#Yeshua is the Messiah

[yehoshuwa]

‭‭Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel)‬ ‭20:35‭-‬38‬ ‭

[35] “And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there. [36] “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,” declares the Master יהוה. [37] “And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring you into the bond of the covenant, [38] and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.

[apenitentialprayer]

are there any Jews who view Jesus in a positive way (aside from like messianic Jews who, as far I’ve understood, are considered evangelical Christians by all other Jews)

Okay, ah, to answer this question simply: to my knowledge, as far as Jewish communities who (1) self-identify as Jewish, (2) consider themselves practicing Judaism, and (3) deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah go, none of them have an "official" stance on Jesus. Jesus may be a false Messiah, but this is only a "doctrine" in Judaism the same way that the fact that Vissarion of Siberia is a false Parousia of Jesus is a "doctrine" in Christianity — which is to say, not so much an actually asserted belief, but a natural corollary to more deeply held beliefs.

That being said, individual Jewish people have held a variety of beliefs about Jesus of Nazareth. Some of them are, well, quite negative. For example, one Hasidic story tells of how the Baal Shem Tov saw Jesus and Sabbatai Zvi (both false Messiahs) stuck in the same level of Hell together; the infamous Toledot Yeshu, a parody gospel, certainly does not paint Jesus or His Mother in a particularly good light; Maimonides doesn't even use the usual "may his name be blotted out" as he would when talking about an enemy of Israel, but instead uses "may his bones be ground to dust" after citing Jesus by name.

There are relatively sympathetic views among those whose views are negative too, for the record; for example, there's a story of a Rabbi, Yehoshua ben Prachya, who was said to have been incredibly cruel to a student, and by the time he chose to relent that student had already gone off to form his own idolatrous sect. Struck by the consequences of his harshness, he would go on to emphasize the importance of kindness and giving people the benefit of the doubt. Though the timeline doesn't match up (Yehoshua lived two hundred years before Him), some commentators identified this student as Yeshu the Nazarene.

But, let's actually answer your question. You will find a spectrum of relatively positive views. Bob Dylan technically falls outside the parameters I listed above because he does seem to believe Jesus is the Messiah, but I'll use him as the extreme example, because he continued to be active in his Orthodox Jewish community after his conversion. You also have Leonard Cohen, whose Jewishness was very important to him, who could at least understand the importance of the mystical connection to Jesus that Christians claimed as their own — "the figure of Jesus, nailed to a human predicament, summoning the heart to comprehend its own suffering."

You have some scholars, like Amy-Jill Levine; in the work she did in The Misunderstood Jew, The Historical Jesus in Context, and The Jewish Annotated New Testament, she tries to emphasize the idea that the Person of Jesus is something that can bring Christians and Jews into closer ecumenical dialogue; that if Christians could get more comfortable with the Jewish context of Jesus, and if the Jewish community could see the New Testament as a corpus of texts that isn't non-Jewish, but rather a particular type of first century Jewish, then there could be ground for both groups to better understand each other.

During the early modern period, there were attempts by some Jewish thinkers to reclaim Jesus. Rabbi Jacob Emden argued that Jesus never meant to abolish the Law, and that He has actually "done a double kindness in the world" by increasing veneration of the Torah and bringing light to the Gentiles, if only the Gentiles could learn how to properly interpret their own Scriptures (talk about flipping the script!). Moses Mendelssohn also claimed that Jesus never meant to abrogate the Law, and suggested that Jesus and the early Christian community could be models that modern 19th century Jews living among oppressive Prussian authorities could emulate.

The above paragraph was about Jewish individuals who tried to distance Jesus from traditional Christian understandings of Him. So I'm going to end, I think, with Rabbi Jacob Neusner, who engaged the Gospel on its own terms. In 1993, he published A Rabbi Talks with Jesus. In this book, Rabbi Neusner imagines himself as a first century Jewish man and tries to earnestly listen to and consider the words of Jesus as depicted in the Gospel of Matthew. This work places the words of Jesus in conversation with the Rabbinic tradition, and ultimately ends with Neusner being unconvinced and unable to follow Jesus as His disciple. Pope Benedict lauded this work as an authentic exercise in interreligious dialogue, and cites it frequently in his own Jesus of Nazareth.

[centurions-faith]

Know that you are loved by our Heavenly Father. Know that His love is boundless. God wants you to walk in the identity that you are loved brothers and sisters.

[thewayofyehoshua]

THE TORAH: HOLY, JUST AND GOOD!

Those who think Sha'ul/Paul sought an escape from the Jewish Law in order to make Christianity easy for pagan converts must find this verse difficult. It proves that Sha'ul neither had an un-Jewish view of the Law nor desired to abrogate it. The verse witnesses to Sha'ul's lifelong high regard for the Torah, which corresponds to his lifelong observance of it (see Act_13:9 Act_21:21). This attitude would have been with him from his youth, since his parents were Pharisees (Act_23:6); it would have been strengthened by his studies with Rabban Gamli'el (Act_22:3); and there is no reason to suppose that his coming to faith in Yehoshua who did not "come to abolish the Torah" (Mat_5:17)-would have changed it. So many errors about Sha'ul's opinion of the Law could have been avoided had this verse been understood as constraining everything he writes about it. YHVH-God's holy Torah for holy living does not change. Why? Because YHVH himself does not change (Mal_3:6) and holiness does not change. Moreover, this verse is not alone: Rom_7:10, Rom_7:14, Rom_7:16, Rom_7:22 andRom_8:2, Rom_8:4, Rom_8:7-8 show that Sha'ul had a high regard for the Torah.

[jediaxis101]

I did a powerful prayer too God tonight about Judgement

God told me

Remember the last time you had a restaurant dinner with your mother's church and the Woman Pastor (LEADER) almost sat were you were then judged you and sat the furtherest away from you in a dark corner and no person would talk to her!

Well, Adonai Elohim will treat everyone that has judged me - like this woman (that was my answer from God) or revelation...

[yahoo-sodaa]

The fact that humans have to constantly fill a void with some sort of addiction, item, relationship, action and/or activity to achieve temporary peace is the definition of suffering. That’s misery.

[generalcomputerwhispers]

"Your goodness is running after, it's running after me"

"Your goodness is running after, it's running after me Your goodness is running after, it's running after me With my life laid down, I surrendered now I give You everything, oh Lord"

[lettersfromgod]

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📖 Source: Words To Live By: Part One: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Words_To_Live_By:_Part_One

▶ The Volumes of Truth - Shorts Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE8FlkxQPQkOKqEMycTZOwj2BAyqj6HwU

[jewinme]

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[delightintheway]

"The Redeemer"

Behold, I had come, The Son who was completely blameless, To bear the guilt of all The Father’s children…

The Just for the unjust; The Innocent for the guilty; The Son of Man for the sons of men…

Says The Lord YahuShua.

Source: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Words_To_Live_By:_Part_One

Bible Studies:

The Lamb of God: The TRUE Chronology of The Messiah’s Crucifixion and Resurrection: http://trumpetcallofgod.com/pdfs/THELAMBOFGODstudy.pdf

Video/Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW6kopYkPGI&list=PLE8FlkxQPQkOtkyPypZiZpgG3I1WS4b3z&index=1

[feedingtheflockministry]

Resurrection in Pixels - The Enigmatic Burial Shroud

We see the face cleared and enhanced version of the Shroud of Turin that has had the Shroud face itself been superimposed on top of the face of a model face. Afterwards, the documentary that gives all the information in a quick quirky video in under 7 minutes.

The Suffering Servant by the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 53.

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who consideredThat He was cut off out of the land of the living, For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.

[christianhomemaker]

Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him;

because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.

1 John 2:15-16

[msguidedangelann]

1 John 5:20 KJV Hallelujah and Amen-Amein!!

( I John 5:20 KJV ) “And we know that the SON of GOD is Come, and hath Given us an Understanding, that we may know HIM that is TRUE, and we are in HIM that is TRUE, even in HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. This is the TRUE GOD, and Eternal Life.” Sing Glory Glory Hallelujah Amen-Amein!! ( Hebrews 4:12 KJV ) “For the WORD of GOD is quick, and Powerful, and Sharper than any Twoedged Sword, Piercing even to…

[vsialighten]

Trust in YHUH 🕊️🌿 •—•—•—•—•—•—•—•

[thewayofyehoshua]

Shabbat Shalom my friends.

The holiness of Shabbat emerges as the shackles of daily life and the hurriedness of the workweek are set aside for a day. In loving care, YHVH provides Shabbat as a weekly time of restoration between humanity and their Creator.

[jediaxis101]