Messiah Podcast
Welcome to Messiah Podcast—where Jesus is Jewish, and that changes everything. Dive into the heart of Messianic faith as we engage with top scholars, pastors, Messianic rabbis, musicians, and thought leaders shaping the conversation on Messianic Judaism and the Jewish roots of Christianity. Produced by First Fruits of Zion (FFOZ), our mission is to deliver enriching Messianic education and reconnect disciples with God’s prophetic promises to Israel. Whether you’re exploring the Messianic Jewish perspective for the first time or deepening your faith, this podcast will illuminate the teachings and kingdom message of Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah.
Episodes
88 episodes
88 – Hello, Mrs. Rachel: Breaking the Internet with Messianic Content
Can a stay-at-home mom with a gift of gab change the way the world views the Jewish Jesus? The viral @HelloMrsRachel, a third generation Messianic Jew joins Messiah podcast to reveal the David-and-Goliath reality of being a Messianic creator to...
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Season 5
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Episode 88
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50:48
87. Decoding Cody: Autism, Angels, and Telepathy on Trial | Pastor Joe Infranco
The Telepathy Tapes took the podcast world by storm in 2024. All of a sudden, we had falsifiable evidence that non-speaking autistic people could read minds. But this phenomenon was only the tip of a massive iceberg. What the Telepathy Tapes re...
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Season 5
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Episode 87
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1:09:54
86 – My Son Sees Angels: Revelations from Non-Speaking Autism | Tahni Cullen
In 2024, the podcast about profoundly disabled, non-speaking autistic children who knew what their caretakers were thinking debuted and skyrocketed to the top of the charts. What the “Telepathy Tapes Podcast” didn’t discuss was that these indiv...
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Season 5
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Episode 86
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1:19:03
85 – Jordan Rubin on The Biblio Diet: God’s Plan for Health & Wellness
Join this conversation with Jewish follower of Jesus Jordan Rubin, for an exclusive glimpse into his faith journey and the story behind his newest NY Times best-selling book, The Biblio Diet. We delve into the ancient wisdom of the Bible that i...
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1:09:07
84 – A Former Muslim’s Analysis of Islam, Israel, and the West | Danny Burmawi
For hundreds of years, secular thinkers in the West have considered Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to have similar claims to the Jewish patriarchs. Our guest today, Danny Burmawi, has a different perspective. A convert from Islam to Christian...
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Season 5
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Episode 84
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1:03:26
83 – Food, Faith & Freedom – Finally Finding Jesus in Messianic Judaism | Hope Egan
In the first century, Jewish believers in Jesus kept being Jewish. There was no conflict between their Jewish identity and their discipleship. Unfortunately, that changed, and for most of church history, Jewish followers of Jesus had to stop be...
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82 – Pioneers of Messianic Worship | Dr. Greg Silverman
The emergence of Messianic Judaism into the American cultural milieu in the 1960s and 70s brought with it a distinct genre of sacred music with roots in Ashkenazi klezmer and traditional Jewish liturgy. Since then, Messianic music has come into...
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Season 5
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Episode 82
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55:19
81 – The Discovery That Transformed Our Understanding of Scripture | Dr. Rebekah Haigh
In 1947, a Bedouin goat herder stumbled on a collection of clay jars filled with ancient scrolls by the Dead Sea in Israel. When these scrolls made it to scholars and antiquity dealers, it became clear that they had been written around the time...
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Season 5
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Episode 81
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1:02:03
80 – Jesus Is Jewish, and That Changes Everything | Damian Eisner & Jacob Fronczak
Our tagline here at Messiah Podcast is “Jesus is Jewish, and that changes everything.” But what exactly do we mean by that? What changes specifically? Our guest today, Messianic Jewish Rabbi Damian Eisner, is here for a conversation about what ...
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79 – Are We Living In the End of Days? | D. Thomas Lancaster
In the final episode of our series on the end of days, we delve into the age-old question: Are we living in the last generation? Join Jacob Fronczak and Daniel Lancaster as they explore historical and contemporary signs, from the ingathering of...
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Season 5
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Episode 79
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1:01:34
78 – Did Jesus Believe in the Rapture? | D. Thomas Lancaster
From 88 Reasons for 1988 to the Thief in the Night films and the Left Behind franchise, the sudden disappearance of the church immediately before a seven-year tribulation has been a popular belief among Evangelicals. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 78
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51:52
77 – What Everyone Gets Wrong About Revelation | D. Thomas Lancaster
Revelation, the Apocalypse of John, is the last book in the Bible, and for many, it’s the most difficult. Through the ages, followers of Yeshua have taken the Revelation football and run with it in just about every conceivable direction. This s...
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Season 5
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Episode 77
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1:04:50
76 – Mythbusting Revelation | D. Thomas Lancaster
For decades, eagle-eyed prophecy aficionados have scoured the headlines and the Scriptures hoping to find clues as to where we’re at on God’s prophetic timeline and how much longer we’ll have to wait before the glorious return of our Master, Ye...
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Season 5
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Episode 76
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1:13:53
75 – Breaking Barriers Through Music and Faith | Israeli Musician Shai Sol
Messianic Jewish musicians utilize their craft to express their faith in Yeshua in distinctly Jewish ways. Shai Sol is one such musician who brings a distinctive Israeli sound to the Messianic Jewish music world. Her musical journey began early...
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Season 5
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Episode 75
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56:00
74 – I Am Israel: A Filmmaker's Journey to Zion | Filmmaker David Kiern
The biblical kings and prophets envisioned the Temple as a house of prayer for all nations. Right now, it’s only a house of prayer for Muslims—Jews and Christians are forbidden from praying where Jesus did. Our guest today, David Kiern, is a fi...
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Season 5
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Episode 74
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1:09:07
73 – Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology | Dr. Richard Harvey
The American Messianic Jewish congregational movement as we know it today blossomed in the 1960s and ‘70s. These young congregations borrowed theological ideas from Judaism and from Christianity, but comparatively little work has been done to s...
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Season 5
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Episode 73
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1:04:54
72 – Christian Scholars Defend the Torah Observant Jesus | Dr. Paul Sloan & Dr. Logan Williams
For centuries, supersessionist assumptions in higher education led generations of academics to assume that Jesus came to abolish the Mosaic Law. Today, a new generation of professors and researchers is producing rigorous, meticulously cited wor...
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Season 5
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Episode 73
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1:12:58
71 – Life at the End of the World: The Imminent Eschatology of Paul | Dr. Matthew Novenson
Paul's relationship with Jewish law is notoriously difficult to grasp. In this episode, Dr. Matthew Novenson joins the podcast and proposes a new interpretive framework to make sense of the prolific apostle—Paul saw himself as a Jew, not at the...
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Season 5
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Episode 71
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1:16:11
70 – From Russia With Love: A Messianic Jew from the Soviet Union | Rabbi Pinchas Shir
The Soviet Union suppressed Judaism and Jewish identity for decades. Atheism was enforced by the state. But our guest today, Pinchas Shir, knew there was more to life than the material world. In the era of perestroika, he fled to the United Sta...
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Season 5
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Episode 70
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56:08
69 – Sojourners and Exiles | Filmmaker Reed Smith
Followers of Yeshua are called to take up their cross—to become martyrs. This mandate inspired one filmmaker, Reed Smith, to explore the lives of those disciples who are risking everything to follow Yeshua. In the process, he found that the gos...
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Season 5
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Episode 69
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1:08:59
68 – The Telepathy Tapes and Jewish Spirituality
The Telepathy Tapes has become one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Severely autistic non-verbal children and adults have apparently always been able to read minds, and they’re receiving revelations from God that validate a Messianic ...
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Season 5
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Episode 68
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1:49:34
67 – Autism, Telepathy, and Faith | Katie Asher
For almost two decades, the doctors told her that her son was a lost cause—he would never speak, would never understand, would never function in society. Then, a miracle happened. Our guest today is Katie Asher from The Telepathy Tapes podcast,...
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Season 5
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Episode 67
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1:47:38
66 – Reaching Muslims with the Gospel of the Kingdom | Devon Phillips
The Middle East is in turmoil and anti-Muslim sentiment in the West has rarely been higher. Many are preparing for an apocalyptic battle in which Muslims are the enemy. Nevertheless, a chosen few have crossed oceans and borders to undertake mis...
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Season 5
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Episode 66
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51:42
65 – Battling Nazi Demons | Pastor Werner Oder
The Nazis lost World War II. But their legacy of anti-Semitism lives on, powered by demonic forces that have infiltrated even the church. So says Pastor Werner Oder, whose father was an SS officer, but whose life was completely transformed thro...
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Season 5
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Episode 65
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52:30
64 – Apocalyptic Accountability | Marc Tuzzolino
The evangelical church is in the midst of a scandal epidemic. But the deeper issue is a misunderstanding of the gospel. Without repentance, the gospel loses its power, and so-called Christians persist in willful sin. Our guest today, Marc Tuzzo...
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Season 5
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Episode 64
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