Author Archives: hagefen

70 Years of Comfort

Dachau Concentration Camp

By: David Zadok Presented in October 2018 in Holland.   © David Zadok In 1933 the Germans began building concentration camps in Germany to solidify their regime. In that year the Dachau concentration camp was opened near Munich in the state of Bavaria. About five years later on the night of 9-10 of November 1938, […]

How do the Israelis consider the message of Jesus Today?

By: David Zadok Presented in Hong Kong, December 2018.   © David Zadok     God is doing something unique and amazing in Israel. However, to understand its greatness we need to look back briefly to the development of the history of Mission to Israel.   A Challenging Beginning For almost 17 centuries Jewish evangelism […]

Messianic Judaism and Christian Confessionalism – Schism or Unity Through Diversity

By: David Zadok Presented on LCJE, Europe, Berlin, 2017.   © David Zadok   Introduction Confessions and creeds are not only biblical but also Jewish. While we may think that Confessionalism is a Christian “invention” and especially that they sprouted like mushrooms during and after the Reformation, I believe that the facts argue otherwise. All […]

Luther and the Jews: The Impact of Luther on Theology and Society

By: David Zadok Presented on LCJE – Europe, Berlin, 2017.   © David Zadok   Introduction This year the world, and certainly Germany, is celebrating the 500th year of the nailing of the Martin Luther’s 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Apparently, he wrote them between April and October of […]

The Cleansing of Israel

Ezekiel 36:22-32 “The Cleansing of Israel” by: David Zadok Netherlands, October 2017   Introduction Book of Ezekiel is probably one of the more difficult books to study and understand in the Old Testament. It is the more challenging also in light of the visions and oracles. Most of us are familiar with the vision of […]

Jonathan Edwards on Revival

By: Prof. Willem van Vlastuin, Lecture was given by W. van Vlastuin at the pastors-meeting of Grace and Truth, 15 September 2017 in Tel Aviv. Willem van Vlastuin is Professor of Theology and Spirituality of Reformed Protestantism at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Rector of the Restored Reformed Seminary there.   Imagine. It’s 1734 and we are […]

Scottish Minister Robert M’Cheyne is Presented to the Hebrew Reader for the First Time

Most of you are familiar with the name Robert Murray M’Cheyne, the famous Scottish minister. M’Cheyne had a special love for the Jewish people and a deep desire to see them come to a saving knowledge of their Messiah. Although he only lived for 29 years, he left the universal church with a great legacy. […]