Some Sayings of Jesus I am the Messiah I am the Bread of life My God My God why has thou forsaken me Follow ME The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath I and the Father are ONE Love your enemies

Sayings of Jesus Not an eye for an eye, turn the other cheek The last shall be first This is my body, which is given for you He who is without sin cast the first stone I am the good shepherd I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life Those who Love me will keep my Word

JESUS THE CHRIST? ONCE AND ONLY ONCE When (4 BCE?—27 CE?) Where (Palestine) Who (Mary & Joseph) FOR WHOM?

Jesus “I did not come To call the righteous, but sinners!” Mark 2:17

Jesus is JEWISH!!! His HISTORY & ROOTS Christians FORGET this!!! If, you don’t know Judaism then you don’t Know Jesus! Then you don’t know Christianity!

No Judaism=No Jesus=No CHRISTianity

NO JUDIASMNO JESUSNO CHRISTNO CHRISTIANITY

IS JESUS THE CHRIST?

Jesus is a Jewish Man

Jesus and his Jewishness ALL INTER-CONNECTED Physical Jesus: Circumcision; Food he ate; the travels; Carpentry and trades; Poor; Fasting Emotional Jesus: anger; hope; love; faith; family; romans; Spiritual Jesus: Jewish History; Covenant; Chosen People; Exile; Temple; Prayers; Jerusalem; Intellectual Jesus: Languages; Studies; Torah; Synagogue; Parables; Rabbi; History

JEWISH HISTORY All about 5 Relationships COVENANT LAND TEMPLE EXILE MESSIAH

JEWISH HISTORY All about 5 Relationships COVENANT LAND TEMPLEEXILE MESSIAH

JEWISH HISTORY All about 5 Relationships Chosen People Promised Big 10Suffering Savior

JEWISH HISTORY All about Relationships Big 5 Relationships 1. THE CHOSEN PEOPLE: COVENANT with GOD 2.THE PROMISED LAND 3.The BIG 10 & The TEMPLE 4.EXILE (NO HOME) 5.WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH

5 RELATIONSHIPS 1.GOD chose the Israelites (the Chosen People) 2.GOD promised a Promised Land just for them & Moses led the Israelites out of slavery-40 years 3.On the way GOD gave them GOD’S LAW (the 10 commandments) 4.When the Israelites made it to the Promised land they built a TEMPLE to say thank-you GOD 5.They Lose the Promised Land and hope springs for a military MESSIAH who will defeat invaders and get the promised land back

THE BIBLE JEWISH & CHRISTIAN BOOKS

Hebrew Scripture/Testament THE STORY OF THOSE 5 RELATIONSHIPS SPREAD OUT OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS AS DRAMATIC AS ANY STORY EVER TOLD

THE TORAH (FIRST 5 BOOKS)

Creation of Adam

God & Humans

Creation of Eve

Adam & Eve Banishment Original SIN

Cain & Abel

Sibling Rivalry

God’s Blessed Creation? “When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth….the Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved.”

Noah and the Ark

The COVENANT

I am YOUR GOD and YOU are my CHOSEN PEOPLE

I will be THERE for YOU!

Abraham & Isaac The Testing

Chosen People Enslaved in Egypt

Egyptian Pharaoh

MOSES: Let MY people Go

Where is our GOD? The Plagues!

EXODUS: 40 years in the Desert

40 years lost

THEOPHANY Moses and the 10 Commandments

THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

The 10 COMMANDMENTS

The Promised Land

Solomon’s Temple THE THANK YOU TO GOD

What is the CENTER of the TEMPLE

The Chosen People DOMINATED!!! Over the course of 700 years the People of Israel (the Hebrews) had been beaten down by a variety of foreign rulers, including: – The Assyrians (722 BC) – The Persians (614 BC) – The Babylonians (587 BC) – The Greeks (330 BC) – The Seleucids (175 BC) – The Romans (63 BC)

HOPE for a ????? With such a long history (700 years) of being beaten up, the Chosen People, AWAITED the DAY, when GOD would send THE MESSIAH, the ultimate warrior-king, who would destroy ALL of their enemies and regain the PROMISED LAND for the Israelites!

King Nebuchadnezzar attacks

Jewish EXILE BEGINS TEMPLE DESTROYED IN 587 B.C.E. (the 9/11 event in Jewish History)

JEWISH EXILE NO MORE PROMISED LAND

ARK OF THE COVENANT? DISAPPEARS & THE BIG 10

WHERE is the Ark ?

Physical Manifestation of GOD is LOST

Who is to blame for the EXILE? Jewish Prophets (Isaiah; Ezekial; Jeremiah; Daniel) and others write that the JEWISH people’s own lack of FAITH has a ROLE in their EXILE! GOD’S PUNISHMENT? GOD’S TEST?

Jewish Exile: Temple #2 TEMPLE IS REBUILT IN: 516 B.C.E.

GOD & HIS PEOPLE The BIG 5 COVENANT—SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP PROMISED LAND—JUST FOR YOU TEMPLE—THANK YOU GOD EXILE—OUR RELATIONSHIP IS A CHALLENGE MESSIAH—WHEN?

Military, Kingly, MESSIAH WHEN?

THE Waiting for the Messiah? This is the #1 HOPE For ALL Jewish People

Jesus’ Timeline Birth? 6-4 BCE

Jesus’ Timeline DEATH? CE

2 nd TEMPLE ALMOST DESTROYED ROMAN INVASION OF JERSUALEM AD

WHAT IS LEFT TODAY 2013 ‘WESTERN WALL’ WAILING WALL

EXILE

Auschwitz

JEWISH EXILE HOLOCAUST

6 million Jews exterminated

Anne Frank

NO MESSIAH YET, BUT EXILE ENDED after 2000 years 587 BCE- 1948

Holocaust Outcome THE NATION OF ISRAEL IS BORN

May 14 th, 1948

SINCE 1948 JEWS CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS PROMISED LAND PROMISED TO WHO?

Israel today

JESUS the CHRIST MESSIAH=JESUS THE CHRIST COVENANT= JESUS 10 COMMANDMENTS =JESUS PROMISED LAND=JESUS EXILE = JESUS