Hi, and thank you for joining me at 144Judah! "The Book of the Jubilees" which is also known by some as "Lesser Genesis" is a very interesting book as it gives us more background and how the background was given. We learned in part one that Moses received this word on Mount Sinai from an Angel/Malek (Messenger) of the LORD, in the second chapter, we learn about what God created and on which days...and we also learn that God's Chosen People: ISRAEL are to keep the Shabbats. To not do so is to die. Yesterday, we learned that Adam and Eve were cursed for taking from the tree in the middle of the Garden, then we go down the lines until we hit Noah and his family and learn that there were a lot more people born of Adam and Eve then we have heard of in Genesis. After this, Noah gets into the Ark and the waters begin to rise; and the world completely changes and we are given our calendar. 13 weeks between each change of the season. 4 Divisions. Each start at the Observance of the New Moon. 364 Day calendar! As Noah commands his son about the observances and of what he sees of his own children and how they have been fighting and their children aren't doing what they are supposed to, Noah tells them that he worries that they will be taken care of by God...and not in a good way, which leads us to the sons of Noah dividing their inheritance (the earth) by using lots. We learn of the land which they decided upon, and Noah is overjoyed because of a prophecy that he had spoken about Shem and The Almighty God blessing him. Who are Shem's people -- eventually? The Sons of Jacob...The Twelve Tribes... ISRAEL. And in the 9th Chapter, Noah has his son's swear an oath that when they divide their land to their sons, that none of them will try to take any of their brothers' land. What happens if they do? Cursed... which brings us to Canaan and how he stole from Shem's lot... which makes a lot more sense as to why Canaan is The Land of Milk and Honey and how it is The Promised Land of God's Chosen People through Shem's line. Then we come to Babel, and the son's language have now been confounded...and the people who once spoke Hebrew are no longer. Things are far away from The Most High God now, and the land has now gone from being divided between Noah's son's sons to Ham's son Canaan, taking Shem's land. So...we now are seeing the line that leads us down into Abram (Abraham) who we learn loves God and has learned basically what not to do from his father's example. And the coolest part? God speaks to him and Abraham listens! God chooses him because Abraham chose God and God reveals to him the language of Hebrew, and now Abraham has been given his fathers' books... what books you say? Oh, just the ones that Noah scribed... And guess what? Nobody has been able to read the language for many years. So, this all fits with the other book that I have been reading "The Book of Formation" Serif Yetzirah... After favoring and blessing Abraham, God shows him everything that he can see and tells him that this land and all of it is his and his people's. He is the Father of All Nations! So, now we learn that Lot, his nephew, has been taken, and Abraham leaves to go get him. Which brings us to Abram having a vision and a promise that he will father a child, that he will have many. God shows him that his people will be strangers in a strange land for 400 years...which brings us to the circumcision and the importance of it and what it means to get it and not get it. This is the torah...We see in 16 that Abraham will not pass away until after he sees all of his children born (6 more sons) after Isaac. We also learn that all of those children of Abraham will be gentiles....all but Isaac. In Isaac is the Holy Kodesh...seed... At the end of 17, the demon prince wants Yahweh to ask Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice to see if he will do it or not... This is a whole Job situation here...and now we have made it to the 18th and 19th chapter where Jacob and Esau are born and Isaac loves Esau the best and Rebecca loves Jacob the best, but Abraham's blessing is going to go to Jacob... He tells Rebecca to take care of Jacob because he is special. And now we come to 20 and 21 where Abraham is on his death bed and gives instructions on what to do and what not to do... One is no fornicating, and the other no marrying anyone from Canaan... The people from Canaan will be rooted out... In 22 and 23 we learn that Abraham has died with Jacob in his arms -- after blessing him greatly. We also learn why we die so early and the upcoming tribulation, and then there is Esau and Jacob...Esau gives his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup out of red pottery, he is then known as Edom... Esau also is with two women from Canaan! Remember what Abraham said about Canaan? DON'T GO THERE! Esau went...now his people will be rooted out in the end... Which leads us to Palestine...I mean Luz, I mean Bethel, the place where God has blessed and where Jacob had his vision of the "ladder from heaven to earth"...Surely this is GOD'S Land! And what about "The Heap of Witness" conforming from what it used to be called "The Land of The Rephaim (Giants)"? And then we have Jacob, and his twelve sons...and one daughter. His daughter is defiled, and two of his sons execute judgment on the entire town that defiled her! So, Yahweh, blesses them and curses anyone who curses ISRAEL. And guess what? The Shechemites cursed Dinah, so Yahweh gave Levi Righteous Judgment... All in the house of Shechem that were males were executed. Then we see Jacob make it back to his mother and father, just as Yahweh has promised! So, Jacob set up a pillar in Bethel (the one that he set up before) and went with his two sons, Levi and Judah, to get his parents to bring them there and offer up the sacrifice to Yahweh as a blessing, but Isaac was too weak, so he took mother and her cousin Deborah, but not before Isaac blessed Levi and Judah! Then we learn something that shocked me to my core...the reason why Canaan was cursed! Ham slept with his own MOTHER... He uncovered his father's nakedness... we find this out by the wording of the same act with Reuben and Bilah... Reuben defiled her, and committed a sin against his father. And Rebecca is on her death bed, has Isaac promise to talk to Esau about not killing Jacob, and Isaac admits that even though Esau was his favorite son, he knows that is no longer the case because Esau is evil. Then we come to Esau and Jacob fighting... Jacob ends up killing him, and many of his people are taken down by Jacob's sons who end up getting Esau's children to bow to them. Finally we are back to Joseph. He is 17 now, and he is a prisoner in Pharaoh's prison because Pharoh's wife lied, but God's got Joseph. He is favoured, and ends up basically being in charge of the prison. He meets two of Pharoh's workers that Pharoh put there, and they both had a dream on the same night. Joseph interpreted the dreams as one died and the other would get out, and eventually...Joseph would too.
Once again, my commentary on this is in BOLD. :) Enjoy! This is copied from online sources as it is FREE for all. This book was taken out by almost all mainstream bibles. I use the KJV and it was removed by the Nicean Council. More on that later.
The Book Of Jubilees Chapter 40
Pharaoh dreamed two dreams and Yoseph reveals meaning
1 And in those days Pharaoh dreamed two dreams in one night concerning a famine which was to be in all the land, and he awoke from his sleep and called all the interpreters of dreams that were in Egypt, and magicians, and told them his two dreams, and they were not able to declare them.
2 And then the chief butler remembered Yoseph and spoke of him to the king, and he brought him forth from the prison, and he told his two dreams before him.
3 And he said before Pharaoh that his two dreams were one, and he said to him: 'Seven years shall come (in which there shall be) plenty over all the land of Egypt, and after that seven years of famine, such a famine as has not been in all the land.
4 And now let Pharaoh appoint overseers in all the land of Egypt, and let them store up food in every city throughout the days of the years of plenty, and there will be food for the seven years of famine, and the land will not perish through the famine, for it will be very severe.'
5 And YAHWEH gave Yoseph favor and mercy in the eyes of Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said to his servants. We shall not find such a wise and discreet man as this man, for the spirit of YAHWEH is with him.'
6 And he appointed him the second in all his kingdom and gave him authority over all Egypt, and caused him to ride in the second chariot of Pharaoh. (This is all in Genesis, and is really impressive. Can you imagine being taken as a slave and then basically made into a king? Well, God can make that happen.)
7 And he clothed him with byssus garments, and he put a gold chain upon his neck, and (a herald) proclaimed before him ' 'El 'El wa 'Abirer,' ("God, God, the mighty one of God." This is a peculiar amplification of the Hebrew ’abrēk (R.V. "bow the knee ") and placed a ring on his hand and made him ruler over all his house, and magnified him, and said to him. 'Only on the throne shall I be greater than you.'
8 And Yoseph ruled over all the land of Egypt, and all the princes of Pharaoh, and all his servants, and all who did the king's business loved him, for he walked in uprightness, for he was without pride and arrogance, and he had no respect of persons, and did not accept gifts, but he judged in uprightness all the people of the land.
9 And the land of Egypt was at shalom before Pharaoh because of Yoseph, for YAHWEH was with him, and gave him favour and mercy for all his generations before all those who knew him and those who heard concerning him, and Pharaoh's kingdom was well ordered, and there was no Satan and no evil person (therein). (WOW! Now this is interesting! No Satan and no evil person?!)
10 And the king called Yoseph's name Sephantiphans, (Judged by the Lord) and gave Yoseph to wife the daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, the chief cook.
11 And on the day that Yoseph stood before Pharaoh he was thirty years old [when he stood before Pharaoh].
12 And in that year Yitschaq died. And it came to pass as Yoseph had said in the interpretation of his two dreams, according as he had said it, there were seven years of plenty over all the land of Egypt, and the land of Egypt abundantly produced, one measure (producing) eighteen hundred measures.
13 And Yoseph gathered food into every city until they were full of corn until they could no longer count and measure it for its multitude.
The Book Of Jubilees Chapter 41
The sons of Yacob took wives
1 And in the forty-fifth jubilee, in the second week, (and) in the second year, [2165 A.M.] Yahudah took for his first-born Er, a wife from the daughters of Aram, named Tamar.
2 But he hated, and did not lie with her, because his mother was of the daughters of Canaan, and he wished to take him a wife of the kinsfolk of his mother, but Yahudah, his father, would not permit him. (Aw...now we have the real reason here! I was wondering when we read a few back that Judah married a Canaanite. I figured that was why he was evil.)
3 And this Er, the first-born of Yahudah, was wicked, and YAHWEH slew him.
4 And Yahudah said to Onan, his brother 'Go in unto your brother's wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed unto your brother.'
5 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his, (but) his brother's only, and he went into the house of his brother's wife, and spilt the seed on the ground, and he was wicked in the eyes of YAHWEH, and He slew him. (This was the same as Genesis.)
6 And Yahudah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law: 'Remain in your father's house as a widow till Shelah my son be grown up, and I shall give you to him to wife.'
7 And he grew up; but Bedsu'el, the wife of Yahudah, did not permit her son Shelah to marry. (This was not in Genesis. The funny thing about this is that I read somewhere, and I think it was from a Jewish website that they thought the reason for Shelah not marrying Tamar was because Judah thought she was cursed because of the first two wives... CRAZY. I would think most Jews would know of this book as it was written in Hebrew. But a lot of Jews read the Torah only, and nothing but that.)
8 And Bedsu'el, the wife of Yahudah, died [2168 A.M.] in the fifth year of this week. And in the sixth year Yahudah went up to shear his sheep at Timnah. [2169 A.M.]
9 And they told Tamar: 'Behold your father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.' And she put off her widow's clothes, and put on a veil, and adorned herself, and sat in the gate adjoining the way to Timnah.
10 And as Yahudah was going along he found her, and thought her to be an harlot, and he said to her: 'Let me come in unto you'; and she said to him Come in,' and he went in.
11 And she said to him: 'Give me my hire'; and he said to her: 'I have nothing in my hand save my ring that is on my finger, and my necklace, and my staff which is in my hand.'
12 And she said to him 'Give them to me until you do send me my hire', and he said to her: 'I will send unto you a kid of the goats'; and he gave them to her, and she conceived by him.
13, And Yahudah went unto his sheep, and she went to her father's house.
14 And Yahudah sent a kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd, an Adullamite, and he found her not; and he asked the people of the place, saying: 'Where is the harlot who was here?'
15 And they said to him; 'There is no harlot here with us.' And he returned and informed him, and said to him that he had not found her: 'I asked the people of the place, and they said to me: "There is no harlot here.'
16 And he said: 'Let her keep them lest we become a cause of derision.' And when she had completed three months, it was manifest that she was with child, and they told Yahudah, saying: 'Behold Tamar, your daughter-in-law, is with child by whoredom.'
17 And Yahudah went to the house of her father, and said to her father and her brothers: 'Bring her forth, and let them burn her, for she has wrought uncleanness in Yisrael.'
18 And it came to pass when they brought her forth to burn her that she sent to her father-in-law the ring and the necklace, and the staff, saying: 'Discern whose are these, for by him am I with child.'
19 And Yahudah acknowledged, and said: 'Tamar is more righteous than I am. And therefore let them burn her not.'
20 And for that reason she was not given to Shelah,
21 And he did not again approach her, And after that she bare two sons, Perez [2170 A.M.] and Zerah, in the seventh year of this second week. (Man, I was really hoping there was more on this one! Remember these were the twins that had switched spots in the womb? lol The one got the red ribbon but came out last, and the first that came out ended up being the line that would produce YESHUA!)
22 And thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness were accomplished, of which Yoseph spoke to Pharaoh.
23 And Yahudah acknowledged that the deed which he had done was evil, for he had lain with his daughter-in-law, and he esteemed it hateful in his eyes, and he acknowledged that he had transgressed and gone astray, for he had uncovered the skirt of his son (WOW! here it is again. It's funny because I thought that, but wasn't sure if it were an awful thing the other way around...), and he began to lament and to supplicate before YAHWEH because of his transgression.
24 And we told him in a dream that it was forgiven him because he supplicated earnestly, and lamented, and did not again commit it.
25 And he received forgiveness because he turned from his sin and from his ignorance (I love this! So, here we are starting the way of The New Testament teachings...he was very sorry for what he did, and he turned away from the sin in repentance. VERY IMPORTANT!), for he transgressed greatly before YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY; and every one that acts thus, every one who lies with his mother-in-law, let them burn him with fire that he may burn therein, for there is uncleanness and pollution upon them, with fire let them burn them. (WOW! Yikes... note to self, do not sleep with the mother or father n law)
26 And do you command the children of Yisrael that there be no uncleanness amongst them, for every one who lies with his daughter-in-law or with his mother-in-law has wrought uncleanness; with fire let them burn the man who has lain with her, and likewise the woman, and He will turn away wrath and punishment from Yisrael. (We are learning all sorts of things today!)
27 And unto Yahudah we said that his two sons had not lain with her, and for this reason his seed was established for a second generation, and would not be rooted out. (YAY!)
28 For in singleness of eye he had gone and sought for punishment, namely, according to the judgment of Abraham, which he had commanded his sons, Yahudah had sought to burn her with fire.
Wow! So, I was wondering how Judah was getting out of this one, but it is because he really did love God. He really wasn't out to do this to his son, and he when he found out what was done, he seeked his punishment. He repented and stopped what he was doing. This is what we are all supposed to do. Repent, and turn away from sin. What do you need to get off of your shoulders today? What would you like to confess to The Most High God?
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