A Comment About

Palin and the ‘Jews for Jesus’ Smear

September 15, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Michael Weiss
Gregory
2008-09-15 02:56:20

Hmm. Okay, Mr Weiss. So you have issues with Christians who want to convert Jews. And you have a problem with ‘Messianic Jews’ messing with authentic or true Judaism.

Hey, I got news for you. ‘True’ Judaism went out of the window once the Temple in Jerusalem was turned into rubble by the Romans. Can you still trace the line of Levi, from whom the priests and High Priests are to be selected? Do you still offer the various sin sacrifices and hold Yom Kippur involving the Temple? Do you still follow the Law as laid down in Leviticus? (answer: no, because you can no longer impose the death penalty, which even 1st Century Jews can do)

Are Christians trying to kill you off? Brand you and make you wear something that distinctively differentiates you from all others? Do Christians nowadays force you to become Christian or live as a marranos? Are there standing instructons that an unrepentent Jew is to be burnt at the stake, preferably robbed, tortured (and if a young woman, raped) first? Are either Orthodox, Conservative or Reform Jews, as a matter of course, and routinely, being mocked, spat upon or held in contempt by Christians (even Jews for Jesus) for not embracing Yeshua ha-Mashiah as YHWH Adonai? Do you even understand what is meant by anti-Semitism, you raca?

Your logic is flawed, and worse, your liberal anti-Christian attitude is showing. One of your links is actually named ‘The Jewish Jihad for Jesus’, for crying out loud, which suggests to be you know neither the meaning of Jewish (pertaining to the tribe of Judah), nor Jihad (‘holy war’) nor Jesus (Yehoshuah, ‘The L-rd is my Salvation’).

And while I would never want to force you to become a Christian, exactly what problem do you have anyway? Shema Israel, Elohim Adonai, Elohim Echod. I proudly say it as a Christian; Pentecostal, Evangelical, Mission-oriented. Do you deny that Jesus was a Jew, that His 1st 12 Apostles were Jews, that His early disciples were pretty much all Jews, and that His ministry was firstly to the Jews? Does His acts and miracles not correspond to what was written by the prophet Isaiah in the Tanakh? Do you deny His Davidic descent, something no other Jew today can prove about themselves, and hence no claim of Messianic authority can be verified? What’s wrong with telling Jews all of that?

Bah. Go educate yourself first.