Techiyat hameitim means the resurrection of the dead. Rambam stated: "I believe with perfect faith that the dead will be brought back to life when God wills it to happen." (This is the 13th and last of Rambam’s Principles of Faith) Is there no hope for the dead? Is our life simply finished — over — when we die? No, not at all. Notice the words of the Rav Shaul. "If in this life only we have hope in Mashiach, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Mashiach risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the RESURRECTION of the dead" (I Cor. 15:19-21). There is the TRUE HOPE of the believer! The Hebrew Scriptures teaches a resurrection from the dead — not a cycle of misery and suffering in the wheel of reincarnation!

Yeshua HaMashiach said: Yochanan 11:25 “… "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.  Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”  What we have here is a clear testimony from our Rabbi Maran Yeshua HaMashiach about who he is.  His statement means that he is the answer to man’s search for eternal life and the need of man to be resurrected.  The issue is more than just believing in the fact of the resurrection; but believing and living in Messiah Yeshua as our assurance of eternal life.  How do we “live in” Yeshua haMashiach? Well, we must be in the Messiah to do this; we are joined to him through our faith in his word.  Messiah himself immerses us in the Ruach HaKodesh by which means we are made to share in the life of Messiah.  In Luke 3:16 Yochanan the Immerser, the forerunner of Mashiach testifies“…saying unto [them] all, I indeed immerse you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall immerse you with  the Ruach HaKodesh and with fire:”

So it is Messiah who does the immersing.  But we also inherit eternal life because we partake of his death and resurrection.  Romim 6:3-5 “Or don’t you know that all we who were immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death?  We were buried therefore with him through immersion to death, that just like Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection.” The resurrection is the true hope of mankind. Nowhere does the Tanach teach reincarnation.