When I was a child growing up in the synagogue, our father would say to us:
“Jesus was a good man, and if the world would live by his teachings, it would be a better place – BUT……..He wasn’t who he said he was.”
As I thought about my fathers words, I couldn’t help but see the contradiction in terms. Good men don’t lie. So, this prompted me to search for the truth about this man, Jesus. Who was he? What was being kept from us, if anything.
I saw the joy in the lives of Christians. I felt a sense of jealousy at their celebration of the birth of Jesus. I continued my quest for the truth.
It was after a tragedy befell my family that I met Christians who shared the Gospel with me. It was so crystal clear that this man, Jesus, loved me and had died for me. I had found the truth and my life has never been the same.
I found out from another Jewish believer that there was a part of Scripture that I may not have seen from the Tanakh. She showed me Isaiah 53.
It has been hidden from you for centuries by rabbis who felt that they were doing the right thing.
Isn’t it time for you to see what these Scriptures say?
ISAIAH 53:
Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
It is the prayer of my heart for my people to know that our Messiah did come, but we knew Him not. I understand that believing that Jesus (Yeshua) is our Messiah will create many problems within your families – I know this first hand. My extended family disowned me. It is worth losing family to come into a relationship with the Messiah, Yeshua!
Yeshua knew that we would experience these problems with our families. He said:
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 10:34-39)
If you are convinced that Yeshua IS the Messiah of Israel, I want you to know how you can know Him and be saved:
May G-d bless you and keep you.
Shalom b’Yeshua
Great post Sister in Christ Jesus-Yeshua Geri!!
Love Always and Shalom,
Kristi
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Hallelujah!
My first wife was Jewish (I am not). She died from MS, but she believed in Yeshua 4 months before she died. My Jewish family loved me without reservation and took me in as one of their own. They were and still are precious to me. There are a few left that I connect with on Facebook. I am going to post this on Facebook. Please pray that they will read it and view the video and get saved.
Awesome, brother!! I found out that 20 Israelis read this piece!! That’s exciting!
Awesome! Yay, good job Geri! very well done! <3
If there is one chapter in scriptures that simply eliminates Jesus as the Messiah, than it is Isaiah 53 you are reffering to.
He comes like sapling out of dry land… The verse must be either understood fully literally or fully mathaphorically. Since the servant can not be a literal sapling we must assume that growing up on dry land must be a methaphore too. But than it means the servant will grow up in spiritually dry, deserted place, meaning, the place where there is zero spirituality… And for this reason it is practically impossible to grow for anything in this particular place, let alone on its own, a young tree… If one says that the Jewish community at that time was just like this desert spiritually, than he surely can point out any other community that compared to it would be spiritually rich… I really daubt anyone will be able to point to one… And I also believe that despite all the flaws Jewish community was much superior over all the pagans around them…
So this must show that growing up within the Jewish community at that time must have been the most spiritual of that time… So for this reason alone Jesus could not possible be the Servant from Isaiah 53…
He will be despiced and rejected and people will turn their faces away from him…
Jesus was celebrated all the way and big crowds gathered for the most of his ministry time. And at the end it was just a few pharisees, if we can believe the stories of goapels, which we can NOT, wanting to get rid of him…
From judgement and prison he is taken… Christians mostly translate it as if …By judgement and imprisonment he is taken… I believe Jewish translation and growing number of Christian translations do too.
So with Jesus it was just the opposite…
From the toil of his soul he will see… says the Jewish translations compared to Christian – He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
This passage states, the Jewish translation, that firstly the Servant, the Messiah, will be despised and rejected and suffer, but not phisically. It will be spiritual suffering over long period of time and as a direct result of this will come his knowledge – …because of the toil of his soul he will see…
Jesus, first of all, did not come with a new knowledge…, for everything he said was already before him in Jewish community and some eastern philosofphies and religions…
and secondly, first came his teachings and after his sufferings. And those were physical ones. But Messiah mus first suffer (from the toil of his soul he sees), sporitually, and then comes the deep understanding… that will surprise the kings of the world and the nations…
Do not get me wrong. I like the most of Jesus’ teachings. But I do not see him to be the Messiah, let alone the God Creator Himself. This makes Jesus to be a Father to himself and a son. And the son of David and Messiah all at the same time… And on top of all this he is a high priest and a sucrifical lamb to himself… Any healthy person must realise at some point that this is a bit overreacted…, by his zealous followers, not by himself…
He will be with the rich in his death and with the wicked in his grave… One must bear in mind this is Christian translation. And even in this case it would be just otherway round – Jesus was with the wicked, not rich, in his death and with the rich, not wicked, in his grave. So Jesus fails anyway.
But it all goes even worse when you check Jewish translation of this place in the bible – Isaiah 53:9 (www.chabad.org)
It goes sth like this:
9. And he (God???) gave his (Messiah’s???) grave to the wicked, and to the wealthy with his KINDS of death, because he committed no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth….
It is interesting, that the passage rather suggests that someone, possibly God Himself, will give his (Servant’s, Messiah’s), grave (death) to the wicked…
In my view it just repeats what David says in his song.
Psalm 110
…1. Of David a psalm. The word of the Lord to my master; “Wait for My right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool at your feet.”
(Again, compare christian and jewish translations for they differ a lot…)
All in all it means that the servant, the Messiah, will be protected from all attackes taken against him…
No need to confirm that Jesus fails on all of these passages, as so Jews as a nation, unfortunately…
There are many more mistranslations and misinterpretations all over the bible. But especially Isaiah 53…
3. Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness, and as one who hides his face from us, despised and we held him of no account.
About Jesus? No chance. Again, the whole chapter must be looked at methaphorically. Accustomed to illness??? , meaning, some kind of mental problems…???
4. Indeed, he bore our illnesses, and our pains-he carried them, yet we accounted him as plagued, smitten by God and oppressed…
When exactly and who accounted Jesus plagued???
10. And the Lord wished to crush him, He made him ill; if his soul makes itself restitution, he shall see children, he shall prolong his days, and God’s purpose shall prosper in his hand.
When Jesus was made ill? Literally or methaphorically? Never. Jesus was spotless. Sinless. Apart from cursing innocent tree that has no free will and even worse, it was not a season for the fruits…
Check again differences between Jewish and Christian translations. When you make his soul an offering for sin… say christians… There is no such a thing. Some Jews say the passage clearly mentions guilt, which Servant himself acknkwledges…, than he (God) will prolong his days and he will se his children and God’s work will prosper in his hand.
Jesus died without kids and was miles away from the fruits of his activities. Jesus teaching started to take shape with Paul, but only some 300+ years after it became serious and not because nations and kings were surprised by the teachings of Jesus, but because one roman emperor saw this religion good for making the society obedient since Paul said that ANY GOVERMENT is from God and one must obay it… Perfect religion…
11. From the toil of his soul he would see, he would be satisfied; with his knowledge My servant would vindicate the just for many, and their iniquities he would bear.
What does it mean – he would bear their iniquities…??? To me it sounds like the Servant himself will have some traits of those societies around him… What else it can be without falling into philosophical nonsense about what it coukd be in order to fit Jesus…
All in all Jesus fails in everything the Old Testament prescribes the Messiah will fulfill. And there is no Second Coming in it either… No wonder Jews wait for the Messiah’s first arrival still.
And the gospels are anonimous, written by greek speaking pagans who never have met Jesus. And those discrepancies between them are much more than tiny mistakes.
Wow, talk about being close minded. That one takes the cake!
Romans 11 explains it.
I disagree with you if we follow the Acts 2:38 we will receive the HOLY GHOST and do as they did in that day. I know as I did that many years ago and received the Holy Ghost as they did in that time. It changed my life completely and all six of my grown children have also receive this gift of tongues and one of my daughters is married to a preacher. You look around where do you see the people who live the closes to GOD it is the people who have been filled with the spirit as they did in Acts2:38, Other faiths think you can do any thing in this world and be saved but, you can’t as it pulls you down with the devil.
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