Call him Yeshua.That's what Jonathan Bernis, a Jewish convert to fundy Christianity who runs Jewish Voice says. Why, because you're more likely to convert Jews to fundy Christianity if you use Jesus' Jewish name!
Yup. And Bernis should know. He's been out there preaching fundy Christianity for 25 years and says, "I have found that Jewish people are not closed to the gospel-they simply haven't heard a gospel they can understand!"]
Heh. Heh.
Bernis wants to convert people who are Jewish - like he was. He's got a plan. It goes like this:
1. Befriend your Jewish friends (if you have any).
2. Pray, pray, pray. "We need to pray for our Jewish family, friends and loved ones."
3. Be nice to your Jewish friends. "When our Jewish friends see us in close relationship with God, they will be provoked to envy."
4. Use the Old Testament. Use all those passages that fundy christianists like to misinterpret (300 messianic prophecies!) that "unmistakably reveal the identity of the Messiah." Like Isaiah 7:14, which prophecies the "virgin" birth. Heh. Heh. I wonder if this guy can read Hebrew?
5. Use the name Yeshua. Not Christ. Jews won't know that Christ is Greek for "anointed one," which is, of course, what "messiah" means in Hebrew. "Any Jewish person will relate to Messiah."
6. Give your testimony. "Jewish people love the supernatural. ... Let them know that the same God who changed your life can and will do exactly the same for them."
And why, you ask, is all this necessary? Well, because Jews are going to hell and burn forever if they haven't accepted Jesus (Yeshua) as their "messiah" and believe that he was the son of god and indeed was god and died on the cross as a blood sacrifice to himself for the sin of Adam and Eve for which we are all guilty!
This is the same god who who "chose" the Jews but is now prepared to send them to eternal damnation.
"The End of the Age is coming. We must redouble our efforts to reach God's Chosen People with the Gospel. We can't let them die without Yeshua when the final trumpet sounds! Time is running short for Planet Earth. It is devastating to think that people you love will miss out on the joys of Heaven, simply because they have never said yes to the Messiah. Yeshua is coming soon. ... "
You betcha. Any day now. Zap! It's going to be all over. Hell awaits.
Isn't this a wonderful theology? Isn't this a wonderful deity this guy preaches? Not! This is a monstrous deity. This is a monstrous theology. There is no Yeshua coming soon! It's all a monstrous lie.
Where's the love?
Oh, and send money so Bernis can continue his very important End Times ministry to "his" Jewish people!
[Bernis' article, "Sharing the Love of Yeshua," can be found in Charisma magazine.]
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my Nana was Jewish, therefore of course I am
yet Mom married an Irish Catholic and we were all raised in the wonders of RC churches
I wonder what Bernis would have me do?
I suppose half of me could burn in hell while the RC half chews on a good wafer and sips some blood wine
I despise, deep down despise, people who use faith and spirituality and god(s) to frighten and control and manipulate
To Dianne: Amen! If I may use such a churchy word!
He is happy and getting very wealthy with tours, preaching, donations, etc. His conversion has worked for him. For the rest of the Jews, they are not ready to swastikas on Temple walls, or beat up Jewish kids, When they are ready, they will also hear the voices or see the faces in strange places. I think God will tell them, maybe in Hebrew or Aramaic, when the time will be right.
What of The NEW Covenant, and The New Covenant "Jew"(Believer)?
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Jer 31:31-37 "Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE TIME THAT I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT FOR THEY BROKE THAT COVENANT, although I was an husband unto them, says YHWH: (Thankfully no longer natural "fathers" but YHWH, "Our Father" in "the NEWness of The Spirit not the letter")
But this shall be the NEW covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts(not in stone, but in their heart consciousness); and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be MY people. ("Come Out of her, MY people"! Come out of this world and it's systems of religion)
And every man shall no longer teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know YHWH", for they shall all know ME, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says YHWH: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Thus says YHWH, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; YHWH of hosts is HIS name:
If those ordinances depart from before ME, says YHWH, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before ME for ever.
Thus says YHWH; If Heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says YHWH."
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The NEW Covenant established The Truth that, "he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, whose circumcision is that of the flesh, he is a Jew who is one inwardly, whose circumcision is of the heart" as he was immersed in, of, by and through The Holy, Set Apart Spirit that is of The Only True G-D, Father(Creator) of ALL. And all gentile NEW Covenant Believers are "grafted into The Good olive tree", they are of The NEW Covenant Jews.......
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And The NEW Spiritual Israel?
"A Holy nation".......
"A nation of kings and priests" indeed and Truth, and all New Covenant Believers are "strangers and pilgrims on the earth" whose "citizenship (Life) is in Heaven".
They are not of this wicked, evil world and it's systems of religion because they have taken heed unto The Call of The Only True G-D, Father (Creator) of ALL to "Come out of her, MY people".......
The NEW Covenant Believers have taken heed unto The Call to "Come Out" are have "set their affections on things above, Heavenly things" and no longer are of those "whose god is their bellies, and whose glory is in their shame, because they mind earthly things", they are no longer of those who "love this world and their own life in, and of it".......
Sadly, there are multitudes who profess a belief in The Messiah with their mouth only for they are "friends of this world", for they "love this world and it's things" and they "love their own life in and of the world" .......
All such will hear those woe filled words, "Depart from ME all you workers of iniquity".......
Thankfully The NEW Covenant Believers, The Brethren of The Messiah, have their "citizenship(Life) in Heaven" for they are "A Holy nation" of "kings and priests", all of whom are thankful that, that which was "decaying and waxing old" DID "vanish away" with the destruction of the natural, earthly kingdom centered in jerusalem. The old covenant vanished away, The NEW Covenant WAS, IS and always WILL BE!
At the time the old covenant vanished away "THY Kingdom" DID "Come" and IS, for The Messiah delivered up The Kingdom unto His G-D and Father(Creator), and The Kingdom of The Only True G-D in Heaven WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE indeed and Truth.......
No longer old, natural, earthly and temporal, The Kingdom of The Only True G-D WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE Spiritual, Heavenly and Eternal.......
And so it is that yesterday, today, and if there be a tomorrow, that "the chosen ones", "the elect", The NEW Covenant Believer, the Spiritual Jew, "The Brethren of The Messiah", continue to "fight the good fight of Faith" as they but seek and desire that which is Spiritual, Heavenly and Eternal.......
Father Help! and HE does.......
All Thanks, Praise and Glory Be Unto The Only True G-D, Father (Creator) of ALL.......
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(lies) that is of this wicked world and it's systems of religion, for "the WHOLE(not just a portion) world is under the control of the evil one" indeed and Truth....... francis
@ ElderChild - you give new meaning to the phrase, "religion is insanity."
@ ElderChild - I'd write more but I have to go barf!
Simply sad for you and all who have been braindirty by the secular and religious institutions that are of this wicked world ;-(
"The wicked walk on every side when the vilest of men are exhalted".......
All of you truly prove that "the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one".......
Actually, ElderChild, you're the one who proves that!
Simply sad for you ;-(
Yes, ElderChild, it is very sad that you waste your time and energy on delusions.
Simply sad for you ;-(
Okay, EC - enough of your condescending bullshit! Get a life and bug someone else with your nonsense!
Better yet, study some real biblical scholars!
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