As I sit studying chapter 30 for this post, I have my praise and worship playlist on Spotify going and I keep finding myself with my eyes closed just lifting my heart in love and worship to my Savior, Yeshua. I find myself pulled to certain verses in these chapters, because they are about Him, a message given so many years before His birth that He was coming and that He would be and is salvation.
[8] On that day, says Adonai-Tzva’ot, I will break his yoke from off your neck, I will snap your chains. Foreigners will no longer enslave him. [9] Instead, they will serve Adonai their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Jeremiah 30:8-9
David (daw-veed) means beloved, and “David their/our King” was used like “The Son of Man” as a title representing the coming Messiah. David has a numeric value of 14 and as I looked at words with the value of 14, I found the Aramaic word debach (deb-akh) which means “to sacrifice” or “a sacrifice”. With the sacrifice of Messiah, the yoke of bondage and the chains of the enemy were snapped, broken, and destroyed. What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, stand firm, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1
Yeshua (Jesus) means salvation, welfare, prosperity, deliverance, and victory. The first sentence of Jeremiah 30:11 contains the root word from which Yeshua comes, yasha (yaw-shah). For I am with you to save you, says Adonai. Jeremiah 30:11 This is a huge statement as when you look at what all yasha means according to the Brown Driver Briggs Lexicon. 1. Safety, welfare, prosperity 2. Salvation, i.e. primarily physical rescue by God, with added spiritual idea; salvation from God; accordingly Yahweh is my light and my salvation; joy of thy salvation; her (Zion) priests will I clothe with salvation. 3. Victory: the mighty deeds of the victory of his right hand.
Safety
· The name of Adonai is a strong tower; a righteous person runs to it and is raised high [above danger] Proverbs 18:10
· This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Acts 4:11-12
Welfare
· But may those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad! Let them say always, “How great is Adonai, who delights in the peace (welfare) of his servant!” Psalm 35:27
· Keep your lives free from the love of money; and be satisfied with what you have; for God himself has said, “I will never fail you or abandon you.” Therefore, we say with confidence, “Adonai is my helper; I will not be afraid – what can a human being do to me?” Hebrews 13:5-6
Prosperity
· They are like trees planted by streams – they bear fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds. Psalm 1:3
· Moreover, my God will fill every need of yours according to his glorious wealth, in union with the Messiah Yeshua. Philippians 4:19
Salvation
· But I, speaking my thanks aloud, will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed, I will pay. Salvation comes from Adonai! Jonah 2:10(9)
· I love you, Adonai my strength! Adonai is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, my God, my Rock, in whom I find shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold. Psalm 18:1-3(2)
· For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed. John 3:16
· And it is all from God, who through the Messiah has reconciled us to himself and has given us the work of that reconciliation, which is that God in the Messiah was reconciling mankind to himself, not counting their sins against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Victory
· Now I know that Adonai gives victory to his anointed one – he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we praise the name of Adonai our God. Psalm 18:6(7)-7(8)
· They will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are called, chosen and faithful will overcome along with him. Revelation 17:14
The next reference to Messiah we see is in verse 21. Their leader will be one of their own, their ruler will come from among them. I will cause him to come close and let him approach me; for, otherwise, who would guarantee his heart enough to approach me? Says Adonai. The word leader in Hebrew is addiyr (ad-deer) meaning majestic one. Its translation is “excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, goodly, lordly, mighty(-ier one), noble, principle, worthy. This instantly brought to mind Revelation 5. [1] Next, I saw in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals; [2] and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” [3] But no one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it. [4] I cried and cried, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it. [5] One of the elders said to me, “Don’t cry. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Y’hudah, the Root of David, has won the right to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Revelation 5:1-5
As it happens, the current song that I am listening to is You Are My All In All and its chorus says, Jesus, Lamb of God, worthy is Your name.
The word ruler in Hebrew is mashal (maw-shal) meaning to rule and have dominion over. When we read the Gospels, we see Yeshua exercise this authority through the many miracles He performed, healing the sick, casting out demons, changing water to wine, multiplying fish and bread, and ultimately by hanging on the cross. After the ascension He drew close the Father, approached Him with that precious blood, applying it to the mercy seat, atoning for the sins of all who call upon His name for salvation. Thus, allowing for Adonai to say of us as in Jeremiah 30:22, You will be my people, and I will be your God.
Luke chapter 7 gives the account of a woman; a woman whose name is not given, only that she was a sinner, but her actions are recorded and have been known since they happened. Yeshua had been invited to the house of a Pharisee and when this woman found out that He was there she went and stood behind Him, holding a box of expensive perfume, weeping to the point that her tears fell upon His feet in such multitude that she knelt before Him and wiped His feet with her hair, kissed them, and then poured the perfume on them. When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know that the woman touching him is a sinner.” While the text does not list her name, it does list the name of the Pharisee and Yeshua called him out by name, saying, “Shim’on, I have something to say to you.” He then tells a parable of a creditor with two debtors, one that owed much and one that owed little, posing the question, “Which man loved him more” after both debts were cancelled. Shim’on gave the obviously correct answer of the one who had been forgiven much. Yeshua then turned to the woman and said to Shim’on, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house – you didn’t give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair! You didn’t give me a kiss; but from the time I arrived, this woman has not stopped kissing my feet! You didn’t put oil on my head, but this woman poured perfume on my feet! Because of this, I tell you that her sins, which are many! – have been forgiven, because she loved much. But someone who has been forgiven only a little loves only a little. Then he said to her, “Your sins have been forgiven. Your trust has saved you; go in peace.”
I have cried many tears at the feet of Yeshua. I have broken that box of perfume and poured its contents out before Him. As it says in the song Alabaster Box by CeCe Winans, “I’ve come to pour my praise on Him like oil from Mary’s alabaster box, don’t be angry if I wash His feet with my tears and I dry them with my hair. You weren’t there the night Jesus found me; you did not feel what I felt when He wrapped His loving arms around me. And you don’t know the cost of the oil in my alabaster box. I’ve been forgiven, and that’s why I love Him so much!” There is nothing in this world that is more precious to me than the salvation given to me by Yeshua. I know who and what I was before He came into my life. I know what it was before that Light shown into the darkness of my heart. I know the pain, loneliness, and going through the motions of “being happy” but not having real joy. And I know what it is to feel the arms of the Messiah lift me up, look me in the eyes and say, “You are mine!” I am loved by Wonder of a Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. And there is no greater love than the love He gives, a love that He is crying out for the world to accept. He is holding out His hand to you, with a love that is from everlasting to everlasting. In Him there is fullness of joy. In Him there is perfect shalom. In Him is life.
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