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Jewish Roots : Grafted In to the Covenant of Promise


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We are living in exciting times. We are in times appointed by God.  They are prophetic season and times.   Look with me at Jeremiah, Chapter 16, verse 19.  This scripture talks about the days that you and I are living in right now, right this minute.  “O, Lord my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of afflictions.  The gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and say ‘Listen to this, surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable things.  Let’s stop there for a minute.  What that literally means is that you and I and the Church have inherited worthless and unprofitable teachings.  “Will a man make gods for himself which are not gods?  Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know.  I will cause them to know my hands and my might and they shall know that my name is the Lord.”  This scripture is talking about you and me.  It’s a prophecy about the end times right before the second coming of the Messiah.  And what is happening is that the gentiles or the goyem in Hebrew are the center of what Jeremiah is talking about.  Goyem means two things.  It means idol worshippers.

You and I aren’t idol worshippers.  But most of the Church is idol worshippers.  Most Christians worship, not just one God – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but more than one God.    Most Christians, I’d say 99% of them, worship the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  But what did Jesus say?  He said, love the Lord your God, the one God of Abraham, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself.  Didn’t Jesus say that?  Is there Father God?  Yes.  Is there the Son of God?  Of course there is.  Is there the Holy Spirit?  Absolutely.  But Jesus paid the price so that you and I could go, filled with the Holy Spirit, to the Father in His Name.

Let’s go back to the goyem.  In Hebrew it means idol worshippers and it also means gentiles, the nations of the world and foreigners.  We, not Israel and the Jews, are those that are foreigners to the covenant of promise.  Now, look at Zechariah, Chapter 8, verse 22.  It says, “many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of the hosts of Jerusalem.” 
I want you to understand what’s really going on here.  Gentiles, foreigners, not Jews will seek the Lord in Jerusalem and pray before the Lord.  Verse 23 says, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, in those days, ten men, ten gentiles from every language of the nations shall grab the sleeve of a Jewish man saying, ‘Let us go with you for we have heard that God is with you..’”  A better translation of that would be “Ten gentiles whose eyes are opened will grab the sleeve of one Jewish teacher and say, ‘Teach us the Word of God because we hear that God is with you.’”  It’s time that we learned the Word of God, not by denomination, or men’s religious tradition, but by what the Word of God really has to say.

Before we go on any further, let me give you a history lesson.  Some of you may already know this, but most people don’t.  Christianity used to be called Judeo-Christianity.  But over the years, we’ve pushed Judeo out and we’ve become more Rome-like then Jerusalem-like.  As believers in Jesus we are heirs not to the promises of Rome, but to the promises of Abraham, the father of the Jewish people. 

After studying for so many years, I am a thousand per cent convinced that for the Messiah to return prophecies have to be fulfilled.  And one of those prophecies is what Jeremiah and Zechariah said.  In these last, of the last days, we’ve got to become the glorious bride.  Our eyes have to be opened and we’ve got to get back to our Jewish roots.  We have been a branch that has been broken off from the root.  I don’t have to tell you that when a branch is broken off it doesn’t produce fruit or the harvest that it would have if it remained connected to the tree.  We need to get connected back to the tree and the roots so that we can bring in the harvest God intended.

Many of us have been taught that the Church is the new Israel.  We’ve learned that God’s done with Israel.  But nothing is farther from the truth.  In fact, it’s a lie straight from the pit of hell.  We are not the new Israel.  God never replaced Israel.  Israel is, and always will be the apple of God’s eye.  But by the grace of God, we’ve been grafted in.   Don’t let anyone tell you that the Church has replaced Israel and that you’re the new Israel.  You’re not.  And that’s false doctrine.  It’s a false teaching and it will bring a curse into your life.   It’s totally against what Paul talks about that in Romans, Chapter 11, verse 1.  “Has God cast away His people?  Certainly not.”  Who is Paul writing to here.  His letter is to the gentiles in Rome.  He is writing to the gentiles at the Church in Rome.  He goes on to say, “For I also am an Israelite, the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin.  God has not cast away His people, whom he foreknew.”   Now look with me at verse 11.  Paul says, “Have they stumbled that they should fall?”  He is talking about Israel and the Jewish people.  “Certainly not,” he writes.  “Have they stumbled that they should fall?  But through their fall to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the gentiles.”  Their stumbling has opened the door for you and I to become children of God and the seed of Abraham and to restore to us all the covenant promises.  We have the blessing to remember the Sabbath.  We have the blessing to not worship idols and worship Jehovah, the one God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  We’re not talking about legalism, we are talking about the pathway of God.  As we come back to our Jewish roots we are fulfilling the prophecies of the Word of God.

We haven’t replaced Israel.  But we have been reconnected to our Jewish roots.  And then, as we start observing the Sabbath and understanding the feasts, God will begin to tabernacle with us in all of His goodness and fullness.   As we return, the Jews will be provoked to jealousy and we will bring Christianity back to Jerusalem and the Jewish people back to Jerusalem and the Messiah will return as these things are all fulfilled.

We were once foreigners, goyems, gentiles.  But we are not longer all of that because Jesus adopted us by His life and blood.  We are grafted in and now we are no longer strangers, but partakers of the promises and the covenant of Abraham.

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