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Torah vs NT; Jewish Messiah vs Christian Messiah; Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Bible

Jan 01 2012 Published by admin under Messianic Judaism

[My comment to a person on Facebook.]
Yaya,
Re. your last comment to me:
You used ‘He’ with a capital ‘H’ to describe Y’hoshua, which indicate that you think that he was someone else than an Torah-observant human (with a lot of wise Torah-teachings and a high moral standard based on Torah) and the Jewish Messiah (as described in the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew). I.e. you stick to “NT” – i.e. Christian doctines – which are inherently anti-Torah.

The Jewish Messiah is according to the Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Bible a man born by two human parents and is not a ‘divine saviour’/'Torah in flesh/preexistent/’man-god’, etcetera.

Documentation for those whom are seeking for the truth of what the Hebrew Bible reads in Hebrew related to this issue:

http://www.netzarim.co.il/Shared/MessPro.htm#Scripture-Yeshayahu-9.5

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Messianic prophecies, Isaiah 53, Yeshayahu 53, suffering Mashiach ben Joseph, Jewish Messiah vs Christian Messiah

Jul 06 2011 Published by admin under Messianic Judaism

Andreas,

I know very well what Y’shayahu ['Isaiah' 53] reads. It is in Hebrew. It is about that the Jewish Messiah will suffer. I could also describe it more in length, but you can find a description – based on the Hebrew text – yourself in the link I provide below.

This prophecy is about the first century Ribi [a Jewish leader with rabbinic ordination] called Y’hoshua.

But in order to understand it one must learn to read Hebrew.

More information about this prophecy and other Hebrew Messianic prophecies are found in www.netzarim.co.il; History Museum (left menu); Mashiakh (a section in the top menu)

That prophecy and other Messianic prophecies have nothing to do with Christian salvation. [Difference between the salvation described in Torah vs. Christian 'salvation': Link]

Anders Branderud

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Messianic prophecies, Michah 5:2, knowledge of haShem, third temple, Melech Mashiach,

Apr 24 2011 Published by admin under Messianic Judaism

Tom (and please read this also everyone else following this discussion – you get a completely erronous picture  of this conversation if you don’t also read what I write),

Do you read my posts carefully?
Les doesn’t response to everything I write and continues to ask questions that I already have answered.

Les wrote: “Tell me when and who anointed your ribbi as Ha Mashiac Melek”

I wrote this: Tell me where in Tana’’kh you find this requirement.

18/4 I wrote:
Your question regarding anointed I have answered here: Link.

19/4 I wrote:

Regarding anointed: I answered that in my reply about 12 hours ago.

You wrote: ”You disengenuosly posted:”

Since when did you get a full knowledge of my heart? I have not acted disingenously at a single point in this conversation. Please provide your proofs for your allegations – not merely assumptions – until then your statement is leshon ha’ra.

In the last post Les again wrote: “He fulfilled none of these and failed to gather the exiles, rebuild the temple, or to spread the knowledge of HaShem throughout the world.”

Messianic prophecis and Michah 5:2

Despite that I have already answered the first two of these statements in a previous post.:
Tana’’ch prophecies about the dual goings forth of the Mashiakh in Mikhah 5:2 [Documentation]. There are prophecies in Tana’’kh which clearly shows that the first coming of the Mashiakh wouldn’t cause all of the Messianic prophecies to be fulfilled [Documentation:Link 1; and 2]. The Mashiakh was prophecied to be cut off in the first century [Documentation] and this invalidates the interpretation that all of the Messianic prophecies would be fulfilled by the first “going forth” of the Mashiakh.

According to Tana’’ch the 3rd temple is spiritual [Documentation]. The gathering of the exiles has to a large extent already taken place. Many that claim to be Jews have been kareit [cut off] from the brit with ha-Sheim, since they are rejecting to do their utmost to keep the mitzwot of Torah [Documentation] non-selectively – and the prophecy is only about those whom are included in Am Yisraeil. E.g. there is no excuse for persons living outside of Israel to not do their utmost of fulfilling the mitzwah of settling Israel. Rejection of doing ones utmost to fulfil the mitzwah of settling Israel, being aware that this is a mitzwah, leads according to Torah to kareit from Am Yisraeil, until a person makes t’shuvah  [Documentation]. This can also be learnt from the example of Eisau, Yishmaeil, et.al., whose relatives are not counted as belonging to Am Yisraeil [except those whom have converted]. I would move to Israel if I were allowed.

Addition: Spreading the knowledge of ha-Sheim is also done now through his restored teachings in Netzarim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu, which describe how to relate to ha-Sheim. [Learn more here: Link]

Les is not replying to all of my statements, refusing to admit when he was wrong with his allegations and erronous statements and is repeating questions that I already have answered, which gives the impression to others that I don’t have answered the questions. He also comes with false charges like this: “Throwing out a couple of truths and claiming all you say is truth is like what the NT does.”, which I haven’t implied. Of course there is no such implication. Each point must be demonstrated which is also what I strive to do.

Those who only read Les responses gets a completely wrong picture of the conversation. That behaviour is not compatible with Torah and I will thus discontinue the discussion with him.

Jeff continues with his l’shon hara and I will not feed that. I have already refuted his l’shon hara in previous post/posts. I urge every reader of this forum to study www.netzarim.co.il and they will see that his allegations of my beliefs are false.

I follow the mitzwah of Torah:

מדבר-שקר תרחק

mi-d’var shqer tirkhaq; from a false-saying/matter distance yourself

If anyone wants to have an answer to his questions, then read the link that I provided demonstrating my claim. This makes the interpretation that the third temple is physical impossible and demonstrates that it is non-physical. This answers his question:

Messianic prophecis and third temple

Eternal sacrifices by the shiakh If the Har-Beit-ha-Sheim is spiritual [which is demonstrated in the article I referred to], its foundation, the shiakh [demonstrated in the article I referred to], and its stones the nәphâshot of those doing their utmost to keep Torâh, then the eternal sacrifices by shiakh, prophesied byYkhëzqeil (44.3; 45.16-17, 22; 46.2-18) can only be understood symbolically, in the spiritual sense.”

Tom wrote: “I know you brought in Isa 52:14, but lets face it, that interpretation/translation is a long reach.”

What do you base that on? Here are the bases of the translation: Link. If you think it is a long reach, then you should demonstrate which of the premises, which part of the translation that you are referring to and what in the analysis on this page that is wrong: Link (Put the cursor over the words of the translation in order to get the basis of the translation.). I have studied it and don’t regard it as a long reach.

Sincerly, Anders
Tom Moniz said:
Shalom,

Maybe I shouldn’t butt in, but I will :-) Anders, why won’t you answer Les’ simple straightforward question? You disengenuosly posted:

Les wrote: “then tell me why he did not perform any of the prophecies that Mashiac is to fulfill? I”

He fulfilled parts of Y’shayahu 53, prophecy in Danieil 9. He fulfilled the requirement of genealogies [see my previous post which you failed to answer], which isn’t possibly to fulfil anymore.

Whereas the question Les asked was: Tell me when and who anointed your ribbi as Ha Mashiac Melek, then tell me why he did not perform any of the prophecies that Mashiac is to fulfill?

Why did you snip away the first part of his question, which he has asked over and over again? Why won’t you answer this, at least with a “well it doesn’t matter either way” response? I know you brought in Isa 52:14, but lets face it, that interpretation/translation is a long reach.

Sincerely,
Tom

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Yehudim Meshichim,Messianic Jews or Netzarim/Nazarenes?

Mar 23 2011 Published by admin under Messianic Judaism

I answered a person this about the identity of the Mashiach – Jewish Messiah:

Woo,

I belong to the Netzarim in Ra’anana in Israel (www.netzarim.co.il).

Here follows a reply to your question:

You wrote: “could you please help me a bit and tell me what exactly is your view of Jesus?”

First of all it is important to make one distinction.

[The numbers in brackets corresponds to notes at the end of this reply.]
Ribi Yehoshua (Aramaic: Yeshua) – the Mashiach [Messiah] [0] – of Nazareth was called a Ribi – a title similar to ‘Rabbi’ – even by his opponents. That title implies that Ribi Yehoshua had semikhah – rabbinic ordination. Only Pharisees had this rabbinic ordination. This implies that Ribi Yehoshua was a Pharisee. Read further documentation on this link [1].

He never lost this good standing and his followers the Netzarim were also in good standing in the Pharisaic Jewish community [2].

This logically implies that they cannot have taught doctrines that were the antithesis to Torah. Doing this and they would have lost their good standing.

I will come back later to the distinction.

In order to deduce what the Netzarim taught about divinity, etc, we thus need to study the Tana’’kh.

Let’s study the prophecy of Yeshayahu – ‘Isaiah’ – 7- 9:
“It’s essential to understand that this passage was originally interpreted in its historical setting. That understanding remained unchanged for nearly a millennium and Scripture informs us that ha-Sheim doesn’t change. The original meaning is the only true understanding.

The prophet Yeshayahu wrote this passage ca. BCE 720 relative to the king Âkhâz (7.1). The child Yeshayahu names in 9.5 prophesies a wonderful and righteous son of the disappointing and evil Akhaz: the king Khizqiyâh (see MelâkhimBeit [“2 Book of Kings]18.3-8; 20.2ff; Divrei ha-Yâmim Beit [2:nd chronicles] 31.1-4). Nor was Yeshayahu the only Nâvi -prophet – prophesying about the blasphemous rule of Âkhâz and the cleansing of Israel by his son, the king Khizqiyâh. the prophet Hosheia (see 1.1ff) and the prophet Mikhah (see 1.1ff) were proclaiming parallel prophecies.“ [3]

If you read the prophecy in Isaiah 7-9 in Hebrew and related verses of the Hebrew Bible you will see that king Hizkiah was a partial fulfilment of that prophecy and he was a human, and not divine, nor a ‘Saviour’. Thus, neither the Messiah would be divine, nor a ‘Saviour’. The historical Messiah called Rabbi Yeshua taught his followers to pray to the Creator, not to pray to Jesus. One is forbidden to pray to any human according to Torah; and one is forbidden to pray to or worship Jesus. [4]

Netzarim did not and don’t regard Ribi Yehoshua to be divine. He was a spiritual son of Elohim, just like all Torah-observant Jews and geirim – non-Jewish Torah-observant proselytes recognized by the Pharisee heritage Jewish community – are sons of Elohim.
The only Torah-compatible group claiming that Ribi Yehoshua is the Mashiach is the Netzarim (http://www.netzarim.co.il) in Ra’anana in Israel led by the Orthodox Jew Paqid Yirmeyahu Ben Dawid. Other groups are deceivers calling themselves Netzarim, but teaching doctrines incompatible with the Netzarim of the first century and incompatible with Torah.

The distinction must be made between the historical Ribi Yehoshua and the counterfeit image that were created by Christians – Jesus [5]. It is well documented and attested by Scholars that Christians redacted the “gospels” [6].

I hope this helps you and other reading this!

Notes
[Most of the following blogs are created by me and the facts of them are well documented.]:
0. Proof that Ribi Yehoshua was the Mashiach ben Yoseiph: http://www.torah-observant.com/mashiach/…

1. http://www.yeshuatorah.net/yeshua-and-to…

2. http://www.followyeshua.com/history-muse…

3. http://www.netzarim.co.il/ ; History Museum (left menu); Mashiakh (top menu); Documentation found in the page, including the section “Mâshiakh of Tana”kh Subverts Tana”kh to be the Mâshiakh?”;

4. http://www.followyeshua.com/yeshua-or-je…

5.Learn more about the distinction on this blog of mine:
http://www.yeshuavsjesus.com/yeshua-vs-j…

6. http://www.netzarim.co.il/ ; Glossaries; NT

Kind regards,
Anders Branderud

The person that I answered wrote this:

“I’m trying to understand how Messianic Jews and Netzarim Yisrael
- differ from other Jewish sects
- and differ from each other.

The whole thing is too confusing. I initially thought these 2 groups were the same, but perhaps not. So if you belong to one of these groups, could you please help me a bit and tell me what exactly is your view of Jesus? I know about the Messiah part, but is that all?

- What about being the Son of God?
- What about the Trinity (father, son, holy spirit)?
- Is Jesus divine or part-divine?”"

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