of Avner Boskey's points below. As the scripture for Avner's Final Frontier Ministries asks,
"What will the Jewish people's acceptance of Yeshua result in but life from the dead?"
Romans 11:15
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by Avner Boskey, Final Frontier Ministries
What will the Jewish people's acceptance of Yeshua result in but life
from the dead?
Romans 11:15
The Bible is chock full of prophecies
specifically given to the Jewish people. What happens when Gentile believers
re-interpret those Jewish promises away from the Jewish people? Most Christian
use of Scripture ignores its Jewish context and simply replaces it with a
Gentile Christian context. This is Replacement theology, practically speaking.
Even my best friends do this on a daily basis.
Let’s look at this problem, and then try to bring
some biblical balance. The Bible says
that cursing, making light of or ignoring the Jewish people is a biblical no-no
(see Genesis 12:3; Jeremiah 30:17). Is there a more excellent way of using the
Jewish Scriptures – one that will not separate the Jewish people from their
promises, while at the same time allowing Gentile believers to apply the
relevant spiritual principles to their own lives?
A diamond
is forever | The Apostle Paul gives us a solid foundation
for understanding and using the Jewish Scriptures: “From the standpoint of God’s choice they (the Jewish people) are beloved for the sake of the Patriarchs (Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob) – because the gifts and
the calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:28).
Simply put, all of the
promises originally spoken over the Jewish people still apply to the Jewish
people. They are all valid prophecies and they will certainly come to pass for
the sons and daughters of Jacob. These promises, like diamonds, are forever.
They are the family jewels of Jacob’s children.
Staying
honest | How are we to honor the original and lasting
intent of the Bible (2 Timothy 2:15) in our teaching, preaching and calls to
intercession? Whenever we use a Scripture passage which talks about Israel,
let’s ask ourselves some basic questions:
To whom
is this passage written? In most cases the answer will be ‘to the Jewish
people’
What
does this passage teach or explain about the Jewish people? What is God saying
to Israel?
What
can you do to communicate God’s message to Jewish people?What encouragement can be drawn for your own life situations and challenges based on who this covenant-keeping God is?
Discovering
that the Bible really is a Jewish book | If
nearly all of the Bible’s prophecies are about the Jewish people, God must have
a reason for that.
God is calling for a
radical reformation in the Body of Messiah. His challenge to us all – can we
let the Bible mean what it says? Will we allow those prophecies to breath,
giving honor to God’s word by honoring His original intent?
“Does that prophecy actually refer to the Jews and their destiny?” (first illustration) | A movement of worship and intercession is
spreading across the planet. Christian believers are glorifying the God of
Israel and calling on Him to bring repentance, renewal and revival to their own
nations. Scripture passages are often drafted and pressed into the service of
these movements. A closer look at these passages almost always reveals that the
verses used are actually prophesying specific destiny over the Jewish people.
One example is Isaiah 60:1-3, 12, 14: “Arise,
shine; for your light has come and the glory of YHVH has risen upon you. For
behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples. But YHVH
will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to
your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising … For the nation and the
kingdom which will not serve you will perish, and the nations will be utterly
ruined … The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you, and all
those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet. And they
will call you the City of YHVH, Zion of the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah
60:1-3, 12, 14)
This passage is not a
declaration that the church will bring revival to other Gentiles. It is definitely
a declaration that Israel will bring revival to all the nations (which is part of her prophesied destiny; see Romans 11:12, 15).
[Click
here to read ALL of the excellent illustrations and
points Avner makes, it will lead you to his website article which is a MUST
READ!....I will give you the conclusion below, but all of his illustrations are
need-to-know.]
Mañana
(tomorrow) is good enough for me | One of
our ministry emphases focuses on the urgent need to equip believers – so that we will all be pro-actively ready for the
restoration of Israel. Occasionally
some believers respond to the challenges with these words:
There
are differing viewpoints on these matters. A focus on the Jewish people will
only cause division
It’s
not yet time to talk about these things publicly
It’s
more spiritual to focus on Gentile needs than on Jewish destiny and biblical
priority
Let the Jewish people back into their own tent | In your devotions, in your Bible reading, in your preaching and
teaching, allow the Jewish people into your tent. According to Romans 11:24 it
is actually their own tent –“their own olive tree”. But do make room for the
Jewish people, and allow them back into their own Bible, their gifts and their
calling.
How
should we then pray?
Pray
for the eyes of believers worldwide to be opened to the Jewish Scriptures and
the calling of Israel
Pray
for pastors, teachers and spiritual leaders to receive and be obedient to this
revelationPray for Messiah Yeshua to be revealed to and accepted by many hungry Jewish hearts
Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth
Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are
the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.
Avner
& Rachel Boskey are located in Beer Sheva. David’s Tent & Final Frontier Ministries
http://www.davidstent.org/
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Last week in his personal Restoration
from Zion ministry letter, Daniel Juster said of his Five Pillars message: "I
do now believe that this message is a life message that I am called to spread
in every way possible for as long as I live." Juster explained the five
major pillars as "the keys to understanding the last days and the return
of Yeshua. Now, here is a recent video of Dan Juster
teaching on the Five Pillars.
Dan also makes an appeal for donations toward their upcoming ministry
trip to Singapore Sept 15-20. "...we still need to raise $4,000 to cover
expenses. This trip to Singapore is part of the preparation for an
international convocation in Jerusalem in 2022 under the Towards Jerusalem
Council II project." They pay their own expenses to participate in this
work.
Eric Benson is the head of the House of Victory ministry that was
established out of the Carmel congregation years ago by David Davis. Benson
sends news of a heartening kind involving the two olive trees that were planted
in memorial of Davis' passing - the two olive trees representing the "one
new man". You can read this and all the personal testimonies of the men
that the Beit Nitzachon ministers to by subscribing directly to their prayer letter, or through my Weekly Summary subscription.
Intercessors for Israel's Chuck Cohen sends Friday
Prayer Points 8/23/2019 for
Israel's current government, Elections, Security re:Gaza, Judea & Samaria,
Lebanon/Syria, Iran, Aliyah, the Israeli body of Messiah
Ron Cantor is hardly new to this prayer list but these were interesting
so here is a little about Ron giving his ministry history and also a super
short list of resources, like an episode
from his GOD TV Out of Zion program; a
video about the last tour
of Israel they conducted; from his
books read two chapters of
Identity Theft and also 2 from Leave Me Alone—I'm Jewish; his
blog and ALL of our videos
Also I thought this from another email of Ron's (he is prolific!) was
really IMPORTANT: "I
believe with all my heart that the issue of Israel will be as divisive as
abortion in the end-times. Yeshua is not returning for an anti-Semitic bride. Now,
we see how two Muslim women have hijacked the democratic party. Despite their
history of anti-Semitic tweets and comments, the Democratic party refuses to
rebuke them, and is now defending them. Israel has always enjoyed broad support
from both Republicans and Democrats, but it seems things are shifting. We must
pray!"
A few months ago Martin Sarvis sent in an email that they were going to
be doing their ministry letters differently going forward and this week we have
received a taste of new way forward in the form of "A Word of
Encouragement from Norma for 5780 | 5780-5789 | A Decade for Declaration".
In the past you probably have not received much input from Norma in this prayer
summary because it has mainly been the excellent news analysis and Torah
readings from Martin, but Norma is a "mother in Israel" and has been
a major spiritual contributor to many things going on in the Land from the
Katzir youth camps to women's gatherings. In this ministry letter Norma gives
her spiritual insights into the decade we are about to enter into in the Hebrew
year 5780 at Rosh haShanah. The Hebrew letter for “80” is פ – pronounced peh. Besides spelling
the 18th letter of the alphabet, peh is also the Hebrew word
for mouth! So the decade of the
"80's" will be a decade with emphasis on what we declare with our
mouths, what we speak, what we say, will be key for victory and for advancing
the Kingdom.
Israel Pochtar wrote something about their AWAKE Israeli Youth Conference
that hit me as super important: "...it is really up to us to decide how to
best invest in our young people: we can either equip them for the battles
ahead, or we can choose to ignore the tremendous need of this nation's youth...
for which this country will pay later. We made sure to align our vision and
our heart with God's; by sowing into our youth."
Donna: That is
true for all of us, but the rubber really meets the road in Israel which is why
you see children graduating from high school there and going right into places
of responsibility greater than themselves in mandatory service in the Israeli
military — boys and girls. In the US, children are infantilized until they are
well past college age, but in Israel the existence of the nation depends on
them stepping up to adult responsibility at the real end of childhood. This is
my soapbox, but I believe if we seed financial support into the programs like
this for Israeli young people - all the camps, programs and fellowships with
this type of vision for strengthening the young Messianic believers to take their
places valiantly and spiritually in heart-sync with God, it is also releasing a
blessing to our own children and grandchildren. ("I will bless those that
bless you")
In the Revive Israel letter this week Asher Intrater writes about the Five Big “All’s”
that are major trends as we move into the End Times. (Ironically I've had a start on the 6 times Paul said, "I would not have you ignorant"... shares some similar ground).
From KehilaNews.AllIsrael.com/ A
report on the Second
All Israel Conference held in Singapore: Building spiritual bridges; also
One for Israel answers the question "unlike most Western countries, you
will not find a single Messianic congregation that supports gay marriage in the
whole of Israel. Why is that?" in Israel and
homosexuality
On Facebook One for Israel had an article of great interest to me The
Symbolism Of Figs In The Bible, because I have a blog called Fruit of the Fig Tree
based Proverbs 28:18 "Whoever
keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit". It is an expectation of my
ministry that this is a promise from God. There is FRUIT to be eaten from the
fig tree - which I see as the redeemed Remnant of Israel -- spiritual fruit
that is available from that source, but only to the Christians who are keeping, tending, guarding, caring,
nurturing the redeemed Remnant of Israel are able to eat the fruit from
them. This is spiritual fruit that God has given to the whole body of the LORD
in the earth, but to eat of it, we have to become one new man which
means Christians have to receive the fruit by keeping, tending, guarding, caring, nurturing the redeemed Remnant
of Israel.
Joel Jelski, who is now with Tikkun Ministries and working under the
mentoring of Eitan Shishkoff in northern Israel, writes about his summer in
North America traveling with Eitan for Fields of Wheat, visiting with his
wife's family in Mexico...a blessed time, he writes. He also catches us up to
date on the last Katzir Youth Camp of which he is an alumni who is now leading
the camps forward under Eitan's oversight for a new generation of Israeli
teens. He is back to preparations for the Olive Tree Discipleship program and
tells us a little about doing an outreach for Syrian refugees in another Middle
Eastern state. Joel is another of those promising young adults who have shown
themselves to be chosen by God for the work of the ministry from the time they
were teens into raising their own families. Thank God for all the Israeli
ministries have done in emphasizing spiritual ministry to their own young
people.
Howard Bass at the Yeshua's Inheritance congregation in Beer Sheva also
writes about the summer camps for their young people coming to an end and
hearing testimonies from them as they now make preparations for the next phase
of their lives. He asks that prayers be made for them to be led by the Holy
Spirit in all their choices and decisions.
He also writes, " This Shabbat weekend, 23 of the young adults are
spending the time together at one of the beaches on the Mediterranean coast
near Ashkelon, accompanied by the Chapman family of seven more who have been
very active and influential in building up the lives of many of them. Randi and I are very encouraged to hear from
a some of these key people that they sense a calling to remain in Beer Sheva,
and we pray also at what has been their home congregation growing up
together. Humanly speaking, the future
of the congregation somewhat depends on this. Please continue to keep this in
your prayers until the work is done. Also a new writing from Howard regarding all
the recent funerals.
Hasdey Yeshua in Arad write about the Hassidic sect attempting to take
over public bomb shelters that when not utilized for war serve as use for clubs
and other activities. They see these shelters as as potential free synagogues
and yeshivas (the city pays all the utilities) and have been aggressively
trying to take over possession of many. It has been a real battle for the Arad
city hall and police to deal with and it gives you insight into the mindset of
the religious group: they see Arad as belonging to them and hold all others in
disdain, especially including the Messianic believers there. This is why we
have seen so much trouble in Arad over the past 20 years. Pray for the
spiritually blind religious Jews and prayer for God to limit their power as
this congregation well notes: this "cult reaches up to the highest levels
of government" (specifically Ya’akov Litzman, self-proclaimed leader of
the Gur in Arad and Aryeh Deri, "the Interior Minister and he hates
believers, especially Messianic Jews. We
need a breakthrough ...a thorough change in the government to allow Jewish
believers to come home and to allow cities like Arad to flourish."
They ask prayers also for their Bedouin outreaches - God is visiting some
of the women with dreams of Yeshua.
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:
CONTINUE to PRAY for the urgent healing needs
of Jacob Damkani | Ronit Bender sends this update: My cough is gone
mostly, my heart valve is still leaking but my lungs are fine. I totally
have peace about my health, although it is far from great. I still
appreciate prayer, as I need it. I am very grateful they let me travel in
October and November both to Australia and Holland. Please continue to pray for
Ronit | Shlomy Abramov of Awake Israel, because of a condition where blood does
not flow to his legs as it should, was advised by a specialist in case of
injuries, he could lose his leg because of the blood flow issues. Shlomy has to
wrap his legs daily because of the blood flow issues. Please pray for Shlomy |
Ruth Nessim has recovered from a strong 2-month bout with Sciatica, but her
most critical prayer need which she says may required an operation. Please pray
for Ruth in Nahariya| Olga Bikas’s health condition that seems to have become
chronic, with no hope from the doctors for any improvement in the future. This,
no doubt, puts an additional emotional and physical burden on our family.
Please pray for her acute back pain. | Rania Sayegh asks for prayer of
restoration of strength, energy, and complete healing.
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Thursday,
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Hear from
ARISE founder Calev Myers on updates from Israel, the details of this year's
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Information for each one is on our homepage.
We will do similar events in other cities in the future, so if someone is
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