The Torah & Prophets Fulfilled: Luke (Ch19) - Nasser al'Qahtani
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- 02/20/2024, Wichita, KS
A study of Luke, Chapter 19:1 - 19:38, with a focus on contextual details and literary features that many modern readers might miss, followed by a time of Q&A.
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• Gospel of Luke Summary... (Part 2)
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I love how The Lord, brought Moses to the promised land to be with Jesus, at Jesus’ transfiguration. ❤
Re: your comment about Matthew and being an outsider, and perhaps feeling a sense of belonging with Rome. And as soon as Jesus called him, we know he left everything immediately, and followed our Lord. It does give the sense of someone who is searching and wanting to belong and be loved.
I’m not sure why the story of Zacchaeus was always a constant Sunday School story but it did appeal to kids who liked to climb trees! When I found my way back to the Lord after many decades, one NT story I wanted to find was the story of Zacchaeus. I have a Bible app and often have the audio Bible going all night....one night I fell asleep in Matthew and woke up when the story of tax collector up the tree was being told!
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I see two sets of possible remezes popping out at me. One is Rahab because of the locale of Jericho, the name Joshua (Yeshua), going into the house of a taboo person, and (this is a weaker point) the action of climbing (The rope for the spies and the sycamore for Zaccaeus) and also (this is kind of disconnected from the Zaccaeus story) the spies themselves in Yeshua sending the two disciples to get the colt.
Then from here I started picking up on some light similarites between the narrative and the story of Joseph: It started when Yeshua said "he also is a son of Abraham" and "the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" - so I started thinking about lost sons and ofcourse Joseph naturally came to mind. Then (as I was reading the Peshitta and Delitzsch) I saw the Aramaic & Hebrew word used for "he proceeded" was "awsef" and "yosef" from the same root as Joseph and when I checked the greek word it had the same meaning or conotation as the Semitic "(put) to, add, do again, gather". Then Yeshua starts talking about the parable of the Nobleman which sounds a little bit like Joseph - receiving a kingdom in a foreign country, the words "But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us’ sounds a lot like what happened with Joseph's brothers Gen 37 8: His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. When He starts talking about the 3 servants and the minas I wonder if there could be some remez to the first 3 sons of Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, Levi - Reuben tried to save Joseph and expressed remorse at his calamity, Simeon suffered by being bound and remaining in jail as surety for his brothers, but it seems Yeshua had the biggest problems with Levi (The Sadducees). Also just as this servant's mina was given to another, the tribe of Levi did not have inheritance of land like the rest of the tribes. Maybe what made their ungratefulness with their mina the worse is because their mina was supposed to be the best - "I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel" and then the priesthood ends up getting transferred to Judah in Yeshua the Priest King. If thats the case it would add a new dimension to the ruler's harsh words about his enemies "bring them here and slaughter them before me" in that just as it was not Joseph's desire to inflict needless pain on his brothers but that they would repent and when they begged him for mercy he relented and broke down so too here maybe its the ruler's desire that his enemies repent and beg for mercy and perhaps he'd forgive their offense like the servant who owed the 10,000 talents - Cause it doesnt say that his enemies were indeed killed, it just says he commanded it. Also when it says "Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas" this could also be a reference to Joseph cause Chronicles says Reuben's birthright was given to Joseph and he was reckoned the firstborn. And this last point is probably a weaker one, but the Messianic blessing - blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD, the first word "Baruk" is cognate with what they called before Joseph in Egypt "And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Bow the knee (Abrek)!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt." Also the passage in Zechariah 9 talking about Messiah riding a colt has a verse (11) that says "As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit" which sounds like the Joseph story in Gen 37:24 "And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it."
I wish I could give more than one "heart" to this post! So good and I really don't think the Joseph connections are coincidence or accidental. This feels very intentional and deep.