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Remember this guy? Remember those Pentecostals who fell into a trance? Peter's trance in Acts 10:10 (also referenced in Acts 11:5–6), and Paul's trance in Acts 22:17? I had fallen into a trance at Beth Shalom, our congregation in Brooklyn.
The Lord said to me in the trance state, "The front door!" I said to the Lord, still in the trance state, "The front door?" The Lord repeated what He said. "The front door!" I said, "What about the front door, Lord?" The Lord said, "Get up and run down there now." I got up and ran downstairs and stood looking out the window of the front door of Beth Shalom. I said, "I don't see anything, Lord." The Lord said, "Put your eyes on the rental car and don't take them off."
I did not yet know it, but this was all about a terrorist group in Israel we had already had run‑ins with — and, from a spiritual‑warfare point of view, about our ministry to Muslims. This group had already attacked Beth Shalom once before, shooting bullets into the sidewalk show window where a large‑print King James Bible was displayed open to Isaiah 53, read by passersby on Coney Island Avenue. Now, following the terrorist massacre in Hebron, they had decided to close down the Congregation Beth Shalom entirely.
Their plan was simple: follow every Beth Shalom congregant home after service, tag the car to be stolen that night. You would notice a brown van behind you on the drive home, and in the morning your car would be gone, never to be seen again. The message was clear — attend this congregation, and kiss your car goodbye. One of them came right into Beth Shalom and said, "We're going to close this place down."
By the day of the trance, shortly after the massacre in Hebron, the terrorists had already stolen my car, and all I had left was a rental, parked across the street. That was all I knew as I fell into the trance and the Lord spoke to me in the back of the building, where I could not see the rental car or anything on Coney Island Avenue.
Then, as commanded, standing by the door — still in the trance but with my eyes open — I suddenly understood what the Lord was alerting me to. The car parked behind my rental was black, its front bumper touching the rental's rear bumper. While I stood there wondering at this, a red car appeared out of nowhere and began backing up so its rear bumper would touch the rental's front bumper — pinning it in so I couldn't drive it. They had already stolen one car; now they meant to trap the other.
But they hadn't reckoned on Pentecostals who function in signs and wonders. I ran outside and shouted, "Okay, fellows, you either move both these cars, or I'm calling the police and you're both going to jail!" The Lord was terrorizing the terrorists — the same thing He did to a terrorist named Paul on the Damascus Road.
Graduated Oakland City High School and enrolled at Indiana University — the year I believe a divine clock started ticking, for me and for many Jewish people.
The Six‑Day War: Israel destroyed the Egyptian Air Force in a preemptive strike, and "Jerusalem was no longer trodden down by the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24). Donald McGavran arrives in Pasadena, California.
Began translating what became The Orthodox Jewish Bible, then sat under the revival teaching of J. Edwin Orr, which prepared me for the Jewish revival that followed.
Began open‑air preaching with Open Air Campaigners in front of the movie theatre at 961 Broxton in Westwood Village, to UCLA students.
Published Everything You Need to Grow a Messianic Synagogue, Pasadena, California — arguing for Yaakov's model of a Torah‑faithful Messianic synagogue over church‑planting on the Pauline pattern (Acts 21).
Finished doctoral work, Messianic Judaism: A Biblical Apologetic with a View to Liturgical Reform, and published the missiology article "Reaching Jews through Messianic Synagogues." On a hot day at Miami Beach, witnessed to Art Raymond, the WEVD radio personality — and that same year, at LaGuardia Airport, heard Richard Briefstein's prophetic vision of Yiddish‑speaking Brooklyn neighborhoods needing a rescue no one was sending.
On Yom Kippur, September 25 — nearly fifty years after Richard Briefstein's vision — the Hasidic Yiddish Bible was archived and licensed by the YouVersion app, reaching an audience of half a billion installs worldwide.
AFII V.P. Linda Morel Goble receives a kidney transplant on Pesach, April 12 — passed over, and raised again.
אני מאמין באל שדי האב בורא שמים וארץ ובבנו יחידו ישוע המשיח אדונינו אשר הורה מרוח הקודש נולד ממרים הבתולה נענה בימי פנטיאוס פילטוס נצלב מת ונקבר ירד לשאול ויקם ביום השלישי מעם המתים עלה השמים והנה הוא יושב לימין אל שדי האב ומשם בוא יבוא לדין החיים והמתים אני מאמין ברוח הקודש ובקהלה קדושה אחת הכוללת את כל המאמינים בהתחברות הקדושים בסליחת העוונות בתקומת המתים ובחיי עולמים אמן
EnglishI believe in El Shaddai the Father, Creator of heaven and earth, and in His only Son Yeshua the Messiah our Lord, who was conceived by the Ruach HaKodesh, born of the virgin Miriam, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to Sheol and rose again on the third day from the dead; He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of El Shaddai the Father, from whence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Ruach HaKodesh, and in one holy assembly comprising all believers, in the communion of the kadoshim, in the forgiveness of sins, in the resurrection of the dead, and in life everlasting. Amen.
