Welcome to Prophecy Q & A with Jimmy DeYoung!
There are those who believe that when a Jew comes to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, he is still a Jew but a very special type of Jew … a Messianic Jew or a Completed Hebrew/Jew. The Messianic Jew is not a Biblical term. In Ephesians 2:11-18, it refers to what happens to the Gentile and the Jew after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ . Verse 14 “For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.” Before the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, there were two peoples in the world: Gentiles and Jews. A wall of partition was separating these two peoples. With the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, He takes that wall of partition out, and He brings two peoples into one creation. Verse 15 says, “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity (the wall of partition), even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of twain (two peoples) one new man, so making peace.” Gentiles and Jews, at the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ who came to know Him as their Lord and Savior, became one flesh, one people. The wall of partition was taken down. That refers to the Christian.
There are three members of the human family. I Corinthians 10:32 refers to humankind as three members in the family: Gentiles, Jews, and Christians. For the first 2,000 years of human history (Genesis 1-12) there were only Gentiles, believing and lost. There were no Christians. With the call of Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees, God calls him the first Hebrew (Genesis 14:13). His grandson, Jacob, was called Israel. His great grandson, Judah, was called a Jew. There are Jews and Gentiles for the next 2,000 years (Genesis 12-Acts 1).
On the day of Pentecost, Acts 2, the Holy Spirit baptized all of us who know Christ as Savior into the body of Christ. Only Jews were saved at this time. No Gentiles were saved. Acts 10 states that Cornelius is the first Gentile to be saved. Peter leads him to the Lord. In Acts 15, they have a church council meeting and James, the church leader, asks Paul and Peter to tell how they have been leading Gentiles to the Lord. When Paul writes in Ephesians about the two people becoming one, he is referring to the third member of the human family being formed: Christians.
God has a plan for the Gentiles, Jews, and Christians. God promised the Jew that they would be a nation forever. He would give them a piece of real estate (Deuteronomy 30), ten times the size of what they have today, including half of Egypt, all of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Kuwait, and three fourths of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The Abrahamic Covenant is the first promise (Genesis 15). God promised the Jewish people in the Davidic Covenant (2 Samuel 7) that they would have a Savior and Messiah at the Temple in the city of Jerusalem forever and ever. He promised in the New Covenant, “I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33). These are promises to the Jews only, not Christians. Christians will live in the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21, 22).
There is no word in the Bible that talks about the Messianic Jew. A Jew, when he comes to know Christ, is a Christian. In Antioch, they were first called Christians. They were Jews that were called Christians. Christians make up the body of Christ. Galatians says there will be no more Jew, no more Gentile. Paul says that he had forgotten all of those things. He was a Hebrew of the Hebrews who kept the law like no other man. He let those things go and pressed toward the mark; he was a Christian.
Jimmy DeYoung was a prophecy teacher and journalist who travelled the country and the world educating the Body of Christ of the future events foretold in God’s prophetic Word. His goal was to equip Christians with the knowledge and understanding of what God’s Word says will happen someday soon, so that they can make better decisions today. Dr. DeYoung went home to be with his Savior on August 15, 2021.
