Mottel Baleston, Messianic Jewish
 Outreach & European Bible Teaching
Sept-Oct 2018
Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany

The ministry outreach & Bible teaching activities were non-stop, and ran from September 14 thru October 7, starting in the Czech Republic, then Budapest Hungary, and finally 2 full weeks in 10 locations in Germany. Every day had 2 or 3 teaching sessions.

All the translators were believers: 2 for Czech, 2 for Hungarian & 4 for German, in various locations.

The promo at left was widely distributed by our friends in Prague, Czech Republic, a historic city with a strong Jewish heritage. It advertises the three seminars Mottel taught in Prague, preparing believers to understand the Jewish roots of their faith, and be better able to communicate with Jewish friends.

Mottel at the "Jubilee" Synagogue on Jerusalem Street in Prague, near the old Jewish Quarter

Conference on the History & Theological Roots of the Holocaust,
with a field trip to Auschwitz

- The Holocaust in Europe occurred from 1938 through 1945 and was a systemized program by Nazi Germany of slaughter, rape and mass killings, all in a Satanic attempt to destroy the Jewish people. Six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered, often in the most gruesome and brutal ways.
- Whether it makes people uncomfortable or not, the actual facts are crystal clear: the vast majority of the ordinary people who carried out the daily killings considered themselves Christians and were members of various churches.
- Of course, the churches they belong to were not Bible believing and thus the individuals had been taught a “Theology of Contempt”  toward the Jewish people, imagining that the church had replaced Israel in the promises God made in the Hebrew Scriptures. This false theology grew out of the attempt by Roman Catholicism in the fourth century to explain its claim of authority to speak for God. While the Protestant Reformation corrected many errors, some errors were often left intact, and sadly have been passed down into some evangelical churches as well, though in a mostly nonviolent form.
- When Jewish people who are agnostic or atheist are asked to justify their position, the single most common “reason” cited is The Holocaust. By far.
- Evangelicals must be ready to respond to this issue. Biblical theology has a far different approach to God’s eternal Abrahamic covenant with the Jewish people than does the mainstream church.
- Mottel Baleston taught this three-day conference at an evangelical retreat center in the Czech Republic to tackle this difficult issue. Through seminars and two field trips into nearby Poland, we understood the historical background and the current situation.

On the day before Yom Kippur, we went to Auschwitz
Of the Six Million Jewish people who were intentionally killed during the Shoah, the Holocaust,
over 1 and a quarter million were systematically murdered here at Auschwitz

Barracks, about 8 people slept on each of these wooden platforms. They were worked to exhaustion, and when they lost strength, they were shot	New arrivals came off the trains, a selection was made, men & woman who could do heavy work were sent to the barracks, all others including children walked through the barbed wire passage directly to the gas chamber
Each day, over 700 people were stripped naked, then crammed into this gas chamber, where the poison was dropped. Within 15 minutes, everyone died a slow, agonizing death. In all, 4 gas chambers operated each day.	In the early years, 2 bodies were loaded together on each metal tray, and slid  into dozens of ovens, around the clock, constantly. Eventually, huge underground pits were built that destroyed 4,000 bodies each day

At the gate of Auschwitz, Mottel with Hana S, a young Jewish believer and one of two tour photographers. A difficult and emotional day for all.

At left, with students from Ostfriesland Bible College at Jennalt, Germany.

Mottel says: "I was very favorably impressed with the quality of these 2 Bible schools in northern Germany. The doctrine is sound & fundamental, the students serious about ministry. There were willing to live in less than ideal dorms & arrangements, all to prepare themselves for ministry.

At right, holding the "Four Species" mentioned in Leviticus 23
for use during the celebration of the "Feast of Tabernacles"
The Hebrew sign says: "Know Before Whom You Stand"