Let us who are Gentiles by racial origin not present the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to the Jews in such a manner that they feel obligated to leave their natural heritage. Salvation is their bread, the children's bread. It is we Gentiles who are the foreigners. The first Christians, the first members of the Body of Christ, were Jews. The first Christian church comprised five thousand Orthodox Jews who devoutly observed the Law of Moses, having little understanding of Divine grace. Have we forgotten that? Have we forgotten the debt we owe to Peter, John, and Paul, and to the Hebrew Prophets?

It is time now to give the children their own bread. Let us repay the debt we owe the Jews by giving them their Christ.

The Kingdom is coming. Christ the King will sit on the Throne of David and rule over Jacob. That is what Gabriel told Mary. Let us do all we can to facilitate the bringing back of their Christ to the Jews, for the Jews were driven away from their own table by the Gentiles who came into the Church in the early days of the Christian Era. Now it is time to return their Christ to them, to bring them back into their own fold.

The Spirit will guide us when we are to bring the message of the Gospel to a Jew. We believe that in addition to our efforts to bring their Christ to the Jewish people, a great move of the Lord already has begun—a sovereign move of Christ that will leave the Jews intact as a people, as a nation, but eventually will bring them into contact with Jesus as their Savior and King.

We think that our role, in addition to holding forth the Word of Life to them, is to show love and support for the Jewish people until such time as this sovereign Divine intervention has been fulfilled and not to stridently and belligerently attempt to force the "four steps of salvation" down Jewish throats.

It is time for Zion to rejoice, for Zion's captivity to be turned. The spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles is at hand. Before Tabernacles can be celebrated we must pass through the "Days of Awe," that is, through a season of repentance.

Tabernacles, the third of the feasts of the Lord, is celebrated in Tishri, which is the seventh month of the Jewish religious year. The first day of Tishri is the memorial of blowing of Trumpets. The tenth day of Tishri is the Day of Atonement. Tabernacles begins on the fifteenth of Tishri and goes to the twenty-first, with the twenty-second being a high Sabbath.

The first ten days of Tishri are the Days of Awe. The first day of Tishri is Rosh Hashannah —New Year's Day. The ten days are a time of soul-searching and judgment leading up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. There must be genuine repentance so God can forgive the worshiper. Then the heart is ready for the joy of Tabernacles.

To be continued.