what do the Scriptures say about the Jews
and salvation?
In John
4:22 Yeshua says:
You worship what you do not know;
we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
Many people make the
mistake of believing that Yeshua thought his mission was to save the Jews.
Clearly this is not the case. Neither did he believe his mission was to
"graft in" Gentiles.
The mission of Meshiah ben Joseph (who Yeshua believed he was)
is to
save the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel. It is
the House of ISRAEL who needs to return to
God, not Judah.
Messiah ben Joseph is to redeem and to die for
the House of ISRAEL’s sins; NOT
the House of Judah and NOT the Gentiles.
In Acts 5:31
is reads:
God exalted with
his right hand [to be] a prince and a saviour, for to give repentance to ISRAEL
and forgiveness of sins.
So what does this have to do with
Christianity? Remember what Maimonides said. Christianity is a
transitional religion. Christianity transitioned the the world from Greek
polytheism to the belief in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. It has
spread throughout the entire world, and yet developed and retained enough
paganism to be unacceptable as a branch of Judaism.
Although Christianity developed quite
differently from what it's founders had intended, it would appear that this is
certainly part of a master plan for humanity.