Question: Dave, I am distressed by some of the ideas expressed [in The Berean Call]. The Lord Jesus ...

Question: Dave, I am distressed by some of the ideas expressed [in The Berean Call]. The Lord Jesus and his followers were and remained observant Jews…. Another distortion [in TBC] is that Paul dismissed the Torah. [No, he] is not telling Jews to disobey the Torah but  making it easier for Gentiles to come into the messianic movement. Paul’s warning against triumphalism on the part of the Gentiles has been ignored by most of the church who [are] pushing the sons of Jacob offstage [moving] the sons of Ishmael into their place…so Arabs are Israel and Jews are not….”

Answer: How can you imagine that The Berean Call holds to such ideas? We often express the opposite. Yes, “Jesus and his followers were observant Jews” before the Cross, but they did not “remain observant” after the Cross concerning anything that prefigured salvation. Of course, they kept the Passover and feasts that identified them with their Jewish history—but not the Sabbath (Rom:14:1-17 [1] Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. [2] For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. [3] Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. [4] Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. [5] One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. [6] He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. [7] For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. [8] For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. [9] For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. [10] But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. [11] For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. [12] So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. [13] Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. [14] I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. [15] But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. [16] Let not then your good be evil spoken of: [17] For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
See All...; Col:2:16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
See All..., etc.),nor the priestly sacrifices. Even prior to the Cross, Jesus (the Lord of the Sabbath) and His disciples didn’t keep the Sabbath according to the understanding of the rabbis, for which they severely criticized Him (Mt 12:1-13; Mk 2:23-28; Jn:5:8-11 [8] Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. [9] And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. [10] The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. [11] He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
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The legal system under which Jews were held (“law of commandments contained in ordinances”) was “abolished” at the Cross (Eph:2:14-22 [14] For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; [15] Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; [16] And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: [17] And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. [18] For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. [19] Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; [20] And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; [21] In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: [22] In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
See All...). The Levitical sacrifices for sin were all fulfilled and done away with in Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. This fact is beyond question: the “veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom”(Mt 27:51; Mk 15:38; Lk 23:45). Christ offered the “one sacrifice” that could take away sin, and therefore did away with all of the Levitical sacrifices, which were mere types (Heb:9:23-26 [23] It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. [24] For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: [25] Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; [26] For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
See All...; 10:1-22; etc.).

You say that Paul was “attempting to make it easier for Gentiles to come into the Messianic movement.” Your terms “Messianic Jews” and “Messianic Movement” are not found once in the Bible. Jews and Gentiles who claim to be part of such a “movement” have departed from Scripture! Sadly, these popular terms seem to imply that Gentiles aren’t really Christians in the full sense until they adopt Jewish observances. You don’t like the term “Christians,” but it is biblical (Acts:11:26And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
See All...; 26:25; 1 Pt 4:16). Though it was a derogatory appellation at first, the followers of Christ seemed to accept it.