JESUS A JEW??

Back to Matthew's Gospel...

The prophet Malachi wrote: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me” but since then... heaven has been silent for over 400 years! 

Soon two young men will appear on the scene, Yochanan and his cousin Yeshua - that’s John the baptiser announcing Jesus, who will then call Mattityahu to follow Him. 

Here he is... Matthew collecting taxes in Capernaum for the hated Romans but he will obey Jesus instantly and later on record the life of his new Master in ‘the Gospel according to Matthew’.



Mattityahu

Apparently he used an Hebraic dialect of Aramaic, then the language of the Jews, so let’s put on our kippuh and try to read Matthew's account as a Jew would...



Aw, not another boring genealogy!?

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.” KJV

Ah... many a Jew has opened the B’rit Hadashah (NT) to be shocked and thrilled at finding the Christian’s Jesus is really a Jew!... Is He really the Messiah? (Christ)
Theologians have tried to ‘harmonise’ the 3 synoptic gospel accounts... but God’s Word gives a 4-fold presentation of Jesus Christ, beginning with: ‘the King of the Jews’.  
In fact ‘the Kingdom of Heaven’ is exclusive to Matthew – he uses it ~23 times.

Yup. Matthew lays it right on the line for us folks.
Jesus is The King they’ve been waiting for.    




Did you say ‘Son of David’??                                          
Let’s see if this Jesus really does qualify to be the new King of the Jews...NEXT
http://guvsdesk.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/who-do-you-think-you-are.html
 

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