The Anointing
November 6, 2026
Moses wrote that we must love and serve Him, Micah said we must do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.1
I’ve been thinking, what is it that God expects from us?
Those are the parameters, but what are the specifics?
My concern is about the role of Jewish and Gentile Believers. Are they the same, distinct or overlapping?
I want to be clear. We have a problem that requires a solution.
I was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants, circumcised on the eighth day and bar mitzvah in the thirteenth year. My wife was raised agnostic. Her father was Jewish and his parents were immigrants. By trade, I was a woodworker/builder. Marla was a Nurse Midwife.
I am a Jewish carpenter. She is a Hebrew midwife.
We have the bases covered. (I also have a Jewish sense of humor.)
I hope that’s enough for you to consider what I am about to say, because this is serious. We were both saved in 1980 and began raising our family in a NY suburb surrounded by Catholics and Protestants. No one shared the gospel with us. Fortunately, that did not prevent Jesus from saving us. It was a radical transformation. Soon after, we were directed to a sound church, called Gospel Community Church. We were welcomed by Christians who loved Jews and Israel.
For years I suspected there was a meaning to life but hadn’t discovered it until one Sunday morning. I was a “long-hair hippie freak,” who was anti-everything until I heard that strait laced, white hair-crew cut pastor open his bible and start speaking about Jesus and the Kingdom of God. He talked as if he knew Him.
I sensed an urge to sit up, listen, and learn. That I did for the next 17 years, until he died. Pastor Al was not an educated man, but he knew his bible and its Author. He encouraged me to learn about my ancient roots and teach them. The church, he discerned, needed to know why the “Jews were missing from the pews.”
The foundation the apostles laid was straight and true but the structure that followed is not. The level that Jesus used as a carpenter seems like it was discarded. What was once lively stones fitly joined together, now seem like bricks laid in rows.
The relational experience believers once shared as co laborers has widely (not entirely) shifted. The brotherly love and sacrificial lifestyle of the early church has become transactional. The church that Jesus said He would build, by definition, was made up of Jews and Gentiles working together.2 He said the world would know them by their love. If that describes your church, cherish and nurture it.
In the Older testament, the Jews were singled out to bring the revelation of God’s covenant promises to humanity. Their story begins in Genesis 12:1-3 and continues throughout the Bible.
They were called to bring the blessing that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and his descendants to all the families of the earth, which were Gentile. God called it the blessing, which means “treaty of peace.” Centuries later, Isaiah would use the term “light to the Gentiles.”
Did they succeed?
Not fully, until the first century. In that day, Jesus’ born-again disciples went into the known world and shared the love of Yeshua as His representatives. At first, they were entirely Jewish. The Gentiles who received their message became born-again and together Jews and Gentiles united, while retaining their identities. They preached with authority yet were known by their brotherly love.
However, within 30 years the Gentile believers outnumbered the Jewish believers and another gospel set sail into the sea of theology. Paul, the apostle, identified it as false teaching;
“I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.” (Romans 11:1)
God intended the Gentiles to spread the gospel in the same manner that Jesus taught His disciples, which would simultaneously provoke the Jews to jealousy because of the love they expressed for the Jewish Messiah.
Were they successful? Not for long.
Within a century, the Temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was burnt to the ground. To explain why God allowed this, a theology emerged that God was done with the Jews because they rejected–and even murdered—Jesus. By then, Paul had died and seemingly no one could refute the charges. The Jews became fair game in the Roman world with little or no defense. Instead of making the Jews jealous, they were treated as the world’s outcasts and vagabonds. It worsened over the centuries as the distance between Jews and Gentiles continued to grow everywhere they settled.
Before we accuse God of allowing this, we need to see how He made possible a different outcome. Paul presented it to the Church while in Ephesus. It’s been accessible ever since. He called it the “one new man,”
“His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,”
First, He destroyed their ancient hostility so they would become a witness to the demonic world of the manifold wisdom of God.
This was according to the eternal purpose of God.3
Sound familiar?
Probably not, because it’s been rarely taught.
Jesus body was God’s canvas; the outcome was His Masterpiece.4
Jewish and Gentile believers were created to serve God together because of what Jesus accomplished. They could have become a force that caused demons to tremble. What stopped them?
Theology.
It began as an explanation for the Jewish dispersion but became doctrine without discerning that Satan was the author.
The official separation of the Jews from the “church” began at the Nicaean Council in 324 AD with other councils to follow, until it was clear that for Jews to become “Christian” meant complete denial of their Jewish identity, practice, and their Hebrew language. For Christians, celebrating the biblical Feasts was forbidden, including the Sabbath and Passover. For centuries the rift grew wider until “that which was once concealed” but revealed in Paul’s day, was unofficially buried by the fourth century. The one new man became a concept instead of God’s masterpiece and spiritual weapon. Along with him went the peace that Jesus created on the cross.
This cannot continue!
It may seem like I am placing blame on the Gentile church, but I’m not. The problem began long before.
This is where the Mishkha and the Blessing come in.
Mishkha means anointing and blessing means “a treaty of peace.”
They are spiritual terms that originate in the Hebrew Bible. Together they describe the “eternal purpose of God.”5 It was and still is God’s solution to humanity’s condition. And yet it has been dormant for far too long.
Any concept that is eternal must have its roots in the Hebrew Bible and be prophetic to be genuine. For example, the latter rain has yet to come, the one new man must return, David’s tabernacle, which has fallen, must be rebuilt, and the Bride of the Messiah is still not prepared.
That’s only the beginning.
Righteousness must proceed like brightness and salvation like a blazing torch from Jerusalem. (Isa 62)
These things are prophetic, which means they must happen.
There is a short paragraph in a discreet location that paints a picture of the days ahead like no other. It is a heart-warming snapshot of God’s intimacy with His beloved.
In the last book of the Hebrew Bible, Malachi prophesies of an event, scheduled for the distant future, known as the last days.
“Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before Him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.”
We do not know what their conversation was, but if God took notes, He wants us to pay close attention to what’s coming!
Stay tuned for “The Conversation.”
It’s a game changer.
Shalom,
- Deuteronomy 10:12; Micah 6:8 ↩︎
- Ephesians 2:21, 22 ↩︎
- Ephesians 2:15 ↩︎
- Ephesians 2:10 ↩︎
- Ephesians 3:11; the only time this term is used in the Bible ↩︎
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