of or relating to the Messiah, his awaited deliverance of the Jews, or the new age of peace expected to follow this of or relating to Jesus Christ or the salvation believed to have been brought by him of or relating to any popular leader promising deliverance or an ideal era of peace an...
Bringing true Christianity to the Jews who might actually suspect that Jesus Christ truly is our Messiah. Demonstrating that the deep understandings of the Lords' Witnesses reconcile known science with the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
The Hebrew word for awise personor asageischacham – חכם, which is also the root ofchochmah, meaningto be wise. Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef By the 3rd century AD,a disciple of a Jewish sage, which in Hebrew istalmid chacham, was a title of honor given to ...
This was the decision at the Jerusalem Council: the Gentiles (non-Jews) were not supposed to convert to Judaism, but to know their identity in God. And Paul says in a spiritual meaning (not physical) that there is neither Jew nor Gentile in Messiah. (Galatians 3:28) So, today, as bo...
Thus, the meaning of last part of Scholem’s conclusion is clear. The Jewish people of the modern age are situated in a world in which competing ideologies battle for dominance. The similarities between Jewish Messianism and other political ideologies make it hard to discern what is Jewish and...
Even his self-adopted name,Bar Kokhba, meaning “son of the star,” reflects the biblical imagery of kings as celestial bodies (Isaiah 14:12, 60:1-3) and hinted at the messianic prophecy of Numbers 24:17: A star shall come forth from Jacob, a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and ...
In connection with "messiah" we see that the messiah will be (1) a king of some sort, (2) a militant ruler, (3) he will restore control of Israel to the Jews, (4) he may have some priestly role, (5) he will restore righteousness to the land, and (6) he will probably be a...
Psalm 45[a] Nuptial Ode for the Messianic King 1For the director.[b]According to “Lilies.” Amaskilof the sons of Korah. A love song. 2[c]My heart[d]is moved by a noble theme as I sing my poem to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a skillful scribe. ...
As Jews reread this beautiful lyric text, they had a presentiment of the covenant that the future Messiah was to establish and extend to include the pagan peoples. The Christian tradition finds in it a prediction of the marriage of Christ and the Church (Mt 9:15; 22:9; Jn 3:29; 2 ...
The Hebrew word for joy in this psalm isrinah (רִנָּ֑ה), meaning a ringing cry of exclamation or praise. One day, our sacrificial One, Yeshua, will return like the sower did and reap the reward for His labor—He will gather us to Himself, much like a bridegroom com...