Being Set Apart and Understanding Torah

The first time we see this concept is at Mount Sinai. That's truly important to understand that we did not receive this understanding with Abraham. We didn't understand this with Noah. We got it at Mount Sinai when He said to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. What happened after Exodus 19? Exodus 20, which is the Ten Commandments, or the Ten Words. Super powerful to understand. This is the first time we see this concept of being set apart in Him according to His laws, or His commandments, or His instructions, really, is what it's called. Torah is really the instructions of God, not really the law of God, even though it is, but it's really the instructions because He loves us to be set apart in Him. So, we've got to have a paradigm shift on the Torah, or the first five books of the Bible, or Moses, so that we can understand how to live according to what His righteousness is, His holiness is, His sovereignty is, and not what we want to do down on the earth. I can be set apart to whatever I want to be set apart for, but that's my own self-idolatry. We've got to be set apart into Him so we can be set apart so we can receive all of these anointings. We can be worshiping in spirit and in truth. And then ultimately, we get the prophetic knowledge of these beautiful understandings for the end of the age and the prophets. But my friends, just like I said, this is the first time we see it at Mount Sinai. And then the next event is the Ten Commandments after He says this. Let's read this right here in Exodus 19, verse 6: "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." So, my friends, that goes into what He was preparing their hearts for. He was preparing their hearts before He gave them the commandments, the Ten Commandments, to be set apart, to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, to send out His instructions to the world. If you read Isaiah 42 and Isaiah 49, ultimately that's talking about Yeshua, the Messiah. But it was for the Jewish people to be a light to the nations with the instructions of God to the Gentiles as well, just like it says by the great prophet Isaiah. So again, He says, "You shall be to Me a kingdom, a priest, and a holy nation." How are we that? By following the instructions of God that He gives us in Exodus 20 and throughout the Torah.

This is truly amazing. When we go to Deuteronomy 14:2, Moses, the summary of the Torah before they were going to inherit the promised land through Joshua, look at what Moses reminded the Jewish people of in Deuteronomy 14:2: "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth." So right there, He summarizes what He told them at Mount Sinai before they were crossing over, to remember, to remember the instructions of God and not act like the pagan nations that were in the land at that time. Now, let's go to the New Testament and let's see what Peter tells all of us, the Christians who were grafted in. Remember, we're grafted into these things. Just like Jacob, remember Jacob when he was blessing Joseph's sons? Remember they were half Gentiles; they were Egyptians. Manasseh and Ephraim. And what did the patriarch tell Jacob? Excuse me, what did the patriarch tell Joseph when he was blessed before he crossed over to the other side to Yah? He crossed his hands. Think about that. He crossed his hands and said, "Ephraim or Manasseh and Ephraim are just like the firstborn of Reuben and Simeon." So again, that's where Paul got the grafted in in Romans 11, in Ephesians 2, Galatians 3:26 through 29. "If you are a seed of Christ, and all of you are, then you are a seed of Abraham." Isn't that amazing? And you are heirs according to the promise of the Abrahamic covenant. That means the land. You're going to be in the land with the Messiah during the millennial kingdom. I mean, this is truly amazing stuff that He's always wanted one new body and one new man. And Jacob, you can read it, and I think it's Genesis 49:48 in that area, where he crossed his hands and said, "Joseph, your two sons are just like my firstborn." And they were half Egyptian. So, that's truly amazing with the understanding that God has always wanted the Gentiles to come to the instructions of God. When the children of Israel left Egypt, were they alone? They were not. Some of the Egyptians went with them that said, "You know what? I don't know about our gods over here that were destroyed by Yahweh, the 10 plagues. I'm going to cross over the Red Sea with the Israelites." Even Pharaoh's daughter, Moses' mother who raised him in the palace, she crossed over with him. You can read 1 Chronicles 4 to confirm that. So again, what am I trying to say? He's always wanted the Gentiles to come to the truth. He loves mankind; He always has. And just like it says in John 3:16, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." Right? So we all know that. But that concept was always there. Think about Ruth. Think about Rahab. Think about the Gentiles who crossed over. "Your God is my God. Where you go, I will go." I mean, we all know that. So again, He's always wanted the Gentiles to be one new body and one new man, the believers with the Jewish people. And that's what Moses and all of the prophets were trying to get us to understand.

In 1 Peter 2:7-10, look at what Peter says: "Therefore, to you who believe, all of the believers in Yeshua, He is precious. But to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense." Well, He surely is a rock of offense today to both the Jewish people and to the Christians. They stumble, being disobedient to the word to which they were also appointed. But you, my friends, all of you out there are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. Go back to Exodus 19. Go back to Deuteronomy 14, is what Peter's trying to point to. A holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him. Who's Him? Yeshua, who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light, who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, and had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Praise the Lord. Amen and amen and amen. Now, let's go a little bit further to the end of the scriptures with the Book of Revelation. And look how consistent our Father is. Look how consistent our Savior is. Look how consistent the Blessed Spirit is, the Holy Spirit. And what they influenced John to say here. Revelation 1:6: "To Him, Yeshua, who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us what? Kings and priests to His God and Father. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Amen and amen." So, my friends, He's always wanted us to be set apart. You know, that's a very important concept. And all throughout the scriptures from the beginning to the end, He tells us He wants us to be set apart in Him, through Moses, through Peter, and now through the Apostle John, He spoke the same thing. So, this is very important. Remember what the prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 46:9-10: "He declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times not yet fulfilled." And that does include the one new body and the one new man, the Jew and the Gentile believers coming to Yeshua the Messiah. It's truly amazing, isn't it?

Really quick, excuse me. Who sets us apart? Do we make ourselves holy ourselves, or does God set ourselves apart? Well, most people will say, "Well, God sets me apart." But if we're not celebrating the right way, then we're not being set apart. If we're celebrating on our own understanding, or with the church, or with the synagogue, or with whoever it may be, we're not being set apart unless we're following Yeshua and what He did. And what He did, and He had to do as the Jewish Messiah, or He would have been eliminated from being the Jewish Messiah, is He had to follow His Father's commandments and show us how to observe them as well. That's why in the millennial kingdom, the thousand-year reign, He's going to send out His Father's instructions, the Torah, to all of the nations so that they can observe. And if they don't, it'll be the rod of iron, of course. So, you can read that in Isaiah 2 and Micah 4. He sends that out. That has never been accomplished. That's never been fulfilled. That's never been established on this earth. Why is that? Because He is the Jewish Messiah, and He's the one who's going to send His Father's instructions out. That's one of the major prerequisites of the Jewish Messiah in the millennial kingdom to fulfill, just like Yeshua said in Matthew 5, to fulfill the Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms. And not only to fulfill them, but to establish them on this earth. And then go read 1 Corinthians 15. He has to make everything perfect on this earth. And then He will hand the keys to the Father, that they are all one and one. So, that's a very important concept for our Christian friends to understand and our Jewish friends to understand: He has to do this to restore it back to what the Father intended the creation to be. Romans 8 goes through that very clearly, as well as Acts. I think it's Acts 3, the restitution of all things, is what Paul said, or excuse me, Luke writes in Acts. So, it's very important to understand what He's got to do as the Jewish Messiah, because it will correct us in our theology, and it will correct us in our eschatology of what the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus, has to do for Him to be who He's going to be. So, we've got to let Him be who He is, and we've got to receive that.

So, my friends, God is the one who sets us apart. We all know that. But do we truly believe that with the way that we worship? If we're not worshiping on the holy days, if we're not worshiping on the divine appointments, I love you very much to tell you this: we're just not set apart. If we're not doing that, we're just not, if we're not celebrating the ways that He wants us to celebrate, which is the Sabbath and all of these beautiful divine appointments that we see on the screen here. So again, let's read a couple of scriptures to prove the point here. Psalm 4:3: "But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself." In Leviticus 20:7-8: "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you." In Leviticus 20:26: "You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you, set you apart from the world, and everything in this world, that you should be His. You should be Mine, my friends. All of you are His. All of you. He wants to be set apart. He wants you to be set apart. And you are if you're celebrating the Sabbath, the New Month, also those beautiful feast days that we just showed you, the divine appointments. And then the reward that we get, my friends, is the prophetic knowledge, the understanding of that for the second coming events. Because, like I said before, and you'll see it tonight when we go through it, if we don't have this knowledge, then we're not going to understand the trajectory of what Yeshua is going to do at the second coming events. I'm not meaning this as criticism; this is a celebration tonight, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah. But at the same time, it's a very serious time for the people who are not understanding this. Put yourselves at the end of the age, right now, right now, and understand like when He returns on this day. Go look at how many Christians right now don't know what the Sabbath is or are not celebrating the correct Sabbath. Go look at how many people aren't celebrating the Feast of Trumpets. It's Friday night lights. Go look at how many people aren't celebrating these things. And when He returns, they're going to be caught as a thief in the night, and they're going to go through the 10 Days of Awe. This is why we're going to do a lot of videos during these 10 days to prove the point how important these 10 days are to Yeshua, to Jesus, to also the Father and the Blessed Holy Spirit. Christianity cannot show us this, and that's what's so dangerous. They can't show you the calendar. They can't show you the trajectory of the return of the Messiah. And as we will read tonight, that's very important. They would be caught as a thief in the night because they don't know what time it is. They don't know what season it is. They're just going through life and they're not observing correctly. So, that's why I say this is twofold. Number one, it's commanded for us to do that. It's instructed for us to do that if we love God. And what does Yeshua say? "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" (John 14:15). So, if we're not doing that, think about that right now. If Yeshua returned, which of course that's not going to be, we have a process, but just put yourselves in that position. We've been leading up through the month of Elul. The King is in the field, preparing, repenting, interceding, just like Moses did during this time before he got the righteous rendered verdict on Yom Kippur with the new tablets. This is super important, my friends, to grasp a hold of. Most of you know these things; I'm just confirming and being another witness to you about it. But for those who don't know this, then please go pray in your prayer closet about these things and ask yourselves, "Have we been deceived?" of not knowing these things, because it's super important when you look at it from a second coming events right now. If Yeshua returned on the Feast of Trumpets right now, people are going to be caught as a thief in the night, and they're going to go through the worst time, the 10 Days of Awe, the hour of trial, where the seven bowls are poured out, and then He will come on Yom Kippur with all of us. And we'll discuss that 10 days from now, Revelation 19:11-16, to pour out His final wrath on mankind. So, we're going to go through all of these understandings. But my friends, it's super important to really identify with these things.