by Donna Diorio
This morning I have been thinking about my intolerance about spiritual things over the years. First of all was the prosperity message. I was just learning the Word of God but I knew the way it was being taught by the premier prosperity preacher of the day, it was not God.
Then came my intolerance for Christian preaching and prophetic that smacked of replacement ideas (Christians have replaced Israel as God's Chosen people after God rejected Israel). Not what I was reading in my Bible and in the same time frame I was exposed to an Israeli believer who opened my eyes to "one new man."
When I went into a Messianic synagogue next I found I became intolerant of the delight in people as prophets who claimed whenever a natural disaster like a hurricane or volcano or earthquake hit, that the reason was God punishing America for some bad move the President made against Israel.
And I also became quite intolerant that Christians who hung on every word of unsaved rabbis talking about rebuilding the Third Temple. Don't people read their Bibles, or what?! That temple is not the one GOD is building in Israel by faith in His Son. That Third Temple is the AntiChrist temple. Why would Christians delight in the building of that and not in the building of the LIVING Temple. (Yeah, I know, you only embrace that because it means Jesus will be returning soon. Honestly, the salvation of Jews in Israel is a MUCH BIGGER sign of Yeshua's return).
And why don't American Messianic congregations correct that? Maybe because at least Christians are finally supporting Israel. Or,
maybe even because there are some Messianic ministries in Israel that embrace the fascination of rebuilding the Third Temple themselves.
It is disconcerting to me that what the Bible calls things that are earthly symbols of Heavenly realities, that so many Christians get fixated on the symbols, ignoring how the earthly symbols only become idols to people who throw off their focus of the Heavenly reality. Yes, I'm talking about red heifers, 3rd temple, Ark of the Covenant.
When I left the Messianic congregation I went out to find Christian churches in the area that were open to embrace the body of Messiah in Israel. It would have been nice to find some that also operate in the gifts of the Spirit, but mostly they were too focused on gifts to embrace the Israel thing. Other churches, not so spiritual gift focused, did embrace Israel, but much fewer had any vision whatsoever of God specifically committed to raising up of the Body of Messiah in Israel.
Both types were disconcerting because God has made it a necessity of "one new man" unity between Christians and Israel's Messianic believers fulfilling their mandate of bringing Israelis into the faith of Messiah before the end of the age.
That unity is why Israeli unsaved rabbis rally against the Messianic believers and those that support them. Yeah, I have been intolerant of them too, although I am well aware that the apostle Paul was the proverbial forerunner of rabbinic opposition being knocked off their high horse blinded by the radiance of Yeshua.
They are coming too, but they aren't the first ones that are coming to faith. Many Christians seem to think the religious in Israel are closer to God than the worldly, but it isn't so. The worldly will seek His peace long before most of the religious.
I found I could not sit in Christian churches that did not have an inkling of what God is going to do in one new man. Long term for me it would be like going to a church were the gifts of the Spirit are not believed to be for today. Some are called to sit there and pray for that church, but I guess I need to be fed myself more than that. I get that online.
My intolerances about spiritual things. I truly don't want to be abrasive to people who don't see what God is up to with the Church and body in Israel. I never have been a Diplomacy-First writer. I do pray God will help me to be more patient with people so they can learn about the things so pivotal to what we have already begun to walk out regarding one new man. And I pray also that more Christians would Awake and Arise to their calling to unity with Israeli believers.
I searched for a suitable picture to go with the verse in my spirit this morning. In the place that I found this picture of Amos 3:3, I also found this quote which is ultimately the answer.
"The essence of faith is the power of agreement with God and who He is that releases His supernatural power. The Word of God has the inherent power to carry it out (Hebrews 4:12; Isaiah 55:11). Therefore, we must walk in agreement with God and His Word. But we must grow into agreement with God which is a process (Romans 10:17)."
Then came my intolerance for Christian preaching and prophetic that smacked of replacement ideas (Christians have replaced Israel as God's Chosen people after God rejected Israel). Not what I was reading in my Bible and in the same time frame I was exposed to an Israeli believer who opened my eyes to "one new man."
When I went into a Messianic synagogue next I found I became intolerant of the delight in people as prophets who claimed whenever a natural disaster like a hurricane or volcano or earthquake hit, that the reason was God punishing America for some bad move the President made against Israel.
And I also became quite intolerant that Christians who hung on every word of unsaved rabbis talking about rebuilding the Third Temple. Don't people read their Bibles, or what?! That temple is not the one GOD is building in Israel by faith in His Son. That Third Temple is the AntiChrist temple. Why would Christians delight in the building of that and not in the building of the LIVING Temple. (Yeah, I know, you only embrace that because it means Jesus will be returning soon. Honestly, the salvation of Jews in Israel is a MUCH BIGGER sign of Yeshua's return).
And why don't American Messianic congregations correct that? Maybe because at least Christians are finally supporting Israel. Or,
maybe even because there are some Messianic ministries in Israel that embrace the fascination of rebuilding the Third Temple themselves.
It is disconcerting to me that what the Bible calls things that are earthly symbols of Heavenly realities, that so many Christians get fixated on the symbols, ignoring how the earthly symbols only become idols to people who throw off their focus of the Heavenly reality. Yes, I'm talking about red heifers, 3rd temple, Ark of the Covenant.
When I left the Messianic congregation I went out to find Christian churches in the area that were open to embrace the body of Messiah in Israel. It would have been nice to find some that also operate in the gifts of the Spirit, but mostly they were too focused on gifts to embrace the Israel thing. Other churches, not so spiritual gift focused, did embrace Israel, but much fewer had any vision whatsoever of God specifically committed to raising up of the Body of Messiah in Israel.
Both types were disconcerting because God has made it a necessity of "one new man" unity between Christians and Israel's Messianic believers fulfilling their mandate of bringing Israelis into the faith of Messiah before the end of the age.
That unity is why Israeli unsaved rabbis rally against the Messianic believers and those that support them. Yeah, I have been intolerant of them too, although I am well aware that the apostle Paul was the proverbial forerunner of rabbinic opposition being knocked off their high horse blinded by the radiance of Yeshua.
They are coming too, but they aren't the first ones that are coming to faith. Many Christians seem to think the religious in Israel are closer to God than the worldly, but it isn't so. The worldly will seek His peace long before most of the religious.
I found I could not sit in Christian churches that did not have an inkling of what God is going to do in one new man. Long term for me it would be like going to a church were the gifts of the Spirit are not believed to be for today. Some are called to sit there and pray for that church, but I guess I need to be fed myself more than that. I get that online.
My intolerances about spiritual things. I truly don't want to be abrasive to people who don't see what God is up to with the Church and body in Israel. I never have been a Diplomacy-First writer. I do pray God will help me to be more patient with people so they can learn about the things so pivotal to what we have already begun to walk out regarding one new man. And I pray also that more Christians would Awake and Arise to their calling to unity with Israeli believers.
I searched for a suitable picture to go with the verse in my spirit this morning. In the place that I found this picture of Amos 3:3, I also found this quote which is ultimately the answer.
"The essence of faith is the power of agreement with God and who He is that releases His supernatural power. The Word of God has the inherent power to carry it out (Hebrews 4:12; Isaiah 55:11). Therefore, we must walk in agreement with God and His Word. But we must grow into agreement with God which is a process (Romans 10:17)."
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