Did God Have To Die To Remarry Israel

Did God Have To Die To Remarry Israel? Shane Vaughn Teaches - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vmdreHDZ0 Transcript: (00:06) Christendom. How many Christians believe that in fact God, whom I will refer to by his proper Hebrew name, Yahweh, indeed died on a place called Golgotha, on a structure called the cross. Everyone, even from Catholicism to um Hebrew roots and everywhere in between, believes that God, Yahweh, came to Earth and died for our sins. (00:45) In this video, we're going to deal with an answer to this question. It seems like we wouldn't have to even deal with this because the very question is a total non sequitur. It doesn't even fit in the the theology of an eternal God. So, I want you to get your Bibles and we're going to answer that question and then we're going to also answer another question. (01:17) Among the Messianic Hebrew roots groups, it is often taught that Yahweh was married to Israel. And according to Torah, the only way that Yahweh could remarry Israel was if in fact he died to end that marriage covenant. And I'm going to be honest with you, this is a subject that's got to be dealt with. I've put off dealing with it for a while because I wanted to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that we had the truth on this matter. (01:56) And I believe at the end of this video, very brief video, you're going to see clearly how impossible it is for God to die. Hello, I'm Shane Vaughn. I am the founding minister at First Harvest Ministries and the founding bishop of Unity International. We have a Bible college where we teach and train students in the word of God and this lesson that you're getting right now is a lesson that will forever change your thinking. (02:31) Right after this brief message, we're coming back to answer these two questions. In this hand, I have a cup. It's a cup made out of plastic. That's the composition of this cup. Now, if I tell you that this cup can never change, that it's going to always be a cup. It will always be made out of plastic. It will always be in a (03:37) round shape and it will always hold liquid. If I tell you that that will never change. And yet tomorrow in this hand I'm holding phone made out of carbonite. And I tell you, here's the cup. You would think that I was a fool. You would think that I had lost my mind. But yet, you don't find it strange when the church tells you that God never changes, Yahweh. (04:19) Malachi chapter 3, verse 6. I am Yahweh, and I change not. I will never change. I have never changed. It's impossible for me to change. All right, I get that. That's called the doctrine of immutability. And as you study theology, this is a doctrine that you need to understand. Immutability means unchanging. No change. (04:51) He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. THAT IS A CARDINAL cornerstone in the faith of the apostles. Now, this phone is a total different substance than the cup. That logic cannot understand, and I don't believe that for 1 minute because it is the Father's good pleasure to reveal the mysteries to his sons. There's no mysteries about God to the sons of God. (05:23) Now, they call that the hypostatic union. And this doctrine says that God is both. He is spirit and flesh and blood. My friends, it's impossible. It cannot be so. Now, what I want to do in this in this lesson is I want to deal with a specific area of theology, especially among the Hebrew roots and the Messianic people. Now, I have lost precious friends over what I'm about to teach. (05:59) Good people that I love and I know they love me. But we see this differently. And I want to give you our version here at First Harvest Ministries of how we understand the concept of God having to die. I want you to think about that. I just Would you do me a favor? If you're watching this lesson, I want you to just say out loud, "God died. (06:30) " God died. Now, after you get through saying that to me, I want you to be honest and tell me how crazy that sounds to you. God, the eternal one, the beginning, the end, the one that's everlasting, the one that says he cannot die. I want you to tell me how that makes any sense that God died. Yet, the Hebrew roots and the Messianics believe that in fact Yahweh had to die. (07:07) Now, if you're watching me and you don't know the word Yahweh, it's very simple. That's the proper Hebrew name for God, the creator. Yeshua for Jesus. Um so, if the Father, Yahweh, was married to Israel, there is a law in the Torah that says that if a man puts away his wife, that he cannot take her back. All right? Yahweh was married to Israel. (07:39) And in fact, Yahweh put her away in divorce. Now, we often thought that Yahweh was going to remarry Israel. And therefore, we knew that was impossible because Yahweh would have to die since he was the original husband in order to marry Israel. If it's a little confusing, I apologize, but many of those that believe that know exactly what I'm talking about. (08:08) Today, I want to help you understand how it's possible that Yahweh could redeem Israel without having to die. Let's go to Romans chapter 7 verse 3 and verse 4. Now, sir, let me ask you a question. If you're watching me right now and you're married, if your wife was to pass away tomorrow, she's in the grave, she's resting waiting for the resurrection. (08:42) Is your marriage covenant still binding upon you? No, of course not. You know it's not. So, you are free to remarry. Same for the wife. If her husband dies, she's free from the covenant that she was under. Now, for some reason, the Hebrew roots and the Messianics believe that Yahweh had to die in order to marry Israel again. (09:15) Let's deal with it. Now, in these verses, Paul is speaking about the law of death, how that it disannuls the marriage covenant. Now, he's speaking about the husband in this verse simply because this is the issue that he was dealing with in this verse. But I want to pick up where we left off. He said, "Wherefore, my brethren. (09:44) " Or, in other words, "Because of this law, children of Israel, the house of Israel, my brethren, you Now, watch this. You are dead. Notice those words. You, ISRAEL, THE WIFE of Yahweh, you are dead. You're dead. Not Yahweh, but you are dead. You had to die to end that old covenant of the Old Testament. You had to die, not Yahweh. (10:28) Stay with me. He said, "You are become dead to the law." What law? The old covenant that they were under, married to Yahweh on Mount Sinai. He said, "You are dead." All right. How are they dead? How are we dead? You and I. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? It's very, very, very simple. He's going to answer it in the next phrase. (10:59) By the body of Messiah. Because of Christ, you are dead. You. There was two parties under the old covenant marriage. Yahweh and Israel, natural Israel, earthly Israel. There was a marriage covenant that existed. But, he said, "You have died." The wife, THE OLD WIFE, THAT REBELLIOUS WIFE, THAT natural Hagar, has died because of Messiah. (11:40) In other words, you died. That's the reason Yeshua came so that in him you could live and breathe and have your being. In him you could die. And listen to the next verse. Why did Christ die? It tells you. So that you, hallelujah, so that you could be married to another. And that other is Yeshua, the son of Yahweh. (12:18) Listen to me carefully. He said Christ came and died. You died with him. Remember what the scripture says, that we were with him. We died with him. And because of that, because of Christ, you are now free, you to marry somebody else. Not Yahweh. No, no, no. You're free to marry a total different husband, a different entity. (12:48) Completely. You're no longer bound to the old covenant law of marriage that you were under with Yahweh. You're free. You died in the waters of baptism. YOU DIED. The old woman was left in the water, and a new woman, a brand new creation, a new Israel, a new Jerusalem, a Sarah instead of a Hagar, came forth from the waters of baptism. (13:22) Even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto Yahweh. Now, wait a minute. What is fruit? Fruit is children, offspring. The one that we're going TO MARRY IS NOT YAHWEH. WE'RE GOING to bring fruit unto Yahweh, which is the offspring of this union between the heavenly groom and the earthly bride. Now, let me explain to you what the Messianics and the Hebrew Roots believers believe. (13:58) This is the theology of the Messianic. The Messianics believe that Israel was Yahweh's Old Covenant wife. That Yahweh had to divorce her for idolatry. And according to the law, a man cannot remarry his wife from whom he has divorced. However, Yahweh had promised to Israel a new covenant that he would remarry her. Yahweh dies, according to them, to release Israel so that she could lawfully marry again. (14:39) Therefore, since Yahweh had to remarry Israel himself, he simply became a man, Jesus, and died. And then raised himself back from the dead so that he could remarry his old wife without breaking the law. Well researched and credible. I'll be the first to admit that. When I first heard this teaching, it made perfect sense. (15:06) It really did. And I believed it until here lately. You see, as we grow in God, we're knowing in God. As we're growing, we're knowing. And the things we knew yesterday we may be different tomorrow because we're on a journey into the full revelation of the perfect day. Now, the theory is correct that Yahweh being Israel's old covenant husband, that's correct. (15:40) Yahweh was Israel's old covenant husband. It is also correct about his divorcing her for unfaithfulness. Now, Romans 7 and 1 through 4 does address the issue. But the churches have misinterpreted verse 3 and verse 4. So, it's to totally pervert their true meaning. Yahweh did indeed promise Israel a new covenant and a new marriage. (16:14) However, it was not Yahweh, the old husband, that was destined to die. Rather, it was Israel, the old wife. Remember that. Not the old husband, but the old wife would have to die. Note this well. At the point of water baptism, you died in Christ. You were completely over with. Whoever you were before baptism, no longer exist. (16:55) You arose a totally different creature. The Bible said, "Old things are passed away, and behold, all things become brand new." That means when you went in the water and you came up in his matchless name, you were somebody the world has never known before. You were somebody Yahweh had never known before. (17:17) You were a brand new creature. With a brand new identity, a brand new woman, no longer Hagar, the woman of the flesh, but Sarah, the woman of the promise. The old you died and ended the curse of your divorce from Yahweh. When you came out of the water, you were no longer a divorced woman. You were a virgin all over again. (17:47) You see, we don't understand the power of water baptism. That's why Yeshua was water baptized to be our example that he might fulfill all of the requirements of mikvah, which is baptism. Now, Israel died. The Bible said, "He that liveth in sin is dead while he's alive." That's what the Bible said. Israel died. (18:12) Yahweh did not die, and mark this down well, Yahweh cannot die. However, the death of Israel, the lost tribes, the death of them, when they come into the new covenant through Messiah, they come in no longer the old man, but remember what Paul said. Together, the old Israel is coming together with the lost tribes to create a new Israel or a new Jerusalem. (18:44) Remember when the angel of the Lord told John in the book of Revelation, "Come a little higher and I will show you the bride of Messiah, the new Jerusalem." Now, if Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, you could just as easily say the new Israel. Now, let me clarify something here. The new Israel is not the replacement of old Israel. No, no, no. (19:14) No, no, no. It is the regeneration or the restoration or the renewing of old Israel and the tribe of Judah together, one new man. Replacement theology is a doctrine of demons. That's not what we're saying. We are saying that the old woman, the old natural Israel has to come through Yeshua to be part of the new Israel which has been washed in his blood. (19:45) Now, remember that these are reborn Israelites, if you will, or reconceived Israelites, brand new creatures, washed spotlessly clean in the mikvah or baptism. This body of