Yahushua: The Bridge Between the Covenants | Part B

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Let’s see where Yahushua and the Apostles make solid reference to the miracles of Genesis-Deuteronomy and also to the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Yahushua wondered if he would find faith when he returned. Faith is believing (as “Abraham believed Yahuwah, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”). The world’s constant tendency is to find ways not to believe. But as Christians we must always be seeking ways to support our belief. If that is not the case then why bother with faith at all? If you seek to undermine the very documents which promise life everlasting then you have come to the purest definition of confusion. The following is a list of confirming Scriptures. It is by no means exhaustive but it does cover the spectrum and lends support to scriptural continuity and the Bible’s unified message.

Yahushua

Luke 3:23-38 takes Yahushua’ lineage back to Adam. There is no indication that Yahushua repudiated these genealogies. To the contrary, he acknowledged the connection to Noah, Methuselah and Jacob.

Matthew 2:5-13. The fulfillment of the ancient Micah 5:2 prophecy concerning Yahushua’ birth in Bethlehem creating the link to the minor prophets and their references to the cataclysms chronicled in the Torah.

Matthew 4:1-10. Yahushua quotes Deuteronomy and Psalms in answering Satan during his temptation in the wilderness.

Matthew 5:17. Yahushua says, “Think not that I have come to destroy the law [Pentateuch] and the prophets [Isaiah-Malachi, including also Joshua-2 Kings, known as the former prophets], but to uphold and fulfill them.” Yahushua believed in these Scriptures and what they revealed about the past and the future. He did not single out certain “uncomfortable” historical or eschatological events and comment on their authenticity. Whether it was the creation story or Sodom and Gomorrah or the Flood, he, by his direct support and lack of criticism, confirmed his belief in those events. He could do nothing less since he was the final “Word” or expression of Yahuwah and his purpose for being was to uphold the word and spread the message of Yahuwah’s Kingdom.

Matthew 10:15. Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned by Yahushua as standing a better chance of vindication in the Judgment than some of those towns which were exposed to the preaching of Yahushua or his Apostles.

Matthew 19:4-8. Yahushua refers to the Creation when Yahuwah, the Father, made mankind as male and female. Yahushua did not redact the creation narrative. He believed the Scriptures as read every Sabbath in the synagogues.

Matthew 12:38-41. Yahushua refers to Jonah being three days and nights in the belly of a whale.

Matthew 24:37-39. Yahushua likens the end of this present age to the days prior to the Flood and Noah entering the ark. Once again there was no editing on the part of Yahushua. He took the flood to be a historical event.

Matthew 24:15. Yahushua links Daniel’ s end-time prophecy of the “abomination of desolation” with a sign of his future coming and the end of the age.

John 10:34-36. In answering the Jews, Yahushua comments on the word of Yahuwah that had been given to them and adds that “Scripture cannot be broken.” How many times did Yahushua chastise the Jews for not knowing the very Scriptures that they knew came from Yahuwah (YHWH)? Yahushua never corrected the word; he upheld it and indicted the Jews for their hardened hearts and unbelief.