Episode XXIII - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About The Gospel (But Were Afraid to Ask*)

*Not really EVERYTHING but it sure made you look! Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented in this podcast are personal and belong to the content creator. Any views or opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company or individual. Disclaimer: The passage of Scripture read out loud in the beginning of each podcast episode will be in Hebrew followed by the direct translation in English from the Complete Jewish Study Bible. Come listen to something different. Welcome Honduras! 🇭🇳 In this podcast episode, I will be presenting a topic of discussion that I probably should have brought up quite a while back and perhaps even started #FindingHyerGround with. You've often heard me talk about something called "The Good News" or "Gospel" in connection with the Person - Messiah Yeshua. It had suddenly dawned on me 22 episodes down the road that I really hadn't broken down in greater depth this topic and attempt to answer some basic questions: What exactly IS this "Good News" that I keep on ranting about? Good News about what? Why is it SO important, to such a level that people have forsaken their own lives for it...? Why does Yeshua Himself empower the Good News to the same level as Himself like He does in Mark 8:35? As we look together deeper into this subject, we will come to discover not only the supreme importance of this Good News, but also how it stems and grows out from the Hebrew TaNaKh תנ"ך, cleverly and clandestine hidden in plain sight through the Torah, Prophets & Scriptures. I say 'cleverly hidden in plain sight' because once an individual has an actual spiritual encounter with Yeshua Jesus in their lives life and realizes that the Brit HaKhadashah New Covenant is real and true, it's absolutely impossible to NOT see Messiah Yeshua present through the ENTIRE narrative of the Word of ADONAI. This "Good News" (in Hebrew "B'soRah בשורה) is, in fact, the culmination of the Hebrew TaNaKh תנ"ך because the Hebrew Old Testament incessantly alludes to Messiah Yeshua throughout via prophetic Christophanies. Yet what's equally significant is that, first and foremost, the New Testament Brít Hakhadashah is 100% Jewish, through and through. Written by mostly Jews and targeted to the Jew ESPECIALLY yet of EQUAL importance to the Gentile, "...the central figure of of the New Testament, Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ) is a Jew, born into a Jewish family in Beit Lekhem (Bethlehem), grows up amongst Jews in Natzeret (Nazareth), ministered to Jews in the Galil (Galilee) and died and rose from the grave on the Jewish holiday of Pesakh (Passover) in the Jewish capital, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) - all of this happens in Eretz Isra'El (The Land of Israel), the land that ADONAI gave to the Jews." (Paraphrased from Stern's introduction to the Complete Jewish Study Bible). I say that Yeshua IS a Jew because He is STILL ALIVE and sitting at the Right Hand of YHVH. NOWHERE in Scripture does it ever suggest that He stopped being Jewish. His twelve closest friends were Jews and His disciples which numbered in the "tens of thousands" in Jerusalem alone were all predominantly Jews. HaBrít Hakhadashah was entirely written by Jews (Luke was a Gentile turned Jew (proselyte)) and its message is targeted "to the Jew ESPECIALLY, but EQUALLY to the Gentile." (Romans 1:16). It's LONG overdue for the people who introduced the Good News of Salvation to the world, to receive it back in the same Jewishness it was given! This vital Jewishness had been lost through the centuries through misteaching and resentment towards the Jews and the time for rectification has come! I pray you are blessed in the Wisdom of ADONAI in this latest installment of Finding Hyer Ground. Thank you so very much for listening and please leave a good word if you feel so inclined! Thank you for your support! ADONAI bless you and keep you! https://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2015/08/24/what-was-the-good-news-in-the-bible/