By Kirollos Abdalla —
A Jewish woman had never believed in Jesus until 26 years down the road when her best friend had talked to her about her savior.
“I always told her: ‘Jamie, I love you so much, but Jews don’t believe in Jesus, and I’m never converting.”
Of course Christians believe in Jesus and Jews don’t, yet they both have faith in God. Is God of the Gentiles, and the God that Catholics worship, the same God that the Jews worship? Was Jesus a Jew?
Brooke Allsbrook was born and raised within a Jewish family, and grew up following the Torah. She was taught that they were the “Chosen Ones”
“If I ever wanted to really know God, I had access to him as a Jewish person” Brooke said on the I Found Shalom YouTube channel. “I identified being Jewish with knowing God.”
She didn’t believe in Jesus, and the Jewish community around her would mark it as shameful to believe otherwise.
At 26 years old, Brook found herself in a difficult spot going on an emotional downwards spiral. “I lost my self-esteem,” Brooke said. “I was completely broken, completely destroyed.”
Her best friend, Jamie, was extremely supportive of her during this tough time in her life. She shared her own faith in Jesus, even though Brooke was Jewish.
One day, Brooke experienced a supernatural dream, a dream that was also a “death experience.”
“There was this giant ball of fire that came out of the sky and burned me alive, lifting me into heaven.” Brooke said. “I felt the layers of my life lifting off like feathers.”
Brooke describes Heaven as stretching across the skyline with beautiful mansions and archways.
“I could really feel the presence of a King,” she states. “I turned my head, and looking through one of the archways, all the clouds came together to form the face of God.”
In the deepest part of her body, she knew that that image was the reflection of the God that she had always known as Jewish. At first, Brooke had interpreted all of this through a Jewish lens, the only lens she really had, but then she ultimately realized: “That reflection was Jesus,” Brooke says.
She had always believed the lie that was true to her reality, that “Jews worship one God and Gentiles and the rest of the world worship this other God.”
Her whole life she was taught that believing in Jesus was shameful, and she still felt some of that shame within the moment of her healing.
“Yet I was being touched in a way that I had never been touched before,” Brooke says. “It was kind of like dying to self. It was physically painful.”
She received great amounts of healing and restoration within her.
“I’m talking about real, deep, hidden joy in the core of your being” Brooke emphasizes, “that when you go to sleep at night, you know wholeheartedly that you’re exactly where your supposed to be, and that God has your back.”
