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O, so you deny that the blood of Moshiach is necessary for the salvation of Jewish people?
Straining out a gnat to swallow a camel? Are you like Ahmadinajad? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deceitfully strains out a gnat about death camp "facts" so he can go to lahlah land and swallow the camel that the Holocaust never happened. Likewise,Pro-choice abortion advocates deceitfully strain out a gnat about whether the definition of the word "pregnancy" is a woman "with child" so they can go to lahlah land and swallow the camel that the abortion "holocaust" never happened. However, the term "serve" in Daniel 3:18; 7:14 is from the Aramaic word, pelach, which means to render religious service or perform religious rituals in honor of a deity, proving that the Bar Enosh Moshiach is the Zun Fun Der Oybershter. So if Isaiah 53:7 and Daniel 7:13 are referring to Moshiach, then the "Moshiach Lamb slain before the foundation of the world" stands behind all remission of sin like the Federal Reserve stands behind the Dollar. But the Moshiach Holocaust denier deceitfully strains out a gnat about no blood in Ninevah (notwithstanding all the blood in the 8th Century Beis Hamikdash standing behind Yonah's preaching in Ninevah) so as to swallow the camel that the word temurah (substitute: "this goes to death so that I can go to life" see the Kaporas prayer in the Prayer Book) is not in the Prayer Book kaporas prayer (which it is!). Moreover the Moshiach Holocaust deniers also swallow the camel that the Pesach lamb did not have "to go His temurah death" so that "I could escape death in Eretz Mitzrayim and go to LIFE." Therefore, Moshiach Holocaust deniers, what can we say? Enjoy your time in lahlah land with Ahmadinejad and the Planned Parenthood Mengeles! Better yet, wake up!
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Good News. The one that you don't hear preached. The Besuras Hageulah. The Good
News of Redemption. It has to do with a temurah. You might say, Why do I need a
temurah? Look at Ruth, chapter 4, verse 7, where it says, "Now this was the
custom in former times in Israel concerning geulah (redemption) and temurah
(exchange)" (OJB). What is a Goel Redeemer? What does he do? He redeems or buys
back that which was dead. He is also the redeemer for the living. Not only
that, he makes an exchange. He becomes the exchange head of the household who
purchases the Bride. He bears the expense, whatever it costs. The liability is
his in order to confirm the transaction so that the whole enterprise of the redeemed
people will go on. If you want to know the true Besuras HaGeulah, the one that
saves, the one that redeems, the one that has been given, you must know that it
has to do with the Chen vChesed Hashem, the Grace of G-d. However you can't
talk about the Grace before you talk about the wrath. In the Ten Commandments
(Aseres HaDibros), each commandment has mishpat mavet, a death penalty. If you're
an idolater, that means death. If you're a blasphemer, that means death. If you're
a Shabbos breaker, that means death. Remember the man who was gathering sticks,
remember they took him into custody, they asked Hashem what to do with him, and
the divine answer came back, Put him to death. Or what about the incorrigible
drunkard. His parents took him to the Zekenim (Elders). They took him into
custody. What do you want us to do with him, L-rd?
Hashem said, Put him to death. So Commandment #5 is Mishpat
Mavet. When you are incorrigible against the parents,
it's the death penalty. Or what about the rotzeiach (murderer)? Premeditated
murder? Okay, you take a life; we're going to take your life. The death penalty.
The 6th Commandment. Mishpat mavet. Or the 7th Commandment. Whether it's
immorality, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bestiality, it's all the
same. The death penalty. Mishpat mavet. What about the 8th Commandment? You
have Achan. He takes something that is cherem and he steals it and hides it
under his bed. He's a ganav (thief). The 8th Commandment
entails the death penalty and that's what happens. Or what about the lying
spies? There were 10 of them. "O no, G-d, You say that
it's a good land and that You're giving us the land. But we say, This land will
swallow us up. The giants are too much. We can't go in. And so we give an evil
report. We lie about the land. We break the 9th Commandment." And what happens?
600,000 people die. And so do those 10 lying spies. If you're one of those
people who are always telling little white lies, and maybe you hate arguments
and lie to avoid them because you come from a dysfunctional family where lying
was the name of the game, well you better stop it, because liars will burn in
the Agam HaEish. I'm talking about the Ten Commandments! The Aseres HaDibros!
And it's a very scarey thing. What about the person who is covetous for the
pulpit. (I'm not coming to the meeting unless I'm given the pulpit.) Remember
Korach. He was covetous for the Kehunah. He wanted the Priesthood. What
happened to him? The earth swallowed him up and he went straight down to
Gehinnom. That's the 10th Commandment. These are not Ten Suggestions; each one
carries a Covenant Reprisal. Mishpat Mavet. The Death Penalty. And you have to
go through the Torah and see each Commandment and let the enormity of it all fall
on you, what happened to the law-breakers? Death! Death! Death! Death! Death!
Death! Death! And then you get to Isaiah chapter 53. And you ask, Is this chapter talking about King Dovid's
great Son, the Kinsman Redeemer who's going to make the geulah (redemption) and
the temurah (exchange) of Ruth chapter 4, verse 7? Because remember Boaz came
from the tribe of Yehudah or Judah, and Moshiach was supposed to come from the
tribe of Judah according to the Torah. And it says here in Isaiah chapter 53,
KEE NEEGZAR MEIERETZ CHAYYIM MIPEYSHA AMEE (HE WAS CUT OFF FROM THE LAND OF THE
LIVING [HE DIED] (IN EXCHANGE) FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE). So we see that Moshiach
has to die. And that word death (mavet) is there. Also Moshiach's
death is a link to the sacrificial system. Because Isaiah chapter 53 says Moshiach's death is an Asham guilt offering, which you see
back in Numbers (Bamidbar) where even the righteous Nazerite has to have an Asham guilt offering. So Moshiach's
death is a fulfillment. But after Moshiach makes this Asham guilt offering, it says
in Isaiah chapter 53 that Hashem prolongs his days, which means an empty tomb
and the Techiyas HaMoshiach (Resurrection of the Moshiach). So the kever
(grave, tomb) of Isaiah chapter 53 is your kever. He's making a substitution,
an exchange, a temurah. This is for you. His kever is
your kever. We are talking about your redemption.
Moshiach is the Lamb who is led to your slaughter. But Moshiach goes there in
your place. So you are not your own. You have been bought with a price. Boaz
paid to redeem with silver or gold. But the Pesach Lamb paid with his blood.
And Moshiach is the Lamb led to the slaughter for the transgression of my
people. This is for you. His temurah exchange is described in Isaiah chapter 53
like this: He was wounded (in exchange) for our transgressions. This is the
Grace of G-d. Now, if you refuse to repent and go on sinning, if you say, Let
us continue to sin so that Grace will abound, if you harden your lawless heart,
then it will not go well with you. Moshiach will say, I never knew you. And the
unrepentant ones will all alike perish. The Agam Eish is waiting for you. G-d
is not mocked. So if you try to go on in your own way and refuse to repent, you
are caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, the innocent Lamb
is led to your much deserved slaughter and Moshiach's
kindness is meant to lead you to repentance. But if we do not repent, then when
we get to Revelation we are reading about the wrath of the Lamb. So on the
other hand, in the End, Moshiach will be against all those incorrigible people,
those liars, those immoral people who do not repent. And teshuva or repentance
is made more urgent by the fact that even believers have remnants of the basar
problem of fallen humanity that is enslaved to the power of Chet Kadmon. The
old self cockroach of their old nature is not entirely absent in this life, and
has to be stomped on in the power of the Ruach Hakodesh through the daily
renewal of the mind in the lev chadash of our spiritual halakhah in Moshiach.
So if you're dealing with a so-called believer who's going on with an incorrigible
spirit, with an immoral mind, with a lying tongue, you had better preach to him
and say, Friend, make sure that you are walking in the truth! It's only the
anshei emes that go to Heaven. Only the men of the truth. We're talking about
the Derech Hashem Elokeichem. The Way of our G-d. The Way to Heaven. The Way to
Walk. The Way of Life. The Way to Everlasting Life, Chayei Olam. There's a
struggle going on inside of you every day. Every day you have to put on the
whole armor of G-d. And the Bible says, Don't get
proud but fear! You and I have a pride problem. Not just a flesh problem. And
only by the Grace of G-d and the Ruach Hakodesh can we win this battle. By
Chesed you have been saved, you have been redeemed, you have been restored to
life. Through emunah and this is not your own doing, it is the work of Hashem,
not the result of mitzvahs. So that no proud person can boast! Listen, you have
got to humble yourself in a kehilah where the Bible is believed and faithfully
taught. And if you're too proud to do that, if you're one of those know-it-all
proud people that won't do that, then I don't know if you're saved or not, you're
violating the 5th commandment, you're an incorrigible that won't listen to the
Elders, I don't know if you're saved or not, you've got to work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling. You have to put to death that cockroach
pride problem that you have. You have to stomp on it every day by the power of
the Ruach Hakodesh. That's why you need to be filled with the Ruach Hakodesh. I'm
talking about the new way of the Ruach Hakodesh and not the old way of the
written code. You can't get what we're talking about with a religious spirit
pedantically and blindly keeping rules. We're not under law, we're under Grace. But you have
to see the terror of the law. The wrath of the law. In order to come to the
true Moshiach who spares you, who is your temurah, who intervenes. Moshiach
takes the lightning. But, friend, you won't think that that lightning rod is
very important if you never see a storm. You have to see the storm of Hashem's wrath, that He is a holy G-d: kadosh,
kadosh, kadosh. And you've
got to see that His holy nature is repulsed by your wickedness. For example,
He says that homosexuality makes Him want to throw up. It is detestable to Him.
Also bestiality, immorality, any kind of sin. And this is the Holy G-d you are
dealing with. And this is why Yeshua had to come forth. Moshiach prayed, If
possible, take this cup from me. I don't walk to drink their wrath. I don't
want to drink the wrath that is coming to them. The wrath of G-d, Gehinnom
wrath. This is what Moshiach has to save us from. But, friend, if you want to
go on with your wickedness, and continue in all of that wickedness so that
Grace will abound, then you don't understand the Aseres Hadibros (Ten Commandments)
or the Goel Redeemer. You're lost. And if you think that you're really a good
person and all of this doesn't apply to you, then you need to take another look
at this person. I'm talking about an Orthodox Jew named Levy Aron. A religious
Jew who needed to be born again. You must, Levy Aron, you must be born again.
And, friend, we are not talking about Levy Aron, we
are talking about you. This is you. We're talking about you and your corrupt human condition. That your yarmulke
(and there is nothing wrong with a yarmulke) but there is something wrong with
the way you are putting yourself forward. Levy Aron,
we're talking to you, and to anyone who is not born again, and your religiosity
and all the religious stuff that you are putting forward is a fraud! Let G-d's Word be
true and every man a liar! This is the truth. You have to be one of the anshei
emes. If you're not, you don't qualify. You've missed
the mark. And that's why Rav Shaul says, I pommel my own flesh, I beat myself
up, lest I myself become a castaway. Listen, friends, preach hard. And preach
the terror of the law first, and then Grace. And make sure that people
understand what Grace is. It is not a license to sin. It is not a sweet little
religious thing that allows you to go on and on with your wickedness. You have
to see what it cost the Moshiach to redeem you. Look at you. You were Ruth. You
were lost in Moab. You were blind and without G-d and without hope in the
world. And then the Goel Redeemer Kinsman showed up. To make an exchange, to
make a temurah, to make the redemption and to purchase you. And the Goel
Redeemer came not only for the dead but for the living. And the Goel Redeemer
came so that your life could go on. And you were lost. You had come to the End.
It was all over for you. The Law had brought you to one point. You had broken
the Aseres Hadibros and you deserved death. That's what you deserved, Levy Aron. Death!
Death! Death! Death! Death! Death! Death! Don't tell me you keep the Law! The
Law is a wrathful thing. The Law has a death penalty! And we all break the Ten
Commandments so we're all worthy of death. We are all Levy Aron, that's what your
pride won't allow you to see. So like him you are blind. And because of the Ten Commandments,
we all need a Goel Redeemer! And the Law had brought us to one place. We are
condemned already. The lethal injection tubes are already in our arms. The
prison warden is already ready to give the order to the executioner. The lethal
injection fluid is already set to stream down the tubes into our lungs, into
our veins, into our body. Then it's going to close us down. We won't be able to
breathe. We won't be able to see. Soon everything will be black. Then the
medical examiner will come in with his stethoscope and pronounce us dead. That's
where the death penalties of the Aseres HaDibros bring you. Don't turn the
sefer torah into a little harmless ornamental ritual object. See what it
actually is. It is the warrant for your arrest and it is the execution order
that puts you on death row in the death watch cell adjacent to the execution
chamber. As has been pointed out above, what you might not know about the
Aseres HaDibros can kill you. We are talking about the warrant for your arrest
and your death. The terror of the law! And this put you in the very peril that
necessitated the Moshiach's coming! When you read
about HIS execution in the Scriptures, in Psalm 22 and also Isaiah chapter 53 and other
Hebrew texts, you are supposed to see that this is your exchange, your temurah, your substitute (you are Barrabus), your vicarious execution. As it says in the
Siddur, the Jewish Prayer Book, on Yom Kippur Eve, THIS ONE GOES TO HIS DEATH
BUT I GO TO LIFE; THIS IS MY EXPIATION, THIS IS MY TEMURAH (EXCHANGE). So this
is you. You are condemned by the Aseres HaDibros and you are on death row and
you are without G-d and without hope in the world, and the Moshiach comes to
die in exchange FOR you. He by his righteous death satisfies the Torah's full
requirement, the full requirement of Mishpat Mavet for a sinner! And this is
the Besuras HaGeulah that saves, that must be preached, this is the
power of G-d for salvation for all who believe, Jewish people first! Now right
here in the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin page 65 the b side of the page,
it's talking about a golem. This is not a digression, as you will see. Now, what in the world is a golem? Gimel holam vav lamed
final mem. A golem is a human figure of clay infused with life by magic. The
Talmud says, Rabbah created a man and sent him over to Rabbi Zeirah. This is
crazy! We don't want to believe in crazy stuff! We want to believe in the
truth. We believe in a historical Jewish faith, that G-d did certain things in
history. Now why would the rabbis say it is okay to read this lie? That it's
okay to sit and get completely into this Talmudic page reading about this
non-existant crazy golem but they won't let you read about the guf haruchani,
the spiritual resurrection body of the risen Moshiach seen by credible Orthodox
Jewish eye-witnesses. As a matter of fact when we did the Brit Chadasha in
Yiddish and before that in English, the rabbis put up posters all over the
Jewish community, RABBIS WARN JEWISH COMMUNITY, BEWARE OF THE BOOK! Now the
rabbis are not talking about this book, the Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin page 65b
about this non-existant golem that is so reverently and so soberly attested to,
but is actually a lie, it didn't happen. There's no such thing as a body made
up of clay, a clay human figure infused with life by magic. It's crazy. The
rabbis say it's okay to read a lie. You won't find a poster in the Jewish community
where the rabbis say, Don't read Sanhedrin 65b in the
Talmud about the Golem! That's quite all right. There's no problem with that.
But there's a big problem when you tell them about the Moshiach's
resurrection body. Now, let's get serious. As far as I'm concerned, this body
that I have right now is going to the graveyard. And if you can show me that
there is credible evidence that there is a guf haruchani, a spiritual
resurrection body, and that Moshiach's prototype of
that body was actually seen by credible Jewish eye-witnesses, Orthodox Jews,
and that Moshiach actually stood up alive from the dead, without shachat
(corruption) as is predicted of Moshiach in Psalm 16--what does Yochanan the
Shliach say, That which we have touched with our own hands, which our own eyes
have looked upon, at which we have gazed with our own eyes, the spiritual
resurrection body, the guf haruchani of Moshiach, of which we are
eye-witnesses, and of which we attest and give sober eidus testimony. There
were Eleven of them that stood up with Kefa in the Ulam Shlomo in the Beis
HaMikdash. And they preached fearlessly, at risk of death, and three thousand
Orthodox Jews came to faith. And this was Shavuos, 33 C.E. And then shortly
after that the Moshiach appeared alive in Moshiach's
Techiyas HaMoshiach glory to the persecutor Rav Shaul, a talmid of the Tanna
Gamliel. Now we have had persecution at Beth Shalom. We've had a van blown up,
we've had bullets shot through our show window where we had the Bible on
display, we've had cars stolen, we've had people try to break in, we've had
bomb threats, we've had a wiretap on our phone, we've
had these posters put around libeling us and saying DON'T READ THE BOOK! DON'T
READ THE BOOK! In other words, Don't look at the
evidence that Moshiach is alive! Listen, I want you to look at one little verse
in a letter written around 49 C.E., which looks back to an early meeting of
three Shluchim who all saw the spiritual body, the guf haruchani of the Risen
Moshiach. They all died al-kiddush Hashem for their Jewish Orthodox faith. In
Galatians, the first chapter, the 18th verse, Rav Shaul explains that three
years after he witnessed the Resurrection from the Dead of Moshiach, he went up
to Jerusalem and he spent 15 days with Kefa and he met also Yaakov Ben Dovid
the half-brother of Moshiach. And the three of them compared notes. All three
of them had become eye-witnesses of the Techiyas HaMoshiach. Two of the three
were unbelivers when they became eye-witnesses, so they were not predisposed to
believe. And one of them was so afraid, he was too
much in terror to be a Shliach. And the other two
were just unbelievers. But the proof that brought them altogether in Kefa's house in Jerusalem was that Moshiach had actually
appeared alive to them in separate resurrection appearances. And we know
exactly when this happened and a little over a decade after the fateful meeting
happened, the meeting was chronicled in a letter written to the Kehilah in
Galatia dated about 49 C.E. And in less than two decades after this letter was
written all three of them would give their lives al Kiddush Hashem as martyrs
to seal the truth of their testimony about the Techiyas
HaMoshiach. In Galatians 1:18 Rav Shaul writes that
he spent 15 days in Kefa's house. And Rav Shaul also
met the other leader Yaakov Ben Dovid. Think about that, friends. The three of
them, these men who would die as martyrs, what were they discussing in
Jeruslem? They weren't sitting around talking about a golem! They weren't
talking about Talmudic bubbe meises. They weren't talking about a non-existant
golem body that never happened, that's made up, that's
just superstitious folk lore, something crazy like the Dr. Frankenstein story. Dr Frankenstein
creates a man and the man chases him all around the laboratory! Something crazy
like that. Friend, you need to put your Talmudic tome aside, because one of
these days you personally are going to need the guf haruchani, the resurrection
body of glory, that these three Orthodox Jewish
martyrs saw and attested to. And Moshiach's body did
not see corruption! And it's right there in Psalm 16. No shachat, no corruption
in the tomb. Now if what these men in Galatians 1:18 discussed was a lie, then
Psalm 16 is a lie. Now if you think that in the Tanakh when the prophet
Zecharyah tells you that the Moshiach's personal name
is Yeshua, if you think Zecharyah the Navi is a liar, then you had better be
careful, because the Bible says, Let G-d's Word be true and every man a liar!
And when you look at the way the Jewish rabbis translated that passage into Greek,
you see they used the word EE-EE-soos or J-E-S-U-S. I'm talking about a verse
in Zecharyah 6:11-12 which refers to the Kohen Gadol (High Priest 560-490
B.C.E.) who with the other Exiles had been buried in the Golus (Babylonian
Exile) and then was raised up in the Return to supervise the rebuilding of the
Beis Hamikdash. This individual's name happened to be Yehoshua or Joshua and in
the Targum Hashivim the rabbi translators rendered the word EE-EE-soos or
J-E-S-U-S. Now here is the astounding thing that the prophet Zecharyah did. He
walked up to this Kohen Gadol named J-E-S-U-S and Zecharyah (Zechariah) said to
him, Your name, J-E-S-U-S, is the Moshiach's
Name! And you can see in the Jerusalem Talmud that the word Tzemach means
Moshiach. Berachot 2, Halacha 4 (Moshiach's)
Name is Tzemach. And think how many years before
Yeshua appeared that Zecharyah HaNavi made that prediction! Now imagine this!
Think what it would have been like if a prophet had gone up to George
Washington on his inauguration in 1789 and had said, Behold the Man whose Name
is the 9-11 President! (We know that the 9-11 President was also named George, George
W. Bush.) But who but a prophet could have made a prediction like that! What an
anointing such a prophet would have had to have had to have made such a
prophecy. This is why the Bible is the Bible, every word is inerrant! Now,
maybe at the time, in 1789, a lot of people would have said, What
is the 9-11 President? And during Zecharyah's day, a
lot of people might have said, What is the Tzemach?
What does that mean? Branch? Branch of what? What are you talking about? Its
kind of cryptic. But, behold the man? What man? George? Whose Name is the 9-11
President! And Behold the man? What man? J-E-S-U-S ! Yeshua! Yehoshua! Whose
Name is the Tzemach (Moshiach)! There it is, the Name of the Messiah in the
Tanakh. It's not Menachem in Zecharyah 6:11-12. Now if you are going to call
Zecharyah a liar, if youre going to tell Zecharyah you know more than he does,
if youre going to tell your children that they can't mention his name in your
house, No, we dont believe in J- - - -! No, never believe anything about him!
No, you cannot have a Bible, children. It is halachically forbidden for you to
have a New Testament. No, you can't read this material because Zecharyah HaNavi
is a liar in what he wrote in Zecharyah 6:11-12 in the Tanakh that Yeshua or
Yehoshua would be Moshiach's Name (Yeshua is the
other name of this Yehoshua in Ezra 3:8)! Now if you
want to call Zecharyah a liar, you can; but the Bible says, Let G-d's Word be
true and every man a liar! I don't want to stand in the Day of Judgment and be
told that I'm a liar. I don't want to be thrown into Gehinnom! I don't want to
be thrown into Eish Olam! And I don't want to live a lie. Or be guilty. And you
know a lot of people have guilt. The Bible speaks about guilt. The Bible says
that there has been guilt in this world ever since sin entered this world. The
first man was guilty. He tried to cover up, tried a big cover-up. It didn't
work. And G-d said, Where are you, Adam? And with his guilt, the first man
tried to hide from G-d. He was running from G-d. What do you do with guilt? Do
you try to suppress it? Do you try to work it out with some psychosomatic
illness? Do you try to work it out with anger? Do you just try to change the
subject and run from it? Or do you try to face it? Do you face the dreadful
consequences of it? Do you say, Look, I need a kaporah. I need this guilt
removed. I need a Savior, the Goel Haolam Savior of the World to take this
guilt away from me, to carry it away and set me right with Hashem. It says that
if we will make viddui confession with our mouth of Yeshua
the Moshiach and if we will believe in our hearts
that Hashem raised Moshiach from the dead, then we
will be redeemed and set free. We need to tell him, Rabbono
Shel Olam, that all my life
I've been running from this Man. This Man. And all my life I've been telling my
children and my mother and father have been telling me, Don't believe in this
Man! But I can't get away from this guilt. It says, If
you confess with your mouth, if you confess your sin, He is faithful and just.
We have a kaporah. We have that which appeases or
satisfies the just wrath of Hashem, the propitiation for our sin. And we can
receive the forgiveness of Hashem and Moshiach's blood will justify us by faith and we can live
by faith and we can walk in that newness of life. Everything I just said is in
the last two or three verses of Isaiah chapter 53. Now, people tried to taunt Rav
Shaul, reminding him that he participated in the stoning of Stephen. But he
said, Yes, but now I'm a new creature. And what I did
I did in ignorance and Hashem has forgiven me. Pray this prayer. Rabbono Shel
Olam, thank you for Yeshua. I believe He died for my sins. He took my guilt. He
carried it away. He gave me a new start. Moshiach Ben Dovid, come into my
heart, forgive my sins. I yield my will to you. Take control of my life. And I
will serve the Moshiach and follow you all the days of my life. And everybody
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THE
ALL-IMPORTANT THING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE
MOSHIACH
CANDIDATES
WITHOUT BIBLICAL CREDENTIALS ARE GUILTY OF IDENTITY THEFT
EVEN
THE ZOHAR SAYS THAT HASHEM IS ECHAD YET MESHULASH; ALSO THE TANAKH AGREES; WHY
DON'T YOU?
Not long ago a Bible
believer got into a debate with an august
representative of an organization
self-styled as some sort of
"Supreme" U.S. Rabbinical
Court. This rabbi was standing in front
of some television cameras attempting to
"excommunicate" American
Jewish people because of their Messianic
faith. This is a true
story.
The Debate in a Nutshell
In short, the debate went something like this.
The rabbi said to the Bible believer, "Are you a Jew?"
The Bible believer replied, "Was Ruth
a Jew?"
The rabbi asked, "Are you a missionary?"
The Bible believer replied, "Are you a missionary?"
The rabbi shouted, "I most certainly am not!"
The Bible believer asked, "If you are not a missionary, then
why have you rabbis lawlessly wrested
authority from the kohanim (priests)
and are now missionizing Jewish people away
from a
faith squarely founded on true Biblical
apocalyptic Torah
Judaism as taught by the Jewish Bible?"
The rabbi said (without
challenging the truth of the indictment),
"Because the
priesthood became corrupted by the Romans, and
then the
Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E." The
Bible believer said,
"One kohen (priest) was not corrupted and
his temple was not
destroyed." The rabbi paused and looked
at the Bible believer
quizzically.
. . "Which one was that?"
The Bible believer said, "The Messiah-Priest that King David
portentous priest Zechariah also
identified with the name of Moshiach (Messiah)
in
Zechariah 6:11-12
[2]
3:8
[3]--the
very name Ezra called Yeshua (Aramaic form of
Yehoshua) in the
book of Ezra (3:8)!"[4]
(See end notes referred to by
bracketed [ ] numbers for all Scripture
citations.) He paused again,
swallowing hard. A little bit later in the
debate he wiped a
tear from his right eye. He couldn't refute
the Biblical
argument, a position he had
never heard before, apparently, and
one for which he had no answer. What follows
is a more complete
presentation of the Biblical argument.
The Jewish
Bible Must Interpret Itself
The history of the Exodus is given to us in the Torah of Moses.
There we read that a whole rebellious
generation passed away
leaving only a righteous remnant of two holy
survivors of the
Exodus to inherit the promised life in the
Holy Land:
Yehoshua (or Joshua--the Aramaic form is
Yeshua--see Nehemiah
8:17) and Caleb.
This is paradigmatic history, for it provides
a prophetic model
as a sign of things to come, as does the
prophecy about
Moshiach found in the reference to the two
ominous olive trees in the book
of Zechariah
4.[5]
In fact, Yehoshua (or Joshua) is himself a
sign of the Moshiach, as we shall see. The fact that the Aramaic form
of Yehoshua or Joshua is Yeshua
[see Nehemiah
8:17] will prove
very significant later when we see that the
Tanakh teaches this
name is to become Moshiach's personal name.
"Joshua/Yeshua" is
indeed one of the portentous and ominous names
of "anshei mofet"
("sign-men) in the Hebrew Scriptures (Zech
3:8).
[2]"
A rabbi might challenge
this and say, "This is like telling an
American that something
which happened to the Pilgrims is paradigmatic
of American
history.
Or, again, this is like saying that George Washington
is a prophetic sign of the last and greatest
American President!
Why is one necessarily the predictive model of
the other?"
Why? Because the Jewish Bible must be allowed
to interpret
itself.
And, in the Jewish Bible, Yeshayah (Isaiah) 49:8
[6]
infers that Yehoshua or Joshua/Yeshua is in
fact a sign of the Moshiach.
Therefore, if anyone wants to argue, let him
argue
with G-d and his holy Word in the writing of
his holy prophet, Isaiah.
It was Joshua who assigned the land of the
promised inheritance
to the individual tribes and families. Isaiah
49:8 alludes to this
activity.
This key verse infers that King Moshiach, the Servant
of the L-rd, is the new Joshua, for in his own
person the Moshiach
will bring the promised new life for the
people, which is their
covenant inheritance.
Or a rabbi might say, "If in fact it is the one you say who is
the Prince of Peace, the new Joshua, as it
were, to bring the
people out of the Golus (Exile) and into the
land of eternal
Sabbath rest, then where is all the world
peace the Prophets said
the Moshiach would bring?" Answer: G-d did not promise peace to
a
world that rejects him, Rabbi. But those
who receive
the spiritual bris milah (covenant of circumcision)
and
the justification
peace the Moshiach brings are in actuality raised
to a new spiritual existence with Moshiach in
anticipation of the
Olam HaBa (the World to Come), and in
anticipation of the
Resurrection Age and its peace. But how can we have the latter
if we refuse the former? How can we have the Olam HaBa of Moshiach
if we reject Moshiach's Brit
Chadasha life in the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)?
To continue, Bamidbar (Numbers) 34:19 [7]
tells us that Caleb (Kalev)
was from the Moshiach's tribe, the tribe of
Judah. Caleb in the
history of the Torah is thus a continuing
sign-man or mofet man
(mofet is Hebrew for sign or omen or
portent [2])
of the remnant
of one, the King Moshiach of the tribe of
Judah, indicated before
Caleb in places like Bereshis
(Genesis)
Caleb in several places in the Jewish Bible,
as we shall see.
This righteous-remnant-of-one motif reappears
later in the
Servant Songs of Yeshayah (Isaiah) chapters
42- 53,
where an idealized
Israel is called Yeshurun [9]
and then is seen in counterpoint to
a
suffering, dying and death-conquering Moshiach, the Servant of
Proof of this last statement will be offered
presently, when we see how the Jewish Bible
ties all these
prophetic strands together. Yehoshua is a
Symbol of
King Moshiach Yehoshua (Joshua, Yeshua) is
called "the servant of the L-rd"
in the book of Joshua. [11] Like
Caleb, Joshua is also a sign-
man, an ominous mofet of the King Messiah, for
Joshua is an agent
of chesed (undeserved, unmerited mercy e.g. in
the case of the
prostitute Rahab) and of wrath and judgment or
condemnation, in
the holy war of G-d against the seven wicked
nations in the
Promised Land.
The prophet Daniel, who also speaks of both the
chesed of chayei olam (eternal life) as well
as judgment and
condemnation, [12]
gives
us a glorious apocalyptic picture of this
coming King, this Moshiach
of the Clouds.
[13]
Furthermore, Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 18:15-19 [14]
foretells the prophet like
Moses that G-d will raise up in the Promised
Land, the Prophet- Moshiach.
A rabbi might interrupt right here and say, "Wait! This
reference to a Moses-like
prophet who is to come is not
necessarily referring to the
Moshiach!" Again, let the Jewish
Bible interpret itself: Yeshayah (Isaiah)
[15]
infers that the Moshiach will be a
new Moses.
Therefore, don't argue with man,
argue with G-d's Holy Word. Argue with Isaiah
42:15-16; 49:9-10.
The immediate (not final) fulfillment of the Deuteronomy 18:15-19
prophecy is
Yehoshua (Joshua/Yeshua). The
Sages (Avot 1:1) tell us that Moses accepted
the Torah from Sinai and
transmitted it to Joshua/Yeshua. Not only
that, Joshua/Yeshua is
indeed a Moses-like prophet, because it was to
Joshua and not to
Moses that G-d gave the revelation of the
boundaries of the
tribal portions of Eretz Yisrael. Moses died in the wilderness because
he angered G-d, but Joshua led the people
victoriously to the
promised new life in the Holy Land. Thus, Joshua (the Aramaic
form of whose name is Yeshua
--see Nehemiah
8:17) is a prophetic
sign of the King Moshiach, the ruler from
among his brethren who,
like Moses and Prince Joseph, the Savior in
Egypt, would lead
Israel's true faithful remnant all the way
from the rebellious
unbelief resulting in death in the wilderness
to the eternal
salvation and Messianic deliverance
foreshadowed in the book of
Joshua.
That the rabbis were not ignorant of the Messianic
interpretation of the Torah given above is
shown in the
Midrash on the Psalms (translated by Rabbi
William Braude, Yale University
Press, 1959, Volume 1, pages 4-7). In this rabbinic work we find
David explicitly likened to Moses and, on the
same page,
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 18:15
is quoted,
`A prophet will the L-rd thy G-d
raise up unto thee, from the midst of thee, of
thy brethren,
like unto me (Moses)."[14]
That Deuteronomy 18:15,
then, is a
Messianic prophecy fulfllled ultimately in the
Moshiach, the Son
of David, should be clear enough. Confirmation comes in II
Samuel [16]
and in Isaiah,
[17]
which tell us that David's "house" will
bring the Moshiach, and also in Ezekiel, which
gives us the title
of Moshiach, "David my Servant". [18]
The deduction of the thoughtful, then, is that Rashi's
interpretation of Deuteronomy 18:19 [14]
is all the more
frightening.
According to Rashi, the text of this passage means
that unbelievers will be put to death. So it is no light thing
to refuse to believe in the divine
clues to the identity of the Moshiach set forth in the
Tanakh. That is why the following
material should be read prayerfully, with
careful study of each
Biblical reference in the Tanakh (Torah,
Prophets, and Writings
of the Hebrew
Bible). Tanakh-refusers, take heed!
Attempting to Evade the Jewish Bible Is Futile
Those who use the Holocaust to justify either their atheism or
their
tendency to devalue the authority of the Jewish Bible should
remember that Satan, not G-d,
is the author of Nazism and anti-
Semitism.
But when Jewish men like Karl Marx and Trotsky laughed
at the Biblical prospect of a future
punishment (in spite of the
doctrine of Gehinnom
or hell indicated by texts like that of Daniel
12:2 [12]), and when they ridiculed Holy Scripture
like Deuteronomy
18:19 [14],
such folly (by more than a few who were
ostensibly Jews) contributed, in league with
the universal
Marxist cry for bloody revolution, to give
many Europeans dangerous
misperceptions about the Jewish people as a
whole. The erroneous
but nonetheless terrifying specter of
Tanakh-rejecting Jews in
control of the Communist Parties together with
the Right-wing
European reaction to this, fueling latent
Western anti-Semitism,
helped provide Hitler with his demonic
opportunity and Satanic
rationale.
And, pardon the Biblical Jewish expression, but it was
particularly here that many of the clergymen
of the world and
even many of the rabbis of the shul were all
too often worthless
prophetic "watch dogs," as it says,
"mute [watch] dogs that cannot bark," that "lie around and
dream."
[19]
While the coming storm of
"the time of trouble for Jacob"[20]
threatened ominously on the
horizon, many of the clergymen of the world
and many of the
rabbis of the shul spent more effort
meditating on extra-Biblical
thought than on the Jewish Prophets.
G-d says, "I am against the
shepherds and will hold them accountable for
my flock. I will
remove them from tending the flock." [21]
The point is not that
proper rabbinic Biblical exegesis and
homiletics would have
averted the Holocaust or that the 6,000,000
somehow could have
escaped Hitler's Satanic trap. The point is
that prophets and
preachers are given by G-d for giving warning,
and the warning is
in the Jewish Scriptures and not in the
tradition or theology of
men.
And woe to the preacher,
Jewish or not, who does not preach
the Jewish Scriptures. This also applies to those who claim to
know the Moshiach but do not love his ancient
people and pay only
empty lip service to the task of feeding his
Jewish lambs the
pure milk of the Word of G-d.
To illustrate this point, if one's loved one is standing on the
train tracks, one may not be able to prevent
disaster, but one
certainly cannot justify not even shouting,
"Here comes the
train!"
The Tanakh speaks about the Holocaust "train"
coming in Deuteronomy
and
Jeremiah and many other places, but there is a
famine of hearing the Word of G-d, because
preachers and rabbis
have not carried out their responsibility to
preach the Word,
especially the word of warning regarding the
coming Messianic
tribulation.
Those who say they are "orthodox" because they ascribe to the
"Principles of the Faith" of
Maimonides should remember that
Maimonides didn't exposit the pure Torah and
the Prophets;
Maimonides attempted to syncretize Biblical
and Aristotelian
thought.
Are we required to believe that this Maimonidean hybrid,
even if it contradicts the Jewish Bible, is,
in any sense of the
word, "representative" of Judaism?
Instead of preaching the pure apocalyptic Torah Judaism of
Moses and the Prophets, the clergymen of the
world and the rabbis of
the shul have too often retreated to the
liberal seminaries and
the Talmudic yeshivas. Instead of warning the Jewish people
(like Jeremiah and Esther's Mordecai) of the
coming tribulation, the
blind go leading the blind, even in the face
of Satan's yawning
pit.
Thank G-d that Jeremiah foresaw the end-time fulfillment of
the true trans-cultural Judaism
of Moshiach and the
eschatological leaders that G-d would raise up
in the latter days: "Then I
will give you shepherds after my own heart,
who will lead you
with knowledge
and understanding"[22].
Are not terrifying Torah readings like Deuteronomy
18:19 [14]
and 28:15-68
[23]
with their horrifying modern historical
illustrations enough to wake up anyone, even
liberal clergymen,
even their liberal congregants, even
"orthodox" clergy and
rabbis?
At just this point someone might try to "strain out a gnat,"
charging us with misconstruing the Biblical
context. Someone
might then "swallow the camel" by
pretending that this betrayal
of the Jewish Bible by religious leaders has
not happened or that
there have not been horrendous
consequences. Or someone might
smile and say, "I don't believe that G-d
would allow people
to throw themselves into eternal torment in Gehinnom. Nor, for
that matter, do I believe that the Bible, with
its absolutes,
means what it says." Marx didn't believe Biblical absolutes,
either.
Neither did Trotsky, nor Hitler, nor Pontius Pilate.
[24]
Would you like to share their willfully wicked
opinion (and their
company) forever? Here a rabbi might say, "If there is
anyone
`willfully wicked,' it is those
so-called `church members' who
stood by silently as Jews went to the
Holocaust." True, but Corrie ten
Boom (see The Hiding Place, Fleming Revell, 1971)
didn't stand by silently. Nor did others. As far as the fate of
those who died in the Holocaust is concerned,
G-d knows those who
are His. You can be sure of that. And as far as the true
followers of Moshiach are concerned, it is
clear that there are
"weeds" marked for Gehinnom, even
among the "wheat" of
Moshiach's true followers (see Mt.13:24-30;
7:21-23,
etc). All will have
to stand before the Moshiach
(Rom.14:10),
who endured his own personal Holocaust for the salvation
of his Jewish people. But
we're dealing with a different problem
here. We're dealing with
the issue of the reality of a Holy G-d and the
reality of Satanic
evil and hellish curses. We are using the Holocaust to refute scoffers
and doubters, and with all severity urging
everyone, Jew and non-
Jew alike, clergyman and rabbi alike, to take
a more serious look
at the Biblical Moshiach in the Tanakh,
knowing that many will
casually ignore the Word and not even deign to
look up the
Tanakh references cited here, so willfully
wicked is the world.
"But wait," you say.
"Now you're bringing in original sin (`Willfully wicked'), aren't
you? I don't believe in it! What
kind of G-d would let the whole of humanity
corrupt itself?" Read Psalm 51:5,10 [25]
on natural, fallen, human depravity and the
needed spiritual bris milah of regeneration
and complete inward spiritual change. G-d is perfect and He created mankind good in
His perfect image. It was no fault of G-d's that a free humanity
used its freedom (both primordially and
perennially) to corrupt
itself. G-d has fully revealed a new humanity
not only in the
historic people (in whom his Word has been
enfleshed), but also
in his incorruptible, G-d-mediating,
Word. The Holy One of Israel
commands us to yield to the new
creation of his personal Word,
his Moshiach, by a new spiritual birth into
Moshiach's new humanity,
the people of the Malchut HaShomayim (the
Kingdom of Heaven).
"What about the good and innocent people who never even heard
about the Moshiach?" you ask.
This is a loaded question, assuming as it does (and the Jewish
Bible does not) that good
and innocent people exist, and, since
they presumeably are so
good and innocent, don't need to hear
about any Redeemer anyway, really, since they
are not themselves
sinful either in what they do or in what they
are, and do not
need redemption from sin's bondage and
penalty. See, however, Psalm
14:3, which says, "there is no one that
does good."[26]
Think
about it. If you are not unfaithful to your
wife, you do not
appreciate the loaded question, "When
will you stop being
unfaithful to your wife?" Do you think
G-d appreciates the loaded
question, "When will G-d stop punishing
the innocent?" G-d has
freely chosen to give his Word to us that we
might faithfully
communicate his Word to others. If we refuse to believe the
Jewish Bible, if we refuse to communicate it
to a lost and dying
world, is it G-d's fault or our fault that our
own disobedient
unbelief causes a "famine of hearing the
word of the L-rd"? [27]
"All this is just the same old message," you say. "It's
the
tired old message that has led to so much
anti-Semitism." Don't
confuse the message with the messengers! Many rabbis have also
been less than responsible messengers and yet
this fact gives no
warrant to throw out the Jewish Bible and its
message. Not all
who say they are followers of the Moshiach are
true believers in
fact.
Those who claim to follow the Moshiach ought to live as
He lived. [28]
The fact that religious men have failed only proves
that religion is not enough. What is needed is a new spiritual
birth and the sanctifying power of divine
love and wisdom.
Unlike men, this will never fail, for what is
from G-d cannot be
defeated.
Also, if
anyone claims to be a follower of Moshiach and yet hates the Jewish people
(or any other people), this very fact
throws his salvation into question, for it
says somewhere, "He
who loveth not...abideth (remains in)
death." Yehoshua is a Prophetic Sign of the Servant of the L-rd Yehoshua
is called "the servant of the L-rd" in the book of
Joshua [11]. And Bamidbar (Numbers) [29]
calls him "the man in
whom is (the) Spirit", making His person
a prophetic sign of the
one who is to come, the Servant of the L-rd
filled with "My
Spirit" (Isaiah
42:1 [30]). This
one who is to come will bring
His Torah. [31] The Moshiach's Torah or teaching will be
presented
shortly in what follows.
See Midrash Qoheleth on Ecclesiastes 11:8: "The Law which man
learns
in this world is vanity compared with the Law of the
Messiah." According to Isaiah, this one
who is to come will be
given as a light to the nations [32]
and to his own people as a
covenant [32]
to be cut off [10]
and to sprinkle many nations
[10]
with His outpoured life, which G-d gives as an asham (guilt
offering--see Isaiah
53:10 [10]) and kapparah
for sin. To
summarize, then, the nation of Israel is given
the idealized name Yeshurun ("the upright one") both in the Torah [34]
[35] and in
Isaiah, [9]
and, in prophecy, the nation of Israel as servant
[35]
[37]
is placed in counterpoint to an individual, the Servant of
the L-rd Moshiach [30]
[38]
[10],
an eschatological figure,
who will eschatologically restore the nation
of Israel to her
true faith and also completely turn around and
change the whole
world (see Isaiah
49:5-6.[39])
The Moshiach Is Equated With the
Servant
The splendor of the ideal ruler of Israel is
described in
Isaiah. [40]
[17] Righteousness [17]
and a special anointing for
his task [17]
characterize both this ideal ruler (called "G-d-
with-us") and the Servant of the L-rd [10]
[30],
as if to suggest
that they are the same person. The ruler, through the Davidic
covenant, witnesses about G-d's nature and saving purposes to
those outside the covenant,[41]
a function that is also assigned
to the Servant. [39] If there is still any question that the two
(the ideal ruler and the Servant) are the same
person, the Moshiach, then the prophet Zecharyah (Zechariah) settles the
question
in a key text, Zechariah
3:8 [2] a post-exilic prophecy where the Moshiach,
spoken of as "the Branch" (TZEMACH
of David), is equated with the
Servant. [2] Not only that, but in the same passage, [2]
the post-
Exilic High Priest named Yehoshua or Joshua
[Yeshua--Ezra 3:8] is
referred to as a mofet, a portentous sign of
Moshiach! And this
later Joshua is, of course, the portentous
eschatological figure,
the high priest Yehoshua (Joshua, Yeshua)
returning from the
Exile to a nation resurrected from unclean
death in the Golus (Exile).
This kohen (priest) brought back from the
Golus's unclean death
(Zechariah
3:1-8) is like David's Moshiach-Kohen in Psalm
110---
that is, a kohen Zechariah imbues with
Messianic portent [3], as
it says:
"And speak unto him, saying, 'Thus speaketh the L-rd of hosts,
saying, "Behold, the man whose name is
BRANCH; and he shall
branch out from this place, and he shall build
the temple of the
L-rd.
It is he who will build the temple of the L-rd, and he
will be clothed with majesty, and he will sit
and rule upon his
throne; and he shall be a priest upon his
throne and the counsel of peace
shall be between them both."
The Alternative NAME for Yehoshua Is Yeshua! Ezra
3:8 [4] gives the alternative name of this
Yehoshua, who is
called a "wondrous sign" of the
Moshiach in Zechariah 3:8 [2].
The alternative [Aramaic] name for the same
individual, Yehoshua or Joshua, is Yeshua! [4]
Yeshayah
(Isaiah) 49:8 [6] pointed to
Moses' successor, the ruler who entered the
Promised Land, and
gave the portent that in this Yeshua [Nehemiah
8:17 in the Hebrew
Bible says Yehoshua/Joshua
is also Yeshua] is an omen of the Moshiach! Zecharyah
(Zechariah) [2] [3]
pointed to Aaron's
successor, the high priest who entered the
Promised Land from the
Exile, and predicted that in this Yeshua (Ezra
3:8 in the Hebrew
Bible says this Yehoshua/Joshua is also named
Yeshua) is an omen
of the Messiah! "Branch" [or "Moshiach"]
is his [Yeshua's] name,
it says clearly in Zechariah
6:12.
A rabbi might object
here and
say, "Yes,
but even
if the Moshiach's name is foretold to be "Yeshua" in
our Hebrew Bible,
that still doesn't prove that your Yeshua is
our Yeshua!"
Rabbi, we reply, the Jewish Bible says that many Goyim will
believe in the Moshiach, [8]
[31]
will be sprinkled by his
priestly sacrifice, [10]
and find life in his light. [32]
But
the Jewish Bible is also aware of the
perennial unbelief of Israel's
leaders [19]
and of the fact that the Jewish people would in
large part reject the Moshiach [10]
until
the latter days. [44] Can
any other "Yeshua" ever fulfill
these prophecies better than Yeshua of Nazareth? Furthermore, Daniel foretold that the coming
of the Moshiach must precede the fall of the post-exilic Temple (Bais
Hamikdash) [45] and must occur 483 years [45]
after the decree to
restore and rebuild Jerusalem, [45]
referring to Artaxerxes'
decree (see Ezra 7:12-16,[46]
457 B.C.E.), which gets us to
approximately 27 C.E., when Moshiach Yeshua
was beginning his
ministry. Which other Moshiach, which other
"Yeshua," is there?
The Davidic Kohen-Moshiach Was Foretold in the Tanakh The "priest
of G-d" in Genesis,[47] whom David declares (Psalm
110) to be the establisher of the Messianic
order of the Davidic
Priesthood, is Melchizedek. In Psalm 110:4
[1]
David refers to
the Moshiach as a "priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek"
(and not after the order of Aaron, for the
Messiah was to come
from the tribe of Judah and from the lineage
of David [16] [48]
and thus be a king-priest like Melchizedek in
Genesis [47]).
Therefore, the two ominous olive trees in
Zechariah [5] symbolize
the kingly Davidic heir (Zerubbabel) and the
priestly overseer of
the Bais Hamikdash, the Jerusalem Temple
(Yehoshua [2]) and are
portents of the Davidic ruler/king-priest
after the order of
Melchizedek, that is, the coming one, the
Moshiach.
The Divine Word took Human Form to Become Our Priestly Healer
The
word of G-d came from heaven and tabernacled (pitched his
tent) with Moses. This was the same divine Word who did his
work
as an inscriber of thc Ten Commandments into stone. Thus the
holy configuration of the Word in the ark,
orbited by ministering
priests and symbolic furnishings, was an
earthly replica of the
heavenly pattern of glory shown to Moses on
the mountain. [45]
This one and only personal Word of G-d who
came from heaven and
revealed his "pattern" of glory to
Moses on the mountain, is worthy of worship (as is the Son of Man; see
Daniel [13]).
Where
does the Tanakh say that the Word of G-d is
worthy of worship?
See Psalm 56:10
[50],
which says, "In G-d will I praise his
word." The Word of G-d is the divine
agent in creation, as it says "By
the word of the L-rd were the heavens
made" (Psalm 33:6 [51]).
Like Moshiach the Judge in Isaiah
42:4,[31] the Word of G-d is
also the divine Word of Judgment who comes at
the end of the age
and is personified as the supernatural
Moshiach of the Clouds,
"the Son of Man" [Bar Enosh] in Daniel
[13]
[52].
"Wait," a rabbi might interject. "This you will have to prove
to me from the Tanakh, this notion that the
Son of Man is not
only Moshiach but Hashem's Word." Should we be surprised that the
supernatural being which Daniel sees coming
from Heaven in Daniel
[13]
is a human-like picture of the Moshiach who is also called
"G-d-with-us" in Isaiah
7:14? Should we be
surprised that the
supernatural Son Isaiah calls "Mighty
G-d" in Isaiah [40] or
should we be surprised that the universal
Priest-King that David
calls "my L-rd" in Psalm
110 [1] or that Malachi
3:1 calls "the
L-rd" --should we be surprised that these are also pictures
of
G-d's
agent of salvation?
"Wait!" says a rabbi. "Psalm
110:1's `Adoni' only means `My
Superior or Master,' lord with a small `l' as
in II
Samuel 1:10,
etc."
Wait, rabbi. Moshiach himself taught that David, the
Great Father of the Messianic dynasty, could
hardly call a
descendent or son his superior unless David
meant something more-
-see Mt.22:45. Look at Psalm
110:1 again. How could
David the
King of Israel, address anyone except G-d as
"his superior"? No
one contemporary to David outranked him but
G-d! As King of
Israel, only G-d was his lord!
In Joshua 5:13-15 we see an encounter between
G-d and man,
where the kind of extremely reverent
prostration we see would be
idolatrous before a mere created being. The "Adoni" of Joshua's
question, "What message does Adoni have
for his servant?" must
refer to "my L-rd," as we will
demonstrate. Moses has a similar
encounter with G-d in Exodus
3:5. See also Genesis 32:24-33 where
Jacob (Yaakov/Israel) has an encounter with Yeshua the
Sar HaPanim Face of G-d --see Yochanan
14:9. Notice the Orthodox Jewish Mahzor you are looking at to
substantiate
this idea that Yeshua is the Face of G-d is
not a "Messianic" Mahzor but one published
by the Hebrew Publishing Company!
G-d is called Adon kol ha'aretz (Zechariah 4:14),
and a
G-d-like aura is created when Joseph is called
Adon l'kol Mitzrayim (`lord of all Egypt')(Gen.45:9),
especially when it is
said to this Savior-figure, Yosef the
prophetic foreshadowing of Moshiach, "You have saved our lives. May we find favor in the
eyes of Adoni" (Gen.47:25). Although Joseph is only a man, his
person in prophecy points to the coming
HaMelech HaMoshiach Adoni, and is part of the picture of the Moshiach drawn for
us in
the Torah. Moshiach is called HaAdon
("the L-rd") quite unambiguously in Malachi
3:1. David Kimhi (Radak)
in his commentary published in
the Mikraot Gedolot Rabbinic Bible explains
that Malachi 3:1's
"the lord" (spelled with a lower
case "l") is King Messiah, who
will come suddenly--no one knows when. He says that Messiah is
the Messenger of the Covenant referred to in
this verse.
However, the lower case "l" for
"lord" will not suffice because
in Zechariah
4:14 and 6:5 (another post-Exilic prophet) Adon kol
ha'aretz ("the L-rd of all the earth") uses the same word for Adon
("L-rd") and clearly the L-rd G-d is intended. So it is
tendentious Rabbinic exegesis to assert a
lower case "l"
conveniently in one place and a capital
"L" in the other.
Because of the way Adoni is used in other places, in Psalm 110:1
we would expect David to say "HaShem said to Adoni haMelech" (as in I Chr.21:3;
II
Samuel 19:31). By leaving
off
"haMelech," David makes
"Adoni" ambiguous, with deity a possible
inference and the spelling a reverential
capital "L," "the L-rd
said to my L-rd." To which angel did man ever offer worship
(Joshua
5:14)? To what angel has G-d ever said, "Sit at my right
hand"? (See Psalm
110:1 and Hebrews 1:13.)
Originally, the Tanakh was written as a continuous string of
Hebrew letters, without breaks. The scholars known as Masoretes,
who had absolutely no part in determining the
consonantal text,
added the vowel points, beginning in the sixth
century C.E. They
supplied
the variation of pointing added to the consonantal text
to distinguish divine reference (Adonai) from
non-divine
reference (adoni). Their opinions are not infallible, however,
because they are not canonical prophets
speaking in canonical
Scripture. So if we come across an alef-dalet-nun and
the
question arises, "Does it end with the
first person common
singular pronominal suffix as in `Adoni' (my
lord, master) or, on
the other hand, is it `Adonai' (my L-rd), at
that point we must
not
assume that the Masoretic pointing is the last word. As a
great Hebrew teacher once said, "Don't
let someone else tell you
what to think.
Let the Hebrew text tell you. If
not, you are
submitting to brainwashing." So we must start with the
consonantal text, the received text of the
Hebrew Bible.
For example, the "Sar haTsavah" ("the Prince of the
Host/Army") in Daniel
8:11 is clearly G-d, whereas in Joshua
5:14, the same figure is addressed only as
"Adoni" ("my lord"),
according to Masoretic pointing. However, if we are forced to
accept Masoretic pointing in Joshua
5:14, we should, for the sake
of consistency, also be forced to accept
Masoretic pointing in Genesis 18:2-3,
where the "threeness" aspect of personality
of
the One G-d is suggested by the very same
ostensibly infallible Masoretic pointing.
In Genesis 18:2-3
"shloshah anashim" ("three
men") are called "Adonai"
("L-rd" [i.e. G-d]), using the
intensive
plural or plural of majesty in the first person
singular pronominal suffix, "my,"
which must be translated here
as "my L-rd," just as in Psalm
16:2--"my L-rd."
But are the
rabbi's willing to concede this?
Just as, at times, the Malach HaShem (Angel of the L-rd)
cannot be distinquished from the L-rd Himself
(see, for example, Exodus 3:2-4 and Judges
6:11-23), so also passages like these
give us the the nearest approach we have in
the Tanakh of the
Messianic revelation of the divine
Moshiach, HaShem's mighty arm
of power and our L-rd.
Should we be surprised that the Moshiach in the Tanakh is no
mere mortal but G-d's divine agent, himself
having the nature of
G-d?
Not if we meditate on Isaiah [53]
where G-d tells us who it
is that he sends to accomplish his desire and
to achieve his cosmic
purposes: his divine agent, his Word! Should we be surprised
that the Word of Hashem overcame death and
rose from the grave? Does
not Isaiah [54]
tell us that the grass may wither and the flowers
may die and fall, but the Word of our G-d
stands forever? Should
we be surprised that G-d has exalted his Word
above all authority
and dominion and made him Messianic heir of
all things? Study
Isaiah [55]
where G-d promises that every "knee will bow and
every tongue will confess," and the
context does not omit to deal with
His Word (who is held up to our praise in both
Isaiah [53] and
the Psalms [50]). Note well what we are saying, however: not
that
there is another G-d besides G-d, but that G-d
has no other
divine Word than the One who was inscribed in
stone in the ark and in
the canonical words of the Tanakh--that is,
the One who was also enfleshed in the holy person of Moshiach
Ben Dovid, our Redeemer
and King. Midrash Rabbah associates the
Messianic tribe of Judah with
the Word of G-d because both are called
"first" (see Proverbs [56]
and Judges [57]
and Midrash Rabbah Vol. 3, Soncino Press, 1977).
Just as the Moshiach is the divine agent in
the Prophets, so is the Memra or Word of G-d in the ancient Targums (see Targum
Yerushalmi to Numbers 27:16). In Mishle (
Proverbs) and Tehillim (Psalms),
we see that it was by His premundane Wisdom,
His Word, that G-d
created the world (see Psalms [51]
and Proverbs [58]). Should we
be surprised that David's Great Son, called
the Ben HaElohim, the
Son of G-d in Psalm
2:7, had wisdom [59]
and later, as the Moshiach, WAS wisdom?
And just as the Moshiach is G-d's divine
heir in Isaiah [40]
and Daniel,[13] so Wisdom is likened to G-d's Son in
Proverbs.[60][61]
(Israel cannot be intended as the "son"
in Proverbs 30:4
in context, because Israel, unlike Wisdom, is
scarcely mentioned in Proverbs.) So there is only one G-d, not
three G-ds (He is echad, a complex unity, like
a man and his
wife, one flesh--compare Bereshis/Genesis 2:24
and Devorim/Deuteronomy 6:4), but the One G-d is personally distinct
as Hashem (HaAv), Bar Enosh/Son/Word (HaBen/HaDevar [61]),
and Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh).
This same Son/Word [61]
is also the agent of divine redemption,
for
Psalm l07 [62] says, "G-d sent His Word and healed
them and
delivered them from their
destructions." When the one, who
was
to come, took human form, Isaiah [40]
calls him "Mighty G-d"
(just as the Word of G-d is called
"G-d" [52]), and Isaiah
53:5 [10]
says that by his substitutionary wounds "for
us" "we are healed."
So we should not be surprised that people who
don't know the Moshiach don't know G-d either, for until His Word is revealed
to
you, you do not know G-d. As Shemuel Alef (I Samuel) [63]
says,
"Now Samuel did not yet know the L-rd:
The word of the L-rd had
not yet been revealed to him."
The Scriptures teach in many places that personal
regeneration is absolutely necessary, for, as
it was prophesied
of King Saul, so it is prophesied of us,
"The Spirit of the L-rd wlll come upon you in power . . . and you will be
changed into a
different person."[64]
"This is not a Jewish doctrine, this
notion of spiritual regeneration," a
rabbi might object, not having
sufficiently meditated on the Jewish
Bible. [63]
[66]
[32]
[67]
[68]
[25] But, as both the Torah and the Tanakh show,
G-d
intended to "mark off" as his own
not merely people who were
circumcised physically but "in their
hearts." [69] So
strong is
this teaching that G-d threatens to destroy
any Jew who is not
spiritually circumcised. [70] Such a one will be shut out of
Jerusalem,[71]
as well as the L-rd's sanctuary [72]
and
salvation. [73] When will the Maimonidean gnostics learn that
the mystery
of Judaism is not in the esoteric rabbinic
dialectic of the oral law
but in the miraculous resurrection of Yeshurun
Yisrael and Yeshua the Moshiach, the former from the Golus, the latter from the
grave?
You who declare you are Jews and are yet not so
completely--not fully eschatological Jews, not
yet spiritually
circumcised, not yet really regenerated, not
yet yielded to Moshiach and to ideal Yeshurun Yisrael--you who say you are a
synagogue of G-d but are still deluded and blinded
by the evil
one, you may have a Hebrew mother, but that
didn't make Esau a
Jew.
You may have a Hebrew father, but that didn't make Ishmael
a
Jew (though Abraham himself circumcised him!)
Ruth had neither a
Jewish mother nor a Jewish father! But she has entered ideal Yeshurun Yisrael by
emunah (faith) alone, ahead of those who say
they are Jews but are still dull of hearing
and heathenish and
spiritually uncircumcised at heart. In her inner person Ruth
was circumcised and consecrated by the Ruach
HaKodesh, the Holy
Spirit, and the regeneration of her new birth
made her in fact a
Jew in the eyes of G-d; and we who are
regenerated have also
entered ideal Yeshurun Yisrael and the
heavenly Jerusalem with
her.
But a rabbi might object and say, "The difference is that RUTH
didn't change her religion."
No, the rabbis did that. The
rabbis changed the Jewish
religion when some of them trusted in
themselves and their extra-
Biblical Jewish learning instead of G-d's
W-rd. Instead of
humbling themselves like humble Ruth, like the
most humble
proselyte, instead of forsaking all proud and
heathenish self-
righteousness, these rabbis refused to take
the eschatological
messianic proselyte tevilah of
the mikveh mayim of that Elijah redivivus figure, Yochanan the
Tevilah immersionist.
He was preaching in 26 C.E. It was then that some of
the rabbis (not all of the rabbis--some wrote
and preached the Brit Chadasha Jewish Scriptures) but some of
the rabbis missed Hashem's will for their lives, tragically missed their true
leadership, missed being talmidim of
Moshiach! This was near the
Jordan [74]
where Elijah had once hid to begin his Mount Carmel
fight for true Judaism. This was near the same Jordan where Yochanan
[75]
[76]
received proselytes to the Judaism of Moshiach.
This was the time, 26 C.E., when some of the rabbis, because of
the pride of clericalism and pharisaism that
all preachers are
prone to, forfeited what could have been and
what will yet be,
according to Romans,[77]
their true leadership. But, in the
meantime, as Dr. Marvin Wilson has said,
Rabbinic Judaism is a
post-Biblical religion "not bound to one
authority" (like the
holy Tanakh); "it embraces many
authorities in a long line of living
[rabbinic] tradition." [78]
The rabbis changed the religion after the Brit
Chadasha was virtually written and after the
Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E. That's when the rabbis blindly
and lawlessly wrested control of the Jewish
religion from the kohanim (priests) and from the High Priest "after the
order of
Melchizedek," the Moshiach-Kohen Yeshua.
[1] Therefore, if the
word "conversion" contains the idea
of taking on a new and
alien religion, then people really
"convert" to Rabbinic Judaism,
because there is something extra-Biblical and
alien about it (how
much more foreign could anything be than
Maimonides' Aristotle?).
So it is the rabbis who have converted the
Jewish people from a
pure Jewish religion resting squarely on the
authority of the Tanakh to a religion embracing "many authorities in a
long line
of living [rabbinic] tradition." [78]
Ironically, it is the rabbis
who are the real "missionary"
culprits in the true historic
scenario!
We ma'aminim Meshichi, on the other hand, even with all our
bungling mistakes, are at least trying to
point Jewish people
back to the original pristine Judaism of Moses
and the Prophets. The
rabbis think we are their enemies. But if the Gehinnom
that Yeshayah (Isaiah) [79] and Daniel [12]
talked about is real, then
we are really the rabbis' best friends, and
are making every sacrifice to see them saved from what their
own prophets warned
against. We believe that rabbis will
be used of G-d in a great
end-time revival among their own people, and that the Rabbi
from
Tarsus, Saul, is a wondrous sign of the
Damascus road ministry
that will soon begin for other rabbis all over
the world. Are we
saying that rabbis will soon be serving
"Christianity"? The word
"Christianity" is nowhere in the
Brit Chadasha, and the word erroneously
construed by
Gentiles as "Christian" only means
"follower of Moshiach."
The religion of Yochanan of the tevilah of
teshuva was Biblical apocalyptic Torah
Judaism, and he never changed his
religion. Neither did Paul,
who reminds us that the Judaism of Moshiach is
the root
that supports
our Messianic faith and not the other way
around (Rom.11:18).
Paul preached on Shabbos, in shul, as a rabbi
for thirty years.
In the book of Acts, Paul circumcises the
young Jewish
Timothy, Paul keeps Shabbos, and Paul does not
teach Jews to
betray the mitzvot of Torah or assimilate or
stop being Jewish.
Paul's religion, the religion of his epistles,
is Moshiach's Judaism. "You see, brother, how many thousands there are
among
the Jewish people who believe and they are
zealous for the mitzot of
the Torah" (Acts 21:20). There is no
hitbolelut (assimilation) or minut (apostasy) from the Torah of Moshe Rabbenu
taught in
the Brit Chadasha Scriptures. Paul never
condemned his religion;
he just emphasized the Jewish and Biblical
teaching that
salvation (the biblical word is
"Yeshua") is not through religious merit
but through emunah (faith) and a new birth, [68]
as we shall see.
[113]
Rav Sha'ul (Paul) did not teach that the law had been nullified. Paul taught
that
the law's death-dealing condemnation of sinners had been
nullified.
The hostility of the law in Ephesians is not the
hostility of the law against Gentiles,
meaning, as some have
interpreted the book, that you have to throw
out the law in order
to save the Gentiles. The hostility of the Law is against
sinners, whether Jew or Gentile, and that is
what the Moshiach abolished by his sacrifice.
Hostility against sinners is what
the Moshiach made null and void for those who
repent and believe the Besuras haGeulah (the Good News of Redemption).
Paul the rabbi knew that the Torah had been given to the Jewish
people as an eternal national treasure. And Paul knew that the
celebration of the Torah preserved or saved
the peoplehood identity of the Jews just as it pointed to the Jewish Redeemer
of
their souls.
How could the Jewish people have remained Jewish
without Torah and Pesach and Shabbos? And how
could Jewish
people understand the saving work of their
Jewish Redeemer
without the Torah? Paul (unlike many rabbis and many in the
contemporary
"church") understood both questions:
the Paul we see in the book
of Acts preaches the Good News of the
Moshiach's freeing us from
the Holy Torah's death curse [80]
[81]
[82]
and at the same time
Paul himself, not a "convert" but a
good Jew, observes the
Torah's ceremonial law and is loyal to the preservation of his Jewish
heritage (see Acts 21:20-26).
Yeshua himself said, "You have a fine way of setting aside the
[mitzvot] commandments of G-d in order to
observe your own
[rabbinic] teachings [of the kind that human
beings hand down]"(Mark 7:9). The
judge in Devorim (Deuteronomy) 17:8-12
[83]
was never given the authority either by Moses or by the Moshiach to cancel
divine commandments. The rabbis have
wrested that
authority away from G-d's canonical prophets
at their own peril.
Are the rabbis right when they set aside the
mandate of G-d
that the Moshiach
Ben Dovid would suffer?
Moses shows us a
picture of the Messiah's sufferings in the
Torah. Look at Yosef (Joseph), the incognito prophet, unrecognized by his own
Hebrew
people, envied yet rejected as not from G-d,
buried as dead, but
raised up by G-d to the right hand of supreme
power to feed the
saving bread of life to the whole world,
including, at last, his
own Jewish people, who in the end recognize
their Jewish savior.
What a foreshadow of the Moshiach!
Or look at the book of Yonah (Jonah) in the Tanakh. Here we
have a graphic foreglimpse of Death swallowing
and vomiting up a
prophet as a predictive sign of the death and
resurrection of the
Prophet Moshiach.
Are the rabbis with their own teachings right and the Tanakh wrong? Was
Daniel wrong when he said the Moshiach would be cut
off or violently killed (Daniel
9:26)? [45]
Was Yeshayah (Isaiah) wrong when he
said that the Moshiach would be "wounded
for our
transgressions....
for the sin of my people (who deserved the
punishment), was he cut
off out of the land of the living?" [10]
Was Zecharyoh (Zechariah) wrong when he said
"Strike the Shepherd
and the sheep will be scattered.... They will
look on Me, the One
they have pierced, and they will mourn for him
as one mourns for
his yachid (only son), and shall be in
bitterness for him, as one
is in bitterness for his bechor
(firstborn/heir)? [84] [85]
Were
Jeremiah and Malachi wrong when they called
the Moshiach "HaAdon," "L-rd"? [48] Was King David wrong when he also called the
Moshiach "Adoni" and saw his sufferings and resurrection? [1]
[86]
[87]
[88]
Again, a rabbi might interject and say, "We have no teaching
about King David's Son, the Moshiach, which
condones any
Messianic human sacrifice for sin." Oh, no? Look at Divrey haYomim Alef (I
Chronicles) 21:17-18
[89]
where David makes a reference that
would have to include the Moshiach and the
Bais Hamikdash of the Moshiach when David says, "O L-rd my G-d, let your
hand fall upon
me and my family, but do not let this plague
remain on your
people."
Meditate on Isaac and Joseph and Jonah (to say nothing
of Isaiah
53) and you will see the Tanakh's Messianic prophecy
regarding human sacrifice and the Moshiach's
person.
Again, the rabbinic objection: "Every man must die for his own
sins. [90] I must die for me, not some mediator. No mere man
can die for another man" [91]
[92].
And the answer: he was no mere man but called "Mighty G-d."
[40] Are you ignorant of the fact that, in the
Torah, blood was
always associated with G-d's eternal Word? [93]
But remember, Galatians 2 tells us that there was a cultural
specialization in the community of Moshiach. Shim'on
(Kefa,
Peter) and Ya'akov (James) and Yochanan (John)
specialized in
reaching the Jewish people. Paul's ministry
was not primarily to
Jews but to non-Jews, and the Gentiles
(according to Moses in
Genesis [8]
and Isaiah [31]) were to wait for the Torah
(Teaching) of Moshiach and obey the Moshiach
when he came. So the
ceremonial teaching of Moses was to be
observed by the Jews (without Moshiach-denying legalism), but the teaching of
the Moshiach (which is contained in the Complete
Jewish Scriptures) was to be
observed by both the Jews and non-Jews. Unfortunately, many
people, even many in the so-called
"church," are ignorant of the
fact that the true universal "Body of
Moshiach" is nothing
other than a culturally all-adaptable
Messianic Synagogue [94].
This Messianic Synagogue, though it is capable
of changing into
every manner of ethnic attire, from a teepee
Bible study to an
igloo prayer meeting, nevertheless always
wears its basic
synagogue apparel, the entire Jewish Bible and
the Jewish means
of discipling the world: the Moshiach's tevilah in a
mikveh mayim and the Moshiach's Seudah, the Lamb of G-d's Passover
Seder.
Why is Jewish ministry of such grave importance in these
fearful times?
Rabbi Paul tells us in Romans 11 [77]. Paul says
that if the spiritual loss of many of the Jews
has led to the
spiritual resurrection and regeneration of
many of the non-Jews,
then what will the regeneration of the Jewish
people lead to but
the resurrection of the whole world?
That's why the Gospel is to the Jew first everywhere but also
to every Greek and Gentile everywhere. This Good News must be
preached to every creature and then the end
will come--Matthew
24:14. [96] And G-d is doing it whether anyone likes it
or not!
The enemies
of Messiah should ask themselves, how are they going
to stop what G-d is doing? [95] How are they going to stop the
risen Moshiach (who is the personal Word of
G-d, our healer) from
continuing to heal the cholim (sick) of the
world? And what will
they do when our multiplying messianic
synagogues and yeshivas are everywhere, and when we finally
get our selves together and our
cantors can cantor and our rabbis can rabbi?
If even Paul, the
supreme enemy of Messiah, couldn't stop us,
and ended up joining
us, how will Israel as a whole avoid
ultimately doing the same
thing?
The Word G-d Provided Is Yet David's Legal Descendant
In the Brit Chadasha birth narratives and genealogies of our Moshiach we
learn that the Word who was with G-d and was G-d was
only the adoptive
son of Yosef (Joseph), the descendant of David.
However, Joseph acknowledged that the child
was not a "mamzer"
(illegitimate son) but a son "whom G-d
provided" supernaturally.
[97]
[98]
[99]
Therefore, Joseph adopted him and consequently
conferred upon the child the legal rights of
his son and his
firstborn heir, for the right of succession
was established
according to whether the father is willing to
recognize anyone as
his son (see Baba Bathra 8:6). So according to Jewish oral law, Yeshua was a
descendant of David. But more than that,
he was the premundane Word who in times past had come to Moses and the
prophets, threatening death for sin but
promising life for
obedient faith. Then the Death-conquering Word of G-d finally
and mercifully took on himself what he threatened
and manifested
what he promised: life from death. He came like Jonah, who gave
us a picture of Death swallowing and then
vomiting up a prophet
as a sign of the death and resurrection of the
Prophet Messiah.
Summation
What have we said then? The
Moshiach is described in the
Jewish Bible, the Tanakh. The cohesive and portentous name in
the Tanakh, the name that weaves together all
the Davidic kohen/king
prophetic threads pointing to the Moshiach, is
Yeshua. Therefore,
this is the name of the Moshiach foretold by
the Holy Jewish
Scriptures, the Hebrew
Tanakh. "What's in a
name?" a rabbi might
ask, as if to trivialize the entire
presentation of this
material. In the past, rabbis have tried to
evade the force of Scripture by
focusing attention elsewhere, using innuendo
and hysteria or
natural Jewish xenophobia to try to
sinisterize and snuff out the Moshiach's Jewish Movement. Failing this, a rabbi might say,
"Whoever believes that a man on two feet
was G-d is not a Jew.
You've taken a man and turned him into an
accursed human idol.
You are no longer Jewish." The answer is: Jewish people are
commanded in the Jewish Bible to worship G-d
through his Word, which is the
only way to G-d. The Bais Hamikdash (Temple)
was where the Word tabernacled in blood covenant and worship with his people,
where
G-d tabernacled as "G-d-with-us."
Moshiach Yeshua predicted that
the Temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed,
but the temple of his
body, although torn down by men, would be
raised up forever by
the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. What's in a name? The Torah
says, "Then to the place the L-rd your G-d
will choose as a
dwelling for his Name, there you are to bring
everything I
command you...."[100] The expression "dwelling for his
Name" is another
way of saying "dwelling for
himself." As the sacred name of G-d
reflects his character and mystery, so G-d's
image, his Word enfleshed, the Moshiach, reflected the sacred name. [101]
[102]
Who is like the G-d of Yeshurun who rides
"on the clouds of his
majesty?" [33] Only his personal Word, the Moshiach, the
"Son
of Man coming with the clouds of heaven."
[13] The true remnant
Israel of G-d knows his name [103].
Do Not Reject the Divine Word in Favor of a Human Word!
The first man, Genesis tells us, rejected the divine word in
favor of a human word. The human word came from his spouse,
whose evil source was not of G-d. Will you repeat his mistake and
share his fate, death? Devorim (Deuteronomy) [104]
says not to add to
G-d's Word and not to take anything away from
it. From Mishle (Proverbs) [105]
we could infer that anyone who does this, using
the opinions of mere men, mere human teachers,
to detract from
the inerrant Word of G-d, will be proven to be
a liar. The Brit Chadasha Holy Jewish
Scriptures describes Moshiach's Judaism and
tells Jewish people how to remain loyal to the
Torah and how to
avoid cultural assimilation even while they
honor their Moshiach.
What Is the Torah or Teaching of Moshiach that All Must Obey?
There is a way that seems right to a person, but that way ends
in death.
No one is good, all our own righteousness is like
filthy
rags. We have all gone our own way. But
the L-rd has laid
on Moshiach the wickedness of us all. However,
if I regard
wickedness in my heart, the L-rd will not hear
my prayers. [106] I
must make teshuvah, turn back to the Word of the L-rd. But the
Good News of Isaiah [107]
[108]
[109]
is this: the Jewish Bible
predicted the Moshiach would die [10]
[87]
[84]
[45]
and take our
punishment [10]
[110]
so that we can be set free from the fear
and the penalty of this punishment, the
chastisement that Moshiach took for us. Isaiah
53:5 says, "Musar Shalomeinu Alav" ("the
chastisement, the punishment that brought us
peace was upon
him"), that is upon the Moshiach. He willingly became the victim and
the kohen to provide our kapparah. The same loving and merciful yet
just Word, who pronounced a death curse on
sinners, took on
himself
for us the death he demanded. [81] [82] Our Jewish
Bible predicted that the Moshiach would not be
defeated by death [10]
[53]
[88]
[111]
[112]
so that we can know him alive and risen,
the righteous One (Isaiah
53:11), and so that we can receive his
righteous new life (Isaiah
53:10) and by our faith alone be
judged righteous by G-d (Habakkuk 2:4; Genesis
15:6).
You can pray this prayer: "Avinu Malkeinu (our Father our
King), have mercy upon me a sinner. Adonai,
hoshieini! (L-rd,
save me!) I confess I am perishing in sins and
transgressions.
Without Moshiach I confess I have no kapparah
and no blood
atonement to be the basis for G-d to
mercifully forgive me. I publically
confess that religious efforts cannot save me, that
salvation is a gift of mercy given to
undeserving sinners. I publically
confess in the Ruach haKodesh that G-d is one, that Moshiach is his Word of
salvation. I confess with my mouth
without shame that Yeshua is HaAdon, the
Moshiach Ben haElohim.
I
believe in my heart that G-d raised him from the dead. I promise
to put my faith in the Complete Holy Jewish
Scriptures and to
humbly obey these Holy Words, trusting the
Ruach haKodesh to
guide me into the will of Avinu (our
Father). Help me, Avinu, be found
faithful in fellowship and in ministry until
the Bias haMoshiach (the coming of Moshiach).
Amen.[113]
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NOTES
[1]
"N'um HaShem leAdoni" ("HaShem said to my
L-rd")..."Atah Kohen l'Olam al-Devrati Malki-Tzedek" ("You
[Moshiach] are a Kohen forever after the order of Melchizedek") Psalm
(Tehilim) 110:1-7, see especially verse 4. Moshiach is
called Adoni (my L-rd) just as Moshiach is called L-rd in Malachi
3:1.
This means Adon Kol Ha'aretz, L-rd of
the earth (see Zechariah 4:14).
[2]
See Zechariah
(Zecharyoh) 3:8, especially "Yehoshua...ki anshei mofet
hemah ki hineni mevi es 'avdi Tzemach"
("Yehoshua...you are portentous
sign-men for, behold, I will
bring forth My Servant, BRANCH [of
David, Moshiach].")
[3]
See Zechariah
6:12-13, especially "hinei ish Tzemach shmo"
("behold the man [Yehoshua/Yeshua]
his NAME is BRANCH [of
David, i.e. MOSHIACH]").
[4]
Ezra
3:8. Notice that
"Yehoshua" is here given in its
Aramaic form, "Yeshua." This is the Hebrew word for the name of our
Moshiach.
[5]
Zechariah 4:11-14. This passage is about the two olive
branches, which,most scholars agree,
stand for the kingly
Davidic heir (Zerubbabel) and the
priestly ruler (Yehoshua or Yeshua) who together are a sign of the coming
King-Priest Moshiach in Psalm 110:4.
[6]
Isaiah
49:8 is a prophecy about the coming "Yom haYeshua"
("Day of Salvation") and the
new Joshua/Yeshua Moshiach who
will bring it.
[7]
Numbers
34:19 shows that Caleb was from the Moshiach's tribe,
the tribe of Judah.
[8]
Bereshis
(Genesis) 49:10 shows that the Moshiach's tribe is
the tribe of Judah, and that the
obedience of all the peoples
of the world belongs to Moshiach.
[9]
Isaiah
44:2 shows that "Yeshurun" is a poetic name for Ideal
Israel.
[10]
Isaiah
52:10-53:12 should be studied at length. It shows
that the Moshiach is the very "arm
of G-d" and is not
recognized or appreciated by Israel, but
is instead cut off,
pierced, and sheds his blood like a lamb
of redemption, like
a Pesach/Passover lamb [our Moshiach did
in fact die on
Pesach], making kapparah as an asham
guilt offering for the
people.
Later, when he rises to life (the Dead Sea Scrolls
Isaiah 53:11 says he sees the
"light," indicating
resurrection from the dead), he is
vindicated and G-d's people are justified, because Moshiach
is G-d's righteous
servant and his priestly sacrifice is
accepted.
[11]
Joshua
24:29 calls Joshua the 'Eved HaShem, the Servant of
the L-rd. (Nehemiah
8:17 calls Joshua/Yehoshua by the
Aramaic form of his name,
"Yeshua"). Putting these two
verses together with Zechariah
3:8 we have Yeshua, the 'Eved Hashem' Avdi (My Servant),
see Isaiah 52:13.
[12]
Daniel
12:2 "Multitudes that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to chayei olam
(eternal life), and some to
shame and everlasting contempt (i.e. Gehinnom,
damnation)."
See Rosh HaShanah 16B in the Talmud.
[13]
Daniel
7:13-14 "Visions I saw in the night, and, behold, one
like a son of man came with the clouds
of heaven, and came
to the Ancient of days, and they brought
him near before him.
And there was given him dominion, and
glory, and a kingdom,
that all people, nations and languages,
should worship him
[i.e. give divine reverence to Moshiach,
who is not an idol,
for Daniel's companions refuse to give
divine reverence to
idols--using the same verb in Daniel
3:18]: his dominion is
an everlasting dominion, which shall not
pass away, and his
kingdom which shall not be
destroyed." So this passage
shows that Moshiach is not a mere man,
for Moshiach is reverenced
as deity, even though idols are not so
treated...see the
exact same word in Daniel 3:18
and Daniel 7:14.
For
Talmudic indications that Daniel 7:13-14
is a prophecy about Moshiach, see Sanhedrin 96b-97a, 98a, etc.
[14]
Devorim (Deuteronomy) 18:15-19.
This prophecy shows that Moshiach will be a Prophet like Moses.
[15]
Isaiah 42:15-16; 49:9-10
The author of Chronicles shares
the same heightened expectation of the
coming of Moshiach that we find in other post-Exilic Biblical authors like
Haggai and Zechariah. The Chronicler's use of Torah
allusions describing Moses and Joshua,
especially his use of
these as a paradigm for his portrait of
David and Solomon--
their idealized portrait itself fraught
with Messianic
expectation--further substantiates the
claim that the Tanakh teaches this: the
Moshiach will be a new Moses, an even
greater successor to Moses than was
Joshua to Moses or
Solomon to David. So the Brit
Chadasha correctly follows the teaching of the Tanakh that
Deuteronomy 18:15-19 finds its ultimate reference in the
Moshiach. See Acts 3:22-23.
[16]
II
Samuel 7:16 [17] Isaiah
11:1-5 [18] Ezekiel
37:25 [19] Isaiah
56:10 [20] Jeremiah
30:7 [21] Ezekiel
34:10 [22] Jeremiah
3:15 [23] Deuteronomy
28:15-68 [24] In the Orthodox
Jewish Brit Chadasha (a new tranlation from Artists For Israel
International
Publishers), Pilate says to Moshiach, "What
is Emes (Truth)?" The Besuras haGeulah according to Yochanan
18:38.
[25]
Psalm
(Tehilim) 51:5(7), 10(12) [26]
Psalm
14:3 [27] Amos
8:11 [28] I
Yochanan 2:6 (Orthodox Jewish Brit
Chadasha translation).
[29]
Numbers
(Bamidbar) 27:18 [30]
Isaiah
42:1 [31] Isaiah
42:4 [32] Isaiah
42:6 [33] Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 33:5,26 [34]
Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 32:15 [35]
Isaiah
41:8 [36] Isaiah
42:19 [37] Isaiah
44:1 [38] Isaiah
49:1 [39] Isaiah
49:5-6 Notice here that the Moshiach is predicted to
be "my Yeshua (or Salvation)."
[40]
Isaiah
9:(5)6-(6)7 [41] Isaiah
55:3-5 [42] Psalm
(Tehillim) 72:8-11 [43]
Ezekiel
34:10,23 "And I will set up one shepherd over
them,
and he shall feed them, even my servant
David." See also
note #21.
[44]
Joel
(Yoel) 2:28 (3:1) [45]
Daniel
9:25-26 [46] Ezra
7:12-17 Some scholars use a lunar calendar and compute
from the time [445 B.C.E.] that Nehemiah
received a commission from
the same king. However, in either case, Daniel's
69 "sevens" puts us in the time-frame of the ministry
of Moshiach Yeshua.
[47]
Bereshis
(Genesis) 14:18, where it says that Melchizedek was
"Kohen l'El Elyon (priest of the
most high G-d)."
[48]
Jeremiah
23:5-6 "Behold, the days come, saith the L-rd, that
I will raise unto David a Tzemech
Tzaddik (Righteous
BRANCH), and a king shall reign and
prosper and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth. In
his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely: and this
is the NAME whereby
he shall be called Adonai Tzidkeinu, the
L-rd our
Righteousness." See also Malachi
3:1.
[49]
Exodus
(Shemot) 25:40 [50] Psalm
(Tehilim) 56:10 (11) [51]
Psalm
33:6 [52] Yochanan
1:1,51
"In the beginning was the Devar, and the Devar was with HaShem and the
Devar was G-d....And he
(Moshiach) says to him (Nathanael),
"Verily, verity I say
unto you, Hereafter you shall see
Shomayim (heaven) open,
and the malachim (angels) of HaShem
ascending and descending
upon the Son of Man." Yochanan
1:14 tells us that the Word
"became flesh, became a human
being, and tabernacled among
us; and we beheld his glory"; so it is clear that the Word
in person, Yeshua, is the Son of Man,
the Moshiach of the
Clouds whom Daniel saw coming from
Shomayim (Daniel
7:13-14). See note #13. The glory Daniel saw (Daniel
7:14) Yochanan also saw (Yochanan
1:14).
[53]
Isaiah
55:11 [54] Isaiah
40:8 [55] Isaiah
45:23 [56] Mishle
(Proverbs) 8:23. G-d's
divine Chochma (Wisdom) is
presented as personal here and says,
"I was appointed from
everlasting, from the first [beginning],
or ever the earth
was [begun].
[57]
Judges
(Shofetim) 20:18 [58]
Mishle
(Proverbs) 3:19 "The L-rd by Chochma (Wisdom) hath
founded the earth; by understanding hath
he established the
heavens."
[59]
I
Kings 3:28 [60] Mishle
(Proverbs) 8:30, Chochma (Wisdom) speaks, saying
"Then I was by him [at his side],
as an artisan/craftsman...."
When the Word became flesh, he became
the craftsman at Yosef's side... Yosef the carpenter from Nazareth, Yosef the
son of Dovid; likewise, the Word in the
beginning was the craftsman at the side
of G-d. The
feminine metaphor with which this
chapter began has changed to a
masculine one. "Omon" in the Hebrew Bible
(Craftsman) is a
masculine noun meaning artisan or
craftsman. Another
possible meaning is foster-child. In any case, as Keil and Delitzsch have
shown, at this point in the chapter the feminine
determination disappears. See how the word is used in Jeremiah
52:15. To be filled with
the Spirit of G-d like Bezaleel meant to be filled with wisdom to build
creatively
as a craftsman--Exodus
31:3. Thus Wisdom is
pictured as a
craftsman WITH G-d, even as Yochanan
1:1 says, "In the
beginning was the Word and the Word was
WITH G-d." In Proverbs 30:4 more light is thrown on this
passage: Wisdom
is like a SON, a SON working creatively
at his father's
side. See note #61. However, Hosea
11:1-4 shows that the divine
fatherhood is moral and spiritual, in
contrast to the sexual
or physical ideas of the Baal cults, or
in contrast to the
ignorant scoffers at the Biblical
doctrine of G-d the Father
and his Word Moshiach. These critics show the same ignorant
tendency to create a non-Biblical
strawman "trinity" and
then burn it down with ill-informed
polemics, somewhat like the
ignorant railings of certain Muslims
against the so-called Quranic version of the "trinity." One G-d who
is Father and
Wisdom (Moshiach) and Ruach haKodesh
appears in the first
few verses of the Bible in Genesis
1:1-3.
[61]
Proverbs
(Mishle) 30:4 "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or
descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who
hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established
all the ends of the earth? What is his
name, and what is his
Son's name, if thou canst tell?" It
will not do to try to
bring Israel in here as the Son, since
the context reflects
back to Proverb 8 and especially 8:30. Israel is scarcely
mentioned in Proverbs. The figure of a son toiling by the
side of his father was a familiar one,
and is an arresting
metaphor for G-d's primordial Wisdom
toiling creatively in
the beginning with G-d. Likewise Psalm 2:7,
89:27-28,
and Isaiah
9:(5)6 are passages where the Moshiach is pictured as
G-d's Son, his bechor (firstborn) in the
sense of his heir
coming in divine glory (see Daniel
7:13-14 on the Son who
comes in the clouds with G-d to
"divide the spoil with the
strong" (Isaiah
53:12) and to govern eternally--Isaiah
[62]
Psalm
107:20 [63] I
Samuel 3:7 [64] I
Samuel 10:6 [65] Jeremiah
31:31-34. Notice the
passage is talking about an
intimate, inward knowledge of G-d, of a
sense of relationship,
even fellowship with G-d, as well as the
assurance of forgiveness of sins; in
short, regeneration.
Jeremiah foresaw New Covenant Jewish
believers and he
understood that the Word of G-d would
somehow effect the
miracle of the New Covenant "in
their hearts." Have you
become a New Covenant Jewish believer, a
ma'amin Meshichi?
You can. Moshiach, the Word of G-d,
sharper than any sword,
able to circumcise and consecrate the
most heathen heart,
says, "Behold, I stand at the door,
and knock; if any one
hears me calling and opens the door, I
will come in to him,
and dine in communion with him, and he
with me." (Rev.3:20)
[66]
Jeremiah
24:7 [67] Isaiah
11:9 [68] Ezekiel
36:26-28. The One G-d of
Israel has already told us
he wants to put his living Word in us [Jeremiah
31:33, see
note #65]; now he tells us he wants to
put his Ruach HaKodesh in us. If
we harden our heart and refuse him, we are left
with a stony heart; if we receive the
new heart and the new
spirit, if we receive by faith his
living Word and his
Spirit, what is this but eternal life?
[69]
Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 10:16 [70]
Jeremiah
4:4. Moshiach described to a rabbi once what
Jeremiah is talking about here. The rabbi visited Moshiach under cover of
nightfall because he feared losing his
teaching office if the other Jewish men
saw him. Moshiach used the metaphor of a new birth to describe what Jeremiah
likens to a circumcision of the heart.
Moshiach assured the
rabbi that he would not enter the
Malchut haShomayim (kingdom of heaven) if he did not receive the new birth.
Jeremiah
4:4 here assures the Jewish people that they will reap the
eternal and hellish fury of G-d
if they do not receive the
circumcision of the heart. Moshiach was
amazed that a rabbi
could be ignorant of such an elementary teaching as is
given here in Jer.4:4.
See Yochanan
3:1-10.
[71]
Isaiah
52:1 [72] Ezekiel
44:7,9 [73] Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 30:6 [74]
I
Kings 17:3 [75] Malachi
4:5 (3:23)-6(3:24) which says "Behold, I will send
you Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great and
dreadful day of the L-rd"....
[76]
Matthew
11:14 [77] Romans
11:12,15,25,26.
[78]
This is a quotation taken from the book, Evangelicals and
Jews in an Age of Pluralism, Eds.
Tanenbaum, Wilson, Rudin,
Baker Book House, 1984, p.22.
[79]
Isaiah 66:24; 14:11;
48:22;
50:11;
57:21.
[80]
Galatians
3:13. See Deuteronomy
21:23 [81] Devorim (Deuteronomy) 27:26;
Bereshis (Genesis 22:7-8); Vayikra (Leviticus 17:11);
Bereshis (Genesis) 2:17; 3:17-19.
Those who do not comprehend the full
rigor of Deuteronomy 27:26 and of the Torah itself, think,
by their zeal or
pedigree
or ethical attainment or effort, that they can pass
unscathed
under the curse pronounced here.
Or else those
who read this verse so light-heartedly
think that G-d will make
the threat idle by casual mercy of some
imagined sort. But
the Word of G-d, who threatened sinful
Man with the curse of
death, promised mercy only through the
provision he will
provide (Genesis 22:7-8;
Leviticus 17:11; Isaiah 53:10--see
note #10) and only by emunah (faith) (Genesis 15:6;
Habakkuk 2:4--see
note #113). The Word of G-d, who
pronounced on
fallen humanity the curse of death
(Genesis 2:17; 3:17-
19), demanded a new heart and a new
spirit as well as faith
in the Moshiach Redeemer, the Moshi'a
Savior. And this same
Word gives absolutely no assurance at
all that Man with his
dead, unregenerated, stony
heart can uphold the Torah or
keep it in spirit and in truth in the
inner man. See notes #68
and
#82.
[82]
Devorim (Deuteronomy) 21:23; Psalm 22:1(2);
Nahum 1:3. In
the Torah, death is not merely the curse
of sin. See note
#81.
Death is also the legal penalty of justice so that G-d's honor
is not impugned by allowing evil to go
unpunished--
see Nahum
1:3. Therefore, should we
be surprised that when
the Word of G-d came in the Law of Moses
he demanded death
for sin, even death for the victims in
the Temple
sacrifices? Should we be surprised that
when the Word of G-d came in the Moshiach he satisfied his own demand (in Isaiah
53 where the Moshiach is described as a sacrificial victim) by
offering
his own death as justice and mercy for
all transgressors?
The Word that promised life through
Moses and the Prophets
came to provide a death that would allow
no sins to go
unpunished, a death that would shield
the redeemed from the
curse of eternal death and bring divine
justice and immortality
and forgiveness to light at last. The Word of
G-d became our Moshiach, our
Deliverer. By his death he
turned aside his Father's holy fury
against all our ungodliness.
He took the penalty of death not for
himself but for us. Isaiah 53 says "he was wounded for OUR
transgressions." When he
said, "My G-d, why have you
abandoned me?" he was G-d's righteous and merciful Word taking OUR curse
of abandonment
from G-d--the curse of hell--upon
himself to rescueus from
the punishment we all deserve--see Isaiah
53:5. He did this
so that all who believe can be raised to
a new spiritual
existence with him. See notes #68 and
#70.
[83]
Deuteronomy
17:8-12 The Moshiach is the Shofet Yisrael, the
Judge of Israel. He is also the Nagid, the Prince. Any
judge who contradicts the Moshiach's
Torah is no true judge.
Notice in the above passage that the
judge has to ask guidaece from the kohen at the central sanctuary. Moshiach is
the Eternal Kohen of Psalm 110:4, and has already
declared that any competitive sanctuary
man would use to upstage his
sacrifice has been dismantled (Mark
13:1-2). The Jewish
people and the world have no other
sanctuary of salvation
but Moshiach in which to find
deliverance and kapparah (atonement). Therefore
any rabbi using the above passage to
legitimize his authority while
repudiating the risen Beis Hamikdash of Moshiach's sacrificial body has no
warrant from
Scripture.
[84]
Zechariah
13:7 [85] Zechariah
12:10; 14:4. Maimonides abused the word YACHID when
he applied it to G-d. The Shema of Devorim 6:4
says
that G-d is ECHAD. A man and wife can be ECHAD (Genesis 2:24),
but a firstborn (bechor) may be
YACHID--see Zechariah 12:10.
The latter is simply univalent, the
former is a complex
unity.
G-d is ECHAD because his oneness doesn't exclude the
mystery of his unity with His Word and
His Spirit. There is
no other G-d than the ONE G-D of the
Jewish Bible. But the
G-d there is is the ECHAD G-d of the
Jewish Bible and not
the YACHID G-d of Maimonides. But notice that Zechariah
12:10; 14:4 is talking about one Moshiach, not two.
The one and
only Moshiach is both pierced (dakar)
and mourned (safad). He is
both rejected and returns to rule
(Zechariah 14:4).
It is
worth noting in Zechariah 12:10
that the Moshiach saves in
the context of a spiritual revival, not
in a political
putsch.
[86]
Psalm
89:27-44 We see starting at verse 38 the Messianic
exaltation replaced by humiliation, the
two themes being in
counterpoint throughout the Psalms and
in the Messianic
paradigm given to us in the life of King
David. On the
concept of the Messiah as bechor
(firstborn heir) see note
#61.
[87]
Psalm
22:15(16)-18(19), 27(28)-31(32).
[88]
Psalm
16:9-11 [89] I
Chronicles 2:17-18 [90]
Ezekiel
18:4 [91] Psalm
49:7(8)-9(10) [92] Psalm
146:3 [93] Leviticus
(Vayikra) 16:14-17 [94]
See Everything You Need To Grow A Messianic Synagogue,
William Carey Library Publishers, South
Pasedena, 1974. See
note #106.
[95]
Psalm
27:10 [96] Matthew
24:14 [97] Bereshis (Genesis) 22:14. See also Genesis 22:7-8,
note
#81.
Notes #40,#60 and #61 prove that the Moshiach is
G-d's Son, according to the Jewish
Bible. Notes #10, #62,
#81-#82, #84-#87, and #89 prove also
from the Jewish Bible that the Moshiach was to have a sacrificial, redemptive
mission. In
Genesis 22:7,
the Moshiach is the coming Pesach/Passover
lamb, the "Seh" of Isaiah
53:7 that Isaac asks for
(unwittingly for his redemption and for
the redemption of
the Israel of G-d in his loins.) In Genesis 22:8
this same
portentous Moshiach-Lamb is the very one
foreshadowed when
Abraham promises G-d will provide.
Therefore, in the promise
of typology, if the Jewish Bible is
allowed to interpret
itself, one son (G-d's) is to be
vicariously substituted for
another (Abraham's), as it says in Isaiah
53:4-5,10,12--
see note #10.
[98]
Genesis
18:14; 3:15.
The "Son of the Promise" is an
important Messianic theme. The "The Zerah haIsha" ("Seed
of
the Woman") who is promised in
Genesis 3:15 is to crush the
Serpent.
The Brit Chadasha Holy Jewish Scriptures shows
that since Satan deceives and tempts to
sin, death is both sin's
penalty and Satan's power. Isaiah shows us a deliverer
(Moshi'a) coming who can wrest this
power away, pay sin's
penalty, defeat both sin and death
itself, and reveal the
new humanity of the new holy age where
sin and death are
bound--see note #99. This idea of the "Son of the
Promise"
underscored here in Genesis
18:14 points toward the
deliverer foreshadowed also by others,
like Samson and Samuel, whose
supernaturally orchestrated births were
a sign of divine
rescue on the way. Moses tells us in Genesis 49:10
that the
Deliverer will come through Judah. But here, even before
Judah or Jacob, G-d miraculously brings
into being Isaac,just as G-d miraculously brings into being his true people of
the
new birth. The supernatural birth of both G-d's people
(from the exile of sin) and the G-d's
Moshiach (Immanuel) is a key
theme related to the doctrine of
salvation in Isaiah. See
note #99.
[99]
Isaiah
7:14. This word
"haALMAH" is translated "the
virgin" not only in the rabbinically translated
Septuagint but in
modern Jewish translations of the same
Hebrew word in Song
of Song (Shir haShirim) 6:8,
so there is no good reason not to
translate the verse with the word
"virgin." In Song of Songs 6:8
the king's female companions were queens and either
concubines or virgins (see Esther 2:13-14,17),
not mere
unmarried maidens who may have
previously co-habited with
another man--a capital offense in Israel
and a
disqualification for the king's harem in
the book of Esther.
In Esther 2:13-14
there are two harems, one for the virgins,
and one for the concubines, and they had
separate entrances.
Queen Vashti occupied another area, as
did Esther when she
became queen. In Isaiah
7:14, the prophet is referring to a
"sign" for the dynasty of
David, something miraculous. The
words "son" and
"child" are very important to Isaiah's
message.
He refers to his own son, to David's son, and to a
son he calls "G-d-with-us" and
"Mighty G-d"--see note #40,
and yet Isaiah marvels at this personage
being born as a
humble child, just as a little child
leads the rest of
creation in the future kingdom-Isaiah
11:6. The future kindgom
is described in passages which include Isaiah
2:1-4; 4:2-6; 11:6-9;
25:6-8;
35:1-10;
60:1-22. The future king
of this glorious kingdom is described in
passages which
include 7:1-12:6; 32:1-20;
49:1-57:21; 61:1-11.
[100]
Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 12:11 [101]
Yochanan
8:58-59 Moshiach said, "Before Abraham was, I
am." The self-description of G-d in
Exodus 3:14 is "I am" or "I
am that I am"--see note #102. The divine self-description
is solemnly pronounced by his Word the
Moshiach in this
passage. Moshiach completes the
self-description with
several "I AM" sayings: the
Bread of Life (6:35), the Light
of the World (8:12);
the Gate (10:7,9), the Good Shepherd
(10:11,14),
the Resurrection and the Life (11:25), the Way,
and the Truth, and the Life (14:6),
the True Vine (15:1,5).
Liberal New Testament scholars once
thought these sayings
were unreliable and late, collected by
the not-so-early-
church.
Now even liberal scholars like J.A.T. Robinson
have dated the entire New Testament
within
40 or less years of the crucifixion.
Why? Because, among
other things, the destruction of the
Bais haMikdash (the
Temple), a mighty argument in favor of
the claims of Moshiach Yeshua, seems to be something the New Testament
writings are entirely ignorant
about. This raises the
probability that the destruction of the
Temple hadn't
happened yet, and that these very early,
reliable New
Testament documents were written before
70 C.E. and much
closer to the time of the ministry of
Moshiach in 30 C.E.
[102]
Exodus
3:13-14 [103] I Kings
8:43 [104] Devorim
(Deuteronomy) 4:2 [105]
Proverbs
30:6 [106] Mishle (Proverbs) 14:12;
53:6;
Psalm 14:1; 51:5; 66:18
[107]
Isaiah
40:9 [108] Isaiah
52:7 [109] Isaiah
61:1 [110] Isaiah
50:6 [111] Iyov
(Job) 19:25 [112] Hoshea
(Hosea) 6:2 "After two days he will revive us; on
the Yom haShlishi (the third day) he
will raise us up, and
we shall live in his sight." Just
as Moshiach was raised
from the dead through the glory of the
Father, we too may
live a new life (Romans
6:4).The Word of G-d took on human
form and died for all; therefore, all
have died (II Cor.5:14).
The old humanity has already been put to
death,
and he who does not believe is condemned
already (Yochanan 3:18). This is why everyone has not
yet been raised bodily
from the dead: because those who hear
and believe must
first be raised spiritually from the
dead. See notes #64-73. If
we reject Moshiach's
interpretation of the Tanakh of Hosea
6:2 in favor
of our own interpretation, there is a
way that seems right to
a person, but that way leads to death (Proverbs
14:12).
[113]
Habakkuk
2:4 "Behold, as for the one that is lifted up,
his soul is not right
within him; but the
righteous shall
live by his emunah
(faith).
"You're crazy," someone sneers. "You have a whole website about Yoshke the Son of G-d? Ha!"
Credentials: Moshiach The Prophet Like Moshe Rebbeinu Deut 18:18
Credentials: Moshiach The Zera Dovid 1Ch 17:11,12; Isa 11:1,10
Credentials: Moshiach The Son of HaAlmah Besulah Isa 7:13,14
Credentials: Moshiach The Zoon Foon Der Oybershter Ps 2:7
Credentials: Moshiach Nothing less than Dan 7:13-14 Bar Enosh Elokim Isa 9:5[6]
Credentials: Moshiach Born in Beit-Lechem Micah 5:1
Credentials: Moshiach The Eternal One Micah 5:1
Credentials: Moshiach preaches, heals, saves Isa 61:1,2
Credentials: Moshiach Enters Jerusalem Zechariah 9:9
Credentials: Moshiach Scourged, Pierced like Absalom Ben Dovid on a Tree, Buried in a kever (Isa 53:9)
Credentials: Moshiach our sair l'Azazel Yom Kippur Sin-Bearer of Lev 16:22 and Isa 53:12
Credentials: the Techiyas HaMoshiach Resurrection of Messiah Psa 16:9-11
Credentials: the Aliyah of Moshiach to Himel Ps 110:1
Credentials: After Besuras HaGeulah of Moshiach's Akedah is preached to the whole world, Moshiach comes again visibly Daniel 7:13
Credentials: Moshiach comes to die to make a korban kaparah
not for himself but for "My Jewish People" in the narrow window of time before the destruction of the
Second Temple 70 C.E. (Dan 9:26)
Moshiach's Name Sake is the Kohen Gadol who rebuilds the Second Temple
after the Golus: Yeshua or Yehoshuah--NOT Menachem (Zech 6:12)
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Because
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this means it is factually
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SORRY TO BE BLUNT BUT YOU MAY NOT SEE THE FIRE OR SMELL THE SMOKE WHEN THE FIREMAN COMES TO SAVE
YOU AND WHEN HE RUDELY RAPS ON YOUR DOOR WITH HIS PICKAXE,
BECAUSE AT SUCH A TIME THERE IS NOT A LOT OF PATIENCE TO
ARGUE ABOUT AN
ETERNAL GEHINNOM IN THE TANAKH OR ABOUT THE FIREY
SHOAH CURSES OF THE TORAH [WHICH YOU AREN'T READING
THE WHOLE
MEGILLAH]. AT SUCH A TIME THERE IS NOT A LOT OF PATIENCE TO
ARGUE ABOUT THE PROVENANCE OF MOSHIACH'S DERECH
HASHEM SEFER OR ABOUT WHY YOU NEED
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???? ?????? ????. ????? 53: 5; 53: 11
DO YOU KNOW THE DERECH HASHEM [REQUIRES LITERACY IN
HEBREW]?
In my heart there is a Shtiebel, a small
prayer room. Small but commodious,
stretching out like Abraham’s
Ohel into eternity.
There I meditate
day and night. I invite you to look around this Shtiebel
of my soul. You will see first a
raised platform, a bema,
and that bema is where the Baal Tefilah lies face down to
daven, among the holy scrolls that are spread out in the light of the Ner
Tamid which hangs over the Aron
Kodesh. One day in this Shtiebel
of the heart, I heard a soft rapping at the door. I looked at the uprights of the door and
saw that the mashkof (lintel) and the mezuzot
had been struck with Dahm (Blood). I looked at the latch.
What would happen if I opened it?
I had been meditating on the door
standing open in heaven.
I was thinking about heaven and the Bar Enosh coming to the Ancient
of Days on the clouds of heaven. I wanted the Spirit
to lift me up and take me in visions of El Shaddai far above my dark
racing My eyes examined the Blood
on the
mashkof (lintel). I seemed to know that my dark
vain thoughts must be constantly expiated
by the Blood
of the mashkof, lest the Evil
one defile my pnimiyus
Shtiebel. On the shulchan
(table) of that Shtiebel is a menorah which is a lamp unto my feet and a Sefer Torah which is a light
unto my path, that Hashem
Eloheicha might be with me and that my
thoughts might be acceptable in His sight. Again, I heard a soft rapping at the
door. I knew whoever knocked was
standing behind the kotel
(wall). And I looked, and, hinei, the
Kavod Hashem filled the Shtiebel. The door was locked. But I sensed my soul under scrutiny. Again I heard the soft rapping at the
door. In my heart there is a Shtiebel,
a small prayer room. Small but commodious, stretching out like Abraham’s Ohel into eternity. From that vantage point there is another
Comforter, the Ruach Hakodesh. And also the Bar
Enosh and the Ancient of Days.
Shloshah (Three). Abraham looked out the entrance of his Ohel and saw Shloshah
(Three). Yet His
Name is Echad. But when the door opened, there was only
a Lamb. The Lamb was standing. It had
the appearance of having been slaughtered. Its throat was cut and the bloody mortal
wound was a sign that the desolating plague
had skipped or passed over my door.
Then I heard the Voice. “If anyone will invite me to come in, I
will come in.” In the darkness
of my nefesh, I reached
for
the Ohr HaOlam that was shining. His glance fell on the Sefer Torah like
a laser beam, lighting every Hebrew Letter and every firey place which
speaks of him in every Word. As far as this Shtiebel
is concerned and also my dark thoughts, things are rising
brighter now since Moshiach has entered
the shul of
my heart. ARE YOU DEPRESSED [THIS IS IN ENGLISH]?
First let's get something clear about
erroneous notions of Paul and his founding a new religion, which he didn't.
True, the
halakhah of his Judaism switched from the Pharisaic oral law
to the Ruach Hakodesh, but his religion was still one of the Judaisms of the
time, not a new non-Judaism Gentile religion.
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