However, neither
the judgment of the nations nor the judgment of mankind was accomplished
on the cross. Milo fails to understand the words that Yeshua was sent “only
to the lost sheep of the House of Israel;” and that “salvation is of the
Jews.”[33] [a]
All who are
NOT in Messiah are “…separated from Him, alienated from the Commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and
without G-d in the world.” [34]
They remain
branches of the “wild olive tree” and are not members of the “Adamic race,”
as Milo believes. The Psalmist pleads with G-d in Psalm 9 about the plotting
of the nations, crying, “Arise, O
L-RD! Let
not ENOSH – or man - prevail; let the nations – or Gentiles/goyim – be
judged before you! Put them in fear, O L-RD! Let the nations – Gentiles
– know that they are but ENOSH!”[b]
The Abrahamic
covenant separating him and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob from
the Enosh-mankind unto G-d; the covenant regarding the inheritance
of the Land; the covenant of the Promised Land; the First blood covenant
based on the keeping of the Law abolished by the New blood covenant based
on faith; and the covenant with King David that was established with an
oath, are ALL covenants made with Israel, who is still of
the Adamic race. The Gentiles have no part in any of these unless
they are brought near by the blood of Messiah, cut off from the wild olive
tree “Enosh” and grafted into the cultivated olive tree of “Adamic” race,
Israel, the root – Sion - of which is the Abrahamic covenant.
Milo writes,
“Any
further judgment in addition to the cross would be anticlimactic and would
diminish what Christ did to bring about the end of the old race and the
beginning of the new race where there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free,
male or female........”
Although in
Messiah there is indeed no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or
female when standing in the Presence of G-d, certain rules still apply
as long as the believer lives here on earth in an unredeemed mortal body
of sinful flesh.
The judgment
on the nations is separate from the cross. It pertains to having divided
up G-d’s OWN land [35], displaced many of
its Jewish citizens, and wanting to make Jerusalem the capital of an alien
people. G-d's purpose is to gather these nations into the valley of Yehosaphat
to bring down on their heads their own schemes, as is written: "The nations
have sunk in the pit which they made [for Israel]; in the net which they
hid [to catch G-d’s nation] has their own foot been caught."
"... God
said 'Israel is my son.' The people were chosen by God -- but the geography
was only a place for them to live. Anything it had that connected to the
sacred relationship that Jews had with God changed at the cross when all
the prophesies were fulfilled."
"Geography
was included in things of the covenant of Moses that gets fulfilled through
the cross and in the new covenant there is not Jew and Greek separation.
I know that I am saying something you already know... but there is no longer
a separate old covenant with the Jews and also a new covenant with Christians.
The old was never to be anything beyond that which would point to Messiah."
"The only
covenant that exists is the new covenant."
Furthermore,
"The L-RD has made Himself known, He has executed judgment; the wicked
are snared in the work of their own hands."[36]
Wherefore the Lord counsels the kings and rulers of the earth who conspire
against Him and His Anointed (both Messiah and nation) to be wise and heed
the warning, lest His wrath is quickly kindled and they perish in the way[37].
Hence, if the
geography where about 5.5 million Jews live today in the sovereign State
of Israel, has no longer any significance because it was “only a shadow
and type” that was fulfilled at the cross, then where would Milo say that
the Lord Yeshua will return to?
The L-RD declared
already 3,000 years ago, “I have set My King on Zion, My holy hill.”
Will Yeshua
return to an unspecified geographical area bereft of the throne of David?
Not according to G-d’s promises. His foot shall touch down on the Mt. of
Olives, causing it to split apart with the underground water gushing forth
toward the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean[38].
The covenant
regarding the Land and the covenant with King David have yet to be fulfilled:
Israel’s borders must extend to the Euphrates and the Nile; the literal
descendants of the House of David must be presented to the Jewish people
and the world; and David’s son, King Yeshua, must sit upon the Throne of
David.
G-d promises
in Jeremiah that “Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are
saying, It is a desolation, without man or beast… Fields shall be bought
for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed... for I
will RESTORE their fortunes, says the L-RD.”[39]
And so it is:
fields, orchards, vineyards, parks and forests grace the Land of Israel,
new settlements, towns and cities, a modern, sophisticated infrastructure.
What's more, fairy-tale like weddings, joyful Bar-Mitzvahs, children playing
in the streets and old people enjoying their retirement are all prophecies
of Jeremiah come true.
