Does the Holy scripture indeed say that Jesus/Yeshua is GOD (YHWH) ?

A reasoned examination of scripture gives us a clear answer to that question.

First things first... where did the name "Jesus" come from?

Actually its a translation artefact resulting from the process of converting His Hebrew name "Yeshua" into Greek, then into English - rather than translating directly from Hebrew to English. The English translation of Yeshua [יהושע ] should be Jeshua. [Read more here] The name Yeshua in Hebrew means Yahweh's salvation, while the name 'Jesus' holds no intrinsic meaning in English.

What's in a name? See BABYLON'S TROJAN HORSE....
 

Bible Code reveals name of Messiah...

One of the most astonishing features is that virtually every one of the clearly Messianic passages of the Old Testament contains the name Yeshua encoded within the text at intervals such as every 2nd letter or every 20th letter, etc. As an example, Yacov found the name Yeshua embedded in the text of Isaiah 53:10 that prophesied about the atoning sacrifice that Christ made for our sins on the cross two thousand years ago. "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt 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" (Isaiah 53:10). [.....]

Paul's writing in Hebrew links names Yeshua and YHWH.

8 Because if we live, we live to our Adon and if we die, we die to our Adon. And whether we live therefore or whether we die, we belong to our Adon.
9 Because of this also the Messiah died and is alive and is raised that he might be YHWH to the dead and to the living. 1O Now why do you judge your brother? Or why also do you treat your brother with contempt? For all of us will stand before the bema of the Messiah.
11 As it is written, I live, says YHWH. Every knee will bow to me and every tongue will confess me.
12 Therefore every man from us will give an account for his nefesh to Eloah.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another, but rather determine this: that you will not place a stumbling stone before your brother.
14 For I know and am persuaded by YHWH Yeshua that there is not a thing that is defiled from itself. But to him who thinks concerning a thing that it is unclean, to him alone it is unclean. HRV
 

In verse 14 Paul calls the Messiah, "YHWH Yeshua". All Christians call Christ Lord, Paul makes it clear that Christ is both Adon (Lord) and YHWH (God of the OT and the Messiah)

There are several passages in 1 Corinthians that indicate that Christ is YHWH. The most compelling is in 1 Cor 8:6

1 Corinthians 8

6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. KJV

Because of translating the original into the Greek before translating it into English, the meaning is not clear what Lord means. This is not the case in the HRV.

1 Corinthians 8

6 But to ourselves, [there] is one Eloah, the father, from whom [are] all [things] and by whom we are, and one YHWH, Yeshua the Messiah; by his hand [are] all [things] and by his hand we are also. HRV

This passage makes it very plain that Christ is YHWH, the creator of all things.

Paul makes it even clearer in Chapter 12.

1 Corinthians 12

3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. KJV

1 Corinthians 12

3 Because of this, I make known to you that there is no one by the spirit of Eloah and says that Yeshua is accursed. And neither is a man able to say that YHWH is Yeshua except by Ruach HaKodesh. HRV

Here Paul says that one must have the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) the spirit of Eloah (God) to understand that YHWH is Yeshua (Jesus).

Paul makes his point without any possibility of misunderstanding in 1 Corithians 15.

1 Corithians 15

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. KJV

1 Corithians 15

45 So it is also written, Adam, the first man, became a living nefesh; and the last Adam, a quickening spirit.
46 But the spiritual was not first but the natural and then the spiritual.
47 The first son of man* was dust that was from the earth. The second man was YHWH from heaven. HRV
 

*An Aramaic idiom stressing mortality. Adam was not a literal son of man.

Here Paul states in language, that cannot be interpreted otherwise, that Christ was YHWH from heaven.

Philippians 2

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. KJV

Philippians 2

5 And think in your nefeshot that which also Yeshua the Messiah [thought],
6 Who as he was in the likeness of Eloah did not consider it presumptuous to be an equal of Eloah?
7 But he emptied his nefesh, and took on the likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of the sons of men and was found in fashion like a son of man.
8 And he humbled his nefesh and became obedient unto death, even the death of the gallows.
9 Because of this, Eloah also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is greater than all names,
1O That at the name of Yeshua every knee will bow that is in heaven and on earth and that is under the earth,
11 And every tongue will confess that Yeshua the Messiah is YHWH, to the glory of Eloah his Father. HRV
 

One last scripture that warns of men who would try to rob you by their doctrines.

Colossian 2

8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. KJV

Colossian 2

8 Beware lest any man should rob you by philosophy and by empty deception according to the doctrines of the sons of men, and according to the elements of the world, and not according to the Messiah. 9 in Whom dwells all the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. HRV

Source: http://reluctant-messenger.com/God-in-flesh.htm

Want more evidence that the "New" Covenant was originally written in Hebrew? Consider the following:

        John 5:2: "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches." Notice that the Greek says here, as in every one of the quotations below, "hebraisti," (obviously), "Hebrew."

         John 19:13: "When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Yeshua forth, and sat down on the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha."

         John 19:17: "And He bearing his stake went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha."

John 19:20:" Many of the Hebrews then read this title: for the place where Yeshua was nailed was near to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin."

         Acts 21:40: "And when he had given him permission, Saul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spoke to  them in the Hebrew language, saying..."

         Acts 22:2: " (And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)"

         Acts 26:14: " And when we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goads."

         Revelation 9:11: "And they had a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, but in the Greek language he hath his name Apollyon."

         Revelation 16:16: "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Har Meguido (Mount Meguido)/'Armageddon'."

Notwithstanding the internal proofs in the New covenant itself, those from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Talmud and those of Josephus, there are coins and inscriptions from the time of Yeshua that nail "the Aramaic coffin" shut once and for all, for those who are after facts, and not biased, anti-Semitic-laden opinions. Says one book: "The evidence provided by coins is also important in trying to evaluate the linguistic situation in the time of the Messiah. Yaakov Meshorer, curator of the Numismatic Department of the Israel Museum, and its numismatic expert, has listed 215 Jewish coins in his catalogue. Of these, 99 have Hebrew inscriptions, only one has an Aramaic inscription! From the fourth century B.C. (later Persian Period) until the end of the Bar-Cochba Revolt in 135 A.D., the entire history of Jewish coinage, only one Jewish coin, minted during the reign of Alexander Jannaeous (103-76 B.C.) is inscribed in Aramaic."

"At Masada, Herod`s stronghold overlooking the Dead Sea, archaeologists excavated from 1963 to 1965 under the direction of Professor Yigael Yadin. The epigraphical evidence is staggering: fragments of 14 scrolls, over 4,000 coins, and more than 700 ostraka (inscribed pottery fragments) in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. Here too, the ratio of Hebrew to Aramaic exceeds nine to one."

In addition, there are over 5366 manuscripts of the New Covenant in Greek, each differing from the other and containing several hundred variants. However, in each one of these manuscripts there are idioms which are almost meaningless in Greek or in any language except in Hebrew! How can such a thing be explained unless it is because the original was Hebrew?

There are many of these Hebraisms, one of the most common of them being "Son of man". What does "Son of man" mean in English, Spanish, German, in any language? Absolutely nothing! The expression "Ben Adam" means literally "son of Adam" and by extension "son of man", and "man", Adam being of course the first of mankind. In any street corner in Israel you may hear "here comes this Ben Adam", meaning "here comes this man." This example, which occurs no less than 92 times in the Tanak (the Hebrew Scripture) and 43 times in the New Covenant (Cruden's Concordance) is obviously the same Hebrew idiom.

It is said that the New Covenant was written in Koine Greek, "common Greek," because it is found to be a poor kind of Greek. When we find as many of these Hebraisms as there are there, we begin to understand that it is not Koine Greek written in the substratum of the text, but a Hebrew original which was almost literally translated into Greek, a process resulting in making it sound like some poor or inferior form of Greek.

The true name of our Lord was "Yeshua". According to any Hebrew-English dictionary, "Yeshua" means: "Yahweh is salvation, victory, deliverance."

For a more in-depth study supporting the new testament being written in Hebrew, and the reasons for the confusion and controvery, please click below link:

Natural Congregation of Yahweh

For more on the origins of the name of the LORD, please click THIS link...

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Yeshua not called "only begotten" Son in original text!

The innovated concept of Yeshua (Jesus) being the "only begotten son" of the Father was developed in the fourth century by Jerome into the Latin Bible (c. 347-420).

This original word 'monogenes' used by the Apostle John, means "one of a kind" or "unique", and was changed as the result of church heresy to unigenitus (meaning only begotten) in the fourth century. John used 'monogenes' to acknowledge Yeshua as a "unique" or "single kind of Son" but not the only begotten son of God.

As we can see from a study of the "Devine or Heavenly Council" there are actually many "sons of God" in Yahweh's creation, but Yeshua (Jesus) is distinctly and UNIQUELY separate from these 'created eternal sons'.
 

Please click this PDF document for a full explanation of this issue by Hebrew scholar Dr. Michael Heiser.

Messianic Jew Explains the Holy Trinity

More scriptures declaring Yeshua (Jesus) is fully Godhead.....

Wouldn't you like to know this forgiving Yeshua, and receive the FREE GIFT of salvation and eternal life?

Contrary to the "Da Vinci Code", and other popular fables of similar vein given much

media attention, there never was ANY contention within the early Christian Church about

the Divinity of Yeshua of Nazareth. The early church fathers and first-century writings

attest to the Deity of Yeshua, and that the church supported and believed that.

For example, at the first council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., representatives of the early church

voted 316 to 2 to affirm the belief in the divinity of Yeshua Christ.

"We believe in one Lord, Yeshua Christ, the uniquely-begotten Son of God,
God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not
made, one in being with the Father. Through him all things were made"
(Creed of Nicaea [A.D. 325]).

Historical Evidence supporting both the life of Yeshua, and belief in his

Divinity..... Just a small sample..

Oldest Christian chapel in Holy Land may cause prison relocation

In an unprecedented move, Israel's top archaeological body is recommending that the Megiddo Prison be relocated due to the recent discovery of the most ancient Christian place of worship ever found in Israel on the grounds of the prison.

The ruins of the Christian prayer hall, which was located inside a Roman villa, date back to the first half of the third century CE, making the chapel the earliest place of Christian worship ever unearthed in the Holy Land, excavation director and Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yotam Tepper said Tuesday.

The site in question, which is located between an ancient Jewish village dating back to the Roman period and what used to be a Roman Army camp, was uncovered last year after authorities sought to expand the prison grounds and prisoners stumbled upon the ruins during routine excavations.

The building, which is thought to have belonged to a Roman officer, has a rectangular hall with a mosaic floor bearing geometric patterns, a medallion decorated with drawings of fish - a symbol widely used in early Christianity - and three Greek inscriptions.

One inscription names an army officer who contributed toward the paving of the floor, the second is dedicated in memory of four women, and the third mentions a woman who contributed a table or altar to the God Jeshua Christos.

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Seal with image of Yeshua found in Tiberias

Rom 11:29 For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 30 For as you also then disbelieved God, but now have been shown mercy through their disbelief, 31 even so these also have not believed now, so that through your mercy they may also obtain mercy. 32 For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might show mercy to all.

Trinity in the Torah/Old Testament.. below vid Part VI.. Or click HERE to hear Part I

Hostile Witnesses for the Resurrection of Yeshua - by Steve Hinrichs

Historic proof of Yeshua from a sample of Pagan Sources

Palestine of the first century has been referred to as an unimportant
frontier province in the Roman Empire. Those provincial governors assigned
to that region of the world were often thought to have received hardship
posts. Those who wrote the history of Rome were in the upper strata of
Roman society and usually had a personal dislike of Orientals, disapproved
of their religions and looked upon their superstitions as very un-Roman.(2)
This partially accounts for the little trickles of information that comes
from their pens about the Christian religion. They wrote about it only as it
forced its way into the mainstream of their view. Yet what they did write is
proof positive that Yeshua Christ was both a real person and that he had made
such an impact upon society that the Roman world found it increasingly
difficult to disregard him.

1. Thallus

Our initial witness makes a contribution of a unique sort inasmuch as he had
no intention of making Christianity to appear genuine. To the contrary,
Thallus, a Samaritan-born historian who lived and worked in Rome about A.D.
52, wrote to offset the supernatural element which accompanied the
crucifixion.

Though the writings of Thallus are lost to us, Julius Africanus, a Christian

chronographer of the late second century, was familiar with them and quotes

from them. In a comment on the darkness that fell upon the land during

the crucifixion (Mark 15:33), Africanus says that "Thallus, in the third book of

his histories, explains away this darkness as an eclipse of the sun."(3)

Africanus stated his objection to the report arguing that an eclipse of the sun

cannot occur during the full moon, as was the case when Yeshua died at Passover

time. The force of the reference to Thallus is that the circumstances of Yeshua' s

death were known and discussed in the Imperial City as early as the middle

of the first century. The fact of Yeshua's crucifixion must have been fairly well

known by that time, to the extent that unbelievers like Thallus thought it

necessary to explain the matter of the darkness as a natural phenomenon.

Will Durant observed that Thallus' "argument took the existence of Christ for

granted."(4) Neither Yeshua nor the darkness at his death were ever denied

as factual. Durant summed up the matter of Christ's historical existence for

himself by saying that it never occurred to the early opponents of Christianity

to deny the existence of Yeshua.(5) Ironically, Thallus' efforts have been turned

into the mainstream of historical proof for Yeshua and for the reliability of
Mark's account of the darkness at his death.

3. F.F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents, Eerdmens, p. 113.

4. Will Durant, Caesar and Christ, Simon and Schuster, p. 555.

5. Ibid.

2. Mara Bar-Serapion

F.F Bruce, Rylands professor at Manchester University, tells of a manuscript
in the British Museum preserving the text of a letter sent to his son by a
Syrian named Mara Bar-Serapion. In prison at the time of the writing, the
father pleads with his son to be wise. He illustrated the folly of persecuting

wise men like Socrates, Pythagoras, and the wise king of the Jews, which

the context obviously shows to be Yeshua.

What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? Famine
and plague came upon them as a judgment for their crime. What advantage did
the men of Samos gain from burning Pythagoras? In a moment their land was
covered with sand. What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their
king? It was just after that their kingdom was abolished. God justly avenged
these three wise men: the Athenians died of hunger, the Samians were
overwhelmed by the seas; the Jews, ruined and driven from their land, live
in complete dispersion. But Socrates did not die for good; he lived on in
the teaching of Plato. Pythagoras did not die for good; he lived on in the
statue of Hera. Nor did the wise King die for good; he lived on in the
teaching which He had given. (6)

6. British Museum Syriac Mss., F.F. Bruce, Yeshua and Christian Origins
Outside the New Testament, p. 31.

Some inaccuracies exist in the letter, says Bruce, about Samos and Athens,
but the references to Christ and to the Jews are undeniably accurate, and
there is no denying the historical existence of the three men mentioned. By
the time this letter was written, Yeshua had already received a place of
recognition equal to the sages of the ages. Yeshua was as real a person of
history as was Socrates and Pythagoras.


3. Tacitus, Pliny, Suetonius

Three Roman officials, who held stature with emperors as well as with the
empire, wrote of Yeshua in such a way as to take his historical existence for
granted. Their writings appeared at the turn of the century.

The first of these, usually rated as the greatest of Roman historians, was
Cornelius Tacitus, who was born about A.D. 52-54. At about the age of sixty,
while writing of the reign of Nero (A.D. 54-68), he told how the Christians
were made scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64. It had been
rumored that Nero had himself started the fire so that he could attain to
glory by rebuilding the great capital city in more glorious fashion. When
Tacitus wrote about this, he mentioned Yeshua by the name of Christus:

Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and
inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their
abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the
name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of
Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus. (7)

To Tacitus, a pagan who knew little or nothing of Jewish messianism,
"Christus" was more than likely only a proper name; but to him, Christus was
as real as the Roman procurator who executed him.

C. Plinius Secundus, called Pliny the Younger to distinguish him from his
uncle, the elder Pliny, was governor of Bithynia about A.D.112. He often
wrote to the Emperor Trajan asking his Imperial advice on how best to deal
with the problem of the Christians in his province. According to him, they
were causing trouble. In one of his letters, he spoke of Christ as he
reported of some information which he extracted from some Christian girls by
torture, "They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it
was light, when they sang an anthem to Christ as God, and bound themselves
by a solemn oath not to commit any wicked deed ... after which it was their
custom to separate, and then meet again to partake of food, but food of an
ordinary kind."(8)

7. The Annals and the Histories, 15:44. From Britannica Great Books, Vol.
15, p. 168.

8. Epistles, 10:96.

Pliny seemed to be perplexed by the innocence of the whole matter, and
perhaps to keep from countermanding any governmental policies about
Christians, he thought it best to write to the Emperor before taking any
action.

There is also a testimony to the historical Yeshua from Suetonius, annalist
and court official of the Imperial House during the reign of Hadrian. About
A.D.120, he wrote the Life of Claudius. From this work comes his most famous
statement: "As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation
of Chrestus, he (Claudius) expelled them from Rome."(9) The reason for the
fame of this quotation is due to the fact that Luke, some sixty years
earlier, had recorded this same incident as the reason for the apostle Paul
yoking up with a Christian Jewish couple named Aquila and Priscilla (Acts
18:1-2). Again, the mention of Christ in the historical context is observed
in extra-biblical literature.

After having referred to the above three Roman officials as an evidence for
the actual existence of Yeshua Christ, Durant explains that while these
references prove the existence of Christians rather than of Christ, unless
we assume that Christ did indeed live, we will be driven to the "improbable
hypothesis that Yeshua was invented in one generation; moreover we must
suppose that the Christian community in Rome had been established some years
before 52, to merit the attention of an imperial decree."(10)

9. Life of Claudius, 25:4.

10. Durant, Caesar and Christ, p. 555.

When this evidence is compiled in the company of such an historian as
Tacitus and with Roman officials of the stature of Pliny and Suetonius, it
makes the historical reality of Yeshua as certain as that of any outstanding
figure of antiquity.

FROM JEWISH SOURCES

1. The Talmud

There are two separate books of writings dealing with Jewish law called the
Talmud. The first of these is the Mishnah, which is the Jewish code of
religious jurisprudence. It began to be compiled sometime after the
destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and was completed about A.D. 200. This
great body of newly codified case law became the object of Jewish study from
which grew a body of commentaries called Gemaras. Together, the Mishnah (the
law book) and the Gemara (the commentary) are called the Talmud. Being
Jewish, suffice it to say, all references to "Yeshu'a of Nazareth" in the
Talmudic writings are unfriendly, but nevertheless sufficient in number to
establish beyond doubt his historical reality.

2. Josephus

The most important references to the historical Yeshua from a Jewish source
is from a former Jewish general turned historian by the name of Flavius
Josephus. In his writings he tells us who he was, what he did, and his own
evaluation of a historian. He wrote of many of the outstanding persons we
read of in the New Testament: Pilate; Quirinius of Syria (during whose
governorship Rome enrolled the Empire for taxation purposes); the Caesars;
the Herods; the Pharisees and the Sadducees; Annas and Caiaphas, who had
Yeshua crucified; Felix and Festus, under whose governorships the apostle
Paul was arrested and before whom he spoke of Yeshua; Yeshua's brother, James;
and John the Baptist.

Most significant is his reference to Yeshua himself in the following words:

And there arose about this time Yeshua, a wise man, if indeed we should call
him a man; for he was a doer of marvelous deeds, a teacher of men who
receive the truth with pleasure. He won over many Jews and also many Greeks.
This man was the Messiah. And when Pilate had condemned him to the cross at
the instigation of our own leaders, those who had loved him from the first
did not cease. For he appeared to them on the third day alive again, as the
prophets had predicted and said many other wonderful things about him. And
even now the race of Christians, so named after him, has not yet died out.
(11)

11. Antiquities, 18, 3.3.

All attempts to discredit this reference to Yeshua as having been dressed up
by a Christian copiest have failed. The reference is included in all of the
manuscripts of Josephus, including the copy from which the fourth-century
historian, Eusebius, read and quoted.

At the close of his excellent book offering evidence for the historical
reliability of the New Testament, F.F. Bruce has observed, Whatever else may
be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers ... it does
at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings,
the historical character of Yeshua himself. Some writers may toy with the
fancy of a 'Christ-myth,' but they do not do so on the ground of historical
evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased
historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who
propagate the Christ-myth'' theories. (12)

12. F.F. Bruce. The New Testament Documents. p. 119.

FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT

Whatever reasons may be given for accepting the testimonies of Josephus or
of Tacitus or of any other writer from antiquity as reliable histories, to
be fair and consistent, must be equally applied to the New Testament
writers. Fairness demands that we give at least the same consideration to
the New Testament books as we would to any other writing from the same
period. All of the New Testament writers were contemporaries of Yeshua. Five
were eyewitnesses, three accompanied Yeshua throughout his ministry, and all
of their writings are in remarkable agreement. In addition to this, their
writings continue to stand the tests of genuineness and historicity. These
New Testament writings are by no means the least of the evidence testifying
to the actual existence of Yeshua as a real person of history. As a matter of
fact, if the New Testament books were the only single source from antiquity
which presented to us the life of Yeshua Christ, that would be more than
sufficient proof of his historical reality. It is stated in the Encyclopedia
Judaica (Jerusalem) that the fact that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have
written of Yeshua's life is conclusive proof of his reality. That admission
from unbelieving Jews should satisfy the most skeptical doubter as to the
trustworthiness of the evidence.

H. G. Wells rejected the supernatural element in the gospels, but
nevertheless used them as his source material for writing about Yeshua and
the spread of Christianity in the first century. He admitted that the gospel
accounts carried the conviction of reality and felt compelled to say of
Yeshua, "Here was a man. This part of the tale could not have been
invented."(13) Will Durant wrote, "That a few simple men should in one
generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty
an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle
far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels."(14)

The fact of the historical Yeshua of Nazareth, as supplied to us by sources
both friendly and hostile, is seen to be an indisputable matter. It is
conclusive that there was a real Yeshua, a man of outstanding character and
of unique personality and ability, whose life and teaching truly
"constitutes the most fascinating feature in the history of western
man."(15) We can be as certain of this fact as we can of any matter of
history.

13. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol. I, p. 420.

14. Will Durant, Caesar and Christ, p. 557.
15. Ibid.

The lost tomb of Herod - May 09, 2007
New West Bank archeological find could be burial site of supposed baby-killing tyrant

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Psa 19: A Psalm of David.

1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Astronomy: A Fine-Tuned Universe [Outside web link]

Read PDF document: What are the odds?

[Actual Hubble photos of our visible universe]

Current estimates of the total number of stars is believed to be 50,000 Billion Billion.

Compare that to the estimated number of grains of sand on Earth, which is estimated

to be 2,000 Billion Billion, and we can quite literally state that there are some 25 TIMES

MORE stars in the known Universe than grains of sand on our magnificent Earth.

Gen 22:17 ... I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore..

Still think God can't provide wonderful adventures for his family in the ages to come? The promise of God to his children is to be joint-heirs and co-rulers with him in all realms of creation. We are also told that we will be dispatching angels to guide God's affairs. (1Co 6:3)  A staggering and wonderful adventure awaits the faithful.
 

Eph 2:7 so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Yeshua.

1Co 2:9 But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

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What did Daniel predict in the Bible about the coming of the Messiah?

In 538 B.C. Daniel wrote, "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree

to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks of years

and sixty-two weeks of years" (Daniel 9:25).

The time period between these two events would be 69 weeks of years. This was predicted

538 years before Christ.

When was the "decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem" issued?

Artaxerxes, a Persian king, ascended to the throne in 464 B.C. Therefore, his twentieth year

would be 444 B.C.

Nehemiah, the Jewish cupbearer to King Artaxerxes, was deeply concerned with the reports

about the ruined condition of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 1:1-4) and thus petitioned the king: "Send

me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may rebuild it. So it pleased the king to

send me" (Nehemiah 2:5,6). The exact date of this decree to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem

is given: "in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king" (Nehemiah 2:1).

The Jewish calendar month was Nisan, and since no day is given, it is reasonable to assume

that the date would be understood as the first, the Jewish New Year's Day. Hence, in the

Julian calendar, the corresponding date would be March 5, 444 B.C.

This was the day on which the decree was issued to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.

When did the "Messiah the Prince" appear?

Yeshua had previously, on numerous occasions, forbidden his followers to make him known as

"the Messiah". He would frequently do miracles and tell the disciples not to tell anyone who

had done the miracles because his "hour has not yet come" (John 2:4, 7:6).

However, on monday March 30, 33 A.D., when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey, he rebuked

the Pharisees' protest and encouraged the whole multitude of his disciples as they shouted,

"Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord". And Yeshua said, "If these become

silent, the stones will cry out" (Luke 19:36-44, shown below).

Luk 19:36 And as He went, they spread their clothes in the way.
Luk 19:37 And when He had come near, even now at the descent of the Mount

of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with

a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
Luk 19:38 saying, Blessed is the King coming in the name of the Lord! Peace

in Heaven and glory in the highest!
Luk 19:39 And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, Teacher,

rebuke your disciples.
Luk 19:40 And He answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be

silent, the stones would cry out.
Luk 19:41 And as He drew near, He beheld the city and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours,

the things for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes

Luk 19:43 For the days will come on you that your enemies will raise up a rampart

to you, and will surround you, and will keep you in on every side.
Luk 19:44 And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not

leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation.

How was Israel to have known the time of their visitation? From a literal understanding of

Daniel’s prophecy. In fact, this prophecy, along with Christ’s fulfillment of every other first

coming Messianic prophecy proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yeshua was Israel’s

Messiah. Many Jews have come to faith, over the years, as a result of being challenged by

this prediction about the time of Messiah’s coming.

This was the day on which Yeshua was publicly declared the Messiah. Thus was the end

of the 69th week..... followed shortly by Yeshua giving up his life "for the lost sheep" as

preparation for the 'age of grace' which is coming to a soon close, followed by the beginning

of the last week.

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have

nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the

city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the

end there will be war; desolations are determined.

[For more detailed examination of the "gap" between the 69th and 70th week, please click

the links at the bottom of this article entitled "The seventy weeks of Daniel -parts 1-3.

Problems arise through the various calendars used by different cultures to catalogue

specific dates, so there are different calculations from different researchers. For eg..

How are the dates calculated in Daniel?

Since Daniel states 69 weeks of seven years each, and each year has 360 days, the equation

is as follows: 69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days.

In nothing more than a simple mathematical demonstration, the number of days in the period

from March 5, 444 B.C. (the twentieth year of Artaxerxes) to March 30, 33 A.D. (the day Yeshua

entered Jerusalem on the donkey) will be determined at this point. 444 B.C. to 33 A.D. is 476

years (1 B.C. to 1 A.D. is only one year). 476 x 365.2421879 (corrected for leap years)

= 173,855 days. March 5 to March 30 = 25 days. Total = 173,880 days.

Why does Daniel use "years" of 360 days each?

There is conclusive evidence to show that the prophetic year of the Bible is composed of 360

days, or twelve months of 30 days.

Daniel 9:27 mentions a period of Jewish persecution at the hands of the coming prince who

will make a covenant with that people. Since this persecution begins in the "midst" of the

seventieth week of years and continues to the "end" of the week of years, the period is

obviously three and one-half years.

Revelation 13:4-7 speaks of the same great political ruler and his persecution of the Jewish

"saints" lasting "forty two months". And this period is further defined in Revelation 12:6 as "a

thousand two hundred and three score days", or 1,260 days. If 1,260 days is divided by 42

months or 3-1/2 years, the result is a 30-day month and a 360-day year.

Therefore, it is clear that the length of the year in prophecy is fixed by the Bible itself as

exactly 360 days.

Why does Daniel use the phrase "weeks of years"?

In Daniel's writings in Chapter 9 he used the Hebrew word shabua, which means literally a

"seven", but is usually translated into English as "week of years". To the English ear a week

always means a seven of days, but to the Jews shabua alone always meant a seven of years.

Thus Daniel was literally referring to weeks of years here.

Daniel used the Hebrew word shabua alone when referring to the well-known "week" of years,

a customary usage which every Jew would understand; but in Chapter 10, when he speaks of

the "three weeks" of fasting, he specifies them as "weeks of days" in order to distinguish them

from the "weeks" of years in Chapter 9.

What is the significance of this prophecy?

The exact fulfillment of this prophecy is sufficient to demonstrate the accuracy of Daniel and

also by implication the inspiration of the Bible and the truth of Christianity, because only God

can "declare the end from the beginning" and forecast to the very day "things that are not yet

done" (Isaiah 46:10).

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: "Where were you when I laid the

foundations of the earth? Who determined its measurements? Who stretched the line upon it?

To what were its foundations fastened? Who laid its cornerstone?" (Job 38:1-6)

And suddenly a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves.

But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, "Lord, save us!

We are perishing!" But He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then He

arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So the men marvelled,

saying, "Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?" (Matthew 9:24-27)

THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL Part I

THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL Part II

Now read about the prophesy revealing the last week of years.

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Interesting and important study and links...

John 1:1 describes the Deity of Yeshua in no uncertain terms.

For full text of above see: John 1:1 Meaning and Translation

Is Jesus/Yeshua really called the "only begotten son" .... Aren't there other "sons of God" in the Bible?

Please click this PDF document for a full explanation of this issue by Hebrew scholar Dr. Michael Heiser.

More interesting links...

Bible-Prophecy Year of 360 Days (Accurate to a day every five trillion years)

The Coming Earthly Kingdom of the Lord Jesus [Yeshua] Christ (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

The Collapse of Evolution

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http://jewsforjesus.org/

The Tanakh confirms the identity of the Messiah as Yeshua.

Psalm 22:16:   For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Isaiah 53:4-6  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.   But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:8:   He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isaiah 53:9:   And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.

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