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   Robb Touchton
   July 27th, 2008 - 14:29

   Hi there,

   I’m just writing you to let you know I really love your website. I’m a Christian, have been most of my life, another story for another time. I’ve always wondered about two things.
   One: The Bible seems to speak of One Religion, One God and One Atonement for Sin, Jesus/Yeshua, and I used to wonder if we removed the divider page from between the two testaments would people get it? It always seemed to me that the differences in the two were the believers and non-believers of Jesus/Yeshua as Messiah.
   Then one day while stumbling through Yahoo groups, I came across the Messianic Talk group, with Batya Wootten as moderator. It was there that I was introduced into the Two House concept of Israel. I began reading Batya’s and Angus’ books on the Redeemed Israel and the fullness of the Feast of God.

   The second thing that I always wondered about was Jesus’ parable of the prodigal. Many Church teachers teach that it is about the salvation and the lost being brought back into God’s house. I use to wonder, well then all have sinned and gone astray then all are the prodigal and who was the son who stayed at home with the Father? Well in the context that the church teaches it would have to be Christ but the attitude was ALL WRONG. Then when I questioned it, I was told it’s about backsliders leaving Jesus and later realizing the error of their ways and coming back. Well I don’t’ have to tell you that although it was an understandable answer that it just didn’t satisfy me.

   Then when my eyes were opened, I was ecstatic at how it’s always been there, but not studying it before, I guess because it didn’t seem to be important for the Church and her daughters to teach probably because many of the Church were too busy with the “replacement” theory.

   It excites me how this spreading through out the world, as many Christians and Jews are either waking up to their part of Israel or their Messiah. But then Holy Spirit brings new awakenings to my spirit everyday. It was just recently that I understood better the story of Joseph and his brothers (Judah being the spokesperson) and that when they went to Egypt and saw the viceroy of the pharaoh didn’t recognize their brother because not only had it been awhile since they sold him, but he was clothed in pagan garb. I then related this to the two houses of Israel, seeing the Church as hiding Yeshua the Messiah in their own expression of a pagan Jesus.

   However with the wave of the seeking our Israeli roots many Christians are seeing the deeper meaning of the scriptures as presented throughout the entire Bible.

   I find the term Joe as delightful. When someone sees me reading a Messianic Book or a book about Israel, and that I don’t eat pork and recognize the Sabbath, when they ask me if I’m a Jew, I respond, no I’m a Joe. Boy is that an open ended response.

   Again, thank you for your site.
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   Hanok
   July 27th, 2008 - 17:24

   Shalom Robb… thank you for sharing your thoughts and testimony.

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