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Originally Posted by Kevin  Good save Tom! I forgot all about the Messianic Christians (sic).  |
Most Messianics are (semi-) dispensational with "the Church" really being the Jewish church with gentiles grafted in and expected to keep the old covenant law, including the seventh day Sabbath, out of love for Christ, of course in an unbloody manner.
Some go so far as to suggest that gentiles ought to voluntarily undergo circumcision as an appropriate sign of inclusion in the essentially Jewish church. The reasoning behind this is that since Jews were both circumcised and baptized, so gentiles ought to do the same.
There are some Messianics who teach that while physical circumcision has been temporarily suspended in this age, that when Jesus returns to set up His millennial kingdom He will personally physically circumcise all who enter into it. Thus the kingdom will be populated only with true physical (circumcised) Israel.