Question for Alex or anyone

[biscuit eater]

Why was it necessary for God to blind the minds and hearts of most the Jewish people that Jesus was the Messiah. So that the Gentiles could find salvation. thanks

[Rebel Hog]

In Daniel 9:24 God tells us that the Messiah will come in 490 years from the time of this prophecy. It also says that the temple will be rebuilt before the Messiah comes to save His people. The Jews, God's chosen people, were allowed to be taken into exile by the Babylonians because they were not following God's Word. They lost faith and trust in God. They lost the temple.

The temple was rebuilt, and 490 years after this prophecy Yeshua (the Deliverer in Hebrew...see Isaiah 12:2,3) was born. 37 years after Jesus/Yeshua was crucified, the temple was destroyed again and has been to this day. Many Jews didn't believe in the Messiah, who God had promised to send to save His people. God is trying desperately to tell His people that they MUST listen to Him and His prophecies! The temple will be rebuilt one more time, before the Messiah comes again, for the last time, before Judgment Day.

[Rebel Hog]

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Our Love for our Jewish Friends

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Dear Friend,
As Bible believing Christians we have a great love for the Jewish people. Please allow us to explain why this is so. Because of what the Bible teaches we are absolutely convinced of the following:
[ol][*]The Jews are God's chosen people: "For thou (Israel) art an holy people unto the LORD thy God; the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all the peoples who are upon the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy 7:7).
[*]God used the Jewish people in a special way to give mankind the Bible. He used men such as Moses and David and Solomon and Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel to be His special penmen.
[*]It was to the Jewish people that God gave His holy laws, especially the Ten Commandments, which are a reflection of God's holy and absolute standards (Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5). Those societies or those individuals that disregard these laws are headed for trouble.
[*]Israel has divine rights to the land of Palestine because God Himself promised this land to Israel in the covenant which He made (cut) with Israel: "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates" (Genesis 15:18). Because of this we fully support the nation Israel in their rightful claim of the land of Israel as their homeland. Their cause is just.
[*]God has a wonderful future for the Jewish people. This involves the fulfillment of all of the kingdom promises found in the writings of the Hebrew prophets (such as found in Isaiah 2:1-5; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1-16; Jeremiah 23:5-8; Jeremiah chapter 31, and many other similar promises). We are convinced that the day is coming when Israel shall dwell safely in the land to enjoy a peace and prosperity such as the nation has never had. Indeed, according to the prophets, Jerusalem will be the capital of the world and Israel will be the pride of every nation (Micah 4:1-2; Zechariah 8:22-23).[/ol]

[Chuck7]

Why was it necessary for God to blind the minds and hearts of most the Jewish people that Jesus was the Messiah. So that the Gentiles could find salvation. thanks Biscuit eatter,

Could question....I have seen that before .His ways are higher than our ways . Actually the Word I believe says to provoke them to jealousy. I know when us Christians were over there weeping as most do when there feet set foot on Israeli soil they look kind of puzzled. I nearly could not talk when I ws over there I was awe stricken with th epresense of God. I felt like a baby wrapped in the tangible presence of God.
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
C7

[Alex The Hawk]

If God had not Blinded the Jewish People and they had accepted Him as their Messiah and King as some had, {That last sunday when he came though the East Gate of the city of Jerusalem, many Claimed him King and He became very Sad, because it was not to be yet}.

Then Every Gentile on earth would have being exterminated as enemies of God, only the Jews Would have being left.

Jesus came to the house of Israel, as He himself Claimed "I have come but to the House Of Israel"

Jesus called gentiles Dogs, When The woman with an ill daughter came to ask for healing, he rejected her several times because she was a gentile a sinner wthout God and knowledge of God.
When She persisted he said " I haven't seeing faith like this even in the house Of Israel and He healed the womans daughter.
I think this was perhaps the turning point for God decided to also offer salvation To The Gentiles, it had also being Promised to Abraham, that trhough His seed the gentiles would also be saved.

The Prophets also prophesised it. But It had being a mistery to teh prophets and to all how God would do it.

So had the Jews Not being Blinded and have to wait 20+ centurys for their salvation, the gentiles would have never known such salvation,all the nations would now be empty of people.

That is why Romans 11 says ,what would be their reward for being blinded, but the resurrection from the dead.
translators placed a question mark on this verse which is not in the original nor is the noun What would be, in greek it says .and their reward for blindness shall be the resurrection from the dead.

Many do not like God given Israel so many chances ,but they are God's chosen and through them, we are all saved.

Jesus said, "Ye not know what you worship, but we do, for salvation is from the Jews "

The Exclusive mission of Chris to the jews:

During Christ"™s earthly ministry, He did not emphasize His offer as Saviour of all nations. {That offer would be made through His disciples after His death, burial and resurrection}. He "œwas in the world"� (John 1:10), but "œhe came unto his own"� (John 1:11). His own were definitely the Jewish people.

Christ plainly declared of His own ministry, "œI am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel"� (Matthew 15:24). When He sent His disciples out, He told them, "œGo not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel"� (Matthew 10:5-6).

Jesus would witness to Samaritans on occasion (who were part-Jewish) and to Gentiles when they went out of their way to see Him (as the woman of Canaan in Matthew 15:21-28). However, He never turned to the Gentiles in active ministry and never led His disciples to do so. Peter"™s reluctance to witness to Gentiles in Acts Ten shows how the early disciples took even the Great Commission in a restricted sense. They had never been told to go to the Gentiles.

Though "œhis own received him not"� (John 1:11), it was to "œhis own"� that Jesus went. The Apostle Paul testifies, "œthat Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers"�( Abraham And Jacob)(Romans 15:8). Jesus was a "œminister of the circumcision"�; that is, a minister of the Jews. His purpose was "œto confirm the promises made unto the fathers."� This certainly included the offer of the earthly kingdom to Israel.


Hope that helps you question

[biscuit eater]

Thanks for the replys everyone. I truly believe that God has a special place in his heart for the jewish people. Just trying to understand.

[motor]

Yes He does have a special love for the Jews but He also has a love for his otherchosen ones the church..everybody always say the Jews are his chosen people and right they are, but the church is also his chosen ones separate and apart from the jews..

[Rebel Hog]

Rom.2:6-11

[6] Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
[7] To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
[8] But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
[9] Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
[10] But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
[11] For there is no respect of persons with God.

Rom.10:11-13
[11] For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
[12] For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
[13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


1Cor.1:30-31
[30] But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
[31] That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

[Alex The Hawk]

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith 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, saith the LORD. Jeremiah 31:35-37