Page 4 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

slay on their last night in Egypt. 430 years before that first Passover, Yahweh promised His friend
Abraham that a Seed would one day be given to him who would be a source of blessing to all
nations. That Seed is Christ, whose genealogy is reckoned back to Abraham. Yahshua’s genealogy
is also traced back to David, the King of Israel who had a heart after God.

What do these men, Moses, Abraham, and David have in common? They are all Hebrews. They were
all members of a nation chosen by Yahweh to be His peculiar possession in the earth. Abraham is
the father of the Hebrew nation. This nation is frequently called by the name of his grandson Jacob
whose name was changed to Israel. From Jacob/Israel came twelve sons. One of those sons was
Judah, whose lineage was destined to bear the scepter of rule over the nation. Yahshua the Messiah,
the King of Israel, was born of the tribe of Judah. He is in all ways the legitimate heir to the title
“King of the Jews.”

It takes only an elementary understanding of the Bible to understand that Christianity arose out of
Judaism. The Hebrew people had their beginning when Yahweh called Abram to leave his home in
Aram, to depart from his father’s household, and to follow Him to a new land that would be given
to Abram’s descendants as a possession. 2,000 years later Yahweh sent His only begotten Son to the
earth to call out a further elect from among mankind. Yahshua chose twelve men, all Jewish, to lay
the foundation for His church. This church, referred to as “the body of Christ,” was not to be made
up only of Hebrew men and women. It would encompass a great multitude of Gentile believers. The
word “Gentile” is a reference to “the nations.” In this sense, the phrase “the nations” indicates any
who are not natural born Israelites, descendants of Abraham.

It would be folly to suggest that those members of the body of Christ who came from “the nations”
have no need of, or would derive no benefit from, learning about Yahweh’s dealings with the
Hebrew people, the descendants of Abraham. Yahweh spent two millennia dealing with this nation
prior to calling the Gentiles to be part of the people of God. It would be equally foolish for the Jew
to suggest that the Gentiles, those who are not the natural descendants of Abraham through Isaac and
Jacob, have no part or portion with them. Through His Son, Yahweh has reconciled both Jew and
Gentile into one people.

Matthew 8:11
“And I say to you, that many shall come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham,
and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...”

Acts 10:45
And all the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the
Holy Spirit had been poured out upon the Gentiles also.

Romans 2:28-29
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not
by the letter...