As we ponder the meaning and importance of Yom Kippur, let us take a few moments to consider some very important information about how Yom Kippur relates to the Marvelous Work and Wonder and to the Stick of Joseph. We will, in the end, obtain some remarkable information from our study.
And he shall be great like unto Moshe, whom I have said I would raise up unto you to deliver my people, O house of Isra’el. And Moshe will I raise up to deliver your people out of the land of Egypt. But a seer will I raise up out of the fruit of your loins, and unto him will I give power to bring forth my word unto the seed of your loins; and not to the bringing forth my word only, says YHWH, but to the convincing them of my word which shall have already gone forth among them.
This prophecy of Isaiah, and especially the ancient Nazarene interpretation of it, was fulfilled, not by Paul, who was only one man, but by the “young men” Alma the younger and the four sons of Moshiyah as recorded in the Stick of Joseph!
One of the many ways that Messiah was revealed to Israel in the Torah was through the brazen serpent lifted up in the wilderness. The Stick of Joseph adds depth and understanding to this incident as a symbol of Messiah.
How could Yosef ben Yosef have known that the word “sun” in Mal’khi’s phrase “sun of righteousness” was understood in the ancient Jewish texts to refer to the “Son” and that this passage of Mal’akhi was understood in the ancient Jewish literature as a Messianic prophecy about the Messiah’s ability to heal?
The eye has never seen, neither has the ear heard before, so great and marvelous things as we saw and heard Yeshua speak unto the Father. And no tongue can speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can the hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we both saw and heard Yeshua speak.
Suppose someone hands you a book that they claim is an authentic, ancient Jewish record, that teaches the true nature and identity of the Messiah. There really are two claims there to consider…
Though Lechi hailed from Joseph’s lineage and knew of the Brass Plates, it’s clear he didn’t know much about their true contents until he had read them.
Why was it so important that Lechi’s family take the “record of the Y’hudim” recorded on the Brass Plates with them to their new promised land?
The “lost prophets” of the Brass Plates, gave some of the clearest prophecies concerning the Messiah. Let’s consider the following examples: