Addressing the Theological and Spiritual Issues of the Broad Messianic Movement
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics responds to three categories of questions: Tanach (OT), Apostolic Scriptures (NT), and theology/Biblical Studies.
1. Please tell me what the controversy is surrounding the Genesis 5, 11 genealogies.
2. Yeshua spoke to Mary Magdalene about their God.
3. Yeshua promises that Believers are spared from the hour of testing. This is strong support for a pre-tribulation rapture.
Today, many are wondering why there is a sector of individuals in the Messianic community…
J.K. McKee of Messianic Apologetics discusses some of the different literary and scientific approaches which are witnessed to Genesis chs. 1-11.
“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” (NASU).
The statements made by God in Genesis 9:3-7 are delivered after the Flood is completed, and humanity now has to rebuild itself. In most Messianic examinations of Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32), we often overlook what is being said here, for a variety of reasons. Vegetarian man is now told by the Creator that he is allowed to eat meat, something previously prohibited, with some specific stipulations on what to do with animal blood. Much of our avoidance of this section is likely because many Christians today use Genesis 9:3-7 as a proof text to show that while Noah and his family were allowed to eat meat, they seem to be told to eat the meat of any animal, which would presumably include those that would later be specifically classified “unclean.” It is thus asserted that the laws of kashrut given in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 were only temporary instructions for Ancient Israel that Noah did not have to follow.
Is this really what is asserted in Genesis 9:3-7, or is there more at work in the text that may be eluding us? What does this part of the early Genesis story tell us about animals for food, human beings, and the need to respect blood? Why did God extend permission for people to eat meat?
What does Genesis 9:20-24 communicate to today’s Messianics?
Does the promise of Genesis 48:19 have any relation to Romans 11:25?
This Bible Study podcast surveys the Book of Genesis from a Messianic perspective. Have your study Bible handy, and be prepared to take notes!
God created male and female in His image, with the same degree of dignity and humanity.
