As this year the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars are not in sync., we are between the two calendar dates for Passover/Unleavened Bread and First Fruits.
This gap in the dates, gives us an opportunity to focus on the single most miraculous event in time and eternity.
It is an event that we should remember all year, not just as the seasons make their turn.
Gethsemane and Calvary are in truth
the Gateways to Life /Chaim
and why Messiah said
I am the Way the Truth and the Life.
Derek, Emet and Chaim.
It is impossible for us who are bound in human flesh, to understand Messiahs agony, however, we don’t have to misunderstand it.
Matthew 26:36 – 38
It was the agony of God and man in the person Yeshua/Jesus as He came to face to face with sin; and on the cross He experienced total separation from His Father because as He became sin – as the sin offering – the Holiness of God could not look upon that sin.
It is not possible for us to experience Gethsemane and Calvary. We cannot learn about them through personal experience because they represent something totally unique.
They are the gateway,
the door, the dalet
into life for us.
It was not death on the cross that He was facing, that caused Yeshua/Jesus to agonize over when He was in Gethsemane; because He stated that His purpose was to die. He knew that was why He came.
It was not a shock to Him, He was completely aware of His Heavenly Fathers’ plan and the process He was to complete. Most likely His concern was that He might not get through this struggle as a Son of Man. He was confident at getting through it as the Son of God because Satan couldn’t not touch him there; the previous temptations had proved that. The pressure was the adversary’s assault against Him, with the focus that our Lord would come through for us on His own; solely as the Son of Man.
If Messiah had done that He could not have been our Savior.Hebrews 9:11–15
And we should read the account of Gethsemane and His agony in the light of His earlier temptations in the wilderness. The devil departed from Him until an opportune time. Luke 4:13. In Gethsemane was an opportune time, but satans attack was overthrown once again. The adversarys’ final assault against our Savior was in the garden of Gethsemane as the Son of Man.
The agony in Gethsemane was the agony of the Son of God in fulfilling His destiny as the Savior of the world. The veil is pulled back here, to reveal all that it cost Him to make it possible for us to become Sons and Daughters of God; HIs children, His Family. We should also remember that the Jews have a priority over the Gentiles, in that the Messiah Himself, Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach, came first as a Jewto the Jews. We are told in Romans 9:5, of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
and reminded again in Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;to the Jew first, and also to the Greek/heathen/gentiles.
HIs agony was the basis for the simplicity of our salvation.
The cross of Yeshua/Jesus was a triumph for the Son of man, and not only a sign that our Lord triumphed; but that He had triumphed to save the human race.
Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being has been provided with a way of access into the very presence of God.
Our gateway to God, our Heavenly Father.
1 Peter 2:24.
It cost him everything.
The cross of Calvary is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. It was not a martyrs death, it was the ultimate triumph and shook the very foundations of hell.
There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and undeniable, than what He accomplished on the cross. It changed everything for ever.
He made it possible for the entire human race to be brought back into a right standing relationship with the Father. He made redemption the foundation of human life, that is, He made a way for every person to have fellowship, communion and an intimate relationship with the creator of the universe.
That cross was not something that happened
TO Jesus/Yeshua, He came to die.
The cross was His purpose in coming.
The great divide was restored by a great collide.
He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8.
The incarnation of Yeshua Messiah would have no meaning without the cross.
We must be sure not to separate –
God was manifested in the flesh –
from
He made Him to be sin for us.
1Timothy 3:16; 2Corinthians 5:21.
The purpose of the incarnation was redemption.
The Most High God came in the flesh to take sin away, not to accomplish something for Himself.
Not only is the cross the central event
in time and eternity…
it is the answer to all the problems in both.
The cross is not a cross of a man, but the cross of the only creator God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords; and it can never be fully understood through the human experience.
The cross is our Heavenly Father God, Adonai Elohim Melech haOlam, displaying His nature. It’s the Gate through which any and every individual can enter into oneness with Him. However it is not a gate we pass right through, it’s the one where we enter His presence and where we abide – in the life/chaim that exists and is found there.
The heart of salvation is Messiahs cross and the reason it’s so easy for us to obtain, is that it cost the Father so much!
It was the place where a Holy God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision.
It is why the Way to life was opened, and we must remember, all the cost and pain of that collision was absorbed by the heart of our loving Father God.
The great division was restored by a great collision…. and the result was NOT
chaos, devastation and total destruction
but peace, healing and total restoration.
Colossians 1:20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
Let our prayer this week be for the eyes of our understanding to be enlightened, that we may know Him and power of His cross and resurrection…
Phil 3: 10-17 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Ephesians 1:18-23 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
who were a group of 37 men who fought with King David?
To answer this question we must journey back to a confrontation recorded in:
1 Samuel 4:6 On hearing the noise of the shout, the Philistines asked, “What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?” And when they realized that the ark of the LORD had entered the camp,
I Samuel 4:7: And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp and they said Woe unto us
And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.
JPS Tanakh 1917 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said: ‘God is come into the camp.’ And they said: ‘Woe unto us! for there was not such a thing yesterday and the day before.
What the Philistines knew but the Hebrew Israelites didn’t realize was that the Hebrews had with them
joined the ranks of the Israelites and the Philistines recognized when He did and they cried out in terror!
The Philistines were in fact saying that:
They were standing before the Third/Ultimate Warrior.
The use of the feminine pronoun, SHE, gives a picture of a mother fighting to protect her young.
This is a picture of an
ultimate warrior,
one who will fight to the death for someone or something,
and was the same in ancient times as it is today.
This is how the Philistines saw the Hebrew God; as a mother protectively wrapping her young in her arms and glaring at them and threatening that, if you touched her little ones you will have to deal with her, and the Philistines did not want to deal with “Her.”
This account is more than just the Philistines fear of the Israelites Hebrew God; it is about taking the physical ark they could see and touch in the natural to give them victory and not trusting in God and His spiritual power to intervene.
They were relying on
the power of an object,
instead of Who and Whom it represented.
Here it is interesting to note that it was the Philistines who recognized the difference; they said
GOD has come into the camp
not
the ark has come into our camp!!
The fact that the Philistines declared that God had come into the camp is profound because in verse 3, the children of Israel declared that “it”, referring to the ark, would save them.
And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, {c} Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
(c) Before we fought against men, and now God has come to fight against us.
Israel was defeated before the Philistines.
Why?
Because sin, was in the camp, and it gave their enemies all the advantage they could desire.
The hand of God was there for them but, instead of submitting, they spoke in anger, as if they were not aware of any action they had done to provoke Him.
The foolishness of man perverts his way, and then his heart frets against the Lord, Proverbs 19:3, and finds fault with him.
They supposed that they could compel God to appear and help them, by bringing the ark into the camp.
Those who have gone back into a life of religious doctrine and men’s traditions, sometimes end up loving and preferring all the outward observances, thinking these things will save them.
The Israelites thought that by bringing the Ark, God’s throne, into the camp, it would bring heavens help to them.
Whatever we place our trust in, whether it’s our Heavenly Father or the world and the flesh, this is what is really on the throne of the heart. This is what we have faith in.
The people of Israel said
the ark would save them
and the enemy, the Philistines, their godless, pagan enemies, said
“God” would save Israel!
There are occasions when the people of the world have greater clarity and can see things that we just don’t see.
The Parable of the Unjust Steward in
Luke 16:1–13 is referring to this.
Israel represented a strong and notable faith, one that was feared and respected by the Philistines, yet as events unfolded, it was shown that they may have represented a true faith, but in action, they had no faith at all.
They did not walk the walk, or talk the talk, and were defeated. Their failing was a lack of trust in the Lord which was caused by a lack of knowledge of Who He is, usually as a result of having no intimate relationship with the One they said they represented.
That last phrase: “Woe to us for there has not been such a thing heretofore” is a very strange statement. Most translations will render this phrase in a similar fashion, however, in Hebrew, it says literally:
“Woe to us for she has not come as this yesterday three days.” and it doesn’t seem to make sense.
Possibly what we are reading is a combination of the thoughts and feelings of all the Philistines? There is no single translation to this phrase.
The word yesterday is really an adverb which means before or heretofore.
The word thing is also very interesting.
As already noted, it’s the word
shaleshim
used in extra-Biblical literature for the
third warrior or the ultimate warrior.
The Philistines are saying that
they stand before the ultimate warrior.
The next time we are challenged or confronted by a spiritual Philistine, as they stand there laughing at us, they will see something behind us that we may not really be paying attention to, and they will run in terror because our Heavenly Father is right behind us; just like the mother bear, ready to rip that Philistine to shreds if they try to touch a hair on our heads.
Each translation renders this phrase a little differently but with much the same meaning, this is because its a difficult passage to translate and there aren’t appropriate words in the English language suitable to insert in here.
However it could read:
nothing like this has happened before.
But something like that had happened before… because in the Hebrew it literally says:
“Woe to us for she has not come as this yesterday three days.”
Yesterdayis an adverb and is correctly translated as
Heretofore …this three days.
Ancient Jewish literature provides insight into this phrase, as this is an ancient Semitic expression/ an idiom.
This Semitic idiom has its roots in the picture of picking up a chick/baby bird /equivalent to the first warrior; and then facing the wrath of the male/father bird /equivalent to the second warrior.
It is easy to deal with a baby bird, and the male father bird may show some increased resistance, but is not overwhelming. It is the reaction of the female mother bird that will be the problem, because she will fight to the death to protect her little chick/equivalent to the third warrior.
As already noted as an interesting point, that the Philistines used she, a feminine pronoun, to represent God and maybe the use of the feminine pronoun would be appropriate because this idiomatic expression pictures this ultimate warrior as a mother fighting to protect her young.
As ancient Semitic languages had only two genders, male and female and there was no neuter gender this was not unusual in those times.
However scholars note that in ancient pagan religions, many of these pagan gods and goddesses demanded an end to gender identity and the Priests of goddess religions had to be castrated and therefore rendered gender-neutral and homosexuality was also encouraged. It is clear that the enemy, unclean and fallen spirits were at the root of these pagan religions and were trying to destroy humanity; and there are certainly similarities to the gender-neutral movement we have today, to that of ancient paganism. Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun!
The word thing in this verse, which in Hebrew is the word
shaleshim and really means three days,
also carries the idea of a
third element.
Thing, third day, third warrior, ultimate warrior.
The Philistines are saying is that this is the first time
the third warrior or the ultimate warrior
has appeared or joined the Hebrew armies.
We could look at it in this way:
When Israel faced their enemy the first time, they were nothing more than a mere baby chick /first warrior, and were easily defeated by their attackers.
God later raised up judges who would lead a powerful army /second warrior.
The point to remember is what the Israelites didn’t fully comprehend but what the enemy knew, was that the Hebrews had a Shaleshim,
a Third or Ultimate Warrior
join their army and the Philistines recognized when He did; and this is why they cried out in terror because they knew that the equivalent of a ferocious mother bear had shown up to protect her cubs!
Everyone of us face difficult situations alone, and in the times when we face the enemy and are defeated/first warrior, we run to the local assembly and join forces with other believers/ second warriors, but sometimes the enemy will still attack and defeat us. However, when the appearance of that third warrior, Shaleshim, Who is Jesus/Yeshua, the more than equal of any ferocious mother defending her young, then the enemy flees in terror.
Resist the devil and he will flee.. James 4:7-8 and only when we submit ourselves to our Heavenly Father.
However, our complete and ultimate victory comes when we allow the Shaleshim, the Third Warrior, Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach to join us, that our victory is absolutely assured. The truth is that we can call upon that Third Warrior anytime we need Him. We may not always see the spiritual power behind our Shaleshim, but the enemy certainly does and flees in terror at the very sound of the Name of this Third Warrior.
Messiah Jesus/Yeshua crushed demonic power continually throughout His ministry. Our real enemy is the spirit behind the attack, our fight is not against flesh and blood.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, the rulers, against powers, the authorities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12
This is referring to the enemies that confront us in the spiritual realm. This present dark kingdom could be using a co-worker who is always difficult to deal with and causes us to constantly lose our peace and joy and then we react to them in an ungodly way. Another example could be someone reacting rudely to us while driving in traffic simply provoking us to react back at them. The dark kingdom continually uses people, situations and circumstances to attack us in the spiritual realm. It is at these times that Messiah teaches us how to connect and stay joined with Him, and deny ourselves and our fleshly, carnal, old man ways. Even when it’s painful, we are to daily carry our cross, deny those ways,
follow Him, think, speak and do as He would.
When we surrender our will to the Lord’s will within ourselves, He will come in power and demonstration in and through us as the Third Warrior. When He does, then His love flows through us to that unkind co-worker and begins a transformation in them too, because that change begins when we allow Yeshua/Jesus to first change us by the power of His Spirit of Holiness.
Only when our will is surrendered to His will can He use us as His vessel to flow in us, and through us, to affect and influence our circumstances in a powerful way as the Third Warrior.
All that Messiah imparted to His disciples includes entering the ongoing battle against the demonic powers, and in His name we are to set free those in bondage, He is our Deliverer, the Liberating King.
This is the truth that strengthens us to face the attack and enter the battle without fear.
Mark 16:15-20
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.
In ancient warfare,
Goliath was known as
the 3rd Warrior
the best of the best – the elite!
OurHeavenly Father/Yeshua/Jesus is
the 3rd and ultimate warrior.
We can appear to the devil to be easy prey and seemingly powerless at times; but the Lord is NOT powerless and we should remember that when we trust in Him …
Who is it that the adversary sees coming? us?
or the shaleshim we serve??
Remember!
There is nothing wrong with a first warrior attempt to defeat the enemy, nor with that of a second warrior. God expects us to confront our enemies, but our ultimate victory comes when we are joined with the Shaleshim, the Third Warrior, Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, then victory is really assured.
Also remember the fact that we can call upon that third warrior anytime we need Him; and though we may not see the power behind our Shaleshim, the enemy certainly does and he will flee in terror at the very sound of the Name of the Third Warrior.
Whatever we do, let us do it as unto the third warrior,
the Shaleshim, Messiah, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Ha Mashiach.
שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם,
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
When we read this account in Scripture we don’t hear the tone of voice that expresses what Messiah was saying to Philip. Maybe this question was neither a rebuke nor was it said with surprise. Could it have been an encouragement to Philip for him to draw closer?
A talmid of Yeshua/Jesus’ day would give up their entire life in order to be with their teacher. The talmid/disciple didn’t only seek to know what the teacher knew, as is usually the case today. For them it was not enough just to know what the rabbi said, but the ultimate goal of any talmid was to become like the rabbi and do what the rabbi did.
תלמידם talmidim (Plural)
While Yeshua/Jesus was still with them, and before the subsequent Shavuot following His Resurrection;
the talmidim/students/disciples knew Yeshua/Jesus as the One who gave them power and authority to drive out unclean spirits/demons heal the sick and to initiate teshuvah/ repentance and revival by preaching the good news of the kingdom.
As recorded inLuke 9:1 Matt. 10:1 Mark 6:7,8.
And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.
They had a close relationship with Him but as John 15:15 suggests there was a much closer one to come…
I have called you friends. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
True lasting friendship is rare in this life because it means identifying with another in thought, heart and spirit. Our life experience has been designed to enable us to enter into the closest of relationships with Yeshua/Jesus.
We easily receive the blessings He imparts and know His Word but the most important question is..
Do we really KNOW Him?
It is this that He was questioning Philip about?
We can be with someone and not really know them. All relationships have different levels depending on their type of interaction. Family members, work colleagues, general acquaintances and friends etc., are all different.
Yeshua/Jesus was concerned with them
knowing Him
and in knowing Him they would also
know His Father
the One Who sent Him.
He said in
John 16:7 Its to your advantage that I go away.
He left the relationship that He had established with them in order to lead them to
an even closer one.
We too are to take the time to become more and more acquainted with Him.
In Philippians 3:10, Paul said, “For my determined purpose is that I may… progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly” (AMP).
The key to becoming acquainted with the Father is by becoming acquainted to His Messiah through the Scriptures/the written Word of God/YaHoVeH. To spend time quietly in His presence allowing Him to speak to us.
Again the key is to have Yeshua/Jesus with us personally, even though we might not see Him, therein lies a blessing and we will also become more acquainted with His Spirit of Holiness/RuachHaKodesh day-by-day.
Yeshua/Jesus told Thomas,
Because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed. John 20:29.
We need that same revelation Thomas had, that of Who He is.
The more we are intimate in our relationship with Him, then the bearing of fruit in our lives increases; and fruit bearing is always shown to be a visible sign and result of such a relationship.
John 15:1-4.
The results of this close one on one relationship are that the disciple/talmid is never alone or feels lonely, and never lacks in understanding or compassion. We are content to be in His company alone and to not always be seeking others to pour out our hearts to, but to do so to Him.
The talmid who has such a relationship with Messiah never draws attention to self but will show the evidence in a life where Yeshua/Jesus is fully in control. Not one where the natural abilities push to get things done, just to get them completed in their perceived time and way; but allow the Father to complete all things in His time.
This is the outcome of allowing Yeshua/Jesus to satisfy every area of life/chaim to its fullness. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that He gives to those who are close with Him.
So the question is ..
Who is Yeshua/Jesus to each of us…?
Could He ask us the same question He asked Philip?
Have we been with Him so long
and yet we have not
known
Him?
Who Is Yeshua/Jesus/Messiah to each of us…?
Who do weKNOWHim personally as?
What will be our answer?
It’s more than Mark 8:27
We can only present Him to others out of personal experience. We can point to scripture as the written witness but aren’t we called to be a witness unto Him?
We can only describe someone to the depth that we know them personally or, it simply amounts to hearsay.
The most obvious way we know Him is as Savior but what of any other aspect of relationship?
For example: the scripture says He is our
Healer
Yehoveh Rophekha… יהוה רוקה
Jehovah rophe Yahweh rofe’ekha The LORD who heals you
Jehovah rophe is one way to write this name of God.
In the original, it is actually
Yahweh rofe’ekha,
the LORD who heals you
YHWH-Rophe. (Rapha, Rophecha, Roph’ekha)
YHWH Heals / YHWH Who Heals.
Pronounced: Yä-wá'(or Yod-Há-Väv-Há’) Roh-fee’,
Is He our Healer?
Has He healed us?
Have we personally experienced His healing touch and felt His power surge through our bodies?
We need to literally experience the following for Him to BE an absolute reality in those areas in our lives.
Another example is that, if we believe in healing and that He can heal and we may have even seen it in others lives, but is He our Healer? There is a difference and it would follow that once an individual has experienced a certain aspect, it becomes not only a reality rather than just a belief; but also boosts the faith of that individual in a very personal and real way.
We can have mental assent about something and agree that it is true, but is that enough?
Is it not therefore more accurate to say:
We have to be saved for Him to be our savior – מוֹשִׁיעַ.
The best term in Hebrew is: Moshiaa — מושיע.
The word Jesus in English is originally Hebrew
YehoShuaa — יהושוע.
It has a meaning of: the one.
One who gives freedom from distress and the ability to pursue one’s way.
The word
מושיה moshiah
can be used in the sense of an action as in
Deuteronomy 28:29
where it is translated as:
save
but literally means:
causing to be delivered
So the following would also seem to be true:
You have to be redeemed
for Him to be your redeemer.
You have to be His servant
for Him to be your Master לִשְׁלוֹט.
You have to become His Child
for Him to be your Father av אָב.
You have to be Delivered
for Him to be your Deliverer משלוח yasha.
You have to be His subject
for Him to be your King melek מלך
You have to be an indentured slave
for Him to be your Lord גְבִיר.
You have to be sanctified/holy
for Him to be your Sanctifier.
You have to be a worshipper
for Him to be your God.
You have to be His follower
for Him to be your Leader
You have to be His student
for Him to be your Teacher Rabbi רַב
You have to be His family
for Him to be your brother.
You have to be His disciple talmid
for Him to be your Rabbi.
You have to be obedient
for Him to be your guide and director of your steps.
You have to be filled with peace
for Him to be your Sar shalom.
Prince of peace sar shalom סאר שלום
You have to be restored
for Him to be your restorer.
The list is extensive.. but the meaning is clear…
Some people only know Him as a concept or an image of an old man figure sitting in the heavens with a long white beard and a big stick waiting to punish us. Such images have marred and distorted the picture of Our Heavenly Father, and this makes Him seem unapproachable.
When Yeshua/Jesus said
if you have seen me you have seen the Father
He is referring to both the visible works He did and the presentation of spiritual characteristics that reflected His Father. We must refrain from assigning our human characteristics, standards and elements to Him, for He is so far above anything we can think or imagine; and we should take care not diminish who He is by making Him like us or bringing Him down to our human level.
Ask Him by His Ruach within us, to order our day and control our thoughts; for the mind controlled by the Ruach/spirit is life and peace/shalom.
To receive this peace/shalom, we must change our position of a grasping controlling self-reliant individual, to one of openness and trust/faith. There is no limit to His presence and peace/shalom. We can never exhaust His provision concerning what is available to those who seek His face. The most persistent choice we have multiple times every day is are we going to choose to trust Him or to worry! We must train ourselves to choose to trust Him no matter what. He is the ever present help in trouble..
shammah שַׁמָּה
In Psalm 46:1-2
we are to
Trust Him
though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea!
A very pertinent and timely scripture referring to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, liquefaction of land masses and extreme weather events, such as we are experiencing lately.
In these days we need more than ever before to
KNOW Him and the power
of His resurrection
and to have that
unshakeable and deep rooted
shalom & trust
in the midst of the storm.
Please don’t leave this page before you are certain that you
KNOW Him at least as Savior
then begin the wonderful journey to
know Him and the power of His resurrection
which makes all aspects of a relationship with Him possible. The kingdom of the heavens is within you that’s why He is as close as your breath.
Keep your eyes on Yeshua/Jesus, He truly is the author and finisher of our faith and He will bring all things to completion in His way and timing.
Our focus and goal should not be blessings, peace or joy but just Him, simply for Who He Is…
There is limitless expense in Knowing Messiah Yeshua…so
KNOW and be KNOWN
Philip. 3:10
We are called in Prov. 3:5 to
We are called to
and lean not to our own understanding
To love Him is the 1st commandment.
Our faith is in the measure of our trust in Him.
Who is Yeshua/Jesus to you?
Who is Yehoveh/God the Father to you?
Who is His Spirit of Holiness to you?
Do we know Him as Savior, Healer, Deliverer, Redeemer, Sanctifier, Teacher, Lord, King, Messiah, Shepherd, Great I am/Anochi, and all those on the extensive list?
We can only know Him in the capacity of the experience we have known Him manifest in our lives in these positions. If He has saved us then we know it beyond any doubt that we know Him and He is our savior and the same is true for any one in the list.
Emmanuel – God with us..
is He with us or have we walked off in another direction?
Have we gone off somewhere on our own WAY? Have we just put Him in a box to be taken out on certain days of the week and for annual celebrations?
Today if we were asked by Messiah the same question He asked Philip what would be our answer?
He is speaking to each one of us right now..
Yes ..you!
Lets ask ourselves, what is the type of relationship that we want to know Him as next. He is our Heavenly Father and we are on our Way home; the more we know of Him the greater the desire in us to be with Him and the less the world has a pull on our lives…
Lets’ keep looking unto Yeshua/Jesus the author and finisher of our faith…if we will let Him!
Shalom shalom
‘Mishpachah’
‘Family/Tribe’
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa,
friends, visitors and every reader…
Please don’t leave this page before making certain you are His
and are truly born from above.
Know of a certainty that Jesus/Yeshua is
your Redeemer, Savior, Lord
and soon returning King
and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved, prayed for daily and precious in His sight.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry.
I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Biblical Prophecy can be thought of as His Story, Gods own future unfolding through the ages and generations or as pre‐written history.
The TaNaKH/Old Testament written hundreds of years and some, more than a 1,000 years, before Yeshua/Jesus’ birth contains some
351 prophecies
that refer to the coming of the Mashiach, Yeshua/Messiah, Jesus, the Only Son of the one true living God; who fulfilled them through His life, death and resurrection.
Circumstances such as his birthplace, lineage, and method of execution were beyond Christ’s control and could not have been accidentally or deliberately fulfilled.
So what are the odds?
Mathematically speaking, they are staggering!
The actual odds of anyone fulfilling a small amount of prophecy is impossible!
1 person fulfilling 8 prophecies: The chance of this happening, they say, is 1 in 1017 power. Which is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000
1 person fulfilling 40 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power
1 person fulfilling 351 prophecies: completely impossible for anyone …except
Messiah Yeshua/Jesus!
We should recall that in Matthew 5, Yeshua/Jesus clearly told us:
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
He fulfilled all prophecy concerning His Father’s plan of redemption spoken by the Old Testament prophets/ Nevi’im and in so doing, He fulfilled the requirements of the covenant directions for us. This is something none of us can do for ourselves.
At the time of Yeshua/Jesus there was only the Hebrew scriptures in the form of scrolls which were called collectively the TaNaKH
Which we know as
The הישנה ברית
Old Testament
Ta•nach.
Hebrew: תַּנַ”ךְ,
pronounced: taˈnaχ or təˈnax;
also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach
In Hebrew Tanakh it is not a name it is an acronym of the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text’s three traditional subdivisions of the Old Testament:
Torah (the Law) ‘Teaching’, also known as the Five Books of Moses
Ne•vi•eem (Prophets); and
Ke•tu•vim (Writings).
—hence TaNaKh
The three-part division reflected in the acronym Tanakh is well attested in the literature of the Rabbinic period. During that period, however, Tanakh was not used.
Instead, the proper title was Mikra
or
Miqra, מקרא,
meaning: reading
or
that which is read
because the biblical texts were read publicly.
Mikra
continues to be used in Hebrew to this day, alongside
Tanakh,
to refer to the Hebrew scriptures.
In modern spoken Hebrew, they are interchangeable.
The Torah, תּוֹרָה,
literally
teaching,
also known as the Pentateuch
or as previously mentioned, the Five Books of Moses.
Printed versions (rather than scrolls) of the Torah are often called
Chamisha Chumshei Torah
חמישה חומשי תורה
Five fifth-sections of the Torah
and informally a
Chumash.
The Torah includes:
the five books of Moses /Pentateuch,
following Be•re•sheet /Genesis;
Shemot /Exodus; and Vaikra /Leviticus.
Be•mid•bar / Numbers is its 4th book,
with Deuteronomy/ Devarim the 5th.
Each of the Torah books is named after either the very first word in that book (as in Genesis where the very first word ‘be•re•sheet’ is the name of the book), or the second (as in Exodus where it is the second word in the verse), with one exception occurring in the book Be•mid•bar (Numbers), which gets its name from the fifth word of the fifth verse of the book.
The Book of Numbers, Be•mid•bar, means in the wilderness.
Only the Creator and King of the universe/Melech haOlam could know beforehand and accomplish all that was written about the Messiah/Mashiach, the Redeemer of humanity. This historical accuracy and reliability sets the TaNaKH/ Bible apart from any other book or record by its reliable historical accuracy. The details of these prophecies mark the Word of God as being inspired by His Ruach HaKodesh/Spirit of Holiness.
If we question whether Messiah Yeshua/Jesus can be found in the TaNaKH/Old Testament the Word itself answers that in
Matthew 5:17‐20
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commandments (10 sayings); will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Again in John 5:39‐40, He says:
You study the Scripturesdiligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures thattestify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures. Wasn’t it clearly predicted that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?” Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:25–27
“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!” John 5:39
And He clearly told the 2 on the Emmaus road in Luke 24:25
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Here is a list of the prophesies:
The Book of Genesis/B’resheet/ בראשית Beginning:
The prophecy of Yeshua/Jesus goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:15. God fulfilled his promise from Genesis 3:15 by sending his son into the world as a baby. He was fully God and fully human. The offspring of the woman would eventually crush that old serpent, Satan.
In Genesis 3, God forewarned the Serpent that he would bruise the heel of the woman’s Seed (descendant), but that descendant would bruise the Serpent’s head, implying a death blow. When the Spirit of God conceived the Lord Jesus in Mary’s womb over 4,000 years later, He fulfilled the part of the prophecy that mentioned the Seed of the woman. The serpent bruised the Lord Jesus’ heel when He suffered crucifixion for our sins.
Revelation 20:10 glimpses the future time when the Lord Jesus will bruise the serpent’s head and destroy him.
God embedded a prophecy into His post-Flood promise to Noah, saying, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” We are reminded of God’s faithfulness and the Bible’s truth when we see the seasons change every year.
The apostle Paul explains how a prophecy God spoke to Abraham continues to be fulfilled, saying, “And the Scripture Genesis 12:3, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ‘In you all the nations shall be blessed.’ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.” Other passages reinforce the “all the nations” aspect of this Genesis prophecy, and even now the gospel is going out into all the world, blessing people and changing lives.
Finally, God confirmed the Genesis 3 promised seed for each generation of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Then Jacob/Israel prophesied,
“The scepter shall not depart from Judah…until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people,”
indicating that one of Judah’s descendants would become the long-awaited King of all. Christ, the King, was a descendant of Judah, just as Genesis prophesied.
Yeshua/Jesus fulfilled all 20 prophecies inGenesis.
The most significant being Genesis 28:8
For the real sacrifice
God had His own Son in mind
not Abrahams!
In the second book of the Torah
in the Hebrew Bible:
שמות, Šemot, Names
Book of Exodus
from Greek ἔξοδος, Exodos, meaning: going out;
we are told how the Israelites leave slavery in Egypt through the strength of Yehoveh/YaHWeH. The Book of Exodus narrates how Moses led the Israelites in building the Tabernacle Exodus 35–40 based on God’s instructions Exodus 25–31. Even though it was written long before Yeshua/Jesus.
Exodus contains 9 prophecies (21‐29) about Yeshua/Jesus.
He fulfilled all 9 in Exodus.
The Book of Leviticus
is the 3rd book of the Torah and of the
TaNaKH/Old Testament.
from Greek Λευιτικός, Leuitikos,
meaning: relating to the Levites;
Hebrew: ויקרא,
Wayiqra, or VaYikra
And He called
Most of its chapters 1–7, 11–27 consist of God’s speeches to Moses, in which he is commanded to repeat to the Israelites. This takes place within the story of the Israelites’ Exodus after they escaped Egypt and reached Mt. Sinai Exodus 19:1. Then in Leviticus, God tells the Israelites and their priests how to make offerings in the Tabernacle and how to conduct themselves while camped around the holy tent sanctuary.
Leviticus contains 7 prophecies (30‐36) about Yeshua/Jesus, He fulfilled all seven.
The Book of Numbers
בְּמִדְבַּר
Be•mid•bar,
means
in the wilderness.
is the 4th book of the Hebrew Bible,
and the 4th of 5 books of the Jewish Torah.
The name of the book comes from the two censuses taken of the Israelites. Numbers begins at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites have received their laws and covenant from God and God has taken up residence among them in the sanctuary. The task before them is to go in and take possession of the Promised Land. The people are counted and preparations are made for resuming their march. The Israelites begin the journey, but they murmur at the hardships along the way, and about the authority of Moses and Aaron. For these acts, God destroys approximately 15,000 of them through various means. They arrive at the borders of Canaan and send spies into the land. Upon hearing the spies’ fearful report concerning the conditions in Canaan, the Israelites refuse to take possession of it. God condemns them to death in the wilderness until a new generation can grow up and carry out the task. The book ends with the new generation of Israelites in the Plain of Moab ready for the crossing of the Jordan River.
Numbers also contains 3 prophecies(37‐39) about Yeshua/Jesus, all three prophecies in Numbers were fulfilled by Him.
De•va•rim,’ ‘Deuteronomy,’
Hebrew:
דְּבָרִים, Devarim, [spoken] words
from Greek
Δευτερονόμιον, Deuteronomion, second law;
The Book of Deuteronomy is the 5th book of the TaNaKH/Old Testament and of the Jewish Torah. Chapters 1–30 of the book consist of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land.
The 1st sermon recounts the forty years of wilderness wanderings which had led to that moment, and ends with an exhortation to observe the law, later referred to as the Law of Moses;
the 2nd reminds the Israelites of the need to follow Yahweh/Yahoveh/YHWH, and the laws He has given them, on which their possession of the land depends;
and the 3rd offers the comfort that even should Israel prove unfaithful and so lose the land, with repentance all can be restored. The final 4 chapters (31–34) contain the Song of Moses, the Blessing of Moses, and narratives recounting the passing of the mantle of leadership from Moses to Joshua and, finally, Moses death on Mount Nebo.
One of its most significant verses is
Deuteronomy 6:4, the Shema Yisrael,
which has become the definitive statement of Israelite/Jewish/Hebrew identity:
Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Verses 6:4–5 were also quoted by Yeshua/Jesus in
Mark 12:28–34 as part of the Great Commandment.
Deuteronomy contains 5 prophecies
(40‐44)
about Yeshua/Jesus; He fulfilled all five.
The Book of
Joshua Yehoshua יהושע
gives the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. It tells of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan, the destruction of their enemies, and the division of the land among the Twelve Tribes, framed by two set‐piece speeches, the first by God commanding the conquest of the land, and, at the end, the last by Joshua warning of the need for faithful observance of the Law (torah) revealed to Moses.
Joshua contains 1 prophecy
(45)
about Jesus. He fulfilled the prophecy.
ספר רות ב
The Book of Ruth
רות Rut – friendship:
is named after its central figure,
Ruth the Moabitess,
the great-grandmother of David.
The book tells of Ruth’s accepting the God of the Israelites as her God and the Israelite people as her own.
In chapter 1:16–17, Ruth tells Naomi, her Israelite mother‐in‐law,
“Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
Ruth contains 1 prophecy
(46)
about Yeshua/Jesus. He fulfilled the prophecy in Ruth.
The Books of Samuel/
Shemuel
שְׁמוּאֵל name of God:
1 Samuel and 2 Samuel,
make up part of the history of Jacob/Israel in the
prophets Ne•vi•eem’
portion of the
TaNaKH/Hebrew Bible/Old Testament,
which includes
Joshua,
Judges,
Samuel
and Kings
comprising a history of
the children of Israel/Jacob; i.e. the Israelites.
Samuel begins with the prophet Samuel’s birth and God’s call to him as a boy. The story of the Ark of the Covenant tells of Israel the Philistine oppression, which brought about Israels first king, Saul, being anointed by him. However, Saul proved unworthy and God turned to and chose David, who defeated Israel’s enemies and brought the Ark of His Covenant to Jerusalem/Yerushalayim. God then promised David and his successors an everlasting house/dynasty.
1&2 Samuel contain 6 prophecies
(47‐52)
about Yeshua/Jesus.
He fulfilled all 6 prophecies in Samuel 1 and 2.
Some biblical commentators believe the books of Joshua and Judges and 1&2 Samuel, were written to provide an explanation for the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah by Babylon in 586 BC and lay a foundation for a return from exile.
The Book of Kings:
melek מֶלֶך.
monarch, sovereign.
The Books of 1&2 Kings, are the 11th and 12th books and were originally a single book. They complete the early history of Israel presenting its’ history from the death of King David to the release of Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, which was a period of approx. 400 years between 960 and 560 BC.
Kings contains 1 prophecy
(53) about Jesus, He fulfilled the prophecy in Kings.
The Books of Chronicles:
Divrei HaYamim
הימים דברי
The Chronicles narrative begins with Adam and the story is then carried forward, almost entirely by genealogical lists, down to the founding of the first Kingdom of Israel 1 Chronicles 1–9. after a brief account of Saul the remainder of 1 Chronicles, is concentrated on the reign of David 1 Chronicles 11–29. The next section records the life of Solomon, David’s son. 2 Chronicles 1–9, and the final part is about the Kingdom of Judah with somel references to the 2nd kingdom of Israel 2 Chronicles 10–36. Judah is destroyed in the last chapter and the people taken into exile in Babylon, and in the final verses the Persian king Cyrus the Great conquers the Neo‐Babylonian Empire, and he authorizes the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem, and the return of the exiles.
Chronicles contain 3 prophecies (54‐56) about Jesus/Yeshua. He fulfilled all 3 prophecies in Chronicles.
The Book of Job
Iyov
אִיּוֹב
is recorded as being in an obscure land called Uz, far from Israel, during an unknown time period, this book focuses on questions about God’s justice and asks why good people suffer attacks from the adversary/ hasatan /Satan.
שָׂטָ֖ן śātan
Throughout the book, Job, his wife, and his friends speculate on and discuss why he, an upright man, suffers. Job accuses God of being unjust and not operating the world according to principles of justice, and his friends believe that Job’s sin caused his suffering. Job decides to talk directly to God. And when he does his eyes are opened and he understands.
Job contains 2 prophecies
(57‐58)
about Yeshua/Jesus He fulfilled both prophecies in Job.
The Book of Psalms
תהילים
tehilim:
contains an amazing number of
102 prophecies about Yeshua/Jesus
(59‐160).
The name Psalms
is derived from the Greek translation,
ψαλμοί, psalmoi,
meaning: instrumental music
and includes, the words accompanying the music.
Yeshua/Jesus fulfilled all 102 prophecies in Psalms.
The Book of Proverbs is the
2nd book in the Ketuvim or Writings,
the 3rd section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
The full Hebrew title is Mishlei Shlomo,
or
The Proverbs מִ֭שְׁלֵי of Solomon/ שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה
מִ֭שְׁלֵי
The Book of Proverbs Mishlei/מִ֭שְׁלֵי
is a collection of writings relating to a way of life which lasted for more than a 1000 years. It highlights traditional Biblical wisdom, raising questions of values, moral behavior, the meaning of human life, and right conduct. The repeated theme is that the beginning of wisdom is having the fear of God; which means submission to the will of God. Wisdom is praised for her role in creation; acquiring her before anything else, and through her He brought chaos into order. Because humanity has life and prosperity by conforming to Gods’ order of creation, therefore, seeking wisdom is both the goal and essence of the godly lifestyle.
Proverbs contains 2 prophecies
(161‐162)
about Yeshua/Jesus.
He fulfilled both prophecies in Proverbs.
Song of Songs,
שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה shir hashirim
song of songs שיר השירים
or, as some know it, the
Song of Solomon,
separates itself from the other books in the Bible. There is no reference to covenant or laws wisdom or the God of Israel. The opening words introduce a poetic work whose subject is romantic love; the plot is about the courtship and marriage of a maiden referred to as the Shulammite and takes place in ancient Israel, in the woman’s garden and the king’s palace.
In modern Judaism the Song is read on the Sabbath during the Passover/Pesach, which marks the beginning of the grain harvest as well as remembering the Exodus from Egypt. Jewish tradition reads it as an allegory of the relationship between God and Israel, Christianity regards it as an allegory of Messiah and His bride/challach the Ecclesia/called apart ones.
Song of Solomon contains 1 prophecy
(163)
about Yeshua/Jesus and He fulfilled the prophecy in
Song of Solomon.
שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה shir hashirim
Be encouraged to take some time thinking and reading the prophecies for yourselves..they are truly amazing… What a wonderful Father we love and serve…
Conclusion in Part 2
Shalom shalom
‘Mishpachah’
‘Family/Tribe’
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa,
friends, visitors and every reader…
Please don’t leave this page before making certain you are His
and are truly born from above.
Know of a certainty that Jesus/Yeshua is
your Redeemer, Savior, Lord
and soon returning King
and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry.
I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
In Hebrew 
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