Them.

"and find out His name is Jesus"

A JEW faithful to his/her beliefs, worshipping Hashem and looking for Mashiach believes in heaven (Paradise) upon death. God is merciful to all men. He alone knows all hearts.

Which is more godly? A Christian who condemns Jews to hell for not believing in Jesus by name and so also His death and Resurrection? Such was Hitler in a fashion. Or a Jew who doesn’t know Jesus by name but trusts their covenant with the living God? Are both wrong, or is one of them correct? Condemnation isn’t Jesus, nor the Father, nor the Holy Spirit. John 3:17. We are told not to condemn or criticize others. We are not to argue or create strife but be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9). We are to bless the Jews.

We are told by Paul we have not replaced Israel on the vine. IT IS NOT us now and not them.

“Israel’s people are like the branches that God broke off. But you must not think that you are better than those proper branches. If you do begin to think like that, then you should remember something. Remember that you are only a branch. You do not hold the root up and you do not make it strong. No, instead the root holds you up and it makes you strong.” (Romans 11:18, EasyEnglish)

So what of these thoughts? Heard the answer today and rejoiced, the happiest I can recall being. It began with a word about a friend. Minister Jesse Duplantis’ vision of heaven came back to me and words from another who has had visits to heaven. Both talked of God’s mercy in who they saw there. Along that thought was God’s reassurance that broken marriages and personal failures do not keep Jesus from people. Nor do the myriads of religious rules made in churches. What joy there is to those who see heaven’s beauty and learn this.

Is hell full of condemned GOOD PEOPLE? Whose lives misstepped because of marriage failures, broken church doctrines, or a failure to meet the social requirements of their times. Those who divorced, but their church didn’t believe in divorce? Or one who remarried and that’s wrong? If this is the case, then would a GOOD GOD, a LOVING GOD, a MERCIFUL GOD send them to hell? Where is any of GOOD, LOVING, MERCY in that? That is the behavior of devils.

Minister Duplantis saw a man fall on his face in heaven’s courtyard and cry out, “I MADE IT!” The angel in attendance on him said, “God is merciful.” This is what I saw of my friend there. And that Jews face their Messiah and find out His name is Jesus. God is merciful. Heaven is full of those standing right beside the pastor they disliked, the believer they shunned, and the son or daughter they thought wouldn’t come. Only in God’s Presence there is no difference.

1 Corinthians 13 tells us we have but a small amount of knowledge. We are just a foggy mirror with the barest image (V12).

Abraham was righteous and died unsaved. Jesus told a story of him with a poor man in Paradise (Luke 16:23), so he is there. King David was righteous but had many wives, one which he stole from a man he had killed. Yet, the Word says he was a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22). And what of Solomon who built the temple at God’s bidding? Or Noah who is listed with many in the hall of faith (Hebrews 11)? What of the prophets? We’ve written all Jews off because of men like the Pharisees. But in a video, I watched a 106-year-old Holocaust survivor speak so tenderly of the care Hashem had for him. A Jewish boy of about 5 prayed to Hashem for those watching, quoting Scripture. The father of a survivor of those held by Hamas cried out his praise to Adonai for rescuing his son.

So one who calls themself a Jew, raised as a Jew, believing Mashiach is real and in heaven and God is merciful to them upon death, or even if they are unsure of it but hold to God’s promises, will find themselves cast into the cruelty of judgment? Or is it they will find a merciful God waiting to show them glorious things, the likes of which they have always known?

The church doesn’t call the shots. God does.

"Now, at this time, we know only a small part of everything that is true. And we can tell other people only a small part of the messages that come from God. Now, we have only a part of what God wants to give to us. But the time will come when he will give everything to us completely. Then we will not have only a part any longer." (1 Corinthians 13:9-10, EasyEnglish)

"Now we see things as if we were looking at them in a dark mirror. What we see is not clear. But the time will come when we will see everything clearly. Now we know some things, but then we will understand all things. God knows us and he understands us completely. And we will understand like that too, then." (1 Corinthians 13:12, EasyEnglish)

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:1)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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