The Olive Tree understanding Israel - the Beginning of the Trunk of the Olive tree where the roots join the trunk.
Session One
The story of Joseph and the family of Jacob goes down to Egypt
Romans 11:15-17
15 For if their rejection and exclusion from the benefits of salvation were [overruled] for the reconciliation of a world to God, what will their acceptance and admission mean? [It will be nothing short of] life from the dead!
16 Now if the first handful of dough offered as the firstfruits [Abraham and the patriarchs] is consecrated (holy), so is the whole mass [the nation of Israel]; and if the root [Abraham] is consecrated (holy), so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of the root and sap] of the olive tree,
Overview
- The next part of this amazing history of Israel as a people group, ie the family of Jacob who was renamed Israel by God. This is before they became a nation of people.
- The story of the life of Joseph and his family leads into the trunk part of the Olive tree where the roots meet the base of the Olive tree.
- This is where Joseph comes in and his part of this story comes in from Genesis chapters 37, 39 - 48, ending in Genesis chapter 50 the death and burial of Jacob.
- Genesis chapter 38 deals with the story of Judah, Genesis 49 Jacob’s prophesies over his sons.
The story of Joseph will be done in two parts.
Part A
- Will study how Joseph is a type of Christ and his early life, the years he spent in Egypt as a slave.
- Then as a political prisoner, his release from captivity and his being raised to Prime Minister of Egypt under Pharaoh and his marriage and children.
Part B
- Will study Joseph and his brothers how he tested them and Judah’s confession of their sin against him by selling him as a slave, Jacob and his family coming to Egypt to live.
- As God told Abraham that his descendants would come to Egypt to live that they will live there for four hundred years as slaves and at the end of that time God will bring them back to their land.
- Jacob’s deathbed prophecy over his sons, the burial and mourning of Jacob and the conclusion of the story of Joseph
- The historical account of Joseph ends with Joseph reassuring his brothers that he bears them no ill will as they feared he would seek revenge upon them.
- He told them that what they did to him for harm God turned it into good.
My decision to break down the posts for ease of reading and how the lesson will be set out for Part A.
As I am writing these sessions on a blog post and I am not teaching them in a bible study or at a church. I have decided to break lessons down into blog sized or bite size blogs. So that the readers of the blogs won't get brain fog from too much reading.
It is a learning curve for me and I have to be mindful that people are reading what I am posting electronically and it can be both a strain on the eyes and a lot to take in as well. As I do tend to write lengthy articles I need to learn to rein in what I have to say and to pace what I write to be of a pace that those who read the blogs can handle.
I want you the reader to be blessed by what you read, to be able to take it in and learn from it as well as give space for the Holy Spirit to speak to you through the lessons too.
So Part A on Joseph's life will be broken down into about four posts. Three posts of three points and one of two.
Points 1-3 of the following headings.
Point 1 The Parallel between the life of Joseph and the life of Jesus.
Point 2 Why don’t the Jews today believe that Jesus (Yeshua His name in Hebrew) is the Messiah? Why are they waiting for the Messiah to come when He has already come?
Point 3 A brief detour into Genesis 38 the lineage of Judah
Points 4-6 will be under these headings.
Point 4 Joseph’s Dreams.
Point 5 The fulfillment of this dream I am skipping ahead to show how Joseph’s dreams were literally fulfilled.
Point 6 Scripture passage on Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers and its comparison with Jesus being betrayed and sold His being taken captive for our sakes.
Points 7 - 8 will be under these headings.
Point 7 Joseph put into prison.
Point 8 Interpretation of the Chief Baker’s and the Chief Butler’s dreams.
Points 9 - 11 and finally the last three headings for Part A
Point 9 Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams Genesis 41:1-36.
Point 10 Pharaoh makes Joseph Prime Minister over Egypt.
Point 11 Joseph has two sons born to him in Egypt
A - Joseph’s life
⦁ When one studies the story of Joseph one can’t help but be amazed at the parallels between the life of Joseph and the life of Christ. Joseph is an Old Testament prophetic example of Christ.
⦁ Joseph was sent ahead by Adonai - Lord God - into Egypt through his brothers selling him out of jealousy into slavery.
When he served as a slave in Potiphar's house, he was falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit by his master's wife.
He spent time in prison, where the iron entered into his soul and the word of Adonai tested him. He was kept in prison and in Egypt until it was the right time in the Lord to be released.
For if he was released earlier he would have gone straight back to his home in Canaan and Israel and his family would have perished because of the severity of the famine that was to come upon the land.
⦁ The Lord kept Joseph in prison so that he could be used by Adonai to interpret Pharaoh’s dream and therefore be raised to a place of prominence.
In order to be in a position to save his family by having them brought down to Egypt, so that they could live out the severity of the famine and to have food.
Joseph was able to store food in Egypt in the good years so that there would be food and plenty to spare for both Egypt and the lands around her.
⦁ He preserved Egypt through wheat which makes bread. Jesus also is the grain of wheat that fell into the ground that died John 12:24 and from His dying comes new Life. For He is the bread that came down from heaven, He is the unleavened bread, He is without sin, as we feed off Him we live John 6.
⦁ When his brothers came down to buy food for their families they didn’t recognize Joseph as he looked like an Egyptian spoke like one and acted like one and he had an Egyptian name.
However before he made himself known to them he tested their hearts to see if they had repented of the wicked things they had done to him to see if they felt guilt and remorse.
Once he was satisfied with their genuine heart change he made himself known to them.
When they realized who he was they were struck with grief and remorse for what they had done to him.
B - Jesus’ Life
⦁ Jesus also came into the world to serve but His mission of service was to save man from sin; He was a servant serving humbly those who are lost.
Phil 2:5-11
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
He came to seek and to save those who are lost of the House of Israel His kinsmen, He is their Kinsman redeemer. He is the suffering servant of Isaiah 49-53.
Isaiah 49:1-10
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
5 And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Isaiah 50:4-9
4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah 51:4-23
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isaiah 52:1-15
1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
- This chapter of Isaiah 53 is not read in Jewish synagogues because it speaks of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. They find it hard to accept this truth, so they skip right over this chapter in their reading of the book of Isaiah.
- Jesus is the suffering servant, He spent hours in prayer. He would rise early to go and pray, this is recorded in Mark 1.
1 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
- He often stayed up all night after teaching people all day. He would stay up all night on the mountain in prayer.
Mark 6:46
46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
- At His trial He gave His back to be whipped, His beard was plucked out, His face was struck and He was spat upon see the gospel accounts of His trial and execution.
- The islands of the sea are waiting for His salvation, He has comforted and redeemed Zion and this will be in full when He returns.
- His blood has sprinkled many nations and kings indeed will shut their mouths when they see Him and will have to bow the knee to Him and acknowledge Him as Lord of all.
- Jerusalem now is the cup of trembling they no longer have God's wrath upon them but have become His cup of wrath to the nations a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone I have dealt with this in other posts.
- Jesus is the redeemer of His people as their blood kinsmen for He is related to all of the tribes of Israel through being born into the tribe of Judah but also coming directly from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob through Mary His earthly mother.
- He died for His people outside the walls of Jerusalem. He died for all yes but also for His people God is the redeemer of Israel and Jerusalem first and foremost then the rest of the nations as many as will receive Him.
- Just as Joseph went down to Egypt to save his family. God sent His Son down to earth which is a type of Egypt to save His people Israel and human kind over all.
- We cannot ignore the Jews they are the main part of God's plan of salvation they are the other part that make up the whole. Salvation is incomplete without them. God is incomplete without His people.
- They are His people and He is their God. He wants to dwell among them again and He will through Jesus. For Jesus Himself is in exile in heaven waiting for His people to call Him forth again to come and be their God.
- When they call for Him and repent of rejecting Him then He will rend the heavens and will come down to save His people and to redeem in full those of us who are looking for His salvation who belong to Him now.
- Through Christ those of us from the nations are part of the House of Israel and coheirs with the people of Israel we with them make up the one new man in Christ. Again I have dealt with this in depth in other posts.
Isaiah 53:1-12
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Matthew 15:2424 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
He also went down into Egypt because the scripture states in Matthew 2 out of Egypt have I called My Son.
Matthew 2:13-15
13 Now after they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, Get up! [Tenderly] take unto you the young Child and His mother and flee to Egypt; and remain there till I tell you [otherwise], for Herod intends to search for the Child in order to destroy Him.
14 And having risen, he took the Child and His mother by night and withdrew to Egypt
15 And remained there until Herod's death. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, Out of Egypt have I called My Son.
Jesus the Bread of Life
- Joseph provided physical food for Egypt, the nations around Egypt and finally for his immediate family, ie his father and brothers and their wives and children. That he preserved life physically through storing food so that people could buy it to live.
Whereas Jesus is the spiritual bread of life
⦁ Jesus was also born into Bethlehem the House of Bread, He is the word of God which is spiritual bread by which we live for man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God Deut 8:3 and He is also the bread that came down from heaven.
Deuteronomy 8:3
3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live
⦁ His body represents bread the bread of life John 6:32-58 and whoever eats of His body and drinks His blood in communion / Passover they will live for they will feed off Him (spiritually).
Also whoever reads the scriptures they will also be feeding off Him spiritually for the scriptures are the word of God and He is the word which is our spiritual bread.
The blood of the Lord is the New Wine which we drink. So Jesus came to the world to give the world or more correctly those from the world life through believing in and feeding off what He did on the cross and His words John 1:1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 6:32-58
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.
For brevity's sake in regards to the rest of the bible references in the following points you can look them up for yourselves. Make this your homework.⦁ Like Joseph Jesus was accused unjustly for a crime He didn’t commit that of blasphemy of saying that He is the Son of the Most High. He didn’t commit a crime in saying that He is the Son of the Most High because He is the Son of God. Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 26:63-64.
⦁ He was held captive for a night and He was arrested by the Temple guards who were sent to arrest Him by the High Priest.
He then was imprisoned by the High Priest, the priests, the Sanhedrin they had a hasty trial in which He was condemned to death based on false charges and then He was handed over to the Romans to be tried by Pontius Pilate by the Roman law then to crucified on a cross.
Isaiah 53:7-10. Matthew 26-27, Mark 14-15, Luke 22-23, John 18-19.
⦁ Jesus was sold for the price of the hire of a shepherd Zechariah 11:7-14 he was betrayed by Judas for the princely sum of 30 shekels Matthew 26:3, 14-15.
⦁Jesus was wounded in the house of His friends, Zechariah 13:6 for He was pierced on the cross for man’s sins and they will look upon Him whom they have pierced Zechariah 12:10, Revelation 1:7 and He was pierced for our transgressions Isaiah 53:4-5, John 19:30-37.
⦁ He was not recognized by His brothers, He came to His own and they didn’t receive Him. John 1:10-11.
Today the Jews still don't recognize Him, they don't realize that he is Jewish by birth, and culture. They think that He is a Gentile god or they think the Gentiles are committing idolatry by worshiping Christ.
They see Him in Gentile style clothes and that he has the colouring of a European in many paintings in churches or art galleries.
Jesus is known by many names around the world so even His name is changed because of this they won't have anything to do with Him and because they have been persecuted by the false Roman Church down the centuries.
They blame their woes and persecutions on not just the Christians but on Christ Himself.
The devil has the Jews believing a lie that God hates them and has finished with them which is not true but a lie from the pit of hell and of course the harlot church system has furthered this lie even more through false teaching called replacement theology.
This is teaching found in both Catholic and Protestant churches unfortunately.
God had to open my eyes to the truth of His love for the Jewish people and that He has not forgotten them or rejected them but He still has plans for them. Which will be fulfilled in entirety when Jesus returns to this earth to Jerusalem.
⦁ He will make Himself known to His own brethren at His second appearing and they will mourn for Him as for a first born son Zechariah 12:10-13:1, Revelation 1:7.
Point - 2 Why don’t the Jews today believe that Yeshua is the Messiah?
Why are they waiting for the Messiah to come when He has already come?
⦁ The Jews think that there are two Messiah’s one from the house of Joseph and one from the house of Judah of the tribe of Judah.
One will be a suffering servant and one will be a King. They know one will die but don’t believe that this same person will rise again and they believe a Messiah a political Messiah will arise from human parents. They have completely missed the truth.
⦁ There are other reasons why the Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the Messiah though I have listed some reasons why they don't see Him as the Messiah in the point above this one.
There are other reasons why they don't believe in Jesus or see Him as their Messiah which I won’t go into those reasons in this teaching series.
I will only focus on their not believing in Jesus because they see Him as the suffering servant only and they don’t connect Him to the conquering King that will come as Messiah to reign on the earth.
⦁ Yeshua in a sense did come from the house of Joseph as a suffering servant from the line of the tribe of (house of) Judah.
He came from Joseph’s house as Joseph was His foster father the husband of Mary but not the father of Yeshua as He is truly divinely the Son of Yahweh through the Holy Spirit to Mary.
Yeshua may have been known as Yeshua ben Joseph (ben means son in Hebrew) Jesus son of Joseph. Yeshua is the Hebrew name of Jesus.
⦁ As people often said about Him isn’t He the son of Joseph and Mary where did this man get this wisdom from when He was teaching in the synagogue in Nazareth His home town.
Luke 4:22
22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.
and in
John 6:42 they say the same thing about Him.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
⦁ So He was of the house of Joseph in a sense as Joseph was His foster father and He did go down to Egypt as a young child with Joseph His foster father.
To live there until those who were seeking His life had died .and then the Lord called His Son out of Egypt and this Joseph brought his foster son up from Egypt.
⦁ Just as Joseph Jacob's (Israel's) son went down to Egypt to preserve life for his family by overseeing the food and storing it during the good years.
⦁ Another Joseph preserved the life of not only the Son of the Most High but he preserved not only this life but indirectly all of mankind as well.
⦁ Joseph preserved the life of Jesus as a helpless infant through his obedience to the directions of the Lord the Father of Yeshua.
By his obedience to God the Father of Jesus he preserved many future lives of mankind and the nation of Israel, who will come one day to believe on this one life. That is the life of Yeshua through Yeshua’s death and resurrection
⦁ Yeshua came the first time as a foster son of Joseph of the house of Joseph from the tribe of Judah both Joseph and Mary were direct descendants of King David.
Jesus too was a direct descendant of King David, through Mary His mother as she was of the line of David through his son Nathan.
Jesus came as a suffering servant to die for mankind’s sins His spiritual work.
⦁ Jesus will come back as the conquering king of the tribe of Judah His political work to rule and reign on the earth from the temple in Jerusalem for a thousand years.
This will be before the final judgment of the Lord occurs in the Great White Throne judgment before the New Heavens and the new earth are established.
⦁ Each time of His appearing is to do the expressed will of His Father.
The first time it was the expressed will of His Father was for Him to die for mankind’s sins and re establish the fellowship that was lost through sin between God and man. Thereby through the pouring out of His life blood on the cross He is the peace covenant between God and man.
The express will of His Father in His second appearing is to establish Father’s physical kingdom on earth through His Son reigning on earth in His physical glorified body.
This is how the prayer the Lord taught His disciples will be fulfilled the prayer we call the Lord's prayer.
We are to pray for the Father's kingdom to come and for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
How can this be done in perfect entirety except through His Son being physically present on earth ruling from Jerusalem.
So that in truth heaven and earth can be one and joined together in perfect harmony. For Father's kingdom will come on earth through the return of His Son.
The throne room of earth which will be the Holy of Holies of the Temple will be united with the throne room of heaven the Father's throne will be aligned with the Son's throne which is the throne of David in Jerusalem they will be one and in perfect harmony and unity.
The two roles of priest and king will be joined and they will be one and at peace with each other. Zechariah 6:11-15.
For Jesus will be a priest king who will rule over the House of Jacob from David's throne in Jerusalem. The throne of David is on the earth it is not in heaven. So Jesus has to come back to earth to rule on David's throne in Jerusalem over both Israel and the nations.
He will be giving both Israel and the nations direct laws and decrees from His Father in heaven.
This will be done for a thousand years to fulfill the scriptures pertaining to God restoring Zion as is found in the Old Testament. Again I have dealt with these things in depth in other posts.
It is not for man to bring about the kingdom of God on the earth but for the Son of God to do this.
For it is impossible for imperfect humans to do this. What we are called to do is to share the gospel so that people can come out of darkness to the light of the Lord's spiritual kingdom which will become His visible kingdom at His return.
⦁Yeshua also learnt obedience through that which He suffered Hebrews 5:7
Hebrews 5:7-10
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Point - 3 A brief detour into Genesis 38 the lineage of Judah
⦁ A brief note about Judah it is important that this chapter 38 of Genesis is included here during the story of Joseph as Judah also has a key role to play in the life of Joseph.
Though at first glance this detour into Judah's life may not make sense but it does have a purpose and God doesn't put anything in His word without a reason for it being there.
⦁ This part of Judah’s life is included here as God is giving background into the life of Judah and how he is raising up seed for Judah.
This is important because the offspring between the union of Judah and Tamar is the line through which would come the lineage of King David and further into the far distant future from this lineage will come the Lord’s Messiah Yeshua.
⦁ As it states in Isaiah 65 verse 9 that God will raise up a seed to Jacob and an inheritor in Judah. Well Jesus is that seed of Jacob and an inheritor from Judah for He comes through the line of Judah from Abraham through Jacob (Israel).
Isaiah 65:9
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
⦁ Nothing is wasted in the Bible if something is recorded it is there for a reason to draw our attention to it. The line of Judah was important to God for from the tribe of Judah, as the ruling tribe will come the line of Kings from which line the Messiah will come as the King of all Glory as the King of Kings.
⦁ It was so important for God to have descendants to come through the line of Judah that He even allowed Judah to sleep with Tamar to raise up seed to her to continue his line.
As his previous two sons who married her didn’t live due to one being so evil God killed him and the other died because he refused to raise up seed to the first born to raise up a family in memory of his brother’s name. Judah kept back his youngest son from marrying Tamar because he was afraid that he too would die. Genesis 38:1-11
⦁ So God worked it out another way by Tamar disguising herself for she heard that the youngest son was old enough to marry but Judah hadn’t given him to her.
So when Judah saw Tamar he thought that Tamar was a cult prostitute because she was veiled and he went into her.
⦁ However she being savvy asked him for a pledge of his signet cord, belt and staff. From the union she got pregnant and when Judah found out that Tamar was pregnant he was about to have her put to death by burning.
Before this could happen, she sent him his items and said check these items out and see who they belong to I am pregnant to the man who owns these.
⦁ Judah acknowledges these items to be his and admits that she is more righteous than he was because he didn’t allow her to marry his other son. She never slept with Judah again but gave birth to twins Perez and Zerah Genesis 38:12-27 and it was from Perez that the line
of future kings of Israel came and Yeshua. These details are found in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:3 and Luke 3:33.
⦁ It is interesting to note that the name Perez means breaking out so Jesus comes from the line of the twin whose name means breaking out or breaking forth.
So too our Lord when He was born was breaking out or forth into mankind’s history by becoming part of His creation by being born into the human race as one of us but not in our sin nature. He broke forth from the virgin's womb at His birth and He broke forth from the tomb at His resurrection. He is a breaker One who breaks forth.
⦁ Also He will be breaking forth at His second coming as the manchild being birthed from heaven through the people of Judah / Levi calling Him forth from heaven to save them.
⦁ Jesus will be breaking forth from heaven by rending the heavens to come to His people in answer to their call to save them. He will be salvation in person.
It will be like when a woman gives birth, the baby literally breaks forth from the womb sometimes tearing the woman in the birth process.
So the Lord and the kingdom of heaven will be birthed break forth from heaven tearing the heavens to be born the birth of a new day a new era of man will come about. The womb of the morning will give birth to the kingdom of God with the King of Glory.
Psalm 110:1-7
1The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
⦁ The birth of the kingdom of heaven will occur at the time of Jesus's second coming breaking froth from heaven to redeem His people on the Day of Atonement.Isaiah 64:1-5
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 62:11-12
11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Isaiah 66:7-10
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her paincame, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in oneday? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
The next post will continue on with the life of Joseph where in points 4-6 We follow Joseph where he is sold into slavery through his brother's jealousy and where he is accused falsely and thrown into prison. We will also be looking at how the life of Jesus mirrors the life of Joseph in these things too.
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