Feast of Feasts

Many of us (Messianic Jews) persistently ignore Christmas. This is especially true of those who immigrated from the post-Soviet countries, are suffering from assimilation, and want to “rebuild” their image from that of a “person from the diaspora” to an image of a “local Jew” as quickly as possible. (Sometimes I think we have overdone it.) Time will judge us. God will give us all the wisdom, and gradually we will see the fruit, since not a single deed—if done with the right motivation—can be left without fruit. And God is strong to edify or correct what we have done wrong!
The goal, of course, is not only Jews renewed and purified from the fruits of assimilation, but Jews who have been renewed by the Holy Spirit into the image of the Messiah Yeshua. And it is also important for non-Jews to be renewed by the same Spirit of God and follow the Creator in the name of Yeshua, so that we can together form one nation, one body in Messiah before the Heavenly Father. It is through this unity that the glory of God will unfold on earth and change all of us!

In this article we are not sharing with you updates about the projects that “Return to Zion” Ministry is doing, although they have not lost their relevance, and we ask you continue to pray and stand with us. Perhaps our emotional state is not the same, and our inner experience points more to the following verse in the Scripture (We believe that many readers will agree with us):

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And inspired, we can move forward, doing the Work of God, becoming His hands or lips, or His love, or His mind or His support for others.

In the text of 2 Peter 1:19, the Morning Star represents the second coming of the Messiah. And technically, these holidays — including Hanukkah (the holiday of Light) and Christmas (the birth in the flesh of the Saviour of the World, although in my understanding of the Scriptures, Yeshua was born on Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles) — relate to one thing.  They are about Tikkun (Restoration), the restoration of individuals and restoration of Zion, the restoration of the Body of the Lord and the full renewal and restoration of the world. 

And every holiday is just a reminder or an echo of those distant events, but still a great Voice is gathered from these echoes, and this Voice turns into the Voice of the Shofar from Heaven and the Voice of the Assembly of Believers in the Lord, people proclaiming “BARUCH HABA B’SHEM ADONAI – Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” This voice says that we don’t live in vain, that our life is not just exhaustion of strength, but investment in the Coming World, investment in the Glory of God on Earth, and investment in the Glory of the King of Kings returning to the throne.