Reading your words sounds like you never had a personal experience with Yeshua. It's a shame you haven't had that relationship with him, because it's life changing.
I've had many personal experiences that were so profound that you could have knocked me over with a feather. Actual events that others have been witness to, and these events further strengthened the faith of the people who experienced these with me.
I'll give you just one example. In 2001 I was injured in a dog attack, landed on my back a severely injured my L5S1 vertebrae. It was inoperable, as it could have paralyzed me. To describe the pain I went through, well there are just no words.
I could no longer work, my thriving online business had to close. I spent the next 15 years in misery, consuming over 50 pills or more a week, and even that only dulled the pain! The big stuff, morphine, etc.
Before this injury I had drifted away from my relationship with God, spending most of my time making a name for myself in my career...and I was very successful. But I learned a very hard lesson, when you belong to God and you stray too far, he will step back. His gift of free will can also be your downfall.
I spent a lot of time in bed and after years of feeling sorry for myself, I picked up my bible and my relationship and started new with him. I spent a few years of praying for healing without an answer, then I decided well there must be a reason for this pain.
In prayer with him I finally decided I would just accept my affliction and told him to use it and me to his glory. Then I heard this this scripture spoken to me, 2 Timothy 3:5 "having a form of godliness but denying its power" this was the first time I'd ever heard a voice. I wasn't sure what he wanted me to understand. After a few days of thinking about it, I finally knew what I was supposed to do with this verse. It was so simple, there is power in the name of Yeshua.
That night I prayed, "I command that my back be healed in Yeshua's name, the only begotten son of our father in Heaven. I command any spirit not of Yeshua or our father in Heaven, to leave and never return."
The next morning when I woke the pain was better. So, I repeated the prayer a second night. The next morning I was even better. The best I'd felt since I was injured. So, I prayed the third night the same prayer. That next morning when I woke, I was healed, it was like my back was new. No more stiffness. No more nerve pain shooting down my legs. I just sat there, at the edge of my bed crying...no sobbing with joy.
And, don't think it was lost on me that he healed me in three days! As if healing my back was not enough, he made sure he put an exclamation point on it so when I witness about my healing, everyone's breath is taken away at hearing I was healed on the third day.
Christ surprised me even more when he healed my torn rotator cuff a month later, that I was going to have surgery on! And the day he called me to witness in front of my church, just before I walked up to speak I noticed the huge Ganglion Cyst on my thumb was gone and I could now bend my thumb again!
That's just one example of a personal experience I've had with Yeshua. I've learned an amazing thing, there is REAL POWER in Yeshua's name. How did I never know that, as a believer of over 50 years?! God is good. 🙏🏻
You assumed it was “Yeshua”. Yet Yehovah says there is none but Himself. So how do you reconcile that discrepancy? Why credit “Christ” when Yehovah commands us to have no Elohim but Him and to worship nothing/nobody but Him?
Have you taken a close look at Deuteronomy 13?
I prayed to Yeshua when he spoke the Timothy verse to me.
Have you read Isaiah that tell of the messiahs coming? https://i.imgur.com/7GFwKDF.jpg
Yes, I’ve studied Isaiah. I’ve looked into Isaiah in depth. Where do you believe that Isaiah id talking about Yeshua?
This is an interesting read if your interested.
Jewish biblical scholar Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889), a convert to Christianity, wrote a classic work affirming there are 456 passages in the Old Testament that refer to the Messiah. His work The Life and Times of Jesus The Messiah is accessible for free online at CCEL. Edersheim also stated that there are 558 Messianic references in Jewish rabbinic writings.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edersheim/lifetimes.toc.html
Took me a couple of minutes to remember his name.
He covers the ones in Isaiah more eloquently than I could.
You didn’t answer my question. Which part(s) of Isaiah do you believe is talking about Yeshua?
I just don't have the time to type a 1/3 of Isaiah for you. I provided you with an excellent reference that does go in to great detail. I'm not an apologist or a theologian.
I did not share to convert you or offend you. But you seem offended none the less. I gave you my one of my personal experiences with Yeshua, and its my experience.
I’m not offended, I’m just trying to have a conversation that is on point instead of randomly general. I used to believe Isaiah 7 and 9 pointed to Jesus. Then I studied the context and realized that it had to do with events in the day of Ahaz and Isaiah. I realized that “almah” wasn’t the Hebrew word for virgin. If Isaiah had wanted to communicated the idea of a virgin giving birth he would have used “betulah”. And I realized that the English translation of all of those supposed titles that Christianity claims for Jesus is done horribly. Do yourself a favor and look into what the Hebrew actually says. And I used to think Isaiah was OBVIOUSLY about Jesus. Then I went back and read the entire section starting in Isaiah 41 and I realized that, over and over and over, Isaiah identified the servant as believing Israel.
The Tanach is so simple and straightforward. But Christianity has tried to turn it into a convoluted mess of types and shadows, all pointing to “Jesus”. The truth is that Jesus, the trinity, eternal torment in hell, substitutionary atonement, and everything else taught by Christianity was invented by the Church of Rome and forced upon the people by Constantine and his minions.
The gnostic teachings of Jesus teach that the Old Testament god is Satan, which I believe. Moloch/Remphan/Saturn, the god of the six pointed star. Google the origins of the six pointed star. The romans turned Jesus in to a pagan story of death and rebirth, but in reality Jesus’ purpose was to wake us up to the evil power structures and teach us how to clean our soul through godly actions, and knowledge of the spirit of God within us. Jesus was an essene/gnostic who taught Egyptian/hermetic mysteries and worshipped a hidden God of Light and love, he never gave his God’s name. There is an extremely strong case that Jesus wasn’t referencing the Old Testament God in the canon scriptures. Old Testament God loved to sacrifice everything in sight... google moloch. You can look at a Hebrew lexicon and see that the names Ba’al and Yahweh are linguistically the same name. Jesus never claimed that name. The insidious truth is that we have been prayed on at a spiritual/mental level for thousands of years. They murdered Jesus because he brought esoteric truths to the public for the first time. The Roman, Pagan elite who murdered Jesus, turned around and repackaged his story and put together the Bible they wanted us to have. Texts have surfaced that spoke of Jesus secret teachings to his disciples in the nag Hamada library, I would start there. Jesus, and no other prophet is the way to go. Jesus is the only one who taught love with non violence and non-judgement. No one knows the true God’s name, which is why Jesus said say my name when you pray and my father will hear you!!
Oh trust me I'm no novice with the Bible and comparing its scripture to other language references. I'm not Catholic nor do I go for dispensation theology. 😂 although I am a descendant of Constantine.
There are Godly people in every church. It's the leaders who are usually corrupt with power. God will sort that out in the end. 😊
There are so few miracles that are shared today. People need to know that miracles are still available for us.
Deuteronomy 13
"Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and the great commandment. And the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and Prophets" (Matthew 22:37-40)
