Israel Wasn’t Expecting a Messiah like Jesus

“Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;” (Psalms‬ ‭144:5-7‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

David painted such a grand depiction of Yahweh coming down to rescue him.

This is the image Israel had of the Messiah—that when he appeared, he would come in great glory and majesty to save Israel from her enemies immediately.

However, Yahweh did come down, just not in the way that Israel expected.

Yahweh the Son laid aside His divine glory and took on the form of a man, being born as a baby on earth quietly like the bread of heaven (manna) falling gently upon the dew when everyone was still asleep.

His method of rescuing Israel wasn’t dramatic like fire, lightning and arrows. It was to shed His blood and die as the Lamb of God hanging upon a tree.

No wonder Israel has such a hard time believing that Jesus is their Messiah. He did not manifest in the way they were expecting for so many years.

They have such trouble reconciling the descriptions of the Messiah both as a suffering servant in Isaiah 53 and the Messiah as a conquering king in other parts of Old Testament scriptures.

Therefore, they concluded that there must be two different Messiahs. They call one Moshiach Ben Joseph (The Messiah who is Joseph’s son) and Moshiach Ben David (The Messiah who is David’s son).

This is not true of course—there is only one Messiah, who appears in the world at two separate times.

The first time Jesus appeared, He came to deal with the issue of sin by offering Himself as the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world.

In His “Second Coming” in the future, also called “the Day of Christ” and “the Day of Yahweh”, Jesus will fit David’s depiction of Yahweh as a mighty warrior. Jesus will return on the clouds to rescue Israel from the Antichrist and his wicked armies, just as Jerusalem is about to be conquered and destroyed.

The conquering King of kings will be dressed in royal robes dipped in blood, riding upon a white horse. The sword proceeding from His mouth will easily slay all His enemies, and their blood will run like rivers in Bozrah.

The battle at Armageddon will usher in a millennium of unprecedented peace and prosperity on earth.

We are so close to the time whereby the prophecies in the Book of Revelation will turn into historical facts.

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Jesus promised the repentant robber at the cross that he would be with Him in Paradise on the same day which they died:

“And he was saying, “Jesus, [please] remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” Jesus said to him, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”” (LUKE 23:42-43 AMP)

In Hebrew:
“And he was saying, Yehoshua, remember me when you come into your Malchut. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, I say to you, hayom (today) with me you will be in Gan Eden.” (Lukas 23:42-43 OJB)

Jesus literally told the robber that “today with me you will be in the Garden of Eden”!

“Paradise” (in Greek “paradeisos” which also means pleasure garden) cannot be in the highest part of heaven where God’s throne is because Jesus only ascended to the Father after His resurrection:

“Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” (John 20:16- 17 AMP)

So the place where Jesus (as a departed soul) and the repentant robber went after their deaths on that same day, is the Garden of God located in the third heaven.

This is doubly confirmed by what Paul wrote about the third heaven:

“I have da'as of a man in Moshiach arba esreh shanah (fourteen years) before, whether in or out of the basar I do not have da'as, Hashem knows--such a man was snatched up and raptured to the raki'a haShlishi of Shomayim. And I have da'as that such a man, whether in or out of the basar I do not have da'as, Hashem knows, That he was caught away into Gan-Eden and heard inexpressible dvarim which to utter such words Bnei Adam have no heter (permit).” (Kehilah in Corinth II 12:2-4 OJB)

The location of the Garden of God (Gan Eden) is in the third expanse of the heavens (raki'a haShlishi of Shomayim). The Garden could be just one of the places in the third expanse of the heavens.

As the Orthodox Jewish Bible version in Hebrew suggests, Paul was first snatched up to the third expanse of the heavens. Then he was caught away into the Garden of God which is in the third expanse of the heavens.

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