When our blessed Lord came to Jerusalem and beheld the Jewish nation, He wept over it and said: "If thou hadst known, even now, at least, in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes." (Luke 19:42). Thus we find that when the Lord spoke these words, telling Israel the Gospel was hid to them, God revealed the Gospel to the Gentiles, using Jewish apostles as a channel. Were it only for the debt Christians owe to the Jews, it would be enough to cause all Christians to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but, more than that, it is a direct command from God: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee" (Ps. 122:6).
The following is an experience in our Jewish work. A middle-aged Jewess was invited to attend our Sunday afternoon testimony meeting. She
Experiences like the above could be multiplied, that gladden our hearts for reaching Jewish people in serious sickness, but, above all, for reaching them in sickness of the soul. The following is the ministry of the Jewish De partment : street meeting work ; Saturday afternoon visitation work in homes; personal contacts in hos pitals, business places, or wherever we are led to take the precious Gospel to the lost; tract work; distribution of Gospels, Testaments and Bibles; Sunday afternoon Jewish meetings, and the radio broadcast over KFOX, Sundays at 2:00 P.M. Each week broadcasts are conducted over “ The Voice of the Andes,” HCJB, Quito, Ecuador, in the Jew ish language, and thousands of Jewish refugees are reached.
heard the testimo nies of Jewish be lievers and of how God reached down through His bless ed Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to save all, both Jew and Gentile, who put their trust and fa ith in the shed b lo o d sacrifice of the Messiah. Also, a message was giv en from the O ld Testament reveal ing Christ in pro phecy. As the invi tation was given, this dear Jewess came fo rw a rd to
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accept our blessed Lord as Saviour. She immedi ately began to have a burden for her husband and definitely led him to accept our blessed Lord as Sav iour, too. She constantly testified to those around her, to both relatives and friends, and each Sunday faithfully gave her testimony in our meet ings. Just recently we received the solemn news that she went home to be with our blessed Lord.
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