The Completed House of Israel: A GENIUS metaphor created by the Master Builder
24 “So, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on bedrock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the winds blew and beat against that house, but it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on rock.
The House of the LORD, the LORD's House, the two houses of Israel, My House..., and many more times is the metaphor of a house compared to the work of YHVH GOD. Today, sitting in a new doctor's office, YHVH GOD showed me His house, metaphorically speaking, and again, His genius never ceases to amaze me. I constantly question GOD, "Why are you teaching me all these things, and what am I supposed to do with this new exciting information if I don't have a voice?" He kept showing me that as long as I am here on this planet, that will be true of me. I could go into another whole blog post on why that is so, but I will spare you the rabbit trail. What I will do is try to share you in the most foundational, elementary and metaphorically in plain English what I learn without vomiting all this stored up inside me, overwhelming my reader with some really boring stuff.
I am no longer a Christian and I'm glad of that, just like I was no longer a Roman Catholic when I was twenty-six and born again, the first time. I know, I can hear the rumblings going on in your heard. You think I've turned my back on Jesus, and it's impossible to be born-again twice. That depends on what your definition of born-again is, and what the definition of is is. Being called out of the Roman church and now the Protestant church some 29 years later is like being born-again twice, because all of a sudden, the scales fell from my eyes, like they did with Paul the Apostle, but twice. I've been able to see the deception in both churches that YHVH GOD has allowed to perpetuate for more than 2,000 years. That's a difficult one to explain, because I still don't understand why YHVH GOD lets "His" people go so far from His original intent, when it comes to building our houses on the principles of GOD. I included both the Roman church and the Protestant church in this "house gone wrong," because one came from the other, both with the same lack of supports and protections from the evil one.
Most Christians refer to their church building as the house of the LORD, and that cannot be any further from the truth. Building haven't been the "house of the LORD," since the Temple burned in AD 70. The House of the LORD isn't a building, it is a chosen people, although, I will use a building to explain how it's not what Christians call the "church." There are five vital components to building a house and any contractor can tell you that. There is ground preparation, (sometimes plot selection), there is a foundation, and walls to separate each vital room in the house. The last and most vital part of the house to top everything off, (pun intended), is the roof. Here is where the GENIUS of GOD comes into play.
If GOD wanted to build Himself a house of a special people, I will have to explain each step He crafted into His house, and what the steps represent, (pun intended) in the Whole Counsel of GOD. There are four major Covenants YHVH GOD made with His people, and sadly, many Christians wrongly toss out the first three,, and just keep the top one in their purview. They live in a roofed house with no walls or foundation and the ground below them is slowing caving in on them like a sink hole. Soon, there will be nothing left in the NT church/people house, and YHVH GOD will have rescued and called out His beloved from that collapsing invisible house with only a roof and the wrong kind at that.
Let's start with the first covenant. A covenant is either an unconditional promise from GOD, or it's a conditional one. Either way it is never broken by GOD, nor are they ever obsolete to Him. The first promise GOD made is called the Noahide Covenant, and GOD gave this to Noah through no merit of his own doing. The Bible says that GOD found Grace for Noah, and out of that Grace, He saved only eight people out of millions if not billions to start all over again. He flooded the earth to prepare the ground for a better house. Do you see the ground preparation there? His sign to Noah to honor His Covenant was the rainbow. This was a sign only YHVH could do, and man could play no part in this outward appearance of a eternal covenant YHVH made with Noah and his descendants, that would be us.
After the ground is properly prepared, there is the foundation that needs to be built. He is building a "single" structure, calling out a single people, one nation He will covenant with, and everyone outside of that house is not part of the Kingdom of GOD. They can enter the house and join in the Covenant, but again, by invitation only. The Abraham Covenant is the foundation of the house on a set and prepared ground, which is the land of Canaan. The sign for this covenant was circumcision. It was a physical reminder for man to know that he was chosen out of the general population to become a people of GOD all unto themselves.
The next thing YHVH GOD needed to put up was the framework to support the walls which partition off specific rooms, different from each other with a different purpose, but all part of His house, and vital to this house, if it is to stand. The Mosaic Covenant is the framework and the walls, all 613 Laws. Each beam/law is vital and weightbearing. The sign for that Covenant was the Sabbath day for His people. This would be a house that all the residents would rest on the Sabbath day, and no one would leave it, or do chores in it. This would separate the residents in GOD's House from those outside. This required obedience on the residents part, so it was a conditional covenant. Man had to play a part in it for it to be valid.
I think that is pretty obvious which covenant and vital piece to the home is. The Christian church calls it the New Covenant, but actually each covenant was new when it was introduced to GOD's people and built into the framework of His House of Israel, His united house of ten tribes or clans if you will. The Roof is Yeshua HaMashiach, or Jesus the Christ as the Roman and Protestant church know him. He is the covering over the entire structure keeping it safe and under his name and his name only. The sign for this new addition to the house of Israel is the Holy Spirit. It is GOD dwelling in the house with us, like the Noahide Covenant, we cannot do this ourselves. It's not a matter of physical changes, obedience to something. It is a spiritual invite into the house, and we receive it as soon as we cross the threshold. Of course, the door has to open and the owner of the house must invite us into the His house, we surely can't burst in and breakdown the door. Only YHVH GOD has the key to unlock the door for us, and that is Grace. He has to give us the key to get in, because the door is locked from the inside with Grace in with Yeshua holding the key. The house has a back door for residents to leave who want to move out and go it alone out in the big bad mean world.
Let's look into the house and the walls and partitions the gentiles removed, erasing the purpose of each room, and creating their own work space. (Pun intended). The Living Room, that is where the guests come to visit, and the residents are to be hospitable and love the guests when they enter, some even become permanent members inside YHVH's house. The next room is the kitchen, the food rules which help us decide which foods are good for the body, and kosher for cleanliness. The family room is where we all gather as a united family to worship YHVH, and praise Him for building a house and inviting us into it. The bedrooms represent the sexual activity, or rather procreation. There are certain sex laws in the Mosaic Law, hence, strangers from outside the house are not welcome inside the bedrooms of the dwellers of YHVH's house. Last but not least, is the bathroom, where are sins are washed away, either in the shower with Living Water, or flushed down the commode by animal sacrifice. Now, that Yeshua has put a roof over our heads, we still have Living Water, however the waste isn't necessary to get rid of in the commode, because it is permanently removed from the residents in the home. It is impossible to keep all 613 Mosaic laws, because there is no Temple, and we can't just go off and stone our rebellious children, however, those of the beams in the framework, and are covered by the Roof.
So, there you have it, the House of Israel, with it's ground prepared by the Hand of GOD, (Noahide Covenant), it's rock foundation on a plot of land, Canaan, built to hold up the walls and the house and be the main support for the House of Israel, (Abraham Covenant), and the framework and walls, separating each room for a specific purpose. (Mosaic Laws). The Roof is the New Covenant of Yeshua covering over all the residents, keeping powers and principalities of the air away, above, and outside of the people safely tucked inside. One Covenant is built upon the previous covenant, which prepared the house for the new addition. None of the covenants can be negated or removed, lest the house will fall.
So, where did it all go wrong? It was as early as the 2nd century. First the house was strong and healthy, but as some new people came in, (gentiles) they began to take over. They didn't like the original Architectural plans, so the very first thing they did was to remove the foundation. Next they knocked down the walls, to make it one big open space with no definition, no organized purpose. The walls and beams collapsed, letting the outside world free access to the inside of the house, without an invitation. Last of course, was to relocate the house to a new plot, in a new neighborhood, in a new land. The house went from the land of Canaan to Rome. That land was not properly prepared, and it was also given a new name. It was no longer the House of Israel, but it was the house of Roman Catholicism. They even elected their own "builder" to redesign and renovate the house, in the papacy, as if there was something wrong with the original plans. They had a foreign mother in a false goddess, renamed to Mary, the mother of their gentile Jesus, a roof with holes in it. A house with no foundation, no framework, no walls, but just a roof cannot stand, and it is not the house YHVH built.
I'm sorry if this went a little long, but hopefully you were fascinated enough to keep reading, and now you have a better understand why the Old Covenant/Testament has been improperly labeled and discarded as if not needed. You cannot have a Roof without all those Covenants remaining in place. I take no credit for this metaphor, because as I state before, YHVH GOD gave me this picture and labeled each part of His House of Israel, assigning a Covenant to each part.
