Roll Call

The tribe of Issachar, the descendants of

Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai),

Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and Leah,
and Jacob and Leah's fifth born son Issachar:

Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred. And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons. And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.-1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Reference Scriptures:

And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.-Genesis 46:13

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.-Genesis 49:1-2...Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.-Genesis 49:14-15

And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.-1 Chronicles 21:2

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham,-Matthew 1:1...And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;-Matthew 1:6...And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.-Matthew 1:16

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,-Luke 3:31...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38

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One More Thing

The blessing spoken by Jacob (Israel) to his sons

Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali

before 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and they

buried Jacob's body in Canaan, the Promised Land:

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.-Genesis 49:13-21

Reference Scriptures

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;-Matthew 1:1-2...And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.-Matthew 1:16

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,-Luke 3:34...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38

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The Bottom Line

Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.-Matthew 4:12-17***Isaac was born to 100-year-old Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and 90-year-old Sarah (Sarai). Fraternal twin sons Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were born to Isaac and Rebekah. Levi was the 3rd son born to Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Judah was Jacob and Leah's 4th born son. Joseph was the 1st son born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. Approximately 1,900 years after Benjamin was born near Bethlehem to Jacob and Rachel, and Rachel died, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judea, into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. On the 8th day after John the Baptist was born, he was circumcised, and on the 8th day after Jesus the Christ was born, Jesus was circumcised, according to the covenant of circumcision that the Lord God gave Abraham. Sometime thereafter, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph when Joseph was dreaming and told Joseph to take Mary and Jesus with him to Egypt, due to the murderous intentions of King Herod the Great, ruler of Judea for the Roman Empire. After Herod the Great was dead, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph when Joseph was dreaming and told Jesus to take Mary and Jesus with him back home to live among the Israelites. After another divine woman, Joseph, Mary and Jesus lived in Nazareth, Joseph and Mary's hometown in Galilee, and other children lived in the household. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. In Cana, Galilee, Jesus and his disciples attended a wedding, and Mary was with them. After the wedding event and the miracle that was manifested, Jesus and his disciples went to Jerusalem, Judea. In Jerusalem, Jesus took action against the monetary dealings occurring at the temple of the Lord. Moreover, in Judea, Nicodemus the Pharisee visited Jesus, and the disciples of Jesus began baptizing people, and the disciples of John the Baptist spoke to John the Baptist about the baptisms being performed. Sometime thereafter, John the Baptist spoke to Herod Antipas the tetrarch, ruler of Galilee for the Roman Empire, regarding Herod's actions and behavior, and Herod imprisoned John the Baptist. When Jesus and his disciples began journeying to Galilee, the northern province, they passed through Samaria, the middle province. Before John the Baptist was beheaded, he sent 2 of his disciples to question Jesus.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Reference Information:
Nephthalim = Naphtali = the name of the 2nd son born to Jacob (Israel) and maidservant Bilhah. The name of the family tribe descended from Naphtali.

Zabulon = Zebulun = the name of the 6th son born to Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah. The name of the family tribe descended from Zebulun.

Reference Scriptures:
And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid: And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is is before Jokneam;-Joshua 19:10-11...The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:-Joshua 19:32-33

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.-Isaiah 9:1-2

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The Lord God Himself

A message the Lord God

revealed to Jeremiah the prophet:

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.-Jeremiah 2:1-9***Job lived in Uz and worshiped the Lord God. When Job was suffering a series of calamities, and was in the presence of his friends Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, Job spoke for the shadow of death, the deep, deathly shadow, to claim the day of his birth. Job said the shadow of death was on his eyelids. Job expressed thoughts about the Lord God, and Job spoke of the comfort he wanted to receive before going to the shadow of death, the lightless place, the place of no order. Job described the manner whereby the wicked perceive morning and the shadow of death. Moreover, Job said that the Lord God brings the shadow of death to light and that the shadow of death is searched. Elihu was younger than Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, and Elihu spoke to them and stated that the shadow of death does not hide the wicked. After Elihu spoke, the Lord God asked Job a question about the doors of death and the gates of the shadow of death. David was a shepherd, musician, psalmist, warrior, husband, father, and king from the tribe of Judah, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. David only worshiped the Lord God, and the Lord God identified David as a man after God's own heart. In Psalm 23, David wrote about the shadow of death. Moreover, the shadow of death is mentioned in Psalm 44 and Psalm 107. Isaiah, Jeremiah and Amos were prophets of the Lord God and each of them made mention of the shadow of death. Over 500 years after Isaiah, Jeremiah and Amos received and proclaimed messages from the Lord God, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Zechariah and Elizabeth were filled with the Holy Spirit, and Zechariah spoke prophetically about John the Baptist, the Israelites, Jesus, light, and the shadow of death.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Job, Psalm 23, Psalm 44, Psalm 107, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos 1:1-15, 5:1-27, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

 

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The Way They Are

Job speaks in the presence of his friends:

Men groan out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth: yet God layeth not folly to them. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.-Job 24:12-17***Job lived in Uz and was a wealthy, generous man who worshiped the Lord God. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Uz was eventually inhabited by Edomites, the descendants of Esau (Edom), the older fraternal twin brother of Jacob (Israel). Esau and Jacob were born to Isaac and Rebekah. Isaac wad born to 100-year-old Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and 90-year-old Sarah (Sarai). Abraham and Sarah were born to Terah. Terah was the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Arphaxad. Arphaxad was born to Shem. Shem was born to Noah the ark builder. When Job was in the midst of suffering, his friends Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar journeyed to Uz. After Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar spent a silent week together, Job began speaking. Afterwards, Eliphaz spoke  of Job, the Lord God, and mankind. Job spoke of the Lord God and mankind, and Bildad spoke of the Lord God. Job spoke of the Lord God, and Zophar began to speak. After Zophar spoke, Job spoke to the three friends. Eliphaz, Job and Bildad each spoke, and after Job replied, Zophar, Job and Eliphaz all spoke again, with Job even speaking about the actions of wicked men. Over 500 years after the Lord God gave a message about Uz and other nations to Jeremiah the prophet, an Israelite, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 1:1-36:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:17, 3:1-24, Job, Lamentations 4:1-22, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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Some Explaining

From a letter written by the apostle Paul (Saul)

to believers in Rome, years after

Jesus the Christ, the Son of God,

was betrayed, arrested, crucified, buried

in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500

people, and returned to heaven:

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.-Romans 7:1-6

Reference Information:
members = melesin = melos = a limb, a part of the body

Reference Scriptures:

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.-Matthew 5:31-32

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.-Luke 16:18

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.-Romans 6:21-22

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.-2 Corinthians 3:5-6

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.-Galatians 2:19-20

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But If He Does

From a letter written by the apostle Paul,

with Sosthenes,

to believers in Corinth and everywhere:

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.-1 Corinthians 7:36-40***Moses was an Israelite born into the tribe of Levi, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. Before Moses was upon Mount Sinai 40 days and nights with the Lord God, Moses and his fellow Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments  for the Israelites. Throughout the journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, the Lord God gave Moses, and sometimes Moses' older brother Aaron, statutes and laws for the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Specific action was to be taken if a man made a claim about his bride, or if a man was physically intimate, whether by consent or force, with a virgin another man was pledged to wed, or if a man was physically intimate with a virgin who was not involved in any marital promise. During the 40th year of their journey to the Promised Land, 123-year-old Aaron the high priest died upon Mount Hor, and Moses went upon Mount Nebo. The Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses the prophet died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses aide and successor from the tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot the disciple and apostle, and Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, and returned to heaven. Paul (Saul) was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel, and Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. Paul was a Pharisee, purposefully educated, and knew and obeyed the commandments, judgments, statutes, and laws that the Lord God gave for the Israelites, and the traditions passed down by the Israelite elders. Paul did not believe Jesus to be the Christ. Throughout Jerusalem, Paul persecuted and imprisoned Israelites who believed Jesus to be the Christ of God. When Paul was journeying to the synagogues in Damascus, Syria, to find, bind and take to Jerusalem any Israelite believers he found, Paul and those with him saw a light from heaven flash around them. Paul heard the voice of Jesus speaking to him, and Paul spoke to Jesus and obeyed Jesus. In Damascus Paul was baptized. From thenceforward, Paul the apostle journeyed and wrote divinely inspired letters, teaching Israelites and Gentiles, people not born into the Israelite tribes, the good news of Jesus the Christ, everlasting life, and revelations about grace and the law.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

Reference Information:
flower of her age = hyperakmos/huperakmos = past prime, beyond youth, past youthful bloom

keep = terein = tereo = preserve, guard, watch over

necessity = ananken/anagke = necessity, compulsion

uncomely = aschemonein/aschemoneo = improperly, unseemly, unbecomingly

Reference Scripture:
But the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.-Romans 7:2

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