THE BATTLE FOR YESHUA’S IDENTITY TODAY:

THE “RESTORATION” OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM

…Until today.

Now, in our generation, at the end of the end times, Messianic Judaism has made a sudden explosive comeback, almost as if out of nowhere.

But it is not out of nowhere. Messianism’s resurgence is directly connected to the Isaiah 43:8 rise of the State of Israel. In the first treatise, we saw how modern Israel’s re-establishment is actually a restaging of historic Israel’s state of unbelief at the time Yeshua first came.

What we want to see in this treatise is that Messianic Judaism’s resurgence is part of that unbelieving re-enactment. Just as Israel has been “restored” to its cohesive state of unbelief, so has Messianic Judaism been “restored” in its singularly unbelieving human vision of Yeshua. (Shared unbelief is in fact what explains the great affinity between Messianic believers and the State of Israel.)

          - A Conflict Re-ignited

And so also therefore, just as modern Israel’s contention with the nations under unbelief has been “restored,” so has Messianism’s conflict with the pure New Testament faith and the larger Gentile-origined body of Christ been reignited under unbelief.

- Addressing Reborn Immature Messianics

There are three broad camps of Messianics today just as there were in the early church. There are “pre-born” Messianics who have never come to a true spiritual knowledge of Yeshua though they are devoted to Him humanly. These are akin to those who “believed” in Yeshua during His ministry, but only so far as it “filled their stomachs.”

Then there are truly spirit-reborn but immature Messianics whose growth in Yeshua is hindered by their continuing human vision and devotion to Him. These simply believe the New Covenant must be reconstructively restored to the Jewish legal heritage, though not for salvation. They occupy the seat of Peter before he had matured in his transcendent vision, and of James who never matured into transcendence.

The third camp comprises the poisonous damnable Messianics whose attachment to Yeshua’s humanity is such that they believe reconnection of the New Covenant to the Jewish legal heritage is mandatory for salvation. These occupy the seat of the pharisaic Messianics that fought Paul and intimidated the immature reborn Messianic apostles under their influence in Jerusalem.

Going forward, this treatise is addressed only to the arguments of the sincere but religiously deceived, immature, reborn Messianics for the purpose of perfecting their faith. (It may incidentally speak to pre-born Messianics who have not truly come to a saving surrendered spiritual knowledge of Yeshua, though they think they have.) But it is not written to contend with Pharisees.

- The “Mary Veil:” Recapitulating Messianism’s View of Yeshua and the New Covenant

Messianism’s underlying theme is the importance of that which is born of the flesh. It attaches that importance to its view of Yeshua, whom Messianics see as uniquely “one of their own.” As we’ve seen, this human attachment to Yeshua has everything to do with Messianism’s devotion to the Mosaic Law and Jewish culture. It’s not possible to understand Messianism’s difficulty relating to the Gentile origined church without grasping this.

In theory, the love for Yeshua/Jesus by all believers should bring harmony to the whole body of Christ. But it brings only limited harmony between Messianic and non-Messianic believers because each sees Yeshua through different eyes. Specifically, each sees Yeshua through the eyes of His different parents, parents who are from different worlds. Where pure New Covenant believers see Yeshua only through the eyes of His heavenly Father, Messianics see Him primarily through the eyes of His earthly mother.

Due to their proximity to Yeshua by human lineage, Messianics are “too close” to Yeshua naturally to see Him as the Father (and the rest of the spiritual non-Messianic church) sees Him. That human closeness veils their vision of Him, just as it did James and those remaining under the Jerusalem cloud. They see Yeshua’s eternal Sonship only within the “womb” of their familial devotion to Him, subjecting all sense of His divinity to His humanity. Messianics essentially see Yeshua as Mary saw Him before the “sword” that “divides soul from spirit” had “pierced her own soul” and she had to realize He was no longer “hers.” 

·        The New Covenant as “Wayward Child”

Seeing Yeshua “through His mother’s eyes” explains why Messianics see the New Covenant as “born from” and still intricately connected to the Jewish legal covenantal heritage. They don’t recognize the separated transcendence of covenant Yeshua effected when He was fully declared the Son of God, born from the dead (Rom. 1:4)—forever leaving behind His human identity rooted in Judaism.

But founded only on Yeshua’s rebirth from the dead, the New Covenant did not come out of the “womb” of the Old Covenant. It was born with Yeshua out of the womb of the grave of His own “death to the Law.” It was born at the place where Yeshua died to His mother—there to become its own self-standing heavenly-origined Covenant, unfettered to the old, bringing forth a new Life descended only from God, not even partly from man under the Law.

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