Excerpt from The Yahushaic Covenant Volume 1 by Rav Sha'ul Water – the witness of the Virgin Birth by Rav Sha'ul   Yahusha was born human as prophesied through the womb of a woman and fulfilled “the sign” that was given for all highly anointed men that played a key role in The Plan of Salvation; a miraculous birth.  All humans come into this world “through water” in their mother’s womb but Yahusha had to fulfill the sign of a “virgin birth” as foretold by Yahuah’s Prophets.  So by water is the testimony that Yahusha was a HUMAN Messiah and a highly anointed man by the sign of a miraculous birth. The Christian doctrine of The Virgin Birth is one of if not THE most destructive false doctrines there are.  It has literally lead to the false doctrine of Incarnation and to avoid Yahusha having been born under Original Sin (another false doctrine) we had to come up with yet another false doctrine of Immaculate Conception.  All this lead to Mary being worshipped as Co-Redemptrix as the pagan Christian Church came full circle in worshipping The Queen of Heaven i.e. the Babylonian queen known as the goddess Ishtar (Easter). What I want to do here is explain Yahusha’s miraculous birth and the sign of a “virgin” and establish Yahuah’s witness of Yahusha in sound doctrinal truth, not the traditions of men.  The entire doctrine of Incarnation began with one sound bite taken totally out of context of Scripture.  That sound bite is: Matthew 1 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Luke 1 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. First I want to point out that what is called “The Holy Ghost” is not “ghost” or any entity whatsoever.  It is The Spirit of Holiness (Holy Spirit), the breath of Yahuah given to all of us that teach us to keep His Law.  So what that actually says is… Matthew 1 18 Now the birth of Yahusha the Messiah was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of The Spirit of Holiness (Yahusha was born with the Spirit to keep The Law of Yahuah that would make Yahusha HOLY before Yahuah). The reality is that the “Holy Ghost” or “breath of Yahuah” gives life to EVERY conception.  There was no “Ghost” that came down and impregnated Mary.  The Christian Church is built up around the doctrine of Incarnation that a “Holy” Ghost impregnated Mary and Jesus was a demi-god.  If the Virgin Birth, the way it is taught, is proof of the incarnation why is it only mentioned in passing in only two of the Gospels and never mentioned at all by Yahusha or any other writer in the New Testament?  That alone should have us asking questions of this doctrine.  It just wasn’t important to Yahusha or anyone else. The reason it is scarcely mentioned at all in The Bible is that the way The Virgin Birth is taught is a false doctrine and Yahusha was not the incarnation of God. Again we are dealing with uninspired modern translations that have poured into Greek words all the pagan implications to make Yahusha into a demi-god that would be accepted by pagan Greeks.  That pagan demi-god is Hesus Horus Krishna a.k.a. “Jesus H. Christ” as the name has evolved over 1500 years.   I cover the identity of the false messiah in great detail in my book Abstract and in my book Christianity: The Great Deception.  These books are free on www.sabbathcovenant.com    The word mistranslated into “virgin” relies on the Greek word parthenos instead of the Hebrew word almah.  Parthenos in Greek does mean “sexual virgin”.  However, we are dealing with the fulfillment of the prophetic “sign” concerning the Messiah spoken through Isaiah, IN HEBREW not Greek.  It was Isaiah’s prophecy is Hebrew that Yahusha must fulfill that the Messiah will be born of a “almah”.  The Hebrew word for virgin does not mean “sexual virgin” that is a mistranslation into Greek.  The Hellenized translators of our modern Bibles believed in (and to this day believe in) the Babylonian trinity where Semiramis was miraculously impregnated by the rays of the sungod Ba’al.  To foster that pagan philosophy the translators opted for the Greek meaning of “sexual virgin” instead of what Isaiah said in Hebrew.  The prophecy that Yahusha must fulfill the witness of “water” and the sign of “a virgin” is spoken by Yahuah through Isaiah: Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore Yahuah Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a young maiden of marrying age (almuh) will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel," Quick side note here on “Call his name Immanuel” “Immanuel” is a Hebrew name with “meaning” that gives glory to Yahuah.  It, like Yahusha and Elijah, is a contracted sentence name (Imman – u – El) and as such can be a “title” not just a name.  In Hebrew it is a contracted form of the sentence (Faithful and True Witness of Yahuah). It does not mean “God is with us” as it taught in the false Christian Church. The word “aman” is the root in Hebrew of eman, or iman (the beginning of Immanuel)’?  Aman it is the same word and there are three; aman(u), amen(u) and iman(u). The word trail (with Strong’s numbers) is: Aman (H6004), Amen (H543) and Iman (H5973). There is also emune(ah), which means "I am one of them that are faithful and peaceable".  We must, in the case of Hebrew, study the word trail to come to a full understanding of a “sentence name” or “title” such as Immanuel: Strong’s H-6005. 'Immanuw'el, im-maw-noo-ale'; from {A.}H-5973 and {B.}H-410 with suff. pron. ins.; with us (is) God; Immanuel, a typ. name of Isaiah's son:--Immanuel. Strong’s H-5973. 'im, eem; from H-6004; adv. or prep. with (i.e. in conjunction with ), in varied applications; spec. equally with; often with prep. pref. (and then usually unrepresented in English):-- accompanying, against, and, as (X long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with (-al). Strong’s H-410. 'el, ale; short. from H-352; strength; as adj. mighty; espec. the Almighty (but used also of any deity):--God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might (-y one), power, strong. Comp. names in "-el." Strong’s H-6004. 'amam, aw-mam'; a prim. root; to associate; by impl. to overshadow (by huddling together):--become dim, hide; Strong’s H-539 ‘aman aw’man; Primary root word; properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; once (Isa. 30:21; interchangeable 541) to go to the right hand:--hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right. (Click on the word “aman” above for the full Gesenius Hebrew-Chaldee definition, which I recommend that you do) Strong’s H-352. 'ayil, ah'-yil; from the same as H-193; prop. strength; hence anything strong; spec. a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree:--mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree. Strong’s H-193. 'uwl, ool; from an unused root mean. to twist, i.e. (by impl.) be strong; the body (as being rolled together); also powerful:--mighty, strength. So, ame(a)nu'el, imanu'el and emune'el all are Immanuel and together give us the full meaning. It's like how Yeshu, Yeshua, Yahushua, and Yahusha are all the same name, but sometimes it is spelled with an “e” or an “a”. “I” is often pronounced with the YEH sound. In fact, those that call themselves Ethiopian Jews say Amanu’el, which (to them) means “to have faith in Elohim, my faith is in EL, Amen (Amon, Imam, Magnet, Faith)” and claim this was a literal name for Yahusha, even citing Revelation 3:14. Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen (aman), the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of Yahuah; The word “aman” defines itself there – a “faithful and true witness” of Yahuah.  It is not just given to the Messiah, or Isaiah's son, but Yahuah Himself is also called "faithful and true".  Moses and Samuel were called faithful witnesses they are “Immanuel”, as are many others. http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q=faithful&c=&t=kjva&ps=10&s=Bibles Immanuel is a title and not a literal name (much like Elijah is a title) - even though the prophecy has been misapplied and the word mistranslated as "god with us" in order to promote the church’s falsely claimed position of Yahusha's deity.  Discernment tells us, however, that Yahusha WAS an Aman’el, and any other person who is faithful to Yahuah’s two witnesses (The Law and The Prophets) is also an Aman’el. Now back to the prophecy in Isaiah concerning the “virgin” prophecy. Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore Yahuah Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a young maiden of marrying age (almuh) will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel," In reality, Isaiah was speaking of the “sign in the sky of the son of man” that would herald the birth of a king.  This is “the sign” that the Babylonian Astronomers trained by the prophet Daniel (magi) were looking for and followed to the place (Bethlehem) where it was foretold the King would be born.  This is the same “sign” that appears in the sky again at the time of the second coming: Revelation 12:1-2 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman (constellation Virgo or Virgin) clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth (to a King, the planet Jupiter). This was a dual prophecy and dual sign.  One fulfilled in the sky (heavens) as Yahuah’s plan of salvation is written in the stars (see my book Creation Cries Out!) and on Earth.  Isaiah 7:14 says that an almah will bear a son. The problem is dealing with the Hebrew word mistranslated into Greek as “virgin” with a  sexual context implied. This word is Strong's entry 5959. almah http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/5959.htm almah: a young woman, a virgin Original Word: עַלְמָה Short Definition: maidens This word can mean sexual virgin in the sense that most young maidens are sexual virgins being “not married” but the primary meaning of this word is: young woman 1a) of marriageable age 1b) maid or newly married.  Therefore, the word "almah" does not mean virgin in a sexual context but the primary meaning is young maiden of marrying age.  The word occurs elsewhere in the Old Testament and never is it translated in sexual context as in Genesis 24:43 (”maiden“); Exodus 2:8 (”girl“); Psalm 68:25 (”maidens“); Proverbs 30:19 (”maiden“); Song of Songs 1:3 (”maidens“) Here is the key.  There is a Hebrew word for sexual virgin:  bethulah. If Isaiah 7:14 was meant to mean virgin instead of young maiden, then Yahuah through Isaiah would have used bethulah to be specific concerning the birth of The Messiah.  Yahuah is not a trickster.  I am not saying that Mary was not a virgin, what I am saying is that she didn’t have to be; she simply had to be a young maiden of marrying age to fulfill the “sign” foretold by Isaiah.  What I am saying is that Joseph and Mary were well within their rights to have sexual intercourse. Next: Could Mary have conceived through normal sex?

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