It's Supernatural

Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah her name Sharon Allen. She’s one of the 10 Jewish people that I put in my book that God directed me to write. It’s called “They Thought for Themselves.” We found out all this week Sharon who was raised in an observant Jewish home went to the West Coast, she married a man that wasn’t Jewish, but they were members of a very religious Jewish synagogue. Her husband participated; it was time now for him to convert to Judaism, and everything was going fine, but because this was an Orthodox group of Jews he had to renounce Jesus. He said “I’m not willing to do it” and Sharon was shocked. She knew he came from a Christian background, but he never went to church, he never read the Bible, his god was money he was in Real Estate business. So to prove that he was, as she put it “mashugah,” that’s a Hebrew word for “crazy.” She started reading the scriptures, and reading, the more she read the more convinced she was that Jesus was in fact the Messiah. Then she said “I’ll know what I’ll do I’ll read all the Jewish commentaries. So she got quite a library; she read all the Jewish commentaries she could get her hands on. Then she started reading what are called anti-missionary books. These are books written by rabbis, or Jewish people that want to prove Jesus is not the Messiah. She got into quite an exchange with a man that wrote one of the more famous anti-missionary books his name is Gerald Sigal. On yesterday’s broadcast you said that you would argue with him because now you had read the scriptures for yourself, and he would make statements that were untrue. You wouldn’t leave it alone, for instance, he said “Jesus could not be the Messiah because there’s no women in Jewish genealogies, and what did you say?

Sharon: Well in 1st Chronicles, in the Hebrew scriptures in the book of Chronicles, 1st Chronicles, there are most definitely are women in that Jewish genealogy. There were things like that that kept occurring.

Sid: But Sharon, I mean it’s overwhelming, everything you’re doing is pointing to as you call Him, “That Man,” Yeshua, Hebrew for Jesus. Why didn’t you just believe in Him, what’s stopping you?

Sharon: To me it was the most important decision that anyone could ever make, and because of my background I was so concerned about making a mistake that there was just no way I was going to believe in something that I felt was “goyisha.” So I just could not understand, you know, how this confusion could even happen because if Jesus is for the Jewish people why wouldn’t the rabbis have understood that? Of course, I was always raised to respect my rabbis, to believe what my rabbis would say, and this is the most important decision in anyone’s life is God, making a choice for God. So it was just so difficult for me, but it’s true. Everywhere I looked, everywhere I turned, everything I heard, everything read, everything I saw kept pointing me into the direction that what they say about Yeshua is true.

Sid: Now, your daughter of course, as you explained earlier this week, is going to what you would expect the Hebrew academy, a nice Jewish school. You find out they’re having a meeting at this school with a very famous rabbi. Tell me what was this meeting?

Sharon: Well my rabbi, Rabbi Mendel Duchman, had called me and he had said “You know at Alisa’s school there’s going to be this very famous deprogrammer. He is actually an internationally known deprogrammer by the name of Rabbi Immanuel Schochet.  He’s going to be speaking at Hebrew Academy, and maybe you can go and maybe at some point you can ask him to help you.” So Ron and I, and Alisa decided we would go. We were very excited about going, we were comfortable about going because this is my daughters school we know everyone there. Before we went we had devised a plan, and this was the plan we would go we would sit very quietly in the audience, we wouldn’t say a word. Then after the meeting was over, and only after everyone was leaving then I would quietly go up to the rabbi and ask him if he would please help me. So we went, we went that evening; we sat up front because this was Alisa’s school we were very comfortable there, and Alisa was on one side of me, and Ron was on the other, and we sat there. We listened to the rabbi, the rabbi spoke about Israel, a little bit about the Jewish people, and traditions. This was really being used as an outreach to the Jewish community so that those that were not sending their children may decide “Yes” they would like to send their children to a Hebrew day school like Hebrew Academy. When the rabbi was finished speaking he opened it up to the audience. The first person raises their hand and says “I have a question. You know I don’t know what we’re going to do about the missionaries who are in the area.” The rabbi said “You don’t have to worry about the missionaries in the area you just have a Jewish home and you don’t have to worry.” He said “Does anyone else have any questions?” The second person raises their hand, says “Rabbi you don’t understand these missionaries are having meetings with our children in the area, and we don’t know what to say to them.” The rabbi said “Look if you send your children to a Jewish day school like Hebrew Academy you don’t have to worry.” Now the third person raises their hand and says “Rabbi you don’t understand the situation there are missionaries that are having Bible studies with our children, and our children are bringing home scriptures that we don’t understand.” Well at that point the rabbi became quite animated he was standing on a platform, and he had a podium in front of him. He grabbed the sides of the podium, and he sort of brought his body up over the podium and loomed out into the audience, and he shouted “Never ever under any circumstance does any knowledgeable Jew who has a Jewish home who understands Yiddish kite, who knows their Judaism ever turns to ‘That Man!’” I was in shock because I thought he’s talking to me, and so I grabbed Alisa’s hand and I said “Do you think I should say something?”  Alisa said “Yes mommy” and I grabbed Ron’s hand, and I said “Do you think I should say something?” Ron said “Yes.” So I said to the rabbi “What do you say to somebody like me I have a Jewish home, I know Yiddish kite, I am a Jewish woman who understands Judaism, but when I read my Bible,” and I had brought my Hebrew Bible with me and I was holding it in my hand. Then I said “But when I read my Hebrew Bible I see ‘That Man.’” Well from that moment until the end of the evening, which was about 12 midnight…

Sid: Now you’re pretty bold Sharon. I mean up until this point… now you’re publicly saying something.

Sharon: I couldn’t help myself. After the third person asks the same question and the rabbi was so emphatic with his answer. My daughter said “Yes,” and my husband said “Yes” I felt I had to say something. When I said that from that moment on the rabbi and I were in direct dialog the rest of the evening, until about 12 midnight. During the course, during the course of the discussion between he and I, both my husband and I would say “Maybe we should let someone else talk.” The audience themselves would say “No we’re interested in what you’re saying, and what you’re talking about.” Because the rabbi and I were talking about scripture, we were talking about Jewish history, we were talking about Yiddish kite, we were talking about traditions that the Orthodox Jewish people keep, which seems to point to the idea that we do need to sacrifice even if we don’t have the temple any longer. Because the Orthodox Jews we still have certain traditions that we do. Such as on Yom Kippur before Yom Kippur the Orthodox Jewish people, for the man they take a rooster and 3 times they turned the rooster over their head, they swirl the rooster over the head say “May this rooster, may my sins be put onto this rooster.” If it’s a woman…

Sid: Well you know Sharon my father was raised in Poland his father, my grandfather, used to do the same thing because you see the Talmud says “You can’t even have Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, without the shedding of blood.” Let’s pick up here on tomorrow’s broadcast.