The first time the bible mentions Nazarites is in Genesis 49:26. There a dying Jacob is giving a blessing on his son Joseph. God used the blessing to give Jacob a great dream for his son. He wanted his son to someday help end of the murder of Jews. Jacob did this even though the time for the end of murder was well past the lifetime of Joseph. He achieved his goal by saying the blessing on Joseph will fall on another at the end of the age. In this verse it says, These blessings shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown on the head of him who was the consecrated one and the one separated from his brethren and the one who is prince among them. The words consecrated and separated by Jacob are the first reference to nazarites. At the time of this blessing by Jacob on his son the Nazarites did not yet exist. God fulfills this dying wish of Jacob by giving a nazarite an ability to interpret dreams of the prophets in hopes of lowering the death toll at the end of the age. It is a very similar exercise to what had just taken place with Joseph, when God gave him the ability to interpret the dreams of pharoah in order to help keep many people alive during a famine. It must be noted that Jacob referred to the nazarite with the blessing of Joseph on him a prince. This shows Jacob regards a nazarite as royalty. Daniel did the same thing in chapter 11 of his book when he used a nazarite in his strategy against murder.
A little while later Moses came to be. In Numbers 6:1-21 God gave Moses a role in building upon the hope of Jacob. The name Nazarite was first created here. In verse 12 the words consecrated and separated appear in the definition of the Nazarite. These are the same words used by Jacob. It is important to show Moses and Jacob are both focused on the same future judgment day figure. The bible has this unity between biblical figures, which helps make it possible to believe in it.
Moses then added to what Jacob said previously by providing further definition of what it means to be consecrated and separated.
Verse 3 says a Nazarite shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink, and shall drink no grape juice, or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
Verse 5 says All the days of the vow of his separation and abstinence no razor will come upon his head.
Moses also added on to Jacob’s word about the future judgment day figure in Deuteronomy 33. It was much the same as Jacob. The last dying wish of Moses was to further elaborate on what Jacob had done. It is important to make his blessing similar to that of Jacob, but to add further details.
Moses is giving this blessing well after the death of Joseph so he is referring to the person who will come in the future who has the blessing of Joseph. Here are the words of Moses in Deuteronomy 33. Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the precious gifts of heaven from the dew and from the deep that couches beneath, with the precious things of the fruits of the sun and with the precious yield of the months, with the chief products of the ancient mountains and with the precious things of the everlasting hills, with the precious things of the earth and its fullness and the favor and goodwill of Him Who dwelt in the bush. Let these blessings come upon the head of Joseph, upon the crown of the head of him who was separate and prince among his brothers. Like a firstling young bull his majesty is, and his horns like the horns of the wild ox; with them he shall push the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth.
In verse 13 he said he will be from a very blessed land. Isaiah in chapter 18 helped build upon what Moses is saying here when he said a final warning would come from the wealthy and powerful country described here by Moses.
Moses also said he would push all of the peoples to the end of the earth. This word by Moses makes the nazarite with the blessing of Joseph a worldwide judgment day figure at the end of the age.
Moses is achieving some great things here. He is establishing that the most potent guy in the world will be helping God with the judgment. Which makes him good. This shows the word of Moses is fulfilled by somebody good, not an evil antichrist.
This word also shows Moses is affiliating himself with a biblical judgment day figure at the end of the age. He is not affiliating himself with the author of the qu’ran.
This word by Moses also associates himself with a person who is using biblical strategy to end murder. Moses dedicated his life to try to end murder, and to end the human practice of walking on by as little ones are killed.
The nazarite being spoken of by Jacob and Moses is getting used by God to crush the same things Moses wanted to destroy.
Moses also gave an interesting blessing on Judah. Judah was given an affiliation with the messiah by Jacob when he blessed his sons. Here is the blessing of Moses on Judah in Deuteronomy 33:7. Hear O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people! With his hands he contended for himself; but may You be a help against his enemies.
What role can Jesus play in the fulfillment of this word? The word of Jesus in Matthew 24:30 relates to the desire of Moses. There Jesus said, Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and beat their breasts and lament in anguish, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
This action is the ultimate fulfillment of the desire of Moses. This is true because this word by Jesus is about the end of deadly tribal activity, which has been taking place throughout human history.
This word also is a triumph by Jesus over most of the members of the sanhedrin, who falsely accused Him of blasphemy. Matthew 26:64-65 records this confrontation. Jesus said, You will in the future see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming on the clouds of the sky. Then the high priest tore his clothes and exclaimed, He has uttered blasphemy!
In fact, Jesus was only stating He is the One who fulfills the word of David in Psalm 110 and the word of Daniel 7:13. Someone has to show up and play those roles. Most of the members of the sanhedrin were too dishonest to admit this fact.
The fact Jesus does indeed have a sign, a nazarite who gets things restored and ready, is evidence He is set to triumph and fulfill the word of Moses. This is a much greater fulfillment of this word of Moses that could ever be fulfilled in the former days. It also sets things right between Jesus and the Jews when the fulfillment of the choice vine of Jacob produces His victory.
Later, God sent out other prophets to build upon these foundational statements by Jacob and Moses, so a biblical future can play the role.
It is important to note God used Moses to attack the murder of little ones and grown people. Moses himself was rescued from his own murder as a little one. Then God took Moses and used him to attack those who produce extra momentum for the killing of little ones and others. Moses believed momentum for murder came from them since he viewed them to be deranged from God.
A lot of individuals have been murdered since Moses took this stance long ago. However, God did not quit on using Moses against murder. In the early part of the bible, God began to combine Moses with Jacob through this joint nazarite strategy. This strategy is meant to bear fruit against murder in the ending of the bible. When God interacts with a nazarite and proves His intimacy with killing in and out of the womb, the dreams of Jacob and Moses are about to be realized.
It is important to notice some of the details of the work of the biblical prophets. Jacob describes a nazarite, a prince, and a man who God will train to work with the dreams of prophets. Moses describes a worldwide, dominant individual from a wealthy and powerful country. These words are perfect for a nazarite who God trains to coordinate the dreams of the prophets at the end of the age.
After God laid this groundwork with Jacob and Moses, Nazarites began to appear. Samson was one of the first Nazarites. His story is told in Judges 13 to 16.
It says there in chapter 13 an Angel of the Lord appeared to the parents of Samson. The Angel said His name is Wonderful. A short time later the prophet Isaiah was born and called the Messiah this same name of Wonderful in chapter 9:6.
God dominated Samson so many of the enemies of the Jews were killed. Why? God was combining evidence of a Messiah, forgiveness for sins, life after death and the end of murder among the Jews. Jesus showed He is both a Lion and a Lamb when He affiliated with the birth of Samson.
God wanted to build a history with men that if they attack those good things they will die.
When Jesus came He said He existed before Abraham. So the purpose of the life of this Nazarite was to support this comment by Jesus. As well as to show people those who attack the good things God is dong deserve to die. The life of Samson also shows Jews that Jesus has already participated in the destruction of their enemies.
Jesus used the meeting with the parents of Samson to build truth. This is another great thing happening here. When Jesus said He was alive before Abraham, some deranged fools wanted to kill Him for saying this. Why are they deranged fools? He is saying God can give everybody two lives. One, where they were created thru sex by a man and a woman. And another when a person is created by the power of God, without any help from human beings. This is not something to get enraged about.
Another important Nazarite was Samuel. He lived about a thousand years before Jesus. His story is told in 1 Samuel. There it says in 1 Samuel verse 11 he was to be a lifelong nazarite. Samuel plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to a united kingdom of Israel. He also helped transition the monarch of the Jews from Saul to David. God later used David to give important messianic prophecies about Jesus.
There is a theme developing here with the early use of Nazarites by God. They are being giving a role in identifying Jesus as the Messiah.
The next important Nazarite in the bible is Elijah. 1 Kings 17 to 2 Kings 2 tells his story. Elijah existed to attack and kill the murderous leaders in Israel. Jezebel had killed the prophets of the Lord. She also treacherously stole a vineyard from a man and had him put to death.
Elijah believed the people of Israel deserved to die for serving murderous leaders instead of holding an uprising against them and putting them to death. So he had a confrontation with God and God sided with Elijah. Elijah got leverage over the crowd because he was angry with their lack of action. So their was a famine and Elijah said to the gutless people it will not rain but by word.
There is an important lesson to learn from this action by Elijah. It shows how low God’s opinion of you is when you seek a life of comfort and walk on by murderous leadership.
Psalm 91 describes this same confrontation well where it says a biblical figure is protected by God. Everyone else can die at any time because they move on by as little ones are killed. The fact this relationship is set up in psalm 91 shows God intends to have another confrontation. This time it is a worldwide confrontation. It is not confined to Israel or Egypt.
Elijah showed great loyalty to Jacob in 1 Kings 18:31 and was instantly rewarded for it by God.
Why did God want to reward Elijah for being loyal to Jacob? Because God’s strategy against murder is outlined in Jacob’s blessings to Judah and Joseph. Elijah was showing great faith in God’s strategy against murder when he recalled Jacob. So for this reason he deserved a God given victory over the murderers.
The prophet Malachi than came and said Elijah would come and prepare the world for the judgment at the end of the age. Malachi lived after the days of Elijah and several hundred years before the coming of Jesus and the Nazarite John the Baptist.
Malachi 4: 5-6 says, Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
And he shall turn and reconcile the hearts of the estranged fathers to their children, and the hearts of the rebellious children to the piety of their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse and a ban of utter destruction.
The job of this Nazarite is to help lower the death toll so God does not kill an enormous amount of people. This event helps with the popularity of Jesus, so it is another favorable act for the Messiah.
The birth of John the Baptist is written about in Luke 1. Luke 1:15 says John the Baptist is a Nazarite. An angel of the Lord, Gabriel, came and said John the Baptist would fulfill the word of Malachi. Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, then went on to say his son would play a role in getting rid of the murder of Jews.
Since he said this, his son has been murdered and so have many Jews. So how could the word of Zachariah about his son be true?
This is a knotty problem for those who believe in Jesus and John the Baptist that needs to be sorted out.
It is not hard to do for a Nazarite like me. I have been trained for this job.
First of all, the murder of John the Baptist was written about in Psalm 42. The strategy by Jesus around John was done with this in mind. So Herod did not disprove the word of Zachariah when he had John the Baptist killed, he actually fulfilled the scripture. Jesus confirms this when He said in Mark 9:13 the murder of John the Baptist was written about.
A key verse about the bible’s plans for the return of Jesus is found at the end of the prophecy about the murder of John the Baptist in Psalm 42:11. There it says, Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
This verse is related to the word of the angel Gabriel and the word of his father Zachariah since it is about the same person.
In order to make all of these statements come true, it is necessary for God to build on top of the murder of John the Baptist with some strategy that directly leads to the end of the murder of Jews.
In order to sort out the bible, a person needs to consider some odd questions. How could a person play a role in ending the murder of Jews?
Also, consider the person who is playing the role of the little horn in Daniel 7. Why is he able to get God to hold the world accountable for all its murders? What would a person do to have this very unusual relationship with God? He has a very unusual relationship with God as well.
What can God do to make all of this come true?
God needs to use the little horn to build upon the murder of John the Baptist.
This is a very attractive thing for Jesus. Consider his position. His relative was murdered when he was leading Jesus into the world. Then Jesus was killed. What would Jesus want to do so things are restored and ready? He wants John the Baptist to play a role in leading Him back in.
How does this happen? Once I was reading the word of Mark 9:13, where Jesus said the murder of John was written about in the old testament prophets. I did not want to go looking all over the place for the prophecy, so I asked God where is it written? I immediately heard back Psalm 42. I turned to that chapter and I saw it was about somebody who was killed in prison. It was exciting to get the perfect answer back from the Boss.
A short time later, I as reading Mark 6. This was in the last week of August of 1997. It was a detailed account on the murder of John the Baptist at Herod’s birthday party. When I read it, I became incensed and threw the bible against the wall.
Immediately I said to God, I want fire to come down from heaven and strike a symbol of Herod in the world for my birthday and show everybody Jesus is the King.
This was a loaded statement full of the blood of many people from the past.
As soon as I made this petition to God, a very powerful vision ensued.
Revelation 11 also contributes to this important matter. There it says God gives Moses and Elijah a role in the day of judgment.
It is also written in Revelation 20:9, And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and encircled the fortress of God’s people and the beloved city; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them.
The statement fire from heaven is a reference to the nazarite Elijah, who was able to cause God to bring fire from heaven.
It is important to show the bible was purposefully built by God, as I have done in this article. Winners speak like I do. It shows you are taking yourself and others seriously. Bluster or rants don’t do anything to show you are going to win.
God did a good job of making sure His use of Nazarites ended well. This important feat was achieved by God when He used a Nazarite with a lifetime of experience with God’s intimacy with murder to fulfill His scripture. This is a terrible manuever for the killers of the world, as it is intended to be. It also provides support for previous Nazarites, as their efforts helped lead to a victory over murder.
God wanted to use another nazarite just before judgment day. Psalm 88 shows a nazarite knows when God is performing around death in the air and on the ground. This shows something similar is happening as in the days of Elijah. It was easy to petition God and get a response since there is a lot of killing in the world, as there was in the days of Elijah.
It is important to note that there is a similar need for the words of Jacob, Moses and Jesus to be fulfilled at theend of the age. They all need a Nazarite to show up. Jesus was perfectly in tune with Jacob and Moses when He said a nazarite will come and get things restored and ready.
What did Jesus mean when He said a nazarite will get things restored and ready? It is an act by Jesus against murderers in the world. This is true because of the action God forces the Nazarite to participate in with God. The action in the scriptures is all about God’s intimacy with killers. The scripture is written to show God is a lot more intimate with murder than anybody here. It is a great act of support by God for those who have been murdered.
This action makes the bible the greatest because the prophetic strategy supports those who falsely accused and murdered.
This particular action in the script shows built in support for the word of Jesus. He said this generation will be held accountable for all of its murders.
Why does God want a nazarite at the end of the age? There are numerous good reasons.
Jesus said a nazarite will come and get things restored and ready. This quote by Jesus shows the person who shows up in the future He wanted to associate with is a nazarite. It is not the author of the qu’ran. It is not Mohammed. it is not the antichrist. It is a nazarite who gets things restored and ready. It is important to get to the bottom of what Jesus is doing in Matthew 17:11-13. There Jesus says, Elijah does come and will get everything restored and ready. But I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know or recognize him, but did to them as they liked. So also the Son of Man is going to be treated and suffer at their hands. Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist.
Here is another similar quote by Jesus in Mark 9:12-13. And He said to them, Elijah, it is true, does come first to restore all things and set them to rights. And how it is written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be utterly despised and be treated with contempt and rejected? But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and people did to him whatever they desired, as is written of him.
Matthew also recorded this quote by Jesus about John in 11:14, And, if you are willing to receive and accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come before the kingdom.
These are interesting quotes. The quote by Mark did the best job of identifying John the Baptist as the man who was murdered in prison by the Jordan River in psalm 42.
Jesus wanted to say John is the nazarite who fulfills the word of Malachi. Malachi says Elijah the prophet comes to try to lower the death toll before the great and terrible day of the Lord.
Why would Jesus assign a murdered man to a role that is fulfilled at the end of the age?
How can John the Baptist play a role at the end? When Jesus and John are rejected, it is always by people who carve up the scriptures. They ignore somebody must play the role described in Isaiah 40. They ignore Jesus said John the Baptist is the man who was murdered by the Jordan river in psalm 42. This is dishonest on their part since somebody must fulfill that scripture. The testimony of Jacob is not worthless on this issue. Jacob says the messiah washes His clothes in the blood of grapes. This act can only describe a messiah who has been here before. And it can only be an act for a messiah who is connected with a murdered nazarite. This world by Jacob puts guilt on those who plunder the scripture around John the Baptist. Jacob is obviously on the side of Jesus and John.
There are a lot of statements in the prophets that are fulfilled at the end of the age that need a person to be alive in this world in order to be activated. They can not be fulfilled by John the Baptist. Jesus did not say John the Baptist fulfills all the words of the prophets. He says he plays a role in lowering the death toll at the end of the age.
This is true about John. I used the murder of John a couple times in a petition to God. Both times God responded. God gave me some immediate practice with how intimate He is with murder when I used John this way. The blood of John the Baptist is very powerful with God.
His murder is in fact used to ignite scripture at the end of the age. So he is playing a role in leading Jesus back into the world. What Jesus said about affiliating John the Baptist with the day of the Lord is in fact true. But it does not really come true until his murder is used in a petition by a different nazarite.
The use of John as the Elijah of Malachi comes true when some other action at the end of the age involving John’s murder takes place.
Nazarites are a blended unit. Without each other, we could no dothing.
Since this is true, all a person needs to do is look at the scripture and find the prophecies which were built specifically for this role. When a nazarite comes and fulfills the scripture which were made for him to fulfill, the return of Jesus is very near.
The fact the bible has these acts available for the nazarite to perform shows the bible is poised to triumph over its adversaries. This strategy by Jesus and His prophets is great for Christians. It thoroughly convicts those who attack Christians as rabid. It is obvious they are people who do not study the evidence. They are people who attack without looking for the plain evidence that He is poised to win.
God can create a player and put a lot of characteristics on him. When somebody shows up and meets all these characteristics, it serves as an effective warning to people that God is close to a judgment day.
For instance, psalm 88 has been an unfulfilled description of the life of a nazarite. One of the statements is he is afflicted as a young person and on to adulthood. I know from experience God wanted this so He could dominate death matches between myself and animals, people and demons. Those have gone on continually for me since I was a young boy. This act helps contribute to a warning for those in the crowd. They also give God a chance to practice intimacy and dominance over death events. This action is a deliberate attack by God against the killers of this world. This is why God wanted psalm 88 in the bible.
It is needed to show support for previous biblical figures.
Amos 3:12 shows the purpose of the prophets is to play a role in the end of the murder of Jews. There is a need for a person to coordinate the word of the prophets so they can play a role in ending the murders of Jews.
It is needed so Jacob succeeded in his desire for his son to be linked to the end of the murder of Jews.
It is needed to support Moses, who was used by God to attack those who produce momentum for the killing of little ones. This is achieved when God forces the nazarite to speak of God’s attack against the killing of little ones in Joel 2.30.
It is needed to support other nazarites. Samson was used by God to attack those who killed Israelis. It is an act of support for the life of Samson to fulfill the hope of Amos who believed the dreams of the prophets would play a role in the end of murder of Jews.
It is also an act of support for Samuel, who helped subdue murderous assaults against Israelis.
It supports Elijah, who was used by God to help overthrow those who killed little ones and worshiped the sky instead of God.
It is a support for John the Baptist and his father. His father promised his son would help end the murder of Jews. This is achieved when the blood of John the Baptist was used in a petition to God. God did not allow anyone to fulfill the choice vine of Jacob without using the murder of John in a petition.
It is also an act of support for Stephen, who was murdered when he glorified God over a temple. God’s strategy against murder in the prophets is greater than any building could ever be.
It is also used to warn so hopefully more people will be eligible to live past the last day of this age and see the return of Jesus face to face.
It also fulfills the word of Jesus who promised this generation would be held accountable for its murders.
It also sets up Jesus to be the Messiah. The process of Jesus becoming the Messiah is foretold by Jacob in Genesis 49. There he said the initial coming of Jesus would set up an evn greater second coming. This great word of Jacob is achieved when the choice prophetic vine successfully causes God to intervene against murder.
Jesus said He wanted to define Himself thru a Nazarite, a future biblical figure. He never said He wanted to be defined by a rabbi or by the qu’ran. His word should be respected. When His word is not respected, a coverup against Him is taking place. The Nazarite biblical figure is His way of overthrowing this coverup.
All of this action shows the One Jesus says was even mightier than Himself is a God worthy of praise.