Sunday Sermon: "Stop Making my Father's House a Marketplace"! The Mindset of Yeshua in 30 A.D.!

 

The mindset of Yeshua (also called Jesus by Christians) is like a brother to those of us who understand his words (message). Yeshua lived his life as a servant of Yahweh God (whom we often call the Father) but his image CHANGED after his death...as the Church 'exalted' this messenger of Yahweh to God Almighty (the Church made him part of a Trinity). Was this a HUGE mistake by the Church? I think so! Let's think!

1. Even after his death at Golgotha, Yeshua, spoke to his disciple, Mary, with the following words (I assume these are valid): Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.

The Father Was Still Yeshua's God After The Resurrection (glorification) so it seems. 

After His glorification and ascension into heaven Jesus/Yeshua still referred to God the Father (Yahweh) as His God. What does this imply? For me, this implies that Yeshua was NOT GOD! Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, Mary, for I have not yet returned to the Father (meaning Yahweh God). Go instead to my brothers and tell them, `I am returning to my Father (YHWH) and your Father (YHWH), to my God and your God (John 20:17). Wow! The Church had this totally wrong! Is it time to correct the Church of Christianity?

2. John 5: 37 says:  “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Implication: Yeshua/Jesus is NOT God!

3. John 17:25 - 26 says:  “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[a] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them. Implication: Yeshua/Jesus is NOT God!

4. John 8: 28-29 says:  “When you have lifted up[a] the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” Implication: Yeshua/Jesus is NOT God!

5. John 5: 30 says: “I can do nothing on my own.

As I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is just,
because I seek to do
not my own will
but the will of him who sent me.

6. John 14: 10 says: Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Implication: Yeshua/Jesus had the mindset of the Father but the Father was a 'separate' person. 

7. Mark 12: 29 says: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord. Implication: Yeshua/Jesus did not view himself as God!

8. Matthew 16: 15 - 17 says: “But whom say ye that I am?” And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered and said unto him, “Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Implication: Yeshua/Jesus is NOT God!

9. For I am God (Yahweh), and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee. (Hosea 11:9)

God (Yahweh) is not a man … neither the son of man. (Numbers 23:19). For he [God] is not a man. (1 Samuel 15:29). Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God (Yahweh) is one Lord. (Deuternomy 6:4). Implication: Yeshua is separate from Yahweh. Yahweh is another 'name' for the Father!

10. And when the sixth hour (noon) was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour (3 p.m.). And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mark 15:33-34). Implication: Yeshua was fully human with human emotions and character.

The above represents scripture which (if valid) shows that Yeshua/Jesus was fully human and NOT God. He was a Jew from Nazareth ( a man) who desired to promote his GOD as the GOD of our universe. His strategy was probably to show that real 'freedom' and 'justice' comes (not from man's religion) but from the 'invisible' King of our universe (Yahweh God). His message (preaching) however, was REJECTED! Why?

It appears, to me, that the Elites at the Sanhedrin assumed that Yeshua wanted to make himself GOD (King of the Jews). The real Yeshua, however, did not desire this status (he understood that God was not a human being or a created person). His words, however, were misunderstood (by many followers) and this misunderstanding continues today in this Church called Christianity. Deception has led to IDOLATRY (unknowingly) IMO!

Today, we live with a religion which worship's the MESSENGER of Yahweh (our Creator God)...and simultaneously proclaims a false TRINITY God as valid for believers. This TRINITY God was not the mindset of the historical (earthly) Yeshua. His GOD was the Father (whom he called Yahweh). Is it time to think ANEW on these theological issues? I think so! 

I am: Donald B. Swenson, Economist/Philosopher, donaldswenson.blogspot.com. Also, http://kingdomecon.wordpress.com.