ON TOPIC | JACK KINSELLA


Finding Yeshua I


t would seem to me that one of the most difficult jobs facing the Church in America in these Last Days is finding a new way to communicate the Gospel to what is


undoubtedly the single most proselytized religious group in America today.


It is difficult for me to believe that there is a Jew over the age of 18 anywhere in America that has not, at some time, been approached by some freshly-scrubbed, wide-eyed, and eager Christian bearing tracts explaining how the Jews commited deicide two thousand years ago in Jerusalem by demanding that Pilate ‘crucify their king.’


It is not difficult for me to imagine why they rejected that message. First off, it isn’t true. What is true is that a relatively small group of Jews, living in a specific place at a specific time, together with a relatively small group of Romans, were party to a long-prophesied event that could not have taken place without them.


Teir involvement was so critical to the Lord’s Plan of 20 JewishVoiceToday.org | November/December 2011


in a Sea of Messi


Redemption that they were the very first people He redeemed, personally.


“Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing . . .” (Luke 23:34).


Jesus Amongst the Messianic Candidates


Tat relatively small group of Jews living in that specific place and time were up to their eyeballs in Messianic candidates; from John Hyrcanus and Judas Maccabeus before Jesus to Simon bar Kochba one hundred years aſter, every Jew that raised an army against the Roman occupation was a potential messiah.


Judas, son of Hezekiah, Simon of Peraea, Athronges the Shepherd, Judas the Galilean, John the Baptist, Jonathan the weaver . . . these are just some of the messianic candidates who lived in Jesus’ generation—there are more.


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