New Missionary Campaign in Shadow of Bible Contest Controversy

Posted by on 5 May 2008 | 0 Comments

In the News...

(IsraelNN.com 5.5.08) The Christian missionary organization known as "Jews for Jesus" is about to launch a new proselytizing campaign in Israel. Their redoubled effort to gain Jewish converts comes on the heels of a controversy over the participation of an Israeli girl who worships Jesus in the annual International Bible Contest, to be held on Independence Day in Jerusalem...  Claiming that "only one tenth of one percent (.001)" of the Jews in Israel "believe in Jesus," the missionaries see a positive side in that Israel "is the only place in the world where - when we do street evangelism - we don't need to wonder who is Jewish.  All we have to do is walk outside and talk to everyone we meet!"

Explaining the timing of the latest campaign announced by Jews for Jesus, Rabbi Singer said that it is part of an "unprecedented urgency" such evangelical groups feel "to convert as many Jews as possible." According to the rabbi, the reason for the sense of urgency among missionaries is that events in the Middle East, especially Iranian ascendancy and its threat to Israel, have enflamed "old-time Christian eschatology" requiring Jews to convert to Christianity in order for Jesus to return to Earth.

Rabbi Singer concluded that, in the evangelical Christian view, "in essence, the Jews are holding up the show."

Donnie's Remarks...

Romans 11:11-12 (NIV)
¹¹ Again I ask: Did they (Israel) stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
¹² But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring! 

Romans 11:22-26 (NIV)
²² Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell (Israel), but kindness to you (Gentiles), provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
²³ And if they (Israel) do not persist in unbelief, they (Israel) will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
²⁵ I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

In Revelation Chapter 11, we learn for the first time of the Two Witnesses. During the second half of Daniel's 70th Week, God will send the Two Witnesses to Earth. I believe that the Two Witnesses will be prophets to the World, warning of the evil that is Antichrist and preaching the Word of God. The Two Witnesses will minister to the Church and stand in direct opposition to Antichrist and his Kingdom. After the Rapture occurs, the primary role of the Two Witnesses will be to call the nation Israel to repentance and notably the 144,000 will come to accept Christ first.   Revelation 11:3  And I (God) will give power (abundant supernatural power as described below in verses 5 and 6) to my two witnesses,and they will prophesy for 1,260 days (or 42 months - the Two Witnesses will prophesy during the second 3 1/2 years of Daniel's 70th Week. The ministry of the Two Witnesses will terminate with the blowing of the 6th Trumpet, which concludes the Day of the Lord), clothed in sackcloth. (Note that, like John the Baptist, the Two Witnesses will be clothed in sackcloth or camel's hair, which is the Biblical mark of a prophet. See Mt 3:4, 2 Kings 1:8. This unusual dress will also make the Two Witnesses highly visible and easy to identify.)

See Prophecy Sign #17