Cyril Gordon: A Spiritual Journey Leads to Christ [Jewish, NewAger, seeker];

CBN.com – “I was searching for truth, the meaning of life. There’s something missing in my life. I didn’t know what it was.”

“It vacillated at that time in my life, in my late teens," Cyril tells The 700 Club. "Dabbling in existentialism, which says there’s no God. Also got drawn into eastern religion and philosophy, Zen, Daoism, Buddhism, even shaved my head back then, got into the Timothy Leary thing of taking hallucinogenics to find the truth.”

Cyril was Jewish, but had strayed far away from the path of God that he learned as a boy.

“The whole nirvana thing with New Age – it was kind of a mash up until my senior year of college when I took a course on Jewish mysticism. There I’m realizing that there areJews who want to know God. That got me looking into my Jewish roots.”

“As I tried to be holy, to be quote ‘a good Jew’, at the same time I’m out of control. I’m living with a girlfriend. I’m addicted to porn. I’m not living a holy life. But outwardly here I am wearing tassels and eating kosher. Spiritually I was not satisfied. Yom Kipper every year, we’re supposed to fast and pray for our sins. I did that every year. I never left the synagogue any better than I came in, and I kept wondering, ‘There must be something missing.’”

“I would take a lot of trips out to Saline Valley, Joshua Tree, Death Valley. Looking for answers.”

“In His mercy, He showed me a vision of a roadway to heaven in the clouds. Next to it I saw another vision in a cloud of a man lying down. He looked like He was dead, lying on His back, and He had a crown of thorns around His head. I wondered, ‘Who’s that and what does He have to do with the other vision?'"

“I picked up a New Testament, the Jerusalem version. I figured if it said Jerusalem it was okay. I started reading the New Testament. The more I read about Jesus the more I was drawn to Him actually.”

Later, he met a woman who was reading a Bible. He recalls, “It had the Old and the New Testament in it. I didn’t know that Christians read the Old Testament. She had a genuine faith in the God of Israel as a gentile. That intrigued me.”

“This being appears in my dream in glory like I’ve never seen before in my life. I’m not looking at this with my eyes. I’m in a dream, but this is real. I don’t know how else to explain it, but I thought I was going to die in the presence of this being with eyes so bright that they were brighter than the sun. In His hand was an old looking parchment, and it had all this writing on it and I couldn’t read it. It was too small. But I knew in my spirit that it was my whole life up to that point. In the bottom in big bold letter it said, ‘IT’S TIME TO COME HOME.’”

“I picked up Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell. There, all of a sudden, I’m seeing the prophecies of who the Messiah of Israel is and how they were fulfilled in Jesus. I’m reading this just wondering, ‘My God, why didn’t I see this before? Why didn’t anyone ever tell me this?’”

“It was like a brick house lifted off me, a dark, heavy stickiness. This is what I’ve been looking for. I knew that all my sins had been forgiven, that I was right with God now.”

“I really got discipled. I met a great Christian community there. I met other Jews who believed in Jesus. I thought I was the only one when it happened to me. It was really exciting to meet others.”

Cyril knows that not only has his life been changed by accepting Jesus, he is also fulfilling Biblical prophecy.

“Jesus said that He’s the Way, the Truth and the Life. Nobody comes to the Father but through Him. So for me it’s a homecoming as a Jew. This is where Jews belong. I have a peace I never had before. The restlessness I had is gone. I know where I’m going. I know I’m right with God, thanks to the Lord Jesus.” Can God change your life?

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And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. (John 12:34-36)

But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said Esaias, [Is. 6:1-10] when he saw his glory, and spake of him. (John 12:37-41)

Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. (John 12:44-45)

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. (Isaiah 6:1-13)

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. (Romans 11:1-4)

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. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (Romans 11:25-29)

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:9-10)

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