The Root Bears You: Ingrafting of the Gentiles

The Ingrafting of the Gentiles
Romans 11:15-21
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, do not boast over those branches.

If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE:     You were grafted in among those who believed and were branches that were not broken off, and you were grafted in TO SHARE with them in the mutual nourishment of ALL the branches made into ONE olive tree with a root system of faith in God's Messiah - the planting of the LORD in human skin. All the Hebrew scriptures pointed to Jesus, and thousands in Israel came to faith in Him. They were choked out of the nourishment that the combined Jewish and Gentile believers in Jesus could have supplied to both of us - BUT NEVER has the world since Jesus seen a time when there were ZERO Jewish believers in Jesus. The Church just denied them the nourishment of being one with them. That is a huge fault and it is the fault line today as more and more Christians are turning into raging antisemites. 

 In recent years I have seen a push especially among the non-denominational church leaders to try to reconnect and somewhat come under the Catholic Church. Names like James and Betty Robison, Kenneth Copeland, Lou Engle - a huge roster of names joining into this movement since 2014. It seemed to me that those leaders reaching out to the pope were willing to come under Vatican leadership. I could be wrong about that.

I have nothing bad to say about establishing unity with the Catholic church as much as possibly, but I also know that the most concerted effort to establish reconciliation and oneness with the Catholic church has come from the Messianic movement, specifically Toward Jerusalem Council II. It was a vision given to the Messianic leader of my own place of worship in 1995 in Dallas Texas, but it soon spread to include many prominent Messianic and Christian leaders and it's core group has always included influential Catholic leaders. (you can read about the vision and what they have done with it globally since 1995. Link in the first comment).

One thing I want to note is that the Jewish believers in Jesus making the first move to try to find unity with whatever parts of the Christian Church that was interested in the same thing. If the later outreaches to the Pope do not include Messianic Jewish leadership - and the most obvious would be those connected with TJC2, then my concern is this is just another exclusion of the Jewish believers in Christian attempts to become unified without them. A grave mistake, especially in the days we live.

The first BREACH of the Church from the Apostolic led Jewish believers in Jerusalem came as the churches drifted from connection with the Jewish part of the body of the Lord. By the time of the Nicean Council, 265 years following the span of years recording in the Book of Acts - Constantine made sure to put the axe to the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. That was a grave mistake. If you will recall the Apostle to the Gentiles warned, Christians in Romans 11: "you do not bear the root, but the root bears you".

What do you think that means? It means that when the Nicean Council put an axe to the Jewish part of the body of believers, it cut off the nutritional feed lines of the tree that Christians had been grafted into. (Romans 11).

As AI puts it, "A tree root system primarily provides stability and essential resources for survival. Key functions include anchoring the tree securely in the ground, absorbing water and nutrients (like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) from the soil, storing energy (starch) for future growth, and transporting these vital materials upward."

This was not a throwaway analogy. As smug as some Christians are about their place in the body of Christ, they are oblivious to the bigger picture of how the body breach at Nicea as left them vulnerable to all sorts of errors - many handed down from "the early church fathers" who separated from the roots God planted in Israel, have passed along deep errors in the church.

I am writing this because I ran across a friend who I know to be a spiritually hungry, sincere and rather well grounded Christian, posting favorably on the error of transubstantiation. This is the Catholic teaching that the blood and bread of communion turns into the actual skin and blood of Jesus when you take communion.

This is one of the deep errors that I was speaking of and since about 2014, I have noticed more and more non-denominational church leaders trying to make their own reconciliation with the Catholic Church. I assume that this is completely outside of the efforts of Toward Jerusalem Council II, so therefore, without the "roots" trying to establish a unity that does not include Messianics. This is a mistake that will led to compromise like I saw in the post pushing believe in transubstantiation.

I will tell you that the efforts of TJCII have yielded much fruit of unity of some parts of the global church, but not one time have they been able to share the communion of the body and bread even between the board members. The Catholics cannot share the communion with non-Catholics because of their teaching about transubstantiation.

If Christians are persuaded to adopt this false teaching it is going to put many Christians in the falling away side of the Church in the last days. I cannot be more sincere in warning about this.

Here is what I responded to my friend, R: "the early church fathers". I think I would be correct in saying that you were not speaking of the first century apostolic leaders, but Christian leaders who raised up after them, which unfortunately began the fall away from the understandings grounded in the Scriptures - mostly Hebraic which the leaders in the Church quickly were separated from.

They started using their own ideas of what Hebraic thought could have easily explained to them. I don't say that the early church fathers got everything wrong - they didn't! But many, many things they did misinterpret because the Church did not stay connected to the roots of the faith that our Jewish brothers understood then and understand now.

The body and the bread of the Last Supper, which was the Passover meal, is SYMBOLIC. It does not magically turn into actually skin and blood of Jesus.

This is a deception, brother. Miracles can (and do!) happen taking communion - the symbols of Jesus becoming the Passover Lamb sacrificed to cover the sins of the people - but the bread and the wine do not become actual skin and blood anymore than Jesus turned into a wooly little lamb for sacrifice.

These things are SYMBOLS of the REALITY that took place. Do not be led down a path that tries to replace the first century Apostles teaching with the often misinterpreted assumptions in teaching of the "early church fathers."

Respect where they were right but if it doesn't align with teaching in the Word of God - like the transubstantiation of the Catholic mass! This is a lie from the pit of hell leading Christians into pathways of almost 2000 years of deception and disconnection from the Jewish believers in the Messiah of Israel, Jesus in our language, Yeshua in His own language.