El Shaddai Ministries - Frequently Asked Questions

Why do you call Jesus Yeshua?

Often you will hear us call him "Yeshua" or "Yeshua HaM

shiach" because we refer to the

Messiah

by the

name His mother gave Him.

(Ha-M

sh-i-auk is Messiah in Hebrew)

Well, as far as we can tell--Mary

didn't know

English or Greek.

She heard and obeyed the message

given to

her in a dream of what to

name Him

: Yeshua

Separately, angels came to both Mary (Luke 1:31) and her future

husband Joseph

(Matt 1:21)

and told them

what to call

this coming child.

In Hebrew, Yeshua actually

means salvation. So,

the people in Israel who

knew Him when He walked the earth called Him "Yeshua."

Should we hear and

obey the same instructions

or follow the

habit of the world?

Do you believe Jesus is your savior?

Yes, we believe that Yeshua is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Eternal One in

Whom all the fullness of

deity dwells in bodily form, and who is the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us, and

whose glory

we beheld, the glory of the uniquely begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth. THE GOOD NEWS is

that

Yeshua HaMashiach paid our

death penalty

" sentence

. We believe our salvation

s gifted through trust

in God's promise

(Gal 3:5-8 & 14) that th

death penalty we have so richly earned is covered. This

IS the same promise made to Abraham

and we, by accepting this truth, become one of Abraham's children,

too! (Gal 3:7) Yes, indeed, there are Jews by birth and

if you believe in the promise you are adopted into

the family!

Was Yeshua (Jesus) a Rabbi?

Rabbi means teacher and Torah means instruction (not law) in Hebrew.

Yeshua is the Living Torah

according to John 1:1-14: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was

with God, and the Word

was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him;

and without him was

any thing made

(

that was made

)

. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in

darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God,

whose name was John.

The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him

might believe. He was

not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light,

which lighteth every man

that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him,

and the world knew him

not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received

him, to them gave he

power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were

born, not of blood,

nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made

flesh, and dwelt

among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of

grace and truth."

So in the sense that He is the living breathing instruction, YES, he'd have to be the perfect teacher.

Do you believe the law was nailed to the cross?

No, emphatically no! The “written record” of my offenses were nailed to

the cross according to Colossians

2:14. If I get a speeding ticket and a judge throws it out in court, the speed limit of that

road does not change.

No one pulls down the speed limit signs only my ticket is eliminated. This is exactly the same message

of that

verse. Also, the curse of the law (my death penalty sentence) was nailed to the cross with Yeshua when he

took my

place (Gal 3:13). The law was perfectly kept by Yeshua and He said, "If you love me you will keep

my commandments

(John 14:15 & 21)." "I am not come to destroy (the law) but to fulfil (Matt 5:17)."

Are you a Christian?

I strive to pattern myself after my teacher Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Christ) and follow Him in

the way

and the truth. I am a believer in the Most High God, that God is One; salvation is to the Jew first and then to

the

Gentile; the Shabbat is on the 7th day and the other Holy Days are to be kept forever; and

ast but NOT

least

that

Torah (which really

translates as instruction, not law) is the answer to all problems and THE

measure

f all

truth; and that the prophets, writings

and Apostles are inspired by God and profitable for

teaching, for evi

dence, for correction and for instruction in

righteousness. My roots are not from Antioch

and I am a

believer (Acts 5:14, 1 Tim 4:12) in the most high God.

What is this 9th of Av all about?

The 9th of Av falls in the 9th day of the 5th month on

God's calendar

(see the 2nd chart for details)

This

month's name is the same Hebrew word

for father.

directly after the month that the golden calf was

made

, which

s named "Idolatry" (Tammuz).

Perhaps the symboli

reminder

is to return to

ather after

idolatry

what do you think? Regardless, th

idea

was

not

realized by the 10 of 12 spies that reported back

to the Children of Israel on this very day in Bible History.

verwhelmed by

fears over

safety and welfare,

they

allowed doubt to take root. Standing in doubt, they

were slanderous of God's Word and promise

because He

said He

would go before them, fight their battles and deliver them into the land.

What is idolatry?

Idolatry i

ncludes

much more than setting up an object and

praying to

it. Anytime we decide that something

else is

more important to do

than God's verbatim instructions, we have just

created

a mental idol to follow

instead of God's

Word. Remember, John 1:1-17 equates God with His

ord.

Idolatry is not a complicated

process, it is every

disobedient

choice

we have ever made.

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