{"id":6714,"date":"2015-07-04T07:39:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2015-07-04T07:39:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:39:03","slug":"a-star-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/a-star-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A Star Is Born!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Numbers 24:17, <i>A Star out of Jacob<\/i>.<\/b><i> <\/i>To what notable, kingly biblical figure is this prophecy referring? (See Matt 2:2; Rev 22:16 cp. Ps 2:1\u201312; Rev 17:14; 19:16. See also Rev 2:27; 12:5; 19:15.) This prophecy can have a double meaning in that it also pointed to King David who smote the Moabites and took possession of Mount Seir, the land of the Edom (vv. 17\u201318 cp. 2 Sam 8:2,14).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/a-star-is-born\/content-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6715\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6715\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/content-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"content\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/content-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/content-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/content-446x300.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, both Christian and Jewish scholars have recognized the Messianic implications of this verse. For example, Akiva Ben Yosef, the rabbinic Jewish leader of the second century, applied this verse to Simon Bar Kosiba (whose name he changed to Kokhba meaning \u201cson of the star\u201d after the Star Prophecy of Num 24:17) who presumed to be the Messiah when he unsuccessfully attempted to defeat the Romans in the Second Jewish revolt.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Adam Clarke notes in his commentary on this verse that Moses Ben Maimon (or Maimonidies), the Medieval Jewish Torah scholar applied this verse to the future Messiah as do the <i>Onkelos Targum<\/i> and <i>Jerusalem Targum<\/i> (the ancient Jewish Aramaic translations of the Tankah). Rashi (the medieval JewishTorah scholar) and Sforno (the renaissance Jewish Torah scholar) in their Torah commentaries note the Messianic implications of the star of Balaam\u2019s prophecy as well (S<i>forno Commentary on the Torah<\/i>, ArtScroll Mesorah Series).<\/p>\n<p>One thing is certain, only Yeshua the Messiah can make the claim to having fulfilled this biblical prophecy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'A Star Is Born!',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/a-star-is-born\/',contentID: 'post-6714',suggestTags: 'Balaam,Book of Numbers,Christ,Messiah,Messianic Prophecies,Star of Bethlehem,Yeshua',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers 24:17, A Star out of Jacob. To what notable, kingly biblical figure is this prophecy referring? (See Matt 2:2; Rev 22:16 cp. Ps 2:1\u201312; Rev 17:14; 19:16. See also Rev 2:27; 12:5; 19:15.) This prophecy can have a double &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/a-star-is-born\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[317,921,1234,49,585,1233,25],"class_list":["post-6714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-balaam","tag-book-of-numbers","tag-christ","tag-messiah","tag-messianic-prophecies","tag-star-of-bethlehem","tag-yeshua"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Star Is Born! | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/a-star-is-born\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Star Is Born! | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Numbers 24:17, A Star out of Jacob. 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