Yehovah seeks to stand by the covenant he cut with Abraham concerning the seed of Israel, although they, year after year, stumbled and downright rebelled against that covenant which would bring Elohim’s will to fruition concerning His people.

Genesis 22:18 gives the sum of how the seed of Abraham would benefit mankind. “All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants because you have obeyed My command.”

For roughly 1,006 years, the Hebrew nation became a Kingdom that stood in glory and fell into slavery and servitude, becoming non-citizens in a kingdom not their own. The longing to enter into their formal glory as a nation with a king, serving their Elohim in peace, was within the hearts of Israel when a baby, to whom the name Yeshua was given, was born.

"But while he considered these things, the angel of Yehovah appeared unto him in a dream, saying, "Yoseph, son of David, do not fear to take Miriam as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of Ruach HaKodesh. She will bear a son, and you will name him Yeshua because yoshia (he will save) his people from their sins." Matthew 1:20-21

After this son was born, piacular things began to be seen concerning the knowledge and wisdom of the Tanakh, in him. As he began to grow into maturity his mother noticed this and one day found him to have run off to the Temple speaking with elders and Rabbis. Upon finding him his mother was faced with a revelation coming from her son’s lips as he replied that he must attend to his father’s business.

Right before the birth of Yeshua, another child was born unto whom the Christian world calls ‘John’. And before this child’s birth, things were happening at the Temple of Yehovah with a Cohen during the time of Shavuot. A Cohen named, Zechariah, who after years of service, finally got to fulfill his Cohen duties by offering incense, in the order of Aviyah, on the golden altar and pronouncing the Aaronic blessing over the congregation of Israel in the Temple. A multitude was praying in the outer court when at this time Zachariah saw an angel of Yehovah who pronounced unto him: “Fear not Zechariah! Your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elisheva will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yochanan” (Yah is Merciful). Due to the doubting of Zechariah considering his and his wife’s age, the angel spoke: “And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, I stand in the presence of Yehovah, and I was sent to speak unto you and to shew you these glad tidings. But because you did not believe my words, which shall be fulfilled in their appointed time. You shalt be deaf and unable to speak until the day that these things shall come to pass. And the Aaronic blessing did not come forth from his mute lips nor did the people receive the blessing upon their lives.

Let us take a moment to reflect on three important details of what I have covered and are mentioned in the writings of the Gospels. Let me explain ‘the revelation in understanding what Yehovah finds important’.

1. “You will name him“

2. “You will call his name“

These two commands from the Angel of Yehovah are overlooked, downplayed, and seen as of little importance in Christian circles (remember, they still call his name ‘Jesus’). There is a reason that the angel who stands in the presence of Yehovah gave command concerning these two children’s names.

3. The Aaronic blessing was never given.