Prophecy Club 2 - Session 24 - November 29, 2021

We continued our study of the Branch prophecies, addressing the Gospel records of Matthew, Mark and Luke.

THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW:

The Gospel of Matthew introduces the Messiah as the King from Heaven as He lays down the rules of the Kingdom over which HE will reign forever.
Matthew’s record begins by establishing Yahshua’s lineage from King David through his only earthly parent – Mary – Miriam, the daughter of Yoseph ben Yaakov – all direct descendants of David through Solomon. The record of the Babylonian astronomers delivering a royal treasure to the young king sets the stage.

Matthew doesn’t always tell the story in chronological order.  He lays down individual incidents as illustrations of Messiah as King laying down the rules of the Kingdom of heaven. It is the rules of the Kingdom that Matthew is interested in – not a chronological record.

The Anti-Christ message is challenging Yahshua’s kingship. As we will study thoroughly, people are being told that Yahshua could not be Messiah, or was only a partial one because the true Messiah King will bring peace on earth, which Yahshua did not do.
 
THE LIE: There is no peace on the earth, therefore Yahshua is not Messiah. When the Messiah comes, He will bring PEACE ON THE EARTH. This is expected in the future “Messiah” who it is believed will reign for a Millennia, bringing peace on the earth – for 1000 years.
 
The teaching that Yahshua is not Messiah because He didn’t bring peace to the earth is a lie. As we will thoroughly study, Yahshua truly is the one and only Branch, who is King of kings.

THE GOSPEL OF MARK:

The Gospel of Mark introduces the Messiah as a Servant. Mark doesn’t give Messiah’s lineage. There’s no fanfare. He is just doing the mission that He was sent to accomplish. “Immediately”, “straightway”, and “forthwith” are the words Mark chooses to typify Yahshua’s actions. There is no grass growing under His Feet. He has a short time on earth to complete His Mission, or all is lost. The Branch prophecy for Mark is Zechariah 3:8.

Mark doesn’t give the Saviour’s lineage. This is because a servant’s lineage is not relevant. We see Christ through Mark doing the work of a Servant of the Father.

To challenge Yahshua’s fulfillment of this Branch role, the spirit of Anti-Christ is now teaching that Yahshua broke the Torah or was counter to it. As such, His role as the obedient servant is lost. But this too is a lie, as we will see in our studies.

Torah contains: (Psalm 19) Commandments (10), Statutes (613), Judgments (blessings or cursings for obedience or disobedience), Testimony (the witness of those who obeyed or disobeyed Yahweh).

·        It is suggested that Yahshua broke the Torah by sparing the woman caught in adultery…  But it was a Judgment (which Yahshua came to take our death Judgment upon Himself) that required an adulterous woman to be killed. It was not a Commandment or Statute. So, Yahshua did not break it.

·        The Jews had blasphemously created another set of rules – the Talmud – The Talmud contained rules added by man’s tradition.

o   Notably, every miracle that Yahshua performed broke Talmud – because Talmud’s existence was a breaking of Torah (Deuteronomy states with two witnesses, that no one can “add to” or “diminish ought” from the Torah).

§  Talmud says that you cannot have wine (not even 1 drop) in a water purification pot…  Yahshua turns the water in the purification at a Pharisee wedding into wine.

§  Talmud says that you have to ceremonially wash hands in a certain way prior to eating…  Yahshua fed the 5000 men without the washing…

Talmud says that you cannot spit in the dirt to make clay…  Yet Yahshua heals the blind man’s eyes by doing that very thing...

THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

The Gospel of Luke introduces the Messiah as our Example – the Son of Man, who demonstrates how to live by the Rules of the Kingdom.
Luke’s record begins by establish that both Zechariah and Elisabeth were blameless before the Almighty in their compliance with all the commandments in the Torah. 

Yahshua’s supposed lineage (Luke 3:23) through his stepfather Joseph the son of Eli, a direct descendant of David through Nathan, denotes the shadow of illegitimacy under which the Messiah lived. It was supposed that He was the child of Joseph, conceived out of wedlock. Though He appeared to be just a man among men – yet “He shall build the Temple of Yahweh.” The prophecy of Yahshua being the Man who builds the Temple of Yahweh is found in Zechariah 6:12.

Luke shows us why Yahshua could take our place, as the Second Adam – because He was a sinless Man. Luke shows us the obedient life of Christ as our Example - a Man - walking in full obedience to YHWH’s Torah. Just as He was obedient and lived life through the power of Heaven as perfect Man – so may we.

The Spirit of Antichrist denies Yahshua’s authenticity as the Branch by suggesting that He did not build the Temple – therefore He cannot be the One. But, as we will study more thoroughly, this too is a lie.

The building of the Temple was a spiritual one – He DID build the Temple.

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