{"id":13560,"date":"2018-11-14T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2018-11-14T07:41:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:41:36","slug":"the-spirit-of-judas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/the-spirit-of-judas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Judas is alive and well today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Judas-being-paid.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13561\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Judas-being-paid.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Matthew 26:14\u201315,<\/b> <b><i>Then Judas.<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>When Yeshua plainly stated that he\u2019d be crucified soon, Judas evidently became disillusioned, since he was expecting a Conquering King Messiah, not a Suffering Servant Messiah. With Yeshua as a conquering king, Judas could have expected a prominent position in Yeshua\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>The lust for money and power were likely the motives behind Judas\u2019 following Yeshua (after all, Judas carried the money bag for Yeshua\u2019s ministry). When Yeshua predicted his crucifixion, Judas\u2019 incentives for following him suddenly vanished. Judas figured he\u2019d salvage what he could of his unfulfilled expectations and enrich himself, even if it meant betraying Yeshua for money. Judas had come to the conclusion that Yeshua was a false Messiah faker and that he had wasted several years of his life following him, so, in his mind, giving Yeshua over to the Jewish authorities wasn\u2019t an act of betrayal at all, but was an act of civil service to expose Yeshua as a trouble-making fraud.<\/p>\n<p>To Judas, the Jewish leaders had been right after all to reject Yeshua as the Messiah. To them, he was merely a pretender, a deceiver, an agitator and a troubler, and Judas had come to the same conclusion. When Judas came to this realization, he now found it advantageous to his personal well-being to cast his lot in with the Jewish religious establishment and to make some money from it as well.<\/p>\n<p>In our day, there many Judas-type people who turn away from following Yeshua. Many reasons can be given for this, but it boils down to three things: the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. 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