August 17, 2016 Show with Ron Elkin on “Biblical Answers to Jewish Questions”

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Wishing you all a happy Wednesday on this 17th day of August 2016 and

I'm delighted to have back on the program Ron Elkin who began a discussion on

Monday in regard to evangelizing our Jewish neighbors.

Today Ron Elkin is going to be focusing on biblical answers to Jewish questions

and Ron Elkin is founder and director of AMI ministry

AMI ministry which brings the gospel to the Jewish people.

Their website is AMI ministry org a m as in Michael M as in

Michael I ministry dot org and Ron himself is a

Jewish believer in Jesus Christ also known as Yeshua haMashiach and

It's my honor and privilege to have you back on iron sharpens iron Ron Elkin.

You know it

just occurred to me

that I have to

introduce you to someone

who's a

friend of mine.

And I don't know if you've ever met him, but I have to introduce you to Steven Atkinson.

Who is the North American director for a Christian witness to Israel and he is also in the PCA?

Presbyterian Church in America just as you are.

Mm -hmm.

Stevens from Northern Ireland originally and now lives here in

Arkansas in the United States.

And.

Tell our listeners.

I know that you've already done this every time you've come on but for those of our listeners who just Tuned in for the

first time perhaps or at least are discovering you for the first time.

Tell our listeners a little bit about AMI ministry.

Sure

we

I

mean

and.

For those of you who want to find out more about Ron Elkins own personal testimony You

can not only go to AMI ministry org.

That's a m as in Michael M as in Michael I ministry org and that's ministry

singular with a Y at the end and You could also go to the

iron sharpens iron archive and look up past interviews that we've had with Ron

on his personal testimony and also other areas in regard to Jewish evangelism including

the one that we just had this past Monday on the 15th of

August following our interview with Todd Freel of Richard radio and Today.

As I said, we are going to be focusing our time on biblical answers to Jewish

questions.

Because there is a lot According to our brother that

Basically there is a wall of confusion perhaps regarding biblical

truth when it comes to bringing the gospel to the Jews because many of our

Jewish friends loved ones and colleagues and.

Neighbors.

They are Mistaken that they are mistakenly Adopting

rabbinical tradition outside of the canon of Scripture perhaps naively so and thinking

that this is truly a part of the Tanakh or

the Torah and where it is just a really a part of the Talmud

or rabbinical tradition, but if you could Start off with basically some of

those definitions Regarding the Tanakh versus the Talmud.

That's why they don't have cheeseburgers at Jewish delis.

Well,

you

know

it

might

actually

be good

to.

Define.

This may sound like a silly question for many people listening but define.

Who is a Jew?

And of course the Bible may have a different answer to that question than.

The

rabbinic

custom

would

but

if

you

could

sure

has

to

do

with

now.

Well, I would.

Would a person who is a complete atheist but ethnically Jewish be welcome as a Jew in Israel.

Oh, yeah, see that doesn't make any sense.

Does it?

Where you have the Christian who is ethnically Jewish Embracing

as truth what the prophets Of the

of the Old Covenant of the Hebrew Scriptures Taught.

Whereas an agnostic would think that they were laughable fairy tales and mock them and in many ways

Ironically be an anti -semites not ethnically, but religiously.

You have a Christian who is embracing much of these things or all of them actually as as true other than of course as

we were saying Talmudic rabbinical custom but things that are actually canonical.

Who would have much more in common with an Orthodox Jew than an atheist and yet?

The atheist is welcomed as a true Jew and the Christian is rejected.

It's like many human situation now

that.

That is

obviously what

you're

talking

about is has

to do

with.

Tradition and customs invented by men.

Was there a litmus test in the Old Covenant?

Regard to what made someone a Jew.

I mean obviously to be a faithful member of Israel you had to be circumcised and keep the law

and so on.

But was there anything else that.

Was a litmus test to somebody truly being a Jew in the Old Covenant.

Now were the laws prohibiting Interracial marriage in the Old Covenant.

Was that purely in regard to one's?

Faith.

Because we did have Moses and someone who married

a woman who is not ethnically Jewish and.

And he also though got angry with Moses a sister and struck her with leprosy for right for her bigotry.

That's right against the woman.

Mm

-hmm.

Now

one

of the

things

that

there

seems to

be a

departure.

In regard to Theology with the Jews

a departure from their own Hebrew scriptures is the The the nature of

man.

As we who are Christians Believe if we are biblically sound that is

and not Pelagian but we who are Christians

agree with David that We come out of the womb the

lying tongue.

We believe that humans are Born with the

sin of Adam they are We which is called historically original sin that they are

born with and we who were theologically reformed would even Go further and say

that they are totally depraved apart from a miracle of regeneration

from the Holy Spirit, but if you could tell us how the Jewish understanding has

departed from their own Hebrew scriptures in regard to the nature of.

The

rabbis,

yeah,

and

how

how

do

they

view

the

Gentile?

All of the Gentile nations who are not practicing Judaism

and I'm talking as specifically about Orthodox Judaism and I know that there are even

Differences amongst Orthodox Jews and not only that there are even differences radical differences among

the Hasidic Jews.

You know, they have the of the different Traditions within even Hasidic Judaism

that have radically opposed views of the nation of Israel and that kind of thing, but that's

true, but Obviously, you know if we if we were to include

Reform Judaism in every question that would just we would have to have a program that's like,

you know, 12 hours long because.

But but as far as like your average Orthodox Jew or perhaps even a conservative Jew

How would how do they view the Gentiles.

Is there a Hope for heaven for those who are doing things that in the Old

Covenant.

Would have perhaps been or not even perhaps would have certainly been an abomination those that

For instance within the Roman Catholic Church that have erected idols.

Those even within Bible believing evangelicalism who worship the

Messiah as God which they view as

Blasphemy because they don't believe the Messiah is God.

And so how do they view us?

Well confused.

That's somebody who's a mensch right.

Well,

I did

that

even that

type

of

hostility

even

existed

in Jesus's day

towards

the Gentiles not that

they.

Were identified as Christian, but the Gentiles who had Treated

the Jewish people for centuries in a very savage way

And brutal way and so on they had a

bigotry towards The Gentiles that even as we know Peter

the Apostle had a struggle with that bigotry.

Mm -hmm.

That they didn't

see that

in themselves

appear

in the

Gentile world

because

God

had

called

the

church to be me.

Yeah, I've heard it put very well by one of my former

pastors years ago in a sermon where he went through

all of those who Basically killed

Jesus and he said The Jews killed Jesus when they

turned him over to Pilate and the Romans killed Jesus because they

were the ones that physically nailed him to the cross and God the

Father killed Jesus to satisfy his wrath and Jesus laid down his own

life as a sacrifice for the sins of his people and

all those for whom Christ died.

The sins of his elect killed Jesus because they were the very reason

that he had to die.

And we have to get a break right now.

And if you'd like to join us with a question of your own our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com.

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fact.

Let me read Tyler from Mastic Beach, Long Island's question to you and you can think about it.

And answer it when we return from the break.

Tyler from Mastic Beach Asks is a good passage of scripture to show a Jewish

person the first five verses in Romans 9 where Paul clearly lays out

the heart for the Jewish people and you could think about that and Answer it when we return

and We'll be right back after these messages with Ron Elkin of AMI ministries.

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Ron Elkin is a Jewish believer in Jesus Christ also known in Hebrew as Yeshua

Hamashiach and By the way, how is my Hebrew pronunciation of that?

And we are talking about Biblical answers to Jewish questions.

If you'd like to join us on the air with a question of your own our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com.

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Before we return to Tyler from mastic beaches.

Question for you Ron.

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I read a question to you from One of our listeners that's Tyler

Who says is a good passage of Scripture to show a Jewish person the first five verses in Romans 9

Where Paul clearly lays out his heart for the Jewish people and let me read those

Excuse me, I have to call off myself and.

The.

Apostle Paul starts off this chapter.

In Romans 9 I am telling the truth in Christ.

I am not lying My conscious testifies with me in the Holy Spirit That I have

great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed Separated from Christ for the sake

of my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh who are Israelites to

whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and

the giving of the law and the temple service and the promises who are the fathers and

From whom is the the Christ according to the flesh?

Who is overall God blessed forever?

Amen.

And Tyler wants to know if that is a good group of verses to bring up the Jewish people.

Well,

yeah,

I'd like

you

to go

through

those because

that

it

would

probably

be the.

Clearly the most important Things to bring up biblically to a

Jewish person the the prophecies of the Messiah from the Old Testament or their Hebrew Scriptures.

But before we leave What Tyler brought up?

I I think that it would probably be good to Show a Jewish person the great

love and Compassion that the Apostle Paul

who was a Jew Who was a Hebrew of Hebrews? Who

not only was a Hebrew of Hebrews, but he was a persecutor of Christians initially

and an actuality Round up men and women for their execution

and who later after his conversion Was so

dedicated to Jesus the Messiah and So much loved his

own Kinsmen the Jewish people that he Said that

I wish that I myself were accursed Separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren,

and I think that that may be at least something That startles some Jewish

individuals If if they could grasp the fact that this was

a true historic figure That this

that's a very rarely in Literature, do we see such a profound?

statement of one's love for his kinsmen than this a.

Variety

of Jewish.

Obviously

it takes

a miracle of

the Holy Spirit before somebody actually

Embraces

this.

You're

right

isn't

though.

Even

the

word

Elohim

doesn't

imply

a

plurality

of

some kind.

And I want to give one example and in fact, could you do that when we come back from a break?

Sure.

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This is Chris Arnzen of iron sharpens iron.

Our guest today for the full two hours for an hour to go from now as well

is Ron Elkin and He is the founder and director of AMI ministry.

That's a Amazon Michael Amazon Michael I Ministry and the website is AMI

ministry org.

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AMI ministry brings the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jewish people.

Ron Elkin himself is a Jewish believer in Jesus Christ also known as

Yeshua Hamashiach in Hebrew and We are discussing today

the biblical answers to Jewish questions.

And if you'd like to join us on the air, our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com.

That's C H R I s a r n z n and gmail .com we do have a Few people

waiting to have their questions asked and answered before we do that.

Ron you were in mid thought when we went to our break if you could continue where we left off.

Oh, this is getting me a real workout.

But

Good.

Oh great.

I love that.

And

that's

where

it kept

God.

Mm

-hmm.

Yes, well we have CJ and Lindenhurst Long Island.

Who says.

Is not the most profound messianic prophecy found in

the Hebrew Scriptures.

Isaiah 53 and If you don't mind Ron, let me read that.

It's a long.

What's most.

Not that long.

But I'd like to read it because as you know God's Word is the

instrument that he uses to open the eyes and unstop the ears of

those who are lost.

And perhaps Some Jewish listeners either through this live broadcast

now or in the future when they listen to the recording God may use these words to

To open their eyes to the truth of the Messiah.

But.

Isaiah said Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of

the Lord been revealed.

For he grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root

out of a parched ground.

He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon him.

Nor appearance that we should be attracted to him.

He was despised and forsaken of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and

Like one from whom men hide their face He was despised and we

did not esteem him.

Surely our griefs he himself bore and our sorrows he carried.

Yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken smitten of God and afflicted.

But he was pierced through our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

The chat the chastening of our well -being fell upon him and by his

scourging We are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray.

Each of us has turned to his own way.

But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall Upon him to

fall on him.

He was oppressed and he was afflicted.

Yet he did not open his mouth Like a lamb that is led to slaughter

and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers.

So he did not open his mouth By oppression and judgment.

He was taken away and as for his generation who considered that he was cut

off out of the land of the living.

For the transgression of my people for whom the stroke was due he

gave.

His grave was assigned with wicked men.

Yet he was with a rich man in his death.

Because he had done no violence nor was there any deceit in his mouth.

But the Lord was pleased to crush him putting him to grief.

If he would render himself as a guilt offering He will see his offspring

he will prolong his days and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand

as a result of the anguish of his soul.

He will see it and be satisfied.

By his knowledge the righteous one my servant will justify the many as he

will bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great and he will divide the booty with the

strong.

Because he poured out himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors

yet he himself bore the sin of many and interceded for the

transgressors.

Praise God and now I understand I have heard that.

The typical Jewish response to this is that this is supposed to be a symbol of Israel rather than The

Messiah or am I getting that wrong?

No.

No, when

you

say

they

leave

it

alone.

Do

you

mean that

they

leave

it

out

of

the English

translation?

Yes.

Praise God for what you are providing for our listeners today.

We have.

Robert in.

Great -neck.

Long Island, New York.

Who asked have you ever heard of a Hasidic Jew who has come to Christ?

Yes, by God's grace.

Yeah was through the evangelism of Presbyterians in Brooklyn.

And by the way, have you ever read a book that I read years ago.

I really enjoyed Reading it a lot.

It was a fascinating book not by a Christian.

It was written.

I'm almost certain.

He was a secular Jew named Robert Eisenberg and the book is called

boy chicks in the hood a takeoff on boys in the hood the movie

that african -americans in the city and boy chicks in the hood.

The subtitle is travels in the Hasidic underground and Robert Eisenberg

Found out that he had Hasidic Jews in his ancestry and

he began traveling the world to live with Hasidic Jews to find out

more about their traditions and customs and way of life.

And Encountered, you know stark contrasts in the different types of

Hasidic Jews that he lived with.

He went to Not only Ukraine, but Poland and Minnesota and

Brooklyn, New York and and all other Places where there are a lot of

Hasidic Jews.

And it was quite a fascinating Thing for me to read because I knew nothing about Hasidic Jews

before reading this book and it was like a real eye -opener.

That's where I first discovered that there were actually a great number of Hasidic Jews who were

vehemently opposed to the current nation of Israel.

And things like that that I had no idea that people like that existed who were Jews.

Yeah,

I remember that there is from time to time I believe there is some profanity

in it because Robert Eisenberg is not a believer.

But he right he writes very respectfully of the Hasidic Jews.

He's not mocking them.

He's just even though the book can be funny.

He's just reporting about the circumstances that you know,

he's Chronicling the experiences that he had with these folks.

And some of the things are funny.

Just like you might have with your own family some funny memories and so on.

Yeah, but uh.

And there was also that excellent movie with Robbie Benson.

Do you know what I'm speaking of.

I think it was called the chosen yes.

Yeah.

Was that the title

of it?

Yeah, that was.

A it's on DVD and it's an excellent

It's an excellent movie starring Robbie Benson and Maximilian

Schnell and Who the the the individual who plays

the rabbi the Hasidic rabbi his name escapes me, but he is a A

world Renowned actor who I think is deceased now and I can't for some reason.

I can't think of his name right now But I highly recommend that movie.

It's very clean and it also It also

shows you the the stark contrast between somebody who

is from a more I think the story of the two

Teenagers one was a I think more of a reformed Jew Whose father was a college

professor and the other?

Robbie Benson was a Hasidic Jew whose father was a rabbi and in fact the main conflict that they had with one

another is That the rabbi wanted his son to stop associating with

The his reformed Jewish friend or his non Hasidic friend because the father was a

Zionist That was the the college professor was a Zionist and

He at one point forbids his son from associating with the

With the the boy, but it's a really remarkable

Remarkable movie and I highly recommend it The Chosen.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

That's right.

And he's written

one

to

be worming.

Mm -hmm, by

the way not

to digress but

the name of the.

Actor who portrayed the rabbi really masterfully was Rod Steiger.

That's just.

I don't know if you're finished that thought but we do have another listener who has a

question.

Okay, we have BB in Cumberland County,

Pennsylvania who says Do Jews typically believe in

eternal damnation or hell.

I've heard that some do some don't and those that do are typically from the

Hasidic movement.

They call

it

the

underworld

are

there

not even

Orthodox Jews who

are very

opposed

to the Kabbalah.

Like Madonna.

Yeah,

I

can

remember

vividly.

My friend Marty from who is now in heaven.

Marty from Who was the leader of a congregation a messianic congregation

called Beth Yeshua?

Which still exists on Long Island on with new leadership, but Marty just went home to be

with the Lord.

Maybe six months ago somewhere in that neighborhood a very dear friend of mine.

It was on my program a lot.

But he was he was speaking about that kind of explanation

For the blood atonement and he was saying can you imagine? back in the very

day of the first Passover.

Where a little boy is saying to his father Papa why

aren't you putting the blood on the mantle of the doorway as we were commanded?

So that the angel of death will not kill me.

And he said well, that's really just a figure of speech doesn't really mean that we have to put the blood on the doorpost

and he says Papa can I spend the night at uncle Moishe's house?

But anyway, we have to get our final break right now and If you have any questions, we do have a couple of

people still waiting.

But our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com.

Chris Arnzen at gmail .com and Don't go away.

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Welcome back.

This is Chris Arnz.

And if you just tuned us in our guest today for the full two hours with a half hour to go is

Ron Elkin.

He is the founder and director of AMI ministry.

That's a Amazon Michael Amazon Michael I ministry org and the

the theme or the.

The goal of the ministry is to bring the gospel to the Jewish people.

Ron himself Is a Jewish believer in Jesus Christ in Hebrew

Yeshua haMashiach and he has committed himself to this end of bringing

the gospel to his kinsmen and.

We are always delighted to have him on the program and our email address here is Chris Arnzen at

gmail .com.

If you have a question, we are specifically addressing a biblical answers to Jewish

questions.

And we have Arnie in Perry County, Pennsylvania.

Who asks Do Jews often?

Blur together Roman Catholicism with Christianity and see

the violations that Roman Catholics are guilty of.

From the scriptures including the worship of idols and things like that

and prayer to the Saints that Unnecessarily turn Jews away

from believing in biblical Christianity because they think that we all do that.

Yes.

And.

Of

course

and of

course

even

Christians

are

sinners

and.

Christians can often demonstrate cowardice.

In regard to why weren't the Christians helping the Jews?

During the Holocaust.

Well, there were some you have Corrie ten Boom and you had many Christians

Throughout the world that did risk their lives and often give their lives to

protect their Jewish friends and neighbors.

Perhaps even particularly in Holland.

But you have examples even in the Bible of the fact that the

disciples Scattered, you know when Jesus was being executed.

It was only John at the foot of the cross there.

And Peter Denied Jesus three times even to a young servant

girl out of fear.

So we can't Judge the genuineness of a

teaching or faith or of Jesus Christ himself.

Because of what sinful men do and.

I.

Wouldn't people even throw that in my face in regard to phony televangelists or any

kind of a Person that brings reproach upon the church.

I Say you shouldn't reject Jesus because of Judas.

You know.

Just because people do things Who profess to be Christian.

People who profess to be Christian often do things that?

Contradict the Christian faith doesn't mean that the faith itself is not genuine.

Yes, I

never assumed that.

Well, you

know when

you're

going to take it.

You

don't

through

you

at

that

and I

would

learn

to say

Jewish.

Mm

-hmm,

right

now.

Do you

think

that

it

might be

helpful

to?

Familiarize yourself When you're speaking with your Jewish friends

with the writings of Josephus who was a Jewish historian that lived

not long after the crucifixion of Christ because He affirms things that

Christians Believe historically.

And yet he is not or was not someone Who any any bias?

To.

Defend or protect The teachings of Christianity because he wasn't Christian, I mean,

would you say that he is a reliable and Not only a reliable source.

But that it's worth taking your time to present some of these things to your Jewish friends that he that he wrote about historically.

Going back to something since we're running out of time we that we've already addressed.

But wouldn't you say one of the the key things that we have to remind our Jewish friends

about especially those who take the Hebrew Scriptures seriously like an Orthodox Jew is

that they do not have an atonement for their sins because of the

fact that there is no temple and that.

The.

Yom Kippur that they celebrate is really an empty Celebration because it

has no Atoning or redemptive value since there is no blood and that's why we need

the atoning blood of the Messiah Yeshua haMashiach Jesus Christ.

Mm -hmm.

I've heard that.

Yeah.

And obviously you have to drive home to them that they cannot fulfill

their duty to obedience every day.

That Every one of us is incapable of obeying God's law perfectly and

therefore that's why we need the atoning blood of the Messiah, correct.

Well, I really want you to spend the next four minutes Just unburdening your heart with what you

most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners especially our Jewish listeners because

no doubt I'm assuming that eventually Even if there are no Jewish

Individuals listening live right now that the mp3 will be shared or the

podcast and the archive Will be shared By some of our Christian listeners to their Jewish

friends.

So if you could speak to our Jewish listeners for the next.

Three and

a half minutes or

so.

It's not.

Amen praise God.

Well, thank you so much Ron Elkin for being my guest again.

I look forward to you returning often in the future and Just to repeat your website.

It's on me ministry org a M as in Michael M as in Michael I

ministry dot o RG and I really hope that all of our listeners

Take advantage of your wonderful resources there.

I want to thank everybody for listening Especially those who took the time to write in and I want you all to always

remember for the rest of your lives That Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you

are a sinner.

We look forward to receiving your questions for our guests next time on iron sharpens iron radio.

God bless.