Messianic Gentile Appropriation is Replacement Theology

Those who appropriate the identities of others in order to elevate themselves defile both their own ethnicity and that of the other.

​Many Christians are now beginning to understand that Replacement theology and its modern iterations, Supersessionism, Continuationism, Successionism etc. are all satanic heresies that alienate and demonise the Jewish people while seeking to steal their God established chosenness.
 
This movement toward a sound Biblical understanding of the roles of the Jewish people and the Gentile church in Messiah is a wonderful encouragement to Jews like myself who have met the living King Mashiach Yeshua (Jesus the Messiah). There are however, those who have hyper-extended and misapplied this complex Biblical idea. As Messiah followers, we have an obligation to warn so called “Gentile Messianics" that when they, being non-Jews, appropriate Jewish religious clothing, call themselves spiritual Jews, seek to keep Torah laws of distinction specifically commanded to B’nai Yisrael (The Children of Israel) alone, and not to Gentiles, and demand that all believers do likewise; they are literally practicing Replacement theology.
 
The ethnic nouns "Jew, Israel, Judah, Ephraim" all apply to the blood descendants of Jacob alone. An ethnic noun is not once used in Scripture to refer to a spiritual condition, nor are ethnic nouns used figuratively to describe anyone other than those who are ethnically identifiable with the tribal group in question.
 
For a Gentile Messianic or Christian to call themselves a “Spiritual Jew” is both delusional and an act of self-harm, while also being an antisemitic attempt to usurp the position of God's elect people: chosen, ethnic, religious, empirical, Israel, the Jews.
 
According to the usage of these ethnic nouns in Scripture, only an ethnic Jew qualifies as a spiritual Jew. And only an ethnic Israelite qualifies as being part of the "Israel of God."
 
A Gentile Messianic claiming to be a spiritual Jew, is as delusional as a Briton claiming to be a spiritual Navajo, or a Celt claiming to be a spiritual Maori.
 
God created you to be the valuable ethnic person you are and to live the fullness of your ethnic identity in Messiah. Do not despise the Creator by trying to be someone you're not. Those who appropriate the identities of others in order to elevate themselves defile both their own ethnicity and that of the other.
 
Numerous Messianics have decontextualized and mistaught passages like Romans 11, Ephesians 2, and Galatians 6, in order to appeal to the pride of non-Jewish Messianics. Rather than correctly understanding the place of the Jewish people and owning the God given uniqueness of their own ethnicities, many among the body of faith have instead demanded to be the Jewish people. This, out of a sense of entitlement born of insufficiency. Like broken children they say “I’m special too!”, not realising that in Messiah that fact was never in question. Thus, they seek to steal the identity and role of the Jew. This is grave error.
 
Being grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel does not make a Gentile person ethnically or spiritually Jewish any more than being a part of the Commonwealth of Great Britain makes an indigenous Cree person (Canadian native) a Briton (tribal, ethnic). When using an ethnic noun to describe a person's spiritual being we must by definition be speaking of a person of that specific ethnicity.
 
A spiritual Jew is also an ethnic Jew, no matter how hard he tries he cannot become a spiritual Briton, or Cree, or Navajo, or Maori, and vice versa. In the context of Scripture the phrase "Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16) refers to ethnic Jews who have received the promised Jewish King Messiah Yeshua. It does not refer to Gentiles, not in any way.
 
Paul writes, “Now as many as live by this standard, peace and mercy on them and on the Israel of God.” Note that he says “and” in order to make a distinction between those who are Gentile and live by the standard in question and those who are of the believing Jews (Israel of God). For clarity, let’s try substituting another ethnic noun in order to see how plainly this text refers to an ethnic distinction and not to all believers: “Now as many as live by this standard, peace and mercy on them and on the Maori of God”. No one would read this to mean all believers but as a title specifically applicable to Maori believers. This example shines a light on the foolish misreading that suggests that the “Israel of God” are all believers. Therefore, when we read ethnic terms in the Bible as spiritual metaphor, allegory or as synonyms for the “Church” we can be certain we’re in error.

To put it in plan terms, if I as a Jew were to call myself a "Spiritual Navajo", I would be guilty of denying God's creative purpose for me and my God given ethnic identity, while at the same time appropriating (stealing) the creative purpose and ethnic identity of my Navajo brother.
 
Spiritual redemption in Messiah does not equate to spiritual ethnicity. In fact, to some degree the phrase "spiritual ethnicity" is an oxymoron that uses false equivalence to promote a myth.
 
Those grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel feed from the faith root of the natural olive tree (ethnic Jews/Israelites) but do not fruit the same variety of fruit as the natural tree. There is a reason Paul uses the olive tree in his metaphor.

As a manager of a garden centre for a number of years, I noted that the multi-graft olive trees we sold fruited the fruit of their original (wild) plants where they had been grafted to the natural (base stock) plant. In short, a burgundy coloured (Kalamata) olive from a wild tree grafted to the green olive (Castelvetrano) of the natural tree, nonetheless fruited burgundy year after year, likewise a black olive (Bella di Cerignola) from another wild olive tree, and so on (we sold trees of up to four grafts of wild olives attached to the root stock of the base plant). After all, what is the point of a multi-graft olive tree that bears only the fruit of the natural tree?
 
With regard to the teaching of Romans 11, Ephesians 2, and Galatians 6, spiritually and ethnically speaking, being grafted in by faith through Yeshua the King Messiah to the root source (that which feeds the tree) does not mean a loss of ethnicity (culture, uniqueness, identity, flavour, colour), nor does it mean appropriation of the mother tree’s ethnicity. It simply means that we feed from the same source (YHVH) via the tree root (Abraham, Isaac & Jacob) and are reliant on the continued existence of the natural tree (Israel).

Learn this lesson well Gentile brothers and sisters: God did not make a mistake when He made you of a different ethnicity to that of Israel (the Jewish people). Nor does He require you to become Jews. Freedom is in Messiah alone, all else is idolatrous nonsense. Be the Messiah essential you, expressing all that is godly within your own ethnic cultural identity in Yeshua.
 
The tragic irony of the practice of so many so called “Messianic Gentiles,” who wear tzit tzit, receive adult circumcision, and in extreme cases convert to Orthodox Judaism, renouncing Yeshua in the process; is that they have become literal participants in the Replacement theology they claim to detest.
 
"For freedom, Messiah has set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened again by a yoke of slavery… 4 You who are trying to be justified by Torah have been cut off from Messiah; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Messiah Yeshua, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any meaning—but only trust and faithfulness expressing itself through love."
 
-Galatians 5:1, 4-6