Posted on 11/25/2006 7:17:24 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Jews are cool with me even though I don't personally know any. I do know the muslim saying of "First comes Saturday and then comes Sunday" and that puts Jews and Christians on the same side.
Jews and Christians on the same side? I guess, in some sense that might be true. After all they did give birth (so to speak) to Christianity.
Jesus was GOD incarnate, something that Jews refuse to recognize. I love the Jewish people and pray for them in their stuggle … mainly because they are GOD’s chosen people.
Because they refuse to recognize Jesus as the messiah, I have trouble equating them as equal to Christians.
I have a secret to tell you guys....Jesus said go to ALL THE WORLD and preach the Gospel...The plan it to not leave anyone out.
My step-father is jewish, and we tend to avoid conversations of this level. We stick to cars and movies and work.
The real issue is just to communicate the Word and let God do all the work. Without faith through Christ, nobody gets to the Father. Those who deny the SOn, do not have the Father in them. From Pentecost till the Great Tribulation, the Holy Spirit indwells all believers. Simply being of the Jewish race doesn't bring the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Taht only happens by God for those with faith in Christ, Jew first, then the Gentile.
As Paul said when he preached to the Jews..
" Seeing you consider yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, we turn to the Gentiles."
If they are interested show them the gospel but don't try to corner them. It will only drive them away.
That's because it isn't true. Torah says that Hashem is one and He is not a man. Man-gods are of pagan origin.
Jews need to be encouraged to return to the God of their fathers, the God of their part of the Book, and to find out for themselves from Moses and their own prophets who their Messiah was really supposed to be: their Jewish Messiah who would subsequently be embraced by the Gentiles as well.
Replacement theologians need to do the same thing. Instead of trying to propagate the myth that the God of Israel has abandoned His chosen people for the Gentiles, they need to search out the truth in the prophets as well.
Paul still preached in the synagogues as he traveled, though. He never stopped preaching the Gospel to the Jews.
My jewish girlfriend's mother would like to see it the other way around. : )
**Paul still preached in the synagogues as he traveled, though. He never stopped preaching the Gospel to the Jews.**
My thoughts is Paul was speaking of those specific Jews there.
God HASN'T abandoned His chosen people, He is seeking them every second of every day...As Paul does tell us, He gave the Jews of Christ's time the first signs, the first opportunity to recongnize the Messiah...Some did, many didn't. God didn't force anyone (Jew or Gentile) to reject His Christ, they chose to do so on their own. The Gentiles of today are not trying to tell the Jews they have to reject their history, but rather to embrace the promises of the prophets that clearly show Jesus to be The Christ.
God used His prophets to deliver the promises of the coming Christ and yet many choose to explain Christ away as a "good man" of "wise instructor" but not the Messiah. If Jesus is not the Messiah, who possibly could be in this day and age which is one filled with a lack of devotion to God and one where news is shared world wide instantaneously? God promised thru the prophets that the Christ would be a man of little fanfare, a man despised by men and cursed to hang on a tree. Crucifixion is no longer an acceptable method of death, how will this be fulfilled? The list can go on and on about the prophesies of Christ that He has fulfilled that frankly, just can't happen in our world today. God knew the right time to have His Messiah be delivered to His peoople.
I would welcome all those who reject Christ to read the New Testament to see the promises of Christ manifested in it's Holy words. Read and see the promised Messiah literally raising from the pages fulfilling the words of the prophets and coming to us in person 2000+ years ago. Read and see the love of God and His mercy for us by giving us His only Son to be the atoning Sacrifice for the sins of many. The O.T. is flowing with the prophecies about Christ and Christ clearly fulfills them all.
I pray that all peoples of the Earth are brought to Christ Jesus and to know His Love as He brings us to know the Spirit and The Father as Triune God.
Lord Jesus Christ, please bring Your people home to You, bring them to the knowledge of The Way, The Truth, and The Life...
God's blessings to all...
Shame on Warren. How hateful of him to exclude them from the gospel.
Let me know when you come across a genuine "replacement theologian". I've never met one, myself.
Well then let me introduce you to a few: D. James Kennedy and R.C. Sproul, who have declared that Israel has no special title to land in the Middle East, having been replaced by the Church. But of course, maybe they are not "genuine" replacement theologians, merely "pretentious" replacement theologians, but still replacement theologians nonetheless.
If it is as I understand it, I think that I believe that replacement theology is an appropriate view, but if someone could pass along more resources, I would appreciate it.
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