S1 E6: The Growth of a Movement: How Yeshua's Following Grew and Matured

10/16/20 • 18 min

How did the movement Yeshua led begin, how did it grow? How did it mature? Even more importantly, what were the seeds for what the movement would become? We have to step aside from 2,000 years of Christian theologizing and thinking, and see him as he was. We also need to look with the eyes of hindsight, and seeing him in his context we can see the deliberate steps he was taking to proclaim, establish, and ensure the perpetuation of the kingdom of God.

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On Messianic Judaism - S1 E6: The Growth of a Movement: How Yeshua's Following Grew and Matured

Transcript

Welcome to the On Messianic Judaism Podcast. Hi, this is Daniel Nessim and today we’ll continue our series on the History of the Messianic movement by surveying the years in which Yeshua taught and how they provided a foundation for the movement that was to come. This is episode 6 in our series, called The Growth of a Movement: How Yeshua’s Following Grew and Matured.
This is an historical study. We are putting Messianic Judaism within the history of Judaism, where it belongs. How did t