How To Preach Jesus To Jєωs
You have to know who you’re dealing with.
I’m talking about 2,000 years of Jєωιѕн unbelief.
I’ve often wondered if Jєωs have coded into their DNA a hardened spirit against the Gospel.
Worse, when you’re dealing with bad attitudes, you’re at a frightful disadvantage.
[Clip: “Everybody blames the Jєωs for killing Christ. And then the Jєωs try to pass it up to the Romans. I am one of the few people that believe it was the blacks. I don’t care, good, I hope the Jєωs did kill Christ. I’d do it again. I’d f-ing do it again in a second.”]
Not only bad attitudes but crass mockery.
[Clip: (Larry David peeing on portrait of Jesus Christ)]
Here’s the real issue.
[Clip: “What’s that?” “This?” “Yeah.” “This is a nail. I bought this on the Internet, it’s from the Passion of the Christ.” “What, are you kidding?” “No. Kind of interesting.” “Got one of those Christ nails from the movie?” “Mmm hmm, yeh, have you seen it?” “I didn’t see it.” “You’re nuts about this Jesus guy, huh?” “Yeah, well I have a personal relationship with Christ.” “Really?” “Yeah.” “See I could see worshipping Jesus if you were a girl, like if God had a daughter, Jane. I’ll worship a Jane. But, you know, to worship a guy like a little kinda, it’s a little gαy, isn’t it? “He’s the Son of God, what’s the matter with you?”]
Larry David, like most Jєωs, can’t bring himself to worship a ‘mere man,’ which is Judaism’s view of Jesus.
But like most Jєωs, he’s ignorant of the divine ‘man-figure’ in the Old Testament.
These are called “Theophanies.”
God appeared as this ‘man-figure’ to Abraham who served Him a meal and worshiped Him.
God also appeared as “Captain Of The Lord’s Army” to Joshua who removed his shoes, bowed down, and worshiped.
These were Pre-Incarnate appearances of the Eternal Son of God, who—as predicted by Moses and the Prophets—would come as a man to bear our sins and conquer death by His Cross and Resurrection.
Perhaps this is too much theology for Jєωs. Jєωιѕн unbelief is pretty straightforward.
“The rabbis don’t believe in Jesus,” we were told as kids, “end of story.”
[Clip: “Why do we believe that Moses led the Jєωs through the Red Sea but we don’t believe that Jesus walked on water?” “The answer is very very simple, because, and it’s very important to know, the big difference between the Jєωιѕн tradition and the non, Christian, or any other religious tradition is, that at the time that God gave the Torah to Mount Sinai there were millions of people that witnessed it. They saw God coming down with the lightening and the thunder speaking to Moshe Rabbeinu and all the action that happened at that time and that God spoke to them, they heard sp-, His sp-, the voice speaking to them was witnessed by millions of people. By any other religion, first the — Yoshke, I won’t say his name, Yoshke that we’re talking about, he was not witnessed by anybody, maybe one or two, he had five disciples, and they decided that he is God’s son.”]
Pathetic. And historically mindless.
First of all, there is NO “Moshe Rebbeinu” in the Old Testament.
Moses is cited as a priest and prophet, NOT a rabbi.
You see, the rabbis of the тαℓмυd gave Moses this title about 200 AD to make him a rabbi like themselves, since ‘rabbis’ ‘don’t appear anywhere in Scripture.
This way, they palm themselves off as peers of the holy Moses.
And, it was only Moses—none else—who recorded his eye-witness encounter with God on Mount Sinai. ‘Millions’ did NOT see God.
These ‘millions’ only saw a dark cloud descend on Sinai—NOT God Himself’—and heard ‘thunder’ that filled them with terror and told Moses to deal with God far away from them.
With Jesus, thousands experienced His sojourn on earth,
 not ‘one or two’—four eyewitnesses recording it in writing, and with many preaching His Resurrection, which they saw—the account even docuмented by the Jєωιѕн historian, Josephus.
Scholarship is not the rabbi’s field.
So…how do we preach Jesus to Jєωs?
It’s risky business. Good luck.
You can bang your head against a wall and get much better results.