Why did Jesus declare "Salvation is from the Jews" (John 4:22)?

Question

"Why is this night different from all other nights?" Does the answer to that question—the question at the heart of every Passover Seder of the Jewish people throughout the world for approximately 3,500 years lie at the heart of the salvation of not only the Jewish people but the entire world ?

You would have been hard pressed, 2000 years ago, to find anyone—Jew or Gentile—who did not look upon Christians as Jews who had formed a new sect within Judaism. Christianity was Jewish. Its followers were not converts; they were Jews WHO HAD DONE what Jews had been waiting to do for 2,000 years: welcome their Messiah, the long-expected hope of Israel.

On the eve of the tenth plague, God instructed the Jewish nation, while slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, to slay a pure, unblemished lamb, which they would then consume, whose blood, painted on the lintels of the doorposts of their houses in Egypt, would take the place of the firstborn of every Israelite family and free them from the death of the tenth plague (cf. Ex. 12). In remembrance of that deliverance, the Israelites were instructed to celebrate anew and annually that first Passover (the night the angel of death "passed over" the houses of Egypt) with the death of a spotless lamb whose shed blood was the cause of their deliverance.

Approximately 1,500 years later, Jesus and his Jewish disciples celebrated that same Passover—also with a slain lamb at their table—to be eaten in remembrance of that first Passover. Could any of the twelve have imagined the answer to the "routine" question "Why is this night different from all other nights?" Could they have understood that what was prefigured in the lambs of Egypt would be fulfilled in the Lamb of God, the Lamb to which all other lambs pointed, the Lamb who would deliver them not from temporal bondage to slavery from Egypt but from eternal bondage to slavery from sin?

Salvation from the Jews, through whom the Messiah came, was not only for the Jews but for the whole world. Following his Resurrection and prior to his Ascension, Jesus gave instructions to the twelve (Jewish) disciples to take the gospel (the "good news" of salvation) to the ends of the earth: "You shall receive power when the Holy Sprit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8). And, again, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age" (Matt. 28:19–20).

Did the Jews fulfil their God-given mission to evangelize and preach to the whole world before the end ? Through the christians the God of Israel has become known to the whole wide world ?

Answer 1

You are correct. Salvation did indeed come from the Jews. Satan would have this fact forgotten or denied. The chosen people are the Jews. They have rejected Him as messiah for now, but God will save a remnant of them in the end as always. During every extermination effort God has reserved a remnant. So it will be in the end times.

Answer 2

John 4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Judahites.

Ancient Israel was a farming society. There are two harvest seasons in Israel, the Spring harvest (first fruits) and a Fall Harvest. Symbolically Israel represents the Spring harvest (which is the first harvest), the other nations will be in the Fall harvest.

Israel is the first fruit, the NATIONS as a whole can’t be brought in until Israel is. Israel has to know this truth first, Israel are the ones who have to take this word to the nations. The ministry in this time is to Israel first, but not turn away any others who desires to know the truth. When Yahshuah, the Messiah came to earth, he told his followers the mandate that we are to follow, he told the apostles to go to Israel only.

Matthew 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

5 These twelve Yahshuah sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

For this is the whole job of the choosen people to preach salvation.

Answer 3

The jews weren't commanded to evangelize.

The were to be witnesses based on 'obeying and living by Jehovah's commandments'

Salvation is from the jews in that Jesus was a jew. All the bible writers were jews.

Jehovah used the jews to preserve his word, and to provide the evidence of who the Messiah would be.

Today the Israel of God (Galations ch. 6) is the christian congregation, a 'new creation'

Paul in Romans shows that christians are jews in the heart.
Jesus shows in Revelation that the Christians (Israel) will rule with him from heaven.

Answer 4

You ask why Jews do not missionize.

That is simple. Jews believe that salvation is possible for all people and not only Jews.

Any non-Jew who obeys the seven Noahide commandments is eligible for salvation. Jews, on the other hand, have many more commandments to fulfill.


I hope that helps.


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Answer 5

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Answer 6

He was a bigot.