Returning to Yahudah

 

YAHUAH desires His people to come together as one. A perfect example of this is the story of Ruth in the Scriptures. 

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Naomi, a Hebrew from Yahudah, was returning to her homeland from Moab when her daughter-in-law, Ruth, a Gentile (Moabite), clung to her and desired to go with her. Ruth desired to return with Naomi to the people of Elohim and to the Elohim of Yisrael. 

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Ruth 1:16-17  "But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim. Where you die, I die, and there I shall be buried. יהוה do so to me, and more also – for death itself parts you and me.”

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Ruth became inseparable from Naomi, vowing to go where she goes, stop where she stops, and even to die and be buried where she is buried.

 

This joining is like a marriage. When a gentile connects himself to the people of Elohim, to cling to them and accept יהוה their Elohim, it is a marriage of oneness with His people.

 

Ruth continued on with Naomi and met Boaz, a prominent Yahudi (Jew) who became her redeemer. To be redeemed, she had to first return to the people of Yahudah.

 

She was also blessed as written:

 

Ruth 4:11  "And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! יהוה make the woman who is coming to your house as Rahel and as Le’ah, the two who built the house of Yisra’el. And prove your worth in Ephrathah and proclaim the Name in Beyth Lehem."

 

Ruth, who came from among the gentiles, became the great-grandmother of King David, who reigned over the united kingdom of Yisrael and was the progenitor of the Mashiach.

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The United Kingdom

 

King David pitched a Tent for the Ark of the Covenant to rest (2 Shem/Sam. 6:17). 

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The Tablets of the Covenant were inside the Ark, and wherever the Word of YAHUAH dwelled, there the Presence and the Name of the Most High also dwelled. Therefore, David’s Tent that housed the Ark, became a Mishkan, a Set-Apart Dwelling Place for YAHUAH.

 

The Torah, the Book of the Law, was central in the service to YAH. David set up the Tzadokite priesthood to make offerings before the Ark of the Covenant. He made offerings of righteousness and right-ruling.

 

This new Tent, the Booth of David, was in operation at the same time as the original Mishkan which was still standing at Gibeon. By allowing King David to receive the Ark and place it in the Tent he pitched for it, YAH was doing a new thing in the earth (Yesh/Is. 43:19).

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King David reigned over the united kingdom of Israel, when all twelve tribes were unified as one nation under his kingship. David also fought many battles that expanded the borders of the nation and ultimately ushered in a time of peace.

 

People from many nations came to dwell in Yisrael. Many became converts. Others remained gentiles but worshiped YAHUAH alongside their Yisraelite neighbors.

 

The Tent of David became the place where both the Hebrews and Gentiles served YAHUAH. Both peoples were keeping the Laws and Commands of Elohim and doing His will.

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The Completeness of the Reign

 

Amos 9:11-12  “In that day I shall raise up the booth of Dawid which has fallen down. And I shall repair its breaches and raise up its ruins. And I shall build it as in the days of old, so that they possess the remnant of Edom, and all the gentiles on whom My Name is called,” declares יהוה who does this."

 

In the last days, the Tent of David will be raised back up for Jews and Gentiles to worship YAHUAH together. This is the completeness of the Reign of Elohim - the oneness of two peoples, Jews and Gentiles, together.

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The ancient symbol below shows the completeness of the Reign. The two lions are similar though not the same, and they lie down together in peace. These are the two peoples, Jews and Gentiles, who are different peoples, yet both keep Torah and serve YAH together in peace as one nation.

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