The historical basis of the Jewish people is helpful in understanding present day Israel and the struggles they have gone through in order to survive as a nation and a people. We have to understand that they went into the diaspora after the Babylonian exile, that they have been a displaced people, many times been persecuted by so called ‘Christians’ even to the extent that the Holocaust occurred due to a man who was supposed to be a Christian.
So when we approach the Jewish people, this historical information will make us more understanding to their present day political struggles and how God still looks upon them as His Chosen people. They just need to accept the additional New Covenant fulfilled in the person of Jesus, where He shed His blood for the forgiveness of sins forever. That this was promised to them as an additional covenant in Old Testament Scriptures, which was extended to us, Gentiles, who have been grafted in to the olive tree. And that Jesus came as a Jew so when they believe in Him, they become the Messianic Jews, completed Jews, still being the physical Israel. That God is good and One: salvation offered to both Jew and Gentile if they believe in Him. And we have to be sensitive as to who is a practicing Jew and who is a Jew because of their heritage who follows their traditions and who is a secular Jew, since there are differing degrees of commitment amongst them. We have to understand that modern Western Jews have fully assimilated into Western society. And that most of their concerns and activities are similar to our own.
SALVATION TO ALL
“For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing His riches on all who call on Him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:12-13.
JESUH KHRIH THEUNG IN KHAMHNAK!
Khrihfa tuanbia a hung tthancho tikah, ‘Jesuh’ timi min cu ‘Yahweh cu Khamhnak a si’ tiah theih a si. Biakam Hlun Bawi, Tlanhtu, Khamhtu, Pathian timi ruahnak hna in, hi sullam hna hi Jesuh le Khrihfa hna nih zeitindah an zumh timi ah an i thlen. 1 A ngaingai ti ahcun, a hnu ah, kan zumh ahcun, sualnak le thlarau muihnak chungin khamhtu le tlanhtu Jesuh kha kan hmuh cang, kan sualnak man pek awkah vailam cungah thisen a thlet! Cun Amah lawnglawng hi Pathian sin kalnak lam a si ti zong kha! Cu tikah Amah cu kan Khamhtu a si!
Amah he pehtlaihnak ngeih khawhnak ding caah atu cu hrinthannak hmuhtonnak kan ngeih a herh cang! Johan 3:3,16 ah hitin a ti: “ ‘Jesuh nih a leh i, ‘Biatak tein kan chimh, ahohmanh hrinthan a si lo ahcun Pathian Pennak cu a hmu kho lai lo’….’Pathian nih vawlei hi a dawt tuk hringhran caah a Fapa ngeihchunte kha a pek, cucaah amah a zummi paoh cu an thi lai lo, zungzal nunnak an ngei lai’ “Johan 16-25:16-25. hitin a ti: “ Jesuh nih amah cu, ‘Keimah hi thawhṭhannak le nunnak cu ka si. Keimah a ka zummi paoh cu thi hmanh sehlaw an nung lai. Cun a nung i keimah a ka zummi paoh cu an thi bal lai lo. Cucu na zum maw?’ “ tiah a ti.
Cucaah kan Khamhtu le Bawipa Jesuh he hrinthannak hmuhtonnak lawnglawng in a chuakmi Pathian he pehtlaihnak ngeih khawhnak ding caah kan sualnak kha zumh le i ngaihchih a herh! “Khrihfa nun hramthoknak ah cun mah le mah sualnak i hngalh a hau i mah zawn lawng aa ruatmi nunning kha hlawt a hau.”2
BIAHMAITHIHNAK
1Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright le J.I. Packer, eds., New Dictionary of Theology, (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, Khrihfa Theology,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),959.
HRIAN ṬHANNAK DAH A TANGLEI THLACAMNAK HI CHIM:
“Jesuh vailam cungah na thi tiah ka zumh,
ka sualnak ngaihthiamnak caah na thisen thlet ;
Cun ni thumnak ah a tho ṭhan!
Misual ka si ti ka hngalh. Ka sualnak ka ngaithiam ko;
Zaangfahnak tein ka lungthin chungah rak lut!
Ra law ka Khamhtu le ka nunnak Bawi si ko!
Jesuh kan i lawm”
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