THE IMPORTANT CALLING OF MESSIANIC FAITH
By: Cathy Hargett
July 14, 2026
Believers who have embraced Messianic Faith are a remnant of the followers of Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah. They are a very small part of the over two billion people in the global group of followers of Jesus. Messianic beliefs are similar to traditional Christianity, with one very big difference.
Their faith is not complete if it does not include the revelation of Israel and the foundations of our faith being rooted in God’s covenant with Israel.
It is the basic, distinguishable, foundational principle. This is not in the creeds of the traditional church, but it is basic to Messianic faith. I am Messianic, part of this remnant.
Although both the words "Messianic" and "Christian" mean followers of Messiah, choosing to identify as “Messianic”, with its Hebrew connotation, instead of using the word “Christian” helps express this very significant difference in beliefs.
There was a time early on, as I understood the prophecies and the wonders of seeing them come to pass in our day, when I did not see a necessity to distinguish between “Messianic” and "Christian”, but today, I think it is prophetically necessary to make that distinction. The day of His great re-appearing, for the second time on earth, is drawing near.
Walking in the fullness of Messianic Faith is an important calling to help prepare the way of the Lord.
There are many Christians throughout the world who follow Jesus without walking in the fullness of their faith. Some of them may remember passages in the Bible about being grafted into God’s original covenant with Israel through the blood of Jesus.
But many do not embrace the relevance, the gravity, of this basic truth, having been brought into their faith through traditional theology. Traditional Christian theology teaches that those who follow Jesus, usually meaning only Gentiles, have now replaced Israel and have become His “new chosen people”.
The Jews are “out”, and the Gentiles are “in” because “the Jews rejected Jesus”. In my own faith walk, growing up in cultural Christianity, I was taught that “we don’t follow the Old Testament; instead, we follow the New Testament”.
Without going into the expansive discussion about “replacement theology”, also known as “supersessionism”, the Lord put it on my heart to share about the unique and important calling of those who walk in Messianic Faith.
The modern-day Messianic movement is similar to traditional Christianity, in the sense that even though this faith expression is fairly new, there are already many different types of expressions of Messianic Faith, from Messianic Judaism to Jewish Roots, to Christian Zionism/Biblical Zionism, etc.
Some in the movement only refer to Jewish believers, not including Gentiles, as “Messianic”. I, personally, believe that those who follow Yeshua and who embrace the identity of being “grafted into Israel” are all Messianic, both Jew and Gentile.
The verbiage is important today - “Messianic” and “Christian” represent very different belief systems, even though both expressions agree that Yeshua is the Messiah. The difference is the relevance of understanding that our foundations are in God’s covenant with Israel. Why does that matter?
It matters greatly because without this piece, a basic link to the fulfillment of our destiny as believers is missing. Without understanding God’s prophetic plan, which means using Israel as the people from whom He brings the Messiah, the nation that is destined to bless all other nations, we reject His heart and His plan.
We are not walking in the fullness of our faith. We don’t understand the faith that Yeshua taught. Without Israel, there is no understanding of the promises Yeshua fulfilled or what is coming at the end of the age.
A caveat here about “Christian Zionism”. Even though Christian Zionism expresses understanding about Israel, there is often a missing link.
Many times the political, secular element is the dominant expression in Christian Zionism. There is a love and loyalty for Israel, but no sense of the “oneness”, of understanding that true believers are not just “pro-Israel”.
They are one with Israel, of the same “essence” in His Spirit, by His precious blood. In true Biblical Zionism, there is the understanding of unity of believing Jews and believing Gentiles into one faith. We are no longer separated from each other.
With Zionism, and make no mistake, I am definitely a Biblical Zionist, without the Messianic Faith portion, there is still a separation between Jew and Gentile, even if there is mutual love and respect.
There has to be more than that. There has to be unity of the faith between Jew and Gentile: one God, one faith, one Messiah, one new man, so I still believe, especially for the purpose of proclaiming the fullness of the Gospel, that a better description of our faith is “Messianic”.
After over forty years in this movement, it is obvious to me that all of us in the Messianic community are poised to take the next step in our faith. Having understood the basic principles, we are still lacking in our unity as one new man. We continue to teach the basics (mostly to each other) instead of living the fullness.
And, to be fair, we must always teach the foundations, but it’s time for the remnant of the remnant to start walking together in our faith as One in Him. The remnant of the remnant are like believers in the first century, those who will once again live and walk in unity with such love for each other and anointing from the Spirit that the world will know Him.
The unique responsibility and calling for believers is that we walk together in unity as one new man, proclaiming the fullness of the Kingdom. God chose to reveal Himself through the unity of faith and love of His people, both Jew and Gentile, together.
This fulfillment happens through our shared passionate worship and love for Him. If we are not grafted together into this olive tree, the fullness of faith does not exist.
The prophets speak of Israel and the nations. They tell us that at the end of the age, the wealth of the nations will come into Zion. They tell us that Gentiles will bring the Jewish people back to the Land.
They tell us that when the nations of the world come against Zion, God will destroy them. Yeshua told us there would be a separation of the nations, the sheep and the goats, nations who stand with Israel, and those who don’t. Yeshua comes when His people speak the words He longs to hear, “blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord”.
The message of Yeshua came first to the nations through His Jewish people. We in the nations must return to Israel as Israel returns to Messiah Yeshua. Now at the end of the age, the Gentiles/the nations return that message to God’s choice of the foremost of the nations.
This is the important and unique calling of those in the remnant who walk in the fullness of understanding this. When we speak of salvation in Yeshua, we cannot leave this part out, because it is the fulfillment of the fullness of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
When missionaries are sent out from various churches without proclaiming this part of the message, the fullness of the Gospel has not been taught. That’s what makes our calling as Messianics unique and very important according to the Word.
We must speak this out, walk this out – we must proclaim the Kingdom; the mystery of this message involves both Jew and Gentile (read about the mystery in Ephesians and Romans). If our faith does not include Israel and the Jewish people, we are following “another Gospel”. We are not following the Gospel of the Kingdom.
For those who walk in the faith of traditional Christianity that teaches that Israel is no longer relevant, it’s not possible to be “one new man” because the fullness has not yet come to your faith.
When I understood this, this lack, this “hole”, in my faith life, the Ruach compelled me to eat the Word like a ravished, starving soul, until it became part of my being.
Of all the faith teaching and all the sermons and the studies that have been part of my spiritual journey, the relevance of Messianic Faith is the most profound. I realize that without it, I do not know the full truth.
With it, I hunger and seek more of my Messiah, growing deeper in love with Him and for His Word, so desiring to be part of preparing the way for His return by coming into fullness. This fullness results in unity of worship of the God of Israel, for both Jew and Gentile.
This is the fullness that reveals Abba, our God, the God of Israel, the one true God to the world. This is His plan, the restoration of all things back to Himself through the precious blood of the Lamb, through Yeshua, the King of the Jews.
Cathy Hargett
Highway to Zion Ministries
www.highwaytozion.org
Highway to Zion Ministries
www.highwaytozion.org
instances, it is a reflection of blending into the surrounding cultures. Yet the toxicity of the spiritual atmosphere and the pressures and uncertainties of the season give pause in reaching for something more. It bears on the focus given to community maturity as we navigate the challenges and face the strongholds.
It represents the model needed for God’s movement of restoration needed to follow the dust-settling from what many have discerned to be a parallel to the demise of the biblical anti-Semite Haman in modern-day Iran. And the response-parallel doesn’t stop with Haman, but as the trust and unity gain traction, it will result in casualties among the misguided Shebnas (Isa 22) of this day.
cultures, it is this success that is the very dynamic that tends to draw the most severe manifestations of persecution and anti-Semitism. Yet, these subtle realities involve distracting trivia that cloud the narratives comprising intercultural perceptions and dynamics ….not unlike the blinding seduction that took place at the fall.
Both Isaiah and Jeremiah foresaw a time when darkness and oppression would encroach ….and cultures and nations whose spiritual foundations were wobbly at best, would cry out:
of values and societal practices given by Moses have shaped their culture. For the most part, Christian culture that ignores its Jewish roots has tended to last to the third generation, if it makes it to the second.
unbridled tongue. The simple murmuring that began at the Red Sea crossing as the Israelites spied Pharaoh and his hordes closing the gap to their location. Yet, in preparation for the astounding event about to take place, the word of the Lord was simply “you have only to keep silent.” So it is today, amidst the clamor, are ones whose greatest challenge is simply in maintaining their silence.
