Mystery of the Melchizedek – Part 5

Isaiah Ben Amoz Mid-Eighth century B.C.E  Bet 12:3 Now יהוה had said to Avram, Get out of your country, and from your mishpacha, and from your abba’s bayit, to a land that I will show you: And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a bracha: 3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all mishpachot of the earth be mingled (“Va’avarechah mevarachecha umekalelecha a’or ve’nivrechu vecha kol mishpechot ha’adamah”.  Contemporary scholars, lacking faith, have divided the book of Isaiah into three sections: to Isaiah of Jerusalem (ch. 1-39), to a prophet at the time of the exile (Deutero Isaiah ch.40-55) and to a post exilic prophet (the Third Isaiah ch. 56-66). Why? Because they have trouble reconciling the last half of book as the predictions of Isaiah. You see, oracles of doom begin the book but themes of consolation (beginning Ch. 40) end the book with the return from exile over 2 centuries later. Chs, 1-39 are addressed to the nation during the Assyrian invasions (740-700BCE), chs.40-55 to the exiles in Babylon (600-539 BCE) and chs, 56-66 to the community after its return to the land (539-500 BCE). What’s so hard for contemporary scholars to believe is that Isaiah miraculously prophecies the naming of Cyrus more than a century beforehand (ch. 44:28) and then he tops that by predicting Yeshua’s birth by the virgin (ch.7), death by crucifixion and subsequent resurrection (ch. 53). Some would even assert he predicted the false flag on 911 in ch.9:8. John 12:37 But though He (Yeshua) had done so many nisim before them, yet they believed not on Him: 38 That the saying of Yeshayahu the navi might be fulfilled, which he spoke saying vuvh, (Is 53:1“who has believed our report? And to whom has the Arm of the Master vuvh been revealed?” )39 Therefore they could not believe, because Yeshayahu said again, 40 (Is 6:10 “They have blinded their eyes, and hardened their levavot; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their levavot, and return, and I would heal them.”) 41 These things said Yeshayahu, when he saw His tifereth, and spoke of Him.  John has no problem attributing “Proto-Isaiah” (Is. 6:10) and “Deutero Isaiah” (Is. 53:1) simply to the prophet Isaiah! Isaiah 66.  Isaiah served יהוה in a role as covenant prosecutor. His messages consisted of charges, condemnation and judgments as he declares YHWH’s curses on Israel, Judah and the nations. Isaiah is summoned to represent the heavenly court in Jerusalem’s earthly court. Israel and Judah had become like the Gentiles, they had lost all vision of YHWH’s kingdom of righteousness and had tried to establish their own righteousness within their own kingdom. Romans 10:3 3 For they being ignorant of vuvh’s tzedakah, go about to establish their own tzedakah, 12 have not submitted themselves to the tzedakah of vuvh. 4 For Moshiach is the actual goal of the Torah for an eternal tzadik standing to everyone that believes. (you can’t get an eternal tzadik standing through the Levitical BoL) 5 For Moshe describes the tzedakah that comes from the Torah: That the man who does those things shall live by them. 6 But the tzedakah that is of emunah speaks in this manner…  Isaiah 66 ends with a vision from the heavenly court where there’s covenant restoration within YHWH’s kingdom of righteousness. So if we’re right about the BoC being restored then we should see evidence of it here shouldn’t we? If we’re wrong, then we should see a return to the status quo and a precise reinstatement of Levitical Torah. One or the other – correct? Before we start, lets be clear, there is no Levitical Priesthood in the Torah! Why did Korach – who was a Levite try and hijack the priesthood if he was already entitled to it? Aaron>Ithamar>Eliazer. General Levites were not admitted into the priesthood but served as laborers to the priesthood! The tripartite division of utopian messianism where