IS YESHUA'S DEATH A FAILURE?

I read somewhere that Yeshua's death was an accident unforeseen by God, just as I once heard from an eminent person that Yeshua's death was a failure!

With these few lines, I'm going to help us all.

Israel's oral tradition tells us that there are two messiahs, one being the "son of Joseph" and the other the "son of David". The first has the distinction of suffering and being removed from the scene, while the second has the distinction of being victorious and establishing the messianic reign on earth.

To understand the journey of Yeshua Ha Mashiach, we need to be familiar with this approach in the tradition of Israel.

Matthew 15,6:

So you nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition.

This tradition has held sway among the people ever since Ezra established it as the national frame of reference after the return from Babylon. It is the generation of the Tannaim (the specialists in oral tradition) that is being established and which Yeshua is facing up to.

Matthew 16,21-23:

From that time Jesus began to make known to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and scribes, be put to death, and rise again on the third 

day. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "God forbid, Lord! This will not happen to you. But Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get away from me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but those of men.

Here we clearly understand that Yeshua's sufferings are not an accident of history, nor a failure of his mission, for they are directly linked to his resurrection. To say that his death was an accident that should not have happened implies that his resurrection is too, and this is very serious.

1 Corinthians 15,17:

And if Christ is not risen, your faith is in vain; you are still in your sins.

Those who composed the gospel texts did not write like ignorant people. We discover that Yeshua is called "son of Joseph" (Luke 4:22 and John 1:45) AND that He is also called "son of David" (Matthew 9:27 and 21:9). In fact, they combine the gesture of the two "messiahs" into ONE, because that's what it's all about.

Luke 24,25-27:

Then Jesus said to them: O men of little understanding, whose hearts are slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! WAS IT NOT NECESSARY THAT CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER THESE THINGS AND ENTER INTO HIS GLORY? And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them in all the scriptures what concerned him.

In fact, this is what it's always been about. The primordial wisdom itself teaches it in various myths, such as that of Osiris, the grain of wheat that falls into the earth and fertilizes the land of Egypt.

And Yeshua says it too in John 12,24:

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Psalm 126,5-6:

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. He who walks weeping when he bears seed, returns rejoicing when he carries his sheaves. Genesis 8,22:

As long as the earth endures, sowing and harvesting, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. Behind this idea of two messiahs, one suffering and the other victorious, lie the two periods in the life of God's called that are sowing and harvesting etc.

Acts 14,22:

Strengthening the spirit of the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, and saying that it is through much tribulation that we must enter the kingdom of God.

SUFFERING IS THE GATEWAY TO GLORY

Paul says in Philippians 3,10-11:

So I shall know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to him in his death, that I may attain, if I may, to the resurrection from the dead.

When you take the broken bread of the Lord's Supper, you take the share of "his" sufferings necessary to introduce you to your share of the joy announced by the cup of wine.

NO SOWING, NO HARVEST! 

NO SUFFERING, NO GLORY!

That's why Paul says in Romans 8,18:

I believe that the sufferings of this present time cannot be compared with the glory to come, which will be revealed for us.

2 Timothy 2,11-12:

This word is certain: If we died with him, we shall also live with him; if we persevere, we shall also reign with him; IF WE DENY HIM, HE ALSO DENIES US.

In Christ, this principle prevails: suffering and glory. If you don't suffer for something, it's because someone has suffered for you, and that's why you'll always be indebted to Him.

2 Corinthians 5,14-15:

For the love of Christ urges us on, because we consider that if one died for all, then all died; and that he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose again for them.

You must, at some point, "despise ignominy", "overcome the threshold of suffering" and enter into your glory, for remember "KNOCK AND IT WILL BE OPENED TO YOU".

Matthew 20,21-22:

He said to her, "What do you want? She said to him, "Command that these two sons of mine be seated in your kingdom, one on your right and one on your left. Jesus answered: You don't know what you're asking. Can you drink the cup that I must drink?

Wherever you find water, it's because a well has been dug... at the price of suffering!

2 Corinthians 4,8-12:

We are pressed in every way, but not driven to extremity; in distress, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not lost; always bearing with us in our bodies the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are continually delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death works in us, and life works in you.

So then: "On the contrary, rejoice in the share you have in Christ's sufferings, so that you too may rejoice and be glad when his glory appears." (1 Peter 4,13)

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE TO THE ONE WHO BELIEVES, only, are you ready to knock on the door of suffering until it opens for you on the land of your expectation? FOR EVERYTHING HAS A WEIGHT, EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE!

I end here, Hebrews 12,2:

Having set our eyes on Jesus, who stirs up faith and leads it to perfection; in exchange for the joy that was reserved for him, he suffered the cross, despised ignominy, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

A disciple of Yeshua takes up his cross, endures his sufferings, follows him, despises ignominy and ends up on the throne.

This is the Way of the great, the one and only!

Enjoy your meditation!