A Woman of Words by Angela Hunt

Author:Angela Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biblical Fiction;FIC042090;FIC042110;FIC027140
ISBN: 9781493431564
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

Matthew

Oddly enough, I found it difficult to work when Mary was away. I had expected to turn pages of notes into polished prose during her absence, but instead my thoughts kept returning to how she had chastised me, how her chin quivered when I told her of the night Yeshua was arrested, and how earnestly she had entreated me to help her write these stories.

I had already written the story of how Gabriel appeared to announce Yeshua’s upcoming birth. I planned to make it the first story in the collection, but then a thought kept niggling at my brain, something Yeshua had said . . .

He had been teaching in the Temple when a group of Pharisees came over to confront Him. They exchanged words, and Yeshua ended the conversation by saying, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was thrilled.”

Then the Judeans—who had always looked down on Galileans—said to Him, “You’re not even fifty years old and you’ve seen Abraham?”

Yeshua answered, “Amen, amen, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am!”

The other disciples and I were as taken aback as the Pharisees, but when they picked up rocks to stone our Teacher, the twelve of us hurried Yeshua away. So much was happening at the time, we barely had time to consider what Yeshua had said.

But I had time now.

“Before Abraham was, I am.”

HaShem was the great I am. He had identified himself with those words when He spoke to Moses out of the burning bush.

I left Peter’s guest chamber and went downstairs, where I found Dina shelling nuts. “Do you have a copy of the Tanakh?” I asked. “I need to refresh my memory about certain writings.”

She smiled and pointed to a carved wooden trunk in the room. “You will find it there, along with the other books.”

I thanked her, opened the trunk, and found several scrolls inside. The five books of Torah, thirteen books of the prophets, four books of hymns and wisdom, as well as the books of Enoch and the Maccabees. Peter must have been preparing for his work with the Gentiles because he also had Greek versions of each scroll.

I opened the scrolls and began to read. Before an hour had passed, I realized that both Mary and I were wrong. The story of Yeshua did not begin at His conception.

The Scriptures revealed His presence through all the writings. But if I had asked any man in Jerusalem if HaShem could come down from heaven in the form of a man, the answer would be a resounding no. Our God was not like the supposed gods of the Romans, who were forever coming to earth to sire children and create trouble. The Scriptures clearly stated that HaShem was not a man; He was Spirit. Moses reminded the children of Israel that they saw no form, no temunah of any kind the day the Lord spoke to them at Horeb, so they should be careful never to make an image and call it their God.

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