Beautiful King of the Jews - המלך היפה של היהודים

"Our King is a Jew. מלכנו יהודי."

I WONDER HOW MANY kings of earth go to heaven and realize, Hey, I was wrong. How many, defensive of a racial ideal, look the King of Kings in the face. I mean, I was King of (insert country) but now I see that He’s God. And He’s a Jew. A beautiful, wonderful Jew. There’s a local craftsman store that specializes in things made in foreign villages. It’s a beautiful thing to see what people are doing to survive. Some of them are amazing. But at Christmas, they carried nativity sets, and it was amazing how many were not Jewish. On the one hand, they were adorable. I myself bought Eskimo Joseph, Mary, and Jesus with a penguin and a polar bear instead of cows and sheep. But I knew when I bought it that it was incorrect. Jesus is Yeshua, son of David, who was the second King of Israel.

On the opposite hand, there is an organization that ministers the story of the gospel to the Jews and it’s amazing how many of the Jews think the New Testament is Catholic. A lot. The English Crusaders thought they should capture Jerusalem and make it Christian. Instead, they started a war. Thousands were killed, and for what? Jesus, King of the Jews, King of Israel of David’s ancestral line forever, will never not be a Jew.

We are Christians, but He is Christ. The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, is also Christ. Wait. What? Christ is Greek for Anointed One, and the anointing on the Anointed One is the Spirit. Who, we must know, can never die. Why does this matter? Because Jesus never wasn’t the Christ. Before birth. Christ. After being born. Christ. As a man ministering on the earth. Christ. On the cross. Christ. After death and before Resurrection. Christ. At Resurrection. Christ. Now, as King of kings. Christ. Are you getting this? He was never separated from the Spirit because He is the Christ. Read that s-l-o-w-l-y and let that sink in.

See, going back, way back. God wanted to make a nation for Christ to be born in, so He select a man named Abram, who He renamed Abraham, and from him, as many as the stars in multitude, came the nation of Israel and a line of kings that God did not want to create but knew would be created. And if you go to Matthew 1, you’ll see Jesus is related to all of them, so there’s those genetics to consider. Then the fact it was a virgin birth. Although Jesus loved his father, Joseph, His Father was the Father in heaven. And we can mix in John 1:1 which says Jesus created all things at the beginning, and Genesis tells us man was made in God’s image after God’s likeness. Why do you think that was? (Jeopardy theme.) Okay, I’ll tell you. Because Jesus would be born as a man. It’s like one beautiful circle. Sigh.

And speaking of circles, circling back to the beginning of this, Jesus is a Jew, and there is no place in the body of Christ (which is us) for racism. You should be able to enter a room and celebrate that she’s Ethiopian, and he’s Scottish, and they’re Brazilian. It should be a place of beauty not criticism. You should enter a room and neither race nor gender be the first thing you notice. Nor relationships, who’s with who. The church is not a social circle. It is a place of friendships, a place of encouragement. It is a full display of the love of God. We, as people, are a full display of the creativity of God, of the life of God. We are a place where women can shore up women in womanly things, and men can shore up men in manly things, and couples can find other couples and increase in knowledge and revelation of Him and of what it means to be husband and wife. But in none of that is there any room for hatred.

For physical reactions and mental knowledge without Christ in them become lust and greed and arrogance. In humility, we prefer others over ourselves, and when we do that, Jesus said the last shall become first. There is great reward in meekness, meaning God sees every good thing we do and never forgets it. God sees our support of Israel and blesses us. They are His covenant people, the heritage of His Son, who came to earth amongst them, lived as them, and died for them and the rest of the world, who He made into one body, Himself as the Head. Our King is a Jew מלכנו יהודי and His blood covers us all.

“And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” (Mark 15:26)

“For the sake of your house, Yahweh I will seek the welfare and prosperity of Jerusalem.” (Psalms 122:9 TPT)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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