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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 The whole category has been fulfilled and superseded in Christ.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

291 days ago
3 score
Reason: Original

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.

291 days ago
1 score