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“So you’re a real ethnic Jew ya say?”

The following is my response to a guy who was all about, “I’m a real ethnic Jew from this tribe with a real ethnic Jew name that makes me a Cohen priestly class and DNA this and Jewish history that!” Here’s my comment…

I’m born again by God and baptized with the Holy Spirit by God for 40 years now. I’ve built on the only solid foundation – which is Jesus crucified and him giving his biological blood and biological body sacrifice on the cross in order to purchase the Church (Bride, Wife, Body) in full on the cross.

Paul said that a Jew in the first century was not one who was a genealogical Jew with a literal circumcision in the flesh, but one who was circumcised in heart and one who truly followed after Abraham and Moses – both who pointed to Jesus.

In my 40 years of personal study, I’ve come to clearly see that the Old Testament nation of Israel was cut off and destroyed from Earth in AD 70. When I interpret both Old and New Testament prophecy concerning the Old Testament ethnic-religious nation of Israel, I see that their temple being destroyed on the 9th of Av (August 3 and 4) of AD 70 was the moment this nation was cut off from Earth. I see this as taking place in God’s accounting and reckoning – so some ethnic Jews surviving past Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70 is inconsequential.

So here’s the thing… You and others can go on and on about saying you’re genuine Jews out from this destroyed nation. I get it. It’s what you all believe. But I’m telling you what I believe, and it’s obviously not the same thing!

The animal sacrifice in the garden in Eden pointed to Jesus. Abraham pointed to Jesus. Moses pointed to Jesus. But the Jews in the first century crucified their messiah. They missed their time of literal visitation, and it was prophesied that destruction would happen in their generation.

See… When I interpret prophecy in the Bible, I clearly see that the Old Testament nation of Israel was completely cut off and destroyed from the Earth in AD 70. This conclusion I’ve got is after 40 years of personal study in the Bible with being personally born again by God. I don’t reject what the first century Jews rejected – which is the biological blood and biological body sacrifice of Jesus on the cross in order to purchase the Church (Bride, Wife, Body) in full on the cross.

Here’s the thing… THIS IS MY INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE!

THIS IS MY INTERPRETATION OF PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE!

I FIRMLY BELIEVE that the Old Testament nation of Israel was completely cut off and destroyed from Earth in AD 70 according to God’s accounting and reckoning.

So nobody is going to tell me to believe the Bible otherwise because they interpret things differently.

I’ve got 40 years of building on the only solid foundation – which is Jesus crucified on the cross in AD 31 in order to address the Adamic death problem and to purchase the Church in full with his biological blood and body sacrifice.

The first century Jews found this – and the fact that Jesus was saying that he was God in the flesh – to be radically scandalous! They both wanted him dead and they got him dead. But he rose out from among the dead ones in Sheol on the third day!

The Old Testament nation of Israel blew it in the first century. She was “Babylon” in John’s Revelation. She was divorced from God on the cross when Jesus was betrothed to his Bride (the Church) at this same time on the cross in AD 31. God didn’t have two brides or two wives at the same time! Daniel’s prophesied 490 years determined for Israel came to an end in AD 34 with Stephen getting killed by the Jews – and the Kingdom of God was then stripped from Israel and given to the Church. The only thing left after AD 34 was desolations and complete destruction – which took place in AD 70.

THIS IS MY INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE!

Frankly, I don’t care if others interpret it differently. I’m going with what I know after 40 years of personal study.

And nobody’s going to tell me, “You can’t believe like that!”

In God’s accounting and reckoning, he was completely done with the nation of Old Testament Israel on Earth in AD 70 when Jerusalem’s prophesied destruction took place by the Roman armies.

I’m not asking anybody to agree with me because everybody can interpret Scripture however they want – but I most assuredly am going to give a defense of what I believe and why I believe it. Nobody is going to say to me “You can’t believe THAT way because it’s just not acceptable!” Deal with it. Or not. But I’m still going with what I know after 40 years of personal study in the Bible. I’m not ashamed of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I will rip down when somebody is trying to sell me a false way of God’s salvation and redemption.

Matthew 23:34-38, “34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.”

Matthew 24:1-2, “1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

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