Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Apr 16, 2021 at 14:20
Elsewhere in this forum, there was/is the issue that came from the basic premise, even in the Quran, that Yeshua, Issa, is the son of Mary; but many still wonder, Who is the Abba, Father? Only in the Hebrew Holy Writ is there the answer; and it is the only answer. Mary was overshadowed by the Spirit of the Father, just as the 'messenger' announced. The key to understanding this is that Mary understood, an amazing thing considering the circumstances that she would be facing, the scorn and derision of an unmarried young woman (a situation that changed when her espoused, Joseph, consented still to be her husband), the reputation that continued when Yeshua was reintroduced to Nazarene (Galilean) culture and later epithets from the religious leadership in Jerusalem. While the belief that Yeshua is the son of Mary is the natural witness, it is by the Holy Spirit that an individual is able to say that the Savior is Yeshua ben David, HaMashiach, the Son of the Most High. This is the appellation that the world is taught in its unbelief that continues until today; and it is this misrepresentation that the world will be judged by.
This must be believed while one still can; delaying and denying this is added to the record kept on each individual in Heaven for the future time that is approaching very soon.
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