CHAPTER I DESTINY A. THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD According to the Tanakh, the goal of the Jewish people is to praise, thank, confess, obey, and make known the living God—in the words of Isaiah, to be a light to the nations.1 But the Jewish people will never be that light to the nations without shining forth him who is the light of the world, Yeshua the Messiah.2 Yet the Judaism handed down to us by our rabbis has not prepared us for this. According to the Tanakh and the New Testament the goal of God’s
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