Life from the dead!

Joseph Steinberg  |  Features  |  a Jewish Christian perspective
Date posted:  1 Feb 2024
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Life from the dead!

A Jewish believer in Jesus | photo: Bob Mendelsohn

Twenty years ago I faced a personal catastrophic event. My 65-year-old Jewish mother suddenly died from a massive heart attack. She was not a believer in Jesus. The shock of the news choked me because I had no assurance of my mother’s salvation.

A powerful feeling of fear and anxiety overcame me as I imagined my mother lost in the loneliness of outer darkness, separated from God. Those thoughts haunted me for the weeks and months that followed.

I had prayed daily to God for nearly 25 years, pleading that he would show my mother the same truth he had shown me about Jesus as the promised Messiah. I had held onto so many Bible verses, believing that God would save my mother – but when the day of her passing came – I was left in agony without a sure and certain hope for her.

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