2 min read

What are Gentile Hebraic Roots?

What are Gentile Hebraic Roots?

The intention is not to disregard the Torah and focus only on the Brit-HaDashah (Renewed Covenant), nor is it to ignore the Renewed Covenant and follow only the Torah.

If the roots of a tree are cut, it dries up and bears no fruit. Similarly, when Christianity annuls the Torah—the fundamental basis of the Renewed Covenant—it loses its foundation and clarity. The Torah gives life to the Brit-HaDashah (Renewed Covenant), so Yehoshua Ha'Mashiah did not come to abolish the Torah or the prophets.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete." Matthew 5:17

The Hebraic roots are for those who have a passion for the truth and have ears to hear. The return of Efrayim (the 10 lost tribes) is for those who hear Yehoshua Ha'Mashíah’s voice. He comes for the lost sheep of Yisra'el and to complete, not abolish, the Torah.

He said, “I have been sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 15-24

Yehoshua is not coming for a Christian people who reject the TORAH and believe they have replaced Yisra'el, the keepers of the Torah, Shabbat, and the Feasts of YeHoVaH.

A Gentile who obeys and is born again in Yehoshua Ha'Mashiach as Savior and keeps the Torah in obedience remains Gentile by flesh, but is grafted into the people of Yehovah Elohim, Yisra'el, through the Messiah, sharing in the Torah/Tanakh, Shabbat, and the 7 Feasts of Yehovah.


Romans 11:24
For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!

And were grafted contrary to nature.

Contrary to your natural habits, thoughts, and practices. There was among the Gentiles no inclination or tendency toward YHVH. This does not mean that they were physically depraved, or that their disposition was literally like the wild olive; but it is used, for the sake of illustration, to show that their moral character and habits were unlike those of the friends of YHVH.

How much more?

The meaning of this whole verse may be thus expressed; “If YHVH had mercy on the Gentiles, who were outcasts from his favor, shall he not much rather on those who were so long his people, to whom had been given the promises, and the covenants, and the Torah, whose ancestors had been so many of them his friends, and among whom the Messiah was born?” In some respects, there are facilities among the Jews for their conversion, which had not existed among the Gentiles. The Jews worship one God; they admit the authority of revelation; they have the Scriptures of the Tanakh; they expect a Messiah; and they have a habit of professed reverence for the will of YHVH.

My sheep hear my voice, I know them, they follow me. John 10-27

By Rabbi HaTzair M. Francisco Arbas