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The study of the Bible in its historical context - with a focus on the archaeology, history, geography, customs , culture, and even the languages of the ancient Middle East. WE ask what did they understand THEN - the original intent of the Lord - so that we can expand and enrich our understanding NOW and thus become true disciples of Adonai Yeshua as in John 8:31-32.
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Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
THE STORY OF JOSEPH - lesson 1
GOD'S PARADIGM OF SALVATION OF THE WORLD
We have come to Genesis 39 which is the beginning of the story of Joseph of the "many colored coat." Joseph (Yosef in Hebrew or Yosef Ben Ya'akov - Joseph the son of Jacob) was the prized and most beloved son of Jacob. This love seemingly created a deep jealously between Joseph and his brothers that led to them nearly killing him and finally selling Joseph into slavery. But, that's part of this awesome Bible study journey we are now to embark on.
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In this Bible study journey we will be put face to face with the Paradigms of Adonai. A paradigm can also be described as a pattern, a template. We might even say it relates to a the idea of a mirror image. An example is in the first Passover where we hear of the Passover Lamb picked by each father for his family to be sacrificed the night God will send death upon all first born in Egypt. The is a mirror image of the Passover of Messiah, our Lord who is the Lamb of God. The lambs are not the same but they seem to mirror each other. Paul seems to teach this when we read ...
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- things which are a mere shadow (like on being a mirror image of another - a shadow) of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
(Col 2:16-17)
Check this out in the podcast entitled, "The Mirror of Passover," at this link - https://youtu.be/ipaeu7AQZ8Y?si=2DlVO_ifvOIFP8z6
Our journey begins with this idea of God's Paradigms, His Patterns or His Templates. Again and again Yahvay shows us that what came before shows up again and again. The rabbis saw this early on in God's Word. Maimonides, the great Jewish scholar of the late 12th century said ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Seemneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
It is like the first Passover lamb. It was the lamb of the fathers, the Hebrews coming out of Egypt. Its blood on the wood of the doorposts was a sign to the Lord to spare this family from His wrath He was pouring out on Egypt. The Passover lamb was a sign for the future Lamb of God who would come and whose blood on the wood of the cross would also deliver Jew and Gentile from God's wrath for those choosing Yeshua as Lord and God and Savior. This is a clear example of God's Paradigm. One of many.
Another is the Jubilee year. We read about it in Lev. 25 ...
The Year of Jubilee
Lev 25:8 'You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
Lev 25:9 'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.
Lev 25:10 'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Lev 25:11 'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.
Lev 25:12 'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.
Lev 25:13 'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.
The 50 year Jubilee also becomes part of God's Paradigms. One scholar who deals with this extensively is the Messianic rabbi, Jonathan Cahn.
I highly recommend you check out his books, "The Oracle" or another awesome book of his, "The Paradigm." In these books Rabbi Jonathan Cahn details how the 50 year Jubilee is also used by God as a paradigm, a pattern or template if you will to be a sign for us now, today. Here's his website - http://www.hopeoftheworld.org/
So let us begin our awesome journey into the life of Joseph. He is a clear example of those words we read ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Seemneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
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