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was the result of the yabam unknowingly performed by Judah with Tamar
his daughter in law.
Remember
from the last post that there were two major differences from the
yabamim of the daughters of Lot and Tamar from what is normal. They
were done by virgins (in the case of Lot's daughters) and fathers (in
both cases).
The
common link both share is that of the source of yabam...by means of a
father.
Let
us now see how this all connects to the birth of Yeshua.
The
lineage of Yeshua given by Luke traces his lineage through the line
of humans all the way back to Adam, the first human. However, he goes
one step further back than that, when he says:
...Adam,
the son of God...(Luk 3:38).
God
is the original Father of all humanity. Keeping in mind the law of
begettings, which says that kind produces after its own kind (cats
produce cats, dogs produce dogs, etc, including its characteristics),
Adam sinned before any children were born to him. Therefore, any
children he had would be after his kind (born in a dead condition, as
God said...'in the day you eat of it you will surely die').
Adam
had no other male next of kin through which the righteous Messiah
(the seed of the woman) could come, since every male born could only
produce children in the same dead condition as he.
Our
original Father however, left us clues in the events of Lot's
daughters and Tamar as to how he would go about bringing an untainted
Messiah through the line of fallen humanity.
Just
as Lot and Judah, as fathers, continued their respective family lines
through their daughters, so to our Father would do the same through
his daughter Miriam.
Just
as Lot's daughters were virgins, so to would Miriam be a
virgin.
Just
as the first born to Lot through one of his daughters was named Moab
(from father) and Ruth, coming from that line of peoples, continued
the line through which Messiah would come, so to would the Messiah be
'from Father', the original Father, our Creator.
That
he is the original Father of Adam, and thus, all humanity, we can see
how Messiah would affect every human from Adam on.
God
himself became the one who performed yabam with Miriam, in yet
another set of unusual circumstances, which were hinted at all the
way back in Torah. It the spiritual fulfillment of what was shown
physically in Genesis.
This
needed to be done, if you remember, because Adam (due to sin) was
left unable to continue the birthings (תולדות),
filling the earth with offspring bearing the image of God.
Ruth,
in her circumstance, with the only other instance of the word in its
full spelling, shows us how that image would be restored.
It
would have to be done by the Father himself by means of a virgin. I
will say it again...this was spoken of and verified back in the
Torah. Yeshua was the first true son of Adam (as he called himself on
more than one occasion), and also the restoration of the true image
of God. God's purpose of filling the earth.
Matt
1:1 in the Aramaic reads:
The
book of the birthings of Yeshua the Messiah; son of Dawid, son of
Abrahamכּתָבָא דִּילִידוּתֵה דּיֵשׁוּע
משִׁיחָא בּרֵה דּדַוִיד בּרֵה
דַּאברָהָם
Here
we see, once again, in full spelling, the Aramaic equivalent to
toledoth. It is yalidutheh, which I underlined.
Thus
the 1st century writings continue tracing these birthings from
Creation...to Ruth...to Yeshua. There are no other instances of the
word, meaning that in Yeshua the original birthings are realized for
all humanity.
In
such a way, Yeshua, by his life, restored the original image of God
lost by Adam, and by his death and resurrection, restored that same
image to all humanity who died in him by killing that humanity in his
body on the tree.
Ronen