When you first heard the claims that Y'shua (Jesus) was Messiah did you race home and grab your Bible to find out whether he fit the bill for Mashiyach (Messiah)?   Did you study your way deeply through the Prophets to figure out if Y'shua is the One and Only?  That's not what people generally do.  Did you ask yourself WHY?  Why did what he do it, or could what he did make him or disqualify him as Messiah?  What criterion do we judge him by?  What we generally do is ponder the many ideas we've heard about Messiah, things about government, justice and truth, and then we decide whether Y'shua fits the picture of who we've been taught Mashiyach is "supposed" to be.

 

When Y'shua walked in haEretz (the Land of) Israel there was plenty of corruption; religion had become a power grab for money and politics; this is the one thing all Jews agree with.  Jewish sects were at war among themselves, there were rivalries among the various sects who were vying for the top position of the political hierarchy.  Many didn't appreciate what Y'shua was saying and doing, he waltzed into the Temple in Jerusalem and smashed tables and said nasty things to the money changers.  YIKES!!!  This is what Mashiyach would do, why?

 

Torah says if it's a long journey for you to get to Jerusalem for the Shalosh Regalim (three annual feasts where all males are commanded to appear before YHWH), you are to sell your tithe "wrap up the money" and go on a shopping spree once you get there.  Three times a year, Pesach, Shavuot and Succoth, the supply and demand curve peaks in Jerusalem.  Some people got well padded by selling their wares at huge mark-ups during the Chagim (feasts) and the fact is that some things never change... "they" are still doing it Jerusalem, some hike up the prices because they can!  If you've tried to rent a car in Jerusalem during the Feasts you know what I'm talking about.  Some car rental companies want THREE TIMES more money during the feasts than during the off peak season.  This was one of the things Y'shua didn't appreciate about the religious and political system of his day...

 

Large families who worked the land also lived simple lives, not highly educated, not high net-worth individuals, the Feasts of YHWH became a hardship rather than a joy for them.  Today Rabbis get paid by the State of Israel, then they also dip into people's pockets to perform bar mitzvahs, weddings etc, there is something very wrong with the religious picture today, it is much the same as when the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD.  Y'shua saw the need for change, he took it upon himself to make the change... "he ruffled some feathers" and he asked his followers to be faithful and true to what he taught.

 

It's a pretty rare soul who studies the Tanakh to determine why we need a Mashiyach or whether Y'shua is Mashiyach, but, this is the ONLY context where we can find the criterion and profile of haMashiyach.  Mashiyach epitomizes Justice, Peace and Righteousness.  He is the Author of Peace.  If we were to consider the needs for all people as a whole we would be more inclined to recognize the need for Mashiyach, and for who Y'shua really is.  One of the biggest aspirations we all share is for Peace, within our families, among our friends, and between the nations of the earth.  We want fairness and equity for everyone.  Our hearts long for the day when Peace will flow through the land, when greed and power mongering among the nations subsides, when Justice flows like a river. 

 

Let's be honest, aren't our hearts mourning for those who suffer under injustice?  Don't we grieve over the horrific and senseless loss of life due to the plague of false government, religion and corporate greed?  The big question really is... how could Mashiyach have come into the world and it still remain such a dark and barbaric place?  Wasn't Mashiyach supposed to make it all better?

 

The most famous Jewish Historian (Josephus Flavius) wrote that Y'shua did "so many miracles it wouldn't even be right to call him a man", he did things beyond what any man has ever done before him.  But Mashiyach never acted as self-interested hero like so many other religious leaders, he came for people.  He came to empower us to be changed into the Image of Elohim though not everyone desires to live a righteous and pure life, or would ever think to suffer for righteousness.  Y'shua gave us the option and established the criterion whereby we could live according to Righteousness and Truth.

 

Y'shua's "crime" according to religion of his day was that he came in the Name of YHWH.  But that's about as radical as it gets, imagine that.  He didn't condemn, he gave opportunity for everyone to make teshuva (turn to YHWH) and realize our full potential in him.  Y'shua's teaching about Justice and the Kingdom of Elohim broke down the religious ideas of his day, the hearts of those who heard him were pierced, we could not deny his self sacrifice.  Let's face it, most of us are too busy with other things to take time to "major in giving to others".  How many have a career in loving their neighbour?  How many have a doctorate in giving to others?  How many treat everyone as equals, demonstrate love towards all souls regardless of religion or externals.  How many religious people love or give without strings attached?  Most religious people are seeking converts, many really don't give a hoot about you unless you convert and become one of them.  The only time they show interest in you is if you show interest in what is important to them, that's what religion does to people.

 

In every instance Y'shua demonstrated compassion and love for human life far beyond what man had experienced before.  Y'shua and his talmidim spoke with authority, they spoke the truth in love, they stepped on toes of those who lacked love and compassion, they held up a standard of Righteousness that valued human life and dignity far more than religious institutions of men. 

 

Some postulate that it's all a fantasy, that historical revisionists made up cunning stories and made a Mashiyach out of nothing they say.  However, the reason we know Y'shua is Mashiyach, is the evidence within us.  No external religious ideologies can "prove" Y'shua as Mashiyach.  The only factor we can be certain of is the revelation of his Perfection with us.  When we can see the Spirit of YHWH in us, changing us according to His Torah (Word) and righteous government then we know that we know.

 

Mashiyach is born inside of us, his Spirit lives in us and this is whether we believe in him or not, because while we where yet unbelievers (who had no trust in Mashiyach), Mashiyach still believed in us.  Let me explain.  How is it that you are able to feel right from wrong?  Why does injustice hurt?  Why is there an attraction between male and female that makes you want to make children and procreate the human race?  Why is there a beauty in seeing your child's smiling face, feeling their tender kisses and hearing their voice say I love you daddy or mommy?  The beauty within our souls is Mashiyach, the connection is to life and his goodness.

 

What are you?

 

No, not who are you, and not what do you do for a living, but what are you?  Are you the face, eyes and skin that others see coupled with your emotions and intellect?  Is it that talent you have that defines what you are?  No of course not.

 

You ARE a spirit.  You are a spirit who moves in a physical body.  You have an intellect and emotions that convey your spirit to other spirits.  You have a set of values and a philosophy about life.  Would your heart break if you witnessed a young mother smash her fist into the side of her little child's head while shopping at the mall.  Glad she wasn't your mother right?  What about the child?  A big reason why many are not religious is because they don't want to be numbered with religious, hypocritical, two faced, gossiping, evil imagination, conspiracy wacked out people who want to tell you how to live your life and make you feel like garbage for doing the same stuff they practice themselves...

 

The human experience is holy, not mundane, not average, we are NOT made to be a mere existence.

 

We are called to be a Kedoshim (a Set Apart people) unto YHWH (the Master of the Universe is Yahweh, spelled in Hebrew yod hey vav hey).  Yes there are ideas about what it means to be Holy, but what is really is pleasing to the Master who gave us all life?  The answer is the same as why Mashiyach came, it has to do with the impartation of Perfection within the human soul.

 

Being Set Apart unto our Creator is a beautiful and magnificent thing that is truly the goal of human destiny.  Can you believe that YHWH calls certain men "PERFECT"?  Noah and Abraham were perfect according to YHWH.  So the point is that we need to see ourselves through our Master's eyes, not our own, not anyone else's.  That connection is Mashiyach.  He is a spirit.  Mashiyach came to earth and walked around and ate fish, drank wine, cried and bled but the Spirit within him is the Ruach haKodesh, the Spirit of YHWH.  This is why the prophets of YHWH call Mashiyach the Davar (Word) or Memra (Word) of YHWH.  In other words worshipping the flesh of Jesus is pure paganism, simple a different form of old, mundane Greek and Babylonian paganism.  Flesh is not holy, the Spirit of YHWH is Kadosh (Set Apart or Holy).

 

Ok so what about you then?  The Spirit of Mashiyach is within you too, but you must also choose to welcome him.  Spirit is referred to in the feminine gender in Hebrew, but in reality YHWH is neither male nor female.  Spirit is Spirit and flesh is flesh.

 

Certainly many don't accept Y'shua as the Mashiyach yet over 14% of Jews in America believe Y'shua is Mashiyach.  More Jews believe Y'shua is Mashiyach than those who follow Orthodox Judaism.  Christianity and Rabbinical Judaism has made religion it's own Messiah, that's why the world is the way it is.

 

Only a small number of "Jews" or "Israelites" or "Gentiles" ultimately need to press into Mashiyach collectively to change the world... but the Christian, Jewish and Messianic cucumbers, leeks, and flesh pots of Egypt's religions are much too important for most "Believers".  How many people do you know have a degree in Mercy?  or in the Justice of Mashiyach according to Torah?  How many have a PhD in loving kindness or a Masters degree in simcha (Joy)?

 

Each one must ask YHWH to reveal His Mashiyach, we cannot come to know Mashiyach by intellectual ideas anymore than one can have a theory of having a "best friend".  Y'shua is not a politician he is a Servant, what Y'shua did stuck with mankind forever, (the portion of mankind who responds to him).  Y'shua has impacted the world for Righteousness and Love like no other, no Rabbi or leader has produced such immeasurable "fruits" of Righteousness or controversy for righteousness as much as Y'shua.  But we don't really see all the visible fruits, because we cannot compare our own world to where Mashiyach isn't because he is within all that is Holy, Just and Good.  Love has been extended to us, throughout our lives because of him.

 

The life-force of Y'shua Mashiyach judges us, he is the standard of Righteousness that we are measured to.  If you say that Y'shua is NOT Mashiyach why don't you go ahead and perform more righteousness than he did?  If you judge the greatest Jew of all times as being a fake, where does that leave you and I?  Mashiyach gave no rhetoric, no redundancies or clichés, he speaks to mans real needs, Y'shua's actions and Words are given to establish Torah (righteous instruction) in our hearts.

 

Y'shua is Mashiyach, he is everything in a man we want and more, we can easily choose to life or death according to the things Y'shua exemplified, because he is greater than life itself, Love, Justice, Peace and Goodness are greater than a mere material existence.  Souls are not persuaded of his Messiahship, not because he didn't fulfill prophecies as Mashiyach Ben Yoseph but because they have yet to experience him.  It's not doctrine or intellectual things that will convince and change us, it's love, trust, mercy and righteous Judgment... tenderness, spiritual intimacy... belonging... purpose that changes us.

 

Over and over, throughout the Scriptures we read about being "in Messiah" and about Messiah being "in us", this is not a theological dissertation, it's a meaningful purpose driven existence we are called to in him.  It is being true to ourselves, our individuality, our uniqueness, our divinely created purpose.

 

Compare yourself with Y'shua; go ahead and please define love for me.  What do we really know about love? Where do we go to find out?  Who of us loves the way Mashiyach loves?  Any takers?  People don't choose to follow Mashiyach because they're afraid of hell, they choose to follow religion because they are afraid of hell!  I need to know Mashiyach to live up to my fullest potential.  Mashiyach chooses us, he chooses you to seek him and know his Father.  We would not have known love had we not come to know Mashiyach, he is the Perfect Lover of our souls. 

 

Y'shua says the Mitzvoth (Directions or Commandments of YHWH) are not to be a burden to us, rather they are to bless us, protect us, prosper us.  Religion cannot lead anyone to Mashiyach, wanting to know and experience the truth about Love and Life is what leads us to Mashiyach!  Run like hell from people who know everything there is to know about YHWH and His Mashiyach, these are dangerous religious people!  How can anyone define who you are? only the One who fashioned you and gave you life can truly define you within Himself!  But, it is how you live and respond to YHWH and His Mashiyach that defines your future, and the future is right now.

 

Y'shua came through the line of Yehudah (Praiser of YHWH) and David.  All of the Torah is Y'shua's platform to establish His Righteousness.  More and more Christians are looking into Hebrew and Aramaic and studying Torah to know who Y'shua really is and what he really taught, his teachings have been the most counterfeited of any Teacher that ever lived!  Y'shua was fashioned into a Greek philosopher and intellect, he was given a Greek name (Iesous - Jesus) and Greek garments of paganism and philosophy and is upheld under a pseudo name by a pagan world which is why Jews don't see him as their own Mashiyach.

 

It is through ancient Jewish Hebrew culture that Y'shua came into this world, the same culture and language YHWH used to teach His Holiness, Righteousness, Sanctification and Truth to the world by Torah (instruction in righteousness) to Moshe.  Y'shua was remade into a Greek god called "Jesus", but Greek gods don't look or sound like Jewish Messiahs do they?  No.  The Jewish Messiah would not show people how to put up Christmas trees, make Easter eggs, or worship on Sun-day.  It's really hard to imagine how far the church fell away from entering into Mashiyach, most Christians are too embarrassed to enter into the Seventh Day Shabbat (completion and rest) that YHWH instituted at Creation, in fear of appearing too Jewish and thus being outcasts from their churches.  The enemy has planted wrongness within church hierarchies like weeds, the post-apostolic designers of the modern church were destined to reinvent Mashiyach into their pagan mindsets, just like Egypt re-invented Joseph so that his own brothers couldn't recognize him.

 

There is no atonement without repentance of sin, yet religion tells us that religion (doctrine) is higher than Mashiyach who demands sacrifice.  We are called to take up your sufferings for righteousness sake.  Do battle against all unrighteousness.  Mashiyach is not a "Christian" idea, false Christianity is the "Mystery of Iniquity", and Mashiyach warned us to beware of this anti-Messiah... there is a Torah-less deity that exists in the minds of many Christians under the pseudo name of Jesus!

 

According to the Christian encyclopedia there are over 33,800 Christian denominations on earth, each one has a Jesus who teaches something different that the other 33,799 denominations.  But Christians all say their Jesus is the right one.  Most Christians are far more interested on upholding denominational identities than Mashiyach, this is why most of the world rejects Y'shua, not because of who he is but because of what his followers are doing in his name.

 

All that does NOT disqualify Y'shua as being Mashiyach, on the contrary, it proves that the authentic and original Mashiyach was extremely well counterfeited, even over-counterfeited to the point of obscuring his identity!  Man is embarrassed by his own loveless, lawless and pathetic state, so he fashioned a multitude of religions to make himself feel better about himself.  People go to the church of their choice to feel good about being a "Christian", but one of Y'shua's talmidim (disciples) said it this way...

 

 

 

The false Messiah under the banner of Jesus deceives many souls with power and signs and lying wonders and with all deception of unrighteousness.  But Mashiyach Y'shua will always be the Righteous Mashiyach who established Torah in our hearts.  Jesus and his "followers" trash Torah and speak against those who enter into His Righteousness, they will not enter and the make it very hard for others to enter.

 

The followers of Jesus will one day have to choose between their Torahless religion that teaches

about Christmas trees, Easter eggs, Sunday worship, eating blood and swine sausages.

 

OR

 

Y'shua the Living Word of YHWH who writes Torah upon our hearts.

 

Mashiyach Y'shua is symbolized in the life of Joseph and his brothers in Egypt.  Joseph's brothers could not recognize him because he looked like an Egyptian. 

 

HaSatan did a makeover and counterfeited the Name and Teachings of Y'shua, into the form of a pagan Greek deity called Jesus, make no mistake about it.

 

Look carefully into the Life of Y'shua, many objections regarding his Messiahship are terribly and miserably unfounded.  Today the Christian world and its leaders willfully crucify Y'shua each day by their words and actions, they have remade Y'shua into a Torahless Gentile so they themselves can abandon righteousness and feel good about living carnal materialistic lives.

 

Y'shua didn't break Torah, nor did His talmidim,

He made a way for us to observe the Torah joyfully...

by Grace.

 

     So the next time you hear...

 

Mashiyach!!!   Mashiyach!!!  Mashiyach!!!

 

Think about Y'shua!

 

May your joy be full in Him.

 

Shalom U'Vrachot,

 

Baruch Ben Daniel

 

P.S.  Grace is a gift that Mashiyach gives you, but some people take that gift, put it on the mantle, and never bother to open it again.  They talk about it, sing about it, read about it, TESTIFY about it, but it stays there year after year and never gets opened and discovered and it never changes their lives. 

 

What do you think they would find inside yourself if you look?  I know that you will find a very beautiful and special gift that is far, far beyond the value of silver or gold.  It's unique, made specially for you.  It's your empowerment to exist in a fallen world and live like Y'shua did.  Radical.  Contrary to the mainstream status quo.  Now is the time to start a revolution in your life.

 

Imagine if a Christian person all of a sudden started living like Y'shua and his Apostles... delighting in Shabbat, entering into his Biblical Feasts, using the Name of YHWH and becoming confident in who they are in him... when their church says NO way!  Imagine living like Mashiyach lived.  You know as well as I that there will be blood... people will pay for being different... you won't fit into the scheme of man's religion. 

 

Maybe you are now considering the REAL Mashiyach?

 

Also, did you know that "post apostolic church founders" made up a bunch of fictional apostles... like Barnabas of Alexandria a supposed "expert" on Paul... pastors will never tell you because of... tradition.

 

Christian pagan tradition. 

 

Did you know that post-apostolic founders put their own "scripture" into Christian bibles that never existed in the earliest Greek or original Aramaic texts, like John 8, the story of the woman caught in adultery?  That was inserted into Christian bibles to assure Christians that they could sleep with another man's wife and Jesus would forgive them... over and over again.  It's a lie they made up (the church founders did) so they can cater to the desires of the carnal flesh, if you are an adulterer there are plenty of churches who will make you feel good about your sinning.  This is only one example, I could give a hundred more but that's not the point... you'll find this out for yourself when you study about the real Mashiyach.

 

Why did Rabbinical Judaism remove the Name of YHWH from the Tanakh where it refers to Mashiyach, the Memra of YHWH?  Why?  Because by the Second Century CE, Rabbinical Judaism was treading water fast to stay afloat.  Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai had to spin a whole lot of tales to keep Jews from leaving the nest and following Mashiyach.  The Temple was destroyed by the Romans (who became Christians by force by the way) and Jewish identity was at a low, what to do?  Make Jewish identity the focal point then.  If you're Jewish you are a target to be enticed under Rabbinical authority, Chabad is looking for you.  NO, you're not Jewish? Well if you're not Jewish then the Rabbinical doesn't have a place for you within the religious Jewish community unless you convert, deny Y'shua, and come under their religious authority.

 

That's how it works.  Rabbinical authority hates Y'shua's Messiahship because they can't compete, they are dead in the water and losing ground by the second.

 

Jewish identity without Mashiyach is a farce.  Mashiyach is the quintessential Jew and he opened up the Kingdom of Heaven to the Goyim, see Isaiah 56, this is why the Jewish mafia hated him then, and hate him today.