Does the Son know the Day and the Hour?

 Mark 13:32  “But concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Greek word for Day:

Hemera G2250

Also used figuratively a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context): - age, + alway, (mid-) day (by day, [-ly]), + for ever, judgment, (day) time, while, years. 

In NT it’s translated as singular ‘day’  as well as plural ‘days’

The ‘days’ shows a building up of a time frame or an age.

In Matthew 28:20 it’s translated as ‘always’

Mat 28:20  teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always/ pas G3956 (all, every, whole , daily ) hemera G2250, until the end of the age.” Aman.

The English ignores the Greek word ‘pas’ G3956 as it should actually render as “all the days” 

The Hebrew word for day or days is ‘yom’ H3117 which is also defined figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily.

The Greek word in Mark 13:32 for ‘hour’ is hora G5610

Apparently a primary word; an “hour” (literally or figuratively): - day, hour, instant, season, X short, [even-] tide, (high) time. 

It is also used in many places in NT as ‘hours’ in the plural form again indicating a ‘smaller time period’ as a ‘season’

The Hebrew word for "hour" is sha'ah (שעה). The plural of sha'ah is sha'ot (שעות).

The word sha'ah comes from the Aramaic word sha-on, which means "a short segment of time". In the Book of Daniel, the word sha-on appears five times.

So when Yahusha was using the words ‘day’ and ‘hour’ , He was using a Hebrew idiom indicating a longer period and a shorter period of time or an age which the Greek renders the same.

Hence, the ‘time/ age/season’ defined by these two words would have an end point as in English it can be rendered as ‘Time has an end’ and during the end those not knowing will come to know.

The contextual text in the first blush meaning shows the Son inferior as He is categorised as ‘No one knows’ along with any creature, including the ‘messengers’ and puts the ‘Father’ as the only superior entity knowing.

A parallel verse where the disciples of Yahusha asked Him  whether at this time He would restore the reign to Yasharal shows that the disciples perfectly understood that Yahusha had the capability of understanding the period of when He Himself would restore the reign back to Yasharal. It was just that they couldn’t discern the time frame that at the present time (in the days when He stood amongst them) He didn’t know the ‘longer period’ and the ‘shorter period’ defined as ‘time and season’ and hence, He says “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 

Act 1:6  So when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Master, would You at this time restore the reign to Yisra’ěl?” 

Act 1:7  And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.

The Greek word exousia G1849 translated as ‘authority’ actually means ‘in the sense of ability’ or ‘capacity’ or ‘jurisdiction’ and comes from the root word G1832 exesti which means ‘lawful’

Before we understand the lawfulness, ability, capacity or jurisdiction of the Father, first we must look at ‘Times and season’

Times G5550 chronos a space of time , season , a particular interval or period and is a longer period distinguished from kairos G2540 which is a shorter period of time and is the next word translated as ‘seasons’ in Acts 1:7.

Hence, here too we see a longer and a shorter period of time showing that this ‘Time will have an end’

The Father put everything lawfully, in a jurisdiction with a capability of knowing with the expiry of the times and the seasons.

Hence, the Greek words ‘hemera’ G2250 and ‘chronos’ G5550 show a longer period and the Greek word ‘hora’ G5610 and kairos G2540 show a shorter period of time. 

The lengthy time period and the shorter period is in relation with ‘Yasharal’. The lengthy is in reference to Yasharal’s dispersion and the shorter period is in reference to the Great Tribulation where the days were shortened.

What does The Father put everything lawfully, in a jurisdiction with a capability of knowing with the expiry of the times and the seasons mean?

For this we must understand the Daniel passages

Dan 12:8  And I heard, but I did not understand, so I said, “My master, what is the latter end of these matters?”

Dan 12:9  And he said, “Go, Dani’ěl, for the words are hidden/satham H5640 סתם and sealed/ chatham H2856 חתם till the time of the end.

satham סתם H5640 means ‘stopped’ or ‘shut up’

chatham חתם H2856 means ‘to seal as with a kings ring’ 

Hence, until the time of the end the end of all things was ‘stopped and sealed with a kings ring’ and that King was Yahuah

Yahuchanan when receiving the scroll of Chazun/Revelation was told not to seal the words of the prophecy of the scroll for the time was near 

Rev 22:10  And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book,  because the time is near.

There was no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth who was able to open the scroll  or to look at it except for the Lion of Yahudah who had prevailed 

Rev 5:3  And no one in the heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. 

Rev 5:4  And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. 

Rev 5:5  And one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Yehuḏah, the Root of Dawiḏ, overcame to open the scroll and to loosen its seven seals.”

The Hebrew text uses the same word ‘chatham’ חתם H2856 and we saw the word means ‘to seal as with a kings ring’ 

Yahuchanan is further given information that the scroll was ‘sealed with the kings ring’ with seven seals where the word seven in Hebrew שבעה H7651 has the root word H7650 שבע shaba means to swear seven times with a declaration 

This shows that Yahusha before the transitioned form as Yahuah was the one who swore in seven declarations and sealed the scroll with His ring and only He is worthy to open the scroll and He does that as Yahusha. This was placed within His jurisdiction and lawfully and this is translated as He putting everything in His own power or authority.

Twice in the book of Chazun/Revelation Yahusha says to watch or else He would come as a thief

Rev 3:3  “Remember, then, how you have received, and heard. And watch and repent. If, then, you do not wake up, I shall come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know at all what hour I come upon you. 

Rev 16:15  “See, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who is staying awake and guarding his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” 

This is a clear indication that He knows the hour when He would come as the judge to judge or else He wouldn’t tell the assembly that He would come upon them at an hour as a thief which they would not know. Until He would open the seven seals when He would be glorified, it was lawfully within the jurisdiction of His Fatherhood to conceal what was written.

The Son bears the name, image of the invisible Elohim and all judgment has been committed to Him, and Him not knowing the day and hour is impossible. It’s just that people blow this up out of proportion without understanding the timing of His putting the seal on the scroll and Him unsealing it.

Torah of the Dead Brother

In the OT we see that if a brother died childless then his brother or closest relative if no brother is available, should marry the dead brother's wife and raise a seed for her to keep his name alive in Yasharal. The seed born to her would be called after the name of the dead man and so was the tribal inheritance be with the son born called after the dead man.

We see the story of Ruth the Moabitess (by geographical location and not Moab itself) as an example where Elimelech the Ephrathite sold his inheritance due to severe famine in the land and went to the fields of Moab to sojourn there with his wife Naomi and 2 sons Machlon and Chilyon. Machlon married Ruth (Ruth 4:10) and Chilyon married Orphah and Elimelech and his 2 sons died in the land of sojourning and both his sons died childless. While Orphah went back to her people (Reubenites), Ruth clung to Naomi and she was redeemed along with the inheritance which was sold by Elimelech, it was redeemed by Boaz the Yahudite and their son Obed was now both and Ephrathite as well as a Yahudite and from this lineage came David.

Num 21:23 But Siḥon would not allow Yisra’ěl to pass through his border. So Siḥon gathered all his people together and went out against Yisra’ěl in the wilderness, and he came to Yahats and fought against Yisra’ěl. 

Num 21:24 And Yisra’ěl struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Yabboq, as far as the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 

Num 21:25 And Yisra’ěl took all these cities, and Yisra’ěl dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites – in Ḥeshbon and in all its villages, 

Num 21:26 for Ḥeshbon was the city of Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites, who had fought against the former sovereign of Mo’aḇ, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. 

Num 21:27 That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Ḥeshbon, let the city of Siḥon be built and established.

Jos 12:4 and the border of Oḡ, sovereign of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Repha’ites, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Eḏre‛i, 

Jos 12:5 and ruled in Mount Ḥermon, and in Salḵah, and in all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Ma‛aḵathites, and the half of Gil‛aḏ as far as the border of Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon. 

Jos 12:6 Mosheh the servant of יהוה and the children of Yisra’ěl had stricken them. And Mosheh the servant of יהוה had given it as a possession to the Re’uḇěnites, and to the Gaḏites, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh. 

Num 32:37 And the children of Re’uḇěn built Ḥeshbon and El‛alěh and Qiryathayim, 

This is how we know that Ruth and Orphah were Reubenites.

Rth 4:18 And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth Ḥetsron. 

Rth 4:19 And Ḥetsron brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ. 

Rth 4:20 And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 

Rth 4:21 And Salmon brought forth Bo‛az, and Bo‛az brought forth Oḇěḏ. 

Rth 4:22 And Oḇěḏ brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ. 

1Sa 17:12 Now Dawiḏ was the son of that Ephrathite of Běyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha’ul the man was old among men.

The Davidic covenant came with a promise that the Messiah would be seated on his throne forever keeping his name alive in Yasharal with his tribal inheritance of Ephrayim and Yahudah as Ephrayim was the son of Yoseph who was promised one lot more than his brothers and from this tribe was the Stone of Yasharal.

Gen 49:22 “Yosěph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall. 

Gen 49:23 “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him. 

Gen 49:24 “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya‛aqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ěl – 

By bringing Ruth and Boaz together Yahuah made it possible as Ephrayim represents Yasharal as per the firstborn blessing and Yahudah represents the Kingly Malchitsedeq priesthood.

Gen 48:22 “And I, I have given to you one portion (Shechem) above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.” 

While scriptures are silent on the war Yaaqob made with the Amorite with his sword and bow, we understand from the name of the place 'Shechem' translated as portion here, where Yahuchanan records Yahusha entering one of the cities of Shomeron called Sukar across from the parcel of the field which Yaaqob gave to his son Yoseph. This parcel of the field was 'Shechem'

John 4:5 He entered to one city of the cities of Shomeron called Sukar, across from the parcel of the field that Yaaqob had given to his son Yoseph.

 Now that we have briefly understood the Torah of the dead brother, no where in the New Testament do, we find any reiteration of this law to be kept and there is a reason for it. While it is obvious it’s related to kinsman redeemer and termed as Goel in Hebrew, it’s a law perfectly kept and fully realized in Yahusha who is our Yahuah Goel. 

To understand this law, I showed how the law also related to redemption of land along with the woman whose husband died leaving her childless to keep the dead husband’s name and inheritance alive in Yasharal. 

The New Testament records a lot of persecution of those who believed in Yahusha as the chief priests and rulers had already determined that those who profess Yahusha will be excommunicated from Yasharal’s inheritance. That’s why they sold their lands and laid the money at the emissary’s feet.

Act 4:34 For there was not anyone needy among them, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of what was sold, 

Act 4:35 and laid them at the feet of the emissaries, and they distributed to each as anyone had need.

While the first blush plain reading of scripture one would conclude that they sold their lands to distribute to the needy, a comparison of the text with the blind man who by birth was blind and healed by Yahusha shows us how the persecution existed.

Jhn 9:20 His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind, 

Jhn 9:21 but how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age, ask him, he shall speak concerning himself.” 

Jhn 9:22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Yehuḏim, for the Yehuḏim had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Messiah, he should be put out of the congregation.

John 9:34 They answered and said to him (blind man healed), “You were completely born in sins – and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out.

Once excommunicated the person would lose his tribal inheritance. Later the tribes were dispersed to the ends of the earth when the Romans attacked Yerushalayim.

And they lost all their tribal inheritance and eventually over a period of time they all lost their ethnicity.

Yahusha had told that His kingdom is not of this world. And he promises inheritance in New Yerushalayim from above.

Luk 22:29 “And I covenant for you, as My Father covenanted for Me, a reign,

 Luk 22:30 to eat and drink at My table, in My reign, and to sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisra’ěl.”

Jhn 18:35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Yehuḏi? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What did You do?”

 Jhn 18:36  יהושע answered, “My reign is not of this world. If My reign were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Yehuḏim. But now My reign is not from here.”

Rev 3:12 “He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of the city of My Elohim, the new Yerushalayim, which comes down out of the heaven from My Elohim, and My new Name. 

Rev 3:13 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’

Hence, He is the kinsman redeemer who gives His people back their ethnicity which was lost, an inheritance in Him forever and not like a temporary dwelling in Kenaan which Moshe the man of Elohim warned Yasharal that they won’t be long in the land Elohim gives them but will be dispersed.

Deu 4:26 “I shall call the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yarděn to possess – you do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed. 

Deu 4:27 “And יהוה shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where יהוה drives you.

 Deu 4:28 “And there you shall serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell

Dry 4:29 “But from there you shall seek יהוה your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and with all your being.

Yasharal was bound to the physical Torah of the land to the literal command of the Torah of the dead brother pointing to the fulfilment in Yahusha ha Mashiyach.

Even before written Torah came, we see Yahudah taking a Kenaanite woman ‘Shuwa’ which was forbidden to take (foreign wives forbidden) and she bore him ER who was wicked and Yahuah killed him. Yahuah asked Onan his brother to take Tamar his wife to raise seed for his brother, but he too was wicked as he spilled his seed on the ground and Yahuah killed him too. Yahudah told Tamar his daughter in law to wait until Shelah his son grows and later forgets to give her to him, and she conceals her identity and Yahudah mistaken her for a whore and went into her and raises a seed for himself without knowing it. You may read the entire account in Genesis 38. The seed raised couldn't be of ER as the Torah required the living brother to take his dead brother's wife to raise a seed for her and Shelah was the potential candidate to do this which Yahudah failed in giving him to Tamar.

Tamar bore Perets and Zerah to Yahudah as a direct seed and Yahusha ha Mashiyach came through the lineage from Perets and not through Shelah as Er, Onan and Shelah were born through Shuwa the Kenanite woman. We can see example of Esau who also took foreign wives which became a snare to Yitshaq and Rebecca.

Rut 4:12 “And let your house be like the house of Perets, whom Tamar bore to Yehuḏah, of the seed which יהוה does give you from this young woman.”

It clearly says that Tamar bore Yahudah Perets and not to Er.

Mat 1:2  Aḇraham brought forth Yitsḥaq, and Yitsḥaq brought forth Ya‛aqoḇ, and Ya‛aqoḇ brought forth Yehuḏah and his brothers.

 Mat 1:3 And Yehuḏah brought forth Perets and Zeraḥ by Tamar, and Perets brought forth Ḥetsron, and Ḥetsron brought forth Ram. 

Mat 1:4 And Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ, and Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon.

 Mat 1:5 And Salmon brought forth Bo‛az by Raḥaḇ, and Bo‛az brought forth Oḇěḏ by Ruth, and Oḇěḏ brought forth Yishai.

Matthew record’s Mashiyach coming through lineage of Perets. Why would he not come through Shelah if he was not of a foreign woman?

1Ch 4:21 The sons of Shělah the son of Yehuḏah: Ěr the father of Lěḵah, and La‛dah the father of Marěshah, and the clans of the house of the linen workers of the house of Ashběa;

 1Ch 4:22 and Yoqim, and the men of Kozěḇa, and Yo’ash, and Saraph who ruled in Mo’aḇ, and Yashuḇi-Leḥem. But the records were ancient. 

1Ch 4:23 These were the potters and those who dwell at Neta‛im and Geḏěrah; there they dwelt with the sovereign for his work.

Hence, we see the Torah of the dead brother was related to the land as it pointed to the Goel (kinsman redeemer) to have mercy in redemption of the widow who was childless along with her dead husband’s inheritance and it all depended on the kinsman redeemer to redeem or refuse to redeem his right just as we see Naomi had a closer relative who refused to redeem Ruth and then Boaz stepped in to redeem her.

Rut 3:12 “And now, it is true that I am your redeemer. However, there is a redeemer nearer than I. 

Rut 3:13 “Stop over tonight, and in the morning, it shall be that if he does redeem you, good – let him do it. But if he is not pleased to redeem you, then I shall redeem you, as יהוה lives! Lie down until morning.”

Rut 4:3 He then said to the redeemer, “Na‛omi, who has come back from the fields of Mo’aḇ, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimeleḵ. 

Rut 4:4 “And I thought that I should disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you do redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not redeem it, inform me, so that I know. For there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said, “I redeem it.” 

Rut 4:5 And Bo‛az said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Na‛omi, you shall also acquire Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

 Rut 4:6 And the redeemer said, “I am not able to redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. Redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I am not able to redeem it.”

Hence, the law saw a fulfilment in Yahusha Himself as Yasharal was tied to the physical law and were not able to be found in Yahuah to kinsman redeem them as Yahuah was not their brother until He came through the same womb and hence when Yahuah brought them to Kenaan, He told them they won’t be in Kenan for long and that He would scatter them to the ends of the earth because they couldn’t be redeemed by the physical law related to their carnal fleshly inheritance as that was never the intent of the law of the dead brother given. 

1Tim2:15 But she shall be saved in child bearing  if they continue in faith and in love and in sanctification with propriety.

Rev12:2 and she being with child cried out in birth pangs, and in agony of giving birth.

Rev12:3 And another sign was seen in the heavens, and behold, a great red dragon with fire having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems

Rev12:4 And his tail dragged a third of the stars of the heavens and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child. 

Rev12:5 And she (Covenant Yasharal) brought forth a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to the Elohim and to His throne 

Few of His remnant as Abraham understood the spiritual inheritance in Yahusha as he saw His day and rejoiced.

Heb 11:8 By belief, Aḇraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

 Heb 11:9 By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and Ya‛aqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise, 

Heb 11:10 for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim.

Heb 2:11 For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers, 

 Heb 2:12 saying, “I shall announce Your Name to My brother's, in the midst of the congregation I shall sing praise to You.”

Yahuah’s true intent of giving the Torah of the dead brother was that His people be found in His transitioned form in the New Creation related to New Yerushalayim, being related to Him as His brothers so that He could become their Yahuah Goel (Yahuah the kinsman redeemer). Our name and inheritance would remain alive in Him reserved to be revealed in the last time.

Php 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through belief in Messiah, the righteousness, which is from Elohim on the basis of belief, 

 Php 3:10 to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Hence, we see the New Testament coming with discernment of whom to consider as widow.

1Ti 5:3 Respect widows who are truly widows.

 1Ti 5:4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to treat their own house reverently, and to repay their parents. For this is good and acceptable before Elohim.

 1Ti 5:5 And she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in Elohim and continues in petitions and prayers night and day. 

 1Ti 5:6 But she who is living in luxury is dead while she lives. 

 1Ti 5:7 And command these matters, in order for them to be blameless. 

1Ti 5:8 And if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the belief and is worse than an unbeliever. 

 1Ti 5:9 Do not enrol a widow unless she is over sixty years of age, having been the wife of one man,

 1Ti 5:10 well reported for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the feet of the set-apart ones, if she has assisted the afflicted, if she has closely followed every good work.

1Ti 5:11 But refuse the younger widows, for when they become headstrong against the Messiah, they desire to marry,

 1Ti 5:12 having guilt because they set aside their first belief. 

 1Ti 5:13 Moreover, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, speaking what is improper. 

 1Ti 5:14 So I resolve that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, giving no occasion to the adversary for reviling. 

 1Ti 5:15 For already some have turned aside after Satan. 

 1Ti 5:16 If any believing man or woman has widows, let such assist them, and do not let the assembly be burdened, in order to assist those who are truly widows.

The younger widows were to be refused to be considered as widows and the assembly was not to be burdened but the believing man or woman having widows at home were to assist those who are truly widows and were encouraged that they be married off, bear children and manage the house. Shaul the emissary also set a cut of age to consider a widow i.e.. 60 years and above and that too she should have been the wife of one man.

Shaul was aware of the situation that happened when the assembly was found, all widows were being treated as widows and taken care of by the assembly and there were complaints about the daily distribution to them.

Act 6:1 And in those days, when the taught ones were increasing, there arose a grumbling against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were overlooked in the daily serving.

Hence, he brings order to discern who the true widows actually are vs the widows who live in sin and not worthy of being called a widow and moreover, it was perfectly understood by the assembly that the transitioning believers from being a Yahudite tied to the physical land and a carnal inheritance had a fulfilment in Yahusha ha Mashiyach as the true Yahuah Goel and hence, the additional information on how to consider widows.

We have Yahusha telling the Yahudite as to whom EliYahu was sent to when the heavens were shut for three years and six months.

Luk 4:25 “But truly I say to you, many widows were in Yisra’ěl in the days of Ěliyahu, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great scarcity of food in all the land,

 Luk 4:26 and Ěliyahu was sent to none of them, but to Tsarephath of Tsiḏon, to a woman, a widow.

Firstly, we must understand who EliYahu was and what was his prophetic role.

1Ki 17:1   And Ěliyahu the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gil‛aḏ, said to Aḥaḇ, “As יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ěl lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.”

EliYahu was a Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead and was part of the tribe of Menashsheh, the first-born son of Yoseph whose first born berekah was given to his younger brother Ephrayim. Hence, the elder was to make way for the younger as the promise of the Shepherd of Yasharal was from Ephrayim which we saw in the book of Ruth as how the dead man Machlon the Ephrathite’s name was kept alive in Yasharal and David was both an Ephrathite as well as a Yahudite.

Num 26:28 Sons of Yosěph according to their clans, by Menashsheh and Ephrayim: 

Num 26:29 Sons of Menashsheh: of Maḵir, the clan of the Maḵirites. And Maḵir brought forth Gil‛aḏ; of Gil‛aḏ, the clan of the Gil‛aḏites. 

Num 26:30 These are sons of Gil‛aḏ: of Iyezer, the clan of the Iyezerites; of Ḥěleq, the clan of the Ḥěleqites; 

Num 26:31 of Asri’ěl, the clan of the Asri’ělites; of Sheḵem, the clan of the Sheḵemites;

We don’t have time to look in detail, but we see Abraham was not the firstborn of his father Terah, Esau’s birthright was given to Yaaqob the younger, Menashsheh’s birthright given to Ephrayim, Reuben’s birthright given to Yoseph.

1Ch 5:1   As for the sons of Re’uḇěn the first-born of Yisra’ěl – he was the first-born, but because he profaned his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosěph, son of Yisra’ěl, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright, 

1Ch 5:2 for Yehuḏah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Yosěph’s

The firstborn birthright spoke of Yahuah in His transition becoming the elder brother of His people in the person of Yahusha who would pass on the firstborn berekah to His remnant. 

Mal 4:5 “See, I am sending you Ěliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה.

 Mal 4:6 “And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with utter destruction.

Many traditionalists teach that EliYahu will come before the great day of Yahuah and is one of the two witnesses of Revelation 11 which is false, and I have touched based this in my note Did Elijah and Enoch ascend into heaven.

Malachi 4:5-6 is a prophecy of Yahuchanan the immerser who came in the Ruach of EliYahu to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.

Luk 1:13 But the messenger said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zeḵaryah, for your prayer is heard. And your wife Elisheḇa shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yoḥanan. 

Luk 1:14 “And you shall have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth. 

Luk 1:15 “For he shall be great before יהוה, and shall drink no wine and strong drink at all. And he shall be filled with the Set-apart Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 

Luk 1:16 “And he shall turn many of the children of Yisra’ěl to יהוה their Elohim.

 Luk 1:17 “And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Ěliyahu, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ 

Yahuchanan was son of ZakarYah who was from the Tsadok lineage, but he was not part of the temple priesthood and served Yahuah by preparing His way outside the temple in turning the hearts of the people towards Yahusha who is our Yahuah.

Mrk 9:11 And they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Ěliyahu has to come first?”

 Mrk 9:12 And He said to them, "Ěliyahu indeed, having come first, restores all matters. And how has it been written concerning the Son of Aḏam, that He is to suffer much and be despised? 

 Mrk 9:13 “But I say to you that even Ěliyahu has come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it has been written of him.”

Similarly, EliYahu stood against the Omri dynasty in serving Yahuah outside of the temple worship which was corrupted and filled with Baal worship. 

Jas 5:17  Ěliyahu was a man with feelings like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain. And it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 

Jas 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land brought forth its fruit.

Heavens shut for 3 years and six months typology:

Gentiles trampling the outer court (Rev 11) for 42 months. 42/12 =3.5 years 

Woman was given place in the wilderness away from the Serpent for 1260 days. 1260/360 (lunar year) = 3.5 years

Time, times and dividing of time (Rev 12). 

Time (360), Times (360 x 2 =720) and dividing of time (360/2 =180) 

360 + 720 + 180 =1,260 days.

EliYahu shutting heaven for 3 years and 6 months which is equivalent to 3.5 years, it was a typology of the Woman who fled into the wilderness prophecy before the coming of the Great Day of Yahuah fulfilled in Yahuchanan coming in the Ruach and power of EliYahu and him being a Levite in the Tdadok priesthood, serving Yahuah and preparing His way outside the temple worship shows us that the corruption of the Corporate worship was prominent in his days when the chief priests, Pharisees and Saducees were ruling just as EliYahu withstood the Omri dynasty when Ahab and Ysezebel were ruling.

Yahusha says EliYahu was sent to a widow during these 3.5 years of heaven shutting up while there were many widows in Yasharal during his time. This widow was from Tsarepath (a place of dispersed exiles who had returned back) and she was already having a son (and not a widow to be accounted for Torah of the dead brother). This shows this widow was right in Yahuah’s eyes and was walking as a true widow having washed the Set Apart people's feet (as she gave her last meal which was for her and her son to EliYahu). 

1Ki 17:8 Then the word of יהוה came to him, saying,

 1Ki 17:9 “Rise up, go to Tsarephath, which belongs to Tsiḏon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

 1Ki 17:10 And he rose up and went to Tsarephath, and came to the gate of the city and saw a widow there gathering sticks. And he called and said to her, “Please bring me a little water in a vessel to drink.” 

1Ki 17:11 And as she was going to get it, he called and said to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”

 1Ki 17:12 And she said, “As יהוה your Elohim lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar. And see, I am gathering a couple of sticks and shall go in and prepare it for myself and my son, and we shall eat it, and die.”

 1Ki 17:13 And Ěliyah said to her, “Do not fear, go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me. And afterward make some for yourself and your son.

 1Ki 17:14 “For thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ěl, ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor the jar of oil run dry, until the day יהוה sends rain on the earth.’” 

1Ki 17:15 So she went and did according to the word of Ěliyahu, and she and he and her household ate for many days.

 1Ki 17:16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of יהוה which He spoke by Ěliyahu.

Speaking of the widow who lives in luxury or sin we see the typology to her being part of Mystery Babylon as written

Rev 18:7 “As much as she esteemed herself and lived riotously, so much torture and grief give to her, because in her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen, and I am not a widow, and I do not see mourning at all.’

Yahusha fulfilled the sanctification of His people in getting the rebellious children who were sent out with a certificate of divorce by Yahuah as they went after many lovers and the Torah clearly stated that the woman who is put away with a certificate of divorce couldn’t return to her first husband. The woman in the land couldn’t relate to Yahuah to be found in Him and hence, he drove them away from His face and scattered them to the ends of the earth and transitioned into coming in a human body to sanctify and restore her to the intended image of being his bride but not before bringing them into a realization that they are widows as the bridegroom is taken away from them in His death and they weep and mourn for Him in their widowhood garments to be found in Him in remarrying Him who was raised from the dead in transitioning them in Himself so that they be found in Him.

Jer 3:8 “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ěl had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yehuḏah did not fear but went and committed whoring too.

Deu 24:1 “When a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her, and he shall write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house,

 Deu 24:2 and if she left his house and went and became another man’s wife,

 Deu 24:3 and the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

 Deu 24:4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be an abomination before יהוה. And do not bring sin on the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

Rom 7:2 For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband. 

Rom 7:3 So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.

 Rom 7:4 So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.

This transition of Himself and His people in Him was the intention of Yahuah to bring His people into being partakers of His Divine nature to an inheritance which is Spiritual Yerushalayim from above.

1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who according to His great compassion has caused us to be born again to a living expectation through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah from the dead,

 1Pe 1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in the heavens for you, 

 1Pe 1:5 who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time,

The Torah of the Dead brother to keep His name and inheritance alive in Yasharal by marrying the widow was fulfilled by Yahusha Himself and the Dead brother who transitioned to give His name now as  Yahusha which means ‘Yahuah is Salvation/Deliverance’ and is a memorial name and name above every name for all eternity. One can’t find Yahuah beyond Yahusha. 

The Wilderness journey & Dispersion

This note shows the wilderness journey of Yasharal when they were out from the Egyptian captivity and how the typology shows that they were not the first to be in the wilderness as scripture says that we are sojourners as all our fathers were 

1Chr29:15 For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. 

The dwelling in the promised land will be short lived as prophesied by Masha/Moshe the man of Alahym and the journey to the promised land through the terrible wilderness will be a reminder that Yasharal was a wilderness inhabitant where Yahuah found him.

Deut 32:9 For the portion of Yahuah is His people; Yaaqob is the allotment of His inheritance.
Deut 32:10 He found him (Yasharal) in a land of wilderness, and in the howling waste of a desolation; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

Deut 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you shall surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Yarden there to possess it. You shall not prolong your days on it but shall be utterly destroyed.

Deut4:27 Yahuah shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where Yahuah lead you away there. 

Deut4:28 There you shall serve mighty ones, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Deut4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahuah your El, and you shall find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 

The Egyptian escape route:

Exo 13:17 And it came to be, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that Elohim did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, though that was nearer, for Elohim said, “Lest the people regret when they see fighting, and return to Mitsrayim.” 
Exo 13:18 So Elohim led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea). And the children of Yisra’ěl went up in fives (chamashim H2571 𐤇𐤌𐤔𐤌)   from the land of Mitsrayim.
Ex13:19 Mosheh took the bones of Yoseph with him, for he had made the sons of Yisra’El solemnly swear, saying, Elohim shall surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you. 

Exo 13:20 And they departed from Sukkoth and camped in Ětham at the edge of the wilderness. 

Below is the Map of the journey. The red lines indicate the shortest route through the land of Philistine which Yahuah forbade them lest they see war and their heart changes to return back to Egypt.

Exo 13:20 says they departed from Sukkoth (please see the blue circle in the map) and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness

Now Yahuah did something unique here. Yahuah asked them to turn. The Hebrew word there is shub/𐤔𐤅𐤁 and camp before PiHaḥiroth, between Miḡdol and the sea, opposite Ba‛al Tsephon – camp before it by the sea. Exo 14:2. Migdol was a tower of Egyptian army base and as long as Pharaoh had given permission to Yasharal to depart, there was no interference of the Egyptian army based at Migdol. Migdol 𐤌𐤂𐤃𐤅𐤋 H4024 in Hebrew means 'tower'.

Exo 14:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ěl, that they turn/shub 𐤔𐤅𐤁 and camp before Pi Haḥiroth, between Miḡdol and the sea, opposite Ba‛al Tsephon – camp before it by the sea. 

Exo 14:3 “For Pharaoh shall say of the children of Yisra’ěl, ‘They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has closed them in.’ 

How do we suppose Pharaoh knew that the children of Yashaal were entangled in the land, the wilderness has closed them in?’ Exo 14:3

The Egyptian base would have reported to him. Yahuah wanted to destroy Pharaoh and his armies and hence, told Yasharal to turn/shub 𐤔𐤅𐤁 from Etham which was the edge of the wilderness, and they would have no need to cross over the Red Sea on their onward journey (see the map).

Exo 14:4 “And I shall strengthen the heart of Pharaoh, and he shall pursue them. But I am to be esteemed through Pharaoh and over all his army, and the Mitsrites shall know that I am יהוה.” And they did so. 

Exo 14:5 And it was reported to the sovereign of Mitsrayim that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people. And they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Yisra’ěl go from serving us?” 

Exo 14:6 So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him. 

But Yahuah tells them to camp before Pi Haḥiroth, between Miḡdol and the Red Sea and Pharoah was reported that the children of Yasharal are trapped in the wilderness, which was in his army control and hence, on hearing the report he pursued them. But then we know what happened, Yahuah parted the Red Sea and made the children of Yasharal cross over while He in the pillar of cloud stood between the children of Yasharal and the armies of Egypt and when the armies of Egypt tried to cross over, they were drowned.

Exo 14:19 And the Messenger of Elohim, who went before the camp of Yisra’ěl, moved and went behind them. And the column of cloud went from before them and stood behind them, 

Exo 14:20 and came between the camp of the Mitsrites and the camp of Yisra’ěl. And it was the cloud and the darkness, and it gave light by night, and the one did not come near the other all the night. 

The pink/reddish lines in the map show the 40 years wilderness journey until they came to Qadesh Barnea.

The number 40 in Hebrew is H705 and is 'arbaiym ארבעים' and is the plural form of the singular number 4 which in Hebrew is H702 'arba ארבע or ארבעה'

The Hebrew word for locusts in Hebrew is H697 'arbah ארבה' without the 'ayin'

Ex10:4 For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I shall bring locusts/ 'arbah ארבה ' H697 into your territory.

Exo 10:13 And Mosheh stretched out his rod over the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the east/qedem H6921 𐤒𐤃𐤌 wind/ruach 𐤓𐤅𐤇 H7307 brought the locusts/H697 arbah 𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤄. 

Exo 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them. 

Exo 10:19 And יהוה turned a very strong west/yam 𐤉𐤌 H3220 wind/ruach 𐤓𐤅𐤇 H7307, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left within all the border of Mitsrayim. 

The locusts came by way of the Red Sea and were drowned in the Red Sea. It's a picture of East to West, an imitation of the coming of Mashiyach.

Pro 30:27 The locusts have no sovereign, yet they all go out in formation. 

Rev 9:11 And they have over them a sovereign, the messenger of the pit of the deep, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apolluon.

Pharaoh and his armies came chasing Yasharalites as locusts but were drowned in the sea.

The Plagues of Revelation listed are 7 vs the 10 plagues mentioned in Egypt.

We must understand who the audience & purpose is. The 10 plagues in Egypt depict a completeness for not letting Yahuah’s people go into being found in Mashiyach (3 day's journey into the wilderness) while the 7 plagues in Revelation depicts a recompense for disobedience towards Yahusha’s Ruach Shemitah as the people refuse to enter.

Also, when we read book of Revelation, we must understand that the 7 seals, 7 trumpet judgments and 7 plagues are synonymous and complement each other in letting us know that the judgements are for those refusing to transition into Mashiyach's Ruach Shemitah

10 Egyptian plagues are:

1.    1. Water into blood Exo 7:20-21 Similarity Rev 16:3-4

2.    2. Frogs Exo 8:6 Similarity Rev 16:12-14

3.    3. Lice or gnats Exo 8:16-17 

There is no mention of lice in Revelation however the two witnesses already mentioned earlier in Rev 11:3-6 could do this… and to smite the earth with all plagues. Remember it says the bodies of the 2 witnesses after their testimony lied in the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Master was impaled. And this great city is carnal Yerushalayim.

4.    4. Swarms of flies Exo 8:21

Flies/Hebrew word used is arab 𐤏𐤓𐤁 H6157 which means 'mixed' are not in the actual original Hebrew more like a swarm of mixed things. The Septuagint infer swarms of wild animals denoted by dog fly which is a mix of swarms of insects and wild animals. The possibility is there that this plague could match the above verse in Revelation as stated that he two witnesses already mentioned earlier in Rev 11:3-6 could do this.

5.    5. Pestilence of livestock Exo 9:1-3

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death (other translations say disease, pestilence), and with the beasts of the earth. (Rev 6:8)

6.    6. Boils Exo 9:8-9 -Similarity Rev 16:2

7.    7. Hail & fire thunderstorm Exo 9:13-24 Similarity Rev 16:21

8.    8. Locusts Exo 10:3-6 Rev 9 (not listed in plagues but in trumpet judgment)

9.    9. 3 days of darkness Exo 10:21-23 Similarity Rev 16:10-11

1010. Death of the first-born Exo 11:4-6

There is no specific mention in revelation of just the firstborn dying however Rev 19:19-21 – talks about the final destruction of the beast, the false prophets, the Kings of the earth and their armies, and all those who had the mark of the beast and worshipped his image.

The Journey from Horeb to Qadesh Barnea:

Deu 1:1 These are the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra’ěl beyond the Yarděn in the wilderness, in the desert plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laḇan, and Ḥatsěroth, and Di Zahaḇ, 

Deu 1:2 It is eleven achad/𐤀𐤇𐤃 H259 asar/ 𐤏𐤎𐤓 H6240 days’ journey from Ḥorěḇ by way of Mount Sě‛ir to Qaḏěsh Barněa. 

Deu 1:3 And it came to be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh new moon, on the first day of the new moon, that Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ěl according to all that יהוה had commanded him concerning them, 

Deu 1:4 after he had stricken Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, and Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Eḏre‛i. 

Deu 1:5 Beyond the Yarděn, in the land of Mo’aḇ, Mosheh undertook to declare this Torah, saying, 

Deu 1:6 “יהוה our Elohim spoke to us in Ḥorěḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. 

Deu 1:7 Turn and set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighboring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low country, and in the Negeḇ and on the seacoast, to the land of the Kena‛anites and to Leḇanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. 

The children of Yasharal stayed long at Mt Horeb and it was time for them to move into the promised land and Moses lists the time of journey from Horeb to Qadesh Barnea.

Deu 2:8 “And when we passed beyond our brothers, the descendants of Ěsaw who dwell in Sě‛ir, away from the way of the desert plain, away from Ěylath and Etsyon Geḇer, we turned and passed over by way of the Wilderness of Mo’aḇ. 

Qadesh Barnea H6947: 𐤒𐤃𐤔 𐤁𐤓𐤍𐤏 

Qadesh 𐤒𐤃𐤔 H6944 means 'set-apart or holy' 

Barnea is from 2 root words 'bar 𐤁𐤓 H1247 & H1248' which is an aramaic word which means 'son' & is used for a son in dispersion. The same word H1251 means 'field' which shows the son out of the house in the field and field is often referred to as a 'working place'.

nua 𐤍𐤅𐤏 H5128 means 'fugitive/scatter/gone away/sift' 

'Barnea 𐤁𐤓𐤍𐤏 ' shows us the son in the field scattered and he is made set apart in Yahusha as it says in Psalms 2:12

Psa 2:12 Kiss the SON/ Bar 𐤁𐤓 H1248 lest He be enraged, and you perish in the way, for soon His wrath is to be kindled. Blessed are all those taking refuge in Him.

Deu 1:19 “Then we set out from Ḥorěḇ, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as יהוה our Elohim had commanded us. And we came to Qaḏěsh Barněa. 

Deu 1:20 “And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which יהוה our Elohim is giving us. 

Deu 2:12 And the Ḥorites formerly dwelt in Sě‛ir, but the descendants of Ěsaw dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Yisra’ěl did to the land of their possession which יהוה gave them.) 

Deu 2:13 “‘Now rise up and pass over the wadi Zereḏ.’ So, we passed over the wadi Zereḏ. 

Deu 2:14 “And the time we took to come from Qaḏěsh Barněa until we passed over the brook Zereḏ was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of battle was consumed from the midst of the camp, as יהוה had sworn to them. 

Deu 2:15 “And also, the hand of יהוה was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed. 

Deu 2:16 “And it came to be, when all the men of battle had finally perished from among the people, 

Moses lets us know that they set out from Mt Horeb and went through all the great and terrible wilderness and came to Qadesh Barnea, he further lets us know that the time lapse of 38 years until they crossed over the brook Zered, and all the men of battle died on the way as Yahuah had sworn that they shall not enter into His rest. Only Yahushua (Joshua) and Caleb from that generation were alive. Remember, Yahushua took flint knives and circumcised the new generation which were born in the wilderness journey before they entered the Promised Land. It doesn't mean from Qadesh Barnea to the brook Zered it was 38 years, but the entire wilderness journey coz Yasharal moved back and forth the Mount Horeb in the wilderness and camped at Mt Horeb/Sinai for a long time.

Deu 1:6 “יהוה our Elohim spoke to us in Ḥorěḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. 

Psa 95:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in Meriḇah, And as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, 

Psa 95:9 “When your fathers tried Me, have proved Me, though they saw My work. 

Psa 95:10 “For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.’ 

Psa 95:11 “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they enter into My rest.

Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice, 

Heb 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, 

Heb 3:9 where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. 

Heb 3:10 “Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ 

Heb 3:11 “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest...’

Speaking of transitioning into Yahusha in belief Shaul further states we who have believed enter into that rest and the typology is of Yasharal in the wilderness who grieved Yahuah for 40 years.

Heb 4:1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 

Heb 4:2 For indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who heard it. 

Heb 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest...” And yet His works have come into being from the foundation of the world. 

Beyond the Yarden, in the land of Moab:

Num 21:25 And Yisra’ěl took all these cities, and Yisra’ěl dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites – in Ḥeshbon and in all its villages, 

Num 21:26 for Ḥeshbon was the city of Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites, who had fought against the former sovereign of Mo’aḇ, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. 

Jos 13:15 And Mosheh gave to the tribe of the children of Re’uḇĕn, for their clans: 

Jos 13:16 and their border was from Aroʽĕr, which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plain by Mĕyḏeḇa, 

Jos 13:17  Ḥeshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Diḇon, and Bamoth Baʽal, and Bĕyth Baʽal Meʽon, 

Jos 13:18 and Yahtsah, and Qeḏĕmoth, and Mĕphaʽath, 

Jos 13:19 and Qiryathayim, and Siḇmah, and Tsereth Shaḥar on the mountain of the valley, 

Jos 13:20 and Bĕyth Peʽor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Bĕyth Yeshimoth; 

Jos 13:21 and all the cities of the tableland, and all the reign of Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who reigned in Ḥeshbon, whom Mosheh had smitten with the princes of Miḏyan: Ewi, and Reqem, and Tsur, and Ḥur, and Reḇa, princes of Siḥon dwelling in the land.

This place was called 'fields of Moab' and it was in this place that Alaymalak and Naomi turned to, to find their bread. It's interesting to see that they named their children who were already born to them in 'Bayth Lalachm' of 'Ephrath' and naming them negatively is a proof that 'Alaymalak's' hand failed him in the land of his inheritance because of which they had to move to the 'fields of Moab'. There was no one from the tribes of Yasharal on this side of the land to lift this family from poverty.  Hence, Ruth was a Moabitess by geographical location but from the tribe of Reuben. She married Machlun and he died childless. She clung to her mother in law Naomi and came back to Yahudah.

Num 32:37 And the children of Re’uḇĕn built Ḥeshbon and Elʽalĕh and Qiryathayim, 

Deu 1:4 after he had stricken Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, and Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Eḏre‛i. 

Deu 1:5 Beyond the Yarděn, in the land of Mo’aḇ, Mosheh undertook to declare this Torah, saying, 

Deu 1:6 “יהוה our Elohim spoke to us in Ḥorěḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. 

Deu 1:7 Turn and set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighbouring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low country, and in the Negeḇ and on the seacoast, to the land of the Kena‛anites and to Leḇanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. 

Moses was not allowed entry beyond the Yarden for he had spoken harshly in the sight of the people and it didn't go well with him. It says he was buried in the land of Moab.

Deu 34:5 And Mosheh the servant of יהוה died there in the land of Mo’aḇ, according to the mouth of יהוה. 

This land of Moab shouldn't be mistaken for the land of the seed of Lot but as we saw Moses made war with Sichon king of the Amorites who possessed the land as Sichon had made war with a former king of Moab and took that land from him. We saw Moses gave this piece of land to Reuben who rebuilt Heshbon and its surrounding area. Remember, Reuben was the firstborn of Yaqoob who lost his birthright to Yoseph.

1Ch 5:1 As for the sons of Re’uḇěn the first-born of Yisra’ěl – he was the first-born, but because he profaned his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosěph, son of Yisra’ěl, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright, 

1Ch 5:2 for Yehuḏah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Yosěph’s – 

Reuben was strengthened as Ruth the Moabitess (by geographical location of Heshbon) was redeemed by Boaz the Yahudite and from her came David the king. Remember she was a Reubenite married to Machlun the Ephrathite and now a Yahudite.

1Sa 17:12 Now Dawiḏ was the son of that Ephrathite of Běyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha’ul the man was old among men. 

Rth 4:18 And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth Ḥetsron. 

Rth 4:19 And Ḥetsron brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ. 

Rth 4:20 And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 

Rth 4:21 And Salmon brought forth Bo‛az, and Bo‛az brought forth Oḇěḏ. 

Rth 4:22 And Oḇěḏ brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ. 

This shows the redemption of the firstborn who lost his birthright, gets it back in Alahym's firstborn Yahusha who sprang forth from the same lineage. While the other firstborns Esaw and Yishmael are not accounted in this birthright for they despised it. Reuben in his lust fell and was weakened, he did not despise his birthright.

Mt. Seir is where Esau dwelt.

Gen 36:8 So Ěsaw dwelt in Mount Sě‛ir. Ěsaw is Eḏom.

Deu 33:2 And he said, “יהוה came from Sinai, and rose from Sě‛ir for them. He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with ten thousand of set-apart ones – at His right hand a law of fire for them. 

Horeb is the same mountain termed as Sinai. Yahuah in transitioning as Yahusha is termed as rising from Seir where the first born of Yitshaq dwelt who lost his birthright to Yaaqob, and Yishmael again a firstborn of Abraham, the bondwoman's son dwelt in Mount Paran. Hence, when it says Yahuah rose from Seir for them and He shone forth from Mount Paran, it means He will come as the firstborn son with 10,000 (number 10 & multiples of 10 speaks of these 10 lost tribes) of set-apart ones with a fiery law for them.

Messiah's eternal rule determined over house of Yasharal and Yahudah forever:

1Ki 11:11 And יהוה said to Shelomoh, “Because you have done this, and have not guarded My covenant and My laws, which I have commanded you, I shall certainly tear the reign away from you and give it to your servant. 

1Ki 11:12 “Only, I do not do it in your days, for the sake of your father Dawiḏ. Out of the hand of your son I shall tear it. 

1Ki 11:13 “Only, I shall not tear away all the reign *but give one/achad 𐤀𐤇𐤃 tribe to your son for the sake of my servant Dawiḏ*, and for the sake of Yerushalayim which I have chosen.” 

1Ki 11:32 but he shall have one /achad 𐤀𐤇𐤃tribe for the sake of My servant Dawiḏ, and for the sake of Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’ěl. 

Binyamin was counted with Yahudah in the lot given to him here as one/achad 𐤀𐤇𐤃 tribe given to David from Yasharal to keep the kingship of his over Yasharal in promise of Mashiyach ruling over both houses forever. And hence One tribe is Binyamin who was absorbed into Yahudah. Binyamin in Hebrew means 'Son of the Right hand'

1Ki 12:20 And it came to be when all Yisra’ěl heard that Yaroḇ‛am had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation and set him up to reign over all Yisra’ěl. There was none who followed the house of Dawiḏ, except the tribe of Yehuḏah only. 

1Ki 12:21 And Reḥaḇ‛am came to Yerushalayim, and he assembled all the house of Yahuḏah with the tribe of Binyamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen brave men, to fight against the house of Yisra’ěl, to bring back the reign to Reḥaḇ‛am son of Shelomoh. 

'Achad/𐤀𐤇𐤃 asar/ 𐤏𐤎𐤓' was inclusive when Yahusaph said one and ten stars bowed to him (including Yahudah from where the Master would spring up).

Gen 37:9 And he dreamed still another dream and related it to his brothers, and said, “See, I have dreamed another dream, and see, the sun and the moon and the eleven/'Achad/𐤀𐤇𐤃 asar/ 𐤏𐤎𐤓' stars bowed down to me.” 

 Yahusap/Yoseph was to have the double portion (birth right) and when Binyamin his brother's lineage as a tribe was given to David's house as the One tribe this would bring David on as equal ground with Yahusap/Yoseph in double portion in ruling over all Yasharal as David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem and Ephraim was Yahusaph’s son. And by bringing Boaz (Yahudite) and Ruth (now an Ephrathite) -both houses from where the Shepherd of Yasharal was prophesied was now made possible. 

David was now both the seed of Yahudah and Ephraim and had the son of the right hand i.e. Binyamin with him. This is so amazing when we see Psalms 110:1

Psa 110:1  יהוה said to my ADON, “Sit at My right hand/yamyin 𐤉𐤌𐤉𐤍 H3225, Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” 

If we add 'ban 𐤁𐤍' before the word yamyin 𐤉𐤌𐤉𐤍 we have the name 'banyamin' 

1Sa 17:12 Now Dawiḏ was the son of that Ephrathite of Běyth Leḥem in Yahuḏah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha’ul the man was old among men.

Yaroboam led the 10 tribes of Yasharal into deep idolatry as he placed 2 golden calves, one in Bethel and one in Dan so that they don't cross over to Yerushalayim to worship in the temple. He wanted to bind them unto himself so as to keep the reign with him. These 10 pieces are referring to the 10 tribes.

Dan would be dropped as a tribe (In Rev 7 not mentioned in sealing), Ephraim & Menashsheh would be counted as the double portion of  Yahusap/Yoseph where Rev 7 mentions Yoseph's name instead of Ephraim.

The fall of the 10 tribes:

In the days of Yeroboam's golden calves, he set up priests from all classes to serve the golden calves and minister to the children of Yasharal. But those faithful i.e. the priests of Levites and few other from other tribes crossed over to Yahudah to be under Rehoboam who served Yahuah. 

2Ch 11:13 And from all their borders the priests and the Lĕwites who were in all Yisra’ĕl took their stand with him/Rehaboam. 

2Ch 11:14 For the Lĕwites left their open lands and their possessions and came to Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim, for Yaroḇʽam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests unto יהוה, 

2Ch 11:15 as he appointed for himself priests for the high places, and for goats, and the calf idols which he had made. 

2Ch 11:16 And after the Lĕwites left, those from all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, such as set their heart to seek יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, came to Yerushalayim to offer to יהוה Elohim of their fathers. 

In the days of Asa king of Yahudah many of the scattered of Yasharal crossed over to Yahudah. These groups were absorbed into Yahudah. Those who remained on the other side were carried captive by the king of Ashshur later because they were unfaithful to Yahuah and worshiped the golden calves and other gods. 

2Ch 15:9 and gathered all Yehuḏah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them from Ephrayim, and Menashsheh, and Shimʽon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Yisra’ĕl when they saw that יהוה his Elohim was with him/Asa.

 Because of Yeroboam who led Yasharal to sin against him Yahuah caused all of Yasharal to be carried captive into Assyria/Ashshur. 

2Ki 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Yisrael. And they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

2Ki17:25 And it came to pass, at the beginning of their living there, they did not fear Yahuah; and Yahuah sent lions among them, and they were destroying among them

2Ki17:26 And they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, the nation's/guym which you have removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the El of the land; so, he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the El of the land. 

Rabbanical Judaism reject Samaritans as non Yahudites because they believe that the ones living in Samaria were not Samaritans but Babylonians, they believe that none of the Samaritans who originally lived there are living there but the Babylonians whom the king of Assyria brought to live there who are not Jews. 

2Ki 17:18 So יהוה was very enraged with Yisra’ĕl, and removed them from His presence – none was left but the tribe of Yehuḏah alone.

Remember we read in the days of Asa thousands from tribes from Yasharal crossed over to Yahudah and merged has been recognized as Yahudah. Yahuah had given Binyamin to Yahudah as one tribe and now Yahuah made the house of Yahudah stronger and stronger and the house of Yasharal weaker by dispersing them into captivity.

Ezra 4:2, 9-10 implies that later Assyrian king also returned more Yasharalites back to Samaria. These Samaritans who now resettled in the land of Yasharal had inter-married with the Babylonians of the five nations that the king of Assyria brought into Samaria. They along with the other Yashariltes who had resettled offered to help Zerubbabel and the heads of the father’s houses build the house of Yahuah but they were adversaries of Yahudah and Binyamin and Zerubbabel refused their offer. 

Ezr 4:1 And when the adversaries of Yehuḏah and Binyamin heard that the sons of the exile were building the Hĕḵal of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl,
Ezr 4:2 they came to Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of Ěsarḥaddon sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.” 

Esarhaddon was the son of Sennacherib. Sennacherib had sent the Rabshekah (1 Kings 18) to threaten Hezekiah king of Yahudah who was faithful to Yahuah and Yahuah sent the prophet YashaYahu asking the king not to be afraid of his threats for he will not shoot a single arrow. 2 Kings 18:34 is a threat of the Rabshekah to king Hezekiah showing that Samaria was in his possession as it had been taken by Shalmaneser - 2 Kings 18:9 and it was in his possession. 

2Ki 18:34 ‘Where are the mighty ones of Ḥamath and Arpaḏ? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharwayim and Hĕna and Iwwah? Did they deliver Shomeron from my hand?  

Who was Sennacherib?  

Sennacherib was the son of the king of Assyria Sargon II who was also the son of Tiglath-Pileser (Pul) and he overthrew his elder brother Shalmaneser and took over the kingdom from him. Hence those carried into captivity under his father and brothers reign were now his. 

You may read the entire account in 2 Kings 18 and 19. 

2Ki 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2Ki 19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his mighty one, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. 

Yahuah protected Hezekiah king of Yahudah and Sennacherib was killed by his two sons and his son Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. We see the Shomeri and other Yasharalites who come to Zerubbabel asking them to allow them to build the house of Yahuah tell him that they have been worshipping Yahuah only from the days of Esarhaddon (as previous to their captivity they worshiped Yeroboam's golden calves and other gods). 

Ezr 4:2 they came to Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of Ěsarḥaddon sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.” 

This shows that Esarhaddon resettled them back in their lands from where they were taken captive by Shalmaneser king of Assyria. Zerubbabel refused their help for these men were wicked. 

Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbaḇel and Yĕshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Yisra’ĕl said to them, “It is not for you and for us to build a house for our Elohim, but we alone build to יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, as Sovereign Koresh the sovereign of Persia has commanded us.”
Ezr 4:4 And it came to be that the people of the land were weakening the hands of the people of Yehuḏah and troubling them in their building, 

After the refusal these people sent a letter to the king which we will see a little later.  

First a little bit of history of what had happened. The Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian monarchs, Tiglath-Pileser III (Pul) and Shalmaneser V. 

Here is the proof: 

2Ki 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser (Pul) king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. 

1Ch 5:26 So the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl stirred up the spirit of Pul sovereign of Ashshur, even the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur. And he took the Re’uḇĕnites, and the Gaḏites, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh into exile, and brought them to Ḥalaḥ, and Ḥaḇor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan, unto this day. 

2 Kings 15:29 records the lands taken in captivity and 1 Chr 5:26 records the tribes of those lands taken in captivity by Tiglathpileser. 

The other half tribe of Menashsheh (son of Yoseph) was Shomeron/Samaritans who were taken captive by Shalmaneser the son of Tiglath-Pileser (Pul) in the very same places where Reubenites, Gadites, the other half-tribe of Menashsheh were taken into exile (as mentioned in 1 Chr 5:26). 

2Ki 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshĕa (king of Yasharal), the sovereign of Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Yisra’ĕl to Ashshur, and settled them in Ḥalaḥ and Ḥaḇor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 

2Ki 18:9 And it came to be in the fourth year of Sovereign Ḥizqiyahu, which was the seventh year of Hoshĕa son of Ělah, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, that Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashshur came up against Shomeron and besieged it,
2Ki 18:10 and they captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Ḥizqiyah, that is the ninth year of Hoshĕa sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, Shomeron was captured. 

2 Kings 17:6 tells us briefly that in the 9^th year of Hoshea the king of Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Yasharal to Ashshur and where he settled them whereas 2 Kings 18:9-10 gives a detailed explanation and the name of the king of Assyria who besieged Samaria. 

How do we know Samaritans were from the tribe of Menashsheh? 

Oba 1:17 “But on Mount Tsiyon there shall be an escape, and they shall be set-apart. And the house of Yaʽaqoḇ shall possess their possessions
Oba 1:18 “And the house of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be a fire, and the house of Yosĕph a flame, but the house of Ěsaw for stubble. And they shall burn among them and they shall consume them, so that no survivor is left of the house of Ěsaw.” For יהוה has spoken.
Oba 1:19 And they shall possess the South with the mountains of Ěsaw, and low country with the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephrayim and the fields of Shomeron, and Binyamin with Gilʽaḏ, 

Ephrayim and Menashsheh were sons of Yoseph. Yahuah in Obadiah verse 17-18 begins with a wider perspective calling house of Yoseph as ‘house of Yaaqob’, the reader shouldn’t misunderstand that the resettlement mentioned is of the twelve tribes in these lands allotted to the sons of Yoseph because the 12 sons of Yaaqob comprise the 12 tribes and they were given different lands. The verses 17-18 of Obadiah narrows down to house of Yoseph being a flame to the house of Esaw and their possession of the South with the mountains of Esaw and the low country with the Philistines and fields of Ephrayim and the fields of Shomeron and Binyamin with Gilead. The reader should not misunderstand Binyamin for Binyamin was also a son of Yaaqob, but if you remember he was the blood brother of Yoseph and both Yoseph and Binyamin of the same mother Rachel were stepbrothers of the other 10 brothers. Hence, the focus here is on the house of Yoseph. Obadiah 1:18-19 is a promise of the resettlement of the tribes spiritually as Obadiah speaks of ‘Day of Yahuah’ near upon the guym i.e. the tribes. The spiritual promise of Messiah through Yoseph is in the historic resettlement which happened. 

Gen 49:22 “Yosĕph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall.
Gen 49:23 “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him.
Gen 49:24 “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Yaʽaqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl – 

Jos 18:11 ¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Yahudah and the children of Yoseph. 

And we saw that in the days of Rehoboam Binyamin was given as a tribe to David's house to keep his rule over both the houses. 

Also notice ‘Gilead’ was given as an inheritance to Menashsheh 

Jos 17:1 And the lot for the tribe of Menashsheh, for he was the first-born of Yosĕph, was: for Maḵir the first-born of Menashsheh, father of Gileaḏ, because he was a man of battle, therefore he had Gileaḏ and Bashan. 

De 3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. (Makir was the first-born of Menashsheh). We read in 2 Kings 15:29 and 1 Chr 5:26 Gilead which was given to the half tribe of Menashsheh was already taken away captive by Tiḡlath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur. 

Joh 4:3 He/Yahusha left Judaea and departed again into Galilee.
 4 ¶ And he must needs go through Samaria.
 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Yaaqob/Jacob gave to his son Yoseph.
 

Ge 33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Ge 33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Ge 33:20 And he erected there an altar and called it Ěl Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl. 

Yahusha came to the Samaritans/Shomeri’s near the parcel of the field that Yaaqob gave his son Yoseph, near Shechem in a city called Sychar which was also a part of Samaritan’s. Yoseph’s bones when carried from Egypt were buried in Shechem. 

Jos 24:32 And the bones of Yosĕph, which the children of Yisra’ĕl had brought up out of Mitsrayim, they buried at Sheḵem, in the plot of ground which Yaʽaqoḇ had bought from the sons of Ḥamor the father of Sheḵem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Yosĕph. 

Num 26:29 Sons of Menashsheh: of Maḵir, the clan of the Maḵirites. And Maḵir brought forth Gilʽaḏ; of Gilʽaḏ, the clan of the Gilʽaḏites.
Num 26:30 These are sons of Gilʽaḏ: of Iyezer, the clan of the Iyezerites; of Ḥĕleq, the clan of the Ḥĕleqites;
Num 26:31 of Asri’ĕl, the clan of the Asri’ĕlites; of Sheḵem, the clan of the Sheḵemites;
Num 26:32 of Shemiḏa, the clan of the Shemiḏaites; of Ḥĕpher, the clan of the Ḥĕpherites.
Num 26:33 And Tselophḥaḏ son of Ḥĕpher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Tselophḥaḏ: Maḥlah, and Noʽah, Ḥoḡlah, Milkah, and Tirtsah.
Num 26:34 These are the clans of Menashsheh, and their registered ones: fifty-two thousand seven hundred. 

Jos 17:5 And ten portions fell to Menashsheh, besides the land of Gilʽaḏ and Bashan, which were beyond the Yardĕn,
Jos 17:6 because the daughters of Menashsheh received an inheritance among his sons. And the rest of Menashsheh’s sons had the land of Gilʽaḏ.
Jos 17:7 And the border of Menashsheh was from Ashĕr to Miḵmethath, which is on the face of Sheḵem. And the border went up to the right to the inhabitants of Ěn Tappuwaḥ.
Jos 17:8 The land of Tappuwaḥ belonged to Menashsheh, but Tappuwaḥ on the border of Menashsheh belonged to the children of Ephrayim. 

The sons of Yoseph Ephrayim and Manashsheh shared their borders with each other on the mountains of Ephrayim where Yeroboam dwelt by building the city of Shekem (1 Kings 12:25).

 1Ki 12:25 And Yaroḇ‛am built Sheḵem in the mountains of Ephrayim, and dwelt there. And he went out from there and built Penu’ěl. 

Coming back to Ezra 4, The letter written by the Samaritans/Shomeronites along with the others dwelling in Yasharal and Yahudah when Yahudah were in captivity to king Aḥashwĕrosh, they identify themselves as rest of the people whom the great and noble Osnapper (notice the king of Assyria who took them into captivity were Tiglath-Pileser & Shalmaneser) as the one who brought them into the cities of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River. 

Ezr 4:9  Reḥum the governor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions – the judges, and the emissaries, the consuls, the officials, the people of Ereḵ and of Baḇel and of Shushan, the Dehawites, the Ěylamites,
Ezr 4:10  and the rest of the people whom the great and noble Osnapper brought over and settled in the cities of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River. And now,
Ezr 4:11 this is a copy of the letter that they sent him, to Sovereign Artaḥshashta from your servants the men beyond the River. And now, 

We read in Ezra 4:2 the Samaritans and the Yasharalites telling Zerubbabel that they have started worshiping Yahuah and slaughtering only to him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Ashshur who brought us here. 

Ezr 4:2 they came to Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of Ěsarḥaddon sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.” 

We learnt Esarhaddon was the son of Sennacherib who succeeded him after his brothers killed their father. If Esarhaddon brought them back who is ‘Osnapper’ whom they say in Ezra 4:10 who brought them back? Is there a contradiction? 

Ezr 4:10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnapper brought over and settled in the cities of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River.... 

There is no contradiction here. When we turn to the historical facts Esarhaddon son was ‘ASHURBANIPAL’ and Esarhaddon crowned him prince of Assyria in 668 B.C. (62 years before Yahudah's Babylobian captivity) and his brother as crown prince of Babylonia whose name was ‘Shamash-shum-ukin’. At the father's (Esarhaddon’s) death the latter, however, was only permitted to become viceroy of Babylonia. Ashurbanipal is the great and ‘noble Osnappar’ who in the days of his father Esarhaddon was ‘crowned prince of Assyria’ and under his father Esarhaddon orders resettled them back from where they were taken as captive. 

While being resettled back the Shomeri/Samaritans intermarried foreign wives, Rabbanical Judaism accuses them of only reading the 5 books of Torah and that Samaritans don't believe the prophets and the writings of Tanak. Rabbanical Talmud calls them 'Kutim' because the king of Assyria had brought people from Babylon and resettled them in place of the Samaritans.  

2Ki 17:24 And the sovereign of Ashshur brought people from Baḇel, and from Kuthah, and from Awwa, and from Ḥamath, and Sepharwayim, and placed them in the cities of Shomeron instead of the children of Yisra’ĕl. And they took possession of Shomeron and dwelt in its cities.  

This contemptuous relationship between the Samaritan's and Yahudites continued right into Renewed Testament times. Samaritans even refused to receive Yahusha when his face was set for Yerushalam because they rejected Yerushalam as the place of worship and worship Yahuah on Mt. Gerizim. 

Luk 9:51 And it came to be, when the days of His taking up were being completed, even He set His face to go to Yerushalayim,  
Luk 9:52 and He sent messengers ahead of Him. And they went and entered into a village of the Shomeronites, to prepare for Him. 
Luk 9:53 And they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Yerushalayim.   

Joh 4:9 The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Yehuḏite, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehuḏim do not associate with Shomeronites. 

 The hatred Yahudite's have towards Samaritans can be seen by the Yahudim calling Yahusha a Shomeronite/Samaritan and having a demon.

Joh 8:48 The Yehuḏim answered and said to Him, “Do we not say well that You are a Shomeronite and have a demon?” 

Yahusha changed the perspective completely in quoting a good Samaritan/Shomeronite as showing the work of Torah on his heart whereas the others who passed by the wounded man including a Levite priest didn't care for him. In this story the Samaritan leper was the only one of ten healed by Yahusha who came to him to give praise for his healing. 

Luk 17:11 And it came to be, as He went to Yerushalayim, that He passed through the midst of Shomeron and Galil.  
Luk 17:12 And as He was entering into a certain village, He was met by ten leprous men, who stood at a distance. 
Luk 17:13  And they lifted up their voices, saying, “יהושע, Master, have compassion on us!” 
Luk 17:14  And having seen them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And it came to be, that as they were going, they were cleansed. 
Luk 17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, praising Elohim with a loud voice, 
Luk 17:16 and he fell down upon his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Shomeronite. 
Luk 17:17  And יהושע answering, said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 
Luk 17:18 “Was no one found to return to give praise to Elohim, except this STRANGER?” 

Of the ten leper's who were cleansed by Yahusha only one returned whom Yahusha called a 'Stranger', while the first blush meaning shows Samaritan/Shomeri to be a Stranger, the actual strangers were the other nine Yahudi lepers who went to the priest to show that they were clean and offer a sacrifice as per Torah for their cleansing. They were the actual strangers who went back to fleshly Torah. Yahusha was making a point here because the Yahudites considered Shomeri's/Samaritans to be 'Foreigners' (remember we learnt that Rabbinical Judaism still looks down on Shomeri's as Babylonians whom king of Assyria had resettled instead of the Menashshites from Shomeron). Yahusha is showing the audience the work of Yah in the heart of the Shomerite which caused him to return back to the Messiah while those claiming to be part of the covenant went into the fleshly commands of cleansing.

Shomeri’s/Samaritans though were corrupt and spoken against for every reason, there were a remnant still chosen by Yahuah as they were from the tribe of Manashsheh. Yahusha had a plan for them and visited them and we see the whole account in John 4 as to how many of the Samaritans believed that he is the Mashiyach. They wouldn't have believed he was the Mashiyach if they had not read the Torah, the prophets and the writing's which testified about him. 

Joh 4:39 And many of the Shomeronites of that city (Sychar) believed in Him because of the word of the woman who witnessed, “He told me all that I have done.” 
Joh 4:40 Therefore when the Shomeronites came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days. 
Joh 4:41 And many more believed because of His word. 
Joh 4:42 And they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.”  

 Later we have the book of Acts recording Philip going down to Shomeron and proclaimed Mashiyach to them and a great joy came into the city as they turned to Yahuah. Please note Yahusha had gone only into the city of Sychar which was one of the cities of Shomeron, Philip must have been to the capital city called Shomeron itself.

Act 8:4 Then those who had been scattered went everywhere bringing the Good News: the Word!  
Act 8:5 And going down to the city of Shomeron Philip proclaimed Messiah to them. 
Act 8:6 And the crowds with one mind heeded what Philip said, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 
Act 8:7 For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who were paralysed and lame were healed. 
Act 8:8 And there came to be great joy in that city.  

 When Yahusha was about to ascend into heaven he told his disciples that they would receive the Set-Apart Spirit (Ruach ha Qodesh) and they would be witnesses in Yerushalayim, in Yahudah and SHOMERON and the ends of the earth. The remnant of Yasharal for whom the mandate was given and the covenant renewed (Heb 8: 10-13)

Act 1:6 So when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Master, would You at this time restore the reign to Yisra’ĕl?” 

Act 1:7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 

Act 1:8 “But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehuḏah and Shomeron, and to the end of the earth.” 

 Mat 10:23 “And when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly, I say to you, you shall by no means have gone through the cities of Yisra’ĕl before the Son of Aḏam comes.  

The 'cities of Yasharal' is a term used for the lost sheep of Yasharal scattered to the ends of the world. We saw proof that the king of Assyria took them all captive and left none of them but the tribe of Yahudah alone. Only a few from the tribes returned in the days of Esarhaddon whose son Osnapper brought with him and settled them in Shomeron and the rest beyond the River (referring to Yarden) called Galilee of the Gentiles (Ezra 4:2,10). 

2Ki 17:18 So יהוה was very enraged with Yisra’ĕl, and removed them from His presence – none was left but the tribe of Yehuḏah alone. 

Mat 4:12 And יהושע, having heard that Yoḥanan had been put in prison, withdrew into Galil.  

Mat 4:13 And leaving Natsareth, He came and dwelt in Kephar Naḥum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zeḇulun and Naphtali, 

Mat 4:14  to fill what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying, 

Mat 4:15  “Land of Zeḇulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Yardĕn, Galil of the gentiles – 

Mat 4:16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat in the land and shadow of death, light arose to them. 

2Ki 15:29 In the days of Peqaḥ sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, Tiḡlath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur came and took Iyon, and Aḇĕl Bĕyth Maʽaḵah, and Yanowaḥ, and Qeḏesh, and Ḥatsor, and Gilʽaḏ, and Galil, all the land of Naphtali, and took them into exile to Ashshur.  

Lu 17:11 ¶ And it came to pass, as he went to Yerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Shomeron and Galilee.

Their bloodline was corrupted as they had intermarried foreign women and had their Hebrew roots diluted.
Now we can understand why Yaaqob put the younger Ephrayim before Menashsheh the elder and the first-born.

Gen 48:17  And when Yosĕph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh. 
Gen 48:18  And Yosĕph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the first-born, put your right hand on his head.” 
Gen 48:19  But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He (Menashsheh) also becomes a people, and he also is great. And yet, his younger brother is greater than he, and his (Ephrayim's) seed is to become the completeness of the nations/gentiles.” 

Gen 48:20  And he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh. 

Psa 108:7  Elohim has spoken in His set-apartness, “I exult, I portion out Sheḵem, And I measure out the Valley of Sukkoth. 

Psa 108:8  “Gilʽaḏ is Mine, Menashsheh is Mine, And Ephrayim is My chief defence, Yehuḏah is My lawgiver. 

Yaqoob prophesied to Yoseph that Menashsheh will also be great but his younger brother Ephrayim will be greater than him. We see the story of Ruth who was a Reubenite by roots and Moabitess by geographic location married Naomi's son Mahlon who was an Ephrathite, and Mahlon died leaving Ruth barren. Ruth clung to Naomi by telling her ''Your judge/alahym is my judge/alahym and your people/Ephrathites my people/Ephrathites''

Rth 1:16  But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your elohim is my elohim.

She marries Boaz a Yahudite (from Yahudah) and he gives the seed to the dead man Mahlon the Ephrathite as per Torah redeeming her as the nearest kinsman, thus he became the kinsman redeemer and Alahym in his wisdom fulfilled in bringing his Son Yahusha from the lineage of both Yoseph (Ephrayim was his son) as well as Yahudah.

Gen 49:10  “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples. 

Gen 49:24  “But his (Yoseph's) bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Yaʽaqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl – 

Boaz and Ruth were great grandparents of king David from whom the Messiah came who is called Son of David.

Rth 4:18  And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth Ḥetsron. 
Rth 4:19  And Ḥetsron brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ. 
Rth 4:20  And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 
Rth 4:21  And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz, and Boʽaz  (from Ruth) brought forth Oḇĕḏ. 

Rth 4:22  And Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ. 

This background was necessary to understand who the Samaritans were, were they from Yasharal? Yes they were...from the tribe of Menashsheh and for every bad reason for what they were looked down upon just as we are from the gentiles of the nations whom (12 tribes scattered abroad) Mashiyach heals i.e. his chosen remnant.

Rev 22:2  In the middle of its street, in between the posts, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations/guym. 

The corrupted bloodline of our fathers through marriage with pagans is healed in Mashiyach who is the tree of life. While I could skip all of what and who Samaritans were, I thought it necessary to jot down their history by searching scriptures as people like Micheal Rood (Messianic) teach that Samaritans were pagans based on Rabbanical Judaism. The salvation program was for the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal, never for pagans. Hence the basarah and the covenant is diluted as they teach that pagans had a place in Yahuah's covenant by showing the example of Samaritans. 

Yahusha in his parable of the Good Samaritan sets the Samaritan whom the Yahudites considered pagan to be their neighbor.

Luk 10:30  And replying, יהושע said, “A certain man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yericḥo, and fell among robbers, who, both stripping and beating him, went away, leaving him half dead. 

The man travelling from Yerushalam in the parable was a Yahudite whose place of worship is Yerushalam. Where was he headed to? Yericho. Where was Yericho located...beyond the Yarden which eastward the children of Reuben, Gad and the other half tribe of Menashsheh received their inheritance.

Num 34:14  “For the tribe of the children of Re’uḇĕn according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gaḏ according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance. And the half-tribe of Menashsheh has received its inheritance. 

Num 34:15  “The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo eastward, toward the sunrise.

This other half tribe of Menashsheh beyond the Yarden were not Samaritans, these were carried captive by king of Ashshur named Tiglath-Pileser (Pul)

1Ch 5:26 So the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl stirred up the spirit of Pul sovereign of Ashshur, even the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur. And he took the Re’uḇĕnites, and the Gaḏites, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh into exile, and brought them to Ḥalaḥ, and Ḥaḇor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan, unto this day. 

Hence Yericho was beyond the Yarden, the place called Galil of the nations who sat in great darkness on whom the light had risen as Yahusha came to save the remnant from them. 

Yericho was a pagan city which Yasharal destroyed after their walls fell flat. The city was utterly destroyed with no one dwelling in it and Yahushua/Joshua pronounced a curse on the one who would build Yericho, he said he who rebuilds Yericho would lay its foundation with his first-born and with his youngest he sets up with his gates. 

Jos 6:26 And Yahushua warned them at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before יהוה who rises up and builds this city Yericḥo – he lays its foundation with his first-born, and with his youngest he sets up its gates.”  

1Ki 16:33 And Aḥaḇ made an Ashĕrah. And Aḥaḇ did more to provoke יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl than all the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl before him.  
1Ki 16:34 In his days Ḥi’ĕl of Bĕyth Ěl built Yericḥo. He laid its foundation at the cost of Aḇiram his first-born, and at the cost of his youngest son Seḡuḇ he set up its gates, according to the word of יהוה, which He had spoken through Yahushua son of Nun.  

Later this city Yericho was inhabited by children of Yasharal and that's why we see Yahusha went to Yericho frequently (Matt 20:29, Luke 19:1) and also healed a blind beggar on the way (Mark 10:46, Luke 18:35). The name 'Yericho' H3405 is from two root words 'yarach' which means moon H3994 and 'ruach' H7306 'fragrant'/'ruach' H7307 'Spirit'. This city was considered to be a dark place to be in but the fragrance of Mashiyach was seen in the remnant of the Yasharalites who dwelt in this city.

In our previous videos in 2 parts on Daniel's 70 weeks we already saw the Babylonian captivity and return of Yahudah & rebuilding of the temple so won't cover it in this study. When Yahusha was born Rome was ruling over the nations including Yasharal and Yahudah. While some believed in Yahusha, they were persecuted, and it was clearly stated by the Sanhedrin that whoever believes in Yahusha would be excommunicated and that's why we see the believers in Mashiyach selling their lands (aqcuired through tribal inheritance) and bringing the price of it to the apostles. 

 Act 4:34  For there was not anyone needy among them, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of what was sold, 

Act 4:35 and laid them at the feet of the emissaries, and they distributed to each as anyone had need. 

Act 4:36 And Yosěph, who was also called Barnaḇa by the emissaries (which means Son of Encouragement), a Lěwite, a native of Cyprus, 

Act 4:37 having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the emissaries. 

In AD 70 when the Romans destroyed the temple & Yasharal and Yahudah ceased from being a nation, there arose a great persecution over the assemblies, and they were scattered to the ends of the earth.

Both James and Peter in their letters term the believers in Mashiyach as those in dispersion.

Jas 1:1  Ya‛aqoḇ, a servant of Elohim and of the Master יהושע Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings. 

1Pe 1:1  Kěpha, an emissary of יהושע Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia, 

While the early believers from Yasharal (Galilee of the Gentiles) and Yahudah knew which tribes they were from, the Gentiles who came into synagogues as Yahudim converts & whom Shaul preached turning them to Mashiyach didn't know which tribe they were from. Now with Yasharal and Yahudah in dispersion the downlines lost their ethnicity. Today no one can pinpoint their bloodlines. The Yahudim whom formed the nation in 1948 are not the the true Yahudim, they don't believe in Mashiyach. 

No one can determine their bloodlines based on history or nationality.

It will be only Yahusha who will give the new name of the new creation written

Rev 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”’

Remember we all align ourselves with Abraham our father who was first called a Hebrew, there were no 12 tribes until Yaaqob sons were born. This honor is only given by Yahusha.

Rom 2:25 For circumcision indeed profits if you practice the Torah, but if you are a transgressor of the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 

Rom 2:26 So, if an uncircumcised one watches over the righteousnesses of the Torah, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? 

Rom 2:27 And the uncircumcised by nature, who perfects the Torah, shall judge you who notwithstanding letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah! 

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Yehuḏi who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 

Rom 2:29 But a Yehuḏi is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in Spirit, not the letter, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim.

Romans 2, 3 & 4 are about Abraham, that's where we align ourselves to. Remember the 1260, 1290 & 1335 days. We come into Abraham's bosom in a waiting period until the consumation in the wilderness journey where we don't seek a tribal inheritance here but look to the heavenly country.