{"id":1940,"date":"2012-12-17T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:47:36","slug":"shadows-in-the-life-of-joseph-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/shadows-in-the-life-of-joseph-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophetic Shadows in the Life of Joseph (pt 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph: Antitype of Yeshua the Savior (Gen 42)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph acted as a savior to his brothers and family to save them from death in a time of famine. Prophetically, Christians (who are, at least in part, descendants of Joseph) present Yeshua son of Joseph as the Savior to the world (including to the Jews) to save people from spiritual death.<\/p>\n

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Viewing Joseph\u2019s role as a savior to the Israelite people in their time of need as a prophetic picture of \u00adYeshua\u2019s similar role as Savior should not seem strange to the reader. In pre-Christian Jewish literature, the Jewish sages identified two Messiahs that were to come: one whose life would resemble Joseph and was referred to as the suffering servant or \u201cMessiah Son of Joseph\u201d (Mashiach ben Yoseph<\/em>), and a second Messiah whose life and ministry would resemble that of David, and who they referred to as the warrior king or \u201cMessiah Son of David\u201d (Mashiach ben David<\/em>). This messianic title was prevalent even in Yeshua\u2019s day, for on several occasions, he was asked if he was the [Messiah] Son of David (e.g., Matt 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30\u201331; 21:9, 15; 22:42). The Jewish sages came to the conclusion that there were two Messiahs because while reading the messianic prophecies in the Tanakh (OT) they saw two different, even conflicting Messiahs whose roles were very different from each other. What was not known by the ancient Jewish sages, which was a subject of much debate, was which Messiah would come first, when he would come, would he be the same person or two different individuals, and how much time would separate their two comings.<\/p>\n

For believers in Yeshua, this is not a dilemma, because we can look back in time and clearly see that Yeshua fulfilled the Suffering Servant role at his first coming, and will fulfill the Conquering King role at his second coming. But two thousand years ago, without the benefit of historical perspective, this was not an easy matter to figure out. Even the disciples were at times in a quandary as to which mission Yeshua was to fulfill as evidenced by their last question to him before his final ascension, \u201cWill you at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?\u201d (Acts 1:6).<\/p>\n

Allusions to Yeshua the Messiah\u2019s role as the Son of Joseph can be found in the following biblical passages:<\/p>\n