God’s reason for choosing the nation of Israel was not solely for the purpose of producing the Messiah. God’s desire for Israel was that they would go and teach others about Him. Israel was to be a nation of priests, prophets, and missionaries to the world. God’s intent was for Israel to be a distinct people, a nation who pointed others towards God and His promised provision of a Redeemer, Messiah, and Savior. For the most part, Israel failed in this task. However, God’s ultimate purpose for Israel—that of bringing the Messiah into the world—was fulfilled perfectly in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Well said!
The only 2 disagreements I have is that Israel failed in the task to make the living God known in this world, an incorporeal God who codified instruction through the Law that came into the world through Moses and the promise of the Messiah to reveal the hidden meaning of all the commands of God was a promise made to Israel.
Jesus said, "I have been sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and to them alone." One was taken, the other left behind. He then sent his disciples to upload malware into the belly of the beast "to smite the nations".
"Just art thou, in these thy judgments, thou Holy One who art and wast; for they shed the blood of thy people and of thy prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink."
The historic refusal of the people of Israel to bow down to the antichrist, a false substitute Jesus conjured from the depths of a Roman hell and unleashed on the world in 325CE, with all the attending signs and powerful miracles of the lie that scripture is to be taken literally is proof of their continued fidelity to the only living God.
But I agree that Jesus fulfilled the promise of a Messiah and if Israel has failed to accept that it is because of the irrational claims that Christians make about Jesus being a mangod, a coequal part of a trinity that diddled a virgin and abolished Divine Law by becoming a "perfect human sacrifice" so that "believers' who worship him as God and celebrate his torture and death can sin with impunity for life and not pay the penalty, death, a curse, which is just a reprehensible deadly satanic lie which puts "believers" under the condemnation of God for defying Divine instruction, dead, lost in hell, making them easy prey for every foul and loathsome beast and bird on earth.
In my view Christians have failed to accept the teachings of Jesus and do it. They don't even know what he taught or how to receive eternal life, the promise of God for anyone who fulfills the Laws demands as Jesus did.
Not to worry!
Rising from the dead is as easy or as difficult as it is for any person to be honest with themselves and others. If you were a true believer in Jesus you would be casting out demons from the lofty positions they have brazenly usurped, not shamelessly kissing their asses, going belly up like a cur, or submissively paying homage to them.
It's disgusting. Reprehensible. Obscene, unethical, immoral, and perverse. No wonder you all are so guilt ridden.
Now while you have time on earth is the time to rise just like many did after Jesus first rose from the dead while in a body on earth.
You understand neither scripture nor the power of God.
