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by Bruce R. Debaun (Author)
For Such a Time as This is perhaps the most comprehensive and persuasive outreach to the Jewish people of our time as it illustrates and verifies the identity of the Mashiach in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures.
The book was written not only to educate the inquirer but moreover to gift to a Jewish person or family who has not yet accepted their Messiah. It may be a person that GOD has laid upon your heart to lead back to the "old paths" and forward to the Cross. It is also, by extension, an outreach to people of all professing faiths who practice a religion without relationship. Their belief is mental acceptance without internalizing that their sins made it necessary for Immanuel to leave His throne, put on flesh, and sacrifice Himself on a cross. Redemption, we know, is only appropriated when one fully grasps His infinite love for them; a love that compelled Him to forfeit His own life for theirs so that they could escape the death and eternal punishment that the law otherwise demands.
As Jews, we are passionate about our ethnicity and beliefs. We are guarded, and rightfully so, about Gentiles suggesting that we have overlooked or avoided evidence in our Scriptures. Coupled with this is the fear of being drawn into a heretical belief system, shunned by the Jewish community, or losing our identity as Jews. Believing that by becoming a Hebrew Christian we somehow abrogate our Judaism rather than fulfil it has caused many to dismiss evidence and promises. To this end, we embrace tradition, cling to the law, and justify our opinions with natural wisdom. However, because saving faith begins with the intellectual conviction (proof) that the one the Gentiles call Jesus is GOD, it can afterward turn into a decision to surrender to Him as Lord. By faith, the mind trusts, the heart responds, and the will submits. As faith comes by hearing (or reading), it initiates the sequence. Consequently, key to changing the Jewish mind is to provide scriptural evidence and prophetic fulfillment while explaining and expressing the love of GOD.
The book begins with thought-provoking questions, pauses at prophetic expectations, and dissects the Hebraic. It confronts the fundamental beliefs that divide Judaism and Christianity, such as the "echad" (composite) oneness of GOD in trinity and GOD (Immanuel) becoming flesh. It addresses the cause (sin) and its consequence that has kept the Jewish people from recognizing and appropriating the second, "new" and "greater covenant" promised in Jeremiah 31:31.
Using references from Hebrew Scriptures that harmonize with their fulfilment in the New Testament, this 600-page opus with 54 chapters, 2300 references and citations, and 65 images and timelines, affirms the identity of the GOD (Yah) whose very name (Yahusha) declares He Saves. Four appendices support the narrative for those who wish to go deeper and "doresh" the scriptures.
Pivotal to why many Jewish people still recoil at the suggestion that the one the Gentiles call Jesus is the Jewish Messiah is as startling as it is obvious. Satan has engineered a counterfeit Christianity which isn't Christianity at all! In fierce and unapologetic fashion, Bruce exposes a religio-political empire which, for seventeen centuries has been the master of deception, introduced spurious doctrine, and directly and indirectly sponsored torture and genocide. Because of its record of malice and relentless persecution (crusades, inquisitions, pogroms, and holocaust) at the hands of, or excused by the papists, it is altogether understandable why the Jewish people reject any suggestion that the one they claim to be the Christian Savior could possibly be the Jewish Messiah. The ruse has gone on for seventeen hundred years and will continue until the "time of the end." Once this deception becomes apparent a major barrier is breached, and Son light begins to dispel darkness.
