Two of the great allegorical symbols that The Messiah is compared to are Shepherd and Rock. It is interesting to note that in many translations of The Scriptures (Darby, English Standard, New International, New King James and The Scriptures) that the first time the word “shepherd” is used is when the shepherdess Rahel{Rachel} is introduced to us in the Scroll of Genesis. According to the Etymology of The Hebrew name רָחֵל (Rachel) means “Ewe”. In the Pre Messianic Scriptures Rahel was the name of the favorite wife of Jacob and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was one of the Four Mothers of YisraEl.

Gen 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Raḥĕl came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

The fact that Rahel was the first shepherd mentioned in The Scriptures is another pointer to a female Shepherdess who would turn out to be our Messiah Yashayahnah. In the Scroll of Yohanan/John there is a whole chapter dedicated to our Shepherdess Yashayahnah.

Joh 10:1-42  “Truly, truly, I say to you, those who do not enter through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber. 2 “But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 “The doorkeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 “And when he has brought out his own sheep, he goes before them. And the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5 “And they shall by no means follow a stranger, but shall flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 Yashayahnah used this figure of speech, but they did not know what She had been saying to them. 7 Yashayahnah therefore said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.  9 “I am the door. Whoever enters through Me, they shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture. 10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure. 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12 “But the hireling, and not being a shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. 13 “Now the hireling flees because he is a hireling and is not concerned about the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd. And I know Mine, and Mine know Me, 15 even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. 17 “Because of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, in order to receive it again. 18 “No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This command I have received from My Father.” 19 Again there came a division among the Yehuḏim because of these words, 20 and many of them said, “She has a demon and is mad, why do you listen to Her?”  21 Others said, “These are not the words of one possessed by a demon. Is a demon able to open the eyes of the blind?” 22 At that time the Ḥanukkah came to be in Yerushalayim, and it was winter. 23 And Yashayahnah was walking in the Set-apart Place, in the porch of Shelomoh. 24 So the Yehuḏim surrounded Her and said to Her, “How long do You keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, say to us plainly.” 25 Yashayahnah answered them, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s Name, they bear witness concerning Me. 26 “But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 “And I give them everlasting life, and they shall by no means ever perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand.  29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 “I and My Father are one.”

In the Scroll of Hebrews Yashayahnah Messiah is called The Great Shepherd of the Sheep. In our relationship with Elohim The Set-Apart Spirit of Truth comes from The Father and indwells within us in the name of Yashayahnah Messiah. Thus the Great Shepherdess of the Sheep is able to work through us to help us do Her Will and the Will of The Father.

Heb 13:20 And the Elohim of peace who brought up our Master Yashayahnah from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 make you perfect in every good work to do Her desire, working in you what is pleasing in Her sight, through Yashayahnah Messiah, to whom be esteem forever and ever. Amĕn.

In summary the first person to be identified as a shepherd in Scripture is a female shepherdess Rahel whose name means “ewe”. “Ewe Lamb” dovetails nicely into the two secret prophecies of The Messiah associated with Abraham and Dawid as described in the post “Introducing Queen Shoshannah With Songs”. This is no co-incidence but Elohim’s way of prophesying Our Messiah as a Shepherdess.

Is our Shepherdess a Rock and Roller?  Absolutely! Our Father is described as being our Rock in Psalms. Here are three examples.

Psa 18:1-2 I love You, O Yeshayahna, My strength. 2 Yeshayahna is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer; My Ěl is my rock, I take refuge in Him; My shield and the horn of my deliverance, my high tower.

Psa 18:46-47 Yeshayahna lives! And blessed is my Rock! And exalted is the Elohim of my deliverance, 47 The Ěl who avenges me, And He humbles the peoples under me;

Psa 62:5-7 My being, find rest in Elohim alone, Because my expectation is from Him. 6 He alone is my rock and my deliverance, my strong tower; I am not shaken. 7 My deliverance and my esteem depend on Elohim; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in Elohim.

In the Messianic Scriptures Yashayahnah Messiah is equated with the word Rock many times. There is the parable comparing us to a man who builds his house on the foundation of Yashayahnah Messiah who survives disaster because of the strength of the foundation versus the man who ignores Yashayahnah Messiah whose house has no foundation and therefore no way to avoid being in a disaster. Pakistan is in the news right now because it is enduring a flood that is impacting an estimated 5 million people or more. Thousands and thousands of homes were washed away. Pakistan is mostly an Islamic country that doesn’t believe Messiah Yashayahnah is Elohim in the flesh. Of course floods happen in other areas of the world in places that believe in Elohim but they too are subject to losing their houses to flood waters if they do not hear Her voice and do the words Yashayahnah Messiah has shared with us in The Scriptures.

Luk 6:47-49 “Everyone who is coming to Me, and is hearing My words and is doing them, I shall show you whom they are like: 48 “They are like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the Rock. And when a flood came, the stream burst against that house, but was unable to shake it, for it was founded on the Rock. 49 “But the one hearing and not doing, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream burst, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”

Messiah Yashayahnah delegated the building of Her Assembly to be founded upon Her. She is the Rock that Her Assembly is to be built upon. She is the foundation of Her Assembly.

Mat 16:13-18 Now when Yashayahnah came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, She asked Her taught ones, saying, “Who do people say the Descendant of Aḏam is?” 14 And they said, “Some say Yoḥanan the Immerser, and others Ěliyahu, and others Yirmeyahu or one of the prophets.”  15 She said to them, “And you, who do you say I am?” 16 And Shimʽon Kĕpha answering, said, “You are the Messiah, the Descendant of the living Elohim.” 17 And Yashayahnah answering, said to him, “Blessed are you, Shimʽon Bar-Yonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father in the heavens. 18 “And I also say to you that you are Kĕpha, and on this Rock I shall build My assembly, and the gates of the grave shall not overcome it.

In 1st Corinthians we are urged to drink of the spiritual Rock that is Messiah Yashanah.

1Co 10:1-4  For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were immersed into Mosheh in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed, and the Rock was Messiah.

Let’s now shine a Strong Light on the word “Rock” in all of the above verses. They all are from Strongs G4073 πέτρα petra which is a Feminine of the same as G4074; a (mass of) rock (literally or figuratively): – rock.

The Feminine Greek word petra is used to describe our Rock. This is a clear clue to the fact that Yashayahnah Messiah is a Female.

Indeed our Yashayahnah Messiah is a Shepherdess and a Rock and Rolling Ruler. Both The Queen Yashayahnah and Her Father can’t wait to rock and roll with their loved one’s. One way or another each of us is going to be rocked in some way by the One Elohim who loves us.