From: Rabbi Moshe Joseph Koniuchowsky (ravmoshe@bellsouth.net)
To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: Dwelling Under the Tents of Shem

UNDER WHOSE TENTS
SHOULD WE DWELL?

By Rabbi Moshe Joseph Koniuchowsky

A MISSED PROPHECY!

Genesis chapter 9, verses 26 & 27, give the Bible
believer one of the most clear references in all of
Scripture to the true revealed will of Yahweh,
regarding exactly which customs and traditions the
body of Messiah must adopt. These verses are
among the greatest and yet the most neglected of all
Messianic prophecies in all of Scripture. Most of us
have no problem quoting Isaiah 53 or Isaiah 7:14 as
Messianic references to Yahshua, yet the devil has
blinded most of the Roman and Babylonian religous world into
quickly glossing over Genesis 9:26 & 27, or worse,
ignoring the text completely. It is amazing that when
Satan sets out to bury the Davar Yahweh, believers
receive a spirit of stupor. These verses never are
really studied in depth and then practically applied.
Your Arms To Israel will seek to place them before
you so that the light of truth can focus in on them.

In these verses Noah the prophet of Yahweh prayed
and prophesied all at once. He prayed that at some
future time and place, all the sons and daughters of
Japheth (Gentile nations) will join with Shem ( all
Israel ), and be obedient to the call to join with greater
Israel. It was Noah's mouth verbalizing the desires
and will of Yahweh, that Japheth would one day be
enlarged and blessed under the tents of Shem.

It is clear from verses Genesis 26 & 27 of Genesis 9, that the only
place that the sons of Japheth (Gentile nations) will
find truth and spiritual enrichment is under the tents of
Shem. In these fascinating pronouncements Noah
prophesied that the day would come through the Brit
Chadasha and through its mediator, Messiah
Yahshua, that Japheth will be enlarged physically,
materially and most important, spiritually, under the
dwellings of Yahweh of Hosts, which is synonymous
with the dwellings of Shem.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

That was and always has been the formula for the
acceptable offering up of the former Gentile (non- Israelite)
nations as a sweet smelling savor in the nostrils of
Yahweh- Elohim Of Yisrael. It is also interesting to
note that despite this Messianic pronouncement upon
earlier Gentile nations, the prophet Noah posed this
declaration in petitioner's form. In other words he
asked Yahweh to bring it to pass, even though it is
Yahweh's revealed will for this to come to pass.

In other words, through his spiritual sensitivity and
discernment, Noah sensed that despite Yahweh's
revealed will, something in the future would go astray.
Something bothered Noah about this Messianic
prophecy's ultimate fulfillment. This hesitancy led him
to declare the will of Yahweh as a prayer, knowing
that some circumstance, or some group of
circumstances would oppose it from being fulfilled
properly.

Genesis 10:5 states in very obvious terms that the
ones being called by Yahweh to live out their days
under the tents of Shem are the Gentile nations. This
verse tells us that the sons of Japheth would settle
the coastlands of the earth, or the areas farthest
away from Jerusalem around the globe.

These verses further imply that Japheth would be in
serious error and rebellion should he ever choose to
unilaterally remove themselves from the place of
Yahweh's calling and Yahweh's favor. As an
interesting footnote, notice that the Canaanites would
become slaves to both Shem and Japheth as long as
both of them remained faithful to the ways of Shem. If
either the future Israelites( Judah and Ephraim) or
future non-Israelite believers in Yahweh (Japheth),
departed from the dwellings of Shem, they would not
be able to enslave the Canaanites, rather the
Canaanites would enslave them. Historically this has
played out at times when the Israelites were engaged
in paganism and thus captured by various pagan
nations.

The Canaanites in these verses are not and never
have been a reference to black people in general, or
the demonic myth that their lot is perpetual slavery to
whites!. The Canaanites Yahweh speaks of here, are
the pagan nations both black and white, who reject
the Elohim of creation that Japheth and Shem both
are called to enjoy under the tents of Shem.

Zechariah 14:21, leaves no doubt that Canaanites
are not blacks but pagans, who will not be allowed in
the millennial temple of Messiah, because of their
uncircumcised hearts. Those who teach that these
verses are Yahweh's curse on black people, are
theologically ignorant, racially biased, deeply
saturated in sin. Unfortunately many sons of Japheth,
especially in the so-called exclusive white identity cults,
believe this lie. This lie was alive and well in the deep
south of the United States for many years before the
era of civil rights.

The question needs to be addressed head-on at this
point. If Gentiles and Israelites can only be enlarged
spiritually under the tents of Shem, or under the
things found in the future nation of Israel, then we
must take a closer look at what else is found under
the tents of Shem beside the Elohim Of the Israel.
You will find His Torah, His Shabbat (seventh day),
His laws of Kashrut and His appointed times
(Leviticus: 23). Noah reminds us through his
prophetic Messianic prayer, that only under the tents
of Shem can Yahweh's fullness be found. Yet,
apostate Roman and Babylonian based theology has often played the
harlot and has wrongly taught the world as well as the
redeemed, pagan theologies for nearly two thousand
years. Many in these religous systems have removed Messiah's followers
from Shem's tent, as well as removing Shem from his own tent and
forcibly moving Shem into the tent of Japheth, where
idolatry, heathen practices and many other ungodly
"isms," such as popery are found.

That is theological anti-shem-itism!! Christmas,
Easter, Sun-Day worship, Maryology , the modern
Eucharist celebration of transubstantiation, are all
designed to steal the hearts of Yahweh-fearers
everywhere, through this unlawful relocation of
Yahweh's people from one tent to another. (Noah feared this
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY, through the shifting of doctrinal tents)
Daniel 7:25 reminds us that the soon -to-come anti-messiah,
will reinforce Japheth's teachings that have sinfully
changed Yahweh's Torah and Yahweh's appointed
times and seasons! For this reason the anti-messiah
is referred to in holy canon as the man of
lawlessness.

Traditional Judaism has also become
sinful and fallen short of the glory of Yahweh in this
matter. Traditional Judaism has removed itself from
the Messiah of Shem, the final blood-sacrificial
atonement produced by the Elohim of Shem and the
New Covenant of Shem. Rabbinical laws as outlined in Talmud have in
many instances left the tents of Shem for the tents of
the rabbis and their fallacious teachings regarding the
dual nature of Torah. The rabbis have taken it upon
themselves and added the oral torah ("torah she b'al
peh") and actually elevated it above the Torah written
by the hand of Yahweh, revealed to His people on Mt.
Sinai. HaAdon Yahshua rebuked this self imposed
removal from the tents of Shem by the children of
Shem in Matthew 15:9, where He accuses the
leaders of Jewish-Israel of teaching the
commandments of mere men as if they were Torah.
They also have removed the Cohanim (priests) from
the seat of Moses and seated themselves upon it
without divine sanction! Therefore they do not now
speak for the Israelite nation. Traditional Judaism
needs as much teshuvah (repentance from ungodly
traditions) as does the so called historic church! This call to live
under the tents of Shem is for all people, Jews,
returning Ephraimites, or non-Israelites, who desire to
walk in obedience and faithfulness to Yahweh's
chosen and revealed center of spiritual enlargement. The tents of Shem
is where Yahweh has put His name and this tent goes anywhere Torah
truths are brought forth!

PLACE OF ENLARGEMENT

This enlargement of Jews, Ephraimites and Gerim
was to take place under the commonwealth or the
governmental jurisdiction of Israel and not Rome or Babylon.
Ephesians 2:9, 13-14, John 10:16, Isaiah 42:4 and
21, all make it abundantly plain and simple to
comprehend, that the plan of the ages was to gather
all people (including Ephraimites) from among the
nations and plant or replant them under the tents of
Shem to experience everlasting joy in unshakable truth. Yahshua
Himself reminded His talmidim that He would gather other
non-Jewish sheep and bring them into "this fold
meaning greater Israel, or the Israelite fold (John 10:16). It was
Messiah's will that Gentile sons of Japheth join
returning Ephraimites (returning Israel) and become one with
Jewish-Israel in these last days, not replace it, torture
it, belittle it, or ridicule it! It would be only under those
tents of Shem, where enrichment, nourishment,
abundance and obedience, could produce a Spirit and
fruit-filled life unto Yahweh! According to Genesis
49:10, Shiloh the "sent or anointed-one," will gather
all Ephraimite individuals along with individuals from
Gentile Japheth nations , to dwell between the Torah
honoring feet of the tribe of Judah! Instead, much of
the religous world has disobeyed Yahweh, by
putting Israel's offspring (Jew & Ephraimite) in
alliance with both Rome and Babylon and their syncretistic mixture of
of spiritual sianide.

Isaiah 42:4 also is a most fascinating piece of Scripture. Here we see
that the coastlands nations (including ten tribe Ephraim),
would not only wait for Messiah (Isaiah 42:1), but also
for the Torah that Moshiach was going to bring them.
Through Torah observance and discipleship, He will
gather the Gentiles (nations) and turn them from
spiritual Canaanites into the offspring of Shem by
dwelling in the righteous Torah-observant tents of
Shem. Needless to say, this means that all Japheth's righteouss
children will observe those things contained in Torah
such as Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh (New Moon
celebrations) and the Feasts Of Yahweh, throughout
the present age, into the millennial age and into
eternity itself. These ordinances of Torah are eternal.
In Zechariah 14:16-18, Japheth is ordered to
celebrate Succoth (Tabernacles), or choose to suffer
physical and spiritual famine! Isaiah 2:1-3 and Micah
4:1-3, both speak of Japheth's children who will travel
from across the globe to Jerusalem in the last days,
to learn Torah!

ONE TORAH FOR ALL

The Genesis 9 prophecy is reiterated by
Yahweh-Elohim elsewhere in Scripture. Numbers
15:15-16, states that Yahweh gives one Torah and
one set of customs to believing Israelites (both
houses) and believing non-Israelites. That's right!
Yahweh has called grafted-in non Israelites and
returning Ephraimites to obey and follow Israelite
customs because there is no such thing as a pagan
Torah, neither is there any room in Israel for pagan
customs that are forbidden in Scripture. Torah forbids
any type of uncleanness no matter how trivial man
may consider it in the Kingdom Of Yahweh. In First
Corinthians 11:2, Rav Shaul calls non-Jewish
Ephraimites and former Gentile sons of Japheth in Corinth, to hold
fast to Israelite traditions and customs (Torah not Talmud), since it
would be vain, self-defeating and spiritually non-profitable
for them to follow their former ignorant and idolatrous
customs, that led them astray in the first place (I
Corinthians 12:1).

Lest you think that this admonition is found only in the
Torah, check Acts 15:20-21, where the Ruach
Hakodesh, orders all Japheth's children along with
the Ephraimites returning (v19) with them who are saved, to
begin a Torah observant life by: keeping four basic
mitzvahs (commands) with which to start their renewed walk
with Yahweh. Then they are instructed to continue to
go to the traditional synagogues, to get further
grounding in elementary Torah instruction, since
Moses or Torah is preached in every city, every
Shabbat through the weekly Torah Parsha (portion).

Despite the fact that these unbelieving synagogues
rejected the Messiah and the New Covenant, the
Jewish elders at Jerusalem told the talmidim who had
been rescued from the nations (Israelites and Gerim),
that the traditional synagogue was still a good place
to get BASIC Torah training (NOT ONGOING MESSIANIC DISCIPLESHIP AND
GROWTH), since they were too busy and
too preoccupied with teaching the greater things of
Yahweh such as Yahshua's atoning blood and bodily
resurrection . If that doesn't shock you into believing
the case that dwelling under the tents of Shem is for
all returning Ephraimites along with all Japheth's righteouss
children, then nothing anyone ever tells you, will change your
thinking!

In Matthew 23:1-3,Yahshua tells all the disciples to
observe all things found in Torah (what Moshe said) that are biblical.
First Corinthians 5:7-8, reminds a predominately non
Jewish Israelite body of believers in Corinth, to keep
the Feast of Passover with pure hearts. In Romans
15:10 and Deuteronomy 32:43, Yahweh calls non
Israelites to join and rejoice with His people Israel, not for His
people Israel to rejoice in the bankruptcy of the often
pagan ways of Japheth! First Corinthians 7:19
instructs us that circumcision and uncircumcision are
nothing before Yahweh in the New Covenant. Race
and nationality or the tent of your origin or birth does not
impress Yahweh (Galatians 3:28 & 29). The tent of
your dwelling via your own choosing, does in fact make a world of
difference and is the ONLY thing that impresses Him, because
according to these verses, Torah observance or
"keeping the commandments of Yahweh", is for all His
children and is eternally essential to sonship! You
and I cannot escape Yahweh's call on our lives to be
obedient to Him by striving to keep and nurture all His
intrutions (Torot), all His statutes and all His commands.

The litmus test for love and obedience to Yahshua is
passed with flying colors, when His children dwell in
the tents of Shem and keep His commandments
(John 15:10). The individuals who know the truth, yet still choose to
dwell in the vile religous systems of Rome and Babylon, must while
there is still time, repent in sackcloth and ashes of paying homage to
other gods. False mighty-ones were the
cause for the destruction of ancient Babylonian
civilization and will again be the cause of the
destruction by fire of the Babylonian religous system,
that has enslaved born-again Israelites (killing and
persecuting Jews and binding Ephraimites to bible
truth and Israelite identity) in spiritual darkness for
2000 years. According to prophecy in Revelation
chapters 17-19, the Babylon system will be destroyed
by fire from Yahweh Almighty during the Day Of
Yahweh's Wrath. First Peter 4:17-18 soberly reminds
us that Yahweh's judgment for paganism and idolatry
will begin with the saved redeemed people of
Yahweh. Cleansing begins with us not the religous systems. The systems
that bound us to Japheth's tents, are destined for ultimate and total
destruction. Only repentant cleansed individuals, willing to relocate
their doctrinal and national tents, can escape this judgement
outlined in the book of Revelation. The people are salvagable! The
systems that bind them are not!!

YOUR NEW MESSIANIC ISRAEL LIFESTYLE
If you are a saved Israelite (Judah and Ephraim) or Ger who has become
Israel via relocation to Shem's tent, and are being awakened to
your former spiritual bondage then your lifestyle must reflect that
move away from Japheth's SUN DAY based systems of theology,
which housed that idolatry. Your Israelite roots and
the accompanying awareness that you really do
belong to the chosen people both physically and
spiritually, can be destroyed by lack of biblical
unction based in applying new knowledge you know have!(Hosea 4:6).

As Second Corinthians 6:17 says you need to come out from among them
(Japheths ways)and touch not the unclean thing. It isn't being
non-Semitic that makes these systems bad, unclean or dangerous. No,
not at all! It is however, their paganism and idolatry and
antinomianism that make their practices unacceptable
before Yahweh Of Hosts!

We must all take to heart the warnings of YAHWEH in
Jeremiah 10:1-5, as serious issues with Yahweh.
Believers in Yahweh are not allowed to copy, imitate
or emulate the ways of the pagan societies among
whom they dwell. Yes! That means that a Christmas
tree is not something to be laughed about. Many
Jewish believers have Christmas trees in their homes,
because someone told them that it was harmless.
Only by living under the tents of Japheth, would these
warnings be ridiculed instead of taken seriously.
Under the tents of Shem there are not supposed to
be Easter bunnies, Easter ham bakes, or women at
the Sun-Day school picnic selling pumpkins for
Halloween.

If these writings offend you, it is because you have
sadly become so unwittingly indoctrinated by idolatry and pagan
promiscuity, that the plainness of these truths is more to you,
than the pagan practices themselves. Well
pause for a moment and think how revolting it must
be to our Holy Father Yahweh, who forbids us to engage in this
debauchery and yet lovingly and gracefully puts up
with us, because of His great love for us. For the
PRESENT TIME [ONLY] mercy rejoices against judgment
(Yakkov 2:13)!

THE RUTH PRINCIPLE

The classical pattern for Israelites (Jewish Israel and
non Jewish Israel) dwelling within Shem and within
the ways of Shem, is found in the Book Of Ruth. Ruth
joined Yahweh's people and didn't start a new nation,
compete with or replace an existing one. She was
grafted into the established people of Yahweh. This
"Ruth Principal" was later elaborated upon by Rav
Shaul in Roman 11:17-21.Rav Shaul taught the same
"Ruth Principle" taught by Noah and by all the
prophets of Israel. In the modern ANTI-SHEMITE religous systems the
"Ruth Principle" has all but disappeared. Most
Christians, Messianic Jews and even most traditional
Jewish seminaries, don't have a clue about this
biblical principle.

While the proud Roman and Babylonian religous systems rightly proclaim
that "Your Elohim is my Elohim", they conveniently forget
Ruth's full understanding of Yahweh's calling, (by falsely
saying and acting like) by adding "nevertheless your people will not
become my people" and where you are buried in Jewish
cemeteries isn't good enough for us Spirit-filled holy
rollers.

Which makes one wonder what kind of spirit
these folks are truly filled with! Instead of following
Yahweh's plan, she proudly substitutes her own plan
and declares I rather desire to totally suppress and
replace you! If followed obediently the "Ruth
Principle" pertaining to true non Israelites and
returning Ephraim-Israel, will have the righteous redeemed children of
Japheth and Ephraim joining and rejoining the
Commonwealth of Israel. In simple lexicon this literally
means drinking the wealth of Israel and having those
same spiritual riches shared and held commonly.

JEWS ARE ONLY COMFORTABLE IN SHEM'S TENTS!

Only under the dwellings of Shem do we find Jew and non
Jew as one in Yahshua! One of the most striking
features of a modern Messianic Israelite assembly is
the oneness between Jews, Ephraimites and
Gentiles. We all are equal and celebrate Yahweh as
Israelites, with the lesser and former identifications as
Jew, Gentile, male, female, bond, or free, having
been superceded by the greater title of Israelite!

A close look at the dwellings of "religous Japheth", will often reveal
the absence of even a single born-again Jew in residence in that
worship service. Under the tents of Japheth, the Jew all but
disappears from the face of the professing religious
landscape and from the tapestry of the body of
Messiah. His uniqueness literally vanishes!
Revelation 14:12, brings this entire matter to a grand
conclusion. The redeemed faithful and patient saints
among the Jews, Ephraimites and non-Israelites, are
identified for us by Yochanan. They are those who
have come to faith in Moshiach and who by
obedience to the ways and commandments of Shem,
please Yahweh and overcome the world, the false
religous systems, the flesh and are willing to permanently dwell
in Shem's tents!!

Selah.

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