Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews a number of issues involving Biblical reliability, which can often be associated with discussing the Messiahship of Yeshua. Part 1 of 2.
Messiahship of Yeshua
The Messianic community of faith presently finds itself at a very serious crossroads, not just a crossroads in determining its long term purpose and where it is going to be in the next few decades, but most seriously in its theology and how we are to approach the Bible. The enemy desperately wants us to get off course and away from the mission of seeing the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel accomplished (Acts 1:6). He wants us to not be a movement of positive change and transformation, where people are empowered by the Lord to accomplish His tasks in the world—but rather be one of mischief, confusion, and apostasy. The enemy wants us to seriously “mess up” and gain a bad reputation so that people will (rightly) stay away.
One of the most significant ways that this has happened over the past several years has been seen when various Messianic individuals deny the Divinity of Yeshua the Messiah. There have been both Messianic teachers and laypersons who have decided that Yeshua the Messiah was nothing more than a human being empowered by God, but certainly not God in the flesh. They have stripped away the reality of His Incarnation, and made Him little more than a mortal like one of “us.”
It is not all that surprising, but among a significant number of those who deny Yeshua’s Divinity are those who later deny His Messiahship. Not content with their entirely human Yeshua, these people then question whether or not Yeshua is even the Messiah and whether they truly need Him. Outsiders to the Messianic community who witness this trend, often believe that the Messianic movement is not something that God has raised up to restore the lost Hebraic and Jewish Roots of the faith, or even just see a generation of Jewish people brought to Yeshua—but rather is a move of the Adversary to lead people away from the salvation available in Yeshua and the truth of the gospel. Is this truly the case? Are we nothing more than a revolving door, leading people into our midst for a short season, and then into the open arms of a Messiah-less Synagogue?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee was recently asked about why our ministry has yet to address the Messiahship of Yeshua in any substantial detail.
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics discusses some of the long term challenges presented to the Messianic movement, as it involves defense of the Messiahship of Yeshua.
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics addresses Isaiah 53 and claims of human sacrifice, and how they are both often used to deride the Messiahship of Yeshua.
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics addresses Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 27:9, and how they are both often used to deride the Messiahship of Yeshua.
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics addresses the issue over whether or not Yeshua of Nazareth is the “Greater Prophet,” and the challenges when approaching the genealogies of Matthew 1 and Luke 3.
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics discusses some of the distinct threats posed by Jewish anti missionaries: those who actively target Believers in Yeshua for denying Him as Messiah.
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics discusses how much or how little Messianic congregations might teach on the Messiahship of Yeshua.