On
Jews Who Reject Christ
-By Pastor Bob Enyart, Denver Bible Church
Various televangelists promote a false teaching,
that Jews can reject Christ and still have
salvation. A friend of mine runs one of the larger
Christian TV networks. I gave him a gift of both the
Jewish New Testament and the Tanakh,
and handed him the following quotes, directly from
these Jewish translations of Scripture:
Quotes from the Jewish New
Testament and the Tanakh.
"...Do you know who will accuse you?
Moshe [Moses], the very one you have counted on!
For if you really believed Moshe, you would believe
Me; because it was about Me that he wrote. But if
you don't believe what he wrote, how are you going
to believe what I say? Jewish New Testament
John 5:45‑46
"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you,
Beit-Tzaidah [Bethsaida]... And you, K'far-Nachum [Capernium]...
you will be brought down to Sh'ol [hell]... whoever
rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me. JNT
Luke 10:13‑16
...to this day the same veil remains
over them [Israel] when they read the Old Covenant;
it has not been unveiled, because only by the
Messiah is the veil taken away. Yes, till
today, whenever Moshe is read, a veil lies over
their heart. "But, says the Torah,
"whenever someone turns to Adonai, the veil
is taken away. JNT
2 Corinthians 3:14‑16
Brothers, my heart's deepest desire and
my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation;
for I can testify to their zeal for God. But it is
not based on correct understanding; for, since
they are unaware of God's way of making people
righteous and instead seek to set up their own,
they have not submitted themselves to God's way of
making people righteous. For the goal at which
the Torah aims is the Messiah, who offers
righteousness to everyone who trusts... . there is
no difference between Jew and Gentile Adonai
is the same for everyone... So trust comes from what
is heard, and what is heard comes through a word
proclaimed about the Messiah. JNT
Romans 10:1‑4, 12, 17
For God so loved the world that he gave
his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts
in him may have eternal life, instead of being
utterly destroyed... . Those who trust in him are
not judged; those who do not trust have been judge
already, in that they have not trusted in the one
who is God's only and unique Son. JNT
Yochanan (John) 3:16, 18
The next Shabbat, nearly the
whole city gathered together to hear the message
about the Lord; but when the Jews who had not
believed saw the crowds, they were filled with
jealousy and spoke up against what Sha'ul was saying
and insulted him. However, Sha'ul and Bar‑Nabba
answered boldly: "It was necessary that God's word
be spoken first to you. But since you are
rejecting it and are judging yourselves unworthy of
eternal life why, we're turning to the Goyim!
For that is what Adonai has ordered us to do..."
JNT Acts 13:44‑47
We are Jews by birth, not so-called Goyishe
sinners'; even so, we have come to realize that a
person is not declared righteous by God on the
ground of his legalistic observance of Torah
commands, but through the Messiah Yeshua's trusting
faithfulness. Therefore, we too have put our trust
in Messiah Yeshua and become faithful to him, in
order that we might be declared righteous on the
ground of the Messiah's trusting faithfulness and
not on the ground of our legalistic observance of
Torah commands. For on the ground of legalistic
observance of Torah commands, no one will be
declared righteous. JNT
Galatians 3:15‑16
...Israel is being placed temporarily
in a condition less favored than that of the
Gentiles... JNT Romans 11:12
They answered him, "Our father is
Avraham.... Yeshua replied to them, "If God
were your Father, you would love me... Why
don't you understand what I'm saying? Because you
can't bear to listen to my message... Whoever
belongs to God listens to what God says; the reason
you don't listen is that you don't belong to God.
JNT Yochanan (John) 8:39, 42‑43, 46
The Lord
your God will raise up for you a prophet from among
your own people, like myself; him you shall heed....
Tanakh torah
Deuteronomy 18:15
And God himself continued:
"I will raise up a prophet for them from among their
own people, like yourself: I will put My words in
his mouth and he will speak to them all that I
command him; and if anybody fails to heed the
words he speaks in My name, I myself will
call him to account. Tanakh
torah
Deuteronomy 18:18‑19
Peter quoted the Torah saying
to the "Men of Israel:
"For Moses truly said to the fathers, The Lord
your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me
from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all
things, whatever He says to you. And it shall be
that every soul who will not hear that
Prophet [Jesus] shall be utterly destroyed
from among the people.' " NKJV Acts 3:22‑23
Paul "vigorously refuted the
Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that
Jesus is the Christ. Acts 18:28 NKJV
Various
televangelists who have made million running Holy
Land tours have adopted the curious false teaching
that the Jews can reject Jesus Christ and still be
saved. For years, Bob Enyart (Enyart.com) hosted a
nightly TV talk show that aired in 80 cities from
Honolulu to Orlando, mostly on Christian stations.
As the pastor of Denver Bible Church (.org), Enyart
observes that these evangelists and their staffs
work personally with Israeli government and tourism
officials and guides, and that by adopting this
false teaching, they feel relieved from their
obligation to share the gospel with these people who
desperately need Jesus Christ. Pray for Christians
to oppose this false doctrine, as it helps to
destroy the very people these televangelists profess
to love.
-Pastor Bob
Enyart
.Denver Bible
Church & KGOV.com
PO Box 583
Arvada CO 80001
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