RebelLibertarian2,
First of all, I want to thank you for your questions, they have prompted me to consider how best to respond to you, and have forced me to think through how best to reply.
I should have been more explicit in what I wrote. I made assumptions that your understanding was more complete than it is.
You do not understand that just because someone calls themselves by a name does not mean that that name applies to them.
You do not understand that most, if not all of the "translations" of the Torah, prophets, and Psalms are misleading and harmful, deliberately so.
You do not understand that all religions are harmful, damaging, and causing destruction of your soul. This includes Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and so on. If it is a religion, it is harmful, destructive and leads away or blocks the way to Yah. Religion means “to bind”. That is what it does, it ties up, forces into conformity, removes the ability to choose and to exercise your free will.
You don't seem to understand that people lie.
And, most important of all you don't seem to understand that those who are not cut into the covenant that God offers are not Yahudim.
It is not a theory that the covenant has not been renewed, it is obvious. When the covenant is renewed, the Torah will be written within each and every beneficiary of the covenant. That has not happened, therefore the covenant has not been renewed. And yes in the "millenium" the Yahudim will be VERY different from those now in Israel; there will certainly be some who are there now that will be there then, but oh, yes, they will be different. Being cut into the covenant, accepted, adopted, empowered, and thoroughly cleaned up tends to do that to you.
Now as to some of the other things you wrote:
The labels people apply, even to themselves, are not accurate. That happens even when they are trying to be honest.
When it comes to relationship with Yah, those who call themselves "Jews" are really missing the point. They are following rabbinical Judaism, which is NOT in any way related to Torah observance.
Let me state this clearly and unambiguously: those who adhere to or practice rabbinical Judaism are not God's people. They may call themselves Jews, they may be descendants of Jacob, they may even know which of the twelve tribes they came from, but they do not know Yahowah, and He doesn't know them. They are not Torah “observant”.
The Talmud is NOT the Torah. The Sanhedrin does not represent Yah,
The Sanhedrin claiming to speak for Yahowah is like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claiming to speak for the United States. Didn't you know that the Sanhedrin condemned the Ma’aseyah to death for speaking Yahowah's name?
The Torah speaks about being released from slavery—man, you obviously haven't read it, you are taking someone's word for what you believe.
Oh, where to begin and where to go in this.
I don't want to demean you or condescend to you. I also had to learn, to think, to understand, to change my mind, to come to some conclusions regarding much of what I believed, had faith in, trusted. (And every day, it seems, I find I have had to change my mind about someone or something else, so I KNOW I haven't got all the answers, but I AM learning).
It appears that you are looking in the wrong places for your information.
If you want to know about Yah, you have to look at what He told us about Himself and what is important to Him. That place is the Torah.
Torah doesn't mean Law. Torah means instruction, guidance, direction, recommendation, advice. You know, what a loving father would give to his child.
God doesn't push (force) this on us and He doesn't just hand it all to us, He expects us to learn, to think about what we learn until we understand it, then to apply that understanding.
It isn't secret decoder ring thinking, it isn't just revealed to a select few, but it takes some effort on your part. That is the way that relationships are built. If it isn't worth your time to get to know God, it isn't worth His time to get to know you.
Most, and sometimes all, people operate in a gray fog of deception and incomplete and inaccurate information. This fog, confusing and contradictory, is also known as “babel”.
In the Torah God tells us to walk away from that confusion and contradiction, walk away from religion, politics, monetary schemes, military power, and family and societal traditions and to walk to Him in His Way.
So if God is telling us to walk away from religious, political, economic, and military power then He wouldn't be saying that He wants to give us military, economic, religious and political power, would He?
And no the Yahudim in the 1000 year time of shelters will not need to give people the option of opting out of their "rule". They nations will have it, they will just choose to grab on to Yahudim
(/vent on)
I am going to “vent” here, vent my anger at the “nice” religious people in the next few lines.
Do you know God's name? Do you know His Son's name? I didn't.
Do you know God invites you to meet with him seven times every year? I didn't.
Do you know the one prerequisite and four conditions of the covenant that He offers to you? I didn't.
Do you know what He will do on His part if we fulfill the prerequisite and conditions of the covenant?
I didn't.
Why didn't I know these things, these crucial, essential things?
Why hadn't I heard about these invitations? Because of religion.
I was religious, I had been “born again” and I was a “Fundamental Independent Baptist”.
(/sarcasm on)
I was so sure that Christianity was right, you just had to be more strict (fundamental) about it than all those heathen, slacking, backsliding Presbyterians and Methodists (don't they know that the King James Version is the “Inerrant, Infallible Word of God”!?), not crazy like those Primitive Baptists and Pentecostals, (what a deluded, pitiful bunch of “Holy Rollers”, need to slap some sense into those idiot snake-handlers).
And those deluded Roman Catholics they've got to be stupid, brainwashed, or just plain ignorant to ever think the pope had any authority, especially since they had four popes at one time, how do they know they didn't depose the wrong one? (I was born into a Roman Catholic family, and started studying for the priesthood, so yes, I can criticize them -- I know them because I was one.)
And those Greek and Russian Orthodox people—they don't even know how to make a cross.
(/sarcasm off)
So I didn't know that all of that “Christianity” is paganism, Babylonian paganism.
I didn't know that I had been deceived, fooled, been brainwashed myself.
And I cursed my children because of it. How?
I brought them up in the church, I “brought them up in the admonition of the Lord”.
Who is this “Lord”? I thought it was God, but He hates being called that.
Translate Lord to Hebrew and you get Ba'al. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Did you know that the cross is an ancient Babylonian pagan sign?
Did you know God doesn't want us to kneel, bow down, or prostrate ourselves to Him?
Did you know that the dying god being resurrected is as old as Babylon (Tammuz), old as Egypt (Osiris), old as ancient Greece (Dionysus), old as Rome (Bacchus)?
Did you know that “Christianity” is based upon a mixture of Greek philosophies?
Mankind has been fed this BS for quite a few millennium now, and religious, pharisaic Jews have been in on it too. Rabbi doesn't mean teacher, it means great one.
(/vent off)
In a more straightforward manner, it appears to me that you are relying on a translation such as the KJV for your understanding of the Torah. This is a mistake. The deliberate obfuscations of what God communicated make me quite angry and should make you angry. We have been lied to and cheated. You can't trust any of the translations on the market. So, you might think, what can we trust, what can we know if what we have is so corrupt?
You can get a head start and a leg up with some of this by looking at the translations that are in the Introduction to God, and a list of resources is given in the first section, but check out the translation for yourself, do the work, it is so much more interesting and useful that way, and the insights you gain are beyond precious.
The oldest known Hebrew manuscripts are from the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). They are available online.
No, there is no complete copy of every book in the Torah, prophets, and Psalms in the DSS.
No, not all the scrolls that were found were Torah, prophets, and Psalms.
And yes, that is a lot of work to do.
Building a relationship takes effort, takes time, comes at a price. But, it is more than worth the effort when the relationship is with Yahowah.
What it boils down to is this: you are going to have to look at this for yourself, no one can spoon-feed this to you, this is one of those things you have to do for yourself, and if I read you correctly-- you wouldn't trust it anyway.
God gave you a nesamah*, use it.
*nesamah-- the ability to understand and to make moral choices, a conscience.