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The following link seems to describe in full detail the 353 Prophecies fulfilled in Yeshua/God coming to earth to be the final and total sacrifice for the universe. Both the Old Testament/First Covenant scripture verse and the New Testament/Second Covenant description of fulfillment are given: http://www.accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn (a Messianic Jew) is quite open with his description of those who will receive salvation through faith/trust that Yeshua/Jesus was God and was the final complete sacrifice/redemption of this universe. He states quite succintly: there are two types of believers: Rabbinic Jews and Messianic Jews. That’s it folks.

Messianic Jews believe Jesus/Yeshua was the Messiah who came first as a lamb, as the final sacrifice. All Gentiles who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (which of course includes the Messiah/Mashiach) are supernaturally considered to be grafted onto the Olive Tree which represents Israel. See Romans 11 for further knowledge.

Rabbi Cahn goes on to say very distinctly this neither raises nor lowers the position of the Gentile or Jew. He along with other individuals speaks of this mystery along with some Prophets in God’s book called the Holy Bible such as Isaiah: Isa 65:1 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’). Passages such as these convey the love of the Three-In-One, yes “One” God for all nations.

Is Israel still God’s chosen people. Of course. See Mal 3:6 “I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

The word “Christian” was not used for many years and the first “church” was not completed until 300 years A.D. All believers in Jesus as the Messiah were Messianic Jews and worshiped in the Synagogue. Just about every section of the Holy Bible is written in Hebrew with a little Aramaic, and Greek here and there.  

Isn’t that interesting? Sorta makes a  “Gentile Christian Messianic Jew”  hesitate in telling a Jew how they should think.

Lashon hara is pointing out to your coworkers how the boss screwed up his presentation.

Lashon hara is telling your spouse how the worship leader was pretty good but a couple songs could have been better.

Lashon hara is any sentence that begins with “She’s a great person, but”.

Why do we do this terrible thing. Well we can justify it. We can say it is the truth and it probably is but that does not justify it. As Paul says Php 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

There is a story of a habitual gossip who went to the local Rabbi and confessed his sins and asked how he could make amends. The Rabbi said for him to go home and bring back a pillow. So he did. Then the Rabbi said now lets go outside and you are going to slice the pillow open with this knife.

So they went outside and he sliced the pillow and all the feathers blew away.

And the Rabbi said, “now go pick up each feather and bring it back”. And the man said, “But that is impossible”!! And the Rabbi said “in the same way it is impossible to repair all the damage your gossip has done.

When Jesus compared lust to adultery and anger to murder he was doing what this Rabbi did.

And all Rabbi’s did the same thing with sins of the tongue. In fact they said three persons were murdered with lashon hara: the one who gossips, the one who listens and the victim. How is the listener affected. His relationship is affected by listening to the gossip about the victim. Also the listener is often tempted to pass this gossip on.

Remember King David saying there was no worse pain that that of being stabbed in the back in the Sanctuary. Lashon hara was used often against him.

*Mostly from “Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus” by Lois Tverberg.