Wednesday, October 30, 2013

AM I WEANED OR UNDER SUCK?

In the study 400 or 430 years in Mitsyarim/Egypt we saw that the barayat/covenant was in full force when the bondwoman and her son were cast out because Yitsaq/Issac was under threat of Yashmael/Ishmael being the HEIR so the covenant couldn't have come in force with the son of the bondwoman living under the same roof. For details you may refer to my study in the following link : https://www.facebook.com/notes/shodan-agnel-dsouza/was-yasharal-400-years-or-430-years-in-mitsyarim-egypt/10211135919055165/


That's the time when Yitsaq/Issac was not under any tutor(nurse) but WEANED and this would be around the age of 5. The scriptures don't tell us the exact age of Issac when he was weaned but the pattern definitely shows to the number 5 and we will see and understand this pattern in this study.
Just to reiterate we also saw that we are children of promise as Isaac was IN MASHIYACH who is the SEED of ABRAHAM

Ga 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Messiah.

Ga 3:29 And if ye be Messiah's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

So, the seed of Abraham by conception by the Ruach/Spirit is Messiah and we who are in Messiah are counted for the seed in YITSAQ/ISAAC.

 Ga 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Yitsaq/Isaac was, are the children of promise


So if we are as Yitsaq/Issac children of promise the question I need to ask myself is am I weaned or still under SUCK/TUTOR?

Just to reiterate in the study 400 or 430 years in Egypt we saw evidence of royal sons under nursing and we saw Mephibosheth and Moses as examples. We need to understand the significance of being under nursing/tutor from scriptures.

2Sa 4:4 And Yahunathan/ Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Yahunathan/Jonathan out of  Yazrael/Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

Mephibosheth was Yahunathan/Jonathan's son who became lame in the feet as his nurse dropped him. Many infants were assigned nurses especially those of royal ranks and Yahunathan was Saul's son (of royal rank as Saul was king) but usually the mother's nursed their own children. Here Mephiboseth was 5 years old and still was nursed which usually is an age of completion of Nursing and the child is WEANED.

Moses was also nursed: Ex 2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.


We have many examples of weaning in scriptures but apart from the Mephibosheth example there are no direct scriptures which say at the age of 5 a child was WEANED. So it's mandatory that we search the scriptures to see the pattern. This study will help us do that. Firstly we must see why one of the ten commandments states to honor the father and mother. Let's view the commandment in the view of spiritual vs spiritual comparison.

Yahusha taught us in the new covenant that the ten commandments summarize as 2 commands:

1. Love Yahuah your Alahym with all your heart, mind, soul and strength & 2. Love your neighbour as yourself.  The command of honouring father and mother falls in the first set of commands. 

Deut 5:16 Kabad/Glorify your father and your mother, as Yahuah your El has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which Yahuah your El gives you.

The word 'kabad' H3513 is translated in English here as 'Honor' but it is the same word for 'glory/esteem'

While the physical command stood binding and even so stands today as Yahusha rebuked the Pharisees for teaching people that if anyone had a gift to give his father and mother and if he said its Qarban he or she has not sinned...

Mark 7:10 “For Moshe said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’”;

Mark 7:11 “but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Qarban (that is to say, given to Elohim),’”

Mark 7:12 “you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother”;

Mark 7:13 thus invalidating the word of the Elohim by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.

H7133 Qarban has 82 occurrences in the OT and means something brought near the altar, that is, a sacrificial present: - oblation that is offered, offering.

Qarban comes from the root word ‘qarab’ H7126, H7127 & H7138 which means ‘offer, come near, approach, be near’

Ban in Qarban means Son

The word ‘Qarab’ has the root words ‘qar’ which means ‘call’ and ‘rab’ which means ‘master’.

Hence, it's the call/qar of the rab/master who is the Son/ban

Before Turah came written on tablets of Stone qarban was taught by the father and mother to their sons and daughters, sacrificing to Yahuah to be in covenant with him and of the promised Messiah who would be that offering. Habal/Abel, Abraham, Yitsaq, Yaaqob were all before the Turah came written on stones and were taught Qarban by the father and mother... Remember the mother/am played an important role in weaning her child as she was responsible to bring her child in fear and admonition of Yahuah. The father was equally responsible in teaching dabar to his weaned sons and daughters.

For detailed study on Qarban you may visit here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/shodan-agnel-dsouza/qarban/10212880128139302/

The father/ahb and mother/am were qodesh who taught their children the way of Yahuah and hence...Ex 20:12; 21:17; Le 20:9; De 5:16; Pr 20:20 where it says that whosoever curseth his father and mother shall surely put to death.

Gen 28:1  And Yitsḥaq called Yaʽaqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan. 
Gen 28:2  “Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan your mother’s brother. 
Gen 28:3  “And Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples, 
Gen 28:4  and give you the blessing of Aḇraham, to you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Aḇraham.” 
Gen 28:5  So Yitsḥaq sent Yaʽaqoḇ away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Riḇqah, the mother of Yaʽaqoḇ and Ěsaw. 
Esau Marries an Ishmaelite
Gen 28:6  And Ěsaw saw that Yitsḥaq had blessed Yaʽaqoḇ and sent him away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan,” 

Gen 28:7  and that Yaʽaqoḇ had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. 

The father and mother even taught their children to take wife and husband from among Yasharal and not from pagan gentile nations. The father and mother taught the call of the Master who is the Son (Qarban) to come near the altar in seeing.

Hence the glory of the Father and Mother was a ruach blessing even passed on to children's children. Hence, we see when Yitsaq blessing Yaaqob Esau lost his bakar/firstfruit barakath/blessing because he disregarded the firstborn sonship blessing who was Messiah's salvation. We also see Yaaqob blessing his twelve sons who were progenitors of Yasharal the nation which sprang from them as 12 tribes. 

Spiritually since the covenant was made with Abraham (and his name has the Ahb in it ) the spiritual seed Qarban would spring forth from him who is Mashiyach. Also Sarah which has the Sar/ruler and rah/to see is typified as Mother Yerushalam.

Gal 4:22  For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.

 23  But he who was of the female servant/Hagar was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman /Sarah through promise.

 24  This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar,

 25  for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.

 26  But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.

 27  For it has been written, “Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband.” 

 28  And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.

Gal 3:16  But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed, who is Messiah.

So we see the Qar/call of the rab/master ban/Son drawing us close to the altar to see Yahuah Yarah which means in the mount of Yah he will be seen/rah & who was seen? YAHUSHA. The word rah in Resh alaph hey is a root word in Sarah name.


The rah is the fear of Alahym which comes when we see the awesome sacrifice /qarban of the Son. Thus anyone cursing father and mother, anyone saying Qarban by despising the father and mother will be killed by second death because he despises the birthright /bakar barakah/blessing, he despises qarban/sacrifice, he despises Turah and Dabar as taught to him by his father who stands in place of Covenanted Father Abraham and Mother Sarah who stands for New Yerushalam where he has potential to go through the way of Qarban. While the carnal command called for stoning of the son who despised his father and mother who taught him the way the spiritual command is hidden in the physical.

You can read my study on Qarban to understand how in Mashiyach we become a Qarban ...As Yahusha left his fatherhood and Mother Yerushalam to become one flesh with us fulfilling Gen 2:24

Gen 2:24  For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 

The ‘ashah’ /wife i.e.WE were taken from the ‘aysh/man or husband's and are of his bones and of his flesh. She becomes one in his offering/qarban to the father in fulfilling perfect obedience by honoring the father and mother and also is an offering/qarban set apart for us in calling us to enjoin with him.

Heb 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the coming near/qarabath offering/qarban of the body of Yahusha the Mashiyach once for all

Pro 1:8  My son, heed the discipline of your father, And do not forsake the Torah of your mother; 

Pro 1:9  For they are a fair wreath on your head, And chains about your neck. 

The commandment was obeyed by Yahusha on our behalf and it is he who reveals to us who the Ahb/father is and who the am/mother is. In him we become the ashah/fire offering like Qarban in him thus being able to perfectly obey the command of kabod/glorfying ahb/father and am/mother, for the covenant was made with Abraham the father/Ahb of multitudes and Sarah the princess bearing the prince/sar flowing /rah through her from whom comes the seed as stars.

Abraham: The name Abraham has root words Ahb/father abar/fly ham/waters


The fathers wings fluttering over many waters

We see this picture in Gen 1:2

Gen 1:2  And the earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was fluttering on the face of the waters.

Sarah: Sarah is actually with samek not shin




Sah is root in Sarah's name which means 'sheep'

Sar/prince rah/flowing sah/sheep

'From the prince is flowing the sheep'

The word basarah which means 'good news'/Gospel' has Sarah rooted in it



Basarah: Ba means 'IN'  Sarah

Who is in the womb of Sarah?  The promised seed.

So we need to look at the covenant father Abraham and Mother Sarah who represent the Heavenly Father and New Yerushalam.

Ba/in basar/flesh Sarah/princess ----in the flesh in Sarah

'Yahusha came in the flesh'

All in Yitsaq/Issac are weaned and not under suck of breasts or under a nurse 

Gal 3:23  But before belief came, we were being guarded under Torah, having been shut up for the belief being about to be revealed. 
Gal 3:24  Therefore the Torah became our firm truth/amanat unto Mashiyach, in order to be declared right by belief. 
Gal 3:25  And after another/acharay belief has come, we are no longer/aud under/tachat hand/yod haaman/of belief. 
Gal 3:26  For you are all sons of Elohim through belief in Messiah יהושע. 
Gal 3:27  For as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah. 
Gal 3:28  There is not Yehuḏite nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע. 

Gal 3:29  And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise. 

The 'hand of belief' is the father and mother or the nurse who would wean the child till he is able to establish right from wrong from Turah. The Greek to English translations are a big error as they use 'tutor' for 'amanat' whereas 'aman' means 'firm' and 'amat' means 'truth'. They also omitted 'acharay' which means 'another' in the English translation and the 'yod' which means hand'. Now this makes a lot of sense in what Shaul is saying as it ties up with what nursing and weaning a child meant in Turah.

Heirs of the promise and the Abrahamic covenant is in full force in a weaned Yitsaq/Issac who is able to discern between good and evil.

Hebrews 5:13-14 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. [14] But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

5 foolish virgins are those who suck breasts and the 5 wise virgins are the weaned ones eating strong meat. The 5 foolish virgins got grace and the stake right but went to Hagar to buy oil while the 5 wise virgins were ready to meet Yahusha as they were weaned from  BA (in) SARAH. 

We see the number 5 used in 5 wise and 5 foolish virgins.

What Mephibosheth lost when he was 5 years old was restored as he ate at the kings table for the rest of his life. 

 2Sa 9:10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread always at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Benoni means son of my sorrow. His name was changed by Yaaqob to Benyamin which means son of my right hand. His portion of food was 5 times more than his brethren given by Yoseph a type of Messiah and Benyamin represents all weaned sons of Alahym.

Ge 43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benyamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

Ge 45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

Luke 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before Alahym? [7] But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

5 sparrows sold for 2 farthings likened to elect who are more valued than sparrows.


Leviticus 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

The tabernacle was measured in 5's. Read Exodus 25-27 chapters

Daniel prophesied of the 5 the kingdom as eternal in Daniel 2. Here are the verses

Daniel 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things : and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.


Out of the 4th beastly kingdom comes out kings continuing the beastly rules.


Daniel 2:42-44 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the Alahym of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.


Read first part of verse 44 which says 'In the days of these kings Alahym will set up an eternal kingdom'. 

Number 5 is associated with those in full force of Abrahamic covenant.

In Yitsaq/Issac the promised one who was weaned and no longer under tutors( nursing) but eating strong meat having his senses exercised to do good and shun evil.


Isa 28:9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Genesis 15:7-13 And he said unto him, I am the Yahuah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. [8] And he said, Yahuah Alahym , whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? [9] And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a young goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. [10] And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. [11] And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. [12] And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. [13] And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

I'm going to share few observations on the above passages.


Abraham questions Alahym when his seed would inherit the promised land. Alahym asks him to take an heifer three years old, a young goat three years old, a ram three years old, and a dove and pigeon. All these were permitted in the sacrifice which speaks of atonement with dove and pigeon being poor mans atonement sacrifice. All these 5 sacrifices speak of Messiah's sacrifice and again we see the number 5 associated with the 400 years of affliction with it's starting point being when Yitsaq/Issac was 5 years old and the HEIR as the bondwoman and her son are cast out.

Luke 2:22-24 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Yahuah; [23] (As it is written in the law of the Yahuah, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Yahuah;) [24] And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Yahuah, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

Mary and Joseph offered a pair of turtle doves and pair of pigeons when Messiah was presented. 
The sacrifices three years old and the fire that passed through the divided pieces show Messiah and his third part in Great Tribulation fire.

Abraham drove the fowls who came to eat the sacrifice which shows Alahym protects his third part through Satan w
hereas the flesh of the whore is eaten.

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

And so also those who are captivated by the beast, their flesh is eaten. The eating of flesh is symbolic of devouring and Alahym protects his elect from the devouring. Satan may persecute us and afflict us with all sorts of problems but he cannot devour us (affect our salvation).

Revelation 19:18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Daniel 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

The sun was going down when a deep sleep fell on Abraham when a horror of darkness fell on Abraham

Deuteronomy 16:6 But at the place which the Yahuah thy Alahym shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

This points to Messiah death and our lives hidden in him. Passover lamb sacrificed at sun going down. The law which came much later said not to divide the turtle doves or pigeons.

Leviticus 1:14-17 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Yahuah be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. [15] And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar: [16] And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: [17] And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Yahuah .

When Messiah was presented in the temple Mary/Miriam and Joseph/Yoseph offered turtle doves and pigeons a pair each. The birds were not to be divided because they were already offered in a pair.

And the offering of the pair of turtle doves and pair of young pigeons was a poor mans sacrifice which pointed to his poverty for our sakes.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Yahusha Messiah, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Hebrews 13:12-13 Wherefore Yahusha also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. [13] Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

We are commanded to bear his reproach. The turtle dove and young pigeons speak of his poverty and the reproach Messiah took on him and we bearing his reproach.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; [9] Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; [10] Always bearing about in the body the dying of Yahusha, that the life also of Yahusha might be made manifest in our body.

So here we have Alahym showing us spiritual imagery of the Great Tribulation his own Son went through and we the elect in him. The seed of Abraham was Messiah and we in Messiah as Isaac are the promised ones. The one who is WEANED and not under any NURSE or SUCK but those who are outside of Alahym's covenant and are trampling the court are the sucking child's who have no discernment of good and evil and can't exercise their senses to discern between good and evil. They are under nurses who teach them doctrines of milk and they are DEVOURED because they can't understand truth.

Lu 21:23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

La 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

So the question AM I WEANED OR STILL UNDER SUCK?







Sunday, October 27, 2013

Was Yasharal 400 years or 430 years in Mitsyarim/ Egypt?

In Gen 15:13 Yahuah tells Abraham that his seed will be afflicted 400 years and Exo 12:40 records that Yasharal was afflicted 430 years. Is there a contradiction in scripture ? Not at all. This study is an exposition revealing how both 400 as well as 430 years is correct and will reveal the deep wisdom of Yahuah in giving us details of the affliction in relation to Abraham and his seed. Let's start.

In Genesis 15:13 we read Yahuah said to Abraham, Gen 15:13  And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years. 

This text raises the question whether the 400 years refers to the time of affliction or sojourning, or both, and what is the relation of the 400 years to the 430 years of Exodus 12:40, 41, and Galatians 3:16, 17?

Exo 12:40  And the sojourn of the children of Yisra’ěl who lived in Mitsrayim was four hundred and thirty years

Gal 3:16  But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,
who is Messiah. 
Gal 3:17  Now this I say, Torah, that came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously confirmed by Elohim in Messiah, so as to do away with the promise. 

The verses we need to consider are the following: Genesis 15:13 Exodus 12:40-41; Acts 7:6-7, and Galatians 3:17.
Galatians 3:17 tells us that the full period of 430 years started from the covenant of grace given to Abraham and his seed.
Genesis 12 tells us that Alahym had called Abraham to leave his country, kindred, and father’s house to go into a land that Alahim would show him and later give to his seed as their promised inheritance.(Gen. 12:1-4)
The Call of Abram

Gen 12:1  And יהוה said to Aḇram, “Go yourself out of your land, from your relatives and from your father’s house, to a land which I show you. 
Gen 12:2  “And I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing! 
Gen 12:3  “And I shall bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you. And in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed.” 
Gen 12:4  So Aḇram left, as יהוה had commanded him, and Lot went with him. And Aḇram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Ḥaran. 
Gen 12:5  And Aḇram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the beings whom they had acquired in Ḥaran, and they set out for the land of Kena‛an. And they came to the land of Kena‛an

The solution here is that the period of 400 years affliction does not refer only to the time spent in bondage in Egypt. Abraham’s seed could not possibly have been there for 430 nor 400 years as the genealogies tell us.
According to Galatians 3:17 the 430 years began when Yahuah made a covenant with Abraham. Abraham was 75 when he left Haran to enter the land. Yashmael/Ishmael was born to Abraham when he was 86 (Gen. 16:16) and Yitsaq/Isaac was born when Abraham is 100 years old (Genesis 17:17)

Gen 16:16  And Aḇram was eighty-six years old when Haḡar bore Yishma‛ěl to Aḇram. 

Ge 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
The “affliction” that the seed of Abraham endured was to occur over a span of 400 years.
During this time Yashmael/Ishmael, who "was born after the flesh persecuted him [Yitsaq/Isaac] that was born after the spirit" (Galatians 4:29; Genesis 21:9-11), beginning a time of affliction of Abraham's seed which intermittently would be continued until the time of the Exodus. 

Gal 4:29  But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now. 

Gen 21:9  And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrian, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking. 

Gen 21:10  So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.” 


Yitsaq/Isaac not only had troubles with his half brother Yashmael/Ishmael, but also with the Philistines (Genesis 26:15, 20, 21); 

Gen 26:15  And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, and filled them with dirt. 
Gen 26:20  the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥaq’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ěseq, because they strove with him. 

Gen 26:21  And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah. 

Yaaqob/Jacob fled for his life from Esau (Genesis 27: 41-43)

Gen 27:41  And Ěsaw hated Ya‛aqoḇ because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Ěsaw said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father draw near, then I am going to kill my brother Ya‛aqoḇ.” 
Gen 27:42  And the words of Ěsaw her older son were reported to Riḇqah, and she sent and called Ya‛aqoḇ her younger son, and said to him, “See, your brother Ěsaw comforts himself concerning you, to kill you. 

Gen 27:43  “And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee to my brother Laḇan in Ḥaran. 

and later from Laban (Genesis 31:21), and then was again in jeopardy from Esau (Genesis 32:8); Yoseph/Joseph was sold into slavery by his brethren (Genesis 37:28), and the children of Israel were oppressed by the Egyptians for many decades (Exodus 1:14).
Acts 7:6  “And Elohim spoke in this way: that his seed would be sojourning in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 
Acts 7:7  ‘And the nation to whom they shall be enslaved, I shall judge,’ said Elohim, ’and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’
The time from Abraham's call to Yaaqob/Jacob's entry into Egypt was 215 years, being the total of :

(1)twenty five years lying between Abraham's call and the birth of Yitasaq/Issac (Gen 21:5) Abraham was 75 years when departed from Haran and 100 years old when Yitsaq/Isaac was born

 (2) Yitsaq/Issac was sixty years when Yaaqob/Jacob was born (Genesis 25:26), and 

(3) the age of Yaaqob/Jacob at the time of his migration into Egypt (Genesis 47:9) i.e. he was 130 years. 

This leaves the remaining 215 years of the 430 as the actual time the Hebrews spent in Mitsyarim/Egypt. Hence the 430 years of Exodus 12:40 includes the sojourn of the patriarchs in Canaan as well as their stay in Egypt.
Simple maths of 215 years : From Abraham's entry into Canaan (75 when he left Haran) to the birth of Yitsaq/Isaac was 25 years (100 years when Yitsaq/Isaac was born), Genesis 12:4; 17:1-21; 

Yitsaq/Isaac was 60 years old at the birth of Yaaqob/Jacob, Genesis 25:26; and Yaaqob/Jacob was 130 at his going down into Mitsyarim/Egypt, Genesis 47:9; the sum makes 215 years. And then Yaaqob/Jacob and his children having continued in Egypt 215 years more, the whole sum of 430 years is regularly completed.
25+60+130=215
Now let's see how the other 215 years when Yasharal/Israel was in Mitsyarim/Egypt making it a total sojourn of 430 years:
Yoseph/Joseph was 39 years when Yaaqob/Jacob and all his sons came into Mitsyarim/Egypt and Yaaqob/Jacob was 130 years when he entered into Egypt.
Gen 47:8  And Pharaoh said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “How old are you?” 
Gen 47:9  And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.” 
Yoseph/Joseph was 30 years when he stood before Pharaoh and 39 when Yaaqob/Jacob entered Mitsyarim/Egypt with his sons.
Gen 41:46  Now Yosěph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosěph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim. 
How do we know that Yoseph/Joseph was 39 when Yaaqob/Jacob entered Mitsyarim/Egypt with his other sons?
Gen 41:54  and the seven years of scarcity of food began to come, as Yosěph had said. And the scarcity of food was in all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread. 
He was 30 years when he stood before Pharaoh and 7 years of plentiful had passed so at the end of the 7 years of plentiful Joseph was 37 years.
Gen 45:6  For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting 
2 years of famine was already in the land when Yoseph/Joseph reveals himself to his brothers and asks to get his father into Egypt which makes him 37+2=39
Gen 45:9  “Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Yosěph, “Elohim has made me master of all Mitsrayim. Come down to me, do not delay. 
Yoseph/Joseph dies at the age of 110 which means he rules for another 71 years from the time he is revealed to his brothers 110-39=71
Gen 50:26  And Yosěph died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim. 
Yasharal lived in Egypt for 286 years at the time of the death of  Yoseph/Joseph 215+71=286.

 We saw how we arrived at 215 years (from Abraham leaving Haran till Yaaqob/Jacob entering Egypt when Yaaqob/Jacob was 130 years and Joseph 39 years of age) plus the rule of Joseph after he was revealed to his brothers.

Only 64 years pass from the time Yoseph dies to when Masha was born.
71 (Yoseph ruled for another 71 years after Yaaqob and all sons came into Egypt) + 64 (Masha/Moses born) + 80 (Masha's age when he was before Pharaoh) = 215


How did we arrive at 64 when Masha/Moses was born, read on :)

Things to remember

1) Masha/Moses was 80 years old at the time of the Exodus (Ex 7:7)

Exo 7:7  Now Masha was eighty years old and Aharon eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh. 

2) The time that Yasharal lived in Egypt was 430 years. (Ex. 12:40) was from Gen 12:1-4.

Yasharal lived in Egypt for 430 - 80 = 350 years (at the time of Moses birth) and Yoseph's death to birth of Moses 350-286=64

In summary to how we arrived at 430 years :

215 (25+60+130=215)+215 (71+64+80) =430 years with the sojourning as the starting point of the captivity (When Abraham left Haran to Yasharal out of Egypt)
Now let's see why Alahym tells Abraham that his seed will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall be afflicted 400 years (Gen 15:13):
The 400 years are from the time Yitsaq/Isaac was weaned when he was 5 years old.

The reason we take 5 years is because of this evidence from scriptures

2Sa 4:4  Now Yehonathan, son of Sha’ul, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Sha’ul and Yehonathan came from Yizre‛ěl, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it came to be, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephiḇosheth. 

Mephibosheth was Yahunathan/Jonathan's son who became lame in the feet as his nurse dropped him. Many infants were assigned nurses especially those of royal ranks and Yahunathan/Jonathan was Saul's son (of royal rank as Saul was king) but usually the mother's nursed their own children. Here Mephiboseth was 5 years old and still was nursed which usually is an age of completion of Nursing and the child is WEANED.

Masha/Moses was also nursed:  Ex 2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give give you your wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

When a child completed weaning he was 5 years old and as per Yahudi/Jewish custom the parents went up to sacrifice and hence we see Hannah do the same. Also we see Abraham make a feast because now his child is not under NURSING

Gen 21:8  And the child grew and was weaned, and Aḇraham made a great feast on the day that Yitsḥaq was weaned. 

1Sa 1:23  And her husband Elqanah said to her, “Do what is good in your eyes. Remain until you have weaned him. Only let יהוה establish His word.” And the woman remained and nursed her son until she had weaned him. 
1Sa 1:24  And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls,a and one ěphah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the House of יהוה in Shiloh. And the child was young. 
 400 years of captivity from Yashmael/Ishmael mocking Yitsaq/Isaac (children of flesh persecuting the children of promise as stated by Paul in Gal 4:29)
Ge 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. 9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
25 years after Abraham left Haran (when he was 75 years old) Isaac was born (i.e. when he was 100 years old) and when Isaac was 5 years old (weaned). So 25+5=30 and 430-30=400
Ga 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
The promise took effect when Yashmael/Ishmael the son of the bondwoman was cast out.
Gen 21:10  So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.” 
Gal 4:30  But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the female servant and her son, for the son of the female servant shall by no means be heir with the son of the free woman.”
So both 430 and 400 are correct. The 430 years is in context from Abraham commanded to leave his father's house and was sojourning and the 400 years is in context from Yitsaq/Isaac when he was 5 years old when the promise took effect.
If we read what Paul is saying, he is talking about the covenant being confirmed and this covenant was made to Abraham when he was 75 years old Gen 12:1-4
Ga 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of Alahym in Mashiyach, the Torah, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
From the time Yasharal was formed (the covenant of Genesis 12) to the death of Yoseph was 25 + 60 plus +130 + 71 = 286 years.

When calculating the Great Tribulation Alahym mentions Abraham in the 430 years because he obeyed Alahym and was a pilgrim leaving his father's house desiring the heavenly country.

Consider these passages:

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/Abraham 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.

Now keeping the principle in mind let us see how we arrive at Daniel's 1290 days where we see the third refined through the fire 

Dan 12:11  “And from the time that which is continual is taken away, and the abomination that lays waste is set up, is one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 

Zec 13:9  “And I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name,b and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה is my Elohim.’

(430*3 =1290) 

Let's view the covenant Alahym made with Abraham's seed in the same light. Remember I shared in my previous studies that when we apply this numbers to our time they are pure SPIRITUAL NUMBERS and have nothing to do with any MAN MADE CALENDAR's or TIME LINES

Ge 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 

Gal 3:16  But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Messiah.

Gal 3:29  And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise. 

So the seed of Abraham is Mashiyach and we who are in Mashiyach are counted for the seed in Yitsaq,

Gal 4:28  And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise. 


Gal 4:31  Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman. 

We saw in this study that the 430 years of sojourn includes Abraham and the 400 is purely his SEED i.e. when Issac was 5 and that's when the bondwoman and her son were cast off. This means that the Covenant with the seed was in effect when the bondwoman and her son were cast out because it cannot with both under the same roof.


And hence when we see 400*3 =1200 (12* 100) and if we search in Alahym's word what numbers mean spiritually we see the number 12 which speaks of Alahym's people. Example: 12 tribes, 12 apostles and the number 10, 100 and 1000 as completeness.


Examples: Number 12


a hundred and forty four thousand is not a literal number but the entire body of Messiah 12 *12 * 1000 where the number 12 twice stands for 12 patriarchs tribes and the other number 12 stands for 12 apostles and the assembly


Re 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Yasharal.  


Ac 1:15 ¶ And in those days Kepha/Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) (12 *10)


 Re 12:1 ¶ And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars


Rev 7: from each tribe 12,000 being sealed


These are few examples as to how number 12 is used in scripture and there are many more.


Examples: Number 10, 100 and 1000


10:


 Re 2:10 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.


Mashiyach is not telling his assembly that their tribulation will be just 10 days but for a complete time


100:  Mt 18:12 How think you? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray?


The passage means Mashiyach will not allow even 1 sheep to go astray and hence 99+1 =100 which is the complete number


1000:  Ps 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 


Does this passage mean that only the cattle on the 1000 hills belong to Alahym? Is Alahym not the possessor of heaven and earth? So the 1000 hills means ALL hills.


Now coming back to 400*3 we see the Abrahamic covenant to ALL OF HIS SEED through Mashiyach who is the SEED and we in him.


Gal 4:28  And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.