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YAHUAH ENTERS INTO COVENANT WITH YAHUSHA TO “FORGIVE HIS SIN AND
OURS”
The Covenant of Peace ….
between Yahuah and Yahusha our High Priest… Zechariah Chapter 3
From my book “The Nazarene”…
There is only one prophesied “Branch” and there is only one
“Eternal Judge”. There is only one Yahusha in recorded history to stand side by
side with Satan in the presence of an Angel of YHVH. Only ONE High Priest
consecrated directly by Yahuah as Eternal High Priest! That “Yahusha” is The
Eternal High Priest Yahusha the Messiah.
While there are many High Priests named Yahusha, those words
clearly identify only one… The Messiah Yahusha the High Priest in the Order of
Zadok. Yes, the one Yahusha who is the Ruling Zadok known as Melchizedek. Not
to mention that all prophesies (in the Torah and Prophets) such as the one
below are all speaking of The Messiah except the one about John being Elijah.
So why do we ignore this one? Because it says Yahusha was cleansed of sin and
we do not understand it. We’d rather say it is speaking of some other High
Priest Yahusha and hide behind the name “Jesus” and avoid the entire prophecy.
The Dragon wins again.
Let us examine the prophecy of that Branch and Eternal Judge
called the High Priest Yahusha in a vision given to Zechariah by YHVH in
Zechariah Chapter 3. Let us learn more about our Messiah the Ruling Zadok
Eternal High Priest and Eternal Judge of the living and the dead.
Zechariah Chapter 3 picks up where the Gospels leave off to
give us a front row seat at the exact moment The Yahushaic Covenant was entered
into. Yahusha had been Mikveh’d clean of his sin with Living Water and
“fulfilled all righteousness” as Yahuah promised (Ezekiel 36:24-31), fled into the wilderness to
“anah/humble” himself as the new High Priest of Israel (with loud cries and
tears to the One who could save him from death) for his own sin and the sin of
the people (Hebrews 5:3) for 40 days/nights.
Hebrews 5:7
During
the days of Yahusha’s life on earth (when he
was imperfect, disobedient and LEARNING obedience Hebrews 5:8-9), he offered up prayers and petitions (repentance)
with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death (the penalty of sin/disobedience Romans 6:23), and he was heard because of his reverent
submission to Yahuah (and walked The Way of
repentance, washed clean through Mikveh, forgiven by Yahuah, born-again by the
Ruach).
Satan had just tempted Yahusha to prevent him from “emptying
himself of his right to rule” and offered Yahusha to take the Kingdom by force
if he would deny The Heavenly Scroll and NOT come as Suffering Servant to die.
For more on Yahusha emptying
himself of his right to rule not his “Divinity”
Yahusha had refused Satan and Satan is furious at his defeat
and leaves Yahusha to accuse him before Yahuah and the Angel of Yahuah comes to
minister to Yahusha… now, this is where the prophecy in Zechariah 3 picks up
with Satan now accusing Yahusha before Yahuah that he is full of sin and not
worthy as we see this event in the life of Yahusha in the Gospels:
Matthew 4:1-11
Then
Yahusha was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil (Zechariah 3:1).
2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry (like a stick snatched from the fire of the hot sun Zechariah
3:2).... 8 Again, the
devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the
world (Jerusalem specifically and Satan was
rebuked because Jerusalem is not his to give away Zechariah 3:1) and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give
you (if you will deny Yahuah's Will to empty
yourself of your right to Rule as Conquering King and take up the role of High
Priest to die as Suffering Servant),”
he said, “if you will bow down and worship me. (Zechariah 3:1)” 10
Yahusha said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the
Yahuah your Elohim, and serve him only.’” 11 Then the devil left him (to accuse him before Yahuah Zechariah 3:1), and angels came and attended him (Zechariah 3:1).
Now the scene is set in the Gospels for us to know the exact
conversation that took place from that point forward where the Covenant of
Peace is entered into to make peace between Yahuah and His chosen and forgive
our sin… IF Yahusha walks with “no sin” as High Priest (Hebrews 4:15).
Zechariah 3 - Yahusha's sin forgiven
through Mikveh, Yahuah consecrates Yahusha High Priest directly, and enters
into The Yahushaic Covenant to "forgive our sin"
1 Then he
showed me Yahusha the high priest standing before the angel of YHVH, and Satan
standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 YHVH said to Satan, “YHVH rebuke
you, Satan! YHVH, who has chosen Jerusalem (because
Satan is attempting to get Yahusha NOT to empty himself of his right to the
throne and take the kingdom by force Matthew 4:9), rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched
from the fire (Yahusha had been in the desert
for 40 days with little food Matthew 4:2)?”
3 Now Yahusha was
dressed in filthy clothes (metaphor of sin Isaiah
64:6) as he stood before the angel.
4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy
clothes.” Then YHVH said to Yahusha, “See, I have taken away your sin (Yahusha had just been Mikveh'd clean of his sin by John to
fulfill the Righteous Requirements of The Law Matthew 3:13-17 and Ezekiel
36:24-31), and I will put fine
garments (of the High Priest) on you.” 5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban (of the High Priest Hebrews 4:15) on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head
and clothed him (in the garments of the High
Priest), while the angel of YHVH stood by.
6
The angel of YHVH gave this charge to Yahusha (here
is The Yahushaic Covenant!) 7 “This is what
YHVH Almighty says: ‘IF (YHVH
makes a conditional promise, a COVENANT) you
will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements (of The Branch foretold in The Heavenly Scroll to come FIRST
as Suffering Servant and die THEN Conquering King to rule AND walk with no sin
as High Priest Hebrews 4:15), THEN
(here is the promise if he fulfills The
Heavenly Scroll as The Glorious Righteous Branch Virgo) you will govern my house (i.e. King over the government that will govern creation Isaiah
9:6 and Constellation LEO)
and have charge of my courts (Eternal Judge 2
Cor 5:10), and I will give you a place
(right hand of YHVH Mark 16:19) among these standing here 8 “‘Listen, High Priest
Yahusha, you and your associates seated (who
came) before you (probably Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, etc.), who (those seated
before him) are men symbolic of things to
come (they were not The Branch just
shadows/prototypes): I am going to bring (you from this point forward)
My servant (Isaiah 61), The Branch (he is The Messiah and fulfillment of The Heavenly Scroll Virgo). 9 See, the stone I have set in front of Yahusha! There
are seven streams of living water (eyes) on that one stone (witness
written in stone as Yahusha was full of the 7 Spirits Revelation 5:6), and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says YHVH
Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day
(Jeremiah 31:34 - Yahuah will fulfill His promise to "forgive our
iniquity and remember our sin no more" in a NEW covenant with Yahusha).
This is uniquely speaking to and of High Priest Yahusha the
Messiah “the Branch” the one prophesied before the foundation of the
world in The Heavenly Scroll called The Word
of His Testimony.
It could not be any clearer!
Almost every scholar chooses to believes this to be a
prophecy of Yahusha III (the Messiah’s grandfather) when none of this occurred
in his life and he is NOT The Branch, Eternal High Priest or King! Yahusha III
was NOT consecrated High Priest personally by Yahuah. There is nothing
about Yahusha III in the Scriptures anywhere so this prophecy (if about him) is
irrelevant. No prophecy spoken in Yahuah’s name by a major prophet
recorded in the Scriptures is “irrelevant” they all speak of the coming Messiah.
ONLY the Messiah qualifies for this prophecy and we know
exactly when it occurred in his life (in the desert after he was Mikveh’d
clean of his sin). Yahuah entered into covenant to “forgive our sin”
ONLY with Yahusha the Messiah to fulfill Jeremiah 31:
Jeremiah 31
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the
people of Israel after that time,” declares Yahuah. “I will put my law in their
minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my
people. 34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another,
‘Know Yahuah,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the
greatest,” declares Yahuah. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will
remember their sins no more (by walking The Way by
Living Water verse 9 fulfilled in Zechariah Chapter 3).”
I actually know of no one else that sees this as the Messiah
I’m just giving someone out there the benefit of the doubt here. There is zero
chance this could be speaking of anyone other than The Messiah Yahusha the Eternal
High Priest. Let’s examine this prophecy in more detail in light of the life of
Yahusha the Messiah.
In this one prophetic vision, YHVH reveals clearly His Plan
of Salvation through the High Priest Yahusha. We see Yahusha standing before
“The Angel of YHVH’ who was acting as YHVH’s proxy speaking for Him. Yahusha is
standing next to Satan who is accusing Yahusha vigorously saying probably
something to the effect “look how dirty this lowly man is, covered in sin!”
as The Accuser of the brethren (Revelation
12:10)
We know for a fact Yahusha
was not born perfect but had to be perfected through discipline called
sanctification.
John 17:19-21
"And for their sakes I sanctify myself (by learning obedience through suffering discipline Hebrews
5:8-9), that they also might be sanctified through the truth (my example is the True Way that leads to Eternal Life John
14:6). Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word (enter into covenant);
That they all may be one family; as you, Father, are in (covenant with) me (to be my
Father), and I in (covenant with) you (to be your son), that they also may be one in (covenant with) us (a family
as your Sons John 1:12 and my brothers Hebrews 2:11): that
the world may believe that you have sent me (as a sin
offering Romans 8:3 to show them The Way to adoption and eternal life John
17:3)."
We know Yahusha did not live obedient to YHVH his entire
life because he had to “learn obedience through suffering”.
Hebrews 5
8 though he was a son, yet he LEARNED (G1097) OBEDIENCE (was
not born obedient but "in the flesh" opposed to Yahuah 'sarki')
by the things (discipline by a loving Father Hebrews
12:5-7) which he suffered (for disobedience).
9 And HAVING BEEN PERFECTED (through the process of
sanctification John 17:19… he was not born that way, he was born
disobedient and opposed to Yahuah which is the definition of “in the flesh”
Sarki), He BECAME the author (life example)
of (how we obtain) eternal salvation to all who
obey him (and follow his example).
So here is Yahusha standing before the Angel of YHVH covered
in “filthy rags” which is symbolic of “sin”. Not only “possibly” his own sin
but Yahusha is carrying the sin of the world on his shoulders as well.
Isaiah 64
6 All of us have become like one who is
unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.
Hebrews 7:27
Unlike the other high priests (who died), he does not need to offer sacrifices day
after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He
sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself (as a sin offering and shows us The Way).
Hebrews 5
2 Yahusha as High Priest is able to deal
gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is beset by
weakness (sinful flesh G4561 ‘sarki’). 3 That
is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices FOR HIS OWN SIN, as well as for the
sins of the people. 4 No one takes this honor (of
atoning for sin as High Priest) upon himself; he must be called by
Yahuah (Zechariah Chapter 3), just as Aaron was
(and be of the Aaronic Line via The House of Zadok)
But, when did this vision occur in Yahusha’s life? It
occurred just after John the High Priest consecrated through Mikveh Yahusha as
High Priest in succession. The ritual of Mikveh washing away his prior life and
as YHVH said “He had taken away his sin” and removed the sin of the world
(dirty rags) from him. Yahusha then fled into the desert like the scapegoat.
After spending 40 days/night in the desert sun basically starving to death,
Yahusha literally looks like a “burning stick snatched from the fire” of the
desert sun.
Now, after just being cleansed of sin through Mikveh
(baptism), Yahusha is stripped of his “filthy rags” and sin of the world, and
clothed in the garments of a High Priest as Yahusha was literally by blood the
successor to John the Baptist who succeeded High Priest Yahusha III who
restored the House of Zadok to the Office of High Priest in the Second Temple.
Yahusha was a Zadok High Priest
YHVH then declares “See (as I promised you in The Torah
concerning Mikveh to wash away your sin), I have taken away your sin, and put
fine garments on you”. Yahusha knew The Law and that that he MUST be Mikveh’d
to “fulfill all Righteousness” this is how Yahusha fulfilled The Righteous
Requirements of The Law! It is how we too fulfill The Law and become Righteous
with no sin.
Romans
8
3 For what the Law was powerless to do (make us Righteous) in that The Law was weakened by
the sinful flesh (held accountable to the death
decrees in The Law), Yahuah did (covered the
death decrees and forgave our iniquity and remembered our sin no more)
by sending His own (first born-again) son in
the likeness of sinful flesh (flesh 'Sarki'
g4561:
Thayer's def =#4 - born to two human parents, outside ANY Divine Influence,
prone to sin, and opposed to Yahuah), as an offering for sin (to prove The Way works as he was perfected and forgiven).
He thus condemned sin in the flesh (by walking The Way
of perfection and dying innocent in the eyes of Yahuah), 4 so that the
righteous standard of the Law might be fulfilled in us (too who walk The Way of Mikveh to "fulfill all Righteousness").
And then it goes on to describe the garments of The High
Priest that were put on Yahusha. Then YHVH tells Yahusha to “listen” because
YHVH would bring about (in Yahusha) his servant, the Branch ( an obvious
reference to The Messiah in The Heavenly Scroll)…
VIRGO: A
young maiden will give a virgin birth (The Branch will
be heir as the firstborn son to the Throne/Melchi and the Office of High Priest
of the House of Zadok/Tsedek) to a beautiful glorious and
righteous branch (this is why The Messiah
is referred to as The Branch by all the prophets who read The Heavenly Scroll).
The seed (star Spica) of the woman will be a
man of humiliation (Suffering Servant) to rise
to be the desire of nations (King of all Kings)
and will become exalted first as shepherd (High Priest)
then as harvester (Conquering King). LIBRA: The scales demand a price (dowry) to be paid (to redeem
the Bride) of this seed, a cross to endure; the victim will be slain (to save his brothers and prove himself worthy to rule over
them) and purchase a crown (to sit at the Right
Hand of The Creator). SCORPIO: There
is a conflict between the seed and the serpent (Orion
the Son of Man battles The Dragon) leading to a struggle with the enemy
(over who is the fulfillment of The Heavenly Scroll,
Yahusha or Ba’al Shamayim), the enemy is vanquished (by The Word of His Testimony). SAGITTARIUS: The double-natured seed (King/Melchi and High Priest/Tsedek … Melchizedek) triumphs as a warrior and
pleases the heavens, builds fires of punishment, casts down the dragon. CAPRICORNUS: Eternal life comes from his
death (he is granted eternal life by the power of the
resurrection), he’s the Arrow of God, he is pierced, yet springs up
again in abundant life (the firstborn of the dead). AQUARIUS: He pours out “living water”
from on high, humanity drinks of the heavenly river and the faithful live
again, he is the deliverer of the good news (Gospel), Carrying the Cross over
the earth. PISCES: The
Redeemer’s (the Groom pays the dowry to redeem his
Bride) people (the Bride) multiplied,
supported and led by the Lamb, The Bride is exposed on earth, the Bridegroom is
exalted. ARIES: The Lamb
is found worthy (by walking The Way and giving his
life as a lamb slain in the 4,000th year when the Age of Aries “dies” and
Pisces begins), the Bride is made ready, Satan is bound, the strong man
triumphs. TAURUS: The
conquering Ruler comes, the sublime vanquisher, to execute the great judgment,
he is the ruling Shepherd King (double-natured seed).GEMINI: The Marriage of the Lamb (The Fall Feasts), the enemy is trodden down (Days of Awe), the Prince comes in great Glory (Feast of Trumpets). CANCER: The great Bride, the two Houses
of Judah and Israel are united in marriage (Yom Kippur),
they are brought safely into the kingdom (Feast of
Tabernacles). LEO: The
Lion King is aroused for rending, the Serpent flees, the Bowl of Wrath is upon
him, his Carcass is devoured. The Lion of the tribe of Judah rules as King (Age of Aquarius).
In other words YHVH would make THIS High Priest His Messiah
and he was the “Debar/Predestined Plan/Word” fulfilled in the flesh John 1! And
if Yahusha “will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements (laid out
in The Heavenly Scroll) then you will govern My house and have charge of My
courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here“.
This is an “if… then…” statement, a COVENANT
bound by terms and conditions called The Yahushaic Covenant. If Yahusha will
fulfill His Will and be “with no sin as High Priest”, then YHVH will engrave in
stone that He (YHVH) will “remove the sin of this land in a single day” because
of Yahusha’s piety (reverent submission to The Way) fulfilling the most basic
promise of The Yahushaic Covenant.
Jeremiah 31
…33 "But this is the covenant which I
will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares Yahuah,
"I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I
will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34"They will not teach
again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know Yahuah,'
for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of
them," declares Yahuah, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their
sin I will remember no more (in covenant with the
Eternal High Priest Zechariah Chapter 3)."
This IS The Yahushaic Covenant in detail, entered into
between Yahusha and Yahuah to fulfill His Promise to ” by washing us clean with
Living Water”…
Ezekiel 36
24“ ‘For I will take you out of the nations (Yahusha was taken out of Egypt Matthew 2:15);
I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean (through Mikveh… Matthew 3:15); I will cleanse
you from all your impurities and from all your idols (Zechariah 3 “See High
Priest Yahusha, I have forgiven your sin”). 26 I will give you a new
heart and put a new spirit in you (Matthew 3:16);
I will remove from you your heart of stone (legalistic
adherence “by the letter”) and give you a heart of flesh (obedience to the intent). 27 And I will put my Spirit
in you (and you will be born-again by fire) and
move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws (Zechariah 3). ….31 Then you will remember your
evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and
detestable practices (Yahusha cried out to Yahuah in
repentance to save him from DEATH the penalty of his sinful flesh Hebrews
5:7 and “don’t call me good” Mark 10:18).
And that covenant is NOT that Yahuah came to
Earth and died (blasphemy), it is that Yahuah CHOSE and
anointed a human being to be perfected in obedience and give his life as High
Priest to “show us the way”! Then made his “example” called The Way a covenant
that bears his name The Yahushaic Covenant:
Isaiah 42
6"I am Yahuah, I have called you (to be perfected) in righteousness (Hebrews 5:8-9), I will also hold you by the hand
and watch over you (to set the example and walk The
Way by Living Water Ezekiel 36:25), And I will appoint you as a
covenant to the people (he will mediate the Covenant
of Peace as the Eternal Zadok High Priest Numbers 25:10-13 and make
atonement), As a light (life example John
1:26) to the nations, 7 To open (spiritually)
blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in
darkness from the prison (religion and tradition of
men).…
Nothing in that covenant says Yahusha had to be a perfect
“god”! It says the exact opposite, he had to be forgiven then show us The
Way and he was “heard” because of his OBEDIENCE not because he was a “god”.
Yahuah had to prove The Way by Living Water works and “for that reason”
Yahusha had to be made fully human in every way, and sin… so that he could be
forgiven. Then we all follow that same path as Yahusha is our BROTHER not our
‘god’… and Yahuah is begetting a family, Yahusha the first fruits from the
grave.
Hebrews 2
11 For both He who sanctifies (Yahuah) and those who are sanctified (an perfected in obedience by suffering discipline Hebrews
5:8-9) are all from one Father; for which reason (he as well as us must be sanctified by Yahuah in obedience)
Yahusha is not ashamed to call them brothers.
The Apostle Paul taught the exact same “conditional” role,
that YHVH heard Yahusha BECAUSE of his piety not because Yahusha was the second
member of a pagan Babylonian Trinity as we have been taught:
Hebrews 5:7
During the days of Yahusha's life on earth (as a sinful human Romans 8:3), he offered up
prayers and petitions (repentance) with fervent
cries and tears to the one (true and only true God...
YHVH John 17:3) who could save him from
death (the penalty of his sin), and he was
heard (and forgiven by
YHVH as YHVH promised in Zachariah 3) because of his reverent submission
(to The Way whereby he was perfected, forgiven, and
begotten Divine).
Yahusha had to have “sinned” for Yahuah to fulfill His
Promise to “forgive our iniquity and remember our sin no more” (Hebrews 8:12-13) and it was “for that reason”
Yahusha came to serve as High Priest…
Hebrews 2
For this reason (so
Yahuah could fulfill His promise to forgive our iniquity and remember our sin
no more Hebrews 8:12-13) Yahusha HAD TO BE MADE LIKE US, fully
human in every way (sinful flesh), in order
that he might BECOME (through sanctification Hebrews
2:11) a merciful and faithful high priest in service to Yahuah, and
that he might make atonement for the sins of the people (offer his life as a sin offering to show us The Way to
defeat death as a Zadok High Priest Numbers 25:13).
Now you know “the rest of the story”… The Truth.
Blessings,
Rav Sha’ul (the Nazarene)
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