Matthew (Mattityahu) Ch.8 - Ch. 11
Did you know there are actually five gospels? We all know of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. But there is a fifth one - Revelation! Each of the gospels declare the Messiah in a different way as if a movie director is telling His story from different camera angles and perspectives. The themes overlap at times which speaks to the veracity of the historical events. Here is, generally, what each gospel represents:
Matthew : The King - who lays down the rules of the kingdom - Torah!
Mark : The Servant - who is out there and doing it (serving others), making it happen.
Luke : The Son of Man - showing us how to live the rules of the kingdom by living it Himself, as man.
John : The Son of God - who pays the atoning sacrifice for our sins, as described in Torah.
Revelation : The Conquering King - who rules with a rod of iron and is the ultimate judge of everyone, based on how well we have lived Torah and/or are living Torah in the millennial reign.
.... continuing:
Mat 8:14 And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
Mat 8:15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him.
Mat 8:16 That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.
Mat 8:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases."
... from Isaiah 53. Did you know that most Synagogues skip Isaiah 53 in their yearly Torah readings? Rabbis' will on occasion wax eloquently that Isaiah 53 is speaking of Israel herself, as a nation. Most Bible scholars, however, Jewish and Christian, agree that Isaiah 53 is speaking of the coming Messiah.
Mat 10:40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
Mat 10:41 The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.
Mat 10:42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
Question: Who sent Yeshua? Obviously, the Father sent Yeshua! Will Yeshua do something different or against the Father? The answer is clearly no! Torah cannot be done away with. If Torah has been done away with by the Son's teachings then the Son is not from the Father. I love the way Yehovah/Yeshua's Word works with logic, which is something I think the main stream Church misses most of the time. The totality of His Word is the Truth. What it repeatedly states is the only way to establish the Truth.
Entire books have been written about Matthew Ch. 11, but there is one thing I wish to point out here:
Mat 11:1 When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
Mat 11:2 Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples
Mat 11:3 and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
Mat 11:4 And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see:
Mat 11:5 the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers[a] are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Mat 11:6 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
Who is this, "one who is to come", and where is he spoken of in the TANAKH? One must know something about the religious history of the time and the expectations of Jewish believers in Yeshua's day. They were expecting a prophet, actually, "The Prophet", who was declared in the TANAKH and associated with the coming Messiah (Moses in speaking here in Deuteronomy):
Deut 18:15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—
Deut 18:16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’
Deut 18:17 And the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken.
Deut 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
Deut 18:19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
This Prophet would speak the same commandments (instructions) as given by Moses himself (as dictated by Yehovah) "at Horeb on the day of assembly". What did Moses proclaim on that day? Torah! Did Yeshua teach Rabbinic instruction or did he teach Torah? The Rabbis' hated Him because he did not teach their tradition but instead, taught Torah, so Yeshua is that expected Prophet!
"I myself will require it of him" (verse 19). This statement should frighten every church going modern Christian who says Torah has been finished. Verse 15 says, "it is to him you shall listen". The Hebrew word for "listen" is "shema". It means much more than "listen". It means to "hear and obey" what is being spoken of. What is being spoken of in this context is Torah!
... more to come ...
The Observer
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