A People of Destiny
Our History commences from the Creation of mankind - Adama (Man) and Hawah (Woman) . . . to whom YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave the universal cardinal command to be fruitful and to multiply after their own kind or genealogy. We trace our heritage back to the first Hue-man creations of the Most High YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who bore Kayin, Luluwa, Abel, Aklia and Seth, who bore Enosh (in whose days Hue-mankind began to call upon the Name of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄), who bore Kenan, who bore Mahalalel, who bore Yered (in whose days the Watchers descended upon the earth), who bore Enoch (who bears faithful witness against the Watchers and their Giant Nephillim offspring), who bore Methuselah, who bore Lamech, who bore Noah (the first Hue-man who was born with a pale visage as that of the Nephillim, and was saved in the Ark with his three sons because Noah was perfect in his generations or genealogy when YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 destroyed the earth and all the hybrid creations of the Watchers that had proliferated and corrupted His Creation), who bore Shem, who bore Arphaxad, who bore Salah, who bore Eber, who bore Peleg, who bore Reu, who bore Serug, who bore Nahor, who bore Terah, who bore Abram (Abraham) . . . with whom YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 made a covenant promise, to make Him the Father of many nations through His own offspring or seed . . . the genealogical lineage of his own descendants (i.e Dark-skinned Hue-mans identified by their Paternal/Y-Chromosome DNA Haplogroup #E1B1A), whom YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 declared would become as countless as the sands upon the seashore and as numerous as the stars in the shamayim (heavens).
“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a Father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you and for all the generations to come, to be your Aluah and the Aluah of your descendants after you.”
(Bereshith/Genesis 17:4-7)
"For you are a SET-APART PEOPLE to YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah; YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a SPECIAL TREASURE above all the peoples on the face of the earth."
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 7:6)
"YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 delighted ONLY in your Fathers, to love THEM; and He CHOSE their descendants after them, YOU ABOVE ALL PEOPLES, as it is this day."
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 10:15)
"For YOU are a people set-apart to YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah, and YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, A SPECIAL TREASURE above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth."
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 14:2)
" . . . And that YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will set you HIGH ABOVE ALL NATIONS which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a SET-APART PEOPLE TO YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah, just as He has spoken."
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 26:29)
YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was indeed selective in exercising His prerogative to choose the Hebrew people above all other people and nations on the face of the earth. These texts of Scripture clearly show that Yashar'Al was and is indeed SPECIAL to YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
The word "special" in Deuteronomy 14:2 is #5459 in Strong's Concordance and shows that YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, looks upon Yashar'Al as a SPECIAL JEWEL & TREASURE, and as a possession or valued property.
It was THESE PEOPLE that were destined throughout the centuries and millennia to uphold and proclaim the Praise and Honor of the Name of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 —the Supreme Creator of the shamayim (heavens) and the earth.
In Tehilliym/Psalms 135:4 we find defined who YAHUAH's "special treasure" really is:
"For YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has chosen Yaqob for Himself, [and] Yashar'Al for His special treasure."
Very plainly this refers to the Hebrew people —also called Yashar'Al, and YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 chose these people for Himself. The sons of Yaqob (YAshar'Al) have always been -- and always will be -- YAHUAH's "special treasure," for YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 does not change:
"I am YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O' sons of Yaqob."
(Malaki/Malachi 4:6)
In AmasiYAHU/Amos 3:2 we read:
"You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."
No other nation of people other than a people called YAHUAH's "special treasure" -- Yashar'Al -- are held ACCOUNTABLE for keeping or disobeying the statutes and commandments of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
All the promises and blessings of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 were given to these people.
YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has enacted His plan of redemption through these people, by the covenant and promises given to Abraham.
YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 states, in Bereshith/Genesis 17:7, that this covenant was given to Abraham and to his seed (i.e his literal genealogical descendants) after him:
"And I will establish MY COVENANT between Me and You and your seed after yourself in their generations (genealogies) for an EVERLASTING COVENANT, to be Aluah to you, and to your seed after you."
This was to be an EVERLASTING COVENANT, with YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 being the true Aluah to Abraham and to Abraham's genealogical seed/offspring after him.
THIS is the covenant and the faith that the New Testament Ekklesia of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is established and built upon.
Notice carefully that both covenants — the First (Old) and the Renewed (New) Covenant are established between YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and the descendants of Abraham:
"The days are coming," declares YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Yashar'Al and with the people of Yahudah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares YAHUAH.
(YirmeYAHU/Jeremiah 31:31 & Ibriym/Hebrews 8:8)
This fact is clearly shown by many other New Testament Scriptures , , ,
Notice Galatians 3:17
"Further, I say this: As to the covenant previously validated by YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (with Abraham), the Law (of ShemaYAH/Moses) that came into being four hundred and thirty years later does not invalidate it, so as to abolish the promise"
The covenant mentioned here in this verse was only between YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and Abraham. Four hundred and thirty years later YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 raised up ShemaYAH (Moses) and revealed His plan of redemption to His people Yashar'Al through the Tawarah/Torah (laws) of the First Covenant on Mount Sinai.
Of course, the redemption process was dependent upon Yashar'Al obeying (fulfilling) the instructions and requirements of the covenant.
Obedience is the primary basis of the covenant!
YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 deals with His people through covenants. A covenant is a pledge and an agreement, and must be honored by both parties involved in order to be fulfilled!
Since it is impossible for YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to lie, He will always keep His part in honoring a covenant.
Notice Ibriym/Hebrews 6:18
". . . that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us."
The Nation of Yashar'Al vowed to faithfully honor and obey the Covenant as given through ShemaYAH (Moses):
"Then all the people answered together and said, 'All that YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has spoken we will do.' So ShemaYAH brought back the words of the people to YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄"
(Shemoth/Exodus 19:8)
Unfortunately, in attempting to do so with their own ability, our Ancestors did not faithfully keep their side of the agreement for long. The history of Yashar'Al is nothing more than a record of either obeying or disobeying the Covenant. When we obeyed the covenant, we were Baruk (Blessed); when we disobeyed the covenant, we were Cursed:
"Behold, I set before you today a Birekoth (Blessing) and a Curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah which I commanded you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other elohiym (gods) which you have not known."
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 11:26-28)
"If you do not obey YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you . . . YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth . . .
At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you . . .
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. The sights you see will drive you mad . . .
You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will drive you . . .
You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity . . .
The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail . . .
All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
They will be a sign (mark) and a wonder (reminder) upon you and your descendants forever.
Because you did not serve YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Aluah joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you . . .
Then YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other.
There you will worship other elohiym (gods)—elohiym (gods) of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot.
There YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
And YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will redeem you.”
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 28 vs 15, 25, 29, 32-34, 41, 43-48, 64-68)
The Hebrew Scriptures are emphatic that the seed (genealogical descendants) of Abraham —the Hebrews, rebelled against YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 by transgressing His Statutes and Commandments, and they also reveal exactly what was to then occur, as a consequence of such disobedience; and thus true to His Word, because of their unfaithfulness to YAHUAH's covenant, He ejected our ancestors from the land of promise, drove us out of the land and scattered us from one end of the earth to the other, among the nations of the world --where we've taken root downwards and sprang forth upwards . . . becoming a Great Multitude that no one can number, scattered among many nations of the world:
“You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess. Then YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will scatter you among all the people of the world, from one end of the earth to the other.”
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 28:63-64)
"I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men . . ."
(Dabariym/Deuteronomy 32:26)
"Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant ShemaYAH (Moses), saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations.'"
(NehemYAHU/Nehemiah 1:8)
The word "scatter" in these passages is #6327 in Strong's Concordance and means to DISPERSE or SPREAD ABROAD.
The prophet Amos states that YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was to "sift" the Northern Kingdom of the Ten Tribes of Yashar'Al among all nations of the Gentiles -- yet not the least "grain" was to fall on the earth or in other words, none was to be lost so as to be unaccounted for:
"For surely I will command, and will sift the house of Yashar'Al among the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground."
(AmasiYAHU/Amos 9:9)
After YAHUAH 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 exiled and then scattered the seed of Abraham -- beginning with the Ten Tribes (Northern Kingdom of Yashar'Al) and later the Southern Kingdom of Yahudah also, He "planted" and "sowed" His people Yashar'Al among the nations, as the prophet HushaYAH (Hosea) notes:
"I will sow her to Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them (which were] not My people, you are My people; and they shall say, You are my Aluah."
(HushaYAHU/Hosea 2:23)