At the death of Christ the Jewish nation closed its probation as the people of God. In John 8:44 Jesus said to them "ye are of your father the devil and the works of your father ye will do".
The prophecies of Daniel 9:26-27 have come and gone. Where the Messiah would come and die for the world. They said 70 weeks or 490 years are determined upon the people of God(then) which means they were given 490 years to prepare themselves for the coming of Christ. that prophecy is over and the Jews still reject Jesus. If you reject Jesus the true Messiah can you really be God's people?
1 John 4
2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
If you have the Spirit of God you are a son of God and a child. Everyone that confesseth Jesus as Christ and has come into the world in the flesh of man is of God. As far as I see the Jewish nation has not done that. Why do we support them?they are not God's children manifest the spirit.
2007-10-12 12:16:11 · 12 answers · asked by StefanL 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. Christians are now God's people. All non-Christians are Satan's people.
Your ethnicity does not matter any more.
2007-10-12 12:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by unfit_commander 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You cannot judge the whole phophecy about the Jewish people just by two or three Bible versus. It goes much deeper than you think. In Gn 12:3 brings a promess that we would be greatly blessed in blessing Israel. To love Israel and pray for her peace is not an option but a commandment. Just remember that Jesus is Jewish and HE will always be. In no way we would be able to love Jesus and not love Israel and her children. Nor saying we love Jesus and not love our neighbor. It doesn't matter if he is jew or gentile, love comes first. What we think or feel comes after.
When the Bible refers to having the Spirit of God is refering to those who already are saved through accepting Yeshua as his/her personal savior, and you or I would be in the same position if we didn't have Jesus in our heart; it means that we would be condemn without His blood shet on us and that text explains that no one who is not from God can make that confession. The devil won't confess it at all. If you get a demon possessed person and after rebuking the demons spirits and one way to see if the person is totally clean is asking the person to confess that Jesus came in flesh and not only in spirit. If the person is still possessed, he never will confess it.
What the book of Daniel is telling is something we might be able to see but it is still to come to a date nobody knows for sure. It doesn't say that the 490 years would follow the death of Christ. It's a prophecy to happen in not so soon coming days. But if you search a little you would be surprised how many Jewish people is turning to Christ in the recent years in Israel. That is a sign of the returning of Christ because the Bible says that God would remove the vail from their eyes and it is happening right now.
In John 8:44, Jesus was saying to the Jews about that generation who knew everything God did for their forefathers and even than didn't beleive in HIM as the son of God. They were religious people worried about paying the tith of the cilantro and cucumbers but following just religion and not God. They would put somebody in the jail for braking the law in the Shabbat (Saturday) but wouldn't have mercy on some one in need of food or any other help.
2007-10-12 20:13:19 · answer #2 · answered by Kunno H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Israelites are and always will be God's Chosen People. That does not mean that all Israelites will be saved. Rather, they have a special relationship with God, where God will bless all the nations through them. That has already happened with Christ!
God is 100% faithful to His promises.
Paul tells us that their branch was removed, so that the Gentiles could be grafted in. Nevertheless, they will be grafted in again. Their sacrifice is for the Gentiles gain.
When the rapture comes, the Bible tells us that the dead in Christ will rise, first the Jew, then the Gentile. 144,000 Israelites who know Christ will be left on earth to minister, and endure great hardship, leading to martyrdom.
Israel has been reconstituded! They are a blessed people, the wealthiest and most industrious in the Middle East. Like God said, He will bless those who bless Israel, and curse those who curse Israel. Amazing how true that is even today!
2007-10-12 19:24:23 · answer #3 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in my understanding, the Jews are still God's chosen people. He has never rescinded His covenants with them. The Jews who do not yet accept Christ, will one day. It is most likely to be during the tribulation period, when the 144,000 witnesses are among them. God commanded the Israel nation into being, He sent a saviour for them, it is only by His grace that gentiles were able to receive salvation, He will not forsake them at the end.
We support them because they are God's people and who ever curses them will be cursed, who ever blesses them will be blessed. Without the Jewish people, we would not have a Saviour, and then there are political reasons which I will not go into as this is not a political forum.
2007-10-12 19:45:22 · answer #4 · answered by †LifeOnLoan† 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Romans chapters 9, 10, and 11. The Jews are God's chosen people. God will be faithful to His people.
2007-10-12 19:20:00 · answer #5 · answered by CJ 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes we do. And a little advice:
Rom 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.
2007-10-12 19:28:41 · answer #6 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romans 11 says it all. There's still a remnant. And God will deal with them and save them when the fulness of the Gentiles has come in.
2007-10-12 19:20:05 · answer #7 · answered by srprimeaux 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unbelieving Jews are the branch which has been broken off. However that branch can still be grafted in, and in fact some will be grafted in at the end.
2007-10-12 19:33:11 · answer #8 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not the Jews only but the Christ be-gotten.
2007-10-12 19:21:25 · answer #9 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jews need salvation in the same way everyone else does
2007-10-12 19:23:30 · answer #10 · answered by Darcy G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You people worship a Jewish guy. That should tell you something. But no, believe whatever makes you exclude everyone else from your fictional paradise.
2007-10-12 19:20:28 · answer #11 · answered by damlovash 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋