Brother Nathanael and Jews for Judaism

I am ambivalent toward Brother Nathanael. I am glad that he came to believe in Jesus, but I shake my head at his fanatical anti-Semitism. I suppose it comes with the territory since covenantal theology (where the Church is now Israel) is inherently anti-Semitic. I wish that more Christians would be less tolerant of such a theology.

I suppose I would agree with him more if he would just replace "Jews" and "Judaism" with "Progressives" and "Cultural Progressivism." Instead, Brother Nathanael cherry picks the Jews out of the Progressives and blames problems in the Western world on the Jews while ignoring non-Jewish threats.

That said, I think he gives a pretty good critique of Jews for Judaism.


I especially like when he calls Julius Ciss a "pompous ass" after Ciss deliberately misquotes Matthew. Nathanael also brings up a good point about the rabbis' own treatment of Messianic prophecy. They have to re-interpret prophecies like Daniel's so that some future person is still eligible for the role.

They also have to ignore that Jews are no longer able to prove tribal lineage. The most we can do is guess based on tradition regarding who is a Kohen or a Levi, or who descends from David. Even DNA only shows that people who claim to be from the Kohen line are in fact related. It does not prove that they are Kohenim. Only the temple records prove that (as mentioned by Josephus in Contra Apion), and those temple records are gone forever. I trust that when Jesus returns, he, being God, will be able to restore the knowledge of those records.

His "fellowship with demons" line is a bit harsh. While Jews have led the destruction of Western society through implementing cultural progressivism, we have to draw a distinction between Jews and Judaism. Orthodox Rabbinic Judaism is not culturally progressive, and culturally progressive Jews are far from being theologically orthodox. Ben Shapiro draws a good distinction here.

It's the progressives who are destroying Western culture, not Jews. Most religious Jews aren't progressives. Since Jews comprise about 2% of the American population, it should be obvious that the overwhelming majority of progressives aren't Jews.