Hijacking top comment to make a very important point that you missed:
You cannot biblically call anyone a Jew anymore, not in the sense Scripture requires. Why? Because in the Old Covenant, to establish your standing as part of the covenant people, you had to pull out your family tree. “Are you of Levi? Prove it. Are you of Judah? Show us.” That genealogy was your passport. Ezra and Nehemiah both demonstrate this, when certain priests were excluded from service because their names could not be found in the genealogical records (Ezra 2:62; Neh. 7:64). No paperwork, no priesthood.
But here’s the kicker. Where were those genealogical records kept? In the Temple. And what did God do in A.D. 70? He lit the whole thing on fire by the hand of Titus, exactly as Christ prophesied. “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place” (Matt. 24:34). And lo and behold, within forty years, the Temple was rubble, the genealogical archives were ash, and every claim to tribal descent went up in smoke.
So now, no man on earth can stand up and, by biblical standards, say, “I am of Levi. I am of Judah.” The records are gone. God Himself made sure of it. The only genealogy that still matters is the one in Matthew 1 and Luke 3, the one that terminates in Jesus Christ, the true and final Israelite, the Son of David, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
So if you want to belong to the covenant people of God, you don’t go rooting around in DNA kits or Ancestry.com. You cling to Christ. He is the true Israel, and in Him alone you can be grafted into the olive tree (Romans 11).
To claim to be a Jew in the old covenant sense now is like claiming to be a lifeguard in a swimming pool that has been drained, paved over, and turned into a parking lot. The whole category has been fulfilled and superseded in Christ.
That makes this hit different:
"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" - Galatians 3:28
Fantastic and Amen! Paul was as "credentialed" as anyone could be and he counted it all as rubish compared to the value of knowing his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
I honestly think the old testament shouldn't be given to people before they are ready to understand this and the fact that the word of Jesus supercedes whatever was written before Him.
The rules changed.
Christians are the chosen people.
Those who call themselves Jews are the descendants of money lenders and Pharisees who denied Jesus and are thus denied salvation.
I'm not going to argue semantics. Fulfills or supercedes, the point is that if you follow Christ, most of the Old Testament becomes moot and should be understood as important historical context that lead to Christ.
First couple chapters of Hosea lays it all out.
Hijacking top comment to make a very important point that you missed:
You cannot biblically call anyone a Jew anymore, not in the sense Scripture requires. Why? Because in the Old Covenant, to establish your standing as part of the covenant people, you had to pull out your family tree. “Are you of Levi? Prove it. Are you of Judah? Show us.” That genealogy was your passport. Ezra and Nehemiah both demonstrate this, when certain priests were excluded from service because their names could not be found in the genealogical records (Ezra 2:62; Neh. 7:64). No paperwork, no priesthood.
But here’s the kicker. Where were those genealogical records kept? In the Temple. And what did God do in A.D. 70? He lit the whole thing on fire by the hand of Titus, exactly as Christ prophesied. “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place” (Matt. 24:34). And lo and behold, within forty years, the Temple was rubble, the genealogical archives were ash, and every claim to tribal descent went up in smoke.
So now, no man on earth can stand up and, by biblical standards, say, “I am of Levi. I am of Judah.” The records are gone. God Himself made sure of it. The only genealogy that still matters is the one in Matthew 1 and Luke 3, the one that terminates in Jesus Christ, the true and final Israelite, the Son of David, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
So if you want to belong to the covenant people of God, you don’t go rooting around in DNA kits or Ancestry.com. You cling to Christ. He is the true Israel, and in Him alone you can be grafted into the olive tree (Romans 11).
To claim to be a Jew in the old covenant sense now is like claiming to be a lifeguard in a swimming pool that has been drained, paved over, and turned into a parking lot. The whole category has been fulfilled and superseded in Christ.
That makes this hit different:
"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" - Galatians 3:28
Fantastic and Amen! Paul was as "credentialed" as anyone could be and he counted it all as rubish compared to the value of knowing his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
I honestly think the old testament shouldn't be given to people before they are ready to understand this and the fact that the word of Jesus supercedes whatever was written before Him.
The rules changed.
Christians are the chosen people.
Those who call themselves Jews are the descendants of money lenders and Pharisees who denied Jesus and are thus denied salvation.
Christ does not "supersede" the old testament, He fulfills it.
I'm not going to argue semantics. Fulfills or supercedes, the point is that if you follow Christ, most of the Old Testament becomes moot and should be understood as important historical context that lead to Christ.
The original covenant with Israel is still in effect.
Which is why all Christians are circumcised as proof of this covenant, right?
Yes! Honestly this is where people get confused.
Nice, informative post - thanks!
Yes^^
I made an important point under this parent comment that you should check out fren
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