To: Robert E. Hall who wrote (10137 ) 12/20/1997 9:24:00 PM From: Jane Hafker Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39621
O.K.. I see nothing but a normal nice reply in that. That is very different from the past. All I'm asking is can you also agree that if someone who is Jewish, by blood, DNA, whatever, and they also love Jesus Christ as the Son of God, that you can just fellowship with them as your Bother and Sistrer in Christ, period, just leave it there, and share the joy of that, rather than hammering constantly that if they have anything to do with their own Jewish ethnic ways, and don't absoluely refuse to mention the fact that they are Jewish, or that God has a whit to do with anyone who is Jewish, that you can just fellowship in Jesus instead of yammering over and over and over that we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ under the new Church, the New Isreal, the New Covenant. I think especially Nancy and Alan know that. I think they are here to talk about prophecy, Jesus Christ, and prayer needs. Can you just accept that there is something more edifying to talk about than repeated references to the New Covenant everyone here is aware of? That's all I ask from you. Just to fellowship in something other than the New Covenant. I think the understanding of the Isreal of God including all believers has never been in question. What I'm thinking would be much more edifying is stop presuming no one here understands that and repeating it over and over again. No one else will probably respond, but I think there is so much new to learn that this waste of good fellowship time is irritating to many. That's all I'm saying. The battle is won, Robert. Everyone agrees with you. There is a new covenant with Isreal, and Isreal now includes all believers in Jesus Christ. You have so much to offer by way of new and much more important areas of the gospel--which this is very secondary, by the way, to the direct instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ as to where we should put our energies: in preaching the good news that God so loved the world that he gave His only Son that whosoever even believes in Him shall have eternal life. Prior to that it was possible only by keeping a bizarre set of laws, supposedly this would lead to eternal life, when actually loving God and keeping the laws as best you could and then killing poor animals when you couldn't. Can we move on , please, in the name of Jesus Christ, please can we move on to another point that really needs clearing up? I don't think clearing it up is for irritated people to ignore you because you have made the point and no one has disagreed with you at all. We disagree with your denouncing any assocaition with Isreal today by the God of Abraham, who is, was, and every shall be. He is not confused, does not lie, and doesn't change His mind whimsidally against what He has said before. Or can you just allow discussion among Christians to continue without reposting the New Covenant any time anyone mentions a hint of Old Testament conversation, or even present history going on in Isreal. It seems a strange reaction on your part, that's all. Can you just pray about it and ask God if the point has been made?