BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS OF SEPARATION

This is what happens when we break down the walls, build bridges and dialogue with the nations

Are missionaries targeting the elderly?
By RACHEL GEIZHALS

A Holocaust survivor who was suffering from dementia was deceived by those hired to help her, family members said, because they claimed they converted her to their Messianic Christian religion.

The two women who were hired to play music and speak with 94-year-old Sara told her daughter Goldie Maxwell weeks after Sara died that they were both Messianic Jews, that they had played and sung songs from the New Testament when Maxwell and her husband were not around, and that at the end of her life, Sara had a revelation and acknowledged Jesus as the messiah. (more of the article)

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Serving in the IDF, 'for the sake of God and Jesus'
By MATTHEW WAGNER

Jesus supports the IDF and he wants his believers to be the best soldiers they can be.

That was the message conveyed by members of the local Messianic Jewish community via sacred texts, prayer and talks, to a group of 18-year-olds who took part this week in a premilitary program called Netsor.

"I am a soldier of God," said Boris, an intense redhead accepted to an elite combat unit, who is one of the 28 young men and women who participated in Netsor.

"I will do my best during my service in the IDF to serve God spiritually and physically. Not for the sake of state authorities but for the sake of God and Jesus," added Boris, as we sat in the dining room of a guest house that overlooks Lake Kinneret on Wednesday. (more of the article)

Of course it isn't the government leaders and rabbis like Benny Elon, Shlomo Riskin, and Yechiel Eckstein who are raking in the money from their work with xians, who suffer. The xians prey on the weak and emotionally vulnerable holocaust survivors, new immigrants, poor, orphans and widows.

For those of you who think "but the xians love us and support us politically", consider the following comments from the article above

Other verses, such as the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew, 5-7), which some Christians interpret as Jesus's support for pacifism, are seen by Messianic Jews
as an obligation to love one's enemies while fighting and killing them.

"I hate what Palestinian terrorists do, therefore I will do anything, including kill, if necessary, to stop them," said Tzvi, an educator and counselor at Netsor. "But I do not allow that to prevent me from loving them as human beings."