I thought long and hard about putting down my thoughts on the current climate of our nation/world regarding the pandemic and the answer from the religious community. In the last few months I must say that I am very discouraged by a majority of the church in response to this climate and how it’s been received and responded to.
My story starts back in 1999, at that time godless in my life, a person who didn’t care about the well being of anyone else but only seeking my best interest, I was encountered by an Evangelical Christian who wanted to let me know that I was in trouble going down the wrong road and was looking at an eternity of darkness and separation from God. That encounter changed me, ultimately leading me back to God and choosing to start serving Him. Starting in 2001 I started a deep relationship with God, I started spending hours a day seeking Him, reading His word, meeting with other believers, seeking truth, serving Him and driving deep in to this relationship. I spent so much time in Gods word, that it started to shape me, pierce my heart and ultimately drive me further to find the truth of what I believed. So in 2004 I started to look into Judaism because I only thought it was logical to look into who was the God of Yeshua, why was it that Yeshua a rabbi who had disciples and lived a Jewish life was left out of Christianity. Why was it that the Christian church spoke very little about Jewish life and what it meant to be a jew? Why was it anytime I brought this questions up, there really wasn’t any answers except:
We are the church we’re not jews?
We don’t follow the law, we have grace and are excluded from the law! (What about the Noahide laws God made with covenant with the Gentile nations)
We don’t keep the holidays or Sabbath because we’re not jews! (But wait our Messiah the one we follow was a Jew, He kept Jewish traditions, holidays, laws etc)
The list goes on.
I started to realize that the church that I was involved with was really not a supporter of Israel. They might have had an Israeli flag in the sanctuary, but I found out that was more of a decoration than a true statement of our responsibilty to Israel, our prayerful support of Israel, our allegiance to Israel. Years later when I came back to my home Church it was more evident when I saw the Israeli flag removed and replaced by a Christian Crusade flag. I was disgusted at the displaying of that flag, set a meeting with the Pastor and voiced my concern. I can tell you it didn’t go well, and I was questioned about my “salvation” was it authentic etc. Not surprised as I noticed that when I first starting growing closer to Judaism that the majority of Christians were “freaked out” they didn’t understand why I wanted to grow close to God and it was Judaism was the vehicle that helped me grow closer.
You see the revelation that knowing one’s roots is important I continued to grow closer to God through Judaism and seeing how to relate it to my experience with God.
I don’t want to sit here as though I am just slamming the church, quite the opposite. At the same time as I was growing closer to Judaism I had a similar experience within the Jewish communities. I would meet rabbis, jews etc they would get to know me, and they would love me as a person. As we would grow in friendship and I opened up and let them know that I was a believer in Yeshua, 9 out of 10 times that would end our relationship. It was almost as I had said a bad word, how can you say your a Jew and believe in Yeshua? The list goes on. I was so discouraged because I couldn’t believe we can’t have a difference of opinion on Messiah that ends our relationship. I mean I knew from history, the Jews have encountered quite a few men that claimed to be Messiah and have disagreed yet even though they were wrong, I didn’t find issue with them. You see Yeshuas name is not a curse! Yet Yeshua’s name has become a curse to Jews because of the lack of love in the heart of many christians in loving the Jew. We have to many problems in the Christian church that need full revelation on what the church needs to be doing moving foward.
I feel very special to be here today at this point in history to have my voice heard through these online platforms. Imagine if Paul had this technology, he would have done such amazing things with his epistles. I mean Paul had mars hill a time when he sat before these wise scholars and philosophers and here I am with a tool to speak to the whole world from my small room here in NY.
So how are we coming into and out of this pandemic? Are we aware that God has a mission for all of us who call Him our Father, the mission we are given is to be watchmen sitting on the wall, ready to blow the trumpet. Yet during this time in history we are seeing very little watchmen, very little blowing of the trumpet to warn the people. Matter of fact the church is not only not blowing the warning, now they are involved with the matters of racism, racial divide and other diversions that are keeping them from warning and blowing the trumpet. We are at a point in history where we are on the brink of seeing the entrance of the Anti Christ the anti god man who will come to bring the appearance of peace but that will be just a farse, one that will be very shortly lived and will ultimately leading to the destruction of many. This is why the watchmen are needed, why are they silent not warning the believers and the unbelievers what is taking place, why? Will we continue to sleep through this time in our church’s history or will we awaken and start sharing the message of truth so that people will seek God and turn to Him in repentance?
It is the time for the church, the synagogue all people of faith to stand up and stand together. Now is the time greater than ever before, how will we respond?
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