The Father told us from the beginning through His prophets about His son the Messiah Yahusha (Yeshua) that will come. Amos 3:7 For the Master Yahuah does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
Has Father Yahuah made the Messiah a mystery to us or is it us that are taught wrong about the Messiah’s mission.
Let us read what scripture tells us about the Messiah and why he was sent.
Hear what Father says to Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15-16 and 18-19.
I shall raise up a prophet to them from among their brothers, one like you (Moses); and I will put My Words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. And it shall be, whoever will not listen to My Words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it at his hand.
The apostles mention the same words given to Moses about this prophet in Acts 3:22-23.
“For Mosheh truly said to the fathers, ‘Yahuah your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear according to all matters, whatever He says to you.‘ And it shall be that every being who does not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
Who was this prophet?
Acts 3:20-21 And that He may send forth the One before proclaimed to you, Yahusha Messiah, whom Heaven truly needs to receive until the fullness of the times of all things, of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His holy prophets from old. Read Acts 3:22-23 above again to confirm the prophet mentioned to Moses in Deuteronomy 18:18.
Acts 3:26 Having raised up His child Yahusha, Elohim sent Him first to you, blessing you if you turn back and repent from your iniquities (sin).
What did the people and apostles say about the Messiah? Was he a prophet?
John 6:14 Then the men, having seen the sign that Yahusha did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is coming to the world.”
John 7:40 Then hearing the Word, many of the crowd said, this is truly the Prophet.
Matthew 21:10-11 And as He entered into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?” And the crowds said, “This is Yahusha, the prophet from Natsareth of Galilee.”
Father placed His Words on Yahusha lips to teach the people. These Words where the same Words Moses taught the people given through Yahuah.
John 7:16 Yahusha answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. John 14:24 “He who does not love Me does not guard My Words. And the Word which you hear is not Mine but of the Father Who sent Me.
The Words that Yahusha spoke where the commandments from Yahuah as written in John 12:49-50.
For I did not speak from Myself, but He who sent Me, the Father, He has given Me command, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandments are eternal life. Then what things I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.
Yahusha spoke about the commandments which are internal life as we read in Matthew 19:16-17 “if you will enter into (internal) life, guard the commandments”.
Moses also said the commandments is internal life - Deuteronomy 32:45-47, verse 47 “For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yardan to possess.”
Majority of people in Moses’ time did not believe what Moses said just like Yahusha says people will not believe him.
John 5:46-47 For if you were believing Moses, you would then believe Me; for that one wrote concerning Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My Words?
Disobedience was a problem in those days and still is a problem today, with many losing their lives.
Hebrews 3:17-18 And with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?
Hebrews 4:1-2 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who heard it.
Hebrews 3 and 4 speaks of the people that died in the wilderness because of sin (sin is lawlessness = commandments). They were disobedience to the commandments (Torah) of Yahuah. But Yahuah still keeps to His promise by giving us the opportunity to enter into this internal life. Through Yahusha’s offer we can receive His Word (commandments) and have internal life. Obedience is the evidence of faith and both are needed to enter Yahuah's kingdom – both go hand in hand.
Yahusha said he is the way, the truth and life.
What is the way?
Judges 2:17 However, they did not listen to their rulers either, but went whoring after other mighty ones, and bowed down to them.They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commands of Yahuah – they did not do so.
What is the truth?
Psalm 119:142 Your righteousness is righteousness forever, and Your commandments (Torah) is truth.
The commandments are the way and the truth.
What is life?
Deuteronomy 32:45-47 And when Mosheh ended speaking all these words to all Yisra’el, he said to them, “Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah. “For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yardan to possess.”
The commandments are the way, the truth and give life.
Yahusha did not teach against his father’s commands.
Matthew 5:17-18 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete. “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.
Those who do not follow the commandments of Yahuah, who are lawless will not find rest (Father’s kingdom).
Matthew 7:21-23 It will not be that just everyone who says to Me, Master, Master, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Master, Master, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power? And then I will declare to them, from everlasting, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!"
If we hear but don’t do, if we do not obey, it is all in vain.
What does Paul say in Romans 2:18 and know the desire of Elohim, and approve what is superior, being instructed out of the Torah.
Yahusha was not sent to be worshipped but to teach us the commandments of Yahuah.
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for the sake of many.
John 12:49-50 “Because I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. “And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.”
Matthew 19:17 And He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One –Elohim. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the commands.”
Proof that we love Yahuah is this: Whether we obey Yahusha as He commands us to keep the Father’s commands!
Yahusha did the will of his Father and spoke His words but many did not receive his testimony but rather listen to man’s testimony.
John 3:32-33 And what He has seen and heard, this He testifies, and no one receives His testimony. The one receiving His testimony has verified that Yahuah is true.
Yahusha’s testimony verifies that Yahuah is the truth.
What will happen to those who receives the testimony from Yahusha and then walk in the commands of Yahuah?
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commandments of Yahuah, and having the testimony of Yahusha Messiah.
These are those who will be prosecuted: having the testimony of Yahusha and keeping the commandments of Yahuah. It is not those following Judaism or the Christianity religion.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones – and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them –and the lives of those who had been beheaded because of the witness they bore to Yahusha and because of the Word of Elohim, and who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and did not receive his mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years.
Yahusha came for the sinners from the lost sheep of Yisra’el.
Mark 2:17 And hearing this, Yahusha said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”
Matthew 15:24 And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’el.”
We have been misled by man’s religion: Christianity teaches that the Messiah must be worshipped (he is God) and the commandments are done away with. Judaism on the other hand teaches various men are the messiah, Yisra’el is only from a certain group of people and man’s additions to commandments must be followed.
We need the testimony of Yahusha Messiah and to walk in the commandments of Yahuah.
Yahusha was sent in the flesh, not to be worshipped but to free us, to make atonement for us, to witness/teach us the commandments so we can repent/return back to Father Yahuah and His internal covenant through His Ruach (Hebrews 2).