The Fellowship Of The Mystery

The Fellowship Of The Mystery Part One

No matter how hard the modern church world tries to push the call of God on Israel aside or the destiny of the Gentile church to support the Jewish people, there is a fellowship of the mystery the Holy Spirit is birthing in the earth today. Many Gentiles stand in eternal jeopardy of losing their way with God unless repentance over our ignorance comes quick. Willful ignorance always has a root system of arrogance driving it straight to apostasy. If we don't wrestle with these issues now then when times get tough and the world at large turns against Israel and the Jewish people, so will we as the church. The key to not allowing this to happen is understanding the fellowship of the mystery! If we can grasp the one-new-man concept of Jew and Gentile working TOGETHER in the earth to bring in the harvest we will truly see "life from the dead!"

By Chris McDonald

TEXT: Eph. 3:6-10 - That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: wherefore I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is the grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Christ Jesus; To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.

Romans 15:16 - That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the OFFERING UP of the Gentiles (for the Jewish people that they may be saved) might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Romans 12:1 - I beseech you therefore, BRETHREN, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE (for God's calling and purposes of Israel to be saved), HOLY, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

We are about a week removed from our family ministry's Bless Israel 2004 Passover Conference last weekend in southern Georgia. The power of God was present each day in a powerful, unique way. A young man was saved, many people experienced healing in their bodies, and there was a sweet, precious sense of unity among Jewish and non-Jewish believers in Messiah unlike I've seen in a long time. The journal we write for you today is taken from the opening night rally the Lord had us speak on concerning God's plans and purposes for Israel and the end time harvest that is just ahead of us.

Before I get into this I want to make a few statements concerning the message of the One New Man and those who for what ever reason have not grasped this tremendous truth in scripture. Most of the arguments our family hears are from people who tell us we are getting too 'extreme' with this "Jewish" stuff. Others point out to us very quickly that the Israel is "blind," and that the Jewish people rejected Christ, thus, the promises of God no longer apply to them, but to the church. Two favorite passages people use in defending this anti-Jewish stance are found in 1 Cor. 10:32 and Galatians 3:28.

In 1 Corinthians 10:32 Paul says, "give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God." In Galatians 3:28 Paul states, "there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Cor. 10:32
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

These passages are used many times to placate those who wish to remain ignorant of God's plans for Israel. One dear brother recently used the passage in Corinthians to bolster his argument God does not have a special calling on the Jewish people because the body He has the call on is the "church." There is an element of truth to that statement but the "CHURCH" is composed of both Jewish and non-Jewish believers. The FIRST church the Lord birthed in the earth was mainly Jewish at the Feast of Pentecost (Shavuot). The church in the earth today is mainly Gentile because of a 1700 year old hijacking of the faith by those who believed the Jewish people to be cursed from receiving salvation and blessings from the Lord. The church will never be the TRUE CHURCH until it comes into the fullness of its identity with the HEAD - YESHUA Ha'maschiah - the Jewish Messiah sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel who has brought salvation to the Gentiles so we can become part of the commonwealth and blessings of Israel - God's chosen nation and people.

Very recently I heard a statement made that the call to witness to the Jewish people was not a Gentile matter but a "messianic" community matter. The individual making this statement is a friend of mine and I respect him but he is dead wrong on this. The call to provoke Jewish people to jealousy IS a Gentile matter. It's MORE of a GENTILE matter than even a Jewish one. I want to share an email we got just this past week from a Jewish believer who without knowing our family whatsoever stated our heart better than people who have known us all our lives:

Date: Comments 18 Apr 2004

Shalom, I am a messianic Jewish believer and looked for a site to explain Messianic Passover to a Gentile believer Pen-Pal. You did a much better job than I could have. Thanks for having this site, and thank you Messianic Gentiles who provoked us to jealous because of your love for the God of Israel - who is Lord of all! Please know that Jews cannot provoke Jews to jealousy, but you Gentiles sure can. My people need you to know your Jewish roots. God bless, Yael Nathanson;

Vancouver BC Canada

The whole purpose of the gospel is to see all nations brought to Christ. Israel was the original destined carrier of that message. When Israel failed because of the unbelief of some, the Lord grafted in the Gentiles to carry this same message AND to provoke the Jewish vine back to God through jealousy in seeing the salvation they spurned lived out in love among the Gentile believers. To say the Lord's focus is the "church" is about a fourth of the way right. But if we dismiss the call on the Gentile church to stand in the gap for the salvation of Israel and the Jewish people, then we may need to send an email to heaven and tell the Holy Spirit that the entire book of Romans was written wrong. We may need to tell Paul that his treatise on the body of Christ being made up of both Jewish and non-Jewish believers in Ephesians was misspoken. When Paul said, "give no offence to the Jew or the Gentile," he was speaking of the unsaved. The terms Jew and Gentile used there refer to those not-born again. There are Jewish people that are lost just like there are Gentiles who are still lost as well. There are Jewish believers (more in number than ever in human history actually!) as there are Gentile believers.

The statement, "to the church of God," refers to a body of both believing JEWISH and NON-JEWISH people! You cannot separate the two. In Galatians, Paul said that "we are all one in Christ Jesus." Those who seek to diminish the importance of the Jewishness of the church point to this and say "it's not important in the mind of God that we support the Jewishness of our faith." Well, if we as Jew and Gentile are called to be the same in everything and do the same things when it comes to worship, then I guess me and my wife need to start wearing the same clothes and doing the same things as well when it comes to our identities. In this same passage, it says there is neither "male nor female," so that means that if there is not a difference in Jew or Gentile in Christ, then neither is there a difference in man or woman in Christ. The passage in Galatians basically means that there is no difference in the requirements of salvation IN CHRIST for either the Jewish or the non-Jewish person, as well as male or female, bond or free. We must all be IN CHRIST to be saved. HE is the HEAD of the CHURCH. WE are HIS BODY made up of many parts and many diverse ministries.

My wife and I are ONE in the flesh and spirit together but we are very very different. (GOD HELP US IF WE'RE NOT!) And the Jewish and non-Jewish believers are ONE in the spirit (and should be in the flesh) together in unity in the BODY of Christ, but there are distinct differences in our callings, our anointings and our cultures just as there are differences in gender between my wife and I. You cannot argue this message away using those passages.

Paul said in this same passage in Galatians one verse later, "if ye be CHRIST'S, then are ye Abraham's seed, and HEIRS according to the promise." We as Gentiles have been called along side the Jewish people to inherit the promises of God, not as the natural seed of Abraham, but as his spiritual seed. It amazes me how we in the modern church love quoting this scripture when it comes to praying for prosperity over our people, but we shirk the very duty and responsibility of loving Abraham's seed through whom all this came to begin with! Gentiles, we are grafted into this great covenant of faith given to the house of Judah and Israel. NEVER FORGET THAT.

Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

We are but the branches, not the vine itself. My pastor actually made a good point the other night when he pointed out that Yeshua is the TRUE VINE and Israel was the work of His husbandry. Israel's importance in the plan of God cannot be ignored. The word "ignored," is part of the word, "ignorance," which we will deal with in great length in this article today. Most of the church world today is in that boat. We just ignore the scope of God's work concerning His people Israel and as a result, we have become very arrogant in our belief systems. The result of this will be apostasy if we don't repent. We have been called as a family to encourage and admonish the Gentile church to find a place and position of intercession and prayer for the Jewish people, and as Paul prayed in Romans 10:1 - "that Israel might be saved!"

Romans 10:1 - Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel, is, that they might be saved.

It's a prayer that the Lord promised Paul would be answered one day and one day very soon!

Romans 11:26a...And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written..........................."

God has a wonderful blue print in the earth right NOW for the harvest of the end times. A billion souls will be ushered into the Kingdom before the Second Coming of the Lord. That is powerful! The catalyst for this harvest is going to be the Jewish people coming back to their Messiah. When Israel returns to God, the Holy Spirit is going to be outpoured in such a manner that no other time in human history will mirror what will happen in terms of salvations and blessings upon the entire body - including the Gentile part of the believing church. I believe that the seeds of this are already beginning to sprout up in a small degree and will only increase as we draw closer to the coming of the Lord. Where the rapture plays into all of this is an interesting question and one certainly for discussion. I can tell you two things for sure about the rapture of the church. One, it's GOING to happen! Jesus is coming for HIS CHURCH, a bride made up of both Jewish and non-Jewish believers. Two, the rapture will take place when Jesus is ready for it to take place. It's not going to happen on man's timetable, but God's. Whether you believe in a pre-tribulation, or mid-tribulation or even a post-tribulation rapture, friend, the time to be getting ready for coming of the Lord is TODAY! We are to be living our lives and doing the things we've been called to do as if Jesus was coming TODAY, this very minute. There are no arguments that can be gotten into over that!

Having said that, let me add two serious statements concerning the immediate future of what I see ahead for the Body of Christ. One, the persecution of the church taking place now in other parts of the world is coming to the West very soon. A dynamic of this persecution will be the increased persecution of Jewish people once again like what happened in the Holocaust of 1938-1945. Those two issues must be wrestled with NOW, not later, by everyone of you reading this journal who call yourselves a believer. The church is going to have to make choices when the entire world turns against Israel in the future again. If we don't understand Israel's purposes in the plan of God NOW, then when all the world is calling for her destruction, we may not call for her destruction, but we will stand idly by like the church of Germany did in 1939 when the seeds of genocide led to the death of 6 million Jewish souls. We cannot afford to have that happen again. There will be a reckoning of the church world one day before Messiah Jesus. Yeshua will divide the sheep from the goats. When you read of the judgment in Matthew 25 you see very clearly the words, "my brethren." In the original language of the text, the words, "my brethren after the flesh," appears. It means literally Yeshua's brethren after the flesh - the Jewish people.

Many would continue to argue that "well not all Jewish people will accept Him." Well, friend, have all Gentiles accepted Him? Of course not. No matter the move of God's Spirit upon Planet Earth, there will always be those who will reject the Lord. But upon no other nation in the universe is the phrase put "ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED." That is a promise of national salvation coming to the chosen race of Abraham. If we as believers don't see a need NOW to come to grips with this, then how will we ever come to grips with it when they are seeking out those who are standing with Israel to kill us? How will we do it when standing with Israel will be more than just a catch phrase on our ministry statements? The blood of countless thousands, perhaps millions of people, will be shed in this final holocaust upon the Jewish race prior to and during the Great Tribulation period. I don't want to wind up as a goat when the Lord judges those on the Earth. I want to be a sheep who according to our Lord was a type of those who ministered grace to the Israeli people when they were in a time of great crisis - "hungry, naked, in prison, and sick," Let these words sink in. This is the fellowship of the mystery of God. The calling out of the Jewish race and grafting in of the Gentiles is one of the great mysteries of scripture. And we have been called into it's fellowship in these perilous hours of history before Yeshua returns. Praise God.

I want to look at five points surrounding the dynamics of this fellowship and what it means to us as believers today. I'm speaking mainly to the Gentile part of the church with this but I believe in reality this message is for everyone. There are Jewish believers who have not embraced their Jewish heritage and brethren for whatever reason, that need to hear this message as well. Number one, the fellowship of the mystery is a call and warning for us not to be ignorant of the plans and purposes of God concerning Israel's salvation and restoration.

Romans 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

Ignorance about a matter comes in two forms. There is a type of ignorance where a person has not received light on a matter and says and does things in ignorance without comprehending the scope of their words or actions. The Lord actually makes mention of this many times in scripture saying in Acts 17:32 that "in times past He winked at this ignorance but commands all men now to repent!" In Hebrews, the Bible says we have "a compassionate High Priest in Yeshua who can have compassion on the ignorant." There is grace for those who don't know about this mystery today. This is not a hammer coming down on your head. But if you have read this journal to this point there can no longer be an excuse of "I didn't know anything about this." You have been called to seek out the rest. Once the Holy Spirit births something in one's heart, that seeker is called to embrace it fully and go deeper with it in the Lord. The Lord calls us to this daily.

The second type of ignorance is the type Paul addressed the church at Rome about in the 11th chapter of the book of Romans. There is such a thing as "willful" ignorance where a person says or thinks in their hearts, "I don't want to know about this because it doesn't involve me or I don't see the importance of it in my own life or in the life of my church."

Before I address that type ignorance let me state a few things about the church at Rome. Paul was writing to a predominantly Gentile audience. He had never met these people he was writing to, yet this letter was written with some of the most riveting language and powerful pastoral care of any of Paul's letter. He felt this revelation of Israel that important to address in one of his earliest letters. A great deal of this early letter laid out the foundations of our faith such as redemption, sanctification, justification and glorification, in graphic detail. The book of Romans and the book of Ephesians are two of Paul's greatest pastoral letters written under the anointing of the Holy Spirit to draw the Gentile church a picture of God's plan for not only them, but for Israel, in generation that Yeshua would return to earth. Paul expected what he wrote in Romans to take place in his time because in Paul's mind, the Lord would return before Paul died. We know now from history that didn't happen. Paul was writing to a generation of believers he believed would be on earth when the Lord returned. Knowing what we do today, it is very easy to see that the generation Paul was addressing is us!

The book of Romans is really a complete outline for God's plan for Israel. Many read it and say, "whoa, wait a minute, it's a book about redemption and all the great things we Gentiles preach and teach about in our churches today." Yes it is. But friend Paul didn't write chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 about our redemption, sanctification, victory and purpose then put his pen down and write chapters 9, 10, and 11 about Israel. In chapter 12, the first words of that chapter say, "present your bodies a LIVING sacrifice," and "renew your mind." Chapters 9, 10, and 11 are the key to chapters 1-8 and chapters 12-16. Many want to take those three chapters of Israel out and give them to the church - you can't do that. That is tinkering with the Word of God and it will lead you into serious error. The "living sacrifice," Paul was calling the Gentiles in Rome to be is the same living sacrifice he is calling the Gentiles today to be - to give our lives up to see the salvation of Israel come to pass. We are called to provoke the Jewish people to jealousy. Plain and simply - we are called to stand in the gap!

Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Romans 15:16
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Notice the two phrases in Romans 12:1 and 15:16 - "living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, offering up of the Gentiles, sanctified by the Holy Ghost." In reality, Paul was using terms that would later be used in history as describing the sacrifice of the Jewish people during the Holocaust! He was saying, "Gentiles, you have been called to be a LIVING sacrifice for the Jewish people to provoke them to so much jealousy they will literally want to RUN to their Messiah." He was saying, "when you read the plan of God in chapters 1-12 and 13-14, you will see that this is 'your reasonable service.'" This offering up is "sanctified by the Holy Ghost," in other words by God Himself!

This is NOT just a message for the Messianic community to proclaim as some dear friends have told me recently. NO and I mean a thousand times NO!! With nearly 500 million Gentile believers in the earth and just a fraction of that number being Messianic Jewish believers, friend if the Gentile world misses out on this message - we have a problem! This is a message for the GENTILE and JEWISH part of the church, but in reality mainly for the GENTILE part since the church today is predominantly Gentile!!!!!! In the final analysis though, the great harvest will not be brought in by one part or the other working separately and against one another. It will only be brought in through the UNITY of the two!

Unity Increases Spiritual Authority

The devil seems to know even better than the church that unity increases spiritual authority. One can put a thousand to flight, but two can put ten thousand to flight (see Deuteronomy 32:30).

Deut. 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

Therefore, the highest priority of the devil is to create division in the church. If a church in a city ever came into true unity, the devil and his evil devices would all be quickly driven out of that city. If there is unity in a family, the devil will not find a place there. Therefore, it is in our best interest to not let things divide us from one another. Sadly, since about 300 A.D. the church has been split right down the middle by a Gentile hierarchy that sought to replace the identity of the original church with a paganistic form that has been passed on down from generation to generation. Yes, there is legalism in some Messianic circles. YES, there is unbelief in some Messianic circles. YES, there are some things Messianic fellowships do that Gentiles really are not required to do. One dear friend took issue recently over our family wearing prayer shawls. I told him, "we don't wear these because we HAVE to do it, we wear these because we GET to do it. We want to do it!"

But if we as Gentiles will take a look at ourselves and judge our own camp, we will see that we have reaped the very judgment we have laid on the Jewish people for their rejection of Christ! We have reaped the same blindness and unbelief as Israel because of the same self-righteousness she embraced at the time of Messiah's sojourn on earth. ALL rifts that exist today among the Gentile church (23,500 to be exact - the # of different fragments or denominations we proclaim to have) are an off-shoot from the original rift that developed in 300 A.D. at the hands of Constantine and the Roman Catholic church. Christianity has never been the same since. Intimacy with God was lost and a form of godliness that has denied the power for nearly 1700 years has existed to this very day.

We must always determine not to persecute our brethren - be them Jewish or Non-Jewish, but always work toward their edification. Most Gentile believers don't give the edification of their Jewish brethren a second thought. We've made Christianity into a Gentile religion serving a Gentile saviour, who died for a Gentile world. We forget that our Saviour is JEWISH, who shed JEWISH BLOOD, and came for lost sheep of the house of ISRAEL (JEWISH) FIRST, then when rejected by the unbelief of SOME, turned to the Gentiles to provoke His own people back to HIM! The word of God given to us as Gentiles is a book written by JEWISH writers with the exception of two - Luke and Titus. The Covenant we enjoy so many benefits of salvation from called the NEW COVENANT was cut with the HOUSE OF JUDAH and ISRAEL - we Gentiles being grafted in by FAITH.

        You see, the requirements for salvation is the same for ALL - both Jewish and Non-Jewish - FAITH! We must have FAITH. Nothing we "DO" can save us. Wearing a prayer shawl won't save you. Keeping the feasts won't save you. Observing the Sabbath won't save you. Going to church on SUNDAY won't save you. Singing in the choir won't save you. Teaching Sunday school won't save you. Being behind a pulpit each week won't save you. NONE OF THOSE THINGS MATTER PERTAINING TO SALVATION. Grace is given to those who will humbly accept the Lord's work on Calvary as their only hope. But if we WILLFULLY reject what the Lord has done and we WILLFULLY choose to be ignorant of His great plan for our lives and the life of the church He gave His blood for - then we will always wind up in arrogance which will send us head strong into apostasy.

        As we read in Ephesians 4:29-32 previously, what grieves the Holy Spirit is "bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander, and malice." Now let us read those verses with the one that proceeds it.

"Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you" (Ephesians 4:28-32).

        I'm sure many Gentile believers in Rome and Ephesus had not grasped this truth and were walking in bitterness, anger and malice toward their Jewish brethren. Paul's warning to the church of Rome was this: "DON'T BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY THE LORD HAS GIVEN ME CONCERNING YOUR ROLE IN HELPING ISRAEL SEE HER MESSIAH AND BEING SAVED!" He was not pulling punches with them as we will see later on in this pastoral epistle because he ties their acceptance of this message concerning Israel into their eternal souls. He clearly says, "YOU WILL BE CUT OFF" if you abide in unbelief and arrogantly reject the word of the Lord concerning the Lord's purposes and plans for Israel and the Jewish people.

A part of the word, "ignorant," is "ignore." I'm afraid many believers, possibly even some who are reading this article to this point will ignore this warning and go on with their church politics and actions. Friend, we're living in a time when we can't afford to do that. We can't ignore this. You may not understand it but I beseech you like Paul - ask the Lord for revelation on it! Wrestle with it NOW in your spirit man. Read up on the one new man. Find out about the Gentile's role as intercessor and provoker of jealousy concerning Israel. Decide in your heart today that you will not be ignorant of this but will allow the Holy Spirit to bring revelation to you before it's too late and you wind up in arrogance and apostasy.

2. The Mystery Of Israel's Final Reconciliation Will Be The Catalyst For The End-Time Harvest

Romans 11:12-16
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? [13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: [14] If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. [15] For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? [16] For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Israel was the lump of Christ - the first fruit of the dead. We as the Gentile believing part of the body are the branches. The casting away of them (Israel) meant that the Gentiles would be reconciled to God. We were grafted in after the rejection of SOME, not all. When you see the word "GENTILE" in scripture many times, it's refers to lost humanity in general. The gospel was sent "to the Jew first, then to the Greek." Those two terms there speak of unbelieving Jewish people and unbelieving Gentiles, known as Greeks in scripture. The issue at the beginning of the church age was how did a Jewish church accept and receive believing Gentiles? The question today as we near the END of the church age is how does a mainly Gentile church accept and receive believing Jews? The answer is simple - THE SAME WAY. The early church did not require the Gentiles to become Jews to be saved and we as Gentiles do not need to be arrogant in as much as to believe the Jewish people need to adopt our customs and religious traditions to be saved today. The Jewish people have a unique calling on them that we as Gentiles do not. We Gentiles have our own callings and anointings. To mix the two causes great division and hardship on both.

The revival that is at hand is tied into the Jewish people coming home to Messiah. Paul said that if their original unbelief brought reconciliation between the Gentile non-believing world and God, then what will their "receiving" be but LIFE FROM THE DEAD? That sounds like revival to me! That sounds like the Gentile world that chases after revival through all sorts of foolishness might need to pause a minute and read the Word of God to see what God has to say about the key to what they are searching for. Maybe, just maybe, if we as Gentiles took more of our time and invested it in seeing Jewish people get saved and embracing our heritage with Israel, then maybe, just maybe, our Jewish Messiah would pour out more of His Spirit upon us because we were pursuing something that is passionately in HIS heart as well!

We Gentiles chase after things and fads in the body like a rabid dog chases a rabbit. We really do. So many fads have come and gone throughout the decades, many within just the past 10 years, and nothing we seem to do seems to unite us. I submit to you today that revival will only come when HEALING and REPENTANCE COME to the foundational rift between the Jewish and non-Jewish parts of the church, then through that UNITY that Jesus prayed for, that we as ONE BODY, will bring in the harvest of both JEWISH and NON-Jewish believers! On this same thought, I want to interject something, you're not going to shout about it, but it needs to be said. MOST of the move of God coming to Planet Earth is not coming to America as many predict. I firmly believe America is in serious trouble. God loves this nation and has paid a deep price for our redemption. America's future rests in two words - REPENTANCE and ISRAEL. If we chose not to repent then we are doomed, and if we chose as a nation not to stand with Israel right now we are doomed. When you have 800,000 women march on Washington D.C. to support their "right" to kill innocent babies, friend, you need a revival.

The church world stumbles in the dark looking for this revival I speak of. The church world today stumbles over itself looking for the LIGHT to bring it out of the darkness we're in right now to no avail. We want our crusades, our conferences, our meetings, our denominational structures, but we don't want to repent of our division and disharmony between the Jewish and non-Jewish parts of the church. The Messianic community will not bring in the harvest by itself, no more than the Gentile part of the church will reap the harvest by itself! We need each other! There has to be TWO parts of the body functioning together. It's what Jesus prayed for that HIS GLORY would rest on us - "THAT THEY MAY BE ONE!"

John 17:20-25
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; [21] That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. [22] And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: [23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. [24] Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for You loved me before the foundation of the world. [25] O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

This fellowship I speak of today is the key to the end time harvest of souls. We won't see it without it. We can put forth all our programs, our machinery, our efforts and it will be a waste of precious resources. The pattern and key to glory is found in the BOOK! It's right here in John 17 and Romans 11 and Ephesians 2 - ONE NEW MAN in Messiah working together UNTO HIM to bring in a tremendous gathering of souls for the Kingdom of God in these last days. Jesus prayed that the GLORY He placed on us is for one purpose - "THAT WE MAY BE ONE, even as HE AND THE FATHER are one!" Who is the they? It's NOT the Baptists and the Methodists I can tell you that. It's NOT the Pentecostals and the Charismatic, I can tell you that! It's the JEW and the GENTILE believing parts of the Body of Christ. Yeshua knew that Israel would reject Him and He would bring the Gentiles into this great covenant of faith to provoke His people to jealousy and take the gospel to the ends of the Earth. Paul, a Jewish rabbi sent to the Gentiles, said this in Romans when he said, "Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? [13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.

The diminishing of the Jewish people brought RICHES to the Gentiles, but how much more will the FULLNESS of the Jewish people's acceptance of Christ be? Man oh, man, the thought of that should make us shout! We're blessed already but we are about to be REALLY blessed neighbor! Yeshua is coming! Yeshua is coming! Yeshua is coming! And a great harvest of souls is coming as well. Salvation is of the Jews and the gospel has been given TO THE JEW FIRST and also the Greek. We need to come to grips with that in our heart NOW! Praise God.

I will pick up points 3-5 in part two of this journal. Let's pray right now.

Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking You to touch our hearts for Israel. Touch our hearts and minds Lord today to help us see the purposes and plans you have for Israel to be saved in totality. Put a burning passion in our hearts for the Jewish people that we will love them unconditionally with agape love so they can see Yeshua's love for them through us Gentile believers, who have been called to provoke the Jewish race to jealousy. LORD bring revival to your church in Yeshua's name. Lord bring in the harvest. Send laborers into the field today in Yeshua's name we pray amen.

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