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The Saints of the Most High
This thread came to my mind as I was reading the book of Revelation. It's about Revelation 14:12. "Here is the patience of the saints: Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus."
Needless to inquire, "by the commandments of God" we all are aware of, the author refers to the Law. But "by the Faith of Jesus" I am unfortunately sure that, if not all, the majority wish they could erase that text from Revelation because the reference is to Judaism and, there is no other way to deny it for it was the Faith of Jesus.
I see here a paradox because most Christians are ready to stand for the truth that Jesus was indeed a Jew and went through all the steps a Jew goes through to identify himself as a Jew. But that's when the cameo breaks his back because, Jesus' Jewish identity must be maintained but not his Faith. That had to be changed according to Paul in Hebrews 7:12,22.
The paradox goes on because, if Jesus' Jewish Faith is denied, his Jewish identity must go along. Paul found a way out without compromising Jesus in the flesh by declaring that his Faith had gone whith his death on the cross. (Ephes. 2:15) It means that Jesus died as a Jew and resurrected as a Christian so to speak as some of them imply to be the fact. How ever that could be understood, I see no other way but to conclude that Judaism is a religion of this life and Christianity of the afterlife. But according to Revelation 14:12, the saints of the Most High are those of the here and now.
This thread came to my mind as I was reading the book of Revelation. It's about Revelation 14:12. "Here is the patience of the saints: Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus."
Needless to inquire, "by the commandments of God" we all are aware of, the author refers to the Law. But "by the Faith of Jesus" I am unfortunately sure that, if not all, the majority wish they could erase that text from Revelation because the reference is to Judaism and, there is no other way to deny it for it was the Faith of Jesus.
I see here a paradox because most Christians are ready to stand for the truth that Jesus was indeed a Jew and went through all the steps a Jew goes through to identify himself as a Jew. But that's when the cameo breaks his back because, Jesus' Jewish identity must be maintained but not his Faith. That had to be changed according to Paul in Hebrews 7:12,22.
The paradox goes on because, if Jesus' Jewish Faith is denied, his Jewish identity must go along. Paul found a way out without compromising Jesus in the flesh by declaring that his Faith had gone whith his death on the cross. (Ephes. 2:15) It means that Jesus died as a Jew and resurrected as a Christian so to speak as some of them imply to be the fact. How ever that could be understood, I see no other way but to conclude that Judaism is a religion of this life and Christianity of the afterlife. But according to Revelation 14:12, the saints of the Most High are those of the here and now.
