Here is an email I sent to someone in regards to Jews and Israel.
1) Were/are Jews special just because they were physically Jews?
Romans 2:25-29 makes it clear that Jews were not special just because they were Jews (physically) but because they kept the Law and obeyed God. A Gentile could proselyte into Judaism and be on "equal footing" as any Jew.
2.) What does God think about Israel and the Jews today?
The Jews fell and were cast off in Acts 7 for blaspheming the Holy Ghost (Acts 7:51, Rom. 11:11-12). They were diminished (Rom. 11:11-15). Not only that, they are under God's "WRATH" and "SEVERITY" (Romans 11:22, 1 Thes. 2:)
1 Thessalonians 2:
[14] For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
[15] Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
[16] Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
[15] Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
[16] Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
So the Jews DO have a special position under God in this dispensation: complete wrath and severity! God has "blinded" them (Rom. 11:7, 11:25) to spiritual truth on purpose and as judgment. And this isn't even the worst of it--that comes later on in the tribulation period (Jeremiah 30).
In this age, I would say marrying a Jew would be worse than marrying a negro. It is true that Ham is the cursed race, but in this dispensation God has put a spiritual blindness on Shem. (there is "racial prophecy" in this dispensation)
3.) The Jews are liars and they worship a false god.
God is three in one--a trinity (1 John 5:7, Genesis 1:26/11:6-7, John 1:1-3, etc.). Yet the Jews say that Christ is not God--therefore they are LIARS and they do not worship the Father nor the Son.
1 John 2:
[22] Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
[23] Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
[23] Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Also, according to their "Shekhinah" of the Talmud, they believe that God is both male and female...which is BLASPHEMY. It is not "liberal" Jews that believe this--it is all of them.
4.) Jews do not follow the Law.
Jews do not follow Genesis through Malachi. I have heard that a lot of the "Rabbis" believe in evolution and most Jews do not consider Adam and Eve, Noah, and the tower of Babel as literal or true stories. I have also heard that they take an oath every year that "voids every contract or promise they make in that year and the year after that". They also do not follow the animal sacrifices--which means that they most certainly do not obey the Law of Moses. They say that they can't do them because they don't have a temple...but why don't they build a tabernacle? The tabernacle was God's original plan for the sacrifices to be done in--the temple was David's idea and God allowed it, but it was NOT His original plan.
John 5:
[45] Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
[46] For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
[47] But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
[46] For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
[47] But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Titus 1:
[9] Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
[10] For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
[11] Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
[10] For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
[11] Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
5.) In the present dispensation, being a Jew is considered "dung".
Philippians 3:
[1] Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
[2] Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
[3] For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
[4] Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
[5] Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
[6] Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
[7] But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
[8] Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
[2] Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
[3] For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
[4] Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
[5] Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
[6] Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
[7] But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
[8] Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Being a Hebrew following the Law is "dung". Nationality and race does not matter in this dispensation because all who trust Christ will be in one body where there is neither Jew nor Greek. (1 Cor. 12:13, Gal. 3:28)
6.) What about the holocaust?
The holocaust was a most tragic event and it was a wicked thing to murder all those Jews. However, the Nazis were no more evil for doing that to Jews than if it had been Mexicans, Russians, or any other race/nationality. The Jews are under God's wrath right now, they are blinded, and they are not God's people. They are under God's "severity" (Rom. 11:22). Being a Hebrew is considered "dung" (Phil. 3:8).
It would not matter if the Jews were completely wiped out as a race, because "God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham" (Matt. 3:9).
--Eli "Hoss" Caldwell
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