“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
(Matthew 7:13-14)
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Where’s the Blood of Atonement?
Some time ago I was holding Gospel meetings in San Francisco and several times addressed the Jews Attending a Mission to Israel. On one occasion, having concluded my discourse, the meeting was thrown open for discussion with any Hebrew who desired to
ask questions or state difficulties and also for any who had been brought to Yeshua to relate their coming to faith in Him.
The experience of one old Jew interested me greatly and as nearly as I can give his remarks in his own words were:
“This is Passover week among you, my Jewish brethern, and as I sat here I was thinking how you will be observing it. You will have put away all leaven from your houses; you will eat the matzoth and the roasted lamb. You will attend the synagogue services and carry out the ritual and directions of the Talmud; but you forget, my bretheren, that you have everything but that which Adonai required first of all. He did not say, ‘When I see the leaven put away, or when I see you eat the matzoth, or the lamb, or go to the synagogue’; but His word was, ‘When I see the blood, I will pass over you.’ Ah, my brethren, you can substitute nothing for this. You must have blood, blood, BLOOD!”
“Blood!” That is an awful word for one who reveres that ancient oracle, and yet has no sacrifice. Turn where he will in the Book, the blood meets him, but let him seek as he may, he cannot find it in the Judaism of the present.
After a moment’s pause, the patriarchal man went on somewhat as follows:
“I was born in Palestine, nearly seventy years ago. As a child I was taught to read the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets. I early attended the synagogue and learned Hebrew from the rabbis. At first I believed what I was told, that ours was the true and only religion, but as I grew older and studied the Law more intently, I was struck by the place the blood had in all the ceremonies outlined there, and equally struck by its utter absence in the ritual to which I was brought up.”
Again and again I read Exodus 12, and Leviticus 16 and 17, and the latter chapters especially made me tremble, as I thought of the great Day of Atonement and the place the blood had there. Day and night one verse would ring in my ears. ‘It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul!’ I knew I confessed my need of it; but it was to be made by blood and there was no blood!”
“In my distress, at last, I opened my heart to a learned and venerable rabbi. He told me that God was angry with His people. Jerusalem was in the hands of Gentiles, the Temple was destroyed, and a Mohammedan mosgue was reared up in its place. The only spot on earth where we dare shed the blood of sacrifice in accordance with Deuteronomy 12 and Leviticus 17, was descecrated, and our nation was scattered. That was why there was no blood. God had Himself closed the way to carry out the solemn service of the great Day of Atonement. He said that now we must turn to the Talmud and rest on its instruction, and trust in the mercy of God and the merits of the fathers.”
” I tried to be satisfied, but could not. Something seemed to say that the law was unaltered, even though our Temple was destroyed. Nothing else but blood could atone for the soul. We dared not shed blood for the atonement elsewhere than in the place the Lord had chosen. Then we were left without an atonement at all!”
“This thought filled me with horror. In my distress I consulted many rabbis. I had but one great question, Where can I find the blood of atonement?”
“I was over thirty years of age when I left Palestine and came to Constantinople, with my still unanswered question ever before my mind, and my soul was exceedingly troubled about my sins.”
“One night I was walking down one of the narrow streets of that city, when I saw a sign telling of a meeting for Jews. Curiosity led me to open the door and go in. Just as I took a seat I heard a man say, ‘The blood of Yeshua His Son cleanseth us from all sin.’ It was my first introduction to Christianity, but I listened breathlessly as the speaker told how God had declared that ‘without shedding of blood is no remission,’ but that He had given His only begotten Son, the Lamb of God, to die, and all who trusted in His blood were forgiven all their iniquities. This was the Messiah of Isaiah 53; this was the Sufferer of Psalms. Ah, my brethren, I had found the blood of atonement at last. I trusted it, and now I love to read the New Testament and see how all the shadows of the law are fulfilled in Yeshua. His blood has been shed for sinners. It has satisfied God, and it is the only means of salvation for either Jew or Gentile.”
Have you found the blood of atonement?
“behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world’ (John 1:29). Are you trusting in God’s smitten Lamb-the sacrifice of God?
H.A.L.
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Without Mashiach Yeshua I have no hope. My flesh is full of sin. I am not good in any way possible. I cannot fulfill the keeping of any of God’s Laws that show what my sins are. My actions are commited by my flesh which is filled with sin. As hard as I try I fall short of the Glory of God.
There is only one way that God can look at me and see no sin. That is because I am covered by the blood that was shed by God’s Lamb, Mashiach Yeshua.
When I enter into the presence of God it is only by the blood of the Lamb whose blood was shed for the remit-ion of sin,
I thank God that He counts me as one of His own. He is my Father and He is also my Savior. There is only One God. He is the Creator and He is the Savior coming as a human to live among us and offer Himself up as a blood sacrifice to save us that recognize Him, who confess we are sinners, ask forgiveness for our sins, believe that He died, was buried, rose again and ascended into heaven. He will be coming soon for those believers that have died, then those that are alive, gathering them to heaven.
Non believers will not be part of those who are raptured out of this world. Non believing Jews and Gentiles will face the Tribulation and God’s judgement of the nations at that time. Jacob’s trouble, when God deals with the non believing Jews and Gentiles that have not heard the words of the prophet like Moses that came at the appointed time. Jew and Gentile alike rejected Him.
Mashiach Yeshua is my Savior, in Him I stand filled with His Holy Spirit, forgiven of my sins because they have been cast into the sea of forgetfulness.
Salvation is by faith alone and not by works least any man should boast.
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Kindle Edition by Michael L. Brown
An honest, fair, and thorough discussion of the issues raised in Jewish Christian apologetics, covering thirty-five objections on general and historical themes.
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John 1:1-5, 14 (TLV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 All things were made through him, and apart from him nothing was made that has come into being.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.
14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We looked upon His glory, the glory of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth. (TLV
Isaiah 9:6 (TLV
6 (9:5) For to us a child is born, a son will be given to us, and the government will be upon His shoulder.
His Name will be called
Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God,
My Father of Eternity,
Prince of Peace.
(TLV)
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The Time is very close to the End of the Age.
Be Careful and Watch the events happening on this Earth.
The Signs are there.
I Pray for You My Brothers, that Your Eyes and Ears would be OPENED
Opened to G-d’s Truth, Seek and you Will find,
Ask and He will Reveal His Truth to You.
O ISRAEL HEAR THIS
One sin is all it takes to create an infinite distance between you and G-d.
Without G-d’s Salvation there is NO way for ANY person to bridge that infinite distance.
You have everything that G-d has provided, except one thing and that one thing is not possible to have under Judaism since there is no Temple, there is no Altar, therefore there is no blood to cover sin. God said “When I see the blood, I will pass over you”.
Leviticus 17:11 says “For the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have assigned it for you upon the altar to provide atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that atones for the soul”. Tanach – Stone Edition
Without the blood the wages of sin is death for the law was given to show what sin is. With the written word comes death for it is impossible for sinful men to keep every law. But, the Spirit gives life.
God has provided that blood, the blood of Mashiach Yeshua whose blood was shed on the Cross to atone for sin once and for all for those who confess they are sinners, who ask for forgiveness and accept Mashiach Yeshua as their Messiah. For it is His blood that was shed for atonement.
For it is said in the Brit Chadasha:
6 He also made us competent as servants of a new covenant—not of the letter, but of the Ruach. For the letter kills, but the Ruach gives life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that Bnei-Yisrael could not look intently upon Moses’s face because of its glory—although it was passing away—
8 how will the ministry of the Ruach not be even more glorious?
9 For if there is glory in the ministry of condemnation,the ministry of righteousness overflows even more in glory.
10 For even what was glorious is not glorious in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
11 For if what is passing away is glorious, much more what remains is glorious.
12 Therefore, having such a hope, we act with great boldness.
13 We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face in order for Bnei-Yisrael not to look intently upon the end of what was passing away.
14 But their minds were hardened. For up to this very day the same veil remains unlifted at the reading of the ancient covenant, since in Messiah it is passing away.
15 But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Ruach ADONAI is, there is freedom.
– 2 Corinthians 3:6-17 TLV
Answering Jewish Objections
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Isaiah 53 is part of the Tanach and therefore G-d’s word. Please view and ask G-d to guide you in His truth.
The Person of Mashiach is full Deity and perfect humanity united without mixture, change, division, or separation in one Person forever. Charles Ryrie
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“When Rabban Jochanan Ben Zaccai now lay languishing, his scholars came to visit him: whom he seeing began to weep. To whom they said, ‘O thou light of Israel, thou right-hand pillar, thou strong hammer, whence are those tears?’ To whom he replied, ‘If men were about to carry me before a king of flesh and blood, who to-day is here, and tomorrow is in his grave, — if he were angry with me, his anger is not everlasting; if he should cast be into bonds, his bond are not eternal; if he should kill me, his killing would not be eternal: and I might perhaps pacify him with words, or soften him with a gift. But they are ready to lead me before the King of kings, the Lord, holy and blessed, who lives and lasts for ever, and for ever and ever; who if He be angry with me, His anger is eternal; if He bind me, His bond is eternal; if he kill me, his killing is eternal; and whom I cannot either appease with words, or soften with a gift. And moreover, there are two ways before me, one to paradise, another to hell; and I know which way not they will lead me. Should I not weep? (Berakhot, fol. 28b)
If this great man of Judiasm did not know where he was to be lead at his death, what are we to do?
If you think there’s two Covenants, one for Jews one for Gentiles think again. There is only ONE Covenant. It’s the same for Jews and Gentiles alike. You sin once and that’s it. No hope but separation from God. There is no Atonement except by the blood on the altar and the altar does not exist since there is no Temple. Because of the sin in everyone’s life there is an infinite separation between you and God. Only the Mashiach (Yeshua) can bridge that separation since He shed His blood for the atonement of sin. Your part is to Confess you are a sinner before God, ask for forgiveness, recognize that Yeshua paid for your sins by His blood. This is the only point when God will cast your sins into the sea of forgetfulness and remember them no more.
In Jeremiah 31:30 God says He will seal a new covenant with the House of Israel
Verse 31 in TLV
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Art Scroll, The Stone Edition
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Mysteries of the Messiah: Unveiling Divine Connections from Genesis to Today Kindle Edition
by Rabbi Jason Sobel (Author), Kathie Lee Gifford (Foreword)
Are you settling for half the story? Highlighting connections that have been hidden from non-Jewish eyes, Rabbi Jason Sobel will connect the dots between the Old and New Testament, helping you see the Bible with clarity as God intended.
Most people—even people of faith—do not understand how the Bible fits together. Too many Christians accept half an inheritance, content to embrace merely the New Testament, while Jewish people may often experience the same by embracing only the Old Testament. But God has an intricate plan and purpose for both the Old and the New.
In Mysteries of the Messiah, Rabbi Jason Sobel reveals the many connections in Scripture hidden in plain sight. Known for his emphatic declaration “but there’s more!” he guides us in seeing the passion and purpose of the Messiah. Mysteries of the Messiah:
Uncovers connections between the Old and New Testaments
Connects the dots for readers with details about Jesus, the Torah, and biblical characters
Written with the unique perspective of a rabbi with an evangelical theological degree
No matter how many times you have read the Bible, Mysteries of the Messiah will bring fresh perspective and insight. God’s Word, written by many people over thousands of years, is not a random selection of people and stories. Rabbi Jason Sobel connects the dots and helps us see with clarity what God intended.
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