The Two major world religions, Christianity and Judaism
Christianity and Judaism both believe in one God who is almighty, Both religions believe in a God who is holy, righteous, and just, while at the same time loving, forgiving, and merciful. Christianity and Judaism share the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament also called the Torah) as the authoritative Word of God. As the Word of God is perfect. As stated in the Bible.
Both Christianity and Judaism believe in the existence of heaven, the eternal dwelling place of the righteous, and hell, the eternal dwelling place of the wicked (although not all Christians and not all Jews believe in the eternality of hell). Christianity and Judaism have some common beliefs. Christianity teach that God has a special plan for the nation of Israel and the Jewish people.
The difference between Christianity and Judaism is the Person named Jesus (Yeshua). Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies of a coming Messiah.
Judaism often recognizes Jesus as a good teacher, and perhaps even a prophet of God. Judaism does not believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
But that is the fault of the early Christian leaders for misunderstanding the message of Jesus our Messiah.
In Deuteronomy 13: 1- Jewish people are asked to put everything to the text of God.
Deuteronomy 13:1-4 ESV
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
Now Christianity teached that Jesus was God in the flesh. Christianity still teaches that God became a human being in the Person named Jesus Christ. so He could lay down His life to pay the price for our sins.
NOW, They are partly right. Jesus came as the Lamb of God.
Judaism strongly denies that Jesus was God.
NOW I believe this is were the Christians have been mislead, because Jesus himself tell us how we most pray to God our Father who is in Heaven.
Matthew 6:5-15 ESV
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
NOW Jesus did not say pray to me. Jesus is Jesus the Father is the Father and the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit.
As mentioned in Malachi 4:3-6 ESV
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts. “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. ( Israel stand for all who believe in God (Yahweh). “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
NOW There is one more thing that the Christians misunderstood.
*** Jesus was a Jew and he observed the laws of the Sabbath and many other laws handed down to Moses by our Heavenly Father.
Jesus followed the Laws of God, as they were laid out in the Old Testament (Torah). As the Law's given to Moses by our Lord Heavenly Father, As mentioned in Malachi 4:3-6.
NOW Christians were mislead about Jesus message.
Jesus followed all of God Commandment and Decrees.
As Jesus stated in
Matthew 5:17-20 ESV
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
NOW the misunderstanding of Jesus's message has lead God people, the Jews not to acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah. That is sad.
In Matthew 15:24, Jesus declared, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
The religious leaders of Israel in Jesus' time asked Him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” Jesus replied, 'I am,' ... And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven" (Mark 14:61-62). But they didn’t believe His words or accept Him as their Messiah.
Does that sound like they were ONE? Jesus clearly says he sits at the right hand of the Lord.
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Hebrew prophecies of a coming Messiah.
Psalm 22:14-18 ESV, this describes an event undeniably similar to Jesus crucifixion.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet— I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
Clearly this messianic prophecy can be none other than Jesus whose crucifixion fulfilled each of these details (Luke 23;John 19).
There is no more accurate description of Jesus than
Isaiah 53:3-6, "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD (Yahweh) has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
The Apostle Paul, a Jew and a strict adherent of Judaism, ( He followed the law's-then why would he say there not for Us. For the Law's are forever and for every ONE.
Paul encountered Jesus in a vision (Acts 9:1-9) and proceeded to become the greatest witness for Jesus and the author of almost half of the New Testament. Paul understood the difference between Christianity and Judaism more than anyone else. What was Paul's message? "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes and Keep his commandment and decrees: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile" (Romans 1:16).
NOW we all need to turn and learn the scriptures, from the old to the new and understand that Jesus was a Jew and that he followed all of God's commandments and decrees. As we should all do !
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
NOW Again Jesus said but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Again Jesus never said he was the Father and Jesus asked us to do the will of God, why do you think he said, depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Because we did not keep the Law's given to Moses as God commanded us to do.
Its time we make things right and observe the laws and decrees handed down by God to Moses and understand that Jesus came to fulfill the laws, that God already put in place. Jesus told us that these laws were never going to be taken out until heaven and earth pass away.
Matthew 5:18 ESV
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
As Revelation 21:1 ESV, says:
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
This is when the one and only God starts A New Covenant with his people.
We need to obey our Lord and Keep his Law's and commandment and decrees.
I hope everyone learns the Truth before it's to Late.
God bless all who seek the Lord
Amen
Lady Dee
