It’s All About Jesus!

Isaiah’s earth-shaking encounter with the King.

It was due to the evident increasing interest in Jesus expressed by Jews, along with the growing exploration of our Hebraic roots among Gentiles, that I was recently encouraged to write King of the Jews, demonstrating how Yeshua (his Hebrew name) fulfils all the hopes of the Jewish people as their Messiah-King – how his finger-prints are all over the Tanakh (Old Testament).

I have since completed this project, but there is a lot more to be said on the subject. It was only later, for example, that I realised how the Apostle John pointed out that Isaiah’s awesome vision of the Lord in Jerusalem’s Temple was actually of the pre-incarnate Jesus. And it was in the context of the general unbelief of the people at the time of our Lord’s earthly ministry that John quoted the prophet’s experience of spiritual blindness and misunderstanding that he also had to deal with. (See John 12.37-41).