The Work Among the

Jews

Ellen G. White

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 Contents
Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Selections From The Testimonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Work Among the Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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The Work Among the Jews

“In this letter (Romans) Paul gave free expression of his burden
in behalf of the Jews. Ever since his conversion, he had longed to
help his Jewish brethren to gain a clear understanding of the gospel
message. ‘My heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is,’ he
declared, ‘that they might be saved.’
“It was no ordinary desire that the apostle felt. Constantly he was
petitioning God to work in behalf of the Israelites who had failed to
recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Messiah. ‘I say the truth
in Christ, ‘he assured the believers at Rome, ‘my conscience also
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness
and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were
accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh: who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the
glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service
of God, and the promises.
[2] “The Jews were God’s chosen people, through whom He had
purposed to bless the entire race. From among them God had raised
up many prophets. These had foretold the advent of a Redeemer
who was to be rejected and slain by those who should have been the
first to recognize Him as the Promised One.”
“Even though Israel rejected His Son, God did not reject them.
Listen to Paul as he continues the argument: ‘I say then, Hath God
cast away His people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the
seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away
His people which He foreknew. Wot ye not what the Scripture saith
of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying
Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, and digged down Thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer
of God unto him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at

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this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of

grace.’
“Israel had stumbled and fallen, but this did not make it impos-
sible for them to rise again. In answer to the question, ‘Have they [3]
stumbled that they should fall? the apostle replies: ‘God forbid: but
rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to
provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the
world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how
much more their fulness? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as
I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: if by any
means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and
might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the
reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but
life from the dead.’”
“Notwithstanding Israel’s failure as a nation, there remained
among them a goodly remnant of such as should be saved. At the
time of the Saviour’s advent there were faithful men and women who
had received with gladness the message of John the Baptist, and had
thus been led to study anew the prophecies concerning the Messiah.
When the early Christian church was founded, it was composed of
these faithful Jews who recognized Jesus of Nazareth as the one for
whose advent they had been longing. It is to this remnant that Paul [4]
refers when he writes, ‘if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.’”
“Through unbelief and the rejection of Heaven’s purpose for
her, Israel as a nation had lost her connection with God. But the
branches that had been separated from the parent stock God was
able to reunite with the true stock of Israel - the remnant who had
remained true to the God of their fathers. ‘They also,’ the apostle
declares of these broken branches, ‘if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.’ If thou,’
he writes to the Gentiles, ‘wert cut out of the olive-tree which is
wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be
grafted into their own olive-tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye
should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your
own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the
fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
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“Notwithstanding the awful doom pronounced upon the Jews

[5] as a nation at the time of their rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, there
have lived from age to age many noble, God-fearing Jewish men and
women who have suffered in silence. God has comforted their hearts
in affliction, and has beheld with pity their terrible situation. He has
heard the agonizing prayers of those who have sought Him with all
the heart for a right understanding of His word. Some have learned
to see in the lowly Nazarene whom their forefathers rejected and
crucified, the true Messiah of Israel. As their minds have grasped the
significance of the familiar prophecies so long obscured by tradition
and misinterpretation, their hearts have been filled with gratitude to
God for the unspeakable gift He bestows upon every human being
who chooses to accept Christ as a personal Saviour.”
“When this gospel shall be presented in its fulness to the Jews,
many will accept Christ as the Messiah. Among Christian ministers
there are only a few who feel called upon to labor for the Jewish
people; but to those who have been often passed by, as well as to all
others, the message of mercy and hope in Christ is to come.
[6] “In the closing proclamation of the gospel, when special work is
to be done for classes of people hitherto neglected, God expects His
messengers to take particular interest in the Jewish people whom
they find in all parts of the earth. As the Old Testament Scriptures
are blended with the New in an explanation of Jehovah’s eternal
purpose, this will be to many of the Jews as the dawn of a new
creation, the resurrection of the soul. As they see the Christ of the
gospel dispensation portrayed in the pages of the Old Testament
Scriptures, and perceive how clearly the New Testament explains
the Old, their slumbering faculties will be aroused and they will
recognize Christ as the Saviour of the world... . To them will be
fulfilled the word, ‘As many as received Him, to them gave He power
to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.’
(John 1:12)
“Among the Jews are some who, like Saul of Tarsus, are mighty
in the Scriptures, and these will proclaim with wonderful power the
immutability of the law of God. The God of Israel will bring this to
pass in our day. His arm is not shortened that it can not save. As His
[7] servants labor in faith for those who have been long neglected and
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despised, His salvation will be revealed.”—The Acts of the Apostles,

35.
“In a most remarkable manner, the Lord wrought upon the heart
of Marcus Lichtenstein, and directed the course of this young man to
Battle Creek, that he might there be brought under the influence of
the truth, and be converted;.... His education in the Jewish religion
would have qualified him to prepare publications. His knowledge of
Hebrew would have been a help to the office in the preparation of
publications through which access could be gained to a class that
otherwise could not be reached. It was no inferior gift that God gave
to the Office in Marcus.”—Testimonies for the Church 3:206.
“The time has come when the Jews are to be given light. The
Lord wants us to encourage and sustain men who shall labor in right
lines for this people; for there are to be a multitude convinced of
the truth, who will take their position for God. The time is coming
when there will be as many converted in a day as there were on the
day of Pentecost, after the disciples had received the Holy Spirit. [8]
“The Jews are to be a power to labor for the Jews; and we are to
see the salvation of God.”—From a sermon delivered at the General
Conference, at Washington, D.C., in 1905.
“There is a mighty work to be done in our world. The Lord has
declared that the Gentiles shall be gathered in, and not the Gentiles
only, but the Jews. There are among the Jews many who will be
converted, and we shall see the salvation of God going forth as a
lamp that burneth.
“There are Jews everywhere, and to them the light of present
truth is to be brought, that they may have an opportunity to accept it.
There are among the Jews many who will come to the light, and who
will proclaim the immutability of the law of God with wonderful
power. The Lord God will work. He will do wonderful things in
righteousness.
“Let not those who have not engaged in personal, evangelistic
work feel that every one should look at things as they do. Let God
work in His own way, and keep your hands off those whom He is
using in the cities.
“We must get away from our smallness and make larger plans. [9]
There must be a wider reaching forth. We must work for those who
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are near, and those who are far off.”—From a sermon given at the
General Conference, Washington, D. C., 1905.
“It has been a strange thing to me that there were so few who felt
a burden to labor for the Jewish people, who are scattered throughout
so many lands. Christ will be with you as you strive to strengthen
your perceptive faculties, that you may more clearly behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The slum-
bering faculties of the Jewish people are to be aroused. The Old
Testament Scriptures, blending with the New, will be to them as
the dawning of a new creation, or as the resurrection of the soul.
Memory will be awakened as Christ is seen portrayed in the pages
of the Old Testament. Souls will be saved from the Jewish nation, as
the doors of the New Testament are unlocked with the key of the Old
Testament. Christ will be recognized as the Saviour of the world, as
it is seen how clearly the New Testament explains the Old. To them
[10] the words will be fulfilled, ‘As many as received Him to them gave
He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on
His name.’ They will be changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. They will be partakers of
the divine nature. The image of divinity will be stamped upon their
souls. If they will continue to learn of Christ, they will attain to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
“Oh that many of the Jewish people may open the chambers of
the mind...I am so glad that you are so successful in your work. Let
us gain strength by exercising increased faith, moving onward and
upward step by step, from victory to victory.
“Be of good courage in the Lord. May He continue to bless
you, as He has blessed you in the past, is my prayer.... .—From a
Personal Testimony, March 28, 1903.
“Concerning the work in behalf of the Jewish people being done
by Brother -----, I am instructed to say, Give him all the encour-
agement that is possible. Do not bind about his work by many
forbiddings. Help him, so that through his efforts, and the efforts of
[11] his fellow-laborers, many of the seed of Israel may be grafted to the
true stock, Christ Jesus......
“To Brother ----- I would say, You must be guarded. Do not tax
your powers so severely. Hitherto the Lord has been with you, and
He will continue to bless your efforts, and will lead others to unite
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with you in your work. But you are in danger from more sources
than one. Your enemies will be incensed against you because this
truth is being carried to the Jews. My brother, the Jewish people
are not the only ones who are being helped by your work. Our own
people need the example set before them.
“I bid you be of good courage. In your labors do not wait for
some great and wonderful opening, but seize the opportunities as
they come. The power of truth will be vindicated as the servants of
God make faithful use of the opportunities that present themselves
for labor.”
“We can see a much more decided work is being done in our
cities than in the past. We are to preach the gospel to the Jews as
well as to the Gentiles. The glorious message of the power of God
unto salvation is to be made known unto all men. We are to bring
far more of simplicity and Bible godliness into our work for the [12]
Lord. There is to be no erecting of barriers, no depending on human
agencies for wisdom. Our work is to be given as freely to the Jews
as to the Gentiles.”—From a Personal Testimony, January, 1908.