The End (Which Does Not End)

There is a saying, "Where there is life, there is hope." It seems obvious that once something has died, it's gone, as in over and done with, a done deal. There is only One who can revive the dead!John 5:24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."

The Lord has chosen to birth sons from among the dead. (Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.) That which was once dead has been born again. "Marvel not that I say to you that you must be born again."(John 3:7) "To as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become the sons of God."(John 1:12) "It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast."(Ephesians 2:8-10) This is one gift that is nonrefundable! "For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable."(Romans 11:29) How do we know if we have "passed from death unto life"?(1 John 3:14) We know because we love our brothers in Christ!

There is only One who can give life. The life He gives, nothing and no one can take away, and it is through faith that we relate to Him, by trust that we know Him and Who He Is and what He gives. What He gives us is eternal, imperishable, incorruptible, and powerful without fail. In trusting Him, He is securing, for us, the end of the story, now, while we yet breath.

There is only one thing that truly ends for us, and that is all endings, death itself. That which has been reborn, in Him, can no longer die. They arrive at their rest (which starts with belief!) to await the grand reunion and the wedding feast! This is actual life, and never death, where once was sorrow, but now is joy and rejoicing forever more!

The Real Messiah: It's Time!

Adonai has given us many great and precious promises. Not only does He provide for us and educate us in our obstinancy, He has also promised us a deliverer. What, exactly, is it that we must be delivered from? A common sense answer would be, from anyone that should rule over us but Adonai! That is the Jewish definition of the Messiah, but that is only a superficial and limited job description. If that were all there was to it, then Messiah would be no better than His father David. A normal human king would simply live out his lifespan and Israel would be left to her own devices once again. Israel, without Messiah, is the zombie nation of Ezekiel 37, dry bones without the breath of the Spirit to animate them.

Torah teaches us what righteousness looks like, but cannot impart it to us, for none can keep even the first two of the commandments! It is a genetic fault handed down from Adam. (Tehillim 51:5)Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)"Surely, I was brought forth in avon; and in chet did immi conceive me [i.e., I was a sinner from conception]."  (Yeshayah 59:2-4)Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) ^" But your avonot (iniquities) have separated you and Eloheichem, and your chattot (sins) have concealed His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled and polluted with dahm, and your fingers with avon (iniquity); your lips have spoken sheker, your leshon (tongue) hath muttered avlah (perverseness, wickedness, iniquity, lashon hora). None calleth [unto Hashem] b’tzedek (in righteousness), nor any pleadeth b’emunah (in faithfulness, in truth); they trust in tohu(nothingness) and speak shav (vanity); they conceive amal (trouble), and give birth to aven (wickedness)." Only those who turn from pride and sin can follow Messiah. (Yeshayah 66:2) Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) " For all those things hath Mine hand made, and so came they all into being, saith Hashem; but to this man will I look, even to him that is oni and of a contrite ruach, and trembleth at My Devar.

"Messiah is the Arm of the Lord, Himself, the righteousness of G-d Almighty!" (Yeshayah 59:15-17) Only Adonai's own righteousness can deliver! That is why David ben Jesse called his decendant both Son and Lord! (Tehillim 2) WHO is He? (Yeshayah 9:6) Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) " For unto us a yeled is born, unto us ben is given; and the misrah (dominion) shall be upon his shoulder; and Shmo shall be called Peleh (Wonderful), Yoetz (Counsellor), El Gibbor (Mighty G-d), Avi Ad (Possessor of Eternity), Sar Shalom (Prince of Peace)." (Michoh 5:2) Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) " But thou, Beit-lechem Ephratah, though thou be little among the Alphei Yehudah (Thousands of Yehudah), yet out of thee shall He [Moshiach] come forth unto Me [Hashem] that is to be Moshel Yisroel; whose goings forth (i.e. origins) have been mikedem, (from everlasting; see Chabakuk 1:12), mimei olam (from the days of eternity)." Proverbs 30:4 "Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His son’s name? Surely you know!"

The Holy One, in the form of a Son of man, could only be begotten by the Spirit, could only be born of a virgin. He is the seed of the woman of Genesis 3:15. (Yirmeyah 31:22) Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) "For Hashem barah chadashah (Hashem hath created a new thing) on ha’aretz; A nekevah (woman, female, i.e., Israel) shall encircle [seek out] a gever (man, male, i.e., G-d)." (Yeshayah 7:14)Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) "Therefore Hashem Himself shall give you an ot (sign); Hinei, HaAlmah (the unmarried young virgin) shall conceive, and bear Ben, and shall call Shmo Immanu El (G-d is with us)"

Why does He come? What is His mission? First, He came to die. He had to start from the bottom to reclaim what was His. He is the Firstborn of the Father, who did not withhold Him from the world (Exactly as Isaac was not withheld by Abraham, as a picture of what was to be.) He is the Passover Lamb, whose visible blood keeps judgement from being visited upon us. His is the blood price of our perfection. The woman's Seed was to suffer (Genesis 3:15 and Isaiah 53). The angel told Daniel "And after threescore and two heptads, yikaret (will be cut off) Moshiach [Yeshayah 53:8], but not for himself [Yeshayah 53:4-6,8];"(Daniel 9:26)

He came to conquer corruption and take back what was lost to the adversary, namely His inheritance. Death itself has been overwhelmed! He has come to bring about the ressurection from the dead! He comes to finish what He started! Israel shall truly live again,  in the Firstborn!