“We aren’t supposed to testify to the Gospel anywhere in the ME.”
That’s just not true. There are Christian evangelists all over Israel.
Yes, it is illegal in Israel for ANY religion to seek to convert minors to ANY religion under the age of 18. That has more to do with kids having brains full of mush, than anything.
And Yes, it is illegal for people of all religions from other countries to lie and say you are a tourist (or whatever) in Israel and come with the sole purpose of setting up a mission or whatnot, but that mainly has to do with keeping out whacko cults like Scientology that seem to target Israel for reasons unknown. If a citizen (or person with a proper visa) wanted to open up a church and invite all who want to come to come, they can. Similarly, if you want to “spread the gospel” while you are an actual tourist/there on legit business have at it.
Our 1st Amendment equivalent is actually stronger than the USAs.
I see articles and anecdotes all over indicating otherwise.
For example, this article:
According to the article:
(excerpt, read more at link)
“The reason the state of Israel gave for his deportation, he said, was that Barnett was engaging in missionary activity and not regular tourist activity on a B2 tourist visa.”
Also, there is the reported intimidation of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_L%27Achim
to which reportedly the government gives a wink and a nod.
It seems clear the strategy is to use technicalities of law as much as possible and intimidation as much as possible to impede Christian missionaries as much as possible while being able to say that the “door is open” to them.
I would submit:
Act 5
“38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”
And in the meantime I would humbly submit...
I think America and Israel as nations are mired in sin and turning their backs on God.
I think Jews and Christians in both countries have their spiritual work cut out for them, for both nations are now at the point of institutionalizing abombinable acts.
Neither, IMHO, can claim to be on some righteous high horse where their governments go on military and espionage ventures at the behest of a few elites manuevering for commericial interests, power, central banks, drugs, etc.
Oops, that last post should read “Acts 5”.
Also, of course in no way am I meaning to diminish the significance of the situations in other middle eastern nations - as they are all entangled, of course, in the same new world order middle eastern mess of US tax dollars, oil, investments, terror, wars, barbarism, espionage, false flags, globalist-controlled trade and finance, central banking, etc., etc., etc.