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ISRAEL-IDENTITY

3. What is the central proof of the Israel-Identity Christian message? What about the so-called "Messianic Jews"?


Genetic evidence is not central to the Israel-Identity Christian message. If anything, genetics, science and His(S)tory supply supporting and confirming evidence of God's plan for His people and the world. The Bible, God's Law-Word, is the central source and authority of the Israel-Identity Christian message.

God's history, as recorded in his Word, establishes the character of His major players on His world-stage (ie. His sheep, Jacob/Israel; and His enemies, the dogs, goats and specifically - Esau/Edom - Romans 9:13) and reveals the standards by which we can distinguish them.

  • "By their fruits you shall know them" (Matt. 7:20),
  • "My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me" (John 10:27),
  • "If you obey the Lord your God...these blessings shall come upon you..." (Deut. 28:1,2),
  • "I will put My law upon their minds and I will write them upon their hearts (Hebrews 8:10),"
  • etc, etc.
Those who obey and follow Christ are His people (Gal. 3:29) and those who denounce and hate Christ are anti-Christ enemies (I John 2:22,23). So THE central proof of Israel's Identity would be the acceptance of Christ Jesus as Saviour, Messiah and God. While the majority of people following after Christ and attempting to do His will are the kindred Germanic (white) peoples, the self-styled "Jewish" impostors hate Christ, Christianity, and oppose His will. For example:
"The widespread idea that the Jews, while rejecting Jesus' claim to divinity, consider him a great teacher and moral figure is completely false. We don't accept his claims and we are oblivious to his teachings; we are simply not interested in him nor in what he has to say, any more than Christians are interested in Mohammed." - 'Living Jewish - The Lore and Law of the Practicing Jew' by Michel Asheri.
They further give us reason why they are enemies of Christ and Christianity in the Jewish Encyclopedia edition of 1925, vol. 5, page 41 which states, "Edom is in modern Jewry." The significance of this admission becomes more clear when we understand the struggle between Jacob and Esau for the birthright and get an understanding of why God stated that He loved Jacob and hated Esau (Edom) in Romans 9:13. We suggest the book Who is Esau/Edom, by Charles Weisman for an exhaustive study on the subject.

As another witness, Rabbi Meir Kahane once stated:

"I have not the slightest sympathy for Christianity or Jesus. As a believing Jew, not only is Jesus not "God" but he is neither Messiah nor prophet. For the Jew he was a blasphemer, one who attacked the Torah as unchanging divine law and who was a false prophet and heretic. ...As for Christianity, this is the faith that, in the name of Jesus, has made life for the Jewish people a living hell for 19 centuries. In its name, and in the name of Jesus, millions of Jews were massacred and the agony of life under Christians can never be sufficiently described in all its horror." The Jewish Press, N.Y. Jan 6, 1989, page 49
Rabbi Kahane laments about Jewish persecution under Christians. Is this a just complaint or merely due justice deserved? Are not the modern day "Jews" the inheritors of the judgment that their spiritual predecessors called down upon themselves when they stated to Pilate "Let His blood be upon us and our children" (Matt. 27:25)? Do these people really have any right to complain if they continue in the spirit of those early Jews who persecuted those who followed Christ in Judea, who "both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us (Christians); and they please not God, and are contrary to all men"?

Some want to point to the so-called "Messianic Jews" or "Jews for Jesus." The glaring fact that they still refer to themselves as "Jews" is an omission of their true lack of submission and sincerity toward Christ (Colossians 2:18-23). Their pride in their own identity as "Jews" (I Corinthians 2:1-3), and their traditions (Mark 7:8-9), supersedes what a true repentant servant of Christ would think of themselves.

The Apostle Paul referred to himself as a "prisoner", a "debtor," a "slave" and a "servant" who surrendered his life and identity to Christ so that Christ might live through Him (Gal. 2:15-21). Gal. 3:26-28 speaks of this surrender and submersion of our own identity into the identity of Christ and His body. We "put on Christ" and His name, i.e. CHRISTians when we are baptized into Christ's death and Resurrection (Romans 6, Col 2, etc.) We are then no longer known as "Jew," or "Greek," or whatever, but rather as CHRISTIAN. Why then not call themselves Christian? Why cling to their identity as "Jews"? We read about what these "Jews" really mean by the term "Messianic Jews" in Q#4 in Baruch Levy's letter. The very term is blasphemy. The Messiah has already come and He is Jesus the Christ. The "Jews" are not the Messiah or "Messianic" in any way.

Dr. Benjamin Freedman was a converted Jew to Christianity who dedicated his whole fortune and life to bringing to light the religion of the "Jews" and the teachings of their Talmud. To quote from his letter to Dr. Goldstein, which was compiled into a booklet entitled Facts are Facts, he said:

"Stimulated by this statement by an imminent Jewish Rabbi every Christian especially every pastor should take time to investigate if this is true. Ask yourself, what do I know about the Talmud? From the birth of Jesus to the present there has never been recorded a more vicious, vile and libelous blasphemy against Jesus and Christians then you will find in the pages of these 63 volumes. The Talmud reviles Christ and Christians in unbelievably foul, obscene, indecent, lewd and vile language."
Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, Director of Interreligious Activities for the American Jewish Committee, considered the Talmud essential to the training of rabbis because it is the legal basis for their religious law:
"The TALMUD consists of 63 books of legal, ethical and historical writings of the ancient rabbis. It was edited five centuries after the birth of Jesus. It is a compendium of law and lore. It is the legal code which forms the basis of Jewish religious law and it is the textbook used in the training of rabbis." ("What is a Jew," by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, quoted in LOOK Magazine, 17 June 1952)
As former followers of the religion of Judaism (Talmudism) these so called "Messianic Jews" know it's anti-Christian basis and hatred for Christ better than any other. Their identification with the Talmudic "Jews", and their failure to warn the Christians as to the true nature of these people and their religion, is a glaring admission of where their true sympathies are. For it is the duty of every Christian to "let love be without hypocrisy, abhor what is evil and cling to what is good" (Romans 12:9).

With these witnesses is there any doubt as to where the self- styled "Jews" stand? If you are still unsure, listen to the warnings of your Saviour King, Christ Jesus:

"Jesus therefore said to those Jews which had not believed him,..Ye (Jews) are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do...He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause, ye (Jews) hear them not, because ye are not of God." (John 8:31,44,47)

"I know...the blasphemy by those who say they are 'Jews' and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan." (Rev 2:9)

"Who is the liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?" (I John 2:22.)

Who is the liar indeed? We have just seen who denies that Jesus is the Christ in word, deed and action.
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