For the first time since its international launch in 2019, Israelis will join the Nationwide Bible Reading Marathon – on July 14 at 7:14 a.m. local time — to read the Book of Isaiah, which foretold the coming of Christ, the promised messiah of Israel, but that inconvenient subject isn’t mentioned:
Participants will each read a chapter from the Book of Isaiah, the main character who prophesied the destruction of Babylon and the return of the Jewish people to Israel.
“Reading the Bible is a no-brainer,” said Jonathan Feldstein, who arranged for Israel to take part in the reading marathon through his Genesis 123 Foundation, which works to build bridges between Christians and Jews. “It’s the shared scripture that serves as a foundation of so many other relations between Jews and Christians.”
He said that “the significance of Israel participating cannot be understated. Reading the Bible is especially fitting in the land about which it was written. Reading Isaiah in Israel, as Jews and Christians together, is even more significant as he prophesied about the Jewish people in their land, which is referenced in 2 Chronicles 7:14, the catalyst and time source for this initiative. It is analogous to lighting the Olympic torch in the place where fire was created.”
In Israel, Isaiah will be read in Hebrew, English and Arabic, as well as Russian, Amharic, French, Spanish and Portuguese, among other languages.
The Nationwide Bible Marathon was founded in Iowa by Dianne Bentley in 2018. The state’s 99 counties would take part in the initiative by dividing up the more than 1,000 chapters of the Torah and Christian Bible on July 14 at 7:14 a.m. Central time – about 12 chapters per county.
“We began reading in Northwest Iowa with Genesis and ended in Southeast Iowa with Revelation,” Bentley said. “Within 1 ½ to 2 hours the word of God had been proclaimed over the entire state of Iowa from the 99 Iowa county courthouse lawns.”
As Feldstein explained, the foundation for the initiative is 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.” The land referred to in the Bible verse is the Land of Israel.
In 2019, Bentley decided to go global and expanded from Iowa to 14 other nations. In 2020, some 57 nations participated. This year, 72 nations, in addition to Israel, are taking part. Bentley said that the initiative is mostly shared via word of mouth: “It is a grassroots effort.”
“While there’s an unprecedented and increasing historical trend for Jews and Christians to connect and partner in areas such as support for Israel, combating antisemitism and other social issues of common interest, it’s not every day that Jews and Christians unite in prayer, or something as basic as reading the Bible together,” Feldstein said.
He added that the participation is even more significant this year in light of recent surveys that show an increasing trend among young Jews and Christians to turn away from religion and the State of Israel. “That Jews and Christians are coming together in this most fundamental Biblical fellowship is precedent-setting, and sets a model for young people to connect and re-engage,” Feldstein said.
“Among the areas that Jews and Christians have come together for so many years is in support of Israel,” he said. “This is also waning as a result of the trend of millennials to turn away from traditional Biblical values. The restoration of these values, even through something as mundane as reading the Bible, can be a redemptive answer to many prayers.”
When Jews and Christians get together to discuss the Bible, it’s always a one-way street — Christians accommodate the Jews, never the other way around.
And this article is proof of that — it intentionally avoids mentioning that Isaiah prophesied the coming of Jesus Christ as the promised messiah of Israel — exactly as the disciples discuss in Act 8.
In fact, the Book of Isaiah so accurately foretold the coming of Christ that many biblical scholars believed it to be a Christian forgery that was inserted into the Old Testament by the early church.
But when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered — and included Isaiah — there was no denying its authenticity — but that hasn’t stopped the Jews from trying to prove that Isaiah did not prophesy the coming of Christ.
So instead the article tries to claim that Isaiah somehow prophesied the “return of the Jewish people” to the land of Israel — which, again, is not true.
The Tribe of Judah returned to Israel from their captivity in Babylon — not the “Jewish people” — today’s “Jewish people” are not the Tribe of Judah, nor are they legitimate living descendants of Judah.
If today’s Jews are not real Hebrews, then they have no biblical claim to any land in the Middle East — or anywhere else for that matter.
Jews were able to move to Palestine and establish a Jewish ethno-state not because of some biblical mandate but rather because they had the economic and political power to do so — riding a wave of public sympathy based on false propaganda about an alleged “Holocaust” at the hands of “Nazis” and their “collaborators.”
And as far as Christians believing that the “Jews” have to return to the land of Israel before Jesus Christ can return, that notion is nowhere in the Bible either — which is why the wealthy Jew, Samuel Untermeyer financed the writing of the Scofield Bible — to brainwash Christians into supporting the Zionist land grab.
Jewish Intellectuals Call On Gays To Perform Sex Acts In Front Of Children.
https://national-justice.com/prominent-jewish-intellectuals-call-gays-perform-sex-acts-front-children
So Rev. Schlomo Hagee is still around? I try not to follow these bottom-feeders. He has been a carbuncle on the butt of Christianity in America for a long time, sucking up to the “chosen” as he does. I’m sure behind the scenes he is well-reawrded by them.
They ought to read Ezekiel too:
Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, *I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves*, and bring you into the land of Israel.
“…….They ought to read Ezekiel too…..”
Please elaborate Jason. Modern Jewry — including those “Jews” circa 1933 have nothing to do with the Israelites of the Scriptures.
So ……………… why should they read Ezekiel 37:12? On the contrary, “modern christianity” falsely believes the jews are Israel so they believe Ezekiel 37 and Jeremiah 31 IS about them. This only bolsters the jew’s chutzpa.
Modern Jewry and “Jewry” from history are not Israel.
“Jew” is not synonymous to Israel.
If you are new to “Christians for Truth”, please Read for starters —- https://christiansfortruth.com/who-are-jews/
You may want to close your blog for a spell and seriously study and meditate on the information presented here at CFT.
Sincerely.
I just don’t understand how anyone could read Isaiah and not realize he was speaking of Jesus! One would have to be either dense in the head, or have an ulterior motive, to misinterpret Isaiah’s words. I remember when I first read Isaiah and who he was speaking of was plain as day, I thought.
John Hagee, is one person who with the Bible in his hands is helping to bankrupt America by supporting the perpetual Neo-Con Zionist wars. Years ago, I watched him on TBN giving a young Jewish guy the a platform to say that Jews were still victims of Christians. While Jews in America were bluntly displaying their hatred for Christians and Christianity in America John Hagee was enjoying his savior of the Jews status. It was the last time I watched TBN, but I will never forget the smirk on John Hagee’s face. The double-dipping of the so-called Evangelical Christians in America prompted me to write “Separation of Powers v. Separation of Church and State” https://www.academia.edu/32304004/Separation_of_Powers_v_Separation_of_Church_and_State
Zionist supremacist used America to wage their dirty wars against Christian Europe and the superior IQ Evangelical Christians are helping them wage war against the so-called third world inferior IQ people.
https://religionandpolitics.org/2017/02/14/how-an-orthodox-rabbi-became-an-unlikely-ally-of-the-christian-right/
This any many other things caused me to question the anti-Germany, Nazi and Hitler hated the Jews propaganda. Jews still cry victim of others while if you connect the dots they are using America to do the same to people around the world as they accused Hitler and Nazi Germany.
I am heavily invested in this matter so I repeat…..”Jews were able to move to Palestine and establish a Jewish ethno-state not because of some biblical mandate but rather because they had the economic and political power to do so — riding a wave of public sympathy based on false propaganda about an alleged “Holocaust” at the hands of “Nazis” and their “collaborators.”
The corrupt predatory monetary system which was legalized with the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 put them in the privileged position to get Woodrow Wilson and members of both the house and the senate to wage war against Germany, because Germany opposed the anti-Christian Marxist Bolshevik communist terror of the power hungry Jewish supremacist.
Samuel Untermeyer (who hailed from German Jews who immigrated to America) financed the writing of the Scofield Bible — to brainwash Christians into supporting the Zionist land grab…..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Untermyer
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”- James Madison
Germany also became a target because it was the largest territory of the Holy Roman Empire on the European continent ….and history tells the story loud and clear how Jews use the WASP’s to do their dirty work.
Oy vey! If that man was the prophesied Meshiach then how is it Israel was restored without recourse to him? Well, wait a minute there….
If today’s Jews are descendants of Abraham then wouldn’t they have some legitimate claim to the Middle East?
FWIW, Sheldon Emry contends that today’s Arabs (and other sand people) are entitled to the Middle East as they are still under the ancient covenant made for Ishmael (Genesis 17:20; Emry’s The Marks of Israel, pages 3-5). I don’t know if that is indeed true, if today’s Arabs and Iranians (et al) still can lay claim to their Abrahamic bloodline.
But I do know we have surprising evidence that the modern Jew and the modern Arab are the same:
https://christiansfortruth.com/israeli-successfully-donates-bone-marrow-to-arab-boy-proving-jews-cannot-be-gods-chosen-people/
I don’t think God made a covenant with Ishmael…..he made a covenant only with Issac. God merely made a promise that Ishmael would have many descendants and some would be rulers. Probably as a consolation prize. And with the children that Abraham had with Katura, He promised nothing at all…..
According to Emry’s pamphlet, Genesis 15:18 established that all descendants of Abraham are promised the right to the Middle East, from Egypt through Iraq.
This, he contends, covers the kids he had with Keturah, all the kids he had with his concubines, as well as Ishmael & Isaac.
Israelites are the only descendants who are not entitled to a piece of the middle east for God moved us out of there to a better neighborhood.
Many people make the claim that Ishmael is the father of the Arab people but offer no proof.
Does anyone have a shred of evidence to suggest Ishmael fathered the Arab peoples?
What does that even mean — Arab peoples. Does not Arab simply mean “mixed”.
In other words ………… can we trace Saddam Hussein’s (the only Arab person I know by name) family tree back to Ishmael???
I suspect Ishmael himself took Adamic wives and from there, who knows what happened.
Does it even matter?
Yahweh honored Ishmael as a legitimate offspring of Abraham. Hagar was an Egyptian ‘mizraim’ and were descendents of Noah through Ham. So Ishmael himself was Adamic and his acceptance by Yahweh as legitimate offspring to fulfill His promise to make Abrahams seed a be as numerous as grains of sand.
The arab-ishmaelite notion is just another world stage satirical ploy straight from hades. The bible denotes them as pure stock and the real question is what ever happened to them?
I contend that it does matter, because if it can be contended that today’s Arabs have a biblical claim to the middle east then we could get the legions of Judeo-Christians to stop supporting all of these Mideast Wars for the Jews.
On the other hand, if we could find that today’s sand people are not heirs of Abraham then we could work to correct the modern misinformation campaign that contends that people in the ME were always like the sand people we see there today.
The idea that we need to correct the “inaccuracy” of having Charlton Heston play Moses & Jim Caviezel play Jesus irks me, and the stupidity of portraying the disciples as dunecoons (eg: Risen, The Chosen) puts us one leap closer to legitimizing the “White Jesus is a myth” (((claim))), and it creates a stumbling block against White viewers learning about true Israelite identity.
“Dunecoons”! I love it! Cracked me up!
Christ was portrayed by Cliff Curtis in Risen… he is a Maori, of all things! Terrible casting, but, for hokeywood film execs he had “the look we’re after”.
Curtis is a rather homely fellow too. Remember how Popular Mechanics “reconstructed” Jesus? Making him look like some retarded Arab….
But that was the REAL purpose of the article: to make Him look like a buffoon.
At least The Chosen chose good looking actors.
“…..I contend that it does matter, because if it can be contended that today’s Arabs have a biblical claim to the middle east then we could get the legions of Judeo-Christians to stop supporting all of these Mideast Wars for the Jews….”
I get your point RB, but this quote made me chuckle a bit.
We can’t even get “christendom” to believe in the TRUE Jesus let alone try to convince them of the deeper things of Scripture! 🙂
Good luck with that.
Hagee is one of the worst pieces of rubbish in the USA, absolutely pathetic shabbos goy.
Yep! And by the look of him has never missed a Sunday church buffet.
Now that made me laugh.. and probably a Kosher buffet too..
This is an interesting debate between Dr. Michael Brown, a messianic “Christian” Jew, and Rabbi Tovia Singer about whether or not Jesus was in fact the promised messiah of the Israelite people. It shows just how flimsy the rabbi’s arguments are, but it’s valuable for every Christian should understand why rabbinical and secular Jews don’t believe Jesus was the messiah…..these are the lies they tell themselves….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0XQmbeGEZ8