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Brand New Day / Ageless Message
Many
of us can relate to periods of our life when we sit and contemplate
where we are at in life. Sometimes we sit on the mountain peaks,
while other times we are in the valleys. Through the mountains
and the valleys, we can see the hand of G-d. We can see His tapestry
masterfully woven together and can see how all the pieces have
been perfectly connected. During the times in the valleys, we
cannot see past the next hill, and we have to trust HaShem to
get us through. When we are on the mountain peak, we can see the
past and even get a glimpse of the future. It takes so much more
faith when you are in those valleys.
As
believers in Messiah Yeshua, we understand that reading the Tenach
is like looking out over the valley, but not being able to grasp
what is ahead. As believers, we sit on the mountaintop called
the Brit Chadasha [Newer Covenant] and looking back we see the
Tenach in a totally different persepective. We see that there
is ONE Messiah who plays two roles: the suffering servant [Isaiah
53] and the Conquering King [Zechariah 14]. The Jewish people
only see the latter. The reality of the Messiah being killed is
so clearly stated as you read through Isaiah, Zechariah, and Daniel
that the ancient rabbis tried to reconcile it by agreeing that
there were two Messiahs: Ben David [the King] and Ben Joseph [one
that would be killed in battle]. Due to nearsightedness in the
valley, one may come to this conclusion. When you are on the peak,
how simple it is to see that Yeshua, the Servant and the King,
are all the same!
Many ancient Rabbis interpreted scriptures in the Tenach as being
Messianic. Today, modern Judaism has reinvented itself. It has
embraced humanistic thinking and even has classical Greek thought
tossed in. Temple Aviv Judea began in 1978 as one of the first
Messianic congregations since the first century CE. In the past
two thousand years we have witnessed a grave distortion of the
truth. We have seen the Jews put their faith and emphasis in rabbinical
writings written by men, instead of directing their focus on the
Tenach, the Word of G-d. We have seen the church cut themselves
off from the root [the Jewish faith] and in doing so, alienating
the "apple of G-d's eye", the Jewish people. G-d is
lifting up the Messianics [Jewish and Gentile believers] in the
end times, so He can teach the Church, so they can repent; and
for the Jewish people to find the true faith of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, so that they all might be saved. Join us at Temple
Aviv Judea for this heavenly mission.
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