The Messiah of Israel
[Jesus] said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. (Mat 16:15-17)
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." (Jn 3:16)
Articles about Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Son of God.
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Written by Catholics for Israel
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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 |
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A short overview of the Gospel message and how it applies to you today: God's loving plan for us to share in His divine life, how we have
broken His covenant, how Jesus has come to reconcile us to God, and how
He has established the Catholic Church to restore us to God and to
impart to us His forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life of love.
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Written by Catholics for Israel
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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 |
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Can we get a good idea of who is the Jewish Messiah from the Old Testament and from Jewish writings? Study the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament in the light of Jewish apocryphal literature, the Aramaic targums, the midrashim, the Talmud, medieval Jewish Bible commentators, and the Zohar.
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Written by Ariel Ben Ami
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Sun, 04 Nov 2007 |
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Is the Messiah to be a mere man, as is commonly thought in traditional Judaism, or is he divine, as it is held by Christians? Did the concept of a divine Messiah derive from Greek pagan influences, or is it rooted in the Bible? Is it a New Testament innovation or can we find hints and traces of this idea throughout the Hebrew Bible and Jewish literature? Read about the divinity of the Messiah in the Patristic writings, in the New Testament, and in the Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish literature.
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Written by Ariel Ben Ami
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Sun, 30 Dec 2007 |
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The Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith.
The term describes the inner life of God, who is an eternal
communion of Persons and a Family whose life is love. Is the concept of the Trinity a Christian invention, derived from Greco-Roman pagan ideas? Or do we already find hints of the Trinity in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish sources?
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Written by Ariel Ben Ami
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 |
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The Feasts of Israel recall God's deliverance of the Israelites and his care for
them throughout their history: the Exodus out of Egypt, the journey through the desert, the giving of the law and the arrival in the promised land of Canaan.
But the feasts also go beyond this first meaning: They are also a shadow of God's salvation
plan for humanity through Christ. This essay will examine the Jewish Holy Days in the Torah, in Jewish tradition and
in the New Testament, and will analyze how these Holy Days serve as a shadow of
the Messiah.
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Written by Ariel Ben Ami
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Tue, 11 Sep 2007 |
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A study of the river flowing from Ezekiel's Temple (Ezek 47:1-12) and its underlying themes: Jerusalem and Zion as the Lord's cosmic mountain; water as a prophetic sign of eschatological healing; and the Garden of Eden. The celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles and its water libation ceremony in the Temple recalled and actualized these themes and anticipated God's future outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Jesus' words uttered during the same feast show that he identified himself with Ezekiel's temple and declared himself to be the giver of the waters of life – the Holy Spirit. Finally, the eschatology of the book of Revelation and the vision of "a pure river of water of life" proceeding from the throne of God recapitulate and expand Ezekiel's vision by incorporating the other prophetic themes and Jesus' revelation about himself.
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Written by Richard Reinhardt
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Sat, 09 Aug 2008 |
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This coming Saturday night begins the fast of Tisha b'av on which we
mourn the destruction of both the first and second Temples. According
to the midrash, the messiah was born on Tisha b’av, when the first
Temple, the Temple of Solomon, was destroyed. Something happened when
the Temple was destroyed that kicked off the final redemption.
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