Jewish People Do Not Need Jesus for Salvation Tere is a false doctrine called Dual Covenant Teology, which teaches that Jewish People have a separate path to God through the Mosaic and Abrahamic Covenants. Tis developed aſter the Holocaust by Christians who thought the Jews had suffered enough, they need to be accepted and affirmed. Although well meaning, it’s a very dangerous lie.
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As I was growing up, whenever someone tried to share the Gospel with me, my first response was always, “I’m Jewish,” and I always received an apology. What these well-meaning, born-again, evangelical Christians were doing was reinforcing the lie that Jesus was not for the Jews.
Yet, Romans 1:16 is clear that the Gospel is to the Jew first. Paul cried out in Romans 9:1-4 that he would give up his own salvation for the sake of his own brethren, the Jews.
Jesus Himself said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
And we have the declaration in Acts 4:12: “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved,” making it clear that salvation is through Yeshua alone, for all— Jew and Gentile alike.
The Jewish Identity of Jesus Is Meaningless Because He’s a Spirit Some look at Yeshua as having transcended or finished with His earthly identity, seeing Him only as spirit, therefore believing His Jewish identity to be irrelevant. However, His work is not finished. According to Mathew 23:39, Yeshua must return, but not until the Jews recognize Him as King, Messiah of Israel, saying, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”
In Revelation 5, we see an amazing picture of Yeshua even before He returns, retaining His Jewish identity as He reigns in majesty in Heaven. He is proclaimed “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,” and “a Lamb” (Revelation 5:5-6). John is looking at his heavenly vision and weeping because no one is worthy to open the scroll, and the elder identifies Yeshua as the One who is worthy—the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Yeshua the Jew! John looks and sees Him as the Lamb of God!
Not only do we see a recognizable connection with His Jewish heritage, but we also see a beautiful picture of Yeshua’s first coming as the Lamb of God who takes away your sin so that you may be prepared for His soon return as the Lion of Judah when Israel cries out, “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!”
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