Yaakov, Béla Orbán
In a few years time, we often had the opportunity to express our ideas and convictions concerning the evangelization of the Jewish People. This Jewish People which still is the Chosen People of God by its faith in Him and as a consequence of which it is better not to evangelize them!
Of course it is necessary for the Jewish people to accept the Grace and the Redemption promised and offered on the Golgotha by Yeshua HaMashiach’s sacrifice such as for any other human being and any other people.
Nevertheless the Chosen people is the property and the heritage of God, who Himself will unveil the identity of the Messiah to His People. He will personally open the eyes of Jews to recognise Him in Yeshua HaMashiach at last.
By evangelizing a member of the Jewish People, we declare that he is a pagan. This attitude and way of acting does really upset the Jew who withdraws even more into himself and pushes him even more far away from recognising the Meshiach in front of such a Christian proud. When somebody eagerly tries to transform the People of God into People of Jesus, that person interferes with God’s supreme power and jurisdiction!
In both cases, the cause is the lack of knowledge concerning the Laws of God, His Will and Project, together with the ignorance of the prophecies of the Old Testament on behalf of the Christians who moved already quite far away from their Jewish roots. This is the reason why Christianity is unable to understand, thus to accept the very special Calling and task of the Chosen People, and in that way they are also unable to accept them in their brotherhood.
The only way to fulfil the mission God expects from us towards the Jewish People is a passive evangelization. It means an evangelization through the testimony of our lives without any words but indeed through our acts in humbleness and submission before God.
As long as God will not remove the veil from the eyes of His people by His exclusive and sovereign Will and at the proper time that He defined. By evangelizing Jewry, we do not simply make vain efforts but our illegitimate attempt can create injustice and can easily lead us to false accusations, impatience and even to anti-Semitism!
The project of God is that Israel would carry out its ancestral task. The main obstacle to this divine duty is the substitution of the Will of God by any theology (of replacement) and the expropriation of this task, depriving ourselves from all the blessings that could come from it. There is also a spiritual genocide going on at the same time beside the physical one, a spiritual holocaust which storms in a hided way!
The objective of this Task (the one received by the Jewish People on the Horeb) is not to build and to strengthen Christianity and its various movements but to pass on the knowledge of the Eternal and His Laws to the whole world and also to the Christians!
The unavoidable condition of this task to be fulfilled is the recognition that the Body of Christ is composed of two main parts who have an equal value but different roles:
- The first one is composed of the pagans who become followers of Jesus and who joined this way the People of God.
- The second one is composed of the members of the Chosen People of God, His property, who remained faithful to Him and who accepted the sacrifice of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ) which was mainly carried out for them.
The present short document cannot give an answer to all the questions concerning this subject, however our hope is to wake a certain awareness concerning our responsibility towards the Chosen People, to avoid committing more mistakes and sins against the divine project.
This wrong conception of our apostolic duty can easily lead to new brotherly sins because of our quick temper and our lack of knowledge.
For that reason, we draw the attention on the following problems for which our responsibility can be called to account since now:
HOW TO EVANGELIZE JEWISH PEOPLE?
It is first necessary to clear up the fact that Hungarian-speaking Jews are not the same that their American, German or even Israeli brothers!
They have a different past, a different culture, another way of living their faith. They also developed a common past, a common History. They have a different relationship with their surrounding which can only be understood by those who lived or who still live among them.
- The religion of the Jews living in Hungary is mainly and in all its domains fundamentalist, that means that it is based on the Torah.
For that reason no reformist or other liberal movement could ever reach or become integrated into it.
Because the messianic movements, the western missions and mainly those coming from the United States are liberal and reformist movements which refuse all the facts explained previously; it is thus inconceivable that any kind of relationship would develop between them and the Jews of Hungary.
- Under the name of Christian, the Jews from here understand those who often persecuted them during millenniums the crucifix in the hand, so making Christ their enemy.
- Generally under the name of Christian, they understand the Roman Catholic Church, daughter of the Roman Empire and consider the other churches as being the sects of this bigger one.
- The remaining members of the current Jewish community are the descendants of the victims or the victims of the Holocaust themselves.
Then it is not difficult to understand their hesitation and their fear in front of the other peoples and in front of the Christians in particular.
The Jews of America, the Jews who became Christians and many Christians in general ignore all these facts.
- They did not live and experienced the Holocaust.
- In their countries, Christians first were born from the Protestant or the neo-Protestant movements.
They only start to recognise the expansion of "the Church of the world" these days through the process of re-catholisation (ecumenism).
- The reformed and liberal Judaism, as well as the Christianised Jews went quiet far away from their Jewish identity despite of the commandments and the Laws of God. So are they unfit for approaching the Jews who are still submitted to the Laws of Moses coming from the Torah and as a consequence of which, they still deserve having the title of Chosen People.
- The Judaism of Hungary and Central Europe is thus and thanks to God not only fundamentalist but the believers maintain durable and fruitful relationship among their people only with those, who such as them submit themselves to the Laws of the Torah, to their faith and to God.
This is the way they defend themselves and are protected from any reformist movements of auto-redemption that has gone far away from God and from His Laws. Thus are they also protected against those "messianic" Christian and Jewish movements which are descending from them and which are infected by the New Age.
In the knowledge of these three facts, we can conclude:
That nobody should approach the Jewish community of central and Eastern Europe if he is not aware of the depth of their history, of their culture, their heritage and their faith.
It is the Jews and the American Christians and their fellows of Western Europe that are the least informed on the subject.
God never sends to mission incompetent followers who gender confusion and tensions. Most of the time, he recruits His missionaries among the people itself where he sends them ; persons knowing well the language, the customs and the people and the place they are ministering on, people serving within their own people. (This is valid for all the Peoples).
Should nobody dares to go to the Jewish people as long as he does not accept them as his elder brothers, as long as he query the project and the Call of the Lord, and as long as he denies or decreases this project and this call, stealing this way the promises made and the blessings given to Israel.
Hindering the project of the Lord and discriminating the Chosen People is a sin and a spiritual Holocaust!
The assimilation of the Jews in the Christendom was formerly a veiled anti-Semitism which turned today to be clear and open.
Some years ago, messianic movement coming from the United States organised a festival in our country. (Hungary)
Although having a Scottish support, as well as the support of some Hungarian Christian communities, they suddenly disappeared after some years of vain work without having reached the Jews of the country.
Why did it has to come to such an end?
Simply because of the conscious or inconscious refusal of taking into consideration the problems treated above. This gap and this spiritual misunderstanding have created sins in chain and provoked a deep humiliation within the Jewish community of our country. The result of they "work" was an even stronger refusal of Yeshua HaMashiach than before. This evil result naturally falls under God's judgement because it deserves the objectives of the antichrist.
To quote only some of the sins committed during this "mission":
- They established lists of names from the phone book collecting the Jewish-sounding or -looking names. Then they sent documentation to these addresses.
- They accosted Jewish-looking people in the streets to give them pamphlets and documentation.
Violence and aggressiveness are far from to the Spirit of Jesus!
Now, the Jewish community of Hungary always has a very bad feeling when talking about all kinds of lists or other census after having lived both the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian regimes these last 50 years.
The Jewish community of central Europe does not want to be identified with the Christian world and to its object of worship: the cross, that was the symbol of terror, torment, persecution and agony in their eyes for centuries.
- They also used Jewish symbols and ancestral liturgical objects, distorting that way all the divine and human laws of the Jewish religion. So all the holy things in the eyes of the Jews were soiled by their use during these festivals on the streets by non-Jewish people or by Jews converted to Christianity.
- The day of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of Jewry - when Jewish People prostrate itself before God and fasts by avoiding drinking or eating whatever it is - these "missionaries" invited the young Jews to take part in their noisy eating-drinking feasts, celebrations and dances.
The list which decided us to react against them could be much longer and is not exhaustive.
Why did we write this document?
In order to avoid Christians to get under the weight of further sins and judgement because of their unconsciousness and lack of knowledge. However the readers of these lines do not have anymore excuse. They owe to make a decision concerning their relationship with the Chosen People and even with us, Jews of central Europe followers and entirely servants of our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ!
We can be blessing as well as curses for the good or to the detriment of people according to the kind of relationship we have with them.
When you evangelize the members of the Jewish People trying to assimilate them into Christianity or by forcing them, hastening them, by generating fear and terror and by accusing them (of deicide), you do nothing else than thwarting and opposing to the Project of God. As an edomite, you try to act in the place God, you perpetuate the Greco-Roman and pagan-Christian tradition which is daughter of the Hellenism. Both of them having almost two thousand years.
You are committing sin even if you are just helping or simply supporting a mission, a movement or some other demonstration of this kind!
Going against prophecies and against the Will of God is blasphemous and anti-God. Such were the sins of the former edomites. But in this very particular case, the sin is also antichrist because it delays the recognition and the return of Jesus Christ.
And You? Who do you serve unconsciously? Do you assume the responsibility for all that you committed in acts or in thoughts to your elder brother Israel?
Be rather a blessing than a curse for the Jewish people, so that we also could be a blessing for you and to be finally able to gather the Jewish People and the Gentiles in the Body of the Christ…
5.10.2004
Translated from hungarian by Richard (Zeev Shlomo)
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