I just watched this on TV and I am SO excited to actually hear someone teaching what you said!! Way too many Christians pick a verse and take it COMPLETELY out of context and apply it to themselves. I am a Catholic, and while I have never been taught that the Jewish people were replaced, I so appreciate our Jewish brothers and sisters who went before us! I have always been taught to read the whole chapter, etc, to know who is writing and to whom. To know what was happening, why it was written, to understand (as much as I can) about customs, etc, etc. But I have never heard that spoken/taught by/to evangelical Christians and I have had so many discussions as a result. I really enjoy your show and learning more about Israel and the Jewish people, the customs, and what scripture means to YOU, since you know the original language!! Thank you both and please do more teaching about scripture!!
Amen❣️ A Brother in Christ once said, he uses 20-20 vision with the Bible.....20 verses before a verse, and 20 verses after. This helps avoid mis-context. I felt it was a message from the Spirit and have used it ever since❣️
Just like when Yehoshua told the religious leaders that they did not have Abraham as their father, because if they did they would have done the things of Abraham, so it is with Christians who say they are "Israel." They are NOT Israel, because if they were they would do the things that the true Israel does, but they don't. It is not because they can't, it's because they won't. They have the choice to be like Ruth. They choose other gods, though. They choose other ways. And yet, they dress it up in biblical terms. It is reminiscent of Yeshayahu 4:1, where it says, "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We shall eat our own food and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.” That's what Christians do. They make their own food (doctrine) and they have their own clothing (self-appointed righteousness), but they want to use the name of the one they claim to belong to, but do not.
Galatians 3:28 shows that there is not to be one above another. This oneupmanship was originally seen in the garden and has progressed down through history. Everyone trying to get one up on the other person. This oneupmanship, for believers, is covered, to a great degree, in Romans 14. The Messiah came to set things straight. By our faith, He makes all of us one. We are to be other believers' COUNTERPARTS. That thought "counterpart" was the original expression given in the garden. It is the same now, for all of us. We are all counterparts of one to another, maintaining our individual identies, coming from different cultures. We lose those false gods of our cultures. We, in essence, turn them off (Bereshith/Genesis 35:1- 10). We do not lose our own personal histories. I am a white American and I will always be a white American. People ask me, because of my observances, if I'm a Jew. I say, "No, I am not a Jew by blood, but a Hebrew by choice. The same as Abraham was." None of these labels matter, though. What matters is the togetherness of believers, bound by the Torah and the Messiah.
I just watched this on TV and I am SO excited to actually hear someone teaching what you said!! Way too many Christians pick a verse and take it COMPLETELY out of context and apply it to themselves. I am a Catholic, and while I have never been taught that the Jewish people were replaced, I so appreciate our Jewish brothers and sisters who went before us! I have always been taught to read the whole chapter, etc, to know who is writing and to whom. To know what was happening, why it was written, to understand (as much as I can) about customs, etc, etc. But I have never heard that spoken/taught by/to evangelical Christians and I have had so many discussions as a result.
I really enjoy your show and learning more about Israel and the Jewish people, the customs, and what scripture means to YOU, since you know the original language!!
Thank you both and please do more teaching about scripture!!
Amen❣️
A Brother in Christ once said, he uses 20-20 vision with the Bible.....20 verses before a verse, and 20 verses after. This helps avoid mis-context. I felt it was a message from the Spirit and have used it ever since❣️
Great discussion ❤
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Love this
Amen
Just like when Yehoshua told the religious leaders that they did not have Abraham as their father, because if they did they would have done the things of Abraham, so it is with Christians who say they are "Israel." They are NOT Israel, because if they were they would do the things that the true Israel does, but they don't. It is not because they can't, it's because they won't. They have the choice to be like Ruth. They choose other gods, though. They choose other ways. And yet, they dress it up in biblical terms. It is reminiscent of Yeshayahu 4:1, where it says, "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We shall eat our own food and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.” That's what Christians do. They make their own food (doctrine) and they have their own clothing (self-appointed righteousness), but they want to use the name of the one they claim to belong to, but do not.
Galatians 3:28 shows that there is not to be one above another. This oneupmanship was originally seen in the garden and has progressed down through history. Everyone trying to get one up on the other person. This oneupmanship, for believers, is covered, to a great degree, in Romans 14. The Messiah came to set things straight. By our faith, He makes all of us one. We are to be other believers' COUNTERPARTS. That thought "counterpart" was the original expression given in the garden. It is the same now, for all of us. We are all counterparts of one to another, maintaining our individual identies, coming from different cultures. We lose those false gods of our cultures. We, in essence, turn them off (Bereshith/Genesis 35:1- 10). We do not lose our own personal histories. I am a white American and I will always be a white American. People ask me, because of my observances, if I'm a Jew. I say, "No, I am not a Jew by blood, but a Hebrew by choice. The same as Abraham was." None of these labels matter, though. What matters is the togetherness of believers, bound by the Torah and the Messiah.