Excerpt from The Yahushaic Covenant Volume 1 by Rav Sha'ul Could Mary have been a sexual virgin? by Rav Sha'ul   Yes Mary very well could have been a sexual virgin.  In fact, I believe that she was.  If she was (and she probably was) then Yahuah used Joseph’s seed in performing the miracle and Yahusha was still fully human in every way (Hebrews 2:17 NIV) the son of man “born human according to the flesh (Romans 1:3)”.  Exactly as the Bible declares he was.  In fact the phrases “image of God” and “son of God” are both phrases used to say “he was human” not a God: Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Luke 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, (Adam being) the son of God. Psalm 82:6 "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' These phrases are consistent throughout scripture they did not take on some “magical” meaning when applied to Yahusha.  Yahusha is the PERFECT or rather first perfected human or “perfect image” of The Almighty.  Hebrews 5:8-9 NKJV 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience (to Yahuah) by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Yahuah), Many men in The Bible who were instrumental in the Plan of Salvation were born highly anointed by Yahuah through miraculous births as a “sign”.  Each one’s birth announced by an Angel.  Each and every one of these men was born miraculously outside of sexual intercourse yet the “seed” of their father was used by Yahuah in the conception process: The Miraculous Birth of Adam Of course, Adam didn't have any parents and Adam is directly called the Son of Yahuah in the most literal terms.  Adam had NO parents at all male or female, but the Breath of Yahuah alone gave Adam life.  Yet... we do not worship Adam as equal to Yahuah and part of a polytheistic deity!  Why is Adam considered human when it was truly the Breath of Yahuah from which he originated? The Miraculous Birth of Isaac Isaac was the Chosen One and brought about in a miraculous way to Abraham and Sara who BOTH were his parents. Abraham and Sara had given up on sexually conceiving and has turned to a slave woman Hagar to conceive the child and believed Ishmael to be the fulfillment of the promise.  Not only were they no longer trying but Sara’s womb was dead and she didn’t believe it.  But that miracle did not make Isaac part of a GODHEAD. We do not worship Isaac as equal to Yahuah and part of a polytheistic deity!  In the account of Isaac’s Miraculous Birth in Genesis we know Sara’s womb was “dead” and Sara too conceived a child of promise named Isaac through the miraculous intervention of the Angel of Yahuah. This child too was “brought” by an Angel of Yahuah and conceived with “The Spirit of Holiness” which means set apart. How does this differ from Mary/Joseph? It doesn't.  Why is Abraham considered the biological father of Isaac when it was Yahuah who gave her the child? Because Yahuah used Abraham's seed in the miracle. The Miraculous Birth of Sampson Just like Sampson was a Chosen One from the womb, a Nazarite to God, a Righteous Judge, and brought about in a miraculous way to Manoah and his wife who WERE BOTH his true parents. But that did not make Sampson part of a GODHEAD. We do not worship Sampson as equal to Yahuah and part of a polytheistic deity!  In Judges 13:2-5 Manoah’s wife was barren and unable to have children and at that time the act of sex was only performed to provide an heir so it is highly doubtful Monaoh was having a lot of sex with his barren wife. The Angel of Yahuah appeared to her too and gave her a son named Sampson who was a “Nazarite to Yahuah”. How does this differ from Mary/Joseph? It doesn´t.  Why is Manoah considered the biological father of Sampson when it was Yahuah who gave his wife the child? Because Yahuah used Manoah´s seed in performing the miracle. The Miraculous Birth of John the Baptist The miraculous birth of John the Baptist is recounted in Luke’s Gospel where we learn of the elderly priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, who was barren. While Zechariah was performing his priestly duties in the temple (not out having sex with his wife), the angel Gabriel came to him and prophesied the birth of a son. Because Zechariah doubted the word of the angel, he was struck dumb until the day of the birth, at which time, filled with the Holy Spirit, he proclaimed his prophetic canticle (Lk 1:68-79).  But... this did NOT make John the Baptist part of the GODHEAD.  We do not worship John as equal to Yahuah and part of a polytheistic deity!  Why is Zechariah considered the biological father of John when it was Yahuah who gave Elizabeth the child? Because Yahuah used Zechariah´s seed in performing the miracle. In each case above Yahuah came and announced the birth of a child through a messenger then brought about that birth in a miraculous way using the seed of the biological father… outside of sexual conception.  Yahusha is different in that he was the most anointed of all and in true form Yahuah came to announce his birth through a messenger and then in a miraculous way the child was conceived with the seed of his biological father. This is why Yahusha taught his lineage through his father Joseph to his disciples because that bloodline that ran through Yahusha’s veins given him by Joseph was proof he was the Messiah!  It is by that bloodline that he restored the Throne of David through Solomon which was the line of the Throne.  I cover this in detail in my book Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb available free on www.sabbathcovenant.com. Next: Conclusions?

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