOT equal Hebraic roots. It equals Babylonian roots. Most of the Judaism you see today, in whose waters Messianics were raised and continue to adopt to one degree or another, evolved in Babylon.
The whole kabbalistic system is founded not on a Biblical ground but an independent occultic one and we as Bible-believers are in no way bound to it, less so to those who rebuke us for not accepting their 'higher sod wisdom'. We are obliged to separate from them until they have repented.
Do we, as Josephite 1-House Messianic Israelites, accept sod interpretation mode? Yes we do, but we do not accept kabbalism nor the pretended authority of the Jewish rabbis. We have studied kabbalah, even taught it once briefly, and saw the lie. The sceptre precisely passed from the Judahite temporary custodianship when Messiah (Shiloh) came because they were so steeped in Babylonian mysticism of which Kabbalah is the result. That was 2,000 years ago. They have no authority over the House of Messianic Israel today.
The elohim of the Kabbalah is NOT Yahweh, the Most High, nor His Son Yah'shua the Messiah. It is some mystical, Buddhistic 'emanation'. The elohim of the Kabbalah is 'another elohim/god' and 'another gospel'. Accordingly, the Messiah of most kabbalists is different from the One described in Scripture.
So what is true sod exegesis of Scripture? It is the exegesis which uses biblical keys and biblical keys alone. It is the cosmic, Johannine or priestly view of the universe as revealed primarily through the Apostle John in his Gospel, Letters, and Apocalypse. It requires no external keys supposedly given to Moses, Abraham or others (there is zero evdience that they were - it's just kabbalistic and Talmudic legend). It does not depend on the Zohar, Sephira Yetsira or any other writing produced by occultic-minded Jews.
The Hebraic (read 'Jewish') cultural mindset of the Messianics is not our elohim/god. The true Hebraic mindset is a set of linguistic and historical tools to allow us to understand an ancient language and culture in its original time frame in Ephraim's own language, English.
We do not need to dress up like Jews to be Torah-compliant or absorb their customs in order to be true Bible-believers and practitioners. Men can and should wear their tzitzit (according to the simple pattern revealed in scripture, not the Talmudic or Karaite embellishments) and women their headcoverings, and men and women can dress differently so that the two genders are distinct and not sexually provocative. We can have mezzuzah on our door posts, eat kosher food and observe the biblical revelation on the moedim (without all the Talmudic embellishments) and blow the shofar or trumpets.
What we do not want is Jewish culture, tradition, and occultic and Talmudic thinking patterns. We don't need the elaborate prayer shawls, kissing Torah-scrolls, or to wear phylacteries and kippas (these skull-caps are of pagan origin incidentally - even the Pope wears one). And with all due respect to the Rabbis, they are hardly in the best position to show us the way forwards since they are for the most part so immersed in these things. The more I examine them and their beliefs and the spirit that drives them, the more I am convinced that Torah goes ahead of Yah'shua/Yeshua in their religion even if they may say otherwise. That is one reason why Torah-compliant Joseph is called to lead the House of Israel, not Judah, and that is why virtually every Judah- or Edom/Khazar-led Messianic Assembly and Association so rapidly slips into apostacy. Look at them. They are deluged with Ebionism, Kabbalism, Arianism, Monarchism, Rabbinism, legalism and Gnosticism. They have haughty attitudes towards Ephraim and Gentiles. They are trying to renew the Old Covenant (calling it the 'Renewed Covenant') instead of leaving it totally and finally abolished and accepting the New one established by Yah'shua. They're as expert at twisting scripture when it suits their Jewish agenda as the Gentiles are at defending their own traditions and lawlessness.
That is why we have the story of Joseph in Egypt to give us the prophetic picture of Joseph rescuing the other 11 tribes out of their darkness. Joseph is in a messianic (anointed) position, as all Bible commentators recognise. Joseph leads as the replacement firstborn after Reuben's apostacy. Judah holds the sceptre from David to Yah'shua whilst Ephraim is in apoastacy and in exile, but Joseph-Ephraim has now rightly taken it back. Until Judah, real or counterfeit, accepts that, he will continually fall into error and waylay not only Judah but Ephraim too when the latter mistakenly comes under his wings, mesmerised by Judaic propaganda, there will be no unity in Messianic Israel.
I think we have to dissolve this Messianic Jewish sterotyped myth that 'Judah has to bring Torah to Ephraim and Ephraim bring Messiah to Judah'. It's a very catchy but over-simplistic and misleading concept.
Historically-speaking it was not Judah who started, let alone did the bulk of, this teaching in the Messianic era. The Seventh-Day Baptists (SDB) and Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) brought us awareness of the Sabbath along with the Ten Commandments. The old Worldwide Church of God (WCG) brought us awareness of the Festivals (they're abandoning them now under Protestant influence). All of these are, or were, Josephite incentives. The Messianic Jews made us aware of the rest. All played their part of restoration. We owe a debt to all.
So you see, it was Joseph who took the initiative to start returning to Hebraic roots. Did He make mistakes? Certainly. The SDA's clung on to a lot of old baggage, like the SDB's. And Herbert Armstrong (WCG) brought all sorts of odd ideas to add to his gospel package. Were the Messianic Jews more correct? In some matters, very much so, yes. But in others, they too were very wrong, and continue to be wrong. They are infected with legalism, racial superiority, occultism and Jewish culturism, not to mention their false belief that the State of Israel is Biblical Israel, a doctrine almost as bad as the gentile Replacement Theology in which the 'church' claims to be replacement Israel. Israel is NOT a country, and won't be until the Millennium. It's a people in diaspora subjected to the Messiah of the New Covenant and to New Covenant Torah, not a 'renewed' covenant.
So please beware of groups calling themself 'Messianic', whether 'Messianic Jewish, 'Messianic Israelite', 'Two-House', 'Hebraic-roots', 'Sacred Name-observant', etc.. These names are not necessarily 'badges of honour' as one person boasted recently and does not mean they are necessarily kosher. Take labels with a pinch of salt and get to the heart of every Messianic teaching.
Because of the confusion in the Messianic movement we have, as many of our readers know, been fumbling for labels to properly distinguish ourselves from this mishmash of confused Messianism. Therefore for now we have elected to call ourselves a part of Josephite 1-House Messianic Israel (or 1MI).
On 10 July 2006 the Patriarchate of Misahpachah Lev-Tsiyon (MLT) organised the Josephite 1-House Messianic Israel Association (1MIA) which is an association of Josephite 1-House Messianic Israelites under the leadership of MLT. When the Constitution has been formed, we will be inviting other congregations in agreement with our beliefs and practices to join us.
May Yahweh bless you.
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Reply by YOHS on August 1, 2008 at 8:58pm
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