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Exodus Chapter 21
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Understanding of The Holy One Document
Timeline of the Branch Prophecies
Scripture (KJV)
Proverbs 4:1-7
Proverbs 9:10
Exodus 33:13
Exodus 33:18
Exodus 34:5-7
Deuteronomy 17:18-19
Romans 3:25
2 Samuel 23:5
Isaiah 4:2
Zechariah 6:12
Genesis 3:15
Galatians 3:16-19
Isaiah 6:13
Isaiah 11:1
Exodus 19:25 – 20:1
Philemon 1:15-17
Isaiah 50:4-7
Mark 10:45
Psalms 22:1
Psalms 22:31
Romans 1:1
James 1:1
2 Peter 1:1
Jude 1:1
Revelation 22:3
Understanding of the Holy One…
Historical-Grammatical Method – Interpretation – Theology
Proverbs 4:1-7 “Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
Historical/Grammatical Method including
1) Literary Context (of the Book, chapter, section)
2) Literary Genre (Historical Narrative, Poetry, Prophecy, Parables, Epistles)
3) Cultural Context (Ancient customs, religions, social structures)
Theology must stand upon the firm foundation of “What saith the Lord…”
Christian Theology
1) Systematic Theology**
Bibliology, Theology (Paterology, Christology, Pneumatology),
Anthropology, Hamartiology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Angelology…
2) Biblical Theology**
3) Historical Theology
4) Practical Theology
Specializations: Apologetics, Ethics, Philosophical Theology
Timeline of the “Branch” Prophecies
970 BC David dies: “Will He not indeed make it grow?”
“Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse declares, The man who was raised on high declares, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel, 2 “The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue. 3 “The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘He who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God, 4 Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through sunshine after rain. 5 “Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow? 6 “But the worthless, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand; 7 But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they will be completely burned with fire in their place.”
[2 Samuel 23:1-7, NAS, emphasis mine]
~700BC The beautiful and glorious Branch of the LORD (Isaiah 4:2)
“In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.”
~700BC The Branch from the stump of the felled tree of Judah (Isaiah 6:13)
“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge:
and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”
~700BC The Branch from Jesse’s household (Isaiah 11:1)
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:”
~600BC The Righteous Branch // The LORD our righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
~600BC The Righteous Branch // The LORD our righteousness (Jeremiah 33:15-16)
“In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.”
~520BC “my servant the BRANCH” (Zechariah 3:8)
“ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.”
~520BC “the man whose name is The BRANCH” (Zechariah 6:12)
“And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place,
and he shall build the temple of the LORD:”
1st century AD Jesus the “Natsarene” (Matthew 2:23)
“And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.”
1st century AD Jesus’ followers of the “sect of the Natsarenes” (Acts 24:5)
“For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:”
Proverbs 4:1-7
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine,
forsake ye not my law.
3 For I was my father’s son,
tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding:
forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:
love her, and she shall keep thee.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
and with all thy getting get understanding.
King James Version (KJV)
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Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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Exodus 33:13
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
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Exodus 33:18
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
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Exodus 34:5-7
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
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Deuteronomy 17:18-19
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
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Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house be not so with God;
yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things, and sure:
for this is all my salvation, and all my desire,
although he make it not to grow.
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Isaiah 4:2
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely
for them that are escaped of Israel.
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Zechariah 6:12
And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying,
Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH;
and he shall grow up out of his place,
and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
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Galatians 3:16-19
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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Isaiah 6:13
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten:
as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves:
so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
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Isaiah 11:1
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
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Exodus 19:25 – 20:1
So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
1 And God spake all these words, saying,
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Philemon 1:15-17
For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
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Isaiah 50:4-7
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary:
he wakeneth morning by morning,
he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear,
and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters,
and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:
I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord GOD will help me;
therefore shall I not be confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
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Mark 10:45
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
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Psalms 22:31
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness
unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
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Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
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James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
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Jude 1:1
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
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Revelation 22:3
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: