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Let’s talk about Abraham’s Lamb today. That one sounds like a winner.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First, let us look at how God of the Covenant, stands at the end of the Promise, waiting for His community of believers to arrive at what was before-time purposed by God.
I have sat in the presence of many Biblical scholars such as Dr. Ron Moseley, Dr. Brad Young, Ron Blizzard, and Dr. Bibbins to name a few. It was amazing to listen to their Hebraic knowledge and to hear their passion for the Lord.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”10341″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I remember conversations relating to Psalms 118, where Hebrew traditions observe events surrounding the time when Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. He prayed for His Heavenly Father to “send now, prosperity”. Our Redeemer knew that it was now time for His transformation from being the Living Torah, into the Suffering Messiah “סבל המשיח.”
This is that Day when Abraham’s obedience added Elohim Adonia in laying the foundation of the “Day that was Made.”
Psalms 118:22-27
(CWSB)
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
23 This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.
27 God is the Lord, which hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”11411″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]According to the Psalms 118:25, this is a day of “prosperity.” The Hebrew word for Prosperity is not the same as in English. The Hebrew צָלֵחַ ṣālēaḥ or Prosperity is an endowment from the Holy Spirit to make one successful.
Dictionary Definition
“prosperity”
H6743. צָלַח ṣālaḥ, צָלֵחַ ṣālēaḥ:
(Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
צָלַח ṣālaḥ, צָלֵחַ ṣālēaḥ:
A verb meaning to rush, to break forth, to come mightily. It describes the Holy Spirit’s effect on persons, making them powerful (Judg. 14:6, 9; 15:14; 1 Sam. 16:13); or causing persons to prophesy (1 Sam. 10:6, 10; 11:6). It indicates the effect of an evil spirit as well (1 Sam. 18:10). It has the sense of persons breaking out, rushing forward in battle (2 Sam. 19:17[18]); and of God breaking out in acts of judgment (Amos 5:6).
In human terms, the Messiah may have prayed this prayer, because the day that God was making throughout Biblical history was at hand. Therefore, on this day He would become a successful warrior; fighting His most important battle within a human body. Our Messiah readied Himself for every emotion that the Kingdom of Darkness would throw at Him. The Messiah prays for “prosperity,” endowed by the Holy Spirit. To accomplish, achieve, or fulfill the will of God.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”10244″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text](CWSB Dictionary)
The Greek at 3 John 1: 2 convey the same description as one who is on a journey in faith and weel whish for one’s success.
εὐοδόω euodóō; contracted euodṓ, fut. euodṓsō, from eúodos (n.f.), easy to travel through, eú (G2095), good, well, and hodós (G3598), a way, journey. To lead in a good way, to prosper one’s journey (Sept.: Gen. 24:27, 48). Figuratively, to make prosperous, give success to. In the NT, only in the pass., meaning to be led in a good way, to have a prosperous journey (Rom. 1:10, “if I shall be prospered [permitted] to come to you”
What this type of prosperity meant for our Messiah was to come to a successful day of suffering and an extraordinary Crucifixion, thank you Yeshua !!!.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”10701″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At this point in Bible history, the Lord had finished building the Earth, but now He was creating a special day where, after Adam failed in his position, God’s plan was to send a Second Adam (our Redeemer) to restore humanity back to right-standing with Adonai. So, Adonai began to construct that day. However, the place where Abraham lived at that time was not the location where the Lord wanted to build His Altar for a Sacrifice. For some special reason, the law concerning rules of the Sacrifice stated that blood from the ram must fall onto the ground where the sacrifice was made. The land would become a very important decision because if the blood touched the ground, that land became Holy to the Lord. And perhaps, the principalities over the region where Abraham’s homeland was, may have carried many apocalyptic prophecies surrounding that nation.
Revelation 9:14-16
(CWSB)
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
The Lord wanted Abraham to leave “אוּר ’ûr,” Iraq, to get away from the Euphrates River, and to go into the land of Moriah, where Adonai was making His “Day of Prosperity.”
(CWSB Dictionary)
H2313. חִדֶּקֶל ḥiddeqel: A proper noun designating Hiddekel, the Tigris River, running on the eastern side of Mesopotamia and a sister to the Euphrates River. It is one of the four rivers mentioned in Genesis 2:14. Daniel was given an apocalyptic vision as he stood on its shore (Dan. 10:4). Its sources begin in the southeast of southern Turkey (ancient Hittite-Harrian territory) in the Armenian Mountains.
(CWSB Dictionary)
אוּר ’ûr: A proper noun designating Ur:
The name of the city which Terah and Abraham left to go to Haran (Gen. 11:28, 31). It is called “Ur of the Chaldees.” It was most likely in southeast Iraq on the Euphrates River. It is probably ancient Tell el-Muqayyar. A few scholars have argued that it is somewhere in northern Mesopotamia or even southeast Turkey. Many ancient tablets have been uncovered there, and the “Law Code” of Ur-Nammu has been found and deciphered. It became the location of the much later neo-Babylonian kings (626-538 b.c.).
Words are powerful and especially those expressed in Hebrew. Hebrew is called the picture language because words are pictures of actions or nouns.
יְרוּשָׁלַם Yerushalayim or Yerushalayim; which means “foundation of peace.”
אֵ֣ת ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם אֶת־ מֶ֤לֶךְ; which means “The King of Jerusalem.”
Those who are studying Hebraic language might recognize the characters and determine what the Hebrew letters are saying. The same is true of one character. Adonai called His people by their behavior.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11400″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Genesis 22:1-5 (NLT)
Abraham’s Faith Tested
1 Sometime later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.
“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”
2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
3 The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”
At the point of Adonai’s request to Abraham to take Issac and place him on a pile of wood, was a prototype of an Altar (a type of Cross) being made to sacrifice Jesus, God’s only Son. Would Abraham dedicate his only promised son to God?
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In Adonai’s construction of the day – He, Himself, would be placed in the same scenario, that He would freely give His Messiah over to priests who would sacrifice God’s only begotten Son.
So, while the rehearsal was taking place between Abraham and Isaac, the Lord’s divine pattern was already in motion. Adonai can now make the True Promise come to fulfillment. Our Lord needed a human to produce an act of faith in God, and by this act of faith, Adonai created a Nation He declared Abraham (father of many nations) as righteous in His sight!
Finally, God could bring forth a Righteous Redeemer out of the righteous nation. And, the area where the blood of the sacrificed ram fell, became the city of Jerusalem, the Capital of the great City of God and the Throne of the Great King, Hallelujah!
Genesis 22:2-6
(Amplified Bible – AMP)
113: This area later was to become Jerusalem and the site of Solomon’s temple.
114: At this time Isaac would probably be about twenty years old.
115: As Jesus carried the crossbar for His own crucifixion, so here Isaac carried the wood for his own execution by fire, but God had mercy on him.
Hebrews 11:17-19 (MSG)
17 By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him— 18 and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.” 19 Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that’s what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”11402″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Genesis 22:2-6
(Amplified Bible – AMP)
113: This area later was to become Jerusalem and the site of Solomon’s temple.
114: At this time Isaac would probably be about twenty years old.
115: As Jesus carried the crossbar for His own crucifixion, so here Isaac carried the wood for his own execution by fire, but God had mercy on him.
Hebrews 11:17-19 (MSG)
17 By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him— 18 and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.” 19 Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that’s what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
As Adonai spoke a non-existent universe into materializing, He carries the force in His words the speak of a day with the importance, such as the crucifixion of the Lamb of God. Innumerable historical events were aligned for the purpose of pointing to this great day.
Certainly, our Heavenly Father is able to call those things that be not as though they were. And no other demo-god, even Satan can demonstrate this kind of power, majesty or dominion.
Romans 4:16-18
(CWSB)
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Genesis 14:23
(New Living Translation (NLT) Study Bible Notes)
God’s Covenant with Abraham (15:1–21)
The Lord had already established a relationship with Abraham (12:1-9) before he made a formal covenant with him (ch 15). God took all the initiative: He approached Abraham and spoke to him in a vision. God presented the impossible promise that the old man would have a son through whom his descendants would eventually be as numerous as the stars of heaven. Abraham believed God (15:6), and his faith proved to be an act of righteousness—faith is righteousness, and faith produces righteousness in covenant relationship with God (see Hab 2:4; Rom 1:17; 4:3, 17; Gal 3:6, 11; Heb 10:37-38).
Genesis 14:23
(New Living Translation (NLT) Study Bible Notes)
At the end of that day, Abraham knew that his own and his descendants’ future was firmly in the hands of the covenant God. Later, the grant would be transferred to his descendants.
Romans 4:16 – 5:1 (CJB)
16 The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God’s free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed, not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had —Avraham avinu for all of us. 17 This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.”Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence. 18 For he was past hope, yet in hope he trusted that he would indeed become a father to many nations, in keeping with what he had been told, “So many will your seed be.” 19 His trust did not waver when he considered his own body—which was as good as dead, since he was about a hundred years old—or when he considered that Sarah’s womb was dead too. 20 He did not by lack of trust decide against God’s promises. On the contrary, by trust he was given power as he gave glory to God, 21 for he was fully convinced that what God had promised he could also accomplish. 22 This is why it was credited to his account as righteousness.
23 But the words, “it was credited to his account…,” were not written for him only. 24 They were written also for us, who will certainly have our account credited too, because we have trusted in him who raised Yeshua our Lord from the dead— 25 Yeshua, who was delivered over to death because of our offences and raised to life in order to make us righteous.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]