Yeshua's Mission
1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53: 1 - 2)
The biblical story of Mary and the angel can easily considered to be one of the most famous. Everyone knows it in some form or another. The problem with such a known story is that the details tend to be forgotten. One of the notable ones is what Yeshua’s mission truly was. What was the mission for the Son of Man? Why did He come to Earth?
To answer the question of the mission of Yeshua, one must look at the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke. The book of Luke recounts that the angel told Mary that “Your son will be king of Jacob’s people forever and His Kingdom will ever end” (Luke 1:33). To add to that, the Gospel according to Matthew says that an angel will visit Joseph and tell him “She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Yeshua [He Saves], because he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). Finally, further along in Yeshua’s life, in the book of Matthew 15:24, that “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel.” To be brief, Yeshua was sent to save the people of Israel as their king, to redeem them from their sins and align them to the Father.
The understanding of the original purpose as to why Yeshua came to Earth tends to generally lead to questions such as: who are the lost sheep of the nation of Israël? What about those who aren’t the chosen people of Yahweh?
To explain the lost sheep of Israël is to return to the book of Genesis, when Yahweh changes Jacob’s name to Israël (Genesis 28:10 - 22, Genesis 32: 1 - 32, v. 9 - 10, 24 - 31). He would have twelve sons, who would themselves have children and develop into the twelve tribes of Israël. After the reign of kings such as David and Solomon, the nation would be divided in two: Judah and Benjamin as well as the Nation of Israel, which incorporated the ten other tribes (1 King 11:29-31). This was due to Solomon's disobedience (1 King 11:11 - 13) The Nation of Israël would be driven out of the promised land by invaders and would seemingly disappear all over the Earth:
Israel is scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and last, this King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon . . . (Jer 50:17)”
Yeshua, as the Good Shepherd, is supposed to bring all of the lost sheep of the House of Israël together once more. Bringing them back to Yahweh so that the people that He had chosen (Deuteronomy 6:7 - 9) can truly be the vehicle for salvation for people from all over the Earth (John 4:22).
For those who are not descendants of Israël, anybody can be part of Yahweh’s people: we see it with Ruth (Ruth 4:21 - 22), Rahab (Matthew 1:5) . Even in Egypt, people who were not of the house of Israël joined them in the Exodus (Exodus 12:38), eventually receiving the instructions of Yahweh after Moses’s time on Mount Sinaï. Yahweh does not exclude people from joining Him and His people; He wants humanity to get to know Him (Psalms 34:8) and obey his commandments (1 John 5:3).
In conclusion, the mission of Yeshua is to reconnect humanity to Yahweh, however, that is done by bringing back the lost sheep of Israël. Today, there are still people who have not found their identity in Israël, as it was written in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32, verse 26. The mission for the modern church is to present the Lamb of Yahweh; His people will hear the call and know their identity.