You are such a clown.
Sorry, I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
G-D is not capricious. G-D is steadfast, and His word is True, and Forever.
Once I encountered an atheist who smugly, dismissively, challenged me to show him a single proof of the existence of G-D. Just one. “The Jewish People,” I answered, “their mere existence, let alone their repeated prosperity, time and again, under the worst of circumstances, is proof to satisfy the greatest skeptic.” He was of the educated class, so he snarled, soundlessly, and looked at me with the eyes of the Devil himself, his jaw so tightly clenched that I thought his teeth would shatter. A low rumble came out of his throat, and he abruptly turned from me and walked away.
I do not know how it is possible to know of the history of the Jewish people, and be, or remain, an atheist.
What you have said is true up to the point of Christianity, which, as a Jew, despite the fact that I have more than passing knowledge of it, have no visceral, or intellectual acceptance of it beyond the account of a righteous Jewish Rabbi, exhorting the Jewish people to return to the Law. I sincerely hope that does not offend the many good hearted Christian people here, but I can do nothing else. I am a Jew, who by the example of my unswerving obedience to the Law that the G-d of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, My G-D, gave to Me, on Mt. Sinai, has been Chosen to be a light unto the Nations to Illuminate His Law for all the Nations to see, and observe, and be blessed by.
Jews are erroneously described as being very exclusive, and clannish, yet our only function is to follow G-D’s Law, thereby prosper and have Peace, and show the world what good comes of following G-D’s Law. So far, the only people that have accepted and absorbed G-D’s 10 Commandments, other than the Jews, are the Christians. That’s not a bad start. Of course there’s more to the cannon of the Law than Just the 10 Commandments and therein lies the rub, but in essence, it’s a good start.
And clearly it is stated by the G-D of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and Me, that He will Bless those who Bless Israel, and Curse those who Curse Israel, and it has always been so, and will always be so, until all the families of the Earth have been blessed by Israel.
I wish I could express how wonderful it is to be a Jew, how much it fills the heart and soul to follow G-D’s Law. To rise every morning and recite almost immediately, “I hereby take it upon myself to fulfill the Commandment to Love my Fellow as Myself.” It’s wonderful. Again, I hope I’ve not offended anyone by giving this slight insight into what it is like to be a Jew. I ain’t talkin’ about a liberal G-Dless, JINO here, but a Law abiding Jew.
To quote Jerry Lee Lewis:”I’m really nervous, but it sure is fun!”
G-D Bless You All.
All very nice presentation, but calling him a ‘clown’ detracts from your argument.
I can't understand the hostility of your post for a Christian. I'm not a clown for one thing. I made the point that Israel is proof that God exists and I know the history of Israel and I'm certainly not an atheist.
I didn't say you must believe in Jesus as a Jew. I wasn't proselytizing you to change because Christians know God has blinded you in order to graft me into the family. If you were honest, you would know you can't keep all the Law and need grace and mercy. Without a Temple, how does that happen?
Now let my prophesy over you a moment. Some day there will be a 3rd Temple. Israel will rejoice and bring back the sacrificial Temple system. There will be a man that you love that will make all this possible. This same person will one day sit in the Holy of Holies and declare that he is God. He will stop animal sacrifice again. He will mimic the story that you get Hanukkah from. We read Maccabees to get this story.
A Messianic Jew would be a great source to explain the Last Days if you cannot receive from a Christian.
Paul was one of our greatest Apostles because he was educated by Gamaliel, one of the greatest Rabbi's at the time of Jesus. Putting the Tanach and the B'rit Chadashah together is the key to understanding God's message to His people.
It's difficult to say the Torah should be followed to the letter and have sodomites in your military. There are self righteous Jews that believe they are doing good that have fallen off the wagon for decades. There are Jews today slaughtering chickens in the streets of Israel to try to keep the sacrifice system today. Jesus was the Lamb of God given to us by the Father and removed our sins forever onece and for all. He lived a perfect life, He was without blemish, and He was a perfect sacrifice for man that an animal couldn't accomplish. He prophesied that there would not be one stone left on another from the Temple and it came to pass in 70 AD. An earthly temple is no longer needed. There are countless prophesies fulfilled by Jesus so I won't even try to cover them here.
I'm not saying that Jews are right. I'm not saying that Jews won't hurt themselves and others. What I am saying is they are my family in the eyes of God. I am saying that God has put up with their idol worship and sin for thousands of years and continues to do so. God will not give up the Jews anymore than I could give up my daughter.
You say you have been accused of being "clannish and exclusive". Christians say they are set aside, "Holy" and a peculiar people. Following God in a secular world will always call attention to yourself. The families of the world have already been blessed by Israel by producing Jesus. You are the keeper of the Word of God and all the covenants are made with Jews.
I don't want to scare you, but another holocaust is coming. As I described in my original post all Hebrew babies were drowned by Pharaoh because Moses was elected to save Israel. Haman wanted to kill all the Jews in Persia but Ester saved them. over and over Satan wanted to wipe out Israel but God saved the remnant. All of human history will boil down to one man and his followers trying to kill everyone in Israel once again. God will once again come rescue them but the price to be a Jew is high. Christians will be persecuted as well, but Christians that are saved before the Antichrist is revealed will be Raptured out of danger. Just as Noah and his family were protected from God's judgement 7 days before the rain started and Lot was removed from Sodom before the fire fell, the church will be called to meet Jesus in the air before the first seal is cut in Revelation 6. The first seal will be the Antichrist is released on the earth. Then comes the four horsemen. Death and misery will be worldwide. Anyone that accepts Jesus as their substitutionary sacrifice will be taken as the Bride of Christ. The Jews will be left behind to scramble until God comes to save Israel. Now that you know the truth, there is no need for you to meet the Beast.
God bless you, God bless Israel, and peace to Jerusalem.
Once I encountered an atheist who smugly, dismissively, challenged me to show him a single proof of the existence of G-D. Just one. “The Jewish People,” I answered, “their mere existence, let alone their repeated prosperity, time and again, under the worst of circumstances, is proof to satisfy the greatest skeptic.”
You reminded me about God "not being mentioned" in the Megillah, but of course in the fine orchestration of all the "random" details, He's all over the place. And the scroll of Esther being the place where the words Jew and Jews appear prominently...
The history of the world involves nations desiring and conspiring to wipe out the Jews. Really what it is, is their intent to blot out the face of God from the face of the earth.. to eradicate the God who supposedly does not exist. To see a Jew is to see the existence of God, and so it's "the Jews" this and "the Jews" that, always some accusation. The enemies of the Jews (enemies of God) never stop railing against "the Jews."
Back to God never being mentioned in the Megillah, the place of the reversal of fortunes, where Wile E. Haman was hanged by his own ACME device that he had constructed for Mordecai "the Jew".
The game of Hangman is about guessing the right letters...
The traditional analysis of the letter hei is that it is a composite of the letters dalet and yud. That isn't much of an analysis, as it is simply evident by the letter shapes:
ד + י = ה
So all these complainers and deniers keep yapping about the Jews, such that the word is always on their lips. And then there's the matter of no one really knowing how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton. It got lost somewhere along the way. No Temple, no Holy of Holies... no high priest to pronounce it once a year. Yet somehow the "final hei" will be restored, which represents the kingdom and the Shekhina, being the Divine Presence (the face of God).
Yehudi ---> YHVH
יהודי
<---
יהוה
I appreciate that a masterful irony would entail all the Jew-hater atheists spending every waking and dreaming hour saying and obsessing over the name of God who doesn't exist. Talk about secrets of the universe revealed from the lowest, trashiest places.
Pretty hilarious.
YHVH = JEW. They'd never guess, so they'd self-destruct. :)
"Jew", it's written throughout the Megillah. Makes perfect sense.