The Messianic Industry

On a number of previous posts, I reviewed some of the financing of the Messianic movement in its efforts to convert Jews to Christianity. I recently decided to try to find out how much money Jews for Jesus has spent in the past decade in its evangelism of the Jews. The numbers were shocking. Through two Christian organizations, Ministry Watch and the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, I was able to find the Jews for Jesus finances from 2000-2004 and 200-2009. In those eight years, Jews for Jesus' expenditures were over $132 million! That is about $10 per Jew for every single living Jew in the world!

Let us not kid ourselves here. The Messianic movement is not large enough to come up with $132 million from its own flock, much less to come up with the money for all of the other Messianic organizations in the world. This is a product of more mainstream Christians (since Messianic "Judaism" was a Church of England creation, originally called Hebrew Christianity) spending lavishly to convert Jews to Christians. The amount of money and effort spent on trying to get Jews to leave Judaism is truly disturbing.