Greetings all in the wonderful name of Yeshua!
One of the very key points I make in my audio teaching “How The System Makes You Numb To The Jew & Your Jewish Brother”, is about the de-Judaizing & de-Hebraizing of our wonderful master Yeshua, and the Greco-Romanizing of him post-Biblically.
The last few decades have increasingly seen this problem emphasized among both Christian writers and commentators and especially of course from your Jewish Brothers.
Very very unfortunately because of traditional teaching, my dear Christian brethren are not taught or made aware that Yeshua is – in fact (!) – not “was” a Jew, but still very much is part of the whole of the Jewish People!
We’ll explain this ahead.
In short for here Yeshua’s in fact Jewish humanity, is never really taught, never mind emphasized. Yeshua, when his humanity is brought up, comes across as though he is some type of generic Everyman. It is his divinity that is then quickly emphasized.
The Good News – very significantly – does not open with a “genealogy”, but rather, we learn something very key from the opening words of Matittyahu (“Gift of God” “Matthew”) 1:1.
Yeshua is first mentioned as son of David before being a son of Abraham. Yet we all know that David came many many centuries after Abraham. Why then is David mentioned first? I believe this is because of the very deep and very close connection of Yeshua with David! Further, that Mt. 1 is deeper than merely a “genealogy” of Yeshua.
If Yeshua’s Jewish humanity is not important, then why does the RCS (Renewed Covenant Scriptures) open with it?
We learn of this before our Master is even born Lk. 1:30-34, where the angel tells Miriam – not “Mary” (!) v.31, that Hebraically expressed,… “and in fact give over to him LORD the GOD, the throne (of) David, the father of him”.
The angel of course spoke Hebrew or Aramaic to Miriam – a 15-16 year olive skinned, pious and Torah observant (Lk. 2:22-38, 41-52) Jewess of the Galil (“Galilee”); not the middle-aged matronly very European looking “Mary”. The angel’s Hebraic original would have indicated the positive bearer of existence actuality, when it comes to David’s throne. Luke’s KG rendering is very specific regarding the throne and Luke uses an absolute form “…of the father of him”, referring to David and puts this at the end of the verse for emphasis!
In short for here:
Mt. 1 gives a very detailed account of Yeshua’s Jewish humanity.
Throughout the Renewed Covenant Scriptures Yeshua is consistently identified with David – and perhaps most key of all (!), in Rev. 5:5 & 22:16 – 55 or 60 years after Yeshua’s Ascension and – very significantly – when he is in Heaven!
In short: in Rev. 5:5 Yochanon renders not one, but two specific Jewish identifications of Yeshua as part of the Jewish People!
The first is a specific, absolute, and “possessive” form, regarding Yeshua as the Lion of Judah. This is actually in Yochanon’ Greek rendering, a Hebraic “part of the whole of the tribe of Judah”, and extremely significant in this way:
“Ek” ” out from within” the tribe of Judah, rather than “apo“, ” separated off from the outside”. Whenever Yeshua is referred to in KG as coming from the Jews, it is always always “out from within” them; never, “separated off from the outside” from them.
Further still, at least two of these references used by Yochanon are Hebraic forms expressed in KG, “part of the whole of”.
Here’s where this idea is extremely extremely significant.
In Yeshua’s Semitic original, “from” among other things indicates “source”.
In short, the very significant (!) key is this:
Yeshua, despite all the opposition from Jewish leadership, is nowhere ever ever ever seen from Mt. 1:1 to Rev. 22:16 – 55-60 years after his Ascension – as somehow not part of the whole of the Jewish People!
Your source of salvation, despite what is basically inculcated and infused in by the System as being from or through or “must” be from the “Gentile Church”, in fact is thru the Jewish Yeshua Hamashiach – who is still part of the whole of the Jewish People!
Lest I forget Revelation 5:5 contains not one – but two – specific identifications of Yeshua with the Jewish People. The 2nd and connected with the first is “the specific subject named the root David”.
One of the very last verses of Holy Scripture is Revelation 22:16. Here Yeshua tells the angel to communicate to the seven Gentile assemblies addressed in Revelation 2-3, that he is “… the offspring (of) David”.
In KG this form indicates the specific subject named; in other words, this cannot be taken as a vague or general reference to David. Again, in Yeshua’s Hebraic original, this would be the positive bearer of existence actuality, when it comes to Yeshua as the offspring (of) David.
Thus, can Yeshua be separated from David? Can David be separated from being part of the whole of the Jewish People?
Here is a very very key way we see Yeshua as STILL part of the whole of the Jewish people:
Whenever our master is referred to as coming from the Jewish people or David, and in Greek it is always expressed as “ek“; defined not as “separated off from the outside”, but rather “out from within”.
Paul’s last Letter is his second one to his very beloved Timothy. Paul writes this in 2:8; “…Remember Yeshua Hamashiach “ek” ” out from within (the) dead “ek” “out from within seed (of) David”…. Paul goes on to say in KG that this specifically is the gospel of me. This is put last in the first for emphasis and we should note Paul’s use of “mou” “of me”.
Paul, typically de facto presented to Christians as “the first Calvinist”, speaks of Yeshua – in his last Letter – in totally Hebrew Bible, Hebrew, Jewish and yes shockingly – Pharisee terms. On Paul incidentally continuing to be a Pharisee, cf. Acts 23:6-7.
You should note that the Pharisees very much champion Resurrection, while the Greeks the post-Biblical System abandoned “the Jews” for, scoffed at Paul and his teaching and on the Resurrection. Cf. Acts 17:16-32 v.32 on the Resurrection.
Paul almost a decade earlier in Romans, also wrote of Yeshua & David Rom. 1:3, 9:4-5.
In short: here’s why what we learned together above, the Religious System can never teach you. If you fully realize just how completely and totally Hebrew and Jewish Yeshua is, and how much Yeshua is still part of the whole of the Jewish People, and, that he today sends your Jewish Brothers, where will you start looking?
If one realizes it’s about the Kingdom, not the System nor the Self, the System is finished.
If one learns the actual Biblical model and framework for following Yeshua, and one truly realizes their obligation spiritually and materially is not now to Self, but rather to their Jewish Brothers – most especially as Scripture is clear – as well as to the others, not of an “Organization”, but rather of the Organism – the Body – the System is finished.
In short, a Hebrew & Jewish Yeshua leads you not to the Gentile Religious System, but rather, to your Jewish Brothers. A Hebrew & Jewish-based Bible, leads you to your Jewish Brothers, and to your fellow members of the Kingdom and the Body. THAT, is an existential threat to the System’s hold on followers……
If the Bible is the Instruction Manual from God, then we’ve simply tried to follow and model it. We wanted to be sent out from an assembly of Jewish Brothers as we see in Acts and cf. 3 Yochanon 5-8, and with a letter from leadership. Unfortunately, the leader while very supportive of me, did not want to sponsor my going to Christians.
We had to go out of a Conservative Baptist assembly. When we were formally sent out, though many members liked what we were doing, leadership begged me not to speak! This was out of fear of a strong backlash from a group of anti-Semitic “this is a Baptist church, we don’t want this Jewish stuff here” types. (Sadly, needless to say, they bit and devoured one another cf. Gal. 5:15, and the building was sold….).
I ask you to support what I’m doing for one reason and one reason only.
If what John, my dear “Tertios” and “Onesimus” cf. Rom. 16:22, 2 Tim. 1:15-18 and I, with the love and support of his fellow “Philippians” are doing is the actual Biblical model for taking the word forward and building up the brethren, then please, support and be blessed for doing so!
If you don’t think so, then please, do not. May God bless you and yours anyway.
For much more on the great significance for you of Yeshua as still a Jew in Heaven, please go to the site assemblywithoutthewalls.org, click the Teaching page, and scroll down to the Yeshua window.
Thank you!
Gen. 12:3, Rom. 15:27, 2 Tim. 1:15-17