1975

Doctoral finished, Messianic Judaism: A Biblical Apologetic with a View to Liturgical Reform

1975

Periodical article (missiology) published, Reaching Jews through Messianic Synagogues

May 19, 1975 was a very hot day on Miami Beach. The Holy Spirit was speaking to me (Acts 8:29) that hot day! Just as He was telling Philip the mevaser to speak to the Ethiopian Eunuch, so He was telling this “Philip” to go evangelize a man nine feet out in the Atlantic Ocean, an Orthodox Jewish bather named Art Raymond who was standing in the Miami Beach water up to his neck. I’m talking about New York City WEVD Radio personality Art Raymond who died many years later in Boynton Beach, where the Lord checked me into the Wishing Well motel with 23 cents in my pocket. So I witnessed to Art in Miami Beach. And a week later I was in his 1975 black Cadillac surveying a vast unreached Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish virgin field in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Then later that same day in 1975, out at Laguardia Airport, getting ready to fly back to Miami Beach, a messianic Jewish leader named Richard Briefstein was weeping and describing to me a prophetic dream, a prophetic vision, where in the dream he saw these Orthodox Jewish people burning in the EISH OLAM (“eternal fire” Jude verse 7) with no fire truck around, with whole Yiddish-speaking Jewish shtetl neighborhoods burning in Brooklyn and no fire truck responding, no believer caring, even though these are the Moshiach's own unsaved relatives perishing in the flames of hell’s eternal holocaust. Now nearly 50 years later what Richard Briefstein was urgently begging from me as he told me his dream is finally ready because in Miami on Yom Kippur Monday, September 25, 2023, the Hasidic Yiddish Bible was archived and licensed by YouVersion App (1/2 billion app installs worldwide. O if you would only catch the vision I was given in May of 1975 in New York City when I was 32 years old. O if you would only RUN like a prayer warrior to your prayer closet and pray because I want to assure you that Richard Briefstein’s vision was from the Holy Spirit in May, 1975, and “though the vision delay, wait for it, for it will certainly come and will not delay.“ (Habakkuk 2:3)