Why Do I Extol The Jew?

The Jew is God's focal point on earth.

The Jew goes back directly to Adam and Eve (we have the entire family tree on record), and Abraham, the father of all Jews, comes directly from the lineage of Adam.

God chose the Jews and collectively made them a kind of messiah; He made them endure burdens and hardships for us-the lowly Gentiles-so that one day their messiah would come and be ours as well.

They were spit upon, tortured, and despised, just as He was-all because they bore the imprint of God and therefore bore the burden of divinity. Poor beasts that flogged them-they knew that absolutely no one could hold a candle to the Jew.

And God laid on the Jews that burden, the burden of His divinity. They did what they did for us, only most didn't understand, or don’t understand. Many wanted to be more like we Gentiles and emulated us.

This is an interfaith exchange. We believe that Jesus, (Yeshua in Hebrew) was the true Messiah, though many Jews do not accept this as true.

When our messiah, their messiah, came to us-we were beasts. We had strange notions of gods (instead of God) and of our earth and our relationship to it. We had a twisted relationship to each other as well as to animals and rocks.

We had darkness in our understanding, even though we had knowledge of many things. We communed daily with demons and drank blood-God's sacred element, which He strictly forbade His people. Our minds were dull and yes, pagan, swept by winds of evil and base impulses. All things considered, we had nothing! We were alone, each of us a stranger to one another. We knew no love. We knew only the idolatry of beauty and the lust thereof.

Yeshua came and touched the wild minds the way he stilled the wind and the waves. He came in the form of his saints. He came over the seas, first to islands where they received his message – England and Scandinavia. It was there the Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Friesians had wandered to from some unknown location, and the Vikings later emerged that were also called the Danes. Yeshua came to the British Isles, which had once been inhabited by the Romans, who for a time had extended their kingdom, and by the Celts who had already lived there for an untold number of years.

All of these pagan nations waited in darkness for many years, though for what they did not know.

Lives began to transform. The Vikings were subdued and overcome and also turned to Yeshua for grace. We found dignity and power, self-control and knowledge, science and creativity - we found light! All came through a moral awakening in our spirits and through a spiritual tide sweeping over us.

Our minds sharpened and eventually we excelled so far we brought the advanced technological age we know today into being. That was in cooperation with Jews and other enlightened souls. Unfortunately, knowledge brought power and pride, which conflicted with the divinity Yeshua had instilled. Many souls still retained the poisons of the past, yet we did not turn back to our pagan ways altogether.

We know now that some have returned to the pagan ways, but many have not.

Rabbi Jacob Neusner, who doesn't even believe that Jesus is the messiah, claims in his book "A Rabbi Talks With Jesus" that Jesus is responsible for civilizing the western world.

Despite the humble origin of the Christian church and its many faults and foibles throughout history, as D. James Kennedy says, "the church has made more changes on earth for the good than any other movement or force in history." Here are some of the changes that can be credited to believers in Jesus and the church in the west:

Hospitals and Universities, founded during the middle Ages

Literacy and education for the masses

The abolition of slavery

Modern science

The elevation of women

Inspiration for some of the greatest works of art

And the list goes on and on...

Contrary to popular thought, when women were deified in our world, and while some were in authority, most common women were still treated like animals. Yeshua totally altered this. Look at our world today and notice that it is the Christian world that has given women the power to excel.

In studying what we call the “Old Testament,” which has the same words as the Jewish scriptures, I can see that women had a much higher status in the Jewish system than in the world around them.

In the “New Testament,” Paul the apostle states there is neither Jew nor Greek [now] and neither male nor female. The values of the Old Testament are carried over into the New.

To put it simply – we got their God. I don’t know how it happened, but we got to be like them, chosen also by God.

All that we have been able to realize in our lives was made possible by our friend the Jew. Even before the birth of Yeshua, the Jew brought light and the opportunity to find God's love and transformation.

The Jews, among us for centuries, ensured a sane and civilized mind always inhabiting the earth during many dark years. This civilizing effect made many ripples in the pool of history.

When I look at the Jews as a collective I can see the imprint of God, even today, long after the Jews left their homeland and wandered the earth for centuries. I have to ask, "How is it possible that so many of them still know they are Jews?

Their history is unparalleled. They are truly 'peculiar' people. Yes, and they have even gone back and retrieved the ancient country that once was theirs-the place that theoretically, Adam and Eve had their Eden - how amazing after being scattered for centuries.

When I look at the Jews I see the most tangible evidence that will ever be offered me that the God of the Bible is real, because the Jews are obviously the people God is talking about in that book. The Jews give me a strange security because if they ever disappeared off the face of the earth I would know that God had left me to perish.

As a group, the Jews reflect talent, cleverness, tenacity and the ability to have the mind of a computer coupled with the heart of a rabbi. In so doing, they show me what I have missed as the member of a group so long immersed in darkness, it has not been able to catch up.

No matter what we have been able to achieve, to this day it is still Jews who stand out amongst us all as the cleverest and the most talented. They show me that to be God's chosen-to be connected to God-is to realize the best possible person I can be.

More importantly, we believe that we were adopted into the same family because of Yeshua. In other words, I am an adopted Jew! This is beyond my capacity to comprehend.

God took me from the "wild beasts" of the earth and made me one of his own people. This is too high, too good. But you understand...this is what Messiah came to do.

The Jewish people are here today because of the remnant of Jews who never forgot their forefathers and their identity. We are what we are today because their endurance made possible the entry of Messiah into our world.

We Christians are struggling to get the same kind of relationship going that the Jews have had since the beginning of earth's story. So we have our legalisms and rebellions, our Tammy Fayes and our faggy Toms-we're new!

I want to ask you, the Jewish people, for patience and understanding for all the beastly minds in this world, who know in their hearts that they are beasts, and cringe as they watch the Jew march on in his regal destiny.

Sources:

A Rabbi Talks With Jesus, an interfaith, intermillenial exchange. Rabbi Jacob Neusner, Doubleday

What if Jesus had never been born? By D. James Kennedy.