{"id":20771,"date":"2022-11-07T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2022-11-13T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T20:07:47","slug":"snippets-from-natans-upcoming-book-the-gospels-decoded-prophetic-pictures-of-end-time-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/07\/snippets-from-natans-upcoming-book-the-gospels-decoded-prophetic-pictures-of-end-time-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Snippets from Natan’s Upcoming Book: The Gospels Decoded\u2014Prophetic Pictures of End Time Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This author believes that the earthly ministry<\/strong> of Yeshua had prophetic implications pertaining to end time events. In other words, I will now attempt to show the reader that behind, if you will, the literal events surrounding Yeshua\u2019s earthly ministry including his miracles and teachings, there was an entire prophetic or allegorical subtext or message. Yeshua\u2019s life was literally a walking prophetic shadow-picture. Understanding these divinely engineered, yet hidden clues from a Hebraic context will yield a literal treasure trove of understanding into end time events as prophetically prefigured in the fall festivals of YHVH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the record, let it be known that such a study in no way denies the historicity of the literal events surrounding Yeshua\u2019s life. Both Jewish and Christian scholars have been interpreting literal biblical events in an allegorical light for thousands of years. This is not a new exercise. (For a discussion of this, please refer to our brief study of the Jewish rules of biblical interpretation at the end of this book.) Not only have the biblical exegetes derived understanding from the biblical record through this means of interpretation, but numerous examples can be cited from the apostolic writers themselves interpreting various scriptural passages from the Tanakh (Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament) in this manner as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is different about the following study is that it will allegorically examine the entire life of Yeshua\u2014his ministry activities, the meaning of the geographical names of the places where he ministered and his parables for the purpose of deriving insights into end time events such as the great tribulation and wrath of Elohim periods, the resurrection, the second coming, the regathering and reunification of the exiled Israelites, the marriage of the Yeshua to his bride and the establishment of his kingdom on earth. It is hoped that the insights gained may clarify some of the difficult passages in the writings of the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures as well as the prophecies found in the Testimony of Yeshua including the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John the Baptist Coming in the Spirit of Elijah Prepared the Way for Yeshua <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 3:2,<\/strong> John preached the message of, \u201cRepent for the kingdom of Elohim is at hand.\u201d<\/p>

Matthew 3:7\u201312,<\/strong> John confronted the hypocritical religionists of his day and castigated them for their spiritual smugness, selfishness and pride. He then proclaimed that judgment was coming upon them for their lack of repentance and spiritual fruitlessness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 3:11, 13\u201317, John\u2019s mission was to prepare the way for the Messiah.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah the prophet (Matt 11:14) to prepare the way for Yeshua\u2019s first coming, so the prophet Malachi declared that YHVH would send the prophet Elijah (figuratively speaking) to this earth before the great and dreadful day of YHVH\u2019s wrath, and that he would turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers (Mal 4:5\u20136). In partial fulfilment of this prophecy, the heavenly messenger proclaimed to Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, that his son would be that Elijah (figuratively speaking) to which Malachi referred (Luke 1:17). Yeshua confirmed this angelic prediction (Matt 11:14; 17:12). However John didn\u2019t fulfil the every aspect of Malachi\u2019s prophecy. Malachi\u2019s prophecy was dual in nature, for it also contained elements that referred to Yeshua\u2019s second coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would be the mission of that future \u201cElijah,\u201d or the one who would come in the spirit of Elijah in the end times? Malachi prophesied that \u201cElijah\u201d would bring the law or Torah of Moses back to the remembrance of the people of Israel, who had in one way or the other forgotten it. Most Israelites of the Northern Kingdom had forgotten the law when they split off from the Southern Kingdom in the time of King Rehoboam. Others had forgotten it later on when they went into captivity and assimilated with Gentile cultures. Still later on, many Jews and later early Christians from the second century onward had forgotten YHVH\u2019s Torah-law when they began adding layer upon layer of man\u2019s religious traditions over the top of YHVH\u2019s simple instructions in righteousness, so that these laws eventually became voided or were functionally made of none effect (Matt 15:6; Mark 7:6\u20139). Still other religionists developed cunning and humanistic rationales and, disguising them behind philosophical theologies, the mind of man was in essence exalted over the clear and direct revelation of YHVH thus obscuring the Creator\u2019s Torah-Truth. Eventually Christian theologians came along and cloaked their complex and clever anti-Torah theologies in terms that the unlearned and common man could understand and then brainwashed their unwitting and naive Christian disciples into regurgitating such phrases as \u201cnailed to the cross,\u201d \u201cdone away with,\u201d \u201cfulfilled in Christ,\u201d \u201cnot under the law,\u201d \u201cfor the Jews only,\u201d \u201cJudaizing\u201d and \u201clegalistic\u201d such that these terms become the lingo of the laity to explain away the Torah of Elohim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effect was still the same: religious men forgot the Torah of Elohim, which is why YHVH, through the prophet Malachi, told his people to \u201cremember<\/em> the Torah of Moses my servant\u2026\u201d because they had obviously forgotten it (Mal 4:4, emphasis added). This is also why the sovereign Creator insured that the Book of Malachi would be the last book in the Christian Bible\u2019s Old Testament (by comparison, 2 Chronicles is the last book in the Jewish Bible). You see, the last verses in this book as well as the entire the Old Testament (or Tanakh<\/em>) speak prophetically to the Christian church, which has forgotten the Torah YHVH gave to Moses. This prophecy is both a plea and a warning for Christians to return to the Torah. This prophecy of Malachi also dogmatically states that in the last days before the great and terrible day of Elohim\u2019s wrath just prior to the second coming of the Messiah, there will be those Christians who will remember the Torah and will turn back to the Hebrew roots of their faith (Mal 4:4\u20136 cp. Rev 12;14; 14:7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, according to Malachi, all of this would begin to occur before<\/em> the great and terrible day of Elohim\u2019s wrath. Eventually, all those so-called Bible believers who refuse to accept YHVH\u2019s Torah-law will be burned up like stubble and become ashes under the feet of the righteous. This will occur during the time period when King Yeshua will have been ruling over the earth as the Sun of Righteousness with healing (or salvation) in his wings (Mal 4:1\u20133). Since this prophecy was not totally fulfilled with John the Baptist at Yeshua\u2019s first advent, there obviously is a future aspect to it that is yet to be fulfilled that pertains to the second coming of Yeshua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there very well could be a literal Elijah or John the Baptist-type individual who will arise on the earth in the last days (perhaps the two witnesses of Rev 11) to \u201ccry aloud and spare not\u201d and who will be a \u201cvoice crying in the wilderness to prepare the way\u201d for the Messiah and urging the saints to make their spiritual paths straight (Matt 3:3), as John did for Yeshua, there will doubtless be a company of individuals who will come in the spirit of Elijah and John, who will fulfil this mission as prophesied by Malachi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Book of Revelation reveals some distinctive characteristics about the end time saints\u00ad\u00ad\u2014those who will be on the earth just prior to the second coming of the Messiah, and who will likely help to fulfil that Elijah and John the Baptist mission.\u00ad\u00ad Of these future saints, the Word of Elohim reveals that they will have not forsaken the commandments or Torah of YHVH and, at the same time, they will have the faith or testimony of Yeshua (Rev 12:17; 14:12). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe that these end time Torah-keeping and Yeshua-loving saints will be those who will come in the spirit of Elijah and will help to prepare the way for the return of the Messiah by turning the hearts of the children (Christians) back to the fathers of their faith (i.e., their Jewish apostolic fathers, who established the Messianic faith as modelled in the Book of Acts; cp. Mal 4:4\u20136). These spiritual forerunners will help YHVH\u2019s people to restore the ancient paths of Torah-based obedience and worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, they will continue the mission of the apostles to preach the message of repentance (Acts 2:38; from sinning, i.e., breaking YHVH\u2019s Torah-commandments, see 1 John 3:4), and the restoration of the kingdom of Elohim or heaven (Matt 10:7), which involves the regathering of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, which Yeshua came to do, and commanded his disciples to do as well (Matt 15:24; 10:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message of the kingdom of Elohim (an aspect of the gospel message that the Christian church has largely ignored) was on the forefront of the disciples\u2019 minds, based on their final question to Yeshua in Acts 1:6 before his ascension. As we shall see later, the disciples\u2019 question in Acts chapter one about the \u201crestoration of the kingdom of Israel\u201d (an aspect of the kingdom of Elohim) is a reference to the return of the lost Israelites to the land of Israel, who until then had been lost among the Gentiles. The term Gentiles<\/em>can sometimes be a reference in the Scriptures to the lost or exiled Israelites. The restoration of the kingdom also involves Israel\u2019s return to the Torah and to a covenantal relationship with YHVH (see Eph 2:11\u201312), which they had forsaken and from which they had become alienated. This resulted in their being dispersed and exiled among the nations of the world (i.e., becoming part of physical and spiritual Babylon). That is why YHVH in the Book of Revelation admonishes his people to \u201ccome out\u201d of the spiritual Babylonian religious systems where they have been held as spiritual captives (Rev 18:4, 13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preaching of the message of repentance, coming out of Babylon, and the restoration of the kingdom of Israel is a precursor to Yeshua\u2019s return to rule as Messiah Son of David over the nation of Israel\u2014a nation comprised of both the houses of Judah and of Ephraim (Ezek 37:15\u201328). Luke refers to this as the restitution (or restoration) of all things that must occur before Yeshua can return to the earth from heaven (Acts 3:19\u201321). In the last days, those who come in the spirit of Elijah the prophet are those who understand these things, and who are helping to fulfil these prophecies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What You Can Do<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has YHVH called you to be a modern-day John the Baptist or Elijah to help prepare the way for Yeshua the Messiah before that great and terrible day of YHVH\u2019s wrath that will burn like a fire? Through Bible study, prayer and fasting, YHVH will divinely reveal to his saints how they can be part of this great spiritual company and what they can do to support each other in this divine end times mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Young Yeshua Speaks With the Jewish Leaders in the Temple<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke 2:41\u201349,<\/strong> \u201cNow his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Yeshua tarried behind in Jerusalem. And Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day\u2019s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances. And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the [Torah] teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed and his mother said unto him, \u2018Son, why have you thus dealt with us? Behold, your father and I have sought you sorrowing.\u2019 And he said unto them, \u2018How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father\u2019s business?\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prophetic Points to Analyze<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n