Looking for you. I found some pretty solid information for you to consider. I looked for and found (thank God) a book that looks at the gospels and the New Testament from a Jewish perspective, written by a messianic Jew. Stop spouting falsehood and consider looking into it.
The gospels and the New Testament as a whole SHOULD BE looked at from a Jewish perspective since they were authored by Jewish men under the Law. These New Covenant writings are from men who discuss, explain, and reveal the Old Testament prophecies and promises of God to the Hebrew people. Saul says, "the Law is spiritual" and he is right. While the Law is spiritual the Jews lacking the Holy Spirit of Promise and the spiritual enlightenment He brings could only understand them from a "letter of the Law" perspective. And this was the antagonism that Jesus' teachings caused between He and the religious leaders in Israel. The things I post echo what's found in the Old Testament, and in some places, isn't found in the Old Testament, such as the omission of a covenant between God and non-Hebrew Gentiles. I find many walking in darkness on this point. Scripture countless times 'speaks' of covenants God makes first with Abram the Hebrew and his Hebrew seed and the naming of God as the God of Abraham but is silent of any kind of covenant with non-Hebrew Gentiles and the revealing of the name of this non-Hebrew Gentile with whom God has covenant with. And because Scripture is completely silent on this point many ignorantly add to the Bible a covenant where none exists. They vigorously force a covenant between God and non-Hebrew Gentiles through misinterpretation of the text or by adding to the Bible things that are not there.
You bring up a source you want to "look at" but fail to identify what it is you want me to read.
You may be surprised that Jesus went to the Gentiles on at least four occassions during His time on Earth. Do you know why Jesus responded to the Syro-Canaanite woman (non-Jewish Gentile) the way He did? It is because when she first made her plea, she addressed Him as Messiah. However, Jesus isn't the Messiah to the Gentiles, so He did not respond. When she responded again, approaching in faith instead, Jesus responded. His response was a test to see if she understood. He said that He came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. He then said, using the original language, that it is not right for the family pets (dogs/puppies) to eat off of the childrens'/masters' table. He was not comparing Gentiles to dogs, but creating the situation. The woman understood what Jesus was saying, and responded by basically saying, that is true, but the family pets eat the crumbs that fall from the table. Same sustenance, different situation. While Jesus is not the Messiah of the Gentiles, He is the Savior of the Gentiles. He is the Messiah/Savior in combination for the Jews.
This woman was not non-Hebrew but was a descendant of Asher, to whom God gave the land by lots.
Judges 1:31–32: "Neither did
Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of
Zidon... But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out."
There is also a prophetic connection to the Tribe of Zebulun. In the book of Genesis, when Jacob blessed his sons, he predicted that Zebulun’s border would reach toward Sidon.
Genesis 49:13: "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon."
In the time of the New Testament (where the Syro-Canaanite woman appears), these cities were still Gentile/Greek territories, though they were located within the ancient borders intended for Israel. This explains her familiarity with terms like "Lord" and "son of David" and "mercy." She would have to be mixed-race for if she was fully Hebrew Jesus would not have taken her through the discussion He did. "Dog/Dogs" is a derogatory word by the Jews for non-Hebrew Gentiles. Jews also consider non-Hebrew Gentiles as unclean and sinners. But just as the woman at the well in John 4, this woman was also a descendant of Abraham but of mixed heritage and in honor of God's promises to Abraham and his seed, Jesus healed her daughter.
As for the religious leaders, Jesus slammed them so hard BECAUSE they believed that all Jews would be saved. Jesus spent a lot of time telling them they are wrong. He also spent a lot of time breaking their laws. Constantly. Why did the Pharisees and company get so upset when Jesus broke the Sabbath? It wasn't because Jesus broke the Mosaic Law, because He didn't. It is because the Pharisees had their own laws that they held at the same level as the Mosaic Law known as the Mishna, and Jesus had a habit of breaking SPECIFIC Mishna laws. He didn't just do things they would call violations. He specifically broke Mishna laws.
There are passages in both the Old and New Testaments that show that "all Israel" shall be saved. God made promises to save this people and these promises and prophecies are recorded in the Bible.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
And unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me,
this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
My spirit that is upon thee,
And my words which I have put in thy mouth,
Shall not depart out of thy mouth,
Nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
Nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD,
From henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah 59:20–21.
26 And so
all Israel shall be saved: as
it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when
I shall take away their sins. Romans 11:26–27.
And God did turn away ungodliness from Jacob (Israel) which was accomplished by Jesus on a Roman cross. Jeremiah prophesied a New Covenant in which God 'forgives' Israel her sins. This prophecy does not provide the mechanism that God bases His forgiveness on, but He does it through implementation of the Ceremonial Law in the Mosaic Covenant. We all know the story. God substitutes the animal sacrificed under the Law with His own Son and He institutes this New Covenant during their observance of the Passover in which Jesus places their atonement and the forgiveness upon His body and His blood in the upper room when He says, my body and blood are given "for you" meaning the twelve tribes of Israel and seed of Abraham.
On the topic of demons you do not believe in, one of the known and accepted miracles of the Messiah had to do with casting out demons/spirits. If they don't exist, then why would this have been given as a sign. The sign is the casting out of mute/dumb demons/spirits. Why? The pharisees and other religious leaders cast out demons as well. How? They would ask the demon/spirit for its name. Once they had its name, they had power. They would cast out the demon using its name and whatever else was a part of their rituals/actions. However, with mute/dumb demons/spirits, they could never get a name. They couldn't cast those out. So when Jesus cast them out without issue, that was a huge sign with an arrow pointing at Him saying "This is the Messiah".
Where do you get this from? It's outrageous. First, the Jews didn't deal with "demon-possession" the way you describe because there is nothing in the Old Testament that teaches this. The ongoing position of many today is that "demons" are fallen angels or a wholly different class of angel. One has to go to the medieval ages and Dante's "Paradise Lost" from which most believe today. But in many places' "demon" or "evil spirit" in the New Testament are given as adjectives and you cannot make an adjective into a noun or pronoun. And as far as the teaching that "demons" are fallen angels is problematic. First, there is nothing in the Old Testament of "demons" being fallen angels and second, Peter for one state that the angels that sinned are 'locked up' awaiting judgment from God:
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell, and
delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 2 Peter 2:4.
Demons are not fallen angels nor are they a similar class of being like unto the angels that sinned. The "evil spirits" in people are only their "evil attitudes" that all men - saved and unsaved - possess as a state of mind. Besides this, the New Covenant writings describe believers interacting with persons who have evil attitudes that Jesus confronts in the gospels and that show the first thing Jesus does is subdue their attitudes. Today we call that an "attitude adjustment." How can the religious leaders who are in the flesh have authority to "cast out" fallen angels from a person when the unsaved [religious] person is void of the Holy Spirit? What does Saul say on this point?
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Galatians 5:16–17.
And take note of this. Some of these are attitudes as well as some others are acts/actions:
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19–21.
Here is a breakdown of the mental attitudes found in that passage:
Hatred: An intense internal dislike or ill will toward others.
Envying: A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.
Emulations: In the KJV context, this refers to a spirit of jealous rivalry—the desire to excel at the expense of others or "jealousy."
Idolatry: While this can involve bowing to a statue, it is fundamentally a mental attitude where something else is given the priority that belongs to God (Colossians 3:5 equates covetousness with idolatry.)
Calling these "evil spirits" or "attitudes is adequate just as the attitude or spirit we possess in ourselves like the "spirit of Christmas" is called an "attitude" or "spirit." These are manifested from within a person, not from without.
On the demon we like to talk about, with the pigs. This is during one of the occassions that Jesus specifically visited a non-Jewish Gentile area. Pigs are not something that Jews would have anything to do with. UNCLEAN. He went back to this area at a later time and did more. When He was in these areas, He was healing Gentiles. If you look carefully at the gospels, you will notice that Jesus had a specific way He treated the Jews. At the beginning, He healed anyone who came and asked for healing. Later, He only healed those who showed/had faith. Towards the end, He no longer healed in public. (Or cast out demons in public). Always in a private place. He was done with Israel. (At this point in His first coming. God is never done with Israel.) With the Gentiles, He never showed such action. He healed anyone, whether they had faith or not. Why? Gentiles are not Jews, so their salvation is different. Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews. Gentiles are saved by faith. They are blessed by the promises God made to Abraham for Abraham's faith.
Non-Hebrews do not come from the loins of Abraham - especially when married to a half-sister who is also Hebrew. And you cannot birth a non-Hebrew child through two Hebrew parents (Abe and Sarah.)
God saves through covenant. And there is no requirement of faith in any of the three Hebrew covenants (Abrahamic, Mosaic, and New.) Does God want His people to trust Him? Yes, He does. But trust is not a requirement given in any of these three Hebrew covenants.
Consider the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. What was that sin? That was when the religious leaders fully and blatantly denied Christ as Messiah, shown by them saying Jesus cast... get this, a mute/dumb demon (remember what was said earlier) by the power of Beezelbub. The thing I found interesting is the Jewish messianic view is that what Jesus meant when He said the sin wouldn't be forgiven in this age or the next, is this age/generation of Jews who are rejecting, and the age that followed... AD 70. He was speaking to this judgment. If all Israel repented at that moment, AD 70 would still happen. It is like King Manasseh who dragged Israel through the worst sins incurring the wrath of God. God decreed judgment on Israel that He would NOT withdraw. Even when Manasseh repented and became a believer. Even when Josiah basically wiped out everything Manasseh had done and turned Israel back to God. All God said was, the judgment would fall after Josiah died. So the judgment that comes with the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit was... AD 70.
You are incorrect as to the meaning and description of what "Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit" is. It is not a sin of the tongue (blasphemy), but it is a sin of the "heart" or 'life.' And it is not attributing to Satan what was said or performed by God and vice versa. But it is a sin that cannot be forgiven because it is associated with salvation. In other words, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is a sin of the "heart", but I place parenthesis around "heart" because I am not speaking of the heart that pumps blood. I am speaking of the
life of a person, which is what the Scripture is speaking about in the passage.
The Ministry (and purpose) of the Holy Spirit sent into the world today is to
apply the salvation bought by the Son to God's elect. Since God has already determined in Himself, in eternity who He is going to save and who He is not going to save is teased in Revelation 13: 8.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8.
Before God created heaven, earth, and man, He knew already who He was going to save and who He was not going to save and He chose out a people "from [before] the foundation (or creation) of the world." According to Scripture God made covenant with a man from the family of Eber named Abram (the Hebrew - Genesis 14:13.)
4 According as he hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, Ephesians 1:3–5.
A person is not born saved but they are predestined to salvation, and He accomplishes this through the covenants He's made with the Hebrew people beginning with Abraham and extended to his biological seed. The Mosaic Covenant is bookended by the Abrahamic Covenant and the New Covenant which He prophesied to establish with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. This He did in the death and resurrection of His Son who was offered and sacrificed to atone the sins of the children of Israel. An elect, born-again, predestined person cannot commit this sin of "blasphemy of the Holy Spirit" because their "heart" or life is "hid in Christ (Spirit)" and they are deemed to salvation through the finished Work of the Son of God. Knowing this, all persons whose names are in the "book" of life will be saved, have been saved, and shall be saved at the appointed time by the Holy Spirit of Promise who is in the world to apply the salvation bought by the Son to God's elect. That is the Ministry (and purpose) of the Holy Spirit in the world today. And being in the world to apply that salvation to God's elect it is an offense to the Holy Spirit of the presence along with Him in the world a people that are not predestined to salvation. The Holy Spirit must share being in the world with unholy, unatoned people that are not called or predestined to salvation. They are a people that will not be saved in this age or in the age to come because they are not named in the "book" of life of the lamb and their "hearts", or "lives" are an offense to the Spirit because they are not and will not ever be saved. While Jesus called it a "blasphemy" it is not a sin of the tongue but in the condition of an unsecured, unatoned, and unsaved person that shares this world - although momentarily - with the HOLY Spirit that is an offense to Him. It is a sin against Him and at the appointed time He will do something about it when the last trumpet is blown, and the King of Kings appears in the clouds with all the power and authority of God to judge the world of the unsaved, uncalled, unatoned people to whom God does not save, cannot save, nor will save. To God they are nothing, and less than nothing and vanity (Isaiah 40:17.) This is why it is unforgivable. And only the non-elect has committed this sin of the "heart"/life.
For more of the Jewish view of the gospels, of Christ, see Yeshua The Life of Messiah From a Messianic Jewish Perspective. The book is large (700 pages+ abridged) or you can go with the four volume set... I'm considering moving to the four volume set after I finish commentaries on Hebrews, I/II Peter, James, Jude, Daniel, and a book on Israelogy, what is missing today. (Something like that.) You may not like what Jewish believers have to say, but I keep thinking of the prophecy that says that Gentiles would be grabbing onto the cloaks of Jews begging to hear of God.
It's like grasping at straws.
And for those that erroneously believe the Law is "abolished" or "obsolete" God opposes you. The Feast of Tabernacles given in the Law of Moses will be a feast the saved people of God observe at the appointed time:
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations
Which came against Jerusalem
Shall even go up from year to year
To worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
And to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up
Of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem
To worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
Even upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the
family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain;
There shall be the plague, wherewith
the LORD will smite the heathen
That come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19
This shall be the punishment of Egypt,
And the punishment of all nations
That come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;
And the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts:
And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein:
And in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 14:16–21.
The last verse carries great significance. In other words, when God fulfills His promise to Abraham and to give him and his seed the land promised him there will be no non-Hebrew Gentiles residing in the Promised Land among the Jews. They will occupy all the areas outside the Promised Land and a reading of Revelation 20:7-9 describes what will happen in that day:
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and
fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. Revelation 20:7–9.
It does not end well for the non-Hebrew Gentiles when this moment comes.
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