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Oct. 16, 2018 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Explosion of the Gospel in Israel - Dr Michael Brown on The Jim Bakker Show
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Jewish Revolution Saved 00:02:12
What's definitely happening is this.
When I got saved, so late 60s, early 70s, was what we call the Jesus People movement, the Jesus Revolution.
You remember it well.
All these hippies, radicals, rebels getting saved around the world.
Well, because so many Jews were hippies, radicals, rebels, that when God began to move, a very high percentage of Jews got saved then.
It was quite remarkable.
Almost all the leaders I know in Jewish ministry today that are anywhere old enough, they all got saved within a two or three year period right then.
We haven't seen something fully on that scale.
But what we have seen since the 70s is the raising up of Messianic Jewish congregations, reminding the church of our Jewish roots.
This is massive.
And people talking about things today that were unheard of when I got saved in the early 70s.
Another thing we're seeing is little by little the growth of the gospel in Israel.
After 1948, there were literally a handful of Messianic Jews in Israel.
Literally, a handful, just a very, very few people.
Now the estimate is maybe 15,000, 20,000.
Now it's still a tiny minority, but it's rapid growth.
Several hundred Messianic congregations of different sizes.
And then more and more of the population recognizing, well, you know, they serve in our military.
So there's a growing acceptance and recognition.
At the same time, the Orthodox population is growing rapidly.
The ultra-Orthodox population, it's very common to have 10, 12, 14 kids in a family, and they're as hostile and opposed to Jesus, Yeshua, as you could be.
They have no idea who he really is.
When I was in Israel in May, we had a confrontation.
They were spitting on the ground and cursing his name, and they have no clue who they're even talking about.
Just the Jesus of church history that they've been taught in an exaggerated way.
But even there, little by little among the very religious, they can't be open yet, but here and here and here, coming to faith, little by little.
So I know that, I know that, I know that the day is going to come when my people are going to turn in a national way.
That Zechariah 12, 10 is going to be fulfilled.
It says in Hebrew, Vahib to Elih to Shir Techara, they'll look to him whom they've pierced, and there'll be national mourning.
As Jeremiah 31, 1 says, that day God will be the God of all the families of Israel.
And Paul in Romans 11, 26, all Israel will be saved.
It's going to happen.
So little by little, little by little, and boom, the explosion.
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