Post by jeremiah1five on Sept 23, 2023 6:54:20 GMT -5
The Prophecy:
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Dt. 18:15 (also Dt. 18:18.)
The Fulfillment:
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mt. 2:2.
The Purpose:
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mt 15:24.
Supporting Statements:
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Jn. 1:31.
In Genesis 17 it says God made covenant with Abram (the Hebrew 14:13) and with His seed:
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Gen. 17:6–8.
Abraham had two sons recorded in Genesis: Ishmael and Isaac. Although God blessed and made promise to Ishmael, we learn that from Ishmael God promised to make of him a great nation:
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, Gen. 17:20–21.
From Genesis we also learn Isaac had two sons which are recorded in Scripture: Esau and Jacob.
Since Gentiles do not come from the loins of Abraham nor is this people "his seed," the "great nations" and "kings" God promised Abraham that would come from "out of thee" would have to mean the descendants of Ishmael and Esau (and any other sons that Abraham had that Scripture does not record.)
Later, we come to the history of King Saul, David, Solomon, and after Solomon's death the kingdom God established with David fractured into ten tribes making up the northern kingdom (Israel) and two tribes making up the southern kingdom (Judah.) For a couple of centuries these two kingdoms became enemies and warred against each other, both kingdoms had their share of good kings and evil kings. In the 700s B.C. God sent many prophets to both kingdoms that prophesied judgment against these peoples manifested in the sending of Assyrian armies which came against Israel and defeated her and took many captives and back to Assyria. The northern kingdom was destroyed, and most cities ravished by the Assyrian armies. This occurred in 722 B.C.
In 586 B.C. God's judgment fell upon Judah when the Babylonian armies warred against Judah and also destroyed their armies and took many Jews captive and back to Babylon. Thus, both the northern and southern kingdoms were destroyed and many of their people taken captive and back to the respective conquering nations. Israel was in exile as prophesied by God's prophets sent to His people. This captivity would last for 70 years. At the conclusion of 70 years King Cyrus allowed the people of Israel to return back to their homeland and rebuild not only the wall of their city but also in time the restoration of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. Many Jews returned to their country. Many stayed behind in Babylon or in the Gentile lands that lay between them. Before the birth of Messiah Jesus, the Malachi was the last prophet God sent to His people and the last time God spoke to His people. After these 400 years Israel's Messiah would be born.
Jesus was born to two Jewish parents, Mary and Joseph (his stepfather.) Jesus is the fulfillment of covenant promises and prophecies made to Abraham and the children of Jacob through Moses and was born from the tribe of Judah, hence, we get the designation "Jew."
The Abrahamic Covenant can be described as a family covenant as it went from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob (whom God changed his name to "Israel") and to Jacob's sons also known as the twelve sons or tribes of the children of Jacob/Israel. Thus, it is a "Jewish" covenant.
Israel's Messiah in the Person of Jesus bar Joseph finally arrived, he grew up, and when He began His Ministry at the supposed age of 30, He was called "Rabbi" and taught the twelve tribes of the children of Israel in Jerusalem, Judaea, and Samaria. Jesus ministered to several Gentiles as recorded in the gospels, but God did not send Christ and Messiah to Gentiles. Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel of two kingdoms. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John record a 33-year span of the history, Law, covenants, prophecies, culture, Judaic religious practices and the history of the Jewish people and Jesus Christ on earth sent by God to and for His people, the children of Israel of twelve tribes.
After 3 years of teaching the Jews Jesus was betrayed by one of His disciples and arrested, tried, and condemned to die on a Roman cross. Jesus was crucified and as He said rose from the dead and resurrected. He remained on the planet with His eleven disciples for forty days speaking of things concerning the kingdom of God. On the Mount of Olives Jesus gives His last instruction and command to His eleven disciples to go into Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the 'uttermost parts of the earth' (Mesopotamia and towards the Orient) with a message to the twelve tribes scattered throughout the then-known world that Israel's Messiah and King had come, and that God has kept His Promise(s) to His Chosen people Israel.
In Acts chapter 2 and 10 days after Jesus' ascension there was a celebration of the Jews in Jerusalem called the Feast of Harvests. The eleven disciples were in the upper room praying when the Holy Spirit came and filled the eleven disciples, and they began to speak in tongues. It was early in the morning and this occurrence brought the attention of the people. A large crowd of people gathered to witness what was happening as the disciples spoke in tongues and the Jews that came from Gentile lands to the Feast are identified through the languages the disciples spoke. There were 17 languages mentioned in Acts 2 that were spoken by the eleven disciples and they are listed here:
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God
Acts 2:9–11.
Among the inhabitants of Israel and Jerusalem there were hundred and maybe thousands of Jewish visitors living in Gentile lands that came to this Feast. And when accused by some of these Jews that Peter and the disciples were drunk so very early in the morning that Peter stood up to respond to their accusation and began under the anointing of the Holy Spirit to speak to the people. As recorded in Scripture Peter defends what has happened to him and the other disciples as the fulfillment of the prophecy made by Joel about God pouring out His Spirit upon His people and with other words recounts recent of Jewish history regarding Jesus and what happen to Him and also speaking about David and the covenants and the Promises of God. It says that 3000 Jewish people were saved that day.
When the Feast was over these new 3000 converts to Christ filled with the Holy Spirit and a mini outline of Jewish history from Peter pertaining to their history, covenants, and promises of God and their recent experience returned back to their homes in Gentile lands and also returned to their Jewish brethren and their synagogues. At their synagogues they shared what had happened to the at the Feast of Harvest celebration in Jerusalem and it is reasonable to conclude that many others may have been saved at their sharing of their witness and testimony. In time those Jews that attended their synagogues in these cities in Gentile lands that did not become saved could not reconcile the fact that according to their brethren's testimony that their Messiah and King had died on a tree for the Old Testament Scripture states that anyone who dies on a tree is cursed and so a split began and the Jewish Christians began to gather in their homes for worship and fellowship with other Jewish Christians. This is the beginning of home churches, and these churches were mainly populated by Jewish Christians. Soon, there was persecution of Jewish Christians in Jerusalem and more and more Jewish Christians left their homes and scattered themselves among parts of Israel and Gentile lands. Again, more and more Jews became saved and the New Covenant Church that Jesus said He was to build began to grow.
Since we are dealing with Hebrew and Jewish covenants and promises and prophecies God gave and made with Abraham and the children of Israel, and the arrival of their Messiah born into the tribe of Judah, the New Covenant Church can be seen as a continuation of the "Great Congregation" of Jews that began in the desert at the time of the Tabernacle and the New Covenant Church was strictly a Jewish phenomenon that directly affected the Jewish people. There are no Gentiles to account for from the time of "Pentecost" to the destruction of Israel's Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. The New Covenant Church was founded by Jewish Christians and for about forty years these Jewish Christians scattered across Gentile lands and Asia Minor were predominantly populated by Jews who muddled their way through trying to understand the effect Messiah's arrival had on Judaism. By the time of the apostle Paul's travels there were Jewish churches already existing in the cities and town Paul visited and when it came time to write them letters all the gospels and letters in the New Testament was written by Jewish Christians to and for other Jewish Christians throughout Gentile lands. Every letter except two Paul wrote to Timothy who was Gentile. But these were personal letters that were kept and preserved and later added to the New Testament canon.
The content of these letters written by Peter and Paul, James, and John and Jude, to Jewish Christians address Jewish issues such as their covenants, the promises and prophecies of God, their history such as Abraham and David, issues having to do with their culture and Judaic practices and in places discuss Gentiles and the eventual inclusion of these Gentile Christians into Jewish churches in these Gentile lands. The depth and level of understanding what was written about these Jewish issues required an intimate knowledge of Jewish covenants and promises and Jewish history that could not be understood by Gentiles who knew almost nothing about the covenants for there was a middle wall partition separating Jews from Gentiles that was pretty much upheld by both groups and since Gentiles were carried away by these dumb idols could not grasp to understand the things written. Thus, it is only right to conclude that all the epistles in the New Testament were written by Jewish Christians to and for other Jewish Christians about the fulfillment of God's covenant and promises made to Israel of twelve tribes. Every epistle except Paul's personal letters to Timothy who was Gentile.
For the first several decades after the ascension of Jesus Christ the New Covenant Church was founded by Jewish Christians and continued as Jewish churches and fellowships in Israel and in Gentile lands until soon after the destruction of their Temple and the Times of the Gentiles was come in. Everything concerning the founding of the New Covenant Church that Jesus was building is predominantly Hebrew/Jewish in nature and populated by Jews. To understand the New Covenant Scriptures today these things must be taken into account as you read and study Scripture in order to come to the knowledge of the truth. Even Revelation is written to the Jews to prepare them for things yet to occur that will impact their nation, their people, and their future, their religion and their future.
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Dt. 18:15 (also Dt. 18:18.)
The Fulfillment:
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mt. 2:2.
The Purpose:
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mt 15:24.
Supporting Statements:
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Jn. 1:31.
In Genesis 17 it says God made covenant with Abram (the Hebrew 14:13) and with His seed:
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Gen. 17:6–8.
Abraham had two sons recorded in Genesis: Ishmael and Isaac. Although God blessed and made promise to Ishmael, we learn that from Ishmael God promised to make of him a great nation:
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, Gen. 17:20–21.
From Genesis we also learn Isaac had two sons which are recorded in Scripture: Esau and Jacob.
Since Gentiles do not come from the loins of Abraham nor is this people "his seed," the "great nations" and "kings" God promised Abraham that would come from "out of thee" would have to mean the descendants of Ishmael and Esau (and any other sons that Abraham had that Scripture does not record.)
Later, we come to the history of King Saul, David, Solomon, and after Solomon's death the kingdom God established with David fractured into ten tribes making up the northern kingdom (Israel) and two tribes making up the southern kingdom (Judah.) For a couple of centuries these two kingdoms became enemies and warred against each other, both kingdoms had their share of good kings and evil kings. In the 700s B.C. God sent many prophets to both kingdoms that prophesied judgment against these peoples manifested in the sending of Assyrian armies which came against Israel and defeated her and took many captives and back to Assyria. The northern kingdom was destroyed, and most cities ravished by the Assyrian armies. This occurred in 722 B.C.
In 586 B.C. God's judgment fell upon Judah when the Babylonian armies warred against Judah and also destroyed their armies and took many Jews captive and back to Babylon. Thus, both the northern and southern kingdoms were destroyed and many of their people taken captive and back to the respective conquering nations. Israel was in exile as prophesied by God's prophets sent to His people. This captivity would last for 70 years. At the conclusion of 70 years King Cyrus allowed the people of Israel to return back to their homeland and rebuild not only the wall of their city but also in time the restoration of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. Many Jews returned to their country. Many stayed behind in Babylon or in the Gentile lands that lay between them. Before the birth of Messiah Jesus, the Malachi was the last prophet God sent to His people and the last time God spoke to His people. After these 400 years Israel's Messiah would be born.
Jesus was born to two Jewish parents, Mary and Joseph (his stepfather.) Jesus is the fulfillment of covenant promises and prophecies made to Abraham and the children of Jacob through Moses and was born from the tribe of Judah, hence, we get the designation "Jew."
The Abrahamic Covenant can be described as a family covenant as it went from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob (whom God changed his name to "Israel") and to Jacob's sons also known as the twelve sons or tribes of the children of Jacob/Israel. Thus, it is a "Jewish" covenant.
Israel's Messiah in the Person of Jesus bar Joseph finally arrived, he grew up, and when He began His Ministry at the supposed age of 30, He was called "Rabbi" and taught the twelve tribes of the children of Israel in Jerusalem, Judaea, and Samaria. Jesus ministered to several Gentiles as recorded in the gospels, but God did not send Christ and Messiah to Gentiles. Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel of two kingdoms. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John record a 33-year span of the history, Law, covenants, prophecies, culture, Judaic religious practices and the history of the Jewish people and Jesus Christ on earth sent by God to and for His people, the children of Israel of twelve tribes.
After 3 years of teaching the Jews Jesus was betrayed by one of His disciples and arrested, tried, and condemned to die on a Roman cross. Jesus was crucified and as He said rose from the dead and resurrected. He remained on the planet with His eleven disciples for forty days speaking of things concerning the kingdom of God. On the Mount of Olives Jesus gives His last instruction and command to His eleven disciples to go into Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the 'uttermost parts of the earth' (Mesopotamia and towards the Orient) with a message to the twelve tribes scattered throughout the then-known world that Israel's Messiah and King had come, and that God has kept His Promise(s) to His Chosen people Israel.
In Acts chapter 2 and 10 days after Jesus' ascension there was a celebration of the Jews in Jerusalem called the Feast of Harvests. The eleven disciples were in the upper room praying when the Holy Spirit came and filled the eleven disciples, and they began to speak in tongues. It was early in the morning and this occurrence brought the attention of the people. A large crowd of people gathered to witness what was happening as the disciples spoke in tongues and the Jews that came from Gentile lands to the Feast are identified through the languages the disciples spoke. There were 17 languages mentioned in Acts 2 that were spoken by the eleven disciples and they are listed here:
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God
Acts 2:9–11.
Among the inhabitants of Israel and Jerusalem there were hundred and maybe thousands of Jewish visitors living in Gentile lands that came to this Feast. And when accused by some of these Jews that Peter and the disciples were drunk so very early in the morning that Peter stood up to respond to their accusation and began under the anointing of the Holy Spirit to speak to the people. As recorded in Scripture Peter defends what has happened to him and the other disciples as the fulfillment of the prophecy made by Joel about God pouring out His Spirit upon His people and with other words recounts recent of Jewish history regarding Jesus and what happen to Him and also speaking about David and the covenants and the Promises of God. It says that 3000 Jewish people were saved that day.
When the Feast was over these new 3000 converts to Christ filled with the Holy Spirit and a mini outline of Jewish history from Peter pertaining to their history, covenants, and promises of God and their recent experience returned back to their homes in Gentile lands and also returned to their Jewish brethren and their synagogues. At their synagogues they shared what had happened to the at the Feast of Harvest celebration in Jerusalem and it is reasonable to conclude that many others may have been saved at their sharing of their witness and testimony. In time those Jews that attended their synagogues in these cities in Gentile lands that did not become saved could not reconcile the fact that according to their brethren's testimony that their Messiah and King had died on a tree for the Old Testament Scripture states that anyone who dies on a tree is cursed and so a split began and the Jewish Christians began to gather in their homes for worship and fellowship with other Jewish Christians. This is the beginning of home churches, and these churches were mainly populated by Jewish Christians. Soon, there was persecution of Jewish Christians in Jerusalem and more and more Jewish Christians left their homes and scattered themselves among parts of Israel and Gentile lands. Again, more and more Jews became saved and the New Covenant Church that Jesus said He was to build began to grow.
Since we are dealing with Hebrew and Jewish covenants and promises and prophecies God gave and made with Abraham and the children of Israel, and the arrival of their Messiah born into the tribe of Judah, the New Covenant Church can be seen as a continuation of the "Great Congregation" of Jews that began in the desert at the time of the Tabernacle and the New Covenant Church was strictly a Jewish phenomenon that directly affected the Jewish people. There are no Gentiles to account for from the time of "Pentecost" to the destruction of Israel's Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. The New Covenant Church was founded by Jewish Christians and for about forty years these Jewish Christians scattered across Gentile lands and Asia Minor were predominantly populated by Jews who muddled their way through trying to understand the effect Messiah's arrival had on Judaism. By the time of the apostle Paul's travels there were Jewish churches already existing in the cities and town Paul visited and when it came time to write them letters all the gospels and letters in the New Testament was written by Jewish Christians to and for other Jewish Christians throughout Gentile lands. Every letter except two Paul wrote to Timothy who was Gentile. But these were personal letters that were kept and preserved and later added to the New Testament canon.
The content of these letters written by Peter and Paul, James, and John and Jude, to Jewish Christians address Jewish issues such as their covenants, the promises and prophecies of God, their history such as Abraham and David, issues having to do with their culture and Judaic practices and in places discuss Gentiles and the eventual inclusion of these Gentile Christians into Jewish churches in these Gentile lands. The depth and level of understanding what was written about these Jewish issues required an intimate knowledge of Jewish covenants and promises and Jewish history that could not be understood by Gentiles who knew almost nothing about the covenants for there was a middle wall partition separating Jews from Gentiles that was pretty much upheld by both groups and since Gentiles were carried away by these dumb idols could not grasp to understand the things written. Thus, it is only right to conclude that all the epistles in the New Testament were written by Jewish Christians to and for other Jewish Christians about the fulfillment of God's covenant and promises made to Israel of twelve tribes. Every epistle except Paul's personal letters to Timothy who was Gentile.
For the first several decades after the ascension of Jesus Christ the New Covenant Church was founded by Jewish Christians and continued as Jewish churches and fellowships in Israel and in Gentile lands until soon after the destruction of their Temple and the Times of the Gentiles was come in. Everything concerning the founding of the New Covenant Church that Jesus was building is predominantly Hebrew/Jewish in nature and populated by Jews. To understand the New Covenant Scriptures today these things must be taken into account as you read and study Scripture in order to come to the knowledge of the truth. Even Revelation is written to the Jews to prepare them for things yet to occur that will impact their nation, their people, and their future, their religion and their future.
