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When
we first heard of Yeshua or Jesus did we race home and grab our Bibles to find out whether He was
the Mashiyach? Did we charge our way through the
Prophets to
figure out if YESHUA is the One? No, that's not what people
generally do! What we generally
do is think about what we've been taught, then we decide whether Yeshua
fits the picture. When Yeshua
walked in HaEretz Israel there was much corruption, religion had become a greedy power grab for money
and politics, this is the one thing where all Jews agree.
Jewish sects were at war with each other, there were rivalries among the
sects for the top position on the
political ladder. Many didn't appreciate what Yeshua was doing,
for instance He waltzed into the
Temple and smashed down the tables of the merchants. YIKES!!!
The Torah says if it's a long journey for you to get to Jerusalem
for the Shalosh Regalim (three annual feasts), you are to sell your tithe "wrap up the money"
and go shopping when you get to Jerusalem. Three times a year, Pesach, Shavuot and Succoth, the
supply and demand curve peaks in Jerusalem. Some people got
well padded by selling at huge mark ups during the Chagim (feasts), based on the
supply and demand curve. They are still doing it Jerusalem, some people
love to hike up the prices
when they can get away with it! If you've tried to rent a car in
Jerusalem during the Feasts, you know what I'm talking about.
Some car rental companies try to get THREE TIMES more money during
the feasts, than during off peak seasons. This is
one of the things Yeshua
didn't appreciate in the Temple, religious leaders oppressed the
poor. For those
with large families, who work off the land, they live simple lives, they
are not
so highly educated, not born into wealthy families, the Feasts of YHWH became a
hardship rather than Joy. Even today in Israel Rabbis get paid by
the State of Israel, then they also dip into everyone's pockets when
they perform weddings etc. Yeshua saw the need for change, He
took it upon Himself to make the changes... some would say "he
kicked some ass".
Yes, it's a very rare soul who analyzes the Tenach to determine whether Yeshua
is Mashiyach, but this is the ONLY context where we find the criterion
and profile of HaMashiyach. Mashiyach epitomizes everything there is
in Justice,
Peace and Righteousness. He is the Author of Peace. If we
were to separate out our own political aspirations, we
might be more inclined to recognize Mashiyach for who He really is. One of the
biggest aspirations we all share is to have Peace within our souls, and
within our families, among our friends and between all the nations on
earth.
We want fairness and equity for
all. We long for the day when Peace will flow through the
Land, when greed and power mongering among the Nations will subside, when Justice flows like a river.
Let's be honest, our hearts mourn for those who suffer under injustice, we deeply grieve the
horrific and senseless loss of life due to the plague of false
governments and religions.
The big question is how could Mashiyach have come into the world and it
still be such a dark and barbaric place? Many thought
Mashiyach was supposed to make it all better.
The
most famous of all Jewish Historians writes that Yeshua 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. But Mashiyach never came
to be a hero, and he never came for Himself, He came for us. He
came to empower us to be changed and not everyone wants to live a
righteous and pure life. Yeshua gave us the option and established
the criterion whereby we could live in and for the Truth.
Y'shua's
"crime" according to religions of His day was that He came in the Name of YHWH and spoke the truth in love.
He didn't condemn but He gave everyone opportunity for all to make teshuva
(turn to YHWH). Yeshua's love for
people and His teaching about Justice and the Kingdom of Elohim broke religious ideas of His day, the hearts of those who heard
Him were pierced, we could not deny His Love and self sacrifice.
Let's face it, most of us are too busy with other things that to take
the time to major in Love. How many people do you know have a
career in Love? How many people do you know have a degree in
giving? How many? How many treat everyone on earth like
equals, they just love the souls of people regardless of religion or all
the externals. How many religious people love or give without
strings attached? Most religious people only want a convert, they
don't give a crap about you unless you're one of them.
In every instance Yeshua demonstrated
compassion and love for human life far beyond what man had experienced
before. Yeshua and His
talmidim spoke with authority, they spoke the truth in love, they stepped on
toes of those who lacked love and compassion for others, they held up a standard of Righteousness that valued
human life much higher than religious institutions of their day. Some
posture that it was a fantasy, and historical revisionists who made up
cunning stories to make a Mashiyach from nothing, the big problem with this
foolish idea is that
He would have had to be "remade" in every generation since then.
The reason we know that Yeshua is Mashiyach,
is that the evidence is within us. There are no external religious
ideologies that we can look to in an attempt to "prove" Yeshua as
Mashiyach. The only factor we can be certain of is FAITH.
Mashiyach is centered on Justice, Truth and Peace,
everything that religion, oppression, dictatorship and politics is not.
Mashiyach is born inside of us, His Spirit lives in us. Mashiyach
is not a theory or a historical ideology, He is Present Reality.
Mashiyach defines Love, Mercy, Judgment and Faith, these actions are
beyond man's own energy to grasp, we need Mashiyach to help us take hold
of these which He designed and created within His people.
The Human
experience is Holy, not mundane, not average, we are here not just
to exist. We are to "BE" Holy (Set Apart unto YHWH) and "BE" a Kedoshim (a Holy people)
unto Him.
Certainly there are many who don't accept Yeshua as Mashiyach but
it's surprising that over 14% of Jews in
America believe Yeshua is Mashiyach, 40% more Jews in
America believe Yeshua is Mashiyach than who follow Rabbinical Judaism. The reason the world is the way it
is, isn't because Yeshua is not Mashiyach, it's because those who know
Mashiyach are too busy in Babylon rather than pursuing the Kingdom
of Elohim. Only a very small number of Jews or "Israelites" needs to press
into Mashiyach collectively to shake the world for
righteousness, but the cucumbers, leeks, and flesh pots of Egypt are much too important for
the "Believers". How many people do you know have a
degree in Mercy? How many have a PhD in Loving kindness or a
Masters degree in Joy?
Each one must ask YHWH to reveal His Mashiyach, we cannot come to know
Him by intellectual ideas anymore than one can have a "best friend"
based on theories. Yeshua is not a politician He is a Servant, what
Yeshua did stuck with mankind forever, well with some of mankind. Yeshua has impacted the
world for Righteousness by infinite degree, there is no Rabbi or leader
who has produced such immeasurable "fruits" of Righteousness or
of righteous controversy in the history of the world.
The life of Yeshua judges
everyone, He is the standard
of Righteousness that we are to be measured with. If you say that
Yeshua is NOT Mashiyach then let's see you perform more righteousness
than He? No kidding, if you judge the greatest Jew of all times as
a fake, where does that leave you? Mashiyach
gave no rhetoric, redundancies
or clichés, He speaks to mans needs, Yeshua's actions and Words are
given to establish
Torah in our hearts.
Many souls have lost their way, some are still busy playing religion,
some are after other gods, but because of Yeshua
we have learned to put trivial things aside. When we turn away
from sin and receive Yeshua as the Mashiyach we open our hearts to have Torah live inside us,
we live as a Kedoshim (Holy People).
Yeshua is the Mashiyach, He is everything in a man we want to be,
we can easily choose to live or die for the things of Yeshua Mashiyach
because He is greater than life itself.
Souls are not persuaded of His Messiahship because He fulfilled prophecies as Mashiyach Ben Yoseph,
it's not doctrinal or intellectual things that convince us, it's human need
for love, trust, mercy and Righteous Judgment. Compare yourself with
Yeshua, define love,
who loves others the way He does? I don't choose to
follow Mashiyach because I'm afraid to die, I need to know how to live
to my fullest potential.
Mashiyach chooses us, he chose you to seek Him and know Him. We would not have
known true love had we not come to know Yeshua Mashiyach, He is the Perfect Lover of our souls.
Yeshua says the Mitzvoth (Directions or Commandments of YHWH) are not a
burden, these are to bless us.
Religion cannot lead to Mashiyach, wanting to know and experience the truth
about Love and Life leads us to Yeshua, not to religion. Yeshua came through the
line of Yehuda and David. All of the Torah is
Yeshua's platform to establish His Righteousness. More and more
Christians are looking into Hebrew and Aramaic and studying Torah to
know what Yeshua really taught, His teachings have been the most counterfeited of any
Teacher that ever lived. Yeshua was fashioned to be a Greek philosopher, He was given a Greek
name (Iesous - Jesus) and Greek garments of paganism, and Greek
philosophy and He is upheld under a pseudo name by a pagan world.
It
is through
the Jewish Hebrew culture Yeshua came, the same culture and language YHWH
used to teach
His Holiness, Righteousness, Sanctification and Truth to the world by Torah
(instruction in righteousness).
Y'shua was quickly remade into a Greek god called
"Jesus", but Greek gods don't look or sound like Jewish
Messiahs do they? No Jewish Messiah would show people how to put up Christmas trees,
or make Easter
eggs, or worship on the Day of the Sun (Sunday). There is
certainly no atonement without repentance of our sins, yet religion says
that their religions are on a higher level than Mashiyach. Mashiyach
is not a "Christian" idea, Christianity is basic Hellenism
after the pseudo Messiah named
"Jesus". This is
precisely what the "Mystery of Iniquity" is, Mashiyach warned us
to beware of anti-Messiah. All this does not disqualify Y'shua as
being Mashiyach, on the contrary it proves that the original was
counterfeited by man, because man is embarrassed at his loveless,
lawless and pathetic state. Or maybe you think highly of how
mankind treats one another? Religion does whatever it wants
to appear credible before people, this is what the Prophets of YHWH said would happen,
hasatan puts in a fulltime effort to lie and deceive about the nature of
Love and Peace.
One of Yeshua's Talmidim wrote;
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"For I know
this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own
selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw
away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and
remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to
warn every one night and day with tears."
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"Let no man
deceive you by any means: for the day will not come, except
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called Elohim, or that is
worshipped; so that he as god sits in the temple of YHWH,
showing himself that he is god. NEVER FORGET, that,
when I was still with you, I told you these things.
And now you know what gives that he might be revealed in his
time. For the mystery of iniquity is already at work:
only he who now lets will let, until he is taken out of the
way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom
Mashiyach shall consume with the Spirit of His Mouth, and
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even
him, whose coming is after the working of hasatan with all
power and signs and lying wonders, And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. And for this cause Elohim shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
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The false Messiah under the banner of Jesus deceives many
souls with power and signs and lying wonders and with all deception of
unrighteousness. Mashiyach Yeshua will always be the Righteous Mashiyach who
established Torah, while Jesus and his followers are busy trashing Torah
and speaking against it and those who follow all Righteousness.
The followers of Jesus
will one day have to choose between their Torahless religion
which teaches Christmas
trees, Easter eggs, Sunday worship, blood and swine sausages.
OR
Yeshua the Living Word of
YHWH who writes Torah upon our hearts.
Mashiyach Yeshua 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
Yeshua, into the form of a pagan Greek deity called Jesus.
Look carefully into the Life of Yeshua, many objections regarding his
Messiahship are terribly and miserably unfounded. Today the
Christian world crucifies Yeshua every day by their words and actions,
they have remade Yeshua into a Torahless Gentile so they can abandon
righteousness and
feel good about living carnal lives.
Yeshua didn't break Torah, nor did His
talmidim,
He made a way for us to observe the Torah joyfully.
So the next time you hear...
Mashiyach!!!
Mashiyach!!! Mashiyach!!!
Think about YESHUA!
May your joy be
full in Him.
Shalom U'Vrachot,
Baruch Ben Daniel
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