Comments on: Applying Messiah’s Kingdom Parables, Part 2 http://yeshuaincontext.com/2012/05/applying-messiahs-kingdom-parables-part-2/ The Life and Times of Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: benicho http://yeshuaincontext.com/2012/05/applying-messiahs-kingdom-parables-part-2/#comment-11108 benicho Fri, 11 May 2012 20:29:20 +0000 http://yeshuaincontext.com/?p=744#comment-11108 "The easiest criticism of Yeshua is that his message was so little heeded. If he was Messiah, or even a true prophet, why didn’t he bring about the renewal of Israel?" Paul: "I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!"... Paul: "For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in." It's interesting to see in hindsight how Gd planned to bring a renewal to Israel all while bringing gentiles into the understanding so that they may be saved, too. "Why wasn’t the earth redeemed? Why didn’t the world to come start in his day?" Yeshua (Gospel of Thomas quote) "Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary."... Yeshua (Gospel of Thomas quote) "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot become a disciple to me. And whoever does not hate his brothers and sisters and take up his cross in my way will not be worthy of me." Yeshua, like HaShem, is looking for people who want to dwell with Him more than they want to breathe. "Where is the messianic redemption with all the promises of every person under their vine and fig tree?" Yeshua was training disciples in Israel to bring in the gentiles, it would lead to the conflict that we see between Jewish followers of Yeshua and their brothers who weren't followers. Whoever preferred to side with their family rather than believe the Messiah were not worthy to be followers, we know that Yeshua employed this technique on many occasions (that I can think of off the top of my head), they can be learned here: "Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day .... On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” The ones who accepted and understood it will be called greatest in the kingdom because they rejected their brothers in order to follow the difficult teachings out of faith. Sorry for the long post. “The easiest criticism of Yeshua is that his message was so little heeded. If he was Messiah, or even a true prophet, why didn’t he bring about the renewal of Israel?”

Paul:
“I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!”…

Paul:
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”

It’s interesting to see in hindsight how Gd planned to bring a renewal to Israel all while bringing gentiles into the understanding so that they may be saved, too.

“Why wasn’t the earth redeemed? Why didn’t the world to come start in his day?”

Yeshua (Gospel of Thomas quote)
“Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary.”…

Yeshua (Gospel of Thomas quote)
“Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot become a disciple to me. And whoever does not hate his brothers and sisters and take up his cross in my way will not be worthy of me.”

Yeshua, like HaShem, is looking for people who want to dwell with Him more than they want to breathe.

“Where is the messianic redemption with all the promises of every person under their vine and fig tree?”

Yeshua was training disciples in Israel to bring in the gentiles, it would lead to the conflict that we see between Jewish followers of Yeshua and their brothers who weren’t followers. Whoever preferred to side with their family rather than believe the Messiah were not worthy to be followers, we know that Yeshua employed this technique on many occasions (that I can think of off the top of my head), they can be learned here:

“Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

“Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day …. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”

The ones who accepted and understood it will be called greatest in the kingdom because they rejected their brothers in order to follow the difficult teachings out of faith.

Sorry for the long post.

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