From the days of Moses there was prophesied of a Messiah to come to the nation of Israel to redeem it for the sins broken under the first covenant.

Heb 9:15 And because of this He is Mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having occurred  for redemption of transgressions under the first covenant, those being called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.

Deut 18:15 Yahweh your Elohim shall raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, one like me; you shall listen to him,

There have been many false messiahs since Moses claiming to be this promised seed of Abraham through David. Everyone from Simon Bar Kochba to Sheptai Zevi has proved to be false messiahs. Who is the prophesied Messiah of Israel, and how can you be sure?

There are over 300 messianic prophecies and only one person in the history of Israel has fulfilled all of these. When you look at the law of odds and probability of one man fulfilling each and every prophecy it is mind staggering. It is something like 100 zillion quadrillion to 1; Only Yahshua of Nazareth has fulfilled all 300 prophecies that were written about the Messiah of Israel.

John 5:39 Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.

So if only Yahshua of Nazareth fulfilled all these prophecies than why wouldn’t most people plainly be able to see this fact?

The answer lies in the history from the early 1^st century A.D. until the early 4^th century A.D. The plain truth of the matter is that all early believers were Israelites, (many from the tribe of Judah) and many Jews in the first century believed that Yahshua of Nazareth was the promised Messiah.

Act 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified Yahweh, and said unto him, you see brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the Torah.

Thousands and thousands of Jews in the first century who saw the many signs and miracles that Yahshua performed did believe that He was the promised Messiah.

It was not until the 2^nd century A.D. when the religion of modern Judaism was created by Rabbi Akiva that Jews were intimidated by Akiva not to believe in Yahshua as Messiah.

Yahshua claimed the full authority of the Messiah of Israel and so did Akiva; it was inevitable that a problem would happen between the two sects of believers.

Akiva distorted the facts about Yahshua of Nazareth and confiscated the property of fellow Jews that believed in Yahshua and even had many killed during the Bar Kochba revolt. Akiva was the one who named Bar Kochba the Messiah, knowing well that any believer in Yahshua would not fight in a holy war for a false Messiah. This gave Akiva the authority through the rabbinic court of his day to have the believers of Yahshua punished and even put to death. But history clearly shows that many Jews in the first century did indeed believe in Yahshua of Nazareth as the promised Messiah.

Then the Christians under Constantine turned Yahshua, the Hebrew Messiah into a Greek Messiah early in the fourth century. Constantine, who was a sun worshiper and a pagan, apparently saw a vision of a cross before a decisive battle and then claimed to be a Christian. Soon after his so called conversion, he had his mother and son murdered and changed all of the Torah based laws such as Sabbath keeping etc to the pagan customs he had, such as Sunday worship etc.

Constantine gathered all Catholic bishops and hierarchy of his day to a conference called “The Council of Nicea”, where he officially changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday, and also brought in many other pagan customs such as Christmas and Easter celebrations which stem from Paganism and do not have any scriptural support.

The birth of the Messiah could not have been on December 25, as shepherds in Israel would not be in the fields in winter, but December 25^th is the day of the pagan saturnalia, which is right after the winter solstice, where it is believed that the Sun gives birth on that day, and even the word “Easter” is derived from the Babylonian pagan goddess Istar. All of these facts and more are documented in my book called, “The Great Falling Away“.

Rabbi Akivas Messiah by Dan Gruber sites all the facts of this time in detail

Even the name Jesus is from the Greek name ie- zeus or sous. The Messiah of Israel was a Hebrew. He was an Israelite from the tribe of Judah; He was not Greek and did not have a Greek name. Every name in Hebrew has special meaning. Daniel means El is my judge, Elijah means Yahweh is my El. There is not a name in Hebrew that does not have a root meaning to the name.

Yahshua means Yahweh’s salvation and it was prophesied that the Messiah of Israel would have the name of Yahweh the Father in heaven, in His name.

Exo 23:20 Behold, I am about to send a Messenger before you, to guard you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.

Exo 23:21 Be on guard before Him, and listen to His voice. Do not be rebellious against Him, for He will not forgive your sins; for My name is in Him

So very clearly it was prophesied that the name of Yahweh would also be in the name of the Messiah. Jesus has no etymology or meaning to it. It is a Greek hybrid name that has no original meaning to it; where as the name Yahshua, (which in the original Hebrew means Yahweh’s salvation) tells exactly the job that the Messiah of Israel will do. He will be the salvation of Israel.

Israelites were functional people. The name of the Creator when first asked by Moses was revealed as, I am that I am, or better rendered in the original Hebrew,“I exist“. When Yahweh was asked His name, He told not only His name Yahweh, but what He does, “He exists.”

Today in the west we do not think functionally like ancient Israelites, but with more of a Greek mind set. The Greek mind thinks more of what something is instead of what something does.

Think functionally for a moment; if you lived in the first century A.D. and you saw the Messiah of Israel in Galilee, do you suppose He would have a Greek name or a Hebrew one? Of coarse He would have a Hebrew one. The Messiah of Israel was named Yahshua (Yahweh’s salvation) not Jesus which has no etymology.

This is a very important fact as you will see later in this book, but for now let me dogmatically prove to you from scripture that the Messiah of Israel had a Hebrew name and not a Greek name.

If you look in Acts the 26^th chapter, you will see The Apostle Paul recounting to King Agrippa about how he discovered the Messiah of Israel on the road to Damascus.

Act 26:14 And all of us falling to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.

Act 26:15 And I said, Who are you, Sir? And He said, I am Yahshua whom you persecute;

It is most interesting to note that Yahshua spoke to Paul in the Hebrew dialect, and also please note that there is no letter “j” in Hebrew and there was no letter “j” in any language until the 16^th century. Clearly if Yahshua was speaking to Paul in Hebrew, He would have given His Hebrew name. This is functional thinking.

Also look at what the angel told Mary about the name of the Savior in the book of Mathew.

Mat 1:21 And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Yahshua, for He shall save His people from their sins.

Yahshua means Salvation. Since Joseph was Jewish and spoke Hebrew, It only makes sense that the angel who came to Joseph would have spoken to him in Hebrew. It also stands to reason that the angel would have used the Hebrew name Yahshua which means “to save” or simply “salvation” since he was speaking to Joseph in Hebrew. It is totally illogical that the angel would have used a Greek name such as “Jesus”, that does not even have meaning to a Hebrew person such as Joseph.

In this book what I aim to do is to reveal to you Yahshua the true Messiah of Israel. I aim to bring to light what Akiva and Constantine have tried to hide many hundreds of years ago. I aim to reclaim to the

Jewish nation and the Israelites who are still living in Diaspora their true Messiah who came to their nation to redeem them back to the original covenant promises of Abraham.

Come follow me as we rediscover the truth that has been sadly hidden from so many, for so many years. Let us not take man’s word for it, let us not take our traditional viewpoints that can not be proven from scripture, but instead let us read directly from the bible to see who the true Messiah of Israel is.