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Anti-Semitism in the Church
A Required Response to the Charge
that Messianic Judaism is Apostasy
by Messianic Pastor Ari Levitt*
ThM, ThD, DMin, MBA, CNHP

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Ms. Nero’s Article Continues My Response

There is no place for those things in The Church. In The Church, that's Judaizing and that is sin and has no place in The Church, that is, unless you are not a Believer in Jesus as the Messiah. [sic] The only rituals that should be in The Church are baptism and holy communion.

Dear Messianic Jewish Movement members, as Jesus told the young man who wanted to go bury his father before following Him, He is also saying to you …

“…Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead” (Matthew 8:22).

Judaism the religion is dead. The Holy Spirit is not in it – G-d is not in those synagogues. G-d’s final curtain call in the Jewish Temple was when the veil of the temple “rent in two” (Matthew 27:51), or don’t you believe that? As Judaism is dead, let the dead practitioners of Judaism practice it. Messianic Judaism that believes Jesus Christ is Messiah must bury the tenets of Judaism that they are holding on to and follow the real Jesus – Christianity that is so un-ritualistically simple [sic]. The time is short and there is much work to be done. There are too many souls on their way to hell while you’re limiting your witness to the less that 15 million Jewish people on this earth? Please, as ONE, we’ve got a mighty big job to do before it’s entirely too dark to get the work done.

He wants you to let go of Judaism, forget about who sees you as a Jew or not, and do what He has called you to do in “one” with the TBASUCs.

If you love your Jewishness more than Jesus, you are not worthy of Him.

“Holy Communion” is nowhere instituted in the “New Testament.” “Holy Communion” is an invention of the Roman cult to keep people in line and subject to the domination of a corrupt clergy. If you disobey the Holy Mother Church (or her representative), you will be “excommunicated” [denied the “sacrament” of “Holy Communion”] and you will burn in hell forever. What Yeshua actually taught was that whenever the Feast of Passover was observed, it should be observed as a memorial to Him, the true Passover Lamb. The Feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread were instituted for Israel in Exodus 12 as a picture-lesson of (a) God’s deliverance of His people from slavery in Egypt, which, as any 5th grade Sunday School student has been taught, is also picture of mankind's bondage to sin; and (b) as a picture-lesson of G-d’s ultimate redemption of mankind from slavery to sin in the person of Yeshua HaMashiach.

On the tenth of the month Nisan (Exodus 12:1-6) the Lamb was brought into the house [“the House” is a Second-Temple Period expression used to refer to the Temple] where He was examined for four days to make sure that He was without fault or blemish [fulfilled by Yeshua in Matt. 21-26 and parallels]. At the end of the four days of intense examination, the Lamb was declared to be without fault or blemish (Luke 23:4, 23:14, 23:22, 23:47; John 18:38, 19:4, 19:6; Matthew 27:4). He was killed for the sins of the people on the fourteenth day of Nisan (Exodus 12:6; Matthew 27:33-56 and parallels in Mark 15:22ff, John 19:17ff Luke 23:26ff). Israel was commanded to observe Passover as a memorial forever (Exodus 12:14-17; Leviticus 23:4-14; Numbers 9:1-14).

The “Lord’s Supper” is Passover! (Luke 22:13-20)

 

 

 
Some Closing Thoughts

The “Jesus” that Ms. Nero portrays simply never existed! He is a “false messiah” created by Gentile revisionist historians to “prove” the superiority of Gentiles over Jews. He bears extremely little, if any, resemblance to Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef who appears in the pages of the Bible as Adonai Melech haMashiach, the Son of G-d, Israel’s Messiah and Savior of the World, Who will soon return in glory to reign over the world from his throne in Jerusalem. Maranata!

The “real Jesus” of history and of the Bible (as has already been pointed out) was a Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef. Nobody who knew Him in the flesh ever called him “Jesus,” for that was simply not His name. He was born, lived, and died as a Torah-observant Jew, worshipping in either the Temple or the synagogue nearly every Shabbat of His life. He personally practiced in His daily life exactly those things that Ms. Nero finds so repulsive, and He taught his Talmidim (Disciples) and Shliachim (Apostles) to obey and practice those things as well. Anybody who so thoroughly hates the Judaism that was practiced by Yeshua and His Talmidim and Shliachim, must of necessity hate those who practiced it!

In fact, Ms. Nero’s entire article demonstrates either that she is totally ignorant of Who the Yeshua of the Bible is, or that she hates the Yeshua of the Bible because He was a Torah-observant Jew. If you love only the “Gentile Jesus” that Ms. Nero portrays, then you simply are not seeing the Son of G-d Who appears on the pages of Scripture and Who lives within the hearts of the true Believers in Mashiach.

I can only wonder if it is mere coincidence that it was another person named Nero who went down in history as one of the most violent persecutors of the followers of Messiah Yeshua. Adolph Hitler, like Ms. Nero, also claimed to be a Christian, and apparently hated Jews almost as much as Ms. Nero does. Some day both will stand before the King of the Jews, and will have to answer for their hatred of “the apple of G-d’s eye.”

How is it possible for a person who claims to be a “true Christian” to so intensely hate all Jews and all things Jewish, while pretending to love and to follow the King of the Jews?

It is people exactly like Ms. Nero who have made it so profoundly difficult for those Jews whom they persecute to be open to receiving the Gospel. Why would any Jew ever want to hear anything about the “Jesus Christ” whose “followers” like Ms. Nero are directly responsible for the persecution and death of multiplied millions of Jews over the past 1,700 years? The blood of those Jews who have died without HaMashiach will be upon the heads of those who through their hatred of the Jews have kept from them the true Gospel of Yeshua!

Yeshua commanded His followers to love even their enemies (Mattityahu 5:44). Therefore, any person who hates or persecutes Jews is not a “Christian” at all. He or she is a pagan, an unbeliever who only calls himself or herself “Christian” and who actually hates and persecutes Yeshua Himself (Mattityahu 25:31-45). “In as much as you have done it to the least of these, My brothers [the Jews], you have done it to Me.”

As for Ms. Nero and those like her who so despise the Jews while claiming to be “teachers of righteousness,” hear what the Shiliach Kefa (the Apostle Peter) says about them:

But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. Many will follow their destructive ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. In covetousness will they exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. … Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord. But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, receiving the wages of unrighteousness; … reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;  children of cursing; forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Bil`am the son of Be'or, who loved the wages of wrong-doing; … These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, … they themselves are bondservants of corruption; … But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.” (2 Peter 2)

Mary Nero, daughter of haSatan and sister of Adolph Hitler, may Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach, Whom you persecute, have mercy on your pagan and hate-filled soul!!


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