LETTER 1 TO CHRISTIANS AND JEWS JULY 2013 There is no God but Abba and Jesus is His Son! Greetings A Calling to all Christians to invite the Jewish People to the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Almighty God’s Messiah) God the Son, the Son of the Living God To all people, the Lord Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace. He is all is needed to achieve peace and blessings and He alone saves people from sins, condemnation (the second death), Satan and Hell. The Lord Jesus Christ is God’s Messiah and He is Alive! Turn to Him today and repent your sins, believe and have faith in Him it is for your own good. (The Bible) In Mark 4:39 ‘To the stormy winds and waves Jesus said, “Peace be still”, and there was a great calm. He can do the same in your storms of life.’ (Richard Daly) In Romans 11:11 If only the Christians invite the Jewish people to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. In John 4:22 if only the Jews do their bit to reach the Christians, guess what will happen, you will get the whole world! Did you know the word ‘Jew’ in Hebrew means praises of God and supper ends times evangelic? (Sid Roth) If Christians go first to evangelise the Jews, it will open up a supernatural door to reach more gentiles than if they go straight to the gentiles first. This may not make sense to people but it does to God. When God wanted to reach the world, he started with Abraham (Isaac and Jacob Israel). Jesus also went to the Jews first and so did Paul, therefore, Christians should do the same. (Sid Roth) History tells us whenever Jews and Christians come together super natural events with great blessings are triggered. This means Christians and Jews must unite in order to bring peace and blessing into the world. It is time to put the past behind and to forgive one another and move on as family which Jews and Christians are to serve the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel), Joseph, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. (Sid Roth) The sprit of Elijah (Malachi 4:5-6) will come onto the fathers (the Jews) and Children (the Christians). The spirit of Elijah is Jews and Christians coming together to create fullness power and glory of God’s presence, favour and blessing. When Christians and Jews come together super natural power is realised. (Sid Roth) Examples: in 1897 there was the first Zionist (God was the first Zionist) Congress as a result, a great Pentecostal Revival took place. Major Revivals connected with Jews and Israel 1948 – Israel became a nation and America’s Healing Revival began. 1967 the Jewish possession of Jerusalem and charismatic Revival took place. (Sid Roth) In John 14:6 Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’ Jesus as the one way to the Father (John 14:6) fulfils the Old Testament symbols and teachings that show the exclusiveness of God’s claim. (The Bible) To the Christians Romans 11:11 ‘So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.’ God’s saving plan (Rom. 11:11) for Jews and Gentiles through Jesus Christ, God’s Messiah. Israel’s hardening is not the final word. God planned salvation history so that Israel’s trespass would open salvation for the Gentiles and the Jews in turn would be provoked to jealousy when they see Gentiles (Christians) being saved and enjoying a relationship with God. ACTS 18:6-8 Paul went to the Jews first, ‘And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.’ When they opposed and reviled him, Paul (ACTS 18:6-8) will spend much time with audiences where there is interest and response, even if they don’t immediately believe (v. 4) but he will not spend time where he simply faces hostile opposition. Shaking garments was a gesture of rejection, much like shaking the dust from one’s feet (13:51). Your blood be on your own heads reflects Ezekiel’s words about God’s prophetic watchman (EZEK.33:1-7). “Blood” means “the responsibility for your judgment by God.” Paul had faithfully discharged his responsibility, so that at the final judgment no part of these Jews’ failure to believe could be attributed to his failure to tell them about Christ. (The Bible) ACTS 19:8 Paul not given up on the Jews ‘And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.’ Also remember in Genesis 12:3 God’s promise to Abraham: ‘I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonours you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ Although Abraham is called (Genesis 12:3) to be a blessing to others, much rests on how they treat him. Those who are positive toward Abraham will experience God’s favour; the one who despises Abraham will know God’s displeasure. The verse speaks of those who bless (plural) but of him who dishonours (singular) emphasizing that many more will be blessed than cursed. Indeed, such will be the influence of Abraham that all the families of the earth shall be blessed in him. This promise is later reaffirmed to Isaac and Jacob (see Gen. 22:18) (The Bible) Apparently, according to the FEMA, the worse economic disasters always happened within hours of Christian countries going against Israel. (Sid Roth) Calling to all the Jewish people to turn to the Messiah, Jesus Christ to believe and have faith in Him Judges 6:24 True peace is knowing God, ‘Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, “The Lord is Peace”’. You will have peace, stability and prosperity in Israel beyond your imagination if you put your trust in God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, even when you are surrounded with chaos and mayhem you will have nothing to fear. Note, the world’s rulers, secularisms and world’s religions will not help you. Only the Messiah can help you. The Lord Jesus Christ is waiting for enough of you to trust in Him and get ready to welcome Him back in Jerusalem. Repent, believe and get ready for the Messiah’s Second Coming. Matthew 23:39 Jesus, the Messiah was talking to the Jewish people: ‘For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, “Blessed is he who come in the name of the Lord”. Jesus cites Psalm 118:26 (Matthew 21:9) he identifies himself with God’s Messiah and Saviour who will once again come to his people but only when there are enough Jewish Christians are ready in Jerusalem to receive him. (The Bible) John 4:22 Jesus said to the Samaritans ‘You worship what you do not know we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.’ You is plural, implying “You Samaritans” (John 4:22) In saying we worship what we know Jesus identifies himself as a Jew. The verse shows that John’s Gospel is not anti-Semitic. Salvation is from the Jews in the sense that the whole Old Testament, which taught and salvation, was from the Jewish people and the Messiah himself came from the Jews and not from the Samaritans or (by implication) from the Gentiles. Amos 9:11 the day of the Lord that the Israelites confidently expected ‘In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old.’ In that day (Amos 9:11) reminds the reader of the day of the Lord that the Israelites confidently expected. If it was to be a day of destruction instead of blessing (Amos 5:18-20) that did not mean it was to be God’s final word on the subject. (The Bible) Amos 9:13 ‘”Behold, the days are coming”, declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.’ The abundant productivity (Amos 9:13) of the restored land, under the blessing of God, will be so amazing that the land does not need to lie fallow for a moment, but as soon as the reaper has harvested one crop, the plowman comes right behind planting another one, and as soon as someone sows the seed, the grapes grow so rapidly that the treader of grapes comes to pick the ripe grapes and gather them for the winepress. This is a beautiful poetic image of a land like the Garden of Eden – with productivity that is free from the curse (Gen. 3:17-19 and Amos 4L6-10) and with greater abundance than anything currently known. (The Bible) All people ACTS 4:12 ‘And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.’ Peter’s statement (ACTS 4:12) that there was salvation in no other name was an implicit invitation to the Sanhedrin to place their faith in Jesus. It was Jesus’ name that brought physical deliverance to the lame man (ACTS 3:1-10) - the same powerful and exclusive name that brings eternal salvation to all who call upon him. Peter emphasizes this by saying that it is the only name under heaven (that is, throughout the whole earth) by which a person can be saved. Further, there is no other name among men (that is, in all of human society) that saves. On Christ as the exclusive way of salvation, (see also Matt. 11:27; John 3:18; 14:6; 1 John 5:12) this verse also suggests that salvation comes only through conscious faith in Jesus Christ. (The Bible) The result of Jews and Christians coming together John 17:21 ‘...that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.’ ...that they may all be one (John 17:21) is concerning the unity that Jesus prays for and that he intends for his own, (see 11:22). In us refers to spiritual union with God and also the personal fellowship resulting from that union. (The Bible) Ephesians 2:14 Christians and Jews one in Christ, ‘For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh that dividing wall of hostility.’ Peace (Ephesians 2:14) refers to the state of harmonious friendship with God and with one another in the church. Made us both one, that is Jews and Christians. The opposite of peace is the hostility that Christ has quenched. Christ created a unified new people from the old hostile camps (Col. 3:15, John 17:20-21) In his flesh, refers to Christ’s death on the cross (Eph. 2:16). Dividing wall, there was an inscription on the wall of the outer yard of the Jerusalem Temple warning Gentiles that they would only have themselves to blame for their death if they passed beyond it into the inner courts. (Eph. 2:15) It is known that Christ’s reconciliation of all people into a new humanity. (The Bible) Shalom! Shalom means peace, peace means completeness and completeness means Jews and Christians being ‘One’ in Jesus the Messiah. (Sid Roth) Ephesians 2:14-15 One in Christ. ‘For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace.’ Peace. (Ephesians 2:14-15) This refers to the state of harmonious friendship with God and with one another in the church. Made us both one: that is, Jews and Christians. The opposite of peace is the hostility that Christ has quenched. Christ created a unified new people from the old hostile camps. (Col. 3:15) The Law, the additional mention of commandments and ordinances identifies this as the Mosaic Law, which included many commandments that served to separate Israel from the other nations. Thus the law as a dividing wall which Christ has abolished or rendered powerless both by fulfilling it and by removing believers from the law’s condemnation (see Matt 5:17; Rom 8:1; Heb 9:11-14; 10:1-10) The result is a new man, denoting a new human race under the second Adam (Christ) in whose image the Christian is re-created (1cor. 15:45, 29 also Eph. 4:24) John 17:21-22 Jesus prays for the unity of Christians and Jews ‘...that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me , and I in you that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them that they may be one even as we are one. ’ Jesus does not stop at praying for Himself (17:1-5) and His disciples (17:6-19) but now prays those who will believe in me in the future. Jesus ‘concern is for His followers’ unity (17:21-23) and love (17:26) the vision of a unified people of God has previously been expressed in (10:38; 14:10-11, 20, 23; 15:4-5) Once unified, they will be able to bear witness to the true identity of Jesus as the Sent One of God. (The Bible) Psalm 122:6 ‘Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they be secure who love you!’ Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, (Ps. 122:6) in light of what Jerusalem should be, the psalm ends by urging God’s people (Jews and Christians) to seek the conditions that will make that a reality; the peace of Jerusalem will ensure its stability and accessibility, in order that God’s people might be able always to journey to the house of the Lord. (The Bible) Jesus Christ loves you! Christ Loves UK/London websites
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