Full Commentary Letter

 

We write to you as watchmen on the walls of Zion, and as elders set in this hour to bear witness before God and the nations. Your Churches are ancient pillars of the Body of Christ — born in the earliest days of the Gospel, tested in fire, preserved in suffering, yet still shining in faith after nearly two millennia.

Like Daniel, who though righteous, confessed the sins of Israel as his own; like Nehemiah and Ezra, who wept and fasted on behalf of their people, so now must the Body of Christ stand in

Generational Responsibility
For though each branch has its own history, we are one Body, and none are exempt except Yeshua Himself, the Head of the Church.

We confess with sorrow the sins of Christendom against the Jewish people — the firstborn nation of the covenant.

For two thousand years, from the Council of Nicaea to the Holocaust, the people of Israel have suffered at the hands of those who bore the Name of Christ. This blood cries out to Heaven.

And as you know from the Holy Scriptures and the records of history, “mysteriously” this people of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have faced such afflictions from the beginning: those who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls and Temple in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, the accusers who appealed to the archives of the kings to stop their work, and of course Haman’s plot against Mordecai and Esther under King Xerxes of Persia.

 

In the historical scheme of matters — and above all, from the view of Almighty GOD — these human beings are indeed something special, set apart from the nations as a chosen vessel of His covenant.

• Genesis 12:3 “All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
  Deuteronomy 4:33 “Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for Himself one nation out of another nation…”
• Deuteronomy 7:6 – “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession.”
• Isaiah 43:20-21 – “The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.”
• Exodus 19:5-6 – “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples.”
• Psalm 135:4 – “For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.”
• Amos 3:2 – “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

For this reason, the dark powers of this world have, in every generation, sought to extinguish their light, which is the light of Zion.

While there are persecutions among all peoples of earth at various times, no other people have been so persistently hated, and no other people so persistently preserved. Their endurance is itself a testimony of the faithfulness of the Holy One of Israel.

Yet you, Fathers, are set apart in a unique way. From Africa, from Asia, from Armenia, from Antioch, from India — your witness is older than empire, older than Rome, older than Europe itself.

You too have carried the Cross through centuries of persecution, exile, and martyrdom. Your heritage is prophetic: to lead the way in humility and repentance before the nations, that the rest of the Body might follow.

Therefore, we call you, in the Spirit of Elijah and John the Baptist: “Blow the trumpet, sound the shofar, gather yourselves together (Zephaniah 2:1–3), and declare a solemn repentance before the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

The hour has come for the Body of Christ to say, “IN ONE DAY” we will confess, we will repent, we will humble ourselves before the Jewish people, that the breach may be healed and the curse turned into blessing (Malachi 4:5–6).

Following the Torah instruction for the kind of repentance proclaimed by Elijah of turning hearts of generations toward one another which is based on Leviticus 26:39-42,

“And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Your Congregations — the Sacred Six — were present at the beginning of the Gospel story, and you will be present at its end. From Bethlehem’s manger (where Africa was represented among the Magi), to Golgotha (where Simon of Cyrene carried the Cross and was marked with the blood of Yeshua), to Acts (where the Ethiopian eunuch carried the Gospel to Africa) — your place in salvation history is unmistakable.

Now, at the edge of the Lord’s return, you are called to embody Daniel, Nehemiah, Ezra, whom were innocent of the sins addressed by GOD, yet they following the instructions of The Torah, assumed personal responsibility, — to repent not only for yourselves, but on behalf of the whole Body of Christ, from this present time through the past circa 1800 years of anti-Jew sentiments and tactics of violence and mass murder pogroms, even genocide attempts.

Shamefully, all in The Holy Name of Jesus Christ, The LORD, The King of Jews.

You did not do these things, but as the elder brothers take the lead in generational-collective repentance for the evil deeds our Christian ancestors.

This is your prophetic assignment: to ignite the spark that will spread through Christendom, to

Europe, to the Americas, and to the ends of the earth. We honor you as guardians of the ancient faith.

We call upon you as servants of the King. We appeal to you as fellow heirs of the promise: Lead us now in the repentance that prepares the way of the Lord.

Our GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-Israel is blessing us in this matter,

Ted Hayes
Agape-Shalom!
A fellow servant of the Kingdom, bearing the Elijah Mantle of Generational Responsibility