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Daily Devotionals
Voice of the Lord
God raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it! (Acts 2:32)
According to Jewish tradition, King David died on Shavu'ot (the Feast of Weeks). David is still in his tomb, but Yeshua is not. The fact that God has raised Yeshua from the dead—delivering him from his tomb—means that he is Lord and Messiah.
In Brooklyn, New York, there are many Chabad Chasidim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) who still hope that their rebbe (chief rabbi), Menachem Schneerson, will rise from the dead and thereby prove that he is the Messiah. Unlike them, we have a living Messiah!
The prophet Isaiah foretold of the Messiah's suffering and resurrection: "After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the crimes of my people.... After this ordeal [suffering], he will see satisfaction" (Isaiah 53:8,11). As the long-awaited Suffering Servant, Yeshua died for our sins and was resurrected before hundreds of witnesses! Today he lives to intercede on our behalf in the heavenly tabernacle
...put my trust fully in Yeshua, knowing that he is alive and able to help me.
KK
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