Revised Edition of “Is Jesus the Jews’ Messiah?” Just Published

Nov. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- The 2004 edition of Is Jesus the Jews’ Messiah? has just been revised and republished. The most important revision to the book is the addition of a timeline of crucifixion week, a timeline showing the Wednesday crucifixion and Saturday resurrection of Jesus. While many may say “What difference does it really make?” the implications of a Wednesday crucifixion and Saturday resurrection are huge. Why so? For two reasons: First, one of the main reasons persons of the Jewish faith reject Jesus as the Messiah is because of Christian teaching that the Sabbath, and the Passover, have been changed to pagan days; and Second, because the entire theology of Christianity is centered on the conventional notion of a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday morning resurrection.

Christians who claim to believe in the Ten Commandments have dismissed the fourth commandment – you shall rest on the seventh day and keep it holy – in favor of Sunday, the first day of the week. They have also replaced the Passover celebration, a holyday Christ and the early church kept, in favor of Easter Sunday. Both of these changes were based on the “passing of the glory of the seventh day Sabbath to Sunday” because of the Lord’s presumed resurrection on that day. The revised edition of Is Jesus the Jews’ Messiah? (for a preview, go to: http://www.biblesaysabout.com/index_jesus.htm.) goes into great detail explaining how, when, and by whom the seventh day Sabbath and the Passover were both replaced by Sunday observances.

Just as important in the new edition of the book is a clearer explanation of the Apostle Paul’s doublespeak on the status of the law for Christians. This, too, is an important point, not just for Jewish readers but for Christians as well . . . even if they don’t know it!  If the law is NOT done away with, then the Church should still be under obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath day and the annual holyday of Passover. So whether the law is done away or not is very important to proper worship for Christians.  To aid both Jewish and Christian readers the book retains its lengthy chapter on whether or not Jesus did away with the law, with the previously mentioned addition of a clearer explanation of the more difficult writings of Paul on the law. (For more on Paul and the law, go to: http://www.biblesaysabout.com/index_paul.htm.)

The 2011 edition of Is Jesus the Jews’ Messiah? – in response to the points mentioned above -- raises the uncomfortable question of the legitimacy of the contemporary Christian Church by linking its rejection of original and early-church doctrines to the lack of healing power in the church. The true Church of God should have power just as the early church did: Why doesn’t it? The book goes on to explain that it could be the Church’s rejection of God’s law that has caused them to go off course and themselves be rejected by God!

All in all, not a whole lot has changed from the 2004 edition to the 2011 edition. But the changes that have been made significantly improve the overall understanding of the primary questions the book attempts to answer: Is Jesus the Son of God?  Did Jesus or Paul do away with the Mosaic Law? And, once all that is sorted through: Is Jesus the Jews’ Messiah?

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