The Torah & Prophets Fulfilled: Luke (Ch19) – Nasser al'Qahtani

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1. 📖✝️🙏🏻

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2. I love how The Lord, brought Moses to the promised land to be with Jesus, at Jesus’ transfiguration. ❤

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3. I see two sets of possible remezes popping out at me. One is Rahab because of the locale of Jericho, the name Joshua (Yeshua), going into the house of a taboo person, and (this is a weaker point) the action of climbing (The rope for the spies and the sycamore for Zaccaeus) and also (this is kind of disconnected from the Zaccaeus story) the spies themselves in Yeshua sending the two disciples to get the colt.
   
   Then from here I started picking up on some light similarites between the narrative and the story of Joseph: It started when Yeshua said "he also is a son of Abraham" and "the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" – so I started thinking about lost sons and ofcourse Joseph naturally came to mind. Then (as I was reading the Peshitta and Delitzsch) I saw the Aramaic & Hebrew word used for "he proceeded" was "awsef" and "yosef" from the same root as Joseph and when I checked the greek word it had the same meaning or conotation as the Semitic "(put) to, add, do again, gather". Then Yeshua starts talking about the parable of the Nobleman which sounds a little bit like Joseph – receiving a kingdom in a foreign country, the words "But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us’ sounds a lot like what happened with Joseph's brothers Gen 37 8: His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. When He starts talking about the 3 servants and the minas I wonder if there could be some remez to the first 3 sons of Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, Levi – Reuben tried to save Joseph and expressed remorse at his calamity, Simeon suffered by being bound and remaining in jail as surety for his brothers, but it seems Yeshua had the biggest problems with Levi (The Sadducees). Also just as this servant's mina was given to another, the tribe of Levi did not have inheritance of land like the rest of the tribes. Maybe what made their ungratefulness with their mina the worse is because their mina was supposed to be the best – "I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel" and then the priesthood ends up getting transferred to Judah in Yeshua the Priest King. If thats the case it would add a new dimension to the ruler's harsh words about his enemies "bring them here and slaughter them before me" in that just as it was not Joseph's desire to inflict needless pain on his brothers but that they would repent and when they begged him for mercy he relented and broke down so too here maybe its the ruler's desire that his enemies repent and beg for mercy and perhaps he'd forgive their offense like the servant who owed the 10,000 talents – Cause it doesnt say that his enemies were indeed killed, it just says he commanded it. Also when it says "Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas" this could also be a reference to Joseph cause Chronicles says Reuben's birthright was given to Joseph and he was reckoned the firstborn. And this last point is probably a weaker one, but the Messianic blessing – blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD, the first word "Baruk" is cognate with what they called before Joseph in Egypt "And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Bow the knee (Abrek)!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt."

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