Tribes of Israel #2 - Clarifying Confusing NAMES & TITLES
What I have to say today, unfortunately might "trigger" some- so before I start I need to post a disclaimer:
I have not, am not and will not ever condone, encourage or participate in any kind of hate or violence towards any person or group of people.
After the first post in this series "The Tribes of Israel" (click HERE to view: "Tribes of Israel#1 - JACOB/ISRAEL"), we learned about the tribes and the trickery that went on between Rachael & Leah in producing offspring for Jacob who was later named Israel.
In doing my research for what I originally had planned for this post, I became increasingly confused about certain titles and names. Many seemed to be the same thing in a certain context and then something totally different later. And since I knew that God blessed Abraham (see verse below), I just thought all of these different names had to do with all the lands and nations that Abraham was blessed with - I was wrong.
".......for you will be the father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!”
Genesis 17:5-6
Hebrew - (not talking about the language)
- Abram (Abraham) was one of "Eber's" children, therefore he was Hebrew.
Israelites - a group of people who are part of one/any of the Tribes of Israel (see first post in this series).
Jewish or Jew - any member of the Tribe of Judah. Judah was Leah's fourth son.
Torah - the beginning of our Old Testament - the books of:
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Talmud - oral law passed down verbally since the time of Moses (there are some blasphemous verses about Jesus in the Talmud).
Edomite - descendants of Esau (later named Edom)
(this will become important for later posts in this series). Remember, Esau(Edom) was Jacob's brother (see verse below):
“And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.”
Genesis 25:28
I was still quite confused but then I came upon this great video explaining almost everything (please watch video ):
I hope that you take the time to watch the video - it is very interesting.
We will get back to studying each tribe separately in the next post.
ENJOY!
(A special thanks to "Christian Zionism" for sharing this with us on Rumble)
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