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Day 2 Leopold Cohn was born into an Orthodox Jewish community in Berezna, a small town in eastern Hungary in 1862. At age 18 he graduated with high marks from the Talmudic academy and became a rabbi. One of his daily rituals was to repeat the 12th article of the Jewish creed: I believe with a perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah, and though He tarry, yet will I wait daily for His coming. Cohn however wondered why Messiah tarried but was unsettled by the "answers" he was able to find. As he studied Daniel’s prophecy of the "70 weeks" in Daniel 9:24-27, it became clear that Daniel had predicted the coming of Messiah some 400-500 years after the prophecy was given; that was 2500 years ago and the rabbis said that Messiah had not yet come. Cohn's older rabbi mentor advised him to drop the subject altogether or he might lose his rabbinical career. The rabbi further explained that he could not discuss the matter without losing his own job. He advised Cohn to go to America where, people knew more about the Messiah. In 1892, Cohn left Hungary for New York City in search of the truth about the Messiah. Cohn happened to pass by a church and noticed a small sign, "Meetings for Jews." Cohn met another Jewish man also trained in the Talmud. It was there that he received a copy of the New Testament which he read straight through, beginning at 11:00 one morning and finishing at 1:00 AM the next day. He personally concluded that Jesus was indeed the promised Messiah prophesied by Daniel to come. Soon thereafter he received Jesus, as his Messiah, Savior and Lord. He began to go to his people, the Jews, and in Cohn's words “I showed them from the Scriptures that to believe in Jesus was Jewish faith, real Jewish faith.” What followed was sorrow, travail and persecution from other Jews because of his presumed "betrayal" of their orthodox faith. In 1894 Cohn set up a storefront mission for the sole purpose of telling others that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. The first Bible meeting was attended by eight Jewish people. The Lord continued to bless this work, and in the course of his lifetime, Leopold Cohn led over 1,000 Jews to the Lord. #247daily
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