In times when the writing of this book begins, we are witnessing a true explosion of the so-called Messianic Judaism in Israel and abroad. Currently there are hundreds of thousands of Messianic Jews all over the world and the number of followers is growing rapidly. They’ve created not only their own religion but also the whole culture.
This development is certainly positive but not everyone in the diaspora or so called Jewish State are happy about it. Critics see this movement as a deviation towards Christianity and treat this group as not only anti-Judaic but as anti-Jewish in general.
There are incidents in Israel when based on the Law of Return some Messianic Jews are treated as Christian gentiles and their Israeli citizenship is revoked.
What’s their fault? They believe in the coming of Jewish Messiah which they call Yeshua. They don’t believe in God as a supernatural power residing in the skies above the Earth but take a more modern position – believing in the living God, the God as a person.
It’s in common with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and therefore you probably won’t be surprised that many of the Messianic Jews believe that he is the Son of God. It’s very close to Christianity and conflicts with mainstream Judaism.
The author believes that they cannot be treated as Christians because they are circumcised as a sign of Covenant made by the God and his people. Therefore, they are truly Jews, at least in the sense defined by the God himself when he was speaking to Abraham and established Judaism.
Also, belief in the coming of the Messiah is not anti-Judaic, as it has been prophesied in the Holy Bible.
Then who is this mystical Messiah and why while ‘the whole world is seeking his name’, as the Messianic Jews sing in their songs, he wasn’t presented to the public yet?
The answer to the first question is easy one – the Messiah is the same person that is referred in the Bible as the Lord. Christians incorrectly believe that Jesus Christ was exceptional, that it was a special personification of the God. In fact, as Kabbalah teaches us, there were many generations of the Lord’s incarnations living on this planet since the world has been created.
It is natural for the Lord to have a Son, or sometimes many of them. The living God is no different from any of us. However, he lives in secrecy, often not knowing of the role he has throughout his life.
And here comes the term ‘Messiah’. The Messiah, we would say, is the Lord that is promised to be revealed and accepted, that will come officially to Israel, as Messianic Jews would add. Whether the current incarnation of the Lord will fulfill the prophecy is a different story.