The Creator of the universe—the God of Israel—has revealed His purposes through the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. God chose Abraham and his descendants to bring the Scriptures and the Messiah, the Savior, into the world. The Jewish people were called to be “light to the nations” (Isaiah 42:6; 49:6).

But in the great mystery of Israel and the Church, much of Israel was blinded to Messiah, so that His Light would reach the Gentiles. When the Gospel reached the Gentile people groups, the apostle Paul declared that it is “to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile” (Romans 1:16). This should always have been the practice of the Church, though sadly it was not.

The church was birthed out of Israel; now Israel also needs the message of new birth through Messiah Yeshua (Jesus); this through the Church; Not the historic cultural-institutional “Church” (due to the bad witness of its largely anti-Jewish history), but the ekklesia, the Body of Christ, true believers-followers of Jesus.

The Jewish people are returning from geo-political exile to the land of their fathers in our time, but most are still in spiritual exile without Messiah. The last Gentile unreached people groups on earth are being reached, coming out of the darkness of spiritual exile from God. Those who embraced Messiah are reaching out back to the Jewish people with the Good News of their Messiah. In the great drama of HisStory, Jews and Gentiles need one another, and are a reciprocal blessing to each other. Thus, when “the fulness of the Gentiles has come in…All Israel will be saved” (Rom. 11:25-26).

As Ezekiel the Prophet went east (see the article within “Why EAST?”) to reach his people in exile, so we are committed to proclaiming Yeshua the Messiah to the Jewish people, teaching the church to embrace its Jewish roots and stand against antisemitism—Romans 9-11 being a key text—and helping Western civilization recover from its post-Judeo-Christian cultural exile, and see a revival of its Jewish and Christian foundations.