Jesus was a Jew!!!

The research, and reading that I have done the last couple of months, more and more convinces me that I am on the right path.  My intention to go back as far as I can to the "original" is on the right tract.  

Moses was Hebrew, the Bible was given to Moses, by God, in Hebrew.  The Bible was first written in Hebrew.  It was then translated to other languages.  So to truly understand the Bible, you must understand Hebrew.  OR have someone explain it to you.  

Hebrew doesn't exactly translate to Greek, and Greek doesn't exactly translate to English.  The variances, are enough to distort and confuse.  So please please please if you find yourself on this journey as I am, go back to a Hebrew text, for translation. 

Taken from Torah class by Tom Bradford:  "Don't think for a minute that God doesn't play along with each of us on many matters that may prove, in the course of time, to be error.  For reasons I can't fathom, He allowed the church to go unchallenged for centuries in the belief that it had replaced Israel, a man-made doctrine that the Holy Scripture refutes.  Somehow, He used that bl.ind spot in the church for good, to spread the gospel to the Gentiles of the world.  But over the last fifty years He has begun to correct us, showing us that He never replaced Israel with the church, nor did he ever decide He was finished with His people.  That time when the church will make the Jewish people jealous for our faith and the stony hearts of His people will be softened so that they can accept their own Messiah is upon us."

"God does not tolerate neutrality".  Christ says in Revelation, "I would rather you were hot or cold, but you are tepid so I spit you out of My mouth."  Be either for or against him, but not a fence sitter.  

"God didn't choose Israel because they were great men; He chose them because He is a great God and uses ordinary people to carry out His will."

Jacob was a sinner... Isaac was a sinner... Even Abraham had more than one wife... which is NOT how God intended it.  He didn't choose them because they were virtuous, he choose them so that you and I would know that we need not be perfect in order belong to God too. 

God created Israel to be His people.  He separated Abraham from his family, separated Isaac from Ishmael, separated Jacob from Esau.... until he had the twelve tribes of Israel, His chosen people.  THE foundation that is necessary for all understanding, is written in the Tanakh, the Old Testament if you will.  A foundation that is necessary for understanding the New Testament.  The New Testament that tells the story of Jesus.  The Messiah written in depth about in the "Old" Testament.  The Messiah of the Hebrews...  

Jesus was Hebrew, brought to the world by God, to save the Hebrews from their sins.  Jesus tells us in the New Testament that what he brings is for everyone.  

It is my firm belief that when you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, when you accept the God of Israel into your heart, you become spiritually a part of the Hebrew Nation.  Paul confirms this in Romans, that the Gentile believers in Christ are grafted into the nation of Israel.  

Within a few generations of Israel after the Exodus, most of the Ephraim-Israelites wanted to be free from the strict restrictions and requirements of the Torah and the Law of Moses, that they mixed with Gentiles so freely, that most of their descendants don't remember having a Hebrew ancestry.  Some folks even believe that the purpose of Ephraim being absorbed into the Gentile world is so that, through the miraculous ways of God, every Gentile believer in Christ has literal, physical, genealogical ties to Ephraim.  

I think we are going to find a circle once you piece all the puzzle together...

God created Israel (Hebrews), God brought the living Word to the Hebrews (Jesus), Hebrews rejected Jesus, so the Gentiles were used to spread the Gospel, Then the Gentiles will bring the Word back to the Hebrews.  AND yes this is already happening!!!

I am not really sure I had a specific point with this post, but a bunch of little tidbits, that I tried to piece together, hope that I did so in a cohesive manner.   Thanks for reading.  

The WHOLE Bible

This passage was originally titled as it shows Does God Condone Bigamy? but there is so much more to the answer to this question than just that.  I feel it's important information to share, so I left it intact for your perusal.  The important thing to take from this passage is that you can NOT snippet the bible and use it for your own purposes and agenda, you have to take the Bible as a WHOLE, all of it, in context of it's entirety.  

This is from Journey Through the Torah Class Series: Genesis by Tom Bradford.  

"Does God Condone Bigamy?

God most certainly did NOT validate Jacob’s choice to take TWO wives……any more than he did Isaacs, nor Abrahams. Too often we like to say, ‘Well, its in the Bible, so God must be OK with it”. Not so. VERY often, the Holy Scriptures simply tell the historical truth, tell us what was said or what happened, and then do NOT specifically comment on it. Rather these statements simply stand on their own. God had made quite clear early in Genesis that marriage was the forming of one flesh from two; not 3,4,5,6, or as Solomon so much later, a thousand.

This is why it is so important to read and study the WHOLE bible; so that we can separate God’s commands, principles, and characteristics from simple statements of historical fact. The Bible is full of statements by men and women; and many of those statements are outright lies, or self-aggrandizing, or greatly exaggerated, or wishful thinking, or rationalizations of personal behavior, or simply expressions of widely held superstitions. In the case of Jacob, he deceived his brother Esau, and his father; it wasn’t right, but he did it, and the Bible simply reports it. Jacob didn’t pick the wife (Leah), on his own, that apparently God selected for him……he picked the one (Rachel) that most pleased his fleshly and impulsive male desires. It wasn’t right, but he did it, and the Bible simply reports it. Then, he wound up marrying two wives; it wasn’t right, but he did it, the Scriptures tells us about it, and so on.  We must never assume that since the Bible does not comment on every statement or action as to whether it was right or wrong, good or evil, that those not commented on must be, to at least some degree, acceptable to God. For, if we have the Torah in our hearts, and have read it and studied it, we will KNOW what was right and wrong in God’s eyes; and THAT is what we are expected to do. The fact that we are given the full, unflinching view of who these Biblical characters were, flaws and all, doesn’t change God’s absolute, unchanging, uncompromising truth. Like us, every Bible character, except Yeshua, was imperfect and did things they ought not have done."