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The Sign of the Messiah

• The TanakhIts all about the Messiah
• The Tanakh A shadow of good things to come
• Understanding how the Tanakh teaches us about
  death and resurrection
• The Sign of the Messiah

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Its All About the Messiah

• Yeshua identified the source of the Gospel
• Luke 2427, 44-48And beginning at Moses and all
  the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the
  Scriptures the things concerning HimselfThen He
  said to them, "These are the words which I spoke
  to you while I was still with you, that all
  things must be fulfilled which were written in
  the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms
  concerning Me." And He opened their
  understanding, that they might comprehend the
  Scriptures. Then He said to them, "Thus it is
  written, and thus it was necessary for the
  Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead the
  third day, and that repentance and remission of
  sins should be preached in His name to all
  nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are
  witnesses of these things.

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Its All About the Messiah

• John 546For if you believed Moses, you would
  believe Me for he wrote about Me.
• John 539You search the Scriptures, for in them
  you think you have eternal life and these are
  they which testify of Me.
• The Tanakh (Old Testament) says, Its all about
  Yeshua!
• Psalm 406-8Sacrifice and offering You did not
  desire My ears You have opened. Burnt offering
  and sin offering You did not require. Then I
  said, Behold, I come In the scroll of the book
  it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O
  my God, And Your law is within my heart.
• Rav Shaul (Paul) said the proclamation of the
  Gospel is found in the Tanakh.
• Romans 11-2Paul, a bondservant of Yeshua
  Messiah, called to be an apostle, separated to
  the gospel of God which He promised before
  through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures
• Hebrews 42For indeed the gospel was preached
  to us as well as to them

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Its All About the Messiah

• The Sum of it All?
• Revelation 1910And I fell at his feet to
  worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do
  not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of
  your brethren who have the testimony of Yeshua.
  Worship God! For the testimony of Yeshua is the
  spirit of prophecy."

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The Tanakhs Shadows

• How does the Tanakh teach us about the Messiah?
• Colossians 216-17So let no one judge you in
  food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a
  new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of
  things to come, the substance/body is of Messiah.
• The substance is of Messiah
• Anatomy of the shadow of things to come
• Why shadows?
• So that the Holy One could reveal His plan in His
  own time (Ephesians 31-13)
• Messianic prophecySnapshots of salvation! Here
  a little, there a little (Isaiah 289-10).

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Shadows of Death

• Why does the Tanakh need to teach us about death?
• Before there can be resurrection, there must be
  death.
• People, who for all intents and purposes should
  have died.
• Moses, Isaac, Jonah
• The Places of Death
• Wilderness
• Caves
• Pits
• The deep
• Hints of Death
• Isaac, The Egyptian youth, Joseph

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ResurrectionThe Sign of the Messiah

• The Torahs shadows as taught by the Messiah
• Matthew 1238-40Then some of the scribes and
  Pharisees answered saying, "What sign do You show
  to us, since You do these things?. . .But He
  answered and said to them, "For as Jonah was
  three days and three nights in the belly of the
  great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days
  and three nights in the heart of the earth."
• What should have happened to Jonah?
• Life, Death and the Number ThreeThe most
  important hermeneutic advice you need to know.
• This is the Torahs shadow/picture of
  resurrectionlife from the dead.
• The sign of Jonah is the sign of the Messiah
• This sign is not unique to Jonah!!!
• Every Messianic figure is known by the Sign of
  the MessiahResurrection!

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ResurrectionThe Sign of the Messiah

• Our working definition of the Sign of the
  MessiahAs you read the Torah, anytime you see 1)
  pictures of resurrection, 2) pictures of renewed
  life as a result of deliverance from impending
  death and 3) pictures of victory and renewed life
  as a result of death, we know the Torah is about
  to give us a teaching concerning the Messiah. I
  call these The Sign of the Messiah, and they are
  especially strengthened when coupled in some
  manner with the number three.
• Jonah, who was in the belly of a great fish,
  should have been dead. But on the THIRD day he
  came forth ALIVE! Truly, death was swallowed in
  victory!
• The first LIVING things (plants, grass, etc.)
  were created on day THREE!

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ResurrectionThe Sign of the Messiah

• The Torah's picture of the RESURRECTION of the
  Messiah is found in the Holy Days. The Holy Day
  that is a shadow of Yeshua's RESURRECTION is the
  THIRD Holy Day, the Day of the Omer Wave Offering
  (Leviticus 23)! The offering of the barley
  sheaves on the day after the Sabbath that occurs
  during the week of unleavened bread is a
  prophetic picture of the resurrection of the
  Messiah.
• The Akeida (binding of Isaac) found in Genesis
  22Abraham was supposed to offer Isaac as an olah
  (whole burnt offering). Although Adonai
  prevented him from actually sacrificing Isaac on
  the THIRD day, the manner in which the Torah
  relates the story hints that Isaac died and was
  RESURRECTED. That's why Hebrews 1117-19 records
  that Abraham received Isaac from the dead through
  RESURRECTION figuratively!

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The Sign of Moses

• Exodus 21-10The Story of Moses Birth
• Pharaoh's death decree.
• What was supposed to happen to Moses?
• How long did Moses' mother hide him?
• Where did Moses mother hide him?
• What did the daughter of Pharaoh do by taking
  Moses out of the Nile River?
• Like Jonah, Moses should have died. This is the
  Sign of Moses, which is the Sign of the Messiah!
• So what does it teach us about the Messiah?
• Messiah will die and be resurrected
• Death of male babies at Messiahs birth

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ResurrectionThe Sign of Joseph

• Genesis 40The story of Josephs imprisonment
• The Sign of the Messiah doesnt always occur
  directly in the life of the Messianic figure
  (remember this).
• What Sign of the Messiah is evident in this
  story?
• What is the Messianic significance of the
  occupations of the Baker and Cup-bearer?
• According to Isaiah 53, Yeshua, although
  innocent, was incarcerated as a criminal. How
  does this fact thematically relate to Josephs
  life?
• What is the Messianic significance of the fact
  that the Torah concentrated on the story
  involving Josephs incarceration with two
  criminals?

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ResurrectionThe Sign of Joseph

• How is the fact that one criminal received life
  while the other received death thematically
  related to Yeshuas execution?
• How was the baker executed in Genesis 40?
• Now do you see that Josephs life was a prophetic
  shadow of the work of the Messiah? And this was
  only one story from his life! But more
  importantly, remember the major clues that caused
  us to probe this story for Messianic
  significanceLife, Death and the number three!
• Notice the intricate detail the Torah gives us!
• Paul understood this
• Hebrews 1117-19 By faith Abraham, when he was
  tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received
  the promises offered up his only begotten son, of
  whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be
  called," concluding that God was able to raise
  him up, even from the dead, from which he also
  received him in a figurative sense.