FRESH START
It's a New Day as Israelprayer's
ARROWS from ZION
is about to begin our 16th year
of gleaning the prayer requests of Israeli Ministries
on a weekly basis.
Our mission has been simple: to awaken the worldwide Body of Christ to the existence and significance of their spiritual brethren, the body of believers in Yeshua in Israel. Despite the widespread skepticism in the Church, it is by Divine plan that God has Sovereignly raised up a Body of Messiah in Israel since the re-birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948 - and He has big plans for them which the Church has a role to play in.
In 1948 there were approximately 100 Jewish believers in Jesus in Israel. Today there is an estimated 18,000 and interest in the Israeli public about this loyal citizens of Israel, whose lives shine with the glory of the LORD, has never been greater. With that, of course, comes the persecution from religious Jews who are very like the person we first read about in the book of Acts, Shaul, before his Damascus Road experience opened his eyes to the truth of Yeshua's identity - Messiah of Israel.
It's a New Day as Israelprayer's
ARROWS from ZION
is about to begin our 16th year
of gleaning the prayer requests of Israeli Ministries
on a weekly basis.
Our mission has been simple: to awaken the worldwide Body of Christ to the existence and significance of their spiritual brethren, the body of believers in Yeshua in Israel. Despite the widespread skepticism in the Church, it is by Divine plan that God has Sovereignly raised up a Body of Messiah in Israel since the re-birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948 - and He has big plans for them which the Church has a role to play in.
In 1948 there were approximately 100 Jewish believers in Jesus in Israel. Today there is an estimated 18,000 and interest in the Israeli public about this loyal citizens of Israel, whose lives shine with the glory of the LORD, has never been greater. With that, of course, comes the persecution from religious Jews who are very like the person we first read about in the book of Acts, Shaul, before his Damascus Road experience opened his eyes to the truth of Yeshua's identity - Messiah of Israel.
I believe we are entering into a new day in the fulfillment of the "one new man" in Messiah which Shaul, who become known as Paul, as he reversed his persecution of Jewish believers in Yeshua/Jesus and became known for his incredibly effective apostolic outreach to the gentiles. Paul wrote in the book of Romans - therefore specifically to the gentiles - the Divine plan which God's Holy Spirit had revealed to him about the joining of the Church and the Messianic Jews before the Messiah's return to earth and the Millennial Kingdom.
Precisely because we are entering an advanced stage of those things, persecution against the believers in Israel is rising again - "the birth pangs of the Messiah" it is called. Like a woman's labor to deliver, the ministry is Israel has both periods of rest followed by intense pressures. The role of the Church is to come alongside to help bear that burden spiritually and materially.
We have never been at a lack to find Christians who will rally behind Israel politically against a whole world set against her - and that must certainly continue. However, it is high time to rally the Church around the spiritual issues at stake here which is the plan of God to bring salvation by Yeshua through His laborers in the vineyard of Israel - the Messianic Jewish believers. We must stand by them.
We have never been at a lack to find Christians who will rally behind Israel politically against a whole world set against her - and that must certainly continue. However, it is high time to rally the Church around the spiritual issues at stake here which is the plan of God to bring salvation by Yeshua through His laborers in the vineyard of Israel - the Messianic Jewish believers. We must stand by them.
You will notice some changes in this ARROWS from ZION site and the first being that I am doing away with publishing pictures of the Israeli believers. This will be a photo-free site from now on. Some of the believers have pictures everywhere on the web and are well known to the persecutors; others keep a low profile to avoid problems. For the sake of safety I have decided to cease publishing photos of the believers on an open forum like this.
I have always loved being able to bring pictures of the believers in Israel in order to make them more real to you - but it is time to circle the wagons around the more vulnerable, so that is what will be the situation on this new site.
We will still bring you the prayer requests we receive each week from the ministries in Israel and we ask you to pray along with us, take them into you heart for they are running a race that will set in motion a worldwide spiritual blessing.
God bless youas you bless the Body of the LORD in Israel!
-Donna Diorio
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