Christians are Christians, Jews are decidedly not Christian. So goes the understanding that has prevailed through nearly two thousand years of history. Messianic Jews call this a mistaken — and even anti-Scriptural — understanding. Historical and Biblical evidence demonstrates that following Yeshua was initially an entirely Jewish concept. Decades upon decades of persecution, division, and confused theology all contributed to the dichotomy between Jews and believers in Yeshua that many take for granted today.
Two thousand years ago Yeshua was a Jew living among Jewish people. After His death and resurrection, His following increased. From the book of Acts and other historical evidence, many believe that in the first century A.
Accordingly, the apostolic council in Acts 15 decided that non-Jews could follow Yeshua without converting to Judaism. As the Czech team sings that Jesus is "alive" and "our clear deliverer, our savior," that they "desire you, we long for you," a young woman dancing in the center of the room lays a purple flag emblazoned with a crown, which reads, "King Yeshua," on the floor. As the singing, dancing, and speaking in tongues continues, another woman lays an Israeli flag alongside it.
In a promotional video , Ridings says, "There are many prophetic locations" in Jerusalem that "need to be covered in prayer," specifically the Temple Mount, where a worship team prays weekly at the "place that God has said is the footstool of His throne upon the earth. Succat Hallel also has a prayer room in the City of David but its location is kept closely guarded, I'm told by women who keep "watches" at Succat Hallel.
They think they're preparing to worship like in David's time, with their harps -- and with their devotion to Christ. Berger told me that after the war, "many Jews began to receive the revelation of Jesus. Christ Church is affiliated with the group Church's Ministry Among the Jewish People, or CMJ, which describes its mission as "to equip local congregations to share the transforming love of Messiah Jesus with their Jewish friends and neighbors.
I met Berger in the church's courtyard, a tranquil oasis from the crowds of the Old City, with outdoor seating for its coffee shop. It's a gathering spot for missionaries, where I also met Christians from the U.
In Tel Aviv, a more secular city, the activities of Messianic Jews are a little less clandestine, but still masked. In the northern port city of Akko, Harvest of Asher, a congregation of about 20 families, is located in a warehouse area between an eyeglass factory and an auto repair shop. Its leader, Guy Cohen, who is Israeli-born, married an Estonian immigrant who told me she was already a believer in Jesus when she arrived in Israel. Cohen travels to the United States twice a year to raise money from churches for his project.
His ministry is named for the Tribe of Asher, which, in the Book of Judges, stood to inherit Akko but failed to conquer it. Cohen seems to want nothing short of remedying that biblical failure by bringing Jesus to Akko's citizens.
He takes me up to the roof of the building, with its degree view, including of Akko's Old City, a UNESCO world heritage site that preserves Crusader and Ottoman-era fortifications and architecture. It has been conquered by Alexander the Great, Arabs, Crusaders, and Ottomans, and seized by Israel in ; the most holy site for Baha'i faith is also located near Akko.
Cohen revels in his city's tumultuous religious history, and sees a role for himself in its religious future, in correcting his fellow citizens mistakes.
Israel, he said, has "forsaken its covenant with God. The "love of Yeshua, the love of the Lord," he added, will "bring repentance to all this area. So for Messianic Jews, how does this all end?
Although they often talk about love, their end-times theories are catastrophically violent. Speaking in at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City on which Succat Hallel on Mount Zion is modeled , Intrater said, "there is no doubt" that before Jesus's return "all the nations of the world will be gathered in an attack against the nation of Israel, particularly with Jerusalem at the center of it.
There is also a debate over whether egg matzo is allowed. While clearly being verboten for the Passover seder another Torah passage states that only the flour and water version may be used during the ritual , eating egg matzo during the rest of the week is left up to the observant.
The New York Times had a good wrap-up of the quinoa loophole, which is rather ingenious. Ashkenazic rabbis never had the chance to exclude it from the holiday, and so by default it became kosher for Passover. Now concerns are being raised over whether the manufacturing process is clean of any of the banned grains. The Orthodox Union, the authority on such matters, has declared quinoa allowable for consumption during the holiday.
The story of how they came to that decision, from NPR:. Another plus for quinoa, says Elefant: "Many rabbis are of the opinion that anything that wasn't part of the original custom is not included in the custom. All that was left for the rabbis was inspection of factories that package quinoa to see if forbidden grains are processed on the same equipment that processes it. And some passed. Those factories that got the all-clear now produce quinoa that will bear the OU-P symbol, meaning they're kosher for Passover.
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