ISRAEL PAST PRESENT & FUTURE BETH ARIEL CONGREGATION, MONTREAL
J.I. Gabizon
1- INTRODUCTION
Isaiah 55:10-11 10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
2- DEFINITIONS
A- THE JEW
Secular definitions:
Biblical definition:
Esther 2:5 Now in the palace at Shushan there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite.
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B- HEBREW
Genesis 14:13 And there came one who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt on the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram.
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee.
THE TABLE OF THE NATIONS Genesis 10
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JAPHET Genesis 10:2
HAM Genesis 10:6
SHEM Genesis 10:21
EBER Genesis 10:21
PELEG & JOKTAN Genesis 10:25
THE TOWER OF BABEL Genesis 11:1-9
ABRAM Genesis 11:26
1Cor.10:11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT Genesis 12:1-3
Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
Son of David Davidic Covenant Son of Abraham Abrahamic Covenant
C- ISRAEL
“One who strives with God” “God strives” “He will be prince with God”
Genesis 32:24-30
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Isaiah 49:3 & 5 The Servant Song: Yeshua – Israel
3 "And He said to me, ‘You are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.’
5 "And now the LORD says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, And My God shall be My strength).
3- ISRAEL’S PURPOSE
A- Genesis 12:1-3
B- Exodus 19:5-6 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
1- Israel: A special treasure to God Matthew 13: 44 Israel the Treasure of God Matthew 13: 45 The Body of the Messiah, the Pearl of God
2- Israel: A Kingdom of Priest God’s Cohanim
Isaiah 43:21 This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.
Isaiah 60:3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD; men shall call you the Ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
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3- Israel: a holy nation to God
C- The 70 nations in the Table of the Nations Gen.10 & the 70 persons of Israel Genesis 46:27 All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy. Exodus 1:5 All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons.
D- WHAT OR WHO KEPT THE JEWS ALIVE DURING THE PAST 2500 YEARS?
Secular response: Monotheism, Torah, Persecution
Biblical response:
Deuteronomy 7:6-7 6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples.
Deuteronomy 9 5 Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may perform the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 "Understand, therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness, for thou art a stiff-necked people.
4- DEUTERONOMY 28 & LEVITICUS 26
The Blessings That Follow Obedience 28:1–14
The Curses That Follow Disobedience 28:15–68
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(1) Curses as Reversal of Blessings 28:15–19 (2) Curses by Disease and Drought 28:20–24 (3) Curses by Defeat and Deportation 28:25–37 (4) The Curse of Reversed Status 28:38–46 (5) The Curse of Military Siege 28:47–57 (6) The Curse of Covenant Jeopardy 28:58–68
A- TO THE JEW FIRST
Romans 2:9-11 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentiles; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Gentiles.
Paul proceeded to the Jew first: Salamis (13:4–5), Antioch of Pisidia (13:14), Iconium (14:1), Philippi (16:11–13), Thessalonica (17:1–2), Berea (17:10), Athens (17:16–17), Corinth (18:1–4), Ephesus (19:1, 8), Rome (28:16–17)
B- ISRAEL’S RE-ESTABLISHMENT Leviticus 26 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.’"
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5- A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL
Creation Bird’s Eye View of The History of Adam 10,000 B.C. (?) Israel
Abraham 2000 B.C.
Moses 1500 B.C.
David 1000 B.C.
P R O P H Babylonian Diaspora 586 B.C. Times of the Gentiles E T Luke 21:24 S
The First Coming 30 ad Roman Diaspora 70 ad Return to the Land; 1948 arielcanada.com
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E T E R N I First Coming You are T Second Coming here Y 586 BC 1000 Church Age Tribulation years
TIMES OF THE GENTILES LUKE 21:24
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6- THE REASONS FOR THE DIASPORA
Genesis 1:1 Romans 1:18-20
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Romans 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honourable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 "we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 "Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.
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Matthew 23:37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: "Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men.
7- THE JEWS IN ISRAEL TODAY
Matthew 24:15 "Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Christian for Israel International http://www.c4israel.org/c4i/projects/help_jews_come_home
Isaiah 49:22-23 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders; See the next verse - 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me."
Operation Exodus – Ebenezer Project http://www.operation-exodus.org/israel/ Ezekiel 20:33 "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. 34 "I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out.
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35 "And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face.
Isaiah 11:11-14 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea. 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth. 13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not harass Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; Together they shall plunder the people of the East; They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; And the people of Ammon shall obey them.
A- EZEKIEL 37
ISRAEL AND THE ARAB NATIONS
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8- ISRAEL TODAY
9- THE JEWS IN HISTORY UP UNTIL TODAY
World Jewish Population from 1900-2014
17 mm . 15 mm .
14 mm .
13 mm . 12 mm . 11 mm . .
1900 1925 1939 1945 1960 2000 2014
Leviticus 26:22 – …and make you few in number…
(Ref. jewishviturallibrary.org)
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10- THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES
1- Communities on the move:
2- The intermarriage rates
11- THE TWO MAJOR DIVISIONS IN ISRAEL
3- Ashkenazi Jews (approx. 75%)
4- Sephardic Jews (approx. 25%)
12- THREE MAJOR RELIGIOUS GROUPS
1- Orthodox
2. Reformed
3. Conservative
C- NON-RELIGIOUS GROUPS
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1- Humanistic Judaism
2- Neolog Judaism
3- Jewish Renewal
4- Jewish Science
5- Zionists
6- Atheists
7- Agnostics
E- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE
Matthew 24:15 "Therefore when you see the `abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand).
2Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
13- PRECONCEIVED IDEAS AND OBJECTIONS
1Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
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Psalm 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.
GODLY PEOPLE AND THEIR GOD
Job 33:7-9 Job 42:5-6 Isaiah 6:1-7 Ezekiel 1:26-28, Daniel 10:7-9 Luke 5:8
Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
A- JEWS KNOW THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES
John. 5:46 "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
Romans 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
2Corinthiens 3:6 … who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
History and the Jews
Deut. 25:17 "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt.
Micah 6:5 O My people, remember now What Balak king of Moab counseled, And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, From Acacia Grove to Gilgal, That you may know the righteousness of the LORD."
Deut 25:19 You shall not forget
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B- ALL JEWS ARE RICH
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
C- JEWS KILLED JESUS
Acts 4:26-27 26 The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the LORD and against His Christ. 27 "For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together.
175AD Irenaeus “the house of Jacob and the people of Israel are disinherited from the grace of God…they have rejected the Son of God and they slew Him.”
225AD Origen of Alexandria “We may thus assert in utter confidence that the Jews will not return to their earlier situation, for they have committed the most abominable of crimes, in forming this conspiracy against the Savior of the human race.”
398AD Chrysostom & Israel “As an animal when it has been fattened by getting all it wants to eat, gets stubborn and hard to manage, so it was with the Jewish people.”
400AD St-Augustine (Confession)
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How hateful to me are the enemies of your Scripture! How I wish that you would slay them (the Jews) with your two-edged sword, so that there should be none to oppose your word! Gladly would I have them die to themselves and live to you!
Yeshua willingly gave Himself. Matt.17:25; John 10:11, 17, 18
D- IF JESUS IS THE JEWISH MESSIAH, WHY DON’T MORE JEWS BELIEVE IN HIM?
IF JESUS IS REALLY THE MESSIAH, HOW COME THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS DID NOT BELIEVE IN HIM?
a- Elijah 1Kings 18:17 Is that you, O troubler of Israel? 1Kings 19:14 I alone am left; and they seek to take my life 1Kings 19:18 I have reserved seven thousand in Israel
b- Yeshua’s Exceptional Miracles
Healing of the man born blind: John 9:32 "Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind.
Healing of the demon-possessed, blind and mute: Matthew 12:23 And all the multitudes were amazed and said, "Could this be the Son of David?"
The raising of Lazarus: John 11:17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
E- “IF JESUS IS REALLY THE MESSIAH, WHY ISN’T THERE PEACE ON EARTH?”
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Matthew 10:34 Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
Matthew 1:21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.
The Two Comings of the Messiah
John 12:12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: "Hosanna! `Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' The King of Israel!"
Isaiah 8:13 The LORD of hosts, … 14 He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isa.28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.
Ps. 11:22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
F- CHRISTIANITY IS ANTI-SEMITIC
Justin Martyr 138 - 161 a.d. We too, would observe your circumcision of the flesh, your Sabbath days, and in a word, all you festivals, if we were not aware of the reason why they were imposed upon you, namely, because of your sins and the hardness of heart.
The purpose of this was that you and only you might suffer the afflictions that are now justly yours; that only your land be desolated, and you cities ruined by fire, that the fruits of you land be eaten by strangers before your very eyes; that not one of you be permitted to enter your city of Jerusalem.
Origen of Alexandria 184-254 a.d. We may thus assert in utter confidence that the Jews will not return to their earlier situation, for they have committed the most abominable of crimes, in forming this conspiracy against the Savior of the human race…hence the city where Jesus suffered was necessarily destroyed, the Jewish nation was driven from its country, and another
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John Chrysostom 344-407 a.d. The synagogue is worse than a house of prostitute…it is the den of scoundrels and the repair of wild beasts…the temple of demons devoted to idolatrous cults…the refuge of brigands and dabauchees, and the cavern of devils.
LUTHER 1483-1546 a.d.
1523 “That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew” excerpts “Therefore, I would request and advise that one deal gently with them and instruct them from Scripture; then some of them may come along. Instead of this we are trying only to drive them by force, slandering them . . . So long as we thus treat them like dogs, how can we expect to work any good among them? Again, when we forbid them to labor and do business and have any human fellowship with us, thereby forcing them into usury, how is that supposed to do them any good? If we really want to help them, we must be guided in our dealings with them not by papal law but by the law of Christian love . . . If some of them should prove stiff-necked, what of it? After all, we ourselves are not all good Christians either.”
1543 From a pamphlet “Concerning the Jews and their Lies”. In it, he referred to the Jews as: “A miserable and accursed people” “Stupid fools” “Miserable, blind and senseless” “Thieves and robbers” “The great vermin of humanity” “Lazy rogues” “Blind and venomous” Luther then proceeded to make some startling proposals for dealing with them: 1) Their synagogues and schools be burned. 2) Their houses should be destroyed. 3) Their Talmudic writings should be confiscated. 4) Their Rabbis should be forbidden to teach. 5) Their money should be taken from them. 6) They should be compelled into forced labor.
Luther on the Book of Esther “I am so hostile to this book …. that I could wish that it did not exist at all, for it judaizes too greatly and have much pagan impropriety,”"
HITLER 1889-1945 “I believe that today I am acting in accordance with the will of Almighty God as I announce the
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Encyclopedia Judaica, on Anti-Semitism, “The young church, therefore, which declared itself to be the true Israel, or "Israel according to the spirit," heir to the divine promises, found it essential to discredit the "Israel according to the flesh," to prove that God had cast away His people and transferred His love to the Christians.”
G- THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC
John 5:16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.
John 7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him.
John 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
Revelation 2:9 & 3:9 "I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
H - CHRISTIANS HATE THE JEWS
Matthew 7:21-23 21 ¶ "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 "Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 "And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
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Gentile Zionists: E.W. Bullinger William Blackstone
I - I WON’T BETRAY MY ANCESTORS! I WON’T FORSAKE THE FAITH OF MY FATHERS!
J- IF I BECOME A CHRISTIAN, I WILL NO LONGER BE A JEW
Concept of the Remnant of Israel
Isaiah 1:9 ( Romans 9:29) Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 10:22 For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Ezekiel 6:8 "Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
Romans 9:6 But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel.
Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
Galatians 6:16 – And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Isaiah 8:18 Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.
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K- WHY DID GOD ALLOW SIX MILLION JEWS TO DIE IN THE HOLOCAUST?
Deuteronomy 28 & Leviticus 26
1- THE PROBLEM OF EVIL:
Job 21:7-15 Jeremiah 12:1 Habakkuk 1:2
a- No one is innocent Psalm 14:1-2 & 53:1-2 Romans 3:23 Proverbs 20:9 b- God is not the cause of evil; He restrains it.
Lamentation 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. Lamentations 3:22 "It is though His kindness that we are not completely consumed" God restrains.
c- God suffers with Israel: Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction He was afflicted. Secular Views on Evil:
All Not All Not Incapable Evil Loving loving Powerful powerful
Finitism X X
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Sadism X X
Impossibilism X X X
Dualism X X X
Illusionism No evil
Atheism No God
L - WHAT HAPPENS TO JEWS WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS -- ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO NEVER HEARD ABOUT HIM?
Daniel 12:2 JPS And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence.
M- WHY SO MANY DENOMINATIONS IN CHRISTIANITY?
Matthew 7:21-23 Hosea 4:6 Isaiah 5:13
John 2 23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men,
Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Revelation 22:18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19
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Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
N - CHRISTIANITY IS JUST ANOTHER GREAT WORLD RELIGION
God has one standard of holiness. Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:23; 6:23
God has one way of salvation. Joel 2:32; Acts 4:12; Romans 10:12, 13
Only one way to heaven. John 14:6
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Ex 15:11 "Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Isa 44:8 Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.’"
The argument from prophecies:
Isaiah 42: 21"Present your case," says the LORD. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.
22 "Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come. 23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods; Yes, do
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14- OBJECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE
A- GOD DOESN’T HAVE A SON
Proverbs 30 4 Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, If you know? 5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Psalm 2:
7 "I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. 12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
B- JEWS DON’T BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY. WE BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, NOT THREE
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Midrash Rabbah - Deuteronomy 1:20 ‘I have yet to raise up the Messiah’ of whom it is written, For a child is born to us (Isaiah 9:5).
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Micah 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting."
Isaiah 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD, And besides Me there is no Savior.
Theophanies (Visible manifestations of God) in Genesis Genesis 18:1-2, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 32:30
The concept of the Triunity in the Shema; Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!
ZOHAR Soncino Zohar, Bemidbar, Section 3, Page 162a They said to him: He also said: They are two, and one is joined to them, making three, and when they are three they are one. He said to them: These are the two names Lord in the Shema ; [Tr. note: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.] Aour God is, as it were, the signature, and when they are joined they form one.
Soncino Zohar, Shemoth, Raya Mehemna, Page 43b Hear, O Israel, TETRAGRAMMATON Elohenu TETRAGRAMMATON is one. These three are one. How can the three Names be one? Only through the perception of Faith: in the vision of the Holy Spirit, in the beholding of the hidden eyes alone. The mystery of the audible voice is similar to this, for though it is one yet it consists of three elements-fire, air, and water, which have, however, become one in the mystery of the voice. Even so it is with the mystery of the threefold Divine manifestations designated by TETRAGRAMMATON Elohenu TETRAGRAMMATON - three modes which yet form one unity
METATRON In Hagigah it is said that the tanna Elisha B. Avuyah saw Metatron seated and said perhaps there are 2 powers as though indicating Metatron himself as a second deity.Encyclopedia Judaica
Biblical Christians worship only one God
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I Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus
C- JEWISH PEOPLE DON’T NEED A MIDDLEMAN
Exodus 20:19 Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die."
Deuteronomy 18:15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16 "according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’
Job 9:33 Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.
Numbers 8:10 ; and present the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites. 11 “Aaron then shall present the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may qualify to perform the service of the Lord. 12 “Now the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; then offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make…
D- ISAIAH 53 SPEAKS OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, NOT JESUS
Isaiah 53:8 For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
BT Sanh. 11:1 And R. Yohanan said, “For the Messiah.” What is his name? Rabbis said, “His name is ‘the leper of the school house,’ as it is written, ‘Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of God and afflicted’
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(Is. 53:4).” Midrash Rabbah, Ruth 63 The fifth interpretation makes it refer to the Messiah… as it is said, But he was wounded because of our transgressions (Isa. LIII, 5).
ZOHAR ON THE MESSIAH Soncino Zohar, Shemoth, Section 2, Page 212a When the Messiah hears of the great suffering of Israel in their dispersion, and of the wicked amongst them who seek not to know their Master, he weeps aloud on account of those wicked ones amongst them, as it is written: “But he was wounded because of our transgression, he was crushed because of our iniquities” (Ibid. LIII, 5).
TARGUM ON ISAIAH. 52.13 Behold, my servant, the Messiah, shall prosper, he shall be exalted and increase, and shall be very strong.
E- WE BELIEVE IN TWO MESSIAHS
Messiah Ben-Joseph & Messiah Ben-David
B. Talmud Sanhedrin 11:1 The same said again that the same authority propounded another contradiction from [Dan. 7:13]: “Behold with the clouds of heaven came one like a son of man …” [Zech. 9:9]: “Lowly and riding upon an ass.” And the answer was, if they will be worthy he will come with the clouds of heaven, and if not, he will come upon a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.
Daniel 7:13 "I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.
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Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
B. Talmud Sukkah 5:1d-5:4 Now in the view of him who said, “It is on account of the Messiah, the son of Joseph, who was killed,” we can make sense of the following verse of Scripture: “And they shall look on me because they have thrust him through, and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son” (Zech. 12:10)
F- WHAT ABOUT THE ORAL LAW?
JPS Guide to Jewish Tradition. P.449 It was considered conclusive proof that Revelation is a continuing process, with subsequent interpretations of the Torah (Oral Law) also being divine and thus binding.
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Ref. Meet the Rabbis; Rabbinic Thoughts and the Teachings of Jesus. P.198
Matthew 15:2 Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
Joshua 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
Deuteronomy 30 & Romans 11:6-8 11 "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 "It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 13 "Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 14 "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Isa.45:19 I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in vain’; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.. Tanak - TaNaK - Torah/ Neviim / Ketoubim
Torah The Law: 5 Books, Gen.- Deut.
Neviim Major Prophets: 5 Books, Isaiah to Daniel B-Minor Prophets 12 Books Hosea to Malachi
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C- Historical Books 6 Books Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings
Ketoubim The Writings: 11 Books Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Songs of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1&2 Chronicles
G- HOW WOULD YOU RECOGNIZE THE MESSIAH TODAY?
Genesis 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
BT Sanh.11:1. R. Yohanan said, “For the Messiah.” What is his name? The house of R. Shila said, “His name is Shiloh, as it is said, ‘Until Shiloh come’ (Gen. 49:10).”
Midrash Rabbah Genesis 955 UNTIL SHILOH COMETH2: this alludes to the royal Messiah. AND UNTO HIM SHALL THE OBEDIENCE (YIKHATH) OF THE PEOPLE BE: he [the Messiah] will come and set on edge (makheh) the teeth of the nations of the world.
Targum of Jonathan Kings and rulers shall not cease from those of the house of Judah, nor scribes teaching the Law from his descendants, until the time the King Messiah comes.
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H- THE VIRGIN BIRTH IS IMPOSSIBLE
The Seed Road: Genesis 3:15 - Isaiah 7:14 – Matthew 1:23
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
Matthew 1:23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."
Isaac’s birth was a miracle Gen.18:11,12
Moses miraculous birth; Legend; David Daube, The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism:
I- JEWS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT MAN IS BORN WITH A SINFUL NATURE.
Psalm 14:1-3 & Psalm 53:1-3 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God. 3 They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
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Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
The Road to Redemption: Genesis 3:21 - Leviticus 17:11 - Isaiah 53 - 1Peter 2:24
Genesis 3:21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Leviticus 17:11 ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’ Isaiah 53 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.(Vs.4) The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. (Vs.5) 1Peter 2:24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
J- HOW CAN YOU PROVE JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD?
“The Fraud Theory” or “The Stolen Body Theory” Matthew 28:11-15
11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all the things that had happened.
12 When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,
13 saying, "Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.’
14 "And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will appease him and make you secure."
15 So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Talmud; Mas. Yevamoth 120a NO EVIDENCE [OF A MAN'S DEATH] MAY BE TENDERED BEFORE HIS SOUL HAS
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DEPARTED; EVEN THOUGH THE WITNESSES HAVE SEEN HIM WITH HIS ARTERIES CUT OR CRUCIFIED OR BEING DEVOURED BY A WILD BEAST. EVIDENCE [OF IDENTIFICATION] MAY BE TENDERED [BY THOSE] ONLY [WHO SAW THE CORPSE] WITHIN THREE DAYS [AFTER DEATH].
15- THE SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE AND THE TALMUD AT THE DEATH AND AFTER THE RESURRECTION
A- SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE
Matthew 27:50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
1- The veil of the temple was torn 2- There was an earthquake 3- The rocks split 4- The graves were opened 5- the dead rose on the third day 6- Darkness over all the earth
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.
Talmud, Pesachim 1 “Both according to R. Jehudah and R. Meir it is prohibited to eat leavened bread from the sixth hour, and further, of the fourteenth of Nissan, let the time for searching commence at that hour.”
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B- SIGNS FROM THE TALMUD
B. Talmud. San.43a “On the eve of Pesah they hung Jesus [the Nazarene]. … And they hung him on the eve of Pesah.”
Babylonian Talmud; Yoma 4:1 & Jerusalem Talmud; Yoma 6:3 Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white; nor did the westernmost light shine and the doors of the Hekal would open by themselves.
Destruction of the Temple: 70 a.d. minus 40 years; 30 a.d.
1- nor did the westernmost light shine, the lamp stand in the Holy Place
B Talmud Shab. 22b But it is a testimony to mankind that the Divine Presence rests in Israel. What is the testimony? — Said Rab: That was the western branch [of the candelabrum ]
2- ... and the doors of the Hekal would open by themselves
3- … nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white
Leviticus 16: The two goats on Yom Kippur
4- Babylonian Talmud: Shabbath 15a & Jerusalem Talmud: Sanhedrin 12 Forty years before the destruction of the Temple the Sanhedrin went into exile and took its seat in the trade Halls
5- Jerusalem Talmud – Sanhedrin 7:2 It is taught: Forty years before the Temple was destroyed, the right to judge capital cases was taken away from Israelite courts. In the time of R. Simeon b. Shatah, the right to judge property cases was taken away from Israelite courts.
2Corinthians 3:2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly
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1Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
17-ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH
A- THE BOOK OF ROMANS
Romans 3:2 1-To them were committed the oracles of God
Romans 9:4-5 2- to whom pertain the adoption 3- The divine glory 4- The covenants 5- The receiving of the Law 6- The Temple worship 7- The promises 8- The patriarchs 9- From whom, according to the flesh, Christ came B- ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH AFTER 1948
a- Jewish Evangelism since World War II
Christian Witness to the Jewish People (1980) The Willowbank Declaration on the Christian Gospel and the Jewish People (1989) Manila Manifesto (1989)
18-THE 3 VIEWS ON ESCHATOLOGY
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AMILLENNIALISM Second Coming Kingdom Now Satan is Bound Eternal State Church replaced Israel Millennium? Book of Revelation & End Time Prophecies Symbolic
POSTMILLENNIALISM 70 ad Millennium Now Second Coming Great Tribulation Satan is Bound The Church will Convert the World Eternal State Church replaced Israel Book of Revelation & End Time Prophecy occurred in 70 ad
PREMILLENNIALISM
Rapture Second Coming Eternal State Church Age 7 year 1000 years Millennium Tribulation Israel the Priestly Nation
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The thousand years is quite clearly not the be understood as an exact measure of time but rather as a symbolical number. Strict arithmetic has no place here.. Loraine Boettner, Millennium, p.64 Philadelphia, Presbyterian & Reformed Publ.
"There is only one Bride; God is not a bigamist. He took no gentile wife under the Old Covenant, and He will not accept a pale imitation of Old Covenant Israel Bmodern Judaism as His wife in the future. Gentiles could become part of God's Bride in the Old Covenant only by abandoning their national gods and accepting the God of the Israelites, as Shechem did, by circumcision (Genesis 34). Today, the same rule applies in the New Covenant era: Jews can become part of the Bride only by abandoning their Judaism by being baptized. God is not a bigamist." (Gary North, The Judeo-Christian Tradition: A Guide for the Perplexed (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1990), pp. 16-17)
-The Book of Revelation is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is about the destruction of Israel and Christ’s victory over His enemies (i.e. Israel) in the establishment of the New Covenant Temple. In fact, as we shall see, the word coming as used in the Book of Revelation
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The heart of post-millennialism is the faith that Christ will through His people accomplish and put into force the glorious prophecies of Isaiah and all the Scriptures, that He shall overcome all His enemies though His covenant people, and that He shall exercise His power and Kingdom in all the world and over all men and nations, so that, whether in faith or in defeat, every knee shall bow to Him and every tongue shall confess God. Roussas John Rush doony, God=s plan for Victory: the meaning of postmillennialism Fairfax. VA. Thoburn press 1977. P.53
Romans 11:25 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. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
A- THE TWO-COVENANT THEOLOGY: Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
Mark 1:5 Then all the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
Ezekiel 20:38 I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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B- BIAS AGAINST ISRAEL IN THE CHURCH TODAY
Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.
Case example: Jacob
Genesis 25:27 So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 27:36 And Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!" And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
19- WHY THE CHURCH DOES NOT EVANGELIZE THE JEW
1- Jewish resistance
2- We have no right to witness to the Jewish community because of Jewish suffering and "Christian" anti-Semitism.
3- Acts 18:6 Your blood be on your own heads
4- I will not be allowed to minister in Israel if I witness to the Jewish people
A- One reason the Gospel went to the Gentiles: Romans 11:11-14:
I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
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20- JUDGMENT ON THE NATIONS IN REGARD TO ISRAEL
Joel 3:1 "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.
Zechariah 12:3 "And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. 4 "In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Amos 1:11 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity; His anger tore perpetually, And he kept his wrath forever.
Obadiah 1:10 "For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
Psalm 83 A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more." 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;
Esther 6:13 When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him."
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Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): 36 "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever." 37 Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:19 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 20 "Thus says the LORD: `If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, 21 then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'"
Romans 11:1 I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!
21- JEWISH EVANGELISM METHODS
22- DIFFERENT APPROCHES TO JEWISH EVANGELISM
a- Confrontational Approach
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b- City-wide Evangelistic Campaigns
c- Holiday Outreaches
d- Direct Mail to Jewish Homes
e- Relational Evangelism
f- Congregational Model
g- Media Evangelism
h- Cyber Evangelism
i- Timely Response to Events
j- Radio and Television Ministries
k- The Power of Testimonies
23- REACHING SPECIFIC JEWISH GROUPS
a- “Generation J”
b- Ministry to Jewish “New Agers”, “JuBus” and “HinJus”
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24- TERMS TO SAY AND NOT TO SAY
Jesus Christ The Messiah Jesus Yeshua Christians Messianic, Believers Gospel New Covenant Converted Accomplished, fulfilled Cross Tree Baptism T’villah O.T. Hebrew Scriptures Church Congregation Trinity Unity of God Born Again Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit) in me
25- ANTI-MISSIONARY ORGANIZATIONS
1- Opposition to Jewish Evangelism Jews for Judaism http://jewsforjudaism.org/
a- Educational: b- Situational: c- Dialogue:
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26- MESSIANICS IN THE WORLD TODAY?
A- Messianic Jewish Identity
B- A Theology of Cultural Identity
27-LEADING SOMEONE TO YESHUA
A- The Separation • We are all sinners (Ps.14:2-3; Jer. 17:9; Ps. 51:5,9). • Our sins separate us from God (Isa. 59:1-2). • Our good deeds are not sufficient to please God (Isa. 64:6). • God gave a blood atonement sacrifice to cleanse us from sin (Lev. 17:11). • God promised a suffering Messiah and a reigning King Messiah.
B) The Remedy Isaiah53:6 6 1Peter2:24 4 John 3:16 16
C) The Recognition Romans 10:9 Jeremiah 3:13
D) The Aftermath Matthew 28:19-20
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