Interview with Dr. Barry Horner.. Relationship of gentiles and Jews are mentioned in Romans 11: 28. Why is this such an important verse? God has not given up on unbelieving Israel from a covenant perspective. The Jewish people are beloved. Based on the covenant and God’s choice. Pure Grace!
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To hate the Jews is to hate the God of the Jews. This emerges clearly from the psalmist’s loud lament to Heaven, out of the depths of the misery of the Jewish people: “O God, do You not see it all? (more…)
The Land of Israel….What does the word eternal mean? Eternal means eternal, everlasting, forever. That covenant is still valid today. But what was the content of this everlasting covenant? (more…)
The promise to Abraham and his seed. When God calls Abram, He orders him to go the land that He would show him. That land was Canaan (Gen. 12:1). Once there, God gives him a promise: ‘This land I will give to you and your descendants’ (verse 7). (more…)
The Sh’ma is perhaps the best known Jewish prayer: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord alone!” (6:4) Actually it is not a prayer but constitutes the central Jewish confession of faith whereby, just as in the Islam’s central confession of faith the unicity of God is declared, as revealed to Moses, as against the notion of Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) held by the Christians. (more…)
