The Most Real of All Histories

Beloved for the Sake of the Fathers

In Romans 11, Paul gives the divine plan for human history.  It turns around redemption and deliverance of the human race.  A key dynamic driving the progress of redemption is the Jewish-Gentile relationship.  We learn that a hardness came over the heart of Israel, so that the Gospel could legitimately come to the Gentiles.  The latter, coming to reverence the God of Israel and worship His Messiah, make the Jewish people jealous, causing them, in their turn, to desire to return to the God of their fathers.  Then, in its turn,  return of Jewish people to the Messiah becomes the apex stone of blessedness for the entire world.

In certain periods of history, it has pleased the Lord to return to His ancient people, making the call of the Gospel life from the dead for them.  In such times, the veil appears removed.  It would seem that one such period of blessedness is occurring in the United States now.
  The population of Jews in the United States has been substantially increased in the twentieth century due to migration and flight from oppression in Europe and Russia.  Many of these end up becoming Christians.  The process appears to be two-staged:  firstly, Jewish immigrants become progressively more secularised; then they subsequently become Christians. 

This from Rodney Stark:

Moreover, the common wisdom has been that American Jews seldom convert to Christianity--and certainly not Jews raised in secular homes.  In fact, only Jews raised in secular homes or in a highly accommodated form of Judaism every convert to anything.  Studies of converts do not turn up persons from Orthodox Jewish backgrounds.

As for the claim that Jews rarely convert to Christianity, the results of the National Jewish Population survey conducted in 1990 . . . show otherwise.  American Jews currently exhibit a very high rate of conversion. . . . (M)ore than a third of born Jews have abandoned Judaism--16.4 percent have embraced irreligiousness and 1,325,000 (or 19.4 percent) have converted to another faith, nearly all of them to Christianity.  (Rodney Start, One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001], p.214.)

One in five descendants of Jewish families coming to faith in Jeshua, the Messiah of Israel and of the whole world.  While this currently flies beneath the radar screen, one day it will be shouted from the rooftops, to the joy of the whole earth.