It is quite a common belief among some Christian groups to think that the Old Testament is completely irrelevant today, since they believe that the doctrines of the various church denominations are made clear in the New Testament writings.
However it is important to understand that this is a serious mis-conception as the following facts will show.
We have heard it quoted that, the mysteries of the Old Testament or Old Covenant are revealed in the new, but if we have never read them, we are missing out on the very foundation of what we say we believe. A “mystery” in the New Testament is something that had at one time been hidden but is now revealed to God’s people. One example: Col.1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
For many the fact that Jesus was Jewish from a Jewish family is not one they are immediately aware of. The word Jewish here, means that He was a descendant of the tribe of Judah one of the 12 tribes of Israel/formally Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham.
Jesus lived approx. 2024 years ago in the middle eastern land that we now call Israel; formally called Palestine, the Holy Land, the Promised Land and Canaan. Jesus name in Hebrew is Yeshua, there are several spellings of this Hebrew name. He would have spoken a local Galilean dialect of Aramaic Hebrew. His lifestyle was as far removed from todays western world as one can get.
Yeshua/Jesus and all His disciples were Torah observant Jews. The scriptures that they studied, loved and quoted were, the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. i.e. the Jewish TaNaKh.
As well as Torah, Jews also call their Hebrew Scriptures the TANAK/TANAKH, an acronym for: –
TORAH (Law or Instruction); –
NEVI’IM (The Prophets); and. –
KETHUVIM (The Writings)
TANAK – The Three-Part Hebrew Bible
Yeshua/ Jesus quoted from the book of Deuteronomy from the Torah more than any other book in The Scriptures. The Torah comprises the first 5 books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
As a child Yeshua/Jesus would have studied the Torah and memorized it with other Jewish children. He would also have been familiar with the teaching of the earlier Jewish sages and rabbis of Israel.
When He was asked what the greatest commandment of the Lord was, Yeshua/Jesus quoted the ve’ahavta portion of the Shema. Which is found in Deut. 6:5.
Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad
Hear O Israel the Lord is God the Lord is One.
And then He added the commandment from Leviticus 19:18.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Both of these commandments come directly from the Torah!
These were not something He made up or changed from the original which was given by His Heavenly Father YHVH, to the children of Israel through Moses when the covenant was made at Sinai.
Indeed Yeshua/Jesus said that He did not come to abolish the Torah, or the prophets, but to fulfill/complete them. Showing us how to interpret and live them correctly. This was because over the generations since Moses, the Pharisees and religious Leaders had added laws and commandments of their own for various reasons that were not part of the original directives given by the Lord.
Matthew 5:17 – 19.
in Matthew 19:17 He later told a man who wanted to be a disciple of His
If you would enter life, keep the commandments.
When He was asked which ones, Yeshua/ Jesus replied by referring to the 10 commandments and appealed to the man to follow Him.Matthew 19:18 – 21
Yeshua/Jesus said that the Jewish scriptures testified of Him.
John 5:39
In Matthew 5:18 Yeshua/Jesus says that not one jot or tittle will pass away from the law until all is accomplished.
He does not abolish the law, but fulfills it through His obedience and blood.
As His followers and disciples, we should understand what this means, and how they indeed bear witness of Him as the King of the Jews. Matthew 2:2;27:11.
In addition by studying Torah as well as the Writings and Prophets, we can more fully appreciate the Glory and Grace as revealed in the person of our redeeming Savior. One example is that we can more fully understand the role of the sacrificial system and why it was necessary until Messiah came. It is also important for us to understand that His commandments are to show us how sinful man is to approach a Holy God. Furthermore, how Yeshua/Jesus fulfilled all of Gods Holy requirements on our behalf, not only as the perfect sacrificial lamb whose blood has paid the price for our sin; but also as the High Priest/Kohen haGadol of the re-new-ed covenant.
When two disciples were on the way to the town of Emmaus discussing the events and the meaning of the crucifixion three days before, Messiah Himself appeared beside them and taught them about Himself from the Jewish scriptures.Luke 24:13 – 36.
The new testament, the gospels and all the letters, were not written yet, all they had was the Torah the Prophets and the Writings.
Again as His followers, we should likewise be able to teach and show how Yeshua/Jesus is revealed in the Hebrew scriptures.
The church/the ecclesia, had its genesis on the Jewish Holy day/Appointed Time/Moedim of Pentecost/Shavuot among the thousands of Jewish people who were in Jerusalem in obedience to the Shalosh Regalim.
In Hebrew: שלוש רגלים,
romanized : šāloš rəgālīm, or
חַגִּים, ḥaggīm
Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot;
referred to as the Shalosh Regalim.
The Torah (Exodus 34:23) tells us that on these Appointed days, all able-bodied people should appear in Jerusalem for a national celebration of service to God.
All the proceedings during the Appointed Time of the Lord, the Moed, which was recorded in Acts 2:1–41, was entirely Jewish; quoting from the Prophets and from the Psalms of David which would have meant little to any gentiles within hearing distance, if indeed there were any.
It is likely that the 3000 people who were saved that day would have all been Jewish, descended from the 12 tribes of Israel. The earliest members of the new church/ecclesia, called apart ones, met regularly in the temple, where gentiles were excluded, with no exception.Acts 2:46.We read that the apostles Peter and John were recorded to have gone to the temple for prayer during the time of the minchah/ afternoon sacrificesActs 3:1.They did not suddenly stop doing what they had always done before Messiah had come; and their ministry continued explicitly among the Jewish people, among whom were thousands who believed and were zealous for the Torah. Acts 21:20
Even after they were imprisoned and by a miracle of the Lord escaped, an angel told him to go, stand, and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.Acts 5:20.
Later when the Jerusalem Council wrote their letter to the Gentiles regarding their relationship to the Torah, they advised them to at first abstain from those things that make them abhorrent to the Jews. This directive was with the assumption that they would later go on to study the Torah of Moses and the other Jewish scriptures.Acts 15:19 – 21
The apostle Paul was raised a Torah observant Jew who studied under the famous Rabbi Gamaliel in Jerusalem. Acts 22:3 Rabbi Shaul, as he would have been called, was well established in the Jewish leadership of his day, and even had a relationship with the Sanhedrin and the High Priest of Israel. Acts 9:1 -2. But even after his conversion on the road to Damascus, Acts 9:1–21. He still identified himself as a Jew. It Acts 23:6 he confessed I am, not was, a Pharisee. He even declared that concerning the observance of the Torah he was blameless, which indicates that he observed a Jewish lifestyle to his dying day. Philippians 3:6; Acts 25:7–8; 28:17.
Paul even took the Nazarite vow.Acts 18:18. He lived in observance of the Torah.
Acts 21:23-24. And he actually offered sacrifices in the Jewish temple. Acts 21:26. It is clear that Paul not only paid for his own sacrifices in order to be released from his Nazarite vow, but that he also paid for the sacrifices for four other Jewish believers. Notice also that this was performed at the specific request of James, the Head of the Jerusalem church and half-brother of Yeshua/Jesus
Paul regularly attended synagogue. Acts 17:1-2. When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2 As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
And when Paul later wrote to the gentile churches, in
2 Timothy 3:16, 17
ALL SCRIPTURE is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[ a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.….
He was of course referring to the Jewish scriptures the Torah Prophets and Writings. Since as already noted, the gospels and letters had not yet been written for the new believers/ecclesia.
Indeed, in order to understand Pauls writings, we need to remember his training as a Rabbi when he quotes the scriptures in his writings. For example, when he wrote 1Corinthians 10:4, all drank from the same spiritual drink for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them and the rock was Christ.
He was quoting from story later written in the Talmud. Exodus 20:1 (i.e. that from the time that Moses struck the rock at Horeb and brought forth water until the death of Miriam, this water giving rock followed the children of Israel through the desert and provided water for them each day. )
Many Christian denominations profess to believe in the authority of both the old and new testament scriptures, while at the same time relegating the study of the Torah, Prophets and Writings to the dustheap of history. If the Hebrew Jewish scriptures are taken seriously at all, these denominational traditions try to explain away their clear reading; for example: they take the covenantal promises made to ethnic Israel and say that the intent of the text as being applicable solely to the ‘christian church’.
This is both shortsighted and inconsistent; since it is impossible to understand the new testament writings, including the very church/ecclesia itself, while ignoring the cultural and spiritual context of which it is a part. We must remember that the Greek text of the New Testament derived its authority and truth from the Jewish Hebrew scriptures, and not the other way around. Too many Christian theologians work at this backwards, reading from the new testament gospels and letters, and particularly certain ideas ascribed to the apostle Paul; as the interpretative filter and guide for the study and interpretation of the Hebrew text. Theologians of the western traditions must consciously remember the statement: a text without a context is a pretext.
Such heresies as that of replacement theology, which believes that ‘the church’ i.e., westernized Christianity, has completely replaced the children of Israel and they believe God is finished with them. These beliefs need to be seriously repented of.
Yes, it is for these and many other reasons, it is important, even vital for believers in and disciples of Messiah Yeshua/Jesus to study the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings as part of the whole counsel of God.
2Tim 2:15.
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, Deliverer 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.
most prophecies about Yeshua/Jesus with a staggering
125 prophecies
164‐288
Isaiah contains so many prophecies about Messiah Yeshua/Jesus that some have called it the Fifth Gospel!
Judgment and restoration is promised for Judah, Jerusalem and the nations in Isaiah 1–33, and chapters 34–66 presume that judgment has been pronounced and restoration follows soon. It can also be read as an extended meditation on the destiny of Jerusalem/Yerushalayim into and after the Exile.
In the 2nd Temple period between 515 BC – 70 AD, Isaiah was one of the most popular works among Jews. Isaiah’s influence extends to English literature and to Western culture in general, far beyond Christianity itself: e.g. in the musical form of Handel’s Messiah and also in everyday phrases such as swords into ploughshares.
Yeshua /Jesus fulfilled all 125 prophecies in Isaiah.
Book of Jeremiah
ירמיה yir-me-yah / yir-me-yahu / Yirmyahuw
{yir-meh-yaw’-hoo}; Jah will rise
This Book of Jeremiah was intended for the Jews in Babylonian exile. Its’ purpose was to explain the disaster that befell the nation describing YHWH/God’s response to Yisrael/Israel’s pagan worship. Jeremiah said the people, are like an unfaithful wife and rebellious children: their infidelity and rebelliousness made judgment inevitable, although restoration and a new covenant are foreshadowed as a hope for the future.
The Book of Jeremiah contains 5 prophecies
(289‐293)
about Jesus, He fulfilled all five.
The Book of Ezekiel
יְחֶזְקֵאל Yechezqel Yĕchezqe’l
meaning: God will strengthen,
God strengthens or God’s Strength.
The Book of Ezekiel records 6 visions received by the prophet Ezekiel while exiled in Babylon for 22 years, between 593–571 BC. The visions, and the book, are centered around 3 themes: First in chapters 1–24: Judgment on Israel; Secondly in chapters 25–32: Judgment on the nations; and third, in chapters 33–48: Future blessings and return for Yisrael/Israel. The contents of Ezekiel include the concepts of Gods presence, purity, Yisrael/Israel as a divine group of people, and each individuals responsibility to Yehoveh/God.
The Book of Ezekiel contains 2 prophecies
(294‐295)
about Yeshua/Jesus and both prophecies
in Ezekiel were fulfilled by Him.
The Book of Daniel
דָּנִיֵּאל Daniel
Judge Of God,
God Is My Judge
The Book of Daniel is written in exile in Babylon during the 6th century B.C. Daniel was a nobleman like Ezekiel, he had been taken captive as a young man to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel’s superior way of life earns him great respect in the Babylonian government. In chapters 1-6 He writes about his own life in captivity. He was selected to work for the Babylonian King. It focuses on Faithfulness During Persecution.
It also contains much prophecy and in chapters 7-12 gives the interpretation of dreams that Daniel received from God, dreams and visions which were given to the King Nebuchadnezzar concerning the rise and fall of empires including Visions of Babylon’s Future and of Israel’s Future Destiny; the latter end reaching even to today. Daniel also contains 12 specific prophecies
(296‐307)
about Yeshua/Jesus; all 12 prophecies in Daniel He fulfilled.
The Book of Hosea
Hoshea
salvation
הושע:
is set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Yisrael /Israel, the Book of Hosea denounces the worship of gods other than Yahweh, comparing Yisrael/Israel’s abandonment of Yahweh to a woman being unfaithful to her husband. According to the written account, the relationship between Hosea and his unfaithful wife Gomer is likened to the relationship between Yahweh and his unfaithful people Yisrael /Israel. The eventual reconciliation of Hosea and Gomer is treated as a hopeful comparison for the eventual reconciliation between Yahweh/Yehoveh and Yisrael /Israel.
The Book of Hosea contains 2 prophecies
(308‐309)
about Yeshua/Jesus and both were fulfilled.
The Book of Joel
יוֹאֵל Yoel
contains a grieving over a severe drought and a great locust plague. These events had a severe effect on agriculture and the farmers, which in turn affected the supply of agricultural offerings for the Temple in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem. The narrative is mixed in with a call to national grieving.
In Joel 2:1–11 is a more apocalyptic passage which compares the locusts to an army, and revealing that they are an army sent/allowed by God. Next in Joel 2:12–17 there is a call to national repentance/teshuvah in the face of God’s judgment, and then in Joel 2:18–32 a promise of future blessings. Joel 2:28–32 and 3:1–5 declares that future prophetic gifts are promised to all God’s people, and their safety in the face of cosmic cataclysm which is very clearly in process today. Joel also describes the coming judgment on YHWH/God’s (Israel’s) enemies and the vindication of Yisrael/Israel.
The Book of Joel/Yoel contains 1 prophecy
(310)
about
Yeshua/Jesus which He fulfilled.
The Book of Jonah
Yonah
יוֹנָה֙
yō-w-nāh
describes how God commands Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it
“for their great wickedness is come up before me,”
but Jonah instead attempts to flee from “the presence of the Lord” by going to Jaffa (sometimes transliterated as Joppa or Joppe), and sailing to Tarshish. A huge storm arises and the sailors, realizing that it is no ordinary storm, cast lots and find out that Jonah/Yonah is to blame. He admits he is the problem and says that the storm will cease if he is thrown overboard. At first, the sailors refuse to do this and continue rowing, but all their efforts are in vain and eventually they are forced to throw Jonah/Yonah over the side of the ship.
The storm calms as a result and the sailors then offer sacrifices to God. Yonah/Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a large fish, in whose belly he spends three days and three nights. While in the great fish, Yonah/Jonah prays to Yahoveh/God from Sheol in his affliction and commits to thanksgiving and to paying what he has vowed. Yahoveh/God then commands the fish to spit Yonah/Jonah out on the shore.
The Book of Jonah contains 1 prophecy
(311)
about Yeshua/Jesus which He fulfilled.
The Book of Micah
מיכה
is one of the prophetic books in the Tanakh/Old Testament, being one of the 12 minor prophets. He prophesied over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah during the First Temple era. Micah reproaches unjust leaders, defends the rights of the poor against the rich and powerful; while looking forward to a world at peace centered on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch. Micah can be roughly divided into three equal parts:
first the Judgment against the nations and their leaders,
secondly the restoration of Zion and
third, Yahoveh/God’s lawsuit against Yisrael/Israel and expression of hope.
The Book of Micah contains 3 prophecies
(312‐314)
about Yeshua/Jesus, He fulfilled all three.
The Book Of Haggai
Chaggay Chaggai חַגַּ֞י חגי
is possibly derived from the Hebrew verb
חגג hagag ,
meaning: to celebrate
it was written in 520 BC some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BC allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea. Cyrus saw the restoration of the temple as necessary for the restoration of the religious practices and a sense of freedom after a long exile. In Chaggai /Haggai 1:14–15 it records that the rebuilding of the Temple began on September 7 521 BC. just three weeks after his first prophecy.
They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God, on the twenty‐fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the King
and the Book of Ezra 6:15 indicates that the construction was finished on February 25 516 BC.
“The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.”
The Book of Haggai contains 2 prophecies
(315‐316)
about Yehshua/Jesus both were fulfilled.
The Book of Zechariyah / זכריה
From the Hebrew name:
זְכַרְיָה Zekharyah
meaning: Yahweh remembers
from זָכַר zakhar
meaning: to remember
and
יָה yah
referring to the Hebrew God.
Zechariah’s prophecies were contemporary with Haggai in a post‐exilic world after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. And took place during the reign of Darius the Great. Ezekiel and Jeremiah wrote before the fall of Jerusalem, while continuing to prophesy in the early exile period. Scholars believe Ezekiel, with his combination of vision and ceremony, had a strong influence on the prophetic writings of Zechariah in chapters 1–8.
Zechariah dated his writing specifically at 520–518 BC. During the Exile many Judahites and Benjamites were taken to Babylon, where the prophets told them to make their homes, indicating they were about to spend a long period of time there. When Cyrus the Great overtook the Babylonians in 539 BC., freedom did eventually come to many Israelites, In 538 BC, Cyrus’ famous decree was released, and under Sheshbazzar the first return from exile took place.
The Book of Zechariah contains 30 prophecies
(317‐346)
about Yeshua/Jesus. He fulfilled all 30 of them.
Malachi מַלְאָכִי
mal-aw-kee’
from the Hebrew name:
מַלְאָכִי Mal’akhi
meaning: my messenger
or
my angel
or messenger of God.
Malachi is the last book of the TaNaKH/Old Testament, in many Bibles making Malachi the last book before the Brit Chadashah/New Testament. In the Hebrew Bible, the order of books is slightly different; see charts below, and in this order the last book is
2 Chronicles not Malachi.
The Book of Malachi was written to correct the negligent religious and social behavior of the Israelites in Jerusalem after returning from their exile; and in particular the
כֹּהֲנִ֖ים kohanim priests.
Although the prophets urged the people of Judah and Israel to see their exile as punishment for failing to uphold their covenant with God, it was not long after they had been restored to the land and to Temple worship that the people’s commitment to their God began, once again, to decline. It was in this setting that Malachi delivered the Word of the Lord.
The Book of Malachi contains 5 prophecies
(347‐351)
about Yeshua/Jesus all of which He fulfilled.
There is no one else before or since like Yeshua/Jesus.
He was not just a prophet…
But the fulfillment of ALL prophecy
The impressive detail and sheer number of these prophecies cause the Bible to stand alone as the truly inspired Word of God. Only He could have the foreknowledge and power to undertake and perfectly complete all that was written and spoken about His coming Messiah. Together with its’ reliable historical accuracy, it sets the Bible/TaNaKH apart from any other book or record.
The Brit Chadashah/ New Testament/Covenant was written after the death and ressurection of Yeshua HaMashiach/Jesus Christ.
Archeologists have found thousands of manuscripts of the Brit Chadashah /New Testament and some of them are dated less than 100 years after the original letters were written. In terms of historical reliability, the Hebrew Bible is superior to any other ancient writings which brings us to the conclusion that only the Bible is the true Word of God.
This surely is the miracle…. Our Heavenly Father gave us these written prophecies and ensured their continued protection through the millennia in order to build our faith and to point the way to His Only Begotten Son, Yeshua/Jesus.
As 1 John 1:1‐3 states:
“The One who existed from the beginning is the One we have heard and seen. We saw Him with our own eyes and touched Him with our own hands. He is Jesus Christ, the Word of Life. This One who is life from God was shown to us, and we have seen Him. And now we testify and announce to you that He is the One who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then He was shown to us.
We are telling you about what we ourselves have actually seen and heard, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ”.
We should do well to remember the Scriptures must be spiritually discerned to be understood spiritually..
1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
to “spiritually discern“
is to look beyond the physical (metaphysical)
into the realm of the unseen.
As Yeshua/Jesus was quoted as saying
“the Kingdom comes without observation” …
meaning you can’t see it.
Just as we cannot see air, or breath, or Spirit (pneuma).
The flesh, that is, the carnal mind,
cannot make sense of that which is spiritual in nature.
1Corinthians 2:10-12
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Some have questioned why did so many Jewish people living 2000 years ago miss the 1st coming of Messiah? The first believers were all Jewish/Hebrews and Israelites. Yeshua/Jesus said He came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel and then to the gentiles/heathen.
He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 15:24
The house of Israel is Abraham, Isaac & Jacob and his 12 sons and their descendants; remembering they were scattered abroad in the Diaspora. The leaders, Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees and Rabbis/Teachers/ of the Torah, were very knowledgeable yet they did not interpret the signs/signals correctly; and feared for their own positions of power and seats of authority over the people which gave them prestige and a wealthy lifestyle.
The Pharisees or Perushim in Hebrew, were an elite, ancient group of religious Jews who were strict adherents to the Law and esteemed themselves more highly than others. These were the most educated of Jews and spent their lives in the study of Torah Law. They not only studied Law, they taught it. They believed the Law was the only way to God.
Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veils they read the books of the old covenant. 2Cor 3:14
Many Pharisees will form their own version of truth based on what suits them. The rules that apply to others, do not apply to them. They had a picture of who the Messiah would be and Yeshua did not match their image of Messiah.
They looked with natural eyes saying in
John 1:41; Luke 4:22
“oh he is Josephs son”
And with their intellect they said the scriptures declare that we will not know where Messiah comes from and we know where this one is from.
They did not look with spiritual eyes but rather relied on their carnal minds for understanding and interpretation.
Matthew 23:17,19, 24, 26
John 9:39,40 Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; Lest they should see with their eyes,and perceive with their heart, And should turn, And I should heal them.
Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah/Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
We know that this did not apply to all of them, as many came and listened to Messiahs teaching…Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea and Saul/Paul all became disciples of Yeshua/Jesus.
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention. –Is 44:18
They were blinded because it had been prophesied and so had to be fulfilled.
The Word of God always interprets itself however but has to be spiritually discerned. This is the meaning of having eyes to see and ears to hear and an understanding heart.
1Kings 3:9 and Psalm 119:34
The Word tells us there is a veil over Gods chosen people on purpose so that the heathen/gentiles can be brought/grafted in when that time is fulfilled the veil will be removed and they will see and all Israel will be saved.
The key passage to the doctrine of Israel’s
blindness or hardening
is found in
Romans 11:25—”For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits—, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn ungodliness from Jacob.”
Romans 11:25 indicates a predicted time when Israel’s blindness will be ended.
Heavenly Father/Avinu, give us eyes to see
Let The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the holy ones, Eph. 1:18
It is with these alone that we discern the things of God. Being first opened, and then enlightened – – By his Spirit.
Lets us not miss the day of our visitation because our eyes failed to see and spiritually discern the times upon us.
The Odds of Prophetic fulfillment???
Truly phenomenal and beyond all chance or coincidence. His written Word and His Word made flesh can be completely relied upon, totally trusted in; we should leave this page full of faith and hope that every other prophetic word not yet made manifest will come to pass in its perfectly prepared timing.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matthew 5:18
He is without any doubt
King of Kings.
Hebrew Translation. מלך המלכים.
The Lion of the tribe of Judah
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.
It is quite a common belief among some Christian groups to think that the Old Testament is completely irrelevant today, since they believe that the doctrines of the various church denominations are made clear in the New Testament writings.
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