I’m on my way back to America. I’m sitting in a pretty
disgusting place on the ground floor of the Jerusalem Central Bus station. My
plane is at 430 a.m. and I want to leave here at Midnight. It is 3 p.m. now. I
have eight hours.
Been a semi fun day.
I walked from the Metropole Hotel, which I noticed had Christian symbols on the
door – and a verse of scripture from Song of Solomon: The winter is over and
passed and gone…”
I went to the Jewish part on Jaffa Street. I read the
portion of scripture where Jesus said: “Go the lost sheep of the house of
Israel. “
I sat and had coffee
at a place owned by a Turkish Jewish guy. I asked him: What do you think of
Messiah? He didn’t know what that was: I said the Hebrew “Maschiech” and he
said he is not religious and doesn’t know about that.
I told him I believe Jesus is the Messiah. He didn’t put up
much of a fight but he said he understood Turkish so I said, “Sharku Soylamek
Istiyarum.” He smiled. I also told him how I was Muslim and Jesus came to me
and changed my life.
There was another guy I asked if he spoke English. He said a
little. I asked him What he thought of Messiah. He said “He is come soon.”
I asked “Who is he or what do you know about Him.”
Then I asked if it might be Jesus. He said No because Jesus
turned against Judaism and he started telling me about the vanity of Jewish
women shaving their heads and wearing wigs.
I tried to tell him about prophecies in Isaiah and Jeremiah.
He didn’t understand but he did understand when I said: “He was wounded for our
transgressions and punished for our sins.” He said, “I don’t believe that. I
said “It’s in your nevim (prophets).” I said Isaiah and Jeremiah and Micah but
he didn’t understand.
Then I walked across the street to the Torch Bookshop which
it turns out is an Assembly of God bookshop. I talked with the worker there,
David for a while. As I talked to him a guy named Bryan came in who knew me
from Shevit Achim. We talked a while. He remembered Philip Burg and mentioned
Jonathan Miles who I’ve been thinking of recently.
Then I walked over to the Bible Society and met two
Messianic believers: Eliazer and I can’t remember the second. We talked a while
about Paul’s idea to send the Hebrew Arabic Bibles to the Saudi princes. He
said it was a good idea because many converts want to know the original
language that Jesus spoke. They said they could not mail the Bibles to Saudi
from Israel but that they might be able to from America.
Then they gave me a book called “Rami and Ami” which are
about two martyrs for Christ. One killed by Muslims and one injured in a
bombing by Jews.
I just read a portion of the one about Ami. It mentions
David Ortiz who I remember from Isa Bajalia days.
