The prayer Column 

Disbelieving Jews

 

Reader:

Many Gentile Christians believe they are at the end of the church age. They believe the greatest prophetic event in history, the rapture of the church, is that one final event. Is this what you believe? What is that remaining prophetic event unfulfilled?

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The Prayer Column:

His words are clear: “Blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved…” (Romans 11:25b–26a).

Moses said—and Paul repeats—“They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; they have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation” (Deuteronomy 32:21; Romans 10:19).

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Reader:

Who is “not a nation” and “a foolish nation”?

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The Prayer Column:

“Not a nation” and “a foolish nation” may well apply to any nation of Moses’ day not observing God’s commands, statutes, and covenants. By the way Paul uses this text, we might argue that, by application, the United States fits a nation that is not a nation—the USA is not a single ethnic people group, therefore not a nation.

Have we not observed the direction that the liberal movements and the federal government have been taking the United States? We may now qualify as “a foolish nation”—one that is practicing less and less allegiance to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Reader:

Why would that provoke Israel?

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The Prayer Column:

The Bible claims revealed in the Tabernacle book have their roots in the Gentile camp. Our view, albeit from a sliver group of evangelicals, has brought these views into the Protestant Christian community. You can see how this might make the various Jewish communities angry and jealous of what we now possess (a working tabernacle) out of their own past.

Very long ago the Jewish race established, by its types, a relationship with God. They had, more or less, under their command God’s vessel for moving close to Him upon a spiritual sea, the tabernacle/temple. After Titus destroyed the temple and temple worship in AD 70, most Jews believed they had lost the atoning instrument of mercy, and thus they have been floundering for centuries for a way back to God. God, the designer of this vessel, has taken back control and turned the helm over to Christian believers who have been sealed with the blood of the Holy Christ.

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Reader:

Then what remains?

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The Prayer Column:

The way to God continues to be by way of blood sacrifice, no longer a type but a truth in fact. “According to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22). The understanding and the proclaiming of these truths removes our last prophetic obstacle.

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins” (Romans 11:26–27).

Jesus Christ is come into believers by Holy blood smeared upon Jews, Gentile Protestants, and Catholics alike. When Jesus Christ shed His blood for our sin, by anticipation, God allowed the old covenant and tabernacle/temple worship to continue simultaneous with His new covenant from Christ’s death until AD 70, when it finally ceased. The New Covenant replaced daily animal sacrifice upon a man-made altar while continuing to apply God’s sacrifice upon the altar not made with hands. Our hearts are His throne room; therefore prophecy is fulfilled concerning “the throne of His Kingdom forever” (2 Samuel 7:12–13; Acts 15:16–17).

“This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak with you” (Exodus 29:42).

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Reader: What about rabbinical prayer?

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The Prayer Column:

Because “no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6), the rabbinical prayers for atoning of sin—the Amidah—are never acknowledged by God. The sad reality is that most of our Jewish friends do not understand this truth. If they would read and study these key elements in the Old Testament and the New Testament, they would find truth. Though they call out to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He will not turn toward them apart from Jesus Christ.

That is the remaining prophetic event: “all Israel will be saved.”

Would you like to accept Jesus Christ and His gift of Salvation?