"Stacy grew up believing that following Jesus meant betraying the Jewish people. She was so opposed to Jesus that she even refused to attend her own Jewish brother's baptism when he came to faith in Jesus! But everything began to change when she walked into a church and discovered they were worshiping the God of Israel. Then Isaiah 53 helped confirm what she was discovering, and her life was transformed through Jesus, the Jewish Messiah."
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Scriptures mentioned: Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.
3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.
4 Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon.
5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse,
6 and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
7 Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa.
8 Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah.
9 Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah.
10 Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.
11 Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon.
12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel.
13 Zerubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor.
14 Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud.
15 Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob.
16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.
Mary’s family lineage is traced back to King David through David’s son Nathan.
Matthew’s account emphasizes Joseph’s legal descent from David through Solomon, while Luke’s appears to highlight Mary’s physical descent through Nathan, linking Jesus unmistakably to the royal house of Judah. Though Elizabeth’s Levitical ancestry (Luke 1:5) shows familial ties to the tribe of Levi, Mary’s core lineage is consistently identified with Judah.
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They say: "Why did God only send prophets to Israel? Millions died without knowing God's ways." Abraham learned of God through Shem, (yes Shem was alive when Abraham was in his 30's) and followed God's ways.
What about Ham and Japheth? They saw the world before and after the Flood. They too knew who the Creator was and of his power.
Japheth's descendants were the most enlarged in numbers and in real estate. The Chinese (Japhetites) worshiped Shang-Di they called the creator God. Their ancient writing characters, literally depict Genesis.
Ham? I have very little knowledge about Africa's (the region his descendants migrated to) traditions and worship. If Canaan and his descendants give us a glimpse of their traditions...
Truth is, even without the influence of the sons of God, Israelites were still rebellious, and erred towards strange worship and strange gods.
Granted, the Lord's portion had an advange. Yet, we can see that the Chinese (probably the same for the surrounding nations), worshipped ShangDi until the 6th century BC.
The same goes for the descendants of Gomer a son of Japheth, they are up to this day part of those we call Jewish. Even though they hail from North West Europe, they kept their beliefs for a long time, but then somehow upgraded to the Babylonian/Talmudic influence.
(ESV) Deuteronomy 32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.
6 Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
7 Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
9 But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
After Babel, God divided the nations and sent them away in different directions, under the supervision of the 'sons of God' (principalities), but kept to himself the lineage of Arphaxad son of Shem.
Shem; Arphaxad; ..; Peleg; ..; Terah; Abraham; Isaac; Jacob (renamed Israel).
But most of the world did not have the Torah (God's law given to Moses). Israelites were to be a nation of priests. A holy nation meant to guide the world towards God's Ways, and that's why they were given the Torah. Over centuries, they failed and failed again to be the Holy nation to be an example to the world. That is why God made a New Covenant with the World, through his Son Christ Jesus.
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Definition Merriam Webster 2026:
The noun Jew is commonly used by people who identify as such, often as a deeply meaningful designation. However, use of the term by those who are not Jewish in generalizations about Jewish people, and especially in generalizations about Jewish people that draw on stereotypes, is highly offensive. Adjectival use by those who are not Jewish is also commonly considered offensive; Jewish is used before nouns instead.
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What Does It Really Mean to Be 'Jewish?'
Judaism is not strictly a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry. For instance, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews are both "Jewish." However, whereas Ashkenazi Jews often hail from Europe, Sephardic Jews often hail from the Middle East via Spain or Morocco. People of many different races have become Jewish over the centuries.
Although today Israel is often called the Jewish homeland, being Jewish is not strictly a nationality because Jews have been dispersed throughout the world for almost 2,000 years. Hence, Jews come from countries all over the world.
To be Jewish means that you are part of the Jewish people, a part of "The Chosen," whether because you were born into a Jewish home and culturally identify as Jewish or because you practice the Jewish religion (or both).
What Does It Mean For Jews to Be the Chosen People?
According to Jewish belief, Jews are the Chosen People because they were chosen to make the idea of one God known to the world. It all began with Abraham, whose relationship with God has traditionally been interpreted in two ways: either God chose Abraham to spread the concept of monotheism, or Abraham chose God from all the deities that were worshiped in his time. Either way, the idea of “chosenness” meant that Abraham and his descendants were responsible for sharing the word of God with others.
Who is a Jew?
Traditionally, a Jew is any person whose biological mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.
(It is interesting to note that all genealogies in the 'Old Testament' also called Tanakh, are given from the paternal side. Why do Jewish communities forgo this ancient tradition? I personally know why, but will refrain to state it.)
It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish parents who has not undergone the formal process of conversion but who believes everything that Orthodox Jews believe and observes every law and custom of Judaism is still a non-Jew, even in the eyes of the most liberal movements of Judaism, and a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox. In this sense, Judaism is more like a nationality than like other religions, and being Jewish is like a citizenship. See What Is Judaism?
This has been established since the earliest days of Judaism. In the Torah, you will see many references to "the strangers who dwell among you" or "righteous proselytes" or "righteous strangers." These are various classifications of non-Jews who lived among Jews, adopting some or all of the beliefs and practices of Judaism without going through the formal process of conversion and becoming Jews. Once a person has converted to Judaism, he is not referred to by any special term; he is as much a Jew as anyone born Jewish.
What Is Judaism?
What does it mean to be a Jew? Most people, both Jewish and gentile, would instinctively say that Judaism is a religion. And yet, there are militant atheists who insist that they are Jews! Is Judaism a race? If you were to say so, most Jews would think you were an antisemite! So what is Judaism?
Clearly, there is a religion called Judaism, a set of ideas about the world and the way we should live our lives that is called "Judaism." It is studied in Religious Studies courses and taught to Jewish children in Hebrew schools. See What do Jews Believe? for details. There is a lot of flexibility about certain aspects of those beliefs, and a lot of disagreement about specifics, but that flexibility is built into the organized system of belief that is Judaism.
However, many people who call themselves Jews do not believe in that religion at all! More than half of all Jews in Israel today call themselves "secular," and don't believe in G-d or any of the religious beliefs of Judaism. Half of all Jews in the United States don't belong to any synagogue. They may practice some of the rituals of Judaism and celebrate some of the holidays, but they don't think of these actions as religious activities.
The most traditional Jews and the most liberal Jews and everyone in between would agree that these secular people are still Jews, regardless of their disbelief. See Who is a Jew? Clearly, then, there is more to being Jewish than just a religion.
Clearly the term Judaism refers to the religion. The religion imparted from the laws given to Moses.
In the same way, Christianity is also a religion. With one major difference: Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
Whereas, in Judaism, Jesus Christ is not the Messiah. They are still waiting for their Messiah. As a Christian, you should refrain from reading their Talmud, as it literally trashes our Lord Jesus Christ.
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"Trysten was kicked out of her Jewish home for believing in Jesus. But she refused to walk away from her faith. What happened next in her family is nothing short of incredible."
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Christian woman comes up to Sam Shamoun and tells him the question of is it biblical to be Pro Israel and that it’s supported in the Bible but after seeing what the bible says about who are the chosen people of God in the new testament are those who believe in Jesus as the children of Abraham and that the Jerusalem we know of today on earth is not the Jerusalem that God delights in because Heavenly Jerusalem is the one thai believers are in.
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Scriptures: Matthew 21:33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
34 Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit.
35 And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.
37 Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
38 But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’
39 So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?”
41 They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.
44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!
11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour. Romans 2:26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—
25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—
26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. Galatians 3:15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
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26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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Their religion is Judaism.
Both Muslims and Jews are descendants of Abraham.
They are Jews by ancestry (from what was once the Kingdom of Judea), or by conversion to Judaism.
Historically They were 3 of the 12 (13) tribes (Israelites) of the Kingdom of Israel (1100 BC to 974 BC): Judas; Simeon; and Levi (priesthood tribe). Or the later split Kingdom of Judea (974 BC - 600 BC).
They were scattered or captive by invasions after 600 BC.
The King of Persia allowed the captives to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the destroyed 1st Temple.
Then Alexander the Great conquered Persia 330 BC.
After the Romans invaded what they later called the region of Judea, they destroyed the second temple in 70 AD, as Jesus predicted.
Some Jews migrated around the Mediterranean sea, and later all over Europe.
With the French revolution they then started to enjoy recognition (money lenders/bankers), and even migrated to the USA.
Hitler, Nazism, and WW2 reduced the Jewish population of the world by nearly 1/2.
1917 The Balfour Declaration: 1947, The Rothschilds finished the purchase from the British of the initial land for settlements and creation of the Nation of Israel.
Ensued 75 years of conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
