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HEBRAIC ROOTS TEACHER
Eddie Chumney
THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION
WHO / WHAT IS ZION ?
1)  Zion is the people of the God of Israel
2)  Zion is the land of Israel
The Torah goes forth from Zion
4)  Zion is the fulfullment of the covenant made with Abraham
5)  Zion is the end of the exile of Jacob
6)  Zion is the Messianic Era
7)  Zion is Yeshua redeeming and dwelling with His people
ZION IS THE PEOPLE OF YHVH
Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, You art my people.
ZION IS THE LAND OF ISRAEL
 Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes for it is nigh at hand;
THE TORAH
GOES FORTH FROM ZION
Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
YESHUA MAKES A COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
YESHUA MAKES A COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
YESHUA MAKES A COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
YESHUA MAKES A COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
BELIEVING THE COVENANT MADE WITH ABRAHAM IS THE COMFORT OF ZION
 Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to me you that follow after righteousness you that seek the LORD …
Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you …
Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion:
THE COMFORT OF ZION IS
THE END OF THE EXILE OF JACOB
Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock.
Jeremiah 31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion …
Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them …
ZION IS THE
END OF THE EXILE OF JACOB
Psalm 147:2 The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
YESHUA RETURNS WHEN THE EXILES OF ZION ARE GATHERED
 Psalm 102:13 You will arise and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come.
Psalm 102:16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
YESHUA DWELLS IN ZION
Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD that hides his face from the house of Jacob and I will look for him.
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts which dwells in mount Zion.
Joel 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion …
JACOB IS THE INHERITANCE
OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL
Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS THE HERITAGE OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Psalm 135:12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
THE TORAH IS THE INHERITANCE
OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL
 Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses commanded us a Torah even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
WHAT IS ZION ?
WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION ?
 The controversy of Zion is over the people of YHVH who follow Torah and believe that the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is an eternal inheritance of the seed of Abraham.
The Messiah fights for Zion.
ESAU WANTS TO MAKE THE
“MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL” HIS POSSESSION
Ezekiel 36:1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
Ezekiel 36:2 Thus says the Lord; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
Ezekiel 36:5 Therefore thus says the Lord; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
MOUNT SIER IS ESAU
Genesis 36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
ESAU IS THE ENEMY WHO
WANTS THE “MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL”
ZION IS AN OUTCAST
Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health [end of the exile of Jacob] unto you and I will heal you of your wounds [exile] says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
ZION IS DRIVEN OUT
IN A HOSTILE MANNER
Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health unto you and I will heal you of your wounds says the LORD; because they called <07121> you an Outcast <05080>  saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
7121 ar'q' qara' •  [rather identical with 07122 through the idea of accosting [to approach and speak to; often in a challenging or aggressive way] a person met];
THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH ARE REMOVED FROM THEIR BORDER
Joel 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold unto the Grecians that you might remove them far from their border.
THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION
BRINGS ABOUT JACOB’S TROUBLE
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health [end of the exile of Jacob] unto you and I will heal you of your wounds [exile] says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
ISRAEL AND JUDAH WILL RETURN TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL DURING JACOB’S TROUBLE
Jeremiah 30:3 For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
MAJOR EVENTS OF
THE ‘DAY OF THE LORD’
1)  Gaza will be forsaken
2)  The land of Israel gets divided (PLO state)
3)  Jerusalem gets divided (Capital of a PLO state)
4)  The judgment of the nations and the fall of Babylon
SABBATH IS THE
7TH DAY OF CREATION
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.
Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
7th DAY SABBATH OF CREATION FORESHADOWS THE MESSIANIC ERA
2 Peter 3:8 But beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
SABBATH IS THE 7TH DAY
Exodus 20:9 Six days shall you labour and do all your work:
Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:
7th DAY SABBATH = DAY OF THE LORD
Isaiah 58:13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD honourable …
7th DAY SABBATH = MESSIANIC ERA = DAY OF THE LORD = TRIBULATION
Isaiah 13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails:
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near and hastens greatly even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness
DAY OF THE LORD = JACOB’S TROUBLE
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
DAY OF THE LORD = GAZA FORSAKEN
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near and hastens greatly even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness
Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day and Ekron shall be rooted up.
DAY OF THE LORD 
LAND OF ISRAEL WILL BE DIVIDED
Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land.
ALL NATIONS WILL BE GATHERED AGAINST JERUSALEM
DURING THE DAY OF THE LORD
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD comes and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle.
THE JUDGMENT FOR FIGHTING AGAINST JERUSALEM IS NUCLEAR WARFARE
Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
DAY OF THE LORD IS
THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you says the LORD to save you: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered you …
THE NATIONS ARE JUDGED
OVER THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION
Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear and all that is therein; the world and all things that come forth of it.
Isaiah 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
Isaiah 34:8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
DAY OF THE LORD IS
THE FALL OF BABYLON
 Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Isaiah 13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
BABYLON MEANS ‘CONFUSION BY MIXING’
0894 lb,B' Babel
Babel or Babylon =
"confusion (by mixing)"
Genesis 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel <0894>; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
THERE IS A HISTORICAL
PHYSICAL LAND OF BABYLON
THERE IS A FINANCIAL BABYLON
THERE IS A RELIGIOUS BABYLON
THERE IS AN END-TIME
SPIRITUAL LAND OF BABYLON
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE USA AS
THE SPIRITUAL LAND OF BABYLON
BABYLON IS AN END-TIME NATION
Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last <0319> days.
Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost <0319> of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
0319 tyrIx]a; 'achariyth  AV - end 31, latter 12, last 7, hindermost 1  1b) latter time (prophetic  for future time) 1d) last, hindermost
BABYLON IS ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS
 Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
Jeremiah 51:13 O you that dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
BABYLON IS WORLD MILITARY POWER
Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, says the LORD.
BABYLON HAS DEFEATED MIGHTY KINGDOMS THROUGH WAR
Jeremiah 51:20 You art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
BABYLON DWELLS UPON MANY WATERS
 Jeremiah 51:13 O you that dwells upon many waters, abundant in treasures, you end is come and the measure of your covetousness.
BABYLON IS A MELTING POT OF NATIONS
Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
BABYLON DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT
SHE WILL EXPERIENCE JUDGMENT
Isaiah 47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah 47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwells carelessly, that says in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
A FIRE IS KINDLED IN
THE CITIES OF BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him.
BABYLON IS DESTROYED BY AN ASSEMBLY OF NATIONS
Jeremiah 50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
THE ENEMY ATTACK AGAINST BABYLON IS DEVESTATING
Jeremiah 50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD.
BABYLON IS DESTROYED
LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH
 Jeremiah 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
BABYLON WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED
Jeremiah 51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
THE WORLD IS ASTONISHED
AT THE FALL OF BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved and the cry is heard among the nations.
THE JUDE0-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE OF THE USA HAS BEEN DESTROYED
Jeremiah 50:11 Because ye were glad because ye rejoiced O ye destroyers of mine heritage because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass and bellow as bulls
BABYLON IS ‘CUT OFF’
IN THE TIME OF HARVEST
Jeremiah 50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest …
Matthew 13:39 … the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
BABYLON REFUSES TO REPENT
Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her …
MANY JEWS AND CHRISTIANS LIVE IN BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
YHVH’S PEOPLE IN BABYLON HAVE BEEN LOST SHEEP
Jeremiah 50:6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
YHVH’S PEOPLE FLEE BABYLON AND RETURN TO ISRAEL
 Jeremiah 50:16 … for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Jeremiah 51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
YHVH’S PEOPLE FLEE BABYLON AND ASK THE WAY TO ZION
Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
WHAT IS THE WAY TO ZION ?
THE WATCHMAN CRY
(LET US GO UP TO ZION)
Jeremiah 31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
Psalm 121:4 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
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