Engaging FFOZ: Did Corrupt Priests Rewrite Parts of the Torah?

Jacob Fronczak over at First Fruits of Zion (FFOZ) is an important voice in the Messianic movement. I take his latest episode of FFOZ Reacts as an opportunity for spirited, charitable, and patient education within the body of Messiah. I am thinking especially of education about the Jewish Christian Ebionites, the Pseudo-Clementine literature, and contemporary Jewish vegetarian discourse. 

Jacob makes many insightful points, but ultimately, I do think there is a strong counterargument here: that it is reasonable for some Messianic Jews and Gentiles interested in the Jewish roots and branches of the faith to learn first about the Ebionites; then about Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies; and then about the Messianic vegetarian vision of Rav Kook. None of this means they are joining a cult. On the contrary, they are exploring a perfectly natural and venerable strand of Messianic Jewish thought. Perhaps the Ebionites of early Jewish Christianity have been reincarnated in today's Messianic Jewish and Gentile vegetarians, and that is why so many have a foot in the door of higher criticism, in part to subdue the latest devilish permutations of this or that strand of interpretation in the Documentary Hypothesis.

I say this as someone who tends to have faith in the teleological inerrancy of the Torah, including the entire book of Leviticus, which I am just now making my way through with Depths of the Torah from FFOZ!

I also say this as a vegan who is committed to dietary liberty, with good shepherding from advertising, to help us reach a healthy balance between vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian dietary patterns by 2050, in accordance with reasonable climate science, which is also to say the Holy Spirit's world civilizational teaching, such as this can be determined by the bilateral ecclesia.

Looking forward, I think we have good reason to question whether the Messianic Era is vegan, vegetarian, and/or flexitarian, and what it might mean to be a first ripe grain of Zion in harmony with Torah-informed Israeli climate science on this point. Does this imply a vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian Third Temple? I don't know, but I think we have many good sides to consider.

Thank you so much for your pivotal teaching, First Fruits of Zion!