“We’re the real PFJ!”

I found an interesting Messianic channel on Youtube, and I’m really enjoying it.

I’ve met Yeshua, because he literally came to my physical location twice. I’ve had miracles and visions. I’ve had demons cast out. The whole 9 yards. He is God. He has proven it over and over. He still proves it day by day. I want everyone to know him. But not one of the many Jewish people I’ve known have ever shown any interest in him. Not unless they knew him before we met. It’s great to see the sample I’ve seen doesn’t represent everyone. It’s the best I can hope for, unfortunately.

This week, I saw a Jewish man who was once a yeshiva student confront one of the myths surrounding Yeshua. His name is Dr. Golan Broshi. He said he had been told over and over to avoid looking at the New Testament because it was a Christian book that was anti-Semitic. Of course, when he finally looked, he saw a set of Jewish books, every one written by a Jewish man, created and disseminated in order to help spread a Jewish sect in support of the Jewish Messiah. He was amazed. I’ve seen many Jewish believers say the same thing happened to them. I saw one Jew joke that the only thing he knew about the New Testament was that it was written by the pope. Of course, not one gentile had a hand in writing it. Only Jews. It is a Jewish creation; one hundred per cent.

Anyway, he pointed something out, and I had never thought about it.

There is a common thread in several books of the Christian Bible. It goes like this: God sends an anointed Jew to help the rest of the Jews. He has confrontations with the religious and political leaders. They persecute him and treat him very badly. Then he turns out to be right, and eventually, he is revered and honored. After his death.

Of course, I’m referring to the Old Testament, which is part of the Christian Bible.

Isaiah was murdered by Jews. Jeremiah was imprisoned and beaten. Amos was abused and rejected. The Queen of Israel tried to kill Elijah, and the king, Ahab, agreed with her. Jewish lore written by Jews says Ahab had the prophet Micaiah murdered by other Jews because he didn’t like what Micaiah said.

Later on, Jewish Yeshua said this to certain Jewish scholars of the law:

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

He also said:

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

The prophets were not popular during their lifetimes, and the people who made them miserable were Jews.

In this respect, the Jewish prophets are like real Christians, who have always been abused by nominal Christians who didn’t know God. Christians who are popular among people who claim to be Christians are generally not really Christians.

Dr. Broshi asked a simple question: if Jews have internal disagreements that don’t involve gentiles, how can anyone say anti-Semitism is the reason? If the Jews who wrote the New Testament were anti-Semites, weren’t the Jews who imprisoned and killed early Messianics also anti-Semites? They didn’t harm anyone but Jews.

It’s a startling argument.

Jews persecuted Moses. Go look for yourself. Jews tried to kill David. A Jew slept with David’s wives in order to humiliate him. Jews slaughtered most of a tribe of Jews. If powerful Jews fought with Yeshua, who was Jewish, and they had him killed, and they imprisoned and killed his Jewish followers, which is undeniable, how can anti-Semitism be involved?

Anti-Semitism among Christians didn’t exist when the New Testament was written. At first, all believers were Jews, and the gentile believers who came later were not their enemies. On the contrary; they looked to them for teaching. They followed them.

Anti-Semitism among Christians developed after the New Testament was written, and it is inconsistent with the New Testament, just as there are rabbinical teachings that go against the Tanakh. Most Jews aren’t interested in God. That certainly goes against the Tanakh. It makes no sense to condemn scripture based on the actions of people who ignore it.

The apostles were most definitely not against Jews. Paul, for example, spent a long time traveling to far-off synagogues to reach them, and he continued even though they flogged him more than once, stoned him, and beat him with sticks.

What Broshi says is true, and once you see it in front of you, you realize how obvious it is. Why haven’t people said it before?

It’s amazing what we can believe before God shows us the truth. There is no limit to human delusion.