To answer a lot of questions
Concerning this Messenger and Ministry.
Most reading this know my past (BC) Before Christ and Before Connie, is one of hardships and hard times. It must dumbfound some to even think that God would chose the likes of a Jerry Golden, I know it does me for I know He could have found a far more worthy vessel to give this Ministry to. But He didn’t and for that I will be eternally grateful and serve Him all the days of my life. For those who don’t know what I am talking about they can read my book “Burned Alive” by clicking this link http://www.thegoldenreport.com/burnedalive.asp. This is not to say that it has been a bed of roses since my salvation in 1968. God must have known the trouble He’d have with the likes of me and all the chastening I’d have to go through in order to get to the place where He could possibly use me if I would hold down the ego, pride and continue to understand who He was. For those who have read the above book know that it took a place crash and 75% of my body burned 2nd and 3rd degree for me to fully understand many of the things necessary to be moved forward into a place of ministry ordained by God. Am I saying that I have arrived? Of course not, and I still haven’t met a Minister of God who can make that claim. But I am saying that the death to self is necessary before God can say to you like He did Lazarus “Come Forth”. In the first ten years or so of ministry I was slowly building a spiritual sin called spiritual pride and it took a plane crash to bring me to the place where God could get through to my Jewish hard head.
I’ve known since my first day of walking with Yeshua that I had a debt to pay, one that lived inside me from the very beginning of my life in 1940. But after my salvation experience in 1968 there began a movement inside my Jewish heart that kept moving me towards Israel. After the birth of our first child it began to be obvious to me that I owed a great debt to the many members of my family who perished in the Holocaust and by the time our third child arrived it was then that God began to show me that He wanted my children to have an Israeli Citizenship, that those who died in concentrations camps could only be paid by this act on my part.
Today we are all Israeli citizens, my son is a Commander in the IDF and in the 80’s I served 7 years in the reserves serving at least 30 days each year. We are total 100% Zionist but Jews who know Yeshua Ha Mashiach, as most of you know that is not understood or accepted by Jews and I’ve found that many Believing Christians have a hard time with it as well. So here we find ourselves after nearly 25 years hated by the Moslems, hated by most of the Israeli Jews and many Christians struggling with how we could be Jewish and Believers in Yeshua at the same time, but to the Believers I can only say that the first few thousand followers of Yeshua were in fact Jewish, it was Jews who wrote the Bible, Old and New Testament. Is it any wonder that I wonder how Believers can have a problem with believing that a Jew can be a born again Believer in Yeshua (Jesus the Messiah) who was a Jew?
To add to the difficulties mentioned above a few years ago God called me to a ministry that few understood and chose instead to make fun of me and call me names, but as time has moved on many now see that it was God and it is His calling, and that we will save Jewish lives in the days ahead. It has not been easy but God never promised that it would be there has been times when our faith was tested to the limits, and also times when Believers from around the world would write in and tell me that God has shown them that this was His vision and that we would prevail until the end.
For the first 30+ years of my ministry it was easy, and I loved it, for all I had to do was preach and teach the Word of God, but when God called me to a ministry that seemed way beyond my ability and still does, things began to take on a far more serious nature. The one thing I have noticed is when God calls a man or a woman to such a task He moves them from faith to faith and never expects more from them than they are able to carry. God has never asked me to move forward until I understood where we were at, at that given time, I know that sounds strange but it is true. God always moves you from a known to an unknown, never the other way around. And His plan only becomes clear to you as you move towards Him in faith. God does nothing apart from faith.
When God spoke to me and showed me that we would rescue Jews by boat as they poured out of Europe, we didn’t have enough finances to buy a row-boat much less a yacht or small ship. Just to muster up the courage or faith to send out a newsletter telling what the Ruach Ha Koddesh has spoken into my spirit took all the faith I could possibly put out. And as I had expected many asked me to take them off our email list and newsletter. I felt a lot like Gideon but without the 300 supporters we had more like 50 left who believed we had heard from God. Knowing that I had now put my hands to the plow and I couldn’t look back, so we went forward and it took almost three years just to buy the first boat a 40 foot sailing boat. We knew we couldn’t rescue many with such a boat, but at least we could save a few. What I know now is God used that boat to build our faith to show us we could do it as long as we kept our eyes on Him. Two years later we were able to buy a larger boat a 60-footer wooden power boat capable of rescuing many more and make the trip back from Turkey and the Greek Islands in half the time.
In the mean time God began to show us the need for the groundwork in Turkey and Cyprus as well as the Greek Islands, then came the need to build safe houses and safe routes, and the to get the word in the right places in Europe to the right people. All of these things seemed impossible in the natural and to me they were, but all along the way there has been supernatural intervention. Much has been done but there is far more to accomplish and I fear little time to get it done.
As a Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust it is a blessing beyond words to work with so many around the world who know it is God’s Will that they help us save Jewish lives when the times comes.
This has been a real rough explanation of my past and the standing of this Ministry, we feel it is necessary for you to understand who we are and what we have been called to do in these end times. My prayer is that those who God will touch will be obedient and join our efforts to save some.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, pray for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, pray for this ministry and your part in it.
Shalom, jerry golden
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