Reclaiming Our Forgotten HeritageSample

 When God desired to restore His covenant with humanity—the covenant that had been broken at Eden—He restored it through Abraham, the first Jew, who would become the father of many nations. Therefore, when we separate from the customs, traditions, and understandings of our roots, we lose touch with our true and full inheritance, the rich blessings that can be ours because of God’s promises to the seed of Abraham.

Because God’s covenants with the Jews have never been nullified, and because they are part of our heritage as followers of Yeshua, these blessings are intimately linked to an understanding of the place of Israel and the role of the Jewish people both in history and in our future. With Israel and the Jewish people replaced, missing, substituted, forgotten, or removed as a piece on God’s prophetic chessboard, we are robbed of the spiritual fullness that comes when we reconnect with our forgotten heritage. As the apostle Paul wrote: “Now if [Israel’s] fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!” (Romans 11:12).

When we are in agreement with a lie, we are enslaved to the lie. But when we are in covenant with the truth, we are empowered by the truth. And this empowerment can be ours when we reject replacement theology and centuries of misunderstanding and embrace the Jewish part of our Christian heritage.

When we understand the history of the disconnection of the church from her Jewish roots, we are better equipped for God’s reconnection. We are more open to His revelation and experience a new hunger for His Word. This creates new depths of understanding and a firmer place for us to stand as part of His kingdom. And I’m telling you from experience, when Jew and Gentile come together to do the will of God, that’s where the real adventure begins.