February 19, 2022

The Dead Sea Scrolls PART 15. Matthew 12:7-8 on Hosea 6:6: "If you had known what this means: I desire fidelity, loyalty, and covenant faithfulness..."

50 minutes

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The Hebrew word chesed is most often understood and translated to mean “mercy.” The problem is that chesed does not at all carry this meaning in biblical Hebrew. Any respectable scholar of the Hebrew language will tell you the word's true meaning. But, putting academic respectability aside, if we simply allow the precise meaning of ancient paleographic or pictographic Hebrew to define chesed, it will show us the term is about fidelity, faithfulness, and covenant loyalty.

Within the context of Yeshua’s dialogue with the Pharisees and Sadducees comparing the loyalty of his disciples with the loyalty of David in Matthew 12:1-8, Yeshua quotes Hosea 6:6, “Idesirefidelity, faithfulness, and covenant loyalty and not sacrifice.” However, the religious separatists who condemned Yeshua’s disciples for unlawful violations of the Sabbath, referring to the oral interpretations and traditions of the Sabbath, were functionally embracing a double standard. They were acting with covenant disloyalty, and Yeshua was not at all bashful about saying so.

Join us for this final episode in Matthew 12:1-8 and the story of Yeshua's disciples plucking heads of grain from a grainfield on the Sabbath and the Pharisees accusing them of lawlessness. But it was not Yeshua's disciples, and it was not even David in 1 Samuel 21 who sported disloyalty. In the eyes of Yeshua, covenant disloyalty was at and in the heart of the Pharisee and the Sadducee.

Real Israel Talk Radio Episode 111 and Part 15.