I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. This is a fascinating subject explained really well.

Disappointed to have this one pulled from my account before I could finish reviewing it. Cannot fairly review. I wish the author the best with his book.

When I was in class I took a class that taught not only Jewish history, but how it was linked to our bible and our Christianity, cotaught by a lay teacher, whi had rabbincal studies, and a priest, I felt like I truly learned more about my faith in that one class. This book reminds me of that class- it's an eye opener, to better understanding our faith AND our bible!

We often forget that Christianity is based in, and on, the Jewish faith. Sobel does a great job in showing where this Jewish foundation is, in the Old Testament, and how its numerology can also be found in our bible. Often we see the Old Testament and dividing from Jewish prophecies by the time the New Testament comes around, but Sobbel shows where that is wrong thinking. In fact, the prophesies are there, and very strongly too! I found myself thinking that this book is like studying genealogy- if you don't understand the roots you come from, you can't understand how far your family has come. This book opens up the roots of our Christian faith in a way we haven't seen before, and let's our faith grow by leaps and bounds after finishing it!

While I had an ebook version, I would greatly recommend getting a paper version, to allow for note taking/highlighting, because trust me, you will want to earmark pages to share with friends and your pastor! In fact, I recommend giving a copy to your pastor, as it would be a great bible study class book! In fact, it may become your top Christmas gift to give this year!

"Mysteries of the Messiah" looked at how different words add up to certain numbers and how words with the same number point to Jesus as Messiah. The idea is that each letter in Hebrew and Greek has a corresponding number and you can add up the letters in a word or phrase to get the corresponding number. The author feels that it's perfectly valid to connect words and phrases with the same number and these will point to theological truths. He didn't convince me of this as the connection is never derived simply from the words.

He also taught some rather odd ideas from various Jewish traditions. For example, he believes that the Fall happened on day 6 (apparently, of creation week, even though God says that everything was very good on that day). Also, he teaches about a donkey that would have been hundreds of years old, a ram over a thousand years old, the tradition that Isaac was actually killed and was dead for a while before being resurrected, and the belief that Israel shared the same land boundaries as the Garden of Eden (though that old ram was apparently living in the Garden of Eden until needed as a sacrifice instead of Isaac).

However, he did cover some information that is more widely taught. I've read similar information in other (much better) books talking about finding symbolism pointing to the Messiah in the feasts or providing cultural background to various verses in Genesis. The author talked about a couple prophecies that were fulfilled by Yeshua and how his life was reflected in the Passover, First Fruits, and Pentecost. He talked about how there were similar events in the life of Yeshua and in the lives of Joseph, Moses, and David and events symbolic of Yeshua's mission in the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Ruth. He also talked about creation (where he rather freely changed the common translations of various words to translations that better fit his ideas).

An interesting look at the connections between the text of the Old Testament and the New Testament,revealing God's story of the coming of the Messiah. Christians often settle for the accounts of Jesus Life in the New Testament totally missing the foreshadowing and the workings of God's plan throughout the Old Testament to bring Christ to life and resurrection in the New Testament . God's plan began in Genesis and Rabbi Sobel seeks to lead you through revelations of Christ in the complete Bible.
This is an interesting read - I think it would be an easier read in printed form as e-books are hard to navigate from page and back to an earlier page.

I liked this book. Very informative on Jesus and his story. I found it interesting how stories in the Bible are linked to the Messiah and his second coming. Also never knew how everything is numerically connected as well.

This is an educational, capitating read of the highest order.

Rabbi Jason Sobel connects the Old Testament and the New Testament with great insight, and he writes in an easy to follow and understand way.

As I am neither a biblical historian nor a theologian, I cannot speak too deeply of the substance except to say that I was fascinated and learned a great deal. I am a person of faith and appreciated the sensitivity in Rabbi's writing. For those who have interest in religion, history, Christianity, Jesus, and the bible, I would highly recommend this book.

I received an Advanced Readers Copy through NetGalley.

For the most part, it was an interesting [and useful] perspective trying to find links between the Judaic Tanakh (aka Old Testament) and the Christian New Testament. Over all, I found the links made with an accompanying commentary on the cultural context for events to be the most helpful. The numerology components were more hit or miss. Where there symbolism/meaning of numbers were discussed along with citations on where they appear were interesting, I didn't find the use of numbers of one phrase to indirectly reference/connect a phrase in other places to be a bit of a stretch in many cases, especially when referencing different languages and/or phrases instead of single words. Unfortunately there is a significant amount of that in the book and it made it a tough slog at times.

I was given this free advance reader copy (ARC) ebook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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This book purports to show the concept of the Messiah from the Jewish perspective. Many of the revelations disclosed in the book relate to numerology which I find unconvincing. To the extent that the author relates Old Testament stories and characters to the Christ, the book has some benefit. I give it 2.5 stars, but round up to 3 stars based on some of the chapters.
The author identifies Jonathan Cahn as a mentor. Cahn wrote the introduction. If you like Cahn’s book, The Harbinger, you will like this book. I found them both to be sophistical and had to force myself to finish them.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Messianic Jew trying to view the messiah through the lens of numerology. I would have been happier with a purely scripture based christology of the messiah. Kind of misleading to call himself a Rabbi, as he was ordained by the UMJC. DNF after introduction.

I am in awe of the scope and practical but important facts surrounding the Messiah. Rabbi Sobel has crafted a well thought out timeline of the power and teachings, miracles, and facts that most religious Christians and Jewish people have discussed for many years. I dont want to spoil the way this book heads in relationship to who the Messiah is . I learned so much about my religion from reading this book that I was amazed! I also now have an idea of what may occur as the years roll by and God is in complete charge of it all. Excellent and well written. Those who love a mystery and want to know more about God should read this book!.