On Holocaust Remembrance Day I remember
this passage from Zechariah 1:14-17
Then
the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the
Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, and I am very
angry with the nations that feel secure.
I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment.’
“Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,’ declares the Lord Almighty.
“Proclaim further: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
God Who Humbles Himself
by Asher Intrater, Revive Israel
It is astonishing that
the all-knowing, all-powerful, eternal creator would be willing to humble
Himself on our behalf. Why? – Because He loves us. The fact that someone so
great would be willing to make Himself so small on our behalf makes His
greatness even greater. That He did this for us while we were sinning and
rebelling against Him makes His greatness awesome beyond comprehension.
When we speak of the omnipotent,
transcendent aspects of God, we are in agreement with most Orthodox rabbis.
However, the Scriptures also speak of a mysteriously self-humbling part of God.
Psalm 113:5-6 Exalted to dwell, Humble to see
Poetically in Hebrew: Hamagbihi
lashevet, Hamashpili liraot
The cross was not only humility; it was
humiliation. YHVH–God allowed Himself to be humiliated by us puny creatures in
order to save us from the wrath we deserve because of our treacherous ways.
Then He offers to exalt us almost to divinity, simply to the praise of His own
unfathomable grace (II Peter 1:4, Ephesians 2:7).
The book of Isaiah shows a similar
paradox. On the one hand, we see an exalted, glorified king. Isaiah 6:1, 3 I saw the Lord, sitting on a throne, high
and lifted up…The whole earth is filled with His glory.
On the other hand, we see a suffering
servant, humiliated, and rejected. Isaiah 53:3 – …despised and forsaken of men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief.
Can there be any connection between the
glorified king of chapter 6 and the suffering servant of chapter 53? Yes. This
exalted-humiliated aspect of God was also predicted by Isaiah 57:15 – I dwell in the high and holy, with him who
has a contrite and humble spirit.
The exalted king of Isaiah 6 and the
humiliated servant of Isaiah 53 turn out to be one and the same in Isaiah 57.
To those who see only the lofty, transcendent aspect of God, it seems
disrespectful and offensive to see Him as lowly and humiliated. But it is in
His lowliness that He comes close to us. In His humility we find intimacy. A
God who is only exalted and transcendent is not one with whom we can experience
intimacy.
God was willing to be humbled, even humiliated, for the opportunity of
sharing intimacy with us. This aspect can be found only in Yeshua – God
humbling Himself in order to have relationship with us.
4/2/21 Revive Israel
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Summarized
from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests
Israeli Ministries
The personal testimony of
Birgitta, one of Israel's worship singers in the Fellowship of Artists is
really a must read in the new Maoz Israel Report. Shani Ferguson wrote, ""Birgitta
shared with me one of the most chilling personal testimonies I’d ever heard.
Her story stayed with me for days until I finally called her up and asked to
share it with you." It really is amazing.
I continue to find Shani Ferguson's choice of prayer points to be
unusual, and even extraordinary. Her insights on activism and "identifying
injustice and providing justice" in our society are worthy to seek out, as the prayer points that
are noted for the issue.
Israel Pochtar sends The Feast of Unleavened Bread | Passover in the Desert | VIDEO The Essence of Passover Part 6 | It Is Finished—Yeshua's
Completed Work of Redemption | VIDEO & ARTICLE "He is Risen!" —Culmination of Passover I am in awe of all that Israel
Pochtar does each week!
David & Josie Silver, Israelis originally from Australia, share David's Latest Video Update March 30 and April 6. Plus the weekly Zoom meeting, The View from Carmel, a Q & A Forum, every Tuesday
9.00 pm Israel time | Learn more about Out of Zion ministries at the website
where they also share teachings in articles and videos.
Gilad Rosinger of Radiant
Israel continued in their Prophetic Journey Through Passover series —you can
access more on their blog. Also learn more about this Galilee ministry
on their website Radiant Israel. This is a young family with a big vision,
see more in about us
Joseph Magen of Kehila News Israel comes out from
behind Publisher/Editor/CEO's desk to do this video What is the meaning of Passover in Hebrew and what does it have to do
with the coronavirus? Plus from the All Israel News Staff enjoy
this VIDEO Easter Sunday in the Holy Land: Israeli, international Christians
celebrate resurrection of Jesus at the Garden Tomb. Another feature
in Kehila is Israel Harel's latest book Habakkuk: A Guide to Spiritual Maturity. This book follows the maturing process of Habakkuk as he records it.
Following his journey helps us in our own journey to maturity from spiritual
childhood, through young adulthood, to spiritual fatherhood.
A great report from Ariel Hyde of the Tree of Life ministries team about their opening video The Greatest Scandal in the History of Modern Israel (an exposé on what abortion really is) being viewed like wildfire (that
is, until the social media platforms began to severely limit it after 600,000
Hebrew-speaker views in its first week! Please pray for restraints to be
removed.) Most people assume that Israel would be, well, holy as in Holy Land,
but it isn't. Reality is abortion isn't even questioned as a moral issue in
Israel. "Almost no one has ever
publicly spoken out against abortion in Israel, so most people just assume
that’s what you do if you have an unwanted pregnancy. But our prayer has been
that God would use this campaign to stir up a grassroots movement of people who
will actually take a stand for life - and it seems that’s beginning to happen!"
Please pray for the Tree of Life ministry and Be'Ad Chaim, the Messianic
pro-Life organization.
Chuck Cohen of Intercessors for Israel gives praise in his Friday Prayer
Points April 2, 2021 that
prophetic portion in the Torah reading for the Passover Shabbat was Ezekiel's
vision of the resurrection of Israel's dry bones—precisely during the period
that Messiah Yeshua was still in the Garden Tomb before being resurrected. These are not coincidence, they are Divine
messages from God whispering to Israel and to us all what times we are in.
Praise the LORD. Read the full scope of
prayer points, with scriptures from IFI.
Chaim Malespin of the Aliyah
Return Center writes about their support of the 7,000 "Lone Soldiers"
in Israel who have no family or support to go home to off the base. Some are in
Israel alone with no family living in Israel, others have been shunned by
family who do not believe they should be in IDF service, like some of the religious
sects, or even Christian Arabs. That's
why the ARC is renovating a Lone Soldier's residence by the sea of Galilee for
their use. See Lone Soldier's Warm House - Upper Room, and consider a donation to help. Also learn more about the Altar of Prayer, and VERTICAL team
If you missed the Passover Global Communion with Revive Israel Asher Intrater
and David Demian of Watchmen for the Nations, you can still watch on Revive's Facebook Page and YouTube Channel. Also, please download the free Passover e-BOOK to learn what unique and historic moment occurred at the
2020 Global Passover and Last Supper alignment. Part of becoming "one new
man" in Messiah is ACTUAL & REAL TIME alignment for prayer and
communion is strategic times, or as the Bible calls them "moed"
—the Divinely appointed times of God's Feasts (Passover, Unleavened
Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles). They are
commanded of Israel, but they are also strategic to the making of twain, one
new man in Messiah.
At the City of Life congregation in Sderot, Michael Beener reports they did a
large distribution of food vouchers, plus gifts of Matzot (unleavened bread)
and local wine so Elders And
Holocaust Survivors Were Able To Celebrate Passover. Others who
couldn't get to their building, the City of Life team went to their homes to
distribute the much welcomed gifts. To be elderly and without means on such
holidays no matter what brave face one puts on it, is depressing. One feels
forgotten. These acts of lovingkindness are great in the sight of the LORD.
Learn more about the Compassionate
Outreach Projects that City of Life are doing in a battered and poor city
and consider partnering with
them in the work.
From Nazareth where Yeshua began his public ministry, Christian Arab Rania
Sayegh of the HOPE, House of Prayer & Exploits wishes Passover &
Resurrection blessings to all. She relates a vision she had on the Eve of
Passover of "the Angel of Awakening over the nations and Israel." The
angel had a big trumpet and as he sounded it a release of the winds of the
Spirit came from the 4 corners of the earth, blowing a layer of dust off of
Israel and the nations. "The Lord explained to me (Rania) that this
angel is an angel of awakening. The dust was to remove the spirit of death that
is trying to cover the nations and set His people free in this Passover season.
It is God’s decree over His people, “Let my people go!” Please pray into this
vision with us so that God will release the Angel of Awakening! read Isaiah 25:6-9
Also Rania reports that 2
Muslim women who came to clean up after renovations of the HOPE Guesthouse and
Prayer House, came to faith after she shared the Gospel with them and prayed of
3 healing miracles. She is continuing to disciple them and the HOPE team is this
is just the tiny firstfruits of the harvest to be released. [DD: I had never thought of it before, but
when Paul says that "all Israel shall be saved" in our day "all
Israel" includes many Israeli Arabs. What a blessing to see this is an
even wider promise than I originally believed!]
We also wanted to invite you to sow a Passover/Resurrection gift into HOPE's New
Building Project. Plus a vision to release
the sound of Arabic worship from the mountains of Israel and including the harp
in worship. We are therefore planning to take 8-10 young people from our
worship teams to a Harps Workshop in Jerusalem..
Ron Cantor of Messiah's Mandate reports that they had $10,000 to
bless Holocaust Survivors struggling during the COVID lockdowns in Israel—and
generous donors gave. "We were able to organize some special excursions to
biblical sites along with 14 Passover Seders, with almost 200 Holocaust
Survivors! These Holocaust Survivors were so excited to be able to participate
in the these events. Today, Israel is in the midst of Holocaust Memorial Day:
"It is one of the saddest days of the year, as all TV broadcasts focus on
the Holocaust—movies, interviews, and more. There will be memorial services all
throughout the country." It is not too late to send a donation gift to Bless
Holocaust Survivors
Carolyn and Richard Hyde of Heart of G-d ministries writes that the Hebrew word
"hapalah" is used for both miscarriage and abortion. It is another
indication why there is no stigma against abortion in Israel, which is not to
say that people who get abortions do not suffer the consequences in their
innermost being for this sin. Whatever society may say about any sin, God has
given every human being an innate awareness of what is sin. We may suppress it,
ignore it, we may harden ourselves to acknowledging it, we may lose all
sensitivity to conscience, but it is still inside us to know because God put
that in us. That is why the Tree of Life Israel Media
Team's pro-life campaign is stirring up such
response. Carolyn and Richard are involved in the effort, seeing how their two
sons are integral leaders in the Tree of Life.
In this effort, which is also aimed at sharing the Gospel, they are
working with the Be'ad Chaim pro-Life organization, who counsel and help those
women who are referred to them. It is not just helping them through the
decision not to abort, but it is also making a way for them to have their
babies—the support level is a completely different approach from what we see in
the US. Such a worthy effort from everyone mentioned in this paragraph.
Also Carolyn is doing a
worship/prayer watch with the ARC Altar of Prayer, AOP, each Wednesday from 3-6PM Israeli time to worship and pray for
Aliyah. Please join me on Zoom at any point during that time or join any other
watch as Adonai leads and if you're in the Galilee, come and join me at our
home! DAY 4
WATCH and the Israeli flag below for the 8th watch from 3-6PM Israeli time. I
sensed that Adonai wanted me to place my computer on the ledge of our balcony
and let intercessors proclaim Scripture and prophetic words over the Galilee -
what a joy!
From Tikkun Global Ron Cantor points out that the "angel of death" in
the Passover story in Exodus 12:23, is actually "the destroyer."
Those who had the blood on the doorposts were shielded by God from the
destroyer who also "wreaks havoc on the world, except... he cannot touch
those with God’s seal—those covered by Yeshua’s blood—the perfect Lamb of God."
[DD, this is the same as in God's love letter to Israel, Isaiah 54. In verse
15-17, God again identifies the destroyer —the blacksmith that brings
forth weapons for his work of destroying. But God says it is the inheritance of
the servants of the Lord, that "No
weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against
you in judgment You shall condemn." Weapons may form, but God has
given us protection, just as in the Passover in Egypt long ago.
Some wonderful articles from Tikkun Global include Marty Shoub's excellent How Long?, Asher Intrater's Three Dimensional Meaning of Passover, Eitan Shishkoff's Wrestling With Tisha B’Av,
and two from Dan Juster: Calendar Confusion | The News Media.
Finally, and I hope this reaches
you in time to watch the live Holocaust Remembrance event from the Aliyah
Return Center. At 7Pm Israel time, we will hear from Chaim
Malespin, and hear firsthand accounts of
a WWII hero. The premiere will be aired Thursday, April 8th at 7 PM IST. Click to watch the premiere LIVE.
Urgent HEALING Needs: Life and Death is in the power
of the tongue
Please keep in prayer
the Israeli believers who are fighting for their lives or other urgent health
needs:
Pray for the Silvers: David's knees and Josie's
back pain | Rachel Netanel who is recovering from a broken ankle. She asks prayers for healing and for the
pain to subside. Living in a home with
lots of stairs makes it all the more difficult| A prayer request for Naomi, for a dear family that is a part of Israel Pochtar's pastoral team, who
was diagnosed recently with colon cancer. "Despite what this battle
entails, we are confident in God’s unfailing Word and promises." Read in her own words| Ronit Bender wrote, I am feeling pretty good, but do have trouble climbing stairs and walking is getting tougher for me because of my heart situation. My cardiologist was changed by my health provider. He is very
unpleasant and I want a new one. | Rachel Netanel wrote, Please pray for me as well. I have very high blood pressure and the
doctors have sent me to have a number of tests. The results won’t come for a
while but please pray that all will be well. I do have peace in Yeshua.
| Please
continue to pray for Jacob Damkani for the
LORD's mercies over Jacob and his dear wife, Elisheva | Olga Bikas is slowly recovering from a broken ankle (after her back
surgery!) The recovery process is slow, but, praise the Lord, she is getting
better and stronger, can already walk for 20 minutes and do some physical The
recovery process is slow, but, praise the Lord, she is getting better and
stronger, can already walk for 20 minutes and do some physical exercises. Please
keep praying for Olga
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