MATTHEW BEGUN HIS WRITINGS BY EXPLAINING WHO YAHUSHA IS: THE PROPHESIED MESSIAH OF ISRAEL, THE SON OF DAVID, SON OF ABRAHAM.
YAHUSHA’S ONE-OF-A-KIND CONCEPTION WAS A DIRECT WORK OF HIM DITCHING HIS OLD BRIDE THROUGH A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND MORPHING INTO A NEW FIRST-FRUIT BEING … THE SON OF MAN (DIVINE ALAHIM/MAN SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET.) MATTHEW GOES ON TO EXPLAIN THAT THE MESSIAH'S HEBREW BIRTH NAME, YAHUSHA, WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE IT EXPLAINS WHAT HE WILL DO: HE WILL ACT AS ALAHIM IN THE FORM OF A MAN TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE FROM THE DEATHLY CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR SINS/ THE CORRUPT SPIRIT IN THEIR FLESH.
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1. YAHUSHA was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea during the time when Herod was King.
BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA WAS ALSO THE BIRTHPLACE OF KING DAVID, SO THE DIRECT FAMILIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MESSIAH AND KING DAVID IS A MUST IN THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES (AS DEMONSTRATED BY MATTHEW'S GENEALOGY OF YAHUSHA IN CHAPTER 1), AS WELL AS THE TWO FIGURES (BORN MANY CENTURIES APART) SHARING A COMMON BIRTH PLACE.
1. YAHUSHA was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea during the time when Herod was King. After YAHUSHA was born, some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem. 2. The wise men asked people, “Where is the child Who has been born to be the King of the Jews? We saw the star that shows He was born. We saw it rise in the sky in the east and have come to worship Him.”
NOTICE THAT THE QUESTION THE MAGI ASKED THE RESIDENTS OF JERUSALEM WAS NOT IF A NEW KING OF THE JEWS HAD BEEN BORN BUT RATHER WHERE? THERE WAS NO DOUBT IN THEIR MINDS THAT A NEW JUDEAN KING HAD BEEN BORN BECAUSE A CELESTIAL SIGN HAD ALERTED THEM TO IT, AND THEY FULLY TRUSTED WHAT THEY SAW AND WHAT IT MEANT. ODDLY ENOUGH THE GOOD PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM (AS WELL AS HEROD) WERE STARTLED BY THE MAGI'S HUNT FOR A NEW JEWISH KING; THEY WERE UNAWARE OF SUCH AN EVENT. YET HEROD UNDERSTOOD THE DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MEANING OF THE MAGIS' MESSAGE BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT YET ANOTHER OF THE MANY RIVALS FOR HIS THRONE, BUT RATHER THIS NEW KING WOULD ALSO BE THE MESSIAH.
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WE ARE LEFT, HOWEVER, WITH A COUPLE OF IMPORTANT BUT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:
1) HOW EXACTLY DID THE MAGI KNOW THAT THIS NEW KING OF THE JEWS HAD BEEN BORN AND ...
2) WHAT WAS IT THEY SAW IN THE SKY THAT ALERTED THEM TO IT?
SOMETHING THAT THE VERY PEOPLE (OVER WHOM THIS NEW KING WAS SUPPOSED TO RULE) WERE COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF, BUT PAGAN STAR-GAZERS EXPECTED AND FOUND? CLEARLY THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN THIS MYSTERY. BECAUSE THE BETHLEHEM STAR HAS MESMERISED, THRILLED, AND INSPIRED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF RELIGIOUS FOLK OVER THE CENTURIES IT IS DEFINITELY WORTH OUR WHILE TO EXPLORE EXACTLY WHAT THIS STAR MIGHT HAVE BEEN AND WHERE IT MIGHT HAVE COME FROM.
THERE ARE MANY TODAY WHO MENTALLY PICTURE THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM AS A SUPER BRIGHT OBJECT LIGHTING UP THE NIGHTTIME SKY THAT SUDDENLY APPEARED AND THEN SOON FADED AWAY. SO THE THOUGHT BY SOME IS THAT THE BIRTH-STAR OF YAHUSHA ALAHIM WAS ACTUALLY A COINCIDENTAL SUPERNOVA EVENT, WHILE OTHERS HARP ABOUT COMETS AND PLANETARY CONJUCTIONS, DIVING INTO ANCIENT STAR MAPS.
WHETHER COMETS, SUPERNOVAS, OR PLANETARY CONJUNCTIONS, THERE IS NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT THESE KINDS OF EVENTS WOULD HAVE PLAYED ANY ROLE IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE MAGI ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM STAR IN AND OF THEMSELVES OR WOULD IT ANNOUNCE THE BIRTH OF A KING OF THE JEWS. FURTHER, WHEN MATTHEW REPORTS ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM STAR HE DOESN'T MENTION A DIVINE MIRACLE? RATHER WHAT WE MUST FIND (IF POSSIBLE) IS SOME CELESTIAL CIRCUMSTANCE THAT WOULD HAVE CONFORMED TO THE DETAILED AND POWERFUL ASTROLOGICAL BELIEF SYSTEM OF THE MAGI - NOT SOMETHING THAT MIGHT TANTALISE US! SOME SPECTACULAR HAPPENING IN THE SKIES NO DOUBT WOULD HAVE CAUGHT THEIR ATTENTION AND THEY WOULD HAVE THOUGHT DEEPLY ABOUT IT. BUT THE SIGN OF THE BIRTH OF A KING (IN OUR CASE, A KING OF THE JEWS) WOULD HAVE HAD TO FIT AN ALREADY WELL ESTABLISHED SET OF CRITERIA IN ORDER FOR THE MAGI TO ASSIGN IT THAT SPECIFIC MEANING.
WE READ IN LUKE'S GOSPEL THAT IT WAS NOT THE STAR THAT ILLUMINATED THE PLACE OF YAHUSHA’S BIRTH, BUT RATHER IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE.
LUKE 2:8-11 “IN THE COUNTRYSIDE NEARBY WERE SOME SHEPHERDS SPENDING THE NIGHT IN THE FIELDS, GUARDING THEIR FLOCKS, WHEN AN ANGEL OF ALAHIM APPEARED TO THEM, AND THE SHEKINAH-GLORY OF ALAHIM SHONE AROUND THEM. THEY WERE TERRIFIED. BUT THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, "DON'T BE AFRAID, BECAUSE I AM HERE ANNOUNCING TO YOU GOOD NEWS THAT WILL BRING GREAT JOY TO ALL THE PEOPLE. THIS VERY DAY, IN THE TOWN OF DAVID, THERE WAS BORN FOR YOU A DELIVERER WHO IS THE MESSIAH, YAHUSHA”.
SO IT WAS THE DIVINE ESTEEM OF ALAHIM (THE SHEKINAH) THAT ACCOMPANIED AN ANGEL THAT ILLUMINATED THE AREA AND INFORMED THE SHEPHERDS OF THE BIRTH OF YAHUSHA MESSIAH, NOT THE STAR! SO WHAT WAS THE SIGN OF HOW THESE SHEPHERDS WOULD KNOW WHICH CHILD WAS THE LONG AWAITED DELIVERER?
LUKE 2:12 “HERE IS HOW YOU WILL KNOW: YOU WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN CLOTH AND LYING IN A FEEDING TROUGH."
SO THE SIGN THAT THIS WAS THE MESSIAH WAS WHERE THE BABY WAS LOCATED, AND THAT HE'D BE LYING IN A FEEDING TROUGH (A MANGER). IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH A STAR, AND INTERESTINGLY, IT WAS NOT A NEWBORN KING THE JEWS WERE TO BE LOOKING FOR BUT RATHER THEIR DELIVERER. HERE'S WHERE THINGS BEGIN TO GET DICEY. AFTER VISITING HEROD, AND THE MAGIS BEING URGED BY HIM TO FIND THIS NEWBORN KING OF THE JEWS (AND THEN TO LET HIM KNOW RIGHT AWAY) THEY CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY.
9. After the wise men heard the King, they left. They saw the same star they had seen in the east, and they excitedly followed it. And the star traveled in front of them until it stopped above the place where the child was (YAHUSHA WAS 2 YEARS OLD BY THIS TIME). 10 And they were so overjoyed and rejoiced seeing the star. 11 The wise men came to the house where the child was with His mother Mary. They bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened the boxes of gifts they had brought for him, giving treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 12 Then that night, after being warned in a dream (not to go back to King Herod), the wise men went home to their own country a different way.
IN THE END WHAT WE HAVE IN MATTHEW (REGARDING THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM) IS THAT EITHER IT WAS A CELESTIAL EVENT THAT SIGNALLED A MOMENTOUS & CALAMITOUS EVENT, APPEARING IN THE ZODIACSIGN OF THE RAM (ARIES), WHICH ONLY THE HIGHLY TRAINED MAGI WOULD HAVE RECOGNISED - A VERY SUBTLE SIGN THAT OCCURS ABOUT EVERY 60 YEARS, AND ONE THAT WOULD INDEED HAVE BEEN MARKED BY A MORNING STAR THAT RISES IN THE EAST AND THEN MOVES ITS POSITION ACROSS THE SKY, AND THEN AT SOME POINT APPEARS TO STOP (BEFORE IT MAKES KIND OF A LOOPING TURN).....
OR WE HAVE A SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE OF ALAHIM!
BUT REMEMBER: THE BIRTH STAR WAS NOT A SIGN THAT ALAHIM GAVE TO THE JEWS, BUT RATHER IT WAS A CELESTIAL SIGN MEANT FOR PAGAN ASTROLOGERS. AS LUKE CHAPTER 2 EXPLAINS, THE SIGN ALAHIM PROVIDED FOR THE JEWS WAS THAT THEY WERE TO LOOK IN BETHLEHEM FOR A BABY THAT WAS LAID IN A FEEDING TROUGH. WOULD ALAHIM ACTUALLY GIVE PAGAN ASTROLOGERS A SIGN (ANY SIGN) OF THE BIRTH OF A DIVINE JEWISH MESSIAH? WE FIND ALAHIM INTERFACING WITH PAGANS ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS AND USUALLY PROPHETICALLY CONNECTED TO THE BIRTH OF YAHUSHA ALSO.
11. The wise men came to the house where the child was with His mother Mary. They bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened the boxes of gifts they had brought for him, giving treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 12. Then that night, after being warned in a dream (not to go back to King Herod), the wise men went home to their own country a different way.
WHEN THE MAGI FINALLY FOUND THE CHILD: UPON ENTERING THE
HOUSE, THEY SAW THE CHILD WITH HIS MOTHER MARY; AND THEY PROSTRATED THEMSELVES AND WORSHIPPED HIM. THEN THEY OPENED THEIR BAGS AND PRESENTED HIM GIFTS OF GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH. THE MAGI WORSHIPPED THE CHILD AS THEY WOULD ANY KING. REMEMBER: THE MAGI WERE NOT LOOKING FOR A DELIVERER OR AN ALAHIM BUT RATHER FOR A NEW BORN KING OF JUDEA. BOWING ONESELF BEFORE A KING WAS USUAL AND CUSTOMARY. PRESENTING EXPENSIVE GIFTS WHEN VISITING A KING WAS USUAL AND CUSTOMARY ESPECIALLY FOR FIRST-TIME FOREIGN VISITORS.
SO YAHUSHA ALAHIM IN HIS AMAZING PROVIDENCE LEFT HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN AND PERFECTLY TIMED HIS TRANSITION INTO FLESH TO COINCIDE WITH A SIGN THAT PAGAN ASTROLOGERS WERE LOOKING FOR. A SIGN SO SNEAKY THAT THE JEWS (HIS FIRST WIFE) HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF - A SIGN SO SUBTLE THAT THE JEWS NEVER EVEN NOTICED IT (BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE NO REASON TO NOTICE IT). BUT GENTILE PAGANS WORSHIPPED MARY’S CHILD AS A KING, WITH NO UNDERSTANDING THAT HE WAS THE PROMISED DIVINE MESSIAH AND DELIVER.
AT THE SAME TIME YAHUSHA ALAHIM GAVE HIS PEOPLE:
A) A MIRACULOUS ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ARRIVAL OF THEIR MESSIAH (AS A HUMAN BABY) BY MEANS OF AN ANGEL AND THE APPEARANCE OF THE GLORY/ESTEEM OF ALAHIM IN THE NIGHT SKY NEAR BETHLEHEM AND:
B) HE ALSO GAVE THEM A SIGN IN ORDER FOR THEM TO POSITIVELY IDENTIFY THIS CHILD BY SAYING HE WOULD BE THE ONE LAYING IN A FEEDING TROUGH IN BETHLEHEM.
SO YAHUSHA INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO THE WORLD AS BOTH KING AND MESSIAH; KING TO THE PAGANS, AND MESSIAH TO THE JEWS. AND HE DID IT IN WAYS THAT EACH COULD IDENTIFY WITH AND USING MEANS THAT EACH COULD ACCEPT, BECAUSE AFTERALL - HIS NEW REIGN IS BUILT ON THE SHOULDERS OF BOTH JEW & GENTILE ... ALL ARE WELCOME TO BE DELIVERED !
CONCLUSION :
AFTER NEARLY 500 YEARS OF NO SUPERNATURAL EVENTS (SINCE BABYLONIAN EXILE) THIS COSMIC DIVINE SHEKINAH APPEARING IN THE SKY (TO THE SHEPHERDS) WAS SO MAGNIFICENT, BRIGHT AND POWERFUL THAT EVEN THE MAGI IN BABYLON SAW IT, AND OVER COURSE OF 2 YEARS, FOLLOWED THE DIRECTION IT HAD OCCURRED AND VISITED THE NEW MESSIAH, YAHUSHA!
Yahuah Alahim left His Divorced Wife Israel, left His Father- Image, left all His Old Words and Covenants with the Jews and then (in most magnificent fashion) proceeded to leave His Heavenly Throne and Form - in order to usher in something NEW.
Yahusha is the New Creation and the New Covenant Order - the fullness and completeness of everything Alahim Yahuah was in human, fleshly form. Yahuah is gone and referred to only in the IMAGE. Yahusha is Alahim, the mediator of a New Covenant SPIRITUAL REIGN, which a person can never find on this earth ...
but only by entering in at the Narrow Gate and becoming a spiritual being.
SO WITH OUR ABSTRACT SPIRITUAL GOGGLES ON WE CAN SEE THAT EVEN IN YAHUAH'S DEATH AND METAMORPHOSIS INTO THE NEW BEING YAHUSHA, HIS GLORIOUS ARRIVAL ON THIS PLANET WAS ACCOMPANIED
BY THE MOST BREATH-TAKING, SUPERNATURAL LIGHT-SHOW (THE LIKES OF WHICH HAD NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE EZEKIEL SAW YAHUAH LEAVE SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN INNA HUMAN BUILDING. BUT HERE AGAIN, WE CANNOT PUT NATURAL
ONTO YAHUSHA'S ARRIVAL - FOR EVEN THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM POINTS US TO THE SUPERNATURAL VEIN WHEREBY MEN AND WOMEN CAN BE DELIVERED THROUGH BELIEF AND OBEDIENCE - AND BY UNDERGOING YAHUSHA ALAHIM'S BAPTISM OF SPIRIT AND FIRE IN PREPARATION FOR ETERNAL LIFE.
