IMHO there simply CANNOT be a TRUE "Messianic" Christian, that is to say, Jews who have believed in Christ Jesus as the promised "Son of God," for the TRUE descendants of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have been rendered utterly incapable of recognizing or acknowledging Him as such!
Instead some of these descendants of Israel have been deceived into accepting what might rightly be called a "pseudo" Christ, that is, "another Jesus" as Paul wrote about in
II Corinthians 11:3-4.
Please consider the following proclamations from God concerning Israel's state during the time that His judgment of gross spiritual blindness would rest upon their minds, and which effectively prevents them from proper discernment between truth and error, good and evil:
"The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee." (
Deuteronomy 28:28-29).
God, through the words of His prophet Jeremiah, warned the rebellious Jews when this "curse" would be imposed upon them, saying,
"... in the day of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD" (
Jeremiah 8:12).
We discover the actual imposition of this prophesied "curse" being rendered by the Lord Jesus Christ, when an occasion arose as He was about to enter into the city of Jerusalem, paused, and said,
"If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But NOW they are hid from thine eyes ... because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation" (see
Luke 19:41-44).
At that moment God imposed a "spiritual" blindness upon that generation of Jews, a judgment which has remained in effect to the present day, and will continue in effect until His promised second "visit" (with limited exceptions, of course, that I will briefly mention).
This judgment of gross spiritual blindness did NOT mean that the ability of ever Jew was immediately rendered incapable of discerning between good and evil, truth and error, rather it meant that by the death of every member of that generation, then ALL Jews thereafter would experience its full impact. This is why we find Pater, in his first sermon, warning his Jewish audience, saying to them,
"Save yourselves from this untoward generation" (
Acts 2:40). Peter knew very well that after that present generation had passed away, then NO Jews thereafter could be saved. Such is the situation the present-day Jew is confronted with.
There is to come a moment in the future, when the period commonly known as the "times of the Gentiles" has come to its end, at which time the same judgment of gross "spiritual" blindness will be imposed upon every unrepentant Gentile (see
Lamentations 1:21-22). At that time God will again turn His attention back to the Israeli people, even choosing 12,000 of them from each of their 12 tribes, and will cause them to be "sealed ... in their foreheads" (see
Revelation 7:3-9); implying that these will be "sealed," just as have been, with the Holy Ghost. These will, of course, also be water baptized "in the name of the Lord Jesus," and become one of the "two witnesses" mentioned in
Revelation 11:3 (comprised of both Jew and Gentile) who will prophesy for 1,260 days before being slain by the Anti-Christ and his deceived followers.
Much more could be said about these things, however, in writing this I pray that it be understood that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a "true" descendant of Israeli, at least at the present time, to possess a proper understanding of the identity of the "Son of God," that is, the same Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in whom we have believed and been "sealed" with His Spirit and baptized in the waters of baptism "in his name." Therefore it MUST be concluded that the so called Messianic Christianity is nothing more tban a pseudo religion, and must be shunned.
As stated, In My Humble Opinion, submitted for your consideration of its merits.
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