Educate me to all.
I am circumcised and attend a Messianic Jewish Congregation.
I sow into it financially. (Now I know how Shaul felt in his letters) when sharing
his qualifications. So embarrassed.
Am I of Israel? Having a Jewish Grandmother on my father's side?
Perhaps not.... that is not the please educate me probe.
Many a Pesach, quietly with my wife at home, we have lamb.
I do it in remembrance of Him / Yeshua. I pray and Thank the Father
and try my best at my home to reflect and remember Exodus, and His Calling
Out of the Jewish People.
No I do not have a lamb farm to take the 1st one without blemish.
I buy store bought leg of lamb, and roast it, and silently, between Him and me
honor Exodus 12 the best I can, giving Glory to Him for His Son, that took my sin.
Why do I say silently. I have never shared this before.
I attend the Congregational Seder on Pesach, but this is a home one-on-one
observance.
I have not fallen down dead yet.
What think all of you?
Yosef
I wouldn't understand anyone telling you that you were not Jewish{Of course I know that you are a true Jew in my eyes, no matter what}}
But I think of Joseph, and the millions of Joseph that are supposedly found at some point.
What do Jews and others say about the descendants of Joseph?
They say that although the kingdom of Ephraim was exiled into the nations 2700 years ago where they lost their identity and became gentiles, that God still knows who they are.
I mean, my view of who the sons of Joseph are is much different than most people's views, but the most popular view is that God knows who those people are, even after generation after generation has married gentiles after gentile for 2700 years.
If God still knows who those people are, then you having a Jewish grandmother is a lot closer.
But like I said, I don't believe the popular views about the sons of Joseph.
In fact, I make the claim that I am of Joseph, but not many would agree with what I believe on the subject.
I believe that Jesus and John the Baptist stood and called the lost sheep of the house of Israel{Ephraim} and he redeemed these once Israelites back into Israel through marriage as a Jew would marry a gentile and bring that person into Israel, and so we have the saying,'' You have increased the nation''
That those lost gentiles of Ephraim saw a great light.
I also consider what Paul says about this lost kingdom in Romans, but again, not many agree with me.
The 7000 reserved isn't about Judah, it was 7000 reserved in Israel under Ahab.
And that promise spoken about the return and blessing of Ephraim in Hosea,'' Not my people become my people'' is not speaking about Jews, but of Ephraim.
They threw off the Torah, called it a strange thing.
They created their own worship system and married into gentiles long before they were exiled for doing so.
They became,'' not his people.''
But they have a promise once they became,'' not his people.''
That God would bring them back in and say,'' these are now the sons of the living God.''
So it is my belief that a door was opened in Ephraim for gentiles of Ephraim to come and be redeemed through a marriage to a Jew{Jesus}, and when I see no Ephraim in the list of Revelation, it makes perfect sense, because that doorway would be closed.
