Rico Cortes | The Threshold Covenant - Part 1

you you hello and welcome to wisdom and Torah ministries I am delighted to be here with you to share the wonderful works of the Torah of our King Yahweh the Lord of Hosts now one of the things we like we want to establish right from the get-go is the fact that as we study together as we develop together as we grow together in the things of the Torah we need to always verify information we need to always make sure that we write on point that we're right there with the scripture so remember we are not more important than the message you know the message of Yahweh is more important than anything else in this world and we're going to study together we're going to develop together we're going to grow together and remember if we don't agree with each other it's okay you don't have to agree with me you don't even have to like me what the Bible says you do have to look I love me so guess what we're going to love each other and we're going to study together but all I ask is from this point on as we talk about the Tresor covenant and some other teachings that are going to be doing I want us to always keep an open mind and open heart and let the spirit of Yahweh let them do let the spirit do what the Spirit is supposed to do which is reveal all truth and to lead us into all righteousness now today's teaching is going to be about the threshold covenant one of the things that I've been very passionate about in the last few years is understanding ancient covenants but you see the bible scripture of all the weights adores the engines adores the sinews that the orthodox use the language that you use is the royal language of covenant and one of the things that intrigued me about it was thus because i began to study all the verses i began to study the temple service and i found out the way that they will move from one place to the next in order for them to come to the presence of the king that they always use language of covenant to reveal to - to the people the mysteries of the kingdom in other words when you start understanding ancient middle-eastern covenants the Bible comes alive and that's the one thing that I've been passionate about for the last three or four years is searching out ancient middle-eastern blood covenants threshold covenants Old Covenant and that's the line of teachings that we want to do is blood covenant why does our official system why blood was so prevalent in in regards to covenant not only in Israel not only in the Torah but did you know that all the ancient religions use blood as a way of coming into covenant have you asked yourself that question why salt covenant did you know that in the ancient world if somebody did not want to be a friend with you or they wanted to come to a covenant with you the moment they put salt on the table that implies friendship and covenant a lasting covenant did you know there's also the Shu covenant very well practiced to this day in the Middle East even in Pakistan and even in some of those places in the Middle East but the Bible talks about in the book of Ruth but many people never really make the connection why ladies and gentlemen the Bible the scriptures is a scriptures written to Middle Eastern people in a Middle Eastern language in the Middle Eastern custom and traditions the Bible and the Scriptures was written to a people who understood his principles from the beginning now what I want to do I want to take you through the teaching of the threshold covenant and we are going to try to decipher and try to understand certain principles but I'm going to use traditions and I'm going to use customs that were done in the ancient world to all to show you how biblical you know how things happen in the Bible it's specifically on the day of Passover how come those things were very well known and how the Creator used something known in the ancient world very much known in the ancient world he used something that it was established as a covenant to bring the message of cover between him and us the children of Israel this is very significant because the next Passover it is going to make an impact it's going to make a difference and I'm sure you will like it in my life so the threshold covenant is something that we have looked to but we never really studied when we keep Passover in a traditional Jewish home you have what is called a mezuzah and many people in the breakfast they oppose everything traditional I submit to you that not everything tradition is necessarily bad for you I believe that we need to also understand what some of those traditional symbols that we have what do they mean not only just do practice just for the heck you know just for because you want to do it because it's something Jewish no don't take that approach you want to understand every single thing you do every time we do something that identifies us as Israel okay there is a customs and their traditions we're going to talk about now not a custom or tradition we're going to talk about a biblical principle they'll Quebec okay can be only understood if we go back to the Middle East understanding of things the threshold covenant now the threshold covenant and I'm going to tell you my reference so you can have it I don't know if you ever heard of a gentleman named clay Trump clay Trumbull is a scholar who lived in the 1800s he was a contemporary of Alfred Aaron shine he was a contemporary of life with some of the other scholars of the day they were basically the pioneers of what it's now known the Hebrew roots movement but they were not call the Hebrews this gentleman did three books and a lot of my research I got from his books and all the resources that I found throughout my research it took me two years to do the research and his his books are the sole covenant threshold covenant and blood covenant now do I agree with every uh every conclusion it comes in the book no I do not agree with every conclusion but let me tell you something I've learned a lot of good stuff from Middle Eastern perspective that he research he travels to those places he research he put it down and he tried to make those connections with the first century writings I mean trying to make the connections with Yeshua and many of them are correct but some of the things because we are perceiving it we're looking at it from Hebrew eyes you know now we can expand a little bit more and I'm going to show you what I mean now in Jeremiah let's get going with a teach in Jeremiah 31:31 we all know this verses okay it's very well known that we know about the first other reason to renew cover for the new covenant it says behold the day's come says Yahweh then I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah that's very clear I think that's been that's been really much studied for the last twelve thirteen fourteen years everybody knows it's very clear okay the next verse always puzzled me and that verse is the one that triggered for me to continue to look into the whole understanding of why would the Creator want to restore a covenant why would he want to by the way did you know that the Nuart scroll Tanakh the article to mark quotes that verse in Jeremiah 31:31 as a renewed not necessarily new brand new so I show that to a friend of mine who's an Orthodox in Jerusalem and he said also that the word that is using for new or renew can also mean new and renewed that the Prophet Jeremiah also used that warden in Ecclesiastes and some of the other books that you wrote so what we need to do is understand okay understand certain principles that the next verse is the one that really gets us that got me okay that's the one that got me not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt by the way once you understand it your covenant and ancient treaties that language that you saw there in that verse is basically going to really trigger language of covenant but the next part is really what always basically puzzled me because I always assumed that the marriage took place in Mount Sinai but I wanted to submit something to you and I want you to give me the opportunity to state my clay my place my case as I continue to go on I want to be able to set the foundation by using the first hour of this teaching to tell you about ancient customs of the Middle East in order for us to understand what scripture talks about and then I have a position on Passover that I really want to make aware of and I think is important so give me the opportunity to really share my heart here and then we go from there listen to the negative the next part it says let me read the whole thing again not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they broke although I was a husband to them says the Lord says Yahweh the way I understood in the Bible that's why I'm again I'm going to connect ancient covered with marriage the reason why Yahweh tells us in his Torah not to commit fornication adultery I'm going to connect those things together because in Scripture that's why I says that you have to show your proof of your virginity showing the proof of virginity and the blood in the sheet that came on the night of marriage was very significant in the ancient world why is that and I'm going to connect that with what the book of Revelation talks about us being the bride who is on the file that means not to call and sleep with all the lovers now all of this has to do with the Passover and what happened in Egypt we've been told we've been told that the Covenant really happened on Mount Sinai I submit to you the Covenant originated among China and there was intimacy and the act of men and women the intimacy represents covenant but the conditions of the covenant were given on Mount Sinai and then on Mount Sinai they Israel broke the Covenant by worshiping the golden calf and it was ratified it was renewed by Moses growing up getting the new tablets of stones and then bring it back and do a sacrifice a blood sacrifice and sprinkling the book and sprinkling the people with the blood of the Covenant so we're talking only about Exodus in Egypt and then we're going to talk about the blood covenant which will tie those things and that will be the next series of teachings okay now when you get married there's a tradition in America in which normally a man will grab grab his wife and will carry her over the threshold now you know many people practice that tradition and a lot of people really don't know what it means a lot of men they want to be romantic you know they want to get their lives and honey I love you so much I want to carry you over the threshold I have no idea really what it means when you carry the woman over or your wife over the threshold you just said I will be your protector I will be your provider I will do whatever it takes to carry you on my strength and I will bring you into the house that I have prepare for you now think about this because in the Booker and book of Matthew in chapter 24 it talks about that Messiah will send His angels to the four corners of the earth to gather see select and then they will bring us on the clouds will meet him in clouds and then in the book of Zachariah let's go to the book of Zachariah real quickly I'm really excited to be teaching here I'll tell you be a teacher of the Torah of Yahweh it's a great responsibility and a great honor it's amazing and I'm passionate about sharing the Torah of our King because you know to be an ambassador of the kingdom it's an amazing honor before the King shows so check this out so now you go on to the book of Zechariah and it talks about the day that when he will put his feet on the Mount of Olives and verse 4 says and and in that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives was which faces Jerusalem on the east on the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west now you got to remember the ancient rabbis and the Indian scriptures on the interne writings on the rabbis they tell you that will be the Messiah who will put his feet on the Mount of Olives so now you're schewe tells us that we're going to be gathered from the four corners of the earth we got a medium in the air and then he's going to bring us and we're going to receive him where in the mount of olives is asked if he is the groom and we're the bride he's going to be carrying us into the house of his father now have you ever wondered why Jerusalem is the center of the world have you ever wondered why Israel services until the world Jerusalem is the center of Israel the holy holy was the center of Jerusalem and what is the most contested piece of land in the world right now what is the most contested piece of land and what is the most contested city in the world right now right now the United Nations is about to pass up a resolution to say that the Palestinians deserve a piece of that they want to divide what Jerusalem which part of Jerusalem the East Jerusalem when the Mount of Olives is did you know that the ancient rabbis of Israel can Jerusalem the Gateway and the door to heaven where the prayers are there I received by the father did you know that in the temple service they have a cloud the pillar of the pillar a pillar and the under sacrifices when you will bring a sacrifice you will see a pillar go up to the heavens that it didn't matter how much water and how much you how much rain how much wind came it never dissipated the well the other column from the sacrifices that's why the Bible says that you order your sacrifice will be a sweet aroma to my nostrils literally you can see a pillar going up to the heavens now you got to wonder why is it that Jerusalem is the most contested piece of land right now in the world why is it that the center of the prophecy is focused only in Jerusalem and whatever events happens there in the future so let me ask you a question if the Messiah is going to build a temple and if the Messiah is going to restore the house of his father and remember the Book of Ezekiel says that the prince will bow down on the threshold of the house of God and he will worship there so it's no stiffness is no to me it's not a strange thing that the world is focusing on the very piece of land that belongs to the Creator that is becoming that the dividing line of prophecy that will cause the end time war so now all of a sudden Messiah comes to regather his bride to regather his people and he bring us us on eagle's wings and he picks us up and then he puts his feet on the Mount of Olives and there we are with him at the doorway of the house of the Lord that gate the threshold or the house of yahweh this is very important for us to consider so this picture that you see here of a husband carrying his wife over the threshold is a prophetic picture what's going to happen on the catching away of the saints many people say before the great revelation I do not believe that I believe that's going to be in the last day when the resurrected when the dead are resurrected and those who are alive will be turned in the twinkling of an eye we're going to be gathering the air he's going to carry us and then he will present us through the door of his father's house and then we will draw with him that remember he's a groom where the bride he going to take us to the place that he has prepared so let me ask you a question if Jerusalem is the house of the father which it is if the Eastern East Jerusalem which is the modern-day the Mount of Olives if that is considered the Gateway or the door to the house of the Lord and if the Palestinians profane it and they tremble then if you step on it and they defile that and they start cursing the name of the Lord what are they doing they are coming to the house of a stranger with evil intent and the Arabs understand that if you go let me give you an example the the Fogo family in Samaria in intima there was a family you got murder there by two arrows young people they just got sentenced to five consider consecutive life sentence personally I believe they should have mentioned for measure they kill the family they should kill him that's that's the way should go but we don't live in a biblical perspective measure for measure we live basically now in a secular government and Israel that basically they just want to they don't want to offend people so they anyway so let me move on I don't want to go there but what's really interesting is that I asked a rabbi of the community I said when the people when the Arabs come to create problems for the community in in Tamar in Samaria the month of Samaria and she came the mounting of blessing and cursing do they come through the front door or they come through the window all the back and he told me he says you know I've never really thought about it but they never come through the front door and I asked him I said how you consider that they understand ancient threshold covenants and the moment they go through the door the front door every Jewish home has a mezuzah at the front door and therefore if they come through that front door and they cross the threshold day day and with evil intent if they come through a door with evil intent now they're bringing this honor to not only the people who live in the house and the God that is worship in the house and they understand that if they cause any evil to those people the moment they cross over the threshold that then the curses of the God the curses that the God that the house worships will come upon them by the way this was verified to me by a gentleman that I know from Pakistan he believes in the Torah he believes in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and he told me he said Riko do you know that we are taught by our elders that if we want to get invited to somebody's house we are never to step on the threshold we always to walk over the threshold why because the moment you step over the threshold now you become a special guest of the owner of the house but if you step on the threshold you are showing disdain and you no longer accepting the hospitality of that person now I'm going to keep you the hang in there because that's exactly the language that talks about in the book of Hebrews chapter 10 and that's going to be at the end of the teaching but I'm trying to set a foundation here for you okay and you with me okay now stay with me now so let's move on to the next thing a lot of people have seen the red line the red carpet Hollywood Hollywood be many people say I remember I'm watching an article by watching a TV program and Will Smith comes on the on the air he says when I was a struggling actor nobody would give me anything which says now that I got the money they give me everything for free when I come to the events why because if you go to the red carpet first you got to show up with the best garments that you have second of all you are a special guest the moment you are invited to the red carpet and the moment you step on the red carpet now you become the special guest of the event are the people setting up the event and that's why they give you free gifts and that's why they protect you and that's why they have security because that's an ancient practice of the Middle East that was called the bloodline that's why every special dignitary that custom amount of the country when they come to the country what did I do they get them off the plane into a red carpet do you know that the moment that dignitary puts his feet on the red carpet the host country must do whatever takes to give utmost hospitality not only that but also to bring protection and to feed them and protect them nothing can happen to the person in that country that's an ancient Middle Eastern custom that to this day all of the world governments practice when they invite somebody this is what you have the President of Iran the guy who wants to get rid of all the Americans and Israelis and they invite him to the United Nations and nobody dares to do anything to him why because he's a special guest of the United Nations and the moment he comes in he's a guest nobody can touch this is important ladies and gentlemen because you see the red line was also found in the temple service in the Kidron Valley many people do not know that you have the Mount of Olives here you have the key drum valley here you have the house of the Lord the dynamic - okay in the fore in the Second Temple period it is believed according to the Mishnah that there was a bridge who will go over from the Mount of Olives all the way to the door of the eastern gate on the temple now in the southwestern part of the altar there was a whole there were tools that the excess blood of the sacrifices and also the water when they used to clean the the altar on the temple on the court of the temple of the Levites they will put the water and there was a on the blood and the blood will go through there and basically it will go down through the Kidron Valley remember Mount of Olives key to on Valley and the temple so there was a threshold in Israel and I want to show you that later on so those are threshold right there in the house so the key drum value that to this day you see there okay was a very pivotal understanding of ancient thresholds even the typography of the land reflects what the message of Yahweh trying to convey to the people again the Mount of Olives you got the house you got the Kidron Valley so the excess blood that will come from the sacrifices was basically thrown through the little of plumbing that they basically came up with and that will go to the Kidron Valley and some of the the blood and the dirt will soul to farm as asthma but a lot of the blood mingled with the water from the key drum valley that little stream ducking and to this day the stream has a way to get to the all the way to the Dead Sea so when I take my tours to Israel by the way and I hope you can join me so go to my website wisdom and Torah comm and you can see more information about my tours to Israel when we're going towards the Dead Sea there is a sign that says key drum valley and it goes all the way to the Dead - Dead Sea so the water that will come from the tempo from the Kidron Valley and mingled with the blood that was from the sacrifices will mix together in the Kidron Valley and go all the way to the Dead Sea this is why the prophet Isaiah says that he will take our sins and he will remember no more why because the excess blood of the sacrifices were mingled in the water the kit of the Kidron Valley all the way to that sea and there he will remember no more but more importantly that blood will make a Mount of Olives Kidron Valley and the house of the Lord when you will go from the Mount of Olives to the house of the Lord of house of yahweh you have to go over the threshold that naturally came up i say in the house of the lord if you went in with evil intent you will die eventually this is why Adam was spelled eastward when he sinned he went east Cain when he sinned he went east loved when he removed himself from Abram he went east to Sodom Judah when they said against Yahweh they went to JA to Babylon East the northern kingdom when they turned against Yahweh they went northeast why is this so important you're removing yourself from the presence of the Lord and you're walking towards the sunrise some got worship you follow so now when the Babylonians came to conquer Jerusalem they stepped over the threshold of the house of God and they defile the house of the Lord Antiochus Epiphanes in order for him to go into the temple to sacrifice a pig on the altar he went through the eastern gate and there was the threshold of the house of God he brought evil intent to defile the temple and this is why the kingdom died ladies and gentlemen this is serious what we have here is very serious so now let me give you some more customs of the Middle East and then in the second part of the teaching we're going to connect it with the biblical perspectives and we're going to see the parallels of Middle Eastern ancient customs together with the scriptures in Syria and Egypt when a newcomer arrives the blood of a slaughter animal is shed upon the threshold of that home in this way when the newcomer crosses over the threshold they are adopted into the family now this is very important because I don't know if you remember in all movie is called it was by Sally Fields she married a gentleman from Iran and they had a young girl they had a baby and when they married her in America and we took her back to to Iran something peculiar happened many people they overlook this because they're not used to the customs of the Middle East but when she got to Iran they killed a animal and they put the blood on the doorpost and then what people don't realize and the reason why they will not let her go the moment they accepted her through the threshold with the blood and they killed an animal she is accepted into the house and the family forever and that's why they wouldn't let go kids now choosing covenant with them and you see by her now understanding the custom she could not understand why they seem to be so mean to her and they were because she was breaking covenant with them but she didn't have no the conditions of walking to the threshold she just thought they were crazy coming through the house with blood on the doorpost can you imagine that you come from the Western world and you marry somebody from there you go back and the first thing they do to have to welcome in the house they kill the Sheep and they put the blood on the doorpost you're gonna go this people out of their minds we see she didn't know so she walked through the threshold she accepted the hospitality she accepted the conditions she accepted their friendship and their Brotherhood forever but she didn't know okay so now let me give you some more customs of the Middle East you understand what I'm talking about now in Liberia and West Africa common custom among the tribes is to kill a fowl and sprinkle the blood upon the threshold upon the arrivals arrival of strangers that let the stranger know that they were accepted and that they were extended that they would extend to him the odds most hospitable there will be hospitality that will be accepted into the house and there will be a covenant of hospitality this is very important in in Russia I don't know now but in the 1810 prior to that an honored guest is received with bread and salt after he and she crosses the threshold now this is going to be part of my all the teaching that I have on the salt covenant because you see salt and bread in the ancient world represented also another way of Covenant now Menachem Begin and President Assad from Egypt when they met in the 70s and they came into a peace treaty with them it is believed and they got the witness that were Menachem Begin flew from Israel to Egypt that Assad wait for him said that I'm sorry so that I'm thinking of the guy from Syria but Sadat it waited for him well and they had bread and salt together that said to Menachem Begin that Sadat would extend the almost protection and hospitality and that was a covenant covenant at the time and this is why in my opinion so that got killed because they were not allowed to do that and he did so this is things that we need to understand okay all right let's move on in Arabia this is important to step on this threshold rather than over it is to show contempt for the host and it's extremely bad etiquette the threshold is often revered as sacred in Arabia it is common to say in the name of their God I'm not oh I don't want to repeat it which means you know the name of their pagan God upon crossing the threshold of a home by the way this was verified to me by gentleman from Pakistan that he says that you are not allowed to step on the threshold because it shows disdain to that person now what you see in the screen right now is a picture and I want to thank Tim Kelly he's the organizer of seasons of our joy in Missouri how you recommend if you want to look if you look for a place to keep our so called you know that's a great place order in Chandler Oklahoma is amazing you want to cross that threshold because you will feel protected there so I want to thank my friend Tim Kelly for providing these pictures that he himself took when he was sent in in Jordan he went to Petra and I was doing this teaching in Dallas and he was getting all excited when I don't doing the teaching and afterwards he told me you know I know exactly what you mean I got pictures I saw it in Petra so he got the pictures and he gave them to me for our benefit now this is the significant in the Bible when you read it the story of the Exodus it tells us that Yahweh told Moses to tell the children of Israel to kill the lamb and we're going to cover that in the second part of the teaching to kill them and put the blood on the basin of the threshold to put the blood on the basin to take hyssop and then take the hyssop and the blood and sprinkle it on the doorpost now what people forget and what the Bible does not mention why does it I mention it because the people in the scriptures that there were addressed to they may get remember the writers of the scripture of Moses he understood his principles he is writing it so that the people of the book the Israelites were later will read it they understood the customs they understood the traditions they understood the method of covering so he did not have to explain that the basin in Hebrew is solved okay I'm going to show you that later on but the people were they're solved in the Hebrew right so the word dayson can also mean doorway threshold Basin so see in the Middle East back then the basin as we see in the picture was also at the threshold of the door of the other temple there that you see now does this mean that y'all will utilize a pagan practice to establish his covenant with Israel mein Leben but may not ever be he utilized a very well-known way of coming into a covenant that later the religions of the world took as the sign of a covenant between you and the God that is worshipped in that temple and that's what happened in Petra what you see in the screen now it is basically a threshold of a temple and what you see it is if you look at it you have to step over it and there's like a little like a little is it you step over it and just like a little canal there I believe that they will kill the animal and they were basically spill and shed the blood on that basin on the little cup that you see there in the screen and then they will take whatever with hyssop and whatever ends they will use they will take from that Basin that you see on the ground which is the same word as threshold in Hebrew and then they will go to the canal and they will spill the blood of the canal anybody who will come to that temple if they step on the blood on the threshold instead of going over it it will show this Dane and contempt to the god that was worshipped in that temple this is a great vivid way for us to understand what happened in the Exodus experience so now we know that if Jerusalem is considered the doorway to heaven the gate of heaven and that the doorway also in the ancient world had a threshold just like right now we have a mezuzah let me give you a story about that happened to me in Israel when I went the first time in 2004 I have a friend of mine Berto Rico who made contacts with some older Jewish men from Argentina in Tel Aviv so the moment I landed I call them up and they were very nice to me but they were very you know there were a defensive a little bit they didn't know who I was they didn't know so they're asking me questions and what are you doing here who are you I wasn't wearing my seat T's I wasn't with my keeper because that was my first day and I didn't want to offend anybody so they're asking me where you from I said from Puerto Rico and then they saying what are you doing here I said well I'm here to study tour or whatever whatever whatever see up to that point they welcomed me outside the door the older man asked me to come through the door and to go in and I do what I always do when I go through mezuzah I kiss the mezuzah when he saw me kiss the mezuzah it was really amazing he's added to change he goes oh you believe in the god of its where your Jewish boy and he goes do you want some coffee do you want some doughnuts you want some bread you know his demeanor change his attitude changed now he extended hospitality and he said tell us more about you and is there a Sephardic Jews in Puerto Rico is assistance' yes he goes well that's pretty cool he's all attitude why because I showed him for my actions that I believe in the God of Israel the moment I stepped over the threshold of the office with the sign of a covenant neshama that was inside the mezuzah I'm declaring to him by my actions that the God of Israel Yahweh the Lord of hosts he is one and there's no one else and that I love him with all my heart with all my soul with all my strength and that I do teach my children his Commandments when they raise up when they lay down when they go by the way and when they wake up so therefore my meek is in the mezuzah and touching the missile zone he knew what I believe so now we extended hospitality it was a very good experience and this is what I'm very careful who I invite to the threshold of my house because the moment you go through my threshold and the mezuzahs at the door I according to ancient customs and the child of the people of the book and the children of Israel I must extend hospitality so if I invite you to Shabbat that's what we have what bread we have wine we have salt represents covenant the one who provided the bread the one who provide the fruit of the vine isn't covenant with us then we have a meal together then we proclaim the shaman and I have to extend hospitality to you this all brings a magnitude of understanding of the ancient mindset of the Middle East and this is very significant when we look into ancient colors let me go a little bit more a little farther own ancient customs I pray this is making sense to you right now this is basically the introduction of what we want to get to in what's Passover remember Passover is very important to a lot of people but I have a little problem many people are arguing about Passover whether it was the night of the 14 whether it was the evening of the 15 whether it was according to certain calendars but what are we going to argue about the mechanics of Passover and not look into the prophetic and the real meaning of ancient covenant did you know that Passover is a covenant amel did you know the Passover according to Scripture and I guess some friends in Jerusalem in one time I call them up through Skype and I asked them I said hey I got a question we know there is rabbinical conversion to convert to the rabbinical religion which it doesn't appeal to me to be converted to Judaism because my rabbi is Yeshua and through him now I'm over the door in other words Yeshua became the door have you ever wondered what he shows the door and through his blood we are guaranteed to come into the kingdom that's all about treasure covenant I'm going to cover that so you got to stay tuned but I got to set up a foundation so I brought up the question to my friends in Jerusalem I said I see in the Torah that when you keep eat the Passover and you keep it you're no longer stranger you are now part of the Commonwealth of Israel and in general in Exodus chapter 12 verse 47 48 or 49 is very significant it says all the congregation of Israel shall keep it and if a stranger soldiers with you and to keep the Passover to the Lord let all his smells be circumcised and let him come near and keep it and he shall be as the native to the land of the land for no circumcised person shall eat it one log shall be for the strength for the native born and for the stranger who soldiers among you ladies and gentlemen the youth the word that he uses there is now the word go in is not the word Yenta is the word getting is the word gal is the worst stranger but in the first century and there there was stranger in the first century you have the garish of the ger Siddiq you got the the gear the girls shout you got the stranger on the door you have the God the righteous stranger and then you have the other the stranger there in the first century of the different levels and I will cover that on my teaching on the house of Hillel and the house of Shem mine but the Bible specifically tells us that when there's a stranger who dwells with you who keeps the commandments who wants to be part of you the moment he gets circumcised and he eats Passover he is no longer a stranger now he's a native born irregardless when it comes from this is the equivalent to biblical conversion not rabbinical conversion biblical conversion so ladies and gentlemen if you invite people and this is my position of Passover there's a trend that is happening right now in the Hebrew roots world and in the whole world as in general many people have the Passover on churches and I don't have a problem at all teaching my Christian Brothers about keeping Passover about what it Passover means and mosura in the Passover absolutely this is important the problem lies in this if I don't tell you that this is a covenant to meal that the Passover the moment you eat Passover you drink of the juice or you drink of the wine you eat of the mud temperate and then you have the meal you just came in a covenant with the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and you just declare that you will submit to the commandments of the Torah to keep the Sabbath the feast and on the Torah under Commandments if you the next week if you allow the Christian brother who is not committed to the Torah who is not committed to the Sabbath who is not committed to the fees and then he eats a Passover he finds Yeshua on the Torah and then he's going to go back and try to convert Jews by beating them up with it with a Passover saying that they don't know Jesus because how can they miss it but we fail to tell the Christian brothers that they are in covenant with the God of Israel I mean they keep Easter I mean they keep Christmas later on they are in gross misconduct they become adulterous and then the blood the curses of Deuteronomy 28 will come upon them this is a serious thing and I'm not trying to condemn you I want to edify you I want to let you know that yes you're welcome to eat with us you're welcome to come to the table but understand you need to have commitment to be in that table don't take it lightly understand that anybody in Egypt who ate of the Passover table they became Israel and they came out with Israel if you are not committed to the commandments that we keep you can sit there you can watch you can look you can learn but I'm not going to let you eat at that table if you're not committed because I don't want you to suffer all the curses that will come if you break that covenant this is a covenant to me I had the opportunity to lead a Passover Seder not too far back and again in the past I didn't know this so I would allow people to come and sit anybody anybody wants to learn coming to it you know what I would do now I will go any other time of the year and I will set the table and I will share with my brothers and sisters about the Torah and about Messiah in the Passover but I will not let them eat it why because I understand the consequences and I have a greater responsibility to share with you that if we partake of that table then you have to be accountable to the commitment you made and if I know you're not ready I'm not going to do you in this favor by allowing you to do this I will teach you and I will share with you first the conditions and the reasons behind it and then you make up your mind then you weigh it out and then when you join me you can make a better rational decision about following through with a commitment you came into that's my motivation I pray you understand one coming from if you're not committed to the commandments that I need to keep because I love the Creator I'm sorry you're not eating of my table I'm not going to reject you for wanting to learn but I'm you know I'm not going to let you eat at my table and that happened this year this past year and Passover they invited Christian people who came over they wanted to know and the people invited them and I asked them I said are you committed to the Torah do you understand what we're doing they said no I said then I then I humbly would ask you not to partake of the meal stay please watch hear and learn we want you to learn about Yeshua in the Passover but there's a greater commitment if I let you eat of this Passover then you are committed to the commandments because this is a covenant Oh meal and I welcome them to sedan you know they watch they listen and they they were very respectful they didn't take offence they didn't they didn't eat drink of the wine they didn't eat of the bread and they didn't have the meal you know something they came after and they taught us they came after and they thanked us saying well we learn a lot and I told them I said the reason why they let you eat of the Passover and partake of the Seder was because if I let you eat of this and we let you go through this and then because you don't understand you go back to church next week and you keep Easter then according to Scripture you're committing spiritual adultery and then the curses of Deuteronomy 28 will come upon you and we don't want that to happen to you they were actually thankful so we need to learn not to compromise the truth we have to draw the line in the sand and said this is for the people of the Covenant this is for the people willing to commit with us yes they are tools to teach there are symbols to reveal the message of redemption either important absolutely I believe Yeshua was taking a covenant Emil that's why he says this is the blood my blood and this is my flesh because in the ancient world when you will come into a blood covenant you will basically and I will cover this in blood covenant teaching that I will do in the future weeks you will make a scar and then you mix the hand with somebody with a scar or and then you will spill the blood on wine and you will drink it back in the ancient world in Africa and the Middle East that's what they did but we are commanded in the Torah not to drink the blood so the wine is a type and shadow of blood so therefore when you show up says this is my blood this is my flesh why because the ancient world when you would eat bread and you will drink wine with a person that was a step or ratifying a covenant so now we got blood covenant we got threshold covenant we got salt covenant and they're all intertwined and we're going to continue but today I have to stay with threshold covenant customs you know I'd like to go in different directions let me tell you something serving the God of Israel is the most rewarding exciting most revealing thing I've ever done in my life there's some reversal sets and songs Mufti to attack called hyoma City you know it says oh how I love your Torah it is my meditation all the day why because now one every scripture all I see is the beautiful language of covenant between Yahweh and us and to think that the Creator is in covenant with us is overwhelming is exciting it takes me to a different dimension to know that Yahweh will protect me to guide me provide for me and my family no matter what let alone by it forever it's overwhelming so what happens if someone wants to go the wrong way they want to come into your house they want to come in a different way to your house than the way he prescribed let me give you an example in the tabernacle there was always one door it was always the eastern gate it was white linen across all the way to the tabernacle it was basically linen five cubits high that's seven hundred five seven and a half feet high and you cannot go in the tabernacle in any other way but through these and you have to meet a priest there and the color of the top of the door of the tabernacle was purple blue and red and I'm going to show you that in later on in the teaching if you came any other way you are considered a robber and a thief you know Yeshua told us about this because in the ancient world when you cross the threshold of a home you imply covenant with the people who live in that home entering the house any other way this is a custom of the ancient world entering your house any other way it brings you a thief and a robber this is why in Itamar the arab kids that kill the Fogo family the misfortune that happened there they went through the window and the back door they always went through windows and back doors because if they would have gone through the front door which has a mezuzah in it they would have implied covenant with the god of that house and they would have brought in evil intent than the curses of the god the house will come come upon them people understand more than you think in the Middle East we need to understand these things to understand endtime prophecy ladies and gentlemen and this is why the Antichrist will come through the eastern gate and he will defile the altar remember the sacrificial system will be rest' there's going to be the blood again spilling through the Kidron Valley and he's going to go over the threshold of the house of God and he's going to defile the altar bring in evil intent just like the Babylonian Kingdom did just like the Greek Kingdom did Antiochus Epiphanes and just like the Romans and those kingdoms die never to be began literally okay so Yeshua told us about this in John chapter 1 chapter 10 I'm sorry verse 1 1 through 3 most certainly I tell you one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheepfold boat close up some other way the same as a thief and robber but the one who enters by in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep the gatekeeper opens the gate for him and the sheep listen to his voice he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out so what does this tell you that if you're trying to get in the kingdom any other way right then he's not your Shepherd I'm gonna make a statement I love my Jewish brothers I love my people I'm a Sephardic descent Spanish Jews and I've learned a lot from rabbis you know I'm basically learning I want to know how to do things right I admired some of the wisdom and I think there's value to look into the writings to understand things because the scriptures was written to the Hebrew people in the Hebrew language and Hebrew customs and there are things and scriptures that are not explained because it was written to people who understood them just like the 4th of July in America if you keep if you follow the 4th of July in America to an American you don't have to explain what it means if he knows history only to a foreigner for those on them but I don't think we need to convert to Judaism to be part of the kingdom because you sure became the door and his blood becomes a threshold and through him now we have access to the kingdom he becomes a guaranteed of that eternal covenant between Yahweh and us and that's why many people come to the Hebrew roots and they fall in love with Judaism they fall in love with everything rabbinical and they reject Yeshua to go to because they don't feel they can go into the kingdom without with Yeshua and they convert to Judaism I think that's a real big mistake and that's the one thing we're gonna be covering here on do I believe we could our Jewish brothers absolutely do I study from the ancient writings absolutely do I subscribe to the dark mountain theology and submit to Judaism as a religion absolutely not why I have my king Yahweh the Lord of Hosts and then he sent his son Yeshua to be the guaranteed of the Covenant and my money Yeshua not only becomes a guaranteed or the governor no he becomes my chief rabbi he becomes the master so therefore now he becomes my mediator he becomes my intercessor between me and the father so therefore I believe that we don't need Judaism as the gateway into the kingdom I believe we do need to learn the wisdom of Judaism to help us understand certain principles and we'll come back for a second

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Length: 52min 30sec (3150 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2015