Yeshua's Purpose

A Biblical timeline expressing the purpose of Yeshua, the Messiah who unified a Kingdom.

1743 BCE

God chooses Abraham and his family

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Abraham's family were all Hebrews. Traditionally, the word Hebrew (עִבְרִי) is from an ancestral name Eber (Genesis 10:21), but literally means "one from the other side," perhaps in reference to the River Euphrates (Joshua 24:3). Thus he is known as Abraham the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13).

Only a later sub-sect of this family became known as Jews – those belonging to the House of Judah – the tribes Judah, Benjamin, and Levi.

None of the other 10 tribes are considered Jewish.

1505 BCE

Jacob blesses his grandsons

Genesis 48:19

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

Jacob blesses the two sons of Joseph – Ephraim and Manasseh. These two grandchildren become the largest tribes in the House of Israel.

The phrase "multitude of nations" in Hebrew is meló gowy (מְלֹֽא־הַגּוֹיִֽם) and is literally translated as "fullness of Gentiles".

Jacob essentially prophecies that the House of Israel will become Gentiles. This suggests that an event will sever 10 tribes from the whole of Israel losing their status as part of God's people.

Paul references this in Romans 11:25.

1313 BCE

A marriage convenant is made

Isaiah 54:5

For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

As witnessed by the prophet Isaiah, the Jewish nation today recognizes the event at Mt. Sinai as a wedding between God and His people, Israel – all 12 tribes.

One law for both Israel and Gentiles

Exodus 12:49

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

While some Jews suggest Proselytes are only accountable to the seven Noahide laws, and Christians believe the law only applies to Jews, the fact remains that there is only ONE law for both Israel and believing Gentiles.

869 BCE

King David unifies the 12 tribes

2 Samuel 5:5

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

While in 877 BCE David becomes king of Judah in Hebron, he officially becomes king of Israel (all 12 tribes) in Jerusalem in 869 BCE.

Judah and Israel are united as one kingdom.

797 BCE

The 12 tribes divide into 2 houses

1 Kings 12:20-21

And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin...

As spoken by the prophet Ahijah in 1 Kings 11:30-31, after Solomon's death the kingdom divides into two houses.

House of Israel

The Northern 10 tribes
Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim, and Manasseh
Also referenced as: House of Joseph (1 Kings 11:28), Ephraim (Psalm 78:67), Israel, Samaria
First ruled by King Jeroboam

House of Judah

The Southern 3 tribes
Judah, Benjamin, and a remnant of Levites
Also referenced as: Judah (1 Kings 12:27), The Jews (2 Kings 16:6)
First ruled by King Rehoboam

The etymology of the word "Jew" is strictly rooted in "Judah" which further enforces the point that only the House of Judah were considered Jews.

556 BCE

House of Israel falls to the captivity of Assyria

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

10 tribes were taken into captivity by Assyria. These 10 tribes never returned to Israel prior to the advent of Yeshua. They are considered among scholars as the 10 Lost Tribes.

Ezekiel speaks of them being scattered among the countries (Ezekiel 11:16). Hosea states they are mixed among the people. They will live among the Gentiles and have gone up to Assyria (Hosea 7:8 & 8:8-9). Jeremiah adds that Israel is a scattered sheep (Jeremiah 50:17). And finally, Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian, wrote that "ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now; and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers."

463 BCE

God divorces the House of Israel – 10 tribes

Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Due to spiritual adultery (1 Kings 12:28), God divorced the 10 tribes of House of Israel. The remaining three tribes (Judah, Benjamin, and Levi) were not divorced, and are still married to God. These are the only remaining identifiable tribes today known as the Jewish people. The other 10 tribes were scattered and assimilated into the Gentile regions (Jeremiah 10:1 & 21, Amos 9:9) just as Jacob prophesied upon his two grandchildren.

God's law of divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1-4) does not allow the husband to remarry his divorced wife, even if they both desire to remarry each other. The divorce has made her unclean. But there is an exception – the death of the former husband can release the woman from being bound under the letter of the law.

Paul references this in Romans 7:1-4.

The Promise

God promises redemption to the House of Israel

Ezekiel 34:11-12

For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

The scattered lost sheep are the House of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:1-11

The dry bones in Ezekiel's prophecy represent the House of Israel. They were dead, but have been made alive again.

Ezekiel 37:15-27

Ezekiel also prophecies about the stick of Joseph (House of Israel) being joined again with the stick of Judah (House of Judah) and they will be one. Paul references this in Romans 11:24.

Hosea 2:14-23

The children represent both the House of Israel and the House of Judah. In the end, God shall say to them who were not His people (House of Israel), you are my people.

Isaiah 14:1

Isaiah recognized a time when the mercy of God would allow the House of Israel to return again.

Jeremiah 31:31

God promises a renewed covenant with the House of Judah and the House of Israel.

Zechariah 8:13

God explicitly calls out the salvation of both the House of Judah and the House of Israel.

Micah 2:12

Micah prophesies the gathering of the sheep of Israel.

423 BCE

House of Judah falls to the captivity of Babylon

2 Kings 24:14

And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

The remaining 3 tribes were taken into captivity by Babylon. The verse documents the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar's victory over Judah.

The captivity into Babylon is the official Jewish recognition of the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora. Because the 10 northern tribes were divorced, they were not considered part of the whole of Israel. The captivity of the 10 tribes into Assyria is not recognized as a part of the diaspora – only the fall of the House of Judah.

371 BCE

House of Judah returns to build the 2nd temple

Ezra 1:5

Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Only the 3 tribes that were taken into Babylon returned to the land of Israel: Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. These are the only identifiable tribes today known altogether as the Jewish people. These three tribes rebuilt the 2nd temple and formed the factions of Pharisees and Sadduccess during the time of Yeshua.

The Messiah

Yeshua dies for the lost sheep of the House of Israel

Matthew 15:24

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

John 10:7 & 15

[...] I am the door of the sheep.

[...] and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Romans 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

The single most important purpose of the Messiah is to unite His kingdom. Everyone looked for the Messiah to restore Israel's kingdom on earth. But 10 tribes were still divorced from God. The law of divorce states that the only way the woman can be freed from the divorce is if her first husband dies. Yeshua came with all the authority of God (Matthew 28:18), as God's only begotten son, to die and release the House of Israel from the letter of the law of divorce. The promise is fulfilled.

Yeshua died for the "sins of many" as stated in Isaiah 53:11-12. These were the sins outlined in Hebrews 9:15 being the "transgressions that were under the first covenant." It was the sin of spiritual adultery under the first covenant that caused the House of Israel to be divorced and required Yeshua's death for their redemption.

Without Yeshua's death, there is no redemption. Without Yeshua's resurrection, there is no hope of a renewed marriage and united kingdom. It is only through Him that all things are made possible.

The Parables

The tares and the wheat

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
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Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom;
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The house of Israel was scattered and assimilated into the world. The good seed are the children of the kingdom, the tribes of the house of Israel mixed among the pagan practices of the world.

Wheat = House of Israel
Tares = Worldly paganism

The treasure in a field and the pearl

Matthew 13:44-46

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Yeshua gives everything including his own life for the treasure hidden in the field or the pearl of great price. He buys an entire field, he gives everything for the entire world, to save and reunite the house of Israel with the house of Judah.

Treasure & Pearl = House of Israel
Field = World
Merchant = Yeshua

The net in the sea

Matthew 13:47-50

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Yeshua has called everyone into the kingdom in order that He might gather every one of the house of Israel. The invitation is for all. But there will be a separation of the good and the bad.

The lost sheep

Matthew 18:11-14; Luke 15:3-7

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

As noted earlier, the lost sheep are the house of Israel. Yeshua came for them and to redeem them from the law of divorce through His death.

Lost sheep = House of Israel
Gone astray = Assimilated into the world
Shepherd = Yeshua

The unforgiving servant

Matthew 18:23-35

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

While God never divorced the house of Judah, He forgave them. He forgave the first son. Unfortunately, corruption during Yeshua's time led the leadership of the house of Judah (Jews) to not accept the sacrifice of Yeshua which released the house of Israel from the law of divorce.

King = God
First servant = House of Judah
Second servant = House of Israel

The two sons

Matthew 21:28-32

But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

The first son is the house of Israel who denied God at first and went about their own lives. Afterwards they repented and returned to God who forgave them through Yeshua's death. The second son is the house of Judah who agreed to do the Father's will, but the leadership were found corrupted during the time of Yeshua.

Two sons = Two houses (Judah & Israel)
First son = House of Israel
Second son = House of Judah

The good samaritan

Luke 10:30-37

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

The priests and Levites were too narrowly focused on the law that they forgot about mercy. Through the Samaritan's mercy, and despite the rejection of the priests and Levites (house of Judah), the man (house of Israel) was restored.

Man left for dead = House of Israel
Priest & Levite = House of Judah
Good Samaritan = Yeshua

The lost coin

Luke 15:8-9

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

The 10 coins represent the 10 tribes of the house of Israel. Even losing one of those tribes instills a deep desire in the Lord to find them and bring them back.

10 coins = 10 tribes of the house of Israel

The prodigal son

Luke 15:11-32

And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
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And he (the elder son) was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

After the younger son squandered his inheritance and assimilated into the world, he came back in repentance. Yeshua (fatted calf) was killed to provide the reunification of the two brothers (two houses). And even though the elder son (Judah, the Jews) was jealous, God reassures his rightful place as an inheritor.

Father = God
Younger son = House of Israel
Older son = House of Judah
Fatted calf = Yeshua

About this work

Mishneh Torah, Kings and Wars

The King Messiah will arise and re-establish the monarchy of David as it was in former times. He will build the Sanctuary and gather in the dispersed of Israel.

To explain Yeshua as the Messiah, many might begin in the New Testament. However, the apostles were able to justify Yeshua as the Messiah by way of the Tanakh only. To do this, one must be intimately familiar with the Tanakh. Yeshua is not simply a Christian Messiah, He is the Messiah and King of Israel. He has re-established the monarchy of David and unified the 12 tribes. He has gathered in the dispersed of Israel, the lost 10 tribes.

This timeline aligns the Messiah with a purpose that is accurate to Biblical history and prophecy, meets the expectations of the Jewish people (House of Judah), and establishes Yeshua as the redeemer of the Israelite Gentiles (House of Israel).

This work is meant to help unify the Jewish and Christian perspective of the Messiah, and to reveal the Messiah as the Jewish man, the Son of God, Yeshua.