{"id":332,"date":"2017-04-26T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjaa.org.au\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-05-29T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T07:01:27","slug":"christian-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjaa.org.au\/he\/christian-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Christian Antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on Jewish Roots: A Foundation of Biblical Theology for Messianic Judaism <\/em>by Mr Daniel Juster (Rockville, Maryland: Davar Publishing Co., 1986, p. 141-148). \u00a0 Daniel Juster is a graduate of Wheaton College and McCormick Theological Seminary. He has pastored messianic congregations, taught in various colleges, written many books and served as the President of the Union of Messianic Congregations (1979-86). Currently he is the <\/strong> Executive Director of Tikkun International<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order to make my fellow Jews jealous and save some of them\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Romans 11:11-14<\/span><\/p>\n

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H<\/strong><\/span>ere we read the wonderful directive of God through Paul-that Jewish people see the riches of the Gospel in the lives of non-Jews and be moved to jealously because of the reality of a life and love so manifest. By this jealousy, they would turn to the Messiah and receive Him.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the history of the Church hardly fulfilled this mission.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after the Jewish apostles died, leadership of the Church was transferred to people who had no great respect for Jews or Judaism. Rather than seeing Jewish people as erring brethren to whom they were indebted for the gifts of Scripture, the Messiah and Old Testament saints, the Jewish people were looked upon as reprobates hated by God. Sentiment expressed against some Jewish leaders by Jewish followers of Yeshua was used by later non-Jewish leaders as an indictment of all Jewish people.<\/p>\n

The Epistle of Barnabas, from the end of the first century, reflects this negative attitude and applies it to Jewish practices as well. As H. L. Ellison put it, \u201cAlready the so-called Epistle of Barnabas, which may go back to the last decade of the first century, uses such language about Jews, Judaism and the Law, as to make any effective contact between the two sides virtually impossible. As soon as it had the power, the Church did its utmost to defeat God\u2019s purpose. It persecuted and bullied, thereby automatically putting itself in the wrong. It spread the vilest calumnies about the Jews.\u201d(1)<\/sup><\/a><\/a> Ellison, H. L., The Mystery of Israel<\/em>, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1966, 82ff.<\/span><\/span>