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ישועה וגאולה אמיתית לכל ישראל

CMY NEWSLETTER

A Message From The Rabbi

With Rosh HaShanah behind us we have a new year to look forward to, Baruch HaShem. As I have already taught, Rosh HaShanah is the Feast of the L-rd, which represents and reminds us of the rapture (the catching away of the saints of G-d by Yeshua). This event is followed by the judgement of the earth, also known as the time of "Jacob's Trouble" or the "Tribulation Period." Therefore if you are reading this newsletter, either you have missed the rapture, whereby I suggest you make emends with G-d and receive Yeshua as your Mashiach (Messiah), or the L-rd has tarried for yet another year, thereby giving those who believe additional time to witness to their friends and family, and those who do not believe the time to come to faith without having to go through the Tribulation.

So if the L-rd has tarried what does that mean for Congregation Melech Yisrael. Well, it means that we as a congregation need to get on with our work for the L-rd. The leadership of Congregation Melech Yisrael is dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission as commanded by Yeshua HaMashiach (The Messiah).

Mattityahu (Matthew) {28.19} "Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim (disciples), immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh, {28.20} and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the age. (CJB version).

If we read this scripture carefully we can see that Yeshua did not instruct His talmidim to go into all the world and convert people to Christianity, rather He instructed them to go out and make disciples, teaching them to observe all that He commanded.

A disciple is a person who is a pupil or an adherent to the doctrines of his teacher. Therefore in order to be a disciple of Yeshua you would have to reflect His traditions and His beliefs. You would have to learn the lessons He taught, live the way He lived and follow the theology He followed in the context in which He followed it. Do you get the point?

From Yeshua's own statements, in the Gospels, we can see the approach His teachings took towards biblical Jewish tradition. Scripture shows us that He whole heartily embraced biblical Judaism. I know that some non-Jewish believers in the church would like to minimize the role of the Torah, Talmud and Jewish traditions in their lives and the lives of other believers. The truth of the matter however is that biblical Judaism, which is a personal relationship with HaShem through faith in Yeshua requires obedience to Torah. Torah and belief in Yeshua as the Mashiach are not only mutually compatible, they are inseparable.

The Gospels are clear in showing us that when Yeshua entered a town He attended the local synagogue and participated in the Torah service complete with its liturgical prayers and Scriptural chants, a service I suspect close to what we do here at Melech Yisrael. In fact Luke tells us in chapter four of his Gospel that Yeshua recited the Haftarah (weekly portion read from the writings of the prophets) one Shabbat in synagogue (see Haftarah Nitzavim, Yeshayahu / Isaiah 61).

Uri / Luke {4.16} Now when He went to Natzeret, where He had been brought up, on Shabbat He went into the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read, and He was given the scroll of the prophet Yeshayahu (Isaiah). Unrolling the scroll, He found the place where it was written, (CJB version).

The synagogue, its service and obviously the cycle of Torah and Haftarah readings are all traditional institutions in which Yeshua participated and taught His disciples to participate in as well.