We Need the Jews

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance day in Israel. The nations of the world tried again to destroy the Jewish people. Ironically, the Jews are exactly what the world needs as God’s channel of blessing to the world. In short, we need the Jews. "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Yahweh: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says Yahweh, "from this time forth and forevermore" (Isaiah 59:21).

Yahweh has chosen to reveal Himself by inspired words given through Israel. “Salvation is of the Jews” said Jesus, and “to them belong the oracles of God” said Paul (both Israelites, by the way). We Gentiles, languishing in the darkness and fog of our imaginations and speculations, need a light beam of revelation truth that comes from Yahweh through Israel, his prophet(s). As was said of Abraham, “he is a prophet” (Gen. 20:7), so with Abraham’s descendants. The revelation of truth comes through the Jews, the ultimate expression of truth being in Abraham’s descendant, Jesus the Messiah, who makes Yahweh known, and who bears the name the Word of God.

Once again, as in the Day of Pentecost described in Acts 2, the world needs the breath of Yahweh channeled through the descendants of Abraham to declare what is true. When Yahweh, through Jesus (Acts 2:33) pours out His spirit again upon the Jews, all of these Gentile speculations, including a god-man and three-persons-in-one-god, will disappear like chaff blown away in the wind. Now darkness covers the earth, and a fog the nations. But Israel will rise and shine in the glory of Yahweh and His Messiah, and the Gentiles will see it, and come (Isa. 60:1-3).

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May 3, 2019 at 1:32 AM
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