A pastor let this slip from his mouth when we were speaking, “Don’t you know all Jews are rich?”  Unfortunately, I have heard similar remarks in both religious and non-believing circles, with no one apologizing.

Those making that claim ignore the fact that almost 50% live impoverished lives in Israel.   Russian Jews have faced abject poverty for centuries; elderly Jews in the western world struggle greatly.  Someone even told me that there were 154 ways in Yiddish to say “poverty” — and only two ways to say “wealth”!

But I’m not talking about Jews and money.

I am letting you know that the Scriptures confirm that all Jews are rich.  The “wealth” is just not measured in greenbacks!

Here’s what the Bible says…and this is found in the New Testament!  The Apostle Paul, known as St. Paul, is speaking:

“Then what advantage has the Jew? … Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.” (Romans 3:1a, 2)  Paul is stating the fact that the words of Scripture, God’s word, came through and were preserved through the Jewish people.  That’s rich!

Here are the other ways Paul says his “kinsmen according to the flesh”, the Israelites, are rich:

In Romans chapter nine verses four and five, he writes,

“To whom belong:

1. The adoption as sons
2. The glory
3. The covenants:   (Abrahamic (Genesis 12:1-30; Mosaic (Exodus 19, 20), Davidic ( 2 Samuel 7:8-16),  Palestinian (Deuteronomy 30:1-10); New (Jeremiah 31:31-34))
4. The giving of the Law (Torah, which means “instruction”, teaches the requirements and means to living holy lives  in relation to God, one’s fellow man, and one’s body (health laws))
5. The Temple Service (there has been no Temple since 70 CE/AD)
6. The promises (of Scripture!)
7. The Fathers:  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  ( remember God called Abraham his friend; He doesn’t mind being addressed as “The God of Abraham” when we pray!)
8. From whom is Messiah according to the flesh.” (Yeshua (Jesus) was a Jew!)

So, it’s true.  All Jews are rich!  They have an enormous spiritual wealth and heritage.

Why were the Jews made rich? To make you and the world rich–rich with the knowledge of God, rich with the wisdom that was written through them in the Scriptures, rich with law that helps men govern themselves.  Even the Founding Fathers of America consulted the Torah to create a framework in which liberty and justice for all might prevail.

The Jews were the lineage God used to bring forth Messiah Yeshua (Jesus).

The greatest and richest Jewish man that ever lived, Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth, had this written about Him:  “For you know the grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.”  (2 Corinthians 8:9)  He left the splendor of heaven; was born as a little Jewish baby into poverty; lived a holy, Torah observant life; bore our sins in His body, on the tree, to make atonement for all; and was resurrected.

He alone enables us all to share in “Jewish wealth”, not by plunder, as the societies in which the Jewish people lived, did over the past two thousand years; but as those who are “far off” (from covenant with the God of Israel) come near to the “Commonwealth of Israel” (Ephesians 2:11-14), by participating in a Jewish covenant, the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:8-12).

The wealth to be received is new life, hope, peace, joy and eternal life in Messiah; as well as, the wisdom and instruction of the Holy Scriptures, which exist today because of the faithfulness of the Jewish people to preserve them.

If you have harbored bitterness against the Jewish people because they are a blessed people, stop sinning in this way.  It invites cursing – not blessing, as the Scripture says:

“How fair are your tents, O Jacob,  Your dwellings, O Israel! … Blessed is everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who curses you.” (Numbers 24:5,9b)

The God of the Jews is also the God of the Gentiles (Romans 3:29) and He richly blesses ALL, and ANY ONE, who calls upon Him, as it written,

“For the Scripture (Hebrew Bible) says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek (Gentile); for the same Lord is Lord of all,
abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”  (Romans 10:11-13, taken from Joel 2:32)