ellauri163.html on line 402: All of the Jewish translations (and commentaries) deal with a future time, the messianic era, during which there will be a king, a direct descendant from King David, sitting on the Davidic throne. The closing phrase of the blessing given to Judah defines the role of the expected future Jewish king, Messiah, in the world. Ultimately, his job will be to gather the nations under the banner of the One G-d of peace. If a gathering of the nations for the sake of peace is the first explicit description of the messianic era, it clearly suggests something that is natural, recognizable, and human.
ellauri459.html on line 375: The Millennial Reign of Christ refers to a future period described in the Book of Revelation, specifically Revelation 20:1-6. This period is characterized by Christ's rule on Earth for a thousand years, often referred to as the Millennium. It starts with Tribulation (battle at Harmageddon) and ends with Judgment Day. The Millennium is needed as a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies about a time of restoration and peace. It serves as a precursor to the final judgment and the establishment of the new heavens and the new Sysmä, where God's eternal plan will be fully realized. Its sole purpose is to fulfill various promises God made to the Jews. Good try, but Israel has never possessed the specific boundaries that God promised in Genesis 15:18–20 and Numbers 34:1-12. The current Israeli state may be a step in this direction, but they still do not possess the boundaries God laid out. God’s covenant with David ((2 Samuel 7) was that his line would never die out and that David’s heir would sit on the throne of Israel forever. The Jews  expected Him to be a military/political leader that would liberate them from the Romans and make Israel a great nation again. But they didn’t understand that the nature of Jesus’ work at the time was for the New Covenant, not the Davidic Covenant. The 1,000-year reign will be the beginning of Jesus’ reign over Israel and the earth (Revelation 20:4, 6) as per the prior deal. God also  promised Jesus He will make His enemies a footstool. God’s covenants were voluntary and one-sided. He promised He would bless Israel and restore the world in specific ways, and He will. I promise.
ellauri479.html on line 388: The Mosaic Law as outlined in the Book of Deuteronomy was not universally observed in Israelite culture under the Davidic line in the United Kingdom of Israel, as recorded in the Books of Kings. According to 2 Kings 22, the Kingdom of Judah had lost "the Book of the Law", like Anathema Nutter her ancestor´s prophecies in Good Omens.
ellauri499.html on line 122: Many scholars also interpret the biblical story of Jeroboam I’s installation of bull-calf icons at Dan and Bethel (not Samaria) as a programmatic attempt to consolidate Israel’s political-religious identity  in opposition to the political claims and religious traditions of the Davidic monarchy and its YHWistic temple in Jerusalem.
ellauri499.html on line 153: The important issue is when and how YHWH formally became the patron god of Jerusalem’s Davidic kings and the temple. Generally, scholars tend to follow the biblical story and identify this critical moment in Judah’s political-religious history with David, portrayed as YHWH’s anointed king over Israel, Jerusalem’s conqueror, and the one responsible for the installation of YHWH’s ark in Jerusalem. However, the David story likely was first written down only in the period of the two kingdoms, long after David’s reign, and its romanticized portrayal of David as YHWH’s pious shepherd-warrior-king clearly functions as  political-religious propaganda in the service of David’s royal house in Jerusalem.
ellauri499.html on line 161: In sum, Judah’s political subordination to Israel may have had a strong impact on Jerusalemite royal political theology. It may be, then, that Jerusalem’s Davidic monarchs first installed YHWH as their divine patron in connection with, or under the infuence of, the Omrides’ elevation of YHWH to the position of Israel’s kingdom god.
ellauri499.html on line 345: When the kingdom split, the first Northern king, Jeroboam I, set up golden calves at Dan and Bethel. His goal was purely political: he wanted to stop his citizens from traveling south to the Jerusalem Temple, which would drain his tax base and risk their political loyalty returning to the Davidic line. For the Southern kings, promoting Yahweh as the only legitimate God—and Jerusalem as the only legitimate place to worship Him—was a brilliant tool for political centralization. If you could convince the population that sacrificing anywhere else was a sin, you centralized all religious, economic, and political power directly in king Dave's capital.
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 286: Enraged by these measures, the Jews rebelled in 132, the dominant and irascible figure of Simeon bar Kosba at their head. Reputedly of Davidic descent, he was hailed as the Messiah by the greatest rabbi of the time, Akiva ben Yosef, who also gave him the title Bar Kokhba (“Son of the Star”), a messianic allusion. Bar Kokhba took the title nasi goreng (“prince”) and struck his own coins, with the legend “Year 1 of the liberty of Jerusalem.”
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 63: The staff with which Jacob crossed the Jordan is identical with that which Judah gave to his daughter-in-law, Tamar (Gen. xxxii. 10, xxxviii. 18). It is likewise the holy rod with which Moses worked (Ex. iv. 20, 21), with which Aaron performed wonders before Pharaoh (Ex. vii. 10), and with which, finally, David slew the giant Goliath (I Sam. xvii. 40). David left it to his descendants, and the Davidic kings used it as a scepter until the destruction of the Temple, when it miraculously disappeared. When the Messiah comes it will be given to him for a scepter in token of his authority over the heathen. (And we don't mean INRI here.)
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 392: Rashi was an only child born at Troyes, Champagne, in northern France. His mother's brother was Simeon bar Isaac, rabbi of Mainz. Simon was a disciple of Gershom ben Judah, who died that same year. On his father's side, Rashi has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of Johanan HaSandlar,[citation needed] who was a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel, who was reputedly descended from the Davidic line. In his voluminous writings, Rashi himself made no such claim at all. The main early rabbinical source about his ancestry, Responsum No. 29 by Solomon Luria, makes no such claim either.
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