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Introduction to The Hebraic biography of Y'shua

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  • CHAPTER Contents

    • PLAN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, YHWH‘S BROKEN VEHICLES TO ACHIEVE HIS

      • Judaism is the Mother of Christianity



    • WAS Y‘SHUA A JEW AND WAS HE ROOTED IN JUDAISM?

    • DID Y‘SHUA GIVE AN INSTRUCTION TO ADHERE TO OUR HEBRAIC ROOTS?

    • WHERE DID PAUL PREACH—IN A CHURCH OR SYNAGOGUE?

    • IS THERE EVIDENCE OF ―JEWISHNESS‖ IN THE EARLY CHURCH?

      • The Influence of the Synagogue on the Organisational Structure of the Church

      • Jewish Customs in the Early Church

      • Hebraic Names for the Early Church

      • Judaism and Christianity



    • IS CHRISTIANITY A ―JEWISH‖ RELIGION?

    • DOES PAUL WARN US FROM DEPARTING FROM OUR HEBRAIC ROOTS?

    • WHAT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS ―JEWISHNESS‖ IN THE CHURCH?.........



  • CHAPTER

    • CHURCH? HOW DID WE MOVE AWAY FROM OUR JEWISH ROOTS TO THE GENTILE

      • Exploring the formative and definitive developments

      • The canonical framework

      • How and why the shift occurred

      • A. The Socio-Political Environment

      • The existence of the Roman Empire...........................................................................

      • Presence of Jewish communities within the Diaspora

      • The existence of sympathisers of Judaism

      • B. Roman Imperial Policy

      • C. Community Experience

      • Absence of Y‘shua

      • Failure to persuade other Jews of Y‘shua as Messiah

      • Responses to the revolts

      • The expectations placed on pagan converts

      • Conclusion





  • CHAPTER

    • WHAT MAINSTREAM GROUPS ARE THERE IN CHRISTIANITY?..............................

    • STAGES YHWH‘S GRAND STRATEGY: GOING BACK TO OUR JEWISH ROOTS IN THREE

      • Protestantism: The First Reformation

      • Pentecostalism: The Second Reformation

      • Messianic Renewed Judaism: The Third Reformation



    • REVIVING THE ROOTS TODAY?

    • WHY THE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE BASICS?

    • ARE THE JEWISH ROOTS OUR UNIFYING POINT?

    • TODAY? WHAT ARE THE THREE MOST CRUCIAL QUESTIONS FACING CHRISTIANS



  • CHAPTER vii

    • UNDERSTANDING? WHY THE NEED TO USE EXTRA-BIBLICAL HEBREW MATERIALS TO IMPROVE

      • What additional resources are used in this study?



    • PERSPECTIVE? WHY DO WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM A HEBREW



  • CHAPTER

    • WHAT IS THE TANACH AND WHY DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IT?

    • IS THE TANACH OF HEBREW ORIGIN?

    • IS THE NEW TESTAMENT A HEBREW BOOK?

    • OLD TESTAMENT? WAS IT DIFFICULT TO LIVE UNDER THE TORAH (LAW) DURING THE TIME OF THE

    • THE 248 POSITIVE MITZVOT (COMMANDMENTS)

    • THE 365 NEGATIVE MITZVOT (COMMANDMENTS)

    • DID Y‘SHUA LIVE UNDER THE LAW AND DID HE HAVE TO COMPLY WITH IT?

      • Y‘shua and Halacha

      • The Schools of Shammai and Hillel

      • Did Y‘shua condemn the Pharisees?

      • Challenging Passages



    • Y‘SHUA AND TRADITION

    • WHOSE AUTHORITY ARE WE UNDER?

    • SO WHAT IS THE FOCUS OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM?

    • LAW OR NO LAW?

      • The Need for Laws

      • The Purpose of Law

      • YHWH's Law Defines Sin

      • The Limitations of the Law

      • The Law an Instrument of Judgment

      • Summary





  • CHAPTER

    • WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT RULES OF INTERPRETATION?

      • Proper Interpretation of Biblical Texts

      • The rules of 'Pardes' interpretation

      • P'shat (pronounced 'peh-shaht' - meaning "simple")

      • Remez (pronounced 'reh-mez' - meaning "hint")

      • D‘rash (pronounced 'deh-rahsh' also called "Midrash"- meaning 'teaching‘)

      • Sod (pronounced sawd or sood (like "wood") - meaning "hidden")

      • Examples of Pardes from Matthew



    • WHAT ARE HEBREW IDIOMS?

    • WHAT ARE MISTRANSLATIONS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS?



  • CHAPTER

    • WHY UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES?

    • WHAT IS MEANT BY "CONTEXT"?

      • Religious/Cultural Context



    • "RENEWING" YOUR MINDSET.....................................................................................

    • WHAT IS AN EXEGESIS?

    • WHAT ARE HERMENEUTICS?

    • WHY DO I USE HEBREW WORDS?

    • WILL THE REAL Y‘SHUA PLEASE STAND UP

      • The Jewishness of Y‘shua viii

      • The Son of YHWH

      • Y‘shua HaYehudi (Y‘shua the Jew)





  • CHAPTER

    • WHY THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE HEBREW DAY, WEEK AND CALENDAR?

      • Why the Need for a Calendar?

      • The Gregorian Calendar

      • The ―Sacred‖ Calendar

      • What is a Hebrew day and when does it start?

      • What is a Hebrew month and when does it start?

      • What is a Hebrew year and when does it start?

      • What is a Hebrew week and when does it start?

      • What and when is the Sabbath?

      • What and when is YHWH's Sabbath Day?

      • What is YHWH‘s appointed time?

      • Are the Sun, Moon and Stars for us as Signs, and for Seasons, Days and Years?

      • What and when is a Hebrew Year of Jubilee?

      • YHWH's Sabbatical - His Cycle of Sevens

      • The Sabbath Day (Shabbat):

      • The Sabbatical Year (Shmitta):

      • The Year of Jubilee (Yovel)

      • "The Land Is Mine"

      • "Do Not Sow, and Do Not Reap"

      • "They Must Not Be Sold As Slaves"

      • He Is Our Jubilee

      • Summary





  • CHAPTER

    • INTRODUCTION TO THE GOSPEL AS SEEN BY MATTHEW

    • WHO WROTE MATTHEW?

    • WHEN WAS MATTHEW WRITTEN?

    • WHERE WAS MATTHEW WRITTEN?

    • WHY WAS MATTHEW WRITTEN?

    • WHO WAS MATTHEW?

    • WAS MATTHEW WRITTEN MORE UPON A JEWISH VIEW OF MATTERS?

    • IS MATTHEW A JEWISH GOSPEL?

    • TO WHOM ARE THE VARIOUS GOSPELS AIMED?

    • DO CHRISTIANS MISINTERPRET MATTHEW'S GOSPEL AND JUDAISM?

    • WHAT ARE THE PRO-JEWISH FEATURES OF MATTHEW'S GOSPEL?

    • FOUR PORTRAITS BUT ONE Y‘SHUA

    • CONCLUSION



  • CHAPTER

    • MATTHEW'S BIOGRAPHY OF Y‘SHUA - TABLE OF CONTENTS



  • CHAPTER

    • A

    • MATTHEW CENTURY EXEGESIS ON THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES OF THE BOOK OF



  • SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO MESSIAH MATTHEW 1: 1 –

    • 1:1 Titles & Names

    • 1:1-16 Genealogy ix

    • 1:17 The Generation and the deeper meaning

    • 1:18 Yoseph & Miriam‘s relationship

    • 1:21 You shall call His name "Jesus"

    • birth? Why is this Name so powerful—was Y‘shua there from the beginning or only from his

    • What is Y‘shua's Objective?

    • Who is Y‘shua?

    • How come His name is never mentioned in the Tanach (Old Covenant)?

    • 1:22 Spoken of the Lord

    • 1:23 A virgin shall be with child

    • Understand the Biblical Root

    • YHWH has many names

    • Birth of Yochanan (John) foretold

    • Birth of Y‘shua foretold (we continue to read from Luke chapter 1)

    • Miriam visits Elisheva (Elizabeth) (we continue to read from Luke chapter 1)

    • The song of Miriam (we continue to read from Luke chapter 1)

    • Birth of Yochanan (John) (we continue to read from Luke chapter 1)

    • History of circumcision

    • Baby Naming:

    • chapter 1) Birth of Y‘shua HaMashiach (Y‘shua the Messiah) (we read again from Matthew

    • The visitations (we continue to read from Luke chapter 2):

    • John the Baptist, Chanukkah, Pesach, and Succoth

    • in his life on these days Biblical traditions on the Feast of Tabernacles and why Y‘shua said certain things later

    • continue to read from Luke chapter 2) Brit-milah (circumcision) of Y‘shua – the first of the Jewish Lifecycle customs (we

    • Yoseph and Miriam were observant Jews

    • Nazareth When they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to

    • How could Y‘shua be Son of Yoseph and Son of YHWH?

    • Luke Clearing the issue of Y‘shua‘s Diety in the Genealogies of Y‘shua in Matthew and

    • Was Miriam a Cohen (Priestly lineage)?

    • How old was Miriam at the time she was pregnant?

    • Childbearing in the Days of the Bible



  • SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO MESSIAH MATTHEW 2: 1 -

    • 2:1 Why Bethlehem and not Jerusalem?

    • Y‘shua was born in Beit-Lechem, called the ―Place of Bread‖

    • Who was Herod?

    • Who were the Magi?

    • Magi from the east

    • 2:2- 4 A Star out of Jacob

    • Why gazing at the stars during Succoth (The Feast of Tabernacles)?

    • The Season of Our Joy

    • The Story of the Star in the East

    • The Historical Perspective

    • The Death of Herod

    • The Astronomical Perspective

    • 2:4 Priests, Scribes, Pharisees and Saducees

    • The spiritual leadership of YHWH's people in the past

    • What were main factions among the religious authority during Y‘shua‘s time?

    • The ―Chief Priests‖ and ―Prophets‖ in the Bible x

    • The Lawyers and Judges: ―Scribes‖ in the Bible

    • Were the Pharisees "Legalistic"?

    • Now what is a rabbi?

    • 2:5-6 The voice of the prophet

    • 2:7-10 Herod calls for the ―court astrologers‖ and sends them to Bethlehem

    • 2:11 Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh..........................................................................

    • 2:12-14 Flight in the Night

    • 2:15 Out of Egypt I have called my son

    • 2:16 Herod slew all the children

    • 2:17- 18 "A voice was heard in Ramah..."

    • 2:19-21 The return to the Promised Land

    • 2:22- 23 "... that He should be called a Nazarene"

    • The good-looking Y‘shua?

    • The Y‘shua that has no beauty that we should desire him

    • Y‘shua‘s childhood and upbringing

    • Y‘shua in the Temple

    • customs Y‘shua at Twelve – getting ready for his Bar Mitzvah – the third of the Jewish Lifecycle

    • Bar Mitzvah ritual

    • Church, how do you avoid losing young people aged 15-20?

    • Overview: Why Lifecycle Rituals?

    • Y‘shua's childhood

    • Hebrew schools from Biblical times till today



  • SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO MESSIAH MATTHEW 3: 1 -

    • 3:1 John the Baptist

    • The Fifteenth Year of Tiberius: Pilate, Herod, Philip, "Lysanius", Annas, and Caiaphas

    • 3:2-6 General overviews

    • 3:2 Repent

    • The Kingdom of Heaven

    • Is near or is at hand

    • 3:3 Spoken of by the Prophet

    • In the wilderness

    • 3:4 Yochanan's appearance

    • Yochanan‘s clothing and food – a sign of priestly lineage

    • The thread of the ―tallit‖ through the Old Testament

    • The ―tallit‖ penetrates the New Testament

    • Why was Y‘shua baptised specifically by Yochanan?...............................................

    • Yochanan‘s food

    • 3:5 They went out to him

    • 3:6 They were baptised by him

    • Confessing their sins

    • The Hebraic Roots of Baptism

    • 3:7-8 The Pharisees and Sadducees

    • 3:8-10 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance

    • Sharing

    • 3:11- 12 Yochanan prepares the way

    • 3:13- 16 Y‘shua‘s baptism

    • 3:17 My beloved son – the fourth of the Jewish Lifecycle customs

    • My beloved Son

    • Why was Yochanan the greatest?

    • Yochanan denies being the Mashiach

    • Y‘shua the Lamb of God xi

    • T‘vilah and Mikveh: immersion ceremony

    • The origin of T‘vilah?

    • When does t‘vilah take place from a traditional Jewish point of view?

    • Why immerse three times from a traditional Jewish point of view?

    • What is a Mikveh, Halakhically?

    • Parameters of the Mikveh Experience

    • The custom in Y‘shua‘s days

    • Mikveh facts

    • The mystical perspective of 40 se‘ah water in a mikveh



  • SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO MESSIAH MATTHEW 4:1-

    • 4:1 The devil and the wilderness

    • 4:2 Forty days and forty nights

    • The Temptation of Our Lord

    • When did Y‘shua become the Son of YHWH?



      1. The conception of Y‘shua:





      1. The human birth of Y‘shua:





      1. The baptism of Y‘shua: a spiritual conception and birth:



    • 4:3-4 Man shall not live by bread alone

    • The First Temptation

    • 4:5 Setteth him on a pinnacle of the Temple

    • 4:6-7 It is written again

    • The Second Temptation

    • 4:8- 10 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain

    • The Third Temptation

    • Overview of the temptations

    • It is written

    • The baptism and temptations of Y‘shua

    • him 4:11 When the devil ended all the temptations, the angels came and ministered unto

    • 4:12 John cast into prison and Y‘shua departed to Galilee to preach

    • 4:13- 16 Might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet

    • Capernaum, a city of Galilee

    • 4:17 The kingdom of heaven is at hand

    • 4:18- 22 Y‘shua‘s first disciples

    • James the son of Zebedee and John his brother

    • 4:23 Preaching the good news of the Kingdom

    • Y‘shua‘s religious attendance

    • The synagogue

    • Similarities and customs in the synagogues and early church

    • Terms for synagogue

    • The ―Gospel‖

    • 4:24 All Syria

    • Y‘shua left the synagogue and went to Simon‘s house

    • Y‘shua rose early to pray, as was his habit, and healed more people during the day

    • Jewish Lifecycle customs) The Miracle at Cana: changing water into ―wine‖ (The wedding is the fifth of the

    • Miracles of Y‘shua - What Are They?

    • Was His first miracle - wine or grape juice?

    • Additional information concerning grape juice

    • The mystical side of the first miracle

    • Y‘shua returned to Capernaum

      • Y‘shua clears the Temple In Jerusalem xii

      • Still in Jerusalem: during the Passover Feast Y‘shua teaches Nakdimon (Nicodemus)

      • Yochanan's testimony

      • 4:25 And great multitudes followed Y‘shua

      • PHASE 1: ENGAGEMENT (SHITRE ERUSIN IN HEBREW)

      • PHASE 2: WEDDING

      • PHASE 3: THE CELEBRATION





  • SECTION II

    • A MIDRASH ON TORAH OBSERVANCE

    • MATTHEW 5:1-

      • The "Sermon on the Mount"

      • 5:1 The Mountain and the Disciples..........................................................................

      • 5:2-3 Kingdom of Heaven

      • 5:3-10 Blessed are...

      • 5:9 The Peacemakers

      • 5:10-13 Semitic Poetry

      • The Salt

      • 5:16 Good works glorify your Father

      • 5:17 The Law

      • Y‘shua likened unto Moses

      • Law written on the heart

      • Destroy Fulfill

      • What??? That can't be right, can it?

      • Y‘shua the law keeper

      • 5:18 Jot or Tittle

      • 5:19 Break or teach men so

      • 5:20 You shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven

      • The righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees

      • What went wrong?

      • Do not do away with the Law

      • The Jewish Roots the unifying point

      • The Jewish Rabbi

      • Style of Teaching

      • Table Fellowship

      • Shaul the Pharisee

      • Moral and ethical matters

      • 5:21 You have heard it was said...

      • Thou shall not kill...

      • 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother...

      • Sanhedrin

      • 5:23-24 First be reconciled to thy brother

      • Learning Our Husband‘s Ways

      • 5:25-30 Thou shalt not commit adultery

      • 5:31-32 Whosoever shall put away his wife...

      • Divorce

      • 5:33-37 Thou shalt not forswear thyself

      • The Old Testament Law and Oaths

      • 5:38-42 Eye for an eye...

      • The Old Testament and Retaliation

      • 5:43-44 Love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy

      • Who Is My Neighbour?

      • 5:45-47 Sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust

      • The Apostles xiii



    • MATTHEW 6:1-

      • 6:1-4 Do not your alms before men, to be seen of them

      • appearance 6:5-6 The two principle prayer errors current at the time of our Lord‘s earthly

      • 6:7-8 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions

      • 6:9-13 "The Lord's Prayer"

      • Our Father

      • Which art in heaven

      • Hallowed be Thy Name

      • Thy kingdom come

      • Thy will be done

      • Requests section

      • The word ―for‖

      • For ever Amen

      • Are you over or under-familiar with Matt 6:11?

      • 6:14-15 For if ye forgive men their trespasses

      • 6:16- 18 Fast

      • 6:19-22 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth...

      • 6:23 But if thine eye be evil

      • Good eye (`ayîn tôwbh) / Evil eye

      • 6:24 Ye cannot serve God and mammon

      • 6:25-31 Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat...

      • 6:32-34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow

      • The Kingdom of YHWH



    • MATTHEW 7:1-

      • 7:1 Do not judge, or you too will be judged

      • 7:2 with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again

      • The Torah is the ―perfect law of liberty" that we are to judge by:

      • Y‘shua‘s words, "Do Not Judge"

      • What is Judging?

      • Applying this idea to our own lives

      • To hear Y‘shua one more time,

      • 7:3-5 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye?

      • Paul and James had similar messages about double standards:

      • 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs

      • 7:7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find

      • 7:8-12 Do to others what you would have them do to you

      • James had a similar way of summarising what true faith is:

      • Torah: Paul and James agree that knowing the Torah is not enough - we are to DO the

      • 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate

      • Narrow is the way

      • 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing

      • 7:16-20 Ye shall know them by their fruits

      • 7:21-29 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord...





  • SECTION III

    • MESSIAH‘S MIRACLES

    • MATTHEW 8:1-

      • 8:1-4 And, behold, there came a leper shew thyself to the priest

      • 8:5-11 There came unto him a centurion

      • Y‘shua‘s authority xiv

      • Before Y‘shua Came

      • 8:12-15 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out

      • 8:16-17 They brought unto him many that were possessed with devils

      • 8:18-22 Let the dead bury their dead

      • 8:23-27 Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea

      • 8:28-34 Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

      • The Decapolis

      • Y‘shua visits Kursi

      • The miracle

      • Jews and Gentiles



    • MATTHEW 9:1-

      • 9:1-7 "Son of Man"

      • 9:6-9 Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins

      • The receipt of custom

      • 9:10-13 Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

      • 9:14 The disciples of John

      • 9:18-26 If I may but touch his garment

      • The Jewish Y‘shua and the ―hem of his garment‖

      • The Name of YHWH in the tzitzit

      • Tallit‘s custom when praying for the sick

      • Tallits in the New Testament

      • From Hebrew to Greek – the Tallit

      • 9:27-34 See that no man know it

      • 9:35 Preaching the gospel of the kingdom

      • 9:36-38 As sheep having no shepherd

      • What does ―his wings‖ represent?





  • SECTION IV

    • MESSIAH‘S TEACHINGS

    • MATTHEW 10:1-

      • 10:1-4 Disciples/Apostles

      • Power against unclean spirits

      • Unclean spirits

      • Quick Review of the Names of the 12 Talmidim (Apostles)

      • 10:5-6 Go not into the way of the Gentiles

      • Who were the Essenes?

      • Who were the Samaritans?

      • Samarian belief

      • In general:

      • Some other points:

      • 10:7 The kingdom of heaven

      • 10:8-13 Freely ye have received, freely give

      • 10:14-15 More tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha

      • 10:16-20 Harmless as doves

      • 10:21 Brother shall deliver up the brother to death

      • The Talmud also connects such family disloyalty to the time of Messiah:

      • 10:22-23 But he that endureth to the end shall be saved

      • 10:24-25 If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub

      • 10:26 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed

      • 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body...

      • 10:32-33 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men

      • 10:34-37 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth

      • 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross xv

      • 10:39-42 He that findeth his life shall lose it





  • SECTION IV

    • MESSIAH‘S TEACHINGS

    • MATTHEW 11:1-

      • 11:1-3 Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

      • Messianic Expectations: Prepare the Way of YHWH................................................

      • The Parents of Yochanan

      • The Incense Ritual

      • Edersheim gives us a detailed account of this ritual:



        • The Last Three Prayers *



      • The Vision

      • The Angel of YHWH continued his discourse to Zacharias:

      • The Circumcision Prophecy

      • The Ministry of Yochanan

      • The Immersion of Y‘shua

      • The Apostle John fills in a few more details

      • Yochanan‘s Testimonies

      • Did Yochanan misunderstand?

      • The Two Messiahs

      • Messiah Ben Joseph

      • The purpose of Yochanan's question

      • Messiah Ben David

      • Be Not Offended

      • The Conquering King

      • Summary

      • 11:4-6 Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see

      • Y‘shua's Commission

      • Preaching the Gospel by Word

      • Preaching by Deed

      • Preaching by Effect

      • 11:7-10 What did you go out into the desert to see?

      • 11:11 He that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he

      • 11:12 The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force

      • Kingdom Violence

      • In summary

      • Other violence in the heavenlies

      • 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John

      • 11:14-18 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come

      • 11:19 But wisdom is justified of her children

      • 11:20-24 Then began he to upbraid the cities

      • The Evangelical Triangle

      • Focus of Y‘shua‘s activity

      • Was something happening in Galilee?

      • Ministry to the Jews

      • Post-resurrection in the Galilee

      • 11:25-28 Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent

      • 11:29-30 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me





  • SECTION IV

    • MESSIAH‘S TEACHINGS

    • MATTHEW 12:1-

      • 12:1-2 Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath... xvi

      • 12:3-5 Have ye not read what David did... have ye not read in the Law

      • 12:6 In this place is one greater than the temple

      • 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth...

      • 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day

      • 12:9-17 And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?

      • 12:18-19 Behold My Servant...

      • 12:20-21 Till He send forth judgment into victory

      • The High Priest anointed for war

      • 12:22-24 Is not this the son of David?

      • 12:25-27 And Jesus knew their thoughts...

      • 12:28 But if I cast out devils...

      • The Zohar makes it clear

      • 12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house?

      • 12:30-31 He that is not with me is against me

      • This situation is remarkably similar to an occurrence in Moses' time:

      • All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven

      • The Great King of Israel

      • 12:32-33 Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men

      • 12:34- 37 O generation of vipers

      • What exactly did Y‘shua mean when he said not to use ―idle‖ words?

      • 12:38-39 An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign

      • 12:40-42 As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly

      • seeking rest, and findeth none... Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation

      • 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven



        1. From the Creation to the Exodus





        1. From the Exodus to the Apostolic Era





        1. From the Apostolic Era to the Present Time



      • Calendar Changes:

      • To Summarise:

      • How does one keep the Sabbaths of the Almighty?





  • SECTION V

    • MESSIAH‘S KINGDOM PARABLES

    • MATTHEW 13:1-

      • Introduction

      • The Kingdom of YHWH

      • The "Kingdom" Of Satan

      • The Kingdom prior to Y‘shua

      • The Kingdom at Y‘shua's time

      • The Kingdom today

      • The Kingdom in Matthew

      • 13:1-2 Sat by the sea side

      • Y‘shua was sitting at the Sea of Galilee.

      • 13:3-9 The first parable

      • 13:10-17 Why Y‘shua spoke in parables

      • Isaiah‘s prophecy:

      • 13:18-23 The interpretation of the first parable

      • Others tell it as:

      • 13:24-30 The second parable

      • 13:31-33 The third and fourth parables

      • A grain of Mustard seed





      1. Small beginnings xvii





      1. What is a seed?



    • Gideon:

    • The Little Maid:

    • The Little Boy:

    • The Young Man:

    • Little Creatures:

    • 3 What can we do?

    • 13:34-43 The interpretation of the second parable

    • inside... This parable probably teaches us about Truth; let‘s consider what might be hidden

    • 13:44-46 The fifth and sixth parables

    • The Kingdom‘s Treasures



      1. The Worth of YHWH's Kingdom





      1. Temporarily Hidden from our Eyes





      1. Recognising Value





      1. Total Commitment Commanded



    • At All Cost:

    • 13:47-50 The seventh parable

    • Why were Parables given?

    • The Net

    • The Fishermen

    • The Fish

    • The Judgment

    • The Destination.........................................................................................................

    • Summary

    • 13:51-52 The eighth parable

    • 13:53-54 And when he was come into his own country

    • 13: 55 - 58 Is not this the carpenter's son?

    • Was Y‘shua a carpenter?

    • Y‘shua and Jewish Education

    • Two rabbinic stories give a flavour of the Palestinian attitude towards Greek:

    • James the Brother of Y‘shua



  • VARIOUS SECTIONS ON THE KINGDOM OF YHWH

    • Additional References

    • The Kingdom and forgiveness

    • The kingdom and Eunuchs

    • Entry into the Kingdom

    • The Kingdom and your talents

    • The Kingdom and the Torah

    • The Kingdom and the lesson to always be prepared

    • SECTION VI

    • TEACHINGS AND MIRACLES

    • MATTHEW 14:1-

    • 14:1-4 Herod and the imprisonment of Yochanan the Immerser

    • 14:5-12 They counted him as a prophet

    • YHWH told King Abimelech:

    • Salome

    • 14:13 By ship into a desert place apart

    • 14:14-18 We have here but five loaves, and two fishes............................................

    • 14:19-21 He blessed, and brake

    • Tabgha - The place of the miracle

    • How did Tabgha get its name?

      • 14:22-29 The disciples saw him walking on the sea xviii

      • 14:30-31He was afraid; and beginning to sink

      • 14:32-35 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased

      • 14:36 As many as touched were made perfectly whole





  • SECTION VI

    • TEACHINGS AND MIRACLES

    • MATTHEW 15:1-

      • 15:1 Scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem.............................................

      • their hands when they eat bread 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not

      • The only washing of hands in the Torah

      • The tradition of washing hands

      • 15:3-8 Why do ye also transgress the commandment of YHWH by your tradition?

      • From Mark 7:1-

      • mightest be profited by me Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou

      • Ye made the commandment of YHWH of none effect by your tradition

      • 15:9-10 Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men

      • the mouth 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of

      • 15:12 The Pharisees were offended

      • 15:13 Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up

      • 15:14-19 Blind leaders of the blind

      • Are ye also even yet without understanding?

      • 15:20 But to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man

      • 15:21-28 I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel

      • As Paul also stated the following:

      • A woman of Canaan

      • She crieth after us.....................................................................................................

      • It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs

      • and the blind to see 15:29-39 They saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk,

      • And they cast them down at his feet

      • Three days of feeding the multitudes

      • Three days from an Eschatological point of view

      • Magdala, home of Mary Magdalene

      • How Magdala got its name

      • History of Magdala

      • Y‘shua cleanses Mary

      • Magdala today





  • SECTION VI

    • TEACHINGS AND MIRACLES

    • MATTHEW 16:1-

      • times? 16:1-3 Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the

      • 16:4-10 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign

      • 16:11-12 The doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees

      • or one of the prophets 16:13-16 Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias,

      • heaven 16:17 Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in

      • against it 16:18 Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail

      • Theological Analysis

      • The Church, Etymologically Speaking

      • Who Are The Congregation?

      • "No New Thing Under The Sun"

      • From Temple and Synagogue

      • Extended Family, Community

      • Back to Basics

      • heaven shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in

      • 16:21-26 Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me

      • then he shall reward every man according to his works 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and

      • Son of man coming in his kingdom 16:28 There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the





  • SECTION VI

    • TEACHINGS AND MIRACLES

    • MATTHEW 17:1-

      • 17:1 Bringeth them up into an high mountain apart

      • 17:2 And was transfigured before them

      • 17:3 There appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him

      • 17:4 Let us make here three tabernacles

      • 17:5-10 A bright cloud and behold a voice out of the cloud

      • 17:11 Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things

      • 17:12-13 That Elias is come already, and they knew him not

      • The prophesied Eliyah from an eschatological point of view

      • Additional details provided by Luke

      • John's testimony about Y'shua

      • 17:14-17 I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him

      • 17:18-19 And Jesus rebuked the devil

      • 17:20 If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed

      • 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting

      • 17:22-25 Doth not your master pay tribute?

      • 17:26 Then are the children free

      • 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them

      • Y‘shua the Temple

      • The Half-Shekel Tax





  • SECTION VII

    • TEACHINGS ON THE KINGDOM

    • MATTHEW 18:1-

      • 18:1-2 Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

      • 18:3-5 Except ye be converted, and become as little children

      • The Age of Accountability

      • 18:6-7 Whoso shall offend one of these little ones...

      • 1 8:8-10 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee...............................................

      • 18:11-14 The Son of man is come to save that which was lost

      • 18:15-16 If thy brother shall trespass against thee

      • 18:17 Let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican

      • 18:18-20 If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask...

      • The Messianic Sanhedrin

      • 18:21-22 How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?......................

      • 18:23-35 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king...

      • We are called by YHWH to:

      • Rebuke and Forgiveness

      • The Witnesses Under the First Covenant

      • Perjury

      • Blatant Sin

      • Tell it to the Church

      • The Hearing

      • The Decision

      • Accusations against an Elder

      • Accusations

      • Open Rebuke





  • SECTION VII

    • TEACHINGS ON THE KINGDOM

    • MATTHEW 19:1-

      • and female 19:1-7 Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male

      • wives: but from the beginning it was not so 19:8 Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your

      • The Talmud says of this:

      • 1 9:9-11 Whosoever shall put away his wife

      • 19:12 Which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake

      • 19:13-19 If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments

      • The Torah of YHWH



        1. Man's Duty:





        1. The Greatest Commandment:





        1. Fear YHWH:





        1. Love YHWH thy Elohim:





        1. How are we to obey?



      • 19:20-27 All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

      • The camel and the eye of the needle; various scenarios

      • Mangled Greek, maybe?

      • The Aramaic

      • 19:28 Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones

      • 19:29-30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first





  • SECTION VII

    • TEACHINGS ON THE KINGDOM

    • MATTHEW 20:1-

      • 20:1-14 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder

      • I am good? 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because

      • 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last

      • YHWH's Labourers



        1. The Almighty's Vineyard:





        1. The eleventh-hour worker:





        1. The wages:





        1. The complaint:







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