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The Tenach Trail to Faith in Messiah
by Messianic Rabbi Ed Rothman
3) Repentance - Turning to G-d from our own ways!
- Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 18:30-32 "Therefore I will judge you, 0 house
of Israel, everyone according to his ways, saith the L-RD G-d.
Return ye and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so
shall they not be a stumbling block of iniquity unto you. Cast
away from all your transgressions, wherein you have transgressed;
and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die,
a house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him
that dies, saith the L-RD G-d; wherein turn yourselves and live."
- Isaiah
- Isaiah 55:6-7 "Seek ye the L-RD while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto
the L-RD and he will have compassion upon him and to our G-d,
for he will abundantly pardon."
- Joel
- Joel 2:12-13 "Therefore also now, says the L-RD, turn
ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping
and with mourning: and rend your heart and not your garments and
turn unto the L-RD your G-d: for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness."
- Malachi
- Malachi 3:18 "Then shall ye return, and discern between
the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves G-d and
him that serves him not."
- Yeshua
- New Covenant Parallel - Luke 13:3 "I tell you, Nay: except
ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."
- Paul
- New Covenant Parallel - Romans 2:4 "Or despises thou the
riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not
knowing that the goodness of G-d leaded thee to repentance."
- Peter
- New Covenant Parallel - II Peter 3:9 "The L-rd is not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but
is longsuffering to us, not willing that any should perish, but
that all should come to repentance.
- Yeshua
- New Covenant Parallel - Acts 26:18 "To open their eyes,
and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of
Hasatan (the Adversary) unto G-d, that they may receive forgiveness
of sins, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by faith
that is in me. "
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