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42 THE SIGNS OF THE END

Responsibility of Gentile Believers
(Romans 15)

It would seem also that the Gentile believers in Christ have
the same kind of responsibility to the Israeli Church today as
they did in the first century. One could well imagine that, if he
were to show up now, the Apostle Paul would argue for the
Gentile Christians to support in practical ways the Jewish
Christians in Israel. He might even endeavor to raise an offering
for the saints in Jerusalem just as he did in the first century.

KING OF KINGS BIBLE COLLEGE

One of the interviews we were able to obtain w as with Ilan
Zamir, the president of the King of Kings Bible College, which
has small campuses in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. He is an Israeli
who came to the Lord and received his education in Bible schools
in Canada. His institution is training the leaders of the Messianic
congregations to teach and minister to the people there.

The Messianic Congregations

As we explained above, there are many congregations in
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Tiberias, the main Jewish cities in
Israel. For the most part, they are relatively small, consisting of
a few dozens to a few hundred people.

President Zamir informed us that they were having to
develop a presentation of the Gospel that is unique to Israel.
They have tried utilizing literature produced for Jewish people
in the Dispersion, and have discovered it just doesn't work and
is not appealing to the Israelis. Thus, they are finding that other
ways of presenting Christ to the Israelis are more successful, and
they are pioneering this effort.

4,000-t- Jewish Believers in Israel - Many Sabras

According to our interviewee, there are some 4,000 Jewish
believers in Christ in Israel at this time. Not only that, but he
said a majority of them are Sabras, or native Israelis. Out of
some four — five million Jews in Israel, this may not sound like