But what we see today with years of pushing God out of the public square and 50 MILLION abortions each year and the turning away from Israel and the Jewish people as even being done by both Presidents Bush and now without any shred of doubt Barack Hussein Obama we see the clear effects of such (i.e. oil spill, Katrina, collapse of the economy). In order to change the direction we are going, we have to be as coregous as Brigitte Gabriel by confronting evil, turning back to God, and absolutely - 100 % support Israel with no motivations but a love for God's chosen people. Like "Friends Of Israel" says, they are the elders of our faith.
And therefore the Christian church subsequently brought a long lasting wedge between Christianity and Judaism which prolonged even centuries into the reformed church movement and only within the last four hundred years, namely by Christians who left the old world to worship God in truth, manifested itself in the American colonies in an understanding and love towards the Jewish people and a future "new" Israel. Therefore, America could be rightly called a shining beacon to the world for the freedom it embraced and the love for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. One has only to read the communication of our first President George Washington to the Jewish community and throughout the presidencies of the United States of America. Clearly, America hasn't been without failure. But like no other country it made often painful ammends as best as she could.
So, going back to the Jewish roots, at least brings someone back to the God of their fathers and hopefully through reading and understanding of the scriptures to a realization of Yeshuah as the Moshiach of the Jewish people. Just as many Christians, I included, feel drawn to Judaism, not for Judaism sake, but for a deeper understanding of who Yeshuah (Jesus) really is. Because the BIG MISTAKE that has been made throughout the history of Christianity (thanks to some Jew haters who called themselves Christians) is to totally seperate oneself from the Old Testament in denying any connection between the OT and NT even so both are clearly linked and leaning on each other. And sadly, instead of allowing the early Christians to partake in the Jewish Feasts or more proper, the feasts of the Lord, it had been forbidden them to take part in it even unto death.
I might go even further. A few people in our church have an outspoken love for Israel. We are very concerned about the dealings of this present and former American administrations with Israel. For the few of us it is hard to imagine if you can really be a Christian and do not share a love or at least a concern for God's chosen people. I, for one, would love to see all of Israel (proper and diaspora) come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. BUT, and I mean a clear but, this does not diminish my few of the Jewish people. If I cannot see someone embracing God's son, I'd rather see him going back to his Jewish roots and embrace Judaism. For after all, the Christian as well as the Jewish Messiah came to his own (the Jews).
I did send an e-mail to his church concerning this issue but not surprising, never received a response. It is interesting that Arabs who became Christians after a life of hate and jihad, make a 180 when they embrace Christ, also embracing his chosen people. While Arabs that are born Christian do not necessarily share the same love or respect for God's chosen.
Which proves that being born a Christian doesn't make you a Christian (you have to come to a saving grace in Christ individually, not corporatively) and if you are saved, doesn't mean that you see certain things in a different light than you were being taught to.
Something I have encountered at a seminar held by a Syrian Christian in Lancaster, PA. This pastor is of Christian background. As in Brigitte Gabriel's case, being an "Arab" Christian doesn't mean automatically that you think of Israel better than the rest of them. As she said herself, Israel is the "little Satan" while America is the "great Satan." Her opinion of Israel didn't differ regardless of being a Christian or not. It changed only then with the eye shattering event of having to take her injured mother to an Israeli hospital from whence she became loyal to the state of Israel.
The Syrian pastor at the seminar even went to the point to call this land (Israel) cursed and we shouldn't waste time focusing on land issues and people issues because this is all part of the material world. What mattered is to keep the focus on Jesus Christ and Christ alone. Though he is not totally wrong with his observation (material vs. the spiritual), still he shows animosity towards Israel.
How come that poor Kool-Aid gets such a bade rap? ;-)
AreaMan66. It used to bug me too. Then I found out that Jews do use that for themselves. Even Zola Levitt ministries used it in the Jewish calendar they hand out every year even so they are believers in Yeshuah. Their explanation is that it is a JEWISH calendar and therefore no other terms are used. Aside from that they never changed their way of counting, only the Christian world did.
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