From Stranger to Citizen: The Gentile / Goyim Identity 2026

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You’ve heard the word Gentiles used in sermons and Scripture—but have you ever been shown what it actually means according to the Bible? We invite you to peel back the layers of history to see that you, as a seeker from the nations, can be woven into the eternal fabric of the Covenants.  In this teaching we cast aside the confusion that has plagued the modern church for generations. In this video, you’ll learn how Scripture defines Gentiles, how this identity is used throughout the Bible, and why misunderstanding it has led to confusion in modern Christianity. You will gain a clear, scriptural understanding of what it truly means to be a "gentile". We walk you through the biblical framework so you can read the Bible with sharper eyes and a stronger foundation.  This teaching will help you unlearn assumptions and replace man-made theology with biblical definition. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about who the Gentiles really are.  Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and click the bell icon so you don't miss our next teaching!  #WhoAreTheGentiles #WhoAreGentiles #GentilesInTheBible #GentileExplained #BiblicalGentiles #gentile #goyim #GodHonestTruth  Video Chapters: 00:00 Teaching Introduction Video Start Teaching Outline Teaching Foundations ‘Gentile’ in the Tanakh Israel as ‘goy’? In Yeshua’s Own Words ‘Gentile’ in the Brit Chadasha Logic & Reasoning Summary  Resources from God Honest Truth: Get the full notes, drash slides, and transcript for this teaching: https://www.godhonesttruth.com/wp/2026/02/13/from-stranger-to-citizen-the-gentile-identity-live-02-13-2026/  Find more resources to help you in your walk of faith: [https://www.GodHonestTruth.com]  Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GodHonestTruth  Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/godhonesttruth  Social Media Links: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/connect-socially/  Music: TheFatRat - Kingdom Come Watch the official music video: https://tinyurl.com/tfrkingdomcome Listen to Kingdom Come: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/warriorsongs Follow TheFatRat: https://ffm.bio/thefatrat  —-Disclaimer: The information presented here is for documentary, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Any imitation or application of the content is done at your own risk. Neither the creators nor associated platforms shall be liable for any injury or damage resulting from such use. This content is freely accessible; please report any unauthorized attempts to charge. By viewing or flagging this content, you acknowledge and accept these terms.  Fair Use: Any inclusion of third-party audio/music, video, or images is used under Fair Use for commentary, parody, and educational or documentary purposes.  This video may contain content that is unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs.

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00:00:00words have meaning that's especially true when it comes to the reading and

00:00:06studying of the Bible and if you don't know what a word means you're going to

00:00:10be led astray and not even understand what you're reading in the Bible worse

00:00:14than that you have an incorrect understanding of what a word means

00:00:18you're gonna be led astray and down a wrong path that has happened to so many

00:00:24people regarding this one particular word Gentile in this teaching we're gonna

00:00:30go through the word Gentile and show you from Scripture and from the dictionaries

00:00:36and lexicons exactly what Gentile means so that you will know going forward in

00:00:42your reading and studying of Scripture and be able to more accurately discern

00:00:47what the word is trying to tell you all of this and more coming up in this

00:00:52teaching

00:01:11so this teaching or drosh is going to be all about Gentiles who they are words you

00:01:17know what does the word mean when we say the word Gentile what does scripture

00:01:21actually mean by the word Gentile as compared to what we mean nowadays when

00:01:26we say that word Gentile so this is a drosh all about Gentiles the Gentile

00:01:32identity from stranger to citizen you'll see where that headline or that title and

00:01:38subline comes from as we go through tonight's teaching now if you'd like more

00:01:43information than what we're able to present here in this particular teaching be

00:01:46sure to go to our website at www.godhonesttruth.com there you'll be able to

00:01:51find the article post for this particular episode that will have the on-demand

00:01:55video you also have the draw slides that you see here on your screen you'll have

00:02:00the notes that we took for this episode which has almost a hundred pages of

00:02:05information in that notes and you also have the transcript all right there on one

00:02:10one convenient article post one convenient web page and yeah there's a whole bunch

00:02:15more information than what we're presenting here this one is going this is

00:02:19already 51 slides it's going to be long there's lots of information in this

00:02:24presentation but there's even more in the notes way more probably double if not

00:02:30more so go check out the notes today or go down below in the description and we have

00:02:35provided a convenient link for you down there that'll take you directly to the article

00:02:39post on our website and that link should be down there in the description whether

00:02:43you're watching on a video platform or an audio podcasting platform now starting

00:02:48out let's outline what we're going to be going through tonight real quick just so

00:02:51you give a just give you a quick roadmap of what this teaching is going to sort of

00:02:57look like first off we're going to go over some foundational terminology some

00:03:01information that will kind of help set the stage and help you to better

00:03:05understand what we're talking about as we go forward now of course we're going to

00:03:10be backing everything up with a ton of scripture so if you're taking notes

00:03:15definitely make sure you've got your notes ready and you've exercised that hand

00:03:19but you don't get any cramps coming up we're going to look at the word Gentile as it

00:03:24appears in the Tanakh and how it is used in the Tanakh we're going to look at Israel

00:03:29and is Israel actually referred to as a Gentile in scripture well stay tuned we're

00:03:36going to get into that we're going to look at the word Gentile and the Brit

00:03:40Hadashah how it's used there we're going to look at Yeshua's own words when he is

00:03:45teaching or speaking or talking about stuff and in the words that he speaks and

00:03:50it mentions Gentiles how it is that he is referencing Gentiles there so you

00:03:54definitely don't want to miss that we're also going to finish up with some logic and

00:03:58reasoning thinking about well what is the modern understanding or definition

00:04:04that is common within church entity nowadays and how does that logically fit

00:04:09with what we find from scripture so that's going to be very eye-opening and it's

00:04:15going to be more of a thought experiment than anything else at that point and then

00:04:19finally we're going to wrap it up with a summary of everything that we've gone

00:04:23over in this particular presentation so let's start out with some teaching

00:04:28foundations and some how to say bedrock information and terminology for the drosh

00:04:36going forward here and first and foremost let's go over the word Jew what is a Jew

00:04:43well a lot of people think they know what Jew means but just to give it a

00:04:48definition the word Jew can mean one of three particularly different things it can be

00:04:54someone from the lineage of the tribe of Judah that's actually where the word really comes

00:04:59from that word Jew so someone from the lineage of the tribe of Judah someone from the lineage

00:05:05of the southern kingdom of Judea because remember when the nation of Israel split there was the

00:05:12northern kingdom and the southern kingdom and the southern kingdom was referred to as Judea

00:05:16so that was three tribes that was remaining there in that particular southern kingdom of Judea that was

00:05:24Levi Benjamin and Judah so it could be a term Jew could refer to someone from the southern kingdom

00:05:33also the third instance is could refer to someone of the Jewish faith now let's stop right here a moment

00:05:41let's kind of hash this out real quick because this really gets confusing a lot of times people talk

00:05:49and use the word Jew as if it went all the way back to the beginning with Adam and Eve

00:05:53but that's false Judaism the religion the faith of Judaism did not go back that far

00:05:59it only goes back to the first century during the time of Yeshua

00:06:05how is that well the reason is back in the Tanakh we see and even in the book of Genesis in the very

00:06:12first three four chapters we get messianic prophecies about this coming Messiah and it's all throughout

00:06:19the Tanakh these prophecies about the Messiah Moses tells us that Yahweh will raise up a prophet like me

00:06:27right all sorts of different things so there's talk about this coming Messiah and we know that Yeshua

00:06:34is that foretold Messiah from the Tanakh in that sense and with that understanding we know that

00:06:41the entire set of scriptures and the lineage all the way from creation was about Messiah and therefore

00:06:47is an entire messianic or Christian history not a Jewish one Judaism has obviously denies the real

00:06:57Messiah and that didn't start until the first century when the Messiah actually came and there was that

00:07:03group of people that group of Judeans who rejected the true Messiah and that is the starting point

00:07:10for Judaism as we know it today and the all-encompassing Judaism too not just the Orthodox but also the

00:07:18Reformed and the Karate etc etc they all reject the true Messiah so the religion or the faith of Judaism

00:07:26did not start until the first century so no and that's knock those back then were not of the Jewish faith it might have been

00:07:34of the tribe of Judah or the southern kingdom of Judea but they were not of the Jewish faith they were all Christians or

00:07:42messianics even way back then in the Tanakh they were looking forward to the actual true Messiah but that's what the term Jew

00:07:50actually means means it means someone from the lineage of the tribe of Judah someone from the lineage from the southern kingdom of

00:07:56Judea or someone of the Jewish faith now unfortunately people tend to conflate these things and incorrectly use that term and

00:08:07we'll try to point it out as we read various dictionary or website entries and they get it wrong and they use the term Jew or the

00:08:16Hebrew people or the Hebrew people or the people in the Tanakh and we'll try to point that out as we go forward but just know that

00:08:23sometimes it does get misused and you've got really got to understand the context to understand what they're actually

00:08:30referring to when they say the term Jew now moving on now that we know what the term Jew actually means we can now put our

00:08:40thinking processes to work and we now know and understand why it is that Adam

00:08:46himself was not a Jew Noah was not a Jew Abraham was not a Jew Abraham is never not one single instance in

00:08:56scripture ever referred to as a Jew Abraham is the first one referred to as a Hebrew yes but not a Jew because all

00:09:09all Jews are Hebrews all ethnic Jews there are genetic Jews they are Hebrew no doubt but not all

00:09:17Hebrews are Jews some Hebrews are Levites some Hebrews are Benjamites etc etc so you get that all Jews are

00:09:27Hebrews but not all Hebrews are Jews so Abraham he might have been the first Hebrew but he was not a Jew

00:09:34Jew Isaac was not a Jew

00:09:36Isaac was not a Jew Jacob was not a Jew and finally Moses was not a Jew he was actually from the tribe of Levi

00:09:44so Moses was a Levite not a Jew etc etc etc etc you understand the term now so you can go through and you can easily

00:09:54easily figure out if someone you're reading about in scripture is actually a Jew or not in which sense of that term they

00:10:02they actually belong to if the term Jew can be applied to them so that's a big to do about one particular

00:10:10word but I wanted to correct that because there's a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to that

00:10:16particular word moving on let's look at the word exegesis now exegesis is a word that means from

00:10:24Britannica.com quote exegesis the critical interpretation of the biblical text to discover

00:10:30its intended meaning end quote and from logos.com quote simply put exegesis is not about discovering what

00:10:38we think a text means or want it to mean but what the biblical author meant it's concerned with

00:10:44intentionality what the author intended his original readers to understand end quote so exegesis is when you read and

00:10:52study the scriptures and draw out what the bible is actually telling you you're learning from the bible

00:11:00that is exegesis that's the kind of process we should be using we should be using exegetical processes to learn

00:11:08what the bible wants us to learn the bible should change us we should not change the bible

00:11:14now when people try to change the bible that is a process called eisegesis and from edam online quote

00:11:22eisegesis is the reading of one's own ideas into scripture from greek ice meaning in or into plus the ending

00:11:30from exegesis end quote and from logos.com quote x means to take out of while ice means into so quite simply

00:11:40exegesis means digging into the text to pull out the meaning while its opposite eisegesis reads

00:11:46meaning into a text that isn't there end quote so hopefully you understand the difference now

00:11:52with eisegesis you're taking your own beliefs your own presuppositions and you're forcing them back into

00:11:58the text to try and make it say what you want it to say and that leads to all sorts of errors

00:12:04errors so exegesis is learning what the bible wants you to learn eisegesis is trying to force your own

00:12:12ideas into the bible the bible should change us we shouldn't try to change the bible that's the

00:12:18difference and when it comes to the word gentile this is definitely a lot of times a an exercise of

00:12:25eisegesis they people within churchianity nowadays they take their own presuppositions their own

00:12:31tradition of what they think gentile actually means and they try to force it back into scripture

00:12:39and that's led to a lot of errors and unfortunately a lot of people nowadays they think that gentile

00:12:44means someone other than jew whether that be of the jewish ethnicity or especially of the jewish religion

00:12:51so there's jews and then there's everybody else and of course everybody else is a gentile and that's

00:12:58okay we should be gentiles we can't change it etc etc but is that true well hold on have your notes

00:13:06ready because we're going to get into all of that coming up here in just a minute but that is what

00:13:11exegesis and eisegesis is now let's look at a super nerdy term real quick that goes along with this

00:13:18particular study and this isn't you don't have to remember this this is just for your perusal for your

00:13:25notes for your understanding if you want to be super nerdy like i am anyways this is the word exonym

00:13:32and an exonym is a name used for a people group by outsiders as opposed to the name the group uses

00:13:39for itself here is well actually let's go over some more definitions anyways the opposite word endonym is

00:13:47the self designation that's what we call ourselves exonym like we just said is the outsider designation

00:13:54that's what others call us or what we call others other group of other people some examples german is

00:14:01an exonym like here in america we would call people from germany as germans but germans wouldn't call

00:14:08themselves germans they would call themselves george that would be the indonym that's what germans call

00:14:14themselves they call themselves george greek is an exonym that's what we call people from greece but people

00:14:22from greece would call themselves helens or helenets or however you pronounce that do you get the

00:14:28difference there it's what one group calls an outside group that's what an exonym is in academic

00:14:35historical and biblical discussions exonym is the term to use when the emphasis is not your own people

00:14:42group hopefully you've already kind of discerned what we mean by this exonym is going to be our word of

00:14:50of the night and that's going to be gentile that's what we believers call everyone else

00:14:57gentile stay tuned we're going to back that up moving on this is about goyim and we're going to look

00:15:05at goyim a lot here coming up in the tanakh section but anyways from biblehub.com quote hebrews usually in

00:15:13plural goyim meaning in general all nations except the jews in course of time as the jews began more

00:15:20and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges it acquired unpleasant associations

00:15:25and was used as a term of contempt end quote if you've ever been around other or i've been around

00:15:32a group of jews and i do this all the time on uh online forums stuff like that they'll refer to anyone who

00:15:41is not an ethnic jew or someone who is not of the jewish faith as a goy or the goyim

00:15:48boy is the singular goyim is the plural and it's used as a derogatory term a lot of times nowadays

00:15:57even in scripture we'll show you in this minute even in scripture it's used as a derogatory term

00:16:01as well in a lot of cases too but just know if some you're talking online or you're talking in person to

00:16:09a jew or whatnot and they refer to you as a goy or one of the goyim a lot of times it's probably

00:16:16going to be in a derogatory sense but again it's all in context so take everything into context

00:16:23but moving on the greek word sorry let me back up real quick goyim or goy is going to be translated a

00:16:30lot of times into the word that we know of nowadays as gentile or nations or some other terms we'll get

00:16:36into in just a minute that is the hebrew word that's translated a lot of times into gentile but

00:16:41the greek word that we're going to look at when we get into the brit hadashah the greek word is going

00:16:47to be ethnos and from biblestudytools.com quote the greek word most often translated to gentile is

00:16:54ethnos this word means nations or people in the bible when this word is used it is not describing one

00:17:01nation or ethnic group rather the term gentile refers to anyone who is not of jewish descent

00:17:08gentile would also broadly describe those who do not believe in god end quote

00:17:14now here is that conflation i was telling you about earlier where it says that rather the term

00:17:19gentile refers to anyone who is not of jewish descent here they're actually the way i'm taking

00:17:24in context as meaning anyone that is not of hebrew descent jewish descent is incorrect hebrew descent

00:17:32or hebraic descent that would be the more correct term going on looking at gentile the definition from

00:17:40merriam webster quote first sense number one often gentile a person of a non-jewish nation or of non-jewish

00:17:48faith number two in second sense heathen number three often gentile one who is not a member of

00:17:56the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints end quote and unfortunately that's true as well you

00:18:01talk to various uh people within the mormon church or the latter-day saint church whatever you don't call

00:18:07it and they refer to people who are not mormons as gentiles so again that's the exonym that's used

00:18:15used for people uh by people in the mormon church who are of people who are not in the mormon church

00:18:23i'm getting tongue tied there are other groups that do this as well if you've ever learned anything

00:18:28about the amish the amish refer to everyone who is not amish as the english so different groups have

00:18:37different exonyms for outside people groups when it comes to the bible if you want to say it in

00:18:46you won't say it in hebrew you would say goi or goyim meaning that would mean someone who is not of

00:18:52the people of yahweh we translate that into our word a lot of times as the word gentile or heathen

00:19:00or pagan or nations sometimes and also the greek word is going to be ethnos which we again translate into

00:19:09the english word gentile or heathen or pagan or nations etc now one of the best explanations for

00:19:17the word gentile comes from the notes in the scriptures 2009 translation and it reads here

00:19:24quote in hebrew and in greek the word literally means nations israel is a nation but is not numbered

00:19:31among the nations it is for this reason that israel is rather referred to as a people whereas the word

00:19:38nations are used for those outside of covenant with yahweh in scripture the word nations has the meaning

00:19:44of non-israeli or non-yehudim in most cases in a few instances it means many or all nations including

00:19:52israel the true believer is repeatedly admonished not to learn the way of the gentile therefore those who

00:19:59are gentiles but came to belief who are grafted in among israel simply have to unlearn their old

00:20:06gentile ways and come to the light of zion and walk in the light of the renewed yerushalayim they

00:20:13shall serve yahweh they shall love the name of yahweh they shall no longer defile the sabbath and they

00:20:18shall hold fast the covenant of yahweh end quote and that is beautifully put from the editors of the

00:20:27scriptures 2009 translation but once again as we say here just about every single episode if not

00:20:36every other episode all of our doctrine all of our faith the things that we should believe

00:20:41should come from scripture not from any pope or priest or cardinal or preacher or reverend or

00:20:48anything like that it shouldn't even come from notes in a translation or a lexicon we should always

00:20:53get it from scripture with that thought let's go ahead and look at the word gentile in the tanakh

00:21:01and what that is now what we referenced earlier is this word gentile in english comes from the hebrew

00:21:07word goy that is the singular and the plural is goyim and we'll see both those instances coming up as we

00:21:13go through this anyways the outline of biblical usage from blue letter bible.org goy i'm sorry this is

00:21:21strong's h1471 again h1471 goy and the outline of biblical usage from blue letter bible.org

00:21:30it says here the it's translated as nation or people nation or people usually of non-hebrew

00:21:36people of descendants of abraham of israel of swarms of locusts other animals

00:21:42and as a proper proper masculine noun goyim meaning nations in the plural the king james translates

00:21:50strong's h1471 in the following manner as nation 374 times heathen 143 times gentiles 30 times

00:22:03so you can see this as we go through this this hebrew word and then the subsequent greek word that we get

00:22:10into all translated as gentile that meaning behind all these words is the same the general meaning behind

00:22:18these words is going to be the meaning of someone who is not in covenant with yahweh someone who is

00:22:25an unbeliever a lot of times they're pagans they're polytheistic but they don't have to be it's just

00:22:31someone who is not in covenant is not a believer who is not one of the children or people of yahweh

00:22:40and you'll see that as we go through this there's only a few rare exceptions and we'll get into that as

00:22:45well but most of the time it means someone who is an unbeliever who is not saved who's not a member

00:22:50of the people of yahweh when i look at the strong's definition for goy and strong's has goy defined

00:22:58as a foreign nation a gentile a troop of animals or a flight of locusts gentile heathen nation people

00:23:05from brown driver briggs pretty much the same thing nation people descendants of abraham definitely of

00:23:10israel of non-hebrew peoples figurative a swarm of locusts from jacenus's hebrew lexicon

00:23:16defines goy as a people a confluence of men the word is general and used of the nations at large

00:23:22and also which should not have been doubted by some interpreters of the israelites

00:23:28especially is used of the other nations besides israel often with the added notion of being foes and

00:23:34barbarians or of being profane persons strangers to the root true religion i.e gentile poetically

00:23:41applied to herds and troops of animals from jasrael's dictionary of the targums crowd people nation

00:23:47gentiles gentile idolater etc etc from klein's dictionary has goy defined as nation people gentile

00:23:56and irreligious jew etc etc and again that this is a jewish dictionary so they're defining

00:24:03jew as meaning someone of hebrew descent so understand that as well and finally from the

00:24:10hebrew and aramaic lexicon of the old testament and it defines goy as gang people whole population

00:24:16of a territory rather or dv rather stresses the blood relationship often hardly different nation

00:24:23a single nation often the pagan peoples as opposed to israel the heathen mankind people persons of

00:24:29animals of mosquitoes of birds etc etc so that is your lexicographical or your lexicon definitions of

00:24:37the hebrew word goy that's commonly translated as gentile where we get our word gentile from especially

00:24:44in the uh tanakh and once again for i cut these entries down a whole bunch and if you want to see

00:24:51more of these particular entries for the dictionaries and the lexicons go check out the notes on our

00:24:58website now as we get into scripture one of the biggest things that we see when it comes to the word

00:25:04gentile is time and time and time and time again scripture tells us do not do like those gentiles

00:25:14don't believe me pay attention here we go leviticus chapter 18 verses 24 through 30 do not defile yourselves

00:25:24with all these for by all these the nations are defiled which i am driving out before you thus the

00:25:30land became defiled therefore i punished it for its crookedness but you you shall guard my laws and my

00:25:37right rulings and not do any of these abominations the native nor stranger who sojourns among you because

00:25:44the men of the land who are before you have done all these abominations and thus the land became

00:25:49defiled for whoever does any of these abominations those beings who do them shall be cut off from

00:25:55among their people and you shall guard my charge so as not to do any of these abominable laws which

00:26:02were done before you so as not to defile yourselves by them i am yahweh your elohim now notice here what it

00:26:10says it says do not do as the nations do because they were defiled by these things and before verse

00:26:1824 it actually listed out some of those things that we'll get to here coming up but notice here in the

00:26:24scriptures 2009 translation the one that we use here at god honest truth it translates the word goyim as

00:26:32nations uh most of the time but other translations translate it differently a lot of times they will

00:26:39translate it as pagan or heathen or gentile as you see here on your screen one particular translation

00:26:47even transliterates the word goyim and for instance in english it says we're in all these the goyim

00:26:55fowl whom i sent away from your face and other translations use the word heathen pagan etc etc

00:27:00so it's all the same thing boy gentile pagan heathen whatever they're it's all the same thing

00:27:10as someone who is outside of covenant with yahweh someone who is not one of the people of yahweh and

00:27:17here this is just one among many many many and the it's not where it says do not do the ways of the

00:27:26gentile because they are defiled by the what they do and the land spits them out because of what they

00:27:33do well what is it they do well in scripture here in leviticus 18 it actually lists out the things they

00:27:38did before it gets down here to verse 24 now what are some of the things that it lists out that these

00:27:44gentiles did that we should not be doing well some of the things that it's talking about

00:27:49is in verse 60 i'm sorry verses 6 through 17 it's talking about various forms of incest that the

00:27:57gentiles were doing verse 18 it talks about permanently vexing your wife that's something

00:28:04the gentiles were doing verse 19 talks about relations with a menstruating woman

00:28:09gentiles were doing that verse 20 it talks about adultery in verse 21a it talks about sacrificing

00:28:16children to pagan gods one particular pagan god in particular verse 21b it's talking about profaning

00:28:23the name of yahweh then in verse 22 it talks about homosexuality that the gentiles were participating in

00:28:32look back at the story of um sodom and gomorrah and finally in verse 23 leading up to verse 24

00:28:41in verse 23 it's talking about the gentiles partaking in bestiality and so i'll stop right

00:28:48there for just a moment and kind of go on this particular point here in leviticus chapter 18

00:28:54it's talking about all these things the gentiles did and with the modern definition especially within

00:28:58mainstream churchianity it gets all sorts of screwed up and this is some of the error that is present

00:29:05within the mainstream christian church nowadays because they say that there is jew and gentile

00:29:12and that everyone nowadays if you're not a jew then you're a gentile so they're saying that everyone

00:29:17who is a baptist or catholic or methodist presbyterian lutheran episcopalian anglican

00:29:24etc etc they're all gentiles and therefore they're not bound by that whole uh law stuff all that old

00:29:32testament stuff they don't have to do all that stuff it's done away with well number one they

00:29:38think that the law the torah was not applicable to gentiles ever it was only applicable to the people

00:29:47of israel and only for a certain time until quote unquote jesus done away with it well number two they

00:29:56also say that jesus came to free us from the law okay well if we're gentiles and the law never

00:30:02applied to us to begin with and how were we freed from something that was was never applied to us

00:30:09that makes no sense well they don't study their bibles and they don't understand what

00:30:13a gentile actually is and that's the purpose of this particular episode also they try to use this

00:30:21distinction between jew and gentile saying that they are gentiles and they say they're a gentile christian

00:30:26they're a saved gentile which is an oxymoron to try and justify their doing of things that are

00:30:33prohibited by scripture now i'm not talking about some of these things on your screen right here

00:30:39what they're generally talking about is the practice of paganism that has a jesus sticker on it nowadays

00:30:45things like sunday sabbath christmas easter etc etc they're saying oh we're gentiles so we can do

00:30:53those gentile things but is that really true well number one no it's not true even for the things i

00:31:00mentioned but also look here at the things that the gentiles do that the tanakh was listing out

00:31:06feastiality incest relations with menstruating women adultery profaning the name of yahweh etc etc etc

00:31:15these are the gentile things that scripture says that gentiles do and that we as believers as people of

00:31:21yahweh should not do another sentiment that comes along a lot of times within mainstream churchianity

00:31:28is that some people it's all over the place but some people will say

00:31:34that the law the torah was done away with except for you know the civil stuff and then there's moral

00:31:42stuff moral stuff is still applicable but the civil stuff that's all been done away with all that

00:31:46ceremonial stuff where's that distinction in scripture there isn't one so when someone says

00:31:53you know the moral law or the civil law ceremonial law they're making that up and it's all arbitrary

00:32:01that by themselves there's no scripture that says here are the moral law and there then there's no

00:32:08scripture that says here are the civil laws no it's all just one law it's all just one torah one bible

00:32:16and one more point before we move on there's other groups within mainstream churchianity that say that

00:32:23well only those things that are restated within the aka new testament only things that are restated

00:32:30are applicable nowadays everything else is permitted and okay to do well again they don't know what

00:32:39they're talking about because they haven't studied scripture or else they would know that things like

00:32:44incest and bestiality are not reiterated in the new testament in the brit hadashah

00:32:52what they're saying is that bestiality is okay the homosexual i'm sorry that incest is okay

00:32:57and there's other things too that's just two big ones right there so again they're contradicting

00:33:03their own claim to the faith that they claim to have it's it's mind-boggling when you get into this

00:33:10whole messianic way of thinking and you start understanding that the entire bible is for us

00:33:16even today it always has been you start having that kind of mindset you start studying and learning

00:33:21the entire bible you start learning the torah the different parts of the torah

00:33:27the various species and stuff like that it's a beautiful thing and it opens up your mind and

00:33:31the rest of scripture really just pops out and comes alive but these people are being held back

00:33:37it's like scripture says they have a veil in front of their face they can't understand a lot of what

00:33:42scripture actually means because they have all these misunderstandings that have come down through

00:33:48tradition but sorry i'm getting on the soapbox here but yeah this is in scripture we're told that there

00:33:56are people of yahweh and then there's gentiles and scripture tells us do not learn the way of the

00:34:03gentiles and do not do the way of the gentiles again we look at some other passages here is

00:34:12deuteronomy chapter 12 verses 29 to 31 when yahweh your elohim does cut off from before you the nations

00:34:20which you go to dispossess and you dispossess them and dwell in their land guard yourself that you are

00:34:26not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you and that you do not inquire about

00:34:31their mighty ones saying how did these nations serve their mighty ones and let me do so too do not do

00:34:38so to yahweh your elohim for every abomination which yahweh hates they have done to their mighty

00:34:44ones for they even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their mighty ones or burn

00:34:49their daughters and sons in the fire to their gods again child sacrifice is something that gentiles do

00:34:56that's a gentile practice and we're told not to do that we're told not to do what the gentiles do

00:35:03all over the place here is just another example and again let's stack it up here is some more

00:35:11examples from scripture deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 9 when you come into the land which yahweh your

00:35:16elohim has given you do not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations do not learn

00:35:22to do according to the abominations of those gentiles isaiah chapter 34 verse 2 the displeasure of yahweh is

00:35:31against all the nations all the gentile and his wrath against all their divisions he shall put them

00:35:38under the ban he shall give them over to the slaughter and finally one more this comes from

00:35:44jeremiah chapter 10 verse 2 and this is a famous passage especially around the time of christmas but

00:35:50let's get off the whole christmas thing for just a minute and look at it just how it relates to us and

00:35:56gentiles in jeremiah chapter 10 verse 2 it says here thus said yahweh do not learn the way of the

00:36:06nations do not learn the way of the gentile do not learn the way of the heathen do not learn the way

00:36:12of the pagans do not learn the way of the goyim and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens for the

00:36:19nations are awed by them once again we're told do not learn the ways of the gentile and this is

00:36:31there's we presented a bunch of you right here it's all been in rapid succession but there's a

00:36:35bunch more it's all over the tanakh says do not be like the gentile the gentiles can come in they can

00:36:44change their ways but we are not to go after them and change our ways into those pagan gentile heathen

00:36:50way and we can get off on a tangent explaining how various people that were outside of israel

00:36:57or outside of covenant came into covenant uh people such as ruth people such as rahab the harlot

00:37:05etc etc etc so even back in the snog there was a way to be grafted in and lots of people did do that we

00:37:12look at the exodus from israel i'm sorry the exodus from egypt it talks about the hebrews or israel

00:37:18coming out of egypt with a mixed multitude what does that mean that means people who were not

00:37:24israeli people who were not hebrew so even the exodus from egypt even at the foot of mount sinai with

00:37:31the giving of the torah with the giving of the ten commandments there was a mixed multitude it wasn't

00:37:37just hebrews it was a bunch of different people even then and what did they say at the foot of

00:37:43the mountain whatever you say yahweh we will do all of them they were all the people of yahweh even

00:37:53though they weren't all the same blood they weren't all hebrews so yeah that's let's not get off on a

00:37:59tangent so that is the word goy or goyim and the vast majority of time when the word goy or goyim is

00:38:08used it's generally used of a people group that is not in covenant with yahweh people who are pagan

00:38:17but don't have to be pagan they can be atheist i guess so that's how goy or goyim is generally used

00:38:24when it is used in the tanakh and that's the word that we get our word gentile or is translated into

00:38:30the word gentile however there are a few rare instances where the nation of israel or the israelis

00:38:40are referred to as goy here in genesis chapter 12 verse 2 this is yahweh speaking to abram

00:38:48he says here and i shall make you a great nation and bless you and make your name great and you shall

00:38:56be a blessing here it is using the word goy now the vast majority of time when this word goy is

00:39:07referring to people outside of covenant with yahweh it's in the plural goyim but generally when it's

00:39:14referring to israel it's used in the singular i did not have time to track down the significance of

00:39:21that but just take note as you go through here put that in your notes and look for it when you go

00:39:27through your own studies but when the word goy and the very few rare instances that goy is used of

00:39:34israel it's always used in the um or it's generally used in the singular not the plural plural is used for

00:39:42people outside of israel and here in the ecb translation actually has the word goyim again

00:39:49trying to transliterate the hebrew word but if you'll look from the westminster leningrad codex if you can

00:39:55understand hebrew i'll put it up there for you a second word right there the goy that's in that's in

00:40:03the singular that lamed is a preposition is not actually part of the main word but goy that is the

00:40:10singular goyim is the plural another instance where israel is referred to as goy this comes from

00:40:20genesis chapter 18 verse 18 since abraham is certainly going to become a great and mighty

00:40:26nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him and here that first instance where it

00:40:35has nation in the singular that is the word goy and again it's referring to the israel the hebrews

00:40:45whatever you want to call it but the word goy is used in that instance of the descendants of abraham

00:40:53then it's got the plural nations and here it's got not goyim but you'll see here again from the

00:41:00westminster leningrad codex it has goyay goyay so it's a little bit different it's not goyim but

00:41:09still it's in a plural kind of construct and then going on looking at genesis chapter 35 verse 11 and

00:41:17elohim said to him i am el shaddai be fruitful and increase a nation and a company of nations

00:41:23shall be from you and sovereigns come from your body and once again the first instance here for

00:41:32nation it has the word in hebrew goy in the singular and then the second instance where it has the word

00:41:40nations is the plural goyim then again we look at some other verses and we look in exodus chapter 19

00:41:48verse 6 and you shall be to me a reign of priest and a set apart or holy nation those are the words

00:41:55which you are to speak to the children of israel here the word goy is again used in reference to

00:42:02israel and we look at deuteronomy chapter 4 verses 6 to 7 and you shall guard and do them and for

00:42:10before this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these

00:42:16laws and they shall say only a wise and understanding people is this great nation for what great nation

00:42:23is there which has elohim so near to it as yahweh our elohim is to us whenever we call on him now

00:42:30here again this is another one of those rare instances where the word boy is in reference to

00:42:36the nation of israel now there's another word here we'll get to coming up but this is the word for

00:42:42peoples and commonly when it's referring to the group of yahweh's people the israelis the hebrews

00:42:52whatever you want to call it those who are within covenant uh with yahweh it's referred to them as

00:42:59peoples instead of boy but we're going through right now some of the rare instances where boy is used

00:43:04of israel and finally from deuteronomy chapter 26 verse 5 and you shall answer and say before yahweh your

00:43:11elohim my father was a perishing aramean and he went down to mitzrayim and sojourned there with

00:43:17new men and there he became a great nation great mighty and numerous and once again this word goy is

00:43:25used in reference to the nation of israel or to the hebrew people and again it's very very rare that goy

00:43:35is used of israel only about uh i'd estimate only about eight or ten times in the entire tanah only

00:43:45about eight or ten times and you think about how many times that word goy is used in general it's

00:43:50going to be not even a drop in the bucket that it refers to israel the vast majority of the time

00:43:57when goy i'm sorry goyim is used in the snak it's referring to people outside of covenant with yahweh

00:44:05the unbelievers as it were and that's the word we get our word gentile from us goy is translated a

00:44:14lot of times into our word gentile but it's got the same meaning goyim or gentile still means

00:44:21means the vast majority of time still means someone who is an unbeliever and is not in covenant with

00:44:27yahweh now let's switch gears just a little bit and look at this second word that we have highlighted

00:44:31here this is the word for people and when israel is referred to as a group as a people group when

00:44:39we're referring to in the snak the people of yahweh those who are in covenant with yahweh is generally

00:44:46referred to as peoples and the hebrew word here is the hebrew word um or i'm sorry am and that's

00:44:54strong's h five nine seven one am and the outline of biblical usage from blue letter bible dot o-r-g

00:45:02as it defined as nation or people people nation persons members of one's people compatriots country

00:45:07men kinsmen or hindrid the king james translates strong's h five nine seven one am in the following

00:45:15manner people one thousand eight hundred and thirty six times nation 17 times and etc etc strong's

00:45:25definition for m defines m as a people as a congregated unit specifically a tribe as those of israel

00:45:33hence collectively troops or attendants figuratively a flock folk men nation people

00:45:39front driver briggs pretty much has the same thing as people people nation all mankind peoples in general

00:45:44and assembly justinus's hebrew lexicon it goes along the same lines a people so called from their being

00:45:50collected together is very often used of israel as being the people of god etc etc and then finally

00:45:57looking at the jasrals dictionary of the targums klein dictionary and the hebrew aramaic lexicon of

00:46:02the old testament pretty much the same thing as we observed earlier and again for a much longer

00:46:08entry uh you go to our notes you get the expanded entry for these different lexicon and dictionaries

00:46:17now for the halo or the hebrew aramaic lexicon of the old testament because it starts out defining it as

00:46:22paternal uncle or paternal relations clan kin etc etc but it all depends on the context again hebrew is

00:46:32huge on context of course greek is as well so it's again all according to context but we saw the rare

00:46:41instances where israel was referred to by the word goi but not going always in the singular but generally

00:46:50when the group the people israel is referred to is referred to by the hebrew word m that we just looked

00:46:58at in the lescons and dictionaries and that's what it's usually referred to most of the time and here

00:47:02is some really good examples of that from scripture in exodus chapter 5 verse 1 and afterwards moshe and

00:47:10aaron went in and said to pharaoh thus said yahweh elohim of israel let my people go so that they celebrate

00:47:18a festival to me in the wilderness and from exodus chapter 6 verse 7 and shall take you as my

00:47:26people and i shall be your elohim and you shall know that i am yahweh your elohim who is bringing

00:47:32you out from under the burdens of the mitzrah so in contrast to goi as people being outside of the

00:47:41covenant with israel gentiles this word am when it refers to israel especially when it refers to israel

00:47:48as meaning people or a group of people who are within covenant with yahweh so that's just a little

00:47:56bit from the tanakh and how goi and am is used a lot of times and where we get our english word gentile from that

00:48:05comes from the hebrew word going that means people who are outside of covenant with yahweh unbelievers as it were

00:48:13and this kind of thinking and this meaning goes on in to the brit hadashah or the aka new testament as

00:48:20well like i said at the beginning it changes languages when we get into the brit hadashah and that is

00:48:28the brit hadashah is mostly written in greek as far as we know and the greek word that's used to indicate

00:48:35this same meaning the meaning of someone who is not in covenant with yahweh is the greek word ethnos

00:48:42and this is strong's g1484 ethnos the outline of biblical uses from blueletter.org i'm sorry

00:48:50blueletterbible.org has it as a multitude whether of men or beasts associated or living together

00:48:57a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus a tribe nation people group in the old

00:49:02testament foreign nations not worshiping the true god pagans gentiles that's what they're

00:49:07defining ethnos as and paul uses the term for gentile christians but that is actually up for

00:49:14debate strong's definition uh for ethnos defines it as a race as of the same habit a tribe especially a

00:49:23foreign non-jewish one usually by implication pagan gentile heathen nation people etc etc and once again

00:49:32gentile or unbeliever they don't have to be pagans but a lot of times they tend to be especially

00:49:38within scripture then look at the thayer's greek lexicon for ethnos as defined as a multitude whether

00:49:45of men or a beast associated or living together a company troop swarm number two a multitude of

00:49:51individuals of the same nature or genus number three a race or nation using the singular of the jewish

00:49:57people but again understand how they're fighting it out and conflating jewish people with the hebrew

00:50:05lineage or hebrew people and again in the singular just like boy was in comparison to goyim

00:50:13then number four for thayers as defined as foreign nations not worshiping the true god

00:50:18pagans gentiles and very often playing contradict contradistinction to the jews and number five

00:50:24paul uses ethnos even of gentile christians but again that is an oxymoron to say someone is a

00:50:30gentile christian and paul's usage is up for debate and from mounts's definition for ethnos as defined as

00:50:38gentile meaning or pagan foreign nation a people here is your liddell scott jones definition and the

00:50:45abbot smith manual greek lexicon of the new testament entry for ethnos pretty much going along the same

00:50:50lines as we've already looked at greek english lexicon of the new testament for ethnos has it

00:50:56defined as pertaining to one who is not a jew a gentile heathen pagan once again they're flattening

00:51:03out and uh conflating jew with hebrew and again it's all within context here and then finally here is

00:51:12your bdag of for the entry on ethnos as well i'm pretty much going along the same lines as we saw in

00:51:20the previous lexicons and dictionaries and again these expanded entries are in the notes so if you want

00:51:27even more information from these particular lexicons and dictionaries go check out the notes on our website

00:51:33click on the link down below for an easy way to get there but now let's get into some scriptures uh using

00:51:40ethnos the greek word ethnos as as commonly translated into the word gentile that we have

00:51:47nowadays and here are some distinctions that the scriptures make in the brit hadashah between

00:51:54the people of yahweh those that are righteous that are faithful the believers and those who are ethnos

00:52:00those who are gentiles pagan heathens the unbelievers it makes distinctions between us and gentiles

00:52:07we look in acts chapter 4 verses 27 through 28 for truly in the city there were gathered together

00:52:14against your set-apart servant yeshua whom you anointed both herod and pontius pilate with the

00:52:21nations and the people of israel to do whatever your hand and your purpose decided before to be done

00:52:28catch that distinction it it grouped all together herod pontius pilate and the nations and the people of

00:52:36israel so you got like three different people groups there with the gentiles aka the nations and

00:52:42being distinct from the people of israel then we look at acts chapter 7 verse 45 which our fathers

00:52:51having received it in turn also brought with yahushua into the land possessed by the nations where elohim

00:52:57drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of dawid so here it says that you're talking about

00:53:04yahushua and of course the people going into the land and the land is possessed by not the hebrews who

00:53:10are going into the land instead the distinction is made that the land is possessed by the gentiles

00:53:16again making the distinction between the people of yahweh and the gentiles and then we look at romans

00:53:23chapter 9 verses 6 through 7 however it is not as though the word of elohim has failed for they are not

00:53:30all israel who are of israel neither are they all children because they are of the seed of abraham

00:53:38but in yet chuck your seed shall be called so here is saying you probably already know this by now but

00:53:45it bears repeating he's saying that not all israel who are of israel they are not all israel who are of

00:53:53israel meaning that even though they may be genetically descended from abraham from the hebrews from

00:54:02etc etc even though they may have israeli blood in them that doesn't mean that they are

00:54:08part of the true and holy and spiritual israel that's what's meaning right there but other people

00:54:14can be grafted in there are ways to do that and those who are of the seed of abraham are heirs according

00:54:20to the promise and just because you are see that abraham doesn't mean you are righteous and that

00:54:26you're going to get into heaven it's not about genetic it's about faith and yeshua went on looking

00:54:33at romans chapter 9 verses 6 to 7 however it is not as though the word of elohim has failed oh we just

00:54:39read that sorry but looking at romans chapter 10 verses 12 through 13 because there is no distinction

00:54:44between yahudi and greek the same master of all is rich to all those calling upon him for everyone

00:54:50who calls on the name of yahweh shall be saved so here again talking about the jews or judeans

00:54:59and greeks because at the time it wasn't talking about you know just the tribe of judah and the

00:55:06generally what i found is that yahudi or jew is referring to the southern kingdom of judea that's why

00:55:13i like to make the distinction to be you know specific and say judean

00:55:18judean but he says there is no distinction between judean and greek because we're all one

00:55:26in yeshua we can come together even if we are not born from the same bloodline we can still come

00:55:34together and we're all one we're all equal i just thought that was important to reiterate and put out

00:55:41there for everyone now when talking about the distinction between gentile and believer and

00:55:48the modern definition of what people think that gentile actually means pay attention to this next

00:55:56passage here we look at romans chapter 11 verses 17 through 24 and if some of the branches were broken

00:56:04off and you being a wild olive tree i've been grafted in among them and came to share the root

00:56:10and fatness of the olive tree do not boast against the branches and if you boast remember you do not

00:56:16bear the root but the root bears you you shall say then the branches were broken off that i might be

00:56:22grafted in good i unbelief they were broken off and you stand by belief do not be arrogant but fear

00:56:30for if elohim did not spare the natural branches he might not spare you either see then the kindness

00:56:36and sharpness of elohim on those who fell sharpness but toward you kindness if you continue in his

00:56:44kindness otherwise you should you also shall be cut off and they also if they do not continue in

00:56:49unbelief shall be grafted in for elohim is able to graft them in again for if you were cut out of the olive

00:56:55tree which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree how much more

00:57:03shall those who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree

00:57:11beautiful passage beautiful illustration of how those who are not genetically israel are grafted in because

00:57:21those of us who are from a gentile background part of the wild olive tree and were broken off or

00:57:31removed from that wild olive tree and then grafted into that good olive tree now what is that good olive

00:57:37tree that is the true faith the belief the true israel as it were we're grafted in we're not separate from

00:57:46what was we're not a separate plant we're actually part of that same plant part of that same belief

00:57:53and we should conform ourselves to that belief not stand on our old

00:58:01rough incorrect ways but we'll get more in that in the thought experiment but yeah it's beautiful how he

00:58:09illustrates this whole process here and like i said take note that it's going to be grafted into the good

00:58:16olive tree and it's still the one singular olive tree not two different olive trees not multiple different

00:58:24olive trees different plants it's still one plant one olive tree in this illustration let's look at

00:58:32the brehadashah and how it describes gentile as a negative thing and how you don't want to be a gentile

00:58:42from first corinthians chapter 10 verse 20 no but what the nation slaughter they slaughter to

00:58:48demons and not to elohim and i do not wish you to become sharers with demons so just like we looked at

00:58:56some of those passages within the tanakh we see here that paul is writing into the corinthians

00:59:02saying that this is what the nations do this is what the pagans do this is what the gentiles do this

00:59:09is what the heathens do and i do not want you to be partakers and sharers with those kind of practices

00:59:16which are practices that are demonic in nature paul is telling us do not be like the gentiles again

00:59:26drawing that distinction between us the believers and the unbelievers the aka gentiles paul goes on to

00:59:34make an even more powerful statement about gentiles here in first corinthians chapter 12 verse 2

00:59:44you know that you were nations led away to the dumb idols even as you might be led listen very very

00:59:55carefully what he says here especially in this very first part he says that you know that you were

01:00:02nations that you were pagans that you were gentiles that you were heathen that you were goyim that you were

01:00:14unbelievers what is that word were there in that sentence this is getting nerdy again but the word

01:00:24were is the english word and it's a present i'm sorry a past tense conjugation of the verb to be

01:00:32it's something that you used to be but are no longer getting that he's not saying that you are still

01:00:40gentiles and it's okay to do gentile things no no paul is saying to the apostle to the gentile

01:00:47is saying that you were gentiles but you are no longer and he doesn't want you to be led away to

01:00:55dumb idols even as you might be led but it's very impactful there that very first part which says

01:01:03that you were nations again going along that same point of how we are the believers and the gentiles the

01:01:12others are the unbeliever and here he's saying that you used to be unbelievers but now you're

01:01:20a believer you used to be gentiles and now you're not gentile see how that works so we who are in the

01:01:27faith are not gentiles paul says that we were but now we're not so that's just a little bit from the

01:01:37brit hadashah about the distinctions between us the believers and the gentiles aka the unbelievers

01:01:45there's a whole whole slew of passages and verses you can look at and there's a whole bunch more in

01:01:51the notes but let's go on for sake of time and look at yeshua and how he referenced gentiles when he was

01:01:58speaking to people in matthew chapter 6 verses 7 through 8 yeshua says and when praying do not

01:02:07keep on babbling like the nations do not keep on babbling like the gentiles do not keep on

01:02:12babbling like the pagans do not keep on babbling like the nations for they think that they shall

01:02:18be heard for the many words therefore do not be like them for your father knows what you need before

01:02:23you ask him but here yeshua is telling us don't do like those gentiles instead do this like a believer

01:02:30to do then in matthew chapter 6 verses 31 through 32 do not worry then saying what shall we eat or

01:02:38what shall we drink or what shall we wear for all these the nations seek for for all these the pagans

01:02:45seek for for all these the gentiles seek for for all these the heathens seek for and your heavenly father

01:02:53knows that you need all these so again yeshua is making a distinction between the gentiles and the

01:03:00believers here he's saying that the gentiles are worrying about all these various everyday things

01:03:07they're upset and they're anxious about it he says that's what the gentiles the unbelievers do

01:03:13but the believers instead in contrast should not do that and finally let's look at the third one here

01:03:21yeshua in mark chapter 10 verses 42 through 43 states and yeshua calling them near said to them

01:03:28you know that those who think to rule the nations are masters over them and their great ones exercise

01:03:33authority over them but it is not so among you but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your

01:03:41servant but here he's talking about again a distinction between the gentiles the unbelievers and the

01:03:48believers because he describes the leadership style of the gentiles the leadership style of the

01:03:55unbelievers and he contrasts that with the leadership style that should be done by the believers the servant

01:04:03leadership style so again not only does the tanakh make a distinction between believers and gentiles but

01:04:12also the brit hadashah and our messiah yeshua is makes a distinction time and time and time again

01:04:19between those who are the people of yahweh the believers and those who are unbelievers that we

01:04:24refer to as gentile now let's do a thought experiment and look at some logic and reasoning very little of

01:04:32any philosophy is going to be here in this one i promise i've heard some of you talk about that and

01:04:37uh yeah some of you like it some of you don't but that's okay first and foremost if the breakdown in

01:04:45the bible is as it is traditionally or the way it is nowadays taught and there's nothing more than an

01:04:51ethnic racial difference between jew and non-jew meaning gentile that's the modern definition

01:04:58then how is paul even able to say that you were gentile

01:05:03well he can't race ethnicity isn't something that you can change there is no past tense of the verb

01:05:10when it comes to your ethnicity or your race think about it if you are of african descent you can't

01:05:18change that you're always going to be dark skinned you're always going to be of or i'm sorry of african

01:05:24descent is paul would never be able to say you were african descent no no it's not an

01:05:33ethnic thing it's not a racial thing it's a matter of the mind as we've already seen about coming coming

01:05:39into covenant another thing to ponder the gentile represents the prodigal collective of humanity

01:05:49think about it like this when the earth was created there was adam and eve and there was one people and

01:05:57they were all faithful to yahweh and then they the fall happened and then people left covenant they

01:06:04were unbelievers and they created all this paganism etc etc and that goes right along with the story

01:06:10that yeshua told us about the prodigal son going away so the gentiles are like the prodigal son and

01:06:17there is ways for the gentiles to come back into faith and stop being gentiles and become believers

01:06:25that happened in stock but it happened even more so ever since the time of the brit hadashah so

01:06:32again gentile represent or i'm sorry gentile means someone who is not a believer and gentile represents

01:06:40the prodigal collective of humanity those who are not believers those who are out of covenant

01:06:47to suggest that gentile is free from the torah is to suggest that they are free from the definitions

01:06:53and the standards of righteousness that is provided to us by yahweh our heavenly father again they try to

01:07:02in modern definitions they try to say that oh we're gentiles we're not jews we're gentiles well even though

01:07:09they're trying to say at the same time they're christians or messianic and this is false but in this

01:07:15sense they also say that we're free from the torah and by doing so they suggest that we are free from

01:07:20the definitions of righteousness that's provided to us that we should live by and guide our lives by

01:07:27but as we know that is just simply not true and they again they use this whole false definition of

01:07:34gentile to get away with doing things that they should not be doing and getting away from the things

01:07:40that the scriptures are telling us to do another point yahweh did not give the israelites one set

01:07:46of rules and the mixed multitude another they all entered the same covenant together go back in

01:07:53exodus read that passage there when they all come to the foot of mount sinai there was the hebrews

01:08:00and there was the mixed multitude and they all said we will do what you say and they were all the

01:08:10people of yahweh not just the genetic bloodline of the hebrews they were all the people of yahweh

01:08:18therefore there wasn't a single gentile there at the foot of sinai so think about that

01:08:25going on another point when a person moves to a new country and they gain citizenship to

01:08:33that particular country they don't bring in their old laws their old ways of doing things with them

01:08:39they learn the laws of the new land they don't say because i am a new citizen because i come from

01:08:44a different country the old laws of this country are canceled and we're going to do the laws of my old

01:08:49country no that's false that's not the way the world works and the same thing applies

01:08:55with gentiles when gentiles come into the faith when gentiles stop being gentiles and become

01:09:02believers they are to learn the ways of the new kingdom that they become a citizen of the kingdom

01:09:11of yahweh and what are the laws and regulations and instructions of the kingdom of yahweh the bible

01:09:17is the torah go check it out if you're going to be a believer that's the laws and rules and

01:09:23regulations that we are guided by and that we are judged by another point when a wife joins a family

01:09:31or even when a child is adopted into a family they are bound by the traditions and the rules of that

01:09:38family or that household they don't replace the family they don't replace the family rules or the

01:09:44family traditions or anything like that instead they expand the family and that's the same thing that

01:09:50gentiles do when gentiles change their ways they become believers instead of gentiles they expand

01:09:57the family and the kingdom of yahweh another point when the gentiles join the orchestra they don't

01:10:04bring their own sheet music or play whatever they want they pick up the same score so that the entire

01:10:09orchestra plays in harmony these are all analogies but this is a beautiful one to describe how gentiles

01:10:16come into the faith when they stop being gentile if a musician joins an orchestra and they try to

01:10:26play a piece of music that the orchestra is not playing it sounds horrid it really does when i was

01:10:33playing with a band way back when people would get their music mixed up sometimes they would think

01:10:39they were supposed to play this music when the conductor was actually saying hey we're gonna play this

01:10:44piece of music and immediately almost immediately when it started off you knew something wrong because

01:10:50it sounded absolutely horrible and it's the same thing with gentiles when they start being believers

01:10:58and stop being gentiles they need to play the same music that the rest of the orchestra the rest of the

01:11:04kingdom of yahweh is playing or else it's not going to work it's not going to be very good it's going to be

01:11:10all kinds of chaos as we've seen nowadays with a lot of various groups but then we'll get on soapbox right now

01:11:19and finally i'm sorry another point a branch grafted in is not a separate plant it's part of the main plant the

01:11:26same the same plant the gentile is a branch from a wild tree that is grafted into a cultivated ancient tree the good all of the tree the

01:11:34branch does not change the branch the branch does not change the all of the tree it the root changes the

01:11:40nature of the branch in the metaphor there we saw that directly from scripture it's like the this is a much

01:11:50more to the point on the nose description of gentiles i mean into the faith and gentiles leaving behind

01:11:59their gentile past and instead becoming believers it's like the the difference between a or explain

01:12:07like this it's like the difference between race and membership once again you cannot change your race

01:12:12but you can change your membership to different organization you used to be a member of the gentile

01:12:17organization now you can be a gentile i'm sorry now you can be a member of yahweh's organization a member of

01:12:25yahweh's people again you can't change your race but you can change your attitude which we should when

01:12:32we come into the faith when we start becoming believers and stop being gentiles we should change

01:12:37our attitude we should we also change our allegiance we can change our obedience and again that's something

01:12:44we do when we stop being gentiles and come into faith we change our obedience from a lot of times ourselves

01:12:51to yahweh we also can change our way of doing things which again something we should do when we come

01:12:57into faith and come into believing we should do the ways and the things of yahweh were described in

01:13:03scripture we can change our membership we used to be members of the gentile organization now we're

01:13:09members of yahweh's organization we change our identification used to be identified as the world now we identify

01:13:17as part of yahweh's people so that is that just hit me one day when i was going through this whole

01:13:26study and putting this whole teaching together i think it actually comes down and it's very pointed

01:13:32and on the nose but yeah there's things that you can change but there's things you can't change

01:13:37and that proves that gentile is not about race it's not about ethnicity because you cannot change your race

01:13:43and not change your ethnicity but you can change your beliefs you can change your attitude your

01:13:49allegiance your membership identification your way of doing things etc etc and that is why paul referred

01:13:56back in first corinthians that's why paul says that you were gentiles then that changed you're no longer

01:14:06gentiles you're now believer you're now part of the people of yahweh

01:14:13so in summary number one the term jew can mean a descendant of the tribe of judah

01:14:21someone from the line of the southern kingdom of judea or someone of the jewish faith but remember

01:14:26judaism the jewish faith did not start until the first century of the common era or the 30th

01:14:33year of the common era whatever you want to call it it hasn't been around for thousands of years

01:14:38believers exonym is a term to describe a people group outside of the reference people group so

01:14:45gentile is a exonym it's what we believers call unbelievers just like we saw from scripture the word

01:14:54gentile generally comes from the hebrew word goy in the stock israel is only referred to by the singular

01:15:01boy a minute number of times and we saw that israel is usually referred to as m as people as the people

01:15:11of yahweh not goy the word gentile generally comes from the greek word ethnos in the brit hadashan we saw

01:15:19many examples of that and there's many many more the brit hadashan makes it clear that gentile is something

01:15:25that we used to be that we were but are no longer after coming to the faith and the term gentile is

01:15:33used for those outside of covenant with yahweh and is usually synonymous with heathen pagan unbeliever

01:15:40or just a nation or group of people that are not yahweh's people but to put it bluntly you can either be a

01:15:48gentile or you can be a believer you can be a gentile or you can be a christian you can be a

01:15:56gentile or you can be a messianic whatever you want to phrase that but you can't be both

01:16:03and that is just the god honest truth so thank you for joining us oh one more

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