Steve and Laurie Martin with Danny ben David (Danny Boy) and Yosefa on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, Israel (Nov. 28, 2025)
Holocaust survivors from 1945
Comfort My People
“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.” (Isaiah 40:1, NASB)
Most Christians have never been taught the responsibility we have been given to bless the Jews. Some are even told from the pulpit that the Old Testament is not for us to read, being it is “only about the Jews.” Some would even think that Yeshua (Jesus) is no longer a Jew, but a Christian.
Well, I totally disagree with that.
Yeshua Himself said He was a Jew and agreed with those He walked amongst.
"So the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)” (John 4:9, NASB)
And so, because our Lord and Savior is a Jew, and continues to be a Jew, when the Bible tells Christians to comfort His people, He is speaking about His people from whom He came through, the Jews.
The books of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament clearly give His Jewish lineage.
Comforting the Jewish people seems to have been totally lost in the history of the Christian church. Even before the time of Constantine (300 A.D.) when he tried to eliminate “all Jewishness” from the church, Christians have spoken against, led crusades against, performed pograms (“an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” Oxford dictionary) and murdered millions, as Hitler did “in the name of Christ.”
As we ask for their forgiveness, and indeed seek to comfort the Lord’s people, May He guide us into their friendship, their support, and a repayment in many ways for all they have given us, and the world.
“So now says Adonai, who formed Me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, to gather Israel back to Him.
For I am honored in the eyes of Adonai
and My God has become my strength.
So He says, “It is too trifling a thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give You as a light for the nations, that You should be My salvation to the end of the earth.”
Thus says Adonai, the Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, to the One despised to the One the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:“Kings will see and arise, princes will also bow down, because of Adonai who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.” (Isaiah 49:5-7 Tree of Life Bible)
If you know a Jew, befriend them. If you can give to their well being through good ministries, do so.
Support Israel and the people here. You will then be doing our Father’s will. It will go well with you too. I like that.
Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry in Jerusalem, Israel
