by Juanita Weiss
I read a blog in which a Jewish believer said that Gentiles should rejoice that the Jewish leaders rejected Yeshua, for that is how Gentiles were grafted in (as if that would be the only way OR if it were the original way). Here is his quote:

Although I understand his point, I must say that it actually does not fill me with joy that I was allowed to partake of the promises of Abraham and of life in Yeshua BECAUSE the religious leaders failed to laud their King as King,  to worship their G-d as YHVH, OR failed to pay homage to their LORD as ADONAI!

Am I grateful that I was grafted in? I most certainly am!

Am I delighted to be of Abraham’s seed — a part of the cultivated olive tree? You bet I am!

YHVH had a plan — it was that the Jewish people would be a light to the nations and thereby they would point the Gentiles in the direction of the One, True G-d! Our current scenario has come out of their disobedience, not their obedience.

I do rejoice that I am a joint-heir with Messiah, but I do not rejoice in Israel’s disobedience! I am not rejoicing in their disobedience, even though their disobedience was good for me. YHVH in His omniscience knew that Israel would sin, so like a computer with its “backspace,” “delete,” “copy,” “paste,” and “undo” features, YHVH made it so that none of His original plans would be foiled. He made “another” way to reach the Gentiles out of the “same” way — His people!

I wish the religious leaders of Yeshua’s day HAD worshipped Him . . . because that’s the kind of worship Yeshua is deserving of! — the worship of wizened sages who poured themselves into a study of Torah, who understood signs (“otot”) and seasons (“moedim”), who understood numerology (“gematria”) and prophecy (“navua”), who understood the restoration of the world (“tikkun olam”) and the world to come (“olam haba”)! Yeshua was deserving of their worship!

You probably would not have been born if they had been obedient, some might say.

My responses: Do you know of any soul who has not been conceived that longs for birth?Whether or not I am here has nothing to do with those who are born giving Him the praise He deserves.

So YHVH says to them, “Since the Gentiles could not come in through your obedience, then I will bring them in through your disobedience” (Romans 11 paraphrased).

That is no cause to thank you, my Jewish friend, for your disobedience; it’s cause to thank Him for His grace (“chesed”)! For that, Father, I am grateful! Not even those that you have chosen could foil your plan for me.

I rejoice in the day ALL Israel shall be saved! You, Father, are deserving of the praise of the Apple of Your eye, your Treasured Possession. Not even the disobedience of the Gentiles will spoil your plan for them and for you to be worshipped!

What will excite me?

I will be thoroughly excited over the day that Israel eulogizes her Brother-King — Yeshua Messiah and say, “Baruch haBa B’Shem Adonai — Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord!”

In THAT, I rejoice!!!