I have wanted to participate in the Passover celebration for many years. Also, I believe during the reign of the Messiah, we will all be celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. Looking ahead is hard for us all to do. I tend to think about Jerusalem as the city of the Great King, and when I pray for our troops, I pray towards Jerusalem, where one day our Lord will be. I do not pray to Jerusalem, but I think about how wonderful it will be when He returns. He is coming. He’s going to be angry when He first gets here(He is angry now), but He’ll straighten it all out.
No.
Anything that leads people to the Truth of Jesus Christ is a good thing.
There’s a new group starting up called Christians for Mohammed, which is coming to speak at your church next week.
They are Christians, but believe that Mohammed is the Second coming of Jesus Christ, so that the Christians need to accept Mohammed’s teachings, or burn for an eternity in Hell.
I hope you will welcome them with open arms, there are several dozen of them, and they have lists of phone numbers of people in your congregation and will be contacting each of you.
Enjoy, and remember, they are Christians, so they are just like you.
Here’s a Koran.
You’re finally onto something. Messianic “Judaism” is more an affront to Jews than your brand of anti-Jewish replacement supercessionism.
As a Messianic Rabbi, let me clear up a few things:
1) We do not keep Torah “to please God” in the way you seem to mean. We keep it because we believe that is the way He calls His Redeemed People — Jewish and non-Jewish — to live. In fact, I am writing a book on this subject that I plan to self-publish in the next month or so.
2) “Fulfillment” of Commandments — by Yeshua (Jesus) or anyone else does not nullify them. Such an argument has no basis in Scripture.
3) The idea of comparing Messianics to people who believe Mohammed is the Second Coming is ludicrous. All of Yeshua’s original followers — indeed, most of His followers until the year 200 or later — Believed Him and kept Torah... in other words, they are what we are today.
For more on what true Messianic Judaism is — and is not — check out the “About Us” page of my congregation’s website at http://beit-tefillah.com/about/index .
Sure. The key is to observe the God-ordained Judaic feasts/festivals/holidays with a clear understanding of how they point to Jesus the Messiah.
My best friend is a devout 7th Day Adventist and a very strong Christian. Adventists do adhere to the Jewish dietary customs and the Saturday Sabbath. While I don’t agree with this, I also know it doesn’t affect his salvation one way or the other. In fact when we are togeather I don’t eat pork or shellfish. I am commanded not to be a stumbling block. He is a faithfull brother in Christ and who am I to judge another’s servant?
This-is-bad-scholarship-on-so-many-levels bump reminder for later.