Simple To Remember

It is simple to remember why Jews don't accept Jesus as the Messiah. Just check out Simpletoremember.com for the answer:

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jewsandjesus/

Hey You Went There, Too?!?

Most, if not almost all, Messianic "Jewish" leaders are ordained Christian pastors and ministers. Many have also attended Christian evangelical schools. For instance, here is a list of Messianic leaders who graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a school of the Evangelical Free Church of America:

Murray Tilles: Executive Director/Missionary of Light of Messiah Ministries

John Fischer: Leader of Congregation Ohr Chadash and Professor and Chairman of Department of Judaic Studies, St. Petersburg Theological Seminary (This is a Christian seminary)

Dan Juster: Co-founder of Tikkun Ministries and Director of The King's Jewish Voice (This is part of the Christian Pentecostal seminary, The King's University)

Michael Rydelnik: professor of Jewish Studies in the World Missions and Evangelism department at Moody Bible Institute

Jeffrey Feinberg: Leader of congregation Etz Chaim and faculty member for the Master's of Divinity degree with a concentration in Messianic Judaism at the Denver Seminary (This is a Christian seminary)

The following Messianic leaders are currently studying at or took some courses at Trinity:

Jhan Moskowitz: North American Director of Jews for Jesus

Wes Taber-Missionary for Life In Messiah/AMF International

Overall, real Jewish leaders do not attend Christian divinity schools.

On a sidebar, I've noticed that Dan Juster has taken to calling himself a "rabbi" recently. This is pretty interesting since Juster is not even Jewish.

Verses of Atonement: 2 Chronicles 7:14

This is the fifth part of a series on atonement. In case you missed the previous posts, here are links to them:

http://messianicjewish.blogspot.com/2010/08/verses-of-atonement-proverbs-166.html

http://messianicjewish.blogspot.com/2010/09/verses-of-atonement-isaiah-111-18.html

http://messianicjewish.blogspot.com/2010/09/verses-of-atonement-isaiah-557.html

http://messianicjewish.blogspot.com/2010/09/verses-of-atonement-jonah-3-4-10.html

As I have mentioned in previous posts, the Messianic movement claims that atonement can only come through sacrifice. This claims is false. So, I am listing other Biblical means of atonement to prove that the Messianic movement is Biblically wrong in their claim. Following Solomon's consecration of the Holy Temple, G-d says the following:

2 Chronicles 7:14: "if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

So, we see that atonement can be achieved by praying, being humble before G-d, seeking G-d and ceasing to sin. No mention of atonement is made, which is particularly interesting since G-d makes this statement after King Solomon has made many, many recent sacrifices.