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CFI Jerusalem
Podcast Series: At CFI Jerusalem we exist to comfort and to support the people of Israel, and to inform Christians around the world of God's plans for Israel. A friend loves at all times and a brother is born (for such a time as this), to help in a time of adversity. Proverbs 17:17
From our Shavuot 2022 Conference: Round Table Discussion with Sharon Sanders, Robbie Coleman, David Nekrutman and Jonathan Feldstein.
From our Shavuot 2022 Conference: Round Table Discussion with Sharon Sanders, Robbie Coleman, David Nekrutman and Jonathan Feldstein.
From our Shavuot 2022 Conference: Round Table Discussion with Sharon Sanders, Robbie Coleman, David Nekrutman and Jonathan Feldstein.
“We belong to an unshakeable Kingdom, nothing will stop it from coming and nothing will destroy its destiny.”
Since the beginning of world history, God has built into His world hope for mankind. “The world’s history is a Divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing down the centuries, and though there have been mingled discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian…there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come” (James A. Garfield, Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds).
Charles Spurgeon, a nineteenth-century English preacher's words, summarize what our search to know God should be: the highest goal in life. However, to attempt to speculate or describe the enormity of the Supreme Being of the Universe, in words, is nearly impossible, because He is beyond measure.
In ancient Israel, recorders and scribes usually copied facts and information onto parchment, to preserve accurate records of what would become, one day, history. Nothing could be altered, deleted or changed. Every stroke and dot of the ink pen was sacred and written down with painstaking accuracy. In today’s world of reporting and journalism, men, rarely clothed in linen depicting righteousness, still report concerning the world. However, global reporting, especially regarding Israel, is extremely biased. By the time a report is published or broadcast, inaccuracies and blatant lies, reinforce the age-old admonition: “check out the facts before you believe it!”
“The sands of time have hidden many an earthly treasure but none so valued, and of paramount importance, as the unearthing of the covered-up negligence and irrelevant lack of importance, by the Church, of the Jewishness of Jesus to our faith.”
-Sharon Sanders-
“I think history is linked to identity. If you don’t know your history or don’t know your family—who are you?” (Mary Pipher)
Our Jewish roots are linked to Bible history and it is impossible to escape our Jewish foundations, because they are tied to the Jewish Messiah. I would add a thought to Mary Pipher’s quote above: if the Church does not know her history, then she does not know the spiritual family to which she belongs. Who then is she? Today’s Church needs a revelation of her bridegroom’s family.