In the week before Chanukah 2010, a delegation of 50 members of the Amish Christian communities in America and Switzerland arrived in Israel for one divine purpose; to apologize to the Jewish People for their rejection of the covenanted relationship of the Jews and the Land of Israel. Headed by Bishop Girod, the Amish delegation from the Amish community of Idaho arrived in Israel to meet with the Rabbi for the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Naomi Tzur, the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem’s Shaya Ben-Yehuda, and Holocaust survivor Eliezer Avalon. With them they brought a “scroll”
The Amish Mennonites represented the Amish Christian Church fellowship of over a quarter of a million descendants of the Germany speaking Dutch living in the German speaking sector of Switzerland, the Alsace region of France, and the Palatinate region of Germany in the early 18th century. They arose from a schism in Switzerland with the Swiss and Alsatian French Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann, and from his name came to be known as the Amish. Today, the Old Order of the Amish still avoid all modern conveniences of life, including electricity, modern plumbing, automobiles, and are known for farmlands with horses and plows with simple plain living, dress, all reminiscent of 18th century Europe and America.
The Jewish Rabbinic Reception for the Amish Delegation from America
One of the most noted histories of the Amish was their anti-Semitism against the Jewish people, and their acceptance of Christian Replacement Theology where the “Christian Church replaced the Divine Covenant of the Jews” that included that Hitler was G-d’s agent sent to punish the Jewish people for their rejection of Jesus Christ. Their leader, Bishop Girod came to Israel with the message;
Amish Bishop Girod – “We are here to say we are sorry. We no longer want to reject you (the Jews) or look at you as not being G-d’s people. You were G-d’s people long before we were.
American Amish Farmland and Horse and Buggy Transportation
This official statement was affirmed by a member of their delegation;
Amish Delegate – “Our people have had bad attitudes towards the Jewish people and have rejected the Jewish people to a certain extent, and we have come to restore that and to apologize.”
In the spring of 2009, a delegation of Amish from the Pennsylvania Dutch region went to New York as the guests of the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish community for a walking tour of the Jewish community in New York City. This year, just prior to Chanukah, the Idaho Amish community arrived in Israel to bring their official request for reconciliation with the Jewish people in Israel and around the world.
Amish Children going to School
There at the Wailing Wall, they gave on behalf of the entire Amish people, to Rabbi Rabinovitch, a beautifully decorated parchment with the declaration; for forgiveness;
“For our collective sin of pride and selfishness by ignoring the plight of the Jewish people and the Nation of Israel.”
This document affirmed that the Amish people from now on will affirm the Jewish people and speak out strongly in support of the Jews and the State of Israel.
As the Amish church leaders mingled with the Jewish rabbis and representatives of Israel, they had a quaint resemblance of the Hareidi Ultra-Orthodox Jews as they stood there with their white shirts, black vests, and beards. There was one exception; the Amish had no mustaches.
It was noteworthy that the modern Amish who still live with 18th century technology and even shun modern technology, had their church’s restrictions waived by traveling in cars and flying on an intercontinental jet flight from America to the Land of Israel in order to bring their public apology to the Rabbis of Israel. May they be an example to the rest of the Protestant Churches of America who in one way or another, share anti-Semitic attitudes towards the Jews and the Rabbanim of Israel.
This fact was highlighted during World War II when all American Christian Churches opposed the Jewish people by their stark silence and refusal to help the Jewish people flee Europe, immigrate to the United States as they were facing their extermination when the “Final Solution” went into effect by the Nazi forces of Germany.
Out of all the American Protestant Churches; Seventh-day Adventists, Anglicans, Baptists, Church of Christ, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Lutheran, Methodists, and Presbyterians, only the Jehovah’s Witnesses stood up in defense of the Jewish people. Many Jehovah’s Witness believers lost their lives in doing so.
The shaking of the American Protestant Churches is soon to come. The Sheep and the Goats, or the Wheat and the Tares will begin their divine separation within Apostate Christianity. The separation will come when the true Lost Tribes of the House of Israel will rise out of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to place their destiny with the Jews of the House of Judah.
Revelation 18:1-2. 4-5 - "After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, 'Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a habitation of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!'"
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.'"
When this day comes, the real unification of “All Israel” will come as the House of Judah and the Lost Sheep of the House of Joseph (representing the House of Israel) will by the divine calling of G-d as prophesied by the Prophet Ezekiel:
Ezekiel 37: 21-22; 24- - “Then say to them, ‘Thus says the L-rd G-d; ‘ Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again…I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. They shall be My people and I will be their G-d.
David My servant will be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever more. My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people. The nations also will know that I the L-rd, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”’”
Do you want to learn more about the unification of the Jews of the House of Judah and the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, we invite you to contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove. It is here where Orthodox Jewish Rabbis and Observant Jews are willing to introduce you to a sacred history that is 4,000 years old and bound by the honor of G-d’s holy Name.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!” a Bed and Breakfast Guest House with Kosher Cuisine, and Tours of Biblical Shomron (Samaria) and Judea, prepared to welcome Lost Tribes of Israel to your Future Homeland.