Kingdom Come

“Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:” (Genesis 49:8-11)

We recognize Judah’s legacy in the name of the Jews. But what on earth did Judah do to inherit the right to rule? After all, this man’s reputation would have destroyed his chances if he was running for election in a democratic campaign against his brothers.

Even with the best of intentions he constantly messed up.

Even if we give him credit for acting in good faith – knowing the open hostility between his father Jacob and his Uncle Esau who had married into the Canaanites, his sturm und drang way of dealing with the affair between his sister Dinah and Shechem the Canaanite just created more problems. Most of all, it put such stress on his father’s favorite wife (not Judah’s mother) that she died giving birth to Jacob’s last son Benjamin.

Even if we give him credit for trying to save Joseph from being killed by the other nine brothers, his way of dealing with the situation was the direct cause of his father irretrievably losing his “only begotten son” into the diaspora of slavery,

Then doesn’t he marry himself and his sons to Canaanite women! From a psychological / literary perspective he appears to be rejecting his identity as a son of Jacob. East of Eden all over again. The book [by John Steinbeck] explores themes of depravity, beneficence, love, the struggle for acceptance and greatness, the capacity for self-destruction, and of guilt and freedom. It ties these themes together with references to and many parallels with the biblical Book of Genesis (especially Genesis Chapter 4, the story of Cain and Abel).

Judah was a miserable example of a Hebrew, far more Cain than Abel, undoubtedly a great example of the degeneration of the Hebrews “in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation” (Philippians 2:15)

The biblical account of God’s choice of Judah’s as heir to Isra-El / Prince of El over his 11 other brothers is reported in a lengthy, and dramatic, therefore obviously meaningful, account featuring Tamar, a despised woman. As happens all the time in our own culture, she was brutalized then passed and discarded as trash from man to man.

Continue reading “127) Melchizedeks Are Converted: Judah”

“All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six; And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten  (70).” (Genesis 46:5-7, 26-27)

The numerical data given for Jacob’s offspring is not extraneous. As in scientific research, or a mortgage application, numerical data “reveals hidden mysteries” about important activities, like COVID resurgence for a hospital administrator, or erratic employment on a loan application. This subtle but highly significant background information is useful as we track who inherited the position of the Hebrew Melchizedek from Joseph.

Using 30 years as the age of starting a family, therefore an approximate “generation“, we can calculate a good estimate of 60 years for these two generations born in Egypt after the 2nd generation entered Egypt. I’ve rearranged the text slightly without changing the wording to create a database out of the narrative.

• 1st generation from Jacob arrives in Egypt: Jacob’s sons includes Joseph 
• 2nd generation includes Ephraim and Manasseh [born before Joseph was 37 yrs old]
• Ephraim’s children and Machir the son of Manasseh [using the typical time frame of 30 years between generations, when Joseph was about 67 yrs old 
• 4th generation from Jacob: the children of Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s children [born when Joseph was about 97 years old]. (Genesis 50:22-23)

Another text lists the genealogies of the other sons of Israel, one of them being Levi.

1. Generation 1: “the years of the life of [Jacob’s son] Levi were an 137. 
2. Generation 2: Grandsons Gershon, Merari and Kohath [entered Egypt]: and the years of the life of Kohath were 133. 
3. Generation 3: Izhar, Hebron, Uzziel and Amram: and the years of the life of Amram were 137. And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him
4. 4th generation from Jacob; Aaron and Moses:  (Exodus 6)

Using these figures, Moses would have been born during Joseph’s lifetime and would have heard all about it when Joseph, like his father before him, gave his dying declaration:

Continue reading “SECTION XXII: Melchizedeks Overcome Curses: A Kenite And A Levite”

The Exodus has reverberated through world history”, and is such a significant biblical event, perhaps second only to creation, that it is as vehemently denied by Bible critics as creation itself.

There is no question that belief in the Exodus requires faith in an infinitely omnipotent Creator including the ability to control the triggering, timing and intensity of what could very likely have been a cascade of natural events comprising the plagues on Egypt. 

The Exodus takes up four entire books for a reason. It is the seminal redemption event that drives all the rest of human history. The circumstances proved that

• invoking the name does establish a relationship,
• and that believing in the name does grant access to power over humanly insolvable problems and even death,
• which must be acted upon in faith to achieve salvation.

For the persons who are at the least willing to consider the biblical narrative, the point I would like to drive home in this post is that the Exodus occurred to Hebrews, NOT just Israelites.

Continue reading “128) Melchizedeks Lead Their People Out Of Bondage: Moses”

Melchizedek Adam, of course, is the prototype of this characteristic when he knowingly, i.e. suicidally, ate the fruit so his wife would not be “dead to me” in that social ostracism form of punishment so popular with some people. Worse yet, in an era when daily life was a struggle to survive, losing one’s support system would have caused the most dire of consequences.

We find this trait expressed in every subsequent Melchizedek ranging from certain social isolation, physical martyrdom, to, rarely, willingness to endure possible eternal separation from the Singularity Source of Eternal Life.

“And YHVH said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD…Moses alone shall come near the LORD [just like an attorney is the only one who confers with the judge]…And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.” 

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.”

Continue reading “129) Melchizedeks Give Their Lives For Sinners: Moses”

Moses is repeatedly called “the man of God”, where “man” is translated from the Hebrew word “ish“.

The online concordance referenced above translates this Hebrew word אִישׁ as simply “man, male.” However, note that this translation is not consistent across Bible versions.

The King James Version, translated 4 centuries before modern versions, by translators steeped in the ancient languages and cultures, is the only version to translate the Hebrew word “ish” to express “the identical nature of one to another.”

• The first wife to the first husband because she was taken out of / cloned from him, becoming the prototype for all successive relationships in which “two become one” (Genesis 2:23, 24, 3:16)
• The first seed of the woman, which Eve considered, in a rush to judgment, as being the replacement for the original ha-Adam with the power to destroy the serpent: “a man from the LORD”. (Genesis 4:1)
• “every one” who speaks the same language. This can be understood abstractly as well to mean “those who understand the same deeper meaning” contrasted with those to whom the message remains a mystery. (Genesis 10:15)

When Moses is defined as אִישׁ, it must be that he also is identified as…YHVH.

Blasphemy!? Examine the evidence.

“And the LORD spake unto Moses [his] face to [Moses’] face, as a man / one of an identical pair speaketh unto his friend / another like himself. (Exodus 33:11)

This is consistent with Melchizedek being the Seed of the Woman, Adam’s heir in a succession of mortal Melchizedeks, each one being the Only Begotten Son of God.

Whoa! Isn’t the plurality of “Melchizedeks” intrinsically incompatible with “Only” Begotten Son?

That’s God for you. We four dimensionals have trouble wrapping our heads around String Theory, let alone the Singularity.

I’ll let Christianity’s exclusive Only Begotten Son explain it.

Continue reading “130) Melchizedeks Declared Identical To God: Moses”

In the old days, proverbially, a boy would begin his bar mitzvah speech with the words, “Today I am a man.” What does Judaism have to say about being an adult? The answer can be summed up by the Yiddish word mensch, “a decent human being...a caring, ethical human being.”

Who are we as human beings? We exist because of a choice — a choice by God to create the world. The world was created unfinished, incomplete, and flawed. God created humans to be partners in the completion of the world. Who better than human, who are of this world and yet created in God’s likeness, to finish the work of creation?

• “if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
• then…ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:5-6)

“Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.

• Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father” (Revelation 1:5-7)

Are these two entirely separate means of achieving the same goal?

Or has Christianity skipped over the first pages in the instruction manual on how to be priests/fathers under the Great High Priest?

Most of us are familiar with the Lord’s Prayer, AKA The Our Father, but are we as familiar with the introduction, which lists the qualifications for calling the Lord God our Father / High Priest?

“And seeing the multitudes, he / Yeshua, YHVH’s Savior went up into a mountain…and taught them, saying,

• Blessed are the poor [acknowledging their need] in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Blessed are they that mourn [over sin]: for they shall be comforted.
• Blessed are the meek: [like Moses, gentle with his charges despite wielding the unlimited power of Almighty God himself] for they shall inherit the earth.

Continue reading “131) How To Be A Mensch Like Moses”

“said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel…Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail…even they shall fall, and never rise up again…I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good… 

• “Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD.” (Amos 9)

At first glance God’s comparison of Israelites to Ethiopians appears to be a repeated statement of rejection. While the Ethiopians’ lineage is not listed in Genesis, it is related in some way with Mizraim/Egypt, who is listed as a son of Cush whose giant offspring including infamous Nimrod, and possibly Phut – whose people were called “men of war” highly suggestive of hybrid breeding.

• Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?

Now, confusingly, this sounds like God is favorably comparing the Ethiopians with the Israelites.

“Thus saith the LORD…that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee…When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee [as at the Red Sea]…when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned...I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight,..I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.” (Isaiah 43:1-4)

No question about it. God redeemed Israel with nations of high value, including Ethiopia.

And there’s more.

Continue reading “SECTION XXIII: The Law Of Melchizedek Defines Salvation By Grace”

We find all the requisites of a godly society included with the establishment of YHVH’s prototypical nation of Israel under Moses:

• political law and order for safety from danger within and without,
• A national language unifying the mixed multitude that joined the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and steadily amalgamated into Israel, 
• a moral code in an interdependent web of society 
• detailed functions of government leaders
• requirements for citizenship in God’s holy nation.

We can understand this by comparison to the American founders’ Constitution of the United States describing how the government is structured and operates.

Continue reading “132) The Law Of Melchizedek Codifies Freedom And Justice For All”

I think Sunday School is one of the worst experiences we can give our children. The dumbed down and sanitized “stories” become permanently infantilized and lose their impact when the kids grow up into adults.

What images come to your mind when you think of Moses leading 9 million refugees into the wilderness?

As of 2015, it was estimated that over 21 million people in the world were living in refugee situations…a majority are hosted in third world or developing countries, presenting…challenges such as terrorism and insecurity, nationalism, xenophobia and intolerance…the issue of protection of refugees, in the background of continued conflict remains a cause for concern in many countries…

Most refugee camps do not have sufficient food to provide to their populations…caloric intake is further reduced as refugees tend to sell food rations for other non-food goods. Moreover…lack of food variety, fruits, and vegetables causes many refugees to suffer from deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals, which can lead to a variety of diseases…

more than half of the refugee camps in the world are unable to provide the recommended daily water minimum of 20 liters of water per person per day…with the presence of diseases such as diarrhea and cholera…

The provision of adequate sanitation services is crucial to prevent communicable diseases and epidemics…still 30% of refugee camps do not have adequate waste disposal services or latrines…

Housing in refugee camps is often overcrowded…poorly ventilated…Malaria poses a huge threat…without window screens or solid doors…infecting 200 million every year…increased presence of rodents, which causes an increased incidence of Lassa fever in West African countries.

The acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant begin their massive multivolume account of human history with this concept in Volume One, Chapter One, paragraph one of The Story of Civilization.

Continue reading “134) The Nation Of Israel Agrees To Lead The Hebrew Commonwealth”