#10 on the list? Gentile Christians world-wide are awakening to the Jewish identity of Messiah.
Regarding how this came about in gentile Christian circles, the article states,
The shift came in stages: first a brute acceptance that Jesus was born a Jew and did Jewish things; then admission that he and his interpreter Paul saw themselves as Jews even while founding what became another faith; and today, recognition of what the Rev. Bruce Chilton, author of Rabbi Jesus, calls Jesus' passionate dedication "to Jewish ideas of his day" on everything from ritual purity to the ideal of the kingdom of God — ideas he rewove but did not abandon.
Interesting article. It is unfortunate they failed to mentioned the increasing number of Christians celebrating the Feasts of the Lord, Scriptural holidays which Christians for over a thousand years have deemed "too Jewish" and have not been widely celebrated since the organization of the Roman state religion 1700 years ago.
Neither does the article mention the rise of Messianic and Nazarene Judaism in Israel and abroad, nor does it touch on the various Hebraic-roots movements which attempt to restore the faith in Messiah closer to its origins and further from its Roman and often pagan influences.
What is really happening is God is moving Jews and gentiles closer to Himself. When we gather closer to Him, the strife and grumblings between us begin to crumble. This is why we see gentiles abandoning the Roman and pagan elements of their religion and restoring the Messiah of Israel as the center, some even going as far as to keep Torah. Yes, kashrut-keeping goyim Christians -- God works in mysterious ways.
And on the other side of the spectrum, we are witnessing a miracle in this modern time: the Jewish people in greater number are taking this great leap of faith to accept what Jews have for so long regarded as unacceptable: that moshiach did come and his name is Y'shua, whom the gentiles call Jesus. Both are going through a transformation that transcends the religions of Christianity and Judaism.
The article focuses only on the gentile side of things, yet what God is doing among the Jewish people is even more amazing: Jews turning to the Jewish Messiah in numbers not seen in 2 millenia. And unlike the shameful, evil forced conversions of the old world Church, these are folks coming to know the Messiah in his authentic identity: as a Torah-observant, zealous Jewish rabbi who made full the Torah and the prophets, a rabbi who came not to start a new religion, but to open up to Jew and gentile alike all the promises of God and a way for atonement now that the Beit HaMikdash is gone and the Levitical priesthood is no more. Jews are seeing Y'shua as one of our own for the first time in nearly 2000 years. God is so faithful.
With the long history of Christian persecution of Jews, and early Jewish persecution of Christians, the long history of antisemitism in the name of Christ, the pogroms carried out, even the strife between us, one must come to the conclusion this is a work of God's fingers to bring us closer after this long separation. In retrospect, we can now see the whole mastery of it all, the wisdom of God that puts humanity's knowledge to shame: during this time, God was not sleeping; during this separation we have witnessed almost 1/3 of the entire gentile world come to know the God of Israel through the Messiah of Israel. The Lord is so good.
Despite the article's shortcomings, I'm happy to see God's move among the gentiles recognized by secular sources.