The Saga of the Jews Part 1



The Saga of the Jews from the beginning to the end of time



(SECRETS OF CREATION REVEALED - RUACH ELIYAHU SERIES)
By Bong Zason

That which has been, it is that which shall be done; and that which is done before, is that which shall be done in the future: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us. (Ecclesiastes. 1:9-10)

The Bible (both the Tanach and the New Testament) is full of typologies. 

A typology is a foreshadowing of an event, a thing or life story of a person that point to things that will become actual significant events in the future.

According to the greatest sage of all time – the Jewish King Solomon, all things or events that will yet come to pass are in fact had been described or had already occurred before.

An example to this is the Jewish nation. 

Do you believe that the Life of Judah (the fourth of the 12 sons of Jacob) is typified in the life of the Jewish people as a whole? 

The term Jew is derive from the word ‘Judah’.

The Middle English word Jew is from the Old French giu, earlier juieu, from the Latin iudeus from the Greek Ioudaios (ουδαος). The Latin simply means Judaean, from the land of Judaea. Judaea is in turn derived from Judah which was the name of the Kingdom of Judah, and one of the Tribes of Israel. The Hebrew word for Jew, יהודי , is pronounced [jə·hu·di]. - Wikipedia

The whole history and future of the Jewish nation and people have already been known from the life story of its founding father Judah. 

Nothing is new. 

We know of the saying, ‘like father - like son’ and “History repeats itself”. 

Whatever life Judah has, will be replicated by the Jewish people as a nation even unto the end of the ages.


What is the life story of Judah?

Gen 38:1  It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 

Gen 38:2  There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her, 

Gen 38:3  and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. 

Gen 38:4  She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. 

Gen 38:5  Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him. 

Gen 38:6  And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 

Gen 38:7  But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD put him to death. 

Gen 38:8  Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." 

Gen 38:9  But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. 

Gen 38:10  And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also.

Gen 38:11  Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up"--for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house. 

Gen 38:12  In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Gen 38:13  And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep," 

Gen 38:14  she took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage. 

Gen 38:15  When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 

Gen 38:16  He turned to her at the roadside and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" 

Gen 38:17  He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "If you give me a pledge, until you send it--" 

Gen 38:18  He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

Gen 38:19  Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood. 

Gen 38:20  When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her. 

Gen 38:21  And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim at the roadside?" And they said, "No cult prostitute has been here." 

Gen 38:22  So he returned to Judah and said, "I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, 'No cult prostitute has been here.'" 

Gen 38:23  And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her."

Gen 38:24  About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."

Gen 38:25  As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant." And she said, "Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff." 

Gen 38:26  Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again. 

Gen 38:27  When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb.

Gen 38:28  And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This one came out first." 

Gen 38:29  But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez. 

Gen 38:30  Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zera

Commentary:

W e need to study the meaning and significance of the names and places used in this narrative.
1. עדלם  ‛ǎdûllâm, ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה  chîyrâh Chirah, “nobility or a noble family, aristocracy”
2. שׁוּע  shûa‛, Shua‘, “luck, riches,”  derived from the Hebrew word "Yeshua" meaning salvation
3. ער  ‛êr, ‘Er, “watching, watchful, awaking eyes” anticipating watchfulness; watchful   expectation
4. אונן  'ônân, Onan, “strong,” "obstinately strong" "headstrong" figurative “stubborn”
5. שׁלה  shēlâh, Shelah, “request, petition, rest.” כזיב  kezîyb Kezib, “falsehood.”
6. תמר  tāmār, Tamar, “palm, upright ”  תמנה  tîmnâh, Timnah, “counted or assigned.”
7. עינים  'êynayîm, ‘Enaim, “two fountains, opening of the eyes”
    8. פרץ  perets, Perets, “breach, breaking forth in a flash”
     9.  זרח  zeh'-rakh  means the rise of a light;  a rising of light: - rising;

So now here is the exposition of the story

Gen 38:1  It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Gen 38:2  There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,

The notable story of Judah depicted here begins as a man of marriageable age. Judah went down from his brothers
The Judean territory is way down (lower region) than most of the other tribes of Israel. Judah’s location is southern Israel. It was given to the Judean tribe after more than 400 years from this prophecy. 



…turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah…

  עדלם  ‛ǎdûllâm, ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה  chîyrâh Chirah, “nobility or a noble family, aristocracy”

The Judean tribe was consecrated for righteousness and to obtain nobility. The scepter of righteous nobility will not depart from Jerusalem, the Capital of Judah, where the mountain of the House of God, Zion is located.

 Gen 49:10  The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.



The "scepter,” is the staff of authority and was only given to the tribe of Judah - the Jews.

“Lawgiver” is to be understood as judge, dispenser or administrator of law. 

Literally it means “law-inscribing stylus” or “Law-inscribing instrument”

Judah had the fore-rank among the tribes in all matters of administrations – spiritual and political. 

It will be the Jews (Judeans – that is from the tribe of Judah) who will rule Israel (the tribes and the land) and not Ephraim, or any of his brothers. 


Today, this 3700 year old prophecy of his father Jacob comes true.

Gen 38:2  There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,
שׁוּע  shûa‛, Shua‘, means luck, riches.

Judah’s life story actually begins here.

Judah was given into marriage to the daughter of Shua. He took her. 

The marriage would bring ‘luck and riches’ to the man Judah. 

The Jewish nation was given to marriage to the “covenant” in Mount Sinai (circa 1400 B.C.). 

The covenant was instituted by Adonai the rightful owner of the land of Canaan. 

The covenant in Sinai is the beloved daughter of Adonai Yeshua (Adonai is a Hebrew word which means Lord or master; Yeshua is a Hebrew word for Jesus). 

The Jewish nation promised to abide to this covenant.

Exo 19:8  And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

The contract would bring blessing, riches, salvation and rest to the Jewish people. Yeshua means He is salvation. If we take the ‘yod’ in the four- letter name of Y’shua (Yeshua) we come out with the three-letter name ‘Shua’ - meaning luck and wealth.

Deu 8:6  So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
Deu 8:7  For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,
Deu 8:8  a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
Deu 8:9  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Deu 8:10  And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
Deu 8:18  You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Exo 14:13  And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again

Jos 1:13  "Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.'



THE TWO SONS OF JUDAH: ER and ONAN


Then the union of the daughter of Shua and Judah produced a son, and he called his name Er. 

She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.

 ער  ‛êr, ‘Er, “watching.” From H5782; watchful – anticipating watchfulness; watchfulness of the eyes and thought

The Jewish nation around AD 30 was anticipating and has been watchful of the coming of the Moshiach (Messiah). This can be inferred from the following text.

John 1:41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Moschiach! (Messiah) " (which means Christ).

Even the gentile inhabitants living outside of Jerusalem know of this Jewish anticipation and watchfulness for their Messiah.

John 4:25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."

New World Encyclopedia: The concept of the Messiah developed gradually from early Jewish prophetic times through their exile in Babylon, taking more definite form in the post-exilic period. By the first century B.C.E., Jews interpreted their scriptures to refer specifically to someone appointed by God to deliver them from oppression under the Romans.

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Christ in the Old Testament - Christadelphia Home Page
His coming was anticipated by men and women who ... Josephus, the Jewish historian of the first century AD ... The Old Testament foretold that Messiah would be a Jew, born ...
www.christadelphia.org/pamphlet/christ.htm

How is it that the Jewish people anticipated the coming of their Moshiach during this time? That is because according to their calculation, the 69th prophetic week of Daniel will occur in their time – that is around 32 AD.

The prophecy below was written by Daniel more than 500 years before Christ. It speaks of the season when the Moshiach (Christ) will appear and then be killed.

Dan 9:24  "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Dan 9:25  Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of the Moschiach (Anointed One), a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
Dan 9:26 And after the sixty-two weeks, the Moschiach shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince (Romans) who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.


Many historical books and the Encyclopedia Britannica set the date 465 B.C. when Antaxerxes I ascended the throne of the Persian Empire. 

In the month of Nisan (March) in his 20th year as king (445 B.C.), he gave order and permission to Nehemiah to return to Jerusalem and rebuild it (Nehemiah 2:1).

The scripture does not mention the day of this decree; hence, we must follow the Jewish custom, which make it fit with the first day. 

The first day of Nisan 445 B.C. corresponds to our calendar date of March 14 of that year. Thus, the decree went forth in March 14, 445 B.C. 

This is the date we should start the reckoning of the seventy-week prophecy mentioned in Daniel 9:24-27. Anderson wrote, “The Persian edict which restored the autonomy of Judah was issued in the Jewish month of Nisan. 

It may in fact have been dated from the 1st of Nisan B.C. 445.

Calculating the time from March 14, 445BC to April 6, AD32, the interval showed that the interval contained exactly 173,880 days or 69x7 prophetic years of 360 days. 

Anderson wrote:

      “And the date of it can be ascertained. In accordance with the Jewish custom, the Lord went up to Jerusalem upon the 8th Nisan, “six days before the Passover.” But as the 14th, on which the Paschal Supper was eaten, fell that year upon a Thursday, the 8th was the preceding Friday. He must have spent the Sabbath, therefore, at Bethany; and on the evening of the 9th, after the Sabbath had ended, the Supper took place in Martha’s house. Upon the following day, the 10th Nisan, He entered Jerusalem as recorded in the Gospels.
      The Julian date of that 10th Nisan was Sunday the 6th April, AD32. What then was the length of the period intervening between the issuing of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the public advent of “Messiah the Prince,”—between the 14th March, B.C. 445, and the 6th April, AD 32? THE INTERVAL CONTAINED EXACTLY AND TO THE VERY DAY 173,880 DAYS, OR SEVEN TIMES SIXTY-NINE PROPHETIC YEARS OF 360 DAYS, the first sixty-nine weeks of Gabriel’s prophecy.”

The termination of the prophecy in Daniel 9: 24-27 from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah falls in the year AD 32.

Thus, the expectation and watchfulness of the Jews for their Moschiach was valid, appropriate and of necessity at that time.

The Jewish nation at that time however rejected Yeshua. 

Yeshua decreed their destruction because like Er, the Jewish nation was wicked and rejected any relationship with the Covenant of Mercy offered by Adonai Yeshua. 

Notice in the  first text that Yeshua used “I” instead of God. Is Yeshua God?

Matt 23:34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
Mat 23:35  so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
Mat 23:36  Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.  (before a 40 - year period will end; 40 years being one generation)
Mat 23:37  "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
Mat 23:38  See, your house is left to you desolate.

The Jewish nation is to be cut off in AD 70; just 38 years after Yeshua decreed it. (38 years is almost a generation – that’s why Yeshua said “all this things will come upon this generation

The Roman Armies will besiege their wall and destroy the unbelieving Jewish people. 

The destruction will happen within the generation of those who listened to the warning of Jesus. 

Jesus decreed it in AD 32.

Jesus warned them of the impending Emperor Titus siege about 38 years ahead.

Luke 21:20 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.
Luk 21:21  Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it,
Luk 21:22  for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
Luk 21:23  Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the land of Israel and wrath against this people.
Luk 21:24  They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Er the watchful was killed in his land (the land of Canaan). 

The Jewish nation (the Messiah watchful) was destroyed and cut off in their land (land of Canaan) in AD 70 exactly as Yeshua said. 

The event in AD 70 marked the beginning of the Jewish sorrow in Jewish history because of disobedience and rejection to God’s counsels. 

It was the biggest blow of a country never experienced by the Jewish people before. 

This catastrophic destruction of a whole nation was unprecedented in history. 

More than a million Jewish people died and almost a million were forced into slavery in Egypt. 

They were trapped within the walls of Jerusalem without food and water and soon were forced to eat their own nursing infants. Luk 21:23  Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

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