How did Jesus learn so much, and who taught Him? This is the question the local experts wanted to know as well.
Joh 7:15 MKJV
(15) And the Jews marveled, saying, How does this man know letters, not being taught?
Isaiah had insight on this, as he wrote of the Messiah:
Isa 50:4-5 MKJV
(4) The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary with a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.
(5) The Lord Jehovah has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backwards.
Jesus was awakened in the morning - listening - to God. God gave Him ears to hear:
Rom 10:17 MKJV
(17) Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
Remember, to be a follower of a rabbi is to become like the rabbi, not to learn what the rabbi knows! Jesus was a disciple of God Himself, and as we know, He was the very face of God.
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Jesus the Builder - Pt2
As stated in the previous post, it was the responsibility of the Jewish father to begin teaching his son a trade by age 12, and to find him a wife by age 20. As we know, Jesus was not promised a wife in the flesh. Why did Joseph fall short in this responsibility? These are valid questions that require valid answers, or the very heritage of a Jewish Jesus is in question!
In Luke 2:41-48, we see that Jesus and Joseph are together. Jesus is about to enter 'middle' school, and is probably learning a trade at this point from Joseph. After this, Joseph disappears and is not seen again in the text. Why? All indications are that Joseph died at a young age. When the family of Jesus comes to retrieve Him in Matthew 12:46-49 ("Who is my mother and who are my brothers?") Joseph is not present. In John 19:26-27 as Jesus is dying, He gives His mother to John, also indicating that Joseph is no longer in the picture. This narrows down the time of death for Joseph to be while Jesus is between the age of 12 and 33.
Since Jesus was not promised a bride (excluding the possibility of further angelic visitation to Joseph on this subject) we can assume that Joseph passed away during the teen years of Jesus. The most gifted of students started middle school around the age of 12 while they worked their trade. Jesus was as gifted as they came, and He would have done likewise until the age of 15. At 15 the truly gifted would abandon their trade and seek to follow a rabbi with authority, one of the great Rabbis. Why did Jesus not do this?
If the father of the family died, the eldest son would take the responsibility for providing for the family. We know that Jesus did not follow a great rabbi of the day, lending more credence to the presumption that Joseph died while Jesus was 12-15 years old, and Jesus worked to provide for His family as the eldest should. He was a Teckton. So how did Jesus learn, and from whom?
In Luke 2:41-48, we see that Jesus and Joseph are together. Jesus is about to enter 'middle' school, and is probably learning a trade at this point from Joseph. After this, Joseph disappears and is not seen again in the text. Why? All indications are that Joseph died at a young age. When the family of Jesus comes to retrieve Him in Matthew 12:46-49 ("Who is my mother and who are my brothers?") Joseph is not present. In John 19:26-27 as Jesus is dying, He gives His mother to John, also indicating that Joseph is no longer in the picture. This narrows down the time of death for Joseph to be while Jesus is between the age of 12 and 33.
Since Jesus was not promised a bride (excluding the possibility of further angelic visitation to Joseph on this subject) we can assume that Joseph passed away during the teen years of Jesus. The most gifted of students started middle school around the age of 12 while they worked their trade. Jesus was as gifted as they came, and He would have done likewise until the age of 15. At 15 the truly gifted would abandon their trade and seek to follow a rabbi with authority, one of the great Rabbis. Why did Jesus not do this?
If the father of the family died, the eldest son would take the responsibility for providing for the family. We know that Jesus did not follow a great rabbi of the day, lending more credence to the presumption that Joseph died while Jesus was 12-15 years old, and Jesus worked to provide for His family as the eldest should. He was a Teckton. So how did Jesus learn, and from whom?
Monday, December 14, 2009
My Friend, You're Going To Die
John the Baptist is in prison. He is frightened, because chances are good that he is going to die. So he asks Jesus this very cryptic question.
Mat 11:3 MKJV
(3) And they said to Him, Are You he who should come, or do we look for another?
John, a rabbi, was doing something very rabbinic. He was prompting Jesus for an answer that only Jesus would give. What he actually asked was, "Are you the coming One?" This is a ramez, which I've explained in previous posts. Only this is a very difficult one to track down. We have to know where in the text Messiah was referenced to as the 'Coming One'. The reference is found in Zechariah:
Zec 9:9-11 HNV
(9) Rejoice greatly, daughter of Tziyon! Shout, daughter of Yerushalayim! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
(10) I will cut off the chariot from Efrayim, and the horse from Yerushalayim; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak shalom to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
(11) As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Why was John asking this in this way? Because the Coming One would set those free who were 'prisoners', and John was definitely this. Here is his question in western English, "Jesus, are you going to leave me in prison?"
What did Jesus say?
Mat 11:4-6 MKJV
(4) Jesus answered and said to them, Go and tell John again those things which you hear and see:
(5) the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel proclaimed to them.
(6) And blessed is he, whoever shall not be offended in Me.
If you do not think these men knew the text, this passage should prove to you differently. Jesus is quoting from 6 different places in Isaiah to John, who would have known all of this - by heart.
1) & 4)
Isa 42:6-7 MKJV
(6) I Jehovah have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
(7) to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
(8) I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.
(9) Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.
2) & 3)
Isa 33:23-24 MKJV
(23) Your ropes are loosened, they do not hold the base of the mast; they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; the lame take the prey.
(24) And an inhabitant, the people who live in it shall not say, I am sick; iniquity is taken away.
5)
Isa 26:19-20 MKJV
(19) Your dead ones shall live, together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
(20) Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors around you; hide for a little moment, until the fury has passed by.
6)
Isa 61:1 MKJV
(1) The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
All of these references of the sick being made well and the ropes loosened, the lame walking and the ropes loosened, blind eyes opened and the prisoner set free, those made to hear and the prisoner set free, the dead live while the people are beckoned, and the Gospel is preached while the prison doors open. Yet Jesus tells John, "the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel proclaimed to them." What is missing? The captive is set free. John, my friend, it is all true, but you are going to die in prison.
But blessed is he... what? That aren't offended because of these things. What things in our text are so obviously offensive? It is so very hard to know... if you don't know the scriptures. This is a personal challenge - to me.
Mat 11:3 MKJV
(3) And they said to Him, Are You he who should come, or do we look for another?
John, a rabbi, was doing something very rabbinic. He was prompting Jesus for an answer that only Jesus would give. What he actually asked was, "Are you the coming One?" This is a ramez, which I've explained in previous posts. Only this is a very difficult one to track down. We have to know where in the text Messiah was referenced to as the 'Coming One'. The reference is found in Zechariah:
Zec 9:9-11 HNV
(9) Rejoice greatly, daughter of Tziyon! Shout, daughter of Yerushalayim! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
(10) I will cut off the chariot from Efrayim, and the horse from Yerushalayim; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak shalom to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
(11) As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Why was John asking this in this way? Because the Coming One would set those free who were 'prisoners', and John was definitely this. Here is his question in western English, "Jesus, are you going to leave me in prison?"
What did Jesus say?
Mat 11:4-6 MKJV
(4) Jesus answered and said to them, Go and tell John again those things which you hear and see:
(5) the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel proclaimed to them.
(6) And blessed is he, whoever shall not be offended in Me.
If you do not think these men knew the text, this passage should prove to you differently. Jesus is quoting from 6 different places in Isaiah to John, who would have known all of this - by heart.
1) & 4)
Isa 42:6-7 MKJV
(6) I Jehovah have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
(7) to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
(8) I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.
(9) Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.
2) & 3)
Isa 33:23-24 MKJV
(23) Your ropes are loosened, they do not hold the base of the mast; they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; the lame take the prey.
(24) And an inhabitant, the people who live in it shall not say, I am sick; iniquity is taken away.
5)
Isa 26:19-20 MKJV
(19) Your dead ones shall live, together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
(20) Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors around you; hide for a little moment, until the fury has passed by.
6)
Isa 61:1 MKJV
(1) The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
All of these references of the sick being made well and the ropes loosened, the lame walking and the ropes loosened, blind eyes opened and the prisoner set free, those made to hear and the prisoner set free, the dead live while the people are beckoned, and the Gospel is preached while the prison doors open. Yet Jesus tells John, "the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel proclaimed to them." What is missing? The captive is set free. John, my friend, it is all true, but you are going to die in prison.
But blessed is he... what? That aren't offended because of these things. What things in our text are so obviously offensive? It is so very hard to know... if you don't know the scriptures. This is a personal challenge - to me.
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