Robert A. Jones

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[MEL GIBSON @Melgibsonact]

This coffee shop employs people with Down syndrome to show the world that everyone deserves a chance.

This just restored my hope in humanity 🥹❤️

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Reposting this from Beit Immanuel in Israel:

Christians Were Keeping the Jewish Festivals in the Fourth Century

One of the most fascinating witnesses to ancient Christians observing Jewish practices comes from an unlikely source: John Chrysostom.

Around 386–387 CE, while serving as a priest in Antioch, Chrysostom delivered a series of nasty sermons commonly called the Eight Homilies Against the Jews. Why was he so angry? Because Christians in his community were observing Jewish festivals.

Chrysostom writes:

“The festivals of the...Jews are soon to march upon us one after the other and in quick succession: the feast of Trumpets, the feast of Tabernacles, the fasts.”
—John Chrysostom, Against the Jews, Homily 1.1

He then explains that Christians themselves were participating:

“Some of these are going to watch the festivals and others will join the Jews in keeping their feasts and observing their fasts.” —Against the Jews, Homily 1.1

The “Feast of Trumpets” is the biblical Yom Teruah, later known as Rosh Hashanah. The great fast of this season is Yom Kippur, followed five days later by Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles.

His next sermon makes the Yom Kippur connection especially clear:

“Their … fast will begin after five days.” —Against the Jews, Homily II.1

Chrysostom was preaching five days before the fast and urgently trying to prevent Christians from observing it.
Later he warns his congregation against going to the synagogue for the Trumpets, participating in Jewish fasting, or observing the Sabbath:

“If any of you … shall go to the spectacle of the Trumpets, or rush off to the synagogue … or take part in fasting, or share in the Sabbath, or observe any other Jewish ritual great or small…” —Against the Jews, Homily VIII.8

Consider what Chrysostom has inadvertently preserved for us.

This is Antioch in the late fourth century, more than three centuries after Yeshua and the apostles. Jewish observance among Christians was sufficiently common that a major Christian preacher devoted repeated sermons to stopping it.

Chrysostom's hostility toward Judaism is disturbing, but that hostility makes his testimony historically valuable.
The separation between Judaism and Christianity was neither instantaneous nor clean.

Even in the late fourth century, Christians in Antioch were still participating in Jewish sacred times—including the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur fasting, Sukkot, and Shabbat.

We know this because one of Christianity's most famous ancient preachers stood in his pulpit and demanded that they stop. It seems some refused to listen.

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Joel7Richardson Yay!

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Caleb2854126899 @Joel7Richardson It is.

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

"But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, if, instead, you reject My statutes... I will appoint over you a sudden terror… you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you." (Leviticus 26:14–18)

[Brian4new @GustBrian]

Cutest video of the day 🥰

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Joel7Richardson I can’t wait.

[A Cloistered Hermeneutic @Exodus15_11]

Exactly.

Too many are taught David's throne was transferred to Heaven because "the Church is Israel".

As such, the Church has to do Jewish things. 🤪

The same are not taught that Gabriel gave Mary an abridged summary of hundreds of promises of the Tanakh, all referring to the Messiah being the one who would rule on David's throne.

In other words:
Jesus came for much more than the Cross and the Resurrection. To many, that statement is as anathema.

Too many are not taught that Jesus returns to rule on earth at Zion over a redeemed Jew. Because of this, they have to embrace an over-realized eschatology which spiritualizes all of the effects of the Second Coming as if those are presently manifest during this age of the Church.

To place this in context, getting the above wrong means we've never really left the Dark Ages.

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Joel7Richardson Have it your way, LORD

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Joel7Richardson Israel is forever

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Jonatatuyishime A.i.

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@deityrecords @Joel7Richardson Israel is forever…they have always defied God. And God never gave up on them. He still hasn’t.

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Joel7Richardson I have always felt a pastoral tone in all your books in the sense that you treat the reader with respect and offer spiritual solutions to gnarly Bible problems considering real life scenarios. This new book will be a treat.

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@ericmetaxas I’m trembling, and I didn’t even sign it

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Wow

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Is the Noahide Law discourse about an impending global religious system leading to Christian beheadings, or is it simply Christian fear-mongering online? This session explores the 'Noahide Laws: Beast System or Fear-Mongering?' question. #NoahideLaws #Christianity #Conspiracy

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Joel7Richardson It’s fear mongering

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@ericmetaxas Eric, God bless you! You and I think the same. Our mind is always on Kingdom things. You should see the place where I write. I would serve you a cup of coffee. Or I can send you my latest work. It’s an Easter story. You will love it. Just say yes. 👍

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

We were just in the room where C.S. Lewis wrote most of his books…This is holy ground.

[Robert A. Jones @artgalleryquito]

@Fani2536 Is this real????