the Reason for bringing it up is just another knife attack brought on by amils to attack either premil or pre trib or disbelieving that there is a difference between Jews that are not followers of Jesus have a direct heritage to Israel .
Plenty of Arabs have a direct Heritage to Israel as well... so I'm not sure what your point is...?
People who have a direct maternal heritage to Jews are far more likely to be a true lineage in Jewish bloodline than someone who takes a DNA test and finds that they have 1% Jewish DNA
That sure is some fanciful speculation seventy!... got any proof to back that up?
And what do you claim qualifies as "true lineage"?
I can guarantee you no Jew alive today can demonstrate ANY direct genetic connection to a single pre desolation Hebrew person. Not even one.
If there were, you'd link us to him/her... but you can't, can you?
maternal heritage Jews are far more likely to be following the old Jewish lifestyles than someone who never gave it a thought that they might be Jewish and suddenly thinks they are Jewish because they have a slight bit of Jewish DNA
Here's the Rub with that seventy, Todays Jews themselves know that they cannot trace their heritage back to the O.T. jews. They are claimants without any proof whatsoever. So are the Mormons.
Todays Mormons and Todays Jews are EQUALS in God's Eyes.
"Following old Jewish lifestyles" is a meaningless term.
Dr Laura Schlessenger, a gentile convert to Modern Judaism, "Follows old Jewish Lifestyles", so does that make her a legitimate genetic Jew in your eyes?
All the tribes and bloodlines were lost 20 centuries ago. Call that what you want, but that's the reality. Now, Christianity has an explanation for why this happened. The loss of the tribes, the priesthood of Aaron, the animal sacrifice, the Temple occurred because *all* people-groups were destined by God to be partakers in Abraham's faith. This prophecy of Gen 12:3 was fulfilled in the first century. (Be sure to note that
Galatians 3:7-14 is the biblical interpretation of
Genesis 12:3).
Scriptuire is clear, in order for a JEW to be a JEW in God's eyes, he/she MUST FOLLOW THE LAW OF MOSES, or be CUT OFF FROM THE PEOPLE FOREVER. Of course not one Jew alive today keeps the Law of Moses. Read MOSES and his requirements. They do NOT keep the Law of Moses now but have invented their own religion. The Temple Mount Faithful have invented their own religion and substituted it for the one Moses required jews to follow. If you would just read Moses then you would have no confusion on this and make unsupportable claims that any Christ rejecting people on our planet today are "observant" Jews.
Here's the reality:
The Israelite apostles of the Jewish Messiah say I am a Jew (Rom 2:27-29), say I am "Abraham's seed" (Rom 4:16/Gal 3:29), say I am "the peculiar people, royal priesthood, holy nation" (1 Pet 2:9-10), say I am the circumcision-less Israel of God (Gal 6:15-16), say I am "no longer a stranger but a fellow citizen" (Eph 2:19), say I was once not a people but now am the people of God (1 Pet 2:10) and say I am the circumcision (Phil 3:2-3). Each and every one of these statements takes a key identifier/distinctive of Israel and labels me with it. Meanwhile, Christ calls the disobedient genetic sons of Abraham the "sons of satan" and the "synagogue of satan" (Rev 2:9/
John 8:39-47), and St. John says that those who deny the Son have no claim whatsoever to the Father (1 Jn 2:23)
The only Jews that survived AD 70 intact were the Newly Covenanted Nazarenes. There is no other covenanted jewish sect that anyone can point to in real history after AD 70. The Nazarenes are the covenanted Israel of actual history.
The REAL physical descendants were the Nazarenes, the jewish remnant that faithfully followed Messiah and entered the New Covenant when these came to them. All the other opposing jewish sects that observed Torah were wiped out at AD 70, for rejecting Messiah and His New Covenant.
Surely you have read Rom 9:24-26, which is St. Paul's interpretation of Hosea's promised restoration. Surely you have read
1 Peter 2:9-10, which is St. Peter's interpretation of Hosea's restoration. The Nazarenes and the other Jewish followers of the New Covenant were reunited by King Jesus, the son of David. And surely you know that Peter and James are letters to the diaspora (
1 Peter 1:1;
James 1:1). It was the promised NEW covenant of Jesus that brought fulfillment of the promised restoration of the houses of Israel (Heb 8:6-13).
St. Paul made it abundantly clear, moreover, that the fulfillment would include gentiles as well (Rom 4:13-18; Rom 9:24-26).
