Dear visitor to this site.

I am happy to tell you about the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel of God's grace. I am now 63 and I spent most of my life telling people about salvation by grace alone and about the dispensation of grace that Christ from heaven gave to the apostle Paul.

My name is Dov Avnon, born in 1957 in Israel. I grew up as a Jew but not as a religious one. At school, we received old testament education but more from a historical point of view. 

My father came to Israel from Poland in 1948. My mother came to Israel in 1938 from Romania/Moldavia. At a young age, I was a member of the Zionistic youth movement. This movement believes that Jews have a right to own country. It is not a religious movement. 

When I was young I wanted to believe in God but never knew how you do it. I could not understand how people can believe in something that they cannot see.

I born 10 km from the city of Nazareth not knowing that one day I will speak freely about the Lord Jesus Christ or like we say in Hebrew “Yeshua”

When I was a child most people around me were holocaust survivors. People who spend time in the famous concentration camp Auschwitz. I grew up with very negative thinking about Christians as such. I grew up with people who could not believe that if there is such a thing as God, why it all happened, Especially the holocaust. 

At that time I did not know the difference between all the Christian denominations. For me, a Christian was mainly someone from east Europe that for centuries was spreading Jews hate. I can not say that all members of the Romans catholic church hate Jews but this church organization is responsible for the death of many people among them are many Jews through all generations. I am thinking of the Gas chambers of Auschwitz, the inquisition, or slavery. All happen through people who had a “Christian background”.

I never believed that one day I will be so involved in reading and teaching of the so-called new testament or the belief in Jesus Christ. Till the age of 21, I did not hear much about that Jews need to be saved. Well, I was not religious so I did not know much about God at all. We learn at school much about the old testament but to say that I believed at that time I cannot say.

Years went on and I think at the beginning of the seventies I started to think more about life. After serving 3 years in the army, at age of 21 I started my life as a Young man. I traveled to the Southern part of Israel (Sinai desert) looking to have a good time there. For some reason I took 

with me a copy of the old testament.

During my work in the city of Eilat and the oasis Nuweiba I met an evangelist from the Netherlands by the name John Pex and his friends David Lazaros from the USA and Johan Schep from the Netherlands. John gave me to read a book by the name Christ in the 2 covenants. He invited me to visit his tent where he used to teach people about the Bible. It took me a few weeks till I started to visit the Bible studies on the beach. No church building or religion, only a few people sitting on the ground with an open bible.

I remember that John was talking about Christ as the messiah and explain the way of salvation. I remember that I understood very fast the main point, that Jesus Christ is the messiah. He explained to me also very clear about the way of salvation and that salvation is by grace alone. He told me that also Jews can receive the gift of eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ. I remember that one day while everyone was praying I prayed too and thank the Lord for what he did for me on the cross. at the age of 22, I knew that I was saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.

I am happy to use the internet to tell you more about God's grace and the dispensation of the Grace of God.

I was born 63 years ago in Israel. I grew up as a Jew and never believed that one day I will be so much busy with reading and teaching of the so call new testament or the belief in Jesus Christ. Till the age of 21, I did not hear much about that also Jew need to be saved. Well, I was not religious so I did not know much about God at all. We learn at school much about the old testament but to say that I believed at that time I cannot say.

I was born to east European parents which means that they suffer in the second world war and lost families. So speaking about Christ will have many associations with the Jewish prosecution in the past.

Years went on and I think at the beginning of the seventies I started to think more about life. After serving 3 years in the army at age the of 22 I started my life as a Young man. I traveled to the Southern part of Israel looking to have a good time there. For some reason, I took with me a copy of the old testament.

During my work there I met often Dutch man evangelists his name was John Pex and David Lazaros from the USA. He gave me something to read about Christ in the 2 covenants and invited me a few times to visit his tent where he used to teach people about the Bible. It took me a few weeks and then I started to join the studies in a tent near the beach. So no church building but only open bible.

I remember that I understood very fast the main point, that Jesus Christ is the messiah. He explained to me also very clear about the way of salvation. That also a Jew can get the gift of eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ. I remember that one day while everyone was praying I prayed too and thank the Lord for what he died for me on the cross. So at the age of 22 I knew that I was saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.

So now I had to start my life as a believer. First I went back to my home town to tell my parents about the good news which was for them not good news at all. It is not so often that a Jew says I believe in Christ. Also for me things were not so easy in the beginning. I was happy and believed the gospel but wanted to know more or did not know in which direction to go. I visited some messianic churches near my parent's home but it was not really what I was looking for.

So I had the Bible in my hand but I needed more guidance, someone who will help me to understand more about God’s word. While staying in Eilat I met different people and some of them from the Netherland. So I decided to travel to Europe to Holland and England. It was a good time meeting different believers. I enjoyed the hospitality of the family of one of the evangelists who told me about this wonderful gospel. His name was Johan Schep. So his parents invited me to stay with them.

Believing in Christ is one thing and understanding the Bible and God's plan and purpose is something else. While visiting believers in the U.K. they started to tell me something about the “word rightly divided” about God's plan for the Church “the body f Christ” they told me that at this time of grace There is no difference between Jew or gentile. In the beginning, it was for me hard to accept that now as a Jew I am not especial for God but just a sinner like everyone.

On the other side while learning about rightly dividing the word of truth things become more clear. I started to understand that the Lord Jesus Christ gave Paul a different gospel and the Bible became an open book for me.

I was very happy with that new truth that I learned. I found also how most believers are against it and are not open to search the scriptures. I went back to Israel and stayed for some months with the brothers and sisters who show me first the way of salvation but after a while, I decided to move further. I was hungry for the word and the depth in the word of Gods.

Visiting again the brother and sister in the UK who lead me to the truth of the word rightly divided I pray the Lord and told Him that I believe that this is the true and no matter what are the costs I am planning to stand for it. I was introduced at that time to the writing of C.R. Stam from the Berean Bible Society. So I started to study all about the revelation of the mystery.

I thank the Lord that while going back from the UK to the Netherlands I was able to stay there a few months and devote the time to studying the Word. I spent the time reading and examine each scripture in the so call 4 gospels and comparing it with what I read in the letters of Paul.

So as my first love was the day that I accepted Christ as my savior my second love was the day that I came to understand all about the dispensation of the Grace of God that the Lord Jesus Christ gave to the apostle Paul.

In 1980 while visiting in the UK. I met my old school friend Doron. We came from the same village and grew up together. After the army, I went to the south of Israel and later came to know the Lord. He travels at the same time with another friend to Europe. So now after I became a believer my parents told him that something strange happed to me and ask him to talk with me. So I met my friend Doron in England and instead of that he will talk me out of my faith I started to talk to him about the bible. We spent some time together in London talking and going through al that I knew at that time. As we walked in the street of London talking about the word some time we went into the pub set at the table and open the Bible. People looked at us as we were crazy but I did not understand at that time why. So after a while, my friend Doron accepted Christ and the gift of eternal life and became a saved person.

- I met David and Hellen for the first time in 1979 in Eilat Israel. While few days in the Lord david told me more about Paul. In the beginning, I thought he is speaking about someone from the group. It was he that year later told me about the special mystery that the Lord gave to Paul.

Rina jaquith – 1980 it was at that time in London, that i had the privilege to meet Clifford and rina.

Rina Jaquith known by some as 'The Bible Lady' and her husband Clifford worked actively as ambassadors to spread the good news of God's grace and offer of reconciliation to all. They spent time on this mission in Israel, Northern Ireland and Africa from where she returned to America after her husband Clifford was murdered by some robbers. Rina set up a bible study "drop in centre" in Las Vegas. As was her style she had an open door for all those who wanted to drop in and hosted bible studies in a relaxed informal manner. She was in her 80's when she ran this center and worked through threats to her person and damage to her property, she was robbed on occasions and was strangled near to death but she kept the door open as long as she was able.

Rina was a Jewish woman that came to understand the preaching of the mystery while teaching Jews about the new covenant. Rina and her husband spent some years in Israel (Jerusalem) teaching young travelers about the grace of God. She was a special servant of the Lord putting much emphasis on personal evangelizing.

It is through her student that in 1979 I accepted Christ as my savior. So I met this woman in a small apartment in London and took my friend Doron with me to the Bible study that she gave. Yes, it was a women teacher with a great desire to tell everyone about the gift of eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Her teaching was based on the fact that as a believer you have two kinds of life. This what you live in the flesh and this what you live in the spirit. That you can never lose your salvation only the inheritance or your reward. So to maintain your spiritual position the believer should be spiritually busy with the bible and evangelizing. You could not easily argue with this sister because she had good bible knowledge. This what I still remember. I think it was 2 years later after I study more in the bible and in Paul's letter to the Romans chapter 8 that I wrote her letter and disagree with the main point of her teaching about the believers 2 kind of life. She did not like it. It happens often, especially when you deal with the Jewish women teachers that they do not like disagreement..

However, I am sure that this “Bible lady” was greatly used by God to help me or others to understand the revelation of the mystery given to the apostle Pauls. May God give us more of those people who cost what it cost standing for the truth of the gospel.