My heart is stirred by a noble theme
The matter of us (non-Jews) being included in the Abrahamic Covenant is uppermost in my mind and heart right now. It resurfaced recently as I was going through my FFOZ studies on the Narrow Path , in last week's study " The Deeds of Abraham ". There, it affirmed what I already know: That through the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua of Nazareth , we are grafted into the House of Israel and become inheritors with the natural-born Jews. Then last night I did a short course on ChabadU by a lovely lady whose surname I cannot pronounce. It's wonderful to learn about all the Jewish texts , which have only in recent years become available to those of us who were not born into a Jewish context - for whose availability I am very grateful. The lady was saying, though, that Abraham is the father of the Jewish people. My reading of the Scriptures, however, tells me otherwise. A friend just happened to send me a verse from the Brit Chadashah this morning: "I assume that you ha...
