Israel's Illegitimate Priesthood

Lubavitch Jews

"Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness."--Romans 10:3

One of the great mysteries throughout the ages has been Israel's corporate rejection of her Messiah Jesus Christ. Despite the overwhelming evidence that exists that proves beyond a doubt that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah, the majority of Jews throughout the world today still consider Him to be a fraud.

While there are more Jews today that do in fact consider Christ to be the Messiah--perhaps as many as one million Jews--most still reject Him. Why? Simply because their ancestors who lived during the time of Christ's appearance in Israel 2,000 years ago, weren't looking for Him. Instead, they were looking for a conquering messiah who would free Israel from the tyranny of Roman gentile rule that began with Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.

Sadly, God had purposely allowed Israel to be taken over by the gentiles because the ancient Jewish nation continually broke His laws and violated His commandments. Despite the fact that the Lord had sent His prophets to warn the ancient Jews to repent of their wickedness or face judgment, they ignored His prophets and suffered the consequences. Nearly 200 years before Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem, the Lord spoke these words to the prophet Isaiah: "Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him." (Isaiah 1:4)

Two centuries later, Israel lost her independence when the Babylonians rode into Jerusalem and ransacked the city, killing thousands of Jews and taking thousands more captive to Babylon. While the Jews eventually regained their freedom in about 445 B.C. when the Persians, under King Artaxerxes allowed them to return to Jerusalem, Israel would not gain her freedom and independence as a nation again until 1948. 

Since that time, Israel has been plagued by wars, invasions and the threat of wars by hostile Islamic nations that want to destroy her and drive the Jews out of the Middle East. And for over 2,500 years, the Jews have arguably been the most hated people on earth wherever they've lived. That's a fulfillment of a prophecy the Lord gave to the ancient prophet Jeremiah concerning Israel's chronic rebellion against Him: "I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, an object of ridicule and cursing, wherever I banish them. I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave the them and their fathers." (Jeremiah 24:9-10)

And so, the modern Jews remain under a curse that began when their ancestors forsook the God of Israel and embraced the false gods of pagan nations. Tragically, their modern religious leaders continue to spurn God by rejecting His Son Jesus Christ who came and fulfilled over 300 specific prophecies that revealed Him as the Jewish Messiah and no one else. No one can know and have a relationship with God unless they have been born again by faith in His Son Jesus Christ who died for all sinners on a Roman cross 2,000 years ago. To a group of unbelieving Jews who thought they knew God, Christ said this: "You do not know me or my (Heavenly) Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." (John 8:19)

The modern Jewish rabbis reject Christ because he died on the cross. According to them, the true messiah would never die such an ignominious death--he would destroy the enemies of the Jews and liberate Israel. And yet their own prophets foretold that the Jewish Messiah would indeed die for their nation, be raised from the dead and one day return to conquer Israel's enemies. Isaiah wrote: "But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed."(Isaiah 53:5)

If you're a Jew who believes in God--and tragically many don't--then you can't know Him personally unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Consider this--you'll never gain eternal life by following Judaism which is the religion of the rabbis--the same man-made religion that rejected Christ 2,000 years ago. Consider the evidence for Christ and then consider the lack of evidence for the religion of the rabbis. Would you rather be popular with men and be condemned to hell, or would you rather be popular with God and be blessed with eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ? 

Or consider this; evidence is the alpha and the omega of truth, but ideology is the wisdom of blind fools.