FOUNDATIONAL: Non-Jewish Believers are the Alien Among the Native-Born

Exodus 12:37-39

³⁷ Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children. ³⁸ A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock. ³⁹ They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. 

Take note of who went with the Hebrews out of Egypt to Sukkot in verse 38.  It was a mixed multitude.  These were not native born Hebrews but people who grafted themselves into Hebrew households that night partaking of Passover and walked out of Egypt with the Hebrews. 

Numbers 15:13-15

¹³ All who are native shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD.  ¹⁴ If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so he shall do. ¹⁵ As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD. 

Notice in verse 14 that YHVH makes provision for those who are aliens, non-native-born Hebrews, to make offerings to Adonai.  And it is counted the same as the native-born just as the statute is to be one for the native and the alien in verse 15.  There has always been a mixture of native born and grafted in peoples in the children of Israel.

This is why it should not be hard to understand that believers today, like the ones before us, are part of the commonwealth of Israel and privilege to all of the promises given to our forefathers. 

Exodus 12:19

¹⁹ Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. 

The Feast of Unleavened Bread is for both the native and the alien. 

Leviticus 16:29

²⁹ “This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you; 

Yom Kippur is for both the alien and the native-born. 

Leviticus 18:26

²⁶ But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you 

All of Elohim’s commandments and judgments are for both the alien and the native-born. 

Numbers 9:14

¹⁴ If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.’” 

Celebrating Passover is for both the native-born and the alien. 

Ezekiel 47:22-23

²² You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ²³ And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance,” declares the Lord GOD. 

The inheritance is for the alien and they are to be treated as native-born in the tribe in which they stay.

The fact is and Scripture supports this:  We who believe in Messiah simply are Israel.