Today was an anniversary that Jews don't commemorate out of denial and Christians don't recognize out of naivete...In our Messianic Temple, today, we said the weekly parashah....the selected Biblical readings for the service.
There is a portion from the Torah-the 1st 5 books-the Books of Instruction or "Law," then there is a reading from the books of the Prophets and Writings. The cycle is consistent so every year that reading is the same.

Today's reading was Isaiah 61:10-.63:9..but that is the modern day schedule. Last week's reading was Isaiah 60:1-22...So what is so important about this?
Isaiah 61:1-2 says:
The Year of the LORD’s Favor
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor

Now, read Luke 4:18:

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
Luke 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

So, after spending his 40 days confronting Satan, Yeshua returns to the Temple, and He is called to read from the Haftorah Scroll...and the reading is Isaiah 61:1-2....In other words, yesterday (Saturday) was the anniversary of the day in which Yeshua/Jesus started His ministry to the world.

The passages do not change--the next Sabbath (day of rest) is Yom Teruah or Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumptets...or Head of the New Year)....and it would be the beginning of the true Messianic Age...
Posted with permission from Jay Wiesburd



Jay Weisburd (Hebrew name "Yehuda"), the story of 3 years vs 40 is not just the saga of the Exodus and the scouts. At 16, in 1969, 3 years after his Bar Mitzvah, this former Conservative Jewish nephew of a well-known New York city area cantor first heard the term "Hebrew Christian." But, he would wander through the desert for nearly 37 more years (becoming an active Presbyterian, baptized by the Church of Christ, an usher for the Assembly of God) until, thanks to the inspiration of famous psalmist, Marty Goetz, he finally reconciled his belief in Judaism and Yeshua and became a Messianic Jew.

A dream led him, and his second wife, to a Messianic Congregation in Bath, Ohio (Rosh Pinah), where he found the answers to so many of the questions he had about Yeshua and Judaism. In 2008, after Yeshua refused to let him take his life when his wife walked away, Jay was baptized by the Ruach HaKodesh. He has used his 5 decades of experience to pass on messages about Messianic Judaism to others both online, and in churches and temples in Ohio and now on Long Island (Shuvah Yisrael, Plainview, NY).

He is writing a book called "It's Not the Messengers, It's the Message" about how both sides-Rabbinic Jews and Christians-misled him along his own spiritual journey until he realized the only true source of information was always readily available-the TaNaKh and the Brit Hadasha. Faced with terminal renal failure, Jay is only glad he finally knows what it is like to have the relationship with the "true love of my life, one who had me chasing a woman's skirts along the way until I found His robe."