The Lion of Judah Ministries — King Jesus, the Promised and Returning Messiah
Yeshua HaMashiach · Messiah ben Yosef

The First Advent,
The Suffering Messiah

Christ Jesus came first in humility, suffering and sacrifice. The Promised Seed entered human history as Yeshua HaMashiach, fulfilling the prophetic witness of the Hebrew Scriptures and giving His life for the redemption of humanity.

The Promise FulfilledThe Suffering Messiah
“But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.”
Luke 17:25
The Promised Seed

The Messiah entered history in fulfilment of promise.

From the earliest promise of redemption, Scripture points toward the One who would come to overcome sin and restore humanity to God. LOJM proclaims Christ Jesus as that promised Messiah — the Seed spoken of in Genesis 3:15, the Son of David, and Yeshua HaMashiach.

Born into the covenant story

The First Advent does not begin as an isolated New Testament event. It stands within the covenant story of Abraham, Israel, Judah and David. The Gospel witness presents Jesus as the promised royal descendant, born into Israel and identified with the line of David.

The Gospel of Matthew deliberately presents Jesus as the Son of David and Son of Abraham, connecting His birth to the promises made through Israel and to the expectation of the Jewish Messiah.

Immanuel — God with us

The prophetic expectation of the Messiah included the sign of a son whose coming would reveal God’s saving presence among His people.

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Isaiah 7:14

The First Advent

He came not first in earthly splendour, but in humility.

The Messiah who will return in glory first came lowly, rejected and afflicted. His First Advent reveals the Servant who came to save, heal, deliver and give Himself for others.

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The Promised Messiah Appears

Yeshua enters the world within Israel’s covenant history and Davidic expectation.

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The Anointed Servant

He proclaims good news to the poor, healing to the brokenhearted and liberty to the captives.

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The Suffering Messiah

Messiah ben Yosef is rejected, suffers and gives His life for the sins of others.

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The Lamb of God

Through His sacrificial blood, Christ establishes the New Covenant and brings redemption.

Messiah ben Yosef

The Suffering Messiah

The figure of Joseph — rejected, humbled, counted as lost, yet later exalted to save others — provides a powerful biblical pattern for understanding the suffering Messiah.

Suffering before glory

Rejected, afflicted, yet obedient

LOJM teaches that Jesus fulfilled the prophetic portrait of Messiah ben Yosef in His First Advent. He was despised and rejected, suffered for the sins of others, and walked the way of the cross before receiving the crown.

His suffering was not the failure of His Messianic mission. It was central to it.

One Messiah

The cross comes before the crown

Jesus Himself taught that He must first suffer and be rejected before His exaltation. The First Advent and Second Advent are therefore not the work of two separate messiahs, but two advents of the one Messiah.

In His First Advent He came as the Suffering Messiah. In His Second Advent He will return as Messiah ben David, the glorious King.

The Ministry of Messiah

He came to proclaim liberty.

At the beginning of His public ministry, Jesus read from the prophet Isaiah and announced the work of the Anointed One: good news to the poor, healing for the brokenhearted, deliverance for captives, sight for the blind and liberty for the bruised.

The First Advent reveals a Messiah who enters human suffering, confronts bondage and announces the acceptable year of the Lord.

Good news to the poorThe gospel of the Kingdom is proclaimed to those in need of salvation and hope.
Healing for the brokenheartedChrist’s ministry reaches wounded lives with mercy, restoration and truth.
Deliverance to the captivesHe comes to release those held in spiritual bondage and proclaim freedom.
Liberty to the bruisedThe Messiah’s work is redemptive, restorative and directed toward those crushed by sin and suffering.
The Humble King

Jerusalem received a King riding on a donkey.

Zechariah foretold a righteous and saving King who would come to Zion lowly and riding upon a donkey. The Gospel of Matthew presents Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem as the fulfilment of this prophecy.

Hosanna to the Son of David. The One acclaimed as King entered Jerusalem not with the military display of earthly rulers, but in humility. LOJM understands this as a defining image of Messiah ben Yosef: the promised King willingly approaching suffering for the sake of redemption.
The New Blood Covenant

The Lamb of God gives Himself for redemption.

The First Advent reaches its redemptive climax in the sacrificial death of Christ. LOJM teaches that the Akedah — the binding of Isaac and God’s provision of a substitute — foreshadows the ultimate provision of the Lamb of God.

Jesus gives Himself as a ransom and, through His shed blood, establishes the New Covenant of grace and reconciliation.

The promised Lamb“God Himself will provide a lamb” finds its ultimate redemptive meaning in Christ, the Lamb of God.
A sacrifice for othersThe Messiah is cut off not for His own sin, but gives Himself for the sins of others.
The blood of the New CovenantHis blood provides release from captivity to sin and opens the way of reconciliation with God.
Once for allChrist’s self-offering fulfils the sacrificial pattern and establishes the foundation of the New Covenant.
Prophecy and Fulfilment

The First Advent reveals the Suffering Servant.

LOJM understands the First Advent through the prophetic witness of passages such as Isaiah 52:13–15, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Zechariah 9 and Daniel 9 — texts that speak of suffering, rejection, sacrifice, kingship and redemption.

Isaiah 53

Wounded for others

The Suffering Servant bears affliction on behalf of others. This is central to LOJM’s understanding of Messiah ben Yosef and the saving work of Christ Jesus.

Daniel 9

Messiah cut off

Daniel speaks of Messiah being cut off. LOJM understands this as part of the prophetic pattern fulfilled in the sacrificial death of Jesus during His First Advent.

The Suffering Messiah will return as King.

Christ Jesus came first as Messiah ben Yosef — humble, rejected and suffering for the redemption of humanity. But the story does not end at the cross. The risen and glorified Messiah will return as Messiah ben David, the undisputed King of Israel. There are not two Messiahs, but ONE Messiah who comes twice.

The Second Advent