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THEY FOUND SHALOM… AND YOU CAN TOO
It helps to know that there are other Jewish people who believe that Yeshua is the
fulfillment of Isaiah 53. We can be strengthened and filled with greater courage
when we know we are not alone. The following are stories of Jewish people
who have found the prophecy of Isaiah to be true—and fulfilled in Yeshua!
Debra Goldstone
Born into an occasionally observant Jewish home, Debra was raised to believe
that the stories in the Hebrew Scriptures were more or less fairy tales. An
unhappy, tension-filled family life left her angry and rebellious in her college
years. Although somehow anchored in a belief in God through a child’s prayer
her mother had taught her, Debra became involved in the hippie culture as she
restlessly searched for life’s meaning. A growing friendship with a Jewish man,
Michael, took an unexpected turn when he announced to her he had become a
believer in Yeshua (Jesus). Cautiously open, Debra found great power in Jesus’
words as Michael read the New Testament to her. After much struggle and soulsearching,
she became a believer. After they married, Debra and Michael were
able to form the loving family life she had missed out on as a child.
Diane Cohen
Growing up Jewish in a family in Columbus, Ohio, where everyone seemed to
be talking at once, it was no surprise when Diane became an attorney and an
active leader in the synagogue. Although warned by her old-world grandmother
to be careful about Christian antisemitism, Diane was drawn to a book entitled,
Rabbi Jesus. Reading it on an airplane, she struck up a conversation with a
Christian woman, herself an author. Diane then entered a difficult time, when
her marriage of 28 years dissolved. Some time later, she received a package
in the mail from the woman she had met on the plane which contained one
of her books and a card with the scripture, “He will delight in you with song”
(Zephaniah 3:17)—the verse of scripture Diane had in her mind when she awoke
that very day. Deeply moved, Diane attended a service with her believing sister,
received prayer and became a believer in Yeshua!