Close Examination: Jovan's View of Yeshua's Purpose and Death
- Charles
- Dec 2, 2025
- 5 min read
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This analysis is offered in the spirit of Berean inquiry: "They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:11)
Close Examination: Jovan's View of Yeshua's Purpose and Death
The Key Statement
"I ask him, what do you think Jesus got killed for? I thought it was blasphemy. Right. No, it wasn't. Jesus was bringing a very simple message of Judaism, but he was saying, you see these buildings? You see these people in robes? You see this money changing and stuff? That is not what this is about... you have a direct connection to God. That's right. That's why he was killed. Yep. Period. Because he spoke the singular truth. You are directly connected to God. You don't have to go through people. You don't have to go through things. You don't have to go through a hanging amulet or cross or whatever. You have a direct connection, and you can talk to him. And that's why they killed him."
The Second Statement
"But it's interesting. That's what it took. Something as horrible as that is what got turned and used for good, but it brought about an equal amount of good, but it was mirrored by an equal amount of evil with it, like people don't even understand."
What Jovan Says Yeshua Came For
According to this statement, Yeshua's purpose was:
To bring "a very simple message of Judaism"
To critique religious institutionalism ("buildings," "robes," "money changing")
To teach that people have "direct connection to God"
To eliminate mediators ("you don't have to go through people")
Why Jovan Says He Died
He challenged the religious system
He spoke truth the establishment didn't want heard
It was "something horrible" - an unfortunate tragedy
It "got turned and used for good" - salvaged after the fact
What Is Catastrophically Absent
Not once does Jovan mention:
Sin - The word never appears in connection to Yeshua's death
Atonement - No covering for transgression
Sacrifice - No substitutionary offering
The Lamb - No Passover connection
Blood - No blood of the covenant
Ransom - No redemption price
Propitiation - No satisfaction of divine justice
Reconciliation - No healing of the breach between God and man caused by sin
Resurrection - Mentioned nowhere in the entire transcript
The Revealing Phrase
"Something as horrible as that is what got turned and used for good"
This single sentence exposes the entire theology. The death is framed as:
An unfortunate event ("horrible")
Something that happened to him, not something he came to do
A tragedy that God somehow repurposed afterward ("got turned")
This is not the Gospel. This is martyrdom theology - a good man killed by a corrupt system, whose death was retroactively given meaning.
What Scripture Says He Came For
His own words:
"For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." (Mark 10:45)
"For this cause came I unto this hour." (John 12:27)
"This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." (Matthew 26:28)
John the Immerser's declaration:
"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)
The prophetic purpose (Isaiah 53):
"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:4-5)
"Yet it pleased YHWH to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of YHWH shall prosper in his hand." (Isaiah 53:10)
The apostolic testimony:
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:3)
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Peter 2:24)
The Theological Chasm
The Irony of "No Mediators"
Jovan says Yeshua's message was "you don't have to go through people... you have a direct connection."
But Yeshua said:
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)
"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved." (John 10:9)
Yeshua didn't come to eliminate mediation. He came to be the mediator - the one through whom access to the Father is granted. The veil of the Temple was torn at his death, not because mediation ended, but because he himself became the way into the holy place:
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh." (Hebrews 10:19-20)
What This Theology Produces
If Yeshua merely came to teach "direct connection" and was tragically killed for it:
There is no need for atonement (no sin problem addressed)
There is no power in the blood (blood isn't mentioned)
There is no resurrection hope (resurrection isn't mentioned)
There is no new covenant (the covenant is purely Sinai, unchanged)
Faith in Yeshua is unnecessary (just access God directly)
His death was incidental, not essential
This is a gutted Gospel. It's Yeshua as social reformer, not Yeshua as Savior. It's martyrdom, not redemption. It's tragedy repurposed, not sacrifice purposed from eternity.
The Bottom Line
Jovan has presented a Yeshua who:
Came to teach, not to die
Was killed by the system, not offered by the Father
Suffered a tragedy, not accomplished a mission
Pointed to God, but is not himself God
Removes the need for mediators, rather than being the one Mediator
This is not the Gospel. This is not the apostolic faith. This is not even coherent Judaism, which understood that "without shedding of blood is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22, echoing Leviticus 17:11).
The cross was not an accident that got salvaged.
The Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.
"Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." (Acts 2:23)
Determinate counsel. Foreknowledge. Purpose.
Jovan has preached another Jesus - one who came to reform religion rather than redeem sinners,
one whose death was tragedy rather than triumph,
one who taught connection to God rather than being God with us.
That's not a minor theological quibble.
That's a different gospel entirely.
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