I'm sure we are all familiar with Yeshua's birth in an animal stable most likely for sheep. Was this His Father's way of introducing the destiny of His only begotten Son? Later in life, when John the Baptist saw Him, cried out: "Behold, the Lamb of Elohim that takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). In the earthly life of Yeshua this was the only time He was referred to as "the Lamb". However in the book of Revelation after He had ascended, into the heavens, it appears 26 times. The only two other instances are, one in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, when Philip over heard an Ethiopian eunuch, an emissary of the Queen of Ethiopia returning from worshipping in Jerusalem, reading Isaiah 53: 7-8. "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth… He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living..."
Philip then shares with him about Yeshua. The other text is from 1 Peter 1: 17-19 "conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot".
It seems that all the Apostles recognized that Yeshua's blood was acceptable to the Heavenly Father for the purpose of reconciling man back to Himself. In other words He redeemed man, atoned for his sin and forgave man permanently for his sins, through the death and shed blood of Yeshua.
How could this be when in the Psalms it says that no man can redeem man? "No man can by any means redeem his brother, or give to Elohim a ransom for him-- for the redemption of his soul is costly, and he should cease trying forever—" (Psalm 49: 7-8).
The Psalmist points out that the blemished life in the blood of Adam, and all those born after his likeness, could not be acceptable to YHVH Elohim for the purpose of redeeming another man. Therefore if Yeshua's blood had the life of "Adamic" man, no matter how good he was as a person, he could not have qualified nor fulfilled the required holiness or perfection (see 1 Corinthians 15: 42-43). Even the high priests had to sacrifice an unblemished lamb before going into the Holy of Holies.
YHVH when He instituted the Levitical system of sacrifice necessitated the blood of a male lamb or kid, without blemish or spot, for the atonement for sin. Although they did not, of course, remove sin permanently, the priest had to sacrifice year after year. It was a foreshadowing of that which was to come.
The only life that fulfills or satisfies YHVH's legal standards for the redemption of the life of Adam is His own. Thus He conceived His life in the womb of a virgin, who was betrothed to a son of David – Joseph. When Joseph was told by the angel to take Miriam and not put her away, it was evidence that he was not the father. So when he took Miriam to be his wife, what he did, in fact, was adopt the child.
The Torah principle of the life of the father being in his progeny (Abraham's seed), is well grounded in scripture. Thus we can understand that Yeshua's life was the same as His heavenly Father's - YHVH Elohim, although that does not make Yeshua the Father. However it does make them one. To biological sciences the life in the blood is still a mystery, they know that the mother contributes half of the DNA and the father the other half of the physical chemistry of the blood. But the scriptures points to another factor and that is "life", which is the spiritual component. We believe that this was breathed into Adam, and became mixed with the spirit realm of darkness when he disobeyed his creator and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thus Adam passed on this defiled life through Seth to all humanity and this is why flesh and blood can not inherit the Kingdom of Elohim nor can he redeem another man with his blood. It seems from scripture that this defiled life comes through the male and not the female, as Yeshua only had the "life" of His Heavenly Father.
If Yeshua's conception was not from YHVH Elohim, Miriam would have had to have a relationship with a man, while she was betrothed to another, she thus would be an adulteress and a harlot, and her son a bastard. Yeshua in no way then could have been that Lamb that would have been acceptable in the eyes of Elohim. When Yeshua told Miriam after His resurrection not to touch Him, it was because He had not been to His Father yet. Yeshua was that "first fruit" offering on the first day after the weekly Shabbat so that we might be accepted before the Father, fulfilling the Scripture in Leviticus 23: 10-14.
May we celebrate with the Lamb, the Passover on the 14th day of the first month (Leviticus 23: 5), just as Yeshua commanded His disciples to prepare the Passover meal (see Luke 22:7). Later the apostles followed this order as well (see 1 Corinthians 11:23).
Ephraim
Philip then shares with him about Yeshua. The other text is from 1 Peter 1: 17-19 "conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot".
It seems that all the Apostles recognized that Yeshua's blood was acceptable to the Heavenly Father for the purpose of reconciling man back to Himself. In other words He redeemed man, atoned for his sin and forgave man permanently for his sins, through the death and shed blood of Yeshua.
How could this be when in the Psalms it says that no man can redeem man? "No man can by any means redeem his brother, or give to Elohim a ransom for him-- for the redemption of his soul is costly, and he should cease trying forever—" (Psalm 49: 7-8).
The Psalmist points out that the blemished life in the blood of Adam, and all those born after his likeness, could not be acceptable to YHVH Elohim for the purpose of redeeming another man. Therefore if Yeshua's blood had the life of "Adamic" man, no matter how good he was as a person, he could not have qualified nor fulfilled the required holiness or perfection (see 1 Corinthians 15: 42-43). Even the high priests had to sacrifice an unblemished lamb before going into the Holy of Holies.
YHVH when He instituted the Levitical system of sacrifice necessitated the blood of a male lamb or kid, without blemish or spot, for the atonement for sin. Although they did not, of course, remove sin permanently, the priest had to sacrifice year after year. It was a foreshadowing of that which was to come.
The only life that fulfills or satisfies YHVH's legal standards for the redemption of the life of Adam is His own. Thus He conceived His life in the womb of a virgin, who was betrothed to a son of David – Joseph. When Joseph was told by the angel to take Miriam and not put her away, it was evidence that he was not the father. So when he took Miriam to be his wife, what he did, in fact, was adopt the child.
The Torah principle of the life of the father being in his progeny (Abraham's seed), is well grounded in scripture. Thus we can understand that Yeshua's life was the same as His heavenly Father's - YHVH Elohim, although that does not make Yeshua the Father. However it does make them one. To biological sciences the life in the blood is still a mystery, they know that the mother contributes half of the DNA and the father the other half of the physical chemistry of the blood. But the scriptures points to another factor and that is "life", which is the spiritual component. We believe that this was breathed into Adam, and became mixed with the spirit realm of darkness when he disobeyed his creator and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thus Adam passed on this defiled life through Seth to all humanity and this is why flesh and blood can not inherit the Kingdom of Elohim nor can he redeem another man with his blood. It seems from scripture that this defiled life comes through the male and not the female, as Yeshua only had the "life" of His Heavenly Father.
If Yeshua's conception was not from YHVH Elohim, Miriam would have had to have a relationship with a man, while she was betrothed to another, she thus would be an adulteress and a harlot, and her son a bastard. Yeshua in no way then could have been that Lamb that would have been acceptable in the eyes of Elohim. When Yeshua told Miriam after His resurrection not to touch Him, it was because He had not been to His Father yet. Yeshua was that "first fruit" offering on the first day after the weekly Shabbat so that we might be accepted before the Father, fulfilling the Scripture in Leviticus 23: 10-14.
May we celebrate with the Lamb, the Passover on the 14th day of the first month (Leviticus 23: 5), just as Yeshua commanded His disciples to prepare the Passover meal (see Luke 22:7). Later the apostles followed this order as well (see 1 Corinthians 11:23).
Ephraim
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