MESSIANIC  JUDAISM

 

Messianic faith is apostolic and essentially pre-Nicene in spite of any dogmic diversity among the Messianic Jews today. Messianic Jews withered away for a short while of ca. 1600 years (what do 2000 years mean for G-d?), especially after Emperor Constantin had initiated the 1st Church Council in Nicea in 325. In his letter to the council the Emperor cursed the Jewish nation (cf. Gen=Berçðît 12:3!) as a Deicidal one. 
The Emperor convened the Council in order to condemn Arianism, however he himself adopted baptism from an Arianic bishop later, what shows him having no comprehension of theology. Therefore
his friend bishop Eusebius of Caesarea seems to have inspired a letter which names the Jews Deiciders and “polluted wretches”: “... in the first place, it seemed to every one a most unworthy thing that we should follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this most holy solemnity, who polluted, wretches! having stained their hands with a nefarious crime, are justly blinded in their minds. /.../ it belongs to your ready discernent, both by diligence and prayer, to use every means, that the purity of your minds may not be affected by a conformity in any thing with the customs of the vilest of mankind. /.../ we may have nothing in common with the usage of these parricides and murderers of our Lord.” This is not only a starting point for the “theory of the replacement” of Jews by the Gentiles in the Church. This is also a crime of the replacement of the first Apostolic Church with a Gentile Church, possibly falsified by Eusebius himself. In his “History of the Church” he names 15 Jewish bichops of Jerusalem before its ruination, but there were tens of thousands Jewish Christians in Palestine at that time. All of them were exterminated by the Romans together with traditional Jews as rebels, but Eusebius mentions rebels as having got “deserved punishment”, similarly as Jerusalem having been renamed to Aelia (consecrated to a pagan devil, what a “brilliant Christianity”!) However those rebels did the same as Maccabees, why did Eusebius use a double standard? Was this because of his pro-Roman position? In other words, Eusebius persuades the emperor: these were they, cursed Jews, real enemies of the Empire, who rebelled, not we, loyal Greek and Roman Christians! It is not comprehensible why did he make an exception for Y-shua Himself, His Mother, His disciples at all, plus a few dozen persons more: were they Jews, or not?
It looks like a new Church arose at the expense of authentic first Christian Church expelled and dispersed by the pagan Roman army. The new Church of the Gentiles negated the first Church, eradicated even a remembrance of it and identified it with the whole Jewish nation which ostensibly repudiated their Messiah unanimously and became a nation of deiciders. In doing so, the Nicene Church profited in ascribing to itself all labour of the previous Church and in getting rid of any competitioner as well as of all Old Terstament prophecies, now declared to have been revoked. Further in his History, Eusebius mentions Ebionites as some weak-minded Jewish sect, although there remained many thousands of very different Jewish Christians under this name up to at least the 7th c., fully pushed aside by newly created Gentile Church, while the Jewish Christians were doomed to disappear mostly among Syrian Christians and this was end of the first followers of Christ, of the Church of Jacob and Peter-Kepha! 
Bloody ethnic conflicts between Jews and Pagan Greeks erupted during Judean wars, especially during the Kitos war (115–117). Pagans of the Roman Empire began to perceive Jews as enemies. Those of them who had accepted Christianity, began to quickly alienate from the Jews and did not want to be counted Jewish by Roman authorities: this was especially dangerous, because Roman authorities persecuted them for refusal to offer pagan sacrifices, a reason of the Jewish war itself.  Gentile Christians in Rome and Alexandria avoided to assemble on Sabbaths in order not to be confused with the Jews. They only wanted persecutions to be stopped and they could live as patriots of the Empire. Any memory of once numerous first Jewish Church could only hinder them in their rejection of compromising “Jewish customs” (i.e. of G-d commandments in Torah), because the very this rejection, in turn, was grounded in ostensible rejection of Christ by the whole Jewish nation. 
This was time when many Anti-Jewish interpolations appeared in texts of the New Testament (as a result, the Gospel of John is Anti-Jewish entirely, but the word Sabbath is excluded from Mark 13:18!). Finally we have no original Gospels today. It was Constantin who stopped persecutions, however what was the cost? He cursed the Jews legitimizing all previously accumulated Anti-Semitism and thus negated all the genuine Jewish apostolic tradition . 

The ostracism of the Jews was also a sequel of an ancient institutionalism, i.e. of a view that only conversion or rejection of faith by national leaders means actual conversion into this faith, or its actual rejection by the whole nation. Had 99 % of the Jews accepted Y-shua‘ as Messiah of Israel, but the king and the high priests not, then the whole nation should have been cursed, as deiciders. The main reason was that such a view was very profitable for a new priestly elite in Roman Empire. No one Gentile bishop in Palestine wanted restoration of the Jewish Apostolic Church.
Bloody conflicts between colonists Greeks and Jews in Palestine continued even up to the coming of Islam in the 7th c. As for Constantin, he had only stiffened imperial laws against the Jews.
On the other hand, Jews Christians, from their side, were not enough Jewish-patriotic – they could not participate in Bar Kokhba's revolt: Bar Kokhba had been proclaimed Messiah, but he was not that of the Messianic Jews who had already accepted JHS as Messiah. The insurgents did not want Messianics as well. 
The revolt suppressed in 135, the Messianic Jews concentrated in Pella in Decapolis, where they could not defend themselves in a devasteted fatherland, increasingly colonized by the Greeks. In mass they escaped in more secure Syria and Arabia, later entering Aramaic Syrian Church and various Christian groups in Asia Minor and Arabia. No one Jewish bishof remained in fatherland, it looked like all of them had “disappeared”. 
The newly established Gentile Church started with cursing all the Jews as deiciders indiscriminately, except for a few dozen persons. Jews had to become Gentiles, not Gentiles had to enter the Covenant in the First Church, otherwise they were cursed! Why then should one be surprised that multitudes of former Christians have turned “the Jewish G-d” away today: He is not our G-d, we have own gods! This is only a final logical sequence of Eusebius' Anti-Jewish position: a dozen persons, reserved by Eusebius for his new Church, are no more necessary for Gentiles today. 
Thus a possible terrible crime of several leading persons before the Council of 325 in Nicea can be suspected. Nothing could alienate the Jews from Christ to such a degree for many following centures as these persons possibly succeeded to do. No one Jewish “Ebionite” was invited to the Council, since anyone had been already proclaimed a “heretic” in advance.
Consequently, after the Council of Nicea had declared all the Jews having betrayed JHS, it denied the Jewish calendar calculation of Pesach on Nisan 14. One of the nearest following regional Church councils (that of Laodicea, 364) prohibited the celebration of G-d-ordained (Ex=Ðemôt 16:22, 23:12) Shabbat (but cf. Mt=Mattâj 24:20 !), as well as other Torah holidays. 
Therefore it is questionable whether one can name the Gentile Church (including its mutually cursed Roman–Constantinople counterparts of 1054, as well as further splitting Protestant branches – all a result of
Gen 12:3 ! ) apostolic only because of the uninterrupted lineage of laying-on of hands from the apostles, whose Church was betrayed by this new Gentile Church after hundreds of uninterrupted hand layings! (As for the same Anti-Jewish origins of the Protestants, remember Martin Luther, who was the first to convert Roman imperial - churchy Anti-Judaism into German racial Anti-Semitism and proposed  to persecute Jews unmercifully, to subject them to forced labor and to set on fire their synagoguessorry for a link to the site of racist scoundrels and enemies of Christianity, however this is the single site on WEB where the book of Luther is published, all other publications removed by today totalitarian “democracy”).
Of course, true believers in traditional Gentile churches always were and are redeemed by Christ in accordance with their faithfulness and love to Him, and this has served to fulfil the number of the Gentiles in the Kingdom of G-d  in centuries.

 

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