Weekly E-mail Reminder

	HIDDEN LDS/JEWISH INSIGHTS #43 New Testament Gospel Doctrine Supplement by Daniel Rona Weekly E-mail Reminder “A CHOSEN GENERATION” 1 and 2 Peter; Jude ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1.) "HOW ODD OF GOD, TO CHOOSE THE JEWS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " W.N. Ewer, who wrote this jingle, could not understand why Israel is God's Chosen People. In "Fiddler on the Roof," Tevia asks, "God could maybe choose someone else?" "The Lord did not set His love upon you because ye were more in number than any people . . . but because the Lord loved you . . . Know therefore that the LORD . . . is the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" (Deuteronomy 7:7-9) "The covenant which signifies the special relationship between God and Israel is based on Israel being elected by God. God has chosen the Jews. Israel has also chosen God." "This is the thrust of the anonymous retort to the above jingle: "Its not so odd, the Jews chose God. (Encyclopedia Judaica Jr.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) BEING CHOSEN MEANS ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITIES: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The prophet Isaiah says that Israel . . . has been chosen for the task of spreading salvation . . . and must spread the true religion, and through it, happiness. "The prophet Jeremiah was extraordinarily important in the history of the people of Israel. In his criticisms of the people for their transgressions . . . and that after the sinful generation had died out God would contract a new covenant with the reformed people . . . " (Encyclopedia Judaica Jr.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE JUDAH AND JOSEPH: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Both Jews and Ephraimites are chosen - whether they like it or not. Jews maintain a tradition of a "Messiah Ben Joseph." The late Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook referred to the tradition when asked if the (Jerusalem) temple could be built soon. He deferred to a latter-day Joseph saying, "To him will be given the keys of the gathering of Israel, he will restore temple worship." Yet, the Latter-day Saints maintain that the Jews will build that temple. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4.) LDS PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR INSTRUCTS BARON ROTHSCHILD, A PROMINENT JEW: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rothschild said, "Elder Taylor, what do you mean by this (Salt Lake) temple?" President Taylor answered, ". . . One of your prophets said – ‘The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple’ . . . sir, will you point me out a place on the face of the earth where God has a temple?" Rothschild said, ". . . Do you consider that this is that temple?" President Taylor answered, "No, sir, it is not . . . The Lord has told us to build this temple so that we may administer therein [ordinances] for our dead and . . . matrimonial . . . covenants . . . you Jews have quite a role to perform in the latter days . . . you will be gathered to old Jerusalem . . . you will build a temple there; and when you build that temple, and the time has arrived, ‘the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple.’" (Gospel Kingdom, John Taylor, Page 293) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5.) TWO PEOPLES, JEWS AND LATTER-DAY SAINTS ARE PART OF THE COVENANT: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They are members of one family, separated by distance and time, who now seem to be coming together. In former days we may have heard, "How odd of God to choose the Jews;" and now in latter days we may hear, "There are complaints He chose the Saints." (Nonetheless) Saints and Jews, we are a family, a chosen family!
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