I wish that I lived nearer so I could call partner meetings or Daughters of Tsiyon meetings but I know that one day we will all be together Praising the Lamb for He is worthy!!!!!!

I love how Yahweh will listen to His prophets concerning issues surrounding His reputation! Isn’t it what it is all about? His Name is to be praised. Put the blame where it belongs. Put the praise where it belongs.

Again, we hear how Yahweh continues to prepares us to endure to the end so that we will reap the reward of everlasting life. Thanks. Blessings to all.

I left something very important out and that is that the error of the pharisees has continued over into Rabbinical Judaism. They still reject God’s Anointed and are, therefore, in rebellion against Him.

There are some who, after discovering the Hebraic roots of the faith, have been turned aside into Rabbinical Judaism, because they were misled to accept the rabbis as the true leaders of Judaism.

This can be very tempting; one can very easily think that one has found the people of God - which in one sense thery still are, because the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. Nonetheless, they are still blind leading the blind for they reject THE Son of David, the Messiah, and, after coming to understand the meaning of the Davidic Covenant, I can say that they are still rejecting the leadership of the House of David.

In addition to the lessons here, plear refer to Romans 9-11.

May God bless His people.

The one incident from the Gospel of Mark (10:46-52) in which Bartimaeus, after calling loudly and persistently to Yeshua, the Son of David, to help him, is given his sight - this incident takes on new meaning and is representative of the new, richer vantage point provided in these lessons.

Beyond that there is also the realization that the leadership of Israel was corrupt. They knew of Yeshua’s position but held on to their usurped power and continued in their conscious rebellion against God’s Anointed and, therefore, against God also.

As for the common people, it was a question of whom they would follow - either the rightful ruler or those who held worldly power but were in rebellion against God. Those who chose the latter met their judgement in 70 a.d.

Matthew 10:28 - Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Hebrews 10:31 - It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Praise be to Him whose judgemenst are always just and righteous.

A few lessons to learn from the examples set forth in this program. Discretion being one of them. We truly need to grow up and learn to walk in the maturity of Yeshua. Yah’s ways are truly beyond our comprehension and we can only begin to grasp them when He allows us to.

Blessings to all.

We do not think hebraically. In analyzing the genealogies, we leave that very important aspect of the Law of God out. To get an idea of just how great the impact of Levirate Marriage was, consider how many men have no sons - perhaps there are only daughters born to them or they die before they can have a son with their wife. The impact could have been even greater in Israelite society, considering how many men died in wars.

An important aspect of Levirate Marriage was that the name of the man having no sons should not be blotted out. The first born son to a levirate marriage was counted as the son of the deceased. Such a man would have two genealogies - the physical one and the legal one; he would have two fathers - a biological father and a legal father. It is surely no stretch of the imagination to understand that every man in Israel had two genealogies, for at some point (or perhaps even more) in his ancestry a levirate marriage would be found.

Now that this is the case with the genealogies of Yeshua is born witness to by Julius Africanus, who wrote in the early 3rd century a.d. His information on this came from the family of Yeshua.

Additionally, one must bear in mind that the genealogies of our Lord were never attacked in the 1st century. This would have been an easy target for His opponents were they not accurate. In the Gospels, Yeshua is repeatedly referred to as Son of David. Paul refers to His lineage in Romans 1:3 and 2 Timothy 2:8. Actually, there can be no reasonable doubt.

In closing, to the claim that the genealogy in Luke is that of Mary: Such a thing was not possible in Israelite society - the lineage was always traced through the father and this by commandment of God (Numbers 1:17-19)

Glory be to God.

In this lesson the “curse of Jeconiah” is handled. This objection comes from a superficial reading of Jeremiah 22:24-30 and maintains that Yeshua cannot be eligible for the throne of David, because all of Jeconiah’s descendents are excluded from the throne and Jeconiah is an ancestor of Yeshua.

A careful reading and analysis yields, however, that it is the land which is being addressed (refer to verse 29). Here is being foretold that Jeconiah will be deported and the people with him. Jeconiah will die in captivity with none of his children (he had 7, by the way) succeeding him on the throne (refer also to verse 30 and note that it is said the he will not succeed in his days).

Why would Yahwe speak to the land? There is a special bond between the people of Israel and the land. When Israel is in the land, the land prospers (consider how the land was during all the time of the Gentiles and how it is now), and that is where the people feel at home. This is the land that the Lord has given to them; it should be of no surprise then upon reflection that this bondage exists.

The promised of God are not broken. Those who call upon this passage to disallow Yeshua from the throne should not forget that. In His covenant with David, God promised that He would never take His loving kindness from his house as He did with Saul. He would punish “with the rod of man” an errant member of David’s family but not take away His loving kindness.

Therefore, after the fulfillment of the time of captivity, Zerrubabel, Jeconiah’s grandson, was chosen to succeed to the throne of David - not as king, because Judah was still under foreign occupation, but, nonetheless, as the ruler of the people in the land.

Reading Haggai 2:20-23, we can see that this has occurred. Here Zerrubabel is referred to as a signet ring, and it is clearly said that the Lord had chosen him. Contrast this with Jeremiah 22:24 where Jeconiah is described as a signet ring which the Lord is taking off and giving to his enemies.

Thusly, we see that a careful reading of the passage and consideration of other Scripture and actual history shows how spurious this attack on Yeshua’s Kingship is.

This also should be a warning to us to not handle Scripture lightly but carefully and prayerfully.

My heart does praise the Lord for His mercy and lovingkindness.

Israel should be led by a member of the House of David. That requirement is implied in the promise of the Davidic Covenant. Looking at the government of Judea at the time of Messiah, we find the king, Herod, installed by the Romans, went to the trouble of destroying the public genealogical records so that he could fabricate a davidic lineage for himself.

Looking to the Sanhedrin, we find the Great Sanhedrin being led by the High Priest - a Levite. This is testified to by the Gospels and Josephus and the community of Qumram who had separated themselves from the mainstream jewish community due to the corruption in the priesthood.

After the destruction of Jerusalem, the only authority left for the non-messianic jews was the rabbi and their councils. But where was the davidic nasi? Not to worry - having free reign with none to check them, the rabbis simply changed history, declaring that Hillel was of davidic descent and, therefore, the authority of the Sanhedrin was indeed davidic.

Upon closer examination, however, it is found that 1) the only record of Hillel’s davidic lineage is one verse in a commentary on Genesis, the Bereshit Raba, and this verse is obviously spurious, and 2) there had been an attempt to replace a descendent of Hillel, one Gamaliel, with another rabbi from Babylon, who it seems was indeed of the lineage of David. So Hillel being of the line of David was not even believed by those who should have known. This was all added later. This fabrication had the further advantage of casting more doubt upon Yeshua’s rightful claims to the throne.

What has come down to us from Hillel? Two judgements: One called the Prospel (spelling?) and another one similar to that. What was this judgement? It was a method for circumventing the requirement for forgiving debts during the year of Jubilee. As we saw in the lesson on the way of the pharisees, this was what they did - finding ways to (in their own mind) disobey God’s commandments and still call themselves followers of God.

In the strongest terms did our Lord Yeshua condemn them, and with every new revelation I understand that better.

Clearly can one hear the hissing of the serpent in the background.

Tragically, the form of Judaism which has come down to us through the rabbinical tradition comes from the pharisees.

Praise be to God for the teaching of truth.