It has been two thousand years since Yeshua, better known as Jesus, was murdered by the religious leaders in Jerusalem.
Yeshua foretold his death in the parable of the vineyard (Mark 12:1-11). In this parable, there is not even one hint that Christ would be used as a blood sacrifice for sin. It is perfectly clear that Yeshua was talking about being slain by evil men who were in charge of God’s vineyard at that time.
These were men who did not want to hear the words that Yeshua was speaking, the words that God had given him to speak to them.
Yeshua is the one written about in Isaiah 42 of the Hebrew Bible, the chosen one to teach the true way to the nations. He was doing the will of God by speaking those words to the religious leaders, and they wanted him silenced.
They hated the light of God that shined through Yeshua. It was a showdown between good and evil, light and darkness.
Eventually, the darkness triumphed, and they cut off Yeshua from the land of the living through their sin. (Isaiah 53:8/Hebrew Bible)
Isaiah then, asks the question. Who can describe his abode?
The reason Isaiah is asking this, is because things were not adding up. In chapter 42, Isaiah had been shown that the chosen one was being sent to teach the true way to the nations.
In that passage, God had revealed his will to Isaiah, that Christ was not to be bruised and that his wick was not to grow dim until Yeshua had established the true way on earth.
However, now Isaiah sees Yeshua being bruised and his wick being snuffed out.
That is why Isaiah is so puzzled in chapter 53, because he sees the chosen one who has the important job of teaching the true way to the nations being murdered because of the sin of the people. (Hebrew Bible)
King James interprets the death of the chosen one as, that he died for the sins of the people, and that choice of wording has misled billions of Christians.
The ones interpreting the Hebrew Bible into English, have a much greater understanding of their own language, and they write that Christ died because of their sin.
Isaiah was referring to the religious leaders (their sin) when he wrote that passage. It was because they were sinning that they acted out the murder of the chosen one.
That scene prompts Isaiah to ask the question: Who can describe his abode? (Isaiah 53, Hebrew Bible)
Yeshua had teachings that were supposed to be taken to the entire earth, but his life was cut short by evil men.
So, what about his mission? Who can carry it out? Who knows him well enough behind closed doors to continue his very important assignment?
Did his disciples continue spreading the good news that the kingdom of God is at hand? Did they do greater works than Christ had done, because Christ had gone to the Father?
No, Christ’s good news message was changed.
Did the disciples take the teachings of Christ to the ends of the earth telling the story of the woman with the alabaster box as Yeshua had commanded them to do? Did they even understand what her story was about?
No, they didn’t.
The gospels are very clear that when Yeshua was alive, the disciples had to continually ask for interpretation of his parables. They were not entering in to that spiritual place in order to hear directly from God themselves, which would have given them understanding.
At the end of Yeshua’s life, the gospels even report that the disciples did not understand what Christ was saying at all, and that they were afraid to ask him.
It is reported in Luke chapter 18 that Yeshua even asked the question: when the Son of man comes, shall he even find faith on the earth?
The disciples were continually being reproved by Christ for their lack of faith. They didn’t understand his teachings because they were blinded by the culture of their religious upbring.
They had deep seeded beliefs and opinions that prevented them from hearing spiritually. They were deafened by religious culture, and it is clear by the reports of the Gospels that they never did enter into the spiritual kingdom of God of which Christ taught and demonstrated.
They were never able to carry on the mission of Christ, because they simply didn’t understand it.
Tragically, the spiritual teachings of Christ were left in the sepulcher when he was murdered, and his message (the new wine) has been buried for two thousand years.
Instead of the good news of the kingdom of God, a blood sacrificial religion based upon the human sacrifice of Christ was created and has filled the earth.
2.3 billion people profess that this is the pathway to God, but really it is the broad and destructive path about which Christ spoke against.
Yeshua’s path is a spiritual one, the straight and narrow pathway that truly leads to God, the Father.
The Christian doctrine has taken the new wine and put it into the old wineskins of religion, and just like Christ taught, it is going to burst, destroying both wine and wineskins.
So, where are the ones today who should be carrying out Christ’s mission?
I suspect that they are trapped in the web of believing that one can connect with God through blood sacrificial religion—the greatest lie ever told.