Michelle

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[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

Check out this poem from my upcoming memoir—a raw tapestry of love, loss, tragedy, hope, and freedom. Writing it’s been my self-healing salve, weaving the story of two sisters, 11 years, 11 months, and 11 days apart. Now, she’s my angel! 🌟 #Memoir #Poetry #Healing

I can’t wait to compete it. It’s been a process.

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Repost this everywhere.

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@ChooseGoodKarma @DefiyantlyFree I agree but I am still intrigued. Like I need another new phone. These iPhones and other smartphones are way too much phone for me. I almost wish I had the willpower to go back to a landline.

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@Kentuckygirl1 @OMJ327 Yes, hope you realize Inwas being sarcastic about her mental health. I don’t give a shi*t either. She deserves death penalty!

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@EricLDaugh @mjgranger1 Is this wife and husband or 5000 per family

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

Especially when Paul, a Jewish apostle, says he has “great sorrow and unceasing anguish” for his fellow Israelites and even says that to them belong “the adoption to sonship...the covenants...the promises...the patriarchs,” and that from them came the Messiah according to the flesh (Romans 9:2–5).

That doesn't sound anything like permission for Christians to despise Jewish people.

I would handle the Talmud claims the same way. Don't build your understanding of millions of Jewish people from somebody's inflammatory quotation from an ancient text, especially without understanding its historical setting, translation, interpretation, or whether the person being discussed is even Jesus of Nazareth. Christians certainly don't have to agree with Judaism's rejection of Jesus as Messiah, but disagreement is not permission for hatred, slander, or careless generalizations.

Paul gives us such a good model in Romans 10:1: “My heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.” He disagreed profoundly with their rejection of Christ, but his response wasn't hatred. His response was heartbreak, love, prayer, and a desire for them to know Jesus.

So KEEP STUDYING. 😊 Don't be afraid of the hard passages. Read Romans 9, 10, and 11 together several times. Then I'd study Genesis 12:1–3, Genesis 15, Genesis 17, Jeremiah 31:31–37, Ezekiel 36–37, Matthew 26:26–28, Acts 3, Romans 3–4, Romans 9–11, Galatians 3, Ephesians 2–3, and Hebrews 8–10.
And pray before you read: “Lord, show me what YOUR Word says, even if it challenges something I've always believed.”

You don't have to solve every theological question immediately. Some things become clearer as you keep studying Scripture as a whole. And Romans 11 actually ends this huge discussion with Paul basically standing in awe of God: “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” (Romans 11:33)

I love that. After three chapters of some of the deepest theology in the Bible, Paul ends in WORSHIP.

Compliments of a very wise pastor

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

This is a BIG subject, and good, Bible-believing Christians have disagreed over some of the details for a very long time. So I would be careful of anyone who makes it sound like Romans 9–11 is simple or that everyone who reads it differently is automatically unbiblical.

One thing I would encourage you to do is separate the biblical question from the political question. What we believe about God's covenant, Israel, the Church, and salvation should come from Scripture, not from whether we approve or disapprove of the modern Israeli government. Governments can be right or wrong in their actions without changing what Scripture says.

I think people are holding onto two really important truths that we shouldn't force into opposition with one another.

First, salvation is through Jesus Christ alone. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). Peter says in Acts 4:12 that there is salvation in no one else. Paul also makes it clear in Romans that Jew and Gentile alike need Christ. So I don't believe Scripture teaches two ways of salvation, one for Jewish people and another for Gentiles. We all need Jesus.

But second, Paul is VERY clear that God's faithfulness to Israel has not simply disappeared. Romans 11:1 asks, “Did God reject his people? By no means!” Then Romans 11:28–29 says that regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, “for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable.”

That is pretty strong language.

And I think the olive tree picture in Romans 11 is especially important. Paul doesn't tell Gentile Christians that we replaced Israel and got our own tree. He says that we were wild branches who were grafted in. Then he actually warns us not to become arrogant toward the natural branches: “Do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches” (Romans 11:18).

That warning alone should make Christians VERY cautious about speaking arrogantly or hatefully about Jewish people.

The New Covenant is absolutely established through Jesus and His blood. Jesus says that plainly at the Last Supper: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood” (Luke 22:20). But something really interesting to study is Jeremiah 31:31–34, where the New Covenant was promised hundreds of years before Jesus. God says, “I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.”

Then we get to the New Testament and discover this incredible mystery, that through Christ, Gentiles are brought near too!
Ephesians 2 is wonderful here. We who were once “far away” have been “brought near by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:12–13). Christ makes Jew and Gentile one in Him.

So I don't think we have to choose between “God is faithful to His promises to Israel” and “the New Covenant is through Jesus.” Scripture teaches both. The debate among Christians is more about exactly how God's promises to Israel will ultimately be fulfilled.

Romans 11:26—“and in this way all Israel will be saved”—is one of those verses Christians have interpreted differently.

Some understand “all Israel” as God's complete redeemed people, others believe Paul is speaking specifically about a future large-scale turning of ethnic Israel to Christ. I personally think you should read the whole argument from Romans 9 through 11 and pay very close attention to Paul's use of Israel, Gentiles, branches, hardening, fullness, and mercy rather than starting with somebody else's theological system.

Romans 11:25 is especially interesting: “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.” The words “in part” and “until” are worth sitting with.

The “synagogue of Satan” comments, please be careful there. Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 are talking about specific opponents of specific first-century churches. I don't think it's responsible biblical interpretation to grab that phrase and use it as a blanket label for Jewish people today.

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@Kentuckygirl1 Seriously mentally challenged

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

Haven’t listened in a few weeks. I need to catch up. Brother diagnosed with aggressive cancer. Less than a month to live but he’s still fighting. I’m tired but at peace and ready for him to let go. Please pray for a quick transition to the other realm! I believe he has one foot in both worlds. I need to get back to Dilly time lol

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@BrandieWithABee Hysterical-I love it!

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@JackPosobiec I also seem to remember the news quit playing it because of the traumatic impact on people

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@JackPosobiec I never realized it wasn’t. 🤷‍♀️

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@ChooseGoodKarma Dogs are the best!! 💜💙

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@VeteranTakeBack @catturd2 All I have is hahahahhahahahhaahh

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@Daytobehappy I’m just said a prayer for you. What a sad story but I prayed for God to give you something even just a sign of comfort. God Bless!

[Tom MacDonald @IAMTOMMACDONALD]

X denied me when I tried to “boost” my new music video…I wonder why? 😤🇺🇸

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

@LauraLoomer @American_Bridge I love that word. Scandalous- so intriguing 🧐

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

I may be totally wrong here but can’t you get psychiatric treatment in a prison. The best of both worlds for murdering your 3 children. 🤷‍♀️ open shut case. Hormones, depression doesn’t matter. It’s not a pass.

[Brandie with a 🐝 @BrandieWithABee]

Going into the weekend pissing off the left and the woke right be like...

[Michelle @RealMichelleZyt]

I cannot believe the stupid retarded responses to this post! Lol. 😂

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

For what’s its worth, if my wife killed my sons, I would actually hope she is found “not guilty.”