BRUNSWICK, GA - A Messianic evangelist believes revival is breaking out among Jewish communities in the US.

Sid Roth, founder of Georgia-based Messianic Vision and host of the It's Supernatural television broadcast, said he has seen dozens of Jewish Americans profess faith in Christ in recent months during evangelistic events in New York and California.

Last summer in Brighton Beach, New York, nearly 400 Russian Jews reportedly attended an evangelistic meeting billed as a lecture on the paranormal. People were healed, Roth said, including a wheelchair-bound woman who had not been able to walk for five years.

"There was just a move of God's Spirit, and almost the entire group stood up to make public professions of Messiah," Roth told Charisma.

Later, at a similar meeting in California, roughly 30 Jews professed faith in Christ. "In my opinion this is unprecedented in America," said Roth, who has ministered among Jewish communities in the Soviet Union for more than 15 years. "I've been in Jewish ministry over 35 years, and I've never heard of anything like this before."

During a trip to Israel last year, he said roughly 50 elderly Holocaust survivors professed faith in Christ during two meetings he led there. "Again, by Israeli standards, this is an unprecedented thing," Roth said.

He believes the meetings mark a "change in the atmosphere" of Jewish evangelism. "I took those two meetings as signs that blindness was coming off the eyes of the Jewish people," he said.

More …

Source:  CharismaMag.com

© 2010 Strang Communications