Some Sayings of Jesus I am the Messiah I am the Bread of life My God My God why has thou forsaken me Follow ME The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath I and the Father are ONE Love your enemies
Sayings of Jesus Not an eye for an eye, turn the other cheek The last shall be first This is my body, which is given for you He who is without sin cast the first stone I am the good shepherd I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life Those who Love me will keep my Word
JESUS THE CHRIST? ONCE AND ONLY ONCE When (4 BCE?—27 CE?) Where (Palestine) Who (Mary & Joseph) WHOM ( THE JEWISH PEOPLE)
Jesus is JEWISH!!! His HISTORY & ROOTS Christians FORGET this!!! If, you don’t know Judaism then you don’t Know Jesus! They you don’t know Christianity! NO JUDAISM = NO JESUS = NO CHRISTIANITY
No Judaism=No Jesus=No CHRISTianity
Jesus and his Jewishness ALL INTER-CONNECTED Physical Jesus: Circumcision; Food he ate; the travels; Carpentry and trades; Poor; Fasting Emotional Jesus: anger; hope; love; faith; family; romans; Spiritual Jesus: Jewish History; Covenant; Chosen People; Exile; Temple; Prayers; Jerusalem; Intellectual Jesus: Languages; Studies; Torah; Synagogue; Parables; Rabbi; History
JEWISH HISTORY All about 5 Relationships COVENANT LAND TEMPLE EXILE MESSIAH
JEWISH HISTORY All about Relationships Big 5 Relationships 1. THE CHOSEN PEOPLE: COVENANT with GOD 2.THE PROMISED LAND 3.The BIG 10 & The TEMPLE 4.EXILE (NO HOME) 5.WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH
5 RELATIONSHIPS 1.GOD chose the Israelites (the Chosen People) 2.GOD promised a Promised Land just for them & Moses led the Israelites out of slavery-40 years 3.On the way GOD gave them GOD’S LAW (the 10 commandments) 4.When the Israelites made it to the Promised land they built a TEMPLE to say thank-you GOD 5.They Lose the Promised Land and hope springs for a military MESSIAH who will defeat invaders and get the promised land back
THE BIBLE JEWISH & CHRISTIAN BOOKS
Hebrew Scripture/Testament THE STORY OF THOSE 5 RELATIONSHIPS SPREAD OUT OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS AS DRAMATIC AS ANY STORY EVER TOLD
THE TORAH (FIRST 5 BOOKS)
Creation of Adam
Adam & Eve Banishment
Cain & Abel
Noah and the Ark
Abraham & Isaac
Moses and the 10 Commandments
The Ark of the Covenant
Solomon’s Temple
Chosen Ones Defeated Over the course of 700 years the People of Israel (the Hebrews) had been beaten down by a variety of foreign rulers, including: – The Assyrians (722 BC) – The Persians (614 BC) – The Babylonians (587 BC) – The Greeks (330 BC) – The Seleucids (175 BC) – The Romans (63 BC)
Bringing HOPE With such a long history (700 years) of being beaten up, the Chosen People, AWAITED the DAY, when GOD would send THE MESSIAH, the ultimate warrior-king, who would destroy ALL of their enemies and regain the PROMISED LAND for the Israelites!
King Nebuchadnezzar attacks
Jewish EXILE BEGINS TEMPLE DESTROYED IN 587 B.C.E. (the 9/11 event in Jewish History)
JEWISH EXILE NO MORE PROMISED LAND
ARK OF THE COVENANT? DISAPPEARS & THE BIG 10
WHERE is the Ark ?
Physical Manifestation of GOD is LOST
Who is to blame for the EXILE? Jewish Prophets (Isaiah; Ezekial; Jeremiah; Daniel) and others write that the JEWISH people’s own lack of FAITH has a ROLE in their EXILE! GOD’S PUNISHMENT? GOD’S TEST?
Jewish Exile: Temple #2 TEMPLE IS REBUILT IN: 516 B.C.E.
GOD & HIS PEOPLE COVENANT—SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP PROMISED LAND—JUST FOR YOU TEMPLE—THANK YOU GOD EXILE—OUR RELATIONSHIP IS A CHALLENGE MESSIAH—WHEN?
Military, Kingly, MESSIAH WHEN?
THE Waiting for the Messiah? This is the #1 HOPE For ALL Jewish People
Jesus’ Timeline Birth? 6-4 BCE
Jesus’ Timeline DEATH? CE
2 nd TEMPLE ALMOST DESTROYED ROMAN INVASION OF JERSUALEM AD
WHAT IS LEFT TODAY 2013 ‘WESTERN WALL’ WAILING WALL
EXILE
Auschwitz
JEWISH EXILE HOLOCAUST
6 million Jews exterminated
Anne Frank
NO MESSIAH YET, BUT EXILE ENDED after 2000 years 587 BCE-1948
Holocaust Outcome THE NATION OF ISRAEL IS BORN
May 14 th, 1948
SINCE 1948 JEWS CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS PROMISED LAND PROMISED TO WHO?
Israel today
JESUS the CHRIST MESSIAH=JESUS THE CHRIST MOSES= JESUS 10 COMMANDMENTS =JESUS PROMISED LAND=JESUS COVENANT = JESUS