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The Lord's Promise to the Jews has not been nullified; He is the Covenant and if the Jews are grafted back into the Kingdom, it will be on the condition that they accept Him as their Lord and God. There is no other way for them. Like us all, they have the free choice to take Him or leave Him, but they're not special anymore. We're all the Chosen People and we all get the same deal offered to us. As Orangina said, quoting St Paul, "there is neither Jew nor Greek".

 

Yes, there is neither Jew nor Greek when it comes to the salvation accomplished by Christ. However, there is a role for the Jews that was reserved by God, which begins with the covenant of Abraham and Moses and will be fully completed at the end of times, when Christ returns. As Saint Paul rightly said: “They are loved because of the election, but enemies with regard to the Gospel.” It may seem somewhat contradictory and confusing, but it is not if we look at Paul’s own story, who was set apart by God from his mother’s womb, having his transgressions borne patiently by the Father for years in order to transform him into the Apostle to the Gentiles.

The worship of Baal, the Golden Calf, and the Babylonian captivity were all episodes that occurred in the Old Covenant. However, when Christ began His ministry, He told the Canaanite woman that He had been sent first to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and that it was not right to take the children’s bread and give it to the dogs. The Canaanite woman’s reply about the little dogs that eat the crumbs is a mixture of humility and faith, greatly praised by Christ. At no moment does she lose hope of being heard by Our Lord, but at no moment does she oppose the calling that God made to Abraham, which places the Jews, throughout history, in a very special position within the plan of salvation.

 

Was Our Lord's reference to 'the dogs' not arguably a tongue-in-cheek challenge? Ultimately, He Sacrificed everything for and offered everything to 'the dogs'!

Whatever God has in store for the Jews, they're going to have to accept Christ.

 

Read an amusing report. It seems the Iranians sent out dozens of $8 cardboard and plastic drones into the Persian Gulf, causing the Epsteinists to waste $200 million worth of scarce interceptors. I hope it's true.

 

This would be funny.

 

Yes, yes, and yes !!!

 

It's always good to see people come home to Christ's Church. I'm a little wary, however, that not all conversions are genuine. The video I posted above of the Christian Zionist from the Catholic seminary in Detroit is an example. He was a cradle Catholic, converted to Evangelicalism, and reverted to Catholicism after spending time in Israel. He actually worked for that Christian Zionist outfit that interviewed him. I wouldn't put it past the Epstein crowd to have their people infiltrate the Church, especially in strategic areas like seminaries. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if they were also behind the priest scandals. They control the porn industry; they control the media; they control the internet. It wouldn't be hard for them to flood a cleric's phone or computer with porn, draw them into a compromising situation and then use blackmail to gain influence in the Church just as they have done in politics.

It sickens me that we're all expected to excuse or turn a blind eye to some of the worst atrocities the world has seen because Jesus was a Jew. Well Judas was also a Jew. Most certainly we should, as the Act of Contrition says, detest our own sins above every other evil but we should never ever claim, as the US and Zionist regimes are claiming, that these atrocities are a divine mission entrusted to Donald Trump. Are we to support every savage act known to man committed by the successors of Judas and Caesar because Jesus was Jewish? How does supporting the bombing of Beirut or Tehran align with the will of the Prince of Peace?

I also believe that the US/Israeli regimes are using religion as a cover for their atrocities. Faith has nothing to do with their goals. Two atheist/occultist States engaged in the pursuit of world domination has zero to do with God the Father, Son or Holy Spirit. Supporting evil is sinful irrespective of the perpetrators.

God's plan for the Jews is conversion. That's also his plan for the Muslims. He loves all people. Yes, the Jews are God's first chosen and have a special place in his heart. That doesn't give them the right to sin and it doesn't give Christians the right to help them commit crimes against humanity in the name of Jesus.

 

The Goodness of our God holding to His side of the covenant regardless of the transgressions made against Him. We aren't worthy.

 

This is a good indicator of God's plan. There are no privileged ones; aren’t we Christians also chosen? Yet many are called, but few are chosen who actually respond. Jesus had many metaphors about that...

Matthew 3:7–10
“When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.
And do not presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.’”

 

What is the solution to the horror of such evil:

Only the Cross and the Mercy of Christ:

https://youtube.com/shorts/ar2lKtaHRHs?si=FvJTOQKAPpwiW92-

 

God made some stones into children of Abraham, but He also made a direct covenant with the glorious patriarch even before the Messianic era began. For this reason, Saint Paul says that the Jewish people are beloved because of the patriarchs and with regard to election, yet they are enemies with respect to the Gospel.

Saint Paul also says that the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable; thus, a covenant remains in force even though the ceremonial precepts and the priestly lineage of the Jews have been abolished and transferred to Rome—not centered on the figure of the Roman emperor, as every Catholic knows, but rather on the figure of its bishop.

And just as God sustained the covenant of Israel even when Ahab, David, and Solomon sinned gravely because of the covenant He made with Abraham, in the same way He sustained the covenant He made with Rome, even though we have had terrible popes, such as Rodrigo Borgia and, more recently, the one who allowed Fiducia Supplicans.

I do not think that Pope Borgia was a “Jewish agent” meant to desacralize the papacy, but rather that God allowed the papacy to sink morally from time to time in order to show that the power of His covenant and of His word endures even amid the moral degeneration of men who poorly administer the divine treasure entrusted to them.

In the case of Pope Borgia, at least I have heard that he never made a declaration contrary to the Catholic faith. Thanks be to God!!!

 

So many mysteries about the Jews .

Why did they reject Jesus and why do they continue to do so?

How culpable are they for this?

St Paul in Scripture seems to find them very culpable. Since Vatican 2 the Church toned things down a lot but sometimes I wonder of it is not just a constant urge to be nice about everything. We always have to be nice and not offend people. It gets tiring.

 

I have a hunch that it is because their conversion would represent a direct, clear, and unmistakable sign of the glorious return of Christ and the resurrection of the dead. Therefore, if their full conversion were to occur without being accompanied by the two key eschatological events I mentioned, the faith would consequently collapse throughout the world.

 

Yes, but isn't that putting the cart before the horse? That it is because they refuse to convert that the Second Coming does not come rather than the other way around? In other words that they are culpable for this. That they are an obstacle.

 

I honestly don’t know the answer to that question. At least I’m not certain. However, I do have a certain conviction that there is a timeline and an appropriate time for this to occur. Note that Saint Matthew teaches us that “of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” This seems to indicate that there is a predetermined time for the conversion of the Jewish people and the glorious return of Christ to take place.

 

My understanding is that God's coming isn't contingent on the conversion of the Jews but the opposite. They convert when God comes to save them. At least this is how it appears in Ezekiel 39.

7 “‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel. 8 It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of.

 

Great stuff. Superb and inspiring post.

 

John 12:40
40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

 

I think there could be a predetermined time for God to remove the scales from their eyes, slightly longer than three days.

 

It doesn’t seem plausible that any group of mere mortals can by their will obstruct that of The Almighty. Then again, we can’t disregard the infinite patience and unbounded mercy of God. A mystery.