For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. -Ephesians 2:14-15 NLT
It is customary to read the book of Ruth during the celebration of Shavuot. The story of Ruth, a gentile, and Naomi, a Jew, is a powerful reflection of God’s heart for One New Humanity.
This story reveals the vocal committed relationship between a gentile and Jew that receives a powerful blessing from God. After the death of both Naomi’s and Ruth’s husbands, Ruth refuses to return to Moab. Instead, she vows to remain with Naomi, accept her people as her own, as well as Naomi’s God, until death. That heartfelt commitment resulted in Ruth marrying Boaz and becoming the great grandmother of David, hence in the family tree of Yeshua, our Lord.
Scripture requires us to have the same loyalty to His chosen people, as did Ruth, and if Jewish, the loyalty of Naomi to Ruth.
34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.” -John 13:34-35 NASB
20 “I am not asking on behalf of these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may [a]believe that You sent Me. - John 17:20-21 NASB
14 For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. 15 He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. -Ephesians 2:14-15 NLT
These One New Humanity Relationships will result in the world believing, that Jesus(Yeshua) is the sent Messiah and create a state of National Tranquility(Ephesians 2:15).
I pray that this Shavuot(Pentecost) season will influence thousands of Jewish and Gentile believers to embrace each other in committed relationships that will destroy existing divisions in the body of Messiah!
