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The Bible is a unique book because it contains so many prophecies which have been fulfilled, as well as giving us information about the days to come. The fact that so many prophecies have already been fulfilled by events in the past is a sure sign that the future prophecies of the Bible will happen. These prophecies are not just vague predictions of events to come, but very specific in their nature. The most important of them concern the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus / Yeshua ha Mashiach.
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00:00I started off reading from Matthew chapter 1. We'll read that passage again because it does bring out
00:04some important truths which we need to base this talk upon. Matthew chapter 1
00:10and I'll read from verse 18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, was as follows.
00:19After his mother Mary, Miriam, was betrothed to Yosef. Before they came together she was found
00:25with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not wanting to make
00:31her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. While he thought about these things,
00:37behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be
00:42afraid to take to Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she
00:48will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, Yeshua, for he will save his people from
00:53their sins. So all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord through
00:59the prophet, saying, Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his
01:04name Emmanuel, which is translated, God with us. Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the
01:11angel of the Lord commanded him, and took to him his wife, and did not know her till she had brought
01:16forth her firstborn son, and he called his name Yeshua, Jesus. Praise the Lord. The miracle of the
01:24birth of the Messiah, actually the miracle was in the conception, and interestingly this event which
01:31we've read actually came between the conception and the birth, but just after the conception.
01:36Joseph was betrothed to Mary, Miriam, and in Jewish circles, if you were betrothed to
01:43be married, it was as solemn as being committed to be married. Once you were betrothed, if you wanted
01:49to get out of it, then you had to have a divorce proceedings, as it were, which is why it says
01:55Joseph, not wanting to make her a public example, was reminded to put her away secretly. In the time
02:02between betrothal and marriage, you didn't live together, you didn't have sexual relations, so you
02:07were committed to each other, but you were not yet married in the sense of being fully
02:13man and wife. But it was a binding arrangement. During this time, Mary becomes pregnant.
02:22Joseph, bad news. What's he going to do about it? His instinct is to say she must have been unfaithful,
02:28so he's going to put her away and not make a big fuss about it, but actually be putting her away
02:33in a shameful way because of some sin which he had committed. And the angel of the Lord has to come
02:39in and tell him, no, don't do that, Joseph, because Mary is not a sinner. Mary is actually a very
02:44righteous person who has been called by the Lord to be the mother of the Messiah. She's going to bring
02:50forth the seed of the woman. She's the woman that she's prophesied in Genesis chapter 3. The seed of the
02:56woman will bruise the head of the serpent. She's the woman of Isaiah chapter 7. The virgin who'll be with
03:03child and bring forth the son. So don't, whatever you do, Joseph, put away Mary because you've got
03:09to be the father. You've got to look after the Mary. You've got to look after this child. And she's
03:14going to, when he comes into being, you're going to give him the name Yeshua, Jesus, which means
03:20something. It means salvation. And the reason you're going to give him that name is because he's going to
03:24save his people from their sins. That's the purpose for which he came into the world. And the whole
03:29ministry of Jesus is about seeking the lost, to save the lost, and to bring us into salvation,
03:36which if we become believers in Yeshua, that is what has happened to us. And so that's the
03:41background of the talk tonight. And I want to talk a bit about how Jesus actually came in fulfillment
03:46of prophecy, prophecies which no one else has fulfilled, which meant that the details of his
03:53life were written down centuries before he came. Why was this? Well, because God had a plan from this
04:00foundation of the world. Genesis chapter 3, sin came into the world because the first man and the
04:07first woman disobeyed God out of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And as a result
04:11of that, they placed the world under the dominion of the evil one, of Satan. And sin came into the world
04:17and the whole human race was tainted by that disease of sin. That's why Jesus had to come to
04:22save us from our sins. And God promised that there'd be a Messiah, a Redeemer who would come.
04:29Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, speaks about the seed of the woman who would bruise the head of the
04:34serpent, serpent being Satan, who would bruise the head of the serpent, but he would be bruised, his
04:39heel would be bruised in the process. He would suffer in the process as Yeshua suffered death on the
04:45cross, suffering for the sins of the world, but in that moment, defeating the power of the devil, so
04:50that we who become Christians who believe in Yeshua could be saved from our sins and saved to believe
04:56in the Messiah. Now, if you're a believer, then you've probably heard this story many times.
05:05There are some aspects to it, though, which I guess you haven't heard, which I'm going to tell you
05:08tonight, about how it connects to the Hebrew scriptures and how Jewish people have responded to it.
05:14Now, the standard Jewish response is to say that the prophecies, which we say are pointing to Jesus,
05:20are simply taken out of context. They're given a meaning which you Christians say applies to
05:26Jesus the Messiah, but really they don't mean anything of the sort. They have some other meaning.
05:31And you've kind of shoehorned into these prophecies your interpretation of who Jesus is,
05:36who is the Messiah. And therefore, everything which you say about Jesus is suspect.
05:43But I want to tell you tonight that actually the Jewish sources themselves do agree that the
05:49prophecies which we say are about the Messiah really are about the Messiah, which is kind of
05:54interesting. And also, it tells you that there was an expectation that the Messiah should have come
06:01in the way in which Jesus came, at the time when he came, and in the place where he came.
06:06So, let's have a look at some of the evidence for this. We'll look at the time, the manner,
06:12and the place of the Messiah, how it fits in with Bible prophecy, and how Jewish sources also back up
06:19the view that the Messiah was supposed to come, where he came from, when he came, and the way in which he came.
06:26So, the first one we'll look at is the place. Micah chapter 5, verse 2. It's actually verse 1 in the Jewish Bible.
06:37It says,
06:37Prophecy in the book of Micah concerning a place called Bethlehem.
06:53Bethlehem is about eight miles south of Jerusalem, and there are a few times. You used to be able to go
07:02there on the Arab bus from the Damascus Gate, but you can't do that now because there's a wall in
07:07between Bethlehem and the rest of Jerusalem. Times have changed. It's basically was, when I went there,
07:17it was an Arab Christian town. And I remember going to hand out tracks on the main square in Bethlehem.
07:23And this, when I finished up, this lovely woman came up to me and said,
07:28You believe Jesus? You born again? Yes. She said, You come to my house now.
07:34So, she took me around to her house, and I met her husband, who was a pastor of a small fellowship
07:39there in Bethlehem, who was preaching the gospel to the Arab Christians, and to the Muslims, well, I guess.
07:45Unfortunately, now the Christian presence in Bethlehem has been pretty much driven up by the Muslims
07:50coming in, and by all the troubles which have happened since the setting up of the Palestinian Authority,
07:55and the political problems which are in the region. But still, Bethlehem is the place where Yeshua was born.
08:02When Yeshua was there, it was a Jewish town. And it was the place where the Messiah was to be born.
08:11You find that Bethlehem appears several times, well, mainly three times, mainly, in the Old Testament,
08:17in Hebrew Scriptures. It's the place where Rachel gave birth to her second son, Benjamin.
08:24In the process of giving birth to Benjamin, she actually died.
08:28So, it's a place of sorrow and a place of birth.
08:32It's also the place where the story of Ruth is played out.
08:35It records the marriage of Boaz and Ruth as ancestors of David.
08:40A place where this Gentile woman was redeemed and brought into the house of Israel
08:43by the kinsman-redeemer called Boaz.
08:47And she then became an ancestress of King David, and therefore of the Messiah.
08:52Also, the place where their grandson, Jesse, lived, and had eight sons,
08:57the longest of whom was David, whom Samuel anointed as king in place of Saul.
09:04So, we put that together. It's a place which is associated with the high points of life,
09:07of death, birth, marriage, and also the place of the anointing of God, of Israel's greatest king.
09:15And according to the prophecy in Micah,
09:17it's the place where something special is going to happen at a future time in Bethlehem.
09:23You just read the verse.
09:26If you look at it in Hebrew, it has some interesting points to make.
09:30I won't read the whole thing in Hebrew, but in the last verse, it says,
09:33last part of it, it says,
09:35Umotzo ta'iv, mekedem, mi mei olam.
09:43One is going to come out of you, Bethlehem.
09:44It's going to come from mekedem.
09:48It means from the east, also means from the sunrise,
09:52and it means from the earliest times.
09:54So, it has an idea of somebody who comes out of Bethlehem,
09:56who comes from the earliest times, from of old.
10:00Kind of an unusual phrase to use about somebody being born there.
10:04The next phrase is even more significant.
10:06It says, mei mei olam.
10:09It means from ancient times or from the days of eternity.
10:12So, somebody's going to be born in Bethlehem.
10:15His origins actually come from the days of eternity.
10:19So, think about where you were born, and when you were born.
10:26Where did your origins come from?
10:29Actually came from something which happened nine months earlier.
10:31But your origins certainly didn't come from the days of eternity.
10:36So, this is, again, a little clue which is coming in here,
10:39which is telling you that this one who's going to be born in Bethlehem
10:41is more than just a normal human being.
10:46Somebody who has his origins from the days of eternity.
10:48In Psalm 90, verse 2, it says that God's existence is described as being
10:54mei olam ve'ad olam, from eternity to eternity.
10:59And the prophecy of Micah implies that the one who's going to be born in Bethlehem
11:02would have his origins in eternity.
11:06Now, since only God has his origins in eternity,
11:08this raises an interesting possibility, to say the least.
11:12What does the New Testament tell you about Yeshua?
11:15John chapter 1, it tells you,
11:17in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God.
11:20He was there in the beginning.
11:22All things were made by him.
11:23Without him, nothing was made that was made.
11:26So, the New Testament tells you that the one who's going to be born as the Messiah
11:30actually has his origins in eternity as God.
11:33The one through whom everything was made.
11:36If you look carefully at this verse in Micah, it actually implies that.
11:41Now, it's interesting that the rabbis did notice
11:43that there is something significant about this verse
11:45which connects it to the Messiah.
11:48Got a couple of quotes here.
11:49One from something called the Targum.
11:52The Targums are Jewish writings which are written
11:55mainly in about the first century onwards, after Jesus.
12:00And they're kind of paraphrases of the Old Testament.
12:04Paraphrases of scriptures giving some of the meaning
12:06as the writer thought it had.
12:10Interestingly, if you look at the Targum of Micah chapter 5,
12:12it says,
12:14So, did you notice the word Messiah in the quote which I gave you from Micah?
12:34No, it wasn't there.
12:37So, this Jewish writing, who's not believing in Jesus,
12:40he's saying that this prophecy is speaking about the Messiah
12:43coming forth out of Bethlehem.
12:45It's kind of interesting, isn't it?
12:48You have a Jewish writing here saying that the Messiah has to come out of Bethlehem.
12:52And his origins will be from of old, from the days of creation.
12:55You have a Jewish commentator called Rashi,
13:02one of the most important commentators on Judaism,
13:06in the commentators of the Bible.
13:09He says,
13:09So, here you have Jewish writing saying that the Messiah is going to come out of Bethlehem.
13:30The Messiah is going to come out of Bethlehem today.
13:35He's going to be an Arab.
13:37Probably a Muslim.
13:39So, that doesn't work.
13:41And Jewish people are looking for the Messiah to come.
13:44A future Messiah.
13:46But here are scriptures, not just scriptures, but also Jewish writing,
13:50saying the Messiah is going to come out of Bethlehem.
13:53Now, of course, there is one who we say did come out of Bethlehem.
13:58And in Matthew chapter 2, you can see that this was already an understanding at the time of Jesus.
14:03So, when he, Herod, had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together,
14:07he inquired of them where the Messiah, the Christ, was to be born.
14:11So, they said to him,
14:12So, when Jesus came and the wise men came and said they wanted to find the King of Israel and find the Messiah,
14:32and then they asked the religious leaders,
14:33where are you going to find the Messiah?
14:34They said, well, go to Bethlehem and you'll find him.
14:38So, there was already this understanding that the Messiah had to be born in Bethlehem.
14:43And, of course, Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
14:47Luke chapter 2 came to pass in those days that a degree went up from Caesar Augustus
14:52that all the world should be registered.
14:54This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.
14:58So, all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
15:03Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea to the city of David,
15:09which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
15:13to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.
15:17So, it was when they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered,
15:22and she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger,
15:27because there was no room for them in the inn.
15:29So, we all know Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
15:32It says so in Luke's Gospel.
15:36That in itself is kind of surprising, because they lived in Nazareth.
15:40So, surely they were going to stay in Nazareth and have the child born in Nazareth.
15:46And they would have done, except that Caesar Augustus arranged a census,
15:49and because they were of the house of David, they had to go down to Bethlehem to be registered there.
15:55I guess Caesar Augustus had no thought about Bible prophecy,
16:00but because everybody's under control of the Lord,
16:03he was actually used of God to get Joseph and Mary from Nazareth,
16:07where they would naturally be born, to Bethlehem, where the Messiah had to be born.
16:12Just think about that.
16:14These little details.
16:16And God's got it all planned, he's got it all worked out.
16:18It was pretty inconvenient, having to go from Nazareth to Bethlehem,
16:22but it was what the Romans had ordered and what they had to do.
16:25But it was also what God had arranged.
16:28So, God arranged for them to go from Nazareth to Bethlehem in order for Jesus to be born.
16:34And interestingly, when you come to John chapter 7,
16:36you find there was a bit of a dispute, actually, later on, about Jesus being the Messiah.
16:44John 7, verse 41, it says,
16:46Some said, Will the Messiah come out of Galilee?
16:49Has not the scripture said that the Messiah comes from the seed of David,
16:52and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
16:56So there was division among the people because of him.
17:00Now, that's an instance where they were discussing whether Jesus was the Messiah.
17:02They said, Well, Jesus is Jesus of Nazareth.
17:06The Messiah is supposed to come from Bethlehem.
17:08He should be Jesus of Bethlehem.
17:10And they said, He can't be the Messiah because the Messiah is supposed to be born in Bethlehem,
17:14and we all know He's come from Nazareth.
17:16Well, if they'd investigated a little bit more, they'd have found out that He was Jesus of Bethlehem,
17:21in the sense of being born in Bethlehem,
17:23even though He's known as Jesus of Nazareth,
17:25because that was where He was brought up, where He lived,
17:28and where He started His ministry.
17:30And so God tells you how God was overruling these events,
17:35through the Roman census, to bring Joseph and Mary down from Nazareth to Bethlehem,
17:40in order for Yeshua to be born in Bethlehem,
17:42in fulfilment of the prophecy of Micah.
17:44And Matthew tells us of the fulfilment of this prophecy, of the birth,
17:50also of the satanic attempt to kill Him at birth through the wicked Herod,
17:53and God's provision and deliverance as they went into Egypt,
17:57and fulfilled another prophecy where it says,
18:00I've called my Son out of Egypt.
18:02So you have God controlling all these things,
18:05getting the right people in the right place,
18:07and above all, making sure that His Son, the Messiah,
18:10was going to be born in the way that He said He would be,
18:12and also that He would be the one who'd come from eternity.
18:17John tells us that the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us,
18:20and we beheld His glory, the Word who came from eternity.
18:24The Word who was God, became flesh, became man, and dwelt amongst us.
18:28All fulfilled in this prophecy of Micah chapter 5.
18:33Tells you the Bible's true and that Jesus is the Messiah.
18:37Okay, let's look at the timing of the event.
18:42Another interesting word here from the Talmud.
18:45Talmud, Jewish writings, written after the time of Jesus,
18:50giving some understanding from the running point of view about the Bible
18:54and about how Jewish people should live.
18:58This is a quote from Sanhedrin 97, A to B.
19:01It says,
19:02The world will exist 6,000 years, 2,000 years of desolation,
19:062,000 years of the Torah, 2,000 years of the Messianic era.
19:11Okay, 2,000 years of desolation, 2,000 years of the Torah.
19:17If you take that from Moses, it doesn't work,
19:19but if you take it from Abraham, it does.
19:21It's about 2,000 years from Adam to Abraham, according to the Bible.
19:24It's about 2,000 years from Abraham to Jesus.
19:27And then you've got 2,000 years of the Messianic era.
19:32So the implication of that is we should be in the Messianic era.
19:35Does that make sense?
19:37It should have started 2,000 years ago.
19:40And this is a bit of a problem.
19:42There's a Jewish writer called Rashi,
19:43What he's saying is that the Messiah was supposed to come 2,000 years ago
20:01and bring an end to the subjugation of Israel.
20:06In other words, get rid of the Romans
20:07and all the oppressions of the Gentiles upon the people of Israel
20:10and bring in the time when the Messiah reigns
20:14and there's peace and justice on the earth.
20:15That was supposed to happen 2,000 years ago.
20:19But he says, because our iniquities were many,
20:21all this has been lost.
20:23In other words, this didn't happen because of our sins.
20:28That's an interesting question
20:30because the Messiah actually came because of our sins.
20:33We'll get on to that in a moment.
20:35Now, if you go to the book of Daniel, chapter 9,
20:38you have a word which tells you about the timing of the coming of the Messiah.
20:44According to the prophecy of Daniel, chapter 9,
20:46Messiah should have come before the destruction of the second temple,
20:49which happened in the year 70.
20:52It says, after 62 weeks, Messiah shall be cut off,
20:55but not for himself,
20:56and the people of the prince to come
20:58shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
21:01It does say the word anointed one,
21:03and some say it just means the high priest or someone anointed.
21:06But it's actually the only time in the Hebrew prophecies
21:09where you have the word Mashiach used.
21:12So it says Mashiach is going to come and be cut off.
21:14He's going to die.
21:15That implies being cut down,
21:17having some kind of a violent death, if you like.
21:20But not for himself, not for himself,
21:22but not for his own sins,
21:24but for the sins of others.
21:26Exactly what Isaiah tells you about the Messiah coming in chapter 53.
21:30Messiah is going to come and die
21:31and bear the sins of others.
21:33This is going to happen, according to Daniel,
21:36before the destruction of the second temple.
21:40So before the people of the prince come,
21:44the people who came were the Romans.
21:46The prince who is to come, I think, is the Antichrist,
21:49but that's another story.
21:49We won't get into that one at the moment.
21:51But a certain group of people are going to come
21:53and destroy the city and the sanctuary.
21:54That's one of the most established dates from this time.
21:5970 years after the birth of Jesus,
22:02roughly 40 years after his death and resurrection,
22:06the Romans came and destroyed the city of Jerusalem
22:08and the temple.
22:10Jesus prophesied it in Luke chapter 19 and chapter 21.
22:15Happened just as prophesied in the Bible.
22:18So, it's happened.
22:23Now, going back again to the Talmud,
22:25the next one, it says,
22:26according to the Talmud,
22:27Midrash Bereshit,
22:30page 243, the Warsaw edition,
22:33Messiah was to exit in 33 CE.
22:37I'm not totally sure about that date,
22:39but that's what it's given.
22:41So, it says the Messiah was going to come
22:51and he's going to depart
22:52at the time when Jesus came and departed.
22:59Can you see that's kind of significant?
23:01This is not Christian writings.
23:02These are Jewish writings,
23:03rabbinic writings.
23:05It causes a problem.
23:07And Maimonides is one of the great Jewish interpreters.
23:10As he said,
23:10concerning this,
23:11Daniel has made known to us
23:12the knowledge of the end times.
23:14However, since they are secret,
23:16the wise rabbis have barred the calculation
23:17of the days of Messiah's coming
23:19so that the untutored populace
23:21will not be led astray
23:22when they see that the end times
23:23have already become,
23:25but there is no sign of the Messiah.
23:28Can you just see the implication of that?
23:30What's he saying?
23:31The end times have come,
23:32the times of the Messiah have come,
23:34but there's no sign of the Messiah.
23:36So, rabbis, don't teach about this
23:38because you're going to upset your congregation
23:40they're going to be a bit confused
23:41because if they get hold of this idea,
23:42they're just going to say
23:43the Messiah should have come
23:44about 2,000 years ago.
23:47He should have died
23:48and been resurrected.
23:51They don't actually say that,
23:53but it should have happened
23:53roughly 40 years
23:55before the destruction of the temple
23:56and the Messiah should have come
23:58at the time when Jesus came.
23:59So, from that statement
24:03you can see that
24:04Maimonides believed that Daniel
24:06had knowledge of the time
24:07of the coming of the Messiah
24:08and that time had now passed.
24:11Because of this,
24:13don't teach about it
24:14because your congregation
24:15is going to be troubled by this fact
24:16that these events have happened
24:19and the Messiah did not appear.
24:22Obviously, I'm going to teach about it
24:23because I believe the Messiah
24:24did appear at exactly the right time
24:26and his name is Yeshua,
24:27which is the alternative belief
24:29that you should conclude
24:30that the Messiah did appear
24:31roughly in the time
24:35when he did come,
24:36exactly in the time
24:37when he did come,
24:382,000 years ago
24:40before the destruction
24:41of the temple,
24:43within the time frame
24:44of the time given
24:46in the prophecy of Daniel,
24:47chapter 9,
24:48which is somewhat complicated
24:49and I won't give you
24:50the whole details of it,
24:51but if you look at Daniel 9,
24:53it tells you that
24:54after 7 plus 62 times 7 years
24:58after the decree
24:59to rebuild the city of Jerusalem,
25:02the Messiah is going to come
25:02and be cut off
25:03and some have worked out
25:05exactly,
25:05if you take that
25:06from the decree of Artaxerxes
25:07in Nehemiah chapter 2
25:09to the crucifixion of Jesus,
25:10it works out
25:11even to the day
25:13that Jesus died
25:14at the right time
25:16according to the book of Daniel.
25:19So if that's the case
25:19when he died,
25:20therefore he had to be born
25:2233 years before this event
25:25described in the book of Daniel.
25:28So the Messiah had to be born
25:30at the time when Yeshua was born
25:32to reach full maturity
25:35and then to be the suffering servant
25:37to die at the time
25:39when Jesus did die.
25:41Now you have another scripture
25:42which is interesting as well
25:44which tells you that this had to happen
25:45at the time when Jesus came.
25:47Genesis chapter 49 verse 10.
25:51You know this is a messianic prophecy
25:53given by Jacob
25:55as he's praying over his sons
25:57and he has a special prophecy
25:59for his son Judah.
26:02Judah is his fourth son
26:03and he says something special
26:07is going to come out
26:08of the line of Judah.
26:09He says the scepter
26:10shall not depart from Judah
26:11nor a lawgiver
26:12from between his feet
26:13until Shiloh come
26:14and unto him
26:16shall the gathering
26:17of the people be.
26:18Genesis 49 verse 10.
26:22Now the scepter
26:22in this verse
26:23is the Hebrew word Shebet
26:25which is the tribal staff
26:27which belong to each tribe
26:28as an inside
26:29of their authority.
26:31Thus he's saying
26:32that the tribal authority
26:33of Judah
26:34would not pass away
26:35as happened to the other tribes
26:36until Shiloh
26:37or the Messiah comes.
26:41It is from this tribe
26:41of Judah
26:42that the line of kings
26:43who was descended
26:43from King David came
26:46and even after
26:47the Babylonian captivity
26:48after the Jews
26:49went into exile
26:50and came back again
26:50you still find
26:51that the tribe of Judah
26:52continued to be
26:54in a ruling position.
26:55A man called Zerubbabel
26:56was at the line of Judah
26:57one of the leaders
26:58of the returning
27:00Jewish community.
27:03Now this prophecy
27:03Jacob is saying
27:05that Judah's going
27:06to have rulership
27:06has happened
27:07through the line of kings
27:08through his servant
27:10from his descendant David.
27:11he also prophesied
27:13that through this line
27:14Shiloh would come.
27:17Now you've got
27:18Jewish writings
27:18which say that Shiloh
27:20is a term for the Messiah.
27:23This is from another
27:24collection of writings
27:25called the Yalkut
27:26rabbinic explanations
27:27of the Bible.
27:28It says until Shiloh come
27:30he is called by the name
27:31of Shiloh
27:32because all the nations
27:33are destined to bring
27:34gifts to Israel
27:35and to the King Messiah
27:36as it is written
27:37in that day
27:38shall the present
27:40be brought
27:40to the King
27:41Lord of hosts.
27:43So it connects
27:44this Shiloh
27:44with the Messiah.
27:46So it says
27:46the Messiah's got
27:47when
27:47this has something
27:49to do with
27:49the Messiah coming
27:50and something to do
27:52with the scepter
27:53departing from
27:54Judah.
27:57Now we're going
27:58to turn on
27:58to the
27:59Jewish historian
28:00man called
28:01Josephus
28:01who wrote
28:02about this time.
28:03Now in the early
28:05years of the Roman
28:06occupation of Judea
28:08the Jewish people
28:09still had
28:10some authority
28:11in their own land.
28:12They had their own king.
28:13Also the Sanhedrin
28:14was able to pass
28:16its own laws
28:16and to govern.
28:18Most importantly
28:19it had the ability
28:20to pass a law
28:21on the death sentence
28:23so it could decide
28:24on life and death.
28:26That was in the early
28:27years of the time
28:28of the Roman occupation.
28:30But according to
28:33Josephus
28:33in the span
28:34of a few years
28:34around 11 CE
28:36that's 11 AD
28:37Archelaus
28:39the king of the Jews
28:39was dethroned
28:40and banished.
28:42Caponius
28:42was appointed
28:43Roman co-curator
28:44and the kingdom
28:45of Judea
28:46the last remnant
28:46of the former nation
28:47of Israel
28:48was formally debased
28:49into a province
28:50of Syria.
28:52Josephus
28:53Antiquities
28:53chapter 13
28:54At that time
28:57the Sanhedrin
28:58lost its power
28:58of passing
28:59the death sentence.
29:01Look at John's gospel
29:02you find that's
29:03a significant event
29:04meant that the Sanhedrin
29:05couldn't pass
29:07the death sentence
29:08on Jesus
29:08they had to pass
29:09them over to the Romans
29:10to pass the death sentence.
29:14Writing from this time
29:15a man called
29:16Rabbi Rachman
29:16says
29:17when the members
29:17of the Sanhedrin
29:18found themselves
29:19deprived of their right
29:20of over life and death
29:21a general consternation
29:23took hold of them
29:24they covered their heads
29:25and their bodies
29:25with sackcloth
29:26exclaiming
29:27exclaiming
29:28woe to us
29:28the scepter
29:29has departed
29:30from Judah
29:30and the Messiah
29:31has not yet come.
29:34It's in the Talmud
29:35Sanhedrin
29:36chapter 4
29:37fold 30
29:39recto.
29:40Okay
29:40Messiah
29:41the scepter
29:43has departed
29:44from Judah
29:44and the Messiah
29:45has not come.
29:47That's right
29:48about 11 AD
29:49or 11 CE
29:50would have been
29:51about the time
29:52that Jesus
29:52appeared in the temple
29:53as a 12 year old boy
29:54according to Matthew
29:55Luke chapter 2
29:57the Messiah
29:58had come.
30:01For another half century
30:02the Jewish people
30:03retained the semblance
30:04of a provincial
30:04governance structure
30:06but in 70 AD
30:07all of that
30:08was destroyed
30:09when the Romans
30:10destroyed the temple
30:11and Jerusalem
30:12and
30:13dismantled
30:15the whole Jewish
30:15government
30:16of the area
30:16and the Jewish people
30:18went into exile.
30:20So the scepter
30:21had completely
30:22departed
30:22at that point.
30:24So if Jesus
30:24is the Messiah
30:25then the prophecy
30:26of Jacob
30:26way back in Genesis
30:27was fulfilled
30:28in a remarkable way.
30:31The Messiah
30:31came before Judah
30:32lost its national identity
30:33just as Jacob
30:34foretold.
30:36He completed
30:37his mission
30:3740 years before
30:38the destruction
30:38of the second temple
30:39even giving
30:41a prophetic warning
30:42of the coming event.
30:44For that to happen
30:45he had to come
30:45at the right time.
30:47At the beginning
30:48of the article
30:49we quoted
30:49Rashi
30:51who said
30:52the messianic age
30:53had not yet come
30:53because our
30:54iniquities
30:55were many.
30:57Shaul
30:57that's Paul
30:58tells us
30:58why he did come.
31:00He came to save us
31:01from our sins
31:01and make way
31:02for God
31:02to forgive us
31:03and give us
31:03eternal life.
31:05Romans chapter 5
31:06you see
31:08just at the right time
31:09when we were still
31:09powerless
31:10Messiah died
31:11for the ungodly.
31:13Very rarely
31:13will anyone
31:14die for a
31:14righteous purpose
31:15though for a
31:15good person
31:16someone might
31:16possibly dare
31:17to die.
31:18But God
31:19demonstrates
31:19his own love
31:20for us
31:20in that while
31:21we were still
31:22sinners
31:22Messiah died
31:23for us.
31:24Since we've
31:25now been
31:25justified
31:25by his blood
31:26how much
31:28more shall
31:28we be saved
31:29from God's
31:29wrath through him
31:30for if while
31:31we were
31:31God's enemies
31:32we were reconciled
31:33to him
31:33through the death
31:33of his son
31:34how much
31:35more
31:35having been
31:35reconciled
31:36shall we
31:37be saved
31:37through his
31:38life.
31:39Not only this
31:40but we also
31:40boast in God
31:41for our Lord
31:42Yeshua
31:42the Messiah
31:43through whom
31:44we now
31:45have received
31:46reconciliation.
31:48The Messiah
31:49came at the
31:49right time
31:50because of
31:50our sins.
31:53That's what
31:54he's saying
31:54here.
31:55And he paid
31:55the price
31:56of them.
31:57He came
31:57before the
31:57destruction
31:58of the temple
31:58to be cut
31:59off to die
31:59a violent
32:00death
32:00not for himself
32:01not for his
32:02own sins
32:02but for the
32:03sins of
32:03others.
32:05He's the
32:06Messiah
32:06who fulfilled
32:07the way
32:08that we
32:08have now
32:09received
32:09reconciliation
32:10at the
32:12right time.
32:15You all
32:16know
32:16Isaiah
32:1653
32:17Surely
32:18he has
32:18borne our
32:19griefs
32:19carried our
32:20sorrows
32:20yet we
32:20esteemed
32:21him
32:21stricken
32:21smitten
32:22by God
32:23but he
32:23was wounded
32:24for our
32:24transgressions
32:25he was bruised
32:25for our
32:26iniquities
32:26the chastisement
32:27of our
32:28peace
32:28was upon
32:28him
32:29by his
32:30stripes
32:30we are
32:30healed
32:30or we
32:31like sheep
32:32have gone
32:32astray
32:32we've
32:33turned
32:33everyone
32:33to his
32:33own
32:34way
32:34and the
32:35Lord
32:35has laid
32:35on him
32:36the
32:36iniquity
32:36of us
32:37all.
32:38Happened
32:39at the
32:39right
32:39time
32:40in the
32:41right
32:41place
32:41and in
32:42the right
32:43way.
32:44Let's look
32:45at our
32:45third point
32:46that
32:47that cut
32:47that cut
32:47the way
32:48in which
32:48the Messiah
32:49came
32:49by virgin
32:50birth.
32:52Isaiah
32:53chapter 7
32:54verse 14
32:54therefore the
32:55Lord himself
32:55will give you
32:56a sign
32:56behold the
32:57virgin shall
32:58conceive and
32:58bear a
32:59son and
33:00shall call
33:00his name
33:00Emmanuel.
33:04This is one
33:05of the most
33:06disputed verses
33:06from the
33:07rabbinic point
33:08of view.
33:08They say that
33:09the Christians
33:09have mistranslated
33:11this to put in
33:13the word virgin
33:13when it should
33:14be young
33:14woman because
33:16the word in
33:16Hebrew is
33:17Alma.
33:18Alma means
33:19a young
33:20woman.
33:20It's used
33:21seven times
33:21in the Hebrew
33:22scriptures but
33:24it means a
33:24very specific
33:25young woman.
33:25It means a
33:26young woman
33:26who is of
33:27marriageable age.
33:28In other
33:28words she's
33:29sexually mature.
33:29She's able to
33:30have a child
33:30to conceive
33:31a child but
33:32she's not yet
33:32married.
33:34Now in
33:35Jewish tradition
33:35at that time
33:36and indeed in
33:37Christian tradition
33:39up to now
33:39if you are a
33:41young woman
33:41you are unmarried
33:42you would be
33:45expected to be
33:45a virgin.
33:46Is that right?
33:48If not you
33:48would be a
33:49somewhat shameful
33:51woman and
33:52you'd have a
33:52different word
33:52which would be
33:53used of you.
33:54So the
33:55implication although
33:56the word doesn't
33:56specifically mean
33:57virgin the
33:58implication is that
33:59the young woman
33:59is going to be
34:00a virgin because
34:01she is going to
34:02be of marriageable
34:03age but not yet
34:04married therefore
34:05she's been an
34:06honourable woman
34:06and she will not
34:07be a sinner who
34:08has broken
34:09the Lord's
34:11commandments and
34:11had sexual
34:12relations outside
34:13of marriage.
34:14Furthermore it
34:15says that this
34:16is going to be
34:16a sign.
34:17God's going to
34:17give a sign and
34:19the word used
34:19in Hebrew is
34:20ot which only
34:21means a sign
34:22which is given
34:23by God.
34:24It doesn't
34:25mean a sort
34:26of street sign
34:27or something it
34:28means a miracle
34:28given by God.
34:30Now if the
34:31miracle is that
34:32a young woman
34:32of marriageable
34:33age who is
34:33not yet married
34:34becomes pregnant
34:35and has a son
34:36is God going to
34:38give a sign
34:38which involves
34:39some sexual
34:40immorality
34:40do you think
34:42he's going to
34:43do that?
34:44Certainly not.
34:46Also one has to
34:47say that if a
34:48young woman
34:49becomes pregnant
34:50and is going
34:53to bring forth
34:54a son is that
34:55an unusual event
34:56to take place
34:57in any generation.
34:59It happens
34:59millions of times
35:00in every generation.
35:02So this has to
35:02be a very special
35:03event.
35:04A special event
35:05which is a sign
35:05from God.
35:06Something which is
35:06unique which has
35:07only happened
35:07once in history
35:08and will never
35:09happen again.
35:11The virgin
35:12conception in
35:13which the Holy
35:13Spirit comes
35:14upon the
35:15woman who's
35:16going to bring
35:16forth the seed
35:17of the woman
35:17who is Miriam.
35:19The only Holy
35:20Spirit is going
35:20to overshadow
35:21her and implant
35:22the seed of
35:23the woman in
35:24her womb and
35:25therefore will
35:26be by virgin
35:27birth or virgin
35:29conception actually.
35:31If you go back
35:32to Isaiah chapter
35:337 in the context
35:34it's an interesting
35:35passage because
35:36in Isaiah 7
35:39he's giving a
35:40prophecy in the
35:42first part of the
35:42chapter to a
35:43king called Ahaz
35:44who is concerned
35:47because Ahaz is
35:48worried that there's
35:48a threat to his
35:49kingdom coming from
35:50the north.
35:52Remember by this
35:52time the Israel
35:55had been divided
35:55into Judea in the
35:57south and Israel
35:58the kingdom of
35:58Israel in the
35:59north and the
36:00king of Israel
36:01had teamed up with
36:02the king of Syria
36:03and they were
36:05coming against
36:05Ahaz the king
36:07of Judah in
36:08order to depose
36:09him and kick
36:10him out as the
36:11king and put
36:11their own king
36:12in his place
36:13a man called
36:14Tabael.
36:16We have to say
36:17that Ahaz was
36:17a legitimate king
36:18of the line of
36:19David but he was
36:20a bad king.
36:21In fact he was
36:21an unbeliever.
36:22He did all kinds
36:23of wrong things.
36:24In fact he's one
36:24of the worst of
36:25Judah's kings.
36:27But because he
36:28was a legitimate
36:28king God wasn't
36:29going to let him
36:30be put out because
36:31in fact he was
36:31going to have a
36:32good son.
36:32His son called
36:33Hezekiah was
36:34going to be one
36:34of Israel's
36:35greatest kings.
36:38But he's going
36:39to be a bad
36:40king so he
36:41is not going
36:43to fall.
36:44And Isaiah
36:44actually comes
36:45and tells him
36:45this prophecy.
36:47I won't read
36:47the whole thing
36:47but he tells
36:48him that you're
36:48not going to
36:49fall.
36:49God's going
36:49to frustrate
36:50this attack
36:51on you from
36:51these kings
36:52from the north.
36:54And God's
36:54even offering
36:55to give you
36:55a sign that
36:56this is going
36:56to happen.
36:59Now Ahaz is
37:00said not a
37:01very good man
37:02he's not a
37:03believer.
37:04We also know
37:05from the book
37:05of Kings that
37:06Ahaz was working
37:06out his own
37:07strategy to save
37:08himself from this
37:08attack from Syria
37:09and from Israel
37:10by making an
37:11alliance with
37:12Assyria which is
37:13to the north of
37:13Syria and get
37:14them on his
37:15side.
37:16So he's saying
37:16actually I don't
37:17want a sign from
37:17God because I've
37:18got my own plan
37:19and I'm going to
37:19work it out my
37:20way.
37:21Which wasn't
37:21going to work.
37:22So he says
37:24no he gets
37:25religious he
37:26says no I
37:27won't get the
37:29sign I won't
37:30tempt God and
37:32God gets
37:32irritated with
37:33this and he
37:33says here now
37:34oh house of
37:34David is it a
37:35small thing for
37:35you to weary
37:36men will you
37:37weary my God
37:38also.
37:39Otherwise God
37:39says your unbelief
37:40is really getting
37:41on my nerves if
37:42you like not that
37:43God has nerves but
37:43you know what I
37:44mean he's getting
37:45fed up with this
37:45and he's saying
37:46that you have
37:47to I'm going to
37:49pass you by and
37:51I'm going to
37:51give you a sign
37:52the sign I'm
37:54going to give you
37:54the sign which
37:55is not just to
37:56you it's to your
37:57whole house of
37:57David.
37:58If you look at
37:59the grammar of
38:00the passage in
38:00Isaiah you'll find
38:02that up until
38:02verse 13 when
38:04God speaks this
38:04word he's talking
38:05to Ahaz in the
38:06singular you this
38:08point on when he's
38:09talking to you
38:10plural talking to
38:11the whole house of
38:12David he's saying
38:13now to the whole
38:14house of David I'm
38:16tired of your
38:16unbelief I'm tired
38:17of your disobedience
38:18I'm going to give
38:18you the sign I'm
38:19going to come
38:20myself.
38:21And be the sign
38:22through my
38:24incarnation into
38:25the world in
38:26the person of
38:26Yeshua going to
38:28come through the
38:28virgin birth through
38:29Yeshua Jesus the
38:30Messiah and so
38:32the sign is now
38:33not just the
38:34child being born
38:35it's God actually
38:36being born through
38:37this child and
38:37becoming man to
38:39dwell amongst us
38:39and this of course
38:42will be fulfilled in
38:43the person of
38:43Yeshua Jesus the
38:44Messiah who'll be a
38:45descendant of
38:45David he'll be
38:47faithful to the
38:48Lord unlike Ahaz he'll
38:50be more than a
38:50fallible human
38:51king he will be
38:52Emmanuel God with
38:53us he'll come by a
38:55miracle a sign which
38:57will be the conception
38:57of the boy to the
38:59woman who is still a
39:00virgin.
39:02Isaiah 9 verse 7
39:03tells you a bit more
39:04about this for unto us a
39:06child is born unto us a
39:08son is given the
39:09government will be upon
39:09his shoulder his name
39:11will be called wonderful
39:12counselor mighty God
39:13everlasting father prince
39:15of peace of the increase
39:17of his government and
39:18peace there'll be no
39:18end upon the throne of
39:19David over his kingdom
39:21to order it and
39:22establish it with
39:23judgment and justice
39:24from that time forward
39:25even forever the
39:26zine of the Lord of
39:27hosts will perform this
39:29so it tells you that
39:31just after the Isaiah
39:357 and Isaiah 9 he
39:36tells you this child is
39:37going to be born a
39:39son's going to be given
39:40who will have the
39:41government upon his
39:42shoulder he will
39:44ultimately have some
39:45rule and he'll be
39:47given a name which
39:48is wonderful counselor
39:49mighty God everlasting
39:51father prince of peace
39:52all of those names have
39:54some aspect of God
39:55behind them even the
39:57wonderful counselor
39:58word for wonderful is
39:59actually the word
40:00Pele which is only used
40:01of the wonders of God
40:02El Gibor mighty God
40:06I only mean God he's
40:08going to be God with
40:10you everlasting father
40:13Avolam actually means
40:16can mean the father of
40:17everlastingness he's
40:19going to be the author
40:19of everlasting life so
40:22this one is going to be
40:23a child he's going to
40:23be born has all those
40:24characteristics which
40:25only come from God
40:26so you've got another
40:28aspect of the virgin
40:29birth that is going to
40:30be in order that God
40:30may become man and
40:31dwell amongst us and
40:34he's going to have rule
40:34in the end the increase
40:36of his government and
40:36peace there be no end
40:37and at some time he's
40:41going to sit upon the
40:42throne of David
40:42over his kingdom
40:43technically that has
40:46not yet happened it
40:47will happen at the
40:48second coming of Jesus
40:48when Jesus reigns on
40:50David's throne from
40:51Jerusalem in the time
40:52we call the millennial
40:53kingdom he is now
40:54ruling in heaven over
40:56the kingdom of God
40:57which we've been born
40:57into and he is
40:59already exercising
41:00authority over what
41:01takes place on this
41:02earth he will exercise
41:04full authority when he
41:05comes back at the
41:05second time but even
41:06now he has set up that
41:08kingdom and that
41:10government of which
41:11there will be no end
41:13the word for no end
41:16in Hebrew is
41:16Ein Sof
41:17Ein Sof is one of the
41:20names which is given
41:20to God in the Hebrew
41:21language means the one
41:23who has no end
41:23only God has no end
41:25every human kingdom
41:26has an end
41:27going to come to an
41:28end
41:28the reign of David
41:30the line of David came
41:31to an end
41:32human governments
41:34have come to an end
41:35even the present
41:37government here will
41:38come to an end
41:38mercifully
41:40but the kingdom of God
41:42will not come to an end
41:43it will never end
41:44and the only person
41:46who can bring in an
41:47eternal kingdom
41:47have an eternal house
41:50an eternal throne as
41:51the Messiah is supposed
41:52to have is an eternal
41:53person
41:54this prophecy tells you
41:56that the one who's
41:57going to be born as a
41:58child is going to come
41:59in a human form but
42:00he'll also be Emmanuel
42:01God with us
42:02he's going to be
42:05more than a human
42:08he's going to be son of
42:09God and son of man
42:10it's all there and these
42:13of course are not in the
42:14New Testament these are
42:14scriptures in the Hebrew
42:15scriptures in the Old
42:17Testament
42:17rabbis tell you that this
42:19prophecy of Isaiah 9 is
42:21about Hezekiah which really
42:22doesn't work because
42:23Hezekiah is long dead
42:24this one has to have a
42:26life which is going to
42:27go on and on
42:27okay let's move on
42:30in 1 Chronicles you have
42:33another prophecy which
42:34speaks about this
42:35fulfilled to David
42:38David had a man called
42:41Nathan who came to him
42:42a prophet who gave him
42:44this prophecy about the
42:45line of kings was going
42:46to come after him
42:47in 1 Chronicles 17 verse
42:5011 Nathan says to David
42:53it shall be when your
42:54days are fulfilled
42:55when you must go to be
42:57with your fathers
42:58in other words when you
42:59die
42:59that I will set up your
43:01king seed after you
43:02who will be one of your
43:03sons I will establish
43:04his kingdom
43:05he will build me a house
43:07I will establish his
43:08throne forever
43:091 Chronicles speaking
43:11about Solomon who's
43:12going to come after
43:13David and set up a
43:14line of kings who come
43:15after Solomon which
43:16will go on for about
43:17400 years after David
43:18but it won't go on
43:21forever but he is
43:23going to establish a
43:23line of kings coming
43:24after David but notice
43:25then you have the word
43:26forever
43:27then says I will be his
43:30father he shall be my
43:31son I will not take
43:32away my mercy from him
43:33as I took it from him
43:34who was before you I
43:36will establish him in
43:37my house and in my
43:38kingdom forever and his
43:39throne shall be
43:40established forever
43:41those words forever keep
43:44coming up speaking about
43:45somebody's going to be
43:46born as a son of the
43:48line of David and yet
43:49he's going to have an
43:50eternal house an
43:51eternal throne and an
43:52eternal kingdom humanly
43:55that's not possible
43:56every human king
43:58descended from David
43:59died every one of us
44:02is going to die the
44:03only one who can have
44:04an eternal house an
44:05eternal kingdom an
44:06eternal throne is an
44:06eternal person which is
44:09exactly what the angel
44:11Gabriel promises to
44:12Miriam when he comes to
44:13her in Luke chapter 1
44:14let's have a look in
44:17Luke chapter 1
44:18then the angel Gabriel
44:21said to her to Miriam
44:22do not be afraid Mary
44:24you have found favor with
44:25God behold you will
44:27conceive in your womb
44:28and bring forth a son
44:29and shall call his name
44:30Yeshua Jesus
44:31he'll be great and be
44:33called the son of the
44:34highest and the Lord
44:35God will give him the
44:36throne of his father
44:36David he'll reign over
44:38the house of Jacob
44:39forever of his kingdom
44:40there will be no end
44:41can you see that
44:43eternal house an
44:43eternal throne an
44:44eternal kingdom but
44:46you'll have no end and
44:48he's talking the angel
44:49is talking here about
44:50Yeshua is about to be
44:51conceived in the womb
44:52of Mary Messiah an
44:56eternal person who has
44:58an eternal house an
44:59eternal throne an
45:00eternal kingdom it has
45:03to be about Yeshua and
45:06it all fits together if
45:08you leave it out doesn't
45:11make much sense but if
45:12you put it into Yeshua
45:13it makes perfect sense
45:15and we know that all
45:19this points us to
45:21Yeshua Jesus who is to
45:23be conceived in the
45:24womb of Mary and was
45:26also going to be
45:26Emmanuel God with us
45:28John actually tells us
45:30in John chapter 1 that
45:32he is the one who is
45:34God in the beginning
45:35was the word God he
45:37was with God he was
45:39God all things were
45:40made by him without him
45:42nothing was made that
45:42was made and he then
45:44tells us he is the word
45:45made flesh he's the
45:46word who became flesh
45:47and we beheld his
45:48glory the glory as of
45:50the only begotten of
45:50the father so the one
45:52who was there in the
45:53beginning whose word
45:54spoke creation into
45:55being became man and
45:57brought amongst us and
45:59fulfilled the prophecies
46:00of the Messiah John also
46:03tells us that the world
46:03knew him not and the
46:07world didn't know him
46:07you had the Romans busy
46:10organizing their census
46:11so they could raise
46:12taxes from the people
46:13you had Herod alarmed at
46:15the news of the birth of
46:16the one who's going to be
46:17king of the Jews and
46:17plotting his death by
46:19terrible act of murder
46:21which he committed you
46:23have the religious leaders
46:24in Jerusalem who knew
46:25the prophecy that Messiah
46:26was to be born in
46:27Bethlehem but were
46:29clueless as to the fact
46:32that this event was
46:33actually happening right
46:34now and you have all
46:37sorts of people the
46:38innkeeper giving you the
46:39room in the lowest
46:40circumstances for the
46:42one to be born had come
46:43from the glories of
46:44heaven and today the
46:46world doesn't know him
46:47look at what they're
46:49doing at Christmas you've
46:51got parties you've got
46:52presents you've got a
46:53whole lot of stuff about
46:54Santa Claus nobody
46:57mentions Jesus watch the
46:59ads on the television
47:00nobody mentions anything
47:02about the reason for the
47:03season the world doesn't
47:05know him in fact they're
47:06embarrassed to mention
47:07Jesus because it causes
47:08offence yet even the
47:11world that didn't know
47:11him is actually subject to
47:13him and is unconsciously
47:15working out his purposes
47:16the Romans thought they
47:18were in control busting
47:19the Jews about getting
47:20their taxes from them
47:21but actually God was in
47:23control in order to get
47:24Joseph and Mary down from
47:25Nazareth to Bethlehem in
47:27order that the prophecy of
47:28Micah might be fulfilled
47:30and at the point of birth
47:32Jesus was little weak and
47:33helpless as we sing in one
47:35of the carols but in fact
47:37he was always in control
47:38and the people who thought
47:41they were in control were
47:41actually working out God's
47:43purposes and the great
47:45ones in the earth today
47:46think they're in control
47:47but one day every one of
47:49them will bow the knee
47:49before Yeshua when he
47:51comes back as king of
47:52kings and lord of lords
47:53then they'll know who's
47:54really in control and the
47:57government will be upon
47:58his shoulder and it'll be a
48:00lot better than it is now
48:02that's the biggest
48:03understatement I've made
48:04today
48:05but to those who do know
48:09him to those whom the
48:11Lord reveals himself he's
48:13the one who gives us life
48:14he's the one who was born
48:16so we can be born not of the
48:18flesh but of the spirit
48:19wise men came and they had
48:23some understanding of what
48:24it was about even though
48:25they didn't know the
48:26scriptures or they didn't
48:27know what was happening
48:29somehow God communicated
48:30to them that the Messiah
48:32was going to be born and
48:33in the gifts which they
48:34bought they bought some
48:36understanding of what he
48:36was going to do the gold
48:39the frankincense and the
48:40myrrh the gold which
48:41speaks of his kingship
48:42frankincense which speaks of
48:46his divinity and the myrrh
48:48which speaks of his
48:48suffering and his death
48:49and the shepherds who saw
48:52the glory the shekinah
48:53returning to Israel and
48:55heard the angels sing
48:55glory to God in the
48:56highest peace goodwill
48:58towards men
48:58they didn't understand all
49:02that was happening but
49:03they went to Bethlehem to
49:04see it for themselves to
49:05check it out
49:05that's really what people
49:07need to do today they
49:08need to hear the story and
49:09check it out find out if
49:10it's true
49:11so what our Jewish friends
49:12need to do don't believe
49:13what the rabbis tell you
49:14but check it out and find
49:16out what the Bible tells
49:17you and find out even
49:19that some of your
49:19rabbis have told you
49:20that the Messiah was
49:21supposed to come to
49:22Bethlehem and come at
49:23the time when Jesus came
49:25and come in the way that
49:26Jesus did come and believe
49:29that Jesus is actually the
49:31Messiah despite all the
49:33things which the church
49:33has done which are
49:34stumbling block both Jews
49:37and Gentiles in
49:39understanding this but the
49:41truth is in the scriptures
49:42in the Bible and Yeshua is
49:43the Messiah and above all
49:47Joseph and Mary themselves
49:48who are obedient to the
49:50Lord should be treated
49:52with great honour for what
49:53they did but certainly not
49:55worshipped certainly not
49:56Mary to be worshipped she
49:57was just the servant of the
49:59Lord who needed a saviour
50:02herself and who conceived
50:03the saviour in her womb
50:05and had the unique
50:06experience of bringing her
50:07into the world and who
50:09was in the human sense the
50:11mother of the Messiah but
50:12not the mother of God
50:13but she went on to have
50:15other children it tells you
50:16that in Matthew's gospel
50:17that Jesus had brothers and
50:20sisters but at the point
50:22when Jesus was born she was
50:23still the virgin but their
50:26lives would never be the
50:27same because they met with
50:28Jesus even Jesus as a tiny
50:30baby and our lives can be
50:33changed too as we come to
50:34the Messiah who was born in
50:36Bethlehem the house of bread
50:39that's what it means
50:40Bethlehem
50:41said I'm the bread of life
50:43who fulfilled the scriptures
50:45and who lives today through
50:49his death and resurrection
50:50and ascension to heaven and
50:52ever lives to make intercession
50:53for us
50:54and he's coming back soon to
50:56judge the world in
50:57righteousness according to
50:58how we respond to this
50:59message
50:59and if we believe in him
51:02then we are born again
51:03we receive new life
51:04we receive the salvation he's
51:06offering us
51:07through his death his
51:09resurrection and we're born
51:11again to eternal life
51:12through our faith in
51:13Yeshua
51:13the one who came to save us
51:15from our sins
51:15and it just as said that
51:19Bethlehem was a place of
51:20death
51:20and life
51:22place of marriage
51:24place of the anointing of
51:25the king
51:26so we die to our old life
51:28we're born again to new life
51:30and we are as it were
51:31married to Yeshua
51:32and he is anointed king
51:35the king of Israel
51:36the king of kings
51:37and lord of lords
51:38coming soon
51:40to be revealed to the world
51:41but being revealed now
51:43by the Holy Spirit
51:44to those who believe in him
51:45and all these things
51:47happen through
51:47the one who is
51:48David's greatest son
51:49the anointed king of Israel
51:51Yeshua
51:51Yeshua the Messiah
51:54who fulfilled the prophecies
51:56and who
51:57did exactly what
51:59the Bible says he was
52:00supposed to do
52:01in a unique way
52:02and no one else has done it
52:04no one else can do it
52:05it was all
52:06through Yeshua
52:07and he's the only one
52:08who can save us
52:09he's the way
52:10the truth of life
52:11the one way we can come
52:12to God
52:12through believing in him
52:14returning from our sins
52:16believing that he died for us
52:17and rose from the dead
52:18and that he ever lives
52:19to make intercession for us
52:21so a little meditation
52:24on the birth of Jesus
52:25pointing to the greater point
52:27that he is our saviour
52:29and our lord
52:30who came to redeem us
52:31a message we want to give out
52:33to the world around us
52:34and particularly to our Jewish friends
52:37to show that Yeshua
52:38is truly the Jewish Messiah
52:40he's the one who fulfilled
52:41the Hebrew scriptures
52:42he's the one who is
52:44to be accepted
52:46by the Jewish people
52:47and the Jewish people
52:48should be accepted
52:49as the ones who God loves
52:50and who chose
52:51through them
52:52to bring the Messiah
52:53not the shameful way
52:56in which so much of the church
52:57has treated the Jewish people
52:58because Yeshua
52:59is the Messiah
53:00he is the saviour
53:01he loves
53:03the peoples of the world
53:04particularly the people
53:05through whom he came
53:06the people of Israel
53:07and in these last days
53:09he wants to open the eyes
53:10of the people of Israel
53:11to the fact that Yeshua
53:13Jesus
53:14is the Messiah
53:15so believe in the Lord
53:16Yeshua the Messiah
53:17and you will be saved
53:19and have eternal life
53:20Amen
53:20Amen
53:22Let's just have a word of prayer
53:24and I'll hand back to Andy
53:25Lord we thank you
53:26that you did come
53:27in fulfilment of prophecy
53:28we thank you
53:29that these prophecies
53:29speak about the Messiah
53:31thank you
53:32it's all written there
53:33in the Hebrew scriptures
53:33even in some of the
53:35Talmudic writings
53:36they point to you
53:37as the Messiah
53:38and we pray
53:40that you'll open the eyes
53:41of your people
53:41particularly the Jewish people
53:43that they might recognise
53:44that Jesus
53:44Yeshua is the Messiah
53:46who died for us
53:47and rose from the dead
53:48and he wants to give life
53:49to all who believe in him
53:51and we thank you Lord
53:52for the life you've given us
53:53that's in your Son
53:55in Yeshua's name
53:56Amen
53:57Amen
53:57Amen
53:58Amen
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