Watching and Waiting: Encountering Jesus in the Fall Feasts (Finding the Afikoman) - Softcover

Eisner, Christie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1717429440 ISBN 13: 9781717429445

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

At her first Passover Seder with John’s Jewish family in 1976, Christie had a divine encounter that took her completely by surprise. She found Jesus hidden in an ancient ceremony within the Passover called “Yahatz”, or “breaking” a matzo cracker called, the “afikoman”. She asked Him, “What are You doing in this Jewish thing?” He answered, “All the feasts are about Me. Christianity is Jewish.” After that night, with an insatiable hunger to know Jesus, she began her long journey of looking for the revelation of Jesus and God’s heart in all the Biblical feasts. While her first book, Finding the Afikoman: encountering Jesus in the spring feasts, focused on the first coming of Jesus; this second book will take you on a journey with Christie through the fall feasts and Jesus’ return to the earth. As in her first book, Christie will continue to share personal stories and encounters, mostly from her journals that span over four decades. Her discoveries will broaden your understanding of scripture from their Jewish perspective, and reveal to you the family and culture that Romans 11 says that you have been grafted into. What is Christie’s conclusion about the feasts? “They are all about a wedding.” The spring feasts begin with the courtship between Jesus and His Bride and end with a betrothal. The fall feasts begin with the consummation of His wedding and end in a glorious wedding feast! Christie’s prayer is that, in reading this book, you will realize that you are part of the greatest love story ever told!

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About the Author

Christie began this personal journey in 1976 when she was celebrating her first Passover meal with her new Jewish in laws. John's parents were German holocaust survivors and were disappointed that their only surviving son married a Gentile girl. As a Christian, Christie knew she would never fulfill her mother in law's wishes and become a Jew, so she decided she would try to win their love and favor by pretending to be interested in what they believed. When Jesus revealed Himself to her hidden in that first Jewish Passover meal, she was shocked. What was Jesus doing in this "Jewish thing"?!?! Then He told her, "All the holidays are about Me. Christianity is Jewish". So with a desire to intimately know Him in a personal relationship, she went on a 39 year journey of revelation, encountering Him in the Jewish feasts and experiencing the heart of her Jewish Bridegroom, King and Judge. Her main desire is more than giving out information to satisfy the intellect. Rather, it is to give an invitation of encounter so others can begin their journey of discovery about this Jewish man, His culture and His family. It is her desire for the Body of Christ to have an understanding of what Romans 11 says we have been grafted into. John and Christie have three children and five grandchildren who live in Nashville and Milwaukee and they take any spare time they have to go spend time with them.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1717429440
• ISBN 13: 9781717429445
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 366