Truth In Yeshua HaMashiach

By Rabbi Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky

This is just complete hogwash and nonsense. The High Priest Himself commissioned the Greek Septuagint or LXX translated by 70 Jewish rabbis about 250 years before the first century CE, well BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA. These seventy rabbis, NEVER HAD ANY AGENDA OR FAVORABLE BIAS TOWARDS EITHER THE HIGH PRIEST OR YAHSHUA, since Yahshua was not yet born!

They translated the word almah in the Isaiah 7:14 verse as parthenos in the Greek or untouched young virgin. The Catholics did not do this translation, as some slick anti-missionaries like to claim but it was done by Jews and by leading Jewish scholars at that! When Matthew quotes Isaiah 7:14, obviously he is quoting the universally acclaimed LXX, as the New Testament often does. Matthew was following the translation of 70 leading Jews, by restating that the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew almah is the Greek parthenos. He did not make up anything and neither did he “force the issue,” as he is accused of doing. Of the 7 times almah is used in Hebrew in the Tanach, all 7 times it can only mean virgin, and the argument that almah does not mean virgin but young woman, did not even commence until AFTER Yahshua was born. Even Rashi the hallowed and still revered Jewish Bible expositor, believed that the Creator would come to earth through a woman never having had intercourse. (Addendum Three “Look The Maiden Conceives.” Rabbi Ed Nydle; God The Rabbis And The Virgin Birth Daniel Gruber Elijah Publishing.) 

As for the Immanuel claim that “Immanuel” is the “proper name” for Messiah is as ridiculous as is calling a horse a cow. Isaiah 7:14 does not use Immnauel as the “proper name” for the Messiah but rather as a euphemism for what the Messiah will come to accomplish, as Elohim will be walking with us. We see this euphemistic usage again in Isaiah chapter 8:8, where the land of Israel is also called “Immanuel.”

Now does anyone actually believe that the land of Israel is not really the true Set-Apart Land, but that the true Jewish homeland MUST BE CALLED Immanuel? If that is the case, Jews today must be in the wrong place! The anti-missionary spirit of deception is one where they do not or are not willing to recognize a euphemism as such or a metaphor as such, unless it suits their agenda or their desired end. When YHWH is described as a “Rock” in a clear metaphor back in Deuteronomy 32:15, they scream “halleluyah.” But when Messiah Yahshua is called the “Rock” in a clear metaphor they scream “Missionary! Alert! Polytheism! The missionaries are here!”

There’s the double standard you’ll find present here and elsewhere in this handbook. The Yahshua deniers will use metaphor, allegory, mystery, hint, and other literary devices as primary and often- acceptable methods and means of understanding Scripture, UNTIL the page flips to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. At that point the usage of any of the above devices becomes classified as “Christian missionary activity.” Those who desire to have you deny your Savior are those who violate the Torah of “equal weights and measures”, applying a prohibition to the New Testament writers, which they don’t to the Old Testament writers.

If the Jews who reject Yahshua are waiting for a Messiah LITERALLY called by the “proper name” of “Immanuel”, coming through the cursed line of Solomon's seed, (since they teach that the curse has never been removed) they are going to be waiting an awfully long time. Messiah is called Immanuel in a general generic sense only, and this specifically applies to the time when YHWH takes on flesh and walks among us, as well as His dwelling with us in the Millennial Kingdom. If you desire to be there with Messiah, you ought to separate yourself from any more anti-missionary deceptions now!

Blessed be the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach