Young Jewish girl told Christianity is a ‘cult’

By Jeremiah Love –

When Ellie was a young Jewish girl growing up in New York she saw and asked her dad about the Jews for Jesus office.

“That’s just a cult,” he said.

Years later in college, she wanted to get to know the God of her Jewishness. She was involved in Hillel on campus and felt connected with other Jews but yearned to know the Lord of the Jews.

A friend of hers told her about Jesus, but she rejected it out of hand. “This is not for me,” she told him. “This is separate from my people. This is good for you.

But it seems the Holy Spirit began working in her life. She started experiencing “supernatural encounters in Jesus,” she said. On summer vacation, she started seeing crosses “everywhere.” 

“There was a moment where I was at like a vinyl record store at the beach and every

vinyl that I opened said Messiah. I tried to write it off as just a coincidence but it just felt like something out there was trying to call to me.”

A few months later in Brooklyn she was listening to music and NOT thinking about faith when all of a sudden strange words popped into her brain: Jesus is King.

“I look up and see graffiti and said ‘Jesus is King’ right in front of me,” she said. “That’s not a coincidence that these things keep happening to me.”

Still, she was held back by the stigma in her mind of leaving her Jewishness to join a “cult.”

“What will my family think?” she pondered.

It took six months for her to wrestle through that question. When she finally ventured into the new Jews for Jesus office in New York, she worried that she might be joining a cult.

But the girls there invited to tea and talked warmly and answered questions and searched scriptures. One of them invited her to a shabbat service at her, which she accepted.

“I got to a point where the evidence was so clear. When I read the Tanakh, I was just shocked by how much it seemed to be calling out Yeshua so clearly,” she said. “When you read the New Testament after reading Tanakh, everything just fits together.

“I kind of just got to a place where couldn’t really deny this for the sake of other people,” she added. “If he’s real and he’s showing that he’s real, I have no choice but to want to follow him.”

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