Keeping Our Jewishness After We Meet Christ

Keeping Our Jewishness After We Meet Christ

September 23, 2025

Host: Dr. Jamie Mitchell

Guest: Tim Sigler

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/23/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

Disclaimer: While reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate transcription, the following is a representation of a mechanical transcription and as such, may not be a word for word transcript. Please listen to the audio version for any questions concerning the following dialogue.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, welcome again to another Stand in the Gap today. I am your host, Jamie Mitchell. I grew up on Long Island, New York, just outside of New York City. Most of my friends growing up were Jewish. A matter of fact, I complained to my dad once about why I didn’t get to have a Bar Mitzvah. Trust me, it was a teachable moment in my life, so I was very familiar with the many differences in regards to my faith as a born again Christian and the faith of my Jewish friends. However, not until high school did I actually watch someone of the House of Israel come to faith in Christ and come to accept that Jesus was the Messiah, Lou and Sylvia Frank. They were in their fifties. It was a miraculous work of God. They trusted in Christ and began coming to our church. My parents took such a real interest in them and began walking with them spiritually.

They had so many questions. They grappled with what it meant to be born again and still be Jewish. I remember them sharing many times how confusing it was for them and how difficult it was to explain to their Jewish family and friends what had happened to them. As I look back some 50 years later to that experience, I realized that Lou and Sylvia, after coming to Christ, sacrificed much of their traditions, ethnic distinctiveness, and many of the practices they had enjoyed for decades. I have to be honest, some of the things that my parents and other well-intentioned Christians told the Franks to do and not to do were probably unnecessary and did not fall in conflict with their newfound faith. Fortunately, Lou and Sylvia walked with Christ until they entered into heaven and stood face to face with Yeshua the Messiah. Yet the reality is that many Jews who find Christ get turned off or pushed away by the unintentional mistakes while attempting to disciple them. Today on Stand of the Gap, I want to sensitize our hearts and minds to those from the House of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who discover Christ and yet still want to keep their Jewishness and to help us. Dr. Tim Sigler, who is the CEO of Ariel Ministries and he’s the president of Ariel College of the Bible and Messianic Jewish Studies. Tim, welcome to Stand in the Gap Today.

Tim Sigler:

Hey, thank you so much. It’s a pleasure to be with you,

Jamie Mitchell:

Tim. I’ve been looking so forward to having you on and entering into this very important conversation. Pure research tells us there are 6 million Jews living in America, so we have a huge mission field. Plus it’s my feeling that with the rise of antisemitism in our nation, if believers in Christ show the love and the support for our Jewish friends and fellow citizens, it’s going to open up opportunities to reach them with the good news of Jesus, the Messiah. And so we may see many Jews, Lord willing, coming to Christ and we need to prepare to disciple them. Tim, can you share a little bit of your story, your background, and how Ariel Ministries attempts to impact the Jewish community?

Tim Sigler:

Well, thanks for asking. That’s exactly what we do. Ariel Ministries was founded by Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, who survived the terrible period of the Holocaust with his family and eventually immigrated to the United States. And through the faithful gospel witness of people both in Europe and then here stateside, he came to saving faith in Jesus as the Messiah. And that’s very much like the story of many other Jewish believers who were around the same time in the early seventies began facing the reality of the fact that Jesus is Jewish and that the gospels, when you read them, they look, it is a very Jewish book about Jewish subject matter written by Jewish people concerning Jewish issues. And so Ariel Ministries wants to highlight this fact of the Jewishness of Jesus and the availability of the good news of his salvation to the Jew first, as Paul said in Romans one 16 and also to all the nations.

So this is true of our founder, Dr. Fruchtenbaum, and also in my own life, sometimes I like to think in terms of the fact that most Jewish people of these millions in the US today are intermarried and come into contact with challenges to Jewish tradition and practice and are at times exposed to the good news of Jesus and his claims of being the Messiah. And thankfully, there is openness and opportunity to have these conversations with our Jewish friends. From my own family background, on my father’s side, the Sigler side comes my Jewish heritage and my mother was a believer in Jesus already when my parents were married. Thankfully, she prayed for me every day in my crib that I would come to know the Lord at an early age and grow up to serve him. So I think of the fact of inner marriage today and how through various means people are coming into contact with the gospel and you mentioned something about how people might want to keep their Jewishness in a real sense.

That part is really up to the Lord himself. He’s the one who keeps Israel. Someone has asked the question like this, is it that keeping the Torah has kept Israel known more so the Torah and its truth of God’s covenant promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that has kept the Jewish people permanently on the scene throughout human history despite years of antisemitism. And prior to that, even in the biblical record attempts, satanical inspired to wipe out the Jewish people, whether through a person like the Pharaoh of Egypt or through Herrod the Great or Haman in the book of Esther, God’s promises to Israel keeps Israel in existence today. The Jewish people are here to stay and we thank God for that and what a privilege to be able to talk about these important issues with you,

Jamie Mitchell:

Tim. The premise of this program is to sensitize people who are not Jewish to some of the struggles that those who are Jewish and come to faith. We have about a minute left. That’s a real issue that as born again Christians, we need to be sensitive to our Jewish friends.

Tim Sigler:

Well, I’m so glad you’re a model of that in your own desire to express love to the Jewish people, solidarity with the Jewish people, and also be unashamed in appreciating the messiahship of Jesus and the Jewishness of the message of salvation throughout the scriptures.

Jamie Mitchell:

And as we go through today and we discuss some of these issues today, we do have a mission field that is open to us right now in America. Tim, isn’t that the case?

Tim Sigler:

It certainly is people in our own communities, whether it’s going to be people in the workplace or in our schools or that we come across in the business world, maybe even in our own families, we’ll have opportunities to speak the truth in love and to engage on the important issues that are front and center in the pages of the New Testament.

Jamie Mitchell:

Amen. Hey, I believe my upbringing has much to do with why I love the Jewish people and I want them to come to know Jesus. Yet if we do not approach them with sensitivity and great wisdom and doors of opportunities may be closed when we come back, I want to plunge into the debate that Evangelicals have struggled with regarding Jewish evangelism and discipleship, and hopefully again, continue to sensitize us so that we can have an effective witness on those from the Jewish faith. Don’t go anywhere. Stay with us here at Stand of the Gap today. Well thank you for staying with us today as we look at an important topic, keeping our Jewishness after we meet Christ to help us. Dr. Tim Sigler from Ariel Ministries. Okay, Tim, let’s deal with it. Right out of the shoot among genuine, well-educated evangelicals, there has been a difference of opinion regarding whether or not Jews who come to faith in Christ need to be fully assimilated into the church, or is there a place for what has been known as Messianic congregations where they can join with fellow Jewish believers and worship and teach Jesus a savior, but keep many of their Jewish traditions?

Can you help our listeners today understand the history behind this controversy and really what makes it controversial on both sides of the argument?

Tim Sigler:

Yes. Well, I’d love to turn to scripture as a starting point for any of these issues, and I think of passages like Romans 14 where already prior to the establishment of Gentile majority church fellowships or what we see by way of modern practice and liturgy and celebrations that you would find in a messianic Jewish congregation, you found the early believers being addressed in a key cultural center, the capital of the Roman Empire in Paul’s epistle to the Romans chapter 14, and Paul begins to face the fact that many people aren’t going to come to the same conclusions about certain things that are more important to them compared to how these things are viewed by others. And when it’s a matter of culture or preference, for instance, things that we eat or days that we celebrate, some Romans 14 verse five tells us one man regards one day above another regards everyday alike.

And then he says this revolutionary thing that is very unlike what we might be tempted to say either as pastors, theologians or rabbis we’re often and well feeling the compulsion to tell people, I figure this out and you’ve got to do it this way or that way. Paul gives a freedom here and says in Romans 14 verse five, let each man be fully convinced in his own mind. He goes on to say that he who observes the day observes it for the Lord and he who eats does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God and he who gives thanks to God, he who eats, he does so for the Lord and he gives thanks to God. So the most important thing we have to keep in mind is while there is great debate about should we worship like this with certain traditions that are more Jewish or should we celebrate and meet on a day and sing certain songs that are less Jewish?

I mean that’s in many ways where the debate between Messianic Jewish congregations really comes down. It’s a matter of culture and preference, and whenever we have issues of culture and preference, we have to distinguish between what is our preference and then what is the teaching of scripture At Arial Ministries, we have many people who are going to feel very much at home fellowshipping in a messianic Jewish context where perhaps the majority of people around them and where they’re bringing up their children to know the history and background of our Jewish people, the holidays that are acknowledged, they’re going to feel comfortable culturally in a Jewish context, whereas others, Hey, if we’re living in North America and we have Thanksgiving and we celebrate it as a religious holiday or Christmas and Easter and so forth, and we have the liturgical year, others are going to feel more comfortable in that environment.

And I think all of these sort of cultural things fall in the category of Romans 14 verse five, where Paul says, let each man be fully convinced in his own mind. And I know people have really strong conversations and opinions about these things, and yet for each of us, we need to humble ourselves and recognize that the real authority is scriptural authority and not our own cultural authorities. And I think this is a growing discipleship opportunity for both Jews and Gentiles. Might I also add that it’s so important wherever you are to acknowledge that for your fellowship and growth and discipleship, you need to be in a place where the scriptures are taught faithfully. We love to emphasize verse by verse teaching of the word of God, expository preaching and wherever you are, it’s going to be most important that you expose yourself to the truth of scripture.

This is how believers grow. The cultural aspects are also important, and we do want to acknowledge the Jewishness of the Bible, the Jewishness of Jesus, and the fact that when Jewish people come to saving faith in Jesus as the Messiah, it’s not a call to abandon Jewish heritage or Jewish identity. It’s an opportunity to inform all that we know about our culture with the truth of scripture. And so we go back to the scriptures. I’m so grateful that my wife and I have the privilege of raising our three kids for the better part of 20 years in a messianic Jewish congregation. But so often we also, because the Messianic congregation met on a Saturday morning, I was also called to preach and teach and share in other fellowships and other local congregations and that our kids felt comfortable growing up in that context, sort of a foot on both sides of the fence, if you will.

And then having moved to Israel and having our kids learn Hebrew and being exposed to the culture in a very in-depth way, it’s just been so valuable to maintain these biblical holidays and to read the New Testament in light of the fact that so often as Jesus was teaching and we have it recorded in the gospels, he would go up to Jerusalem for a certain feast of the Jews. It just helps our Bible knowledge to understand this cultural background, to realize what was being said by our Messiah at what holiday and to have this frame of reference of the Jewish calendar that God gave in scripture because all of those things were part of how he was pointing people to the message of his son.

Jamie Mitchell:

Amen. Tim, I love that phrase, Gentile majority congregations. I’ve been struggling with a term to try to help identify maybe some of the differences, but Tim, historically within evangelical Christianity, if you can just give me some insights. I’m hoping that you’ll have an understanding. There has been within the evangelical community a very strong opinion that if people who are Jewish comes to faith in Christ, they need to assimilate into, as you would call a gentile majority church or into the church. There shouldn’t be a separate congregations. Where does that come from? What’s the thinking behind that?

Tim Sigler:

Well, sadly, I think this comes from a long history of Christian antisemitism, and I don’t put those two words next to each other lightly Christian antisemitism, but as we would look throughout church history at some very well-known comments from Christian theologians, from Christian pastors, from those who were making statements or participating in the creation of various creeds and doctrinal statements, there really was some documented exclusion of the Jewish people, a form of a replacement theology that infected the church early on with a desire to read the Bible as if God is finished with the Jewish people. There is no concept of a person coming to faith in Jesus and still being Jewish and appreciating anything about their Jewish heritage. So whether it’s the early statements by people as early as Justin Martyr or Chrysostom or Chris Osti or later people like Augustine or much later Martin Luther, there are statements throughout church history and in each period of church history that seemed to relegate Jewish people in a way that was not done to others.

I often like to suggest that when Italians come to faith in Jesus, it’s not like they have to stop enjoying pasta and sauce, but for Jewish people it’s as if the message is you have to stop enjoying Passover or Matza ball soup or whatever your tradition might be or eating at a kosher deli or something. You need to put all of that Jewish identity away and assimilate. That’s the word you used that caught my ear assimilate. And yet I think that people would be really cued by Dr. Fr Baum’s book titled The Remnant of Israel, the History, theology and Philosophy of the Messianic Jewish Community. This little paperback is so helpful and filled with some of this important history that shows that God has always been in the business of preserving a remnant. Like he says in Romans, chapters nine through 11 of Jesus believing Jewish people who are still Jewish, you can’t take that away. That never changes. But whether their background has been in a very gentile majority type of fellowship or whether they have fellowship and worshiped the Lord in a Jewish majority context, this will differ from person to person. Yes,

Jamie Mitchell:

Hey, when we return, what aspects of Jewish heritage could be encouraged and kept and embraced and enjoyed? Don’t go anywhere. We are learning much about how to open our hearts and our minds to those in the House of Israel who come to know Jesus the Messiah. Cheer at Stand in the Gap today. Well, if you listen to Stand in the Gap on a regular basis, you know that we have a great love and appreciation for the Jewish people and especially the importance of understanding what is happening in the nation of Israel today and in the future. Today we’re talking with Tim Sigler from Ariel Ministries on how to maintain an appreciation for Jewish identity upon coming to faith in Jesus as the Messiah. Tim not being brought up Jewish, but having been around a lot of Jewish people, I know that they celebrate a lot of different holidays. We’re going to be right in the middle of Rosh Hashanah and Yo Kippur coming up, and when I was growing up in elementary school, we had those days off as holidays because of the large population of Jews within our school. I know they have these celebrations and have many other traditions. What are the things that Jewish believers really want to keep and are there any specific ones that you know that are most important to them?

Tim Sigler:

Well, I love to turn people to the Torah, to the Book of Leviticus, and specifically a passage that has often been called the Feast chapter of the Bible, Leviticus chapter 23, that outlines seven annual appointments that God made on the calendar with the nation and people of Israel. And these appointed times, as they are called these, pointed the nation toward that which God would eventually reveal with the coming of the Messiah, whether it’s the spring feasts that all point toward the Messiah’s first coming, Passover unleavened bread, the feast of first Fruits and Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks. All of these are mentioned in the New Testament and see a fulfillment in the person and work of Yeshua. Jesus the Messiah, he’s our Passover lamb. He is without leaven, without sin. He’s the first fruits of the resurrection mentioned twice in one Corinthians chapter 15, the Resurrection chapter.

And of course Acts chapter two tells us about the day of Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks and the coming of the Holy Spirit, but then also the fall festivals, the fall feasts as they’re often called, one is actually a fast. So you mentioned Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets. This ticks off what has often been called traditionally as the Jewish New Year. It’s coming right up in September and then 10 days later the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. And some days after that for seven days, Israel was commanded to dwell in booze or tabernacles and this feast of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles also was mentioned along with the others to demonstrate how God’s plan of redemption and salvation, very much like the harvest festivals that are celebrated in many culture, the in gathering of the crops in scripture, this feast speaks of the in gathering of people. In fact, people from every tribe and tga nation who would one day dwell in the suah or in God’s tabernacle. As we see in the Book of Revelation, so many Jewish people want to say, look, as I have come to appreciate Jesus as the Messiah, I actually am learning more about my own Tanach and the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, the law of Moses, and I’m seeing in these festivals just how beautiful God’s plan of redemption in the person of Jesus the Messiah really is.

Jamie Mitchell:

Tim, what’s interesting is how it is incorporated into, let’s say a Messianic congregation. You were a part of Messianic congregation. Can you help our listeners who primarily as we know is a more gentile majority listening audience? What is it like being a part of a Messianic congregation? How do they incorporate some of these feasts and celebrations into their congregational life?

Tim Sigler:

Absolutely. I’m reminded of a famous saying in the Jewish community that Jewish people are like everyone else, only more so and hopeful. We joke about this fact, but the service in a synagogue with its liturgy and music, there are going to be real similarities to things that one would see in a church context. And yet of course there’s going to be more Hebrew. There will be passages from the Psalms, there will be certain holidays that mark the calendar. These are things that one would find in a Messianic Jewish congregation, certain biblical prayers, whether it’s the reciting of the Shema, the famous passage in Deuteronomy chapter six beginning in verse four, Shema Israel, hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. We might rise and turn toward Jerusalem and recite this. We would have p songs of worship and praise that may come right out of the book of Psalms, and we may sing them in Hebrew.

And then of course, being a Messianic Jewish congregation, we are going to worship the Lord our Messiah, and we’re going to see all of scriptures pointing to him. We want to exalt his name to praise him, to recognize him for who he is. He is God in the flesh. He is our messiah and he is worthy of our worship and praise to worship anyone who isn’t God would be idolatry. And so we want to hold high, the deity of Messiah and the truth of salvation in his name. And so in a healthy messianic congregation, all of these elements of worship would be commonplace and would be enjoyed in the congregation. And we’d also see that very much like in a local church setting, not everyone who might attend is born again, not everyone has come to saving faith. And so there is an evangelistic element or a desire to make sure that we are clear about the good news message of salvation offered through our Messiah. And I think all of these elements, whether it’s praise, worship, prayer, the reading and teaching of scripture, the exalting of our Savior and Messiah, and the clear message of the good news of Messiah, these makeup important elements of worship in a messianic Jewish context.

Jamie Mitchell:

Tim, there are obviously things that Jewish believers do have to for a better term, give up as they understand Christ. What’s the most difficult do you see for them to either sacrifice or to grapple with when they do come to faith in Christ?

Tim Sigler:

Well, again, I love to be able to point people right to the text scripture and see examples of this, and we see it in Paul’s own life with his rabbinical training in his strong heritage, and yet coming to faith in Jesus was so revolutionary for this person who was a persecutor of believers and now he’s a worshiper of the Messiah. He says in Galatians chapter one verse 10, something that I think is very important for each one of us, Jew or Gentile, to recognize that there will be times when we want the praise of men. We want to be accepted by our community. We want people to like us, and yet there will be choices that we have to make where we have to determine are we going to submit ourselves to rabbinic authority or are we going to submit to biblical authority? Is it the praise of men that we most want or is it the praise of God?

And so in Galatians one 10, Paul says so clearly for am I now seeking the favor of men or of God? Am I now striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond servant of Messiah. And so very much like Jesus said to his disciples, they’re in the gospels, you might disappoint your parents. You might have to make a decision. Do you love humans more or God more? And the right choice is always please God more than pleasing men. This might be something that Jewish believers just like all other believers have to face in terms of who are we ultimately going to please?

Jamie Mitchell:

Wow, what a good insight, Tim. I’ve been tending a Bible study and we’re studying the book of Hebrews and we’re into chapter seven and they start talking about the Melek priesthood. And it was interesting knowing that I was going to have this conversation with you. Here we are a room full of a Gentile majority. There’s not a Jewish believer in our midst, and we grappled with understanding that text because we just didn’t have a Jewish background in the Jewish history to fully appreciate what the writer of Hebrews was trying to do to help the now new Hebrew Christians understand what their faith in Messiah was about. And it was really a fascinating thing in that regard. And it goes the other way as well where a Jewish believer has to grapple with that as well and becoming sensitive in both of those things are so important.

Friends, you don’t need to come from a Jewish background to struggle with the aspect of being a Christian. I remember telling a young couple with no religious background that they needed to stop living together and pursue marriage. They thought I was crazy. Yet, after time teaching God’s spirit, God began to change their heart. They embraced the word of God and even the ridicule of family and friends and all of their peers telling them how crazy it was, but they became obedient to Christ. All of us have stories and moments like that today we’re attempting to fully appreciate and understand what our Jewish friends grapple with when they come to faith in Jesus as Messiah. When we come back, we’re going to wrap this up. I want to hear from Kim about Ariel ministries and what they are doing to teach and shepherd and encourage. So take advantage of this.

Be back with us in just a moment. We’ve been talking with Tim Sigler and looking at how those in the House of Israel embrace Christ and Christianity without losing their Jewish identity. Ariel Ministries is devoted to discipling Jewish believers. Tim, I want to share as we close out today, how we can best love and disciple Jews who may come to faith, especially in the context if we don’t have a Messianic congregation for them to be a part, but they may be in our church, and I believe that we’re going to see many Jews come to Christ in the coming days. Can you share with our audience some initial steps that we all should know how to best shepherd and encourage Jews who come to Christ?

Tim Sigler:

Well, you addressed this question of how we can best love and disciple. And let me start with the love, and especially in the context of so much hatred against the Jewish community and against Jewish people. You can find it not only spewing on social media and on the internet, but you see real terrible episodes of hateful antisemitism, whether it’s synagogues being spray painted with swastikas or worse actions perpetrating violence against Jewish people. Each one of these, and including terrible events like October 7th, 2023 with a Hamas terror group attacking Jewish civilians there in Israel, all of these terrible atrocities. There are opportunities to show the distinction between that hatred and the love that God has for his Jewish people and the love that true followers of Jesus the Messiah should have for our Jewish people. So I’d want to encourage your listeners to think about communicating just honestly their love, appreciation, affection, and solidarity with their Jewish friends, neighbors, and community members.

Perhaps if there is one of these incidents that troubles the Jewish community, I want to encourage individual believers and then on behalf of local churches and ministries, you can have your group or you can personally write a letter of support and encouragement to say, I stand with you and condemn this example of hatred against the Jewish people. This communicates that you are a lover, not a hater, that you are wanting to do that which honors your Lord and speak his message of love. Someone has asked the question, I wonder what I would’ve done if I were a born again Christian living in the time of the oligo and friends after October seven. Perhaps we could say, whatever you’re doing now is probably what you would’ve done then. If you’re doing nothing, if you’re not expressing your solidarity, if you’re not expressing your love for the Jewish people in this very scary time to be Jewish, now is the time to express that.

So with that, you also mentioned not only how we can best love but also disciple Jewish people. I think of the key epistle in the New Testament written so directly to Jewish people that it’s titled The Epistle to the Hebrews. And in Hebrews chapter 10, verses 24 and 25, the writer encourages, he says, let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own, assembling together as the habit of some, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day approaching near. And so even as we anticipate the coming of our Messiah, the return of Messiah for his bride, we want to also encourage one another to not forsake the assembling of the saints. This is basic discipleship. It’s discipleship 1 0 1, and of course it’s very important for Jewish discipleship, the fellowship with other believers assembling together for worship, having biblical community where we are studying the scriptures, we’re praying together, we’re worshiping together, and we’re sharing our faith. We are praying for others to come to know and love our Messiah. I want to encourage you that just like every believer, Jew or Gentile, all of us need community. We need the strength that comes in numbers to be encouraged in our faith. And of course, this is basic discipleship.

Jamie Mitchell:

Tim, I know Ariel Ministries have just finished up your summer teaching and training at a camp that you have upstate New York. Share just a moment about that and what ministries that you have going on at that camp and what’s unique about it, and then some of the topics that you attempt to cover with campers and how our audience can find out about that ministry.

Tim Sigler:

Well look this up. Look up Camp Shoshana in upstate New York. We have a five year curriculum that our founder, Dr. FBA has put in place. And of course, we’re going to focus on the study of the scriptures themselves. In a verse by verse fashion, we’re going to have individual weeks in which there are five hours of Bible teaching each day. These are taught by quality professors and instructors who come from around the world and who come with a messianic Jewish perspective and are ready to teach the Bible faithfully. So this past summer, we had courses, for instance on the books of Joshua and Judges, the book of Isaiah, and then additional courses that address certain topics that new Jewish believers will really need to get up to speed on, whether it’s the biblical teaching about God’s remnant of Jewish people, that you’re not alone. There have always been Jewish believers in Jesus.

The remnant of Israel is one of our topics or important issues in Jewish history, the feasts of Israel. We also had a course on the book of Proverbs, and then we had a course on personal eschatology. What happens to us? What happens to people when they die? And what do we have to look forward to going into the future? And this coming summer, we’re going to have a special guest speaker who’s written a book on Messianic Jewish discipleship that addresses your previous questions about how people can grow as disciples, as Jewish believers. So our curriculum, again, will follow courses in Bible theology, Jewish history, culture, and even how to share our faith as Jewish disciples of Jesus with our fellow Jewish people. So you can learn more about this by going to our website. The ministry, as you mentioned, is called Ariel Ministries, but this is spelled A-R-I-E-L.

And you can go to ariel.org to learn more about all of our ministries. You can learn about our history, you can find the testimony of our founder and others, and then you can also learn about these opportunities like our Summer Bible teaching center there in upstate New York Camp Shoshana. But of course, we don’t relegate these teachings only to the summer. We have online courses through Ariel College of the Bible and Messianic Jewish Studies, and your listeners can go to that website, ariel college.com, and we encourage people to be in the Word and students of the scripture. And we love to, of course, demonstrate that these scriptures are Israel scriptures and they are our scriptures today. And what a privilege to be able to study these scriptures from a messianic Jewish perspective and see that God is not finished with the Jewish people. He continues to bring Jewish people to saving faith in the Messiah and has a glorious future one day in the millennial Messianic kingdom when our Messiah Yeshua rule and reign, and we look forward to that day.

Jamie Mitchell:

Tim, what a joy to have you on Stand in the Gap. We got to have you back again because we just love talking about the Jewish people in Israel. Remember to continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, pray against this spirit of antisemitism we’re seeing in our nation and around the globe, and show love and a special measure of grace to our Jewish friends. Until tomorrow, this is Jamie Mitchell, and as I always encourage you, live and lead with courage. God bless you. Have a great rest of your day.