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Summary
This conversation focuses on the importance of returning to the Jewish roots of the Christian faith and rejecting the anti-Semitism that has developed throughout much of church history. The Family emphasizes that the Jewish people were chosen by God to bring forth His Word, His covenants, and ultimately the Messiah. Because of this, Christians should honor the Jewish people rather than speak against them.
The Family also examines how Christianity has incorporated traditions that are not rooted in Scripture while becoming disconnected from the biblical feasts, the Sabbath, and the Hebrew foundations of faith. Returning to these roots is not presented as adopting a religious system, but as seeking greater truth, maturity, and understanding of God’s purpose.
The discussion points to Paul’s teaching in Romans concerning Israel and the Gentiles. Although many Jewish people have not yet recognized Jesus as the Messiah, God has not rejected or forgotten them. His promises to Abraham remain, and His plan includes bringing Jewish and Gentile believers together as one people under Christ, the great High Priest.
Ultimately, the Family shares a common desire to see God’s Kingdom established on the earth. This unity will not come through compromise, prejudice, or human traditions, but through a shared hunger for God, a love for His Word, and the recognition that His purposes for Israel and the nations will be fulfilled.
Show Notes
Honoring the Jewish People
The Jewish people have endured increasing persecution and anti-Semitism throughout the world. The Family emphasizes the need for Christians to understand why Israel and the Jewish people should be loved and honored. Through them came the Scriptures, the covenants, the promises, and the Messiah.
Recognizing the Roots of Christianity
Many Christians have little understanding of the Hebrew foundations of their faith. The conversation encourages believers to study those roots and examine traditions that may have developed outside of biblical truth.
Rejecting Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitic beliefs have existed within Christianity for centuries. The Family warns that believers must reject teachings that accuse, dishonor, or dismiss the Jewish people. Such attitudes ignore God’s continuing covenant purpose.
Learning from the Jewish People
The Jewish longing for the coming of the Messiah can challenge Christians to examine their own desire for Christ’s return. Their dedication to Scripture, worship, and the expectation of God’s Kingdom can inspire believers to pursue the Lord more deeply.
Israel and the Gentiles
Romans 9–11 reveals that God has not rejected Israel. Gentile believers have been grafted into the promises of God, but they must not become arrogant toward the original branches. God’s purpose is to bring restoration and fulfillment to both Israel and the nations.
The Promise Given to Abraham
God’s covenant with Abraham was the beginning of a purpose that would ultimately bless all nations. His choice of Abraham and his descendants did not mean that God had forgotten the rest of humanity. His desire has always been to receive everyone who turns toward Him in faith.
Coming Together Under Christ
The Family believes that Jewish and Gentile believers will increasingly come together through a shared desire to see God’s Kingdom established. This unity is centered in Christ, the Messiah and great High Priest.
Returning to Biblical Truth
The conversation challenges believers to examine religious traditions and compromises that may have replaced the truth of Scripture. Returning to the roots of faith means seeking what God originally intended rather than simply continuing inherited customs.
Worship and the Biblical Feasts
The Feast of Tabernacles is mentioned as a picture of God dwelling among His people. The biblical feasts can help believers understand God’s presence, His redemptive plan, and His desire to be glorified among His people.
Key Quotes
- “We need to lay a foundation of why we love the Jews.”
- “Would we have the Word of God today without the Jews?”
- “We need to realize our roots.”
- “Our older brothers, the Jews, help drive us to pursue after God and His Word.”
- “How driven are we for the Lord’s return?”
- “I was there to learn of them. I admitted, ‘You’re my elder brother.’”
- “God is sorting it out.”
- “He’s bringing the Jews and the Christians together.”
- “All of this goes back to Abraham.”
- “God never forgot any of us.”
- “We come together because we have the same drive, the same desire, and the same heart to see God’s Kingdom come forth on this earth.”
- “We need to get back to our roots and the reality and the truth.”
Scriptural References
God’s Covenant With Abraham
Genesis 12 (1–3)
God promises to bless Abraham and make him a blessing through whom all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 15 (7–18)
God confirms His covenant with Abraham through the divided sacrifices and passes between the pieces as a sign of His commitment.
Genesis 17 (7–8)
God declares His covenant with Abraham and his descendants to be an everlasting covenant.
Israel and the Gentiles
Romans 9 (4–5)
Paul describes the covenants, promises, worship, law, and Messiah that came through Israel.
Romans 11 (1–2)
Paul makes it clear that God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.
Romans 11 (11–12)
Israel’s stumbling opened a door of salvation to the Gentiles, but Paul also anticipates Israel’s future fullness.
Romans 11 (17–21)
Gentile believers are described as wild olive branches grafted into Israel’s cultivated olive tree and are warned not to become arrogant.
Romans 11 (25–29)
Paul speaks of a partial hardening of Israel and affirms that God’s gifts and calling are irrevocable.
Ephesians 2 (11–18)
Through Christ, Jews and Gentiles are brought near and created into one new humanity with access to the Father.
The Jewish Roots of the Faith
John 4 (22)
Jesus states that salvation is from the Jews.
Romans 3 (1–2)
Paul explains that the Jewish people were entrusted with the words of God.
Galatians 3 (7–9)
Those who live by faith share in the blessing promised through Abraham.
Loving and Honoring the Jewish People
Genesis 12 (3)
God promises to bless those who bless Abraham and declares that all nations will be blessed through him.
Psalm 122 (6)
Believers are encouraged to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 40 (1–2)
God calls His servants to comfort His people and speak tenderly to Jerusalem.
Christ’s Return and God’s Kingdom
Matthew 6 (9–10)
Jesus teaches His disciples to pray for God’s Kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth.
Acts 1 (6–8)
The disciples ask Jesus about the restoration of the Kingdom, and He directs them to become witnesses through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Revelation 11 (15)
The kingdoms of the world become the Kingdom of the Lord and of His Christ.
Christ as the Great High Priest
Hebrews 4 (14–16)
Jesus is presented as the great High Priest through whom believers may approach God with confidence.
Hebrews 7 (24–27)
Christ holds His priesthood permanently and continually intercedes for those who come to God through Him.
The Feast of Tabernacles and God’s Presence
Leviticus 23 (33–43)
God establishes the Feast of Tabernacles as a time of rejoicing and remembrance.
Zechariah 14 (16)
The nations are pictured coming to Jerusalem to worship the King and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
John 1 (14)
The Word became flesh and dwelt, or tabernacled, among humanity, revealing God’s glory.
Spiritual Maturity
1 Corinthians 13 (11)
Paul describes putting away childish ways as a person grows into maturity.
Hebrews 5 (12–14)
Believers are encouraged to move beyond spiritual infancy and mature in their understanding of truth.
Takeaway
Christians cannot fully understand their faith while ignoring the Jewish people and the Hebrew roots through which God revealed His Word and brought forth the Messiah. God has not abandoned Israel, and Gentile believers should walk in humility, gratitude, and honor toward the people into whose spiritual heritage they have been grafted.
Returning to the roots of faith means rejecting anti-Semitism, examining traditions in the light of Scripture, and seeking God’s original purpose. As Jewish and Gentile hearts turn toward the Lord, God is bringing forth a people united under Christ with one desire: to see His Kingdom come and His presence fill the earth.
Transcript
Returning to the Roots of Our Faith
Ron:
Welcome to Live Behind the Veil. I'm Ron, your host, and today the family is talking about returning to the roots of our faith and recognizing the important place of the Jewish people in God's purposes. The scriptures, the covenants, the promises, and the Messiah all came through Israel. Yet throughout history, much of Christianity has become separated from those roots and in many cases has allowed antisemitism and human traditions to replace honor, truth, and understanding.
In this conversation, the family shares why believers must reject prejudice, examine the foundations of their faith, and recognize that God has not forgotten His covenant with Israel. His purpose is to bring Jewish and Gentile believers together under Christ with one heart to see His kingdom come forth on this earth.
Ken:
There's so much persecution against the Jews right now. It's terrible. And in fact, even in America and around the world, it's just increasing. I think we realize that we're in the end times. There's gonna be a host of people that are against the Jews. I do think we need to lay a foundation of why we love the Jews, because what they were and are in bringing forth the word of God into our day, would we have the word of God today without the Jews?
I don't think so. I certainly want to honor who they are.
Ron:
The revelation that I'm getting, how important it is for people to two things. One thing is to realize their roots, and two, to realize how perverted Christianity has become and how early it was perverted. As I start studying and start getting the revelation of what Christianity has been for the last how many centuries, the things you believe that the founding fathers, Christian founding fathers preached and that are anti-Semitic
Mike:
I attended a group meeting this last weekend where this was a Sabbath gathering group every Saturday, and a bunch of people came in that aren't normally with us in our services.
They were spewing out stuff, anti-Semitic type stuff about the Jews, negative things that they felt the Jews today aren't what they think they are or this and that and whatever, not realizing that they're clinging to a lot of pagan traditions in Christianity today that need to be set aside. And our older brothers, the Jews, we recognize some things in them that drive us, that would help us to pursue after God and His Word and so on and so forth, because they get up on a daily basis and they're driven to see the Messiah come.
How driven are we for the Lord's return? How driven is Christianity out here for the Lord's return? The Lord's coming here. We're the ones that are bringing forth the Kingdom of God on Earth.
Dale:
There's a scripture that's really important here. You're going back into the best parts of Romans 8, 9, 10, 11. God is focusing on the Gentiles, and He's not focusing on the Jews right now.
But that focus is coming to an end. The focus will shift back to the Jews as the Gentiles have reached the place that God feels that they're ready to be grafted in. When I was in Israel, I didn't feel that the Jews were opposed to me or arguing, argumentative to me. I was there to learn of them. I admitted, "You're my elder brother."
The Bible has been so mixed up between Christianity and Judaism that God's sorting it out. The things of our roots in Christianity, awful shallow. Awful shallow. I find much of what I believe doesn't hold water. What I see holds water is He is coming again. And I look at it this way, He came the first time to set up the chance for everybody but the Jews.
But now He's bringing it all together. He's bringing the Jews and the Christians together, and from what I read in Romans, He's gonna get His way. He's gonna have a people.
Ed:
All of this goes back to Abraham. When God made the promises He did to Abraham, Abraham split the sacrifices and God walked among them and consumed them, and He made promises to Abraham.
That was one of the big problems for the rest of the world because they thought that because He's taken the Jews, He's forgotten us. God never forgot any of us. If you had a heart for God, and you see it in the Old Testament, you see it in the New Testament, if you have a heart for God, He accepts you just as you are.
Dale:
We come together with the Jews because we have the same drive, the same desire, the same heart to see God's kingdom come forth on this earth. That's where the hearts come together under the great high priest.
Ken:
We need to get back to our roots and the reality and the truth. It's not about the birth of Christ being at Christmas.
It's about, about the time that He was born. As a people, we compromise too easily, and I think that's what the Lord's putting His finger on right now in these days that we're living in.
Debbie:
When I was a child, I spoke as a child. I did things as a child. But now that I am grown, let them be worshiping God at Tabernacles, to bring them into that, because that's where the presence of God is, and where God is going to be magnified and glorified.
We all worship God, and we all believe that Christ is the Messiah.
Ron:
As we return to the roots of our faith, we begin to see more clearly that God's purposes for Israel, the nations, and the body of Christ are all connected. Gentile believers have been grafted into a spiritual heritage that came through the Jewish people. That truth should produce humility, gratitude, and love, not pride or separation.
God has not rejected Israel, and His promises and calling remain. May we reject antisemitism, search the Scriptures, and allow the Lord to remove every tradition or belief that does not reflect His heart. As Jewish and Gentile believers come together, may we become one people with one desire, to see God's kingdom established and His presence glorified throughout this earth.