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Curiosity question......
Why does the majority of the world think that the Jew's are God's chosen people?For those of you here that think that,please read the following.......
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The word 'Jew' does come from the name Judah, the tribe of Judah.
The Jewish historian Josephus said the name Jew was first used by those who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylon captivity. He said the Israelites that returned, and the non-Israelites returning with them both took that name Jew.
There is a PROBLEM amongst the Jews though. God's Word reveals how non-Israelites of the nations of Canaan crept in among Judah and Judea long ago. The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah reveal how the crept in unawares eventually worked their way up into the priesthood of Israel, and as scribes (1 Chronicles 2:55). And it's very true that some of Edom (Esau) also became Jews.
Esth 8:17
17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
(KJV)
It's hard to believe that so many have missed this kind of event from God's Word, for it is written.
God separated the nation of Israel into two separate kingdoms after Solomon's days (1 Kings 11 forward). The house of David at Jerusalem, along with the tribe of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, and eventually many of Levi, became the "house of Judah", excluding the majority of the ten tribes which made up the other Israelite kingdom.
It was the "house of Judah" that started calling theirselves Jews. But not only them, but foreigners that joined with them to live in the lands of Judea also. It's the ways and pagan ideas of those foreigners that crept in that represent the idea of 'false Jews', along with any of true Judah that follows iniquity along with them.
That's also who the basket of evil figs represent in Jeremiah 24, and the "tares" our Lord Jesus gave in Matthew 13.
In Judges 2 & 3, God rebuked all the tribes of Israel for not completely destroying the nations of Canaan that He commanded to be destroyed. Instead, Israel allowed the Canaanite remnants to continue to live among them. And because of that God said He would use them to test Israel, to see if Israel would follow Him or not.
The bigger PROBLEM is, that even today there's really no way of knowing if those crept in unawares are true Israelites or not, for even a lot of God's people have fallen to do iniquity along with them throughout Israel's history. Christ showed He will sort this problem out when He returns. Until then per Matt.13, we are to let the "tares" grow along with the "wheat" until harvest time (Christ's second coming). We are to instead concentrate on identifying the fruit.
During the 70 years Babylon captivity of the "house of Judah", the creeping in and confusion among the Jews really took off. The people began using Aramaic as the official language, and the Kenites of Canaan had control of the scribe's position. The doctrines of the Pharisees took over direct understanding from God's Word. This is why Jesus would say in Matthew 23, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat."
But the "house of Israel" (ten tribes) were subject to this creeping in also. They have this problem too.
That's why we can find western Christian leaders, and orthodox Jewish leaders, both working together for political 'Zionism'.
(For those who don't know what Zionism is, it's about the world peace plan the Internationalists have for Jerusalem today. That plan involves the western Balfour Declaration that Benjamin Disraeli helped forward around the early 1900's in Britain. It's not advertised, but it includes the building of another temple in Jerusalem, along with a peace plan to make Jerusalem a habitation for both the Jews and the Arabs living in peace. Ultimately, it's about one world government, with Jerusalem as the head city.
After studying God's Word, those in Christ Jesus today should be starting to see this plan being worked out among the globalists. And we should start to understand that it is simply a movement by Satan's host to try and create a COPY of God's Kingdom of the now, without Him. Why do I say, without Him meaning God? It's because this movement is not His Kingdom He is going to bring by His Son Jesus Christ.
Literally, God said He would USE those crept in unawares among as a test upon His people, to see whether we would follow Him or not. That's what it's about, and why that movement must come in the last days prior to Christ's return. Because there are even Christians that support it in ignorance, and probably will be more before it's over, we should understand this matter.)
Curiosity question......
Why does the majority of the world think that the Jew's are God's chosen people?For those of you here that think that,please read the following.......
...
[/quote]
The word 'Jew' does come from the name Judah, the tribe of Judah.
The Jewish historian Josephus said the name Jew was first used by those who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylon captivity. He said the Israelites that returned, and the non-Israelites returning with them both took that name Jew.
There is a PROBLEM amongst the Jews though. God's Word reveals how non-Israelites of the nations of Canaan crept in among Judah and Judea long ago. The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah reveal how the crept in unawares eventually worked their way up into the priesthood of Israel, and as scribes (1 Chronicles 2:55). And it's very true that some of Edom (Esau) also became Jews.
Esth 8:17
17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
(KJV)
It's hard to believe that so many have missed this kind of event from God's Word, for it is written.
God separated the nation of Israel into two separate kingdoms after Solomon's days (1 Kings 11 forward). The house of David at Jerusalem, along with the tribe of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, and eventually many of Levi, became the "house of Judah", excluding the majority of the ten tribes which made up the other Israelite kingdom.
It was the "house of Judah" that started calling theirselves Jews. But not only them, but foreigners that joined with them to live in the lands of Judea also. It's the ways and pagan ideas of those foreigners that crept in that represent the idea of 'false Jews', along with any of true Judah that follows iniquity along with them.
That's also who the basket of evil figs represent in Jeremiah 24, and the "tares" our Lord Jesus gave in Matthew 13.
In Judges 2 & 3, God rebuked all the tribes of Israel for not completely destroying the nations of Canaan that He commanded to be destroyed. Instead, Israel allowed the Canaanite remnants to continue to live among them. And because of that God said He would use them to test Israel, to see if Israel would follow Him or not.
The bigger PROBLEM is, that even today there's really no way of knowing if those crept in unawares are true Israelites or not, for even a lot of God's people have fallen to do iniquity along with them throughout Israel's history. Christ showed He will sort this problem out when He returns. Until then per Matt.13, we are to let the "tares" grow along with the "wheat" until harvest time (Christ's second coming). We are to instead concentrate on identifying the fruit.
During the 70 years Babylon captivity of the "house of Judah", the creeping in and confusion among the Jews really took off. The people began using Aramaic as the official language, and the Kenites of Canaan had control of the scribe's position. The doctrines of the Pharisees took over direct understanding from God's Word. This is why Jesus would say in Matthew 23, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat."
But the "house of Israel" (ten tribes) were subject to this creeping in also. They have this problem too.
That's why we can find western Christian leaders, and orthodox Jewish leaders, both working together for political 'Zionism'.
(For those who don't know what Zionism is, it's about the world peace plan the Internationalists have for Jerusalem today. That plan involves the western Balfour Declaration that Benjamin Disraeli helped forward around the early 1900's in Britain. It's not advertised, but it includes the building of another temple in Jerusalem, along with a peace plan to make Jerusalem a habitation for both the Jews and the Arabs living in peace. Ultimately, it's about one world government, with Jerusalem as the head city.
After studying God's Word, those in Christ Jesus today should be starting to see this plan being worked out among the globalists. And we should start to understand that it is simply a movement by Satan's host to try and create a COPY of God's Kingdom of the now, without Him. Why do I say, without Him meaning God? It's because this movement is not His Kingdom He is going to bring by His Son Jesus Christ.
Literally, God said He would USE those crept in unawares among as a test upon His people, to see whether we would follow Him or not. That's what it's about, and why that movement must come in the last days prior to Christ's return. Because there are even Christians that support it in ignorance, and probably will be more before it's over, we should understand this matter.)