The One New Man

Nita Johnson
 
 
 
 

There are different schools of thought regarding this subject in the body of Christ at this present time but there is only one that is correct. This issue of the one new man is of critical import to the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) and therefore to the body of Christ for reasons I don’t fully understand. Perhaps it is important because the time of the Gentile is coming to a close. Possibly it is significant because the great awakening that is soon to grace the Church would be hindered from entering into its full majesty if we don’t fully comprehend this truth. Perhaps it is because of the persecution against the Christian and the Jew that is about to occur. Or perhaps it is because our Father has promised to build His Church on truth and nothing less than pure and undefiled truth is strong enough to sustain the temple. Whatever the case may be we must know and understand this truth if we are to fulfill Yahveh’s purpose for us. Consequently, it is imperative that it be built on the right foundation. Like any other doctrinal truth in the Bible, expressed in its truest form it will bring liberty, enlightenment and glory to the Church. If in fact it is diminished by error it will fall on the exponential curve ultimately leading the believer into even greater error in the end. It is for this reason that the Lord has spoken to me through the Spirit of revelation about this subject.

One of the teachings that are prevalent today is that the Jew and the Gentile are one, but more as a commonwealth of believers rather than that they are now of the same stock. The Bible doesn’t support that teaching. I hope to make that abundantly clear before I am finished.

The second teaching is that we are all of the same family, but the Church is Ephraim and the Jew is Judah. Again, the Bible doesn’t support this teaching. For, Christ would have had to be born of the seed of Joseph for this teaching to be accurate. He was however born out of the tribe of Judah. That makes the Church a Judamite by birth, as we came out of Christ’s loins, as I will cover later.

Some will accept that the Church is indeed spiritual Israel but they want to diminish the value of that truth by saying that being a Jew of the Spirit is not equivalent to being a Jew of the flesh. Again, Scripture does not support this. In fact, quite the contrary is true.

Others want to diminish the value and role of natural Israel in the plan of Yahveh. We cannot do that either if we want to see His full purpose and plan for man come into play in these last days.

Finally, I want to state here that Scripture does not support any of the now well known replacement theologies. For that reason neither do I. Israel is still a vital part of Yahveh’s plan. Whether the Church recognizes that or not is irrelevant and will have little bearing on what He will ultimately do. You can read my first article on the One New Man for a Scriptural expose on Israel’s place in Yahveh’s plan.

I am a Jew by birth as well as Gentile, so I have nothing to prove by attempting to bring this truth to the church in its purity. I don’t have a need to make myself a Jew because I feel inadequate as a Gentile. Further being Jew, I might have more to lose than to gain by sharing this with you, for some of my Messianic Jewish brothers can and do take offense with what I am about to share. In fact I might add that it seems that my attempts to bring this truth to the Church has been met by strong rejection and rebuttal on every side by those who are walking in only a part of the truth. I am not offended by this as I know that those who really want truth will turn around in the future and embrace it. I share this revelation knowing that it will offend some, nevertheless I will share it for the good of the Church.

First, I want to tell you about a series of experiences that I have been given then I will share the Scriptural foundation of the truth I received.
 

 

THE TRANCE
 

 

I was asleep when this experience began, but was quickly awakened by the shock of what I encountered. At that time I was taken into a trance such as Peter experienced and is recorded in Acts 10:10 that the vision might be finished.

I was led into a bedroom by a man whom I later came to understand was an angel. This room was filled with antique furniture that was expensive and well preserved. (The reason for this setting was to tell me of the ancient roots and that this truth is of great value.) Over the bed headboard were the words “The Old Testament”. I was told to walk over and lay down upon the bed. I obeyed. As I lay down and my head hit the pillow, I suddenly became one with the bed and began to descend down through time. I say down as I traveled downward as I traveled back through time. I found myself traveling back through time through my own native tribe which is Joseph then on into the very stock of Abraham. I was in the loins of Abraham and in full identification with my Jewish roots. Everything changed. I related to my environment, to people and even to Yahveh, not as a Gentile but as a Jew which is substantially different than that of a Gentile, even one who is born again. To a Jew who has been raised to love Yahveh, He is the matrix of all life and relationships. To a born-again Gentile life and relationships are meant to lead to the Father. Being raised as a Gentile instead of a Jew, I did not realize the error of my thoughts, as I could never have known the depths of my own heart except Ruach HaKodesh reveals it. Consequently, as I came face to face with my Jewish side and the roots of my people it was traumatic to say the least. Nevertheless, I never wanted to lose what I had just gained.

Then the angel returned to me and led me past a second room, which had over the bed headboard “Gentile” and to a third room. I was then told that had my roots been strictly Gentile I would have been led into the second room instead of the first. As we stood at the threshold of the third room, I saw over the headboard of the bed the words “The New Testament”. The bedroom furniture in this room was modern contemporary furniture made out of cherry wood I believe. Again, it was very expensive to illustrate the value of this truth.

Again I was instructed to walk over and lay down upon the bed. I obeyed. As my head touched the pillow, I again began to travel down through time until I found myself in the loins of Christ. At that point the whole bedroom was lifted up and placed into the first bedroom. The two slowly became one. Once this transition was complete, I again moved back into time until I found myself in the loins of Abraham. Galatians 3:29

Then the Lord spoke to me. He said: “This is the mystery of the One New Man as I gave it to Paul. Jew and Gentile become one in Me. Both are made Jew and are of the stock of Abraham. As I sat in my Savior’s presence the truth He had just revealed and the means of revelation stunned me.

Then I began to feel surrounded by the spirit of persecution. I could feel an intense hatred coming at me and as it were the desire to stop this truth at any cost. I asked Yeshua what I was feeling. He told me that I was experiencing the spirit of persecution that was sent against Paul. He told me that when He gave this revelation to Paul, Satan wanted to stop it. Consequently, he sent persecution and tried to kill Paul to prevent the truth from succeeding.” Then Yeshua said to me: “Will you pick up the mantle and bring this truth back to My Church?” At first I wanted to say no, as I have gone through so much persecution to bring the message of the last set of angels listed in my book “Prepare.” However as I thought about it, I knew it must have an importance beyond what I can understand, or He wouldn’t be asking me to do this. I knew if I agreed I would be met with the same persecution, and I knew by whom it would come. But I said yes for my love for Yeshua and His church.
 

 

RUTH, A TRUE DAUGHTER
 

 

Several weeks later, I was sitting in the Los Angeles Airport when without warning the Holy Spirit overwhelmed me with this revelation. Suddenly and without warning, I became Ruth of the Old Testament. I felt her feelings and her person. I was momentarily no longer myself. I was wholly Gentile and Moabite. How Yeshua does this I am not quite sure. I only know that it is a very powerful form of communication. Then I was grafted into the stock of Abraham. I felt the grafting take place. I began to weep uncontrollably; my heart was so filled with Yeshua’s own love for this truth. I found a rest that was complete as I entered into the vine of Yeshua then on into Abraham. I was a Gentile no longer. I was then a Jew. The Lord then spoke to me and said, ”this is what happened to Ruth when she by faith came to Me in her lifetime. I no longer saw her as a Gentile, or by her Gentile roots. I saw her as a Jew. She was a picture of my Gentile Church”.

Then I saw a vision of Rachael and Leah. The Lord told me as Rachael and Leah were both married to Jacob and were one spirit with Him, they both gave birth to Jewish children that this too is a picture of My Church. My Bride Leah is the Gentile Christian. Rachel is the born again Jew. Both are my bride. Both are of the stock of Abraham. He continued to flood my heart with His own love for this truth, and I wept uncontrollably sitting right in the middle of this huge airport. Yeshua continued to flow over me in this manner for several more hours. Once again He asked me if I would bring this truth to His Church.
 

 
 
 

SCRIPTURE SUPPORTS IT
 

 

Paul asks in l Corinthians, “is Messiah divided? Is He the head of a divided Church?” If you believe many of the different theologies He is. The Bible however says He is not. In Romans 12:5 Paul says:

So we being many, are one body in Messiah, and every one members one of another. Further: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Messiah. For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. II Corinthians 12:12,13 Again: But he that is joined unto the Lord is one Spirit. I Corinthians 6:17

THE BODY
 

 

The Bible spends a good deal of time representing the church as a body, more importantly, the body of Messiah. Moreover, Messiah is the head of this single body. The Bible says:

And He hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to Be the head over all things to the church. Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Ephesians 2:22,23 Further: But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him In all things, which is the head, even Christ. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Ephesians 4:15 Again: He is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. Colossians 1:18
 

 

We find other such Scriptures that support the concept of a single body, not many bodies, and one Head. We are no longer many but one. On the other hand though we are many, we are but one, for we are all joined by one Spirit. Paul said it quite clearly in speaking to the Ephesians believers.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism One God and Father of all who is above all, and through all and in you all. Ephesians 4:4-6 (emphasis authors)

Therefore any that are born again are born of the same Spirit as Messiah and are part of one body, which is fitly joined together to the head, Yeshua Messiah. This being true, if He is a Jew we too are Jews.

Prior to my experiences I believed what so many others believe. I believed that the body was half Gentile and half Jew. I thought Yahveh could look at it in the spirit and see two distinctions but one body. This is not accurate. It is one body made up of born-again Jews. Jews and Gentiles of the flesh, but Jews of the spirit.
 

 
 
 

SONS OF MESSIAH
 

 

Whether you were born by natural descent of the sons of Israel or as a Gentile. The day you were born again you became of the same Spirit as Messiah. Messiah was a Jew by natural descent, therefore His offspring is of the seed of Abraham and Judah and is a therefore a Jew.

The Bible says:

For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham. Hebrews 2:16 Further: For it became Him for whom are all things, and by whom Are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory. Hebrews 2:10A Again: And if ye be Christ’s then ye are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:29

Again, it stands to reason that if we are truly His sons as the Bible teaches, we are born of the same seed from which He was born. That seed was of Abraham and Judah. If Messiah was a Jew then His sons are Jews. That is what I experienced that day in the trance. As a believer, whether Jew or Gentile in the flesh, I was placed into Messiah’s womb then taken back into the loins of Abraham being thus made Abraham’s seed through Messiah.

That doesn’t replace natural Israel. It simply brings the Gentile believer into the commonwealth of Israel, as was Ruth. Ruth said to Naomi, “thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Yahveh took her at her Word and made her a daughter of Israel.

I recently asked a messianic Jewish leader who was raised as an Orthodox Jew what a Jew considers Ruth, since she was a Gentile who adopted the Jewish faith and lived as a Jew among the Jews. He told me that Orthodox Jews, considered her a Jew. If Ruth became a Jew by faith in the Old Covenant, why do we have such a difficult time accepting a Gentile as a Jew in the New Covenant?

Even today if a Gentile wants to convert to Judaism, he is taken through extensive training in the Law and Jewish traditions. Then if it is a man he is circumcised according to Jewish Law. The person is then baptized and given a new name, which signifies a complete break from their former genealogical and religious heritage.

What is more important is the way Yahveh sees the transformation. In this case considering our subject Ruth. He sees her as a Jew. That is what He showed me that day in the airport. I experienced the transition that Ruth went through before Yahveh when she said her immortal words: “Thy people shall be my people and thy God shall be my God.” She immediately became one Spirit with the preincarnate Messiah and with Naomi who was a true believer. She was taken into a spiritual metamorphosis and became a child of Yahveh’s and a Jew.

If Yeshua who is the Father of the Church was born of the tribe of Judah, how can anyone call a Christian an Ephraimite? If I being an Israelite from the tribe of Joseph, which I am, and if by chance I were not a believer, gave birth to a son, can he be considered from the tribe of Dan? Of course not! He would be given the inheritance of Joseph for that is his bloodline. It is the same with a Christian. Our Father is Yeshua born from the tribe of Judah. Therefore, we being His sons and daughters are of the same tribe as our Father. Accordingly, we have the same inheritance as our Father has. That inheritance is from the line of Judah.

I am of the tribe of Joseph in the natural. However, in the Spirit, I am from the tribe of Judah. (He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men but of God.) Romans 2:28 and 29 By this Scripture we learn that Messiah was Jew in spirit. Therefore, so are we if we are born again. Unlike the circumcision required by the Jewish Rabbis, our circumcision is of the spirit and the heart. In our baptism we are baptized into the Spirit of Messiah. The end result is that we are born into the commonwealth of Israel, and all ties with our past life are severed. We have become a spiritual Jew in Yeshua’s eyes.
 

 
 
 

MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION
 

 

For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace. Ephesians 2:14 and 15
 

 

Through the piercing of Messiah’s flesh on the cross He removed the invisible wall between the believing Gentile and the believing Jew to make in Himself one new man. Apart from Messiah there is still a sharp division between the Jew and the Gentile. In Messiah the division vanishes and they become one. The believing Jew and the believing Gentile make up His body which before Yahveh is Jewish.

We still have this issue of natural Israel with which to deal. It is important for us to understand how natural Israel pertains to spiritual Israel. Natural Israel is an issue that is dear to the heart of Yahveh. Yeshua lived in the flesh as a son of Israel and died for the salvation of every Jew. He still yearns for every Jewish soul, as a man would yearn for his long lost son. As a true Christian, we should automatically carry a burden for Israel just as Messiah does. Perhaps understanding where they stand in Yahveh’s economy will help.

I am going to draw a parallel for a moment only to make a point. Isaac was the child of promise yet he had an older brother who was Ishmael. Both brothers were loved by their father and by Yahveh. Both brothers were from the same stock of Abraham. However, we might say that one was a child of the flesh and the other of the spirit. For the sake of this argument, in the same respect, natural Israel of whom I am a descendant in the flesh could be equated with Ishmael. Spiritual Israel of which I am apart through my new birth could be equated to Isaac. Both sons come from the parent stock of Abraham and Yahveh loves both. That however is where our parallel must end. For we know that the commonwealth of natural Israel comes from the loins of Isaac in the flesh therefore party to the covenant made to him by Yahveh. But, until they are born again, they are still children of the flesh and for that reason alienated from the fulfillment of much of the covenant promises.

Paul tells us in Romans 9 that the fulfillment of the promises to natural Israel is still in Yahveh’s plan. He will never forsake natural Israel. But to experience the fulfillment of His highest covenant they must become born again of the Spirit of Messiah. Yahveh will in these last days turn His focus upon natural Israel in an attempt to bring as many into the kingdom as possible. So great will this focus become that it will seem that only Jews are getting saved. Each Jew that accepts Yeshua as Messiah will be brought into the spiritual mystical body of Messiah and made partakers of the covenants and promises given to their ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just as all Gentiles who are born again through the body of Messiah.

So, what is the one promise that we can look to concerning natural Israel, knowing that it will come to pass? The promise that Messiah will remove the veil over their blinded eyes and awaken them from the spirit of slumber, that they might get saved in these last days. When the great light comes and as it comes, the commonwealth of spiritual Israel will be enlarged in great measure by the newly born again Jews.
 

 
 
 

THE SUM TOTAL OF IT ALL!
 

 
 
 

What does Paul say? In Romans 9 he says the following:
 

 

Who are the Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the Glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the Service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Verses 4 and 5.
 

 

The adoption of Yahveh was given first to Israel. Therefore when a Gentile becomes born again, he is grafted into the same adoption originally given to the Jew. It was originally Israel that received the glory and the covenants through Abraham. These gifts of grace would flow down to all His spiritual heirs beginning with Isaac and Jacob. When the law was given it was given to Israel. The whole salvation plan was first given to the parent stock of Israel, which consists of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This covenant was not later transferred over to the Gentile and a new parent stock formed. No, what occurred was precisely the opposite. Later it was revealed that Yahveh wanted to include the Gentile and allow him to become apart of what Yahveh had given to Abraham and graft the Gentile into the stock of Abraham. Salvation has always and will always be of the Jew as Messiah is a Jew by natural descent. (John 4:22) Therefore the stock of the tree will always be Jewish, as will the root who is Messiah. This makes the whole tree Jewish.

Yahveh has not negated His promises to natural Israel to make himself a new house out of Gentiles. When a Jew gets saved, he is not coming into a Gentile body with covenants meant for the Gentiles. Just the opposite is true. When a Jew gets saved, He is making his spiritual entrance into a Jewish body, which has as its head a Jewish Messiah. In this body are many Gentiles who have become spiritual Jews by means of their new identification with the parent stock of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by means of Messiah Yeshua who is from the tribe of Judah and is called the root of David. It is not a Judeo/ Christian faith. It is an extension of the Jewish faith with Messiah Yeshua at the head instead of the Law as in times past.

So, what does all this have to do with the church today? If we are all Jews, that is souls born from the spiritual tribe of Judah through Messiah, then we should love our brothers the Jews by the flesh, and present them a Gospel that is Jewish. If we are grafted into the rights of Israel by means of their Messiah, then we should be willing to bear the burden and suffering with our Jewish brother in hopes of saving some. Finally, if we are in fact spiritual Jews, than we would be the most content celebrating Biblical Feasts and keeping the holidays of the Lord instead of the pagan holidays that so many keep today. Those who have begun to do this very thing are finding that the Feasts of the Lord are not a burden but are actually more joyous than the old traditional holidays. It will be through the keeping of the Biblical feasts that we come to know more about our Messiah and our heritage as a new spiritual Jew. Last but not least, in keeping these holidays our Jewish brothers, natural Israel, will be more open to hear the true Gospel as it will be a Jewish Gospel as it was meant to be.

Although it is healthy to have a good understanding of the Torah, that doesn’t mean that the Christian is to bring himself under the constraint of the written law. For Messiah is the end of the Law to all those who believe, and the just shall live by faith. It is the Spirit of the Torah that we are called to obey. It is the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua. Yeshua himself said that if we love Yahveh our Elohim with all our mind, heart, soul, and strength and our neighbor as ourselves, then we have fulfilled the law. Paul suffered much persecution to bring the Gentiles into the commonwealth of Israel by means of faith in the Jewish Messiah rather than through the door of the law. So, we don’t want to lose what he gained for the church. Keeping the Feasts of Yahveh is not akin to coming in under the law. Keeping the feasts and loving our brother natural Israel is the very spirit of the Torah, and pleasing in Yahveh’s eyes.

In these last days, we will see the fulfillment of the adoption of our natural brother the Jew. As this enters into a full swing, the Shekinah (glory) will be restored in an unprecedented way. The covenants will begin to be unlocked as never before with a richness of understanding we have never known. The true spirit of the Torah will be released and flowing among the remnant and our brother will again take his rightful place just as the prodigal son of whom Yeshua spoke so long ago. The salvation of natural Israel is the culminating crescent of Yahveh’s grace upon the earth, and will bring all things to a close. So as a Jew, pray for our brothers and love them as you would your own flesh for that is now what they are.
 

 
 
 
 

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