Stephen J. Spykerman

STEPHEN J SPYKERMAN was born in September 1940 during the Nazi occupation of Holland. His parents were Catholics of Jewish origin and he was the fourth son of seven children with a Dutch father and an English mother. The family escaped the Holocaust due to his parent’s Catholic religion plus the fact that his mother was English and thus she was seen as the English rather than the Jewish woman. Stephen’s early years were full of excitement and danger, as their house for a brief time became the emergency temporary headquarters for the Dutch resistance in his region. Prior to this his father was arrested by the Nazi authorities and held for some six months in a special prison for people who were considered influential in their local communities. His parents also sheltered Henny Cohen, a Jewish woman, who was hiding whilst on the run from the Nazis. At the same time their formidable children’s nanny worked as courier for the Dutch resistance. At age seventeen Stephen had a major encounter with God which resulted in his leaving the Roman Catholic Church for good.

Having received a solid general education, he spurned the higher education his parents had hoped for and entered the world of retail fashion at age nineteen. After working in his hometown for a few years he left to try his luck in London, where he trained as a tailor in various high-class fashion houses. Whilst he was aware that his maternal grandfather had been a renowned tailor in London, he did not realise at the time that he was following a family tradition going back for at least five generations. Then in 1965 he married Virginia Edwards, and after the second of his four children was born, he left the fashion industry to take up a more lucrative career in financial services. During a successful career he pioneered a number of new schemes and concepts in charitable giving and seminar selling, and became an international speaker in his field. His interest in public speaking led him to direct his own public speaking club. In the years prior to his retirement in 1997, he became involved in a Speakers Bureau, after which he and a colleague set up their own International Speakers Bureau in London.

Once retired from day to day business he started writing books and founded Mount Ephraim Publishing as a vehicle for his work. As an Elder and representative of the Mayim Chayim Messianic Community in England he visited Israel in 1998 and, whilst there he re-discovered his interest in the Two Houses of Israel truth. In his subsequent visit the following year many doors were opened for him into an Orthodox community who incredibly embraced the same truth. This in turn led to being invited to speak at Two Houses of Israel conference at the Jerusalem Hilton Hotel in 2000. In the year of that same conference Stephen received the calling to become; “A Watchman on Mount Ephraim!” As per Jeremiah 31:6.

Some years later and by a Divine appointment he was given the privilege to teach some senior rabbis some of the things God had revealed to him about the restoration of the whole House of Israel.

Then in 2010, Stephen, his wife Virginia and his daughter Melissa moved to Ariel, which is in the so-called “occupied territories” to study Hebrew at Ariel University, where the family remained for two years. Whilst in Israel, Stephen and his wife organised an eight-day Feast of Tabernacles in the Old City Quarters of Jerusalem, as a haven for Messianic believers, Hebrew Roots people from all over the world. While he lived in Israel he wrote his fourth book titled; “The Covenant with Death,” which was published in the U.S. in 2013.Throughout his time in Israel there was a lot of pressure to convert to Judaism. One good friend and particularly persuasive rabbi prior to his leaving to go back to the U.K. exclaimed good -naturedly and somewhat tongue –in-cheek: “Stephen – ‘never convert’ – Spykerman” The family had hoped to remain in Israel for good and over the years they had made many dear friends. However, God ruled otherwise and it was a terrible wrench for the whole family to have to leave. The pill was softened somewhat, as within just one year, three of his books were published in the United States, and doors were opening in all directions for the work of Mount Ephraim Publishing. Stephen completed his eighth book to date in two volumes, which he launched during the Feast of Tabernacles 2014 in Oregon, where he had been invited as the anchor speaker for the eight day conference. The book is called; A GAME-CHANGING REVELATION – The Hidden Ancestry of America & Great Britain..

To this day he continues to give lectures. Stephen Spykerman is a consummate communicator and has addressed audiences and conferences in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Malta and Cyprus. Stephen has also published many articles, many of which may be viewed on his website; www.ephraimswatchman.org