This is one of the most profound modern-day testimonies of a Jewish man's encounter with Jesus the Messiah — not just intellectually, but spiritually, emotionally, and through Scripture. The story unfolds like a real-life Acts 9 — where Saul becomes Paul — filled with confusion, resistance, revelation, and ultimately surrender.
Let’s walk through key layers of this testimony and why it resonates so deeply:
🔍 1. A Father's Crisis of Identity Stan’s daughter comes to faith in Jesus. His immediate reaction isn’t intellectual curiosity — it’s emotional devastation. Why?
Because for many Jewish people, believing in Jesus is not just a change of faith, it's a betrayal of family, history, and identity. Judaism and Jesus have been painted as mutually exclusive, largely because of painful history — from Crusades to pogroms to Holocaust trauma, often done "in Christ's name."
So when Stan says, "You can’t be Jewish and believe in Jesus," he's expressing what many in the Jewish community have internalized: that Jesus is “the God of the Gentiles”, not “ours.”
But his daughter speaks truth gently:
“That’s not true. There have always been Jewish believers in Jesus.”
This is historically accurate — Jesus was Jewish. All His apostles were Jewish. The first tens of thousands of believers were Jewish (Acts 2–5). But that truth had been buried under centuries of division.
📖 2. The Power of Reading the Bible for Yourself Stan accepts the challenge: “Read it for yourself.” And what happens?
He expects hatred in the New Testament… and finds love.
He expects Gentile exclusivity… and finds Jewish fulfillment.
He sees Jesus as the Messiah written all over the Hebrew Scriptures.
This is where the story turns. What no debate could do, the Scriptures did — because the Word of God is alive and active (Hebrews 4:12).
He read Psalm 22 and saw the crucified Messiah. He read Isaiah 53 and wept — realizing the Suffering Servant was for him. He read Daniel 9 and saw that the Messiah had to come before the Temple's destruction in 70 AD.
That’s the tipping point. If Daniel was right — then Jesus must be Him.
🔥 3. The Revelation of Acts 10 His eyes open wider in Acts 10: When the Holy Spirit falls on Gentiles — he realizes that Jesus is not just for the Jews but also not only for the Gentiles.
Peter, a Jew, struggled with this too.
“How can the Spirit fall on them?”
But the Spirit did fall. And Stan, like Peter, now had to rewire his entire framework:
“God is not a respecter of persons.” “Jesus is for everyone — Jew and Gentile.”
🧠 4. Counting the Cost Stan doesn’t convert on the spot.
He struggles.
He recalls anti-Semitism done in Jesus’ name.
He wrestles with fear of rejection by his community.
He’s a leader in Jewish organizations — this will cost him dearly.
But truth is stronger than fear.
“I had already believed for weeks. But I didn’t want to admit it.”
And then came the moment:
He prays in Jesus’ name. The volcano erupts. The chains fall off. He becomes what he thought was impossible — a Jewish follower of the Jewish Messiah.
✨ 5. A Testament to the Power of the Living Word What we witness here is a modern miracle:
Not emotionalism.
Not manipulation.
Not coercion.
This was a man who set out to disprove Jesus as Messiah… ...and found out He is the only possible one.
Because of Scripture.
Because of prophecy.
Because of the Spirit.
📌 Final Reflection: Why It Matters This story shows us three unshakable truths:
Jesus is Jewish — and the Gospel is for the Jew first, then the Gentile (Romans 1:16).
Prophecy cannot lie — the timeline, the suffering servant, the Messiah cut off before 70 AD — all of it points to Yeshua.
No one is beyond the reach of God — not the hardest heart, not the proudest intellect.
And most of all:
You can be Jewish and believe in Jesus.
Not only can you — it’s the most Jewish thing in the world to do.
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I absolutely love this!, Jesus can soften even the hardest heart! If only they would be curious and seek the Truth.
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This is one of the most profound modern-day testimonies of a Jewish man's encounter with Jesus the Messiah — not just intellectually, but spiritually, emotionally, and through Scripture. The story unfolds like a real-life Acts 9 — where Saul becomes Paul — filled with confusion, resistance, revelation, and ultimately surrender.
Let’s walk through key layers of this testimony and why it resonates so deeply:
🔍 1. A Father's Crisis of Identity
Stan’s daughter comes to faith in Jesus. His immediate reaction isn’t intellectual curiosity — it’s emotional devastation. Why?
Because for many Jewish people, believing in Jesus is not just a change of faith, it's a betrayal of family, history, and identity. Judaism and Jesus have been painted as mutually exclusive, largely because of painful history — from Crusades to pogroms to Holocaust trauma, often done "in Christ's name."
So when Stan says, "You can’t be Jewish and believe in Jesus," he's expressing what many in the Jewish community have internalized: that Jesus is “the God of the Gentiles”, not “ours.”
But his daughter speaks truth gently:
“That’s not true. There have always been Jewish believers in Jesus.”
This is historically accurate — Jesus was Jewish. All His apostles were Jewish. The first tens of thousands of believers were Jewish (Acts 2–5). But that truth had been buried under centuries of division.
📖 2. The Power of Reading the Bible for Yourself
Stan accepts the challenge: “Read it for yourself.”
And what happens?
He expects hatred in the New Testament… and finds love.
He expects Gentile exclusivity… and finds Jewish fulfillment.
He sees Jesus as the Messiah written all over the Hebrew Scriptures.
This is where the story turns. What no debate could do, the Scriptures did — because the Word of God is alive and active (Hebrews 4:12).
He read Psalm 22 and saw the crucified Messiah.
He read Isaiah 53 and wept — realizing the Suffering Servant was for him.
He read Daniel 9 and saw that the Messiah had to come before the Temple's destruction in 70 AD.
That’s the tipping point. If Daniel was right — then Jesus must be Him.
🔥 3. The Revelation of Acts 10
His eyes open wider in Acts 10:
When the Holy Spirit falls on Gentiles — he realizes that Jesus is not just for the Jews but also not only for the Gentiles.
Peter, a Jew, struggled with this too.
“How can the Spirit fall on them?”
But the Spirit did fall. And Stan, like Peter, now had to rewire his entire framework:
“God is not a respecter of persons.”
“Jesus is for everyone — Jew and Gentile.”
🧠 4. Counting the Cost
Stan doesn’t convert on the spot.
He struggles.
He recalls anti-Semitism done in Jesus’ name.
He wrestles with fear of rejection by his community.
He’s a leader in Jewish organizations — this will cost him dearly.
But truth is stronger than fear.
“I had already believed for weeks. But I didn’t want to admit it.”
And then came the moment:
He prays in Jesus’ name.
The volcano erupts.
The chains fall off.
He becomes what he thought was impossible — a Jewish follower of the Jewish Messiah.
✨ 5. A Testament to the Power of the Living Word
What we witness here is a modern miracle:
Not emotionalism.
Not manipulation.
Not coercion.
This was a man who set out to disprove Jesus as Messiah…
...and found out He is the only possible one.
Because of Scripture.
Because of prophecy.
Because of the Spirit.
📌 Final Reflection: Why It Matters
This story shows us three unshakable truths:
Jesus is Jewish — and the Gospel is for the Jew first, then the Gentile (Romans 1:16).
Prophecy cannot lie — the timeline, the suffering servant, the Messiah cut off before 70 AD — all of it points to Yeshua.
No one is beyond the reach of God — not the hardest heart, not the proudest intellect.
And most of all:
You can be Jewish and believe in Jesus.
Not only can you — it’s the most Jewish thing in the world to do.
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