Messiah ben Yoseph... Messiah ben Joseph... Messiah ben Yosip....*
* ben = son of... *
What do all these titles have in common?
1. They are all found in the footnotes of the recently-done New Testament in the Aramaic with a highly-edited English translation... specifically footnotes 2 and 53 which accompany Matthew.
2. They all refer to Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH, WHO+ is identified as the "Son of David (Dawid)" as per Scripture in Matthew 1: 1 concerning Y'SHUA's+ lineage and birth.
3. The title, "Messiah ben Joseph, etc." is NEVER, EVER found in Scripture... neither the Old Covenant nor the New Covenant. It was a title coined by an ancient Jewish writer who was considered a learn-ed man trying to figure out "who" the Messiah was!
4. These titles are used to TRY to establish in the reader's mind the identity of Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH as being perhaps the birth son of Joseph the Carpenter.... instead of Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH being divinely born "as by the RUACH haKODESH ( The HOLY SPIRIT)" through Maryam, the virgin of Israel.
5. Thus, the title "M. ben Yoseph" is used to plant doubts and cast aspersions upon the SON+ of ELOAH (GOD)'s divine birth.
6. The erroneous title is used to point readers AWAY the fact that Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH fulfilled ... i.e., completed... the Word to the prophets that their Messiah would be "the Son of David (Dawid)..." and thus the Jewish people could easily identify HIM+ when HE+ came.
7. As a matter of fact, when Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH returned from HIS+ 40 day fast in the wilderness and HIS+ victory over satan's temptations, HE+ returned to HIS+ hometown of Nazareth, where HE+ was raised, in the power of the RUACH haKODESH (HOLY SPIRIT).
After reading the scroll of Isaiah the Prophet, Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH told the congregation "This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Then the townspeople marvelled because they said, "Is not this Joseph's son ?"
They soon perceived HE+ was speaking against them ... and the Nazarenes tried to kill HIM+, casting HIM+ outside their city to push HIM+ over the cliff. (See Luke 4:22; context Luke 4:13-30).
The Nazarenes rejected Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH as the rightful Son of David (Dawid) because they saw HIM+ as the son of Joseph... but HE+ was not !
The second incident concerning HIS+ mistaken identity once again took place among HIS+ enemies.
The unbelieving Jews were arguing against Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH (John 6:41, 42) after HE+ had affirmed that HE+ was the Living Bread, not like the bread Moshe gave (through The FATHER ) in the wilderness.
Scornfully, the Jews said, " Is this not Y'SHUA+, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ? How is it then that HE+ saith, I+ came down from Heaven?"
Only those 2 times it is recorded that HE+ was identified as the "son of Joseph"... and both times, by HIS+ enemies !
Never, never, never is it recorded in HOLY SCRIPTURES in any language that Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH is identified as Messiah ben (son of ) Joseph.
Always, always, always it is recorded in HOLY SCRIPTURES in every language that Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH is the "Son of David (Dawid)", thus fulfilling prophecy , so that the Jewish people could identify their Messiah when HE+ came.
Thus, beware of the deceiver! This false information is found in footnote 53 of this edited translation of the Aramaic New Testament. The Aramaic text is excellent; the additional comments work to deceive. Beware! Beware!
It seems to me that the editor and perhaps those who collaborated with him on this volume are trying to change the identity of Y'SHUA+ haMASHIYACH. Are they trying to make HIM+ into a good rabbi who is Torah-observant, like so many other good teachers of the Jewish past, perhaps ? If so, they have missed their Messiah+, once again.
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