Israel

I’m overjoyed reading this piece of news. No doubt there remains much persecution of Messianic Jews in Israel, but it is wonderful to witness more in Israel coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

Source: The Christian Broadcasting Network.
Original broadcast July 13, 2008.

Israel’s Messianic Jews: Some Call it a Miracle 

Photo by Brew*Crew

In Israel, a resurgence in the number of Jews who believe in Jesus is getting a lot of attention. Many leaders say it’s the strongest growth since the time of Jesus and that the Messianic movement could be on the brink of a great revival.

“This is the first time where we’ve seen Israeli society in general being so open to consider who Yeshua is,” said Messianic leader Asher Intrater. “This is a real miracle, and there’s beginning to be grace and favor with us in the land.”

Although Jesus and the early disciples were Jewish, for nearly 2,000 the gospel has been viewed as a religion mainly for Gentiles. Even the name Jesus or Yeshua has been a forbidden word among many Jews. But in the last few years, Messianic leaders in Israel say something important is happening.

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This blog stands with Israel, and firmly believes that

1. The restoration of the State of Israel on 14 May, 1948 is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy (Isaiah 66:8, Ezekiel 38:8).
2. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and the recapture of the city in 1967 is fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
3. Jerusalem will be a burdensome stone for all nations in these days is fulfillment of Biblical prophecy
   (Zechariah 12:2-3).
4. Israel is God’s timepiece in the end of days (Matthew 24:32).
5. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob shall keep His promise to His people Israel and intervene to save them when all seems to be lost (Luke 13:35).

Shalom Yerushalayim!

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
May they be secure who love you!

Psalm 122:6

May 14 this year sees the 60th anniversary of the restoration of the state of Israel — a miracle in itself fulfilling Biblical prophecy!

These are exciting times indeed for us who look forward to the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the Lord has told us that when we see Israel back in the land that God has given to the Israelites He shall soon return.

From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Matthew 24:32-34

This video discusses some of the prophecies that were fulfilled when Israel was restored on 14 May, 1948.

Pesach

I’ve just finished reading a great booklet called “The Holidays Of God: The Spring Feasts” by Kevin Williams, published by the Discovery Series at RBC Ministries, the same people who have been giving us the “Our Daily Bread” series for a good while now.

I decided to write in and requested copies since I thought my wife would enjoy them, as it was also part of the literature in my growing years.

The booklet came with the package and piqued our interests immediately because it talked about the Spring Feasts that the Jews celebrate. It was also very useful because it gave a diagram of the Jewish months alongside our Gregorian calendar months and indicated when the feasts were celebrated.

What caught my attention was the account of the broken matzah eaten during Pesach (the Passover).

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I have this much intelligence!

George Bush bows to his god ‘oil’ and calls legitimate Israeli ownership of ‘Palestinian territories’ the big ‘O’ word — occupation¹.

I wonder which Bible George Bush reads because the one that I read, and which many other Christians around the world also do, says that Israel belongs to the Jews, including the land which he now calls ‘occupied Palestinian territories‘.

And what in the world is a Palestinian state anyhow? There’s never been in history any record of a Palestinian state, or a Palestinian people. If there were, we’d see archaeological records of such a people, their culture captured in relics, writings, paintings, etc.

Yet there’s none.

What we do see from archaeological digs and know from recorded history even outside of the Bible is that there was a Jewish state in that strip of land, and in the ‘occupied territories’.

So, where is the legitimacy for the claim of these ‘Palestinians’ who now demand a state on the world stage, and which countless world leaders are scrambling to help create at the expense of Israel’s security and at the cost of billions of dollars.

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Reflections...

Just a day more, and soon the new year will be upon us. What has 2007 been like for you? What has 2007 brought about in you? These are questions I’m sure most of us would ask ourselves either today or the eve of the new year. And I’m sure that there’d be many who will be making new year resolutions too.

This past year hasn’t been a great one for me in terms of success as the world defines it. There has been no breakthrough career-wise, much less financially. In fact, quite the opposite has happened — I’ve seen a fall in my take-home income and seem to be stagnant in terms of career advancement. There have also been some difficulties that had me tossing and turning in bed, worrying about this issue or that problem.

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Arutz Sheva, or Israel National News, on 2 December 2007 published details of the completion of the High Priest’s crown, or tzitz in Hebrew (video presentation). The tzitz is made from pure gold, in accordance with God’s instructions to Moses.

You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’ And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

Exodus 28:36-38

The Temple

All that’s needed now is the Third Temple in Israel, and we shall know that we are indeed in the final week of Daniel’s vision when there shall be great tribulation, and when our Lord Jesus Christ shall return in glory and majesty!

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Take heed, you God-less political leaders who are proposing to divide up Eretz Yisrael, God’s possession, while you barter and debate in Annapolis in the name of “peace”.

Yet, in reality you are but only trying to sate the selfish motives of your own dark hearts!

Take heed, for the LORD has made a promise unto His own and shall give unto you due judgment!

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,
until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
You shall no more be termed Forsaken,
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,
and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.

On your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set watchmen;
all the day and all the night
they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
take no rest,
and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it a praise in the earth.
The Lord has sworn by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give your grain
to be food for your enemies,
and foreigners shall not drink your wine
for which you have labored;
but those who garner it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and those who gather it shall drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”

Go through, go through the gates;
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
lift up a signal over the peoples.
Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
Say to the daughter of Zion,
“Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.”
And they shall be called The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
and you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.

Isaiah 62:1-12

Amen!

As for us, my dear Christian brethren and sisters, remember Israel and pray incessantly for her and Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).

Shalom Aleichem.

Missing the forest for the tree?

I have come across many Christians, though strong in their faith and their obedience to the LORD, are not keen on reading or watching the daily news with regards to events happening in the world today.

It’s important to be joyful and fill one’s heart with the fullness of the LORD and fellowship and prayer and even to go out to the streets to evangelize, but do you know also that we are the Watchmen? And without knowledge of what is happening in the world, especially in the Middle East, we cannot be effective watchmen!

Do you know what Iran is doing? Can you put down in point form what Condoleeza Rice is proposing in the Middle East with regards to our beloved Israel and the “Palestinians”? On which day did Israel become a nation again?

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Phase 1: Indignation

I just read this piece of news saying that as part of the ‘peace’ deal between Israel and the Palestinian people, Ehud Olmert’s government has turned over control of the Temple Mount to the enemy.

According to top Palestinian sources, the proposal is for Jerusalem’s Old City holy sites near the Mount to be governed by a Jewish, Christian and Muslim task force; and the Western Wall plaza below the Mount to be controlled by Israel.

In addition, Israel will evacuate from most of the West Bank and cede the eastern sections of Jerusalem.

The Temple Mount is Israel’s holiest site, for crying out loud, and people who have no claim whatsoever to land either historically, religiously or otherwise are demanding that the Jews give up their holiest site within their own state to foreign control?!

That made my blood boil with indignation.

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