Asher Intrater > Quotes

“On the one hand it is impossible to see God. On the other hand, our patriarchs and prophets did see “Someone” from time to time.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“This is not portrayed as a dream or vision, but as an actual historical event One may or may not believe that the Bible is true. However, it is unquestionable that the biblical text considers this event to have taken place literally. In this description, we have an astonishing biblical claim: Yehovah is seen, heard and touched. Yehovah has come to visit man in a human form.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Forgiveness without moral law leads to humanism and crime. Moral law without forgiveness leads to religiosity and condemnation. Christianity that does not see Yeshua as the Law-giver is in danger of humanistic relativism and becoming an excuse for Western moral decadence. Judaism without the grace of Yeshua as the Law-forgiver is in danger of legalist extremism and becoming a Jewish version of Islamic Sharia law.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“El Shaddai, God-Man-Angel, is none other than Yeshua. Yes, the one that we have been rejecting for 2,000 years. His figure has towered over our people throughout our history, whether we have liked it or not. It is not a coincidence that our 2,000 year exile started immediately after our rejection of His message.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Perhaps there is still some question whether the man at Peniel was God. However, look what is written in this review of the Peniel encounter. The divine visitor reiterates the covenant promises; He reminds him of the blessing and of how He changed his name to Israel. This is clearly the same “Person” speaking. Genesis 35:9, 11— Then God appeared to Jacob again... Also God said to him, “I am God Almighty (El Shaddai).” El Shaddai God says, “I am the Man who wrestled with you at Peniel.” And in reverse, the Man who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel says, “I am El Shaddai.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“The God we cannot see is the one Yeshua referred to as “our Father in heaven.” The one we can see and touch in a bodily form is referred to by several names, including the Word of God, the Angel of Yehovah, the Son of Man, and the Son of God.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Genesis 31:11— Then the Angel of God spoke to me in the dream, “Jacob.” And I said, “Here I am.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“In Jeremiah 31, God promises a New Covenant to provide forgiveness of sins and to write the Torah on our hearts.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“There are many angels, and they often appear to the sons of men. Yet, there is another figure, called the Angel of Yehovah. He is different. He speaks as God in the first person, and He is called by the name Yehovah.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“He existed before as the divine angel, but the divine-human union in Yeshua was a new reality that came into being only at His birth.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“One can see a parallel between Abraham eating lunch with the Yehovah-Man in Genesis 18 and Yeshua eating with His disciples at the last supper and on the shores of Galilee. Think of the dynamic: intimate yet awesome; mystic yet earthly; divine yet human— God and man having fellowship over a covenant meal.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“The fact that His name was proclaimed at the time of circumcision demonstrates that Yeshua’s identity as a human being is connected to a covenant commitment to the Jewish people.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Genesis 18:1-2 Then Yehovah appeared to him at the oaks of Mamre, as he was sitting at the tent opening in the heat of the day. So he lifted his eyes and saw, and behold three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent opening to meet them, and bowed himself down to the ground.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“The Angel of Yehovah who demanded circumcision of Abraham was later to be circumcised Himself when He was born into the earth as a man.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Our forefathers knew El Shaddai in the form of a God-Man-Angel. However, His exact identity was somewhat of a mystery to them. In later years, He was to be revealed as Messiah.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Character joins our inner conscience to our behavior in the world.”
― Asher Intrater, Covenant Relationships: A Handbook for Integrity and Loyalty

“Our chosen-ness as a people is determined through our relationship with Yeshua. Without Yeshua, our very identity as Jews, as Israelis, as the chosen people, loses its purpose.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not a detached and distant deity, whom we cannot know or feel. He is closer than Mount Sinai; He does more than make laws and set rules; He is not a pillar of fire and cloud. He is personal, intimate, and involved in our lives. He appeared to our forefathers in the form of a Man and an Angel, and made covenant with them”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“All those were normal angels. But, at the top of the ladder he sees another figure. Genesis 28:13— And behold, Yehovah stood on top of it and said, “I am Yehovah the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac.”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?

“Yeshua cut covenant with the Jewish people when He was circumcised in the flesh;”
― Asher Intrater, Who Ate Lunch with Abraham?