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Who Is The Jewish Messiah?

He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.  John 1:11-12 

When a Japanese Christian came to San Francisco for a visit, he attended a church service where Ralph Sockman spoke on the Life of Jesus.  Asked by a friend how he enjoyed the message, the guest replied, “Well to hear him tell it, Jesus was an American, a Methodist, and an Armenian. But everyone knows that it is not true, for Jesus was really a Japanese, a Baptist, and a Calvinist.”  Right!

While all men and women see Christ as a reflection of their own race and culture, Jesus was a Jew who could trace His lineage through His mother to King David.  In recent days the Jewish rabbis have looked at the life of Christ with contempt because they have associated Jesus with the Christian community who have persecuted Jews; therefore, Jesus to them was an apostate and a false messiah.  But some of that is beginning to change.

Commenting on the change of attitude, an international news magazine said, “Jewish scholars… have quietly begun to recognize Jesus as a brother who spoke in faith to other Jews.”  The Israeli scholar Pinchas Lapide of Bar‑Ilan University near Tel Aviv has been quoted as saying that “Jesus was more loyal to the Torah than I am as an Orthodox Jew.”  In his lifetime this recognized Jewish scholar published more than 187 books, articles, essays and poems about Jesus in relationship to Judaism.

Though most of these Jewish scholars deny that Jesus was born of a virgin, or that He rose from the dead on the third day, associating these truths with Christian teaching, they see Jesus as a legitimate first‑century rabbi.  They also recognize the New Testament as a document which can tell them a great deal about Judaism of the first century.  Nevertheless, a great number of Jews in the past decade have come to recognize Jesus as the Messiah and contend that they are more Jewish than ever before.

Dr. David Flusser, when professor of religious history at Hebrew University, said, “I do not think that many Jews would object if the Messiah‑‑when He came‑‑was the Jew, Jesus.”  Dr. Flusser’s candid statement is remarkable in itself.  The Jesus that most Jews envision is a caricature, not the one portrayed in the pages of the New Testament.  It has been my experience that most Jewish friends have never really gone to the pages of the New Testament to discover what the Jewish authors of the book really had to say.

With the exception of Luke, who was probably a Gentile physician, every word in the New Testament was written by a first‑century Jew; therefore, the New Testament is basically a Jewish document that contends that the Man born in Bethlehem is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies concerning a Messiah.  It is not by chance that many events taking place in the life of Christ were clearly foretold centuries before–events such as the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, prophesied by Micah five centuries before Christ; the suffering and death of Christ predicted by Isaiah 700 years before Christ, and by David in Psalm 22 nearly 1000 years before He was born.

Question: Is the expected Jewish Messiah one and the same as the second coming of Christ to the Christian?  Christians believe He will be the same. And, said David Flusser of Hebrew University, His coming may be welcomed by the Jewish community.  If it is, then what Jewish disciples wrote about Jesus is authentic and credible. “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him,” wrote John, one of the disciples, adding, “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:11‑12).

Resource reading: Revelation 1:4-8.

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/who-is-the-jewish-messiah/

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LENI SAYS CARDINAL ADVINCULA IS WELCOME AT HIS INAUGURATION

San Juan, Metro Manila, June 4, 2021 - President-elect Leni Robredo said he would invite Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula to his inauguration, contrary to an earlier comment which Robredo later clarified as only a "joke".

Robredo has invited Mariano "Mike" Velarde, leader of the powerful group El Shaddai, to deliver the invocation during his inauguration, set at the Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan. She also reportedly offered Robredo the post of presidential adviser.

Earlier, Robredo's comment was that Advincula may find it difficult to join the inauguration rites because of the big number of people expected to attend. "Maraming tao doon; baka maipit siya," (Lots of people there, he might get trampled) was Robredo's comment.

Later Robredo clarified that the comment was not a snob. "Sin is the head of the church; we can work harmoniously together," Leni said.

Tennis: Injured Barty retires from French Open, leaving women's draw wide open

PARIS - World number one Ash Barty retired from her second round match at the French Open on Thursday with an injury, leaving the women's draw at the claycourt Grand Slam without its top two seeds following Naomi Osaka's earlier withdrawal.

Second seed Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam winner, pulled out after her first round following a row over her decision to boycott post-match media duties citing mental health concerns.

Australia's Barty, who lifted her maiden major at Roland Garros in 2019, was trailing 6-1 2-2 against Poland's Magda Linette when she decided she could no longer continue, having started the match with taping on her left thigh.

She had also struggled with the injury during her opening win and later said she suffered a flare-up through her left hip during the weekend.

"It's heartbreaking," Barty told reporters.

"We have had such a brilliant claycourt season, and to kind of get a little bit unlucky with timing more than anything to have something kind of acute happen over the weekend and just kind of run out of time against the clock is disappointing.

"It won't take away the brilliant three months that we have had, as much as it hurts right now."

Romanian world number three Simona Halep, the 2018 champion in Paris, also pulled out from this year's tournament due to a leg injury, meaning fourth-ranked Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus is the highest surviving seed this week.

The 25-year-old Barty's return to Roland Garros ended in disappointment after she opted to not defend her title last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

She had faced problems with her movement on court on Tuesday against Bernarda Pera but her physical condition improved against the American after receiving medical attention before the deciding set.

The top-seeded Australian called the trainer on court once again on Thursday after the first set, which she lost in just 27 minutes, hoping to be able to play on after receiving help.

She returned to Philippe Chatrier court after the medical timeout and played four more games before shaking hands.

Barty said she suffered the injury during training.

"It was a small miracle that we were able to get on court for that first round. Again, today it was no better and getting worse again," she said, adding that she hoped to be fit for Wimbledon which starts on June. 28.

"I just tried to give myself a chance and see how it felt. Obviously practising we've had our restrictions and essentially tried to stay as fresh as possible and not aggravate it in any way, but in a match that's unavoidable at times.

"Yeah, it got worse today and it was becoming at the stage where it was unsafe." (Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Berhampore, India; editing by Jon Boyle and Toby Davis)

https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/06/03/21/tennis-injured-barty-retires-from-french-open-leaving-womens-draw-wide-open