What is this story, that "Jesus" was a Jew!

What is this story, that "Jesus" was a Jew!

Introduction


As surprising as it may seem, many Christians are not aware that Y‟shua is a Jew. As a matter of fact, when some hear it said that He is they get angry, and even mad. This has happened many times.


"How can you say Y’shua was a Jew? Everybody knows he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and is therefore God and not a Jew. He just happened to live among the Jews".






Many Christians bellow out:


"What is all this stuff about Jesus being a Jew? He wasn't a Jew; he was the first Christian and the founder of the Christian Church".

It is most unfortunate that this type of thinking is common in Christian circles today. Actually, it is an expression of a subtle, often subconscious, attitude on the part of many Christians that is quite serious and most dangerous. We might even go so far as to define it as "hellish". It is a hellish, ingrained anti-Semitism1 that expresses itself in an unwillingness to accept Y‟shua as a Jew.


1 Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. Social scientists consider it a form of racism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism


The perverted logic is, "How could anyone so dear and precious to me, someone I love so much and to whom I have surrendered my life, be a Jew?"





It is believed that this kind of thinking expresses the conviction of many Christians today. It is usually buried deep within the subconscious mind (or repressed) and only manifests itself overtly when one's spiritual guard is down. It is the result of the spiritual ship of the Word of YHWH being torn loose from the jetty of the historical foundations of biblical faith that were secured firmly in the foundations of historic Judaism. As a result, the spiritual ship has for centuries, been awash in a sea of pagan theology that has led to the gentilisation; i.e., paganisation of the Church.


The Church has forgotten that they are the Wild Olive Branches that need to be grafted into the Natural Olive Tree. They have completely forgotten from whence it is that the branch receives the nourishing sap.


Journey with me as we study the Scriptures, which will thoroughly convince us that our Messiah Y‟shua was indeed a Jew… 5








What the church has forgotten


The church has forgotten that they no longer have pagan ancestors – but that their ancestors are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel; and that they, too, passed through the Sea with Moshe2. They have lost their kinship to things Jewish; and if you will, to a Jewish Y‟shua.


2 Hebrew for Moses, 1 Cor 10:1


3 Hebrew for Mary


4 The name of God used nearly 7,000 times in the Bible. The name is accepted by leading scholars to be pronounced as YaHuWaH.





5 Luke 1:32


6 Jer 23:5


7 Isaiah 11:1


The church has failed to recognise for the last 2,000 years that the movement to which Y‟shua gave birth was a Jewish one, totally within the historic Judaism of His day. In fact, He came to be the true Rabbi of Judaism and not to start a new religion called "Christianity" with all its pagan traditions and false theologies.


Let us analyse the logic of the argument that Y‟shua was not a Jew. The fact that multitudes of Christians believe this is astonishing. Even the skeptics and the agnostics throughout the ages never advanced this argument…





Y’shua’s Genealogy was Jewish


His lineage is traced back to David and the patriarchs in typical Jewish fashion in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The angel Gabriel announced to Miriam3 that the child, Y‟shua, would be conceived by the Holy Spirit within her womb and would be given "the throne of His father David":


He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the YHWH4 God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:5





David was a Jew from the Tribe of Judah; and if David is Y‟shua‟s father as the Scriptures say, then Y‟shua was also from the Tribe of Judah.


Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.6


And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse (David‟s father), and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:7