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Sept. 7, 2018 - Brother Nathanael
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Messianic Jew Or Orthodox Christian?
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Lots of people ask me, are you still Jewish?
Well, yes, in a way, but in a way not.
Racially, I'm still a Jew.
Why deny it? Weren't St.
Peter and Paul still Jews?
I mean, racially?
And didn't St.
Paul once say to his fellow Hebrews, I am a Jew of the city of Tarsus?
I can say the same, I am a Jew, but in the city of Pittsburgh where I was raised in Judaism.
I can also say with St.
St. Paul, I was brought up in the synagogue.
And I add, went to Hebrew and Sabbath school, was bar mitzvahed, and raised in a Jewish
home by two Jewish parents.
But there's a difference now.
I'm no longer a Jew religiously.
I now believe in Jesus Christ.
Many say I should call myself a Messianic Jew.
But I'm a Christian now, and the name of Christ has been inscribed upon my forehead through orthodox baptism.
Didn't St. John of the Apocalypse say that Christ's name would be written upon the foreheads of his followers?
And besides, Messianic Jews are beyond the pale of the historic apostolic succession.
They're really Protestants, you know.
A movement shaped some 1600 years after Christ set up His church.
Messianic Jews, in my opinion, are basically Baptists with yamu kizan.
You can't have a little bit of the Law of Moses with most of it left out.
Remember that time you were in that hallway?
He's recording it all for everybody.
Sean Connery walks by, what do you do?
What do you do? What is expected of a godly man and a godly woman?
Keeping kosher and wearing prayer shawls doesn't quite get it.
For without a temple and a priesthood, there's no atonement for sins.
Atonement is through the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek, predicted by King David, intact in the Orthodox Church via
apostolic succession.
The order of the priesthood is to be executed on the day of the Holy Mass.
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Who said the Church is something of the past?
The future belongs to the sons of God, not the synagogue.
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