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THE SIGN OF YONAH
THE NUTS & BOLTS OF
THE MATTER
The significance of the "3 days and 3 nights" can be that it represents a SEPARATION from the world, a type of BREAK, interlude, or severing between worlds. Scripture gives many examples of putting 3 days' distance between people or places. The first time the phrase occurs is 1 Sam. 30:12, describing that Da'ud had not eaten or drank for this duration. Also, before the priest would allow Da'ud and his men to eat the qodesh food, he asked if they had been without women for 3 days. Some significance is given to 3 days' time in many other texts. But the most famous of all is the correlation between Yonah and Yahushua, called the SIGN OF YONAH.
The name "Yonah" means DOVE
Yonah lived during the reign of the northern king, Yeroboam
(reigned 790-749 BCE)
Yonah is a “type”, as the sent one, raised from the dead, and carrying salvation
to the Gentiles.
in that He would give one sign: the sign of Yonah.
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BOOK OF YONAH:
Yonah represents
Yonah's flight
represents
The "great fish";
in type, Assyria/Babylon, which swallows up
YirmeYahu (Jer.) 51:31
speaks of
"like a monster," and
it "filled his stomach."
2 Ki. 14:25: we read of this same
Yonah, where we find that he was
Zebulon means “to dwell”.
Their skill was ship-building, and
"Zebulon shall
dwell
at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border
shall be unto Zidon."
Bereshith 49:13
YONAH
“And the word of
Yahuah came
to Yonah son of Amittai, saying,
“Arise, go to Ninuah, the great city,
and cry out against it, for their evils have come up before Me.”
But Yonah
rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahuah, and went down to Yapho,
and found a ship going to Tarshish. And
he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the
presence of Yahuah.
And Yahuah
sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, so
that the ship was thought to be broken up.
And the
seamen were afraid, and each one cried out to his mighty one, and threw the
cargo which was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Yonah had
gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, and he lay down, and was fast
asleep.
And the
captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, cry out
to your Elohim, if so be that Elohim shall think about us, so that we do not
perish.”
And they
said to each other, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we know for whose sake
this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Yonah.
So they
said to him, “Please explain to us! For whose sake is this evil upon us?
What is your occupation? And where do
you come from?
What is
your country? And from what people are
you?”
And he said
to them, “I am a Heḇrew.
And I am fearing Yahuah, the Elohim of
the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
And the men
were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men
knew that he fled from the presence of Yahuah, for he had informed them.
And they
said to him, “What are we to do to you to make the sea calm for us?” For the sea
was growing more stormy.
And he said
to them, “Take me and throw me into the sea, so that the sea becomes calm for
you. For I know that this great storm is because of me.”
However,
the men rowed hard to bring the ship to land, but were unable, for the sea
continued to grow more stormy against them.
And they
cried out to Yahuah and said, “We pray, O Yahuah, please, let us not perish for
this man’s life, and do not lay on us innocent blood.
For You, O
Yahuah, have done as it pleased You.”
Then they
took Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
And the men
feared Yahuah exceedingly, and brought an offering to Yahuah and made vows.
But Yahuah
appointed a great fish to swallow Yonah. And
Yonah was in the stomach of the fish three
days
and three
nights.”
Yonah
1:1-17
Yonah
understood by not obeying Yahuah he would DIE, but Yahuah searched the motive of
his heart; Yonah’s desire was to
see the destruction of
(resulting in
redemption from the death penalty).
NINUAH WAS A
CITY OF THE BABYLONIANS;
LATER IT
BECAME THE CAPITAL OF THE ASSYRIANS
WHO DID THE
PEOPLE OF NINUAH WORSHIP?
Nisroch
"the great eagle" (word
#5268)
An idol of
eagle-headed human figure, probably connected with the Hebrew word nesher,
an eagle. An Assyrian god, supposed to be that represented with the head of an
eagle. Sennacherib was killed in the temple of this idol
(2
Kings 19:37;
Isa. 37:38).
NISROCH,
ASSYRIAN DEITY ABOMINATION:
AZTEC, MASONIC, NAZI/THIRD
REICH EAGLES:
NAZI /
THIRD REICH EAGLES:
ROMAN
EMPIRE AND UNITED STATES SEAL EAGLES:
ZOROASTRIAN
DEITY, AHURA MAZDA
“LORD OF
WISDOM”:
US AIR
FORCE PATCH:
FLAGS,
COINS, AND ARCHITECTURE ACROSS THE EARTH IS FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH IDOLATRY,
AND THE EAGLE IS THE MOST POPULAR.
“To the Torah and the Testimony!
If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no
light in them.”
YeshaYahu (Is.) 8:20
The Covenant
/Marriage
Contract
(BRITH)
Ex 20:1-17
ASERETH HA’DABARIM (10 WORDS)
Yahuah’s Covenant, our wedding vows:
LITERAL TRANSLATION:
“And Elohim spoke all these Words:
1.
‘I am
Yahuah your
Elohim, who brought you out of
You shall have no other elohim before My face.
2.
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven
above or on the Earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them;
for I,
Yahuah your
Elohim, am a jealous Elohim, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers
to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a
thousand [ generations] of those who love Me
and keep My
Commandments.
3.
You shall not cast
(NASA, send)
the Name of Yahuah
your Elohim to ruin(SHOAH,
destruction),
for
Yahuah will not
hold anyone guiltless who casts His Name to
ruin.
4.
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it qodesh.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to
Yahuah your
Elohim.
On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your
manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
For in six days
Yahuah made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the
seventh day.
Therefore
Yahuah blessed
the Sabbath day and made it qodesh.
5.
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land
Yahuah
your Elohim is giving you.
6.
You shall not murder.
(Two words: LO RATSACH, NO KILL)
7.
You shall not adulterate
(Two words: LO NA’APH, NO BREAK
WEDLOCK)
8.
You shall not steal.
(Two words: LO GANAB, NO STEAL)
9.
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10.
You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
“The secret of Yahuah
is with those who fear Him, And He
makes His Covenant known to them.”
Psa
25:14
The ancient enemy of Yisrael:
ASSHUR (
Capital city of
TEACHING THE
COVENANT TO THE NATIONS
“Therefore,
go and make taught ones of
all the nations, immersing
them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit,
teaching them to guard all that I
have commanded you. And
see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
MattithYahu
28:19,20
Yahushua is the Kohen ha’Gadol,
Through
When Yahushua said
“love your enemies”,
He spoke of not only the Samaritans (10 northern tribes of
The Covenant teaches this love,
so to withhold the Covenant from any people is the same as denying them life,
and being aloof to their destruction.
Yahushua was “like” Yonah is
several unique ways.
“Then
some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a
sign from You.’
But He answering, said to them,
‘A wicked and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except
the sign of the prophet Yonah.
For as Yonah was
three days
and three nights
in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the Son of Aḏam
be
three days
and three nights
in the heart of the Earth.
Men of Ninuah shall stand up in
the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the
preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here.’”
MattithYahu
12:38-41
Both were sent with a message of
repentance.
Both issued prophetic warnings of
future destruction.
Both were in a “belly” for 3 days
and 3 nights.
Difference:
Yonah thought solely of Yisrael,
and was not concerned for the nations, particularly Yisrael’s greatest enemy,
Yahushua was sent “first” to the
lost tribes, the “house of
The nations are also included in
His mission through
“I,
Yahuah, have called You
(Yisrael)
in righteousness, and I take hold of Your hand and guard You, and give You for a
covenant to a people, for a light to the gentiles,
to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in
darkness from the prison house.
“I am Yahuah, that is My Name, and My
esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols.”
YeshaYahu
(Is.) 42:6-8
Speaking of Yahushua
specifically:
“and He says,
“Shall it be a small matter for You to be My Servant to raise up the
tribes of Yaʽaqoḇ,
and to bring back the preserved ones of Yisrael?
And I shall give You as a light to the gentiles, to be My deliverance to
the ends of the Earth!”
YeshaYahu
(Is.) 49:6
“The Spirit of the Master
Yahuah is
upon Me, because Yahuah has anointed Me to bring good news
(besorah)
to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up
the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to those who are bound,
to proclaim
the acceptable year of Yahuah, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to
comfort all who mourn,
to appoint
unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they
shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of Yahuah, to be adorned.
And they
shall rebuild the old ruins, raise up the former wastes. And they shall restore
the ruined cities, the wastes of many generations.
And
strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner be
your ploughmen and your vinedressers.
But you
shall be called,
‘Priests of
Yahuah,’
‘Servants of our Elohim’ shall be said of you. You shall consume the strength of
the gentiles, and boast in their esteem.
Instead of
your shame and reproach, they rejoice a second time in their portion. Therefore
they take possession a second time in their land, everlasting joy is theirs.
“For I, Yahuah, love right-ruling; I
hate robbery for burnt offering.
And I shall
give their reward in truth, and make an everlasting covenant with them.
“And
their seed shall be known among the gentiles, and their offspring in the midst
of the peoples. All who see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed Yahuah has blessed.”
I greatly
rejoice in Yahuah, my being exults in my Elohim.
For He has put garments of deliverance on Me, He has covered me with the
robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a
bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the
earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the seed to shoot up, so the
Master Yahuah causes righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations!”
YeshaYahu
61:1-11
Did you know?
The first
recorded Olympic Games in
(ASSYRIANS CAPTURED
Buddha,
Confucius and the Prophet Daniel all lived at the same time?
(CIRCA
500 BCE).
The Greek
historian Homer lived during the time of Isaiah, Amos, and Micah?
(8TH
CENTURY BCE).
The
earliest forms of writing are dated 1,000 years before Abraham?
ABRAHAM WAS BORN 1948 ANNO MUNDI; 292
years after the Great Flood.
The first writing occurred over 700 years before the flood.
FLOOD EVENT:
1656 AM, or 2504 BCE (4512 years from 2008).
The oldest living trees are about 4500 years old.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO
ACCEPT THE LIE THAT YAHUSHUA WAS IN THE TOMB FOR 2 NIGHTS AND 1 DAY?
CASUISTRY
(Jesuit logic): Case-based
reasoning.
1.
Specious or
excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.
2.
The determination
of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing cases that
illustrate general ethical rules.
casuistry -
argumentation that is
specious or excessively subtle and intended
to be misleading
SPECIOUS:
Pleasing to the eye, but deceptive.
PROBABILISM
- a Roman Catholic
system of
casuistry that when expert opinions differ an
actor can follow any solidly probable
opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more
probable.
Example: Bill Clinton’s
rationalization to the grand jury about the meaning of “is”.
Casuistry:
An essential
doctrine of terrorism.
“The end
justifies the means.” -
15th century
Niccolò
Machiavelli;
studied the Art Of War, disarmament of populations for the security of
the monarchies, analyzed power, war strategies;
a totalitarian, saying that the show of power renders obedience
inescapable.
TRUTH OF THE
MATTER
RE: Queries & Comments Article, Biblical Archaeological Review Jan / Feb 2008
This is to address a
fundamental “stronghold” concerning the mysterious “3 days and 3 nights”
discussed by
a reader (Gene Ramsey,
ONLY TWO NIGHTS
(referenced article, from Queries &
Comments, Biblical Archaeological Review, Jan / Feb 2008)
This is the answer that Gene Ramsey was really looking for:
Most
theologians miss the obvious, simple meaning to the text concerning how Yahushua
ha’Mashiach was in the heart of the Earth for “three days and three
nights” because they force the concept of “preparation day” to only
refer to their Roman “Friday”.
When understood within the
religion/halachah of
ABIB 15
This fifteenth day is an
“annual” Shabbath (rest day), so the 14th of every first moon
is always termed a “preparation day”. The Greek text captures the
idea of the approaching day as a “High Shabbath”
in the word “MEGAS” (G3173), Yn. 19:31. It has nothing to do with the SHABUA
(week) of 7 days, only the moon.
The “stronghold” opinion
that the term “preparation day” is a “Friday” is simply a gross, long-lived
error. The actual day of the week is irrelevant, but we know from
researching it thoroughly that the day of Yahushua’s impalement was on the 4th
day of the week, several hours after sunrise (this would be the Roman/Celtic day
called “Woden’s Daeg”).
Carefully
counting the “days” and “nights” from the time Yahushua was entombed, we find
the following chain of events:
Nakdimon and Yosef took
Yahushua’s body from the tree at the close of the day, just prior to sunset,
because the approaching sunset signaled the arrival of the first day of Matsah
(Unleavened Bread) ABIB 15, a “high” day:
Woden’s Daeg at sunset
began night #1 (the next sunrise began
the day #1)
Thor’s Daeg at sunset
began night #2 (the next sunrise
began the day #2)
Frigga Daeg at sunset
began night #3 (the next sunrise
began the day #3) -- total: 3 days and 3
nights.
At sunset as
the weekly Shabbath drew to a close, Yahushua rose from the dead. The
discovery of His resurrection was not until the following morning
when Miryam of Migdal arrived on the first day of the week and found the stone
had been removed, and the body was missing.
This morning was very
special, since Yahushua (as Kohen haGadol) would ascend before the Father (Yahuah)
as the “wave
sheaf offering”. This is why He would not allow Miryam to touch
Him, because He had not yet presented Himself as the wave sheaf offering.
His resurrected body WAS the “First-fruits”
offering, what the barley sheaf had represented;
another overlooked but
vital part of what was being fulfilled.
The timing of
these things indicates that Yahushua and the 12 were observing Passover
at the beginning of the 14th day of the moon, and it was a Tyr’s Daeg
evening/night. The confusion is not helped by the fact that the Roman days
begin at midnight, instead of the proper time, at sunset. This
misunderstanding by Christianity has been the reason that many of us have often
said they can’t count – but it’s really only a stronghold of false teaching, and
being removed from the true faith of the Mashiach for so long. They have a
“form” of piousness, but deny its authority over them; they have no
Passover, festival of Matsah, Shabouth, Yom Teruah, Yom Kaphar, or Sukkoth - the
“shadows”
of redemption-things
to come. By referencing everything
around “Sun-day”, they miss the foundation because they did not build on it in
the first place.
They built their “matrix” patterned after
sun-worshippers, and abandoned the festivals of
Passover is a memorial of
Yahushua's death.
The three days and three
nights in the tomb are the "sign of Yonah", proving by this sign He is the
Mashiach.
The resurrected body of
Yahushua is the offering of "First-fruits",
also known as the "Wave-sheaf
offering",
and this is why it
happened the "morrow after the Shabbath", or what Christians call "Sun-day"
morning".
The resurrection was being
"rehearsed" by the High Priests of Israel each time they cut the "First-fruits"
of barley and waved it before Yahuah. Yahushua made it a reality, bringing
an end to ceremonial offerings, and becoming our Kohen haGadol.
“In the first
month, on the fourteenth day
(ABIB 14)
of the month,
between the evenings, is the Passover to
Yahuah.
And on the fifteenth day
(ABIB 15)
of this month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to Yahuah – seven days you eat
unleavened bread.
On the first day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.
And you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahuah for seven days. On the
seventh day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.’
And Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, saying,
‘Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them, ‘When you come
into the land which I give you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring
a sheaf of the
first-fruits
of your harvest to the priest.
And he shall
wave the sheaf before Yahuah,
for your acceptance.
On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest waves it.
And on that day when you wave the sheaf, you shall prepare a male lamb a year
old, a perfect one, as a burnt offering to Yahuah,
and its grain offering: two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil, an
offering made by fire to Yahuah, a sweet fragrance, and its drink offering:
one-fourth of a hin of wine.
And you do not eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the same day that
you have brought an offering to your Elohim – a law forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
And
from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of
the wave offering,
you shall count for yourselves:
seven completed Sabbaths.
Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days, then you shall
bring a new grain offering to Yahuah.”
Lev. / Wayyiqra 23:5-16
Teaching that the “wave-sheaf offering” is done on ABIB 16 is an error, because
on ABIB 16 Yahushua was in the tomb, fulfilling the sign of Yonah.
He healed the sick, raised the dead, walked on water, was dead for three days
and three nights, and rose from the dead.
AN EMPTY TOMB
HE’S NOT DEAD, JIM.
END OF SEMINAR