SO we can be blessed by sharing the gospel with them. My theory is that if we will go and share the greatest gift and blessing we possess with the Jewish people, the truth of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord, we will be greatly blessed. Having received so great a salvation, let us not be slack in blessing God s chosen people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. The story of how Queen Isabella sold her jewels in order to buy the three ships for Columbus breaks down under some cool historical research. It was not Queen Isabella s jewels, but Queen Isabella s Jews who purchased the three ships for Columbus.
History shows that two Jewish banking families bought the ships.
Many of the men on the three vessels were Jews fleeing Spain as a result of the Edict of Expulsion. According to Columbus s own diary, the first one to spot land was a Jew sitting in the crow s nest. So as Europe was slowly beginning to close its doors to the Jews, a new world was discovered that was eventually to become, in the form of the Untied States, the greatest haven for Jews fleeing persecution around the world.