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Sheik Palazzi and the Apostle Paul By: David Ben-Ariel

Congratulations on your Frontpage magazine interview! I'm very happy for you to
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Acts 15:19-29
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19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the GENTILES
who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted
by idols, from sexual immorality,from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For
Submit Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city,
being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen
men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who
was also named Barsabas, and Silas,leading men among the brethren. 23 They wrote
this, letter by them:

The apostles, the elders, and the brethren,

To the brethren who are of the GENTILES in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:

Greetings.

24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you
[Gentiles] with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and
keep the law"--to whom we gave no such commandment-- 25 it seemed good to us,
being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved
Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the
same things by word of mouth. 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us,
to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain
from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual
immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well."

So you see that Paul taught that the GENTILES should keep the minimum
requirements of abstaining from immorality, obeying the dietary laws, keeping the
biblical Sabbath and festivals!

The early Christian fellowship in Jerusalem, led by James the brother of Jesus
(Yashua), tried to correct this STUBBORN STIGMA AGAINST PAUL that
continues to this day and advised him:

Acts 21:20-26

20 And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are
who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law; 21 but they have been
informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to
forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk
according to the customs. 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they
will hear that you have come. 23 Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men
who have taken a vow. 24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their
expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things
of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also
walk orderly and keep the law. 25 But concerning the GENTILES who believe, we
have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they
should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things
strangled, and from sexual immorality."

26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them,
entered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which
time an offering should be made for each one of them....

So here the Jewish-Christian leaders in Jerusalem praised the zeal and devotion of
the Jews, but were acknowledging that wild rumors and false allegations,
disinformation, had been spread against Paul. To prove such charges were
groundless, that Paul continued to follow halacha, Jewish traditions and Torah, they
encouraged him to go sacrifice with Jews under a Nazarite vow, which he did! Paul
sacrificed in the Temple, but then another misunderstanding and rumor spread that he
had taken a Gentile into the Temple! Oy veh!

Paul never taught that the Jews' rejection of Jesus changed their status as the Chosen
People! He taught that the prophesied partial blindness had happened, but that it was
all for the mysterious purpose of God bringing in converted Gentiles into the Israelite
fold, the Israelite root and branch of the Jewish Church of God!

Romans 11:1

1 I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite,
of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:25-36

25 For I do not desire, [Gentile] brethren, that you should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has
happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel
will be saved, as it is written:

" The Deliverer will come out of Zion,

And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

 27 For this is My covenant with them,

When I take away their sins."

28 Concerning the gospel they are [presently] enemies for your sake, but concerning
the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the
calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have
now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now
been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32
For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

34 "For who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His
counselor?"

35 "Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?"

36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever.
Amen.

Paul acknowledges the animosity between Judaism and biblical Christianity, but
believes, according to his God-given understanding of the prophecies, that all's well
that ends well, and that it's all for a great purpose that God is working out in the lives
of all mankind. Paul reminds his Gentile audience that they're grafted into ISRAEL,
the Jews aren't grafted into a Gentile root and branch - that is counterfeit Christianity
represented by the Roman wolves in sheep's clothing!

I know Paul's writings concerning this veiled mystery of partial blindness and
ultimate restoration of all Israel (all Twelve Tribes) is difficult to grasp, but at least
we should clearly see that Paul NEVER taught that Jews should stop circumcising
their children, forsake the Temple services (he participated in them!) or abandon the
ritual commandments of the Torah. He merely taught that such things were not
necessary for GENTILE converts to Christianity, as God is witness.

Most sincerely yours,

David Ben-Ariel

David Ben-Ariel, a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's

Rise and Fall, shares a special focus on the Middle East, reflected in hard-hitting
articles that help others improve their understanding of that troubled region.
http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com
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