Jijkles

For the land belongs to Me
~ Lev. 25:23 ~

[chesed1973 @chesed1973]

The Selective “Types and Shadows” Argument

One of the easiest ways to dismiss a commandment is to call it a “type and shadow.”

Sabbath? A shadow.

Biblical festivals? Shadows.

Dietary instructions? Shadows.

Sacrifices? Shadows.

But somehow other practices found in the Torah are treated as timeless spiritual principles.

Worship is in the Torah.

Prayer is in the Torah.

Giving is in the Torah.

Congregational assembly is in the Torah.

Teaching children is in the Torah.

Caring for the poor is in the Torah.

Loving God and loving your neighbor are in the Torah.

So what determines which commandments are “mere rituals” and which ones remain spiritually valuable?

Usually, the answer is not a consistent biblical method. It is familiarity.

Practices Christians already observe are called moral principles.

Practices Christians stopped observing are called shadows.

That is not interpretation. That is reverse engineering a theology to justify current traditions.

Calling something a shadow also does not mean it is false, sinful, or worthless. A shadow is created by something real. It reveals the shape of the substance casting it.

Paul even describes the appointed times as “a shadow of things to come,” not merely things that already came and disappeared.

The real question is not whether the Torah contains types and shadows. Of course it does.

The question is why people selectively use that language only for the commandments they have already decided not to keep.

[First Fruits of Zion @followffoz]

You’ve been told Messianic Judaism is the bridge between Judaism and Christianity. Maybe, but there’s a more powerful one.

In times like these, when divisions deepen and confusion spreads, the world desperately needs builders—leaders who understand what it really takes to construct a Messianic Jewish worldview. Not people who repeat inspiring phrases, but those willing to do the brutal work.

What does it actually take to build something that lasts? Something that can bear weight? Something that guides others through uncertain times? The hard truth: There are no shortcuts. But there is a mission, and you’re more qualified than you realize.

Original Session Lecture: 05 - The Bridge

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[Jijkles @Jijkles]

@chesed1973 1000%

[chesed1973 @chesed1973]

One thing I've noticed in conversations about Torah is that many Christians hear every discussion of obedience as though it were a discussion about earning salvation.

They're two different conversations.

If I say,

"Start with kindness."

"Read the Scriptures."

"Learn God's appointed times."

"Honor your parents."

Some immediately respond,

"But salvation is by grace through faith!"

I agree.

But that's not what we were talking about.

If I tell a new believer to pray, read Scripture, forgive others, or care for the poor, no one accuses me of teaching salvation by works.

Why?

Because discipleship naturally follows faith.

Yet the moment I mention a command found in the Torah, many people suddenly switch categories and begin defending justification by faith.

Trusting in Messiah is how we enter the covenant.

Learning to walk in God's ways is how we grow within it.

Not every conversation about obedience is secretly a conversation about earning eternal life.

Sometimes it's simply a conversation about becoming more like the One we say we follow.

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

Nice to meet a kindred spirit - 👊🏻 @TonyLapidus 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

I'm not Jewish. I am a Gentile believer in Yeshua, grafted into the nourishing root of Israel, as are all Gentiles believers whether they know it or not.

It does not mean that I am now a physical descendant of Avraham but a spiritual one.

When Paul speaks of the "real Jew" in Rom 2:28,29, he is not comparing a Jew with a Gentile (and definitely not a Christian since there was no such thing in 1st c. Israel); instead he is speaking of faithful Jews, "those who seek glory, honor and immortality by perseverance in doing good...", versus unfaithful Jews, "those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey evil..."

The former will be rewarded with eternal life but the latter with wrath and anger "on the Day of Anger, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed" (2:1-8)

This is an in-house debate among Jews, not a supersessionistic teaching on how the Church has replaced covenant Israel and are now the real Jews.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

So if you are married, you became 'one' with your wife, yes? Did you cease to be a male and your wife a female? Did the two of you become an amorphous blob with no distinction of sexes? Of course not.

And in regards to Jewish and Gentile believers, what would you understand Paul to be speaking about here:

1 Corinthians (1 Co) 7:17-20 CJB:

[17] Only let each person live the life the Lord has assigned him and live it in the condition he was in when God called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the congregations. [18] Was someone already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not try to remove the marks of his circumcision. Was someone uncircumcised when he was called? He shouldn’t undergo b’rit-milah (circumcision). [19] Being circumcised means nothing, and being uncircumcised means nothing; what does mean something is keeping God’s commandments. [20] Each person should remain in the condition he was in when he was called?

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

@FreeBeeCee @TeologiaD @rabbriansamuel Of course. Jeremiah 31 is crystal clear that the NC is with the House of Judah and Israel - wherever on the planet they may be found.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

And round and round we go. I get it. I was a militant dispensationalist for almost 30 years until I wasn't. Over the past 6 years I have come to understand the breadth and depth of replacement theology in Christianity and honestly, it is staggering. I wasn't being rhetorical when I said that most Christians sitting in their pews don't even know they understand scripture thru the lens of supersessionism. I don't know what you do or don't know about that but here's a quick clip if you're interested...
https://t.co/Ez0heXLR9W

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

How One Accident Changed the Course of Chistian History...
https://t.co/OrOmnHXdA0

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Goy (nation) and Goyim (nations) are thoroughly biblical terms, simply meaning Gentiles, non-Jews, most often translated as "nations".

The level of slanderous lies here, demonizing Jews, an entire people as if they view all non-Jews as "cattle," is genuinely Hitler-level rhetoric.

Candace Owens could care less about who she hurts or destroys in her quest for fame, power and money. This is pure projection, pure evil.

Goodbye, Shawn Ryan. You are an absolute piece of trash.

Judgment day is coming, burning like an inferno. Unless these two repent, it will consume them both.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

@Mark_Wilson_25 Well said brother 😎

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

Unless you are reading Galatians through the lens of supersessionism, those verses support what I posted. Further, just like the term 'pretrib rapture' which is read between the lines because there is no teaching of it in Scripture, so is the term 'new Israel' which is typically understood to mean that the Church has replaced Israel as God's covenant people. What is going on in Galatians and Romans is Paul explaining to Gentile believers that they do not need to become Jewish in order to inherit eternal life since it has always been through repentance and trusting faith. That's all. Nothing about how Christians are now the 'new Israel'.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

Rather presumptuous to infer that I have not studied history or Scripture because you disagree with what I've said.
Bottom line is, no matter what you say, God is indeed in covenant with the Jewish people and the land of Israel is his. That is a biblical fact. Supersessionism runs deep and wide in Christianity and most Christians sitting in their pews don't even know it. Take care.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

@FreeBeeCee @TeologiaD @rabbriansamuel Not sure what you trying to infer here?

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

@FreeBeeCee @JRR_ON_X @rabbriansamuel Defining of terms is important. What do you mean when you say that the one new man is the "new Israel"?

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

How about aligning with the Jewish people because they have the right to exist in their own land as a sovereign people and defend themselves when attacked by a hostile force?

That is all that Jewish Zionism is and decent human beings is what we should be when it comes to standing with them in that, especially as so-called Christians.

More importantly, don't you understand that this is a spiritual battle and the evil one has you standing against the apple of God's eye, his allotment, his portion among the nations, his inheritance and his wife that he is in covenant with among all the nations?

If you don't, you should, because it won't look good when the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob calls you to account on behalf of his people.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

Christianity is not Judaism.

In the 1st c., not only was there no such thing as Christianity but Yeshua never came to start a new religion called Christianity.

Jewish believers in Yeshua as their Messiah were known as Messianics or followers of the Way and were considered to be a sect within Judaism.

By the 2nd c., Gentile believers in Messiah has begun to pull away from the Jewish roots of their faith, not heeding the warning of Paul to not became arrogant against the natural branches.

By the time of Constantine, the divorce was pretty much complete and replacement theology was the lens through which the Church now understood the Scriptures, coupled with an underlying Greek and Roman worldview.

Paul said that Jewish believers in Yeshua where to remain practicing Jews and Gentile believers in Yeshua were grafted in and were to remain Gentile with the ability to practice certain aspects of Judaism.

Paul's 'one new man' of the 1st c. is not the 'Church', but a spiritual ekklesia of Yeshua that was an already existing body of believing Jews into which believing Gentiles were grafted; it did not replace Israel, do away with the Torah or supplant the Levitical system because GOD remains in FAITHFUL covenant with the nation of Israel till the end of this age and into the messianic era.

This is what the Scriptures teach.

The misunderstanding is yours.

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

@rabbriansamuel A big fAt A 😎

[Jijkles @Jijkles]

The problem Missy is the original premise, incorrectly held by Christianity, for almost 1900 years; that keeping the Torah is the way that Jews 'earned' eternal life but then Jesus came along and now eternal life is by faith and grace.

That premise is false. First of all, Scripture is very clear that the Torah is God's perfect and unchanging word. The problem is not that the Torah is impossible to keep - the problem is the heart of man that does not want to keep it.

Secondly, the purpose of the Torah was never for gaining eternal life but to enable the children of Israel to draw near to God and God to his children.

The sacrificial system was for taking away ritual impurity, like the excretion of bodily fluids, giving birth or touching a dead body, none of which were 'sins', but which kept an individual from drawing near to God in the Tabernacle/Temple. That system operates in this world for the purpose of fellowship with a holy God.

There was never a 'sacrifice' for intentional sin, such as murder. Now we are talking about a system that operates in the eternal.

Do we really think that God would institute a system that would literally allow someone to get away with murder because all he had to do was offer up a goat once a year??

Intentional sin that has eternal consequences could only be forgiven by repentance and faith.

The prophets, John the Immerser and Yeshua taught the same thing when they said..."repent for the kingdom of God is at hand."