From: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: Friday, July 11, 1997 2:34 AM
To: Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: Who are we as believers in Messiah ???
From: Stefan Blad
To: "'Hebrew roots'" <heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com>
Subject: The letter of Ken du Plessis (Ovadyah)
Shalom Eddie!
I just want to thank you for your mature statements to Ken du Plessis
(Ovadyah). You are a real example for me and I am praying for you. Thank you
for keeping the balance, and for leading the group
I just would like to ask you; Dont you think that your (and my) position
could be called Messianism?
I don't indentfy as a christian, nor as a jew. I am a messianic gentile.
I know the heart is the important issue, as you so wonderfully state in your
ur answer to Ken, but for me it's important to relate, in first place with
The Messiah and the G'd of Israel, but also with
I call this movement the Messianic Movement, or Messianism.
I believe that the only movement where jews and gentiles can be one is the
messianic movement.
I believe Ef 2:14 can be fulfilled only if we return to the original New
Covenant faith and practice. That is what you are doing and teaching.
But why don't call this Messianism?
Don't you think that Christianity will be divided between those who love
the G'd of Israel and His Messiah Yeshua/Jesus, and those who just have
an appearance of godliness but don't want the power o
In Ez 37:19 it sais that the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of
Ephraim, WILL BE JOINED WITH THE STICK OF JUDAH. The stick of Judah is not
moved! The stick of Efraim has to be moved to come ba
You say that Efraim (The house of Israel) is Christianity.
I'm not a part of Christianity, I made a decision to go out a few years ago.
But I didn't go into judaism.
In that moment I (and my whife) went to a deep crisis of identity.
The only indentity we had (and thats enough to be saved) was our identity
with Yeshua the Messiah, (not the hellenized, christianized, blue eyed
Christ).
My only foundation in my life was (and still is) HE as revealed in the
Scriptures by the holy Spirit of G'd.
As I had a vision where I saw Him as a jewish rabbi full of pureness and
love, I couldn't no longer go back to the concept of the "christian" Christ.
My savior was not longer a christian, He is a jew, and still using the
Tallit (as I also saw in my vision), see Rev 19:16.
The crisis of identity was very deep. Who am I? I am not a christian, nor
a jew. I knew I have jewish genes, but I was not called as a circumsized
and don't feel the call to convert to judaism or to
Who am I? Who are we? I had only one solution, and started to identify as
a messianic gentile.
I thought that I was the only messianic gentile in the world, until I met
Dan ben Avraham from Davie, Florida, who came to visit Spain.
He told me that my experiance was not the first he heard in that kind. He
told me that they started a messianic gentile congregation in Davie a few
years ago, with spanish speaking people (most of t
This movement is growing explosivley among the latin world, right now. Many
spanish speaking people find the Messiah and they DONT GO INTO CHRISTIANITY,
but direcly into the Messianic Movement. They
I believe this movement is the restoration of the house of Israel, and it
is NOT Christianity, but Messianism.
Do you really believe Christianity will embrace its jewish roots or mustn't
there be a EXODUS.
I believe so. Only G'd knows how to do it.
And once more: Thank you WERY much for your teaching. God bless yor aboundantly!
Love in the Messiah.
Stefan Blad
Toledo
Spain
From Eddie:
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By the way, I THOROUGHLY enjoyed your touching testimony !!!
Stefan, it appears to me that we have the SAME HEART and the SAME
VIEWPOINT regarding what you wrote above. You are only trying to give
a NAME to it.
"Messianic" is really a term to describe Jews who believe in
Jesus as Messiah and want to worship God is a more Jewish settting
that the traditional church.
BIBLICALLY, our God is the God of Israel. We are GRAFTED into
the ROOT of the promise that God gave to Abraham, and then to Isaac
and then to Jacob. Jacob become ISRAEL. The sons of Jacob became the
heads of the 12 TRIBES of Israel . At Mount Sinai, God entered into a
covenant with the HOUSE OF JACOB (all 12 TRIBES) (Exodus 19:3).
Jesus came to one day rule over the HOUSE OF JACOB (all 12
TRIBES) (Luke 1:33).
The "house of Jacob" or the family of the God of Israel
consists of BOTH Jewish and non-Jewish believer in Messiah.
The house of Jacob are ISRAELITES.
Biblically, the non-Jew is an ISRAELITE. However, most
probably if you begin to call yourself by your correct Biblical
entity, people will think that you are saying that you are an
ISRAELITE and advocating "replacement theology" or "British
Israelism" or "white supremacy" all of which refer to themselves as
"Israelites". You see, Satan made a counterfeit for this also.
I see myself as a BIBLE BELIEVER who doesn't identity
with any particular denomination but still recognizes and appreciated
the various truths within denominations while also understanding some
of the errors also. I see myself as being a believer in the God of
Israel and His Messiah. I see myself as seeking to follow the truth
of the scriptures. So, in SOME ways that makes me a "Christian" and
in SOME ways that makes me a "Jew". What is most important is that
we are circumcized in the HEART, we seek to keep God's commandments
and to love Him with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and we
LIVE our faith not join a religious club (denominations) and subscribe to
the club's lists of doctrines (denominational beliefs).
So, Stefan, maybe we are Messianic Israelites ....
Eddie Chumney
P.S. Can you check how you input your e-mail and send it? You seem to
send VERY LONG one line messages followed by double spacing. Is there
any way that you can correct this ???
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