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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to my Bible study with doctor Baruch Korman,
a ministry of Love Israel dot org. In this episode,
Baruk will teach the Bible verse by verse, translating directly
from the original languages and sharing the Jewish context of
scripture so you can grow deeper in your knowledge of
God's Word. After listening, please visit us at Love Israel

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doctor Baruch.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Are you someone that truly wants to understand the revelation
of God found in the New Testament? If you were
to say, yes, I do, how's the best way to
accomplish that by understanding the revelation of God in the
Old Testament. Both testaments work together in order that we

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can rightly understand God's truth to us, so that we
can be found faithful, receive His blessings and take hold
of Kingdom promises. And those individuals to teach they want
to unhitch the New Testament from the Old Testament. That

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is a very dangerous thing to do. And why do
I say such things? Well, take out your Bible and
look with me to the book of Matthew and Chapter
twenty six. The Book of Matthew and Chapter twenty six.
Now we've just completed a study. When Messiah taught concerning

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the last days and how to be ready, how important
it is to be prepared for what will take place
in this time of transition, the time of transition from
this world into the millennial kingdom. He taught several things
concerning the last days, and now beginning in our chapter today,

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chapter twenty six, there's a change. He's going to be
speaking about passover. And here's the simple truth. If we're
going to understand to the degree that God wants us
to about Messiah's work, the most important thing that he
entered into this world to do when he came the
first time, it all took place within the context of passover,

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and as we'll see in a few weeks, the feast
of unloving bread. And if we don't understand passover and
the feast of unloven bread, what the Word of God
teaches us concerning these things in the Old Testament, then
we will not be able to understand the revelation of
God found in the New Testament. Now let's begin Matthew,

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Chapter twenty six, and we're going to begin in verse one.
We read here and it came about when Yoshua had
completed all these words. What words are we referring to?
He completed teaching about the end times how to be

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ready prepared for what must take place. So as after
these conclusions of the teachings of the last days, we
read that he said to his disciples, Now look at
verse two. You know that after two days the passover

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is now it says after two days. Now, we've learned
before that such a term is in one sense meaningless,
because after two days this could be three days, five days,
one hundred days, a million days after is very unclear.

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What's the message? Well, what we should go from that
is the number two. He wanted to use the number
two because numbers in the Bible have meaning, they have significance,
and normally the number two when it appears in the scripture,
it speaks about two different usually in conflict contrasting opinions.

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And we're going to see that concerning passover. That passover,
there was a big difference in what Messiah was teaching,
what he knew was going to take place, in what
the disciples thought. So it says after two days. We
are to take away from that that there's going to

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be a contrasting understanding concerning that passover between Yashua and
the disciples. Look again at this entire verse verse two.
You know that after two days is the passover. In

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regard to passover, it says, and the son of Man
will be betrayed, delivered over unto crucifixion, to be crucified. Now,
there's two things we need to see. First of all,
when passover, if you don't understand what the Old Testament
says concerning passover, you're going to lose a big message

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of this text. First and foremost, Passover is a day
of preparation. It is the preparation for redemption. So passover
is connected to redemption and being ready for God's redemption.
The second thing that we are taught about passover in

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the Old Testament is that passover relates to death. Now
why would that be the case. Because passover, something has
got to die, and there's a choice. It can either
be that pass over lamb or the firstborn. That's what
the Book of Exodus, chapter twelve tells us. Take that lamb,

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you prepare it properly, You bring it into your home.
It's there for almost five days, and on the fourteenth
day of the month of spring of Eve, you must
slaughter it at Jerusalem. We see the first time it
was a course in Egypt. So the passover Lamb had

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to die death. And if you didn't keep the passover
those instructions, who would die? The firstborn? And the firstborn
is uniquely tied to an inheritance. And why is that important?
Because without keeping passover, it is going to affect one's inheritance,

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meaning what happens when one dies. Passover is a day
that has implications stretching long into the future. In fact,
properly we could say Passover has eternal implications. But here's
the problem. You Sue was saying this, and notice how

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specific he is. He says, after two days Passover is coming,
when the son of Man is going to be delivered over,
he's going to be betrayed and ultimately to be crucified.
That tells us something. It tells us that Messiah is
going to die. And remember the number two. Two different

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opinions and contrasts. The disciples did not want to accept
even though Ya shua said many times he was going
to Jerusalem for passover and he would be delivered over
betrayed to the hands of the chief priests, elders and scribes,
but ultimately he would be crucified. That means by Rome

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and he would die. The disciples they never grasp that.
They did not want to receive it. They didn't understand it.
And that's why the number two appears in this passage.
So we read that he is going to be delivered
over and put to death by crucifixion. Now, let's look

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if we could to verse three then, and this means
in that that time period when these things are happening,
the next thing that we can expect is exactly what
it says here, exactly when Yoshi was teaching that. Then
we see that the high priests, the scribes, and the

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elders of the people, they they were were taking counsel
in order that they would meet it where in the
courtyard of the high priest. And this is an expression.
This word courtyard can also mean a palace. There's a
couple different understandings of this word. So they were at

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the residence of the high priest called Caiaphas. So they
were taking council for what purpose? Well, look, if you
would to verse three. It says here that they were
taking council for a reason, and that is that they
might seize Yeshua. And notice this next word. The next

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word is a word which means by by guile, that
is deceitfully, not in an upprint, not in an honest way.
And here's the problem. This shed so much light upon
the texts. We're dealing with three groups of people, the leadership,
the religious leadership of Israel. We saw all the high priests,

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the scribes who were experts in the law and the
scripture in general, and also the elders of the people.
We are told that they gathered together. They were at
the courtyard, the residence perhaps the palace of the high priests,
and they had come together taking counsel for a reason.

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And that it says that they could seize take hold
of Yashul, and they wanted to do so through deceitful means,
not according to the truth. This speaks of the corruption
that was in Jerusalem by the spiritual leaders. And what
do they want to do? Look at the end of
verse four, they wanted to put him to death. Verse five,

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but they were saying, Now, notice that that verb for saying,
is in the imperfect? Why is that important? The imperfect
speaks about something that began and it continues to the
presence at that time. But the use of the imperfect
anticipates a change. They were speaking, and they were saying,

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not at the festival. Why in order that there should
not be an uproar, perhaps a riot should be in
the people among the people. Why was this? This tells
us something. It tells us that Yushul was popular at
this time. Many people were following him. This was the

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problem for the Jewish leadership. They were jealous. They didn't
mind using deceit, guile, trickery in order to seize him
for one purpose, not to find out the truth, to
see if he had done something truly that was that
he was guilty for that deserves some punishment. But they
had already determined by deceit that they wanted to capture

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him and to put him to death. And they agreed,
we don't want to do it. Not at the festival.
What festival? The feast of unloven bread Passover is just
one day. Technically, it's known as the preparation day, when
one would have the lamb prepared and he would offer

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him up upon the altar in Jerusalem. Always after the
first Passover in Egypt, and what took place in the
wilderness when the children of Israel entered into the land
and Jerusalem became the place where the name of God
in a unique way was there. From that time, Jerusalem

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was the place that Passover was observed. It was a
preparation day for the feast of unloven bread. Many people
don't know. You don't eat passover that passover meal on passes.
You eat it on the first day of unleaven bread.
Passover is preparation for the feast of leavin bread. And

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so all of this, as we're going to see in
the next several weeks when we go through chapters twenty six,
twenty seven, and twenty eight, it all comes within the
context of Passover in the feast of unleaven bread verse six.
So you're sure he had left the Galilee. He had
traveled to Jerusalem because as an observant Jew, he had

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to be therefore this festival, and having arrived, noticed what
it says according to his tradition. Now that's on in
the text, but we know this elsewhere in the Bible.
According to his texts you're sure did not stay in Jerusalem,
but somewhere very close to that. The scripture says, but
you're sure having come into Bethany on the Mount of Olives.

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That's where Bethany is located. And of course the amount
of Olives has special special relationships to Messiah and his work.
So you're sure having come to Bethany at the home
of Simon the Leopard. Now Simon, that name in Hebrew

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is Shimon, and the fact that he's called the leopard
means he had been a leper. If he was still
with leprosy, he could not be at home. He would
have to be banished outside the city. He had been healed.
That's what's important. And the implication is if he was healed,

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two things stand out. First of all, we know one
of the signs of the Messiah, according to Isaiah, is
that the Messiah would cleanse lepers, heal them from leprosy.
And now you're sure is they're eating in ones home,
Shimon's home, who had been cured from leprosy. This shines

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much when a Jewish person of understanding, knowing Judaism and
the revelation of the Torah, this speaks boldly strongly clearly
at his messianic call to heal the lepers. And this
is what happens in the midst of that. Look at
verse four, verse seven. Excuse me, we read and a

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woman came to him. So a woman, and whenever women
take the forefront of a passage, it changes the context.
It changes it too, that of redemption. So we're going
to understand now why Messiah dies for the purpose of redemption.
It's passed over. Another hint of redemption once more, verse seven,

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and a woman came to him, having an alabaster. This
would be a container of ointment which was look at
the middle of verse verse seven, which was very expensive,
and she poured it upon his head as he was reclining.

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Here again reclining, a hint to passover. It is a
biblical requirement when you eat the passover mial on the
first day of unloving bread, that you partake of it reclining.
So another hint within the texts that Messiah is being
anointed anointed this very special oil perfume ointment. He's being

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anointed as what as the one who was sent to
do the passover, not to keep the passover as the
children of Israel did, but to become the passover, to
be that passover Lamb. He's being an anointed, and we're
going to see in a moment he's going to tell

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us he's anointed for burial. Why pass over? What should
engine into your mind? Death? He's going to die. Now
learn a very important biblical truth. This woman, and we'll
see this at the end of this passage. This woman
was the only one. None of the disciples knew this

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or would accept it acted behave based upon this. She
knew that he was going to die. No one, even
though Massai had told him over and over he was
going to resurrect from the dead. On that third day
after being crucified, no one thought about the resurrection. What
do we glean from that? No one was thinking about

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about the kingdom. They weren't kingdom minded. But here this
woman comes, she anoints him. And notice the outcome. We
read once again. She came with this expensive perfume oil
in this alabaster container. She poured it upon his head,
and he was reclining verse eight. But behold the disciples,

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seeing they were and the word here is indignant, angry,
bothered by this, And they were saying Verse eight, they
were saying, for what such a waste? Why is this
waste or this loss? Having taken this perfume that was

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so expensive and pouring it upon him, it's a waste
a loss to do this? Why verse nine? For it
would have been able for this to be sold and
given given to sold for much and be given to
the poor. So they could have sold this for a
lot of money and then given the precedes proceeds to

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the poor. This was their thinking, or was it? Look
now to verse ten. But Yashua, knowing he knew their thoughts,
and what was this showing? Well, instead of being concerned
about redemption, instead of being concerned about what Messiah had
taught them, how he had prepared them about the significance

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this year going up to Jerusalem. Instead of thinking about
those things, what were they concerned about? Money? Money was
on their minds. And of course they camouflage this, and
we see this in another gospel. They camouflage this with
a soul called desire to give this money to the poor. Yeshua,

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knowing this, he said to them, why for what reason?
In other words, bother? For what reasons are you bothering
the woman? And notice it says the woman specifically, he's
emphasizing this. One will see why in a moment. So
why are you bothering this woman for a good work?

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She has done unto me? Now, this woman, she and
this is vital that you see this. She understood your
Shua's statement that he was the lamb of God, that
he was going to die on passover, and she responded

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to this. And when we understand the truth and we
have faith, it's going to manifest itself by good works.
Notice what he says. He says, for she has done
unto me a good work, and that is all the
outcome of knowing the truth of God, listening to the

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words of Yashua and responding properly. So she has done
a good work unto me. Verse eleven. Now he's going
to talk about the poor. He says, for always the
poor you will have with you, but me you will
not always have. What's the message here, you're sure again

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is sharing with his disciples, giving a hint he's coming
to the end of his ministry. He is going to die. Yes,
on the third day he will rise, but shortly thereafter,
forty days later he is going to ascend. He is
leaving them. So he's coming to the end of what

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his heavenly father had sent the only begotten Son of
God into this world to accomplish. And what was that
to do the work of redemption, to pay that price.
And understand, the emphasis of the Passover is on the
blood of the Lamb, and that's why it's so important

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that we emphasize the blood of Messiah, that which was
given an order that the covenant, what covenant, a new
covenant could be ratified to be put into effect. And
we know we've talked about this much, that this new
covenant is a covenant of forgiveness where God boldly and

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wonderfully proclaims that he will no longer remember our sins.
That's how each of us that are believers can have
confidence that we're going to be in the Kingdom of God.
We know we're going to be there because it's not
based upon our works, our good deeds confirm they're not
part of the means of salvation. They don't mediate, they

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don't play a role in that. It's all a free gift.
It's God's grace, it's what he has done for us.
So it's what his blood ratifies that new covenant that
gives me absolute assurance based upon the fact that he
will not remember any of my sins, that I will

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be in the kingdom of God. So he says, you
always have the poor with you, but you will not
always have me. Verse verse twelve. Four. She has poured out,
she has poured out this ointment, this oil upon my body.

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Four my burial. She has done this. Now, this to
me is one of the most important verses. Here he says,
she has done this, poured out this, this ointment upon
my body. Why his body? Why is that word? We

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know she received it upon his head, other's feet as well.
But here's the message, he says. Later on, when he
speaks about the Lord's supper, he's saying, when he took
the bread, this is my body given for you body.

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That word soma appears here as a way of emphasizing
your shoe was going to give all of himself, holding
nothing back. It's a complete, a complete sacrifice. So we
read here for she has has poured out this ointment
on my body for my burial. She has done this

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burial again signifying that he's going to die. This is
why she's done it. She knows, she understands what's going
to happen. To him this passover verse thirteen our last verse. Truly,
I say to you, wherever the gospel, this gospel is

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proclaimed in all all the world. Now, notice what has
he done. He's tying his death and resurrection, but here
his death too. That gospel message and what is the
gospel message will is good news about redemption. And this word,

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by the way, we have it in Greek, but it
appears in Isaiah, this term bisourah, and the word bissourah,
it relates to the flesh, that God has visited his
people in the flesh, that it was the very body
of Messiah given in order that this gospel could become

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a reality. So God provided everything, He gave of himself completely.
And that's why he says, Truly, I say to you.
That expression is to emphasize the importance of what he's
going to say. Truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel,

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this gospel is proclaimed in all the world, it shall
be spoken also what she has done for a remembrance
of her. Now, what he's saying here is this She's
going to be testified to throughout the world that she

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came and she had this. And the context is that
this woman being from also the amount of olives in Bethany,
and Bethany, by the way, is a term that means
house of afflicted ones those who are very poor. The
word ani like beth is house bet Ani, house of

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the poor. She had this very expensive ointment, perhaps all
that she had a value, and she was willing to
give it in recognizing what Messiah was going to do
for her and for all the world. And that's what
we need to be people willing to commit everything of

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our very essence unto Him for that Gospel message, for
the service that comes from the Gospel, being involved as
she was, in things that God would say that is
well done. These are good works. These bring glory to me.
So let me ask you, does that describe you? Are
you someone that is committed to the Gospel message as

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the Bible reveals it. This is what a true disciple
is committed to. Will stop with that until next week.
Shalom from Israel.

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