We are currently 15 episodes into Season 4: ‘Who is Israel?’ on The Promise Perspective Podcast, and we are far from finished with this season. As I have mentioned before, the topics discussed on this season have to be tackled at many different angles and layers. This is incredibly challenging for me, as I desperately want people to know the truth, but I also maintain my plea to not take my word for it.
We read in Hosea 4:6 that people are perishing from a lack of knowledge. One of the purposes of this podcast season is to help fill in some of these gaps.
One of the biggest reasons for this is because many people today have been taught to view history through a faulty lens; one that does not represent the truth of how the faith came to be what it is today. This is part of repairing the breach that I am trying to mend with my brothers and sisters today.
So, for the purposes of Episode 15, I want to discuss A LOT of history with you. Because there is so much that is discussed in this episode, instead of summarizing it all, I want to simply give you a list of what topics will be unpacked. Please also be sure to check out the ‘Supplemental Documents’ in the podcast episode description box for sources to help you test and study these things out for yourself.

Topics of Episode 15:

-The difference between a “Jew” (Strong’s H3064) and a “Jew” (Strong’s H3054)
-The emergence and influence of the Macedonian (Greek) Empire
-Hellenism
-The Phoenicians and Ancient Carthage
-The Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires
-A revisiting of the lineage of the Hebrews and the “lost” tribes of Israel
-Serapis Christus and the origins of Christianity
-Who are the Natsarim?
-The next emerging empire: Rome

“Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.”
Isaiah 58:12

Supplemental Documents:
Episode 15 Transcript
Serapis and Christians PDF
Phoenicians Inscriptions of Cyprus Museum
The Lost Tribes, a Myth: Suggestions Toward Rewriting Hebrew History by Dr. Allen Godbey
Letter From Aristeas
Serapis (World History Encyclopedia)
Epiphanius’ Condemnation of the Natsarenes (Nazarenes)

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In Matthew 22, we read a parable of a man who attended a wedding, in which when the king came in to see the guests, he saw this man who did not have on a wedding garment. He asked him, “how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”
The man was speechless. Directly after, the king said to his servants, “bind him hand in foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
All because of a wedding garment!?
Parables are earthly stories that convey a spiritual reality. They are meant to be understood for a discerning mind, but they will remain a mystery to those without discernment and understanding.
Our Messiah is telling us something very important regarding the topic of “garments.” And that is what I want to discuss in this episode.
If we are to understand this parable, surely we should have Scripture to give us an understanding of how we are to have the proper garments for the great wedding day, right?
The good news is that Scripture actually does tell us exactly what these garments are supposed to look like and what it means to have our garments ready.
Just as we’ve discussed the need to have oil in our lamps to be prepared, we must also have the proper garments as well.
I don’t want to be the one found without the right garments when it is time for the marriage supper of the Lamb. Yahusha ends that parable by saying, “many are called, but few are chosen.”

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There are so many things in Scripture that teach us the significance of the priestly garments, especially the garments of the High Priest, who is Yahusha now. As we walk through Episode 13, I hope that you will be able to see how, just the like Tabernacle, how these garments also point to the priesthood of our Messiah!
How is this relevant to His new priesthood (us) today?
Well, one of the most significant pieces was the turban of the High Priest. In Exodus 28:36, we read that there was a gold plate sewn on the front of the turban of the High Priest with the engraving “QODESH LA YAHUAH,” which means “SET APART TO YAHUAH.”
Yahuah’s name was to always be placed on the forehead of the High Priest. This was a sign of how the High Priest was set-apart to Yah. And through the blessing pronounced by the High Priest (because he was the appointed mediator between Yahuah and the children of Israel), Yahuah also placed His Name on the children of Israel.
Numbers 6:24-27 - “Yahuah bless you, and keep you. Yahuah make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. Yahuah lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
This was a priestly blessing.
Yahusha, our new High Priest, is authorized to mediate this blessing, just as the Levitical High Priest was. To be blessed by Yahuah is to have His NAME placed on you. It is more than just a name—it is to be identified with and be a representation of who He is.
The High Priest carried Yahuah’s name and he also carried the names of the 12 tribes as 12 stones were put on the breastplate of his garment. The High Priest was always Yahuah’s representative to Israel and Israel’s mediator before Yahuah.
Comparatively, Israel carried Yahuah’s name into the world and represented the Most High to the nations. What made Israel set apart from everyone else is that they had commandments that showed the world who they worshipped. We are to be representatives of who our Creator is, to be a light to the world, and to be in covenant with Him means that we have commandments that help us to be successful in our calling.
When Yahuah was revealing His Name to me, I read the passage in Exodus 28 about how the gold plate which had Yah’s Name on it was placed on Aaron’s forehead, and the Ruach literally took me straight to the Book of Revelation.
Revelation 14:1 - Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 22:4 - They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.
Our new High Priest is authorized to mediate this blessing now, to place the Father’s name on His children. He said He “came in His Father’s Name” for a reason.
2 Timothy 2:19 - Nevertheless the solid foundation of Elohim stands, having this seal: “The Master knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Messiah depart from iniquity.”
“Yahusha” means “Yahuah is salvation.” Every time the Messiah’s Name departs from your lips, you are confessing that Yahuah is your salvation. And Yahusha was sent to do the will of the Father.
The priestly garments teach us how important the Father’s Name is.
And if you didn’t already know, the woman riding on the beast in Revelation 17 had a name on HER forehead too:
And on her forehead a name was written: “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Let’s study.

Episode 13 Transcript

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As I prepare to do some heavy unpacking on Episode 12 of Season 4 of “Who is Israel?” I want to start out by quoting Revelation 20:6...
“Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be as priests of Elohim and of Messiah, and will reign with Him a thousand years.”
The word I want to focus on here is “priests.”
We know that Yahusha is our new High Priest.
Peter tells us that we are a part of a “royal priesthood.”
Scripture even gives us prophecy that points us to a time in which we will be called “priests” (Exodus 19:5-6 & Isaiah 61:6).
My question I want to pose to you as I approach the content of Episode 12 is, do you know how to apply this to your life?
Do you know what it means to be a part of the priesthood that will get to reign with Yahuah and our Messiah for a thousand years?
Do you know that there are two resurrections?
What if I told you that Scripture gives us the blueprint to teach us how to be priests?
The answers we desperately need are found in the front of the Book that man has deemed to be an “old” testament.
The body is missing out on some of the most beautiful, fundamental truths because it is not common knowledge to how the physical design of the earthly tabernacle prophetically points to the fulfillment through Yahusha and teaches us about the call we have now to minister and serve the Most High now “as living stones being built up as a spiritual house” (1 Peter 2:5).
The priesthood training is now.
I pray that this episode helps to prepare, equip and encourage the body.
I pray that Yahuah pours His truth into you so that you can fully understand and embrace the call He has on your life and what it means to answer that call.
If we are to be priests, we need to know what that really means according to Scripture.
His tabernacle is our blueprint and illustrates the call to the priesthood in the most beautiful way that could only be fulfilled by our Messiah.
Bring your shovel. It’s time to dig in.

Supplemental Documents:
Episode 12 Transcript
Tabernacle Blueprint Renewed Through Yahusha

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We have a new High Priest.
It is prophesied that those in covenant with Yahuah will become a kingdom of priests.
It is only those who take part in the first resurrection that will serve in this new priesthood during the Millennial Reign.
What does this mean to Believers today?
How are we supposed to apply this understanding to our own lives?
More so, how are we to function, since the body is currently the new Temple/Tabernacle of Elohim, yet with the understanding that we are also anticipating the Tabernacle not made with human hands to dwell with us in the New Jerusalem?
Do we know what it means to be a part of a “royal priesthood?”
These are all questions I hope to address over the next several episodes.
If we don’t understand this fundamental piece of the gospel message, how do we expect to reign with our Messiah as priests?
This is not explicitly stated in Scripture, but this is our training period, beloved.
This is one of the reasons why ‘Season 4: Who is Israel?’ has been so focused on covenant thus far. But now it’s time to switch gears. We have a renewed covenant, but we also have a renewed priesthood.
The focus of Episode 11 today is on the role of the Levitical priesthood and the Tabernacle built by the children of Israel under the guidance of Moses. While we are not under the order of Aaron anymore, and while many of the commandments concerning Levites do not apply to us at this particular moment in Yah’s timeline of redemption, this has led many to believe that the priesthood in the Tanakh is no longer relevant to our understanding of our call to the priestly office today.
I find it interesting that the Bible only has two chapters devoted to explaining how Yahuah created the entire world. But it devotes dozens of chapters to the tabernacle and the priesthood. The amount of space that Yahuah devotes to the instructions of building His earthly Tabernacle should grab our attention.
But if we’re being honest (I’ve been guilty of this too), we either skip through those chapters or skim them just briefly. I am here to tell you that these chapters are more important than you think or have been led to believe. This is something that will take a couple more episodes to thoroughly unpack.
As we go through more detail on the new priesthood next time, I want you to first be able to see how this blueprint of the Tabernacle given to Moses was revealed in the sacrifice of our Messiah, and illustrates the purpose and role of the new priesthood we are called to be a part of today.
It is such a beautiful truth that the body needs. I pray this helps to repair that breach.
The earthly tabernacle was a physical blueprint of a spiritual reality, in which the “pattern” Moses was shown on the Mount was a resemblance of Yahuah’s Tabernacle, aka “Dwelling Place” in heaven, in which is woven all throughout Scripture.
Let’s study.

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Episode 11 Transcript
Blueprint of the Sanctuary & Tabernacle

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So far on Season 4, we have talked about the word "covenant" in many episodes. To understand what it means to be in covenant with the Most High is fundamental to our understanding of Scripture. To be in covenant with Yahuah also means being "marked" by Him.
On today's episode, we are going to break down the word "covenant" in its Hebrew origin to gain even more clarity and understanding of the depth, beauty and significance of this word.
I encourage you that if you haven't already done so, please make sure you start at the beginning of Season 4 as we go through these studies. Each episode truly builds off of one another and there are some historical and scriptural precepts I want you to have, as we have been building on this word "covenant" over the majority of the episodes on Season 4.
I pray that your studies are so, so blessed!

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There has been a fundamental teaching left out of mainstream Christianity today that is crucial to our understanding of Scripture, the will of Yahuah and the message of our Messiah. And that is the understanding of what it means to be in covenant with our Creator.
The entire theme of reconciliation and restoration talked about in Scripture has everything to do with being in covenant and staying in covenant.
Without understanding the scriptural definition of the “covenant,” it has allowed for a misunderstanding of what an “old” versus “new” covenant is. The truth is that there is only ONE covenant given to Yah’s people, in which the Father calls “everlasting” and one in which the Bible teaches that He has historically renewed over and over with His people.
You often hear the words like the “Noahic covenant,” the “covenant of Abraham,” the “law of Moses,” and “the law of Christ” mentioned in many teachings. Many people are getting confused over these terms because they’ve been taught that the covenant and the torah meant different things to different people at different moments in time. But the truth is that those words are not indicating different “covenants,” but are actually indicating the mediator in which Yah chose to minister His covenant through at that particular moment.
Yahuah chose different mediators in which to reveal and renew His covenant through, but still—there is only one covenant.
Our new mediator is our new High Priest, Yahusha! It says in Hebrews that He is the mediator of a better covenant, in which the Father’s commandments (because of the gift of the Holy Spirit) would be written on our hearts.
It is time to restore people to the truth of the Father and the testimony of our Messiah.
It is time to return to Him and His covenant.
Let’s talk about it.

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After King Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon, he issued a decree that would allow the Yahudim to return to their homeland. Isaiah and Jeremiah were both prophets that had witnessed to the people of this coming event (Isaiah 13:17 & Jeremiah 51:11).
“Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit Elohim had raised, to go up to build the house of Yahuah which is in Jerusalem.”
Ezra 1:5
In this episode, we reach a point in time in which the Babylonian captivity was over and it was time to return home and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. While the majority of the Yahudim (Jews) chose to stay in Babylon at the time, Yahuah strengthened the hands of the spirit-filled minority of those who chose to return through the guidance of people like Ezra, Nehemiah and Haggai.
If there is one word I could use to summarize the heart and motive of those Yahuah chose to oversee the rebuilding of Jerusalem, it would be “reconciliation.”
I want to summarize this episode by listing some highlights that this episode will cover. Yahuah is leading me to sit with this episode for a bit and unpack some more things with anyone who wants to listen.
Here are the main points of this episode:

• The Medo-Persians and the extent of the Persian Empire
• The call to rebuild and the return from Babylon
• The work of Ezra and Nehemiah
• How Yah’s covenant was made possible with Gentiles
• Esther 8:17 (this is a big one)
• A preface to how history of a specific group of people has been erased

I hope and pray that the Father is using this season to edify you and pour into you in your studies.

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Episode 8 Transcript
1650 African Map (Nicolas Sanson)

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