Reaching Jewish People Like Never Before and How You Can Too

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: What I'm about to share with you, I hope it will rock you. To your core. Because one of I'm about to share with you is a completely supernatural break in by the Godhead himself. God gave me jews.com. It was literally dropped into my lap when I never even thought of jews.com. Somebody contacted me and said Rabbi, I've got this domain and I think you'll be entrusted it. This was an act of God. This to me was as big of a miracle to me personally was as big of a miracle as God parting the Red Sea. I mean, what was the chance of a Messianic Jewish believer like myself, someone who the whole Jewish world said is not Jewish. What was the chance of me now owning by the grace of God jews.com? This is an act of God because there is no greater tool on Earth right now to bring the revelation of Yeshua to the Jewish people. There's nothing greater than jews.com.
Dustin Roberts: Welcome to Discovering the Jewish Jesus. I'm your host Dustin Roberts and you just heard Rabbi share how God placed jews.com in his hands and opened a new door to reach Jewish people with the message of Yeshua, the Messiah. In today's program, he shares the heart behind the mission, why reaching Jewish people is so important, and how God is using this resource to bring the hope of scripture to those who are searching and how you can get involved too. Now here's Rabbi Schneider with this amazing story. Rabbi.
Rabbi K.A. Schneider: My beloved and holy brothers and sisters, we are in a brand new season here at Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Approximately two to three years ago, I have the date written down in my journal. I went to sleep one night and I had an encounter in the realm of the spirit unlike anything that I've experienced before. I found myself fully awake in the spirit and psychically conscious, but I was physically asleep. And I found myself in this atmosphere. I 'm going to describe it as a spiritual weather pattern. If I could try to relate it to something that you could identify with on planet Earth, it would be like being outside when it's just about to break out into a monumental storm and the electricity in the atmosphere is highly, highly charged. You feel the pressure, you feel the electricity. You know that something's about to break. That's what the spiritual atmosphere I found myself contained in was like. In this state, a voice kept speaking to me from heaven. Now at the time, I didn't know what was going on. I wouldn't have known immediately this is from heaven, but after the fact, I understood what happened. The voice that kept speaking to me in this spiritual, intense weather pattern kept saying this to me. X 222 Tetrarch. X 222 Tetrarch. X 222 Tetrarch. Over and over again, the voice kept speaking to me. X 222 Tetrarch. It didn't feel pleasant. It didn't feel good. It wasn't like I was on some type of spiritual high or spiritual bliss or feeling the peace of the Holy Spirit. It wasn't like that. It was intense. It almost felt like what is this? Get this off me. I kind of felt like in the natural. But I knew that I had just been marked. Upon getting out of bed, I went to open up the word of God to X 222 just to verify what it said. Here's what it said in a nutshell. Peter is speaking and he's challenging Israel and he says this. Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man that was attested to you by miracles, signs, and wonders, just as you yourself know, you put to death by the predetermined plan of God through godless men. But God raised him up again since the grave could not hold them in its power. And beloved, as soon as I read that, I instantly knew that the Lord had given me a new mandate, new marching orders that God was telling me that he wanted to specifically focus on reaching Jewish people. Now those of you that have been connected to my ministry, you know that we've ministered to Jewish people, shared with Jewish people. I've preached in Israel several times, but we've been a worldwide ministry. We're preaching the gospel to whosoever will. But I knew that God was calling me into a season to direct my attention specifically way beyond what I had done before to specifically challenge Israel with the gospel just like Peter did in Acts 222 when he said, men of Israel, listen to these words. Immediately I got my team together. I shared with them the new mandate. But it was too big for us. I mean, I thought, how do I how does Kurt Schneider, how does Rabbi Schneider challenge Israel? How in the world am I going to do that? But I was confident God had called me. So I didn't panic, but I just said, Lord, I don't know how in the world I'm going to do that. I believe you called me to this. I know you called me to this, but I don't know what to do with it. So Lord, I'm just going to rest in you and wait on you cuz this is too big for me. Well, eventually our marketing director came up with a strategy to reach Israel by putting billboards in Israel that said in Hebrew, what if he's right? And then you could faintly see a man's face. You didn't recognize who it was. So the thought was people would read in Israel the billboard, what if he is right? They'd see the image of a man on the billboard that they couldn't recognize and they'd be curious. They'd go to the website, what if he's right? And they would see several Messianic prophecies pointing them to Jesus. Well, we had the billboards in Israel outside Tel Aviv. We had a huge billboard there as well as others. But you know what? After months of being in Israel, I wasn't seeing the response that I thought I would. We were getting some response, but nothing compared to what was in my heart that I felt the Lord had called me to to challenge a nation. So I called my chief leaders together. After months of being in Israel with the billboards and I got them together in my office and I said, guys, what we're doing isn't working. It's the first time those words had ever come from my mouth, what we're doing isn't working. I specifically called them there to say, we know we have a call to reach Israel, but what we're doing to do that isn't working. So in this meeting in my boardroom, I looked down at my phone while everyone's gathered there to figure out where to go next and I had an email there that came in to me right when we were trying to figure out where to go next and the email was from a domain name broker. I hadn't heard from him in years and he said to me, Rabbi, I have a domain name that is very unique that I think you'll be interested and that domain name was jews.com. God gave us a call to reach Israel and now he gave us the tool through jews.com to do it. I hope you can appreciate how big this is. jews.com Jewish people are starting to talk to others saying, how in the world did he get that domain name? You see, I'm the one type of Jew that they say is not a Jew because a Jew that believes in Jesus is oftentimes no longer considered a Jew by the traditional Jewish community, but here we are at discovering the Jewish Jesus. By the grace of the Lord and the favor of God, we now own jews.com. Now some of you are hearing this and it's interesting, but you're wondering why is it really so important that you're focusing so much attention now to reach Jewish people? Well, let me just read a few scriptures for you. Let's begin with the book of Romans chapter 9 verse 1 through 4. Hear the word of God. Paul speaking. I'm telling you the truth in Christ. I'm not lying. My conscience 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. Paul continues in the book of Romans in the next chapter. In chapter 10 he says, brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer for them is for their salvation. He says, I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to anyone and everyone who believes. So we have Romans 9 about the salvation of Israel. Romans 10 about the salvation of Israel. Paul continues in chapter 11 11 1. I say then, God is not rejected his people, has he? May it never be for I too am an Israelite. Three chapters in the book of Romans are exclusively dedicated to reaching Jewish people. Why is this so important, beloved? Cuz God still has a covenant with Israel and the Jewish people that is irrevocable and they're coming to faith is part of God's plan to usher in the return of his son. This is why Yeshua, Jesus said in Matthew 23:39 that the world and the Jewish people particularly will not see him again as he was about to be crucified and leave this world. Yeshua said, you'll not see me again until you're saying Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. In other words, Jesus is not coming back for you or me. He's not coming back to the world until there's a mass of Jewish people that have come to faith in him and are calling out to him to return. And Paul goes into this very same theme in Romans chapter 11. So what we're doing here, it's important. It's important to me and it should be important to you. This is the bull's eye of God's plan. But the challenge is it's very difficult to reach Jewish people with the gospel because of all that has been heaped upon them for the last 2,000 years.
Dustin Roberts: We're reaching Jewish people in New York City and Rabbi Schneider is going after those whose hearts are ready to receive. I want you to listen now as Rabbi shares from the streets of New York.
Rabbi K.A. Schneider: You know what? It's only a few that make the difference. Jesus talks about leaving the 99 to go after the one. That's what we're doing here. We're reaching out to Jewish people that are ready to receive the one that was promised to them in the Hebrew scriptures. People's hearts have to be open and they have to be ready, but there's some Jewish people that live here and their hearts are ready and their hearts are open and that's what we're doing jews.com all over the city through billboard and digital media. I need you to understand though how difficult it is for Jewish people to respond to the message of Jesus, of Yeshua. I'm going to give you three reasons why. Number one, the attitude of the Pharisees of Yeshua's day has been passed down by osmosis to every generation of Jews since. The descendants of the Pharisees of Jesus' day authored Rabbinic Judaism and instilled in Rabbinic Judaism is an anti-Yeshua mindset. So Jewish people grow up in homes where they pick up again by osmosis that Jesus is not for Jews. And so Jewish people are very resistant because they picked up this mindset, this attitude just from being raised Jewish. Jesus isn't for Jews. Number two, Jewish people are resistant to the gospel because of the severe and ugly anti-semitism that they've experienced at the hands of Christians, at the hands of the church. In fact, during Nazi Germany, Hitler's picture was hung in some of the churches. So when Jewish people hear about Jesus, there's a tendency to kind of associate Jesus with the anti-semitism they've experienced over the years from the church. And thirdly, it's hard for the Jewish mind to conceive of the fact that God has a son. We believe that Yeshua is God's son that's always been in the father's bosom, but to the Jewish mind, this seems preposterous because the most famous Jewish declaration called the Shema goes like this. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. So when we as believers in Messiah start talking about Yeshua being God's son, it's very difficult for the Jewish mind to understand this. I don't have time to go into deep teaching about that now. Very important. I've done that in my teachings in other places. So these reasons and others make it difficult for Jewish people to receive. But what we've done at jews.com is communicate Yeshua to my beloved Jewish family in a language that they can better understand God's love for them. When you go to jews.com and see what it is if you haven't gone there already, I understand the apprehension. Jesus and being Jewish just doesn't go together in our minds, but we have to look beyond the surface. Just do the research. Just look at the scriptures and examine the scriptures that I share on the different videos that I posted on jews.com. And I'm convinced if you'll go there with a truly open mind, you're going to enter in to a realm of eternity that's going to bring you into a relationship with God that you've never experienced before.
Dustin Roberts: Amen. And this is the heart behind jews.com. You know, this resource was created to help Jewish people explore the claims of Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah through the lens of their own heritage and the scriptures they know. That's how the website works. The journey begins with the question that challenges many people to look deeper. It says, why did thousands of Torah observant Jewish people in the first century believe in Jesus? And from there, Jewish visitors are introduced to Rabbi Schneider's own story, his Jewish upbringing, his family background, and how he came to recognize Yeshua as the Messiah of Israel. And then they're invited to examine the Hebrew scriptures and discover how Messiah is revealed throughout the Torah and the writings of the prophets through biblical teaching and articles and personal testimony. jews.com is designed to help Jewish people move beyond the assumptions that have been built into their culture and to explore the truth of God's word for themselves so they can make their own decision. Ultimately, the message is simple. God loves them and he desires for them to know him.
Rabbi K.A. Schneider: And we don't stop there. We give precious Jewish souls an opportunity to reach out to us through email or text through jews.com so we can answer questions and help them move forward in a walk with the Messiah. Now listen. Building the website, all these things that are there, that's fantastic, but you know what? We can't stop there. We have to make Jewish people aware of the resource. That's why we've got billboards and digital all over New York City. Just a few hours ago, I was on the phone with the New York City business person and they said to me, you're overtaking the city with these billboards. This is a huge thing. We're all over New York City. We're into New Jersey. We're expanding to other places in the US and you, my beloved friends, my brothers, and my sisters in the Lord, you can be a part of this and it's important that the church should be a part of this. You know, the gospel says that it's to the Jew first. I'm talking about Romans 1:16. Paul said, the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for the Jew first and also to the Greek or the Gentile. So the whole church should really capture the heart of God in what we're doing and become a part of it. So how can you as an individual, wherever you are right now listening, how can you become a part of it? Number one, visit jews.com for yourself. Go to the entire website. Listen to the videos. Just get familiar with the material. It will bless you personally even if you're not Jewish. Number two, and this is so important, share the link jews.com the domain name, share it with Jewish people that you know, love, and meet. We're called to share the gospel with Jewish people. You know, the apostle Paul said that he'd be willing to give up his own salvation if he could reach the Jewish people. And the apostle Paul also magnified his ministry, he wrote to the Gentiles because the apostle Paul was called to be the apostle to the Gentiles. The apostle Paul said he gloried in his ministry because he said through the Gentiles he was going to reach his own countrymen. What do you mean by that? That Gentiles would share their newly found faith in Messiah Jesus with Jewish people and that would bring Jewish people to faith. Send the link and not just one time, but carry this with you for the rest of your days on Earth. You might feel uncomfortable sharing with Jewish people when it comes to quoting scripture, but you can certainly direct them to jews.com. So that's the second way you can get involved. Finally, I want to encourage you to pray. I remember when Jesus first appeared to me in that vision back in 1978, I didn't know anything about Jesus. All I knew is that God had just revealed to me that Jesus was the way to him. And I remember shortly after that, I was in a car with somebody driving and this person was heavily into the New Age, heavily into gurus from India and she would ramble on about all these different things, but every once in a while she sprinkled the word Jesus in her conversation. Beloved, whenever she said Jesus, it was like his name was filled with music. The Holy Spirit was highlighting to me that he was in Jesus. The point I want to ask you to pray for the salvation of Jewish people that when they see jews.com, when they go to the website, hear the video, read the articles, that the Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus to them just like he did to me when that girl said Jesus and bam, I heard music. Holy church of God, I'm trusting you to go with me on this journey to reach Jewish people. I'm trusting Father, Yeshua, and the Holy Spirit right now that you're feeling the authenticity of what I 'm saying, that what we're doing is a divine mandate. When I heard Acts 222, that didn't come from nowhere. The Lord was commissioning me. I want to ask you to get behind what the Lord is doing here through jews.com at Discovering the Jewish Jesus. What we're doing I won't even tell you how much money it costs cuz it's going to keep on going and going, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars ongoing to reach Jewish people in the metropolitan cities of the United States. Will you support us with your finances? We can't do it without you, but together we can fulfill God's end time mandate for his church to preach the gospel to the Jew first and in so doing usher in Jesus' return. Thank you for your financial support.
Dustin Roberts: This is one of the most important callings discovering the Jewish Jesus could receive. Would you stand with us and help us reach Jewish people by giving at discovering the jewishjesus.com or by calling 800-777-7835. That's 800-777-7835. You can also text your donation. Just text the keyword give to the phone number 88777. We are so thankful that the Lord has given us this miraculous opportunity and you know what? We're seeing fruit already. We've had over 300,000 people visit the website and here's what one partner of Discovering the Jewish Jesus shared with us about jews.com. He said, Rabbi's presenting the facts, cutting through the ignorance, and letting people make the decision based on facts. And you know what? That's exactly right. I encourage you, visit jews.com for yourself, watch the videos, read the articles, become familiar with the site. Even if you're not Jewish, the content it can be an amazing resource for witnessing to Jewish people. And you know what else? I want to ask you to do one special thing. Would you please pray? Pray that when Jewish people explore the site that the Holy Spirit will reveal Yeshua to them in a personal and undeniable way. I got to tell you, people are visiting and they are asking questions. One person wrote in and was like, hey, I believe in Jesus, but my family doesn't. And they give me arguments of why Jesus isn't Messiah and I'm not strong enough to respond to them. Will you help me? Another person said, how do I get saved? The fact is it's working. People are asking questions and your prayers and your finances will help us continue this mission. So please support us at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. Thank you so much. God bless you and now back to Rabbi Schneider as he closes today 's program by speaking the Aaronic blessing over your life. Rabbi.
Rabbi K.A. Schneider: The words from the Aaronic blessing in the book of Numbers chapter 6 verses 22 through 27 helps us to realize how good God is to you and I personally. So receive his blessing into your life and then beloved one, go bless somebody else in Jesus' name today. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance and the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. And now in Hebrew. God bless you and Shalom.
Dustin Roberts: I'm Dustin Roberts and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join Rabbi Schneider as he explores biblical benedictions from the New Testament and how God imparts strength to his people. Monday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.