Thursday, August 5, 2021

The Mysterious Ways of God | Arrows from Zion | 8 5 2021

 



Lights in Darkness

The Mysterious Ways of God
by Donna Diorio

Several times in scripture God says that He closed the eyes and ears of the Jews so they could not perceive His miracles and understand what it meant. (Deuteronomy 29:2-4 for example). Then, again in Isaiah 6:10 "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return/be restored and be healed."
    
Why would God do such a thing as make the Jewish people incapable of seeing and hearing and understanding with their heart the miracles God performed for their sakes? Why make it nearly impossible for Israel to perceive her own Messiah? I cannot begin to explain God’s thinking on this, but I will say what God’s Word tells me: it was done to create a channel to open salvation to all nations and all peoples, and not just to the Jews.  Israel had to reject the Messiah for a season to make the way for God to open the eyes and ears of the rest of the peoples of the world. God’s heart is and remains for ALL peoples, including the Jews.

     It is important to know that God moved early in His dealings with Israel to create the channel of opening salvation beyond just Israel and the Jewish people. God did not speak a “partial blindness” on Israel because He had come to hate the stubbornly sinful Jews like so many have supposed. Truth be told ALL of humankind is stubbornly sinful but God had a rescue plan – a plan to rescue all of us from ourselves and it was a plan He set in motion FROM THE BEGINNING.
     God’s plan called for choosing out a BLOOD line of people in the earth to be God's people. To them He would give all His instructions in righteousness (The Torah). To them He would give the line of succession to the King of the whole earth: Yeshua. To them He would make an everlasting covenant and promises that are still in force today. To them He would return in the fullness of time to restore this people to Himself in His Son. To ALL, however, to be reconciled to God, we must come through the BLOOD line of the sacrificial death of Yeshua. No exemptions. Yeshua died once for ALL.

     Over the 2,000 year period of Christianity, it has been widely misunderstood that putting a veil of blindness over the eyes and deafness to hearing and understanding the Gospel of the Jews was always in God’s plan from the beginning. It was not Plan B, it was always Plan A.  Even so a REMNANT of Jews responded to seeing and hearing Yeshua in His earthly ministry and after He ascended to the Father. If not,  dear Christian, you would not be saved today because it was an Israeli Messianic Jewish Remnant saved by grace in Messiah Yeshua who carried the Gospel out to the four corners of the earth!  Once again in our day there is an Israeli Messianic Jewish Remnant of around 20,000 who are carrying the Gospel within Israel. They are citizens, not tourists, not visitors. They are fully invested in the State of Israel and in the Kingdom of our dear LORD.

          Since the reestablishment of Jews to the Holy Land and the reestablishment of the State of Israel among the nations, Jews across the world are again seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, returning to God through Yeshua and being restored and healed. This "remnant" of believing Jews exist today in an ocean of unbelieving Jews and we must discern between their two different spiritual states:  Jewish believers differ from unbelieving Jews. But we also must remember that God has designs on the unbelieving Jews too. Believers are our spiritual relatives by shared faith in Yeshua/Jesus.
     We are not “Blood-related” to unbeliever Jews…yet! We don’t love the one and hate the other, but we already have a Jesus-bond with every single Messianic Jew in the world and we do not share that family bond with unbelieving Jews.  
     So there is a certain tension to balance between our understanding that an unbelieving Jew is an enemy of the Gospel who might even try to harm us because of our faith (one example is identified below), and the necessity to remember how God wants unbelieving Jews to come to faith. We are not to be a stumbling block to them coming to faith, but we also don't regard unbelieving Jews as already having faith. Jews do not have some other kind of covenant with God that makes Yeshua unnecessary for them to be reconciled through. We must always recognize God wants Jews to be restored through the Blood of Yeshua too. He is the ONLY Door to salvation. Scripture is crystal clear on that point.

     Even though we are seeing more and more Jews awakening and coming to faith in Yeshua, the majority of Jews in the world today continue to be as described by Isaiah —blind and deaf to the way of Salvation. So it is important for us not to lose sight of that reality, because of what the apostle Paul wrote to the Romans which is still true today: "And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.” REGARDING THE GOSPEL, THEY ARE ENEMIES (dia) for your sakes; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs."

     That word "dia" is translated several ways, "on your account" or "for your benefit" or “for your advantage” but what it really means is that the Jews were made enemies of the Gospel "denoting the channel of an act." So the blinding the Jews to restoration to God through Messiah Yeshua is the act which God imposed in order to open a channel of salvation to all the nations. Jews were made “enemies of the Gospel” and it is almost as if God gave the Christians in all the nations the ultimate test of our hearts with them. Are our hearts sacrificed to the will of His heart? Are we being transformed to His likeness to the point that even the “enemies of the Gospel” we can view from His eyes of compassion?

     God is removing the blindness of the Jews in our day and it will reach its peak in Him removing the blindness so that "all Israel shall be saved."  But between now and then, do not consider it strange to see Jewish enemies of the Gospel causing real trouble for believers. Our test is to keep the natural reality and spiritual reality of our relationship with Jews in light Romans 11:28 in Divine balance.

     Now a "remnant" of believing Jews exists already - one million plus worldwide - but there are 14 million Jews worldwide; 20 million when counting those that are partially Jewish. Even though Jews are continually and increasingly coming to faith, the majority are still enemies of the Gospel. Some are quite zealously enemies of the Gospel even while keeping a seemingly tolerant face on for Christians. Few keep a tolerant face on for Messianic Jews and that is a meaningful reality to understand.
     Many Christian Zionists have a hard time comprehending that because so many unbelieving Jews welcome Christian alliances with Israel. Christians often don't quite 'get it' that their Jewish friends are actually vehemently opposed to ANY Jew professing faith in Yeshua. Some even major Christian Zionist ministries have been convinced that their good Jewish friends have good reasons for despising Messianic Jews and those reasons are based on something other than just their faith in Yeshua.
     This is a common pitfall to some Christian Zionists who have not quite worked out the balance we must strike as Christians toward Jews.  Some of them have even set themselves apart from and even in opposition to the Messianic Jews of Israel.  As Christians we have to wrestle with all the spiritual realities here and find ourselves in the will of God. It is NOT God’s heart for Christians to place their own good standing with unbelieving Israel ABOVE our BOOD relationship with Israeli Messianic Jews who are our spiritual family. It is also not God’s heart that Christians devote themselves to a friendship with Israel that compromises those who are preaching the Gospel in Israel. These are the Jews scripture is referring to bringing the Gospel to Israelis, "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” Friendship can only go so far, the Gospel has to be shared.    
     Earlier I said I would give an example of how unbelieving Jews might put us to the test in walking out the tension between understanding that they are “enemies of the Gospel” who might try to cause us harm, and the reality that God wants them reconciled to Him. Here is that example:
     This week I saw a report that PayPal has hired the "hyper-partisan" the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) "to lay out criteria that will allow that payment-services giant to essentially shut down any group it labels 'extremist'.”  That means that every Messianic ministry and every Christian organization advocating for the Israeli Messianic believers are in almost certain jeopardy if relying on PayPal for electronic donations.  There is pushback from American politically conservative Jews but most American Jews are not conservative, and even so, targeting Messianic-oriented ministries is not going to raise many Jewish voices in protest.
     This is but one example, and we really have to “Guard our heart with all diligence” so we are not tempted to harbor animosity against the (unbeliever) Jewish role in some things that are happening politically. Let’s face it: there is an increasing spirit of persecution against people of faith. It is not hostility based on race or other excuses; it is based on the spiritual state of unbelievers versus believers.

     If you have been depending on PayPal for ministry donations, you may want to begin to look for another means of electronic transfers. I am going to be checking out TransferWise which is a cheaper alternative to PayPal for international transfers.  Here also are The Best 17 PayPal Alternatives: Top Solutions Reviewed (July 2021)

     The days we are entering into are bound to create a tension in issues that arise like the ones described in this article. God wants the unbeliever to come to faith. We want what God wants for them. Standing as a channel of Jewish restoration to faith through salvation in Yeshua is our way forward and the priority for us is in funding the Gospel-bearing Israeli Messianic Jews. When Israel comes to faith, the whole world will see there is something to this Yeshua. It will mean “life from the dead” worldwide.


Arrows from Zion
Summarized from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests Israeli Ministries

Right off the bat we have urgent prayers for many of the greatly effective ministry leaders in northern Israel and youth from across Israel who despite all precautions, over 60 were infected with the Covid virus at the Katzir/Harvest Youth Camp last week. So far as of the last hour (noon/Thurs/5th) we have confirmed covid in Eitan Shishkoff, Leon Mazin (who is hospitalized) and his family, Joel Jelski, Cody, Liat and Hallel Archer, Rami, youth leader at Acco Harvest of Asher along with three of their youth,
the adult married daughter of Avi & Chaim Mizrachi OrEl. All of the above have families so please cover the families from spread of Covid. All participants were tested prior to the event, however one teen attended another event after the test and prior to camp start. I like the prayer request Liat made: “Pray for healing, wisdom and grace for everyone involved. Pray also that what God did this week in the lives of the youth would not be overshadowed by this situation.”  Pray Isaiah 54:16-17 over them all! Remember this camp things were done in the Spirit for the teens – it is not just covid that happened.
      I don't think it takes a genius to figure out this is an ATTACK OF THE ENEMY on Eitan, the Acco and Haifa ministries associated with Tents of Mercy,  on the Katzir Youth Camp, on the Fields of Wheat ministry team and vision for Equipping for the Harvest. Not only have the Katzir camps for the past couple of decades under Eitan's direction been equipping young people to live and walk strong in the LORD, the vision is on the verge of going into a greater level of impact. The expanded vision of
Fields of Wheat is a powerful spiritual investment in generations of Israeli Messianic believers as the spiritual harvest in Israel ramps up in earnest.  It reminded me when I first heard of Eitan Shishkoff because in 1997 his congregation was firebombed by anti-Messianic Orthodox Jews. The place was gutted but God took what was meant to harm Eitan’s ministry work and turned it into a blessing because as news of the event spread, there was an outpouring of donations that allowed the congregation to obtain an even better facility. As I remember this, I urge you to pray that God would answer this attack of Covid on Eitan and the Fields of Wheat Vision, by opening the way in every way to complete the property purchase in the most perfect land space. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, so He must own the hills too!  (Psalm 50:10)

ALSO: In this article by Eitan Shishkoff, he shares why he wrote his newly released book, “With All Your Heart” Here is an excerpt from the article to get you started. Then click the title to read the full article.
     With All Your Heart is a book born out of affection for young people. From leading a faith-based group of underprivileged boy scouts in the 1970s, to overseeing dozens of teen camps in Israel, I’ve always been drawn to youth – and moved by their raw honesty. Interacting with them over the decades has challenged me to respond to their needs – and make God more than just a word they hear in congregational services.

     “I’m also a grandfather. So, I wrote this book for my grandchildren (ages 1 to 22), to impart my heart –  hopefully in a way that will leave a lasting deposit of what it really means to live FULLY from one’s heart, connected with God’s heart.” 
     On sale at
Amazon. I just bought a copy that happens to arrive on my 70th birthday. Looking forward to reading my present to myself.

Joel Jelski filed a report too because he has to put his planned trip to the US on hold (8/26-9/13) as he waits out exposure to Covid.  After no travel lockdowns, donations among the ministries has dwindled – acutely! So, since he cannot travel please consider helping anyway:
Click here to view the ways you can donate now to the Fields of Wheat vision including supporting the Jelski and Archer ministry team. Joel sent testimonies of teens from the camp writing, “Each one is Gold to us, and exactly the reason we sacrifice and work to make these camps possible.”

     S - On the first night I felt frustrated. I kept seeking the Lord but felt stuck. On the second night, I felt led by the spirit to kneel. As I knelt and prayer, I saw a bright white light. At first, I thought it was someone with a camera. I looked, and everything was dark. I then understood God was shining his light into my heart and the Lord wanted to do some new things in my life.

     P  -- for the longest time I felt alone, like I didn't belong. For the first time after this camp, I feel like I belong, like i'm not alone. That God can bring freedom and breakthrough into my life.

     M - On the second day, I felt the Lord move me deeply in a way I had never felt before. I repented and gave my life to the Lord.

     Y - for the few years before this camp, I was not walking with the Lord. On one of the nights, I felt led to kneel. As I knelt, I began to weep, not understanding why. I became angry at God because I could not hear him. As I talked and prayed with my small group leader, I understood that my sin and rebellion had built a barrier between me and God. I repented, gave my life back to the Lord, and realized that all of my running after the world and my desires were not better than the plan God had for my life.

Guy Cohen also wrote for prayers over those affected by the virus noting also that Lebanon is of great concern, nearing financial collapse and incidents of firing rockets into Israel. “May Israel operate with compassion toward her neighbors; may God use the situation turning what the enemy intends for evil to good.” Also there is a massive forest fire in Jerusalem “extreme heat and threat of rocket attack from Gaza or Lebanon each are cause for concern to ignite the region in flames of fire or war. Your prayers are appreciated.”

From the Hasdey Yeshua congregation in Arab they compare what three groups of locals are diligently teaching their children. The Messianic congregation is being taught the Word of God with an emphasis on loving others, even those who aren’t like themselves, and they’re learning to pray for their enemies. The Hassidic ultra-Orthodox children are being taught by example “to hate anyone who is not like themselves, especially Messianic Jews.” (“Please pray for the deliverance of the Gur. They think they’re serving God but they’re very far from it.”) And, “The Bedouin of all ages are in bondage to the teachings of Muhammad and the traditions surrounding those teachings. But glimmers of light are breaking through.” They shared how their Bedouin worker is seeing openings o flight breaking through. 

From Israel  Pochtar of Beit Hallel and Voice of Judah ministries: VIDEO & ARTICLE  Eilat — A Southern Gem in the Middle of the Desert | VIDEO Eilat: The Gold of King Solomon and the King’s Red Sea Project | Eilat Congregation Update |   Bearing Fruit in Seasons of Drought | Supporting a Child in Need through our Back-to-School Project | Summer for God Discipleship - Our Youth visit Jerusalem |

Out of Zion Ministries’ David Silver for his Midweek Update Video July 27, 2021 and  Aug 3, 2021 |      Plus the Out of Zion Prayer for Israel Zoom meeting every Tuesday 9 pm Israel time - 7 pm UK - 2 pm EST - 6 am NZ | Go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82351582826  (Passcode: 146188)

Good report from Evan Levine of HaTikva Projects:  “…because of your incredible generosity, $76,781 was raised. We have already been able to do so much this summer as we continue to serve the Israeli people.” Like HaTikva Families reno completed & staff family moved in | HaTikva Dental new dentist and dental assistant hired for Haifa clinic, Jerusalem clinic expanded to larger downtown space | HaTikva Aid | Because of donor support, Reut VaTikva (Hope and Companionship) is ready to launch in August! Home visits will begin for 20 Jerusalem seniors who will continue to receive in-home support from HaTikva Project teams on a monthly basis. (Evan & family on much needed sabbatical until Sept)

Revive Israel’s Asher Intrater writes on Transition Principles and gives short video teaching First Prophecy, Last Prophecy.  Also Dan Juster’s writing Jewish Suffering. Plus a reports from Kenya Tikkun Africa and the VIDEO Global Broadcast | Praise, Prophecy, Prayer, and Preaching from our team in Israel.

This week, Ariel Blumenthal ministered the message.  Here’s how to Partner with the Revive Israel Team 

Michael Beener in Sderot’s City of Life congregation is seeking to help needy families with Back To School Project which provides school supplies & backpacks. Before summer ends they are also helping to restore Sderot’s children (PTSD) with a fun day at the water park in Children Recovery Day. Another new way they are just starting to help needy families Kick-starting our Clothing Project with a new Container-room. Let me encourage you that if you are sending humanitarian aid to Israel through some organization that are not even believers, that you QUIT THAT and begin to send to the Israeli Messianic congregations to distribute to the needy in their cities. Let Jesus really get the credit for your desire to help Israel.

Chuck Cohen of Intercessors for Israel Jerusalem writes about the US Pres Biden’s dealings with Israel being “alarming—for America!” Meaning “dealing anti-biblically with Israel brings a curse.” He gives prayer points for this and many other topics Friday Prayer Points for July 30, 2021  

Aliyah Return Center’s Chaim Malespin WATCH: He who Gathers. Chaim is in the US for the last leg of this trip: August 8 at 6pm @ Leesburg Nazarene / 2100 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Leesburg, FL | Aug 11 7pm @ Treasure Coast Victory Center/ Fort Pierce FL | Aug 15 10am @ Crossroads Christian Church / 1050 Girdle Rd. East Aurora, New York 14052 | Watch this VIDEO Ambassador Academy

Congrats to the Rotem & Joseph on their 4th child, Howard and Randi Bass’ 5th grandchild. Also happy birthday to Randi on 8/12 as she reaches her 70th birthday. (Me too, Randi, 70 on the 7th). Howard writes about the desire in Beer Sheva to have city wide pastors prayer meetings, but have the wrinkle about not all speaking Hebrew – there is a language barrier in some cases but the desire is there because as Howard writes, “This would also present a stronger witness and testimony for evangelism, when those 'outside' see that those 'inside' love each other despite all of the 'reasons' not to.  The love of God in Christ is stronger!  PLEASE PRAY WITH US TOWARD THIS END, WHICH I ASSUME IS A PRAYER THAT YOU CAN ALL RELATE TO WHERE YOU LIVE.”

From Kehila News Israel  This article by Cookie Schwaeber-Issan was originally published in the Jerusalem Post 7/28/21 Why does Israel reject ethnic Jews as legitimate Jews? |

Also click to Dan Juster’s evaluation of Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory in Biblical Anti-Racism (“My conclusion is that CRT is profoundly contrary to the Biblical World View. . . . Though there are movements for equality and equity not based on biblical norms and some contrary to biblical norms, I don't believe due to the sinfulness of fallen humans that such movements will succeed.  Again, such equality movements are only in nations that have biblical influence in their history. In rebellion against God, these movements are bound to lead to failure and more despair.)   

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: 

Please Pray for Eitan Shishkoff, Leon Mazin (hospitalized) & family, Cody & Liat Archer & family, several in the Acco youth,  Joel Jelski (Fields of Wheat),  and OrEl, married daughter of Avi and Chaya Mizrachi, plus others who were infected with Covid at the Youth Katzir Camp last week. Pray for each to recover fully and quickly with no harm and no spreading to families and others.  | Claude Ezagouri of the Morning Star Fellowship who has started a treatment that is due to last at least 6 months for a medical problem he has been suffering from.  Believe in prayer with them as they look to the Lord for complete healing and for  prompt recovery from some other ailments.  Hallel Goldman, daughter of Yariv Goldman, Hallel ministers to young people coming out of an Orthodox life. Hallel appears to have some kind of heart infection. Pray for her healing. Also pray for her dad, Yariv, unspoken prayer. | Ronit Bender finally has seen a new cardiologist she likes because he is caring, she’s taking new meds, feels better but still asks for our prayers | Pray for Carolyn Hyde whose left hand is so pained she can no longer play guitar and it is also sometimes painful to play piano | Silvers: David's knees and Josie's back pain | Rachel Netanel  is still recovering from a broken ankle. She asks for healing & for the pain to subside. Her ankles were weak already, so the process is slow and painful| A prayer request for Naomi, for a dear family that is a part of Israel Pochtar's pastoral team, who was diagnosed with colon cancer. "Despite what this battle entails, we are confident in God’s unfailing Word and promises." Read in her own words| Please continue to pray for Jacob Damkani for the LORD's mercies over Jacob and his dear wife, Elisheva | Dov Bikas – I have been very tired these days: probably as a result of a combination of factors: my age, stress of the days of running to the bomb shelter, work load in the ministry, etc. Olga is getting better slowly, but still has a long way before her, so please keep praying.



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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Unity in Yeshua . . . & Beaver Dams | Arrows from Zion | 7 28 2021


We continue to hear about how the Israeli Messianic Jews and Arab Christians are coming together "for strategic prayer and prophetic acts of unity and repentance in areas of the city where ethnic violence occurred during the 10-day war with Hamas in May."  
Read more from the report from Tel Aviv congregation, Tiferet Yeshua. Last week we shared about the group that prayed together in Acco. 
This is how Yeshua is bringing peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.

"The Lord is for me among those who help me." Psalm 118:7


Beaver Dams
by Donna Diorio

At the time I started my weekly Israelprayer letter (20 year ago mid-August), I was utterly dismayed by what I saw as the majority of Christian ministries and WAY too many Messianic Jewish ministries too, creating a logjam that stopped funding the Israeli Messianic ministries. Instead of even being able to see the need or the significance of the body of Messiah in Israel, they were all diverting the natural spiritual flow into the secular and rabbinic causes of Israel.  Why?

Beavers build dams in the flow of a river for their own sakes: they build dams to create their own homes in the midst of the dam. There are some benefits that can happen because of beaver dams, but there are also catastrophic results too. The log-jamming of financial assistance and GENEROSITY being diverted from the Israeli Messianic ministries is holding back spiritual benefits for Israel and for the whole world!

I see a cloud the size of a man's hand on the horizon, because I know that GOD is going to have to override this deception Himself, and break up that beaver dam. He will have to break up all the multitude of deceptions that Christians and Messianic Jews have to excuse themselves from helping the Gospel carriers of Israel to reach the Israeli people.  There are little breaks of light on the horizon, but the financial stress in Israel is INTENSE on the Israeli ministries right now! This DAM has to be broken through on every deceptive level that is holding the logjam together! 

     ABBA, break open the dams of Christian generosity that spiritual beavers - both the well-meaning kind and the antichrist kind - have built that logjam the flow of funding from Christians in the nations to the Gospel-carrying Messianic Jews of Israel.

     How long, O Lord? How long before you break off the deceptions that keep Christians AND Messianic Jews from planting their spiritual financial seed into eternity-producing ministries in Israel?

     LORD, It is a disgrace, a disgrace, a disgrace to Christianity to ignore the believing community of Israel like they are insignificant to YOUR purposes in bringing "all Israel" to salvation in Messiah Yeshua. It is a disgrace for Messianic congregations in the Diaspora to try to gain favor in Israel with their donations while the Gospel-carrying Messianic ministries are so financially distressed.

     Please, Abba, I am crying earnestly with the Israeli ministries for breakthrough;  for Your breaking through the dams that re-route the funding flow from those You have anointed - Israeli believers - "to proclaim peace, bring good tidings, proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion." Amen.


Arrows from Zion
Summarized from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests Israeli Ministries

Tiferet Yeshua brings out the Arab and Jewish believers unity that is actively sought and nurtured in the spiritual leadership in Israel and it is because they realize this is a true miracle of reconciliation that is possible only in Yeshua. No one expects the divide between Jews and Arabs to be healed in Israel so this is a powerful testimony to all the Israeli citizens – no matter what religious or ethnic background. Like those who gathered to pray together in Acco last week, the Tel Aviv pastors and ministry leaders also gathered together in unity. Tiferet Yeshua pastors Pastors Gil and Moti were part of the group that met for for strategic prayer and prophetic acts of unity and repentance in areas of the city where ethnic violence occurred during the 10-day war with Hamas in May. On their Facebook page they also wrote: “Jew and Arab - One new man in Messiah!❤️ We were so blessed to have our dear Arab brother Moroon share his testimony with us last week! We pull down strongholds when we take a stand together in love, humility and unity." Pray God strengths these relationships all across Israel.  They also write about the dangerous financial crisis going on in Lebanon. Pray that God would pour out His Spirit on the Lebanese Christian community and use them as bright and shining witnesses during this dark time in Lebanon. The Tiferet Yeshua congregation are rejoicing that every week God brings them new seekers and also that they are able to report the financial commitments came in to meet the budget for 2021.  This is an enormous weight now lifted from the leadership. They thank all who responded and if you too would like to donate to the work of Tiferet Yeshua, click here.

Claude and Michelle Ezagouri in the Tiberias Morning Star Fellowship  are also rejoicing that they have received the needed provision to buy a supplementary room big enough to be used as a place of fellowship with newcomers but not only. It will also serve for midweek meetings like discipleship, seminars and other activities. And they are also thanking God for new people the Lord has been leading to them. “Some of them come from difficult background and are much in need of help but especially of God’s love, fellowship and care through us. Please pray that we would be able to be present in their lives in case of need but also that we might help them to look to Yeshua and trust Him in all things.”
     The teenagers are taking an active role in the children’s summer activities at the fellowship and “have already shown a great deal of responsibility in this.” They believe it will help the teeds also to grow in their own faith by guiding the younger kids.  (Amen!) 
     Claude is added to the Urgent Healing Needs closing out this Arrows email. He will be having treatment for the next six months for an unnamed medical issue. They also ask prayers for Lebanon’s economic and social upheaval which will surely impact Israel; for growing corruption in Israel; and the hard ball government politics that are being played everywhere in the world against unvaccinated people.
 

From the ministry team at the HaCarmel congregation, a notice that their next two Tuesday Worship Watches (7/27 and 8/3) will not be live-streamed, but will return on August 10. You can watch the beautiful worship watch on YouTube Kehilat HaCarmel Worship Watch for July 20, 2021

Truly joyful news from Joel and Teresa Jelski with the announcement she is 13 weeks pregnant. This comes after heartbreaking miscarriages and even failed fertility treatments. Joel writes they had mostly given up on her becoming pregnant again but God had a great surprise in for them. Their son was so excited that even before they were telling anyone the news, Boaz had ““pretty much told all the kids and teachers in his kindergarten!” Please pray for protection and health over Teresa and the baby during this season.  Also for Joel who will be traveling and speaking in Texas August 7-30th. If you are interested in hosting a small group meeting, it is one of the best ways to help them raise support as a ministry family.  Also Watch the VIDEO as Joel serves as the camp director for the Katzir youth camp starting 7/31.

From Out of Zion Ministries, watch David Silver’s Midweek Update Videoon YouTube for  July 23, 2021 and Jul 27 Plus the Out of Zion Prayer for Israel Zoom meeting every Tuesday 9 pm Israel time - 7 pm UK - 2 pm EST - 6 am NZ | Go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82351582826  (Passcode: 146188). Josie Silver included a writing on “The Dew of Heaven” which God promised in Genesis 27:28.  She writes about how in Israel there is no rain between April and October, but He does send the night dew that comes between midnight and morning.  She writes, “In Song of Songs 5 it says, The voice of You, the beloved, comes in the night - for when I sleep my heart is awake and you come with the dew on your head. As the Lord allows the natural dew to fall on the soil of the land of Israel during the night, let us pray that the heavenly dew will come and drop on the soil of the hearts of the people of Israel in the night season, to spiritually refresh and awaken their hearts to their Beloved Messiah. The Lord said we would be a land that would drink from the rain of heaven.”

Asher Intrater of Revive Israel writes The Silent MessageOn the cross, Yeshua suffered in silence to show us how much God loves us, when we weren't willing to listen. This is the ultimate act of love.”
There is also an important short VIDEO from Asher :
1980 Vision at the Wall. It is where God gave him understanding that the salvation of Israel is something that the Messianic Jews in Israel cannot do without the Church and something the Church cannot do without the Messianic Jews in Israel . SELAH.
     Also the weekly Global Broadcast where “Asher Intrater delivered a mighty teaching titled A Great Mystery. ( I only put it in quotes because I have not had a chance to listen to it YET, but I have no doubt that it is a “mighty” teaching…I don’t know any others that understand these portions of scripture better)

The Aliyah Return Center writes: “What is Aliyah? It is the return of the Jewish people to the promised land. What is God's heart for Aliyah?  We can find this answer in 64 scriptures. Also WATCH:  Chaim talk about ten aspects of God's heart for Israel! And  Why stand with Israel and the Galilee?

Chuck Cohen of the Intercessors for Israel in Jerusalem is recovering from a successful hernia repair, but that means someone took over for this week in writing the  Friday Prayer Points  7/23/2021. You can read in full – please pay heed to the section on Salvation/Aliyah: “Open the doors for Aliyah to all who desire to come (Job 31:32). | Provide for the agencies that help new immigrants. | Have mercy on the new immigrants. Plant their roots deep and provide all they need to be able to stay (Jeremiah 32:41). |  Wake up Your church to their responsibility within Your plans (Jeremiah 31:7). | Water all the seeds of the gospel that have been planted over the years in Your people and bring forth a mighty harvest (Matthew 13:8).

Beit Hallel’s Israel Pochtar sends this from his wife Vicky What Do We Expect From Our Faith In God? “You can never know what goes on in someone’s heart or life, the battles he has to face in order to come out on the other side; we only see the outcomes, the results.”  | Also Summer For God Youth Discipleship Update - God is moving among them powerfully | Supporting our Back-to-School project | God’s kindness is as profound as it is multifaceted. There is always a reason behind specific humanitarian projects He calls us to do — that reason is always love. | This week we had the privilege to host a group of amazing people from the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem that come from all over the world, that wanted to be helping hands of God and serve families in need :    ICEJ Visit: Being God's Helping Hands from the Nations | Avraham’s Healing Testimony | The biggest problem with a long-standing chronic illness is that it chips away at the faith one might have that he can be healed. The longer it takes, the weaker our faith might become.

From Kehila News Israel :  An inside peak in the graduation ceremony of Messianic army preparation program by Tuvia Pollack | Muslim background believers make a change in Israel  by the FIRM Staff | and How long oh Lord? by Stefan Silver

Evan Thomas writes some good news from the Beit Asaph congregation which because of the intensity of the financial stress the Israeli ministries have been experiencing, wrote last time about how they were having to leave their facility but planned to set up smaller home group meetings to care for the flock.  There were many who were unhappy with not being able to meet together as one, but in the meantime the body of Messiah has stepped up to help by way of the Israel  College of the Bible opening their facility to them and Evan writes, “
this week we will be sitting with their leadership to negotiate the terms for a regular arrangement. Our hope is to conduct a celebration service at the College once a month.” He also writes “Meanwhile our youth enjoy their weekly meetings at the local Ethiopian congregational facility and our Children’s Bible Club is now well established at the facility of a Russian-speaking congregation in Caesarea. We sense that God is well-pleased at this cooperation between local ministries. Our training/ prayer center and administration office at Beit Itzak are serving us well and several of the new Life-groups are conducting weekly meetings there. We are delighted to report that we now have 15 Life-groups established, the newest being a group made up of serving soldiers and those who have been recently released from the I.D.F. Please pray for Michael, Asher and Hodiyya as they help the group establish roles and responsibilities.”
     We get by with a little help from our friends: it is so true. We need each other.

Leon Mazin, writing “from a Hot Kitchen” says, “Since January 2021 after receiving a request from several elderly homes we started a distribution of 150 hot meals a week, now we distribute over 200 with more and more requests. These people are not deeply in need, but they are elderly. They have difficulties shopping and cooking, in which they are incredibly grateful for the support given. We did a Holocaust Survivors event that took place on July 13th. For us it is big blessing to serve them with hospitality, sharing Yeshua's love, and having some instruments played by our students from "Keshet Tzlilim" (Rainbow of Sounds) one of many projects of Return to Zion Ministry. Thank you for being a faithful supporter of Return to Zion and for your love for the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. I'm grateful for your partnership.”

The City of Life congregation in Sderot is led by Michael and Dina Beener whose heart is to minister to this poor and battered population. They had a great pool party for the children to be able to have some fun after the great trauma of rockets and bomb shelters they went through. Now they are planning a second
Children Recovery Day. There is a lot of PTSD in the city, and the children really need to have days like this for recovery. You can learn more about the City of Life outreaches like Supporting the Ethiopian Jewish Immigrant Community and other Compassionate Outreach Projects. They need your help to do any of it! Consider making a monthly commitment 

Ron Cantor had an excellent opening to the Tikkun Global email this week about the “Parousia—the arrival of Yeshua to set up his Millennial Kingdom.” I want to quote a small passage (my bold emphasis added):

I recently read a scholarly article on Jerusalem. The author said that Church fathers had little affection for present-day Jerusalem—as they were looking to the New Jerusalem (plus they had become theologically anti-Semitic). “The only Jerusalem relevant to that faith was the ‘new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, adorned as a bride’”

     The author points out that this changed, as the fourth-century Bishop of Jerusalem, Cyril, found that “The ‘Jerusalem mystique’ was present and powerful.” Pilgrims could find great meaning in Jerusalem’s Messiah-centered past.

     Yet he misses the real reason for Jerusalem’s mystic draw and fails to appreciate the fact that she will yet play a major role in the story of Yeshua. He doesn’t recognize that once again Jewish believers in Yeshua live in Jerusalem, with over 20 Messianic congregations there; but focuses solely on the dwindling Arab Orthodox Christian presence.
     He rightly states that place without people is empty—meaning Jerusalem without a New Testament human witness is meaningless. But he sees no great fulfillment in the return of Jesus-following Jews to Zion, and treats Zionism as a “nineteenth-century socialist utopian movement.

In the same email was an article by Asher on the moving of the artk to Jerusalem in II Samuel 6 that was accompanied by two unusual events with two severe punishments.  This is a MUST READ: Covenantal Order or Gifts of the Spirit?

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 Hallel Goldman, daughter of Yariv Goldman, Hallel ministers to young people coming out of an Orthodox life. Hallel appears to have some kind of heart infection. Pray for her healing |  Ronit Bender whose heart arrhythmia sent her to ER! She is home now with new meds but still needs our prayers | Pray for Carolyn Hyde whose left hand is so pained she can no longer play guitar and it is also sometimes painful to play piano | the Silvers: David's knees and Josie's back pain | Rachel Netanel  is still recovering from a broken ankle. She asks for healing & for the pain to subside. Her ankles were weak already, so the process is slow and painful| A prayer request for Naomi, for a dear family that is a part of Israel Pochtar's pastoral team, who was diagnosed with colon cancer. "Despite what this battle entails, we are confident in God’s unfailing Word and promises." Read in her own words| Please continue to pray for Jacob Damkani for the LORD's mercies over Jacob and his dear wife, Elisheva |
Dov Bikas – I have been very tired these days: probably as a result of a combination of factors: my age, stress of the days of running to the bomb shelter, work load in the ministry, etc. Olga is getting better slowly, but still has a long way before her, so please keep praying.



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