“However, what they mean is that since Christ has come and has fulfilled everything, He now is Israel“
God declared the chosen people. He has never updated this. Therefore it remains in force.
What is a Jew? A Jew keeps the Torah. What is the Torah? It is the connection between Heaven and earth. It describes God and foretells the coming of the Messiah Time begins when the Word of God is upon the earth and known by men.The Jews transmit the Torah, utterly intact through Time. To me this is an important enough function to make the Jews “Chosen”. Kill the Jews and you kill the Torah. Kill the Torah and you kill God- including His foretold Messiah:
God declared the chosen people. He has never updated this. Therefore it remains in force.
Mal 1:2 “I have always loved you,” says the LORD. But you retort, “Really? How have You loved us?” And the LORD replies, “This is how I showed My love for you: I loved your ancestor Jacob,
Mal 1:3 but I rejected his brother, Esau,....................
To be chosen by God is no easy thing.
1) Can’t you just hear the retort above. “Go choose someone else, go love someone else , this is too hard.”
2) God chose Isreal for a purpose. It is good to reflect on what that purpose was....................
2) God chose Israel for a purpose. It is good to reflect on what that purpose was....................
God CHOOSES Israel for a purpose. It is good to reflect on what that purpose IS.
Mostly for my benefit. The Lord the God is a living God. He is still at work.
But chosen for what? From Israel came the salvation of the world.
Salvation ie Jesus came from the Jews. Christianity is a sect of 2nd temple Judaism.
Just as the Syro Phoenician woman said, even the dogs eat the scraps, and just as Jesus pointed out, the groom will invite strangers to the wedding party.
A Jew keeps the Torah, but of the two rival sects that survived the great tribulation ie the destruction of the temple in 70 AD we have
1. The Jesus movement Jews who claim that Jesus has fulfilled the sacrifices and these are not needed. These, the “Christians” have the New testament
2. The Pharisees who became Rabbinical Judaism ie what we call today Jews. They have the “oral Torah” ie the Talmud and have tidah instead of the sacrifices in the temple
The “Torah” is also reflected in our “Old testament” and as Christian’s we read and proclaim the Torah daily just as we proclaim the one time sacrifice that is Jesus’s sacrifice.
A Jew obeys God (i.e., Jesus Christ). You're not really "keeping the Torah" if you reject God.
"which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie;" - Revelation 3:9