Sid: I have Sharon Allen on the telephone because this book God told me to write it’s called “They Thought for Themselves.” Hers is one of the 10 testimonies; Jewish people from every walk of life that God has revealed Jesus to as the King of the Jews. So Sharon’s married to gentile that is so haymishe, he’s so Jewish, and he agrees to raise their daughter Jewish because she had been divorced then she remarried. Sharon is part of a Lubavitch synagogue, Chabad. They’re working they’re active, and her husband Ron is active with this. Then she says “So Ron it’s time for you to convert to Judaism.” He says “Fine,” but then he finds out that he has to renounce Yeshua, Jesus, as the Messiah, and he says “I’m not going to do that.” Sharon is shocked. So to prove that he is wrong she starts studying the scriptures; she not only studies the scriptures she starts studying all the Jewish books about the scriptures by the famous rabbis. Even books by rabbis that try to prove Jesus isn’t the Messiah. One of these, the most famous rabbi, Rabbi Schochet comes to the Hebrew Academy where her daughter is a student, and is giving a lecture and she just couldn’t believe what he was saying. So she said “Rabbi I have to comment.” So what happened next Sharon?
Sharon: Well we had this discussion back and forth and it was quite intense. To 12 midnight we were discussing Jewish history, the Bible, at one point he said sin… we’re Jewish people we not born in sin, we don’t deal in sin. Then I had to remind him of the tradition about the kipporah where we take, for a man, a man takes a rooster and swirls it over his head and says that his sins should go into the rooster. A woman does a hen, and if a woman is pregnant she’s doing it with a hen and a rooster because she doesn’t know if her unborn child is a male or a female. Now that is astounding, if we are not born in sin, then what would be the need for a pregnant woman to do this for her unborn child. So these were the things we were discussing. Then the rabbi became very anxious to close the meeting to an end. He had said something from the podium which was quite shocking to me, he shouted out into the audience that “That Man,” and he was talking about Jesus. He said “That Man committed blasphemy from the cross.” I was shocked, I couldn’t believe what he was saying. I said “What do you mean?” He said “Oh yes, ‘That Man’ committed blasphemy from the cross when he shouted ‘My God My God why has thou forsaken Me?!’” When the rabbi shouted that out into the audience he used a very angry loud voice. I said to the rabbi “Rabbi he could have been saying it in a soft voice, in a crying voice, in a lamenting voice, in a pleading voice.” The rabbi said “No, no when He shouted ‘My God My God why has thou forsaken Me’ he was committing blasphemy from the cross.” I was so shocked because those very same words were originally said by our beloved King David in Psalm 22, and WHAT JEW would dare say “That our beloved King David committed blasphemy?” So I went home that evening and I announced to my husband and my daughter “I have no more doubts. I believe that Yeshua HaMashiach is my Jewish Messiah. Now I’m going to read the New Testament, the Brit Hadashah.” Now Brit Hadashah does not mean like a brand New Testament it means a renewed covenant. In other words, the Hebrew scriptures is the first covenant, you know the ongoing message to God’s people. The Brit Hadashah is a renewed covenant for the Gentile people and for the Jewish people for a renewing. Now the Messiah has come, He walks the earth and these were the things accomplished. We all, both Jew and Gentile need to believe in Him. So I read the Brit Hadashah I realized that our family needed to be baptized, mikvah water immersion, but now in the belief of Yeshua being our Messiah.
Sid: Yeah but what about your husband Ron, and your daughter is attending Hebrew Academy. What did they think?
Sharon: Alisa of course had to leave the Hebrew Academy because at this point it became obvious to everyone in the audience that where my research was leading me. So Alisa did have to leave Hebrew Academy, she went to a school that was right in our community, a public school in our community. My husband understood both my husband and my daughter understood all the research I was doing. I just want to share with you, you mentioned Alisa and being at school. One of the days that I was doing my research in the Hebrew scriptures, I came across the scripture where Moses raised a standard, a pole, in the desert in the wilderness, and he put a bronze serpent on the top of the pole. He told the Israelites “That as long as they looked up onto, and see, the bronze serpent they wouldn’t die.” Because the serpents were coming and biting their feet and they were dying from the poisonous snakes. As long as they looked up at the bronze serpent they would be saved. I read that and it sounded so “goyisha,” do you know what I am saying? I had no idea something like that was in my own Hebrew scriptures because it just didn’t appropriate for Jewish people to have a pole, a standard, and… when you see and understand how they do a standard in the wilderness at that time it was actually a pole with a cross beam on top, the bronze serpent was twirled around that beam going across, would be laid across that. My daughter came home school, I couldn’t wait for her to come home from school. I said “Alisa you’re not going to believe this this sounds so goyisha. Look what I’m reading in the Bible.” I read it to her and she says to me “Mommy we read that today in school and we acted it out in a play.” I went into shock because it was like a message from God for me that “Yes, Sharon you’re doing the right thing. I am there with you, I know what you are reading, I know that you are in shock, I know that you are surprised at what you are reading, but I understand. Just keep doing what you are doing.”
Sid: You know Sharon your entire family became believers. I’ve got a copy of some research while you trying to prove Jesus is not the Messiah. You took the first 10 names that appear in the Bible: Adam, Seth… all the way to Noah. You translated it into English and this is the sentence you came up with “Mankind turns their faces towards and are appointed mortal, grievous sorrow to lament and to mourn. God who is praised comes down to instruct and to consecrate. He is sent forth as a prophet-priest, to be smitten and scourged, to die, to give rest and security, a quiet attitude (peace).” That sentence, I mean that’s it. That’s the whole gospel hidden in the first 10 major characters that we read about in the Bible.
Sharon: Yes.
