Hebrew for Christians Blessing the Jewish People

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Blessing the Jewish People “I will bless them that bless thee...”

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (Genesis 12:3)

The Apple of God’s Eye Do you have a Jewish heart? If you say that you genuinely love the “LORD God of Israel” (laer"f.yI yhel{a/ hw"hy>) – and it's clear that the LORD God of Israel loves the Jewish people – it follows that you should likewise love the Jewish people. After all, the LORD Yeshua is called ~ydIWhY>h; %l,m, / melech ha-Yehudim: the “King of the Jews” (Matt. 2:2, 27:11, etc.), and the very term Messiah [i.e., “Christ”] is a regal term denoting the anointed King of Israel (x;yvim'). Christians who pray to "Jesus Christ" are really praying to Yeshua as the anointed King of the Jews... And one day (very soon) Yeshua will indeed return to Jerusalem, the “City of the Great King” (Matt 5:35), to assume the throne of David and complete the redemption originally promised to the Jewish people (Zech. 12:1-13:1; 14:19, Ezek. 37:12-14, etc.). God will prove faithful to ethnic Israel. To deny this is to radically question God’s faithfulness to the “Church.” Indeed, let me say this as plainly as I can: Churches or teachers who claim that God has abandoned ethnic Israel are directly impugning the credibility of the Gospel message itself. Yes, it's that serious of an issue... The physical descendants of Abraham are called Any[e tb;B' (bavat eino), the “pupil of God’s eye” (Zech. 2:8), a term of endearment God uses for no other nation on earth. Indeed, the LORD has never abandoned His original covenant people but will yet choose them for His Name’s sake (Isa. 14:1). The church has not replaced Israel in God's redemptive plan but is merely “grafted in” to the original “root” of Israel. “Remember,” Rabbi Paul warns, “it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you” (Rom. 11:18).

by John J. Parsons

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Did you know that the Brit Chadashah (hv'd"x] tyrIB). , or “new covenant,” is described in only one place in the entire Old Testament? Here is the relevant passage: Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD (hwhy), when I will make a new covenant (hv'd"x] tyrIB). with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my Torah (hr'AT) into their inmost being and inscribe it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they need to teach one another and say to one another, “Heed the LORD”; for all of them, from the least of them to the greatest, shall heed Me – declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities, And remember their sins no more. (Jer. 31:31-4) Many Christian theologians stop here and ignore the surrounding context of this passage, namely, the remarkable promise that ethnic Israel would continue to exist as a unique people as long as the laws of nature are in operation: Thus saith the LORD (hwhy) who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who stirs up the sea into roaring waves, Whose name is LORD of Hosts (Amv. tAab'c. hw"hy>): If these laws should ever be annulled by Me – declares the LORD – only then would the offspring of Israel (laer"f.yI [r:z