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Be the Kingdom of Heaven Today!


If you had been a follower of Yeshua, aka Jesus, what would he have told you to do? The answer is found in his announcement about being the “Anointed One” – the Christ. This happened at his hometown synagogue at Nazareth when he was called to read a section from Isaiah (Luke 4:16-21). He read the following (Isaiah 61:1-2a):

“The Spirit of Yahweh is upon me, for he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor; He has sent me to has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

When he finished, he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. All of the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. And then he said:

“Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears.”

Imagine what the people looking at him thought when they heard Yeshua, someone many had known all of his life, declare that he is the Anointed One prophesied by Isaiah. And then when they thought about the words he had just read, what they expected the Anointed One to do and what Yeshua said he had been anointed to do were very different. Most were expecting a military leader that would drive the Romans out of their land. Yeshua said he had been anointed to do the following:

1. proclaim the good news to the poor

2. proclaim release to the captives

3. proclaim the recovery of sight to the blind

3. release the oppressed

4. proclaim the acceptable year of Yahweh

Later, he taught his followers about “inheriting the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world entering into eternal life.” The ones that will be in that Kingdom will be the following:

1. those who gave food to the hungry

2. those who gave drink to thirsty

3. those who took the stranger in need of shelter in

4. those who clothed the naked

5. those who visited the sick

6. those who visited those in prison

The one’s that did the things above helped fulfilled the mission Yahweh had anointed Jesus to do! Their focus was one the lives of the people they encountered in their daily lives. They saw the needs of the people in front of them. They “saved them” from the pain, loneliness, rejection and uncertainties they were experiencing at that moment. This is what “proclaiming the good news” meant to Yeshua – revealing the presence of their King and God through their actions.

This is the only thing Yeshua taught about the afterlife.

● It was not about creating or supporting charity programs – it was about a lifestyle of being aware of the lives of those we encounter in our daily lives.

● It wasn’t about belonging to a church -- because he did not create a church and none existed.

● It wasn’t about saying a “Sinner’s Prayer” or “being baptized” or performing some other Christian ritual -- because none of those things existed then.

Yeshua’s message was about the Kingdom of Heaven. He taught his followers that they could enter the Kingdom of Heaven now, before the Great Day of Judgment, by helping him fulfill the mission he had been anointed to do. What would Yeshua’s message be to people today?

Help those you encounter in your daily life experience the Kingdom of Heaven today.

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