THE FINAL REDEMPTION"For a CHILD has been born to us, a SON has been given to us; and authority has settled on His shoulders. He has been named WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE." [Isaiah (Yeshayah) 9. 6 Tanakh, Nevi'im]
The TANAKH (OLD COVENANT) tells that the hopes of Israel are centered on two great events - the coming of GOD's Kingdom and the coming of the MAN, WHO would bring this Kingdom to pass. According to the TALMUD (a JEWISH COMMENTARY), Jews expected two MESSIAHS: MESSIAH ben'Yosef and Messiah ben'David. The name of the Messiah was formed before the creation of the world: "Seven things were formed before the creation of the world: "The Law, Repentance, Paradise, Sheol, the Throne of Glory, the Temple, and the Name of the MESSIAH." [TALMUD, P'Sachim, fol. 54, col. 1]
This MAN would please ALMIGHTY GOD and would bring HIS people to rest and deliverance from their enemies. Thirty six prophets made predictions concerning the coming MESSIAH either about HIS birth, HIS SPIRIT, HIS miracles, HIS relationship with other peoples, HIS death, HIS resurrection, or about some other phase of HIS Life. This MAN, WHO fulfills the visions and hopes of the Prophets and the Psalmist is MESSIAH JESUS OF NAZARETH (MESSIAH means "ANOINTED ONE"). The LORD YESHUA comes from the line of David, the line of Abraham, the line of Isaac, and the line of Jacob. It was prophesied that the Messiah would come from: The Human Family of Adam - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her SEED; HE shall crush your head, and you will strike at HIS Heel." [Genesis (Bereshith) 3. 15 Tanakh, Torah]
The Race in the Line of Shem - "Blessed be the LORD, ELOHEY of Shem; let Canaan be a slave to them." [Genesis (Bereshith) 9. 25 Tanakh, Torah; see 9. 25 - 27]
The Patriarch Line of Abraham - "Abraham shall surely become a great, populous and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth are to be blessed in him." [Genesis (Bereshith) 18. 18 Tanakh, Torah]
The True Heir in the Lineage of Isaac - "I will bestow MY blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes. All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed MY command." [Genesis (Bereshith) 22. 18 - 19 Tanakh, Torah]
The National Line of Jacob - "I am the LORD, the GOD of your father Abraham and the GOD of Isaac, the ground on which you are lying I will assign to you and to your offspring. Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and your descendants." [Genesis (Bereshith) 28. 13 - 14 Tanakh, Torah]
The Tribal Lineage of Judah - "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler's staff from between his feet, until SHILOH (MESSIAH YESHUA --Shiloh means “Peace & Security” which will be realized to the fullest when He Who is the Exact Image of God) comes and tribute is to HIM; and the obedience of the people shall be HIS." [Genesis (Bereshith) 49. 10 Tanakh, Torah]
The Kingly Line of David - "The LORD swore to David a firm oath that He will not renounce, 'One of your own issue I will set upon your throne." [Psalms (Tehillym) 132. 11 Tanakh, Kethuvim]
Many Jews, upon first arriving in the Promised Holy Land, go to the Western Wall (the Kotel) to pray and lament. They have yearned for the coming of ONE WHO would deliver them from their countless enemies and set up HIS EVERLASTING KINGDOM; only to be disappointed throughout the years, for false prophets have laid claim to the title of "THE ANOINTED ONE."
However, in searching HOLY SCRIPTURE, there can be no doubt as to WHOM MESSIAH is! From studying the GOSPELS we see that the HEBREW SCRIPTURES are often quoted by the PIERCED MESSIAH describing HIMSELF in every detail! "And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, HE expounded to them in all the SCRIPTURES the things concerning HIMSELF." [Luke 24. 27] "Then HE said to them, 'These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the TORAH (LAW OF MOSES) and the NEVI'IM (PROPHETS) and the KETHUVIM (PSALMS\WRITINGS) concerning ME." [Luke 24. 44]
IF only a person would honestly look into HIS wonderfully amazing "Love Letter (THE HOLY BIBLE)" to us, they would find the riches in the LORD MESSIAH JESUS for their own lives and understand our GREAT, PRECIOUS & LOVELY REDEEMING LORD GOD personally.
Sha’alu (Pray) for the shalom (Peace) of Jerusalem and all of Israel!Stay alert for such a time as this. . . keep watching and praying.
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