Much of today's evangelical Christianity teaches that Israel exclusively consists of the Jews. It is for this reason why many are expecting a pre-tribulation rapture escape to Heaven, while the Jews are left to "experience another holocaust." Others have claimed that the Jewish people are no longer important and have allowed the Church to usurp the blessings of "Israel."

The Scriptures more than adequately tell us that Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth was a Jew. The Messiah Himself said that "salvation is from the Jews" (John 4:22). Therefore, anti-Semitism in the "name of Christ" and any demeaning of the Jewish people are entirely unwarranted. Did not Yeshua tell us He would tell the one who treated His brethren, the Jews, with malice: "Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41)?

The House of Judah or today's Jewish people remain a very critical component in the prophesied restoration of the Kingdom of Israel. The Apostle Paul writes that the majority of the Jewish people have been blinded to salvation in Messiah Yeshua, so that "by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them [the Jews] to jealousy" (Romans 11:11, YLT). This means that a Jewish person must see the evidence of the Jewish Messiah so evident in the non-Jewish Believer, that he or she too will want to have faith in Him. Unfortunately, this may not occur fully until non-Jewish Believers fully discard concepts such as dispensationalism and the premise that "the Tribulation is for the Jews," or replacement theology where the Church replaces the position of Israel in God's economy.

Because of these, and other factors, many Jewish Believers today have problems with the restoration message of all Israel. This section addresses how non-Jewish Believers can treat the Jewish people with proper respect and honor in this time of restoration.

Chanukah for the Two Houses of Israel
by J.K. McKee

posted 01 December, 2003

The Ephraimite Error: Critical Errors
by J.K. McKee

posted 15 November, 2002

The Proper Protocol
by J.K. McKee

posted 01 March, 2005

Purim for the Two Houses of Israel
by J.K. McKee

posted 07 December, 2005

You Want to Be a Pharisee
by J.K. McKee

posted 22 March, 2005

Why Messianic Judaism Does Not Want
to Address the Two-House Teaching
by J.K. McKee

posted 01 March, 2008