Israel deports Messianic Jew

[WorthyNewsBot]

<p>By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent</p>

<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10495" style="border: 0px; margin: 6px 10px;" alt="israel-map-flag-protest" src="http://www.worthynews.com/wp-content/uploads/israel-map-flag-protest.jpg" width="168" height="126" />JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (<a title="christian news" href="http://www.worthynews.com">Worthy News</a>)– An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a Messianic Jew arrested last week while participating in an evangelistic event in Israel, according to Morning Star News.</p>

<p>Barry Barnett, 50, a worker with Jews for Jesus (UK), was ordered to leave the country by early December. Barnett was assisting at the “Behold your God, Israel” campaign at the city of Be’er Shiva when he was arrested Wednesday.</p>

<p>According to his wife, Alison, six immigration officers took Barnett to an immigration office in Omer where he was held for several hours without charge; he was then transferred to a prison in Ramle where he spent four days in jail before his hearing.</p>

<p>In a press release, Dan Sered, Israel director for Jews for Jesus, stated that Barnett's arrest — the first for any of the organization's members in Israel — was “outrageous.”</p>

<p>“As an Israeli, I have been proud that our country allows for freedom of religion. Yet those who seized Barry and took him to prison have done a shameful thing.”</p>

<p>Sered said the presiding judge ruled that Barnett was not allowed to engage in missionary activity while in Israel.</p>

<p>“They did not really give a reason why they detained him,” Sered told Morning Star News. “All they said is that he was doing ‘missionary activity.’ That is correct: he was doing missionary activity and that is legal to do in Israel.”</p>

<p>But was Barnett actually authorized to engage in missionary activity under an Israeli B2 tourist visa?</p>

<p>“The global ethics code for tourism,” said Sered, “which the state of Israel signed and even advertises on its own Ministry of Tourism Web page, states that tourism for the purpose of exchanging religious beliefs is not only valid but also should be encouraged”.</p>

<p>Sered said Jews for Jesus would fight Barnett's deportation because it could be used as a legal precedent to expel missionaries engaged in any religious activities deemed unacceptable by the Israeli government.</p>

<p>Barnett's wife said that the ultra-Orthodox Yad L’Achim had shadowed Jews for Jesus teams in Israel since the campaign started, causing some of its members to suggest that immigration officials are acting in concert with ultra-Orthodox Jews to hinder the work of evangelists as part of a larger state-wide crackdown on foreign missionaries.</p>

<p>Yad L’Achim’s own website posted that it interfered with Jews for Jesus’ “spiritually poisonous propaganda.”</p>

<p>“Yad L’Achim has been dispatching beefed-up teams of activists wherever the missionaries are taking up positions in order to alert the public as to their nefarious goals.”</p>

<p>Jews for Jesus is an international organization that makes the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue for Jews around the world, including their homeland.</p>

<p>Alison — who wasn’t with her husband when he was arrested — said she expected some “opposition” while in Israel.</p>

<p>“And quite frankly, if we don’t get any, we probably aren’t doing our jobs right.”</p>

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[WillfromTexas]

It's unfortunate that many Jews really hate Christians.  I've experienced it first hand myself.  My best friend since 7th grade married a Jewish woman and he'd even converted.  Her family was very orthadox and we drove past a Jews for Jesus billboard and she got very irate saying "Do you see that!  Spreading lies!"  I tried to explain how Jesus was the messiah and she said "But he's not!"  Then my friend told us to drop it and we did- but the tension from her was there.

 

Anyway.  She wouldn't let him be my friend anymore because I was a Christian.  Still hurts me to this day.

 

I know Jews are only trying to protect their religious heritage.  If they only knew how much real Christians love them and are on their side.

[OldSchool2]

I know Jews are only trying to protect their religious heritage ...

 

But Jesus IS their religious heritage; the challenge is getting that veil out of the way (2 Cor 3:15).

[WillfromTexas]

 

I know Jews are only trying to protect their religious heritage ...

 

But Jesus IS their religious heritage; the challenge is getting that veil out of the way (2 Cor 3:15).

 

 

Indeed.  Unfortunately most won't even discuss the subject because they feel it is blasphemy.  I want to see them saved and have found it a very hard witness.  Like my friend and his wife I still pray for them and have hope.  It's all the Holy Spirit using us when we lead another to Christ of course.  The time isn't right I guess.

 

What makes me feel twice as bad is I led this best friend away from a witness when God had touched his heart one Spring Break.  I wasn't saved and we'd went to Padre Island about 19 years old.  We'd been many times before and this one time it was just us and we were out to party.  On the beach a Christian Group had made a huge breathetaking sand sculpture of the crucifixion.  They witnessed to my friend and he was moved and wanted to go with the Christians to dinner that night instead of a club.  They called and I said- C'mon man!  We're here to go chase women, get messed up and party, it's Spring Break!

 

Anyway my friend didn't go and it weighs heavy on my heart now.  I ask God to forgive me for such a blunder out of my youthful ignorance.  Now I am against a wall because he's converted to Judaism because his wife wouldn't marry him unless he did.

 

I still trust God there will be a solution eventually.  Would love to see he and his wife saved.

[OldSchool2]

...  I ask God to forgive me for such a blunder out of my youthful ignorance.  Now I am against a wall because he's converted to Judaism because his wife wouldn't marry him unless he did.

I still trust God there will be a solution eventually.  Would love to see he and his wife saved.

 

 

Paul must have felt the same guilt after not only persecuting Christ's church, but for being a passive participant in the stoning of the very first Christian martyr, Stephen. But in end, it's not he who wills or he who runs, but God who shows mercy (Romans 9:16) when He chooses to.

 

We each have are veils at one time, or another.

[angels4u]

 

 

I know Jews are only trying to protect their religious heritage ...

 

But Jesus IS their religious heritage; the challenge is getting that veil out of the way (2 Cor 3:15).

 

 

Indeed.  Unfortunately most won't even discuss the subject because they feel it is blasphemy.  I want to see them saved and have found it a very hard witness.  Like my friend and his wife I still pray for them and have hope.  It's all the Holy Spirit using us when we lead another to Christ of course.  The time isn't right I guess.

 

What makes me feel twice as bad is I led this best friend away from a witness when God had touched his heart one Spring Break.  I wasn't saved and we'd went to Padre Island about 19 years old.  We'd been many times before and this one time it was just us and we were out to party.  On the beach a Christian Group had made a huge breathetaking sand sculpture of the crucifixion.  They witnessed to my friend and he was moved and wanted to go with the Christians to dinner that night instead of a club.  They called and I said- C'mon man!  We're here to go chase women, get messed up and party, it's Spring Break!

 

Anyway my friend didn't go and it weighs heavy on my heart now.  I ask God to forgive me for such a blunder out of my youthful ignorance.  Now I am against a wall because he's converted to Judaism because his wife wouldn't marry him unless he did.

 

I still trust God there will be a solution eventually.  Would love to see he and his wife saved.

 

We all did wrong  things when we were young and nobody can know the things of God unless a person is born again,God will hear and answer your prayers for your best friend,do you still hear from him now and then? Maybe you can try to get in contact with him and share with him the big things God did and is doing in your life?

[silviawang]

the Jewish people has some special feeling about the Shanghainese, some senior Jewish people even speak Shanghai native language better than me,as a Shanghainese,if i preach the gospel in Israel，will they kick me out?

[OldSchool2]

the Jewish people has some special feeling about the Shanghainese, some senior Jewish people even speak Shanghai native language better than me,as a Shanghainese ...

 

In the 1930s, many German Jews escaped Nazism by traveling thru the Orient.

[silviawang]

 

the Jewish people has some special feeling about the Shanghainese, some senior Jewish people even speak Shanghai native language better than me,as a Shanghainese ...

 

In the 1930s, many German Jews escaped Nazism by traveling thru the Orient.

 

see the video,the gentleman in the video was 92 years old,from 18-28,he lived in shanghai

and this was his revisit to shanghai,to visit the house he lived in 

it is said that at least twenty thousand jewish people lived in shanghai at that time

 

 

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Edited December 2, 2013 by OneLight

[Qnts2]

It's unfortunate that many Jews really hate Christians.  I've experienced it first hand myself.  My best friend since 7th grade married a Jewish woman and he'd even converted.  Her family was very orthadox and we drove past a Jews for Jesus billboard and she got very irate saying "Do you see that!  Spreading lies!"  I tried to explain how Jesus was the messiah and she said "But he's not!"  Then my friend told us to drop it and we did- but the tension from her was there.

 

Anyway.  She wouldn't let him be my friend anymore because I was a Christian.  Still hurts me to this day.

 

I know Jews are only trying to protect their religious heritage.  If they only knew how much real Christians love them and are on their side.

 

Jews do not hate Christians. They don't even really hate Christians.

 

From a non-believing Jewish perspective, a Gentile who is a Christian or becomes a Christian is not an issue at all. However, if a Jewish person becomes a Christian, since people who used the name of Christ have persecuted and killed Jews, a Jewish person who becomes a Christian is viewed as a traitor, and also someone who is now worshipping a foreign God.

 

From a non-believing Jewish perspective, a Jew who believes in Jesus, and shares the gospel, is trying to convince other Jews to worship a foreign God. Since the penalty of spreading belief in a foreign God in the Mosaic law, is the most severe, that activity in Judaism is seen as stealing a soul. Any religion which seeks to 'proselytize' Jewish people and convince them to believe in a foreign god, is in the same category.

 

So, Jewish people do not hate Gentiles who are Christians. Jewish people are angry at Jews who believe in Jesus and missionaries who work to tell Jewish people about Jesus. Of course, this is understandable. Those who do not believe in Jesus, whether Jewish or Gentile, tend to be angered by people who share the gospel. That is in scripture.