The twelve tribes divided the
kingdom after Solomon's death. The ten northern ten tribes called
Israel were judged by Yahwey for idolatry 209 years after the split (via the Assyrians). Only
Judah and Benjamin remained in the land. They were joined by the
Levites. These three tribes were the
first to become known as the Jews, so named after Judah; the
messianic house of David. They were eventually removed from the
land by Yahwey (via
the Babylonians) 134 years after the fall of the northern ten
tribes. They were removed due to spiritual adultery. I will try to paint the biblical picture with
Judah, Benjamin and Levi as the three ribs in the
Persian bear's mouth.
After the exile, (and after the
kingdom of Babylon) the three ribs were in the teeth of another
national body; the bear. The bear represents the second kingdom
called the Medes and Persians. The three tribes were subsequently
allowed by the bear to return to their land and rebuild their
temple. The Messiah arrived in the first century and chose 12
apostles from the three tribes who were back in Jerusalem. They
would become the spiritual foundation for the new body. Paul was
from the tribe of Benjamin. In the birth of the spiritual city of
God, the 12 tribes along with the 12 apostles reformed a new body
to contain the heart of the new man. It is called the body of
Christ and the bride of Christ. The city of God became
international.
Jesus' half brother
Jacob, better known as James for some unknown
reason, Addresses all twelve tribes in one of the
first new testament letters to be written. The twelve tribes were
the only ones to address in the newly reborn church. They were the
first to recieve the Holy Spirit and preach the gospel to the other
nations. They opened the gates of the spiritual city of God to the
rest of the world. Jesus laid the foundation of the new city with
the twelve apostles. After Pentecost the twelve tribes opened the
gates to the world. The wealthy unbelievers in the first century
city of Jerusalem were not happy with Jesus or his followers or
their doomsday message for the old city. They
were financially prosperous and prestigious with the old
soul and did not want to leave it as Jesus had warned them
to.
James
1:1-12 (Jacob)
CLV 1 James, a slave
of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
tribes in the dispersion. Rejoice!" 2 All joy deem
it, my brethren, whenever you should be falling into various
trials, 3 knowing that
the testing of your faith is producing
endurance. 4 Now let
endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
unimpaired, lacking in nothing." 5 Now if
anyone of you is lacking wisdom, let him be requesting it from God,
Who is giving to all generously and is not reproaching, and it
shall be given to him." 6 Yet let him be
requesting in faith, doubting nothing, for he who is doubting
simulates a surge of the sea, driven by the wind and
tossed." 7 For let not
that man be surmising that he shall be obtaining anything from the
Lord - 8 a man
double-souled, turbulent in all his ways." 9 Now let the
humble brother be glorying in his exaltation, 10 yet the rich
in his humiliation, for, as the flower of grass, shall he pass
by." 11 For the sun
rises, together with the scorching heat, and withers the grass, and
its flower falls off, and the comeliness of its aspect perished.
Thus the rich also in his goings shall be caused to
fade." 12 Happy is the
man who is enduring trial, for, becoming qualified, he will be
obtaining the wreath of life, which He promises to those loving
Him."
The 12 tribes enduring
the trials were obtaining the new covenant
life.
Acts 26:6-8
CLV 6 And now, in
expectation of the promise which came by God to our
fathers, 7 I stand being
judged, to which our twelve-tribed people, earnestly offering
divine service night and day, is expecting to attain. Concerning
which expectation I am being indicted by Jews, O
King!" 8 Why is it being
judged unbelievable by you, if God is rousing the
dead?
Paul was among the
believers from the 12 tribes who was suffering for his new covenant
faith in Christ. Those who wanted to keep the old covenant
persecuted Paul during the covenant transition
years.
The number 24 was in the foundation
of the new cube shaped city (temple) where Yahwey's image now
dwells. God lives in His church, which was indisputably started by
the twelve apostles and the twelve tribes. He lives in the
fulfilled human body of Christ who indisputabley has all 24 ribs;
not in His mouth but in His body. The 12 apostles and the 12 tribes
took His heart to the whole world.
Revelation 21:12-16
CLV 12 having
a wall, huge and high, having twelve portals, and at the portals
twelve messengers, and their names inscribed, which are the names
of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel." 13 From
the east are three portals, and from the north three portals, and
from the south three portals, and from the west three
portals." 14 And the
wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve
names of the twelve apostles of the Lambkin." 15 And he
who is speaking with me had a measure, a golden reed, that he
should be measuring the city, and its portals, and its
wall." 16 And the
city is lying four square: and its length is as much as the
breadth. And he measures the city with the reed to twelve thousand
stadia. Its length and breadth and height are equal.
Some people say this is not a
symbolic city because it has real measurements. The bear had three
ribs in it's mouth. wasn't that number a real measurement. Not many
think it was a real bear just because they counted the number of
ribs in it's mouth. And what about time measurements? The Jews
really counted the 490 years to the new covenant? They were
symbolic and real years. And the believing Jews entered the new
covenant as the faithful remnant who relied on God more than the
political powers of the day.
Daniel 9:24
CLV Seventy sevens are segregated for your
people and for your holy city: To detain transgression, to cause
sin to end, to make a propitiatory shelter for depravity; to bring
the righteousness of the eons, to seal the vision and the prophet,
to anoint the holy of holies."
Daniel 9:24
ECB
THE VISION OF THE SEVENTY
WEEKS
Seventy weeks are cut on your people and on your
holy city to restrain the rebellion and to seal up sins and to
kapar/atone for perversity and to bring in eternal justness and to
seal up the vision and the prophet and to anoint the holy of
holies.
Leviticus 16:30 “For on that day
shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye
may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.”
After the human, A.K.A. Adam, was
made complete in Jesus, he died to set His people free from the
side of eschaton Adam. His people were then united by the Holy
Spirit into the one new man; one body. Peter, representing the body
of Christ, was then told to rise up and
eat from all 4 representative people types and take
them into his resurrected Jewish body of Christ. The 12 tribes did
not have a body, except for the three tribes in the land, who were
kinda in the teeth of Rome; the fourth beast.
The 12 tribes were not replaced
by the church. They were placed in it and they are still the
foundation. Those who rejected the new covenant were not able to
stop those who accepted it. The new was faithfully created and the
old was destroyed.
What do you think the
three ribs in the bears mouth
represented?
Darius lets the three tribes go
back to Jerusalem to rebuild a place for the messiah to grow up in,
in order to build the true temple of God. Jesus claimed to be the
temple; the house of Yahwey. He contained the image of God. It was
the first time the complete image of God ever stood in a Jewish
temple.
Haggai
1:1,14-15
CLV 1 In the second
year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on day
one of the month, the word of Yahweh comes by the hand of
Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of
Judah, and to Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest,
saying,
14 And
Yahweh is rousing the spirit of Zerubbabel, son of
Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, son of
Josedech, the great priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of
the people, and they are coming and doing work on the house of
Yahweh of hosts, their Elohim, 15 in
the twenty fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius, the king."
Genesis 2:21-23
21 And Yahweh Elohim is causing a deep sleep to fall on the human, and he
is sleeping. And He is taking one of his ribs and is closing the
flesh under it. 22 And Yahweh Elohim is building the rib,
which He takes from the human, into a woman, and He is bringing her
to the human. 23 And the human is saying, "She was once bone of my bones
and flesh from my flesh. She shall be called woman, for from her
man is she taken.
There are twelve ribs on each
side of the human. The three Old Covenant tribes were out of their
body; no longer in the national human body called Israel. They were
in the teeth of the second kingdom of Daniel designated as the
second beast. They advised the kingdom body represented by the bear
to conquer nations and take them in; into the body of the Medes and
Persians.
The Lord tells Peter in a
metaphorical vision to take all nations into the united Jewish
kingdom; body of Christ.
Acts 11:5-9
LITV 5 I
was being in the city of Joppa, praying. And in an ecstasy, I saw a
vision: a certain vessel was coming down, like a huge sheet, being
let down by four corners out of the heaven; and it came as far as
me. 6 Looking
intently on this, I observed. And I saw the four-footed animals of
the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the
birds of the heaven. 7 And I heard a
voice saying to me, Peter, rise up, slay and eat. 8 But I said,
Not at all, Lord, because never has anything common or unclean
entered into my mouth. 9 But a voice
answered me the second time out of the heaven, What God has
cleansed, you do not make common.
At first, the reborn Jews
preached the gospel to Jews only. It was, as they understood it,
the rebirth of the body of the twelve tribes of Israel only. But
God was enlarging the body. The now 24 ribbed Jewish
body reluctantly became
international. Just as in the days of Jeremiah, unbelievers
remained in the old covenant land, rejecting and persecuting those
who believed and obeyed the true prophets of Yahwey. Judgement from
Yahwey removed the unbelievers from the old covenant land in AD 70,
just as Yeshua prophesied.
Romans 8:23
CLV 23 Yet not only
so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the spirit,
we ourselves also, are groaning in ourselves, awaiting the sonship,
the deliverance of our body."
Acts 11:17-20
CLV 17 If, then, God
gives them the equal gratuity as to us also, when believing on the
Lord Jesus Christ, who was I - able to forbid God? 18 Now, on
hearing these things, they are quiet, and glorify God, saying,
"Consequently, to the nations also God gives repentance unto
life!" 19 Those indeed,
then, who are dispersed from the affliction which is occurring over
Stephen, passed through as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch,
speaking the word to no one except to Jews only." 20 Now some of
them were the Cyprian men and Cyrenians, who, coming into Antioch,
spoke to the Hellenists also, evangelizing to them the Lord
Jesus."
Today the church with it's Jewish
foundation of 12 apostles and 12 tribes is still the one and only
bride of Christ. There is one body for Jew and Gentile alike. She
is international and not dependent upon location. She stands with
Yeshua and represents Him to the world. Just as the Holy Spirit
first remained on Christ, Yahwey has created a new covenant bride
from Christ's side, upon whom the Holy Spirit also remains. The
church recieved the breath of life from her husbandman on
Pentecost. 'Adam' was finally able to ensoul 'Eve'.
Acts 10:45
NLT The Jewish believers who came
with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been
poured out on the Gentiles, too.
John 4:20-24
CLV 20 "Our fathers
worship in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the
place where one must worship." 21 Jesus is
saying to her, "Believe Me, woman, that, coming is an hour when
neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall you be worshiping
the Father." 22 You are
worshiping that of which you are not aware; we are worshiping that
of which we are aware, for salvation is of the
Jews." 23 But coming is
the hour, and now is, when the true worshipers will be worshiping
the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also is seeking such
to be worshiping Him." 24 God is spirit,
and those who are worshiping Him must be worshiping in spirit and
truth."
Jesus became the high priest of
the reborn 12 tribes and 12 apostles. The human body does have 24
ribs in it.