As no other group, those known as the Jews seem to polarise the world into extremes of love or hatred. There are not many who are ambivalent about the Jews.
Why is it so? Is it akin to the ‘Teacher’s Pet’ syndrome most of us understood or witnessed in Primary/Elementary School? A particular student appeared to get more attention or praise from a teacher than others—or seemed to go after that attention more than others.
Others who were perhaps jealous, hated or ridiculed the percieved ‘teacher’s pet’!
With the Jews, Biblical history shows them as chosen—for a purpose, and therefore, ‘special’. Is it this special-ness that irritates the others—and especially those ignorant of God’s ways and grand plan?
I believe that is certainly a significant part of it—but what is to become of those known as the Jewish people? Are they still a people? Has God finished with them?
Not according to Saul the Zealot who became Paul the Jewish apostle to the Gentiles, who has many extraordinary things to say about his own people.
In fact, according to this writer, he saw himself as an example, or ‘type’—actually the ‘Archetype’ of his people.
Just as he, as the ‘Archetype’, suddenly (blindingly) saw the truth about the Messiah, whose followers he mocked and persecuted, will his people come to a similar epiphany, and trun to the One they had pierced?
In this book, 'THE FUSION: Israel in a Biblical End-Time Scenario’, I reveal how some of the extraordinary prophecies of say, Zechariah or Ezekiel or Jeremiah may be brought to pass—remembering that Biblical prophecy is often seen at its fulfillment as a kind of ‘Aha’ experience such as that of Peter at Pentecost when he said, “this is that which was spoekn by gthe prophet Joel.”
Will there be a similar experience, recognised almost in after-sight as Jewish people, not just in Israel, but the world over, have an encounter with their very much alive ‘Messiah’?
Professor W A Liebenberg of Therapon University says (excerpt from longer review),
‘The author beautifully captures the central theme of the book with a focus on the Biblical principle of Paul as the firstfruits and a representation of a re-grafted Israel. The analogy drawn between Paul's transformation from Saul of Tarsus to a believer in Christ and the potential for the "broken off" Israelite people to undergo a similar spiritual renewal is both insightful and thought-provoking.
The idea that God's hand remains sovereign over those who may have been temporarily set aside, just as He was with Saul, is a powerful message of hope and redemption. The comparison between Israel's historical wilderness experience due to unbelief and their current state of gradual restoration through recognition and acceptance of their Messiah is a poignant reflection on the overarching theme of faith, perseverance, and divine providence.'
A must-read for these troubled days in the Middle East. Available at all the usual places in paperback, Kindle etc, but here it is at Amazon Australia
Or Amazon USA
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