Ministry of Yeshua (Jesus) 3.5 years or 70 Weeks (490 days)?

Many ask: “What does it matter how long Yeshua’s ministry lasted?” The reason this matters is because there are numerous prophetic parallels between Yeshua’s first coming (as the Suffering Servant) with His future coming as the Anointed Son of David, King of Israel. There are at least 3 levels to Daniel’s 70 Week Prophecy and Yeshua’s ministry chronologically falls into precisely that, 70 Weeks.

The following quotes taken from The Greatest Story NEVER Told! The Jonah Code and the Seventy Weeks Prophecy of Daniel by Michael Rood.

“From when Yahshua was baptized in water, into the Spring, the Summer, and all the way around to the Fall, showing you week by week exactly where Yahshua was with no lapse in time at all. Then we find out there is a miracle that takes place in every one of the Gospels, the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. It takes place two weeks and three days before the Feast of Tabernacles (in everyone of the Gospels). However, in some of the ancient Greek texts, 8 Greek words were added in: “and Passover, Feast of the Jews was nigh”. And what that did was artificially expand the length of Yeshua’s ministry. They added, literally, 6 and a half months of absolutely blank canvas into the Gospel record.”

There are many places in our English Bible translations where Yeshua is falsely depicted as being anti-Torah (no doubt He was anti-Takkanot), but it is rare that entire sentences are added into the text like in the case of John 6:4 for such purposes. Rood continues:

“Then we see what they [scribes] did add was a Passover that doesn’t exist. A Passover that Yahshua never goes up to. We see exactly what He is doing for the next two weeks. He never goes any where near Jerusalem, but He does feed five thousand people with leavened bread (which I now affectionately refer to as the Feast of Leavened Bread). Five days later, He feeds another four thousand people with Leavened Bread. He teaches a whole synagogue full of people who are disobedient to the Torah and they’re hanging out in the Galilee instead of being up at Jerusalem. For this whole two week period of time, He is doing nothing but violating the Torah, if those words were in the original text.”

Rood then describes how this falsified Passover is followed up with five and half months of more blank canvas until we come all the way back around to the Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot).

“…Yahshua’s ministry, if it is a fulfillment of Daniel’s Prophecy, is going to be 70 weeks, exactly 490 days from the day He is baptized until the day He baptizes with the Holy Spirit, one of the layers of Daniel.”

“The early church fathers, the first and second centuries after the Gospels were written, Clement of Alexandria, being the foremost on this, said that Yahshua’s ministry was about one year in duration. Four other church fathers in the first two centuries afterwards said that His ministry was about a year in duration. And you know what all the rest of the church fathers said? Absolutely nothing. They didn’t dispute it!”

Quotes taken from The Greatest Story NEVER Told! The Jonah Code and the Seventy Weeks Prophecy of Daniel by Michael Rood.

The other year which is typically used to artificially expand Yeshua’s ministry is determined by reckoning John 5:1 with yet another Passover, when it is actually the Festival of Shavout (Pentecost). Adding these two extra Passovers into the Ministry equation is the reason modern teachers insist Yeshua ministered for 3 and a half years before His ascension back to the Father. When you take these two non-Passovers out of the equation, His ministry beautifully shrinks back down to 70 Weeks (490 days). To go into this in greater detail, get Rood’s teaching: 70 Week Ministry of the Messiah.

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2030 Return of Yeshua (Jesus)? Comparing John 4:40,43 with Hosea 6:2

John 4:40,43:
40 Therefore when the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.
43 And after the two days He left there and went to Galil.

Because the Arab/Muslim Alliance (prophesied in Psalm 83) doesn’t appear to be formed or forming yet (with serious Nuclear capabilities), Tim McHyde and others are beginning to think this soon to start 7 year Shmittah cycle may not be the cycle which ushers in the Great Tribulation and finally the return of Yehoshua (Jesus). And because of some insight from John 4:40,43 (admittedly speculative), it is thought that Yehoshua may not return and be accepted by Judah (the Jews) until the Shmittah cycle ending in the year 2030. This insight is deduced by adding 2,000 years (two days) from the time Yehoshua was resurrected and embraced by “the Gentiles” (about 29/30 CE).

It is intriguing that the Gospel of John references two days in such quick succession. Once would generally have been enough, but twice leads me to think that the Ruach (Spirit) was indeed conveying something John didn’t even understand himself. I do agree that John 4 could be telling us something significant, but not necessarily pointing to an exact 2,000 year period (however I admit it could be and ultimately may be). Even still, I wonder if the reference to two days could be an inexact reference similar to Hosea 6:2:

Hosea 6:2:
He will revive us after two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.

I realize some Messianic and Christian theologians tend to see the above passage as a reference to Yehoshua’s death and resurrection, but Yehoshua was raised back to life “after” three days, not “in” the third day (Matthew 12:40). Besides, Hosea 6 is contextually referring to 10-Israel (Ephraim) being raised up (Ezekiel 37’s dry bones) after being cut-off for two-plus days. We (10-Israel/Goyim/Gentiles) have been cut-off for about 2700 years (see Timeline of Israel and Judah). So we are currently “in” the third day where Hosea indicated we would be “raised up”. There is no indication that it would be at the beginning, middle, or end of the third day.

And like-wise, John 4:43 indicates that “…AFTER the two days He left there and went to Galilee.” So sometime on the third day after the 6th hour (ref. John 4:6 to see when He arrived in Samaria) Yeshua left for Galil. It is possible he left at sun down (shortly after the 6th hour), but He may have waited until the morning of the third day to travel at first light… which would be more likely, but we simply don’t know. So I don’t think John 4:40,43 really implicates an “exact” two day (2,000 year) period before Yehoshua returns to Judah.

Like many others, I believe there could be a rapid escalation and major Nuclear war in the Middle East sometime between now and 2010, but much is still yet to be seen. The Great Tribulation could be upon us soon or it may be many Shmittah cycles in the future. Once Eliyahu (Elijah) appears on the seen, we will certainly know then how much time we have.

Was Yeshua (Jesus) a Pharisee?

Nehemia Gordon writes: “A recent review of my book The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus claims that Yeshua did in fact support the “god-given” authority of the Pharisees who sit in the Seat of Moses. One of the main claims in the review was that Yeshua upheld the Pharisee Oral Law. This is a common argument put forward by Oral Law-believing Messianics.”

Read the Full Article here: Was Yeshua a Pharisee?

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Lecture video by Nehemiah Gordon

“Hebrew Yeshua vs Greek Jesus” by Nehemiah Gordon

This is a rather long video. But it gives profound insights into the “Oral Torah” of the House of Judah (Jew-dah) and makes an attempt to reconcile Matthew 15 with Matthew 23, where Yeshua seems to both condone and then reject the “traditions of the elders”… that is: commandments added to what יהוה instructed Moshe (Moses).

Nehemia Gordon’s book by the same title is also something I highly recommend. It can be purchased here. Even so, the video is more entertaining.

If the video freezes at any point, you can drag the slider forward and backward to cause Google to reinitialize the video. Seems to be a buffering problem for some people.

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