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James Jacob Prasch is
Director or Moriel Ministries. Jacob was
born near New York City in the USA where he
became a Christian while studying science in
university in February of 1972, after trying
to disprove the Bible with science, history,
and archaeology. He found so much evidence in
support of the claims of Jesus and the Bible
that it required more faith to reject it than
to believe it.
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- Already frustrated by the failures of
the hippie generation to build a better
world, disillusioned by the Marxism to
which he subscribed, and with the drug
culture that claimed the lives of some of
his friends and nearly his own, he put his
faith in Jesus.
Jacob’s family is a combination of
Roman Catholic and Jewish. (In his youth
he was forced to attend a Catholic school,
but also attended the Jewish Community
Center.) Jacob’s wife Pavia,
also from a science background, is a
Romanian-born Israeli Jewish believer who
is the daughter of holocaust survivors.
Pavia was an atheist and Jacob was an
agnostic. After coming to faith both
switched from study in scientific fields
to theological fields in Israel and in
Britain. They have two children both born
in Galilee.
Jacob is a Hebrew-speaking
evangelist to the Jews and a Bible teacher
elaborating on the original
Judeo-Christian background and
hermeneutics of the New Testament, and his
emphasis is on church planting and
missions. He and Moriel have also been a
conservative voice for biblically-based
discernment among moderate Pentecostals
and Charismatics opposed to the seductions
of the ecumenism, money oriented preaching
and hype artistry, "charismania" and
psycho-babble prevalent in today’s church.
Jacob and Moriel are committed to
the conviction that we are in the Last
Days approaching the return of Christ and
that contemporary events in the Middle
East, the moral deterioration of society,
the destruction of the environment, the
globalization of the world economy, the
rise of a pseudo-democratic federal Europe
and, above all, the apostasy in the
contemporary church, are all events of
prophetic significance eschatologically.
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