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Before the first Messianic Synagogues in the First Century, a pagan could be subsumed within the other, greater society of Judaism he was joining. Dropping a pagan idol or two for another 'G-d' called YHVH was acceptable...odd behaviour, perhaps, but acceptable, because the Greco-Romans viewed godhood very differently than we do. Judaism as a religion used to be honourable within the Greco-Roman society, even envied by some. Jews were perhaps seen as odd, for not accepting the Dualism of the pagans, but honoured none-the-less for their wisdom, and their knowledge, and their success at living. And one or two pagans converting to another religion was not threatening. Jews very rarely persecuted anyone else for not being Jewish, particularly outside of Palestine...they mostly ignored them.
Then Yehoshua offered the salvation of the Jews to anyone who would. The mostly ignored little country of Israel suddenly became a stumbling block to all nations, and all people, because Yehoshua meant to bring division, and instigate change. Prophetically speaking, time was up. Everything changed, and is still changing...Messianic Believers are merely aware of the change in progress, and some are very much aware. Prophetically, the time is up again.
It is a rare idea to most Christian Churches, and most Christians, who still flinch at the word Jew, and are flustered at the idea of having to wear a gold star on their coat, to think of being actually Jewish...to have all that tradition and solemnity and pervading seperateness in your life, along with the ever present threat of persecution for being seperate.
Seperation is threatening.
Israel was created by G-d in the idea of seperateness...holiness...to show the world, the universe, that man cannot do life at all well. The Torah is a set of rules that draw a line between holy and unholy, and create a requirement to choose sides. Most Jews have their profession as Jews made for them by their parents.
Jews cannot be non-Jewish, even when they convert to different religions, such as Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Communism, or Christianity. Only Islam even has the idea that a religion can go along with your parentage. Christians, regardless of the last 70 years, have always known that a Jew is a Jew not just religiously, but to the bone, because Abba meant it to be so.
Consequently, here is a grimness in Judaism that non-Jews probably do not perceive very often, or at the least, don't admit to, for non-Jews rarely seem to recall that the nation of Israel was designed by G-d to be a thorn in the side of the remainder of the world. Jews are always aware of this problem. Israel is still a thorn, and time is pretty much up...again.
How much longer does this world continue as it is? Probably longer than we think, for YHVH is a patient G-d, but Messianic Believers are very aware that time is up. Jews that become Messianicly minded know that time is up too, or they would not be aware of the prophecies that draw them to Messianic Belief. Christians and other Pagans are becoming aware of the need for Torah Observance despite the knowledge of Grace. Jews, reluctantly, are having their eyes opened as G-d permits to see Pagan and Christian Gentiles turn to the Torah. Those Jews that do not recognize Yehoshua as Mashiach are all the same more and more calling for Mashiach, and Mashiach will come because the Jews are finally calling out for Mashiach to come.
The Notsrim came to be in the midst of great persecution, and dwindled into a larger, lesser movement called Christianity that hated it's separateness, and chose to be less Jewish to be less separate. Once less separate, and less persecuted thereby, they themselves became the persecutors of the Jews. Nearly two thousand years have passed, and Christianity is going to dwindle into the Notsrim again...amidst persecution, and may even be accepted by their Jewish Brethren despite their Messianic Beliefs because that persecution is going to be against seperateness.
As the time of Yehoshua's return draws nearer I have no doubt that the Torah is going to be what seperates those that follow the Deceiver, and those that do not. It will probably not be a matter of degree of outward observance, either...just adherence to the first four commandments. Messianic Believers should be adhering to Torah as the Ruach haKodesh draws them to, as Torah observance it is not a mandatory requirement for Gentiles, but they should be very aware of the cost of their salvation. The Jews already are.
Then Yehoshua offered the salvation of the Jews to anyone who would. The mostly ignored little country of Israel suddenly became a stumbling block to all nations, and all people, because Yehoshua meant to bring division, and instigate change. Prophetically speaking, time was up. Everything changed, and is still changing...Messianic Believers are merely aware of the change in progress, and some are very much aware. Prophetically, the time is up again.
It is a rare idea to most Christian Churches, and most Christians, who still flinch at the word Jew, and are flustered at the idea of having to wear a gold star on their coat, to think of being actually Jewish...to have all that tradition and solemnity and pervading seperateness in your life, along with the ever present threat of persecution for being seperate.
Seperation is threatening.
Israel was created by G-d in the idea of seperateness...holiness...to show the world, the universe, that man cannot do life at all well. The Torah is a set of rules that draw a line between holy and unholy, and create a requirement to choose sides. Most Jews have their profession as Jews made for them by their parents.
Jews cannot be non-Jewish, even when they convert to different religions, such as Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Communism, or Christianity. Only Islam even has the idea that a religion can go along with your parentage. Christians, regardless of the last 70 years, have always known that a Jew is a Jew not just religiously, but to the bone, because Abba meant it to be so.
Consequently, here is a grimness in Judaism that non-Jews probably do not perceive very often, or at the least, don't admit to, for non-Jews rarely seem to recall that the nation of Israel was designed by G-d to be a thorn in the side of the remainder of the world. Jews are always aware of this problem. Israel is still a thorn, and time is pretty much up...again.
How much longer does this world continue as it is? Probably longer than we think, for YHVH is a patient G-d, but Messianic Believers are very aware that time is up. Jews that become Messianicly minded know that time is up too, or they would not be aware of the prophecies that draw them to Messianic Belief. Christians and other Pagans are becoming aware of the need for Torah Observance despite the knowledge of Grace. Jews, reluctantly, are having their eyes opened as G-d permits to see Pagan and Christian Gentiles turn to the Torah. Those Jews that do not recognize Yehoshua as Mashiach are all the same more and more calling for Mashiach, and Mashiach will come because the Jews are finally calling out for Mashiach to come.
The Notsrim came to be in the midst of great persecution, and dwindled into a larger, lesser movement called Christianity that hated it's separateness, and chose to be less Jewish to be less separate. Once less separate, and less persecuted thereby, they themselves became the persecutors of the Jews. Nearly two thousand years have passed, and Christianity is going to dwindle into the Notsrim again...amidst persecution, and may even be accepted by their Jewish Brethren despite their Messianic Beliefs because that persecution is going to be against seperateness.
As the time of Yehoshua's return draws nearer I have no doubt that the Torah is going to be what seperates those that follow the Deceiver, and those that do not. It will probably not be a matter of degree of outward observance, either...just adherence to the first four commandments. Messianic Believers should be adhering to Torah as the Ruach haKodesh draws them to, as Torah observance it is not a mandatory requirement for Gentiles, but they should be very aware of the cost of their salvation. The Jews already are.
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