What is Olive Tree Theology?
Answering a question like this can traverse several paths. The first path can lead to long discussions utilizing large theological terms such as ‘replacement theology’ and ‘supersessionism’ or ‘dispensationalism’ and the ins and outs of the terms’ of the historical creation of the modern church. Instead, the easier path to answer this question of what Olive Tree Theology is all about is simply to look at what the Apostle Paul wrote in the Epistle to the Romans, chapter 11. In this chapter Paul spoke of the unifying Olive Tree where the Jewish and Gentile branches (believers of Messiah Yeshua) were all re-grafted onto the Olive tree, and thus reborn unto eternal life. Thus Olive Tree Theology is simply the belief that Jews and Gentiles can worship Messiah Yeshua together in unity while still maintaining their own cultural and traditional distinctiveness. The idea that Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians must worship apart from one another is truly contrary to the entire idea of Olive
