Let’s go back to the day Y’shua (the real Hebrew name for Jesus) stood in the synagogue of Nazareth and read the words of Isaiah chapter 61.  What a special day, and what an injustice to Him and us has been hidden for so many years by the denial of the “Old” Testament and the knowledge of the Jewish traditional Torah readings.  This “haftorah” portion read was not the first Scripture read on this Sabbath.  For centuries, the Jewish faithful have read and reread the same Scriptural passages of Torah and Haftorah year after year.

Immediately preceding the declaration of His Ministry to the Nazareth congregation, the following Torah portion was read aloud by others (see http://www.betemunah.org/orallaw.html – this is a very long article, so search for “Yeshua followed”).  There is so much symbolism and prophecy in this reading; I hesitate to mark the pertinent passages.  I will mark only the ones you may possibly miss:

Deut 15:7, “If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which YHWH thy El giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil againstthy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto YHWH against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing YHWH thy El shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

 12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith YHWH thy El hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and YHWH thy El redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

 17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and YHWH thy El shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto YHWH thy El: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

 20 Thou shalt eat it before YHWH thy El year by year in the place which YHWH shall choose, thou and thy household.

21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto YHWH thy El.

 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto YHWH thy El: for in the month of Abib YHWH thy El brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the Passover unto YHWH thy El, of the flock and the herd, in the place which YHWH shall choose to place his name there

 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passover within any of thy gates, which YHWH thy El giveth thee:

 6 But at the place which YHWH thy El shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down ofthe sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which YHWH thy El shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to YHWH thy El: thou shalt do no work therein.

 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto YHWH thy El with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto YHWH thy El, according as YHWH thy El hath blessed thee:

 11 And thou shalt rejoice before YHWH thy El, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the godless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which YHWH thy El hath chosen to place his name there.

 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the godless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

15 For seven days celebrate this festival to YHWH thy El in the place which YHWH shall choose: because YHWH thy El shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before YHWH thy El in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before YHWH empty: 

 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of YHWH thy El which he hath given thee.”

 

His reading came next:

Luke 4:17-20, “And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, ‘The Spirit of YHWH is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.’

 

And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the rabbi, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.”

 

There was surely some commotion at this point following His declaration of ministry, “today this Scripture has been fulfilled”,

and the last Scripture reading was:

Psalm 131:1, “<A Song of degrees of David.> YHWH, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. Let Israel hope in YHWH from henceforth and for ever.”

 

Let’s look at this event within the Torah (Pentatuch):

and YHWH thy El redeemed thee: – The Israelite’s traditional Passover Seder has four cups of wine.  At the “Last Supper”, Y’shua did not drink the fourth cup of the Passover Seder and will drink it only after the new covenant is completely fulfilled (Matthew 26:29 – Mark my words—I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom.)”  These four cups are:

 Exodus 6:6 – “Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am YHWH, and

1.       I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,

2.       I will deliver you from their bondage.

3.       I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

4.       ‘Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your El’.