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THE RESTORATION OF IGBO-JEWS TO THEIR PROPHETIC PURPOSE: IGBO-JEWS AS A FIRSTBORN NATION

THE RESTORATION OF IGBO-JEWS TO THEIR PROPHETIC PURPOSE: IGBO-JEWS AS A FIRSTBORN NATION New York[RR]New York–When God called Abraham, He was continuing His purpose of raising a firstborn seed which He started when He created Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden, with Eve. They lost the authority to operate as firstborn to […]

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THE RESTORATION OF IGBO-JEWS TO THEIR PROPHETIC PURPOSE: IGBO-JEWS AS A FIRSTBORN NATION

New York[RR]New York–When God called Abraham, He was continuing His purpose of raising a firstborn seed which He started when He created Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden, with Eve. They lost the authority to operate as firstborn to Satan when they submitted to his deception. God chose their offspring to continue His purpose of establishing a firstborn seed. It continued from
Enoch to Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. These all executed the priestly firstborn in their generations. Jacob had twelve sons through whom the Lord sought to establish a Priestly firstborn nation through whom He would bring the seed of the woman into the world, and to reach the whole Earth with His blessings.

During His confrontations with Pharaoh, King of Egypt through Moses, to release His people from Egyptian bondage, He said to Moses: Then you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn (Exodus 4: 22-23).

Pharaoh would not let God’s people go in spite of the nine plagues with which the Lord had afflicted them. His heart remained hard. The Lord God said to Moses: …yet I will bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether (Exodus 11:1).

This plague would be the killing of all the firstborn of Egypt. God would make a substitute for the lives of every Hebrew family. He commanded each family to slaughter a lamb without blemish, and apply the blood of those lambs on the door posts and lintels of their windows. This was pointing to the blood of Jesus that was going to be shed on the Cross of Calvary many years later, for the life of the world. They were also to make unleavened bread which also would represent the broken body of Jesus on the Cross which He gave for the world. He instructed them to pack their things for Egypt would thrust them out in a hurry. That night He gave them
favor before Egypt so that they plundered Egypt of their gold and silver. The angel of destruction moved throughout the land of Egypt, and slaughtered every firstborn of any house that was not covered by the blood of the lamb. Those were Egyptian families. The instruction to apply the blood of the lamb was only to Hebrew families. So, every family in Egypt lost her firstborn of animals and humans including Pharaoh’s firstborn. The presence of the Hebrews in Egypt had become a terror to Egyptians and so, they thrust them out of the land of Egypt in a hurry. God has rescued His firstborn with abundance of Egyptian goods through the redemptive power of the blood of lambs which was pointing to the redemptive power of the blood of Jesus. That day, as he slaughtered the Egyptian firstborns, He consecrated every Hebrew firstborn unto Himself.

They were redeemed by the blood of the lamb. He later said to Moses: Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal (Exodus 13:2); Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself (Numbers 8:16) Thus every firstborn of the Jewish families executed the Priestly firstborn in their families (Exodus 19: 22).They were a nation of Priests, a holy nation. This Priesthood was in accordance to the order of Melchizedek, the priest of God that met Abraham when he was returning from the war with five Kings in which he prevailed and rescued his nephew Lot and his family, and all that were taken from the people of Sodom. This nation of Priest however, failed God when they made and worshipped a golden calf in the wilderness. They corrupted the priesthood. When Moses came down from the Mountain wherein he was communing with God, he asked those who were on the side of God to come to his side, all the Levites joined him and also executed divine judgment against the offenders. Three thousand people were slaughtered that day. God was pleased by the Levites’ loyalty in executing his divine judgment upon the people irrespective of brother, neighbor or close friends. He chose their tribe in place of all the firstborn of the families of the Jews to perform the priestly function for the nation of Israel. They were to help Aaron the Chief priest and his sons in their priestly duties.

And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine (Exodus 3: 12) Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites are to be Mine. I am the Lord (Numbers 3: 45)

I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the tent meeting (Numbers 18:6). The firstborn of every family however, still belongs to the Lord. But each of them was to be
redeemed with money- five shekels for each- to be given to Aaron the Chief priest and his sons (Numbers 3: 40-51).

However the Priestly Firstborn of the Levites was corrupted by the sons of Eli, who the Bible described as sons of Belial. They greatly corrupted the Priesthood, and dishonored God by their evil deeds. Eli did not stop them in their acts. Therefore the Lord said: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house… And I will raise me up a faithful priest that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread (1 Samuel
2: 30-36).

As a result of the sins of the sons of Eli, the Levitical Priesthood seized as the Lord overthrew the house of Eli. The people of Israel lost war with the Philistines, the ark of God was taken and the two sons of Eli were killed as the Lord said through the boy, Samuel. Eli also died when he heard that the Ark of God was taken. Many years later, when David became the King of Israel, he brought back the ark of God into Jerusalem and established a Tabernacle for the Ark. Rather than the Moses Tabernacle which was divided by a curtain so that only Aaron and his sons have access to the holy of Holies, the curtain was divided and David established a twenty-hour praise/worship in the presence of God. David was thus a king, a Priest and a Prophet, by the order of Melshizedek which was pointing to the Priesthood of Christ the King, the Prophet and the Priest. The Lord God dwells on the praises of his people and so He dwelt in their midst as they worshipped Him day and night in His Tabernacle. The Lord greatly blessed David and his dynasty and he promised him that there would never fail him a man to sit upon his throne forever. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of David in the flesh that will rule upon the throne of David forever. The Church is the Body of Christ, and the people of God WHOM He purchased by His Blood are the Priests of God though Christ, and kings to rule with Him on Earth.

WHY DID GOD CHOSE THE JEWSAS HIS FIRSTBORN

The overall purpose for the call of Abraham and his seed was because God was looking for a firstborn nation, a servant nation; Thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend (Isaiah 41: 8). God was through Abraham, establishing a righteous nation, a Priestly nation that would serve Him as their only God. He was raising a righteous seed and Kingdom through whom all the seed of the earth shall be blessed. He chose Abraham and his offspring as his firstborn, to know Him. In Isaiah 43: 10, He said: ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after. God entered into covenant with Abraham and his seed, to know and understand Him intimately. This intimate knowing and understanding of God will cause them to
become His witnesses and light to the nations of the world. When God tried Abraham for twenty five years of waiting with unwavering faith for a Promised child, God said that He knew Abraham. Through Abraham’s walk with God as His friend, they had developed such intimacy with each other and trust that God could affirm that He knew Abraham, that he would command his seed in His ways. They trusted each other. God therefore chose Abraham and his seed to have intimacy with Him in such a way that the seed of Abraham would know and understand Him. He was married to them so that through this intimacy, he would reveal Himself to them in more personal way. By this heart knowledge of God, His people therefore would become His witnesses to the ends of the Earth. They were to bring the light of God to the Gentile nations.

This knowing was fulfilled through the Blood of Jesus Christ, which draws us closer to the throne of mercy. As His firstborn also, He blessed them abundantly and favored them above all nations of the world and would always stand to defend them from every satanic onslaught. As long as they obeyed him, He fought all their battles for them bringing them vast victories (See my book: God of War, Arise! Battles belong to the Lord).

They were a favored nation: He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of my eye (Zachariah 2: 7),for I am the Lord, the holy One of Israel, thy Savior: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
honorable and I have loved thee; therefore I will give men for thee, and people in exchange for your life. Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee from the West (Isaiah 3: 3-5).

Other nations would serve them, and they shall be above only and not beneath, lending unto many nations and never borrowing. God would curse anyone that cursed them, and bless anyone that blessed them. In Deuteronomy 28: 1-15, we see the list of the covenant blessings which His people inherited, and through the seed of the woman, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Gentile nations were engrafted unto the Lord and so became partakers of this covenant blessings
and the Lord’s inheritance.

David, the first King after the Lord’s heart of Israel served God in spirit and in truth. The Tabernacle in which he established as described above, continued with a twenty-four hour praise /worship unto the Lord, and the Lord God dwelt in their midst and blessed them greatly. His death ushered in Solomon, who upon marrying many foreign wives (contrary to the Lord’s command upon His people not to intermarry with foreigners) they came with their various gods into the land. Solomon made groves for their gods and so they misled him. His son, who became king in his place, would not heed to the voice of the people and so, the kingdom was divided.

Ten tribes went to Jeroboam who later brought in great idol worship into the land, thus greatly polluting the land, while two tribes (the tribe of Judah) stayed with Rehoboam, Solomon’s son). All the blessings of the Lord upon His people were conditioned upon obeying and walking in His statutes. When He was giving them those statutes, He said to Moses: thou shalt say to the house of Jacob and say to the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bare you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed,and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which ye shall speak unto the children of Israel (Exodus 19:3-6).

His people could not abide in the statutes He gave them, but started practicing the abominations of the people of the land which He drove out before them, and most of the subsequent kings walked in the footsteps of Jeroboam, who greatly misled the people into idol worship. This priestly Firstborn nation has failed God. After their years of continuous circle of destructions: repentance, deliverance and returning to the old pattern of rebelliousness and stubbornness, the land finally spued them out just as the Lord God warned them (Refer to my previous article, Calling Igbo-Jews to forsake Ahaijoku worship and return to our Chukwu Abiama (God of Abraham) and Restoration of Igbo-Jews to their Jewish origin: What needs to be done).

However, through the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord God accomplished His purpose of bringing His light to the people that sat in darkness, the Gentile nations (Isaiah 9:2) through the Jewish nation. The Gentile nations were therefore able to receive the word of God and salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s purpose for Israel continues. He scattered them all over the nations of the world because of his wrath, and caused them to suffer genocides in many nations. Yet, He promised to gather them and bring them back into their lands, and upon Mount Zion to worship and serve Him:

Therefore the days are coming, when it shall no longer be said: the Lord liveth who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, but the Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, and from all the lands from whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into the lands that I gave unto their fathers. Behold, I will send for many fishers…and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. For My eyes are on all their ways, they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes (Jeremiah 16: 14-17).

For lo, the days come, saith 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…for it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King, whom I will raise up unto them (Jeremiah 30: 3, 8).

IGBO-JEWS AS FIRSTBORN.

It was a speculation in the past that IGBOS were Jews, but from cultural proofs, divine revelations and some artifacts, the Lord has fulfilled his promise of sending fishermen to fish Israel out from under the rocks where they were scattered for His eyes have been upon His people wherever they were hidden. I have always heard it, that we were a Jewish tribe. The Lord has raised many people for this cause of restoring the Igbo-Jews to their Jewish roots, yet some people are not getting it right. God has a prophetic purpose in this rather than imbibing cultural norms of the Jewish people. Some however, have been working hard to bring the prophetic awareness of this to the Igbo race, and for the deliverance of the Igbos.

It never occurred to me that I would have anything to do with this until around my birthday this year, the Lord began to speak to me concerning this matter. My first article was posted on August 18th which was my birth date. From then, the Lord began to drop the message one by one into my ear as I sleep. Then, one day He said to me: Igbos are the firstborn nation. I made calls concerning it, to my surprise I was told the same that the whole world is waiting for Nigeria and Nigeria is waiting for IGBOS. Then one of the Pastors I called said to me that Morris Cerullo visited Nigeria some years ago and also said it that the prophetic purpose of the IGBOs is that they are a first born among nations. I heard that too while asleep, and I wanted to understand what this means.

I have taken time enumerate the meaning of the firstborn above. The Lord’s purpose and covenant for His covenant people is an everlasting covenant. He promised David that he … shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, that there should not be day and night in their season; then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne. I will multiply the seed of David my servant: Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them
(Jeremiah 33: 20-26).

In fulfilment to this He said:And it will come about in the last days that the mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, And the peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD And to the house of the God of Jacob, That He may teach us about His ways And that we may walk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth the law, Even the word of the LORD from Jerusalem (Micah 4: 1-2; Isaiah 2: 1-5).

At that time they will call Jerusalem, The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts (Jeremiah 3: 17) The Lord is raising the IGBO-JEWS as his firstborn nation to establish the Davidic dynasty. God shall raise a ruler on this dynasty who shall execute his righteous judgments. It is a throne of righteousness through whom the Lord shall execute His righteous judgment over all the Earth.

They will lead nations in righteousness, fulfilling the above prophecies. The pattern of this government will be like the Body of Christ, the tabernacle of David. Though the people of God sinned against the Lord and were scattered all over the world, but Christ through His death restored all things according to God’s original purpose. God’s covenant plan for the Jews have not ended, it abides even as the body of Christ is also beginning to discover their Jewish roots of Christianity which was stamped out by Roman ruler.

IGBO-Jews, as a firstborn nation is called unto separation unto the Lord. Firstborn belongs to the Lord, and are sanctified and consecrated unto Him for the fulfilling of His eternal purpose. we are a servant nation unto the king of Kings to carry out His Priestly function for the rest of the nations of the world.

One of the purposes of God in choosing Israel as His firstborn is so that they would know Him, and become His witnesses. In Isaiah 43: 10, He said: ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after. Like David, such a leader as a true Bride of Christ, will delight in abiding in Him, panting after Her lover and King, and desiring nothing but continually abiding in His presence. In knowing Him intimately, they will execute divine judgment and righteousness over the earth. Also, they were to know and understand Him as the only One and true God. Besides Him, there was no god formed, nether would there be after Him. This will be their witness of Him.

The tabernacle of David is a Tabernacle of intercessions and continuous Praise/Worship, the flow of Kingdom life. Laws shall go forth and true knowledge of God, the holy One of Israel and people will delight to know God, and to listen to Hs voice. We are to carry the touch, the mandate to enter the center stage as we begin to rebuild the tabernacle of David in the government and setting ourselves apart unto the Lord for His purpose this end time. We are to be a Holy nation, to know Him intimately and also carry that knowledge to the ends of the Earth.

We are favored and a peculiar treasure unto our God, as His chosen nation out of all the nations of the world. We are however, to forsake our idols: Ahiajoku, Amadioha, Earth goddess, land and sea gods and goddesses and return to the Lord with all our hearts and serve Him only. That is His one basic condition, and we are to execute justice and judgment for the oppressed. He said: Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil. Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. But if ye rebel and refuse, ye shall be devoured by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it (Isaiah 1: 16-20).

The Lord persuaded me to write on this topic of IGBO-Jews as a firstborn nation, and would not let me write on anything else until I write on this. It has taken me days trying to put this together. He wants this knowledge to go forth to His covenant people. We are therefore, to take on the word of God, begin to live like the true Jews: living by the word of God. David said in Psalm

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of the sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like the tree planted by the rivers of water whose leaves do not wither, whatever he does, prospers.

If we are going to enjoy the benefits of the firstborn among nations, to carry the touch of the Lord to other nations, to take our center stage as the Lord’s Priestly nation, we must forsake our idols, the very reason that brought our fathers into captivity, and continues to affect us. Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts,…and I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: and I will restore thy judges as at the first , and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward, thou shalt be called , the city of righteousness, the faithful city (Isiah 1: 25-27).

We don’t want it to come to the point where He will apply his judgment. It will be better for us to return now before He shakes us again. He asks; why should you be stricken again…the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment (Isaiah 1: 5-6. God does not want us to go through certain pains and agonies again, for we are still hurting. Yet, He said that if we still refuse to heed Him, we may experience another shaking which will bring revival and purging upon His people. We can do it now in peace, to put off our idols and images and return whole heartedly to Him rather
than letting him shake us into it.

The day of the Lord is terrible: For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up-and it shall be brought low-…the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day, But the idols He shall utterly abolish. They shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the Earth mightily. In that day, a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship to the
moles and bats to go into the clefts of the rock…(Isaiah 2: 12-21).

His shaking always brings heartbreaks and genuine repentance. That is also when people see the fruitlessness of their idols. May we embrace our prophetic purpose as His firstborn nation, a Priestly nation, to acknowledge and serve Him as our only One God, the True God; to rebuild the Tabernacle of David and bring all nations unto Mount Zion, the city of God for deliverance, to know the only One and True God and also, to possess their possessions, amen!

*My I am calling for Prophetic Conferences among the IGBO-Jews for the deliverance and the birthing of our Prophetic Destiny in this end time, even in Nigeria. Nigeria is shaking, and the enemy wants to stamp out Christianity at all costs, but we need to snatch our land back from the hand of the enemy and restore it back to God for the fulfilment of His original purpose. The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. The Kingdom is His, and He is the governor among the nations (Psalm 22: 28). I hope to be in Nigeria next year for some Prophetic conferences. Let me know if you will plan any in your state or end. We will make it in Jesus name, Amen!

Credit: Gloria Grace (Arch-Bishop)

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