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I concede that you may not understand that the position you are taking is found upon an anti-Semitic trope. For more than a millennia, the Christian philosophy of Supersessionism has explained that the Old Testament “chosen people” was indeed Israel, but all the promises and blessings that God gave to Israel have now been superseded as God has now placed His blessing on the church. The legal/theological foundation for Supercessionism is found in the legal “rejecting of Christ” by national Israel by her leaders. Supercessionism concedes that while the first disciples were Jewish, that matters not, because they were simply individual Jews. Israel’s leaders formally, and legally rejected Jesus and thus the national blessings for Israel were taken away.

Supercessionism (the belief that the church replaced Israel) is the basis for all Christian persecution of Jews. When emphasis is on things like from Matthew 27:25, “…all the people answered, ‘His blood be on us and on our children.’” – or as you have stated “the Sanhedrin condemned Jesus to die” you can know it is a pretext and justification for Supercessionism.

“Sanhedrin” is an Aramaic word. The Greek New Testament contains quite a few Aramaic and Hebrew words that are transliterated into a Greek form. “Sandhedrin” is not one of them. It is not found once in any Greek text of the New Testament. When English translators choose to insert “Sanhedrin” into the English text, they do so for the purpose of promoting Supercessionism The Greek word they are reading in every instance is the word sune÷drion [sundrion]. It is the noun form of the verb “to plan” or “to give counsel.” The word is found in many places that have nothing to do with the official body called the “Sanhedrin” and yet, the translators chose to apply that word when it suits their theological bias.

“For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” Romans 11:29

Replacement theology as this is called has done much harm to Jewish and Gentile relations. Having lived in Turkey for 6 years, one realizes the mindset of the ME is MUCH different then the western. We forget even recent history, so now you have the large numbers of people believing against ridiculous odds that socialism is a great thing. They forget the 20th century altogether. But the ME doesn’t forget nor forgive. Therefore one must win them over slowly, change their perceptions of what they believe. It is heartbreaking to see the many who continue to believe that all Israel is lost and suspect that Messianic Jews can’t be true believers bc they have a past of shunning Jesus. One must go back to Moses to realize that the changing of the Jewish mind & heart to receive Messiah is under very dire circumstances, when their back is against the wall and they realize the only salvation is through God and that they become willing to see Jesus as the True Messiah, not jut a miracle worker, good teacher. Many of us act much the same w ay bc we are not living as if Jesus is our Lord, but just “fire” insurance. A way to stay out of hell. WQe must pray in a different way to speak to our Jewish friends and live such lives that they are convicted in their Hearst’s by the Lord that they are wrong about Jesus..