Addressing the Theological and Spiritual Issues of the Broad Messianic Movement
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses how there are many issues in the Torah, which frequently go avoided by today’s Messianic people. How can we better understand some of these matters, not just from the perspective of the Ancient Israelites in the Ancient Near East—but through the effects of the Messiah event?
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
What do you think the biggest challenges are regarding today’s Messianic Believers and the Torah?
Torah observance is much more than just Shabbat, the festivals, and kosher. A great number of ethical and moral issues/commandments become significantly conscious to the Torah reader. Likewise, a person has to encounter a world going not only back some 3,300 years to the time of the Exodus, but multiplied millennia to the Creation of the cosmos itself. The questions and the controversies that the first five books of the Bible present to us, not just as students of God’s Word, but specifically as Messianic Believers—are quite significant. Many people do not know what to do when the social norms of the ancient period are different than those of today, and are often at a loss when reading the Torah. Not infrequently, such issues are just avoided or outright ignored in Messianic Torah study.
