Posted on 02/09/2014 9:26:46 AM PST by Errant
Bless ya... ;)
Thanks for laying it out ES...
And if that isn't good enough for some, Yeshua was Hebrew after all, and there isn't a "J" sound in Hebrew...
I can see both sides...
Neither did Jesus Christ.
One of the hottest topics in years making the rounds within Bible prophecy circles is whether a famous Israeli rabbi actually revealed the identity of the long-awaited Messiah. Obviously, such an issue is highly explosive, given the fact that His identity has long been a point of contention between Christians and Jews. For Christians, Jesus as the Messiah is a non-negotiable. For Jews, who have endured the Holocaust, pogroms, and the Inquisitions, a faith rooted in a Galilean prophet isn’t exactly met with open arms.
The matter is further complicated (to put it delicately and mildly) when a rabbi suggests that the God of his fathers revealed to him that the soon-coming Messiah is in fact Jesus of Nazareth.
According to author Carl Gallups, who has fashioned this incredible story into a blockbuster book, “The Rabbi Who Found Messiah”: “In the fall of 2005, a 108-year-old rabbi, Yitzhak Kaduri, the most venerated rabbinical Jewish leader in Israel, proclaimed he knew the name of the real Messiah. He insisted he knew where the Messiah was and when He was going to reveal Himself to the world. The rabbi claimed he had personally seen the Messiah in a vision. The name of the Messiah was to be mysteriously and cryptically sealed in a message. Instructions were given to lock the message away until one year after the rabbi’s death.
“When Kaduri died, several hundred thousand people flooded the streets of Jerusalem for his funeral, one of the largest in Israel’s history. The death-message was secreted away for one year as the beloved rabbi had instructed.”
That message was opened. The name was revealed.
Nothing has been the same since.
By the way, Gallups has an uncanny ability to mention a breathtaking array of topics, and his new book doesn’t disappoint. From discussions of Kaduri and Messianic fervor, to Ariel Sharon and Christian eschatology, Gallups provides the reader with plenty to think about.
Kaduri, born in Palestine sometime in the late 19th century, has been described as an “Israeli Mother Theresa,” and the sheer scope of the events he saw are indeed incredible. He was a venerated teacher (full disclosure for Christian readers: his kabbalistic prophecies are considered out of the mainstream by many) and was adored by millions.
In the last years of his life, Rabbi Kaduri began receiving mystical visions that he interpreted as from God. Naturally, his eventual description of Jesus as the Messiah has left many of his followers struggling to understand. Further, after his final message was opened one year after his death, it was also revealed that he believed soon after Ariel Sharon’s death, Messiah would come.
Sharon, of course, was the old Israeli general and legendary politician, felled by a stroke in early 2006. He died in January 2014, leaving millions of Christian prophecy students awaiting the coming of Messiah.
Tellingly, Gallups notes the degree to which Kaduri was revered in Israel: “Shas leader Eli Yishai mandated party activists to honor a suspension of political activity for the next several days, and initial period of mourning as prescribed by Jewish custom. ‘I call on the whole house of Israel, as I’ve called on all Shas activists, to prepare and arrive at the funeral of Rabbi Kaduri,’ said Yishai.”
One then can imagine the tsunami of emotion that would be unleashed once it was revealed that Kaduri had revealed the identity of the Messiah.
Gallups notes that an article about the Kaduri prophecy ran in Israel Today magazine (an Israeli-based magazine published by Messianic Jews), and that due to the nature of Kaduri’s pronouncement, some had claimed that the article was later scrubbed. Gallups, a dogged researcher, contacted the Israel Today staff and was assured that the article had merely not been added back to a revamped website, but that the editorial staff stood by the story.
So now we are left with a watching Christian community. What will happen in the wake of Sharon’s passing? How many Jews will accept the message from the fabled rabbi?
Specifically, Kaduri wrote that Yehoshua is the Messiah, clearly pointing to Jesus Christ as revealed in the New Testament. The last chapters of “The Rabbi Who Found Messiah” are fascinating, as Gallups analyzes the distinctives between Judaism and Messianism. He even asked renowned Bible prophecy author Tim LaHaye his thoughts on the Kaduri prophecy.
LaHaye responded, in part: “This revelation [Kaduri's] confirmed what I have come to believe for a long time … that many Jews in Israel and throughout the world secretly believe and hopefully have received Jesus as Savior and Lord.”
So millions wait and watch, looking to see how Kaduri’s prophecies will play out.
Stay tuned!
http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/deathbed-prophecy-rocks-jewish-world/
Video at link... As usual with WND, much is a sales pitch for the book, but interesting never the less...
We're seeing a convergence of religions, countries, and even nature pointing to this period in time as being one of the most significant in the history of man.
>> “Neither did Jesus Christ” <<
Just a divisive bit of confusion.
It was prophesied long ago that the false names would be falling away, and the true names revealed “at that time.”
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His name is Yeshua, because he came to yoshia his people.
Your poor knowledge of English Bible translations leaves a lot to be desired. The Geneva Bible used the name Jesus 51 years before the KJV. Furthermore, Pilate wrote Jesus in Latin, Aramaic, and Greek, and not Hebrew.
Now be a nice little gnostic and run home.
i've worked on two translations, and will state you are dead wrong on almost every point.
Be a nice little deceiver and go to the place Yehova has prepared for You and Antichrist, & Co.
>> “i’ve worked on two translations...” <<
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Garbage in, garbage out!
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>> “ and will state you are dead wrong on almost every point” <<
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I will not be so arrogant as to declare my infallibility; there may be some unknowable points where I’ve erred, but I know that I’ve got the body of it right, as Yeshua showed the way, and declared the Pharisees wrong on all points.
Those that did the Greek translations of the NT did it after all the apostles were dead, and used as authorities the least reliable of sources.
Just the conflation of the houses of Judah, and Israel, and calling them both “Jews” is sufficient to condemn all their works. The differences between how Yehova worked those two completely separate groups is one of the two most important themes of the scriptures. This is one of the ways that it can be ascertained that no apostle ever saw any of the Greek MS that we have today, nor any predecessor MS thereto.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Time after time you display profound ignorance on this subject. Let's go to evidenceforjesuschrist.org, and under the Bible link we find when hundreds of top Bible experts say each Book of the New Testament was written. 72 top scholars list as Mark as being written 59 to 64 AD, Matthew 62 to 69 AD, Luke 64 to 68 AD, and John 84 to 89 AD.
Furthermore, you are dead wrong about the NT being written in Hebrew.
You can spew your smoke all you want, but your “experts” are all fakes. Ignorance is what they all seem to have in common. Bible colleges have done their best to destroy the Bible.
The strong evidence that all the Greek MS are translations has been posted here enough that I know that you’ve read it.
But even better, the wording of the ms shows that they were not written by anyone with even faint knowledge of the traditions by which the apostles lived, let alone by the apostles themselves.
For example, no Hebrew apostle would have written “the Passover, a feast of the Jews.” They all knew what the feasts were, and who they were for, and would not have made such an absurd observation. The whole NT is loaded with such absurdities.
As for the time that the originals were written, real scholars are all aware that Matthew’s gospel preceded all other NT writings by several decades, and was the basis for the other two synoptics.
All of the NT was first written in the only language in which the apostles were sufficiently literate: Hebrew. It soon got translated to Aramaic because much of the dispersion of the house of Israel that they were commissioned to reach were in Aramaic speaking enclaves.
The total rejection of the Hellenist culture by the Hebrew people is the element that they all seem to have missed; could it be that they didn’t read any of the Maccabees?
Idiots!
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Nonsense! Hebrew was replaced by Aramaic, when Israel was in BABYLON. After that time Hebrew was only used in worship services.
Your Hebrew New Testament line has slightly less reality than a cow jumping over the moon.
The nonsense is that a short stay in a foreign country could “replace” the language of a culture.
Your assertion is refuted by the prophet Daniel’s writings, the only part of which is not in Hebrew is that chapter written by Nebuchadnezzar.
Also, the book of Nehemiah demolishes that absurdity rather well.
Ignorance and absurdity seem to be your chosen refuge.
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