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Tribulation in the Torah
It isn’t just a Revelation thing
The conventional doctrine says that Israel blew it and they’re out and “the church” is in as the chosen of Yah. I have presented in numerous lessons and comments — from Scripture — verification that this doctrine is wishful thinking, false, and destructive.
In my studies, I came upon this verse and looked deeper into it.
Deuteronomy 4:29–31 (TS2009) — 29) “But from there you shall seek יהוה your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart <Jer 29:13> and with all your being. 30) “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to יהוה your Elohim and shall obey His voice. 31) “For יהוה your Elohim is a compassionate Ěl, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
Now, read it from the KJV:
… 29) But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30) When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31) (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
And from the ESV:
… 29) But from there you will seek {YHVH Elohenu} and you will find Him, if you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30) When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to {YHVH Elohenu} and obey His voice. 31) For {YHVH Elohenu} is a merciful {El}. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to them.
Apostolic Bible Polyglot (APB) English {indicates my changes} [indicates interlinear phrasing]
… 29) And you shall seek after there {YHVH Elohenu}, and you shall find him whenever you should seek after him with [entire heart your], and with [entire soul your] in your affliction. 30) And [shall find you all these words] at [the] last of the days, and you shall turn towards {YHVH Elohenu}, and you shall hearken [to] his voice. 31) For {El} [[is] pitying and merciful {YHVH Elohenu}. He will not abandon you, nor in any way will he obliterate you; he will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which he swore by an oath to them.
If you are unfamiliar with the language, Hebrew reads from right-to-left ←. Here are these three verses from the Westminster-Leningrad Codex (WLC):
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ כִּי תִדְרְשֶׁנּוּ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ בַּצַּר לְךָ וּמְצָאוּךָ כֹּל הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה בְּאַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים וְשַׁבְתָּ עַד־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְשָׁמַעְתָּ בְּקֹלֹֽו׃ כִּי אֵל רַחוּם יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לֹא יַרְפְּךָ וְלֹא יַשְׁחִיתֶךָ וְלֹא יִשְׁכַּח אֶת־בְּרִית אֲבֹתֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע לָהֶֽם׃
→ (An interesting thing happened on the way to “cut-n-paste”. The “29” appeared on the wrong side, so I removed it. The first, unmarked verse, is 29. For consistency, verses are separated by a colon ( : ) rather than marked with numbers.)
The first word of the second verse is batsar (baw-tsar), bet, tsadik, resh ( בַּצַּר ). It means (in addition to gathering grapes, which is not the context) to clip off or be isolated.
The KJV translates the word, tsar ( צַּר ), which means narrow, a tight place, an opponent (or a pebble, but again, not in context).
And lastly, I wish to present this from the LXX-English (Septuagint).
• 29) And there ye shall seek {YHVH Elohenu}, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction. 30) And all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to {YHVH Elohenu}, and shalt hearken to His voice. 31) Because {YHVH Elohenu} [is] {an El} of pity: He will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; He will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which {YHVH} sware to them.
One could say this pertains to when someone is about to die. However, the verse quite specifically in every version translates as “the last days”, the terminus, the finale, not “your last day”.
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H319 אַחֲרִית ‘achariyth (ach-ar-eeth’) noun — fem
- 1. the last or end.
- 2. (hence) the future.
- 3. (also) posterity.
This refers to the end of days, the coming of the Great Day of YHVH, which has been promised even from the beginning.
Here’s the key to this verse: I have strongly objected to, and shown in Scripture multiple times, that Israel HAS NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN by Elohim. Yehudah’s eyes have been closed for a predetermined amount of time, during which the nations are being gathered to join themselves to Him (engrafting in Israel). But HERE, in the Torah, is a promise about what is to come at the end of days:
They will seek Him with all their heart and soul and WILL find Him.
All the promises He made to Israel were stamped, approved, and carved into stone, so to speak, in the Torah. If you think the mythical concoction called, “the church” has replaced Israel, you are sorely mistaken. Add this verse on top of the mountain of verses previously presented.
** — I find I need to clarify this: No matter what a person’s genetic heritage, they are able to be engrafted into Israel by “binding themselves to Him in love.” This means that ONLY those that love and serve Him are Israel. There is a large prophesied number of those in the genetic remnant to whom this verse refers, but by default already includes those that had been His prior to the “end of days” referenced in the passage. Anyone who is His is His. This verse is talking about a large number of the genetic remnant returning to Him in the last days. **
I came back to this one, lost in my digital pile, and realized it was not finished. While I think I could have ended with the above paragraph (before the **), I think it loses its importance without some specific closure.
While there is still a condition given within the passage: search Him WITH ALL THEIR HEART AND SOUL; there is still a waiting doorway for genetic Israel and — He who has seen the end from the beginning — already knows that a large portion of His original chosen will find their way back to Him in repentance and belief.
It appears increasingly plain that the time of the nations is rapidly ending and the time for Israel to turn back to Him is nearly upon us. Don’t delay. Don’t wait for the next sign — which may be the one that comes after it is too late.
Turn back to Him now with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
🛑 Stop counting on religion to save you, or to save yourself. Only the Father saves, through His Messiah, and only the Father, through His Messiah, forgives. If you love Him, then show Him through repentance and obedience to Him, the Master, the Creator, the One, I Am, YHWH.
Shalom
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• Part Two: A Continuing Examination
