Page 5 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

Ephesians 2:11-21
Therefore remember, that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision"
by the so-called "Circumcision,"... remember that you were at that time separate from Christ,
excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no
hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Yahshua you who formerly were far off have
been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into
one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which
is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into
one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through
the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were
far away, and peace to those who were near; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit
to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints, and are of God's household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Christ Yahshua Himself being the corner stone...

Hebrew and non-Hebrew are now one in Christ. Those who were once far off (the people of the
nations) have now been brought near to God through the blood of the Jewish Messiah. The apostle
Paul contends that both Jew and Gentile were sinners. Both needed a Savior. Both were reconciled
back to the Father in the same way, the way of faith.

Romans 3:9, 28-30
What then? Are we (Jews) better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews
and Greeks are all under sin... For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of
the Law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is
one.

The body of Christ is comprised of men and women from all tongues, tribes, and nations of the earth.
There is no distinction. All have been made one in Christ. Nevertheless, Yahweh dealt specifically
with the Hebrew nation for 2,000 years prior to sending His Son to draw all men unto Himself. The
Hebrew people have a rich history of Yahweh dealing with them. The apostle Paul was a Hebrew,
born of the tribe of Benjamin. He testified the following.

Romans 3:1-2
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? Great in every respect.
First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

What were these oracles? They are the 39 books of the Old Testament, the books which the Jewish
people call the Tanakh. When someone speaks of the Hebrew roots of Christianity, it is these books,
and all that is revealed in them, that I deem to fit the words “Hebrew Roots” most aptly. Should not
the Christian disciple, whether Jew or Gentile, give themselves enthusiastically to the study of these
“oracles of God” that they might learn as much about their Creator and Redeemer as possible?
Indeed, there is no excuse for those who neglect so great an opportunity when it is before them. From
the first line of the book of Genesis, unto the last line of the prophet Malachi, there is much wisdom,
revelation, and instruction to be gleaned by those who love truth.