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The notion that “Jews are God’s chosen people” is a misinterpretation of Scripture. The Bible states that the Israelites, not Jews, were God’s chosen people, a distinction important for understanding biblical promises and events.
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Great write up! Enjoy it
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Really enjoyed this article, lots of truth, most Christians do not understand, thank the Lord for this.
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We need more naming conventions. Part of the problem is modern day State of Israel =Israelis have coopted Judaism and conflated the word “Jew” to equate to the entirety of the House of Israel = Israelite. When we see the political quagmire going on in the middle east, it sort of takes on a whole new meaning of arguing “purity” of a specific race or tribe when the Hebrews were such the foundational people for the entirety of that area. In other words - the ideology of “anti-semitic” is ridiculous - most every native person in that area is a Semite or of Semitic decent. Ironically, Semite is a language/dialect - not a race. Just as those in Italy, Spain and England speak (and are) Italian, Spanish and English trying to claim inheritance based on a language is absurd. Mexicans for example speak Spanish, just as Americans speak English. ANd ironically, break it down even further, American is “assumed” to mean USA citizens, but discounts the whole of Canada, central America and ALL of South America. It is a weird tangent, but when you keep this concept in mind, it starts to declutter some of the misnaming we have in the world today when we speak of a “Jew” as originally being a member of the Tribe of Judah from the House of Israel, speaking Hebrew in the Semitic regions.
Hello there, I am new here and I am reading comments as I am learning my way in this Bible familly blog a found. And I thought to share with you, and others (since I have just read you comment about the “jews”) a few things I learned about the matter, and perhaps you can let me know what you think about it.
As you said, the word “jew” is used by many inside and outside the modern land of Israel, as an identity that links them to GOD´s People while yet none of them can prove being related to Judah (from where the denomination “jew” comes from) by DNA, nor to the Israelites of the Bible. The very letter “J” is not even part of the original Hebrew alphabet. In the Bible, where people read the word “jew” they are actually reading a word used by the translators which used such word to describe a person from Judah, the land of Judah or a person who became of the religion of those who claimed to be of Judah (juda-ism). At that time they did not invent the words Judean or Jewish (as followers of a religion), hence they used only the word JEW. But when we estudy Scrypture using the correct dictionaries, we learn that the word “Jew” is used for different meanings. If we take for example Esther 8:17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews ; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." ----- Clearly we can understand that the word “jew” has nothing to do with a particular race. It is clearly speaking about people who became of the same traditions of those living in the land of Judah because they feared those people who claimed to be of Judah. Also, if one is to use a Strong´s Concordance of the Bible, we can find the real meaning of the word “jew” in earch verse where it is found written. Same times the chapter is speaking about people whom by citizenship were known by the translators as “jews”, other times it is speaking about “jews” that became of the traditions of those people living in the lands of Judah, and other times it is speaking about people who claimed to be blood related to Judah.
On the other hand, people who claim to be semites claim to be descendants of Shem, Noah´s son. But I would ask, where is Shem´s remainings for these people to claim to be semitics by DNA?. But this is not all, because it so happens to be that those who live in the moerd land of Israel do NOT even speak Hebrew. They speak YIDDISH, which is a dialect they learned from living with the semi-nomadic Turkic people, becoming khazars, and then moving to the Caucasus while converting to “judaism”. Please find the meaning of Yiddish and Khazars for further information.
This means that when someone who claims to be a “jew” gets offended by someone and decides to call that someone an “antisemitic” person, they are using a denomination they can´t prove to belong to, but it serves a lying purpose to make one believe they are descendants of Shem and also of Judah. Of these Jesus spoke about in the book of Revelations, 2:9 and 3:9