Our Jewish (Hebrew) Roots

Our Jewish (Hebrew) Roots © Shabnam Hadassah Lal

June 28, 2011 at 1:45pm

• the Torah and the One who completed the Torah (Yeshua Messiah). Romans 10:4 the proper translation: not the culpability that has occurred in deliberate omissions, reworks and additions resulting from an anti-Jewish and anti-Torah theological bias. "The Messiah is "goal at which the Torah aims," not "the end of the law" as many Gentile versions of the Scripture state.
• Elohim has chosen to “reveal His hidden mystery" of the Jewish connection and the Jewish roots of the Christian faith through the Hope Pin and the Covenant Pin.
• He has also revealed the Power of his Abramic Covenant and the supremacy of his Semitic/Hebrew name and Language Zep. 3:9 "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord." The Yud is entrenched in the IJNHope Logo in the form of a Y His Name (YHWH); Yeshua Messiah; Y’israel; the Y’hudim (Jews), and culmination of his plan in the New Yerushalayim including both Jew and Gentile. The Megan David (Star of David). The Israeli Crystal and the Red Cross. 

• Yeshua was born a Jew; a Hebrew descended from Abraham/Avraham, Yitzchak/Isaac, Yaakov/Jacob, tribe of Judah/Y'huda all Hebrews. He was of the dynasty of King David hence the Davidic Covenant. He was steeped deep in the Hebrew culture of His people and was an observant Torah keeper. Isa. 2:3 The Torah/Law will go out from Zion, the Word/Yeshua of the Lord from Jerusalem. 

• For the first 70 years after His death and Resurrection, believers were considered to be a Sect of Judaism. The early followers were called "believers of the Way of "Y'shua."  The label "Christian" was not commonly used until the second century and was actually first used as a derogatory term.

• Yeshua is still a Jewish Messiah
• The Semitic name of Jesus is Yeshua and in his lineage, there are 12 men whose Semitic names begin with a Y.
• Yeshua was born in Yisrael of the dynasty of King David. He was a descendant of Judah/Y’hudah and was thus called an Y’hudi or Y’hu-dim (Jew, Judean).
• Yeshua died and rose from the grave in the Jewish Capital; Yerushalayim.  Luk. 24:27 “repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.”
• Act 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

• The closest relatives and emissaries of Yeshua were all Jews Y’hu-dim.
• Salvation came from the Jews and came to the Jews first.
• Messiah’s vicarious atonement is rooted in Jewish sacrificial system.
• Lord’s Supper is rooted in the Jewish Passover.
• Immersion/Mikva/Baptism is a Jewish Practice.
• Yeshua said, “Salvation is from the Jews”
• The New Covenant was promised by a Jewish prophet Jeremiah (31:33)
• Much of the New Testament is incomprehensible apart from its Jewish context.
• Sha’ul/Paul was chief emissary to Gentiles, a lifelong observant Jew.
• Yeshua will come a second time to rule as the King of Yisrael and bring peace to the world.

• The NT is built upon and completes the Hebrew (OT) Scriptures.