Posted by Ellen W. Horowitz
The cover and feature story of this month's issue of Charisma Magazine hails missionaries and messianics as heroes "for sharing the love of Jesus in Israel". This specific issue celebrates Israel's 60th anniversary.
The publisher of Charisma is Stephen Strang of Strang Communications
http://www.strang.com/info/whois.html
Strang is one of the Directors of CUFI (Pastor John Hagee's Christians United For Israel)
http://cufi.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=about_directors
He is the publisher of John Hagee's book, In Defense of Israel, and David Brog's book, Standing with Israel
He was recognized in Time Magazine as one of "The 25 Most Most Influential Evangelicals in America"
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/photoessay/24.html
Stephen Strang is a signatory of the recent widely publicized World Evangelical Alliance statement endorsing efforts to evangelize the Jews (that means they want to convert us)
http://www.worldevangelicals.org/news/view.htm?id=1732
The biggest irony is that while the current online edition of Charisma Magazine sports a "Come Celebrate Israel's 60th" banner across the top of their website, the story below reeks of classical anti-Semitism (and I don't use that word lightly).
(Excerpt fom an article written by the editor of Charisma):
In the days of Jesus, rabbis observed a myriad of extra rules that were not in Scripture. Their legalistic code focused on what they could and could not touch. These guys invented the original version of the holier-than-thou religion. They stayed away from women, children, dead bodies, lepers, beggars, sinners, blood, shellfish, pigs and—especially—people of other ethnic backgrounds. They didn’t want “unclean” gentiles to corrupt them.
The Pharisees, especially, were obsessed with hygiene. They had a rule for everything from how to wash dishes to how to stay ceremonially clean after walking in the streets. That’s why they got upset when they saw that Jesus’ disciples didn’t follow the standard Jewish hand-washing ritual.
They asked Jesus: “‘Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?’” You can almost hear their smug, nasal tone. Jesus’ reply was blunt. He called His inquisitors hypocrites; then He chastised them for “‘teaching as doctrines the precepts of men’” (Mark 7:5-7, NASB)...
J. Lee Grady is editor of Charisma.
http://www.charismamag.com/fireinmybones/
[note: Rabbi Riskin will be joining Stephen Strang, John Hagee and Jews for Jesus Jay Sekulow at the United Nations for a prayer banquet to celebrate Israel's 60th)
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve11010
In my humble opinion, The Jewish people must immediately stop and think, and reassess their relationship with the Evangelical (that includes messianic) community. Strict legislation and religious guidelines must be put in place before we continue any alliance. We should not allow ourselves to be placed in a position where we feel compelled to choose between the humanitarian, political and economic benefits they are offering us, and our G-d and our Torah.
The truth may not set you free, but it will set you straight.
1 comment:
Wouldn't be better to let the people decide if the Story of Yeshua (Jesus9 is true or not? I think that using laws to ban this faith, is like making people have curiosity on this topic. Now, if Dani'el 9:26 is right, then the second temple was destroyed and there was a man who died before as Moshiach...who was that? And what about Yesha'yahu 53? It doesnt show that Israel is the suffering servant...it looks like Moshiach (Rashid commented on this)who died for our SINS. We do not need to swing roosters over our heads anymore!
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