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 32:10 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.
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.
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'.
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
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,
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.
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 4:2 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 19:37 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 4:4 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 18:10 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 9th 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 1:18 “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 49:23 “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.
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 33:19 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 26:30 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 17:6 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 4:10 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 9:52 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 17:12 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 4:40 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 8:5 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)
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 16:34 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.
