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I have a mate that's just like you, he is a Christian an I have given him books to study over the years but he has boasted that he has not read one bit of such at all. and that's why he is a very poor Christian with little faith and he wonders why he does not have faith like his dad does, well one must seek to be able to find and when one finds then you seek even more and you find more.
Ok you win.Don't know who this is...just thought it was interesting.
The word, "church" has been around for about 800 years.
I agree, the "Christian" church is a filthy mess. But like I said before, you ain't Israel. No doubt there are many races and nations who try to usurp Israel's place with God. It's jealousy! It's a Satanic deception. If you're wrong you're in a Hell of a lot of trouble with God!
How do you know it was God? How do you know it wasn't Satan trying to destroy you?Considering it was God who told me that I was a Levite, and it was He who proved it to me through physical evidence, and in an effort to keep the bond of the Spirit, I ask that we agree to disagree on this matter.
Nearly two thousand, eight hundred years ago, God exiled the House Of Israel from the Promised Land.
Hashem said that Israel would lose their awareness of who they were.
He said that the whole earth would be blessed through their descendants.
He also said that during the last days, He would wake them up, with their Levites being first.
I believe that after a season of repentance, healing, and restoration, He would do through the Levites what He has done in them.
I had met Jesus in 1973, though I hadn't been looking for Him.
During 1994, I walked into an unknown church, looking for God.
My Father found me as I was looking for Him.
He showed me things I found amazing, but the most amazing thing for me was His love for me.
The result of this is I've never turned away from Him since.
Where would I go?
A few years later found me leading worship in the middle of what was then
called, "The Father's Blessing."
Also known as the renewal of the church.
After leading one Sunday morning, and as I was walking to the back of the auditorium, God spoke to me something I'd never thought before.
He said, "You are a Levite."
As I walked, I thought, "Oh, like the Levites of ancient Israel when they led worship in the Temple."
A few weeks later, after I'd just finished leading worship, He said exactly the same thing to me.
I again thought He meant that what I was doing was what a Levite had done.
A few weeks later I had a repeat of the first two times.
This time, however, I thought He meant that I was a spiritual Levite.
I soon forgot about it.
Over the years I'd remember these times and just as soon forgot about them. Time marched on.
During the Fall of 2019, I was watching Christian testimonies on YouTube.
I got a spiritual lift from them.
When they started running out, I watched a Messianic Jew testimony.
I got the same lift.
It was the same Spirit.
No surprise.
I may have heard something that got me thinking about what God had said to me 22 years earlier.
I decided that I should at least rule out my being a physical descendant of the House Of Israel.
I'd learned many things from online searching so I decided to start by watching a documentary on ancient Israel.
I felt a little silly, what were the odds?
As I watched the video unfold, I learned about how the House Of Israel turned from God and started worshipping idols and false gods.
About how God had exiled the 10 tribes and how they'd forgetten who they were. Along with the promise of how He would wake them up during the last days.
They were marched into Assyria and after the Mede/Persian army freed them some years later, most of them went north and west, just like God had said.
The documentary followed some that went to Scandinavia and how, many years later, some went by sea and landed at what would become Normandy, France, during the 1500s.
At this point, I thought, "wait a minute, my parents' family tree went back to Normandy during this same time."
The connection was clear to me, as well as the Holy Spirit telling me this was so. I sat stunned.
I'd never heard of anything Israeli in my family.
We were English and Scottish.
We didn't even know any Jewish people.
It was one thing to be told by God that I was a Levite, but this connection made it real to me.
No more "like a Levite" or "a spiritual Levite."
And no going back.
I immediately looked up the origin of my family name which I'd tried countless times before with the same results.
That my last name originated in England and France.
I knew there was more to it.
But I didn't know what.
I right away found new information that said my family name originated in NORMANDY!!!
Once again I sat stunned.
I did the same search a few weeks later and found another source that said that the surname Coates originated in Normandy.
This info was related to a genealogical group.
I've since learned that when the tribes split with some going to the British Isles and the rest going to Scandinavia, they went by boat.
Coates means, "they that live in cottages by the sea."
Since my people were then Vikings and invaders, they stayed close to their get-away-vehicles (boats).
At first.
They later became Christians and went on to become nobles in France.
Their Norse king even became king of England, if you can believe it.
On March 16, 2000, I was away at a 5-day seminar when Jesus told me that He loves His bride and then let me feel His heart.
The grief was overwhelming.
Today, when I talk or even think about these lost people, His grief again fills my heart.
Because of this, and my love for my Lord, I am compelled to look for them.
I'm seeing that this is one of my purposes from the Lord.
I am in the early stages of this.
He woke me up by speaking to me.
The ancient prophecy states that God would wake them up through inspiration. He inspires through His servants, for the most part.
The Lord said, "Who shall I send?"
You would've seen me in the background jumping up and down and yelling, "pick me, pick me."
And so He did.
Brit/Am is Hebrew for, "a covenant (Hebrew, "brit") of the people." One source says it means, "Israel."
Brit/Am, Brit/An, Brit/ain. Britain.
Scripture foretold how the lost 10 would become a nation and a nation of nations.
How the world would be blessed through them.
How they would number the grains of sand on the beach or the stars in the sky.
So for those who have ears to hear, I say, "O House Of Israel, where are You?" This is not the cry of my heart only, rather, it is the cry of your Maker calling you back to your inheritance through His Son Jesus/Yashua.
To His unconditional love, He simply says, "Come."
"And in the very place it was said to them, 'you are not My people,' there they will be called, 'children of the living God.'" Romans 9:26 NIV
"Do you know why Christians think they are Israel?
Because for much of the church, they are."
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon."
But He did not answer her a word.
And so His disciples came and begged Him, 'Send her away, for she is crying out after us."
He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel."
But she came and knelt before Him, saying, "Lord, help me."
And He answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."
Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire."
And her daughter was healed instantly. Matthew 15:22-28 ESV Most translations have, "House Of Israel."
He loves you; you can trust Him not to reject you."
I know because He has totally accepted me solely on what Jesus/Yeshua did for us.
Why should you listen to me?
Because I'm one of you.
A Hebrew Christian.
Shalom.
Later: He recently, in the Spirit, detached me from Ephra'im and reattached me to Judah. If nothing else, being descended from the 13th tribe (Levi) gives me something else to think about.
Oh man...I need to be careful I don't start snapping brain cells! Lol
Master of the Universe, Yahweh, Elohim are His names. x2
Adonai, El Shaddai, are names of the Lord Most High.
Allah, Yeshua, died for us, and I can show ya, that He's... - Truman Coates
I would like to address the promised land. Israel believed the promise was made to Abraham and his seed. They thought the seed to be them. Paul writes the promise was to Abraham and his seed meaning one and that one was Christ. What God had showed Abraham was a country and in this country was a city whose builder was God. And that God would dwell among his people. Now he told Abraham that he and his seed would receive the promise as an everlasting promise. After that Abraham set out to find this promised land. It is written that Abraham traveled throughout the country where he had received the promise. Paul said in Hebrews that had Abraham not understood the promised land was a heavenly place. This earth is destroyed the promise was for an everlasting promise. Even today Israel believes that the the land they live on is the promised land. They have not understood the promise either.
