“We believe the conversion of the Jews is key to the success of Christ’s Great Commission, and it is incumbent upon us to pray and labor toward that end. (1) While, apart from Christ, the Jews are as all others—alienated from God—they have remained an object of God’s care because the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. (2) God’s plan for converting them is for them to see Gentile nations under the blessings of Christ’s lordship, thus leading them to long for the same. (3) Hence, the cancerous sin of anti-Semitism has no place in God’s plan.” (4)
CREC – Knox Presbytery
December 1, 2022
1a.) This whole statement is based on a misinterpretation of Romans 11. Romans 11 was future to Paul but has been fulfilled and so is past to us. The conversion of those who are (wrongly) referred to as “Jews” has nothing to do with the success of Christ’s great commission.
1b.) It is no more or less incumbent for Christian to labor and pray for the conversion of those who call themselves “Jews” then it is to labor and pray for the conversion of any other ethnic people group.
1c.) If the conversion of Jews as a people is “key to the success of Christ’s Great Commission” it would logically imply that Jews must continue to exist as a coherent and distinct people group. The eschatology offered here demands “Kinism” for Jews, right? And yet Doug Wilson continues to derisively refers to those who champion the Ordo Amoris as “skinists.” To be “saved” as a people necessarily demands existing as a people. Given Doug Wilson’s proud proclamation of the Jewishness of his own family this sentence in this proposal sounds vainglorious.
1d.) To say that conversion of the Jews is ‘key to the success of the great commission’ would mean the great commission is a failure until those that call themselves “Jews” are converted is absurd. Further to hang the success of the conversion of all nations on them as if it didn’t hang on the conversion of other nations just as much makes nonsense of the whole question.
2a.) God converted the Jewish Israel of God by AD 70.
2b.) God divorced Israel in AD 70. There remains no special relationship between what is now called “Israel” and the God of the Bible. This divorce was promised in the OT;
2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the Lord said to me:
“The end has come upon My people Israel;
I will not pass by them anymore. (Amos 8:2)
“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord. Amos 9:8
And the coming dismissal of Christ hating Israel as God’s chosen people for their sin of rejecting their Messiah was made clear in the NT; Luke 13:1-8, Mark 11:12-25, Matthew 21:37-43. Finally, in AD 70 with the Judgment coming of Jesus against Israel, Israel as a nation which had previously served as the chosen people of God was served divorce papers. The ruination of Jerusalem and the Jewish abomination Temple were destroyed by the Roman armies of Vespasian and Titus. According to Josephus 1million Jews were slaughtered. This was God’s final word regarding National Israel. God may and does still call individual Jews but as a nation God is done with them. God is done with Israel as a nation or people. Now any Gentile nation that God calls and which then covenants with God can be one national expression of God’s people as long as they own the graciousness of grace and then walk increasingly but never perfectly in terms of obedience to God’s gracious Law-Word.
2c.) Then there is the whole issue of whether or not those currently referred to as Jews are indeed Jews. Israel itself has passed laws making it extraordinarily difficult for the “Jewish” inhabitants of Israel to do DNA testing in order to determine ethnic heritage. Could that be due to the fact that they don’t want the hoi polloi to know that they are not really ethnically “Jewish?” The fact of the matter is that the Palestinians have more Jewish blood in them then the Khazars, Edomites, Khazars, Turks, etc. who call themselves “Jews” now living in Israel.
3.) Fulfilled by AD 70.
4.) We really need a definition of the “cancerous sin of anti-Semitism” before we can comment much on this statement. Currently, anti-Semitism often seems to be defined as “disagreeing with a Jew.” In point of fact, per the CREC, I’m pretty sure this whole post is “anti-Semitic.”
There are two major points here.
1.) Modern day Jews in Israel are not likely even Jews
2.) Even if they are Jews the Scripture does not allow us to think that they, as in their unconverted Christ hating state, are still God’s chosen people, since God divorced them as a people in AD 70 — consistent with the statements of Scripture.
God divorced them fully in ad 70. But really divorced them in the time Jeremiah, when the Spirit departed the temple. The ark also wasnt in the temple for the last 200 years of their existence.
They had to keep killing the scapegoat by pushing it off a cliff because it kept returning from
the desert. The scarlet thread never turned white again, and the doors to the temple opened by God
every night after being closed.
The only reason God preserved their false worship was to bring in the seed Christ.
The true jew is the one that believes by faith that Christ is God. These are the sons of Abraham. It is the
child of the Spirit not the flesh as the allegory of Sarai and Hagar clearly teaches.
Salvation is not and never was about ethnicity, but faith.
We have the Kingdom of God, it has been given to the saints of the Most High. But all this jew worship of our arch enemy and their funny money system has hijacked the Kingdom temporarily.
But we have the promise, the only unfulfilled fully promise that to the increase of His government there will be no end.
Well said brother.
Thank you Rev. Roberts
Schiller … distinguishes with sure instinct (without knowledge of the closer connections) between the “unworthiness and baseness of the nation” and the “services of its law-giver [Moses]”. He calls the Jews an “impure and vile container”, in which, however, something precious was stored which could later ripen “in brighter mind”; an “impure canal” through which the noblest of all goods, the truth, was brought to us; which, “however, broke as soon as it performed what it was supposed to.” p. 137.
Alfred Rosenberg, ‘The Jews’ Trail through the Ages’