Be prepared for another slew of posts people. Cause this is how my time works right now. I have no time whatsoever to do anything except eat and sleep (and do whatever happens to be occupying me) for a couple of days to a week and then suddenly, i have a lot of time for like 1-2 days. Sooo, I have time now...
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As I was just reading Acts last week (I made it my goal to read it through once because of recent events), I stumbled across something that I thought was curious and looked it up in wikipedia. I then looked at the external links of the wikipedia article and stumbled across this site: http://jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
I had never seen it nor heard of it before. The article that I had been reading about was a king so the encyclopedia was helpful...however, since it was a Jewish encyclopedia (and a greatly respected [in the world's eye] encyclopedia I might add...all the editors and article writers are professors at some prestigious university with doctorate degrees), I was greatly curious as to what it would say about Paul and Jesus...for it would verify, to me, if they were messianic Jews or if they were devout Jews to the Judaic faith. It turns out that they are very devout Jews to the Judaic faith. For people who find this interesting, look up Saul of Tarsus or Jesus (of course, feel free to look up anything else but the article on Saul makes their stance as Jews the most clear).
It's sad but interesting in a way...sad that they know the Christianity and the scriptures so well and yet are so blind to the truth.
But faith and the gospel will go back to Jerusalem and the Jews. I know that the Lord has not forgotten the Jews: "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not think you are superior: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in" (Rom 11:25). So revival for the Jews is coming soon.
I love that scripture its in Romans I think I'm not sure. I love that passage so much becasue it is very true and at times it puts me in check, b/c it is with the salvation of the Jews that our joy is complete, it's really profound. I miss you Jess!!!!!!:( We need to find a time to talk!!!
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