05-24-2008, 04:00 AM
Posted on Mar 14, 2007 | by Erin Roach
BEER SHEVA, Israel (BP)--The arrest of a Messianic Jewish evangelist in Israel reflects the strife that often confronts Messianic Jews despite Israel’s guarantees of religious liberty and without any repercussion from law enforcement officials, the leader of a Messianic congregation told Baptist Press.
Messianic evangelist Eddie Beckford was arrested outside his business, the Chess and Bible Shop in Arad, after a mob of ultra-Orthodox Haradim Jews surrounded his van in the parking lot and beat him Feb. 25.
“In general over the years here in the south in the Negev, in Arad and in Beer Sheva, there has been some form of harassment or persecution,” Howard Bass, leader of the Nahalat Yeshua congregation in Beer Sheva, said.
Why are they so afraid of us that they have to act like the Nazis? Messianic Jews have a right to believe in Yeshua and spred the good news of the Jewish Messiah in the US, Israel or any other free democracy around the world.
I pray for the peace of Israel every day and that includes Jews fighting other Jews. Don't we have enough hatred in the world already?
Shalom!!
BEER SHEVA, Israel (BP)--The arrest of a Messianic Jewish evangelist in Israel reflects the strife that often confronts Messianic Jews despite Israel’s guarantees of religious liberty and without any repercussion from law enforcement officials, the leader of a Messianic congregation told Baptist Press.
Messianic evangelist Eddie Beckford was arrested outside his business, the Chess and Bible Shop in Arad, after a mob of ultra-Orthodox Haradim Jews surrounded his van in the parking lot and beat him Feb. 25.
“In general over the years here in the south in the Negev, in Arad and in Beer Sheva, there has been some form of harassment or persecution,” Howard Bass, leader of the Nahalat Yeshua congregation in Beer Sheva, said.
Why are they so afraid of us that they have to act like the Nazis? Messianic Jews have a right to believe in Yeshua and spred the good news of the Jewish Messiah in the US, Israel or any other free democracy around the world.
I pray for the peace of Israel every day and that includes Jews fighting other Jews. Don't we have enough hatred in the world already?
Shalom!!