6 Jan. 2008

Dear Avram, shalom,

Just a few lines to thank you for your website and articles. It is a blessing and a real pleasure to read them! Praise Yahweh for having directed me here...

We both share the same views. With so many doctrines and denominations around, it is a real pleasure to find a brother with a sound doctrine and teachings that are biblical. It is not something that common to find in these last days!

I am still a baby in Messiah as I have only been saved 2 years and a month ago. I thank and praise Yahweh everyday for having saved my life. He blessed me by putting me in a situation where I could spend a lot of my time with Him and by putting on my path a brother who made a disciple out of me.

I'm in love with the Instructions Abba wrote on my heart the day He blew His Holy Breath on me. I have been keeping Shabbat, kosher (according to the Bible, not to the Jewish traditions!) and celebrating the Feasts since more than a year. Last year, I had the opportunity to celebrate some of them in the Land.

May Yahweh bless you and your loved ones. May His face shine upon you and His shalom be with you.

A bientôt!

18 Jan 2008

Sir:

How thankful to my Lord for confirming to me by your article that I had heard His voice.  Two years ago I threw away or destroyed all objects with the Star of David.  It was heart wrenching.  Had I heard correctly?  Slowly, I learned about it's occult properties, from theosophy, freemasonry, Kabbalah, and witchcraft in general.  But still I questioned sometimes, but yet I knew, but yet I was standing alone.  And only this week I inquired of a great minister of God (now deceased) of his surviving ministry, one who had loved the Jewish people and Israel greatly, about the star.  Sadly, this week, I received an article he wrote in 1975 in New Wine magazine, calling it "an emblem that beautifully depicts this blending of God and man in Jesus as in the 6 pointed Star of David."  I admired this man's teaching greatly and it is truly foundational except for this.

He was Derek Prince.  But he still was human and he always expressed if he was wrong, then he stood to be corrected.  This is one of the very few times he has been wrong.

But how wonderful also to read  about crosses, fish, Easter and Christmas and about the path becoming narrower and narrower, for I too threw out the crosses, fish and I no longer celebrate Christmas or Easter.  It is in my heart that our Lord was crucified on Wednesday and rose Saturday at the end of the Sabbath for He said as with Jonah, 3 days and 3 nights......

I am truly thankful to have found your article! I stand alone in my surroundings on these issues with my family and what friends I have left. It is hard to find a church that does not have these symbols within their structures,  so I  am isolated somewhat....(I worship our Lord on the seventh day by myself).

Thank you, Sir, for I truly am grateful!

Praise God the Father of our Lord Yeshua!

Denise

Alabama, USA

23 Jan 2008

Dear Avram,

I am an American Judeo-Christian believer who have been a Christian all my life (primarily evangelical), but have been connecting with the Jewish origin of Christianity for the past few years.  I'm no Biblical/Torah scholar; nevertheless I have the Holy Spirit of God who dwells within me and has given me the ability to discern within reason.

I just wanted to share this tidbit with you.  I have been innocently wearing both a Cross and Star of David together as a necklace.  However, over the past few months, I have become strangely hesitant to wear my beloved necklace.  Recently, for whatever reason, I have become increasingly curious about the "origin" of the "Star of David"; also about why Jewish people are offended by the symbol of a cross.

Well, today during my personal study time, that strong curiosity concerning the Star of David occurred again.  This time I began searching the Bible and then the web for an unbiased explanation about the symbol's origin.  Like you, I couldn't find any Biblical description about the symbolic Star.  As I searched on-line, obviously I was drawn to your article and read it in its entirety.  The information you shared is compelling.  Now I am unsure if I should wear either the cross or star.   For me, when I wear the cross it (personally) symbolizes that Christ gave His life for me... and that my sins are forgiven.  (I don't believe in wearing the crucifix because I believe the entire Biblical account about Jesus.  The account does not end with him still hanging on the cross).  Interestingly though...when I look at the Star of David it always reminds me of a symbol of witchcraft.  I never understood why until I read your article today.  Wow, what a revelation.

I felt the outcry of your heart as I read your article because I, too, desire to follow and live in a manner that is pleasing to our Creator.  Thanks for sharing your insight and convictions.

Sincerely,

Sandra

5 Feb 2008

Shalom Avram, who are you?  this is Jerusalem again and i have just sat and read your article on Torah, Messianic Judaism, Christianity, etc.…, and your words, no mans land…I felt the quiet, gentle presence of Yhvh  hovering over me.

i felt your word to be the truth and i felt at one with where your heart is at. i love torah since i was a child. i cried when i read it in a tiny bible and felt god’s spirit of holiness.  will you teach me what god has taught you of his word thats pure and 100% the holy book?

you have my e mail.  here’s my postal address…if you can send me anything in the post? i want to teach my children the torah the entire holy word of yhvh. we believe in yeshua, we are alone with no other jews to fellowship with. many are turning pagan to please the church.

please pray for me? i wanted to cry when i pondered on your article. i feel the holy spirit  wants me to know the truth.

from jerusalem c.

new zealand

1 March 2008

Brother Avram,

Praise Yahveh for your website "The Seed of Abraham".  I just found it Monday.  I was born a Gentile and "raised" in an Institutional Protest Church.  I first came to Christ in the spring of 1974 but drifted away by my 21st birthday in 1979.  For the next 25 years my life was a blur from the drugs and alcohol, which almost took my life.  Things began to change, 4 years ago today, but I stumbled hard numerous times over the next 6 months.  Again the alcohol and drugs almost did me in. 

On that last drunk I heard God speaking to me and that's when I knew I was on the wide path and decided to return seeking the narrow path.  I came to the "Messianic" thing from a person I was visiting in a prison.  She spoke of her grandmother and mother being Messianic, Jews who believed in Jesus.  I laughed and said that was silly but I still had to check it out.  Wow, I had really found a way to the narrow path. 

Of all the study sites I have been to, yours is by far the best and most straight forward.  I want to take up your ordination process.  Please pray for me for that. 

Your brother in Yeshua,

Lee  

(a l'il Caleb)

Virginia, USA

27 March 2008

Dear Avram, Shalom!

It is probably an impossible feat, trying to explain the value of having come across your website! I am a gentile believer in Yeshua, and a babe in faith. I have changed churches 3 times (a lot of members got tired of having discourses with me concerning the Scriptures). I live in Germany and though we have lots of churches in my vicinity, the Torah is not upheld that strongly: which was always a concern of mine and issue for the members, much of who I hold very dearly in my heart to this day.

In my third year of being in the faith, I finally wondered if I was perhaps the one stretching issues. No matter how sound in doctrine a denomination seemed to be, a bit was always missing: holiness but disregarding the dietary law; keep all laws but maintain an anti-Semitic attitude, etc etc. I won’t go into the details of the frustration this has caused in my search. Finally, 6 weeks ago probably, it struck me for the first time to search out a Jew who believed in Yeshua and still kept Torah, believing his Hebrew roots would convey the Message more clearly.

Dearest Avram: you stated in an article (I think I’ve read fairly almost everything on your site, by the way) that it was ‘important’ but not ‘essential’ to learn Hebrew for a better understanding of the Scriptures.

Dear Avram: I believe strongly it is absolutely compulsory! Many things I’ve read out of Scriptures have taken on new meanings since I’ve started searching from a Hebrew perspective.

Please, I’ve ordered books, dictionary and software so I can start learning Hebrew. Ruti and you, could you please pray and intercede in prayer for me, that Yeshua haMashiach will sustain and help me carry through the learning, as I’m alone with my views of Scripture on the Torah out here, and that Yeshua will grant me the grace of understanding. I need your prayers urgently. Thank you so much for the articles. I can’t explain the gratitude to Yeshua having showed me your wonderful site. If further correspondence is possible, I will be more than grateful.

In Messiah’s Name,

Steve

Germany