Leviticus chapter 12
The truths behind the purification
procedures
In case she gives birth to a male child
If she gives birth to a female child
In Leviticus 12:1-8
1 YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the sons of
3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
4 She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She
shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of
her purifying are completed.
5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean fourteen days,
just as she would be during her menstruation; and she shall continue in the
blood of purification sixty-six days.
6 When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a
daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a
year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a
sin offering.
7 And he shall present it before YHWH, and make atonement for her; and she
shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.
This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a
female.
8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering:
and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”
As often has been suggested, these commandments reminded the Israelites
of the disastrous consequences of Adam's legacy, his fall, by King David aptly
expressed in his famous Psalm 51: Look! In iniquity I was brought forth with birth
pains, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
That humanity has an urgent need for purification in connection with the
inheritance of sin, was further emphasized in this chapter, since at the end of
the 40 and the 80 days a burnt offering and a sin offering were required. Of
course, these sacrifices prefigured the one perfect sacrifice of Mashiach
Yeshua. In Hebrews 1:3 the cleansing power of that one sacrifice is confirmed: After he had made purification for our
sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places.
The reproductive organs were made to pass on perfect human life.
However, because of the inherited effects of sin the first human couple did
transmit imperfect and sinful life to their offspring. The temporary periods of
impurity associated with childbirth, menstruation and seed outpourings recalled
this inherited sinfulness.
This was in particular the case during childbirth, because in that respect
a sin offering was required. It is interesting that Elohim allowed the poor in
this case, out of consideration, to sacrifice birds instead of a more expensive
sheep.
Such purification instructions helped the Israelites realize that they
needed a ransom sacrifice that man's sinfulness would fully cover and restore
human perfection. Of course, this could not be accomplished by the animal
sacrifices, and for that reason the Law led them to their Messiah. Its legal
procedures helped them realize that the perfect sacrifice of his soul alone
could provide true forgiveness and eventual restoration to human perfection. As
he himself expressed: Even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but
to serve, and to give his soul as a ransom instead of many (Matthew 20:28).
Compare also: Galatians
3:24; Hebrews
9:13-14 and 10:1-4.
In addition, see: Melchizedek
in Hebrews
Nevertheless,
in connection with the purification instructions of Leviticus 12, additional
questions have to be answered.
• Why is there a prolonged period of impurity at the birth of a
daughter?
• And why precisely a prolonged period of time in a
ratio of 1:2; a doubling so.
Has the ratio 1:2 possibly specific meaning in this context? Anyway, it
is striking that in both cases a similar reconciliation ceremony had to be
accomplished at the end of both the 40 and the 80 days.
Whether a son or a daughter was born, the same sacrifices had to be
brought in both cases: a year old ram as a burnt offering and a dove as a sin
offering. By presenting those sacrifices to YHWH Elohim, the priest had to make
atonement for the woman and she, the woman, would then be clear
from the source of her blood.
At
the birth of Yeshua those ceremonial acts were also accomplished by Joseph and
Mariam.
And when the days of their purification
were fulfilled in accordance of the Law of Moses, they brought him up to
Jerusalem to present him to the Lord - as it is written in the Law of the
Lord: Every male that the womb opens fully, must be called holy to the Lord -
and to offer sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord: A pair
of turtledoves or two young pigeons... And
behold, there was a man in
Law, he took him in his arms and blessed
God and said: Now let you, Master, your servant go free in peace according to your
declaration, because my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have
prepared in the sight of all the peoples: A light for removing the veil from
the nations and a glory of your people Israel.
(Luke 2)
For further details about Simeon who undoubtedly belonged to the godly remnant in
An interim conclusion, and for sure not an
unimportant one: In Leviticus 12 all the emphasis is placed upon the mother's
uncleanness or impurity, not on that of the child. This is even more striking
because from Psalm 51:5, and Job 14:4 it is obvious
that within the ‘normal’ human situation a child from birth also was defiled
with uncleanness. Thence still another question:
• May have also this aspect a hidden meaning?
Therefore, let us go deeply in the prophetic pictures of Leviticus
chapter 12, having in mind the biblical explanation in Hebrews 10 >> The Law, having a shadow of the good
things to come, not the very substance of the facts themselves.
In case she
gives birth to a male child
In that case, she
shall be unclean seven days; just as in the days of the impurity when she is
menstruating, and then
- on the 8th day - the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
Circumcision dated from the time of Abraham receiving circumcision as a
seal of the righteousness of his faith. In Romans 4:9-14, Saul of Benjamin
commented thus:
For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for
righteousness. How then was it counted?
When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision, and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he
might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision,
that righteousness might also be accounted to them. And
father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who
also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in
uncircumcision. For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be
heir of the world wasn’t through the Law, but through the righteousness of
faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made
void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Thus, Paul stated definitively that Abraham is the spiritual father of
all who have faith; including individuals from the Goyim that
are not natural Israelites nor circumcised. When we, in this world
period (aeon) - known as the “Age of the (Christian) congregation” - exercise
faith in Elohim's provision of his Son as the Mashiach and Redeemer - just as
also Abraham put faith in Elohim's promise about the Seed, we may trust that
righteousness is imputed to us, just as also Abraham experienced. Compare Genesis
15:5-6.
When YHWH in Abraham's time instituted circumcision as the sign of the
covenant that he had made with the patriarch, he told Abraham that this would
also apply after him to his seed. See Genesis
17:9-14.
It is therefore not surprising to note from Exodus
12:48 and Joshua
5:2-7 that circumcision was a requirement within the Mosaic Law. Compare John
7:22.
For us, of course, the important question matters: What is the
antitypical significance of circumcision? Considering that Abraham became the
father of all who have faith in Mashiach Yeshua - even if they once were
outside of
In Philippians 3:3 Paul confirms this view by declaring frankly:
For we are the circumcision, who are rendering sacred
service through God’s spirit and are boasting in Mashiach Yeshua and not have
confidence in flesh.
In true, called Christians the reality of circumcision is expressed. At
the same time, the apostle makes quite clear that in their case circumcision is
the result of the activity of Elohim's spirit in their lives. How? Because, as
it were - not literally of course – the spirit ‘cuts away’ with them their old
body of sin. Hence Paul says that Christians have no longer their confidence in
their own fleshly bodies.
In Colossians 2:11-12 we have the Bible passage that describes in detail
the true circumcision as a Christian reality:
In him, also you were circumcised with a circumcision
not made by hands, in the stripping off of the fleshly body, in the circumcision
of the Mashiach, jointly buried to him in the baptism. In whom you also were
jointly raised up through the faith in the operation of God who raised him up
from the dead.
Here the essence of Christian theology is revealed. It will be clear
that Christians in Mashiach Yeshua possess the true value of circumcision. In
him, they have the inner or spiritual circumcision.
While in the Jewish circumcision only a part of the body is removed, the
spiritual circumcision, as it were, is taking away the sinful body of the flesh
completely, the carnal body referring to man’s sin, the legacy of Adam that
dwells in our bodies.
Previously, in Romans 6:6, Paul had already provided information,
writing: Knowing
this, that our old man was impaled together, that the body of sin might be done
away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Definitely a sublime thought. For a true Christian the reality of
circumcision holds that his unclean, from Adam inherited body of sin is
destroyed as it were. Through the action of Elohim's spirit the sinful passions
no longer prevail over the Christian, so that he now can live for
righteousness.
In Two Corinthians 5:21 Paul also has written the following about this
particular role that was fulfilled by Yeshua: The One who knew no sin, he made sin for us.
How?
YHWH Elohim had taken note of the filth of the flesh of all humanity and
put it, so to speak, upon his sinless Son.
So, when that One laid down his life in a sacrificial death, thus,
fundamentally, the entire impurity of the human world was 'cut off' in the circumcision of the Mashiach.
Now we have briefly discussed the key elements of Christian doctrine, we
can conclude the following:
The true Christian lives in full communion with his Lord, making him/her
to a new creation.
Compare Two Corinthians 5:17 >> Therefore if anyone is in Mashiach, he is a new
creation. Things of old passed away. Behold, new things came into existence.
It
is very clear that in the typology of Leviticus 12 the woman who gives birth
occupies a central place. After all, it always affects her purification!
However, it is also clear that in the antitype she should appear in a two-fold
aspect.
Besides
2Co 5:17, the only other scripture in which is made mention of the new
creation, we find in Galatians 6:15-16.
And
not only that! The scripture also gives us an indication about the identity of
the Woman. For in it the question is answered: "Who or what is represented
by the woman in Leviticus 12, she who gives birth either to a
male or a female?”.
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is
anything, but a new creation. And all those who will walk orderly by this rule
of conduct, upon them be peace and mercy, even upon the
Here we have the answer: In the typology of the Letter to the Galatians the
woman represents the
Alongside Ga 6:15-16, the Letter provides further clues for that
conclusion, especially in chapter 4, where the
However, the
So, the apostle points out that Christians have a "mother", the Jerusalem above, clearly referring to Isaiah, chapter 54,
where Lady Zion (Jerusalem) in type appears as the woman Sara, Abrahams beloved
wife who was long barren, but at last gave birth.
Through this symbolic Woman, the true Israel of God will eventually be
brought forth, the two biblical congregations in YHWH’s purpose: The heavenly
Christian and the earthly Jewish congregation, which together
will form the new royal priesthood. And all that with the
intent to become a blessing to the nations (Goyim) in the Millennium
In the First Century Lady Zion started to 'give birth' to those of the
Israel of God who became members of the heavenly Congregation, as the apostle
Paul put into words that historical act: Rejoice, you barren woman… Now we brothers are
children belonging to a promise the same as Isaac (Ga 4:26-28).
However, as we above pointed out, these children answer to the son who is brought forth and had to be
circumcised on the 8th day, exactly as Paul had expressed it in
Philippians 3 >> For
we are the circumcision, who are rendering sacred service through God’s spirit
and are boasting in Mashiach Yeshua and not have confidence in flesh.
To estimate fully our reasoning, we do well to consider the context of
Paul’s writing. At this point - the antitypical circumcision - the apostle
fulminated against those for whom the Philippians had to be especially on their
guard: the Judaizers, Jewish people who claimed to be Christians but who
demanded that the believers from the Goyim (literally) needed to be
circumcised. For Paul actions like that were nothing more than mutilation,
mayhem:
Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil workers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the
circumcision, who are rendering sacred service through God’s spirit and are
boasting in Mashiach Yeshua and not have confidence in flesh.
Those Jews supposedly adhered to Christianity, but in reality they did
everything in their power to
store the new wine into old wineskins (Luke
5:37-39). Their Christianity turned out to be nothing more than an ennobled
Jewry.
At this point we also see that already rapidly, in that early period of
Lady Zion began to give birth, a breach occurred between the (real) Christians
and the Jews who did not fully, or not at all, accept their true Mashiach and
nothing more wanted than continue in the Hagar situation under the Law, as also
through divine inspiration was expressed by Paul:
The Hagar, however, is a Mount Sinai in Arabia, but
corresponds to the present
Generally the Jews of the First century behaved hostile towards
Christians, both Jews and Gentiles, because of the Messiah issue, and
accordingly Paul wrote regularly about them. Likewise, in the allegory of Sarah
and Hagar:
For it is written that Abraham had
two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. However, the son
by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman
was born through promise.
These things contain an allegory,
for these are two covenants. One is from
So then, brothers [we, Christians], we are not children of
a handmaid, but of the free woman (Ga 4:22-25, 28-31; WEB)
So also in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16, shortly afterwards writing to a
congregation composed mainly of believers with a pagan background:
For you, brothers, became imitators of the
congregations of God which are in Judea in Mashiach Yeshua; for you also
suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the
Jews; who killed both the Lord Yeshua and their own prophets, and drove us
out, and the do not please God, and are contrary to all men; forbidding us to
speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But
wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
What did that mean?
1.) Generally, that the Jews of the First century experienced no
purification at the end of the antitypical 40 days.
2.) On the contrary, Elohim's wrath came upon them.
In Romans chapter 11, we are informed that they for the time being were
shut up in their state of disobedience. While Gentile believers were grafted
onto the Olive tree of the true Israel of God - which is rooted in the
Abrahamic Promise – they experienced just the opposite: As the original and
natural branches of that ‘tree’ they were broken off (Romans
11:17-32.
3.) As the result of their stubborn attitude towards their own Messiah,
purification for
For I don’t desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this
mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial
hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come
in (Ro 11:25).
If she gives
birth to a female child
Here does not suddenly appear another woman! On the contrary!
Rather, Leviticus 12 implies that the same woman gives
birth either to a male or a female child.
In both cases she is the type of the Israel of God, but in two aspects
as above was argued at length.
Therefore, there will indeed be a recovery, a return to God's favour for
ethnic Israel, and in Romans 11, we also learn when: At the end
of their hardening, which coincides with the time that the full measure of the
Gentiles has come into the Christian congregation, the antitypical male
child of Leviticus 12.
A remnant of Jews will eventually come to the knowledge that Yeshua of
Nazareth is still the promised Messiah, and because they will turn in faith to
him, they will still experience – as the
That Jerusalem earthly in antitypical sense may be equated
with the female child can be deduced from the allegory in Ezekiel
16, the chapter in which YHWH Elohim elaborates how Israel, as a baby-girl, was
found in the open field:
Again the word of YHWH came to me, saying, Son of
man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; and say, Thus says the Lord
YHWH to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite;
the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel
was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren’t
salted at all, nor swaddled at all. No eye pitied you, to do any of these
things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open
field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your
blood, I said to you, though you are in your blood, live; yes, I said
to you, though you are in your blood, live. I caused you to
multiply as that which grows in the field, and you
increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts
were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold,
your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered
your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says
the Lord YHWH, and you became mine.
(Ezekiel 16:1-8; WEB)
So, here we arrive at the stirring
question: How can the ratio 1:2 (because of 7:14 and 40:80) be
situated in the course of time?
Our answer: The year 55 AD (or 4057 AM)
seems to have become the hinged year. Why?
Because in the period 50-52 AD, the
apostle Paul spent no less than 18 months in the city of Corinth during his
second missionary journey. In Acts 18:5-11, Luke reported on this:
When, now, both Silas and
Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to be intensely occupied with the word [before
- apparently the first few months - he had practiced the tent maker's craft
part-time with the couple Akula and Priskilla],
witnessing to the Jews to prove that Yeshua is the Messiah. But after they kept
on opposing him and speaking abusively, he shook out his garments and said
to them: Let your blood be on your own heads. I am
clean. From now on I will go to people of the nations… And many of the Corinthians who heard began to believe and
be baptized. Moreover, the Lord said to
Paul in a vision by night: Do not be afraid, but keep on speaking and do not
keep silent, for I am with you and no man will
assault you to harm you; for I have many people in this city. So he stayed there for a year and six months [the
period 50-52 AD], teaching the word of God among
them.
Now to
clarify the 1:2 ratio, it is advisable that we delve into the year 2084 AM,
when Abraham was 75 years old. Why?
Well, 2084
AM is the year in which YHWH Elohim confirmed the promise he had previously
made to the patriarch: And in your seed
all Goyim [Hebrew for people of the Gentile origin] of the earth will be blessed.
Consequently,
on that occasion YHWH Elohim entered into
a solemn, official Covenant with the patriarch, as evidenced by its description
in Genesis, chapter 15.
The
question remains of course: How is the year 2084 AM chronologically
obtained? Answer: By counting back to the creation of Adam, which
apparently occurred in the year 4004/4003 before Christ.
Thus,
while the origin lay with Abraham and the Covenant with him in the year 2084
AM, the year 4057 AM (55 AD) turned out to be the year in which the antitype of
the 40 days became clear. Then, in that year, 1973 years had passed since
the covenant with Abraham was ratified (4057 minus 2084).
That the
point of departure must indeed be 2084 AM, was confirmed for us
all in the Letter to the Galatians.
Proving
that the decisive sacrifice of Yeshua Mashiach brough to an end the sacrificial
cult according to the statutes of the Torah, the divinely inspired Paul also
tells us the following:
As Scripture foresaw that God
justifies the Gentiles as a result of faith, she made good tidings beforehand
to Abraham: In you all Gentile nations will be blessed, so that those who are
of faith will be blessed with the faithful Abraham… The righteous, by faith he shall live
... The Mashiach bought us free from the curse of
the Law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: Cursed be every one
hanging on a tree, that
the blessing of Abraham in Mashiach Yeshua would come to the Gentile nations, that
we might receive the Promise of the Spirit through faith ... For if the
inheritance is out of the Torah, it is no longer
from the Promise. To Abraham, however, God has proved his
favor through the Promise ... Now I want to say: A will that was
previously validated by God is not rendered invalid by Torah that was created after
four hundred and thirty years to override the
Promise to do.
(Galatians
3)
Thus,
between the Covenant and the Exodus, when Israel was given the Torah (in 2514
AM), 430 years had passed (2514 AM minus 430 = 2084 AM).
Already
before the year 55 AD individuals from Paganism had entered the Christian
congregation. Among them were the
Roman centurion Cornelius and the Ethiopian chamberlain.
However, when Paul and Barnabas started their First Missionary
Journey the Gentiles were massively offered the opportunity to come to faith
and be "added" to the heavenly congregation.
Especially,
when they brought the Gospel to the Gentile people in Lystra, it becane
clear that the Goyim (gentiles) - after being left to themselves for
so many centuries by YHWH Elohim at the Speech
Confusion - indeed had come within God's sight to hear the message about
salvation. As we read in Acts 14:16 >> In the
past generations he has allowed all the Gentiles to go their own ways.
See the study : Confusion
of Tongues and the Seven Times.
Then, in
the year 49 AD, during the apostle convention in Jerusalem - the details of
which are recorded in Acts 15 - the situation about the Gentile
believers was seriously questioned >> Should they be required to comply
with Mosaic legislation.
Admittedly,
the majority recognized that YHWH Elohim at that time was already shifting his
attention to the Gentile peoples in order to take out of them a people for his name, and that consequently
the burden of the Torah should not be imposed upon them. Nevertheless, it
was decided that those Goyim believers should abide by the so-called
‘Noahide commandments’.
Accordingly,
about 8 years later, in 57 AD, when Paul arrived in Jerusalem - at
the end of his Third Missionary Journey - he learned from
James, Yeshua's half-brother, that the Jewish believers
in Judea were still full of zeal for the Law (Acts 21).
However,
in the meantime, Paul had diligently preached the Gospel to the Gentiles and
from his First Letter to the Corinthians, written tot hem in the year 55 AD
(4057 AM), it becomes very clear that he held out a
heavenly destination for those believers:
47 The first man
[is] out of [the] earth, dusty, the second man out of heaven.
48 As the dusty [is], such also [are] the physical;
and as the heavenly [is], so [are] the heavenly also.
49 And such as we
bore the image of the dusty, we should bear also the image of the heavenly.
50 But this I say,
brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit Gods kingdom, neither is
inheriting the corruption the incorruption.
51 Look! I tell
you a mystery: We shall not all be laid to sleep, but all we shall be changed,
53 For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But as soon as
this corruptible puts on incorruption, and this mortal puts on immortality,
then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in
victory.
Taking
into account the ratio of 1:2, based on the extended cleansing procedure for a
born daughter, i.e. from 40 to 80 days, the Jews (as a nation) will have to
wait until 2027/2028 AD (or 6030 AM) before the antitypical cleansing also becomes a reality for them (55 + 1973 =
2028 AD). Or, expressed in the Anno Mundi time account
>> 4057 + 1973 = 6030 AM.
And that
conclusion is entirely in line with other divine
predictions about Israel's foreseen restoration to God's favor, and
they, for example, will experience what Jeremiah prophesied: I will forgive their iniquity and no longer remember their
sins (Jer 31:34).
With all
those facts having in our mind, it is certainly no coincidence that spiritual
cleansing for Israeli-earthly will take place at the end
of the 70th Yearweek, in 6030 AM (2027/2028
AD). Why?
Because
then they will experience the effect of the New Covenant to be concluded with
them (Jeremiah 31) :
Look! Days are coming, YHWH
decares, that I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with
the House of Judah; not one like the covenant that I made with their
forefathers on the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the
land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke while I possessed them as a husband,
declares YHWH.
For this is the covenant that I
will make with the House of Israel after those days, says YHWH: I will put
my law within them and in their heart I will write it. And I will become their God and they will be my people. And they
shall no more teach each other his neighbor and every man his brother, saying,
know YHWH, for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest
among them, declares YHWH . For I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will no longer remember their sin.
See the
study on Daniel's Yearweeks Prophecy, especially from Daniël 9:27.
This study
makes it plausible that in the middle of the last 'Week' the Times of the
Gentiles come to an end, or will be fulfilled, which also
means that the trampling on of Jerusalem comes to an end, an
expression that also refers to the (re)creation of the kingdom for Israel
(Luke 21:20-24).
But once
again we mainly draw the reader's attention to the study of Confusion
of Tongues and the Seven Times.
However, already at that early stage, some
Gentile believers who claimed to have become Christians, started turning against
the Jews, yes, even raising themselves above them, reasoning that the
unbelieving Jews could be equated with the branches that YHWH Elohim had broken
away from the ‘Olive Tree’.
And indeed Paul, in his Letter to the
Romans – written by him around 56/57 AD – in exactly that sense
referred to that symbolic tree which had its roots in the Abrahamic covenant.
However, his explanations were accompanied by both warnings and stern
admonitions:
If some of the [Jewish] branches were broken off, and you [Gentile
believers], being a wild olive, were grafted in among them [the
original Jewish branches], and became partaker with them of the
root and of the richness of the olive tree [the
promises that were connected with the original covenant with Abraham]; don’t boast over the branches [the Jews
who refused faith in Yeshua]. But if you boast, it is not you who
support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches
were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” True; by their unbelief they
were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be
conceited, but fear; for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither
will he spare you.
See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward
those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his
goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. They also, if they don’t
continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them
in again. For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive
tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more
will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I don’t desire, brothers, to have you
ignorant of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that
a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles
has come in, and so all Israel [the above described Woman,
the Israel of God] will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of
However, during the centuries that followed many of the ‘Christian’
clergy did boast over
the fallen [Jewish] branches.
And by that
haughty treatment of the unbelieving Jews they put themselves on a par with the
three false comforters of the man Job, who, in his sufferings, became a
depiction of Israel as Elohim's suffering Ebed (servant).
In Job 2:11 Job’s false comforters are presented to us with their names
and origin.
However, take careful note of their numerical values:
• The Temanite Eliphaz (643)
• and Bildad the Shuhite (375)
• and Zophar the Naamathite (957).
Added together a total numerical value of 1975.
But what does that outcome mean in the context of our study?
When will those false ‘friends’ of
It was so, that after YHWH had
spoken these words to Job, YHWH said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is
kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of
me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. Now therefore, take to
yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up
for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with
you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing
that is right, as my servant Job has.” (Job 42:7-8)
What a surprising turn for the so-called ‘Christian’ friends of Job /
Only through the intervention of Elohim's Servant Nation, there will
still be prospects for them.
Compare Isaiah
42:8-9 and 43:10-12.
This practically means that in the
End Times their true spiritual condition will be brought to light.
Their unmasking will take place at
the time of the rapture of the true Church Body of Mashiach Jesus. They will
then experience being "left behind" >>
Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a
commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and
those who are dead in Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught
away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always
be with the Lord (1Thess 4:16-17).
On solid Biblical grounds, we
expect that spectacular event to occur in 6024 AM (or 2022 AD).
And then exactly 1975 years will have
elapsed since 47 AD (4048 AM), the year in which Paul and Barnabas showed their determination to address the Gentiles
henceforth.
After all, to the unbelievers
among the Jews he said according to Acts 13: 45-46 >>
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were
filled with jealousy and began blasphemously contradicting the things Paul was
saying. Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said to them: It was necessary for the
word of God to be spoken first to you. Since you are rejecting it and do not judge
yourselves worthy of everlasting life, look! we
turn to the Gentiles.
As a result, Yeshua's
Congregational Body has since formed mainly out of believing Gentiles, but from
the outset so-called Christians also appeared among
them who appeared to have the spirit of such critics as Eliphaz, Bildad and
Zophar, whose total number value is 1975 after all !!
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