Here is a little story I’d like to begin with. There were two men standing by one another. One was a Jew and the other man was a Non-Jewish believer. As they looked at each other, scales began to fall from their eyes, and for the first time, they saw each other for who they really were to one another. The Non-Jewish believer cried, ” brother, you have been in front of me this whole time and I did not recognize you.” And the other, the Jewish man, fell into his arms as they both embraced, crying, holding onto one another tightly, as they found each other, as long lost brothers.

This is the awakening that the Lord wants to bring to His church. That Israel, is our long lost brother. Lost in the sense that the church has not recognized nor identified them as to who the Jews really are, and how they are related to one another. The last time, there was complete unity and fellowship between the two, was found in the Bible, starting with the book of Acts. But that ended around the time of the prophecy of 70 AD, that Jesus gave in the book of Matthew and Luke. Matthew chapter 24, starting in verses 1 and 2: “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Luke 21:20-21, “And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.” 

In 70 AD, by the hands of the Romans, Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed. Approximately one million Jews died in the siege of Jerusalem and many of the survivors were sold as slaves. Thus began the awful history of the separation of the Non-Jewish believers and the Jews, and began the replacement of the Jewish Roots of the Bible, with the fatal theologies of the “church fathers.”

If you study church history, you will find that the Crusaders, as they butchered and herded the Jews into the synagogue to burn them alive, they sang, “Christ, we adore thee”. It was Martin Luther in whom Hitler, got his ideas and writings, that stated in his last comment, “We are at fault for not slaying them.”  All this, was done under the banner of the Cross and in the name of Christ. There are many more accounts in our church history of this evil. The worst atrocity is, it was all done in the Name of Christ!

The Lord is wanting us to enforce the bridging of the gap, from what Jesus did through His body on the Cross, (see Ephesians 2:14,15). and be the ministers of reconciliation to our brothers, the Jews. We need to be the bridge of healing and compassion, as Christ was to us. Can you imagine the persecution and the sufferings the Jews experienced, generation after generation, even up till this day, in the name of Christ? It’s no wonder they are afraid and have a wall up. And see God wants the eyes of our heart enlightened with truth and revelation, so we can be a blessing to them. Because what you don’t recognize, you will abuse.

See, Jesus saw where we were, and was moved with compassion. He identified and sympathized with us so much, that He became our High Priest (Hebrews 4:15). If we don’t recognize who the Jews are to us, then there will not be any compassion. If no compassion, then no prayer. With no prayer, is no salvation. And woe to us, if we don’t pray salvation for the Jews. (see Romans 1:16). Didn’t salvation come from them? Isn’t it right before the eyes of the Lord, that we would do right and pray and support them? They are the natural branches, that was blinded, so the Non-Jews could be grafted in. Since we have received mercy through their disobedience, shouldn’t they now receive mercy?

Romans 11:30-31, “ Just as you once were disobedient and failed to listen to God, but have now obtained mercy because of their disobedience, ³¹ so they too have now become disobedient so that they too may one day receive mercy because of the mercy shown to you.”

Am I saying that all of the Body of Christ doesn’t recognize who the Jews are? No. BUT, there is a great part of the Body, that doesn’t. Thank the Lord for those ministries that are praying and supporting Israel. Thank God for those churches that are walking in the fullness of the fellowship. But God needs all of us to do our part. We are members of the Body of Christ. Try walking around without your right foot. Try picking up a cup without your fingers. It’s the same thing.

1 Corinthians 12:21, says, “And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

That’s why we must pray for our brothers, so we can bring them into the Kingdom, so they too can take their place in these last days, amen? Let us both become the One New Man that Christ died for us to be, so we can both bring reconciliation and revival to the world, as it was in the book of Acts.

Father, forgive us for not recognizing our brothers the Jews, as the ones who brought us our Messiah. They were the ones that paid the price, so we can be grafted in. Enlarge our heart and understanding, so we can begin to move in the compassion that Jesus had for us. It is your will, that the gospel goes to the Jews first, and to the Gentiles. You don’t leave any one person out, so we won’t leave them out. Thank you for your great plan for us and for them as the One New Man that you have called us to be, so the world can recognize and know Jesus, Yeshua our Messiah, through us. For as you and the Son are one, so are we, One!

Amen!

Blessings to you!