Teachinghearts	The First Coming of the Messiah (Messianic Prophecies Summary) "Explore the Word. Change the World"	Lesson 11: Time: 150 minutes Print: 27 pages

The Law as Prophecy. While in many cases it appears that the law was a prophecy, it is equally true to also say that while He fulfilled prophecy He obeyed all laws. So to understand prophecy we must have a firm grasp of the law.
Fulfilling the Law and Prophecies. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, Until heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5: 17)
Evidence in the Old Testament. Then I said, "Behold I come. In the scroll of the book it is written of Me." (Psalm 40: 7)
... all things written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. (Luke 24: 44)
Moses and the Prophets Testify about the Messiah. Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. (Luke 24: 27)
The Scriptures Testify about the Messiah. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. (John 5: 39, 46)
The Messiah Would Suffer. But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. (Acts 3: 18)
Laws About Christ. For Christ is the end [goal] of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (Romans 10: 4)
We will show how Christ fulfilled all laws about making sinners righteous and how all laws pointed to Him as the way to righteousness. He did not abolish laws, but in Him is the purpose for which the laws were written. The blood of bulls and goats cannot forgive sins, but His blood can.
The Old Testament testifies about the Messiah. We arranged this evidence mostly by the prophets, not the events.

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Old Testament		Prophecy	New Testament Fulfillment
	Lineage
	Isaiah 9:6-7	Born as a human male	Luke 2: 7. Historical fact
	Isaiah 7:14	Born of a virgin (young maiden)	Matthew 1:18, 23
	Jews believe a miracle or mystery is associated with His seed which is from another place
	Genesis 3:15	Born of a woman's seed	Matthew 1:20, Luke 2: 4-11, Galatians 4:4
	Isaiah 9: 6-7; 8: 10	A seed from God. He is divine	John 10: 30-31
	Isaiah 7:14	Named Immanuel	Matthew 1:23
	Numbers 24:17; Genesis 17:19	From Abraham, Isaac and Jacob	Matthew 1:2, Luke 3:34
	Genesis 49:10	From the Tribe of Judah	Matthew 1: 1-17 (Joseph); Luke 3:23,33 (Mary)
	Isaiah 11:1-5,10	Branch from the house of Jesse	Matthew 1:1-2,5-6,16; Romans 15:12
	Isaiah 16:5	From the house of David	Matthew 1:1-2, 6, 16; John 7: 42
	Zechariah 4:7. Haggai 2: 23. 1 Chronicles 3: 24	Descendant of Zerubbabel	Luke 3:23-27
	Zechariah 3: 1-4	The High Priest Joshua (Yeshua)	Matthew 1: 21; Luke 1: 31
	Birth, Life and Territory
	Micah 5:2	Born in Bethlehem	Matthew 2:1-6; Luke 2:1-20
	Hosea 11:1; Numbers 24:8	Come out of Egypt	Matthew 2:14-15
	Isaiah 9:1-2	Comes from Nazareth	Matthew 2:22-23; 4:13-16
	Isaiah 9:1-2	Comes from Capernaum (region of Zebulun and Naphtali)	Matthew 4:15-16
	Genesis 49:13	Fishermen from Galilee	Mark 1: 16-20
	Jeremiah 31:15	Massacre of infants	Matthew 2: 16-18
	Numbers 24: 17 and an oral tradition	The star out of Jacob and king of Israel	Matthew 2: 2 They called Shimon Bar Kochba, a failed Messiah, "Son of the star".
	The Torah of Moses (Sanctuary, Offerings and Feasts and The Patriarchs) and Events During the Exodus
	Exodus 25: 29-30	The Bread of Life	John 6: 48, 51	The Sanctuary
	Exodus 36: 35	His Body is the Veil	Matthew 27: 51; Hebrews 10: 20
	Isaiah 8: 11	He is the sanctuary	Revelation 21:22
	Exodus 37: 17-23	Light of the world	John 8: 12
	Deuteronomy 18: 15-19	A prophet like Moses	John 7:40. See summary below
	Leviticus 23: 4-8	The Passover Lamb of God	Luke 22: 8; John 1: 29, 36	The Feasts. God Comes to Conquer Death and Bring New Life
	Exodus 33: 18-23 Micah 7: 17-10	God "passes by" in the dark and covers us in the cleft of the Rock	Cross. Luke 22:8; John 1: 29,36; Darkness: Matthew 27:45
	Leviticus 23: 15-16	Pentecost - 50 days later	Acts 2: 1-2. The Holy Spirit Comes
	Leviticus 16; 23: 26-32	Yom Kippur. The Lord's Goat	Substitute for our sins
	Leviticus 16; 23: 26-32	Yom Kippur. Scapegoat	Treated like Satan
	Leviticus 16: 8	Yom Kippur. Cast lots	Selection of Jesus or a sinner
	Exodus 16: 14-27,32	Manna will not spoil on Sabbath	Body will not decay on Sabbath	Preservation and Resurrection
	Numbers 17	Dead stick comes to life	Hebrews 9: 4
★	Leviticus 23: 9-14	First fruits from the dead	Matthew 27: 52-53, John 5: 28. Resurrected with others as the wavesheaf
	Deuteronomy 23: 10-11	Spills His seed while He is asleep
	Leviticus 23: 11	Rise from the dead on the third day	1 Corinthians 15: 20, 26
	Genesis 22:4; Jonah 1:17; Hosea 6:2		Matthew 12:40, Matthew 28:1-20; Luke 24:46
	Deuteronomy 21: 23	Die on a tree	Acts 2: 23; 5: 30; Galatians 3: 13	The Legal Disposition of the Offering
	Leviticus 4: 3, 11-12	Killed on wood	John 19: 17
	Leviticus 4: 7	Bleed on the ground while praying	Luke 22: 44
	Leviticus 6: 11	Change His clothes	Matthew 27: 28-31; Mark 15: 17-19; John 19: 2
	Leviticus 6: 11	Body outside the city, north	John 19: 17
	Leviticus 6: 9	Roasting all night on trial	Matthew 27: 1-2; Mark 15: 1
	Many prophecies	Four holes in his body	Crucified. John 19: 17
	Numbers 4: 13	Dressed in purple	Matthew 27: 28-31; Mark 15: 17-19; John 19: 2
	Deuteronomy 33:25; Leviticus 12: 1-4	Lives 33 years	Luke 3: 23 and 3.5 year ministry. Acts 1: 2-3
	Leviticus 10: 14-15; Numbers 6: 19-20	Breast and thigh offering Lifted up and Waving	John 3: 14-15	Offering Lifted Up
	Numbers 21: 8; Genesis 49: 16-17; 3: 12-13	Lifted up like a serpent, He cures the snake bite from Eden	Jesus becomes a curse for us. John 3: 14-15; Galatians 3: 13
	Genesis 22: 13	Abraham saw Mount Moriah	Mount Moriah is the same place as Golgotha where a badly beaten and bruised Jesus Who was "spotted and striped" was on the cross between two other men. People would have to "lift up" or raise their eyes to see Him
	Genesis 18: 1-5	Abraham saw three men
	Genesis 28: 12-13, 19	Jesus is the ladder raised between heaven and earth
	3 Matzah lifted up	The Trinity at the crucifixion
	Genesis 31: 10; 30: 37-39, 41; Psalm 89: 32; Isaiah 53: 5	Jacob saw the spotted and striped rod and male goats
	Leviticus 14: 13	Priests kill him	Luke 24: 20	Killed by the Leaders and the People
★	Numbers 20: 6-12	Moses strikes the Rock	Dies once. See the Sin of Moses
	Exodus 33: 18-23	The Rock is split (split hooves)	Pierced by crucifixion
	Numbers 2,4,7,10	The final week of Jesus	Matthew 21-28; Mark 11-16, Luke 19-24; John 12-21
	Deuteronomy 33
	Genesis 29-30,35,48-49
	Numbers 22: 23-28	Balaam's donkey beaten	Christ bears burden, is beaten	The Donkey Bears Burdens
	Deuteronomy 22:4	Help the donkey that falls	Christ stumbles and falls and Simon of Cyrene helps
	Deuteronomy 22:1	Help the donkey that strays	The angel put him back on the path
	Deuteronomy 28:31	The donkey is torn away	Christ killed and taken away
	Genesis 49:14-15	Issachar, the donkey	Christ bears our burdens
	Deuteronomy 28:31	The ox is slaughtered	Christ is killed	The Ox as The Peace Offering
	Leviticus 26: 13	The ox with the yoke on his shoulders	Christ carries the cross
	Deuteronomy 28:31	The sheep given to enemies	The Gentiles accept Christ	The Sheep as The Burnt Offering
	Leviticus 23: 4-8	Passover lamb	Christ is the Lamb of God
	Leviticus 16; 23: 26-32	The Lord's Goat	Christ is sacrificed for our sins	The Goat as The Sin Offering
	Genesis 26	Esau (red, hairy)	Red and hairy goat skin coverings of the tabernacle
	The Law of Moses (Twelve Tribes of Israel (Last Week of His Life)) [Genesis 29-30, 35, 48-49. Deuteronomy 33]
	Judah (Gen. 49: 9-12)	Praised as King	Matthew 21: 5,9. King from the east	Jesus is Besieged and Captured by the Twelve Tribes
	Issachar	Comes east on a donkey	Matthew 21: 5; John 12: 12-15
	Zebulun	Came with the disciples	Matthew 26: 17-19. Mark 1: 16-17
	Reuben	Afflicted in the Garden	Luke 22: 44
	Simeon	Hated, scattered, violence	Matthew 26: 31, 56
	Levi	Attached. A nation of priests	1 Peter 2: 5-9
	» Aaron (East)	The priests come from the east	Matthew 24: 27-28; Luke 17: 36-37
	» Kohath (South)	Carried the furniture (insides)	Gethsemane to the trials
	» Merari (North)	Carried the structure (outside)	John 19: 17; Mark 15: 20-21. Cross
	» Gershon (West)	Carried the fabric roof	Matthew 27: 51-52. Ascension
	Gad (Genesis 49: 19)	Arrested and tried. Raider	Matthew 26: 47-50; John 18: 3
	Dan (Genesis 49: 17)	Judged as a serpent	Luke 23: 33-39
	Asher	Dead but not decaying	Matthew 26: 7,12
	Napthali	Set loose. Resurrected	Matthew 27: 51-52
	Joseph (Deut 33: 17)	Reproach removed	Revelation 5: 12-14
	» Ephraim	Fruitful	Acts 26: 23
	» Manasseh	Forgives and forgets	Hebrews 8: 12
	Benjamin Deut 33: 12	Son of the Right Hand	Matthew 26: 64; 22: 44; Acts 2: 33
	The Law of Moses (The SHEMA and the Five Signs of Judaism)
	Circumcision	The Promised Seed cut off	Matthew 27: 35; Isaiah 53: 8; Jeremiah 11: 19	The Physical Appearance of Jesus at His Crucifixion
	Tzitzit	4 holes in His torn body	Crucified. John 19: 23
	Mezuzah	King of the Jews above His head	Matthew 27: 37; Mark 15: 26; Luke 23: 38; John 19: 19-20
	Tfellin on the Hand	Bound, nailed hands	Matthew 27: 2; Mark 15: 1; John 18: 12-24
	Tfellin on the Forehead	Crown of thorns	Matthew 27: 29
	The Law of Moses (The Covenant)
	Genesis 3: 3	Dies for us	Romans 5: 8	Covers our Sins and Punishments
	Genesis 3: 14-24	Suffered the wrath of God for us	Romans 5: 9
	Genesis 3: 21; Jeremiah 31: 33	Clothe us with Righteousness. Write the law in our hearts	Romans 6: 4; Hebrews 8: 10-12; 10: 16-17
	Genesis 15: 9-18	Christ split in two to make the covenant	Crucified
	Jesus is the Main Course Cannibalized at the Wedding Feast Held During the Passover Seder
	Psalm	God invites us to a feast	Matthew 22: 3,9; A Wedding Feast	The Unruly Dinner Guests at the Passover Feast
	Psalm	Jesus is the main course	John 1: 29, 36. The Lamb of God
	Psalm 17:9; 18:5; 40:12; 88:17; 22:12,16; 109:3; 118:10-12; Job 16: 9,13	The 12 tribes sit around the table as the tribes camped around the sanctuary	The people besieged Him
	Psalm 35: 16; 37:12; Job 16: 9	Bite, chew, spit and swallow Him	Eat My flesh. Matthew 26: 26.
	Deuteronomy 12: 27	Pour out His blood	Drink My blood. Mark 14: 24.
	The Law of Moses (Dietary Laws): Cooking Instructions
	Leviticus 11: 3; Deuteronomy 14: 6	Clean animal: Split hooves	The four wounds that split His hands and feet	The State of the Dead Offering
	Leviticus 11: 3; Deuteronomy 14: 6	Clean animal: Chews cud	He will be resurrected/ regurgitated from the bowels of the earth
	Exodus 23:19;34:26; Deuteronomy 14: 21	Goat meat and mother's milk separated before boiling	Jesus separated from His mother before He became the sin offering
	Leviticus 3: 17 Leviticus 2: 14	Fat not eaten Salt on the offering	His body would not decay in death but a sweet smelling offering
	Leviticus 3: 17; 7:26-27; 17:10-14	Blood not eaten	Jesus would give His life as an atonement for sin
	The Law of Moses (Passover Seder (Nisan 14, Day Time: The Last Hours of His Life))
	Seder	Christ eaten in the bowels	Matthew 27; John 19	Jesus Makes the Atonement on the Cross
	First Cup. Exodus 6: 6-7	I will bring out. Pilate shows Him to the people	Matthew 27: 11, 17, 19, 24
	Urechatz	Pilate washes hands	Matthew 27: 11, 17, 19, 24
	Karpas	Given vinegar. Tears	Matthew 27: 34; Mark 15: 23; John 19: 28-30
	Kissing the matzo	Judas kissed Jesus Mary kissed Jesus	Matthew 26:47-50; Mark 14:44; Luke 22:47-48; Luke 7:45
	Yachatz	Crucified, broken body	Matthew 27: 26; John 19
	Second Cup	I will Deliver (from sin)	Matthew 27; John 19
	Motzi Matzo	The Trinity. Spirit released	Matthew 27: 50; John 19: 30
	Deuteronomy 33: 24-25, Charoset	Wrapped in spices for burial	Matthew 26: 7-12; John 19: 39-40
	Third Cup	I will Redeem. Dies on the cross	Matthew 27; John 19
	Tzafun	Hidden Afikoman, Christ buried	Matthew 27; John 19
	Hallel	The resurrection	Matthew 27; John 19
	Fourth Cup	I will take (Resurrection)	Matthew 27; John 19
	Psalms (2, 8, 16, 18, 21-24, 35, 38, 40-45, 55, 68, 69, 72, 78, 89, 97, 102, 109, 110, 118)
	Psalm 78:2	Teach in parables	Matthew 13:35	The Life and Destiny of Jesus
	Psalm 8:2	Children would praise Him	Matthew 21:16
	Psalm 69:9	Enters temple with authority	Matthew 21: 23, Mark 11: 15-17, 28
	Psalm 72:10	Given gifts by kings	Matthew 2:1,11
	Psalm 2:9	Rules nations with a rod of iron	Revelation 19: 15; 2:27
	Psalm 40: 6-9	Became a human to do the will of God	Hebrews 10: 5-9
	Psalm 110:4	Priest like Melchizedek	Hebrews 5:5-6
	Psalm 69:4	Hated without cause	John 7:48-49, John 15:24-25	Hated and Forsaken
	Psalm 22:1	Forsaken by God	Matthew 27:46
	Psalm 118: 22-23, Isaiah 28:16	The Cornerstone rejected	Matthew 21:42, Mark 12: 10, 1 Peter 2:5-7
	Psalm 69:8	Rejected by his brothers	Mark 3: 20-21, John 7:1-5
	Psalm 118:22	Rejected by rulers	Matthew 21:42, John 7:48-49
	Psalm 2:1-2	Plot by Jews and Gentiles	Acts 4:27	Betrayed
	Psalm 41:9; 55:12-24; Nahum 1: 11-13; Obadiah 1: 7	Betrayed by close friend who eats His bread	Matthew 26:14-16, 26:21-25, 26:47-50, Luke 22:19-23, John 13: 18-21
	Psalm 41: 9; 55:15; Obadiah 1: 7	Only one will be lost	Matthew 27: 5; John 17: 12; 6: 70; Acts 1:18
	Psalm 41: 9; 55:12-14	Judas guides the arresting army	Acts 1: 16
	Psalm 69:25-28; 109:6-13	His betrayer is cut off	Acts 1: 18-20; Matthew 27: 5
	Genesis 49: 19; Psalm 22: 16	Arrested by a band of evil men	Matthew 26: 54; Mark 14:49; John 18: 3
	Psalm 89: 32,38-48	Christ suffers the wrath of God	Matthew 27. The last three days	Suffered
	Psalm 35:11	Accused by false witness	Matthew 26:59-60
	Psalm 22:7-8	Despised, rejected, mocked and insulted all day	Matthew 27: 31,39-44; Luke 23:11,35-37
	Psalm 42: 3-11	Where is your God?	Matthew 27: 43
	Psalm 118: 27	Tied up	Mark 14: 44; Matthew 26: 47-50
	Psalm 118: 10-12	Besieged	Matthew 26: 47-50
	Psalm 22:18	Gamble for his clothes	Matthew 27:35, John 19:23-24
	Psalm 22:15	Thirst during crucifixion	John 19: 28
	Psalm 69:21;Ruth 2:14	Given vinegar to drink	Matthew 27:34, John 19:28-30
	Psalm 22:1,7,14-18	Die by crucifixion	Matthew 27:31 Mark 15:20,25	Death (Destruction)
	Psalm 22:16	Hands and feet pierced (nailed)	John 20:25
	Psalm 22:17; 34:20, Numbers 9:12, Exodus 12:46	No broken bones	John 19:31-36
	Psalm 22:15	Thirst, death and burial	Matthew 27:15
	Psalm 74: 3,5-7; Zechariah 11: 1-3	Sanctuary destroyed	Jesus killed. John 2: 19. Sanctuary destroyed in 70 AD
	Psalm 16:10; Leviticus 2: 13; 3:16-17; Ezekiel 43:24; Exodus 16: 23-24	Body will not decay, or have worms, will be preserved, smells sweet	John 2: 22	Burial and Resurrection
	Psalm 16:10	Would return from the dead	Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 2:22-32
	Psalm 18: 3-19	Resurrection earthquake	Matthew 28: 2
	Psalm 24: 7-10	Jesus is inaugurated in heaven	Revelation 5: 5-9
	Psalm 68:18	Ascension. Gift of the Holy Spirit	Acts 1:9
	Psalm 97:	Second Coming	Revelation 19-20
	The Prophecies of Daniel
	Daniel 2	Christ is the Rock that will destroy the kingdoms	Hail stones destroy the earth. Revelation 16: 21; 11: 19; 6: 16-17	Second Coming
	Daniel 7	Wild animals attack the people of God	The people attack Christ like wild animals	Christ Suffers like His People
	Daniel 8	The sanctuary and people are attacked on the day of atonement	Christ, the ram is attacked by Satan, the goat on the day of atonement
	Daniel 9: 24-27 (25)	Year of anointing (483 years after Jerusalem rebuilt)	Matthew 3, Luke 3: 1-3	The Ruling Civil Government is the Fourth Kingdom (Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome)
	Daniel 9: 24-27 (27)	Year of death (486.5 years after Jerusalem rebuilt)	Preached about 3.5 years, then the disciples preached for another 3.5 years until year 490
	Daniel 11: 20	Live under the "raiser of taxes"	Luke 2: 1 (Augustus Caesar)
	Daniel 11: 21	The next ruler is a "vile person"	Luke 3: 1 (Tiberius Caesar)
	Daniel 11: 22	Ruling Power - the fourth kingdom	Rome was ruling. Luke 3: 1-2
	Major Prophets
	Isaiah 9: 6-7	A child is born to be king	Luke 2	The Life and Personality of Jesus
	Isaiah 6: 9-10	People will not understand	Matthew 13:14-15
	Isaiah 35:5-6; 29:18	Miraculous healings	Matthew 11:5; Matthew 9:35, Luke 7:20-22
	Isaiah 40:3	Another prophet will announce him	Matthew 3:1-3
	Isaiah 40:11; 42:3	Tender and compassionate	Matthew 12:15-21;Hebrews 4:15
	Isaiah 42:2	Meek and humble	Matthew 12:15-21
	Isaiah 53:12	Pray for his enemies	Luke 23:32-34
	Isaiah 44:3, Joel 2:28	Sends the Holy Spirit	John 20:22, Acts 2:16-17
	Isaiah 61:1-2	Deliver spiritual captives. The poor hear the gospel	Matthew 11:5; Luke 4:16-21	Ministers to the Gentiles
	Isaiah 49:6; 42:1-4,6	Minister to the Gentiles	Matthew 12:14-21
	Isaiah 11:10; 42:1-4; 49:1,12	Sought after by the Gentiles. Accepted by the Gentiles	Matthew 12:15-21, Romans 9:30, 10:20, 11:11, 15:10; Acts 10:45, 13:46-48
	Isaiah 11	Gentiles accept Him
	Isaiah 49: 23	Kings would bow to him	Matthew 2: 11 and future fulfillment
	Isaiah 8:11	A sanctuary not recognized by His people	1 Peter 2: 7-8; 1 Corinthians 1: 23; Matthew 21: 43-44	Stumbling Block
	Isaiah 49:7	Hated without cause	John 7:48-49, John 15:24-25	Hated and Rejected
	Isaiah 50:6	Spit upon	Matthew 26:67; 27:30; Mark 14:65
	Isaiah 50:6	Beaten	Matthew 26:67 27:30; Mark 14:65
	Isaiah 53: 4	Rejected like a leper Messiah	Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 98b
	Isaiah 53:1-4	Despised and rejected	Matthew 26:3-4, John 12:37-43
	Isaiah 53:3	Suffer	Mark 15:14-24, John 10:31-33;7:1-5
	Isaiah 53:5; Psalm 89:32	Wounded, pierced, bruised, stripes	Beaten with a rod. Matthew 27:26
	Isaiah 53:5-6	Crushed for our sins	1 Peter 2: 24,25; Romans 4:25; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Corinthians 15:3
	Isaiah 53:7	Silent before his accusers	Matthew 27:12-14; Mark 15:3-5; Luke 23:8-10
	Isaiah 53:8	Tried and condemned	Matthew 27:1-2; Luke 23:1-25
	Isaiah 53:5,6,8,10-12, Psalm 69:4	Suffer for the sins of others	Romans 4: 25, 1 Corinthians 15:3
	Isaiah 53: 10-12	Innocent man exchanged for a sinner	Matthew 27:17-20; Luke 23:18; John 18: 14; Barabbas exchanged
	Isaiah 53:12	Numbered with sinners. Die with criminals	Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27-28; Luke 23:32-34	Killed
	Isaiah 53:9	Assigned a grave with the wicked	Matthew 27:38
	Isaiah 53:5,6,8,10-12	Die as a sacrifice for sins	John 1:29, 11:49-52; Acts 10:43, 13:38,39
	Isaiah 53:8	Brutally killed	Crucifixion Story
	Isaiah 53:9	Buried in a rich man's tomb	Matthew 27:57-60
	Isaiah 53:8-10	Would return from the dead	Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 2:22-32	Resurrected
	Minor Prophets
	Malachi 3:1	Messenger prepares the way	Matthew 11:10	The Glorious King
	Haggai 2: 3-9	Glory of the second temple will be greater than the first	The Messiah visited this temple. Luke 2: 27-32
	Zechariah 9:9; Genesis 49:14-15	Triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey	Matthew 21:1-9, Luke 19:35-37, John 12:12-16
	Zechariah 3: 1-4	Jesus the High Priest bears our sins and is accused by Satan	Galatians 3: 13; 2 Corinthians 5: 21	The Perfect King Keeps the Covenant
	Zechariah 4: 1	Jesus is resurrected	Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 2:22-32
	Zechariah 4: 7	The stone is rolled away	Luke 24: 2
	Zechariah 4: 11,14	Two angels sut beside Jesus	John 20: 12
	Zechariah 4: 2-3,6,12	The Holy Spirit is sent as fire	Acts 2 (Holy Spirit as tongues of fire)
	Zechariah 10:4; Deuteronomy 32: 4	The Cornerstone and the perfect Rock	Matthew 21:42, Mark 12: 10, 1 Peter 2:5-7
	Zechariah 11: 10	The End of the Old Covenant. The staff "Favor" was cut in pieces to break the covenant with Israel	Jesus was cut in pieces like the offering and the old covenant was broken
	Zechariah 11: 14	The New Covenant. The staff "Union" was cut in pieces to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel	Jesus, from the tribe of Judah, was cut in pieces and broke away from Israel and became the head of the new covenant with the Gentiles
	Zechariah 11:12; Exodus 21: 32	Betrayed for 30 shekels of silver	Matthew 26: 14-15	The People Break the Covenant
	Zechariah 11:12-13	Silver buys a potter's field	Matthew 27:3-10
	Zechariah 11:13	30 pieces of silver returned to God's house	Matthew 27:5
	Zechariah 12:10, Isaiah 53:5, Psalm 22:16	People look at the pierced Christ. Side pierced	John 19:33-34; 36-37; Revelation 1: 7
	Zechariah 13: 1	Blood and Water	John 19: 34, blood and water from His side
	Zechariah 13:7	Disciples would desert him	Matthew 26:31, 56
	Zechariah 13: 7; Genesis 49: 5-7	Disciples scattered	Matthew 26: 31, 56
	Micah 5:1	Beaten with a Rod	Mark 15:19
	Zechariah 11: 1-3; Psalm 74: 3-7	Temple doomed	Jesus' body temple (John 2: 19). Temple destroyed in 70 AD	Doom
	Zechariah 11: 4-7	People doomed	1 million killed
	Zechariah 11: 8	Priests doomed	Earthly priesthood ends
	Amos 8:9	Darkness over the land	Matthew 27:45
	Job 16: 2, 7, 20; 17: 1. Psalm 69: 20	No comforters, Deserted, Broken	Everyone deserted Him	Afflicted by God and Abandoned by Friends. Job
	Job 16: 12; Psalm 22: 15	Shattered	Beaten severely and nailed
	Job 16: 9-10	Eaten up	Matthew 26: 26; Mark 14: 24; John 6: 50-54, 60,66. Cannibalized
	Job 16: 11	Given to the wicked	Mark 10: 33-34; Mark 14:49
	Job 16: 17	Innocent	2 Corinthians 5: 21
	Job 17: 6	Spit on Him	Matthew 27: 30
	Job 17: 1, 13-16	Death. Spirit broken	Gave up the Spirit. Matthew 27: 50; John 19: 30
	The Suffering Messiah Predicted by the Prophets. (Acts 3: 18)
	Genesis 12	Abraham	Called from home to wander a hostile land
	Genesis 22	Isaac	Bound like a sacrifice, crown of thorns
	Genesis 32	Jacob (Israel)	Jesus wrestled with death, the supplanter, until day break and became Israel, the heir of the promise
	Genesis 48-49	Jacob (Israel)	The blessings of the sons were His final week
	Genesis 26	Jacob (smooth), Esau (red, hairy)	The linen, red and hairy coverings of the tabernacle
	Genesis 29-30, 35	Rachel and Leah	The names of the sons
	Genesis 37: 11-36	Joseph	Betrayed by all his brothers, except Benjamin
	Deuteronomy 33	Moses	The blessings for the 12 tribes
	Judges 14-16	Samson	The man who takes an unsuitable wife
	Judges 11	Jephtah	The illegitimate son of a prostitute who was disinherited by his brothers
	Job	Job	The reason for suffering as a bargain with Satan for us
	Psalm 22, 69	David	Insulted, pierced, rejected, mocked, forsaken
	Isaiah 10:27	Isaiah	Removes the burdens of Israel
	Isaiah 53	Isaiah	Wounded and despised
	Jeremiah 15: 10-18; 20:	Jeremiah	Cursed by everyone, mocked, alone, deserted
	Ezekiel	Ezekiel	The references to "son of man" also refer to Christ
	Ezekiel 12	Ezekiel	The captured Prince in the land of the north
	Ezekiel 28: 16	Ezekiel	He threw out the money changers from the temple with violence (Matthew 21: 12)
	Ezekiel 28: 16-19	Ezekiel	They treated Christ like Satan after He cleansed the temple (Matthew 21: 12)
	Ezekiel 43: 1-2,3	Ezekiel	The prince with the glory of the LORD comes from the east bearing gifts and an offering
	Ezekiel 49: 19	Ezekiel	Jerusalem gave Christ as an offering to foreigners
	Daniel 9: 24-7; 11:22	Daniel	Cut off and swept away by the Roman army
	Hosea 1	Hosea	The faithful husband and the prostitute wife
	Hosea 4-5	Hosea	The legal case or trial against Israel. They offered Christ on the top of the mountain (verse 13)
	Hosea 6: 1-2,3	Hosea	He will be torn, wounded, killed and raised the third day
	Joel 1:7,12, 16; 2:17	Joel	Vine dries up, bread cut off before our eyes
	Amos 5: 10,12,13, 17	Amos	Hates righteous judges, accept bribes. Jesus was silent. Women weeping as He passed through
	Amos 8: 8-10	Amos	Earthquake, darkness. Women weeping for a son
	Obadiah 1: 1-14	Obadiah	Deceived by a friend, cut off, cast lots, gloat
	Jonah 1-4	Jonah	Suffers three days
	Genesis 40: 9-11,18-19	Joseph	Chief cup bearer lives and chief baker dies after 3 days
	1 Samuel 20: 5	David	David hides himself for 3 days during the new moon
	Micah 5: 1-2	Micah	Besieged by an army, beaten, rejected
	Nahum 1: 11-13	Nahum	Judas was the wicked counselor who placed a yoke and shackles on the Lord
	Habakuk 1: 1-4; 3: 17-19	Habakuk	Besieged by the wicked. No justice. No fruit of His labor
	Zephaniah 1: 7-8	Zephaniah	The Lord prepares a sacrifice
	Zephaniah 3: 8,9,11	Zephaniah	The wrath of God
	Song of Solomon	All references to Solomon	Messiah is a king in love with a woman
	1 Chronicles 22: 7-9	Solomon	Jesus is the Prince of peace who builds God's temple. Solomon means peace and he built the first temple
	Haggai 1: 4, 8; 2: 3-9	Haggai	Jesus brings wood to rebuild the desolate temple and glorify God
	Zechariah 12: 10	Zechariah	Pierced, rejected. Stoned to death at the sanctuary
	Malachi 1-7	Malachi	Despised and rejected the Lord and His table
	Job 16-17	Job	Unjust suffering without a comforting word from friends
	Mishnah: Preparing the Offerings (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Tamid 30b-31b)
	Hole drilled in wrist	Christ was nailed in His hands and feet		Preparing the Offering
	Animal hung up	He was hung up on a cross
	Animal flayed, skinned	He was beaten until it tore His skin and flayed Him with insults
	Head cut off	Crucified in Golgotha "the place of the Skull"
	Animal cut up	He was torn apart to keep the covenant
	Animal disemboweled	He was emotionally destroyed
	Priest casts lots	They gambled for His clothes
	Blood at the base	He shed blood on the ground in Gethsemane and on Calvary
	Nine priests carry pieces	Nine tribes symbolized as cutting up the offering
	Christ Suffers as the Greatest Sinner. Because He bears our sins He must suffer the punishment of all sinners
	Genesis 3: 15	Bruises the Christ's heel	Christ is killed. No omnipresence	Adam and Eve (Rebellion) (Idolatry and Divination) 1 Samuel 15: 23 Did not Consult the Name of the Lord
	Genesis 3: 16	Painful childbirth	The crucifixion was a painful birth for the church
	Genesis 3: 16	Submit to her husband	Christ submitted to death. Church submits to Christ. Ephesians 5: 24
	Genesis 3: 17	Ground does not yield fruit	Israel did not respond to His labor
	Genesis 3: 18	Thorns and thistles	Crown of thorns
	Genesis 3: 17-19	Works by the sweat of his face	Sweat blood as He worked for our salvation
	Genesis 3: 17-19	Returns to dust	Buried in the ground
	Genesis 3: 12-13	Consulted the snake and woman	Became like a snake on a tree
	Genesis 4: 11-12	Earth does not yield its fruit	The Jews did not respond. The fig tree withered	Cain (Murderer)
	Genesis 4: 12	A vagrant and wanderer	Matthew 8: 20. He was a homeless vagrant wandering around Israel
	Genesis 4: 15	His killers will be punished seven times	The wicked are punished in the seven last plagues. Revelation 16
	Genesis 4: 15	A mark was placed on him so that he would not be killed	A wound was placed on Jesus so that we would not be killed
		A mark or seal of God is placed on the righteous so that they will live
	Daniel 4: 14; Isaiah 6:13	The tree cut down	The branch that was cut down	Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon) (Pride)
	Daniel 4: 14	Fruit scattered. Stump remains	Disciples fled. Christ remained
	Daniel 4: 16	Seven periods of time	He suffered the wrath of God 7 days
	Daniel 4: 17; Psalm 22: 6	The lowliest man	The lowliest man, a worm
	Isaiah 14: 3-8	Mocked on the day of rest	Jesus was mocked and taunted	Satan (Oppressor) No Sabbath Rest
	Isaiah 14: 10-11, 16-17	Cast down to sheol, the abyss	He was buried in the grave
	Isaiah 14: 3-8	The oppressor gave no rest	Jesus had no rest until He died
	Leviticus 16: 21-22; Ezekiel 28: 16-19	Satan was filled with violence	Jesus stopped the temple trade with violence. Matthew 21: 12-13	Satan (Violent King of Tyre) (The Goat) (The False God)
	Leviticus 16: 21-22; Revelation 20: 3	Satan, the scapegoat, will be blamed	The Lord's goat was traded for a murderer
	Revelation 20: 3	Led by a strong man	Simon of Cyrene
	Numbers 5: 15-17	Drinks bitter water of jealousy	Christ drinks the bitter vinegar and hyssop. John 19: 28-30	Israel (The Unfaithful Woman)
	Numbers 5: 27	Becomes a curse among the people	Suffered the curses and wrath of God and was rejected
	Numbers 5: 27	Abdomen swells	Blood and water pooled in His lower chest
	Numbers 5: 27; Psalm 31:10	Thigh wastes away. The thigh is connected to the covenant and making vows	The covenant fails. Jesus was unable to use His legs to support His breathing because of exhaustion
	Abraham Sacrifices Isaac
★	Genesis 22: 2	The Unique Son	His miracle Son. His only Son	God Sends His Unique Son to be Killed Jesus Submits
★	Genesis 22: 4	Place of the sacrifice	Golgotha may be the same place
★	Genesis 22: 6	Isaac carries the wood	Jesus carries the wooden cross
★	Genesis 22: 13	Lamb's head caught in a thorn thicket	John 19: 5. Jesus wore a crown of thorns on His head
	Modern Science Prophecies about the Messiah
	Digestive System	Christ in the bowels		The Day of the Lord is Written in Nature Natural Laws Obey Spiritual Laws
	DNA Replication	Christ is torn apart and broken to repair our damaged genes
	Circadian Rhythms	The biological cycles of the world on the day of the crucifixion
	Photosynthesis	Christ is the light of the world
	Krebs Cycle	Christ and the Holy Spirit are given to the world
	Cardio-Pulmonary	God gives life to the world
	Future Fulfillment
	Mitosis	The world is polarized and separated before the Second Coming
	Magnetism	Christ draws the world to Him
	Rib Cage	The configuration of the twelve tribes at the end of time
	Periodic Table	Christ creates and recreates the earth
	1 Chronicles 17:11-14; Isaiah 9:7	King. A son of David on the throne forever	Luke 1:32-33; Revelation 19: 16; 20: 6; 22: 3	The Conquering Messiah
	Psalm 2:6; 18:50; 21:1-7; 45: 2,3,6,7; 60:7; 61:6,8; 80:17; 110:2,7; 132:14,18. Isaiah 16: 1,5; 24:23		King and conqueror
	Psalm 50: 2. Isaiah 42:1		Righteous judge
	Psalm 92:8,11,13. Isaiah 11:10-12; 32:14,15; 30		Restores and heals Israel
	Psalm 68: 31; 72: 1,8,10,16,17. Isaiah 60: 22		Gentiles accept Him
	Psalm 72:	All nations serve Him	Revelation 19
	Psalm 18: 37-50	Triumph. Jesus raids His enemies	Revelation 19: 9
	Psalm 45:1-17	Jesus raids His enemies and comes for His bride	Revelation 19
	Psalm 110:1 Psalm 80:17	Enemies would see Him on the throne of God, on the right hand	Matthew 22:44
	Genesis 49: 19	Will come with an army	Revelation 19: 14-15
	Deuteronomy 25: 5-6	The brother of the dead	Acts 2. The Holy Spirit comes to build the house of Christ
	Zechariah 13: 1	The two fountains opened
	Zechariah 4: 2-3,12	The two trees watered by oil from the lamp	Acts 2: 3. Tongues of fire from the lamp on the trees
	Daniel 7: 9,13,27	Second Coming	Matthew 24:30
	Ezekiel 37:10-14	Saints resurrected	Matthew 24:31
	Isaiah 25:8,9; 26:19	Dead raised	Matthew 24:31; Revelation 20:4-6; 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17
	Zechariah 14:1-9	Comes to the mount of Olives	Revelation 20 (Third Coming)
	Genesis 3: 15	Bruises the serpent's head	Satan is killed
	Daniel 8: 13,14; 9: 24; 12: 3,11-12	Messiah will restore the temple	Revelation 22
	Daniel 2: 22,35,44. Isaiah 8:14; 28:16. 2 Samuel 23:3. Psalm 18:31		Messiah is the Rock who will receive the kingdom
	Genesis 1:2; 2:4; 4:25; 5:1; Leviticus 26:12,13. Psalm 95:7; 54:5		G-d of Israel, creator, G-d of the exodus and the covenant
	Isaiah 4:2; 11:1, 18:5. Genesis 49:22. Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15. Zechariah 3:8; 6:12		Messiah is the Branch. John 15:1-6 Israel is pruned when the bud blossoms (Isaiah 18:5)
	Israel returns		Israel accepts the Messiah in the last days
	Key events over which Jesus had no control. They were controlled by nature or His enemies. The probability of only eight unrelated events occurring is astronomical (1 x 1017). Choose any eight that convinces you. We only show a few. How could so many unrelated events, performed by so many conflicting groups fit His life?
	Other important traditionally accepted prophecies
	Other prophecies that He could have engineered. Or unfulfilled prophecies
	Insights taught to me by the Holy Spirit, then added by Teachinghearts. If they existed before I was never taught them
★	Unique information taught to me by a pastor or teacher
These prophecies are directly quoted in the New Testament as fulfillments
	Dr. Alfred Edersheim claims that the rabbis listed about 456 prophecies as Messianic in their writings

There are many more passages identified as Messianic by the Jews that are not in this list. Christians now understand the sacrificial system as Messianic. Jews do not.
So critics claim that we randomly take texts and apply it to Christ. Many of these links were made by the disciples and the literature from the rabbis show that they also did the same, applying a text to the Messiah.

The Patchwork Tapestry of Prophecy. However, in the new information presented by Teachinghearts we take a whole system of laws and an entire story to show how the Messiah fulfilled them. We even explain laws that the Jews never understood but obeyed. The seder, the offering rules, the blessings of Jacob and Moses, the journeys of the patriarchs and the twelve tribes are such a series of remarkable prophecies that as far as we know only the four cups of the seder have been recognized by others. One cannot deny the testimony of a related group of events and symbols that so clearly chronicle a specific event in His life.
In another lesson we prove that the Messiah must appear no earlier than 125 BC and no later than 110 AD.
What are the odds that Jesus Christ is this suffering Messiah?

Evidence of the Divinity of the Messiah and the Trinity

Jewish References to the Messiah
Jewish references to the Messiah include prophecy and history. There are predictions about what the Messiah will do, but it also includes references that identify what He has done in the Old Testament as a part of their history. Christians recognize this but tend to not emphasize it because we can demonstrate that the Messiah fulfilled prophecy but we cannot prove that He was their history. Jews tend to see what the Messiah will accomplish for them and not how to identify the Messiah when He comes other than the fact that He will conquer their enemies and establish them. So we have a history and expectation of two Messiahs.

• Nature. It required a dual nature to take up all the duties of the Messiah and make God do the impossible.
  • God. They identify the Messiah as the LORD G-d of the Old Testament who delivered them from Egypt and who created the world and the one who made the covenant with Abraham. Although Christians believe that Christ was also this person, yet we had no solid proof. But they had proof passed down from one generation to the other that certain passages refer to the Messiah. Since the Jews identify this G-d or His actions as Messianic, then their own testimony shows more clearly than we could that the coming Messiah preexisted as their God.
  • Human. As God it was impossible for Him to die, but as a human He could die for our sins.
    Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be held by it. (Acts 2: 24)
• Mission. It was to deliver Israel from all his enemies, including victory over the slavery of sin and power of death.
  • Conquering Messiah. Most of the Messianic passages are about the conqueror and king who will deliver Israel and make the nation prosperous.
  • Suffering Messiah. Some of their prophecies identify the suffering of the Messiah and that He would be rejected like a leper by His own people. They need to come to terms with what it means for the Messiah to be their rejected Redeemer which is clearly defined in Isaiah 53: 11-12. He will bear our sins.

So Jews believe in a set of prophecies that show that He would be divine and that they would reject and mock Him. They also believed that He would take their sins. Therefore, they should have seen the sacrificial system as Messianic.

The Plural Nature of God
Shema. Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! (Deuteronomy 6: 4)
This testimony in the Old Testament scriptures prove to Jews that there is no Trinity (Godhead) and that Jesus is not divine. How can this be explained and what other evidence exists of this triple nature or function of God in the scriptures?

• The Perfect Marriage. This is an example of two people becoming one. It is also the symbol God uses to demonstrate our relationship to Him. Our unfaithfulness to Him is prostitution and adultery.
  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2: 24)
  So when Jesus said He was one with the Father, it could mean that He was totally committed and faithful as humans should be, or that He was also God, or He was the Father in human form. In any case, the possibilities demonstrate how many can be "one". So the Shema, by itself is not proof of God being one single, physical being. It may only mean that unlike the warring, jealous Pagan gods, the God of Israel is totally united as in a perfect marriage.
• Elohim. In the scriptures, God has used a plural word to describe Himself.
  Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image; according to Our likeness ..." (Genesis 1: 26)
  In verse 27 He switches to the singular.
  God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1: 27)
  This could be a reflection of the fact that the angels and other creatures were there. But this also suggests that the plural God decided to create man and one of the plurality carried out the task.
  Notice that it also took both man and woman to reflect the image and likeness and oneness of God. It takes both to complete the creative process and create a child in their likeness. It probably takes the oneness of both to complete all tasks that reflect the power of God.
  The New Testament also alludes to this singularity and plurality and to the fact that God created by speaking or by sound waves.
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
  He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1: 1-4, 10, 14)
  Jesus Christ was the Creator. He was the singularity. He was sent by the plurality as the Word or the source of the sound that was spoken in the creation.

Cutting Up God. It is ironic that after they cut up the offering, they went to a chamber to recite the SHEMA. At the moment they were declaring that their God was One, they had symbolically finished cutting Him up into pieces!

The Divinity of Jesus
"I and the Father are one". The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. (John 10: 30-31)
When Jesus said this they did not try to stone Him because He was claiming to be faithfully united to God. They were stoning Him because He seemed to indicate that He was God. There is no record that He ever tried to deny those claims.

• Mighty God. Speaking of the Messiah, Isaiah calls one who is born as a human child, "Mighty God" and the "Eternal Father".
  For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and this government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9: 6)
  Creator God and Redeemer in the Exodus. Jewish rabbis link the Messiah to Isaiah 9: 6 and many other old Testament verses that refer to the God of creation and the Lord of the exodus who delivered them. If these are Messianic references then the Messiah is God. The list includes these passages that refer to God.
  The Messiah is the "I Am". You are My witnesses, declares the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me. (Isaiah 43: 10)
  Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God and there is no other. (Isaiah 45: 22)
  The Messiah is God. For your husband is your Maker, whose name is the Lord of Hosts. And your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, who is called the God of all the earth. (Isaiah 54: 5)
• Humanity Hiding Divinity. There are at least twelve symbols of Judaism that show a picture of divinity cloaked in humanity. The same symbols indicate death with four wounds in His body and the ability to spring back to life from a power within Himself.
• The Lord's Goat. This is a minor point. If scapegoat Azazel is Satan, then the Lord's goat must be the Lord. Therefore, the Lord G-d offers Himself to die as the sin offering to atone for us.
  "He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting. "Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. "Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the LORD fell, and make it a sin offering. (Leviticus 16: 7-9)
  I am not simply acknowledging that these were substitutes or symbols of ideas. I am saying that if you believe that the scapegoat is Satan then you must believe that the Lord's goat is the Lord. And if He is the Lord, then the Lord will die as an atonement for sin.

The Trinity (Godhead)

• Passover Matzo. Three Matzo are lifted up at the blessing (Motzi Matzo), signifying the moment Christ was lifted up on the cross. This also means that they were all suffering on the cross for the sins of the world.
  • Top Matzah ("Eternal Father"). This indicates that the Father was swallowed up with Christ.
  • Middle Matzah ("Jesus Christ"). This was broken in two before the smaller half was eaten.
  • Bottom Matzah ("Holy Spirit"). This bread was released before the top two were eaten. This is the moment the Holy Spirit was released or given up as He died. This bread was also eaten.
    Releasing the Spirit. and Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up His Spirit. (Matthew 27: 50)
• Grain Offering. Three breads were offered with the grain offering at the ordination or consecration of the priests.
  and one cake of bread and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before the LORD. (Exodus 29: 23)
  • Cake of Bread ("Father"). He is the one cake of bread. He has His own will.
  • Cake of Bread with Oil ("Holy Spirit"). He is the one cake of bread mixed with oil. He also has His own will. The Holy Spirit is also symbolized by olive oil.
  • Wafer of Unleavened Bread ("Obedient Son"). He is the chosen wafer from the basket of unleavened bread. The whole basket are humans. On Passover, Israel is the basket of wafers that has removed all traces of leaven from their homes. Jesus is the one sinless human chosen from that basket who was without the leaven because He is totally submitted to the will of the Father so that He can be without sin.
• Three Pilgrimages of Israel. This represents the three times when each member of the Godhead comes to earth to accomplish a part of the Plan of Salvation to rescue us by destroying sin in the past, present and future.
  Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. Three times a year all your males should appear before the Lord. (Exodus 23: 14, 17)
  • Passover ("Jesus Christ"). He came to Jerusalem to die as the Passover Lamb.
  • Pentecost ("Holy Spirit"). He came in fire on Shavuot (Pentecost) to write the law of God on the tables of our heart, just as God came to Sinai on Shavuot in fire to write the ten commandments on tables of stone.
  • Tabernacles ("Eternal Father"). He will come on Tabernacles to take the righteous to live with Him.
• The Myrtle (Hadas). At Tabernacles the lulav included three myrtles on the right side of the bouquet. This is a plant with small oval leaves in the shape of eyes. The leaves from the correct species of holy myrtle also grow in a set of triplets from the same node.
  • Eyes ("Omniscient"). Many objects associated with the sight of God are covered with eyes.
    • ("Wheels"). The throne of God had wheels full of eyes. (Ezekiel 1: 18)
    • ("Lamb"). The Lamb by the throne of God had seven eyes. (Revelation 5: 6)
    • ("Menorah"). This source of light was decorated with almonds that were shaped like eyes. (Exodus 37: 17-24; Jeremiah 1: 11-12)
  • Right Hand ("Omnipotent"). The right hand is associated with power. Being on the right hand means that the object is the weapon of power. If you are on the right hand of power, then your are His instrument of judgment. When God is on your right hand, He is the source of your power. These two conditions can occur simultaneously when you are face to face with God in a hand shake or a kiss.
  • All Directions ("Omnipresent"). The myrtle was a part of the lulav which was waved in all six directions.
• The Lulav. This bouquet contains three different species of plants which were waved in all directions. Each is said to represent a part of the body, and three different personalities and the response of each personality to the torah and good deeds. The Christian meanings are explained by the Jewish understanding of the symbol.
  • 3 Myrtles on the Right ("Hadas") Eyes. This is the Father, the eyes of God, who represents the perfect will of the Trinity. The triple form represents the Trinity. The hadas represents the one who knows the Torah and who is devoted to the pursuit of wisdom so that he can know and follow God.
  • 1 Palm in the Center ("Lulav") Spine. This is the Holy Spirit sent to earth to be the companion of mankind, in His form as God. The spine is a symbol of one who bends his back to work. The palm represents the one who does good deeds. His duty is to make us do the work or good deeds of God that is the fruit of one who submits to the will and law of God.
  • 2 Willows on the Left ("Aravah") Mouth. This is Jesus, the mouth of God, in two forms. He is the creative power of God using sound. He is God and Man. As both He helps humanity. The willow is also said to represent the one who says, "I have nothing, I am nothing". This is what Jesus suffered for our sins. Although Jesus is the willow, He demonstrates all aspects of all the three species because perfection lies in being all three.
  In a way, Jesus is all three. He is full of wisdom. He is the spine that stood courageously on the cross. He is the mouth who was silenced during the trials and crucifixion.
  Etrog. Although the three branches of myrtle represents the perfect Trinity, yet the three species in the lulav represent the work of the different members of the Trinity as they try to bring perfection to the earth. Together, all three bear fruit in the etrog which represents the one who combines Torah and good deeds in perfection.

The Suffering Messiah
The Jews reject Christ because He seemed to be a failure. He did not conquer their enemies, but suffered ridicule and death and was conquered. But Paul says that all the prophets predicted His suffering.
The Messiah Would Suffer. "But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. (Acts 3: 18)
Many prophecies predict both His suffering and triumph and other details of the Plan of Salvation. A close examination of the major and minor prophets leads us to conclude that the specific predictions about His suffering lies in these forms:

• The Words of the Prophet. The predictions were expressed clearly in the words of the prophets.
  • Direct Prophecy. The clearest evidence is in the prophecy of Isaiah 53, Psalms 22 and 69. Some prophets even predicted His death.
    » Daniel. He said that the Messiah would be "cut off" (Daniel 9: 26).
    » Isaiah. He said that "the Branch", whom the Jews identify as the Messiah, would be despised, rejected, pierced, crushed, treated as a leper and "cut off out of the land of the living" (Isaiah 53: 8).
    » David. He said that the Messiah would be a reproach, despised, pierced hands and feet and "laid in the dust of death" (Psalm 22: 15).
    » Moses. The sacrificial system predicted His death. Like Moses, the rebellion of the people caused Him to strike out in anger so that He was cut off before entering the Promised Land.
  • Indirect Prophecy. Other prophecies appear as instructions to others. The blessings of Jacob and Moses to the twelve tribes were both a prediction about them, and also about the Messiah.
    The names of the chosen were an acknowledgment of the experience of their mothers, but it was also a prophecy about Christ.
• The Life of the Prophet. But many other prophets were asked to live out the experience of Christ. In that life that they lived and the strange tasks that God asked them to perform is a prediction of His suffering and His work.
  • Job. He demonstrates how the Messiah suffered because of His loved ones and Satan.
    • Satan. He made a deal to take and try to break Him with intense suffering and deprivation.
    • God. He handed Him over to suffering because He had confidence in His love.
    • Friends and Family. They were a source of distress rather than comfort.
  • Jonah. Jesus, Himself said that the three days and nights Jonah spent in the fish were a type of the three days and nights He would suffer in the hands of His enemies.
  • Jeremiah. The torment of Jeremiah written in chapters 10 and 15 are a blueprint of the suffering of Christ on the cross.
    • Alone (Jeremiah 1: 15; 15: 16-18). Jesus was unmarried and He died with nothing and no one.
    • Cursed and Hated (Jeremiah 15: 10). The people and his friends mocked and laughed at him.
    • Abandoned by God (Jeremiah 20: 7-10). He felt that God had deceived Him and abandoned Him.
  • Ezekiel. Chapter 12 may be a prophesy of His final week as Jesus lived as an exile destined to be captured by "Babylon". In this week, Jesus substituted Himself for us by being punished by "Babylon".
    • Baggage (Ezekiel 12: 7). The cross was the baggage on His shoulders. He was carrying the burden of our sins.
    • Exile (Ezekiel 12: 3). Jesus traveled between the temple and Bethany during that week. In the morning He came to the temple and in the evening He went back to Bethany with His disciples.
    • The Prince in the Dark (Ezekiel 12: 12). Jesus is the Prince of the Covenant who went out at night to the Garden of Gethsemane and was caught and arrested. He was rejected by God during three hours of darkness.
    • Caught in a Net (Ezekiel 12: 13). Jesus was caught in a snare, crafted by the evil plot of Judas and the Priests. They brought Him to Rome, a type of Babylon and He died there.
    • Scattered (Ezekiel 12: 14). His disciples were scattered.
    • Scapegoat (Ezekiel 28: 16-19). He was treated like Satan after he threw out the money changers with violence.
  • Isaiah. Isaiah was the only major prophet who had many direct prophecies about the Messiah. But his life also revealed the ordeal of Christ. He was naked and barefoot for three years. Christ also worked for three years. As a human, who put aside His divinity (naked) and omnipresence (barefoot). He was basically a naked and barefoot God who had to rely on the Father for strength and support.
  • Hosea. Marry an unfaithful prostitute. The names of the three children were a sign of their rejection. He would end Israel, and no longer have compassion and they would not be His people nor would He be their God. This is the scope of the rejection of Christ and it is what happened to the Jews when they were rejected for the Gentiles.
  • Abraham and Isaac. The son who submitted to death and the father who gave His only son.
  Perhaps God used the example of the lives of these chosen people to instruct Christ in lessons that He had to learn to prepare Him for the cross. So, just as the laws taught Him what was legally required, the lives of the chosen taught Him what to expect emotionally and how to overcome.
• The Experience of the People. The connection to a suffering Messiah was not as clear in the writings of five prophets. But taking Acts 3: 18 as a clue we looked at these stories. We concluded that just as the experience of the people in the exodus was a blueprint to the sufferings of Christ, so we can find the path of Christ in all the experiences of the people that God chose to memorialize as a prophecy. The implication is that all prophecy is about Christ. If it appears as a warning or comfort to the people, then it will also be an example of the life of Christ. He cannot be their Messiah if He does not walk in their shoes and suffer their sufferings and take their guilt.
  • Joel. In Acts 2: 17-21, the disciples applied Joel 2: 28-32 as a fulfillment of the day of Pentecost. So if we applied the previous verses to events before Pentecost we can see that Joel predicted that Jesus would be cut off. Jesus describes Himself as the vine and the bread of life. He also describes Israel as the fig tree that failed to bear fruit. Joel is the picture of the condition of the people at the crucifixion because those times were also "the Day of the Lord".
    It has made My vine a waste and My fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; their branches have become white. Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. (Joel 1: 7-8) Jesus was the bridegroom of the young virgin Israel whom she slaughtered. But God will restore her as a wife in her old age (Isaiah 54).
    The vine dries up, the fig tree fails ... Has not food been cut off from before your eyes ... (Joel 1: 12, 16)
  • Amos. The "Day of the Lord" brings earthquake, darkness and weeping for an only son.
    It will come about in that day, declares the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down at noon and make the earth dark in broad daylight ... And I will make it a time of mourning for an only son, and the end of it will be like a bitter day. (Amos 8: 9-10)
  • Obadiah. If you read this prophecy and substitute Edom for the people of Israel at the crucifixion, then the connection becomes clear. Edom is descended from Esau who was supposed to get the birthright of the firstborn. But he did not care for this inheritance and sold it to his twin brother for a pot of soup. Israel at the time of Christ is about to be rejected because they also despised their birthright by despising and rejecting their Messiah. So they sinned against Christ in the same way that Edom sinned against Jacob.
    • Deceived by a Friend. ... They who eat your bread will set an ambush for you ... (verse 7)
    • Israel and Foreigners Cast Lots and Looted His Possessions. On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem - You too were as one of them (verse 11)
    • Gloating at their Misfortune. Do not gloat over your brother's day, the day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction. Yes, do not boast in the day of their distress. Do not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster. Yes do not gloat over their calamity in the day of their disaster and do not loot their wealth in the day of their disaster. (verse 12-13)
      They mocked Jesus and rejoiced at His demise.
    • Survivors Imprisoned. Do not stand at the fork of the road to cut down their fugitives, and do not imprison their survivors in the day of their distress. (verse 14)
      The disciples were shut up in hiding because they were afraid of the Jews. (John 20: 19)
  • Zephaniah. Jesus was the Prince Who was punished. The soldiers placed foreign garments on Him. He also took off the garment of divinity and put on the garment of humanity to take our punishment.
    ... for the Lord has prepared a sacrifice, He has consecrated His guests. Then it will come about on the day of the Lord's sacrifice that I will punish the princes, the king's sons and all who clothe themselves with foreign garments. (Zephaniah 1: 7-8)
  • Haggai. At a time when the temple was desolate and the people only cared about their homes, God calls them to bring wood to build a house for Him. It would be a much simpler house than the one built by Solomon, but it would have more glory. In the future there would be a time when Israel would again be desolated and God called Christ to build Him a permanent house which would be more glorious.
    Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified, says the Lord (Haggai 1: 8)
    Christ was the simple house of God Who carried the wood on His back to the top of a mountain called Calvary to build the permanent sanctuary of God.
• The Day of the Lord. This prophecy has a double application. It is the day God pours out His wrath on sinners.
  • Christ. This wrath of God was poured out on the day of His crucifixion. That was "the Day of the Lord" for the righteous when Christ suffered the wrath of God for them as God treated Him like one of the wicked.
  • Wicked. The "Day of the Lord" will occur at the end of time when God will pour out His wrath on the wicked in the seven last plagues and hell fire.
  
  Several prophets talk about this day of the Lord and the events that will occur and how we should prepare for it.
  • Elijah Comes. See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. (Malachi 4: 5)
    » Christ. John the Baptist was the Elijah who came before the crucifixion. (Matthew 11: 14)
    » Wicked. Another like Elijah will come in the final days. Here is the lesson.
  • A Day of Preparation for Battle. You have not gone up to the breaks in the wall to repair it for the house of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the LORD. (Ezekiel 13: 5)
    » Christ. Christ maintained His perfection so that Satan could find nothing in Him. (John 14: 10)
    » Wicked. We must repair the walls to survive in the battle and turn the earth back from lawlessness. We must have the image of God reflected in us so that Satan does not find any of his image in us.
  • A Day of Decision. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. (Joel 3: 14)
    » Christ. Jesus decided to submit to death, even though He did not understand all the answers.
    » Wicked. It will be a day of decision, especially when the false Christ appears.
  • A Day of Destruction for Sinners. Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. See, the day of the LORD is coming - a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. (Isaiah 13: 6, 9)
    » Christ. Jesus was treated as a sinner and destroyed for our sins when He became sin.
    » Wicked. They will be destroyed during the plagues and at the Second and Third Coming.
  • Darkness at Noon. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. (Joel 2: 31) (also Amos 5: 18-20 and Amos 8: 9)
    » Christ. There was darkness at noon during the crucifixion.
    » Wicked. There will be darkness on the earth for 1000 years after the Second Coming.
  • Burn Like an Oven. Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. (Malachi 4: 1)
    » Christ. Jesus became the burnt offering on that day. He was reduced to ashes. Although the branch of Israel was cut off and Christ who was also known as the Branch which was cut off, His Seed survived the burning so that He became the Vine to which all the righteous will be attached.
    » Wicked. The wicked will be burnt up in the lake of fire and by fire and brimstone at the Second Coming.

Daniel and the Coming of the Messiah
The marvelous prophecy of Daniel 9 is discussed in more detail in the previous lesson about the 2300 days. But in Daniel we see the Messiah in all the prophecies.

• Daniel 2: 44 (The Rock). He is the Rock that smashes all earthly kingdoms and sets up His eternal kingdom.
• Daniel 7: 13-14 (The King). The King (the "Son of Man") who receives a kingdom from the "Ancient of Days".
• Daniel 8: 11 (High Priest). The High Priest and "Commander of the Host" who was usurped by the little horn.
• Daniel 9: 24-27 (The Messiah). The Messiah who came to earth and was killed
• Daniel 11: 22 (The Covenant Prince). The Prince of the covenant who was killed by the Romans and shattered in the reign of two kings:
  1. A Tax Collector who would die peacefully. Augustus Caesar ordered taxes to be raised in the kingdom. He died in his sleep.
  2. A vile person who had no right to be king. This was the pedophile named Tiberius Caeser who was the step son of Augustus.
• Daniel 12 (Michael). The great Prince who rescues and resurrects the people of God.

Daniel 9 - The Prophecy of the Messiah
Daniel 9 is such a remarkable prophecy that it is worth summarizing here. But it is discussed in The Messiah Comes.
The Jews would have 490 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to fulfill the covenant. The final decree was issued by Artaxerxes in 457 BC. The Messiah would minister in the final seven years and be killed in the middle of those years.

2300 days (Daniel 8: 14)												Current Time
Daniel 9: 25, 26 (70 Weeks Cut Off) Daniel 9: 27							1810 days					Time of the End (Sanctuary Cleansed)
69 Prophetic Weeks			1 Prophetic Week
7 Weeks	62 Weeks		3½ days		3½ days		1810 years
49 years	434 years		3½ years		3½ years
457 BC decree to restore Jerusalem			27 AD Baptism	31 AD	Gospel preached to the Jews	34 AD	34 AD. Stephen is stoned	1844 AD				Judgment

The Work of the Messiah. The Messiah was to do several things according to Daniel 9: 24 and 27. He accomplished all these things when He died and became the substitute for sin. Up until this time we had only a promise and a sacrificial system that taught us about the work of the Messiah. As far as we were concerned there had been no remedy for sin.

First Coming	Second Coming	(Millennium) Time of peace	Third Coming	Eternity
Lamb (Suffering Messiah)	King (Conquering Messiah)		Judge (Executes Justice)

The Cleansing of the Woman
... when a woman gives birth and bears a male child then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean. On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty three days. She shall not touch any consecrated thing nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. (Leviticus 12: 2-4)

The Sacrificial Lamb The same rules that applied to a son of the covenant, applied to the animal that is eligible for sacrifice. It must not be sacrificed until it is eight days old. When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to the Lord. (Leviticus 22: 27)

The laws in Leviticus seem very hard on the self-esteem of women but, as you will see, the rules for cleansing after a male child is born actually prophesied something about Christ and the church.
In Leviticus 12 we read the following procedure for the birth of a male child:

• The mother is unclean for seven days.
• On the eighth day the child was to be circumcised
• For thirty three days she was to remain unclean. She could not enter the sanctuary or touch anything that was holy.

The ritual suggests that the woman would be clean after seven days, yet it appeared to add another thirty three days. If God does not lie then the two moments of cleansing must be the same event and seven days must be the same period of time as thirty three days.
To understand this, remember two prophetic symbols. In the prophecies of Revelation and in the old testament, a woman represented the church (Israel). And a day is equal to a year of real time. It also seems that every time a feast or law declares a period of seven days, it signifies a covenant period or an appointed period of time.
This strange ritual actually outlined two prophecies. One about the male child and the other about the woman who gives birth to Him.

Unclean To be unclean means that one is in a state that will not exist in heaven. It does not necessarily indicate filth or deliberate sin. Sin caused the planet to be in a state of uncleanliness, sometimes out of necessity. A woman is clean during the greatest period of fertility and she is unclean when she is not fertile. In heaven we will be fruitful so that we can multiply at will.

1. The Child. Circumcision was the outward sign of participation in the covenant. It represented the death of the male seed. This was Jesus Christ, the seed that was cut off for sin so that God could keep His agreement to save us from sin.
2. The Woman. She was unclean until the seed was circumcised. But she was to remain unclean without access to the sanctuary for thirty three days.
   Christ was baptized when He was about thirty (Luke 3: 23), then He lived for another three and a half years. Therefore, He was thirty three when He died. It was only after this point in History that the church (the woman) was truly clean and could boldly gain access to the real sanctuary in heaven. For all the preceding four thousand years, this access was only a promise. But thirty three years after the male child who was the seed of the promise was born she had true access to heaven. The Child had made her clean before God.

Birth	Seven Days (The perfect time)	The Eighth Day		-
	The woman is unclean	Circumcised		Christ joins in the covenant
	Thirty Three Days	Clean		The woman is clean. She can enter the sancutary
	The woman is unclean. She remains in the blood of her purification. She cannot enter the sanctuary or touch the holy things
	Christ lived for thirty three years	Crucified		The church is clean. It can enter heaven.
	Animal stays with its mother for seven days	Sacrificed		Atonement is made
	66 Days from Nisan 1 to Pentecost			Pentecost	Law written in the heart

• Seven Days. Seven represents the complete amount of time. After the passage of the perfect time or designated amount of time. In the fullness of time.
• Thirty Three Days. Jesus died at thirty three years. This was the actual amount of time.
• Circumcision. Jesus fulfilled the covenant by becoming the sacrifice. The act of circumcision was to join in the covenant and to symbolize the cutting off of the promised male seed.
• Woman. Israel was the church who was not clean, who could not enter the heavenly sanctuary until the Seed was circumcised, thirty three years after He was born.
  We were not made right with God because of the birth. We were reconciled because of His death 33 years later.
• Blood of her Purification. After Jesus joined the covenant people eight days after His birth, the church can now anticipate the full cleansing. The real flesh and blood child who would purify her was actually alive. The living blood for her purification was with her. She was in the physical presence of the one whose blood would be used for her purification.
  » Niddah. The Jews refer to Jesus as a niddah and a bastard. A niddah is one who is conceived in the filth of menstruation when the woman is unclean. In a strange way this symbol of Israel being in the blood of purification, or unclean because of blood is a prophecy about how they would perceive him. He was a child who was living during the blood purification period of his mother. He was a niddah because Israel made Him unclean. Even this insult is a prophecy, just as much as Caiaphas' statement in John 11: 50 (one dies for all).
• Sixty Six Days. From Nisan 1 to the day after Pentecost was 66 days. This was the first day in the life of the new church. So with the giving of the Holy Spirit in the new year of our salvation, the woman (church) is born and can begin another cleansing when the law is written in her heart.
  » The Girl Child. We also find an eerie similarity between the purification of the woman after the birth of a girl and the events of Revelation 13. In the ritual of the sanctuary, the priest could only serve until he was fifty. Sixty six was too old. Revelation 13 and 17 talk about a woman who tries to replace the role of the Son. Her number was six hundred and sixty six. The girl was too old and she was not circumcised. She could not be an effective substitute for this special cleansing. But she would be cleansed by her son after 33 days, then born again after 66 days and cleansed again.

The Cleansing Schedule

The Potential Messiah		Days of Separation		Unclean	Days of Purification		Total
Unfertilized Egg	Start	5 Days of Menstruation	End	7 Days	-		12 Days
Fertilized Egg (Male Child)		40 Weeks in the Womb		7 Days	Joins the Covenant	33 Days	320 Days
Fertilized Egg (Female Child)		40 Weeks in the Womb		14 Days		66 Days	360 Days
˜ 4000 Years waiting for the Messiah Seed of the Woman			Birth	He Lives on the Earth 33 Years			-

All people are unclean until they join the covenant. When a birth does not occur, then there are no people to purify except the woman (church). And only those who were part of the covenant could enter into the period of purification and be made eligible to approach the house of God (the sanctuary).

• Normal Gestation. The perfect time in the womb is 40 weeks, but the fetus can stay as long as 42 weeks. At 42 weeks the placenta begins to break down. So birth must occur at 40 to 42 weeks.
• Normal Menstruation. The total time is twelve days. It may be symbolic of twelve months or one prophetic year. This has the same seven and five split of time. In a period of twelve months, seven are dedicated to the feast schedule and there are five other months that are not dedicated to God.
• Birth of a Boy. The total time is forty weeks and forty days. Forty is the time of trial for the righteous.
• Birth of a Girl. The total time is forty weeks and eighty days. This is one prophetic year. Same as the woman.

The schedule seems to indicate that no matter what, God has fixed a maximum period of one year to complete all cleansing for the woman (church). But with the birth of the Messiah, He will reduce that time for the church because of the Son. The rest of His creation probably waits for the end of the year. We know that Satan, death and the wicked will be destroyed over one thousand years after the righteous are rescued.

The Unclean Male
The rules about offering show that the priest had to make an offering for himself first before he makes the offerings for the people. He must be clean and holy. However, like the woman, the law also shows that the male can be made unclean through his reproductive system.
If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp. But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water; and at sundown he may enter the camp. (Deuteronomy 23: 10-11).
Nocturnal emission or a wet dream is an ejaculation of semen during sleep. This is a prophecy about what happens between the death (sleep) of Jesus and His rapture into heaven (the camp).

• Sleep. Jesus was in the sleep of death during the Sabbath after the crucifixion.
• The Seed of Life. While He was asleep in the grave, He symbolically had a nocturnal emission (He spilled His seed). This is similar to regurgitating the seed from the bowels of the earth.
  The penis is a sign of the covenant and circumcision is a sign of being cut off at the crucifixion. The testicles hold the seed of life. Although He was cut off, He still had life or seed within Him, so that even in death, while He was asleep He was able to show proof that He could give birth to the church.
  » The Resurrection of the First Fruits. The spilled Seed of Life caused the resurrection of the dead who became the first fruits with Him (Matthew 27: 52-53).
  » Out of the Bowels. Ejaculation is seed coming out of the bowels, just like vomiting in one who chews the cud.
  » Water for Impurity ("Holy Spirit"). He also has the water to cleanse those who had touched the dead.
• Bathe in Water. Jesus received the Holy Spirit which brought Him back to life. His atonement brought cleansing.
• The Camp. Like the leper, the camp is the place of the righteous. This is heaven. Christ went back to heaven at sunset on resurrection Sunday. Every law that says "unclean until the evening" is referring to this fact.

The Cleansing of the Sanctuary
Let us look at this time table on an even larger scale. Christ was carried in the womb for forty weeks, then He lived thirty three years before His death opened up the sanctuary to the woman. Israel wandered in the desert for forty years, then they entered the Promised Land. 3300 years later, the sanctuary in heaven was cleansed and the woman entered the time of her final judgment or vindication.
In the first case the church is cleansed of her sins at Passover by the death of Christ. In the second case, the sins of the church are cleansed from the sanctuary at the feast of Tabernacles.

Christ	40 weeks in the Womb	4BC	Enters Land of Israel	Lived 33 years		31AD	The church is clean.
Israel	40 Years in the Desert	˜1460BC		3300 Years		1844	The sanctuary in heaven is clean

The Birthday of Jesus

#	1				2				3				4					5				6				7				8					9				10				11				12
Month	Nisan				Iyar				Sivan				Tammuz					Ab				Elul				Tishri				Heshvan					Kislev				Tebeth				Shebat				Adar
Week	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1-4			5
Priest	1	2	All	3	4	5	6	7	All	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16-19				20-23				24	1	All	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16-19				20-24
John	39	40		-					All	Abijah	-	-		1	2	3	4	5 - 8				9 - 12				13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30-33				34-38
Jesus	14	15	16	17	18-21				22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31-34				35-38				39	40		-	-	Mary conceives								1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9-13
Birth. (Based on 360 days per year)																						The lunar month is 29.5 days so we inserted a week every four months
Week of conception. It takes 3-10 days to travel down the fallopian tube and be implanted. That time is not counted in the forty weeks

Jesus was born during the feast of Tabernacles because He came to tabernacle with humans. The evidence is based on following a timetable of events that began with the angel visiting the father of John the Baptist.

• Zecharias is Called ("Sivan 1- 14"). He was visited by the angel when it was his turn to do the priestly duties. David divided up the priests into 24 groups (1 Chronicles 24: 1-18). Each served the sanctuary for one week from one Sabbath to another (2 Chronicles 23: 8). All came to serve during the three great feasts (Deuteronomy 16:16). Zecharias was from the division of Abijah which was the eighth group. They served in the week after Pentecost (Shavuot). Since all priest had to serve at Pentecost it meant that He served those two weeks before going home.
• Elizabeth Becomes Pregnant ("End of Sivan"). John comes home and Elizabeth becomes pregnant. In the worst case he could not touch her because she would be unclean for two weeks. In the best case she immediately became pregnant.
• Mary Becomes Pregnant ("Kislev 25"). This date is the first day of Hannukah (Feast of Dedication), the miracle of the festival of lights. It announces the One Who would be the Light of the world who was born by a miracle.
  The angel visited Mary when her cousin Elizabeth was six months pregnant (Luke 1: 24-27, 31). Then Mary went to visit her and stayed 3 months (Luke 1: 56-57). So she stayed until the birth of John and the Passover festival.
  » Assumptions. In this proof we have only made two assumptions.
  1. Abijah. He was serving the first course of his term in Sivan, not the second in Kislev.
  2. Pregnancy. Elizabeth became pregnant within one month after Zecharias came home.
  » Fruit in the Fourth Period. So during John's fourth month in the womb, the fruit of Mary's womb came to the temple to be presented to God as required (Leviticus 19: 23-25). He also began His ministry in his fourth decade.
• John is Born on Passover ("Nisan 14"). John was born forty weeks after he was conceived. We placed the birth on the fourteenth because the Passover seder prophesied that Elijah would come during the Passover seder to introduce Israel to the Messiah. The scriptures identified John as the fulfillment of the coming Elijah. So he was born at Passover and thirty years later he baptized Jesus and introduced Him to Israel.
• Jesus is Born on Tabernacles ("Tishri 15"). Six months later Jesus was born. He was circumcized eight days later on Tishri 22. This was the day Jesus joined the covenant people. It is also the day the Hebrews officially began a new season and rejoiced in the Torah.

The Birth Year of Jesus (Tishri 15, 4 BC)
We concluded that He was born during the feast of Tabernacles, around Tishri 15. But we did not discuss the year. This prophecy of the cleansing of the woman gives us an indication of the year of His birth because it indicates His age at death. He was 33.
Because of a mistake by the monk Dionysius Exiguus, who created our current calendar, the year of His birth was first designated year one on our calendar instead of year 753 on the Roman calendar. He used Luke 3 verses 1 and 23 and concluded that Jesus was thirty years old in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar. Augustus Caesar ruled from 27 BC and died on 19 August 14 AD and he was succeeded by Tiberius Caesar (14 to 37 AD) Power was actually transferred a year earlier in 13 AD. So his fifteenth year was 27/28 AD.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrach of Galilee ...
When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age. (Luke 3: 23).

We know from the prophecy of Daniel 9 that Jesus died on Passover in 31 AD (Nisan 14) We know from the prophecy of the unclean woman that he must be thirty three years old at His death. He began His ministry at age 30, according to Luke 3: 23. Matthew also says that Herod killed all the boys under two years old in the region. So, before He died Herod thought that the maximum age of Christ must be around two years.
Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi. (Matthew 2: 16).
According to the evidence in the scriptures and the requirement of the prophecy of Daniel 9, He died after three and a half years. The evidence of the written chronological events shows that He worked for three Passovers and died on the fourth.

30 Years		6 Months		Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
4 BC	(4 BC-27 AD)	(27/28 AD)		(29 AD)	(30 AD)	(31 AD)
Baby	30 Years	30½ Years Old (Luke 3: 23)		31½ Years Old	32½ Years Old	33½ Years Old
Tabernacles		Tabernacles	Passover	Passover?	Passover	Passover
Birth		Baptism	Temple Cleansed (John 2: 13-15)	Sabbath healing (John 5: 1)	Loaves and fishes (John 6: 4)	Crucifixion (John 11: 55)

Using the year for a day principle, Jesus prophesied that He would work for three years.
And He said to them, "Go tell that fox, Look, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal". (Luke 13: 32).

Summary: Birth Year.
So, remembering that there is no year zero, if Jesus was 33 years old in autumn in the feast of tabernacles on Tishri 15, 30 AD then He was born in 4 BC. And, if Herod died around Passover 1 BC, then Jesus was two and a half years old during Passover of that year.

Year	Tishri 15, 4 BC	Tishri 15, 3 BC	2 BC	1 BC	Herod Dies	Tishri 15, 1 BC	1 AD	9 AD	27 AD	Nisan 14, 31 AD
Age	Newborn	1	2	2½		3	4	12	30	33½
Birth		Herod kills children under 2				Unknown Years			Ministry

So we have met all the prophetic, mathematical and historical requirements for the age of Jesus

• Prophecy.
  • The Unclean Woman. Jesus was 33 when He died to fulfill the prophecy of the unclean woman.
  • Seventy Weeks. He died in 31 AD to fulfill the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel 9.
• Age.
  • Age 2. Jesus was 2½ during the lunar eclipse of January 10, 1 BC, at a possible date of Herod's death.
  • Age 30. He was about thirty years old in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar (27 AD).
  • Age 33. He was thirty three years old at his death (31 AD).
• History. Josephus claims that Herod died at the time of a winter eclipse, after Yom Kippur and before Passover. Jesus was 2½ at the lunar eclipse in the year 1 BC, so He was the age that Herod calculated before he died.
  Herod's Reign (37 BC to 1 BC). Josephus says that Herod's seventh year occurred during the battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BC.) So Herod began his rule in 37 BC. Josephus also says that Herod died 37 years after the Romans made him king and 34 years after he took Jerusalem. He died in 1 BC.

Jesus Fulfills All Time Requirements

Decree Birth Work Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Friday Saturday Sunday 457 BC 4 BC 27 AD 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - Night 6 Day 6 Night 7 Day 7 Night 8 Day 8 9 453 Years 30 Years 3½ Years Nisan 9 Nisan 10 Nisan 11 Nisan 12 Nisan 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15 Nisan 16 17 Jesus in the Bowels 3 Days and Nights Seed Tree Fourth Year Fruit Harvest Fruit Offered to God and Eaten - 33½ Years Mary Anoints Final week of His Ministry (31 AD) Wash Feet Sabbath Nocturnal Emission Dead Raised Clean - Israel Strays From God Torn, Wounded Bandage, heal Revived Raised Woman Needs Cleansing Peace, Passover No Worms Wavesheaf Life Ministry Ordination (Seven Days) LORD Appears

Absolute Time. Jesus made every offering on time and disposed of them in the time required so that He could be clean and enter the camp in Heaven at sunset on Nisan 17 (Sunday evening).
The Holy Spirit was the Water that He bathed in to resurrect Himself and to become clean.

• Killed ("486.5 years"). He was killed in the middle of the last seven years of the 490 years given to the Jews after the last decree to leave Babylon and rebuild Jerusalem (457 BC).
• Mother Cleansed ("33 Days/Years"). He lived 33 years before He was killed. The church was cleansed after this.
• Fruit Harvest ("In the Fourth Year"). He ministers for 3.5 years before He was killed and given back to God.
• Ordination ("7 Days"). After Mary anointed Him on Nisan 9, He remained in Jerusalem for seven days.
  » LORD Appears ("Day 8"). On the eighth day of His inauguration He appeared to Mary (Nisan 16).
• In the Heart of the Earth ("3 Days and Nights"). Jesus was handed over to His enemies after sunset on Nisan 14 and was resurrected from the dead on Nisan 16 and left the earth at sunset that day.
• Peace Offering ("1 Day"). Leviticus 19: 6. It was eaten the same day and next but the remainder must be burned on the third day. Jesus was offered and eaten on Nisan 14 and swallowed on Nisan 15 with no leftovers. On the third day He stood before the eternal flames of the Father and He was not burned up.
• Passover ("Same Day to Midnight"). The sacrifice was not to be left over until morning (Exodus 34: 25). Jesus was buried on the same day He was killed, before sunset on Nisan 14.
• Ordination Ram ("Same Day to Midnight"). Jesus was buried before sunset on the day He died.
• No Worms on the Manna ("Sabbath"). The manna from heaven would have no worms during the Sabbath because His body would not decay (Exodus 16: 14-27,32).
• Seminal Emission ("Evening"). Leviticus 15: 16. Asleep in death, His seed resurrected the dead during the night of Nisan 16, He was clean by the next evening (Nisan 17).
• Wave the Sheaf ("Day After the Sabbath"). He rose on the day after the Sabbath on the morning of Nisan 16.
• Injured Slave Survives After A Day or Two. As the slave of Israel, they were not accountable for His death because He was alive a day or two after His injury. So, under this rule, no vengeance is applied to the Jews because He was both a Son and a Slave.
  If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken for he is his property. (Exodus 21: 20-21)
• Torn, Wounded, Revived and Raised in 3 Days. He was torn and wounded on Nisan 14, wrapped and bandaged with the grave cloths and healed with a Sabbath rest on Nisan 15, and revived and raised at dawn on Nisan 16, the third day.
  Three Days of Affliction. Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us but He will heal us; He has wounded us but He will bandage us. He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him.
  Raised at Dawn. So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. (Hosea 6: 1-3)
• Touched by the Unclean ("Evening"). Numbers 19: 22. If Mary had touched Him after the resurrection, He would be clean by sunset when He went back to heaven. She was unclean because she had touched the dead.

Relative Time. Jesus also fulfilled events in relative time that is based on two laws.

• Righteous Fruit. God expects fruit offering in the fourth year. (Leviticus 19: 23-25)
• Judgment of the Wicked. The wicked are judged between the third and fourth generation. (Deuteronomy 5: 8-10)

So all judgment of the righteous and the wicked is given between the third and the fourth period.

• Before Birth ("Between The Third and Fourth Month"). Mary's Fruit of the womb visited John in his fourth month in the womb. John leaped for joy.
• 27-31AD ("Between The Third and Fourth Year"). He was killed after three and a half years of ministry.
• Between The Third and Fourth Millennium. Jesus came in the fourth millennium after creation and sin.
• Rome ("The Fourth Kingdom"). He was killed by the Greco-Roman empire which was numbered as the fourth kingdom by the prophecies of Daniel. Rome absorbed elements of the third kingdom (Greece) in its culture.
• Levi and Judah ("The Third and Fourth Sons by Birth"). The first two sons, Reuben and Simeon, were not used to represent Christ. However Jesus was represented by a combination of the third and fourth sons. Levi was the priest and Judah was the monarchy.
• Reuben ("The Fourth Tribe to March"). The beginning of His intense agony was symbolized by Reuben, the fourth son to march on the exodus. He represented the phase of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The Comings of the Messiah

End of Sin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ordination Period (Seven Times) LORD Appears

The law about the ordination of priests states that the LORD should appear in glory at the temple on the eighth day after the priests are ordained (Leviticus 9: 1-6). On several time scales we will demonstrate how Jesus Christ repeatedly follows this law in specific sets of eight periods of time.

• Birth (First Coming). On the eighth day after His birth Jesus appeared at the temple to be circumcised as a sign of joining the covenant.
  • Lamb. On the eighth day after He was anointed by Mary, He appeared to her first at His resurrection.
  • High Priest. On the eighth day after He was resurrected, He first appeared to the disciples again after the inauguration ceremony in heaven.
  • Holy Spirit. After seven sevens (weeks), at the beginning of the eighth week after His resurrection (Day 50), the Holy Spirit appeared to the disciples who were being anointed as priests of the new covenant.
  • The Glorious Temple. Seventy sevens after the temple was built the Messiah would appear.
• Warrior King (Second Coming). The LORD Jesus Christ will appear to gather the saints at the beginning of the eighth period of time after His anointing at the crucifixion. The actual time scale is uncertain. Will it be months or Jubilees or by task? He will appear at the end of the seventh church, the end of the seventh seal and the end of the seventh trumpet.
• Bridegroom (Third Coming). At the beginning of the eighth millennium after sin, God appears with the city of New Jerusalem and creates a new heaven and earth to distribute our inheritance.

Three Days and Nights. Several patriarchs and prophets suffered the same fate of Jesus as they were in the hands of their enemies for three days and nights. Peter and Paul both testify that the righteous are asked to suffer with Christ (1 Peter 4: 13 and Romans 8: 17-18).

• Leviathan: The Great Fish. Leviathan is pictured as a creature with the head of a fish. Jonah spent three nights and days in the great fish. This is supposed to represent the number of days that Jesus spent in the hands of His enemies. (Matthew 12: 38-41)
• Saul Tries to Murder David. David was with his friend Jonathan as he tried to avoid the wrath of King Saul.
  So David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening. (1 Samuel 20: 5)
• Punished Like David. He endured all the possible punishments that David deserved (2 Samuel 24: 13-14).
  • God: Three Days of Plagues. Punished by God for three days. This is the option David chose.
  • Enemies: Three Months Running. The Jews tried to stone Him at Hannukah (John 10: 22-31) and He left Jerusalem and returned three months later to raise Lazarus and to be crucified.
  • Land: Seven Years of Famine. After seven years of ministry to the Jews He had to turn to the Gentiles.
• Balaam Strikes The Donkey Three Times. Christ is the donkey we struck and cursed for three days.
• Joseph in Prison. He interpreted dreams that pointed to Christ being in prison for three days and he imprisoned his ten brothers for three days. Ten priests carried the cut up offerings at the feasts.

Who Killed Jesus?
Our sins caused Jesus to give His own life as a substitute. He chose the sons of Abraham to perform this act and they brought the false charges to the Romans who carried out the punishment. Everyone is responsible.

• Satan: Initial Cause. He deliberately started the rebellion that caused sin on earth.
  "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! (Isaiah 14: 12)
• God: He Sent Jesus to Die to Fulfill A Covenant. In the picture of Abraham's sacrifice of his son, is God tying His only son to the altar of the earth by the nails of the law. Jesus obeyed the SHEMA on the cross.
  » Chastened by His Father. The Jews did what God did. God exchanged the innocent for the guilty. The Father abandoned Jesus on the cross. God put the nails in His hands and feet by law. By the law of the covenant and the promise, Jesus must stay on the cross by choice and fulfill the will of God, not His temporary need to end His agony. He was chastened by His Father who loved Him and us.
• Nobody: His Life was a Gift. He gave His own life, because it is impossible to kill God.
  Good Shepherd. I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
  My Gift to You. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father." John 10: 11, 17-18
  God Cannot Die Forever. But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. (Acts 2: 24)
• Everybody: We Sinned. In our weakened state we sinned. Our sins caused God to give His life as a substitute.
  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3: 23)
  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6: 23)
  » The Wrath of Communion. Every time we eat the bread and drink the cup of communion we remember Christ by affirming that we are also responsible for chewing, spitting and swallowing Him. We cannibalized Him.
  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, after supper, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. (1 Corinthians 11: 23-26)
• Jews: Abandoned Him. Those in 31 AD were responsible for exchanging the innocent Jesus for Barabbas.
  When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; see to that yourselves."
  And all the people said, "His blood shall be on us and on our children!" Then he released Barabbas for them; but after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. (Matthew 27: 24-26)
  » Judas: Betrayed Him. He sold Him for 30 pieces of silver.
  » Priests: Made the False Accusations. They slaughtered the Lamb or held the animal while the sinner killed it. They held the Lamb of God and gave Him to the Gentiles and bear some of the responsibility for His death.
  So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's household with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood. (Numbers 18: 1)
  Given to the Gentiles. Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. Mark 10: 33
  Sacrificed by the High Priest. nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish. (John 11: 50)
  The record is clear. He would die at the hands of the children of Abraham. Specifically, from the tribe of Levi, a son of Aaron who was the high priest. But as we learned, knowing that He would have to lay down His life, Jesus chose the descendants of His friend Abraham to do the task. Just as He asked Abraham to kill Isaac, He asked the children of Abraham to kill Him. Because it was better to fall into the hands of His friends than His enemies (2 Samuel 24: 14). However, it is more emotionally devastating to be betrayed by loved ones.
  » Rejecting The Serpent in the Tree. When Jesus appeared as an evil man on the wooden cross who was rejected by the woman Israel, He was actually recreating the great test of Eve. She also stood before a serpent lifted up on a tree, but she accepted Him and caused sin to begin.
  In a strange way, when Israel rejected Christ lifted up on the tree their actions caused sin to cease, because this serpent would bring the cure for sin. Israel passed the test that Eve failed.
• Gentile Romans: Tortured Him and Hammered the Nails and Killed Him. Those in 31 AD shattered the Prince of the Covenant by nailing Him to a cross and beating Him to near death with a sharp whip and letting Him slowly suffocate to death.
  They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him ... (Mark 10: 34)
  Speaking specifically about the despicable Tiberius Caesar and the forces of general Titus, Daniel said:
  Shattered by the Romans. In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue. The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant. (Daniel 11: 21-22)

Wounded By His Friends
Anyone can inflict severe physical wounds. But only your friends and family can inflict the most severe emotional wounds.
When David sinned by ordering a census God gave him three choices for his punishment. They were seven years of famine, three months fleeing from his enemies or three days pestilence. He chose his friend, God.
... I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man. 2 Samuel 24: 14
God had the same choice. He could give His blood for mankind through His own efforts. He did not need the contribution of an evil deed to pay the price for sin. He could sweat blood and He could lay down His own life. It was the blood that was taken into the altar as an atonement, not the dead animal. But the forces of evil were going to take the opportunity to murder Him. And He must submit. He probably had the choice of falling into the hands of Satan, the Gentiles, His enemies or His friends. He chose to be wounded by His friends.
And one will say to Him, what are these wounds between Your arms? Then He will say "those with which I was wounded in the house of My friends". (Zechariah 13: 6)

This is why the behavior of the tribes were listed as blessings even though it cost Him His life. Only the children of His friend Abraham could be entrusted with this task. So the test of Abraham takes on another symbolic meaning. Abraham was allowed to experience the agony of God who had to give up His only Son to death. He was also the one to hold the knife to kill his son.

The seed of Abraham also had to experience the agony of Abraham. They were the ones who would kill the favorite Son of their friend, God! What agony! It was also symbolic of what the atonement did. He would die for His friends because of His friends. Our sins killed Him, therefore we must hold the knife, not Satan or those who reject His atoning death.

He would die at the hands of the priests and sinners among His own chosen people.
Therefore, although Israel sinned, God chose them over anyone else to kill Him. It was also His will that the Jews would be separated from the Christians so that He could maintain an accurate knowledge of His covenant for the people at the end of time. Therefore, it is only fair that God should bring them back from this cloud of infamy. So, Paul says that they will be grafted back in. Isaiah says that their dignity would be restored and they will be a light to the Gentiles.

» The Punishment of the Jews. For 2000 years Christians have claimed that all the tragedy on the Jews are God's punishment for rejecting Christ. And that their statement, "his blood be upon us an on our children" are still being fulfilled. So every horrible persecution including the slaughter of six million by the German Nazis were their punishment from God. What does God say about punishment in the covenant?

• Legal Issues. 2000 years of punishments violates God's own legal covenant.
  • The Injured Slave. Since Jesus was alive two days after He as striken, God could not take vengeance (Exodus 21: 20-21).
  • Four Generations (312 AD). The second commandment promised that iniquities will be visited up to the third and fourth generation (Exodus 20: 5). This is a maximum of 120-160 years if a generation is forty years and 210-280 years for a generation every seventy years.
  • Land Sabbaths (111 AD). If we assumed that they were punished for all previous years of violations since the captivity by Babylon, then at the most they have 490 years of unfaithfulness from the end of their exile to Christ. Therefore, if they are to be thrown off the land again for Sabbath violation, then they only owe the land about seventy years of rest.
  So, in the worst case, their punishment should have been over by 312 AD. And Jews are not suffering now for killing Christ because of any legal act or vengeful desire of God.
• The Will of God. They were partially responsible for His death because they made bad choices. But if God wanted them to participate in His death, then how could He punish them for so long and so severely?
  "For I am with you," declares the LORD, "to save you; For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, Only I will not destroy you completely but I will chasten you justly and will by no means leave you unpunished". (Jeremiah 30 : 11)
  God's punishment is just. They were punished in 70 AD. But 2000 years of punishment is unjust and illegal.
• Forgiven. While He was on the cross, Jesus forgave them for that act.
  But Jesus was saying, "Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing ..." (Luke 23: 34).
  Therefore they should not be suffering because "they killed Christ" and it is not our duty to be their judge and executioner. The only punishment that remained was the rejection that was part of the Plan of Salvation.
  • Gentiles Chosen (34 AD). Their exalted status was taken away when God called the Gentiles.
  • Destruction of the Temple (70 AD). This legally put an end to animal sacrifices in His name.
  • Bar Kochba Revolution (132-135 AD). They were exiled after this revolt and received permission to go to the Mount of Olives to mourn the temple from afar in the middle of the third century.
• Our Behaviour. The source of their current punishment is our own desires and we will be punished for trying to add to God's punishment.
  » Do Not Rejoice. God punished nations for rejoicing in the punishment of the Jews and for adding to their misery by mistreating them.
  Chaldea will become plunder, all who plunder her will have enough declares the Lord. Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, O you who pillage My heritage, because you skip about like a threshing heifer and neigh like stallions. (Jeremiah 50: 10-11)
  » Not Abandoned. At the fall of Babylon, God said they although they were punished they were not rejected.
  For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken by his God, the Lord of hosts, although their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel. (Jeremiah 51: 5)

Symbols of Paganism in Christianity
God was very meticulous and careful in establishing His symbols and signs. He made the righteous reenact the signs throughout their lives and repeated the same themes in many prophecies, dreams, visions and laws. With this knowledge of the importance of signs and symbols, try to justify our present actions. Why have God's original symbols been replaced by pagan abominations that honor pagan seasons, times and gods.

March April May - September October - December Easter - Halloween Christmas Passover and Pentecost - Trumpets, Yom Kippur, Tabernacles Hannukah

Origin of Easter Symbols Eostre, a Saxon goddess was celebrated at the spring equinox. In ancient Babylon she is known as Astarte and Ishtar and as Venus or Isis in other cultures. » Easter Egg. One of her symbols was the egg which symbolized her fertility in the spring. Ishtar's son was Tammuz (Nimrod) who died violently. Her "weeping" caused his resurrection in the spring. » Easter Rabbit. The Pennsylvania Dutch introduced the easter rabbit who lays the easter egg. » Merged With Christianity. The schedule was changed from Passover to the Pagan calendar and the seder was replaced with just bread and wine.

• Easter. A spring festival that celebrates renewal and fertility. The Christian celebration has changed the observed time from Passover season to the Pagan method of dating and then made up the schedule according to their belief about what the celebration should include. Pentecost is calculated by counting fifty days but it rarely coincides with the true Pentecost.
  • Easter Symbols ("Bunny, Egg"). These are the most popular symbols of easter. What does the easter bunny and egg teach about the Plan of Salvation and the mission that Christ accomplished? How did they help Him to know the way He must walk and the cup that He must drink?
  • Easter ("Bread, Wine, Cross"). Why is the Eucharist or communion bread, one cup of wine and our modern rituals extremely inferior to the Passover ritual?
  • Easter Celebrations. Before the season begins, it is the tradition to throw a wild party that highlights all the excesses of sin. It is usually preceeded by carnival or Margi Gras (Fat Tuesday). Ash Wednesday begins the next day, marking the first day of lent.
  • Passover ("Seder, Lamb"). Read the lesson on the Passover Seder and look at what you have lost in not knowing the true meaning of the Passover Seder and see if this is not the hand of the enemy of God. Even observed as a purely Jewish ritual it is still a far superior ceremony that speaks about the day Christ died in a much more profound language than our Easter ceremonies.
  So Easter added nothing to our understanding but took away everything that we will need to give the Gospel to the Jews. What remains of the original Passover feast is eating unleavened bread and drinking one tiny cup of wine.
  Passover drinks four cups and eats other foods in a precise ritual that prophesied about the order of events at His death by reenacting the actions of Christ on the day He died 1500 years before He was born. What does the bunny and egg have to say about that!
  Pagan Customs. When the Lord your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, take care to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them ... do not enquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.' You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way ... Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it. (Deuteronomy 12: 29-32)

  Passover Recreation		Creation
  Full Moon	Sabbath Rest
  Light in the Dark	Sin	Work
  Any Day of the Week		Saturday

  
  
  » What is Wrong With Easter? It destroys the symbols of resting from sin.
  • Timing. The actual timing of the crucifixion was the convergence of the full moon on Passover and a Friday. Only at that time could He guarantee that He would be dead during the Sabbath day. So the symbolic significance in the convergence is the full moon and the Sabbath, not Friday and Sunday. Why?
    • Full Moon. So Easter elevated the importance of the day of the week over the date which always occurred on a full moon. In doing so, the holiday is only rarely celebrated during the full moon. The full moon points to Christ and the central role of His church in the Plan of Salvation. The full moon and the Sabbath will be celebrated in the new earth.
      » Rest from Darkness (A Light in the Dark). The full moon was most important because God would bring the greatest light when it was darkest. In the darkness of an eclipse, He would hide our sins and pass over us. If our fake Passover is not celebrated during the greatest light from heaven in the darkness, then it is a useless symbol of the works of God.
      » A Guaranteed Sabbath Rest. To ensure that the significance of a Sabbath rest was always celebrated with the full moon, God made a mandatory Sabbath for the day after the full moon, no matter which day of the week that occurred.
    • Friday. The Easter resurrection is always celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. So Easter is always on a Friday as it was on the day of the crucifixion.
      » Rest from Sin and Death. Friday is of secondary importance, but it shows that God rested from His works of recreation (salvation) just as He did at creation. He was dead during the Sabbath. Here, we rest from sin when we are recreated or born again.
      » No Guaranteed Light. While God can make a Sabbath rest for the day after the full moon, we can never make a full moon occur on the day after Good Friday. So the full moon is the key, not Friday.

      Passover Recreation
      Lamb Killed	Creation
      Full Moon	High Sabbath
      Friday	Saturday

    • High Sabbath. We have lost the concept of waiting for the high Sabbath when the symbols converged. Only about once every seven years a full moon would converge with a Friday. God merged the full moon and rest from sin with the rest from creation. The separation of the two symbols shows that in the timing of our salvation, Christ could only be sent when all conditions are perfect. He could not come at any time.
      » Resting from Creation. By forcing Easter on Friday, we are only celebrating rest from creation if we also keep the seventh day Sabbath. But we are not celebrating rest from sin and conquering the darkness which is the rebirth and recreation.
      During Christ's final week He must have followed the plan of creation in our recreation.
      1. Nisan 9 (Light). Christ came riding on a donkey as a light to the temple. (Ezekiel 43: 1-2,3)
      2. Nisan 10 (Waters Separated). He drove out the money changers, cleansing the temple.
      3. Nisan 11 (Trees and Earth). After cursing the fig tree the day before to signify His disappointment in the Jews, He became the Tree of Life by remaining the last faithful Jew. He became the Vine and the Branch who was cut down and buried in the earth for our sins.
      4. Nisan 12 (Sun, Moon and Stars). On the fourth day the signs were created. The Son who came from heaven tells about the signs of His Second Coming.
      5. Nisan 13 (Fish and Birds). Insufficient information.
      6. Nisan 14 (Animals and Man). Passover seder and crucifixion. On this day Christ recreated the human race and paid the price for our salvation by becoming the Lamb of God.
      7. Nisan 15 (Sabbath Rest). Dead and buried, He rested from His works of recreation.
    From a standpoint of conquering sin by conquering the darkness, the full moon speaks volumes to the church who can be a light to the world because of Christ's sacrifice.
    In instituting the Passover, God chose to highlight the significance of the full moon over the day of the week. For over 1500 years the Jews celebrated Passover on a full moon, not on Friday.
  • Paganism. It is full of Pagan symbols.

  Origin of Halloween Symbols It involves Druid beliefs about the state of the dead. » Merged With Christianity. There is no equivalent Christian festival. The church simply took over a Pagan custom and made up a Christian reason to perform the same rituals. » Ignored Christian Feasts. The fall feasts are completely ignored by most Christians. They prophesy about what is happenning now and in the future.

• Halloween "All Hallows' Eve" (October 31). The Druids believed that witches, black cats, gnomes, demons, ghosts and spirits of the dead roamed the earth on October 31. To protect themselves from the mean tricks of these spirits the Druids did several things.
  • Bonfires. Bonfires were lit to drive away the bad spirits. On the bonfires, human or animal sacrifices were offered to the Lord of Death, Satan.
    » Fortune Telling. As they watched the writhing of the victims, they would foretell the future of the village.
  • Candy (Trick or Treat). They offered them good things to eat.
  • Costumes (Ghosts, Devils and Witches). They disguised themselves to look like the spirits, tricking them into thinking that they were one of them.
  • Jack-o-Lantern (Carved Pumpkin). They intimidated the demons by carring a pumpkin, turnip or potato with a fearful, demonic face carved into it.
  These customs are celebrated today as Halloween by dressing up in costumes, playing trick or treat, giving candy, wearing masks, and carrying jack-o-lanterns.
  » All Saints' Day or "All Hallowed Day" (November 1). The Roman Catholic Church set aside November 1, the day after the Druid festival, to honor all the saints who had no special days of their own and to pray for the souls of the dead in purgatory.
  Let no one be found among you who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or casts spells, or who is a medium or a spiritist or a necromancer. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord". (Deuteronomy 18: 10-12)
• Christmas (December 25). Christmas is purely Pagan mixture of nature worship and Pagan deities. As various groups became Christian, they brought their customs and ancient gods and practiced the same rituals in the name of Christ. The only Christian symbols are those that reanact the story. These are angels, a star, the baby in the manger, shepherds and the wise men. But Christ was born on the feast of tabernacles, not Christmas day.
  • December 25 (Dies Natalis Invicti Solis or The Birthday of the Unconquered Sun). The birth of Mithra, the Iranian god of light from the cosmic egg on the winter solstice. The Romans celebrated the winter solstice on that day and Babylon celebrated the feast of the son of Isis with partying, gift giving and gluttony.
    » Saturnalia (December 17-23). The Roman winter holiday which honors Saturn, the god of agriculture.
  • Mummers. Costumed singers and dancers who went from house to house entertaining the neighbours in ancient Rome.
  • Christmas Tree. The Scandinavians worshipped trees and the Germans decorated them.
  • Yule Log. The Norse burned a huge log once year to Thor, the god of thunder.
  • Santa Claus. Saint Nicolas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia around 300 AD who entered homes through the chimney bringing gifts.
    » Enters Through The Chimney. The Norse believed the goddess, Hertha appeared in the fireplace and brought good luck to the house.
  
  » Merged With Christianity. Emperor Constantine declared December 25 to be the birthday of Christ. Then in 350, Pope Julius I declared that Christ's birth would be celebrated on December 25.
  » Mithraism (Antichrist). This religion was a copy of Christ in many ways. Judgment, an intercessor and redeemer figure who will return. But Sunday was the holy day dedicated to the sun.
  Christmas Tree. Do not learn the way of the Gentiles ... For the customs of the people are futile [vain]; for one cuts a tree from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with an axe. They decorate it with silver and gold, they fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple. (Jeremiah 10: 2-4)

God's Signs Replaced. Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs. We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet, nor is there any among us who knows how long. (Psalm 74: 4, 9)
Pagans and heathens base their signs and omens on random events like reading tea leaves, reading palms, animal behavior and personal feelings attached to experiences. But God bases His signs on laws and customs that He has established, removing any chance of private interpretation.
Even if you could find any redeeming quality in the human customs, how do you justify ignoring the signs and symbols of God? When the enemies of God usurp His signs, we will lose our way. Future generations will not understand the meaning. We will not know where we are prophetically and we will not know where we are going and how long it will take.
Jesus knew what to do because the signs were being faithfully observed by the Jews. Let us look at this remarkable system.

What Did Jesus Know? And How Did He Know It?
Let us assume that God did not appear to Him and give Him a written schedule of events, then how did He know what to do and when events should occur? With the help of the Holy Spirit He learned them through the laws, the prophecies, the ceremonies and the life of His forefathers.

• My Time Has Not Come (John 2). When His mother asked Him to turn water to wine, He knew that it was not yet time for Him to give His blood. From the scriptures He knew that He must be 33 when He died and that He must minister for about three and a half years. So He must begin His ministry at 30 years of age.
  • 33.5 Years (400 months). He would spend about 400 months in the land of sin, just as Israel spent 400 years in the land of Egypt. Then He would make His exodus from the land.
  • 3.5 Years. He knew that the law of the fruit harvest required no harvest can be brought to God until the fourth year after planting.
  • 30 Years. He could not be a priest until He was 30 years old.
  So by simple mathematics He concluded that His 3.5 year mission begins at age thirty and ends at age 33.5.
• Passover Death. He must die during a Passover that was a high Sabbath, because the offering must be made during three days and this must include a day of rest.
• Resurrection. He knew that He would be resurrected without seeing corruption of His body.
• Anointed for Death. When Mary anointed Him, it confirmed His timetable that He would appear again to her in glory eight days later, after a high Sabbath. He was 33.5 years and this Passover was a high Sabbath. So He went to Jerusalem on the donkey.
• Donkey (Mark 11: 1-8). The role of Issachar, Balaam's donkey and the statement of Zechariah 9: 9 confirmed what He must do.
• Upper Room (Mark 14: 12-16). Similarly the haven of the upper room that signified the role of Zebulun was arranged for Him. God prepared a table for Him in the midst of His enemies.
  Now on the first day of Unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover"? And He said, Go to the city to a certain man, and say to him "the Teacher says, my time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples". (Matthew 26: 17-18)
  Perhaps the people who supplied the donkey and the upper room did an act of faith just as Mary had done.
• A Man Carrying Water (Luke 22: 10-12). Follow the man who will lead you to where the wine will be poured.
  And He said to them, "when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water, follow him into the house that he enters". And you shall say to the owner of the house, the Teacher says to you, "where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples"? And he will show you a large, furnished upper room, prepare it there. (Luke 22: 10-12)
  On the feast of Tabernacles was a water libation ceremony in which the priest carried water in a gold pitcher and led a procession back to the sanctuary where it was poured out with the wine.
  » Draw out Abundant Water. The man carrying the pitcher of water could also fulfill Deuteronomy 33: 19.
  » Hospitality of the Water Carriers. This was the same sign used by Rachel and Rebekah. Their kindness in giving water to the stranger was proof that they were the wives chosen by God.
• His Betrayer (Mark 14: 18-20). He knew that one would betray Him but how did He know that it was the one who would eat with Him and dip into the bowl?
  And He answered, " He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me. (Matthew 26: 23)
  Psalm 41: 9 points to betrayal by a friend at a meal. The events could only indicate betrayal at the Passover meal. There were two bowls at the seder, one with salt water to represent the tears of sorrow and the other with nuts and spices to represent His burial. Judas must be the type of one who caused Him sorrow by dipping into the bowl of salt water.
  » Dipping Twice on Passover. On all other nights they dipped once, on Passover night the custom is to dip twice to represent the fact that they had to dip a leafy branch to smear lamb's blood on the doorpost. Judas was the second dipper who was responsible for spilling the blood of Jesus and smearing it on the door of the sanctuary.
  The responsibility of the priests for the death of Christ was encoded in their role as the priests who supervised the killing of the sacrifice. But the responsibility of Judas for His death was encoded as the leader of the family who smeared the blood on the door. In all aspects of His life Judas appears to be the thief who doubled dipped into treasures that were not his own.
  » Dipping Twice on Yom Kippur. The priest dipped with both hands in the bowl to retrieve the two lots. On one lot was the word, "For the Lord" and on the other was the words, "For Azazel". Jesus and Judas were the Lord's goat and the scape goat. They were also the priests who dipped two hands in the bowl.
• One Disciple Lost. He knew that one would be lost because of Dan, the serpent. This disciple would also be a son of Satan because he was a serpent like Satan.
  "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. (John 17: 12)
  » Azazel: The Son of Perdition. If Christ, the Lord's goat was the Son of God, then Judas the scapegoat was the son of Azazel or the son of perdition. The son of perdition was the serpent and the scapegoat, just like his father.
  » Eleven Stars Bow Down. Joseph's dream indicates that eleven would honor the Messiah (Genesis 37: 9).
• Peter Denies Him Three Times Before Cockcrow. How did He know that it was Peter, or that it would be three times and before cockcrow?
  Peter boasted that he would never abandon Christ even if the others did. Jesus knew that all of them would abandon Him and that He would be reduced to ashes before the cock crowed. He also knew that Peter's name meant "little stone". So Peter, the last one to abandon Him, would be the one to throw verbal stones at Him.
• Sequence of Events in the Last Seven Days (Mark 10: 33-34). The prophecy of the siege of the twelve tribes.
• Three Days and Nights in the Bowels (Matthew 12: 38-41). He probably knew about this mostly from this prophecy about the tribes. When He knew about the sequence of His suffering, by whom and for how long, then He could see the similarity to Jonah.

Repetition and Enlargement
The prophecies about Christ are repeated in many ways. In the lives of the prophets, the sanctuary, feasts and rituals.

Person	Role	Life	Christ
Adam	One man who affected all people	The owner who sinned and passed the penalty to his children	Through his obedience He was able to have His righteousness applied to all who choose to be born again through Him
Noah	Rescued the world	Rescued a remnant from a depraved world so that they could build a nation for God	Rescued the righteous from death and built Israel for God
Abraham	Suffering Father	The father who was willing to sacrifice his child because he loved God and had faith that his child could be resurrected	God had to reluctantly watch His son die. He sacrificed His only son.
Isaac	Obedient son	The unique son who was born because of a promise. He was obedient when his father tried to offer him as a sacrifice.	He was obedient to the will of His father that He should die for the sins of the whole world
Jacob (Israel)	Israel	The father of the twelve sons who were the foundation of Israel.	He used twelve disciples to start the new church
Joseph	Exiled favorite son	The child who would rule and save his people from death after he was betrayed and sold for money. He was handed over to his enemies by his own family.	He was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver and wounded in the house of His friends. But His captivity and death would allow Him to save His friends.
Moses	Rescued Israel	The miracle child who was hidden as a baby because the government tried to kill him. He grew up as an Egyptian prince to lead Israel in an exodus from slavery so that they could live with God in the Promised Land. He offered himself as a substitute to shield the people from the wrath of God. Leads Israel over the Red Sea.	Miracle child who hid in Egypt after the king tried to kill Him. He led the world in an exodus from slavery to sin to live with God in the Promised Land. He offered himself as a substitute for sin and shields the people from the wrath of God. He will lead Israel over the Sea of Glass.
	A Prophet like Moses	The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him. (Deuteronomy 18: 15)
Samuel	High priest	A miracle child who was promised to God. He became the high priest called by God who would find a king after God's own heart.	High priest called by God who was a king after God's own heart.
David	King of Israel	A king after God's own heart. He was a king in exile. Persecuted for his throne by a king whom the people choose. He courageously acknowledged sin and confidently asked God for forgiveness.	First king of Israel chosen by God who was a man after God's own heart. Persecuted by Satan who ruled the earth because he was chosen by the people because of sin.
Solomon	Peace maker builds temple	The word Solomon means peace. The man of peace who built the first sanctuary.	Christ is the Prince of Peace who will build the final sanctuary

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