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God & Man: The Ancient Jewish Wedding Pt 5

We’ve spent some time learning about God’s relationship with Israel and how God Himself describes that relationship as that of a husband and his wife. We also know that everything in the Bible is significant and even if we can’t initially see it, it has prophetic significance. There is also a great deal of rich [...]

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Ready Or Not Pt 3

We don’t like to think of Jesus ever sanctioning violence, let alone participating in it, but what we have to really understand more clearly, is that God is perfect, His judgments and decisions are always right, true and necessary. God doesn’t enjoy violence, in fact there’s nowhere in Scripture that gives any indication of that, [...]

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Ready Or Not Pt 2

Last time we ended by reading a passage from Isaiah 63, that described Mashiach in quite brutal fashion, in fact it describes Him coming from a battle where He slaughtered a lot of people and has their blood all over His clothing. He also described His behaviour as being the day of vengeance and the [...]

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Ready Or Not Pt 1

We’re studying the life and all the expectations of Mashiach, the Jewish Messiah. We’ve spent weeks and weeks learning about Him and one of the striking things that most people are unaware of is that there are two distinct profiles of Mashiach in Scripture and they appear to describe two completely different people. One we [...]

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Did He Really? Pt 5

We’ve spent the last 4 programs looking at the arguments against the resurrection of Jesus, coming at the issue from the point of disbelief and looking at the other possible outcomes. None of them stack up. We learned too that the resurrection is a non-negotiable essential truth that validates Christianity, and if there’s no resurrection, [...]

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Did He Really? Pt 4

During our series on Mashiach, we’ve looked at all the criteria required to qualify to be Him. As Christians, we believe that Jesus is Mashiach – the Messiah prophesied from Genesis and right through to Malachi, but the final, essential and non-negotiable criteria for the Mashiach, is that He had to rise from the Dead. [...]

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Did He Really? Pt 3

We’ve been involved in a long series on Mashiach – the Jewish Messiah. We’ve read many, many prophecies about Him, and we’ve examined the life of Jesus and discovered that He meets all the criteria. However, the most essential, non-negotiable criteria for being Mashiach, is rising from the dead. Last time we took the position [...]

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Did He Really? Pt 2

The Apostle Paul said that if Jesus hadn’t been raised from the dead, that our faith was worthless, our sin remained unpaid for, our guilt was still upon us and we’re doomed. Not only that, he said that out of all the human race, we should be pitied the most because basically we’re delusional. The [...]

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Did He Really? Pt 1

It’s been about 6 weeks approximately that we’ve been focusing on Mashiach – the Messiah that the Bible speaks so much about. We’ve learned that there have been dozens and dozens of different messiahs throughout history from many nations and belief systems, but the only one that actually stacks up is the Jewish Messiah. But [...]

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The Resurrection Of Mashiach In Judaism Pt 2

Last time we began looking into ancient Judaism to see what the prevailing view of the resurrection was. Of course, just like Christianity that has lots of denominations, Judaism also had different branches with different theological viewpoints. For example, the branch of the Sadducees, which were very powerful in Jesus lifetime, didn’t believe in the [...]

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The Resurrection Of Mashiach In Judaism Pt 1

While we’ve been focusing on learning all we can about Mashiach, the Jewish Messiah, we’ve seen how the rabbinical views about Messiah have changed over the centuries. We know that the predominant understanding of Messiah was that He’d come to suffer and atone for His people, but by the time Jesus arrived, that view had [...]

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I Thought Mashiach Would Bring World Peace? Pt 2

Last time we looked at probably the main reason most rabbis reject Jesus as Mashiach, because they claim that Mashiach is supposed to usher in world peace when He arrives. Because Jesus came 2,000 years ago and there’s been war after war after war during that time, He couldn’t possibly be Mashiach. As I mentioned [...]

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I Thought Mashiach Would Bring World Peace? Pt 1

For quite a few weeks now we’ve been focusing especially on the Jewish Messiah; Mashiach, who He would be, when He would come, what He would do, what He would achieve, how He would be treated and what His mission would be focused on. We’ve learned about the other Biblical characters, well at least three [...]

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Moses or Jesus Pt 3

While we’ve been learning about Mashiach – the Jewish Messiah – we’ve learned about many aspects concerning His nature, character, behaviour, attitudes, His beginning, His end and who His life mirrors. In fact His life actually mirrors the lives of Joseph and David. If you study it, you also see that the entire book of [...]

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Moses or Jesus Pt 2

So last time we began to learn about the person of Moses and how he had a remarkable relationship with God, to the point where God spoke with him face to face the way friends speak with each other. All Jews revere Moses, he did after all bring about the absolute deliverance of the Hebrews [...]

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Moses or Jesus Pt 1

We’ve been learning about Mashiach, the Jewish Messiah, identifying the prophecies about Him, learning about His characteristics and works and weeding out any supposed messiahs and discarding them. We want to know who the Mashiach is, and be devoted to Him. Last time we learned about the parallels between Joseph and David and how they [...]

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Joseph & David Parallel The Life Of Mashiach Pt 4

For a last several programs, we’ve focused on the parallel characteristics between Joseph and David, because previously, we learned that most rabbis believe that there are two Messiahs to come, or that one of two of these possible Messiahs will come. Either Mashiach ben Yosef – Messiah son of Joseph, the suffering Messiah. Or, Mashiach [...]

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Joseph & David Parallel The Life Of Mashiach Pt 3

For the last couple of programs, we spent time looking at how the Old Covenant characters of Joseph and David parallel each other. What is it about these two men that make rabbis look at the possibility of two possible Messiahs? A Messiah like Joseph who suffered for his family or a Messiah like David, [...]

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Joseph & David Parallel The Life Of Mashiach Pt 2

We began looking at the parallels between the lives of Joseph, the son of Jacob and David, king of Israel. The Jewish people, as we’ve already discussed, have identified two messiahs in the prophecies of the Bible. Mashiach ben Yosef, a suffering Messiah who is like Joseph, the son of Jacob. Or, the other possibility [...]

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Joseph & David Parallel The Life Of Mashiach Pt 1

We’ve been focusing specifically on the life and person of Mashiach, the prophesied Messiah of the Jewish people for some time. We’ve looked at the prophecies themselves and the mathematical probabilities of one single individual fulfilling them all. We’ve looked at the fact that there have been so many self-proclaimed Messiahs throughout history that it [...]

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Two Messiahs? Pt 3

Mashiach has been our topic for quite some time. The Bible has a lot to say about Him and in fact, He is the central figure of the entire Bible, followed second by the people of Israel, from whom Mashiach comes. He has what is the most important role in human history…to redeem fallen man. [...]

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Two Messiahs? Pt 2

Last time, we began understanding how to the Jewish mind, there is a possibility of two Messiahs, and the reason they hold to this view is because when you look at all the prophecies about the coming Mashiach, you get two very distinct pictures. You see very clearly the picture of a suffering Messiah, who [...]

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Two Messiahs? Pt 1

We’re in a series about Mashiach, the Jewish Messiah spoken of so much in the Bible, Christians believe Messiah to be none other than Yeshua – Jesus Christ. Jews cannot believe Him to be their Mashiach because they say He didn’t achieve what they believe Mashiach is supposed to achieve when He comes. The problem [...]

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The Forbidden Chapter Pt 7

The Mashiach has been probably the most important personality in Judaism since it’s beginning. The Jewish people have been looking for, waiting for, and longing for Mashiach throughout their entire history, and with good reason. They’ve been a very persecuted people. While Christians believe Jesus is their Mashiach, they do not and its for that [...]

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The Forbidden Chapter Pt 6

We’ve been in a series that’s been dedicated to learn about the characteristics, nature and identity of Mashiach, who He is, when He would come, why He would come and what He’d achieve. We’ve looked at a lot of information and we learned that there’s a particular chapter in the Bible that made life very [...]

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