Jewish roots of Catholicism - Journey Home - Brian Robbins

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Highlights of the discussion:

At 34:30, Mr. Robbins says:
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the jewish roots to the faith which are really started exploring in earnest as a
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be became a believer are extraordinary
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and and if it's OK me talk a little bit about
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just even Jesus and the Jewish calendar
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because it's really striking….



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exactly its like well that's a perfect segue to this
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so if you go back to the Hebrew Scriptures
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God told Israel, told the Jews that the first
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month of the year was to be the month we now call Nissan
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which is the month in which the Passover occurs and he told them that
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Why? because as I indicated the exodus from Egypt the redemption
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 from slavery is the single most important
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historical act in Judaism so that was supposed to be the first day of the month
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that's how important it was and in the month Nissan for the Passover holiday
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on the 10th of the month we're supposed to take an unblemished lamb
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you were supposed to inspect it to make sure that it was unblemished
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and the 14th day of Nissan you were supposed to slaughter the lamb
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and consume the entire sacrifice and the reason for this was that it was
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commemoration of the actual exodus
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when they slaughtered the lamb and put the blood on the lintels and
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the doorpost in order to stop the angel of death from coming into Jewish homes
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so what happens with Jesus? Jesus comes into Jerusalem
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if you do the math ultimately you will see, on the 10th day Nissan
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he's declared by Pontius Pilate to be without blemish
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he is crucified on the 14th of Nissan and we consume the sacrifice in the
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Eucharist
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parallels would not have been lost on a Jewish audience but they're too often lost
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today
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but it gets better what's the very next thing in the jewish calendar
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it's called the festival of firstfruits it's the first day
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following the first Sabbath of the Passover okay
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what is it? it's a grain offering to the Lord which if its acceptable would render
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the rest of the offerings to be acceptable
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well Jesus was crucified on a Friday that was the Sabbath
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of the Passover from Friday to Saturday first fruits was Sunday
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he arose and was resurrected on Sunday firstfruits
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and in fact his resurrection is described in Scripture as the
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firstfruits
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pointing to the resurrection that will be for the rest of us in the in the
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future
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again how his life is following just in the life and death of our resurrection
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Jesus following the Jewish calendar
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but it gets better the very next Jewish
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holiday is Shavuot is fifty days from the Passover
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it is a commemoration of Moses coming down from the mountain with the Ten
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Commandments
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the law written in the fingers of God in stone
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okay when you read the story of ah-
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Moses giving the laws in the Ten Commandments you remember the golden
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calf
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most people forget people who are interested in Scripture that he came down
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twice
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he came down with the Ten Commandments he smashed the first set because the Jews had been
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worshiping the idol of the calf
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and as a result of which Moses said who's with me
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and the Levites raised their hands and they said I want you to slaughter its terrible your
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brothers and sisters who
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engage in this terrible idolatry and said three thousand people lost their
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lives
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well now let's go look at the Christian calendar
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Pentecost is the same day as Shavuot
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on Pentecost what happens the law is written in our hearts
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instead instead of by the finger of God on the stone it's the new covenant
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Jeremiah 31 31 talks about the day a new covenant will be given
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which is different from the law of Moses for the law will be written in our hearts here it
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is on the same day and you know what it says
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3,000 people came to faith on that day, the parallel is unmistakable it
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cannot be coincidence and again this is from a Jewish perspective
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showing that this is the greater fulfillment of
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the things that happened in the past but the most exciting part is yet
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to come because very interestingly in the jewish calendar there's a long gap those
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holidays happen in quick succession
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and there's a very long gap  until you get to the fall festivals which is Rosh Hashanah
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followed by Yom Kippur followed by the Feast of Tabernacles
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Rosh Hashanah is known as the Jewish New Year everyone says Happy New Year
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but in Scripture its known as the feast of the trumpets
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and one of the reasons its known as the Jewish New Year even though its the seventh
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month of the year
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the Jews keep different calendars its the seventh month in terms of festivals
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because
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God said the first month had to be Nissan as it started it's the first month
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for purposes of the secular calendar
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it's because in the Babylonian exile it was the month of the Babylonian New Year
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Jewish New Year it's really the feast of trumpets which is very messianic the Talmud
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 talks about
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 Rosh Hashana the trumpets being a sign of the coming of the Messiah
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so I would look at that and say that's pointing to the second coming of Christ
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Jesus turned to the leadership of israel
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when he was about to be crucified said you will not see me again until you
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the leadership of Israel says, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
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okay this is gonna dispel dual covenant theology
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you will not see me again until you say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
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Rosh Hashana is looking forward to the blowing of the trumpets what happens
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during Rosh Hashanah
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its starts a period of 10 days of law a period
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of deep reflection and praying for the forgiveness of sins that's what Jews do
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today
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leading up to Yom Kippur which is the day of atonement
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and I believe that that is looking forward from an eschatological perspective that is
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looking forward to the day when the trumpets are blown
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Jesus returning the Jewish nation as a collective
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comes to recognize mourn for the one whom they have pierced  Zechariah 12:10
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as the prophecy goes call on the name of the Lord
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their sins will be forgiven which would be the fulfillment in the Jewish
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calendar on the day of atonement
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and the Feast of Tabernacles interestingly enough in the hebrew scriptures describe
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as in the end times a day when Jew and Gentile together will worship the Lord
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and that'll be the day when finally Jew and Gentile are united
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in Christ become ahad together ahad that means one finally uniting
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in Christ and all this will fulfill the greater prophecy
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of the bringing together of the lost ten tribes of Israel
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because Israel was twelve tribes
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and when we see Judaism today Jews today we're really talking about Jews Judah
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that's one of the twelve tribes the 10 northern tribes
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split off after Solomon's son was a bad king
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and they were conquered by the Assyrians and they disappeared into the
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Gentile nations and have been lost
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the two southern tribes Judah andt Benjamin were conquered by the Babylonians the
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Babylonian exile to read the book of
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Daniel but that exile only lasted fifty years
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and they they were restored and that's who the Jews are today
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God promised to reunite the twelve tribes and no one knows how
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this is the great mystery we can unlock it Paul in Romans says
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after the full allotment of Gentiles comes in all
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Israel will be saved how you gonna recover the lost ten tribes of Israel by
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preaching the gospel to the world
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and in with the Gentile nations comes all Gentile believers Jewish
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believers whether you knew you were to senator him Isaac Jacob or not or that
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distinction
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and finally all become one in Christ so to me
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christianity is the for fulfillment…..

Note from De Maria:

Mr. Robbins also said:
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and Jesus told the Pharisees that
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they said no we are not blind so he said well because you say you can see
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and deny me you have guilt if you had been blind you would be without guilt
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he turns to them if he had not put his miracles for you to see we would have not guilt
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but he performs his miracles and we have guilt
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God also says he desires that all all all mankind be saved
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that's his desire and  elsewhere tells us that he super nationally
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blinded Israel in large part

At 44:20, he says that God supernaturally blinded Israel, but it sounds a bit arbitrary.  That  is not the case.  God simply OBEYED what the Jews themselves commanded.  They said:

Matthew 27:25

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

In so saying, they admitted and incurred the guilt of the murder of Jesus Christ and implicated even their children.  

Does this mean that they are condemned?  No.  It simply means that they, for the most part, will not partake of the grace of Jesus Christ while they live.  However, if they obey the Commandments, God will judge them on the Last Day and they will be saved.  See also Advantage of the Catholic and What is the advantage of Catholicism.