Rejection By Family Is Never Easy...

I assume that a relative either added me on Facebook by mistake, or she added me then reneged her friend request. As I said, rejection by family is never easy. But as I've blogged about before, I've been rejected by family, from my immediate family (e.g., Dad and Pop-Pop) to much of the rest of 'Am Yisra'el-- for:

¹⁰ Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ¹¹ And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. ¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake. ¹³ But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. ¹⁴ Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; ¹⁵ for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist. ¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.¹⁷ And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. ¹⁸ But not a hair of your head shall be lost. ¹⁹ By your patience possess your souls.


²² And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.²³ When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

As the proverb goes, "Lo kol asher Yisra'el, Yisra'el" -- "Not all who are Israel are Israel." Some don't even want to be Israel:

¹⁶ For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?¹⁷ Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

¹² From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

¹³ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴ Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

¹⁵ But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”

The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

¹⁶ Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led Him away.^[c]

From this passage, by the way, we see that Pilate did not really believe that Yeshua (Jesus) was innocent and intended to make a mockery of the hyped-up, confused, and otherwise-emotional Jews (many of whom would later be confirmed a part of the remnant, as was Paul ).