The Reason Yeshua Came

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Christians act and think that Jesus/Yeshua came to start Christianity. They claim that the law, Torah, was done away with. The reason for this goes back to the early church fathers and their antisemitic views. Consequently the Jews started coming up with a defense, a rebuttal, to Christianity. Some of their rebuttals are accurate and deserving. For example, anyone who prophecies, and it comes true, and performs miracles, and so on, if they teach that the Torah is done away with, or teach to follow after other gods, then they are a false prophet. That’s from Deut 13:1-5. So to the Jews, Christianity teaches to follow after other gods.

What was Yeshua’s reason to come? Was it to start another religion? No! Of course it wasn’t to start another religion. If it were, he’d be denying the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Jews see the Torah as preexistant, even before the creation of the world. It could be argued that the Jews view the Torah as divine. We see, in Genesis chapters one and two, that the Word of God was in fact preexistant and in fact created the world.

The Apostle John makes it clear, in his gospel account the the Word was in the beginning, and that the Word was with God, and that the Word, in fact was God. John goes on to say how that nothing came into being except through the Word. In verse fourteen John describes the Word becoming flesh and dwelling among us.

The thing is though, that many of the Brit Hadashah’s (New Testament) writings have been twisted into antisemitic views and teachings. Stephen was stoned to death, the first martyr, because he was accused of “…speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” Stephen gave a defense, but the end result was he was stoned. At no time did Stephen blaspheme against Moses or God. You can read the account for yourself in Acts 6:8 – 7:59. Yeshua was also falsely accused and put to death. The Apostle Paul was, and still is, accused of the same thing. What’s different about Paul though, is that while he at no time ever taught against Moses or God or Torah, mainstream Christianity go on teaching that this was not only Paul’s teaching, but Yeshua’s as well. That the law, Torah, has been put away. That the law, Torah, in antiquated and out of date, and therefore irrelevant.

By Christians making such claims, like the Torah is done away with and teaching that the church is the new Israel, is certainly antisemitic, but is also bearing false witness and distorting, wrongly representing Yeshua and the Apostles. I wrote, a long time ago, on Facebook, three articles that address this. The first one was “The Torah and the Christian“, the second was “Legalism? Judiazer? or Loving God through obedience part 1” and the third was “Legalism? Judiazer? or Loving God through obedience part 2“. By making such claims, the real reason Yeshua came has become clouded, veiled, and all but lost. Fortunately, there are those who are returning to the real reason Yeshua came. I wrote, also on Facebook, an article that covers the part of Yeshua coming is for salvation, but there is more.

See, Yeshua didn’t come just so that we can be “saved”, as mainstream Christianity teaches. Yes, Yeshua did come to save us from our sins, but like I said a moment ago, that wasn’t all. Yeshua came as Meshiach ben Yoseph, in the role of a priest. Since God had divorced Israel, and Judah, there was a problem. God has made an oath, a vow, to Abraham, and swore by His great name, but since God divorced Israel, to remarry her would be a violation of God’s own Torah. So now God, it seems, is in a catch twenty two. He made a vow, and it would seem that God broke His vow by divorcing Israel and Judah, and He can’t violate His own Torah be remarrying Israel and Judah. This, is the great mystery that the Apostle Paul talks about. Yeshua came to restore Israel and Judah, in the sense where the could remarry God. The Apostle John as well as the Apostle Paul makes it clear the divinity of Yeshua. So by Yeshua dying on the cross, not only does he make salvation possible, to save us from our sins, but he also makes it possible for Israel and Judah to remarry. This is how God resolved the catch twenty two. You can read about it in Romans 7.

For Christians to teach and claim that the Torah was done away with, tarnishes what Yeshua came to do and what the apostles continued. It also is extremely antisemitic. Replacement theology is not only wrong, but dangerous as well. Yet this antisemitic view and teaching is not just prevalent, but what mainstream Christianity teaches.

It’s easy to see why the Jews have spent much of their Talmud refuting this doctrine that Christianity teaches. Yeshua came to restore Israel. This is what should be preached and taught. Anything else is errant and heretical.  I would phrase it as Yeshua came to teach how to correctly, rightly live out biblical Judaism. If you can phrase it better, I’m all ears.

 

In Yeshua’s service