In
this chapter we are going to explore the authority Yahusha embodied to rule all
of Israel as King and as High Priest. Most of us have always
assumed Yahusha’s qualifications are based on Yahuah’s choice alone. Being
raised “Christian” we have been taught to believe that The Holy Spirit
implanted the seed of Yahuah into Miriam and she gave birth to “Yahuah in
the flesh” who then became a demi-god (half man / half God) as Yahuah
Himself “played” the role of “Messiah”. These claims are not true and neither of
these claims are the basis for Yahusha’s claim to be The Messiah. In this
chapter, we are going to establish Yahusha’s claim to Messiah based on Torah
standards, by lineage, and by bloodlines.
Given the emphasis Yahuah placed on the
bloodline required to be High Priest descending from Aaron through The House of
Zadok and to be King descending from the bloodline of David; shouldn’t we have
expected Yahusha to be a unique blend of both bloodlines? Shouldn’t we have
expected?
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A unique coming
together of bloodlines in one man to occur at the prophesied time in history
(according to Daniel’s 70-week prophecy) to produce The Messiah of Israel?
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In that case,
wouldn't those in Israel know this and be actively cultivating the Zadokite and
Davidian bloodlines?
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And why is Yahusha
called Melchizedek, what does that actually mean?
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What is the real
reason King Herod killed his own children in a panic to kill the coming King of
Israel?
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Lastly, why was
the High Priest Caiphas so opposed to Yahusha if Yahusha were really The
Messiah as to seek to kill Yahusha? Why didn’t Caiphas, as High Priest, seek
out Yahusha to anoint him King?
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What about Miriam?
Shouldn’t she have been some kind of “Princess of Israel” or Royalty to give birth to the Messiah?
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What about
Yahseph? Shouldn’t he too have been a young “Lion of Judah” a Prince of Israel
being a direct descendent of David to have fathered the Messiah?
I mean, given the degree to which both the Priesthood and Royal
lines were treated in expectation of the coming Messiah, I would never have
expected the Messiah to be born to two completely unqualified “nobodies” living
in obscurity in Israel as we are led to believe! I would rather have expected
to find that Mary (Miriam) was a Princess and Joseph (Yahseph) was a young
“Lion of Judah” of the Davidian Dynasty and that their marriage was carefully
“arranged” to potentially produce The Messiah according to blood lineage! We
will discover in this chapter, that Yahusha was indeed the unique combination
of both bloodlines coming together at the prophesied time making him…
Melchizedek or Ruling Zadok. “Melchi” means ruler or King and Zadok (Tzedek)
means Righteous
Priest.
We are going to explore the Zadok Priesthood from which Yahusha descends and
his Royal
heritage through both lines of his parents Miriam and Yahseph. We are going to
come to a clear understanding of exactly “who” Yahusha was by blood. We are
going to learn what right Yahusha has to the Throne of David, and the claim to Eternal
High Priest of Israel who was qualified to make the final Passover Sacrifice.
Did it take a “God” to atone? Or does it require a human High Priest? In this
chapter we are going to investigate the following:
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Overview of The
Zadok Priesthood
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The Messianic
Expectation at the time of Yahusha’s birth
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Why King Herod
wanted to kill Yahusha
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The Royal and
Priestly Line of Miriam
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Miriam’s Zadokite
heritage
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The arranged
marriages of the 3 daughters of High Priest Yahusha III
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JoAnna and
Hannah’s eligibility by Law to give birth to Princes and Princesses
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Eli the father of
Miriam and Grandfather of Yahusha
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Princess Miriam’s
childhood
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Daughters of
Jerusalem
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“Why” Caiphas
wanted to kill Yahusha
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Yahusha’s lineage
to the House of Zadok
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Miriam’s lineage
on her father Eli’s side
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Yahusha a theme
among the names of the High Priest of Israel
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Prince Mattathias
and Princess Alexandra II - The Paternal Grandparents of the Maiden, Miriam the
mother of Yahusha
When we are done we will have a totally new
“view” of the man who is the Messiah and why he was executed.
Before we investigate
the heritage and human bloodlines of The Messiah and his lineage coming from
The House of Zadok (the High Priest to King David), we must first have a basic
knowledge of the Priesthood
that was established in Zadok.
Zadok (Hebrew: Tzadok
צדוק, meaning "Righteous") was a Priest descended from
Eleazar, the son of Aaron, which is the anointed line from which all High
Priests must descend. The High Priest Zadok aided King David during the revolt
of his son Absalom, and was instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the
throne. After Solomon had the First Temple in Jerusalem constructed, Zadok was
the first High Priest to serve in The Temple of Solomon. Those of the line of
Zadok are called Zadokites or Zadok Priests and are the only ones qualified to
serve in the office of High Priest over Israel. This is paramount, because if
Yahusha is to be The Eternal High Priest.
If Yahusha is to be qualified to offer the final
sacrifice of The Passover Lamb, he must have been from The House of Zadok! If
he was not, then he is not... The Messiah.
The
Zadok Priesthood established itself in the time that King David fought against
the revolt of his son Absalom. Zadok was a Levite High Priest, having descended
down from Aaron, through Eleazar. Only descendants of Aaron through Eleazar
could be High Priests. The entire tribe of Levi was chosen to be Temple Priests
but not all could be High Priests. As the Dead Sea Scrolls indicate, Zadokites
were "to be as one in following the Law and (sharing) wealth and
reconciling (based on) the mouth of the sons of Zadok the keepers of the
covenant.” You can learn more about the line of priests descending from
Zadok here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadok
The Hebrew Bible records how, before his
death, Aaron was accompanied by his brother Moses and his sons Eleazar and
Ithamar. Upon entry to the cave where he was to die, Aaron saw his brother
Moses dress his elder son, Eleazar, with the garments of the High Priest. Moses anointed
Eleazar the successor to Aaron as High Priest of Israel. Jewish commentaries on
the Bible say that this initiation ceremony served as the catalyst for the
stipulation that all future candidates of High Priesthood be
patrilineal descendants of Eleazar
the elder son of Aaron and not Ithamar,
the younger son. This is the line that flows through Zadok the High Priest who
served David and Solomon. This is the blood lineage that flowed through the
veins of both John the Baptist and Yahusha the Messiah.
Zadok was a patrilineal descendant of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the High Priest (2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3).
The lineage of Zadok is presented in the genealogy of Ezra (his descendant) as
being of ninth generation and direct patrilineal descent from Phineas the son
of Eleazar; Ezra 7:1:
Ezra 7:1-4
...Zadok, The son of Ahitub, son of Amaryah,
son of Azaryah, son of Mirayoth, son of Zerachyah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, son
of Avishua, son of Phineas
Similarly,
the Hebrew Bible relates how, at the time Phineas son of Eleazar appeased
Yahuah’s anger, he merited the Divine blessing of Yahuah:
Numbers 25:13
Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron
the Priest. Behold I give to him My Covenant of Peace, and will be his, and his
progeny after him, Covenant of Everlasting Priesthood in turn of his
zealousness for his Elohim, and he atoned for the sons of Israel
This
is extremely important when tracing the right of Yahusha to be the Eternal High
Priest. Yahusha must have come from the lineage of Zadok which is the bloodline
of High Priest prepared for him and to which is entrusted the “Covenant
of Peace, Covenant of Eternal High Priest, and the right to Atone for sin” as defined in
Numbers 25:13 above. If Yahusha cannot be proven to be a Zadokite High Priest,
then he cannot mediate the "New Covenant of Peace", he cannot serve
as Eternal High Priest, and he has no authority to be the sin offering and Atone for humanity. It
is the convergence of the bloodline of David through Solomon and The House of
Zadok that resulted in the “Ruling Zadok” or Melchizedek. When
looking back at the history of the Zadok High Priests we find:
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The High Priest to
King David and King Solomon was Zadok
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The first High
Priest in The Temple of Solomon was Zadok
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The last High
Priest to serve in The Temple of Solomon was Yahuzadak (Yahuah Zadok)
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The first High
Priest in The Temple of Herod was Yahusha III from The House of Zadok
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The High Priest at
the time Yahusha was born was Yahusha ben Sie or Yahusha V from The House
of Zadok
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The Eternal High
Priest Yahusha the Messiah is from The House of Zadok
Are we beginning to see a "pattern"
here? From the time of Yahusha's birth forward, the High Priesthood of Israel
becomes totally corrupt. After the death of Yahusha III at the hands of Herod,
Yahuah chose and anointed as High Priest, John the Baptist, the first male heir
to the High Priest Yahusha III. John then anointed Yahusha the Messiah as the
Eternal High Priest, Yahusha being the next heir after John to Yahusha III. From that point on, the Temple High
Priesthood was literally purchased from Rome by aspiring High Priests and then
ultimately the High Priests were not even chosen for their bloodline but by casting
lots. In 70 AD, the Temple of Herod was completely corrupted and the High
Priest Phannias ben Samuel, serving at that time, was not even of the
bloodline of Levi much less Aaron and Zadok. We see from Jewish History the
state of the Priesthood at the time the Temple was destroyed.
When you realize how corrupt that Temple had become,
the question isn't "how could Yahuah allow its destruction", but,
rather, "what took so long?"
Phannias
ben Samuel (in Hebrew:
פנחס
בן שמואל
Pinhas ben Shmuel) (c. 70 CE) was the last Jewish High Priest. He did not
originate from a Priestly
family but was a Zealot and the leader of revolutionary forces. He died during
the destruction of Herod's Temple in 70 CE. In order to see how far their power
extended, the Zealots
...undertook to dispose of the High Priesthood by casting
lots for it, whereas, as we have said already, it was to descend by succession
in a family. The pretense they made for this strange attempt was an ancient
practice, while they said that of old it was determined by lot; but in truth,
it was no better than a dissolution of an undeniable law, and a cunning
contrivance to seize upon the government, derived from those that presumed to
appoint governors as they themselves pleased. Hereupon they sent for one of the
pontifical tribes, which is called Eniachim, and cast lots which of it should
be the high priest. By fortune the lot so fell as to demonstrate their iniquity
after the plainest manner, for it fell upon one whose name was Phannias, the
son of Samuel, of the village Aphtha. He was a man not only unworthy of the High Priesthood, but that
did not well know what the High Priesthood was, such a mere rustic was
he! Yet did they hail this man, without his own consent, out of the country, as
if they were acting a play upon the stage, and adorned him with a counterfeit
thee; they also put upon him the sacred garments, and upon every occasion
instructed him what he was to do. This horrid piece of wickedness was sport
and pastime with them.”… Josephus (c. 75). "Book IV §151-158".
The Jewish War. Page 746
The reason for the total desecration of the
High Priesthood in Israel, after Yahusha took the position as Melchizedek, is
that the role was Eternally spoken for. Yahusha was the
last true Zadok High Priest. From that point forward the Priesthood collapsed.
After the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, it has never existed again; as it
has been transposed to the Spirit in The Yahushaic Covenant. This is one of the
topics of my book, The Yahushaic Covenant Volume 1 – The Mediator.
First,
it is important to understand the time in which Yahusha was born into this
world. The atmosphere that existed 2,000 years ago in Israel was one of
heightened Messianic
expectations. The Jews (House of Judah) had been miraculously released from
Persian captivity by the Persian King Cyrus. Cyrus gave the command for the
Jews (as prophesied) to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple of Yahuah in
preparation for the coming Messiah at the beckoning of the prophet Daniel.
Cyrus did not want to face the same fate of Nebuchadnezzar! The prophet Daniel
even laid out the place, time, and manner of the Messiah’s birth from the date
Cyrus gave the command to rebuild Jerusalem and The Temple. That timeline had
arrived in Israel for The Messiah to be born and it was foretold to be at the
time of Yahusha’s birth. Simply put: The time was at hand for the coming
of the Messiah and everyone knew it; both those seeking The Messiah and those
seeking to destroy him.
Knowing all of this, the right-wing (Torah
faithful) Jewish Zealots of the North Region of Galilee, the Davidian Zealots
(those preserving the line of David), and the High Priest Yahusha III (the heir
to the House of Zadok) were all carefully cultivating the bloodlines
in preparation for the birth of the Messiah. King Herod was aware of these
efforts. As a result, tensions were building between these factions and King
Herod.
This coming Messiah (or King of Israel)
was a direct threat to the Roman backed King Herod's throne.
King
Herod, in response to this heightened state of urgency in Israel of the coming
Messiah, responded by ordering the full implementation of his “pogroms”
designed to eliminate all the descendants of the Davidian Dynasty. These
descendants were called the “Lions of Judah” and considered Princes of Israel. These
pogroms were also used to eliminate the Maccabeans (who ruled Judea before
Herod), and even the Zadokite Priestly line (Zadok Priests). Herod was taking NO
chances. This was a very chaotic time in Israel’s history as the Romans had
defeated the Persians and the favor of the Jews to dwell in the land safely and
rebuild Jerusalem and The Temple had faded under Roman control. The throne of Herod was
anything but secure.
This Messianic, Davidic, and Maccabean
opposition to King Herod in Israel is the context within which Yahusha was
born. Now it becomes clear why King Herod ordered the execution
of all male children under two. The time was ripe for the Messiah and the
bloodlines were being cultivated to bring him into the world. Herod first
attempted to selectively kill the Lions of Judah and the Zadokite priests, but
when he found out The King had been born, he panicked and in desperation killed
EVERY child regardless of bloodline under two years old… including his own
sons.
With this historical context in mind, let us
now examine the lineage of Yahusha the Messiah, through Princess Miriam (Mary)
and Prince Yahseph (Joseph).
The parents of Yahusha were chosen in an arranged
marriage to produce The Messiah, “according to the flesh” in keeping with Royal
and Priestly bloodlines.
Let
us begin by examining the lineage of Miriam. Was Miriam an unknown young maiden
living in obscurity in Judea? Or was she a Princess and considered royalty
among those seeking The Messiah and under protective custody from the wrath of
Herod?
In the Scriptures that survive, all that
remains of Yahusha’s lineage is through Miriam’s father Eli in Luke. That,
however, is only half his lineage through Miriam. What about Yahusha’s lineage
through Miriam’s mother and father? Lineage was extremely important to
aspiring Royalty and were kept meticulously even today. So what happened to
his lineage charts? We know from reading my third book
Christianity – The
Great Deception,
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the degree the Romans turned Yahusha, the
Jewish Rabbi/Healer, into a pagan Roman demi-god named “Jesus H. Christ” (after
the gods Hesus Horus Krishna), and removed all Jewish heritage from his life.
We also know from the Talmud, the extra-ordinary steps taken by Rabbinical
Judaism to discredit Yahusha as the Messiah, even going so far as to change
their calendar in 358 AD, so that Yahusha's birth would not fulfill Daniel's
prophecy. Given these dramatic steps taken over 2000 years to hide the true
identity of Yahusha, it seems his lineage through Miriam’s parents somehow “got
lost” along the way as well!
We are about to find out why Yahusha's lineage through
Miriam's mother was "misplaced". Her lineage puts Yahusha directly
in line as a Zadok High Priest!
While
this crucial information concerning Yahusha’s lineage through Miriam’s mother
was “removed” from our knowledge (although it was carefully kept as all Royalty does), we can
know who Miriam’s mother was for certain and reconstruct her true lineage. The
Bible records Miriam (Yahusha’s mother) went to live with her “kinswoman”,
Elizabeth, while with child. Elizabeth was Miriam’s auntie, the sister of
Miriam’s mother Hannah. We can go back into the historical record to discover
that Elizabeth was one of three daughters of the High Priest Yahusha III. One
of Elizabeth’s sisters was named Hannah who was married in an arranged marriage
to Eli. Eli is the father of Miriam, making Elizabeth Miriam’s “kinswoman or
auntie” just like the Scriptures state, making Hannah her mother. Knowing who
Miriam's mother was, we can research historically ALL the blood running through
the veins of Yahusha the Messiah!
Yahusha’s mother Miriam and grandmother
Hannah were, in fact, considered Royalty in Israel; and both candidates to give
birth to The Messiah. They were both descended from the Zadokite Priestly line
and married to Lions of Judah or Davidic Dynasty heirs:
● Miriam was the
grand-daughter of the first High Priest (Yahusha III) to serve in the Second
Temple - She was the
daughter of Hannah (Anna) who was the daughter of the High Priest Yahusha III.
Yahusha III was the first High Priest to serve in the second Temple coming out
of Babylonian/Persian captivity. Yahusha III was a High Priest in the line of
Zadok or a Zadokite High Priest who was to re-establish the House of Zadok in
the office of High Priest.
● Miriam was the
daughter of Heli, a Davidic and Hasmonean Prince
– Heli, as he is called in the
genealogy of Yahusha in the Bible, was also known as Alexander Helios (Heli)
III in history. Eli was the son of the future Maccabean Queen Alexandra II, who
at the time was known by her Jewish name, Esther of Jerusalem. Heli, the
shortened nickname for Helios (“The Sun”), was a descendant of both the
Maccabean Kings of Judea and a prince of the House of David, for his father was
Matthan ben Levi, a Davidian Prince who was first married in his youth to the
vivacious royal princess, Elizabeth of Jerusalem. Heli was executed in
the world where many Davidian aspirants, as the “young Lions of Judah”, were eliminated by the
cruel and tyrannical King Herod the Great who was not of the line of David but
appointed by Rome; the Lions of Judah were a threat to Herod’s throne.
What we are never taught in the “Christian
Church” is that Miriam grew up in the shadows of the High Priests of Israel in protective
custody as both Davidic Royalty and Zadokite priestly authority. Far from
being some unknown young maiden, Miriam was being carefully nurtured as a
potential candidate to give birth to The Messiah! I guess you could say… “all
eyes were upon her”!
Yahusha
III (the Messiah’s great grandfather) was the High Priest in Jerusalem during
this chaotic Herodian period between the years of 36 to 23 BCE. Yahusha III had
3 daughters and no sons. High Priest Yahusha III died prior to
his grand-daughter’s (Miriam’s) birth. Yet having lived when King Herod had
fully launched his pogroms (violent mob attacks which eventually
claimed his life) against the young Lions of Judah, the Maccabeans, and the
Zadokite priests, Yahusha III was careful to ensure his 3 daughters were
properly married and then put into protective custody safe from King Herod.
The 3 daughters of Yahusha III, the High
Priest of Israel, were carefully nurtured to all be “potential” mothers or
grandmothers of the coming Messiah. These 3 daughters were named Elizabeth
(the mother of John the Baptist), Hannah (Anna... the grandmother
of Yahusha the Messiah), and Joanna (Jane).
A father, with no sons, High Priest
Yahusha III knew that his Zadokite lineage (the Zadok Priesthood line of Aaron
descending from Zadok the High Priest of King David) would become extinct
unless his three daughters: JoAnna, Elizabeth, and Hannah (Yahusha’s
Grandmother) as dynastic heiresses to Zadok were properly placed
(according to the Torah) with future husbands. So while they were very young
children, Yahusha III arranged their marriages to young “Lions of Judah” who
descended from King David through Solomon (the Royal Line).
Hannah (the grandmother of Yahusha) and her
two sisters were orphaned (by Herod) and initially and secretly placed
in the protective custody of the Zealots in the northern regions of Galilee.
This was done by the High Priest Yahusha III before he died to ensure they were
kept safe from Herod’s pogroms. Here in the hot-bed of Jewish nationalism, they
were shielded from King Herod by the right-wing nationalists and Davidian
Zealots who were plotting to overthrow the throne of Herod. These right-wing
Zealots regarded these young women as Royalty and instrumental in
the coming of The Messiah to overthrow King Herod. King Herod was king only by
the protective shield of the Roman mantle of power and had no right to the Throne. Herod was
first installed and given protection by the Roman triumvir Mark Anthony, and
later by Octavian, the future Caesar Augustus. He was never “anointed” by
Yahuah as King. Herod knew that and knew the prophesied King was coming soon.
So, the 3 daughters of the High Priest Yahusha
III were “keys” to the coming of the prophesied Messiah and considered Royalty in their day.
The children of these 3 daughters (including Prince John "the
Baptist" and the Princess Miriam) were considered Royalty as well. Over
the next 30 years the battle between the chosen King/High Priest Yahusha and
the corrupted King Herod and his chosen High Priest Caiphas would culminate in
the final execution of Yahusha the Messiah. Let’s continue our journey back
into Yahusha’s lineage through Miriam’s mother Hanna.
The
future husbands of these 3 Zadokite heiresses (3 daughters of
Yahusha III) were carefully chosen according to their bloodline. They were
selected from among the Lions
of Judah (descendants of the Kingly line of David through Solomon) and men of
noted priestly lineage of The House of Zadok:
●
Hannah (the mother of Miriam) was given in
marriage to a Davidian and Maccabean prince, Alexander III Helios called Eli.
●
JoAnna was given in marriage to a Davidian
Nasi and Prince of Israel, Joachim.
●
Elizabeth (the mother of John the Baptist) was
given in marriage to a noted priest, Zecharias of the course of Abijah.
Elizabeth was betrothed to be the wife of a
priest of a noted Zadok Priestly
lineage and from the Lion
of Judah. Since Elizabeth was an heiress of the Zadok house of her father the
High Priest Yahusha III and her husband was of the Tribe of Levi, her son, Prince
John the Baptist, would be eligible to become the High Priest and King
of Israel making him a potential candidate for Messiah. Yet, it
was John’s role to become the chosen High Priest of Yahuah and to transfer the
sins of the Passover Lamb onto Yahusha as the fulfillment of Elijah.
This is the reason many Jews of that time
believed John to be The Messiah. John too was well known among the Jews living
in Israel coming from royal descent and carefully cultivated lineage… while we
are led to believe John was some "wild guy yelling at the top of his
lungs" in the middle of nowhere and the masses just happen to "wander
out to see him", actually he was very well known. The Jews knew he was
a High Priest by blood and descendent of the Davidian Dynasty. That is why they
came out to see and hear him. John was qualified by blood on both sides of
Zadokite High Priest and Royal Davidian descent just like Yahusha the Messiah
was, his 2nd cousin. They suspected he might be The Messiah.
Prince John the Baptist (I'll explain why he
was considered a Prince by Law), however, knew he wasn’t the Messiah. In fact,
Princess Miriam (I'll explain why she too was considered a Princess by Law) was
sent to live with her auntie Elizabeth (John’s mother) after being told by
Angelic Decree that her son was The Messiah.
Again, while we are led to believe, Yahseph
(Joseph), “put her away silently”, because he was embarrassed that she was with
child and couldn’t explain it. That is not at all the truth. Yahseph put her
away silently with Elizabeth (who was in protective custody) to protect her and
his son from King Herod! During this time, Prince John was made intimately
aware by his mother that the baby in his Cousin Miriam’s womb was the
prophesied Messiah by Angelic Decree. John would later learn from his father
that his role was to pave the way for him as High Priest, mentor him, and as
prophesied “make straight his path” as Elijah (More on this later).
It would be Prince John the Baptist, the
grandson of Yahusha III the High Priest, that would be heir to the office of
the High Priest. This made John uniquely qualified (as The Zadokite High Priest
in succession to Yahusha III) to Mikveh (consecrate) Yahusha the Messiah as the
next High Priest in succession. Yahusha was the next male heir after John to
Yahusha III.
I
have been referring to John as a Prince and Miriam as a Princess... why? I
stated that they were considered royalty at that time. This is because JoAnna
and Hannah (daughters of High Priest Yahusha III) were betrothed to husbands of
the House of David as very young girls. According to the Royal Primogenitor Law, they were
eligible to be mothers of Prince and Princesses of the House of David.
According to the ruling of the Great Sanhedrin in 37 BCE, their sons would also
be eligible to sit on the Throne of David as the King of Israel. If Yahuah so
willed, it was possible that either one of these girls could be blessed to be
the mother of the expectant Messiah. Therefore, Miriam, the daughter of Hannah, was a
Princess in the Davidian Dynasty bloodline by Law! John the son of Elizabeth was a
Prince by Law.
But that is not all. Miriam was also a Maccabean Princess on her father Eli’s
side, as Eli was a Maccabean Prince named Alexander III Helios.
Princess Miriam was far from some unknown peasant
living in Judea, she was a Davidian and Maccabean Princess groomed carefully to
give birth to The Messiah and kept in protective custody of The Temple.
NOTE: Keep in mind that
only Royalty
kept their lineage back to the Davidian Dynasty. It is so even today with
Royalty as they carefully interbreed, protect, and document their lineage. It
must be noted here that Yahusha was well aware of his lineage on both sides of
his family tree because, being Royalty himself, this was carefully kept for
him. He taught these Royal
lineages to his disciples in Matthew and Luke (probably more lineages in Mark
and John that were "lost"). Again, this only makes sense in the
context of Miriam and Yahseph being of Royal descent. If Miriam and Yahseph were just
unknown ordinary Jews living in obscurity in Israel, they would not have known
their lineage to King David and certainly not all the way back to Adam. They
would not have been qualified to bring The Messiah into this world.
This becomes extremely important because when
Yahusha is accused of blasphemy, he said he was the son of God (Yahusha ben
Yahuah). Yahusha explained to the accusing Jews that his references to “son of
God” was because he could trace his lineage back to Adam who had no parents and
was called Adam ben Yahuah (Adam the son of God). Since all male descendants
were considered “sons” of their fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, and
so on, Yahusha’s claim to “son of God” was by blood lineage
to Adam.
When Yahusha explained this to his accusers, they recognized this reality and
accepted his claim. Only to later bring that same charge against him again. At
that point, Yahusha saw no need to continue defending himself. He was innocent of
blasphemy, never claiming himself to be God, but
the son of God through Adam
and had already proved it to them. That is why Yahusha died “innocent” of the
charge of blasphemy. Not because, as the Christian Church teaches, he was God;
but because he was not God and never claimed to be God. His claim was the son
of God through Adam.
Princess
Miriam, the young maiden, was called a “child of sorrow”. Miriam’s father,
Prince Alexander III Helios, was executed by King Herod the Great in a series
of persecutions or pogrom against the Davidians. It was Herod’s attempt to
eliminate any rival to the Throne of Judea. The death of Heli occurred (according to
Davidian genealogist David Hughes) around 15 BCE. The young maiden Miriam was
placed in protective custody along with her mother Hannah (who served in The
Temple until she died). Miriam was placed in the Order of the Temple-Virgins
until she was eligible for marriage about the year of her bat Mitzvoth at the
age of 12-13 years of age. At which point she was given in marriage to a young Lion of Judah or
Davidian Prince named Yahseph (Joseph). The reason Yahseph readily excepted
Miriam’s explanation for why she was with child is because… it made perfect
sense to him. He knew that he and his young fiancé were being groomed to give
birth to The Messiah. He also knew that ALL major players in the Plan of Yahuah
were born miraculous births: John the Baptist, Sampson, Isaac, and others. So
knowing all of this, it would stand to reason to young Yahseph that indeed… he
was the father of the chosen Messiah. This is why he sent Princess Miriam to
live with her auntie Elizabeth. Elizabeth was already living under the watchful
eye of protective custody with her son Prince John.
We
see several references to these women held in protective custody of The Temple.
They, as Royals,
were known as “Daughters of Jerusalem”. Only once we realize who
these women were (and their blood relation to Yahusha) can we understand
statements made by The Messiah. Below we see Yahusha speaking to his aunties
(all Royal
Daughters of Jerusalem in protective custody being daughters of
the High Priest Yahusha III). These women all played a major role in Yahusha's
life as they literally helped to raise him as a child:
Luke 23:28
Yahusha turned and said to them,
"Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for
your children.
Now
it makes sense. His aunties and their children were all in danger as well.
We also see that Yahusha was taken to see his
grandmother Hannah in The Temple (where she was in protective custody) when he
was consecrated. Below we see that Hannah’s true identity as a Zadokite
Princess and daughter of Yahusha III had been concealed by The Temple to
protect her from the wrath of Herod. Below she is referred to as "the
daughter of Penuel". After the death of Hannah’s husband at the hands
of Herod, Hannah returned to Temple service because she was actually the
daughter of the High Priest Yahusha III not Penuel, as we will see:
Luke 2
36 There was also a prophet, Anna, the
daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher (this is her
new identity). She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven
years after her marriage (not a long marriage),
37 and then was a widow (by Herod) until she
was eighty-four. She never left the Temple (she was in
protective custody) but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying (for the lives of her children and grandchildren who were
being hunted by Herod). 38 Coming up to them at that very moment, she
gave thanks to Yahuah and spoke about the child
(her
grandson) to all who were looking forward to the redemption of
Jerusalem.
We
don’t know what Hannah “spoke about the child” but no doubt, being his
grandmother and daughter of Yahusha III, it probably was to witness to
Yahusha’s lineage as a Zadokite High Priest (as that lineage was being
carefully concealed). The conversation probably went something like "look,
I am not the daughter of Penuel, but Yahusha III, placed in protective custody
of The Temple. This child is my heir and heir to both the House of Zadok and
the Davidian Dynasty. He is the Redemption of
Jerusalem."
As a young girl, Miriam was taken to the Temple with Hannah,
and lived as a child protégé in the custody of the Temple (a Daughter
of Jerusalem). There, she was an eye-witness to the exaltation of the Divine ministry of the
Priests
in the temple
of Herod. The construction project to transform this ancient Temple into the most
glorious temple in the entire Roman Empire by Herod the Great was started just
prior to Miriam’s birth in 20 BCE. This construction would continue throughout
her lifetime.
These were the tender impressionistic years
where she witnessed the High
Priests
transported to the Throne
of the Almighty in the beautiful and Glorious Temple rituals that commanded all the
senses of the beholder. If there was a young Jewish maiden, who knew and
understood the true halakhic observance of what Torah life was like, it
was the Princess Miriam. Surrounded by the Priests speaking
Hebrew, listening to the international delegations speaking Greek, who came
from nations around the world, and daily listening to construction workers
speaking Aramaic and the Roman guards speaking Latin, Princess Miriam, no doubt
absorbed and mastered the life of a poly-linguist. She no doubt passed all this
knowledge on to her son, Yahusha, who was being groomed to become The Messiah.
Here in the most awesome monument of religious expression, Herod the Great
erected his image of religious power, as the Temple of Herod rose as the
largest platformed temple in the entire Roman Empire, all under the watchful
eye of Princess Miriam.
Grief and sorrow as a child would remain with Miriam
the rest of her life. This grief culminated as she watched her firstborn son,
driven to the “stake” by whips on the road to his execution as a Royal Davidian
Prince and an heir of the Zadokite High Priesthood of Israel.
The
Roman procurator Pontius Pilate abducted his responsibility and gave defacto
authority to the hands of the feared family of high priests, Ananias and
Caiphas, from the House of Hanan, for the execution of Yahusha. But “why” would
the High Priest in Israel at the time want to execute the obvious Messiah
instead of anoint him King?
Here
was Ananias, the high
priest
of the House of Zadok who (though truly was of the authorized family of high priests but not
anointed by Yahuah... that anointing went to John the Baptist) became a
Hellenistic seeking internationalist. He bought with impunity the rights to the
office of the high priest from the current Roman procurator. This “House of
Ananias” was a family of Sadducees, who had become transformed by the monetary
obsession of power, greed, and control called the “Golden Calf” and used their
wealth to become the shakers and movers of the geo-political forces that moved
through Jerusalem. Their wealth was gained by laundering money in The Temple
and abusing the office of High Priest. This is why the true Zadokite High Priest
anointed by Yahuah, John the Baptist, rebelled against the
corruption of The Temple and served Yahuah directly “in the wilderness”. John
wanted nothing to do with the corrupted priestly system in place in The Temple
at that time. Many Jews were well aware of this too and followed the teaching
and authority of John including Yahusha.
The Patriarch of the family, Ananias, and his
high priest son-in-law, Caiphas, were co-conspirators who sought to destroy
Yahusha. Yahusha was the one Davidian, who carried in his
genes, the potent fusion of Davidian and Zadokite
bloodlines (remember John, the other genetic potential, had been executed
already). Yahusha carried the potent bloodline of the Royal mantle as a
Priest-King of Israel and the Messianic mantle as the Maschiach Yisra’el (Messiah of
Israel) of the House of David. He was a direct threat to The House of Ananias.
Yahusha’s life and ministry inspired the hatred of the
House of Ananias, for only Yahusha was capable of toppling the power and
authority of this powerful high priestly family, that had turned the sacred
House of Yahuah (the Temple of Herod) into a “den of thieves”.
So,
Patriarch Annanias and his son-in-law, the high priest Caiphas became the head of the
“leading Jews” that instigated, plotted and conspired to fulfill their dream to
eradicate this famous Rabbi of Galilee named Yahusha the Natsri (Nazarene which
means The Branch) the Royal
descendant of David and the Zadokite High Priest Yahusha III.
In the gospels, they were “The Jews” who
sought to destroy Yahusha. It was Yahusha HaNotzri (Yahusha the Nazarene or THE
BRANCH) who had garnered a large following in the foothills surrounding the Sea
of Kinneret (Galilee). This large following was no accident as Prince Yahseph
and Princess Miriam were well known candidates to be the parents of The
Messiah. The people (looking for the Messiah) knew Yahusha was a Royal
Prince/High Priest as he was the child of a very carefully cultivated bloodline
of Prince and Princesses and High Priest in the line of Zadok to Aaron.
The Jews were eagerly awaiting The Messiah’s
arrival and came out in droves to hear Prince Yahusha the High Priest speak to
see if he was in fact… The Messiah. Ananias and Caiaphas knew
Yahusha was the Rabbi who threatened to
bring his Spiritual
revolution to the doorsteps of the Temple! And they knew he was qualified to be
the Ruling Zadok (Melchizedek). In fact, that is exactly what Yahusha did. As
in the Bazaar of Hanan, with a whip in his hand, he threw out the money
changers and almost toppled the power of the House of Ananias/Caiaphas.
Here in the temple called the “Temple of
Herod, Inc” was being conducted the most lucrative money laundering enterprise
in the Eastern Roman Empire. Think of a movie theater today, and how you cannot
bring food in. You are forced to buy food at exorbitant prices. In that day,
when you went to The Temple to make an offering, you had to purchase the
animals to be sacrificed from The Temple Priests at exorbitant
prices (you couldn't bring your own). I don't remember this statute in the
Torah! People worked and did business in a multi-cultural world at that time
with many currencies. You also had to “change your money” from one currency to
the next in The Temple to give offerings at an exorbitant exchange rate. I
don't remember reading that requirement in the Torah either? No these were not
authorized activities to be taking place in The Temple. This was the source of the financial power of
Caiaphas and the REAL reason behind his motivation to have Yahusha executed.
Not only was Yahusha the legitimate High Priest in the Order of Zadok but he
was threatening to overthrow the “money”. We all know how well that goes over,
when you are a threat to “the money” you must die.
When looking at the genealogy above of
Yahusha through Miriam’s mother Hannah, we see Hananeel the Egyptian, the
father of the famous Boethus family of seven sons. He was Miriam’s
great-great-great grandfather. Hananeel arrived into Jewish history as one of
the giants of the Priests
of the House of Zadok. Hananeel is reputed as one of the High Priests who
sacrificed the Red Heifer.
On
the other side of the tree; Miriam’s father (Prince Alexander III Helios) was
apparently not as much Hellenized as he was anti-Herodian. Miriam’s father was
Eli((or Heli). Eli was the
son of the future Maccabean Queen Alexandra II, who at this time was known by
her Jewish name, Esther of Jerusalem. Heli, the shortened
nickname for Helios (“The Sun”), was a descendant of both the Maccabean Kings
of Judea and a Prince of the House of David, for his father was Matthan ben
Levi, a Davidian Prince who was first married in his youth to the vivacious Royal princess,
Elizabeth of Jerusalem. This Royal lineage was passed on to Yahusha the Messiah.
It appears that Prince Heli had the same
aspirations and hopes for “Israel” as the High Priest within the Temple at Jerusalem.
In the era, in which parents chose the husband of their daughters, Heli found
favor with the High Priest Yahusha III. High Priest Yahusha III (the great
grandfather of The Messiah Yahusha) was the son of Phabi, the founder of the
House of Phabit, and the grandson of Boethus. Yahusha III was the Alexandrian
Zadokite priest that King Herod (in 37 BCE) asked to return to Jerusalem, in
order to restore the Zadokite dynastic reign again over the office of the High Priest. Herod’s
reasons were more subliminal and sinister, for he eventually plotted to
eliminate the Maccabees from holding either Royal or Priestly offices in Jerusalem, and
eliminate their presence entirely from Judea. Then Herod had Yahusha III
killed.
It appears that either Prince Heli or his
father Mattathias ben Levi was approached by the High Priest Yahusha III, to
marry Hannah thereby securing the bloodline survival of the Zadok Priestly line
(by uniting it with the Davidian bloodline). A perfect match to produce
MelchiZADOK (Ruling Zadok). It would be from this unique mix of Royal bloodlines, that
the Messiah Yahusha would be born, the grandson of Prince Eli and Princess
Hannah; and the heir to Yahusha III and The House of Zadok.
Prince Heli and Princess Hannah gave birth to
Princess Miriam who was born about the year of 20 to 19 BCE. This Jewish
maiden, Princess Miriam, was a Davidian Princess on her father’s side, and a
Zadokite Priest
heiress on her mother's.
This young maiden was of supreme interest to the Priestly elite. She
was the granddaughter of the High Priest Yahusha III, who died apparently the
year of 23 BCE, by execution, according to some scholars, for sedition against
the throne of Herod. From all appearances, Yahusha III, the High Priest, never knew his
granddaughter, Miriam, as she was born about three years later in the year of
20 to 19 BCE.
It
must be noted at this point, that while many have considered that “Yahusha” in
Aramaic was a unique name in Jewish society; what we do know, is that the name
Yahusha was a quite frequent name in 1st century Judea. The name is found in
the lineages of King David and in the lineage of the High Priests of the House
of Zadok. Even the name of the Messianic Prototype and successor to Moses,
Joshua (Yahusha) was a foreshadowing of the name of the coming Ruling Zadok
"Melchizedek". The name of Yahusha was relatively common as the name
of the High Priests of Israel actually. There was a total of five High Priests
that were named Yahusha. It seems Yahuah was trying to tell us something of the
Eternal High Priest who would serve Him.
Mary’s
father, Heli or Alexander Helios III as he was known in history, was a Prince
of David, whose father, Prince Mattan or Mattathias was renown, if for nothing
else but for his marriages to three notable women in Judea. His 1st wife was
Esther of Jerusalem, his 2nd, Rachel of Arimathea, and his 3rd wife was Salome
of Jerusalem, an Idumean Herodian princess, who was called “The Proselyte”.
His 1st wife, Esther
of Jerusalem, became the mother of Heli ben Mattat or Prince Alexander Helios
III (Eli). Eli became the father of Princess Miriam, the mother of Yahusha.
Esther of Jerusalem can be identified as the future Maccabean Queen known by
her Greek name as Queen Alexandra II, who was the great grandmother of Yahusha.
We
have examined the historical and genealogical evidence that Yahusha was not
only a Davidian and Maccabean prince, but was the heir to anointed High Priest
of Israel from the lineage of the House of Zadok. Yahusha was next in line
heir to Yahusha III behind John the Baptist.
In one of the most potent genetic merges in
Jewish history, we find that Yahusha ben Yahseph was a genuine
genetically
eligible Priest-King. He would later be recognized as an eligible
member of the Order of Melchizedek to serve as High Priest in succession to
John the Baptist. Abraham gave the title Melchizedek to the King of Salem (the
city JeruSALEM was founded upon). The first High Priest-King was Shem, the son
of Noah. Here was a true fusion of the genetic tree between the House of Aaron
the Levite, The House of Zadok the High Priest to David and Solomon, and King
David the Judaite. As such, a REAL threat to King Herod and the High Priest
Caiphas.
It is well known that the family of Prince
Yahseph, the father of Yahusha, came from a family of Royal Davidian
princes, all of whom carried the hidden dream of being the Promised One, or the
father of the Promised One who would sit on the seat of their ancestral
forefather, King David. In contrast, Miriam’s family lived in the aura of the
majesty and beauty of the Temple culture of the Jews in Jerusalem. Now that we have
a better understanding of who Yahusha really was, let us look deeper into
Yahusha’s role as Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb of Yahuah.
