Messianic Theology
Having recently completed reading The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel G. Hummel (2013), John McKee offers a number of critical thoughts and observations on the influence of dispensational eschatology on contemporary Messianic thought and experience.
John McKee talks about a very inconvenient subject for many Bible readers: much of the record of Holy Scripture is present to reveal the faults and mistakes of God’s people. How do we need to better approach Scripture as a warning, with various stories and accounts to be heeded by the righteous?
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.
