About this episode

Rabbi Jason Sobel discusses the connections between creation, the fall, and the crucifixion in the context of Easter.

It's Good Friday, and we're going deep into the cross, the empty tomb, and the connections hiding in plain sight all over scripture. Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel, author of "Transformed by the Messiah," sits down to reveal how God encoded the story of redemption from the very first word of Genesis. Rabbi Jason unpacks why Jesus died on the sixth day, the same day man was created and fell, why the veil in the temple was a barrier guarded by cherubim just like the entrance to Eden, and why it tore from top to bottom. He traces the Passover lamb from Abraham's near sacrifice of Isaac to the third cup at the Last Seder, and reveals that when Jesus offered Himself on the cross, He had every person who would ever believe in Him in His mind, because no one could eat of the Passover lamb unless the one offering it was thinking of them. Rabbi Jason also shares his extraordinary testimony of encountering Jesus during meditation as a young Jewish man in New Jersey who thought "Christ" was a last name. From the Hebrew letter Vav, shaped like a nail reconnecting heaven and earth on the sixth day, to the number eight representing the supernatural breakthrough of the resurrection, to the tomb…

People in this episode

Guest: Rabbi Jason Sobel

Topics covered

• creation
• redemption
• Easter
• Messianic Judaism
• scripture interpretation
• the crucifixion
• the Passover

Keywords

• Good Friday
• cross
• empty tomb
• Genesis
• Passover lamb
• resurrection
• meditation
• cherubim
• Eden
• sixth day

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Transformed by the Messiah

Places: New Jersey

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