Page 1 - Good News November 2009 paper

My name is Sid Roth. I am a Jew. bar mitzvah.
Both my parents were Jewish. I
have Israeli and American organized religion irrelevant to
citizenship. I attended a tradi- my life. I was proud of being
tional synagogue where I was
upbringing had carefully hidden from me. I was
Like most American Jews, I found stunned!
So I began to read the Jewish Scriptures for myself
and I got the shock of my life. What he had said
Jewish, but bored with religion. might well be true. No sooner had that thought
To be honest, my god was money. formed in my mind than the New Age spirit guide
My goal was to be a millionaire by that I had surrendered to, began to curse me from
the age of 30. By 29, I had inside that same mind!
graduated from College, was Previously, I thought I controlled this New Age spirit
married, was the father of one guide, but I now knew that was not true. I had a
daughter, and was an Account power, a strong power, and it was evil.
Executive for Merrill Lynch. I went to sleep that night so full of fear, I wanted to
Although I had a wonderful life die! In desperation I prayed, “Jesus, help!” I still did
and career, I felt that I was a failure not know if Jesus was real, but I had nowhere else
because I was not a millionaire. to turn.
I did something I am not proud of. I Continued on p. 8
left my wife, daughter and Merrill
Lynch and went searching for
happiness. My search led me to
Eastern meditation, the New Age.
During this search, I almost lost
my mind. Life was too difficult.
A Christian businessman chal-
lenged me and told me that my
Jewish Bible condemned my
occult practices, and also told me
that JESUS was the Jewish
Messiah that my Orthodox Jewish