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TO ALL, GOD BLESS US ALL!! Just asking all people who they say JESUS IS!! And explain!!

Prominent rabbis from the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox sector have offered their own curious interpretations for the upheaval that is spreading through the Middle East, stating that the events are a clear proof that a higher power is at work. Orthodox Lithuanian sector in Bnei Brak, as blaming the instability in the region on contemptuous attitudes towards Torah study. "Recently it appears that there is a powerful effort to destroy and agitate the world of the Torah, through various attempts to prosecute kollels and yeshiva students," Steinman said. "When you try to agitate the world of the Torah, God agitates the world."...

Those of us who are liturgical Christians, are still celebrating Christmas, still six days to go. Unlike the song, we don’t have presents everyday, but we do reflect on the meaning of the incarnation. January the first is the eighth day of Christmas. In the Gospel of Luke, we learn that on the eighth day after his birth, that Jesus was circumcised, so it is fitting that we remember that event on the first of January. We see several items in this one event. First, the early church fathers tell us that this is the first time we see Jesus...

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports November 14th, rather startlingly with the headline that: Theological expert: Lord’s Prayer ‘totally Jewish’ as if this were somehow some new groundbreaking discovery set to embarrass the Christian world. However, that is not the case. It seems as if the expert from the controversial Jesus Seminar is gaining a headline more from what he doubts than what he discovers! In 2004 David Instone-Brewer demonstrates the totally Jewish background to the Lord’s Prayer in his book Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament published by evangelical publishers Eerdman. “The Lord’s Prayer appears...

Be at peace in My Presence , learn to rest in My WellSpring , " I AM You in You " ! My Fullness AT REST in True Peace . Peace at rest is "Tranquility " ~ ~ ~

"Tis that wonderfully busy time of year again, and I haven't had time to create a new article for Yom Kippur just yet. Hopefully I'll have time in the next couple of days. In the meantime, here are links to some of the articles I've written on the subject in the past: Yom Kippur, Part 1: Traditions and BloodYom Kippur, Part 2: The Exodus and the FutureDid God Reject the Sacrifice Because of Yeshua? A Response to Rabbi Singer And an overview of the Feasts for those who might not have seen it before: The Feasts and the Exodus Shalom.

This week's Bible study dealt with a question some Christian folks asked before the start of our meeting: “Can someone who has the Torah and lives obediently to it be saved if they don't accept Jesus as Savior?” We approached this in three steps: •What is meant by Torah observant? •What is the difference between “Jesus” and “Yeshua”? •What is meant by being saved as related to Messiah? First, we discussed that being Torah observant means to obey the written word of Elohim, not the traditions of men that have come in and taken a place alongside His Word. To...

 Does the Church teach two Gospels?  Daniel Gregg Also posted at Torahtimes.org          When the preacher says Christ died for our sin, what does it make you think?  Does it make you think that he paid the penalty for sin so that the repentant might be forgiven?   Or does it make you think one only needs to believe to be perfectly righteous in God's sight, and then one is saved on the basis of God's vision of righteousness?     Believe it or not, the Church teaches two gospels.  One is a gospel of repentance and pardon, by which a man may be...

CWN.org - In Israel, a resurgence in the number of Jews who believe in Jesus is getting a lot of attention. Many leaders say it's the strongest growth since the time of Jesus and that the Messianic movement could be on the brink of a great revival. "This is the first time where we've seen Israeli society in general being so open to consider who Yeshua is," said Messianic leader Asher Intrater. "This is a real miracle, and there's beginning to be grace and favor with us in the land."

Shortly before he died, one of Israel's most prominent rabbis wrote the name of the Messiah on a small note which he requested would remain sealed until now. When the note was opened, it revealed what many have known for centuries: Yehoshua, or Yeshua (Jesus), is the Messiah. A few months before he died, one of the nation’s most prominent rabbis, Yitzhak Kaduri, supposedly wrote the name of the Messiah on a small note which he requested would remain sealed until now. When the note was unsealed, it revealed what many have known for centuries: Yehoshua, or Yeshua (Jesus),...

The Name of Jesus: Its Power in Our Lives Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Our reflections are on the name of Jesus, its power in our lives. Whoever enters on the path of sanctity must keep his focus clear. What are we doing? Whom are we following? How are we to act? Why are we acting as we are? All of these questions can be answered in one word: Jesus. What are we doing? Better, what should we be doing? What Jesus told us to. Whom are we following? Jesus. How are we to live? As Jesus did. And why?...

In my first article on the Fall High Holy Days, we saw that the Feast of Trumpets is intimately linked by both Yeshua and Sha’ul with Yeshua’s Second Coming on the clouds of heaven, and saw that this corresponded with the expectations of the rabbis. Now we come to the second of the Fall Feastdays, and the holiest day of the Jewish—which is to say, Biblical—calendar: Yom Kippur takes place on the tenth of Tishri, nine days after Rosh Hashanah. On that day, the high priest would put on a special coat of white linen and carry out a very...

As many of you already know, we are entering into the fall High Holy Days, comprised of the Feasts of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. Just as the spring Feastdays celebrate the First Coming of Messiah Yeshua, and Shavuot (Pentecost) celebrates the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) to the Ekklesia in between the visitations of Yeshua, the Fall Feastdays look forward to His Second Coming—and in particular, the Feast of Trumpets looks forward to His Glorious Appearance in the clouds of heaven!The day which this year falls on September 23 (beginning at sundown the previous night) is known...

The Harrison County School board has a problem, a whole lot of questions and very, very few answers. Two civil liberties groups sued the board last month over its decision not to remove a picture of Jesus from Bridgeport High School. "And I do not want to spend taxpayers' dollars, says school board member Sally Cann. "But even if we have a free organization, does that make them the best organization to represent us? I don't think so, necessarily. I mean, I don't know how to go about it." This comes after six groups have offered free legal counsel to...

Synagogues combine faith traditionsMELBOURNE - There is no cross at Kol Mashiach Synagogue. "People think they'll come in here, and suddenly we'll produce one from the back room," said Messianic Rabbi Alan Levine, the spiritual leader of the Melbourne congregation. "We won't. We don't have one." A cross, of course, is an enduring symbol of Christianity and belief in the life and death of Jesus. You'll see one at virtually every Christian church around the world, but not at Kol Mashiach, which meets in a secular-looking building on Lake Washington Road. "We're a synagogue, not a church," Levine said. "Don't...

When the Stars Fall: A Messianic Commentary on the Revelation by Michael D. Bugg About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition. --Sir Isaac Newton Introduction Over eighty years ago, H.A. Ironside wrote, “It is certainly cause for deep regret that to so many Christians the Book of Revelation seems to be what God never intended it should be—a sealed book.”[1] Sadly, eight decades later, the situation is little changed. Why is...

Questions for a Rabbi or Talmudic scholar In recent days there have been posts on the subject of how Judaism views Christianity.  My Christian teachers have taught me a number of interpretations that I accept because I trust my teachers.  However, that doesn't mean that they are right.  In fact one of the principle reasons I trust these particular teachers is that they stress over and over again that we are not to take them at their word, but we are strenuously instructed to research, study, and think for ourselves and pray about our questions in order that we might...

Interviewing the Lord God Creator of all things. Tuesday August 19th, 2003 Me: Lord, In the first eleven verses of the Gospel of the Apostle John, John, referring to You as Word, says that You and the Father are one, In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same (Jesus) was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him (Jesus); and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the Light of men. And the Light...

Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."1 Avraham Avinu ("Our Father, Abraham") is terminology found frequently in Jewish and Rabbinic literature.2 It does not appear as such in the Tanakh (Old Testament). But the New Testament attests to it multiple times, in the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles.3 This should not surprise us since the theological reflections, traditions and terminology of the sages and rabbis informed the Jewish views of Jesus and his first disciples.4 Abraham was considered the first proselyte to Judaism, and subsequently became the patriarch of the Jewish nation. He is esteemed...

"Not Subject to the Law of God?" Part 4. Christianity's Difficulty with "the Law" As mentioned, the Hebrew view of faith is not just "believing" in God, as some teach. Even demons believe in him (James 2:19) and know who Yeshua is (Matthew 8:29). Having repented (teshuvah) in faith, we are now to look at the Torah as our "how-to guide" regarding God's will for our lives. The entire Torah is the "Law of Liberty" we are to live by. (James 1:25; 2:12) We cannot pick and choose which Torah commandments we want to follow either (James 2:10-11). Any religion...