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The Names of Jacob's Sons: Foretelling the Future

This post is following up on our previous post: Why Torah Is Important to Christianity

Every name in Hebrew has a specific meaning. For more information on this, check out: Names Mean Things.

Consider the meaning of these Hebrew names:

Reuben—Son
Simeon—Hated
Levi—Loved
Judah—Praise
Issichar-wages
Zebulon—Dwell
Dinah-Bride

Now consider them combined:

The messiah came as a Son. He was Hated by some and Loved by others. We should Praise his name because he paid the Wages of sin and soon He will come to Dwell with us plus we will be his Bride.

I heard this from a couple people down a chain, but I think this originates with Monte Judah.

Why Torah Is Important to Christianity

Torah, is the Hebrew word most often translated "Law" in the Old Testament. It indicates a body of law, instruction, or teaching. It most commonly used in reference to the first five books of the Old Testament, often called by their Greek name: the Pentateuch.

Though the Torah has many functions, the one we are interested in today is its prophetic function. Consider Isiah 46:10:

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yet been done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,’

Many other passages in Isaiah echo these words, here are two more to consider:

Isa 45:21 “Declare and bring near, let them even take counsel together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has declared it from that time? Is it not I, יהוה (LORD)? And there is no mighty one besides Me, a righteous Ěl (God) and a Saviour, there is none besides Me.

Isa 41:22 “Let them draw near and declare to us what is going to take place; let them declare the former events, what they were, and we consider them, and know the latter end of them; or announce to us what is coming.

Some 30% of the book of Genesis is devoted to the story of Joseph. Why is this important? Holy God as revealed to us the importance of the Torah, for among other things, it reveals the "end from the beginning."

Yahweh has revealed the future to use through His prophets and His Torah. He declares in the book of Amos:

Amo 3:7 For the Master יהוה does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

With these two propositions in mind, it clearly follows that understanding the Torah, understanding the story of Joseph is critical to the understanding of the end times.

Mat 23:34 “Because of this, see, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scholars of Scripture. Some of them you shall kill and impale, and some of them you shall flog in your congregations and persecute from city to city.

Mat 13:52 And He said to them, “Therefore every scholar of Scripture taught in the reign of the heavens is like a householder who brings out of his treasure matters, renewed, and old.”

God has blessed us with many learned men, scholars of Scripture. Ah, the teaching of such a scholar is like music to the ears.

In conclusion, consider the concluding words of the prophet Joel:

Joe 3:19 “Mitsrayim shall become a ruin, and Eḏom a ruin, a wilderness, because of violence done to the people of Yehuḏah, whose innocent blood they shed in their land.
Joe 3:20 “But Yehuḏah shall dwell forever, and Yerushalayim to all generations.
Joe 3:21 “And I shall avenge their blood, which I have not avenged. And יהוה shall be dwelling in Tsiyon!”

In the following days we will follow up on this post by examining truths and prophecies contained within Torah....