As a Jew, I find great significance in the fact that the indigenous Christian Church of Jerusalem, the Church that exists in the land where the Prophets and the Apostles lived and taught, is the Orthodox Church. To this day, the Orthodox Church in the Holy Land is a Semitic Church, composed of the descendants of the Lord’s first disciples. Before coming to Orthodoxy, I had learned prophecy from charismatic (and often immoral) televangelists. As an Orthodox Christian, however, I was reintroduced to
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