By Ismael Diaz —
Jew Julius Talberg’s searching culminated when he was watching “The Chosen.” “I can see a lightbulb click over my head,” he recalls. “Jesus is the Messiah. Jesus came from the Jewish people.
“He came for the Jewish people first. That was his purpose,” Julius says. “Right when I said that something lift out of me, like a burden left me. I felt like my heart was open like it melted Julius said, I felt like I had a different lens, like my eyes changed.”
Born in Romania, raised in Israel, now living in Indiana, Julius Talberg took two decades to find Jesus. He’s been in law enforcement.
Being Jewish, his parents moved to Israel when he was six. Thrown into school without knowing a lick of Hebrew was tough, but he adapted. After his (compulsory) military service, he wanted to visit America. He fell in love with America on his cross-country trip and returned, eventually, falling in love and marry Jess.
He was working at a kiosk in a mall when a lady gave him a cassette tape with the testimony of Lon Solomon, who was a prominent early convert from Judaism to Christianity. “We listened to this cassette tape hundreds of times,” he remembers.
He accompanied his wife to church too but still did not convert.
As soon as he became a U.S. citizen, Julius got into law enforcement. Starting as a sheriff’s deputy, he’s been a police officer for years.
It was the series about Jesus and his disciples, “The Chosen,” that made it all come together for Julius – specifically, season 2 episode 4 in which the man is healed at the pool of Bethesda.
“From that moment, everything was clear,” he says.
Years later, he got in contact with the lady who gave him the cassette of Lon Solomon’s testimony. Sandy had moved to Atlanta.
It turns out that Julius wound up in the same church where Sandy attended. “You can’t make this up,” Julius says.
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