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God speaks through a true prophet in order to prepare his people for events to come and to turn them from their sinful ways when they have gone astray.</SPAN> <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,255,255);">Please read these introductory pages so that you understand the context of actual prophecy.</SPAN></P> </LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="LayoutRegion45LYR" STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/Bannerscrollthumb2.bmp');"><LAYER ID="LayoutRegion45LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=576 LEFT=14 WIDTH=196 HEIGHT=40 Z-INDEX=5 background="../assets/images/Bannerscrollthumb2.bmp"> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=196 HEIGHT=40 STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/Bannerscrollthumb2.bmp');" NOF="LayoutRegion45"> <TR ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <TD><DIV ID="Text106LYR" CLASS="TextObject"><LAYER ID="Text106LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=13 LEFT=17 WIDTH=159 HEIGHT=19 Z-INDEX=1> <P><A HREF="../html/modern_jewish_prophecy.html">Modern Jewish Prophecy</A> </P> </LAYER></DIV></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="LayoutRegion46LYR" STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/Bannerscrollthumb2.bmp');"><LAYER ID="LayoutRegion46LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=622 LEFT=12 WIDTH=196 HEIGHT=40 Z-INDEX=6 background="../assets/images/Bannerscrollthumb2.bmp"> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=196 HEIGHT=40 STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/Bannerscrollthumb2.bmp');" NOF="LayoutRegion46"> <TR ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <TD><DIV ID="Text107LYR" CLASS="TextObject"><LAYER ID="Text107LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=13 LEFT=18 WIDTH=161 HEIGHT=19 Z-INDEX=1> <P><A HREF="../html/what_is_a_messianic_jew__.html">What is a Messianic Jew?</A> </P> </LAYER></DIV></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="LayoutRegion49LYR" STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/scrollworkheader2.bmp');"><LAYER ID="LayoutRegion49LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=739 LEFT=5 WIDTH=216 HEIGHT=142 Z-INDEX=7 background="../assets/images/scrollworkheader2.bmp"> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=216 HEIGHT=142 STYLE="background-image: url('../assets/images/scrollworkheader2.bmp');" NOF="LayoutRegion49"> <TR ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <TD><DIV ID="Text155LYR" CLASS="TextObject"><LAYER ID="Text155LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=77 LEFT=34 WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=19 Z-INDEX=1> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; 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Brethren . . .Part</SPAN> <SPAN STYLE="font-size: large;">Ñ</SPAN></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=82 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=40 HEIGHT=12><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=40 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=42><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=42 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=42 CLASS="TextObject"> <P><A HREF="../html/men___brethren.html">Part 1</A></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=628 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=16 HEIGHT=22><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=16 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=612><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=612 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=612 CLASS="TextObject"> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">Amongst the Jews, the image of Jesus is one of two things: he was an Hasidic teacher in Galilee; or, two, he was an Hasidic teacher in Galilee whose image and message was distorted by Saul of Tarsus. The result was to create the most powerful divergent religion off Judaism in history. </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">Today, there is a great tendency toward restoring the  Jewish Teacher image of Jesus. Let s look at two things here. 1) What is the scriptural image of the Messiah? And, 2, what is Jesus image of himself? Jews have felt deep-seated anger toward Christian compromises, viewing the divinity of Jesus as one of Paul s most Hellenic inspirations. Yet even taking out all the references to  Son of God in the gospels as later additions (which the Jews firmly believed to be so), none can deny that Jesus referred to himself as the  Son of Man, directing all to the most popular book at the time, the <A HREF="../html/similtudes.html">Book of Enoch</A>, in which the  Son of Man goes hand-in-hand with God, is the embodiment of righteousness, and was from before the beginning. In other words, he was divine.</P> <P>Jewish anger is easy to explain because the divinity that the Church has given Jesus is a Greek concept of it, not a Scriptural concept. This Jewish anger is something profoundly prophesied by Moses in his <A HREF="../html/the_song_of_moses.html">Song of Departure</A>. By the revelation of God, Moses tells Israel their future. <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Specifically, Moses declares how we will exasperate God to such an extent (<SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,0,255);"> They have provoked me to jealousy with <I>that which is</I> not God, they have exasperated me with their idols;</SPAN>) that <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,0,255);"> I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Them that are no nation  they are not an ethnicity but they are large enough to be considered a nation. Even Paul took that as referring to the Gentile Church.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">To the point here, however, is that this prophecy in Moses Song of Departure comes just before something truly astounding. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,153);"> Behold, behold that I am, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live; I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands. For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live forever. . . </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Poetic language? Hardly accurate if so. God declared he would lift his hand <I>to heaven</I>. The entire language is from the prospective of being on earth. Yet it is God speaking. It is not so subtle it requires much interpretation. In fact, sages always caught the hints to the resurrection, for it says.  I kill and I will make to live. Tract Sanhedrin Chapter XI even begins with referring to the Mishna.  The following have no share in the world to come: He who says that there is no allusion in the Torah concerning resurrection, and he who says that the Torah was not given by Heaven . . . Sanhedrin XI goes on  Rabha propounded another contradiction: It reads [Dev xxxii. 39]:  I make one die and I make one alive ; and further on it reads:  I wound and I heal .&nbsp; It means that the Holy One, blessed be He, says: All that I made to die shall I bring to life again, and thereafter shall I cure what was wounded. The rabbis taught: Lest one say that the verse just cited means, I make one die and another one shall I bring to life, therefore it reads,  I wound and I cure. As wounding and curing apply to one person only, the same is the case with death and life they apply to one person. This is an answer to those who say that there is no hint in the Torah about resurrection. There is a Boraitha: R. Mair said: It reads [Ex. xv. 1]:  Then Moses and the children of Israel will sing this song. It does not read  sang, but will sing (yoshir). This is a hint of resurrection in the Torah. </SPAN></P> <P>And yet at the same time as this hint of the resurrection there is just as blunt a hint in God declaring himself from the position of being on Earth. <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,153);"> Behold, behold that I am, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live; I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands. <I>For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live forever. . .</I> </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: right;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;">èÐÕ âêÔ ÛÙ ÐàÙ ÐàÙ ÔÕÐ ÕÐÙß ÐÜÔÙÝ âÞÓÙ ÐàÙ ÐÞÙê ÕÐ×ÙÔ Þ×æêÙ ÕÐàÙ ÐèäÐ ÕÐÙß ÞÙÓÙ ÞæÙÜ: ÛÙ-ÐéÐ ÐÜ-éÞÙÝ ÙÓÙ ÕÐæèêÙ ×Ù ÐàÛÙ ÜâÜÝ</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Moses, too, understood this and more. Who can deny his language in his <I>Book of Job</I>. He again placed God on the earth in the latter days to come, and because of this he would have redemption and he would rise from the dead and see God with his own eyes. <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);">For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: right;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;">ÕÐàÙ ÙÓâêÙ ÒÐÜÙ ×Ù ÕÐ×èÕß âÜ-âäè ÙçÕÝ: ÕÐ×è âÕèÙ àçäÕ-ÖÐê ÕÞÑéèÙ Ð×ÖÔ ÐÜÕÔ: Ðéè ÐàÙ Ð×ÖÔ-ÜÙ ÕâÙàÙ èÐÕ ÕÜÐ-Öè ÛÜÕ ÛÜÙêÙ Ñ×çÙ</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">What a beautiful word to use ×ÖÔ. Not really just  see as with one s eyes, but to totally perceive and understand. Then sight with the eyes compliments this èÐÕ. </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Moses obviously wrote this long before his Song. Therefore there is only one prophecy that could have inspired it. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of thy brethren, like me; him shall ye hear: according to all things which thou didst desire of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God, and we will not anymore see this great fire, and so we shall not die. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to thee. I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him. And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak to them, I will take vengeance on him. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">We had heard God speaking for himself from Horeb and we couldn t bear it. When Moses descended, the people approached, and said  Speak thou to us, and let not God speak to us, lest we die. And Moses replied:  Be of good courage, for God is come to you to try you, that his fear may be among you, that ye sin not. That is indeed true. God intentionally frightened us at Horeb. The purpose was not only to give us an example of what he is really like, if he choses to be, but it was to pave the way for something more marvelous God would speak direct through  that prophet. &nbsp; What was Moses to deduce? The obvious. It is actually such a humbling statement Moses understood the greatness of the one to come. He does not contest, saying,  Tell me and I will tell the people. No, God says he will raise up one, born of the people, who alone shall speak directly for God. God would not speak direct through Moses only through  that prophet to come. What a significant moment. Moses even warned the people at the end. Above all things they were to remember this day. Why not? After all, the significance of this  prophet is such that God would take vengeance on all those who would not listen to him. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Moses himself knew a greater was coming. He made clear the purpose of the law. In Dev. 4 it is specified that it is for to give peace in the land. It was not the pathway to God. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">Despite the many points Rabbis have made against Christianity, the need for our own reform has been overlooked. One glaring point refers to it daily the diaspora. It was not a sign of God s blessing that we should be scattered and removed from our land. </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">Concepts of the  son of God could very well could be later additions to the gospels along with  demons calling out his name and proclaiming this status. Scripture declared something far more shocking . . .and Jewish. God himself would build his own living tabernacle and dwell amongst us. The One God. Not a part of him.  There is no god beside me. Just as he placed his spirit in a special way in the Holies of Holies, so it is easy for God to be everywhere and yet integrate his own spirit with a body. </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">The fact that gospels mention  demons calling out Jesus name and declaring him the  son of God suggests that the concept is a later or, well,  peasant improvisation. In general, Judaism did not believe in such evil spirits. Only the  common people believed in demonology. Sages and scholars could find no real evidence for them. The sages were right. Considering God  fills heaven and earth wherein then could  evil spirits dwell? God is spirit. Therefore how could He even have evil spirits near at hand?  Fallen Angels come from some sections of the Book of Enoch. First there were 200 (10 captains of 20 came down to Mount Carmel headed by Semjaza) and then later in other passages the number grew to a couple of thousand. That s about it. There is the origin of demons. </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">Jesus referral to  casting out demons may be quite original. But it could merely be viewed as condescending to the level of people s intelligence rather than telling them these sick folk had mental and neurological problems. He speaks of the lilies of the field being more arrayed than Solomon in all his glory. This almost seems a reference to the complexity of the atomic world. He does not elaborate for an obvious reason. Who could understand? Throughout scripture God has shown that he speaks to man on a level we can understand. The logic is obvious. Why communicate on a level we cannot comprehend? </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;">But there is no doubt that Jesus referred to himself directly as the  Son of Man  a concept of the great deliverer to come from the <A HREF="../html/similtudes.html">Book of Enoch.</A> As such, it is far more provocative than  Son of God and certainly not Hellenistic.</P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And there I saw One who had a head of days; and His head was white like wool; and with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man. And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels. And I asked the angel who went with me, and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, and why he went with the Head of Days? And he answered and said unto me: This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness, with whom dwelleth righteousness, and who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden, because the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts hath chosen him; and whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts in uprightness for ever.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,153);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And at that hour that Son of Man was named in the presence of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts, and his name before the Head of Days. Yea, before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of the heaven were made, His name was named before the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall, and he shall be the light of the Gentiles, and the hope of those who are troubled of heart. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him, and will praise and bless and celebrate with song the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts. And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him, before the creation of the world and for evermore. And the wisdom of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts hath revealed him to the holy and righteous; for he hath preserved the lot of the righteous because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness, and have hated all its works and ways in the name of the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> of Hosts. For in his name they are saved, and according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>No father and sonship implied. But nevertheless this  Son of Man was from before the beginning and he went hand-in-hand with God. And those on the earth shall worship him. This is, of course, loaded. </P> <P>We have already shown that the Torah deeply  hints at the resurrection and God speaking from the vantage point of being on earth, as did Moses speak about this. Isaiah 9 also speaks in blunt language. Let us advance beyond Moses by 500 years to David. David was a prophet. What did he write in his psalms? <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">said unto my Lord sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Speaking as a prophet in his psalms, David spoke of the Holy One. Who else could sit at God s right hand, even in symbolic language? Yet the context is that of a body of flesh yet again: (Psalm 16:10)  Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known unto me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand there are delights for ever. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Holy One  a reference it would seem for a living temple. The temple was always referred in the Hebraism as  Holy Place. Why? Because God said he would place his spirit there in a special way. God is not limited to a house. He  fills heaven and earth. Nevertheless, he would set that house apart and there in the holiest of all his spirit would dwell. Yet nowhere did God ever say that house would not see decay and destruction. Yet for the Holy One there is the promise of a body never decomposing. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Just as no place can be holy unless God has placed his spirit there, nobody can be a  holy place unless God s spirit is there. It is far different than the concept of  filling heaven and earth. If that were the case all places and matter would be holy. No, God sanctifies a place where his spirit will actually communicate and openly act efficaciously and give revelation. The ground on Sinai around the burning bush was holy ground because God was there is a special way, speaking directly to Moses. The Temple is the holy place because God had decreed he would dwell there and that house shall be a symbol of God dwelling with us.&nbsp; For any body to be called  Holy One it means God is dwelling there in just the same way as at the bush and the temple. His own spirit is there in a commanding, unique way. Clearly, David was not tactlessly speaking of himself. And indeed his body decomposed. Someone else would not see bodily decay and remain in the grave. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">This is now getting awfully close to the Nazarene and not the Rabbinic concept of the Messiah God with Us. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">David indeed had been told by Nathan the Prophet that God should raise up from David s descendants the king who would sit on his throne forever, and that there would be no end to his kingdom. Now, Solomon and all the people thought this spoke of him, even though Solomon could not last forever, nor can any earthly throne. They thought it was Solomon just as readers of David s psalms had thought that David tastelessly spoke of himself when he said  Holy One. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Yet the promise was a divine promise that would come through David s heritage. Did God lie? By no means! The great prophet Isaiah, hundreds of years later, was sent to King Ahaz of Judah, for God would allow him to ask for a sign that Judah would continue. Things were truly pressing because of two kings, the king of Israel and the king of Aram, were joining forces to squash the kingdom of Judah. What sign would there be that this was not the end of Judah? Isaiah was sent to intercept Ahaz and convey to him that God would allow Ahaz to ask for a sign. But Ahaz would not tempt God or ask for a sign concerning the ultimate fate of Judah. God had had enough of the fickle, contentious ways of his people and Ahaz. Exasperated, Isaiah replied directly to the king: </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Hear ye now O House of David: is it a little thing for you to contend with men, but will ye contend with my God also? Therefore the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> himself shall give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil or choose good. For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses the evil, to choose the good . . . </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">So ended God s sign. (Some of the most commonly used versions today strangely insert  For before the child shall know to refuse evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. The Septuagint and variations carry no such reading in that form; and it appears it is a misplace from the end of verse 10. LXX reads  and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings. ). See <A HREF="../html/messianic_prophecies.html">Messianic Prophecies</A>)</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Never was it so clearly said to the House of David that a virgin woman belonging to it should bear a son. The divine origin was clear. . .until some Rabbis, like Symmachus, wiped it out because of their repulsion at Greek Christianity. Symmachus also had to take something else to task the Septuagint.&nbsp; In the case of the above prophecy, the Greek clearly read  virgin whereas the Hebrew word was interpreted to mean  young woman. Therefore (by the 4th Century </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">AD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">) the whole idea of a virgin birth was repudiated, and squarely excised from Judaism, though the Christians refused to acknowledge Symmachus and others assertions that the word in Isaiah only meant  young woman. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Since the discoveries at Qumran, however, the authority of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Scriptures, has been restored. In many places it does indeed differ from the Hebrew we now have. But Qumran showed that various Hebrew texts and variations did exist, and passages resembling those in the Septuagint were found in Hebrew. Thus it was surmised that the Septuagint was a translation of a varying text of the Hebrew Scriptures.&nbsp; (Because of Symmachus and other rabbis by the 5th century there began a degradation for the Septuagint, for when comparing the Greek to the Hebrew there were revealed many differences, and by the 4th century </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">AD </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">even the scholarly Jerome had said  Correct toward the Hebrew not knowing the Greek was an accurate translation of older Hebrew texts.) </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Regardless of the reestablishment of the Septuagint s authority, Symmachus arguments hold no weight. The Hebrew word does indeed mean maiden. It is perhaps embarrassing or humorous that people don t realize maiden and virgin are synonymous. The Jewish scholars did not err in using the Greek word <I>parthenos</I> virgin.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Those who have insisted that  young woman does not imply  virgin have been so adamant they are blinded to the actual context. If this is just a woman giving birth to a son who is just to be called  God with us, why would such a common event be worded as such a big deal by Isaiah? Why would it be worthy of being some big prophecy from God? Such an event as young women giving birth goes on every day. The momentous element behind the entire prophecy is that it would be a virgin birth. The body in the womb would be created by God himself.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And, indeed, that is what the Greek translation says, the translation which Symmachus was so disturbed by, and which he encouraged Jews to stop reading. The Jewish scholars who translated the scriptures at Alexandria in Egypt, beginning in the 3rd century </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">BC</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, were experts in Hebrew and Greek, of course. These were languages taken for granted by them, not one limited to scholarly discussion. The Jewish scribes understood Isaiah 7:14 only one way:  idou e parthenos in gastri lipsetai  Behold a virgin shall conceive in the womb.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Parthenos. Much is made today of the pagan temple of Athena the Virgin, which the Greeks raised up on the Acropolis. Is it not still called the Parthenon? In every place in scripture where the ancient translators find the Hebrew word for virgin or maiden they use parthenos. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has shocked many. . .but it is only now with time that the impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls upon Judaism can be fully appreciated. Jews now realize that what is standard Rabbinical Judaism is the scion of only one surviving party from ancient Judaism. The divergent Judaism of so long ago is helping to answer the questions why <A HREF="../html/the_pharisees.html">Pharisaical Judaism</A> has only gone hand-in-hand with 2000 years of dispersion and persecution. The Dead Sea Scrolls provide a clear witness that Jews believed a redeemer, a great teacher of righteousness, was soon coming. Also, that a great apocalypse was also coming, one that would come after a 40 year period. Tying these expectations in with Biblical prophecy, it is clear of whom they all speak.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Many Jews are seeing that they did not hearken unto  that prophet. The  Christian interpretation of scripture was not Christian at all it was the overriding view of Judaism that a messiah was soon to come and that the Gentiles would seek him out. It is now even more clear that the Messiah was not some great hero or warrior come to rescue us, nor some spiritual leader talking about minutiae and concocting gezeirah. He would be God coming to his people to redeem them from their sins. The Messiah would first appear around the Galilee area and would be that son born to the House of David. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">In Isaiah 9, this son is mentioned. His miracles will appear first in Galilee and the land of Zebulon, and they shall not last long. First we quote from the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. It is written: </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,102);">For one who was in anguish there will be no gloom. In the former time he treated the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but in the latter time he will make it glorious, by way of the sea, beyond the Jordon, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. On those who lived in the land of deep shadows, the light has shined. You have expanded the nation, you have increased its joy. They rejoice in your presence, as with the joy at harvest, as people cheer when they divide spoil. For the yoke of their burden and the pole on their shoulder, the rod of their oppressors, thou hast broken, as in the day of Midiam. For every boot tramping in the tumult and the garments rolled in blood will be burned for fire. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">For unto a child is born, unto us a son is given. The government will be upon his shoulders. He shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the expansion of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, to establish it and to sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and forever more. The zeal of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> of Hosts will do this. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">From the Septuagint, we find a variation:  <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,0,255);">Drink this first. Do it quickly, O land of Zabulon, land of the Nephtalim and the rest of the sea coast, and beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and deep shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you. Thou hast expanded the nation; thou hast increased its joy. . . </SPAN>The Septuagint reading is much the same, but it constantly places everything in the future context with  shall instead of the present or past. However, the <I>Book of Isaiah</I> has been saved complete at Qumran. Isaiah 9:1 there, and indeed most of the passage, appears to be the original. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately, the Rabbis also standardized the Babylonian texts when it comes to pronouns, altering some from  him to  my, sincerely believing the readings must have been mistakes. Isaiah (again taken from the Great Scroll at Qumran) prophesied so clearly (Isaiah 51: 4-6)  <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);">Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my nation! For a law will go forth from me, and my justice will be a light for the peoples. I will quickly bring my victory near; my salvation will go forth. His arm will judge the peoples, the coastlands will wait for him, and in his arm they will hope. Raise your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth, and see who created these. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Good heavens! Indeed, there it is again. The people along the coastland (Zebulon, Naphtili, Galilee) could raise their heads to heaven and look at the earth and then look upon him who created all things. God would surely walk among us. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Again, an Anointed One was to come, and to him would be given the entire earth as a possession forever. This could not be David or Solomon. Yet David writes plainly in the second Psalm:  He said to me, thou art my son; today have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I will surely make the nations your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth your possession. And again, David said (Psalm 110):  The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Now we know that David never inherited the ends of the Earth. He died and after only one generation (after the death of Solomon) David s kingdom was divided. There were those, of course, in Israel who later realized that David was not in view and that neither also was Solomon. This was made clear by continuing prophecies. The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> was conveying to such as Isaiah, Zechariah and Daniel that the Messiah was still to come on the throne of David. Again, those who studied Moses knew of what he wrote: that the  redeemer would stand upon the earth in the latter day, in days to come. And indeed the <A HREF="../html/the_song_of_moses.html">Song of Moses</A> is incontrovertible for speaking from God s point of view of being on the earth. David himself praised God for the things that he had shown him that would come upon his house for a long time to come. (See <A HREF="../html/messianic_prophecies.html">Messianic Prophecies</A>)</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Yet again, David speaks in prophecy (Psalm 40).  Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not have, but a body thou hast prepared me. David already had a body, and certainly no man, including David, who had even committed grievous sin with Uriah s death on his hands, was a fit sacrifice before the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">But this is where it became confusing. The ancients, sure the Messiah being divine, were also sure that he would last forever. He would be of David s heritage and he would save Israel from the nations, and conquer and restore the glory of Israel. They could not understand how death could be involved in the Messiah. Being divine, he must last forever. If he should establish the throne of David forever, he must be divine. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Yet in Daniel it is written that Messiah is to be  cut off, but not for his sake but for the people s sake. Judaism began to develop a  duel messiah  a great teacher of the law and a great warrior-leader to sit upon the throne of David. It seemed a happy compromise to our fathers long ago, as testified by the Qumran community s <A HREF="../html/pesherism.html">peshers</A>. Obviously, however, it was not endorsed by all of Israel, possibly not even by the majority. Isaiah is extremely clear: He declares (Isaiah 53):</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> been revealed? For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and had no attractiveness that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces, and we despised him, and we did not value him. Surely he has borne our sufferings, and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> has laid on him the iniquity of us all. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,51,102);">He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. From detention and judgment he was taken away and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people. Then they made his grave with the wicked, and with rich people his tomb although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Yet the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although (Because he) made his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> will triumph in his hand. Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light, and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore will I allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death and was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">This is indeed the Holy One, who was oft spoken of. This was not the end. David prophesied  Thou wilt not let thine Holy One see corruption or leave my soul in hell. His resurrection was clear. The body, though it would die, would not decay, but it would come forth. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Even the type of death was alluded to in prophecy. David s Psalm (22), in prophecy speaking of the crucifixion on a cross, was not understood, and even suffered corruption in the later Masoretic reading, where a key statement  they pierced my hands and feet was changed to  Like a lion are my hands and feet  an almost humorous alteration. The Septuagint remained intact, reading correctly, another contention between rabbis and Christians until the DSS were discovered and Psalm 22 was found. It read  They pierced my hands and feet ! </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and are far from helping me at the words of my crying? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the nighttime there is no silence to me. But you are the Holy One, who inhabits the praises of Israel. Our fathers put their trust in you; they trusted; you delivered them. They cried unto you, and were saved; they trusted in you, and were not put to shame. But as for me, I am a worm, and not a man, scorned by others and despised by the people. All who see me ridicule me; they make faces at me and shake their heads:  Commit yourself to the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">! Let him deliver let him rescue him, since he delights in him! . . .They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravenous and roaring lion. I have been poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax. It has melted into the midst of my belly. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue is stuck to my throat; and thou hast brought me down to the dust of death. For dogs are all around me; a gang of evil doers encircles me. They have pierced my hands and my feet. They counted all of my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothes. But as for you, O L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, do not be far away! O Thou my strength, come quickly to my aid. Deliver my soul from the sword, my only-begotten from the power of the dogs. . .</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Men and brethren, this is not idle verse. The time that this should happen was foretold by Daniel the prophet. He foretold in plain language (Daniel 2) of the vision which Nebuchadnezzar had of the statue with a head of gold, the breast and arms of silver, the belly and thighs of brass, and the legs of iron and the feet of iron and clay. <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> Thou sawest until a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, which smote the image upon the feet of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloor; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Daniel made it clear: <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> The mystery which the king asks the explanation of is not of the wise men, magicians, enchanters or soothsayers to declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven revealing mysteries, and he has made known unto king Nebuchadnezzar what things must come to pass in the last days. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">The head of gold was Nebuchadnezzar s mighty kingdom. The silver would be a lesser kingdom to come after. The brass was yet another kingdom to come after that, one that would rule over the earth; and the 4th kingdom shall be strong as iron, but as clay and iron do not mix so shall that kingdom not cleave to one another. <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to another people, but it shall break into pieces and consume all these other kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">The wording is clear. By history we know that Nebuchadnezzar s Babylon was followed by the Medes and Persians, and after them they were destroyed by Alexander the Great, and the  Kingdom of the Greeks ruled the greater part of the civilized world. After the Greeks, the 4th kingdom was Rome, mighty and fierce. It was strict in its laws, and would not bend. But after it conquered the greatest part of the known civilized world, it tried to unite all its diverse peoples. It could find no unity anymore and crumbled. It could not, in other words, mix iron and clay and have a sure foundation.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">It was during this kingdom the Empire of Rome that God would set up an everlasting kingdom. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Daniel also prophesied the coming of the Messiah, even presenting a definite date. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Daniel 9: 24-27</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> Seventy sevens are determined upon thy people and upon the holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: and then the time shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted. And after the threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and upon the temple the abomination of desolation; and at the end of the time and end shall be put to the desolation. </SPAN> (See the <A HREF="../html/daniel_9_cipher.html">Daniel 9 Cipher</A>) </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Time and time again, the coming of the Messiah unto Israel was foretold, that he would be  God with us himself coming in a body. The book of My Messenger (Malachi): </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Behold, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come into his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye take pleasure in: behold he is coming, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Almighty. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Zechariah (2:10-13) declares: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. And many nations shall be joined to the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> of Hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. Be silent, O all flesh, before the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Zechariah follows a lovely chronology spaced between the verses elaborating on each notation. In Zechariah 9:9, a chronological statement exists a point in time and an event are referenced. <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass. And he will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And again in Zechariah 12:9 another chronological notation is made: <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> And I will pour upon the house of David and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. </SPAN> And again, in Zechariah 13:6 <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer,  Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.  </SPAN> And again it reads that the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> will scatter the sheep and that there will be persecution, and that only one third of Israel should hearken and the rest will be cut off. Again, a chronological note is made in Zechariah 14:1 of God s wrath to come: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Behold, the day of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Again, the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> gave us a chronological notation by the prophet Amos, that of the cause and effect. Amos declared (Amos 8:4  )</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the Sabbath, that we may open the measure and make the ephah small, and the shekel great, and make the balance unfair? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy ones for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> hath sworn against the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord G</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">OD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of a beloved, and the end thereof as a bitter day.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Just such an event happened at the Cross, and the calculation of a solar eclipse has actually been crucial in pinpointing the crucifixion to 30 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">AD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. Immediately afterward, Amos declares by the spirit of God: </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Behold, the days come, saith the Lord G</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">OD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, and shall not find it. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise again. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And then begins the prophecy of what judgment shall come, and its sign. In Chapter 9, Amos declares:</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> I saw the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: cut through into the heads of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them; And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and it shall be drowned, as if by the flood of Egypt. It is he that buildeth his ascent up to the sky, and establisheth his promise on the earth; he calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> is his name. Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">So it happened. Judgment began first at the house of God, with the rulers (the posts holding up the house) and then with all the people. Although the Greek versions of the Christian gospels read that the veil of the temple was rent, the actual Hebrew read correctly. Thanks to Jerome s notes, variants in the <I>Hebrew Gospel</I> are preserved. He notes:  But in the Gospel that is written in Hebrew letters we read, not that the veil of the temple was rent, but that the lintel of the temple of wondrous size fell. Moreover,  In the Gospel I so often mention we read that a lintel of the temple of immense size was broken and divided. Furthermore, Josephus recorded this event as happening during the final Jewish war with Rome. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And here we are, so long after that tragic event in 70 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">AD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> and its aftermath. No matter where we have sought refuge, calamity has come. We have not disappeared from the earth like other ancient peoples. We remain. God will not let us  cease to be a nation because his word is good, as he swore unto Jeremiah. Yet we have endured persecutions and holocausts. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Yet, mercifully, Amos finishes his prophecy next: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old. That they may possess the remnant of mankind, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> that doeth this. Behold, the days come, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Even these days now come upon us, and this generation shall see them come to pass. Moses spoke of it before he died, leaving the children of Israel with this promise:</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thy face, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, wherein the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">shall have scattered thee, and shalt return to the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice, according to all the things with I charged thee this day, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; then the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall heal thine iniquities, and shall pity thee, and shall again gather thee out from all the nations, among which the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> hath scattered thee. If thy dispersion be from one end of heaven to the other, thence will the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God gather thee, and thence will the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God take thee. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God shall bring thee in from thence into the land which thy fathers have inherited, and thou shalt inherit it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall purge thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">It is now time for Israel to hearken unto the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. We have been cut off because we did not hearken unto  that prophet, and all that God said he would bring upon us has come to pass.  That prophet has clearly been explained throughout scripture: it is that  son given unto us who would come from the land of Zebulon; it is he who would be  God with us, born of virgin birth. He could call the temple  his. He could, as in the <A HREF="../html/the_song_of_moses.html">Song of Moses</A>, reach toward heaven and declare  Behold, behold, there is no other god but me and that  I live forever. He is that Redeemer that Moses said would stand upon the Earth in the latter day and all those who trusted in him would rise from the dead. It is he who would inherit the nations, and to whom the Gentiles would seek. The Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father or, as the Septuagint reads:  Father of the age to come. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">This is none other than he whom the Gentiles call Jesus Christ. They have forgotten what that name means. In Hebrew we must recall it: Saviour the Messiah. He has come. The Greek version is not so appealing to Jews, and indeed it should not be. But the Scriptural version of the Saviour is beauty indeed and it is humbling, awesome and it burns the heart and overwhelms the mind. God would build his own living temple and experience his creation from our perspective. Not three gods. Not trinity. Our God, the one who told Moses to tell Pharaoh  Israel is my son has walked amongst us. The Gentiles err in calling him brother Jesus. We best get hold of ourselves and teach them the truth.  Our father has walked amongst us. Our God spoke for himself and he prepared the way since Horeb. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And all that has been said shall come to pass. Now it is time to turn. Not turn unto fabricated tales and weird religions of the Gentiles, with this or that requirement; nor unto men saying they have an edge with God. You shall believe; and finally you shall teach the nations of him. The Rabbinate shall not cease. The priests shall maintain their pedigrees and prepare for their duties. Nothing shall stop God in his purpose. Mock this if you will; but God stands upon his word and shall not alter. He shall honour everything he has spoken unto our fathers: the blessings and the cursings. Nothing will thwart God. We have endured the cursings. Soon there shall come the eternal blessings of our God.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">We shall now believe that he came in the flesh and walked among us.&nbsp; The law has its purpose and you shall keep it throughout your generations, as it is written. Let no man deceive you and rule over you. The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> is your king, and his words are clear. There is no secret way to salvation, no allegory, no secret society agreement, no digging up tablets out of the earth to discover some addition or requirement.  </SPAN><U><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Thou shalt love the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God with all thy heart, thy soul, thy mind and all thy strength.</SPAN></U><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Zechariah was clear: Israel shall come to the moment of realization that it was he whom they earnestly sought. The language is very clear that this shall happen long after the crucifixion. <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"> And I will pour upon the house of David and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> So they weighed for my price 30 pieces of silver. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> said unto me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> Zechariah 11:12-13</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Be assured of this: this is the covenant of mercy he gives unto you, and it shall never pass. The covenant of the law at Horeb we broke. But the covenant that  that prophet would bring cannot be broken. Isaiah 42: </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. <I>2:</I> He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. <I>3:</I> A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. <I>4:</I> He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. <I>5:</I> Thus saith God the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: <I>6:</I> I the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; <I>7:</I> To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. <I>8:</I> I am the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. <I>9:</I> Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. <I>10:</I> Sing unto the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof <I>11:</I> Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. <I>12:</I> Let them give glory unto the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, and declare his praise in the islands. <I>13:</I> The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. <I>14:</I> I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. <I>15:</I> I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. <I>16:</I> And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall magnify his law and make it honourable by this covenant, the law we broke. By his own coming he has done this. The Gentiles have sought him, and he has inherited the nations. He has kept silence long enough, and now he cries out unto Israel to return and believe. Isaiah 49 contains it all very clearly: that Israel would not be gathered as a nation, but that the Gentiles would hearken unto him; that at the end of this time Israel would finally say God has forsaken them; but then God declares he shall turn them and save them. </SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Prince of God, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, and my work with my God. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">And now, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is too small a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. Thus saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said, The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? Thus saith the Lord G</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">OD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">You will not be ashamed now. The time has been long so that no one will ever forget the significance of that day and that action 1,975 years ago. God has forsaken us for our great sin, but for his great namesake he will call us back. The L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> knows what your impression is of Christianity. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall cause you to reform it. 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