The Most Hated People on Earth

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The Most Hated People on Earth

Saturday, 03 September 2011 09:00

Written by Ron Cantor

Who are the most hated people on earth? The Christians? The Jews? White Anglo Saxon men? African Americans? Homosexuals? The KKK? The truth is that the most hated people on the face of the earth are the Messianic Jews! We are hated by just about every group out there, from the Klan to Iran. Why? Just think about it:

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• We are Jews—the most hated ethnic group in history.
  
• We are Believers in Yeshua—It seems that today anyone who believes in the bible and the principles therein are bigots and haters.
  
• The non-Messianic Jewish Community is poisoned against us teaching their children that we want to destroy Judaism.
  
• Much of the Christian Community sees us as Judaizers (Gal. 3), trying to bring believers under the Law (which we aren't).
  
• And even many Christian leaders who believe that we are legitimate distance themselves from the Messianic community because of not wanting to offend other Jewish people.
  

So one can imagine why a Messianic Jew might be happier blending into the larger Christian world, rather than boldly identifying himself as a Jewish believer. Some Messianic Jews go the other way, distancing themselves from the Church world completely—and in some occasions, even denying Yeshua in the end—because of the pressures from both the Jewish and Christian communities.

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[mizzdy]

Absolutely true! Messianics of all walks get a terrible rap in general whether they are Jewish by birth or believed to be grafted into Israel and want to keep His feasts and Torah. Just think how those of us who say the Sabbath is for all today and that we keep the Feasts get treated all over forums, imagine a Jewish person who comes to faith in Yeshua, they are shunned by their families and friends, they are treated badly by mainstream christianity for even thinking Torah, Gods commandments are to be followed still. The Messianic Jew is what we saw in the first century church with a spattering of gentiles who joined themselves to them and kept the Sabbath and Feasts. Its a hard road to follow, I know many Messianic Jews who feel very unloved by what is supposed to be their brethren. And when they call us gentiles Israel or Ephraim because they know scriptures indicate Ephraim is to come back and rejoin them they are laughed at and ridiculed just as those of us who do also see things that way. I pray He comes again soon!

shalom,

Mizz

[Guest yod]

There is nothing new under the sun~

The messianic jew was hated and persecuted by other Jews in the first century....and then completely ostracised and rejected by the so-called "church" in the early centuries

This is how the Body of Messiah lost it's Jewish heritage and became a greek religious organization. Change began in 1967 and is slowly emerging...but there is always room for a broader and quicker acceptance of the Remnant of Israel from the christian community.

[coelacanth]

There is nothing new under the sun~

The messianic jew was hated and persecuted by other Jews in the first century....and then completely ostracised and rejected by the so-called "church" in the early centuries

This is how the Body of Messiah lost it's Jewish heritage and became a greek religious organization. Change began in 1967 and is slowly emerging...but there is always room for a broader and quicker acceptance of the Remnant of Israel from the christian community.

I agree with your historical assessment of this issue. However despite Christ moving with other people there has always been a remnant of God people Jews and Gentiles all over this world. So says His word so I know it is for sure the truth. One of the prophets, I don't recall which one right now, said long ago that he was the only follower of God left and he was begging for God to kill him. God told him he was wrong and that there was a remnant in Jerusalem along numbering 1000 that had never worshiped an idol. If there were 1000 people in one place that long ago how many more were there in other places? God has always had His people scattered all over the world, like salt, flavoring life for all the lost souls that wander through this world.

[Guest yod]

There is nothing new under the sun~

The messianic jew was hated and persecuted by other Jews in the first century....and then completely ostracised and rejected by the so-called "church" in the early centuries

This is how the Body of Messiah lost it's Jewish heritage and became a greek religious organization. Change began in 1967 and is slowly emerging...but there is always room for a broader and quicker acceptance of the Remnant of Israel from the christian community.

I agree with your historical assessment of this issue. However despite Christ moving with other people there has always been a remnant of God people Jews and Gentiles all over this world. So says His word so I know it is for sure the truth. One of the prophets, I don't recall which one right now, said long ago that he was the only follower of God left and he was begging for God to kill him. God told him he was wrong and that there was a remnant in Jerusalem along numbering 1000 that had never worshiped an idol. If there were 1000 people in one place that long ago how many more were there in other places? God has always had His people scattered all over the world, like salt, flavoring life for all the lost souls that wander through this world.

Agreed, but I didn't propose otherwise in the first place so I'm not why that is relevant? I don't assume that there weren't saved jews or gentiles in the earth at any time.

All I said was that the actual and legitimate remnant of Israel was "cleansed" out of the so-called "church" in the early centuries. The "church" has been practically juden-frei since the Nicean Creed because it was mostly so by the 3rd-4th centuries already. I can only find 2 or 3 of the so-called "early church fathers" who were not virulently anti-semetic. This, though the one commandment Yeshua proposed was "love one another as I have loved you".

And we wonder why there are so many denominations and errors today???

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[other one]

I dislike IRS agents much more than I do Messianic Jews. I probably don't count though

[OldShep]

This may be true today, "The truth is that the most hated people on the face of the earth are the Messianic Jews! ", however, in time all of us who stand up for Jesus, will be taking their place on that most hated list.

Dennis.

[nebula]

This may be true today, "The truth is that the most hated people on the face of the earth are the Messianic Jews! ", however, in time all of us who stand up for Jesus, will be taking their place on that most hated list.

This would mean that by then Gentile Christians stopped persecuting the Messianic Jews.

[Botz]

I largely agree with Ron Cantors assessment of things although I believe he runs shy of a significant factor in all this.

Messianic Judaism is a new phenomenon within the body of Messiah, at least in the way it has gradually emerged since the end of the war, the holocaust and the rebirth of the State of Israel.

As Gentile Believers we are often a suspicious cautious lot especially when it comes to embracing new things in our own communities let alone a totally new and unknown movement within our own ranks, that has significant differences and specific emphases that are far removed from what many Gentile Believers are familiar with. As Messianic Judaism has gathered pace, the mistrust and uncertainty within the Gentile Body has dissipated to some degree, but the fact is that as Messianic communities and teachings have spread there have been some rather whacky elements emerging, with some very strange ideas. Unfortunately these have been focused on and given headline treatment with the Christian media...therefore it is my belief and to some degree experience, that this is another reason why the Messianic community is not embraced as a whole....there are serious legitimate doubts by many that are reluctant to do much more than stick a toe in the water....no one quite knows exactly what the flavour of Messianic Judiasm is meant to taste like.

Thoughtfully Botz

[Guest yod]

no one quite knows exactly what the flavour of Messianic Judiasm is meant to taste like.

matza ball soup!