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Firstly, this community of Jewish believers was so early that writings show an even earlier stage than some of the New Testament writings. In the latter writings, yes, there were still a lot of Jews in the "church" but most members were gentiles, who, suprisingly, believers in Jesus the Jewish Messiah. The New Testament tells these gentile believers, please, respect your Jewish brothers and sisters in your midst. They were there before you in the faith of the Lord. You gentiles are only recent "grafts" into the seed of Abraham. But these Odes are so early that the opposite situation was existing. The community of Jesus was almost totally Jewish and gentiles were starting to come in as believers, and so the Jewish believers had to be told, please, do not dishonor these gentiles who are now coming into your midst. do not despise them. Who told them that? Well it was Jesus Himself. That is right in the middle of Ode 10, which lthe community chanted together, Jesus speaks to them, sort of like the Prophets of old, when the Lord suddenly speaks through the words of the prophet, and Jesus says, "The Gentiles who were dispersed are now gathered together. But I am not defiled in my loving them, because they praised Me in high places" *. And so, we understand, don't you do the same!

Firstly, this community of Jewish believers was so early that writings show an even earlier stage than some of the New Testament writings. In the latter writings, yes, there were still a lot of Jews in the "church" but most members were gentiles, who, suprisingly, believers in Jesus the Jewish Messiah. The New Testament tells these gentile believers, please, respect your Jewish brothers and sisters in your midst. They were there before you in the faith of the Lord. You gentiles are only recent "grafts" into the seed of Abraham. But these Odes are so early that the opposite situation was existing. The community of Jesus was almost totally Jewish and gentiles were starting to come in as believers, and so the Jewish believers had to be told, please, do not dishonor these gentiles who are now coming into your midst. do not despise them. Who told them that? Well it was Jesus Himself. That is right in the middle of Ode 10, which lthe community chanted together, Jesus speaks to them, sort of like the Prophets of old, when the Lord suddenly speaks through the words of the prophet, and Jesus says:

 

"'''The Gentiles who were dispersed are now gathered together.'''

 

'''But I am not defiled in my loving them,'''

 

'''because they praised Me in high places"''' *.  

 

And so, we understand, don't you do the same!

   

   

Hebrew:  "'''k'''o'''s''' shel '''H'''a'''l'''a'''v''' ni'''q''' '''r'''e'''v'''ah ei'''l'''ay '''w'''e'''sh'''a'''t'''i'''t'''i, be hasday ha Adon. Ha'''B'''e'''n''' hu ha'''K'''o'''s'''" (Hebrew speakers would know that the Aramaic '''BR''' is the Hebrew '''BN''' from "Bar Mitzvah" - "Son of the Commandment)"

Hebrew:  "'''k'''o'''s''' shel '''H'''a'''l'''a'''v''' ni'''q''' '''r'''e'''v'''ah ei'''l'''ay '''w'''e'''sh'''a'''t'''i'''t'''i, be hasday ha Adon. Ha'''B'''e'''n''' hu ha'''K'''o'''s'''" (Hebrew speakers would know that the Aramaic '''BR''' is the Hebrew '''BN''' from "Bar Mitzvah" - "Son of the Commandment)"

**Note: Where this Jewish Christian community of Jews lived was either Edessa (not Odessa), the capital of the ancient kingdom of Osrhoene, or nearby Arbela, the capital of Adiabene. Adiabene was the very last province of the ancient and much feared Assyrian Empire (Jonah was sent by God to Assyrian capital of Nineveh) . In the first century, the queen of Adiabene became Jewish with many of her nobles. Adiabene was the only country to send in fighters to fight alongs side the Jews in their revolt. against the Romans in the first century. This queen of Adiabene was much honored by the Jews because of this and her charitable works during the same famine that Paul writes about in the New Testament, and she is called in Hebrew , Queen Peace of Zion - Shlomzion Ha Malka. Israeli archaeologist, Michael Avi Yonah, believed (and constructed in his model of the 1st century City of David now in Jerusalem's Hebrew Museum) a full one half of the City of David to be Queen Shlomzion's palace. When she died, she was buried in a grand tomb in Jerusalem of her day, now located on Salah id-Din street in East Jerusalem. This tomb was so grand that it was thought by 19th and 20th century archaeoogists to be the tombs of the Kings of Israel. My bank in Jerusalem was situated on Shlomzion Ha Malka street.

**Note: Where this Jewish Christian community of Jews lived was either Edessa (not Odessa), the capital of the ancient kingdom of Osrhoene, or nearby Arbela (modern day Irbil in Iraq), the capital of Adiabene. Adiabene was the very last province of the ancient and much feared Assyrian Empire (Jonah was sent by God to Assyrian capital of Nineveh) . In the first century, the queen of Adiabene became Jewish with many of her nobles. Adiabene was the only country to send in fighters to fight alongs side the Jews in their revolt. against the Romans in the first century. This queen of Adiabene was much honored by the Jews because of this and her charitable works during the same famine that Paul writes about in the New Testament, and she is called in Hebrew , Queen Peace of Zion - Shlomzion Ha Malka. Israeli archaeologist, Michael Avi Yonah, believed (and constructed in his model of the 1st century City of David now in Jerusalem's Hebrew Museum) a full one half of the City of David to be Queen Shlomzion's palace. When she died, she was buried in a grand tomb in Jerusalem of her day, now located on Salah id-Din street in East Jerusalem. This tomb was so grand that it was thought by 19th and 20th century archaeoogists to be the tombs of the Kings of Israel. My bank in Jerusalem was situated on Shlomzion Ha Malka street.