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Indifference/disrespect/ nullify/ apathy/ hate/ignore. These words describe the attitude of many Christians, but not all, towards Jews and Israel. Many Christians support the enemies of Israel, more than they support Jews. If we don’t support the Jews, God may not support us.
We owe our faith and salvation to the Jews. Jesus was a Jew and the entire New Testament is founded on the Old, and we read both books in our Bible.
Jesus’ entire public ministry was done in the land of Israel. Mostly He preached to Jews. He healed them, raised them from the dead and did miracles for them.
Jesus called the Jewish temple in Jerusalem His Father’s house (Luke 2:46-49). We know that it was the house of the Spiritual Father of the Jews. Jesus’ Father, the Spiritual Father of the Jews, and the heavenly Father of Christians is One and the Same.
The Old Testament comes first in the Christian Bible, and then the New. The Christian Bible is not only the New Testament but is deeply intertwined with the Old. Christians need to learn the whole Old Testament just as Jews have to learn it all (the Tanakh). Chronologically, the Jewish faith came first and then Christianity.
Jews follow God accurately with their faith. God has, is and always will be the God of the Jews. They have a pure, strong faith. The Bible says the Jews will build the third temple in Jerusalem. We can draw that piece of information from read Jesus’s words: “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— Matthew 24:15. One day an abominable person will stand in the holy temple of God in Jerusalem. That has not happened yet.
‘Jerusalem’ appears hundreds of times in the Old Testament, and over a hundred times in the New. I have counted. There is frequent reference to the Holy City of both Jews and Christians in the Old and New Testaments.
Jerusalem is the most significant city on Earth for the Jews because it is the heart of their permanent homeland, Israel. Also it is because that is where God put His Name and where two temples once stood. One built by Solomon, and the other was standing there when Jesus visited it during His public ministry. Jerusalem is the most significant city for Christians because Jesus died there, and rose from the dead there. Many holy people rose from their tombs after Jesus rose from death, and they appeared to many people in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is where the Holy Spirit came upon the eleven disciples and others supercharging them and kick starting their ministry with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jerusalem is considered the most holy city for only two faiths, Jews and Christians. No one else.
Christians owe a lot to Jews. We can read how Israel came to be a nation in Exodus, and trace back their story in Genesis. Without the Old Testament we’d be shallow, superficial people of faith. There is great depth to the books of the Old Testament. Many, if not all point to the Messiah.
If God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are the Finest People we will ever meet, then it follows that the people they associate with most will also have similar traits to them. The Jews have had an unbroken history of a close friendship with God. Christianity has a shorter history.
When Jesus came to Israel for His public ministry years, He never came to replace God the Father and nullify the Jewish faith. He came to draw only relatively few Jews unto Himself, while God the Father continued His plan with the rest of the Jews, fulfilling His word to them, nurturing them, and building them. It could be said that Jesus came to bring the Gentiles mainly into salvation. With the Jewish faith, normally you need to be born a Jew or marry a Jew to become a Jew, as far as I know. So God in His mercy opened a new way to Him while the old one continued.
Jews have much more depth in their faith than Christians because they have been practicing their faith for much longer. They can draw upon precepts, and Old Testament stories which they can relate to in a much closer way than Christians who were Gentiles can. Because the people in the Old Testament are their natural ancestors. The twelve tribes of Israel are all related to the Jews of today. Jews can say they are related to King David, or Levi, or Isaiah, while most Christians can’t make any such claim. They have a super rich pedigree of faith, great nobility and a deep godly way about them. Few Christians have strong faith like the Jews, though Christians outnumber Jews on our planet.
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