Provoking Israel to Jealousy Through Yeshua

Regarding Romans 11 and provoking the Jewish people to jealousy: I hear all the time that Paul is the apostle to the Gentiles, and certainly he was. And he explicitly tells us in Romans 11 to make the Jewish people jealous. But we are not making them jealous by worshiping according to man-made traditions, because they cannot see their Jewish Messiah in those traditions. I can't see it in those traditions anymore either, so how could they?

When Jewish people who are studying Torah think of Christianity, they think of the Roman Jesus. They think of the Crusades and the persecution that came under that banner. Terminology matters. True worship matters. They are not jealous over Easter. They are not jealous over Christmas. But when their eyes are opened to Passover — the very time He was crucified — they begin to see something. When they understand that He rose on the Feast of Firstfruits, because He is the firstfruits, that connects. When you speak to them about the Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant, the New Covenant, the Seed of David, the Seed of Abraham — their eyebrows go up. Their eyes open a little.

Yeshua did not come to start a new religion. He did not come to found Christianity. He came to fulfill the Torah and the prophets, just as He Himself declared in Matthew 5:17–20. He did not come to abolish; He came to fulfill and to establish them on this earth, just as He will establish them in the millennial Kingdom. He came to fulfill Passover. He came to fulfill the Sabbath. He came to fulfill the Feast of Trumpets at the Second Coming, Yom Kippur, and Tabernacles. He did not come to be worshiped on a pagan Easter or Christmas. That is simply biblical.

We have to put Yeshua back into His original intent and context — a fully Jewish man, seed of David, one hundred percent Jewish King of Israel, who will return and reign on David's everlasting Jewish throne in Jewish Jerusalem, in the Jewish land of Israel. A Jew will rule the world, and that will be Yeshua. The scriptures state this plainly and clearly. He did not come to start a new religion or a new philosophy or new ways of worship. He came to fulfill what He Himself had spoken through Moses, through the prophets, through the Psalms, and through the New Testament writers. The fact that He is the Word made flesh — that He quoted the word He gave to Moses, to the prophets, to the psalmists, and then came to fulfill all of it — is utterly amazing.