Thank God For His Promise!
Job 19:25:
" But I
know that my Redeemer lives, and that He will be the final one remaining
upon the earth." The King James Version of the Bible states
that Job's Redeemer would stand upon the earth at the end of days and
Hebrew scholars in this case state that the KJV is more closely accurate
to the meaning. However, for the purposes of this study, it is
irrelevant whether the meaning is "final one remaining" or "standing at
the end".
We see here, the concept of the
Redeemer but in this instance it is reaffirmed that the Redeemer is a
direct reference to Yahweh. Why?
When one examines the Orthodox
translation of the Tanach the word Redeemer is capitalized indicating that
the Redeemer is God!
This idea is re-enforced in
Psalm 78:35:
"They would remember that God
was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer."
We have the same thought in
Isaiah 41:14:
"Fear not, O worm of Jacob, O
men of Israel, [for] I help you—the word of Yahweh and your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah
44:6:
"Thus said Yahweh, King of
Israel and its Redeemer, Yahweh, Master of Legions: I am the first and I
am the last, and aside from Me there is no God."
He (Yahweh) is the Redeemer and
God! This is from the mouth of the prophet Isaiah put there by Yahweh
Himself. Could it be made any plainer than this? God is the Redeemer
and He is God.
Isaiah
49:26:
"And
I will feed your tormentors their own flesh, and they will become drunk on
their own blood as on sweet wine; then all flesh will know that I am
Yahweh, your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
In this passage we see Yahweh
referring to Himself as not only the Redeemer but as Savior. This is very
important because the Hebrew used in this passage is:
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Moshiach
which is the Hebrew word for anointed one and while it can be used
to identify a king, prophet, etc., it is used in this passage to identify
Yahweh, God, as both Savior and Redeemer. This interpretation is from the
Orthodox Jewish translation of the Tanach.
The concept of a Savior was not
a foreign idea to the Israelites of old.
It is a foreign idea to the
Jewish people of today in the sense that it relates to Jesus (Yeshua) but
in Orthodox Judaism the idea of the Messiah is one that is prayed for
daily. There is a constant call for the Messiah to come and to reveal
himself.
In their own Scriptures
(Orthodoxy) Yahweh identifies Himself as both Savior and Redeemer taking
on the aspects of the kinsman redeemer (blood relative) and is revealed as
the Savior and Messiah.
Can it be shown any plainer than
this that Yahweh is God and as God He has chosen to take upon Himself both
aspects of the requirements for redeeming His people and for saving them.
I know at this point you may be
saying that I have not yet shown you that Yeshua is God. I agree.
Let's look at some other scripture.
Is Yahweh identifying Himself as
the Messiah in this passage of Scripture?:
Isaiah
60:16:
"You will nurse from the milk of
the nations and from the breast of kings will you nurse; then you will
realize that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One
of Jacob."
Isaiah
63:16: "For
You are our Father; though Abraham may not know us and Israel may not
recognize us, You, Yahweh, are our Father; “our Eternal Redeemer is Your
Name."
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`olam {o-lawm'}
long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting,
evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world 1a)
ancient time, long time (of past) 1b) (of future) 1b1) for ever,
always 1b2) continuous existence, perpetual 1b3) everlasting, indefinite
or unending future, eternity
The answer to that question is
Yes, Yahweh IS identifying Himself as Messiah in those verses above.
Yahweh has always been and will always be, He is from everlasting and from
Old, He has existed eternally.
He is our Father and Eternal
Redeemer forever. This idea of forever means what has been, is now and
will continue to be. That perfectly describes the nature of
God.
God (Yahweh) Himself said to
Moses (Moshe) "I AM"!
Now, if Yeshua is Moshiach, the
Anointed One, the Redeemer, then He MUST be Yahweh. He was not a
"created creature or being" that was simply chosen by Yahweh for a purpose
but He has always been the same as Yahweh.
Please keep in mind that just
because a concept or idea has become tainted with paganistic ideas and
teachings that it does not mean that the whole concept of idea is bad. It
only means that the teaching of the concept has become corrupted.
Remember that the Torah has
existed from the beginning and that paganism has its birth in Babylon with
Nimrod. The truth of who God is preceded the paganistic ideas that came
later. Do not buy into the idea that there are 3
"persons'" or "bodies" of God. That is the pagan taint that has been
the leaven of the concept of God.
I understand how many of you
feel about Rav Shaul, however, he IS and WAS the Apostle to the Gentiles
and friends, the Gentiles are partakers of the One Blood of Man as well as
the Jews are.
Paul wrote:
1
Corinthians 1:30:
"It
is His doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become
wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as
well!"
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apolutrosis
{ap-ol-oo'-tro-sis}
1) a releasing effected by payment of ransom 1a) redemption, deliverance
1b) liberation procured by the payment of a ransom
This is the very same meaning as
the Hebrew word for redeemer or redemption. It is speaking of one who has
bought the redemption for a price, for the payment of a ransom.
Ephesians
1:7:
"In union with Him, through the
shedding of His blood, we are set free—our sins are forgiven; this accords
with the wealth of the grace."
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aphesis
{af'-es-is}
1) release from bondage or imprisonment 2) forgiveness or pardon, of
sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed),
remission of the penalty
Coinciding with redemption and
saving comes the idea of forgiveness. This forgiveness is for sin and only
God can offer that forgiveness. So if Yahweh refers to Himself as Savior,
Redeemer and the Forgiver of sins and Yeshua took this upon Himself, how
do you then explain this "empowerment? Is this God pouring out his
Redemptive power into that of a mortal man or is this God the Messiah?
Isaiah 43:25:
"I, only I, am He Who wipes
away your willful sins for My sake, and I shall not recall your sins."
Only Yahweh can wipe away our
sins. We read that in several earlier passages.
So if only Yahweh can remove
our sins and Yeshua can do the same then Yeshua cannot be a mere mortal
empowered by God for this purpose but must be without a shadow of a doubt
Yahweh!
I am not making this assumption
based on my interpretation of Scripture but I am basing my belief on the
word of God. And who is the Word of God? Read John-Yochanan
1:1:
John-Yochanan 1:1-5: "In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. He was with God in the beginning. All things came to be through Him,
and without Him nothing made had being. In Him was life, and the life was
the light of mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
has not suppressed it."
The following scripture presents
problems for even Christians. It is recorded in the Christian King
James Bible as "For in Him (Yeshua), dwelleth all the fulness of the
Godhead (the completeness of God) bodily.
In the Renewed Covenant
Scriptures it is recorded:
Colossians
2:9:
"For in Him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that
God is."
Examine the
Torah:
Deuteronomy-Devarim 32:15:
"Jeshrun
became fat and kicked. You became fat, you became thick, you became
corpulent—and it deserted its Maker, and was contemptuous of the
Rock of its salvation."
Interesting enough the title of
this Book of the Torah is Devarim, which in the Hebrew means words. Where
the word Maker
is used here in the Hebrew it actually says Elohah, which means God or
god. Who is the Rock of its salvation?
Here in the Orthodox Jewish
translation the word Rock is capitalized indicating that Rock in this
passage is referring to the Messiah.
The Messiah is a Jewish or
Hebrew concept. It is not a concept unique to Christianity
alone.
Christianity draws its roots,
its nourishment from Judaism and Hebraic customs, traditions, beliefs and
teachings.
So the idea that Yeshua is God
Himself is a Jewish or Hebraic one,
not just a Christian one.
