"Adonai your God has chosen you to be his own unique treasure out of all the peoples on the face of the earth." Deuteronomy 14:2
God's People and God's Land
As covered in God's Plan, God chose / called a people for himself, to live in fellowship and trust with him. And God chose a (small) place to start this work.
Jewish mother and children at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem
The Jews
The Jews were the people chosen to be God's witness to the rest of the world.
They would be blessed while they lived in obedience, but cursed if they rebelled. In both situations, they communicated God to the nations of the world. As God's chosen people, the Jews have attracted the hatred and envy of the world that did not wish to be subject to God and his just requirements
The Jewish Story - How it has made the Jews what they are
Bris milah - circumcision - Barmitzvah - Coming of Age
Prayer - Jewish perspective on prayer
Jews and the Bible - Do most Jews actually read and understand the Hebrew scriptures?
Footnote for Jewish visitors
God's Appointed Times ( Moedim) - The Feasts of the Jews
Feasts of the LORD - The Jewish Calendar
Passover - Pentecost -Trumpets - Day of Atonement - Tabernacles
Shabbat - Bar mitzvah - Wedding - Circumcision - Firstborn
Channukah - Purim - Counting the Omer - Tu b Shvat - New Moon
Israel
Israel is the only little bit of the earth that God gave to his chosen people, to be the place where his salvation plan would be worked out. History shows how the Jews came under the threatened curses for rebellion and were exiled from the land when they rebelled. However, the land still belonged to them under God's eternal covenant, and they were called back to it when their punishment was completed and they repented. The world has not accepted that and rejects God's view of the homeland of the Jews. Many prominent voices in the church also reject this, and adopted a theology variously described as Replacement Theology, Supercessionism etc.
Israel in Today's World and in Prophecy
All Israel will be saved - what does that mean?
Other peoples living in Israel
Israel - Living in a tough neighbourhood
Israel's battles - and future batles
What chance Peace in Israel? -
Islam -
2006 Lebanon war coverage - The Bloggers strike back
Sderot -
Christian organisations against Israel -
Individual Christians against Israel
Europe -
Land -
Jews and Christians
God's plan for Jews and Gentiles to come together in the New Covenant, as one new man was rejected by many Gentiles and many Jews, who could not let go of their hostility and allowed it to influence their beliefs and interpretation of Scripture. The (Jewish) Christian apostle to the Gentiles, Sha'ul / Paul attempted to correct these errors and forestall the hostility and anti-Semitism that have poisoned relations between Jews and Christians. The heart of his letter to the church in Rome (climaxing in chapters 9 to 11) spelled out how Gentile believers in the Jewish Messiah are “grafted in” among the Jewish believers.
Jews & Christians - sub directory
Studies in Paul's letter to Romans a series of podcasts following the thread of Paul's concern about the church's attitude to Jews.
Olive - Paul's teaching about Gentiles being grafted in to God's Olive tree
Olive Tree - What is the olive tree we are grafted in to. Where do the Jews fit in?
One New Man - wildolive - using wildolive
New Moves within Christianity in Israel
Being there pro Israel events
Calendars - Jewish and Christian
Authority - given to God's people
Rabbi Jesus (Yeshua from Nazareth)
Ruth as a parable of Israel and the Church
Saul / Paul - did he change his name?
Shepherds - Why did Jesus call himself the good shepherd?
Strategy - God's purposes for Israel
What can I do ? - ideas
Hosting Israelis - a way to touch the hearts of young Israelis
Where was God? / Where is God?
Why so hard ? - Why are the Jews so resistant to the Gospel of Jesus?
Responses to God's Plan for Jews and Christians
There has been a great move of the Spirit in the Church to recognise its proper relationship with the Jews and to repent of the errors and sins of earlier generations. The sinful attitude of the wider church towards the Jews has done great harm to the Jews and kept generations of Jews from recognising their Messiah. The church created an anti-Jewish, Gentile Christ, and persecuted Jews in his name. God is calling his Gentile church to repent and to demonstate his love to the Jews (Israel) and remove the many stumbling blocks that we have placed in front of the Jews down the generations.
Being there supporting Israel at events
Biblical Christian Zionism - get your theology straight
Complete Jewish Bible - See the Bible as a Jewish book
Dabru emet - Jews respond - encouraging
Dear Church - Communicate to the Church about Israel
Feasts of the LORD Learn about them
Ruth as a parable of Israel and the Church
Mission Israel - Strategy - God's purposes for Israel
Hosting Israelis - a way to touch the hearts of young Israelis
Authority - given to God's people
Synagogue - visit a synagogue
Walking Together - one Jew and one Christian
What can I do ? - ideas
All Israel will be saved - what does that mean?
Updated 19/09/17
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