Perhaps I should elaborate on my response. You are owed that to some degree.
Jesus Christ is a Jew in the purest sense of the word when fully translated. You do not know this.
He is King of the Jews; again, here Jews according to the true meaing of Jew or Judah from the lips of Leah.
We are all joined to Israel and fellow heirs accofding to Paul.
My earnest desire is to pass on the teaching of a Jew, Jesus Christ, and I always make His teaching my reference because
God has invited us all to learn of Him because His yoke is eay and His burden is light.
Jesus was called Yeshua by friends and family which may be translated fully "The Redeemer of God." That is the meaning.
You do not understand that we are by translation, Jews, simply because we Praise God, not because we have a certain bloodline, excepting the Blood of the Lamb of God.
Appasrently you do not want to be a praiser of Yahweh, God. You prefer some obscure teaching OSAS which is farthest from the teaching of Paul or Jesus.
Now if all the above is being aJudaizer, then I am proud to wer the label, but if you thing Ipasson teaching from Jesus Christ that dictates we are to be under the law, as you like to say, and we are sav ed by our own manifestations of works and not those of God, you either do notunderstand English or you ae deliberately attempting to assissinate the charater of all who know Jesus and His free gift.
Now, you want to pick and choose from this post and change its meaning, go ahead, you never stopped before.
This post just shows how incredibly blinkered you are!
New covenant believers are NOT, by translation, Jews!
Never, ever, ever!
Lets review some facts:
Yes, Jesus was born a Jew and lived like one during His life on earth.
Yes, He ministered almost exclusively to Jews during His lifetime on earth, in fact, the ones He was really ministering to was not really Jews as an ethnic group but rather a small select group of Jews.
Yes, when He was crucified, Herod ordered a plaque put on His cross with inscription "King of the Jews" in several languages.
However.....
Jesus Christ was both Lord and Creator of the heavens and the earth, and the creator of man BEFORE Jews ever existed!
The Abrahamic covenant, which is an eternal covenant, was never just about Jews.
Most Jews have no comprehension of this, and neither, it seems do you!
The Jewish nation was meant to be a facilitator of God's blessings to the nations (all the non-Jewish non-Israelite ethnicities) but with a couple of interesting exceptions it largely failed in this regard.
Ultimately, of course, Jesus Christ, born a Jew, was that blessing!
Was, Jesus' mission on earth misunderstood - you bet your boots it was!
Never mind all those who stood in opposition to Him - they had no interest in trying to figure it out - but His own specially called disciples spent most of their lives not really getting it!
Peter himself, is one most often mentioned, throughout the Gospels as well as through into the Acts of the Apostles, as well as several Epistles, Galatians is prominent in this regard for NOT understanding the larger purpose of the incarnation of Jesus Christ!
He definitely got the bits about Jesus mission to the Jews but never really fully got where the Gentiles fitted in...
After the day of Pentecost, now filled with the Holy Spirit, Peter and the rest get stuck into evangelising the Jews of Jerusalem, as well as those of the Diaspora who happened to be in Jerusalem at the time....
Weeks turn into months and no attempt is made to move from Jerusalem to "the nations".
Instead it takes mounting persecution, culminating in the murder of Stephen, before even SOME of the now Apostles eventually move to evangelise away from Jerusalem! Peter and James (the brother of Jesus) are noteworthy for seldom if ever leaving Jerusalem voluntarily!
Several very unsubtle object lessons, starting with his visions about unclean food with the subsequent interaction with Cornelius and culminating with him being publicly rebuked for hypocrisy by Paul, are required for Peter to really understand that not only are Gentiles NOT required to become Jews in order to be New covenant believers but that Jews themselves are not required to live as Jews as New covenant believers either!
It really took Saul of Tarsus, later named Paul, a Rabbi tutored by none other than Gamaliel, to understand and discern, with his deep knowledge, not only of the Torah, but of the prophets and the wisdom writings, that the New covenant was not limited to the Jewish nation and that the New covenant made no demand on believers to adopt Jewish laws and customs...
No JEWISH believer that I know (limited subset to be sure) regards themselves as bound by the Torah, and they all definitely understand that the New covenant makes absolutely no demands on Gentile believers to follow ANY Jewish laws or customs.
I understand that everything that I have written is completely unpalatable to you, and other Hebrew Roots acolytes, but the entire epistles of Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, as well as the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, with Acts chapter 15 detailing the Jerusalem Council as its centrepiece, and the epistle to the Hebrews, make it absolutely and unequivocally and bluntly clear that New covenant believers are not required to Jews in any way in oder to be New covenant believers!
Jesus Christ is not merely King of the Jews!
He is instead, properly, Lord of all creation, as well as, by standing invitation, the Saviour of all mankind!
Our access to Jesus Christ is by grace through faith, certainly NOT by trying to imitate any ethnic group, including the Jews!
And, the purpose of being a New covenant believer is NOT to become a Jew!
(Disclaimer: Hebrews Roots acolytes often invoke accusations of anti-Semitism in order to defend their beliefs against those who correctly refute them. Therefore I will make it publicly known that I am NOT as anti-Semite. I have known many thousands of Jews, and have befriended many in my lifetime - some were Messianic Jews and some were not. I went to a High School in South Africa where about 40% of the students were Jewish as well as a university that was swarming with Jewish students - especially in my faculty! My very best friend was a Messianic Jew! And he would agree with what I have written above..)
