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An Open Letter to a Missionary |
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August 24, 2007
Zev Isaacs Founder The Messianic Prophecy Bible Project "Outreach to Israel" Dear Zev, It does not give me any pleasure in writing you this letter. The reason I am writing an open letter is because your News Letter and the previous video clip on "the Messianic Rabbi who denied his faith in Yeshua" video link was put out on public domain. Click here to view the video. Zev, I am surprised at your shameless postulating as the token Jew for the Evangelical Christian world. Your whole presentation, both the clip and the subsequent newsletter, is a very obvious and cheap missionary plot with the sole purpose of gaining Evangelical/Christian Dollars for your cause. Your innocent interview was far from it, as you perfectly set up Nati for a fall and that for your benefit as one can see from the newsletter that followed a few days later. In the world of politics that would be considered good campaigning. Your prompt: CLICK to donate, says it all. You do realize, that you were ridiculing him in front of your Christian audience? Then maybe that does not matter Zev, because he is outside your camp, and according to your soteriology he is lost. You say you love Jews? Your Ahavat Yisrael (love of a fellow Jew) seems to me the same as the "love" that Americans have for turkey on thanksgiving. What does Tzelem Elokim mean to you? This past week, Parasha Ki Tetze, the closing pasuk dealing with Amalek, contains the words "Zachor & Lo Tishkach", "remember", and "you will not forget", and it goes on to explain how "Amalek attacked you when you where not expecting anything." It follows with "you will not forget" that Amalek took out those most vulnerable, or could also be understood as "when you where most vulnerable." Is this your methodology? Let us talk a bit about Nati. I believe Nati is closer to Yeshua the Jew, (who I incidentally believe mamesh, is the returning Moshiach,) than both of you realize. You see he may have turned his back on the gentile perception of a god/man or man/god messiah, i.e. gentile Jesus, but he certainly has not turned his back against the faith of Yeshua the Jew and what he lived and taught, namely Torah. Yehsua actually said in one of his famous drashes; "Whosoever shall DO and TEACH the Mitzvotai, shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven" - Mattityahu 5:19b. As Nati said in the "interview", when questioning him about the Peshita Text, (of which you obviously do not know much) that questions about the truth (about Yeshua in a contextualized sense) is going to take more than a five minute video. The Jesus of the Christian world is a very different person and character than the Jew Yeshua. The historical writings of Yeshua, which you call the "New" Testament, was canonized with not one Jew in that council. Because of the subsequent overlay of gentile dogma and traditions, it is near impossible after 2000 years, to read these as Jewish documents. Zev, not for the truth, but for the sake of these same goyishe traditions, you are willing to sacrifice Nati and any Jew. Nati mentions Constantine as the influential factor in bringing about change. Constantine however was only one of many gentiles and gentile councils that were instrumental in bringing about fundamental change to the doctrines that ultimately affected gentile followers of Yeshua. These same gentiles subsequently turned him into the gentile God, Jesus. These changes affected only gentiles and it is out of that foundation which the Church grew. Go read my humorous take and article "Jesus has more reason than Jackie Mason to Sue Jews for Jesus" http://www.shomeryisrael.org, click on "From the Rabbi's Desk". Christianity has nothing to do with Jews. You are involved and were schooled in perpetuating gentile customs, traditions, and beliefs. I would suggest that you focus your energy as a Christian Jew, on reaching gentiles for Jesus. If you are a Jew for Jesus, your mission should focus on just that, targeting gentiles and converting them into Christianity. The truth about Yeshua the Jew and his faith, leave that for practicing Jews. Yeshua's mesorah is imbedded in traditional Judaism and not in what you are postulating. Just as an example of the confusion between truth and bobbe-mysehs, give me just ONE reference from the "New" Testament that calls Yeshua, God the Son. I will save you a lot of time, not once. This, like the Trinity and many of the other suppositions that your world functions by, forms the matrix of your own peculiar "traditions", and what you postulate as "truth." The tachlis is this: if a belief contradicts or does not harmonize with Torah, I do not care what it is written on, it is a bobbe-myseh, toss it Zev. Keep in mind that we are in the month
of Elul, the shofar is sounded every
day as reminder to turn from our sin. Tishrei is just around the corner and my Rebbe,
Yeshua ben Yoseph said; Lachein I love my other brother that you spoke to on the video,
the one with the humble heart who goes and seeks
HaShem's chesed v'rachamim for an hour every day. He
reminded me so of my Rebbe, Yeshua ben Yoseph,
who with loud cries called unto the only One, who could
save him, Hikeriv tefilot, v'tachanunim bitze'akah
gedolah uvid'maout lifnei My hope is that the Bratzlavers will allow you back in
that yeshiva just once more, so you can make teshuvah
for acting like Amalek. |
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