The Tabernacle

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There is a lot of talk at the moment, at least in the circles that I mix in of the one new man… when there will be no more Jew, no more Gentile but one new man. Ephesians 2:15.

It mixes with terms like Replacement theology where the church is believed to fully replace the Jews or Israel. I have also heard messages where that is basically reversed and it is all about the Jews, that they have not only been left out of the equation but that they are the equation. This morning I was talking to Helen and had this following revelation.

I call it joined theology. It isn’t Replacement theology and it isn’t all about the Jews. The one new man is all about coming together under Jesus, with “no longer Jew or Gentile”. (Gal 3: 28) So a place where neither of these groups are the focus, but where the joiner (Jesus) is the focus.

Helen & I often talk of Ding Dong theologies; this is like a bell swinging from one extreme to the other, dinging and donging, it is all too easy to go there.

I think in this case no theology is good if one element is missing or gone or hated. I don’t believe any Theology that either hates Jews or hates the church is OK. Hate isn’t one of the fruits of the Spirit.

The only good theology of the one new man is joined theology, where both Jew and Gentile are joined together with Jesus, the cornerstone. Where it is all about Him (Jesus), not the people. The point being that the ‘one new man’ actually isn’t predominatly about Jews or Gentiles, it is predominatly about Jesus and Him bringing ALL together. We cannot reduce this down to our human level and just look at the players (Jews and Gentiles) on the stage, we need to keep our eyes on the Author and Creator and realise that this once again is a passage about Him and what He is doing and what He is going to do.

I had a big revelation today. I met with a new Israeli friend of mine in the city. We were talking about lots of things and in particular about God.
As my friend was talking about different scriptures, what God was showing Him, speaking to him about, he then started to talk in great detail about the images in the scripture and started to go into great depth about meanings he was perceiving there. I will be honest my thoughts were “wow you are reading a lot/too much into that, you need to look at what the word ‘actually says’, you cannot read so much into the images”. I am really thankful now that I didn’t speak that out but just had those thoughts flash through my mind.
I realise now what great arrogance and pride was driving these thoughts. I have been learning about the Greek model of thinking and how we have so adopted this style of thinking, reason and understanding, and so abandoned the Hebrew way of thinking that instead centres everything around God and what He does or reveals whereas the Greek model centres around us and what we work out. The scriptures use pictures and images a lot. The Lord is like living water, the Lord is your Shepherd. We are supposed to read the bible as images, and get meaning from that we are not supposed to be looking for bullet points and exactly exegete every word and punctuation mark. I believe the Lord highlighted something very important right then, not just about my pride but also about how for centuries we have been missing how we are supposed to be reading the scriptures. The Lord spoke in parables and in word pictures. It is ALL through the scriptures old and new testaments.
Lord forgive me I pray for my arrogance, pride and blindness. We have so much to learn from our Elder brothers the Jews and so much to ask forgiveness for for our still colonialist way of superior prideful thinking.

There is an new explosion of words flooding forth in my spirit. New stirrings. A burden for Israel burning within. Yeshua our cornerstone, connecting Jew and Gentile. Yeshua the “Root & the Offspring of David”. I submit this for your encouragement & discernment.

“I speak to the South
Give up my children!
I speak to the North
Do not hold them back!
I am with you
whatever comes.
You are the apple of my eye.
Yeshua is calling
Yeshau is calling - he’s calling you.
Yeshua is calling - he’s inviting you
My Spirit is calling in these end days
My Wind is stirring a new
to a thing you could not of imagined.
I make all things new.
This is a day of new beginnings
new ways
new calls from my spirit.
It is a day of prophecy fulfilled
my plans & purposes completed.
A day of my mighty strong arm
witnessed in your midst.
A day of new songs, new dances
when those with young shall lead.
A day of a new generation
with fire in their eyes
& passion in their hearts for me,
who think of the old no longer
nor know even of it.
For it is a new day.
The time of the morning star.”