TWEA Christian and Jewish Relations

The Careful Relationship That the New Testament Upholds Between Christianity and Judaism

Professing Christians, Ignorant of the Apostle Paul’s Teachings Concerning the Cause for Israel’s Denial of Lord Jesus the Christ, Have Been the Greatest Persecutors of the Jewish People for the Last Two Millennia

The risen Lord Jesus the Christ specifically appointed Paul as the Apostle to non-Jewish Christians. Now, along with the profits and other apostles, the Apostle Paul’s teachings lay the foundation of the Church upon Lord Jesus, the cornerstone. In his epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul passionately encouraged non-Jewish Christians not to hold any prejudice, animosity, or hatred against the Jewish people for their not accepting Lord Jesus as the Christ. Paul wrote the following:
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written…” -Romans 11:25-27
The Apostle Paul writes in his epistle to the Romans that the Church must understand the fact that God necessarily hid the truth of Lord Jesus the Christ from Israel, during the present period of the Lord’s reconciling the gentiles to God through the sacrifice and subsequent testatorship of Lord Jesus the Christ. You see, in the same manner in which the elected Jacob appreciated his brother’s birthright through faith, while his brother Esau did not; the gentiles now appreciate their election by grace through faith alone and not by racial heritage (i.e., kindred group); until the elect of Israel rejoin the gentiles at the Lord Jesus’ reappearing. Indeed, because of the Lord’s temporary withholding the truth of the Christ from Israel, all Christians must keep in mind that Lord Jesus, being the Testator and High Priest, can now bequeath the Holy Spirit indiscriminately to the elect, regardless of their race, male or female sex, family lineage, self-serving religious works, and social standing. In other words, the Lord’s indiscriminate election helped the Church to overcome the pride, self-interest, prejudice, and other sins that corrupt the nations, as elect saints who value righteousness arise at every stratum of the progressing governments to help other saints.

Why Globalism is now the Greatest Threat that the Jewish People have ever Faced

From 70 AD (the year of the destruction of the Jewish Temple) unto 1948 (the year in which the Modern State of Israel came into being), the Jewish people endured approximately 1,878 years of an exile that consisted of tremendous persecution; which included mass murders, indentured servitude, rape, pillage, multiple population expulsions from nation-states, second-class citizenship, and finally an industrial holocaust.
The Ten Commandments, the heart of Jewish Law and culture, begins with God’s proclamation that the God of their forefathers alone is the God that delivered them from 400 years of oppression in Egypt; therefore, the first commandment proclaims that the Jewish people shall have no other gods before YHWH their God. For the Jews, therefore, the keeping of the commandments and covenant incurred unparalleled blessings, while the breaking of the commandments and covenant incurred cursing and the expulsion from the Promised Land that God sanctioned for the Jews to govern by the Law. The blessings that the Jews brought to Western culture are their monotheistic faith and God given Law. The curse that the Jews incurred upon the expulsion from the Promised Land is the jealousy of the nations, which is due to the cultural richness that the Jews enjoyed as the Law compelled them to segregate themselves from the lifestyles of the nations.
Thousands of years before the English Magna Carta; the American Declaration of Independence; and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; the ancient Israelites enjoyed equality and the primacy of the Law under God. The Law commanded even the Israelite Kings to be subservient to the Law, equally with the common people.
The ancient Israelite law code entailed principles that we might recognize as both conservative and progressive. For example, the Law of Moses forbade the oppression of foreigners. The Law commanded that debt must be forgiven after a specified period. The Law ensured the integrity of private property, i.e., the forbiddance of property seizure. Lastly, the Law commanded people to keep portions of their agricultural output for the poor. Other portions of the Law of Moses that cover rites and ritual observances may seem arcane or superstitious to modern people; however, a learned person understands that the ritualistic edicts mask greater principles and foster psychological attitudes that cultured the people as a whole. Certain scriptural authors themselves plainly state that we are to look beyond matter-of-fact interpretations of the Old Testament Law for higher principles. For instance, the Apostle Paul observed that God’s commanding Israel not to muzzle the ox that treads actually implies that a workman is worthy of his living wage. Too, the Prophet Isaiah declared that rather than mere animal sacrifices, God requires the sacrifice of equitable judgment, the relieving of the oppressed; justice for the fatherless; and charity for the widow. The actual marvel of the Law of Moses is the manner in which the Law portrays the worldly gains that we acquire through life as temporal and inferior to the eternal riches of righteousness that the fulfilled Law points to. The Law uses the tedious sacrificial system that regulates Israel’s agricultural economy to portray the relationship between our inferior earthly riches and the eternal riches of God: to confound the social prejudices that undermine the worldly civilizations, the Law relegates the Israelites to sacrifice the best of their produce, live-stock, and such live-stock that represent their first born sons to represent the redemption of the heavenly riches, which the Law symbolized by sequestering the Ten Commandments’ tablets within the inaccessible Temple’s Holy of Holies. Like so, the Law inculcated in the Israelites the fact that the pursuit of the righteousness of the Law is of an eternal wealth that confounds the selfish pursuits that undermine human civilization. Only the Israelite kings’ breaking of the Law, after the kings sought their own riches above the people, led to Israel’s downfall. Expelled from the Kingdom of Israel after the fall of their kings, the Jews began their centuries old endurance of persecution. The Jews no longer had their Temple as the center of the Jews’ agricultural life-styles in the Israelite Kingdom. The Jews, therefore, maintained their culture and civilization due to the Jews’ ability to abstract the principles of the Law to govern Jewish life in the many diverse regions in the world where the Jews were expelled.
The first century messianic Jews, who began Christianity, acknowledged Yehoshua (Jesus) of Nazareth as the Messiah: the eternal anointed King. By acknowledging his death and resurrection as an eternal sacrifice that replaced the Temple sacrifices, the first century Christian Jews professed a New Testament doctrine that enabled non-Jews to share in the blessings of the Jews’ covenant with God: essentially, in epistles to Jewish centers throughout the Roman world, the first century Jewish Christians professed that the sinless Lord Jesus fulfilled the Law through love and faithfulness and bequeathed the gift of salvation in an eternal Kingdom for those who simply desire his righteousness as a guide to conduct their lives, despite ineffectual religious works, kindred relations, social status, and male or female sex. With their New Testament, the first century Christian Jews abstracted the Old Testament bedrock agricultural principles to eventually foster the upward mobility of modern culture.
Yet, the majority of Jews, who did not recognize Yehoshua of Nazareth as the Messiah, began to create modern day rabbinic Judaism: Jewish sages abstracted the principles from the Law of Moses by codifying and systematizing the long-standing oral traditions that interpreted the Jews’ Temple-life observances: the sages compiled the oral traditions that accompanied the Torah, the five scriptural books that comprise the Law of Moses. The compilation of oral tradition, the sages called the Mishnah (a repeating of what has been learned): the sages divided the Mishnah into six orders, respectively covering agricultural laws; festival and Sabbath laws; marriage and divorce laws; civil and criminal laws; sacrificial rites and dietary laws; and laws of family, ritual, and purity. To accompany the oral traditions of the Mishnah, Jewish sages compiled ancient rabbinic analysis of the Mishnah, entitled the Gemara. Soon the joining of the Mishnah and Gemara together comprised the Talmud, the center of Jewish thought and custom that accompanies the Law of Moses. The effect of the Talmud’s becoming the center of Jewish life in exile is a highly regulated and order society that compels literacy and a corporate sense of equality under the Law. Howbeit, the ill effect of Jews’ benefiting from the Talmudic tradition is an insular society, inviting the jealousies of the nations in which the Jews inhabited. As briefly mentioned above, the Jews endured profound levels of persecution, ironically at the hands of illiterate Christians, whose corrupt leaders ignored the Pauline New Testament scriptures that compelled true worshipping Christians to revere the Jews, because Lord Jesus the Christ died to incorporate the faithful amongst non-Jews into the Jewish covenant with God.
While in exile, the Jewish population segmented into three degrees of adherence to the Talmudic and Scriptural customs and Laws, which adherence, the Jews term Halacha: orthodox Jews distinguish themselves by their belief that the Talmud and Scriptures are divine; conservative Jews distinguish themselves by their belief that the Talmud and Scriptures are inspired; and Reformed Jews distinguish themselves by their belief that the Talmud and Scriptures are manmade. Amongst all the nations wherein the Jews sojourned in exile, the Jews found their safest harbor in the United States of America, which championed religious freedom over its mainly Protestant populace. From the U.S., reformed and conservative Jews created Jewish charities that aided and rescued the persecuted mainly Orthodox Jews of Europe and Russia. The Jewish charities eventually became the powerful Jewish advocacy groups that champion Jewish causes today. In response to the ongoing persecution of the Jewish Diaspora, the reformed and conservative Jews created the Zionist movement, a chiefly secular movement with the sole goal of repatriating persecuted Jews in their ancient homeland. After the Jewish Holocaust in which the German Nazi party sought to slaughter all the Jews in Europe, Zionists and other Jewish advocacy groups petitioned the American led United Nations to allow the organization of the Palestine region into a Jewish nation-state, which came into being in 1948. The newly created State of Israel then fought a succession of wars to defeat miraculously the surrounding Muslim nations that sought to destroy the Jewish state, on behalf of the displaced Muslim Palestinian population living in the midst of the Jewish State.
Now, one would think that the hostile Muslim nations that surround modern day Israel are the Jews’ greatest threat, but ironically the liberal forces that reformed and conservative Jews have allied with have become the Jews’ greatest menace. As the progressive forces of globalism integrate non-Christian populations into the West, the liberal institutes have become less tolerant of the West’s traditional Judeo-Christian religious groups. Increasingly, many secular progressives view the very nature of Judaism as prejudiced, sectarian, and an obstacle to true cultural integration. In this view, the secular progressives continually see the State of Israel, itself, as being racist in its very nature. An even greater irony is the fact that Protestant Christian groups that are sensitive to the delicate relationship between Judaism and Christianity have become the Jews and the State of Israel’s greatest ally. The burgeoning relationship between Christians and Jews continues to strengthen, as both seek to defend themselves from the secular progressive threat, as seen in the rise of an increasingly autocratic and secular government.

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