Metatron — Jacob Prasch

Good evening dear friends, greetings in the name of the one who saved us, Jesus, Yeshua. Before we pray a few Martha's things, as I call them, before the Mary things always, we have a journal, a prayer newsletter, which is free, it's faith supported, we just rely on people to send contributions, it's also on internet, but if you don't have internet and you'd like to get it in printed form, you put your name and address on the list outside the door, we'll happily add you to the mail list.

Also, we support a work of Jewish believers, Russian Jewish immigrants in Jerusalem, and they have a very talented young singer who's been in South Africa, Lisa Strombrand, and we have some, Mark has some of her CDs available, it's beautiful Israeli worship music to Yeshua, to Jesus.

You know, I hear a lot of music, but this is authentic, you know, it's not making believe Israeli worship, this is a real thing, and you can sense the presence of the Lord in the music. My thanks, of course, to Pastor Arnott and to Anton for hosting me here in Peter Mattisburg and also people in the other visiting churches.

The Messiahship of Jesus and Witness to Jewish Friends

Our subject tonight is the Messiahship of Jesus, proof of it, now when I say proof, I mean a proof that will appeal to Jewish people, Gentile people who are Christians, at least who are sage Christians, who are already convinced of it.

I'm talking about the Jewish community, and we'll be videoing this thing and we will be making tapes. Some of you come from Durban and from outlying areas where there are Jewish communities, I would greatly exhort you to get a copy of this tape and to pass it on to your Jewish friends.

It's a way to witness to them concerning the Messiahship of Jesus. Let's go to the Lord in prayer, and as soon as John is ready, I'll pray, and I'll give a thumbs up, okay? We have a good ground check, we're okay, both Eloheinu Moshienu, anachnu modim lehavi shlokoh habrochod she 'anachnu kabal nemen ha 'ah, an ha 'adonai tistak et einan shlano lefisere sholzarecha, te 'en lano aba lo rakh lishmora, abo gam te 'en la 'asot mashay katuv bet varecha.

An ha 'adonai, te 'en elei she 'e lo maminin lehit tsherev ba 'ah, ar yodei yeshua ha 'adon, beshmor ha'mashiach yeshua anachnu mit fala 'i. Heavenly Father, we thank you for all of your greatness, your goodness, your blessings to us, your love.

We thank you for your Word and we ask you now that you would open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts to its glory and its meaning. Let us also, Father, not only be those who hear your Word, but who are doers of it also.

And we pray for those persons, both Jew and non-Jew, who do not know you, that they will draw close to you and to your way of salvation, ge 'ulah, through your provision, the Messiah of Israel, Jesus.

In his name we pray, pray, amen. Three basic reasons our Jewish friends, relatives, and neighbors, citizens, associates, clients, three basic reasons why they automatically tend to reject the Messiahship of Jesus.

Christian Antisemitism and Jewish Objections to Jesus

Much more than we can go into in one session. The first reason has to do with the very painful reality of Christian anti-Semitism. The persecution of Jews in the name of the Christian faith. Now, it's a strange thing that Jesus was a Jew, his family were Jewish, his disciples were Jews, the apostles were Jews, every writer of the New Testament was a Jew.

Christianity began as a Jewish faith and theologically is still a Jewish faith, yet a faith that is Jewish, that causes Gentile nations to believe in and worship the Jewish God, whose books are written by Jews, whose Messiah is a Jew, is associated with anti-Semitism.

If you would ask my wife's parents, who were in the Holocaust, what's the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they would tell you, our family was killed because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is Jewish children being put into an oven in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

That's the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's what they think. That's their excuse. The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, of course most of the anti-Semitism was done by what born-again Christians or evangelical Christians would consider to be false Christianity, nominal Christianity.

They were associated with the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. That's generally true. It's fair to say that during the Holocaust of the 1930s and 40s, long after the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades and the pogroms of Russia, that those countries of Europe that had a high evangelical Protestant population, where there were a lot of saved Christians, born-again Christians, countries like Denmark and Holland, people saved Jews.

While in the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox countries, people actually in France and Romania, places like this, tended to cooperate with the Nazis against the Jews. It's quite true. But it's still not that simple.

In Germany, in the 1930s, of the nine evangelical Lutheran bishops, seven said Jews cannot be Christians and supported the Third Reich. Martin Luther, in his treatise against the Jews, preached that every Jew should be forced into a corral and forced to confess Christ at the point of a knife.

We, the German nation, are to blame, for we do not murder these Jews to prove we are believers in Jesus Christ. That was Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, at least the primary founder, initial founder.

What do you say? What do you say to a Jewish person who has heard this? Now you have to remember that before any Christian persecuted a Jew, the Book of Acts tells us that Jewish Christians, Messianic Jews, were persecuted by Jews who rejected Jesus.

Jews began persecuting Jewish Christians, Messianic Jews. All Christianity was was a Messianic movement within Judaism before there were any Christian persecution of Jews. It was something which had an origin in the Jewish persecution of Jews who believed in Jesus.

But that's not the point. Several years ago, an Orthodox Jew put on a yarmulke, a kippah, on his head. He'd been in a conspiracy with several other Orthodox Jews and he attacked his own Prime Minister, Isaac Rabin.

And in the name of Moses and the Torah, in the name of Judaism and in the name of God, he murdered his own Prime Minister, guns him down in the streets of Tel Aviv. Can I blame Moses, Moshe Lebeinu, for what was done in his name?

Can I blame Moses for the assassination of Isaac Rabin? When I pick up the Tanakh, the Old Testament, Jewish people murdered their own prophets in the name of Moses. Can I blame Moses for the fact that King Manasseh brought Isaiah, Hanavi, Isaiah and Hashem?

Can I blame Moses for the martyrdom of Zechariah in the Temple? Or can I blame Moses for Jeremiah being thrown into prison and abandoned? Can I blame Moses for what was done in his name? I cannot blame Moses for what was done in his name.

Those people who did these terrible things in the name of Moses, they may have been culturally Jews, they may have been genetically Jews, but they certainly were not spiritually Jews in the sense God wanted them to be.

And so it is true with those Christians who persecuted and murdered the Jewish people. Or they may be culturally Christian, they may be in some abstract, generic or anthropological sense, some religious sense, Christian.

But they're not true believers. On the path leading up to Yad Vashem, a place I hate to go, when people come on study tours with us to Israel, I don't go into Yad Vashem. The reason I don't is because my children are Jewish, Israeli.

And I remember going to Dachau, the German concentration camp on the outskirts of Munich in Germany, Munich. And I saw the posters and the pictures of the medical experiments that the Nazis did on the Jewish children.

I can't face things like that. I watched that film, Schindler's List, and I saw that little boy hide, and I just saw my son, Eliyani. I don't go into Yad Vashem. I let people go in. I don't go in. I remember when I was newly saved, I watched the film, The Hiding Place, of Corley Tenboom, and I watched what the Nazis did to those true Christians who protected Jews.

How a whole family was murdered. You know, I thank God for people like King Christian of Denmark. When the Nazis invaded his country, the Gestapo decreed, you must wear a yellow scar if you are a Jew.

And King Christian, who really was a Christian, Christian intent to not wearing a yellow scar, and he said, Jesus Christ was a Jew. And every true Christian will identify with the Jewish people because our Lord was a Jew.

And all the Danish people began wearing yellow scars, and the Nazis didn't know who to arrest. You see, on the path leading up to Yad Vashem, you'll find trees on the street of the righteous Gentiles, to King Christian, and to Corley Tenboom and their families.

If you want to find the true Christians, that's where you'll find them. No true Christian can hate anybody, and certainly not the Lord's own people. You know, it was only a minority of Jews that did not rebel against Moses and the wilderness.

There was only 7 ,000 in the days of Eliyahu Hanazi, Elijah the prophet. Only 7 ,000 who did not worship Baal and turn against their own God. There's never been anything more than a faithful remnant of Jews, those who were true Jews, according to the Hebrew scriptures, and there's never been anything more since the early church than a remnant of Christians who were truly Christians.

Not every Jew is a Jew, not every Yid is a Yid, and every member of the Jewish community knows that. There's a mention, there's a mention. There's a glory, and there's a glory. I cannot blame Moses for what was done in his name.

And I cannot blame Jesus, Rabbi Yeshua Bar Yosef, when I said it, for what was done in his name. The question is, what did Moses say, and what did Jesus say? Not that what people do in their name. Second Jewish objection.

The Two Comings of Messiah and Daniel's Prophecy

If he was the Messiah, if Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, why did he not bring in worldwide peace? How come there's still wars, famine, pestilence, HIV, anti-Semitism, famine, social injustice, environmental destruction?

Why, if he was the Messiah, is there no messianic age? They believed the Messiah would bring in this age. But is that true? I'm reading from the prophet Daniel, Daniel Hanadith, Heraklesha, Daniel chapter 9.

It's better in Hebrew, but I'll just read from it in English. Verse 26, Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince of this to come will destroy the city of Jerusalem and the sanctuary, and its end will come with a flood even to the ends.

There will be wars and desolations are determined. Daniel says the Messiah would come and die before the second temple would be destroyed. Does that sound like worldwide peace? You see, in Judaism, we have one Messiah but two comings.

And the Talmud goes to the greatest of lengths to try to reconcile these two apparently contradictory and mutually exclusive pictures of the Messiah. The first we call HaMashiach ben David and the other is HaMashiach ben Yosef, the Messiah who is the son of David and the Messiah who is the son of Joseph.

Now son of in Hebraic thought means not so much biological sonship in its physical context but in the character of. The Messiah, the son of David, is like King David, a king who will set up his dominion, conquer the enemies of God, make peace with the Gentiles as David did with Hiram, and the Gentiles will come to worship the true God in Jerusalem.

What happens in the reign of David and Solomon is a figure, a pre-shadowing of what will happen in the millennia when there was peace between the Gentiles and David and the enemies of God were subjected and righteousness reigned.

Someone would bring in peace and restore the Davidic kingdom. That's the Messiah, son of David, HaMashiach ben David. But then the rabbis tell us there is HaMashiach ben Yosef, who is in the character of Joseph from the book of Reshith, Genesis.

Joseph in Hebrew Yahweh shall add. Joseph in Genesis, Reshith, he was betrayed by his Jewish brothers into the hands of Gentiles. God took that betrayal and He turned it around and made it a way for all Israel and all the world to be saved.

So Jesus, whose foster father's name was Joseph, the son of Joseph, he was betrayed by his Jewish brothers into the hands of Gentiles. And God took that betrayal and He turned it around and He made it a way for all of Israel and all the world to be saved.

Joseph was condemned with two criminals, and as Joseph prophesied, one lived and one died. Yeshua ben Yosef, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph, was condemned with two criminals, and as he prophesied, one lived and one died.

Joseph was betrayed in Genesis by his brother Yehudah, Judas for twenty pieces of silver. Jesus was betrayed after inflation by Yehudah, Judas for thirty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph croaked to prove he was out of the pit.

They brought Yeshua, Jesus shrouded, to prove He was not in a tomb. Joseph was falsely accused. Yeshua was falsely accused. Remember Haim Cohen, the Nazi of the Israeli Supreme Court, the Bet-Bin of Israel.

He did a research into the trial of Jesus from the point of view of Halakha, Jewish law, and of Roman law. And Israel's leading magistrate, leading judge, the president of the Supreme Court, the leading legate, he determined that the trial of Jesus was completely evil according to both Roman and Jewish law.

Jesus was innocent. Says the president of the Israeli Supreme Court, Haim Cohen. Joseph, upon exaltation, he went from a place of condemnation to a place of exaltation in a single day. And the Gentiles came to him.

So Jesus went from a place of condemnation to a place of exaltation in a single day. And the Gentiles came to him. Joseph took the Gentile bride. Insidious Jesus takes the Gentile bride. The church is called the Bride of Jesus in the New Testament.

The B 'it HaChadashah. There are many, many parallelisms right there. And the rabbis understand that Joseph teaches about Jesus. But remember Joseph's brothers didn't recognize him at the first coming.

They recognized him at the second and they wept bitterly. He looked like a goy. He looked like a Gentile to them. He spoke Egyptian, dressed like an Egyptian. They thought of him as an Egyptian. And so Jewish people today think of Jesus as a Gentile.

They didn't recognize him at the first coming, but at the second. And what we read in the book of Zechariah, chapter 12, verse 10. I will pour it on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

The spirit of grace and supplication, so they will look upon me who they have pierced. And mourn as one mourns for an only son. And weep bitterly over him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. Rashi, a major rabbi from France in the Middle Ages, said this is about the Messiah.

Sukkah 52H, the Talmudic literature, it's about the Messiah. Rabbi Moses of Shech in the Talmud tells us the Messiah will be pierced. And so we read many rabbinic opinions. The rabbi says this is about the Messiah.

He'd be crucified. They don't recognize Joseph at the first coming, but the second, and they weep bitterly. And so Jesus, the son of Joseph, is not recognized at the first coming, but the second, and they will weep bitterly.

He will save Israel in these last days. So the nations of the earth, even this day, even this moment, are turning against it. I know who will save Israel. No, it does not say he would bring in worldwide peace.

In his first coming, he's the son of Joseph. He comes and he's betrayed to the Goyim. He comes to be an atonement for sin, a korban. In his second coming, he establishes his kingdom. We read in Yakut, Volume 2, page 79b of the Nazir edition, and 32b also.

In the Drasht-le-Sheikh, on page 243 of the Warsaw edition, the Messiah was to exit in 33 AD, says the rabbi. So as we read in the Mishnah, the Sanhedrin wept. Oy b 'voy lanu, oy b 'voy lanu, for the temple is destroyed and the Messiah has not come.

The Mishnah tells us in Isaiah 118,. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow. On Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, a scarlet thread was hung before the Kodesh Kodeshim, the holy of holies, that was taken from the sash, tied between the horns of the Erez HaZer, the scapegoat.

If the people's sins were forgiven, the scarlet cord would turn white on the day of atonement, Yom Kippur. But if not, it would remain scarlet. And the Mishnah tells us that for 40 years before the temple was destroyed, in other words, from 30 CE until the temple was destroyed in 70, it never turned white.

The Mishnah tells us that from the time of Jesus onward, the sins of the Jewish people were never forgiven by the law. For the law would point to the Messiah. It is no wonder the Sanhedrin wept. And it is amazing what the Talmud tells us about this.

Woe on anyone who reads Daniel 9, there will be a curse. Why? For the time of the Messiah's coming is foretold within it. There was a rabbi named Rabbi Leopold Cohen who hated Christianity. In fact, because of the anti-Semitism he saw in Eastern Europe, he hated Christians.

But he read Daniel 9. And he read what the ancient Talmudic commentators and the Mishnah said about it. And he couldn't understand why there would be a curse on him reading it. Because the time of the Messiah's coming is foretold.

The Messiah would come and die before 70 AD? Well, Rabbi Leopold Cohen became the Reverend Leopold Cohen, a Baptist minister. Gave his life to Yeshua the Messiah and was the founder of Chosen People Ministries, then known as American Board of Mission to the Jews.

Jesus as God and the Jewish Objection to the Trinity

No, the Hebrew Scriptures do not teach the Messiah would bring in worldwide peace in his first coming but his return. But there is a third reason, a much more difficult reason. The Jewish people rejected Jesus.

You want to say he was a great rabbi? Okay, maybe we can accept he was a rabbi. Like Rabbi Akiva or like Rambam Maimonides or like Rashi. Maybe he was a great rabbi. Maybe he was a great Navi. Maybe he was a great prophet.

Like Isaiah or Jeremiah or Eliyahu or Hosea. Maybe he was one of our prophets. Maybe even that. But you want us to believe that he is God and the Son of God? Hero Israel, the Lord our God is one. We have one God, not three.

What most Jews don't know is that in the Middle Ages Maimonides, the Rambam, changed the meaning of Ahad. The number one, the digit in Hebrew is Yahid. Ahad is unity, plural oneness. As in Adam and Eve becoming one flesh.

As in Psalm 133. How good and pleasant it is when brothers grow together in oneness. We have no Hebrew word for heaven, only heavens. Shamayim. We have no Hebrew word for water, only waters. Mayim. And there is no Hebrew word for God, only God.

Elohim. Hero Israel, the Lord our God is a one God. Many times, the pagans, the rabbis have said, this one is the Messiah, that one is the Messiah. Rabbi Yeshua Bar Yosef said it, the Lord Jesus said, if another comes in my name, him you will believe.

This ultimately points to a great deceiver who is coming to Israel. Called Sodom and Gomorrah, the Antichrist. But there have been many of these people. The first one was Shimon Bar Kokhba. Shimon Bar Kokhba, son of the Tsar.

Who the rabbis also called Bar Akiva, son of Eli. The great rabbi, Rabbi Akiva said Bar Kokhba was the Messiah. The people believed him and followed Bar Kokhba. And the Mithraic Jews, the Jewish Christians who fought with the Romans as Jews fought against the Romans.

As Jews opposed the Romans. Could no longer follow, could not any longer follow Bar Kokhba because he claimed to be the Messiah. So Rabbi Akiva excommunicated the Jewish believers. Put them out of the synagogue and they have been out ever since.

Before that there was already the B 'Kathar Manim, the curse upon them. So Rabbi Akiva was not the Messiah's true prophet. And Bar Kokhba was not the Messiah. The Jewish people were destroyed and given out of the land for nearly 2 ,000 years.

Did not return until 1948. Rabbi Akiva appointed them to a false Messiah. Responsible for a galut, a diaspora that lasted nearly two millennia. In the Middle Ages there was someone called Shabbat Hai Shvi.

And the rabbis from the north of Europe to the east of Europe down into Africa and to the Middle East said he is the Messiah. They all believed in Shabbat Hai Shvi, the great messianic redemption had come.

And Jews were taken up in jubilation. Some of them did the most preposterous things, even immoral things. He had some ideas that were quite strange. Perversions of truth. You see he said to know the depth of redemption we must know the depth of sin.

And Jewish people actually began to have public sex orgy so they know the depth of sin. So they could know the depth of redemption because rabbis told them. It happened. Now was that perverse of truth?

The scriptures tell us the true Messiah, he who knew no sin became sin. It is the truth. But not the way Shabbat Hai Shvi said. To say Pesach had to be a lamb without blemish because to God one man without sin is worth more than all the men with sin.

The very day when the Sanhedrin inspected the lambs for slaughter for Pesach. When they put the Lamb of God on trial. Finding no sin in him he was slaughtered. The problem is there was no man without sin.

David said in sin did my mother concede me. So God himself had to make a provision. To be the Korban, the sacrifice to bring Geula redemption. In the end Shabbat Hai Shvi became a Muslim. A few generations later it was Jacob Frank.

And the rabbis said Jacob Frank was the reincarnation of Shabbat Hai Shvi. And Jacob Frank was the Messiah. A similar stream of outrageous things took place and Jacob Frank in the end became a Roman Catholic.

There was a solid reaction against this messianic expectation and Judaism became the religion of the Cheder, the yeshiva. That only wealthy Jews who had the money could send their sons to study full time to be yeshiva bookers.

The ordinary poor Jews of the Cheder were disenfranchised, cut off from the learning of Judaism. It became a very study oriented religion. Against this came the Hasidic movement. Someone named Baal Shem Tov, the Beshk.

And his father was like Rabbi Isaac Loria. He began doing what a new age would call astral projection. He studied Kabbalah, mystical Judaism and began ascending into heaven, he said. And he saw the Messiah.

And he asked the Messiah, when will you come? And the Mashiach said, I will come when all, meaning all Jews, can do what you do. Astral projection. Hasidic Judaism teaches that God has somehow lost his identity.

The theological term is called kenosis. And God has no essence. He is the I am self. Only has attributes or emanations. There are nine of them. This is pure Gnosticism. It does not come from Torah. But this is what the Hasidim believe.

And they must capture the zumzums, the holy sparks. When you see Hasidic Jews twirling their ear curls, they're trying to capture the zumzum so God can regain his identity. The mainstream orthodox rebelled against this and said, Bob Kupfer was crazy.

I'm sorry that the Besh was crazy. When Rambam, my man of youth, around the year 1000, tried to or actually did rewrite Judaism as an Aristotelian philosophy, the other rabbis condemned him. And he had ideas of the Messiah that said there'd be no miracles, there'd be no miraculous, there'd be logical explanations for all of this.

The other rabbis rebelled against this. She denied the miraculous substance of the Torah. They've been so wrong and so contradictory against each other. We read in the Talmud, Rabbi Yosef said there'd be no Messiah, for the Messiah has come in the days of King Hezekiah.

His grandson, Rabbi Hillel, says, my God, forgive my grandfather. And even now, several years ago, Rabbi Benachem Sheerson, before he died, said the Messiah would come in Yom Kippur of 1991. Then he died, didn't come.

So what did the Hasidim do? They put up posters of him in Jerusalem and in Antwerp and in New York, Melech Mashiach, he's the Messiah. I asked them in Tel Aviv, Athwart, will you put on for Sinan, the Lubavitch, the Chabad movement?

What are you going to do now? You see, there are different Hasidic sects, and they argue and fight over whose rabbi or tzaddik has the spirit of the bashk of Baal Shem Tov, form of reincarnation. You have Lubavitch and you have Babob and you have Shatmada, Mitzrai Korda and Vizhnitz.

They believe there's two ways to God. The rabbi or the tzaddik, who has the nasos, goes to God through Torah, and you go through him. The question, which is, who has the real rabbi? So I said, what are you going to do?

Because it's reincarnation. It goes from father to son in a dynasty. And if there's no son, it goes to the son-in-law. The rabbi Schneer said, have neither a son nor a son-in-law. So I said to them, what are you going to do?

We have no rabbi, no tzaddik. And they said to me, in Hebrew, hu yakum muhammadin. I said, what? Hu yakum muhammadin. I have a post of him, King Messiah. I said, hu yakum muhammadin? Yeah, he's going to raise from the dead.

I said, let me get this straight. You believe that the Jewish Messiah would come and die and then raise from the dead? They said, yes. I said, that's all I wanted to know. At least we agree on something.

Kabbalah, Metatron, and the Preexistent Messiah

These are not Christian concepts. Rabbi Schneer said, he's not raised from the dead. Torah is mystical Judaism. It means received. The primary work is the Zohar. Much of it is a cult. It's numerology, it's Gnosticism, it's reincarnation.

Mixed with biblical truth. My only purpose in looking at it is to show that the idea of the Trinity, the belief of God becoming a man, the things that Jewish people have the most problem with, these are not Gentile inventions.

These are not Christian inventions. These come from Judaism. The only thing biblical Christianity was and is in its original form was the fulfillment of Torah, misunderstanding. There's one the rabbis call in the Kabbalah, Metatron, Metatron.

Greek term meaning, he who dwells at the center of the throne. He's known in Hebrew as Hamalach Adonai. Definite article, the angel of the Lord. Sometimes the definite possessive article. In Genesis chapter 32, Yaakov wrestles with the Metatron, the angel of the Lord.

And he says, I see the face of God. Genesis asks his name. And the Metatron says to him, Why do you ask my name, for it is Peli. Translated wonderful. But the term Peli, in biblical Hebrew, is never used as wonderful as the colloquialism.

It is only used as wondrous nature of God. It's never used about anyone other than Hashem, God. My name is Peli. Yeshayahu Hanavi, Isaiah the prophet tells us, that the house of child is born, a son will be given.

The government will be on his shoulder. And his name will be Peli Yohesh, wonderful counselor. Avi Ad, eternal father. El Gabor, God Almighty. And Sar Shalom, the prince of peace. It would be blasphemy for any Jew to say somebody would be born, who would be Peli Yohesh and El Gabor, God Almighty.

The wonderful God in the flesh. But then a God who would come in human form and take our sins. Well you know, even to this day, we have the Qumran literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Melchizedek Scrolls, Q13.

No Jewish scholar can any longer doubt or question that the concept of a suffering Messiah was known in Judaism. And you can certainly not rule it out that there was not some expectation of it. Isaiah 53, Yeshayahu Nun Gemel, tells us he was fierce to our transgressions, he was crushed by our iniquity.

The chastening of our well-being fell upon him. By his stripes we are healed. Kulanu kan santayenu. All we like sheep have gone astray. Each turned to his own way. But the Lord has let the iniquity of us all fall on him.

It is not only Christians who say that's about the Messiah. In Sanhedrin 97, Debt in the Talmud, says from Isaiah 52, 14 onward, as does Yaqub, Volume 2, page 53c. And Shemot, R15 -18. As the Sanhedrin 98, Debt.

As the Midrash on Shmuel, the Lundberg edition, page 45a. As does the Talgum on the Kingdom and the Talgum Yonatan. All say this is about the Messiah. Who says it's about the Messiah who would suffer?

Christians? No. Rabbis. The Sages of Israel. It was not until Rashi in the 10th century that anyone said anything different. As Rabbi Abraham Farisel admits, this has an incredible parallel to Yeshua of Nazareth.

The Mechatron. The one who wrestled with Jacob, whose name is wonderful and Jacob sees the face of God. Who shut the lion's mouth with Daniel. His angel. Definite, possessive article. The Rabbis say it is the Mechatron who was with Daniel in that time.

The idea of an infestation of spiritual beings is not new. The Nephilim took human form. We're told in the Apocrypha that they came down on Har-Hermon, Mount Hermon. Commenting on what it says in Genesis, Chapter 6.

Jacob wrestled with an angelic being in a human form. God can do anything. And spiritual beings can take fleshly form. But let's look at this idea. Is telling me Jesus was God who became a man? That he's God's son?

That he came in human form? And that there's three in one? What does the Zohar tell us? What does Kabbalah tell us? What do the Rabbis say? Not the Goyim. Not the Christians. What does Judaism teach? Can we be pleased to...

Malachi 3. Behold, I'm going to send my messenger, and he will clear the way before me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Christians say the messenger is the harbinger. Eliyahu Hanavi arrives to come in the person of Yohanan Hamadvi, of John the Baptist.

Tabrashi says that the God is the God of justice. While some say it's Elijah, Rabbi David Kinchi says it is the Messiah. Now Kinchi is a very major rabbi, a major page in Judaism. It's the Messiah who will come and enter the temple.

That temple's been destroyed. Whoever the Messiah was had to come already to understand this.

The Rabbis tell us that the metatron is the Dvar, the Dvar. Dvar in Greek is Logos, Aramaic Mamre. The opening words of the Brita Hadashah and Arkei Kaiho Logos in Greek in the beginning was the word Breshit.

Aya, Dvar. In the beginning was the word. The Rabbis tell us the Dvar is more than a personification. That the Dvar is an incarnation who is the redemptive agent of God and the creative agent of God and the messenger of God.

For he is a metatron.

He is called the Melek Habrit. For the metatron is the Melek Habrit, the king of the covenant. I'm reading now from the Zohar, page 227 of the Amsterdam edition, Zohar volume 3. I always prayed that God would lead me, said Rabbi Simeon Ben-Yohai.

For I heard that God only hears our prayers for the sake of the metatron. For apart from the metatron, God will not hear the prayer of any Jew. No one comes to Hashem, to God. Their words fall unless they come through the metatron.

No way to God but the metatron. Your prayers will not be heard unless they go through him. For the metatron would bring to earth peace as he did in heaven. For the metatron is the middle pillar of the Godhead.

The metatron is the middle pillar of the Godhead. He is God himself. Prayer is answered in his name. He would bring peace to earth as he did in heaven. For he is the third pillar. And as we read, for I did not know who this was until the Zohar told me the mystery.

The middle pillar of the Godhead?

There is one God with three pillars and the middle one is the metatron. You have to understand something. It is only sloth house rabbis who dismiss the Jewishness of belief in Jesus as a goyser invention.

The ancient sages, the Talmudic writers never said that. In the Avodah Zerah it says, Yeshua, Jesus, did miracles as no other rabbi. Miracles that no other rabbi could do. That he healed the sick. That he even raised the dead.

And his tiny being, his disciple, did miracles in his name. And that when he was crucified on Pesach, he rose from the dead and he ascended into heaven from Har Vayetim, the Mount of Olives. Who wrote that?

That is not from the Gospel. That is not from Deuteronomy, the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. His real name was Matityahu. It is not from Deuteronomy, the Gospel of John. It is from the Avodah Zerah.

It is one thing when rabbis like Rabbi Shaul of Parsis, Paul, and the followers of Jesus say he did these things. Like heal the sick and raise from the dead and ascend to heaven. But when his opponents, when the rabbinic leadership confirms and admits he did it, there is a problem.

Even if you read secular Jewish history, like Max Simons, God, the Jews, and History, a popular book today that Jewish people read. He admits perhaps the population of Jerusalem by the year 120, at the time of Bar Kokhba's rebellion, perhaps 25 of those Jews believed he was the Messiah.

The only reason Gentiles believe in him is because Jews believed it first. The only reason there is a New Testament is because Jews wrote it. As Isaiah said, the nation, the Goyim, will resort to the Shoresh Eshai, the root of Jesse.

Why do Chinese people worship a Jewish God? Why do Brazilians worship a Jewish God? Why do people in Europe and America and Africa worship a Jewish God? Because of the Messiah.

But who is he? Let us read even further.