FIVE VIEWS OF THE JEWS

Prepared by James D. Cunningham Ed.D. jdcunningham@telus.net © 22 January 2017

REJECTED	REPLACED	RESTORED	REDEEMED	RECOVERED (Blended View) (*)
This view tends to believe Jews (are)…
Rejected by God	Replaced by The Church	Restored by The Messiah	Redeemed by The 1^st Covenant	“Stumbled” for a Season – but will one day be “brought in” (Rom 9:32-33; 11:11; 23-26)
This can lead Gentile Christians to a…
Anti-Jewish Attitude and Actions	Neutrality Bordering on Indifference	Sympathetic Respect	Pro-Jewish Position	Respect for the seed of Abraham which will yet turn and be saved
With a concern for…
Exposing Jews as Evil Conspirators	Evangelizing Jews to Accept Christ	Loving Jews Provoking to Jealousy	Comforting Jews Almost “do no wrong”	Praying / Testifying to Jews re: māšīaḥ / Grieving over Jacob
This group tends to view Jews as:
“Anti-Christ” Murderers of Jesus	Equal to Gentiles: all have sinned	The “Root” (Christians are grafted “Branches”)	Special People “Chosen” by God	Distinct People – but not above the “law of Christ”
Therefore Jews have…
No rights to live among us (or live?)	No rights to salvation as Jews	The right to remain Jews/Jewish	Special rights in God’s plan as Jews	A destiny in the kingdom of God as a distinct nation
They tend to view Israel as:
An Abrogation	A Counterfeit	A prelude to Messiah	A Messianic Kingdom	A people with whom God is not yet done, and who will yet see the “salvation of the LORD”
And finally they tend to view Jews/Israel as
Despised / Doomed In God’s eyes	Potential Disciples (John 8:24)	Special Category Need to Dialogue	Redeemed as a Nation (1^st Covenant)	Under a curse (the veil of 2 Cor. 3:14-16), but who will one day “turn to the LORD” and see the veil lifted and the curse removed. Zechariah 12 & 13

(*) Thanks to Thomas Dolhanty for the Recovered (Blended View) based on Romans 9:32-33; 11:11)