Are you afraid to think for yourself?

Have you heard various words used for "apocalypse" and you think the whole concept in the New Testament leaves a Gentile kingdom in the "end of days"?

Think again! Never mind, don't think anything until you finish reading this article.  I want you to do that thinking with some sechel. Nu?

As the New Testament account of the "Last Days" opens, there are angels  saying "Holy, holy, holy, Adonai-Tzva'ot God of heaven's armies." This is a phrase used in the Tanakh and also in the Siddur Shacharis weekday morning service in the Kedusha.

We then read of an elder saying, "Don't cry. Look, the lion of the tribe of Y'hudah, the root of David has won the right to open the scroll and its seven seals." 

Further on in the account, we see that a certain number of people from every tribe of the 12 tribes of Israel are put under a special protection during a great persecution.

These people serve the Messiah (figuratively called the lion of the tribe of Y'hudah) as he sits on the throne in the Temple.

Shofars are sounded as warnings are given.

The account proceeds to the point of the Messiah (this time figuratively called the Lamb) standing on Mount Tziyon with the people from the twelve tribes who had been protected.

So what more can I say? Is this Jewish or what? After all, this book in the New Testament was written by a Jewish man. That is not really so surprising since most of the New Testament was written by Jewish men about the Jewish Messiah.

Isn't it time you asked the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob if Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel?