TSIYON NEWS

It has been established beyond all doubt that Yeshua, at His first coming, built and established His Messianic administration of the Davidic Kingdom. That He was doing so was the "Good News of the Kingdom" that He preached. Besides bringing "multitudes" into His Kingdom, Yeshua established His Kingdom administration, appointing The Twelve Emissaries, and He also sent out The Seventy. Just before His death He presented Himself to the people as their King, and they accepted Him as such. However, the corrupt powers of the day refused to accept their King, preferring to hang on to their illegitimate power - so they killed the Lord of Glory. This was a vain thing, since death could not hold Him, and He was raised on the 3rd day.

After His death and resurrection, but before His ascension, Yeshua appeared to His brother, James, who was, of course, of the same Davidic line as Yeshua. At that meeting Kingdom Authority from Yeshua was conferred upon James to become the earthly Davidic leader of the Nazorean Assembly. Hebrew Matthew tells us:

'Now the Lord, after he had given his grave clothes to the servant of the priest, appeared to James, for James had sworn that he would not eat bread from that hour in which he had drunk the Lord's cup until he should see him risen from the dead.' And a little further on the Lord says, 'bring a table and bread.' And immediately it is added, 'He took bread and blessed and broke and gave it to James the Just and said to him, "My brother, eat your bread, for the Son of Man is risen from the dead."' And so he ruled the church of Jerusalem thirty years"    [Jerome, On Illustrious Men]

In appointing James to lead the Kingdom Government in the Earth under Yeshua as Heavenly King, Messiah was honoring the everlasting covenant for a House and a Kingdom that YHWH had made with David. Notice the generational nature of this passage, as well as seeing the faithfulness of YHWH toward the assembly in this:

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations. The heavens will praise your wonders, YHWH; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones." (Psalms 89:3-5)

This amazing passage assures us that this Davidic leadership will be provided even at the Remnant Exodus:

"Thus says YHWH: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them." (Jeremiah 33:25-26)

By appointing James to govern the Assembly of the Nazoreans which Yeshua had already been building, Yeshua was also appointing the Davidic Dynasty that was to govern the Assembly in Kingdom authority through the generations thereafter, until His Return. As we read above, James governed for 30 years and was martyred shortly before the Romans put Jerusalem under siege - then the Romans left.

After James, Simeon, a Davidic cousin of James, was given the Kingdom authority from Messiah to govern, and he did so, when at the word of Messiah he led the Nazorean Assembly out of Judea to Syria. This move was by Divine providence, since after that, the Romans came back and destroyed Jerusalem, the Temple, and Judea as a nation. Yes, the faithful Nazoreans had been saved by the word of Messiah and by the Davidic leadership of Simeon. Simeon continued to govern well into the 2nd Century until he was martyred by the Romans at 120 years old.  

It was during the later years of Simeon's life that the Gentile believers rebelled in earnest against the Davidic authority of the Nazoreans. Men who became known as the "Church Fathers" did, in fact, usurp the part of the Nazorean message they liked, and jettisoned the rest, to father what we now know as the Christian Church.

Christianity as we know it is actually a schism away from the Nazoreans. The Church fathers turned against all things Hebrew, including the Commandments of the Torah, and in doing so created a more palatable doctrine for the Gentile pagans. Greek and Roman philosophy, as well as familiar pagan beliefs and practices were Christianized to bring in the masses. This was wildly successful. By the 4th Century this syncretistic conglomeration became institutionalized as the Roman Catholic Church.