This is the forth study written from what I call the ‘Hebraic perspective.’ First some facts that frankly seems to be missed or quietly overlooked by a lot of Bible teachers and preachers. We all probably learned in Sunday School there are sixty-six books in the Bible. Keep in mind that is the number in the Protestant Bible. The Catholic Bible includes the Apocrypha. What those are, isn’t important at this point. What I want you to focus on is that sixty-four of those books were written by Hebrews/Jews. The two exceptions are the Gospel by Luke and the Book of Acts, also by Luke. Luke was not born a Jew but by his own admission believed he was well informed about the facts, (see Luke 1:3) enough to be able to write an accurate account of activities of Yeshua and the first decades of the Believers in Yeshua. Here are a couple more facts: Yeshua was a Jew. Many Christians will say, ‘Well, yeah, sure I knew that ’ But what they don’t say is that the modern church theology implies that because the ‘Jews’ rejected Him, He rejected them and their teachings and came up with a Plan B, as it were, for the Church. As we go through this study we will give much more detail to this concept. Here is another fact: all of the Apostles were Jews. Here is another fact: thousands upon thousands of the first believers in Yeshua were Jews, (Acts 2:41; 3,000 added, Acts 4:4; 5000 added, besides numerous accounts of where people were believing and joining the body of believers, ). The problem is that our modern church theology either implies or says outright that they all gave up their Jewishness. My study of the Book Acts goes into detail as to how they did not abandon their Jewishness. And we will deal with that more as we progress through Romans
