SHOCKER! Why Jews for Jesus REALLY Closed Their Missionary Café — Rabbi Singer Exposes It

So, we're back where we all started. Right there is the Jews for Jesus cafe basa. Right here in the heart of Nakot. Thousands of Jews live here just in this neighborhood in the center of town. That way, maybe 15 minutes is the Western Wall. that way. Maybe one minute is a shook makuda. Jews for Jesus opens their cafe there and they were open on Shabbat which caused they triggered massive protests here on the Sabbath. It was the tone of the protest, the content of protest was horrible. I wish it did not happen. A strange thing happened this past week. Jews for Jesus turned around and declared that they're now closing the Bima Cafe which they had opened with the intent of converting Jews to Christianity on the Sabbath. its leadership here in Israel, the head of Jews for Jesus internationally, the head of Jews for Jesus here in Israel, all of them talked about the pain and anguish and deliberations that they went through in order to come to the conclusion that they should not have the cafe open on the Sabbath day. They talked about how the cafe brought about conflict and it wasn't a part of their program and it wasn't a part of what they were trying to accomplish and it was all that bad spirit that was spread that they decided to we should really close the cafe on the Sabbath and there were massive demonstrations here and that's not what they were wanted to accomplish after all the basic cafe really was always to convert Jews to Christianity. That would never be their words. That's what their intent is, to have Jews baptized. And in the church, Jews for Jesus, after all, is a Baptist mission to the Jewish people. And the fellow who runs the cafe on behalf of Jews for Jesus. Y Ben David is an ordained minister. So they lined up all their reasons why they're no longer open on the Sabbath day. There's something very striking about all the reasons we were provided. Not one of them had anything to do with the God of Israel. And that's what's most striking. What's most odd is they present themselves as Jewish, Messianic Jewish believers in the Bible. In fact, they call themselves believers almost with a capital B, as though they alone are unique believers. Yet not one reason they expressed for why that cafe in the future is going to be closed on Shabbat is because of the God of Israel. None of them said because they scoured the Hebrew scriptures. They looked the Torah and they examined Exodus chapter 20 and lo and behold there it was. Keep the Sabbath holy. Don't do any work on the Sabbath day. None of them, the head of Jews for Jesus here in Jerusalem, the head of the whole state of Israel, that of internationally, none of them said. I was exploring Exodus chapter 31. And I realized that the God of Israel does not want you to engage in any kind of labor on the Sabbath day. Mind you, it's very clear in the Hebrew Bible that cooking on the Sabbath Sabbath and that's a cafe of cooking on the Sabbath day is explicitly forbidden in the Torah expressly. You don't need rabbis. See, these missionary groups typically do not keep any biblical Judaism. The only thing they keep is rabbitic Judaism. It's very strange. I'm not going to go into it now, but they'll light Kaneka candles, which is a rabbitic commandment, but they don't care about spiritual commandments like keeping the Sabbath. They're just like the Baptists. They're just like the Catholics. They just don't keep ritual commandments. They're no different than anyone else. Although they work hard to convey that, it comes out in their actions. None of them said, you know, it says in Exodus 35, you you should keep the Shabbat. None of them said in Deuteronomy it says you should keep the Shabas holy in the ten commandments. None of them thought and recollected that you know the book of Nehemiah say for Nehemiah these are holy books written where I'm standing these sacred works Ezra Nehemia they were written right here these prophets walk down these streets. The book of Nhema ends with his castigation of Jewish people who engage in buying and selling on the Sabbath day food no less right here in Jerusalem. Please look it up for yourself. None of them mention that. Not one of them in explaining why they changed their policy and Mima now is closed and it is closed. This past Sabbath was closed. None of them appealed to the Hebrew Bible to the God of Israel. Not one. The reason for it is transparent. They're not Jewish. No, they're Jewish genetically. They have Jewish relatives, but none of them are practicing the faith of Israel. All of them have converted to the Christian religion. And they want you to do the same. The point, the Messianic movement, despite its claims, is not a Jewish movement. It's a fundamentalist Christian evangelical Protestant movement. Although they won't tell you that just like when Messic Cafe opened up, there were no signs anywhere this is Jews for Jesus or has anything to do with Jews for Jesus. Although we've come to know that that was the reason why the cafe was opened in the first place. >> Years we've been praying that more Israelis would ask about their Messiah Yeshua. We just never imagined that God would use our opponents to reach them. Now, we recently opened Cafebisima, a ministry coffee shop in the heart of Jerusalem, a city where we faced opposition for sharing the gospel for many years. And almost immediately, ultraorththodox extremists began protesting in large numbers because we opened our ministry center on Shabbat. Although these protests which were violent verbally, emotionally, and sometimes physically was something that was horrible, sometimes horrible things changed things in that now everybody knows that's a Jewish to Jesus place. And in fact, there are many Israelis who would never know that place was run by missionaries that wanted to convert Jews if this whole thing did not occur. I hope you recognize the magnitude of that. There was there's like a sports team who really opposed what some most curium would never engage in these kinds of um protests but there was a few that did. It was very ugly and there were like a sports scene that wanted to give them free advertising and sponsor them. But when they discovered it was run by missionaries that want to convert the Jews to Christianity, they dropped them. A lot of people who were demonstrating in support of the cafe when they discovered it was run by missionaries they dropped out. So in an odd way this whole spectacle saved us because now people understand the missionaries are now in our midst. This also lays bare. It makes it transparent to everyone. This place was a missionary place that presented itself as a cafe. And then when they decided to close it on Shabbat, it had nothing to do with Judaism, the Jews, the Bible, scripture, the God of Israel. Nothing. Nothing to do with Torah. So all the claims of the Messianic women, they're just a a Jewish movement and they're just following Judaism. But biblical Judaism, all this is biblical Judaism. Not engaging in cooking, lighting a fire on the Sabbath. That's in the Bible. You don't need a rabbi for that. Not to engage in commerce on the Sabbath day. That is explicitly in Tanakh. Explicitly. Why didn't they care? They don't care because they they're all apostates. They all converted to Christianity even when they had an easy shot. I mean, this was like a nobrainer. Just say that they looked at the Bible and discovered something in scripture that makes their practices forbidden. And as Jews, they could have said as Messianic Jews, we we don't want to violate scripture. They could have done that. They couldn't bring themselves to do it. Why? Because it violated their iteration of Christianity. How sad. But that's what they wanted and that's what they wanted you to do. That's why I'm doing this. Why? I want you to know about the God of Israel. And I want you to know that the Messianic movement is Christian. It's not Jewish at all. If you're a Christian watching this, very specifically, if you are a Jew in the church and you identify as a Messianic Jew, I just want to talk to you for a moment. I want to ask you the question. What does that tell you about the movement that you're involved in? Why did these leaders not claim that they're cha changing their policy because of the God of Israel? The reason is because these missionaries are thoroughly Christian. Jews for Jesus was founded by a a Baptist minister named Martin Rosen. Mo Rosen converted to Christianity in 1953, became an ordained Baptist minister in I think 1957, joined the American Board of Missions to the Jews, a the largest Christian mission to the Jewish people in the United States, and then opened up Jews for Jesus, I think in 19 it was 1973, to convert Jews to Christianity in San Francisco on Hate Street. That's where you'd expect it to happen right there. I ask you this question. You should be pressing your leadership. Why isn't the God of Israel guiding their decisions at Jews for Jesus, the most well-known missionary organization in the world? Consider that please. Another point I'd like to raise. When Basima Cafe opened up, how did they get a license to conduct business here in Jerusalem? Now, the following is something I just don't know the answer to. I do know that any business opening here in Jerusalem has to have a license to conduct business from the municipality. And you have to identify why you're opening this business. Now, I'm not going to pretend to know how detailed you have to be in what is your business about. I don't know the answer to that question. It seems reasonable that if you're opening a business anywhere in Israel and applying for a business license that you would have to disclose what precisely are you doing? Why why do you have a business here? What is what's the purpose of it? We now know the leaders of Jews for Jesus what we all know and that is that they were here to convert Jews to Christianity or in their words bring Jewish people to know about Jesus the Jewish Messiah. Maybe it's fine. I I I mean that sincerely. I just don't know. Did they disclose that the central purpose of this cafe is um religious in nature? Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe it does matter. There's another point that I think is more serious as far as the municipality goes in the laws here in the state of Israel. So, as it turns out, there are laws, not many, but there are laws here in the state of Israel that govern missionary activity in this country. It's not what you think it is. that missionary activity in Israel is not forbidden. However, there are two major caveats of that. Two laws that you ought to consider. Number one, in this country, it is against the law to evangelize to missionize minors, someone below the age of 18 years old. I believe that 30% of the citizens of the state of Israel are under the age of 18. I think that's an accurate number. I may be wrong, but it's somewhere it's very significant. does having a a cafe open here in Jerusalem for the express purpose of converting Jews to Christianity and the Supreme Court has decided that becoming a messianic Jew means you're becoming a Christian in for example the Berserford case. So there's no distinction here in the state of Israel. There's no as far difference between coming a messianic Jew or becoming a Roman Catholic in the brother Daniel's case in 1960s. Now the question then becomes if the core mandate of BMPa cafe is to baptize Jews and convert them to Christianity, get them to believe in Jesus and anyone is welcome to their cafe. Is this a problem? Is this incompatible with the laws here in the state of Israel regarding minors? I'm only asking the question. I genuinely don't know the answer to that question, but it's a reasonable question that should be raised. There's another law here in the state of Israel with regards to missionaries and that is missionaries are not allowed to provide renumeration or to convert Jews to Christianity. It's against the law. Why is not gerine but it is very much against law. You can't pay someone to get baptized. You can't provide financial benefits for those in order to get people to convert to Christianity, become Messianic, all that stuff. Those two are firm laws here in the state of Israel. I don't know the answer to that question. The question is, does Mima Cafe run against those laws? Is inconsistent with those laws? If that cafe is here in order to get Jews to believe in Jesus as its leaders, as its founders expressly admit now, and anyone is free to come to that cafe regardless of age, is that compatible with the laws here in Israel? And again, I don't know the answer to that question, but others do. When Basima Cafe opened and got their license, what exactly did they disclose? Did they disclose this Jews for Jesus? Or did they somehow not disclose and hide that fact from the seller and from the state? I don't know the answer. Perhaps they didn't. Perhaps they were completely transparent or perhaps it doesn't matter. I really don't know the answer to that question. But these are, I believe, and I think you'll agree, reasonable questions that should be answered now that all is transparent. Now we know everything. I did not want those demonstration. I thought they were horrible. I would have liked for Jewish people here in Jerusalem to explain to folks going into the cafe, this is why Shabas is holy. This is why it's something that you should consider keeping. This is why believing the God of Israel is better than the bad idea of Jews converting to Christianity. It just use sober explanations for why people should behave that way. It didn't go down that way. That's unfortunate other explained. But now that it's out there, I think other questions should be asked. The one question that we have an answer to is that Jews for Jesus is not Jewish. is a fundamentalist Christian Protestant movement that aggressively seeks to convert Jewish people to Christianity. Jews is a very bad idea spiritually. Let's replace it with good ideas as we approach Russia sha the new year shava. If you enjoyed this program, please like and subscribe. [singing] I share my love. [music] >> [singing]