Why does the Bible Name Jesus as Israel? | Sam Shamoun (Secret Meaning)

Okay. Uh, in Hosea 11, it says, "When Israel was a youth, I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son. " How do I explain this prophecy to someone?

Um, uh, because I think when I read in the context, is it talking about Israel or It is talking about Israel. It's talking about the nation because it goes on to say how Israel rebelled against him and broke his heart and how God's heart is turned within him with compassion and says, "How can I give you up? I can't.

I love you too much even though I discipline you. " Okay. So when it says and out of Egypt I called my son that that specifically would it be a double prophecy or is it like well I mean it's not so much a double prophecy as it is an indication that what Israel experience the Messiah will experience.

I mentioned that in the past but I'm going to show you what I mean. Okay. The Old Testament has already prepared the Jews that the Messiah, his life will recapitulate what happened to Israel so that things that happened to Israel will happen to him.

I'm going to give you and guys, I need you to listen to this. This is important because we're going to end it with his questions. If you're if you're not paying attention to scripture, you won't see how history repeats itself.

How things happening to one person happens to another. Let me give you one example that's going to blow you away. In Genesis 12, it says, "A famine broke out in the land of Canaan, forcing Abraham and Sarai to go to Egypt for food.

Once there, the Pharaoh oppressed Abraham by taking Sarai into his tent or into his abode so he can have sex with her. " It says God brought plagues plagues upon Pharaoh and his household, forcing Pharaoh to release Sarai before he could then defile her. said, "She's a crazy woman.

Get her out of here. " And he sent out Abraham with great plunder. Sound familiar?

Did that sound familiar or no? Yeah. You sure?

I don't think you got it. Abraham went into Egypt. The Pharaoh oppressed him.

God brought him out with a mighty hand by bringing plagues on the Egyptians, forcing the Pharaoh to release him with great plunder. That's what happened to Abraham's descendants. Oh, okay.

See, you didn't get it. You pretended you got it. See?

No, I get it this time, though. Yeah, that makes sense. Didn't that is that not what happened with his descendants?

Yes. They went into Egypt because of famine. There was famine in the land of Canaan.

And the only way to get food was to go to Egypt. Yeah. And didn't the Holy Family settle in Gan in Egypt?

Yes, they did. And the Pharaoh pressed the Israelites. And then God brought them out by bringing plagues upon Pharaoh.

And then they came out with great plunder. Yeah. So what Abraham experienced, the nation experienced.

Yeah. Another example, if you read Genesis 20, it says Aimilec, the king of Girar, took Sarai or Sarah at this time, so he can sleep with her. And then God appeared to him and said, "You're as good as a dead man.

" Forcing Aimilec to release Sarah back to Abraham. Right. Yeah.

But hold on. If you read later on the narrative, it says, "Isaac and Rebecca were in Girar. And another king named Aibc also desired Rebecca and wanted to have her as his wife until he saw Isaac following her because Isaac, like Abraham, had said, "She's my sister?

" Yeah. So, wait, you mean two kings with the same name, Aimilec, in the same area, lusted after Abraham's wife and Isaac's wife? Because both Abraham Isaac said that their wives are their sisters.

History repeating itself. Yeah, I think repeated. Yep.

You catch. Okay. Now, how does this tie in with Israel and Jesus?

Well, in Isaiah 49:es 1-6, in Isaiah 49 verse 1-6, one of the names of the Messiah is Israel. You know this, right? Or you don't know this, have you?

I do. All right. So, notice he's called Israel like he's called David.

That tells you if he's called Israel, he's called Israel for a reason. Because he's going to succeed where the nation failed, he will undo the failure of the nation. The nation failed, this Israel will succeed, right?

Yeah. Okay. Now, some of the themes, how many years did the Israelites spend in the desert?

40 years, right? Yeah. Why 40 years?

Because it took the 12 spies to scout the land of Canaan, it took them 40 days, right? Yes. Yes.

And in Numbers 13, write these verses down. Numbers 13:es 31-33. Numbers 13 31-33.

When they came back and told them, look, the land is flowing with milk and honey, but there are giants and aim that makes people look like grasshoppers. Okay? 10 of the 12 spies caused the people to be afraid.

So they didn't want to go. Caleb and Joshua says, "Don't be afraid. God will deliver them into our hands.

But they refused to go because they were scared. " Then in Numbers 14 33-34, God says, "Here's your punishment. Here's your punishment.

Each day it took the spies to scout the land. You're going to remain a year in the desert so that the first generation will die and your children will enter. but not you as your punishment.

Wow. So each day it took them to scout the land. This is numbers 14 33 34.

You're going to remain in the desert for a year. So it took them 40 days. So how many years?

40 days or 40 years. So they remain 40 years because God said you your that first generation, you're all going to die in the desert. None of you going to enter except Joshua and Caleb.

Your children will enter, not you because of your disbelief. So you notice a day equals a year, right? Yeah.

So, Israel entered the desert to be tested by God for 40 years and they failed, right? Yeah. But then Jesus entered the desert for 40 days and he succeeded.

Yeah, he did. Coincidence? No.

Why did he go into the wilderness? Uh, it was to be tempted by the by Satan. You didn't catch it then.

Why did he go into the wilderness for 40 days? is to reflect the what happened in the past with numbers with Israel. Israel, God's son, spent 40 years in the desert to be trained by God to depend on him and they failed.

God's true son, Jesus, went into the desert for 40 days and succeeded. Okay? In fact, go to Matthew 44.

No. Yeah, Dennis, you're not paying attention. Pay attention.

Matthew 4 1. Okay. Matthew chapter 4:es 1 and4.

Then Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after he had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, he then became hungry. And then uh and the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the son of God, command that these stones become bread.

" But he answered and said, "It is written, man shall not live on bread alone, but in every word that comes out of the mouth of God. " Did you see what he quotes in Matthew 4:4? quoted, "Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

" Right? Yeah. Don't forget that quote because I'm going to show you where he quoted from.

Go to Deuteronomy 8. Deuteronomy chapter 8 verses 1-5 and pay attention to verse three. Deuteronomy 8:es 1-5.

Okay. Jeremy chapter 8 was verses 1 to5. But Jesus quotes verse three and see why.

Read Deuteronomy 8:es 1-5. All the commandments that I am commanding you today, you shall be careful to do so that you may live and increase and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers. And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has helped you in the wilderness these 40 years in order to humble you, putting you to the test to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

And he humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you with the mana which you did not know nor did your fathers know in order to make you understand that man shall not live by bread alone but man shall live on everything that comes out of the mouth of the Lord. Who quoted that? Uh Jesus quoted it.

So is it a coincidence Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 8:3 in the same context of being in the wilderness so that he can learn as a man to depend on God? No, it's not. Now, notice why God brought them into the wilderness for 40 years.

Look why. Read four and five. Uh, your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these 40 years.

So, you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you, just as a man disciplines his son. Wait, God was treating them as a son and taking his son into the wilderness to discipline and train them to be a good son. Yeah.

And who is Jesus? Jesus is the son of God. And he too was taken into the wilderness for 40 days, which is equivalent to Israel's 40 years to be trained up and disciplined by the father to succeed in his mission and overcome adversities.

So, Israel, God's son, went into the desert 40 years to be trained and disciplined to learn to be an obedient son, but they failed. Jesus, God's true son, true Israel, went into the desert wilderness 40 days and succeeded. Amen.

You see why he's quoting Deuteronomy 83? Yes. So, similarly, if Israel went into Egypt, then Jesus, true Israel, it's not a coincidence, he too went into Egypt.

So, you see what Matthew's seeing this? Wow. the things that happened to the nations happening to Jesus because he's true Israel.

So these verses about the nation apply even more so to Jesus because he is recapitulating living out Israel's past experiences so that where they failed he overcomes and succeeds. Yeah. Are you catching it?

But now let me show you how Hosea then this principle that the nation is experiencing and undergoing events that are a picture of Jesus who's true Israel. Right. Yeah.

Now go to Hosea 6 2:3. I'm going to show you some more stuff to blow you away. Just be patient.

Hosea 6:es 2 to3. He will revive us after two days. He will raise us up on the third day that we may live before him.

You didn't read two. Read two and three again. Oh yeah.

He He will revive us after two days. He will raise us up. I'm sorry.

I meant to say 61 and two. That's my my my mistake. Say 612.

I apologize, sir. You can headbutt me next time. Come uh come let's return to the Lord for he has torn us but he will heal us.

He has wounded us but he will bandage us. He will revive us after two days. He will raise us up on the third day.

So when will they be re raised to life? Only verse two. When will they be raised up to life to live before the Lord after God punishes them and puts them to death?

Third day. Third day. Right.

So, the nation will be raised to life on the third day, right? Yeah. But where will they be raised from?

Go to Hosea 13:14. Hosea 13:14. I hope you guys are paying attention to this cuz I got a lot more deep meat to show you.

Shall I ransom them for from the power of sh? Shall I redeem them from death? Death, where are your thorns?

Sh, where is your sting? Compassion. Before you do that, God is going to ransom them out of sh out of the realm of the dead and destroy the power of death over them.

Yes. You sure? Yep.

Okay. So, God said that he would raise the nation spiritually alive, resurrect them to spiritual life after tearing them and causing them spiritual death on the third day. And he raised them out of shol from the realm of the dead.

Right. Yes. And yet Jesus, God's son, died and was raised back to life on the third day from sh.

Amen. You caught it or no? Yes.

Yes, I did. Amen. See that?

Huh? Yeah. Okay.

So, so there you see how the nation is prefiguring events in the life of Christ because like the nation Jesus went into Egypt. Like the nation, he went into the wilderness. Like the nation who would be torn torn to pieces, caused to die, but then resurrected to spiritual life on the third day.

Jesus's son was put to death and raised to life on the third day, destroying the power of death, the grave, and the nether world, right? Yeah. Is that a coincidence?

No, it's not. So, you see why Matthew is quoting things about Israel, applying it to Christ, because he's seeing the pattern. Israel is a picture of Christ.

They experienced things that Jesus also experienced. And the reason why he's experiencing them is to relive these events of Israel with one difference. They failed in these events.

He succeeds. Okay. Now, before you ask me another question because I'm going to continue on this theme.

Let me show you how now even Joseph becomes a picture of Jesus in Genesis 37:9. You know, well, go ahead. Uh, well, no, no.

Genesis 37:19. 37:19. Read it for me.

What did they call Joseph? Uh, they said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer. " So, how did God speak to Joseph?

Through dreams, right? And visions. Yes.

And his father's name is Jacob, right? Yes. Okay.

Now, his brothers hated him and they then put him in a waterless pit. Genesis 37:24. Yeah.

Read it. Genesis 37:24. And they took him and threw him into the pit.

Now the pit was empty without any water in it. Now remember, it's a waterless pit because you're going to remember why this is important. So Joseph, a dreamer whom God would speak in dreams and visions.

His father's name is Jacob. His brothers hated him because they're envious out of him. So they buried him in a waterless pit.

Notice he's buried in a waterless pit. Yeah. And then the brothers handed him over to the Gentiles, Midionites, IshRaelites, who then sold him into slavery, who was in prison.

So they handed him over to the Gentiles who persecuted him. Pay attention where I'm going with this. Then Joseph was exalted to become the Lord of the earth, second to Pharaoh, and the savior of the world, because he saved the world from famine, from death.

Right. Yeah. Then his brothers came to him the first time did not recognize him.

But at the second visit visit he made his identity known to them. Right? Yeah.

So now notice the pattern. Joseph hated by his brothers, son of Jacob, who received revelations from God in a dream, buried in a waterless pit, handed over to the Gentiles by his brothers for 20 pieces of silver, and then exalted by God to be the Lord of the earth, second to Pharaoh, and the savior of the world. And when did he begin saving the world?

When did his ministry begin? Read for us. If you can go to Genesis 41, read 46.

How old was Joseph when he began his work of salvation? Now, Joseph was 30 years old when he stood in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

When did he begin his ministry of saving the world and being the lord of the earth second to Pharaoh? Yeah. 30 years old.

In Luke 3:23, we're told that Jesus was around 30 years old when he began his ministry of saving the world, right? Oh, yeah. Luke 3:23, right?

Yeah. But now, let me show you the connection with Jesus. Joseph, son of Jacob, God speaks to him in dreams, right?

And then that's the same Joseph who brought Jacob into Egypt to save him from death, right? Yeah. Now go to Matthew 1:16.

Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah. So wait, Joseph, the illegal father of Jesus, is the son of Jacob. And this Joseph also receives revelations in dreams.

Matthew 1:20. How did the angel appear to this Joseph? But when he had thought the when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

" Two Josephs, both sons of Jacob, both receive revelation in dreams. Now, that Joseph of the Old Testament brought Jacob, Israel, into Egypt to save his life, right? Yeah.

But this Joseph betrod to Mary brought Jesus who's also Israel into a Egypt to save his life. Correct? Yes.

Are you seeing the connections here? Yes. But then the Joseph that was a picture of Joseph Mary's betro ends up becoming a picture of Christ.

How? So he goes from being a picture of Joseph the legal father of David to being a picture of Jesus. Like Jesus, Joseph was betrayed by his brothers, sold for 20 pieces of silver, where Jesus was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver.

Like Jesus, he was handed over to the Gentiles who persecuted him. Like Jesus, he began his ministry of saving the world at the age of 30. Like Jesus, he is the Lord of the world, the Lord of the earth, the savior of the world.

Like Jesus, he was buried in a waterless pit and God saved him out of that pit. Why do I say waterless pit? Because the Bible describes death when you die and you're not saved as being contained in a waterless pit.

Go to Zechariah 9:es 9 to 11. Zechariah 9 verses 9 to 11. 9 to 11.

Rejoice greatly daughter of Zion. Shout and triumph daughter of Jerusalem. Behold your king is coming to you.

He is righteous and endowed with salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, uh the fowl of a of a donkey. And I will eliminate the chariot of Ephraim, and the horse uh from Jerusalem, and the uh bow of war will be eliminated, and he will speak peace to the nations, and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth. As for you also, because of my Because of the blood of my covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

You caught it. The blood of Jesus's covenant sets us free from the waterless pit. Yeah.

Joseph was buried in a waterless pit and raised out of it. Right. Yes.

So Jesus was buried and would have descended to what we call the waters pit, not to be tortured, but to proclaim victory. And he came out of that waterless pit. So you see the simarities.

Joseph like Jesus buried in a waterless pit. Joseph like Jesus raised out of that waterless pit. Joseph like Jesus betrayed by his brothers who hated him and sold for 20 pieces of silver which Jesus was 30 pieces of silver.

Joseph like Jesus was handed over the Gentiles to be persecuted. Joseph like Jesus became the Lord of the world, the savior of the earth. Lord of the earth, savior of the world.

And Joseph like Jesus was not recognized by his brothers at the first visit but were recognized was recognized at the second visit. Go to Acts 7:12-13 because when Jesus returns that's when his brothers will recognize who he is and who he has been all along. Acts 7:12-13.

But when Jacob heard that there was uh grain in Egypt, he sent out uh he sent our fathers there the first time. And on the second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers and Joseph's family was re was revealed to Pharaoh. Okay.

So when did they recognize this was their brother? The second is when will the nation of Israel that survives when Jesus is returned physically bodily to the earth recognize this is their savior, their Messiah, their God? Second visit.

Coincidence? Wow.