If? The End of a Messianic Lie: An Intro to Chapter 1

An Introduction to Chapter 1:

                                                                     

This book authored by Uriel ben-Mordechai is an amazing book, that should be required reading for all who profess belief in Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah.

At last there is a book from a fully Jewish author;

·         who knows his native Hebrew;

·         who knows his Jewish religious and cultural history;

·         who knows his Tanakh and Jewish worldview; and

·         who also finds the Messianic credentials of one of his Jewish Rabbi’s, namely Yeshua ben Yosef, convincing.

Uriel  has also taken the time and effort to become conversant with the Greek language and the most ancient Greek manuscripts of the Bible, in particular Papryi 46 (P46) and the Codex Sinaiticus.

This is a long overdue book that examines the reality of who this Jewish Rabbi Yeshua was; this Rabbi who was crucified nearly 2000 years ago. As Uriel puts it “Equal airtime is due the People of the Book to explain one of their own”.       

In this introductory chapter, to help set the scene, Uriel first explains how Jews, who are part of Christianity[1] are no longer considered true Jews by the Supreme Court of Israel, and therefore not entitled to the provisions of the ‘law of return’. As Uriel has explained in this chapter, the Supreme Court of Israel argued that these Jews have changed their religion. To consider that a man (namely Jesus), is the ‘G-d of Israel dressed in human flesh’, is a belief that is beyond the pale and out of the realms of all concepts and doctrines that define being Jewish.

Uriel states that “For a Jew, there is no possibility to accept ‘Jesus’ as a deity, without completely betraying the Torah and Judaism…”.

If Uriel is able to prove the efficacy of this statement, that is, if this book can prove beyond reasonable doubt that to accept Jesus/Yeshua as ‘divine’ or G-d Almighty, is to ‘betray Torah’ then all of Christendom should reject such a belief!

Why? Because Christianity argues that it’s faith is based on the whole counsel of the Bible, both its New Testament writings as well as the Books of the Tanakh (Old Testament), including the 5 Books of Moses (the Torah), and that these texts are the ‘word of God’, that is, inspired and inerrant.

Any belief or doctrine that contradicts the first 5 Books of the Bible, to the point of betraying the very words of those books, should surely be rejected by people of such faith.

So the reader on completing this book, may like to return to this very statement. IF Uriel has validated this claim that the deity of Yeshua betrays the Torah, then it should behove the reader to reject belief in the deity of Yeshua.

Uriel begins to validate this claim in this chapter. For example he quotes Moshe Kohn answering  the question of who is NOT a Jew with: “Classically, idolatry means the worship of a physical object as a god. A central feature … as outlined in the Torah is the utter disgust with which it treats the worship of physical objects as god… This disgust applies particularly to the worship of animate mortals …”

In this chapter, Uriel begins to explain how central the Torah is, and that the Torah needs to rise to become King in the hearts of men. Such a possibility has always needed the leading of the Jewish people, the people who were there at Sinai, when the Torah was first given to mankind (though it had pre-existed with HaShem since before the creation of the world).

But more, for the Messiah to come, the Bible has always declared that “it is the Jewish People, intact as a distinct nation, that invite the Mashiach to return and rule in Yerushali’im.”

This miracle and reality has only happened in recent years (see my article: ‘Israel: Return in Belief or Unbelief’ for details).

Uriel has explained how this could only happen through the Jewish people rejecting assimilation and the anti-Torah message of mainstream Christianity. This is in part because their in-depth understanding and commitment to Torah has meant that it required no real effort for them to reject the totally unbiblical doctrines of the Trinity, and the deity, incarnation, and the pre-existence of the Messiah.

Further, Uriel turns all this on its head by pointing out that Zechariah prophesied (Zec 8:23)  that in the last days, it will not be the Jewish People who will wake up and seek out Christians to learn about the mysterious and incomprehensible Trinity, but that it will be the Gentiles, the Christians and others, who will instead turn to the Torah observant Jew and ask him to lead them to G-d, because at last they will recognize that HaShem is with the Jewish people as they seek to make Torah, King in their hearts.

Read on to see the full truth of this reality unveiled before your very eyes over the following chapters!

Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/If-End-Messianic-Lie-Vol/dp/9659174306/

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[1] Often labeled Messianic Jews, though this is a far from ideal label, as all religious Jews are in truth Messianics, as they all look for the Coming of Mashiach/Messiah.