Many Jews reject Him because the christian gospel today isn’t the gospel Paul preached..
The worship of Christendom today is based on Rome’s gospel..
Hence December 25 instead of His real birthday
Good Friday instead of Passover
Easter Sunday instead of First Fruits.
I never realized I was a slave to Rome’s gospel account until He showed me the difference..
And there is a difference.
And tough to square ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us ‘ when all the ‘worship’ and holy days have zero to do with that Word and everything to do with Rome’s Greco roman Latin traditions..
It isn’t an accident Jews celebrate first fruits on a Sunday every year and not on the third day from Passover as Torah explains and the New Testament confirms.
They do not see the day in between as their weekly Sabbath but that is exactly what our Heavenly Father’s calendar shows in scripture..
Jews need to reject Rome and its calendar named for a pope before they can see their Messiah and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us..
They rejecting Jesus is not a bad thing if all they see is Christian’s worship from Rome’s gospel.
I met Him as Jesus but He didn’t let me stay there.. and it took me rejecting Rome and her gospel and learn His Truth to see there is a real difference..
But today is His 2nd day of the week to me - not Thor’s day like the world calls it..
I am not part of the rule but an exception.. and I hate that I played a part in hiding Truth from my Jewish or Muslim or Christian or secular humanists or atheist neighbors.
Those new moons, Sabbaths and Feasts Israel was taught are not just fulfilled spiritually, but literally, by the Word that became flesh ad dwlt among us.
From His birth, to His circumcision on the 8th day, His dedication in the temple after His mother’s 40 day purification, His baptism, His death, burial and resurrection..all on either New Moons, Sabbaths or Feasts Israel was taught.
The greatest story ever told... and maybe the greatest counterfeit ever created at the same time..
“And tough to square ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us ‘ when all the ‘worship’ and holy days have zero to do with that Word and everything to do with Rome’s Greco roman Latin traditions..”
And yet many Jews openly embraced Hellenism in the 2nd Century BC, even acquiescing to the edicts of Antiochus III and his son, Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The Maccabbean Revolt drove the Hellenists out, but the resulting strident legalism paved the way for a priesthood that couldn’t or wouldn’t recognize Messiah when He did appear, in part, because of the way in which Jesus spoke of and treated Gentiles.
But the larger problem is that you have Christians today who believe, as our Jewish friends do - that God has a separate plan of salvation for the Jew. Nothing could be further from the truth.
“Jews need to reject Rome and its calendar named for a pope before they can see their Messiah and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
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I disagree with this statement. Many Jews have come to Messiah despite the “Church of Rome.” Paul said the gospel of Christ itself is a stumbling block to Jews (and foolishness to Gentiles, 1Cor 1:23).
There is any number of excuses by which men can rationalize their disbelief but, in the end, there remains only one way to God, and that is through Christ - God incarnate.
I was taught that every Jewish holiday has prophetic meaning. The one holiday that will be celebrated by the whole world when Messiah rules will be the Feast of Tabernacles. What will be the significance of that observance and will it have a different meaning?
I think Easter should only be celebrated in accordance to Passover and that we should be celebrating Pentecost since Paul mentions getting to Jerusalem to do so. Christmas? It has been used for such material gain.