I get so excited when I get another glimpse of the incredible correlation between the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament!
Here is what I learned today during my time studying The Life of the Messiah from a Jewish Perspective!
Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:1-12 and Luke 5:17 - 26 the account of the man sick of the palsy.
Jesus said: "Man, your sins are forgiven you".
Arnold Fruchtenbaum explains - Yeshua knowing very well that forgiving sins in a salvation
sense is going to raise some serious questions in the minds of the Pharisees
and scribes that are present, and it does.
Notice He puts it in the passive state, "man, your sins are forgiven you." Remember Yeshua
is speaking in Hebrew. The Hebrew form
of the passive. "your sins are
forgiven" are used only in one section of the Hebrew Bible. It is used only in Leviticus
4-6, this section has to do with blood sacrifices for
atonement was used in the passive sense.
The Pharisees knowing the Hebrew and the Law, would understand the
connection He is making. Yeshua was claiming the authority to
forgive sin, that God used in Leviticus 4-6,
for Himself!! By means of the blood
atonement their sins were forgiven them by God and Jesus was therefore speaking
as it He was God with the power to forgive sin as Leviticus
4-6. You will never
read of anyone else in the New Testament using that phrase, for the forgiveness
of sin. The word forgive in the Hebrew
text is only used of God and never of man.
So these Pharisees understood that Yeshua
was claiming authority that only God could claim.
Read Leviticus 4-6 and note the 5 times where God, giving the Law, says "and it shell be forgiven him" (4:35; 513, 16, 18; 6:7)
God's Word is so amazing!
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