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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Was Jesus Christ Jew?


Shalom! When Jesus Christ came the Earth and lived in the world, He had religion? If yes, which was the religion of Jesus Christ? We go to look in the scriptures, Mathew 1: 1-17:
This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,
Perez the father of Hezron,
Hezron the father of Ram,
Ram the father of Amminadab,
Amminadab the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon the father of Salmon,
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,
Solomon the father of Rehoboam,
Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
Abijah the father of Asa,
Asa the father of Jehoshaphat,
Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram,
Jehoram the father of Uzziah,
Uzziah the father of Jotham,
Jotham the father of Ahaz,
Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
Hezekiah the father of Manasseh,
Manasseh the father of Amon,
Amon the father of Josiah,
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
After the exile to Babylon:
Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
Zerubbabel the father of Abihud,
Abihud the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Azor,
Azor the father of Zadok,
Zadok the father of Akim,
Akim the father of Elihud,
Elihud the father of Eleazar,
Eleazar the father of Matthan,
Matthan the father of Jacob,
and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.
All these people that are part of the genealogy of Jesus Christ were Jews, then at least, Jesus Christ was born in a Jewish home, but He grew like Jew?  Luke 2: 40-52:
And the child (Jesus Christ) grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him. Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
As you see, Jesus Christ was polite as a Jew, but He continued being Jew, when He began the his ministery?  John 4: 1-10:
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
In the ministery of Jesus Christ, He remained being a Jew and continued being Jew to even in the crucifixion:
Mathew 27: 11, 29, 37:
Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
And then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.
Above his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Mark 15: 2, 9, 12, 18, 26:
“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.
And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!
The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Luke 23: 3, 37-38:
So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
And said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.” There was a written notice above him, which read: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
John 18: 33, 39; 19: 3, 21:
Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
And went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
For Jesus Christ to be called of "THE King of the Jews", He was necessary be first a true Jew. As you see here, Jesus Christ had religion and He was a Jew to his death, where had that fulfill with all of the requirements of Jew and lacked with nothing, and also guarded the Saturdays (not as the Pharisees).  Then, if Jesus Christ was a Jew, by that we are not Jews also? The answer is very simple, John 1: 1-13:
In the beginning was the Word (Jesus Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. "He came to that which was his own (The Jew People), but his own did not receive him." "Yet to all who did receive him (The Christian People), to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God"— "children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God."
As you are seeing here, Jesus Christ came for the Jews and Jew remained, but the Jews rejected Him, with that, rejected the Messiah that of Moses to Malaquias, foretold about Him.  But those that believed in Jesus Christ, received the right of will be called of Sons of God, not doing distinction Jew was been or not, then, any a that believed in Him, automatically were considered Son of God.  After the death and risen of Jesus Christ, was established a New Alliance, where any a would be able to belong and enter in this allience:
Jeremiah 31: 31-34:
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah. 
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to
them,
declares the LORD. 
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people. 
No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the LORD.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”

Hebrews 8: 8-12:
But God found fault with the people and said:
“The days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.
This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
We, the Christians, we are under the New Alliance, with that, we do not be able to be Jews, because that is part of the Old Alliance, that already finished with the death of Jesus Christ. Now, who believe in Jesus Christ, is in the New Alliance and will become Son of God for the always and by all eternity.  Jesus Christ blesses everybody, amen!

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