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Promises To Israel was established to provide assistance for believers to reach Jewish people for Christ in their own circle of contacts. This site is exclusively dedicated to provide information and literature, acting as a research and training center to equip believers in presenting the Messiah of Israel to Jewish people.

Released 2019

The Law, Then and Now: What About Grace?

In your church circles, within your family or close friends have they been or are they in the process of being swallowed up in the Messianic Torah Observance movement: Being a believer in Christ and yet being taught that to be a good Christian you most keep the Mosaic Law. Or have you seen these same believers get tangled up the Hebrew Roots movement teaching the necessity of obeying the Mosaic Law because when they accepted the Jewish Messiah they have become Jewish and thus are to obey the Law of Moses and are to wear the entire Jewish religious garb and the keeping of the Jewish feasts?

Do you know of believers who use the man-made law as their default code of living the Christian life with all the legalism that goes along with it. This being prevalent in many believers in the churches to varying degrees were they have those made-man laws that must be kept, and use them as a limpness test to judge believers as to their spirituality or lack of it. All three of these teachings miss the mark and the intent of God in the Scriptures. They focus on Laws that cannot be kept, or they focus on other man-made laws [legalism] that are not given by God and they enforce them on other believers. Law keeping in any form is a works religion not solely based on Faith, and Faith alone by His Grace. We as believers are to focus on being Christ-like, not like Moses or someone’s else’s [legalistic] convictions. In my new book, The Law, Then and Now: What About Grace I deal the Then aspect with the purposes, functions and limitations of the Law of Moses showing to believers the Law of Moses has been rendered inoperative. It ceased to be the standard of living since the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as Paul clearly teaches in Romans and Galatians.

 

Released in October 2019

The Tri-unity of God is Jewish

The re-edited edition of The Tri-unity of God is Jewish that was originally self-published in 2005 and out of print for several years will be reintroduced October 2019. The cover will be the same, but it will be formatted for 7” x 10” instead of 8” x 11”. Because of the smaller format it will be around 400 pages instead of 300. This volume is the abridged work of Metzger’s signature work of 950 pages called Discovering the Mystery of the Unity of God.

Description of contents:

A Theological Study on the Plurality and Tri-unity of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. The importance of this critical study cannot be separated from the eternal destiny of Jewish souls. If you are witnessing to Jewish friends (or desire to do so), this book will enable you to present the Bible in a way that will help reach the lost house of Israel. Many Christian scholars down play the significance of the Tri-unity of God in the Hebrew Scriptures.

 

Released  2016

In the Shame of Jesus

Have you ever wondered why the Jewish people do not trust the “church” and want nothing to do with the Christian Jesus? Why have Jewish people received such bad press from Christians over the centuries? There is a hidden history of church sponsored anti-Semitism deeply embedded in the DNA of the organized Christian church. There are multiple skeletons in their closets. I remember having studied Church History in Bible School and not a word was given over to the conflict between Judaism and the organized Christian church.

Most people have some vague idea that something was not right between them, but they have no idea as to the hidden history that has made the Jewish people dig in their heels against the message of the gospel of Christ and wanting to distant themselves as far away from the church as could be possible. My good friend William Heinrich has spent much time in uncovering this hidden history of anti-Semitism of the church. His book opens up two completely misunderstood issues that have their roots beginning in the 2nd century church and the ramifications of that theological movement that still cloaks the minds today of most Bible believers who give great honor to the literal interpretation of the Scriptures.

   

Poking God’s Eye

Today anti-Semitism is on the rise again. It has always been a historical issue from the beginning of God’s choosing of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But few people connect the relationship that God has with the Jewish people and the State of Israel. The central issue is the Abrahamic Covenant of Genesis 12 and in particular verse 3. There God makes a clear statement as a warning to all Gentiles of all time. It is called the blessings and curses of the Abrahamic Covenant. It states the following, and I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you. Throughout this book I will show the outworking of the blessings and curses of the Abrahamic Covenant through nations and individuals who chose to curse Israel and, of course, those who chose to bless Israel. It is a promise to Israel and a warning to Gentiles from Genesis 12 through the tribulation period, and it has not diminished in intensity or departed from the mind and heart of God throughout all of Scripture. To curse Israel is to curse the God of Israel and today Christians and secular nations are cursing Israel and in so doing they are cursing God who provided them with salvation.

 

Released 2015

Israel’s Only Hope: The New Covenant

What is the New Covenant? In Jewish and Christian circles this subject will get a blank expression and a movement of the shoulder saying, “I don’t know anything about it.” Both Jewish and Christian audiences have a very inadequate understanding of this covenant. Jewish people do not understand it because they are completely focused on Rabbinic Law and do not understand that the law only judges and condemn a sinner, it does not remove sin. Whereas, the New Covenant gives everlasting life. It does what the Law was incapable of doing.