(Part one)
Mattithyahu/Matthew
3:13-17 Then Yehoshua came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized
by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You,
and are You coming to Me?’ But Yehoshua answered and said to him, “Permit it to
be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he
allowed Him. When He had been baptized, Yehoshua came up immediately from the
water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of
Elohim descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came
from heaven, saying ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Mattithyahu/Matthew 12-38-40 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, ‘Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah. For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mattithyahu/Matthew 16:4 “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.”
Mattithyahu/Matthew 12-38-40 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, ‘Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah. For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mattithyahu/Matthew 16:4 “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.”
Kepha/Peter declared Yehoshua to be the Ben Elohim.
Mattithyahu/Mathew 16:16 “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living
Elohim.”
But He warned them to not let anyone know about His identity.
Mattithyahu/Matthew 16:20-21“Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Yehoshua haMashiach. From that time Yehoshua began to show to His disciples that He must go to Yerushalayim , and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”
Marqos/Mark 8:31: And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.”
Luqas/Luke 11:29-30 And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.”
Yochanan/John 2:18-19 So the Jews answered and said to Him, ‘What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?’ Yehoshua answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Marqos/Mark 8: 11-12: Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him. But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.”
He was frustrated with them, for He had already told them more than once that the sign would be the sign of the prophet Yonah.
The first thing I must mention is the fact that the Yonah, or dove, came down from Heaven confirming the Word of the Father, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
The dove did not come from the farm,
but from Heaven from the Father. It was not one earthly dove, but a Spiritual
One. Think about this.
Now I will explain the two fold signs. When He was baptized the record in the Scriptures, and in the Book of Mattithyahu/Matthew 3:17 declare that the Holy Spirit came down like a dove, as already mentioned. What is the name of the dove in Hebrew? It is Yonah, or Jonah in English.
Now I will explain the two fold signs. When He was baptized the record in the Scriptures, and in the Book of Mattithyahu/Matthew 3:17 declare that the Holy Spirit came down like a dove, as already mentioned. What is the name of the dove in Hebrew? It is Yonah, or Jonah in English.
The Hebrew letters for Yonah are,
yod, vav, nun, hey. Knowing the Hebrew letters we can go further into
describing the meaning of the sign Yonah. The pictograph of the letter yod is -
a hand, arm work, deed; vav is nail, peg, add, and; nun is the picture of a
seed, fish, activity, life; the letter hey – Lo! Behold, the. These letters then give us the picture of a person
with the hands raised!
So we can say that Yonah according to the Pictograph can also mean: the hand was nailed and behold the Life, the Seed! Or: Behold the Life, the Seed that was nailed.
So we can say that Yonah according to the Pictograph can also mean: the hand was nailed and behold the Life, the Seed! Or: Behold the Life, the Seed that was nailed.
This is something I try to put
together because I sensed there is much more to the dove sign than what we have
been told. We had only been taught that it represented the Holy Spirit.
This dove sign actually described
the complete identity and ministry of the Messiah, Yehoshua, but no one saw it.
However, now knowledge is increasing, according to the Prophet Daniel, and He
is revealing to us things that were not known in the past.
Dani’el 12:4: “…and knowledge shall increase.” We see this taking place in this generation.
We need to have knowledge.
Hoshea/Hosea 4:6: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
What did Yonah do? He preached judgment. However even though Yehoshua did the same thing in many different ways, they were blind and did not understand His mission.
Dani’el 12:4: “…and knowledge shall increase.” We see this taking place in this generation.
We need to have knowledge.
Hoshea/Hosea 4:6: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
What did Yonah do? He preached judgment. However even though Yehoshua did the same thing in many different ways, they were blind and did not understand His mission.
He corrected them of their error and
would not do their takanot and ma’asim, or man’s doctrines. In fact this was
probably the main reason they crucified Him, besides the fact they accuse Him
of making Himself Elohim, which of course He was.
But when Yonah preached the whole city responded. Let us listen to the Scriptures.
Yonah 3:7-9: And he (the King) caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to Elohim; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the; violence that is in His hands. Who can tell if Elohim will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?”
Please, understand that Yonah was not visible to anyone except to Yehovah. He was alive in the belly of the fish. Yehoshua was also visible only to His Father, but not to us. He also was in the bowels of the earth alive until the pre-ordained time, which was the third day, on the Sabbath, and not on the Sun-day; as it is usually taught and celebrated by those who are ignorant of the Scripture
Yehovah gave the sign at the very beginning of Yehoshua’s ministry, but no one saw it. Then He spelled it out, but they could not understand. Finally in the last verse we read that He said to the Pharisees that He would give no sign. He had enough with their testing.
Concerning the numbers in the Scriptures, we see specific numbers appearing over and over again. The number three is the number of Divine Perfection. Yehovah is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent.
So the number Three in Scriptures describes to us Yehovah in His complete perfection. We also see the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who in reality is Yehovah’s and Yehoshua’s Spirit.
When Yehoshua was missing at the age twelve, and He was found in the Temple talking with the leadership after three days, we notice that the number 12 is 1+2 = 3; once again we see the Deity of the Son, and a shadow of the third day, which speaks to us of the resurrection and the Millennium.
But when Yonah preached the whole city responded. Let us listen to the Scriptures.
Yonah 3:7-9: And he (the King) caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to Elohim; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the; violence that is in His hands. Who can tell if Elohim will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?”
Please, understand that Yonah was not visible to anyone except to Yehovah. He was alive in the belly of the fish. Yehoshua was also visible only to His Father, but not to us. He also was in the bowels of the earth alive until the pre-ordained time, which was the third day, on the Sabbath, and not on the Sun-day; as it is usually taught and celebrated by those who are ignorant of the Scripture
Yehovah gave the sign at the very beginning of Yehoshua’s ministry, but no one saw it. Then He spelled it out, but they could not understand. Finally in the last verse we read that He said to the Pharisees that He would give no sign. He had enough with their testing.
Concerning the numbers in the Scriptures, we see specific numbers appearing over and over again. The number three is the number of Divine Perfection. Yehovah is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent.
So the number Three in Scriptures describes to us Yehovah in His complete perfection. We also see the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who in reality is Yehovah’s and Yehoshua’s Spirit.
When Yehoshua was missing at the age twelve, and He was found in the Temple talking with the leadership after three days, we notice that the number 12 is 1+2 = 3; once again we see the Deity of the Son, and a shadow of the third day, which speaks to us of the resurrection and the Millennium.
He was found on the third day. This is also going to be the
day that the Jewish people, His people, will be able to SEE Him for Who He is.
Although many Jews are now serving the Mashiach, on the third day, or the third
Millennium, after the fullness of the Gentile will manifest, they also will
serve Him.
The Gentiles need to let go of their
strange doctrines of men, and accept the Torah as part of their Covenant with
the Mashiach. If the Christians want to be part of the Olive Tree, they need to
be one with the Jewish people.
I want to point out Marqos/Mark 8:2: “I have compassion of the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat.”
I want to point out Marqos/Mark 8:2: “I have compassion of the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat.”
He waited to feed them until the third day.
Do you suppose He was trying to give them some things they needed to think
about? He waited three days and then He fed them. Now I believe is the third
day, and Yehoshua is feeding the Jews. He is appearing to many, Arabs and Jews
and they are receiving Him.
He has given us many signs. Now He is indeed feeding us with His Word,
and we receive His wisdom and understanding.
We also notice that Yehoshua said that when the Temple would be destroyed He would raise it up the third day. The Temple is composed of three parts, the Outer Court, the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Yehoshua was the living Temple. The human body is also composed of Body, Soul and Spirit.
We are also called the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
Qorin’tiyim 1/ 1 Corinthians 3:16: Do
you not know that you are the temple of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim
dwells in you?”
Kepha1/1 Peter 2:5: “You also, as
living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Elohim through Yehoshua
HaMashiach.”
We read in Mattithyahu/Matthew 27: 50-53 the following, “And Yehoshua cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
I had difficult time understanding these last few verses, and I am sure you have had trouble with it also. Let me explain in a few verses, as I have learned from a specific leader that teaches on the Feasts of Yehovah.
After the High Priest killed the last Passover lamb, in the evening He would go alone to mark the First Fruits Offering heaves. He would tie them, and after that, he stayed three days and three nights, on the temple mount in solitude. He was rehearsing the death of the Messiah and resurrection of the Messiah but did not know what he was doing.
On the third day after the Passover, which is during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the High Priest, as far as I understand, would go there with witnesses to cut up the sheaves he previously bound for the First Fruit Offering which he had to prepare to be offered the following morning which is still the THIRD DAY.
Remember that the day does not begin in the morning, but at the time the sun goes down, therefore the priest went at night but it was already the third day. This is a shadow picture of the time of the resurrection of the Messiah.
We read in Yochanan/John 20:11-18 the Lord’s encounter with Mary Magdalene. She wanted to cling to His feet, but verse 17 declares, “Yehoshua said to her, do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father, but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My Elohim and your Elohim.”
Yehoshua needed to go to His Father to bring Him the First Fruits of the Resurrection. Those were the people in the graves that He marked at His death, (Mattithyahu/Matthew 27:53).
They did not rise until after His resurrection. Just as the
sheaves were openly harvested, also those people, the first fruits from the
dead, were also seeing by people after Yehoshua’s resurrection. “They appeared to many,” the Word
declares, and many saw them alive.
Mattithyahu/Matthew 27:53: “And coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.”
He appeared on the third day to two of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Luqas/Luke 24:13-27 describes His encounter with them.
Mattithyahu/Matthew 27:53: “And coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.”
He appeared on the third day to two of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Luqas/Luke 24:13-27 describes His encounter with them.
Yochanan/John 20:1: “Now on the first day of the week Miryam/Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.”
Miryam kept the Sabbath, and could not break it by going out to the tomb on the Sabbath, the blessed day of rest. The apostles kept the Sabbath even after His death, for this is a perpetual commandment. She had to wait until the Sabbath was over, and it could be that because the Sabbath ends at sundown, and the First Day or Sunday begins after sun down, she could not go because it was dark. She and everyone else needed to wait for the light.
I also need to specify that the 15th day of the first month, which begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread, is a High Sabbath. No work can be done, and the seventh day of the Feast is also High Sabbath, or a special Sabbath.
So Yehoshua died on the 14th of the First Month about 3:00 Pm. He was placed in the tomb, and Wednesday was in the tomb, and this is the 15th of the First Month, and is the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The following day, Thursday, the 16th of the First Month, they got the spices and prepared them for Him. The 17th was the weekly Shabbat, and rested. This is the time that He rose from the dead, in the evening of the Shabbat, after been three days and three nights in the tomb. He fulfilled the Prophecy of Yonah, three days and three nights in the grave.
Early Sunday morning they went to
the tomb when it was light, but He was not in the tomb, He had already risen
the evening before. Remember that the day begins at sundown; therefore Saturday
evening after sundown is already the First Day of the week. And that is was
causes problems for the translators. He rose on the Sabbath, for He is the
Master of the Sabbath.
Marqos/Mark 2:28: “Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord (Master) of the Sabbath.”
He did not rise on Sunday, or He would have been not our Savior, but a false prophet. Many suggest that the Roman Catholic Church arrange this Friday to Sunday in the tomb, using syncretism, by mixing the true faith in Mashiach with sun god, they wanted to wipe out everything Jews that they could.
Marqos/Mark 2:28: “Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord (Master) of the Sabbath.”
He did not rise on Sunday, or He would have been not our Savior, but a false prophet. Many suggest that the Roman Catholic Church arrange this Friday to Sunday in the tomb, using syncretism, by mixing the true faith in Mashiach with sun god, they wanted to wipe out everything Jews that they could.
They also changed the Set Apart Day, the seventh day of the week,
from Saturday to Sunday, and removed all the Feasts from the Calendar.
Three days and three nights, not a day or hour less than what He prophesied. There is much more to say on this subject, but I will stop here. He is our Savior and was raised from the death, and if you have doubts of this historical fact, you will die in your sins.
The Feasts were given to all of us, not only to the Jews. They received them first to teach us. The Feasts are prophetic shadow pictures of things to come. They teach us about the Mashiach, and they have to be rehearsed every year in their correct day. Now knowledge is released to the Body of Mashiach, and we have an understanding which was concealed to us in the past, or before the Messiah came into this world. Yehovah prepared all of us so that we would get the true meaning of His death and resurrection when He would actually come and fulfill the Scriptures. Once again, I repeat, the Feasts are prophetic shadow pictures of things to come and also we are told to rehearse them in their season and time every year.
And now I will speak about The Feast of Unleavened Bread which is of the duration of seven days and as mentioned above, begins on the 15th or the day after the Passover, and ends on the 21th, on which days the believers are commanded to rest from work and assemble to worship the Almighty.
Wayyiqra/Leviticus 23:5-8: “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to YHWH; SEVEN days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do not customary work on it. But you shall offer and offering made by fire to YHWH for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do not customary work on it.”
Leaven or yeast is a symbol of sin, hypocrisy and false doctrine. A week represents eternity and a house represents us individually and the congregation. We must be cleansed from every trace of sin to participate of the Feast. The Church and all assemblies need to be purged by Elohim from all sin, hypocrisy and false doctrine.
(Matt. 16:6-12)
Qorin’tiyim 1/1 Corinthians 5:6-8: “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Messiah our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
Luqas/Luke 12:1: “…Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
Anyone who acts religious but does not keep His Commandments is a hypocrite.
Qorin’tiyim 2/2 Corinthians 5:21, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of Elohim in Him.”
He was and always is sinless, for He is our Savior.
Yehoshua fulfilled the Spring Feasts, which are: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of First Fruits, and later on Pentecost. This is the Gospel, the Good News, and it is available to all who believe.
Yehoshua is the firstborn from the dead.
“He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation.” Qolasim/Colossians 1:15
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romiyim/Romans 8:29
We will also rise from the dead. We are not just dirt, nor simple matter that will return to the earth. We have a soul and a spirit that was given to us by Yehovah, the Creator of this Universe, via Adam, the first created man. Today, you can have eternal life with our Savior, if you embrace His Truth. Call upon Him to save you. Surrender all your problems to Him. Believe in Him the Master and Savior of your life, and see what He will do in your life. His love and peace will replace everything that now is causing you pain and sorrow.
Three days and three nights, not a day or hour less than what He prophesied. There is much more to say on this subject, but I will stop here. He is our Savior and was raised from the death, and if you have doubts of this historical fact, you will die in your sins.
The Feasts were given to all of us, not only to the Jews. They received them first to teach us. The Feasts are prophetic shadow pictures of things to come. They teach us about the Mashiach, and they have to be rehearsed every year in their correct day. Now knowledge is released to the Body of Mashiach, and we have an understanding which was concealed to us in the past, or before the Messiah came into this world. Yehovah prepared all of us so that we would get the true meaning of His death and resurrection when He would actually come and fulfill the Scriptures. Once again, I repeat, the Feasts are prophetic shadow pictures of things to come and also we are told to rehearse them in their season and time every year.
And now I will speak about The Feast of Unleavened Bread which is of the duration of seven days and as mentioned above, begins on the 15th or the day after the Passover, and ends on the 21th, on which days the believers are commanded to rest from work and assemble to worship the Almighty.
Wayyiqra/Leviticus 23:5-8: “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to YHWH; SEVEN days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do not customary work on it. But you shall offer and offering made by fire to YHWH for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do not customary work on it.”
Leaven or yeast is a symbol of sin, hypocrisy and false doctrine. A week represents eternity and a house represents us individually and the congregation. We must be cleansed from every trace of sin to participate of the Feast. The Church and all assemblies need to be purged by Elohim from all sin, hypocrisy and false doctrine.
(Matt. 16:6-12)
Qorin’tiyim 1/1 Corinthians 5:6-8: “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Messiah our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
Luqas/Luke 12:1: “…Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
Anyone who acts religious but does not keep His Commandments is a hypocrite.
Qorin’tiyim 2/2 Corinthians 5:21, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of Elohim in Him.”
He was and always is sinless, for He is our Savior.
Yehoshua fulfilled the Spring Feasts, which are: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of First Fruits, and later on Pentecost. This is the Gospel, the Good News, and it is available to all who believe.
Yehoshua is the firstborn from the dead.
“He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation.” Qolasim/Colossians 1:15
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romiyim/Romans 8:29
We will also rise from the dead. We are not just dirt, nor simple matter that will return to the earth. We have a soul and a spirit that was given to us by Yehovah, the Creator of this Universe, via Adam, the first created man. Today, you can have eternal life with our Savior, if you embrace His Truth. Call upon Him to save you. Surrender all your problems to Him. Believe in Him the Master and Savior of your life, and see what He will do in your life. His love and peace will replace everything that now is causing you pain and sorrow.
Shalom!
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