In this ISSUE...
13 Hebrew Lesson 2 About this ISSUE
"Hebrew Christian" 3 Shalom! From Jonathan Bernis
or "Messianic Jew?"
By Kevin Geoffrey 4 Up Front
The Biblical Feasts 14 Testimony
& the Christian Faith Dancing Out of Darkness
By Dr. John D. Garr By Susan Nikirk
6 Guest Author 16 Glad You Asked!
Jewish Roots - The Route to Is it Wrong to Observe the
Intimacy with the Holy One Biblical Feasts?
of Israel By Sarah
By Sandra Teplinsky
18 Headquarters Report 8 Guest Author
Special Ethiopia Report Return to the Root
By JVMI Board Member By Bonnie Saul Witks
Cheryl Schang
Ma Chadash? What's New? 10 19 Bill's Stewardship Corner
News from Israel So, Which Way to the
& Around the World Storehouse?
By Bill Mustard Prophecy in the News 12
Israel's Elections: 20 Israel Tour - Join Jonathan!
Disengagement Delusion
By Jan Markell
There has been a quantum shift, however, to your cMdren and shall talk of them
since 1967, with the miraculous birth of when you sit #~ 3'our house and when j'ou
the Messianic Movement - sparked by the walk by the waj'... Du shall urite them
prophetic reunification of Jerusalem. With on the doo~l)os/s of your house and on
the sudden influx of great numbers of Jewish your gates... You should diligeqztIy keep the
People coming to faith in Yeshua (Jesus) as commandments of the Lo/e/) your God. and
the Messiah, suddenly anti-Torah traditions His testimonies and His statutes... You shall
were re-examined and the "Church" has do u'hat is right and good in the sig,St of the
had to grapple with what it really means LOAD, that it may be u'el/ u'ith you...
to be the wild olive tree grafted in...to be a A mezuzah is a physical reminder that we
Ruth...('Tour God will be m~, God")...to have a choice each day to either walk in His Tiking photo on our cover cap~res a
become reacquainted with Yeshua, the JEWISH way, or ours; to teach our children to love and ~ing up to touch an ornate mezuzah
Messiah. It hasn't alwavs been easy, and there fear the LORD, or disregard Him; to sancti~ fixed to the doorpost of a Jewish
are still many growing pains, but there is much His Name with our life, or bring it reproach. home. As beautiful and ornate as the holder
to be gained. It is not an amulet; it has no power, but it is is, the valuable part is inside. A mezuzah is
For it is the Church in the Last Days that is to a touchpoint of something ve U foundational a tiny parchment rolled up inside with the
stand with Israel and the Jewish People when for all who consider themselves to be joined in Hebrew text of Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:14-
all turn against. And it is the Church that is to Covenant relationship with the God of Israel. 21 printed on it.
bring the message of the Messiah of Israel - a I thought it was an appropriate and poignant It is a Jewish tradition to affix a mezuzah
recognizable Messiah - not a foreigner, to His picture for the subject matter of this issue to both interior and exterior doorposts, and
own brethren before He will come and plant - restoring the Jewish Roots of Christiania. to pause for a moment to touch it upon
His feet on the Mount of Olives as His own c U For nearly 2000 years, the Old Testament and leaving or entering. Why? Let's take a look
out: "Baruch haba b 'fihem Adonai/" (Blessed "Jewish observances" have been considered at a portion of the text: "These words ~. u'hio~
is He that comes in the Name of the LORD!) archaic and legalistic at best, dead works m~d I am commanding you today, shall be on
sinfnl at worst, by most of Christianity. ~,~.,w,A., editor ),our heart... You s,~all teach them diligently
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