[QUOTE=1still_waters;962048]I'm confused can you be more direct? Please answer each.
1.Can a Jew be quickened by the Spirit even if they reject Jesus as Messiah?
2.Are unbelieving Jews saved?
3. Are Jews who are quickened by the spirit, but who still rejects Jesus, saved?[/QUOTE]
I am not trying to obfuscate, brother, I could honestly answer NO to all three questions as they are written, but you want to know what I actually believe and that can’t be said in 25 words or less. We certainly agree on one foundational truth, that there is no salvation outside of the Cross of the Lord Jesus.
1. Can a Jew be quickened by the Spirit even if they reject Jesus as Messiah?
A Jew cannot reject what he has been sovereignly prevented from seeing, Romans 11:8 states: “according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.” That is what I was trying to get across through Rabbi Isadore Zwern’s testimony. I spoke with that beloved brother about 20 years ago and he told me, “I have been dedicated to G-d since childhood. I was raised to be a rabbi and have been aware of the presence of the Kodesh Ruach (the Holy Spirit) all my life.” Now the Holy Spirit does not indwell the hearts of those who do not belong to G-d, so unless Rabbi Zwern was lying through his teeth, I had to conclude that it was possible for Jews during the Christian era to be saved without recognizing Yeshua as Messiah. I now have a host of Biblical and anecdotal evidence to support that conclusion.
2. Are unbelieving Jews saved?
Of course not, but neither Jew or Gentile is saved by the amount of doctrinal head knowledge he has. As the Lord said to Samuel, “man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh upon the heart.” Then to Micah, “what is required of a man, but to do justice and love mercy and walk humbly with his God.” My doctrine used to be so orthodox that you could have buried me with a post-hole digger, but then, reality hit me in the face like a sledgehammer. Over in the holy land is a little country called Israel, established in 1948, Jerusalem freed of Gentile domination in 1967. Those two events fulfill more Bible prophecy than anything else that’s happened since the Cross. Today, thousands of Jews go to the Wailing Wall with prayer shawls and yarmulkes on, imploring G-d to send Messiah quickly to save Israel. And who might their Messiah be? The same wonderful Lord Jesus you and I serve.
3. Are Jews who are quickened by the spirit, but who still rejects Jesus, saved?
It is impossible for a Jew to reject what he has been sovereignly prevented from seeing! But we then have to ask, why did our heavenly Father blind His chosen people to the Gospel? Because God honors his own word! To whit: “Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall everything be established.” According to Revelation in 11:3- 4, the two witnesses are “two olive trees and two candlesticks that stand before the God of the earth.” From Revelation 1:20, candlesticks are churches, ergo: the two witnesses are two groups of “called out ones” that witness to the glory and majesty of sovereign God during the Christian era. Then Romans 11:24-25, 11:28-29 show the two olive trees to be the Jewish people and the Gentile church. If God had not kept His chosen people separate from the Gentiles, the Jews would have been absorbed into the church and they would have ceased to exist as a separate entity. Unbelievably important because without two witnesses, all the Bible prophecies about the restoration of Israel to the land could never have been fulfilled.