Jim Bakker Show - The Explosion of the Gospel in Israel  - Dr Michael Brown on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2018-10-16
Duration: 02:13


=== Jewish Revolution Saved (02:12) ===

[00:00:00]  What's definitely happening is this.
[00:00:01]  When I got saved, so late 60s, early 70s, was what we call the Jesus People movement, the Jesus Revolution.
[00:00:08]  You remember it well.
[00:00:09]  All these hippies, radicals, rebels getting saved around the world.
[00:00:11]  Well, because so many Jews were hippies, radicals, rebels, that when God began to move, a very high percentage of Jews got saved then.
[00:00:20]  It was quite remarkable.
[00:00:22]  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.
[00:00:29]  We haven't seen something fully on that scale.
[00:00:32]  But what we have seen since the 70s is the raising up of Messianic Jewish congregations, reminding the church of our Jewish roots.
[00:00:38]  This is massive.
[00:00:40]  And people talking about things today that were unheard of when I got saved in the early 70s.
[00:00:44]  Another thing we're seeing is little by little the growth of the gospel in Israel.
[00:00:49]  After 1948, there were literally a handful of Messianic Jews in Israel.
[00:00:54]  Literally, a handful, just a very, very few people.
[00:00:57]  Now the estimate is maybe 15,000, 20,000.
[00:00:59]  Now it's still a tiny minority, but it's rapid growth.
[00:01:02]  Several hundred Messianic congregations of different sizes.
[00:01:05]  And then more and more of the population recognizing, well, you know, they serve in our military.
[00:01:10]  So there's a growing acceptance and recognition.
[00:01:13]  At the same time, the Orthodox population is growing rapidly.
[00:01:17]  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.
[00:01:26]  They have no idea who he really is.
[00:01:28]  When I was in Israel in May, we had a confrontation.
[00:01:31]  They were spitting on the ground and cursing his name, and they have no clue who they're even talking about.
[00:01:35]  Just the Jesus of church history that they've been taught in an exaggerated way.
[00:01:40]  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.
[00:01:48]  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.
[00:01:53]  That Zechariah 12, 10 is going to be fulfilled.
[00:01:55]  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.
[00:02:01]  As Jeremiah 31, 1 says, that day God will be the God of all the families of Israel.
[00:02:05]  And Paul in Romans 11, 26, all Israel will be saved.
[00:02:08]  It's going to happen.
[00:02:09]  So little by little, little by little, and boom, the explosion.