Why are fundamentalist Christians so obsessed with the well-being of the Jewish people?
I see infomercials of Christian organizations that say Christians should send money to feed poor jews in Eastern Europe or to send them to Israel. I know that Christians should give to the poor regardless of what religion they are. I don’t understand why so many Christians are fixated on Jewish people. Is it biblical? Why don’t these people just convert to judaism? A: It’s not that they want to “help” poor Jews in Eastern Europe, as much as they want to evangelize them. Allow me to explain: The New Testament specifically prioritizes Jews for conversion. In the book of Matthew (10:5) when Jesus is instructing his apostles, he warns them: “Go not into the way of the gentiles…but only go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” The Apostle Paul echoes the identical sentiment in the first chapter of the book of Romans when he declares: “Go to the Jew first, then to the Greek (gentile).” We find a recurrent and unique emphasis on reaching the Jews in the New Testament, especially in the
