Category: About Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5882t5r0Sk Have you heard somebody quote Matthew 15:24  which says “But he answered and said ‘I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of  Israel’” and then basically turn around and say this: Jesus was only sent to  save the Jews, the house of Israel. I'm going to   show you next how this is actually not true. You may hear this from Muslims as   well and the reason the Muslims will say this because   they don't want Jesus to be the last  significant prophet or person sent to basically   gather people back to God so that they can  smuggle in their prophet and actually make it seem like there was another prophet that  was actually to come after. We're going to read…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rPvdX-qcjE And then in (Luke) chapter 10 and verse 9, he said “The kingdom of God has come near to you.” In chapter 11 and verse 20 “If I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” He preached the kingdom and then he said as demonstrated by his power over satan and demons, the kingdom of God is near. And then he said the kingdom of God has come. He preached that the kingdom had come in chapter 11. Same emphasis, “the kingdom has come”. Chapter 12 verse 31 “Seek for his kingdom and these things will be added to you.” He preached on the kingdom as recorded in chapter 13, chapter 14, chapter 16, chapter 17, chapter 18 and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1c1JAUmKI I personally liked the German bible much more. Now it’s German so I took it upon myself to translate it from German into English. And I believe what they are saying makes a lot of sense. They say the Greek word for “sorrows” actually means “labor pains”. Famine, earthquakes and conflicts have always characterized life in this evil world. But the Lord describes these things as a beginning of labor pains and at the end of this age, these things will become more severe and will announce a soon-coming arrival of the Messiah, who will judge sinning mankind and establish his one-thousand year rule. When the fig tree brings forth leaves, summer is not far off. And when the last labor pains begin, then Christ’s arrival is near and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev0R-m7F_g4 Was John the Baptist Elijah? I'd like to answer this question in two ways. The first way is for people with a limited amount of time. The answer is no. The second way. Let's dig into the scriptures and see what they have to say. There's a lot of misunderstanding concerning this topic and the misunderstandings come from not looking closely at the grammar, not taking the language of prophecy seriously, and not looking at enough of the relevant passages. MalachI 4:5-6 “Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqkMrEcpjEU Matthew tells his readers that the virgin birth is a fulfillment of prophecy. Orthodox Jews say he hoodwinked his readers by mistranslating the Hebrew to “virgin” when in fact it simply means “young woman”. In part one, we explained the meaning of this prophecy and the time of Isaiah. Now we want to see if Matthew was correct in translating Isaiah 7:14 as “virgin”. If not, it calls into question the entire New Testament. It is true that “alma” means “young woman”. So why did Matthew translate it to “virgin”?  The word for “virgin” in modern Hebrew is “betula”. So why didn't Isaiah use that? Because in Biblical Hebrew “betula” can simply mean “young woman” as well. In fact, over half of the 50 plus times that this word…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRSzRvmT_o0 One of the most powerful aspects of Yeshua's life was that his mother Miriam was a virgin. He was the seed of man and yet the seat of God. Matthew claims that this was a fulfillment of the prophecy that Isaiah gave 700 years before. However, many Jewish rabbis and scholars claim that this prophecy was not about a virgin at all. Virtually every Messianic Jew has come face-to-face with self-described anti missionaries. These are Orthodox Jews trained to deprogram us because we've been brainwashed. One of their go-to verses is Isaiah 7:14, even as it is a go-to verse for those of us who claim that Yeshua is the Messiah. The prophecy was given at a difficult time in Judah’s history, when it was possible that the Jewish…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhaBcN_Vmb4 According to the prophecies in the Old Testament, the Messiah must be a descendant of David. In the New Testament, the apostle Paul starts his letter to the congregation in Rome: “Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, who was descended from David according to the flesh.” (Rom 1:3) In the past, nobody dared to question that Jesus was a descendant of David, neither historians nor the sages. This was because the genealogical scrolls of the people of Israel were accessible in the temple. If somebody disagreed, he would have speedily pointed out the mistake referring to these scrolls. But everyone knew that Jesus is indeed a descendant of David’s ancestry. If Jesus was not from the Davidic line, both the priests and the Rabbis during Jesus’ time, just like the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQDov6NNp0 Ever since the Christian movement began, followers of Jesus Christ have said he was God in human form. But what about Jesus himself? Who did he think he was? With the rise of textual criticism and the modern study of history, historians have developed tools to unlock this question. Today, Jesus of Nazareth is no longer just a figure in a stained-glass window but a real person of history whose life can be investigated historically. So let's examine the New Testament not as inspired Scripture, but as an ordinary collection of ancient documents. Let's apply to them the standard tests we would use with regard to any other ancient sources. When historians investigate the Jesus of history, what do they find?  First, Jesus claimed to be the Messiah. The…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jToOtIeVg7A One of the objections often raced against Yeshua being the Messiah of Israel is that he didn’t fulfill some important prophecies concerning the Messiah. The Tanakh, i.e. the Old Testament, teaches that the Messiah will gather all of Israel back into the land, bring about an era of world peace and spread universal knowledge of God to all the nations. It is argued that Yeshua did not fulfill these messianic prophecies. Therefore he cannot be the Messiah of Israel. As followers of Yeshua, how do we respond to this objection? The standard Christian and Messianic response is that Yeshua will bring these prophecies to their complete fulfillment at his second coming. The Brit Hadashah, i.e. is the New Testament, clearly teaches this and while that’s true, some consider this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgKxKlcgikw What’s the role of the Messiah? What’s he going to do according to Moses Maimonides, the rambam writing in the 12th century, he laid out some of the key things that the Messiah Son of David would do. He would turn the hearts of the Jewish people towards the Torah, he would regather the exiles, he would rebuild the temple, he would fight the wars of the Lord, he would ultimately establish God’s kingdom on the earth. Now I agree that the Messiah will do those things. The question is: Is that all that the Messiah will do? What I’m going to present to you tonight is that Maimonides saw the second half of the mission but missed the first half of the mission. The only way a President…