The Exclusive Claims Of Yeshua Ha Mashiah
Jesus claimed to be The Way, The Truth & The Life
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If Jesus' claims are true, we have to take seriously his statement in JOHN 14:6: " I AM The Way, The Truth and The Life. No one comes to God the Father except through me."
If Jesus' claims are false, then clearly he was either a lunatic, or deluded, or a deliberate liar. But then we have a problem with his life, his teachings, his miracles, his death and his resurrection from the grave.
Our Response To Jesus Christ's Claims
The response to Yeshua Ha Mashiah is what decides the fate of all still alive during the terrible Tribulation.
In REVELATION 7 we see the sealing of the 144,000 from the twelve Tribes and the multitude of the redeemed from every nation on earth being saved from the Tribulation and God's terrible judgement.
David Stern in his Jewish New Testament Commentary page 810 suggests that "when the sign of the Son of Man is seen in heaven (the heavens?), the children of Israel will repent, recognize the Messiah and mourn because they pierced him unjustly. That is when all Israel will be saved. Yet the condition for this is the prior salvation of (the) 144,000."
He goes on to say "The case that the 144,000 from every tribe of the people of Israel means "the Church" is harder to make because v.9 below speaks of "a huge crowd, too large for anyone to count, from every nation, tribe, people and language."
In Summary
1. It is clear from Scripture that God has no intention of abandoning his Chosen People, Israel - the children of the promise he made to Abraham, Moses, David and subsequently through the prophets to all who respond in faith and obedience to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Old Covenant was a covenant based on heartfelt obedience to God in gratitude for his deliverance from bondage of all sorts.
2. God promised he would eventually send his Messiah - His One Anointed with the power of the Holy Spirit - to save his people from their sins. He fulfilled this promise when he sent his Son Yeshua Ha Mashiah - conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit, born naturally by a virgin - and empowered him to perform works of power as signs of his spiritual authority and heavenly identity. Jesus came not to abolish The Torah, which set out God's boundaries for living in the Old Covenant, but to fulfill it by not only keeping every aspect of it but to inaugurate the New Covenant in his blood by dying for sinners and rising from the dead as the prophets and he had prophesied beforehand.
3. The Children of the Promise are now all those who respond in faith and obedience to God through faith in Yeshua Ha Mashiah and are filled with his resurrection life by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.
4. This new birth in the Spirit through faith in Yeshua Ha Mashiah is open to all - Jew and Gentile, male and female, young and old, of all races, creeds and colours. It is the basis on which all will be judged by God on the Day of Judgement, as Jesus himself pointed out in JOHN 3:16-19.
Video of a Jew who found Yeshua Ha Mashiah
Watch Stuart Dauermann's testimony of how he came to encounter Yeshua Ha Mashiah/Jesus the Messiah for himself by clicking on A JEW MEETS JESUS.
