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My name is called Disturbance (subtitle "Jacob Go Home")
by Avner Boskey David's Tent
by Avner Boskey David's Tent
June 19,
2020: A shudder went through Ob-Wan
Kenobi’s spirit. Staggering, he collapsed in a chair and whispered, “I felt a
great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in
terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” He
had just sensed the destruction of Alderaan by Darth Vader’s Death Star (Star Wars: Episode IV - A
New Hope).
Some of us
have also felt a shudder go through our spirits in the past months and days. We
are aware that there is ‘a disturbance in the force.’ What is going on? What
does it mean? Where is it all going?
Revolution
with the Rolling Stones | In March 1968 Mick Jagger
penned the lyrics of ‘Street Fighting Man’ after watching an anti-Vietnam war
rally at Grosvenor Square in London. Tariq Ali and Vanessa Redgrave led the
demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy (which
eventually became quite violent). This was Britain’s
sixth largest demonstration ever with over 10,000 protesters,
300 arrests, 75 hospitalized. The Stones’ sizzling rock song encapsulated the
adrenaline rush of the rioting crowd: “Everywhere I hear the sound of marching,
charging feet, boy, ’cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in
the street, boy . . . Hey! Think the time is right for a palace revolution . .
. Hey! Said my name is called disturbance. I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the
king, I'll rail at all his servants!”
Tariq Ali led that demonstration. Today part of “the royalty of the
British left,” the former Trotskyist candidate for Parliament commented in 2015
that “the
original radical segment of the African-American population [including] Malcolm
X and the Black Panthers were destroyed . . .
But the young people who came out in Black Lives Matter have this older
spirit”. Ali worries, though, that they “lack an understanding of their own
history and that very few are literate in basic revolutionary theory, from Karl
Marx to Rosa Luxemburg” (ibid.).
What does
the sound of marching, charging feet in recent American riots signify?
Is this (as Tariq Ali declares)
the old spirit of revival à la Malcolm X and the Black Panthers?
Will these disturbances lead to
an American ‘palace revolution’ à la Jagger?
Are these riots
merely unimportant collateral damage – youthful activists just blowing off steam
in preparation for a reborn ‘summer of love’?
What can a good hard look at
the radical Sixties show us?
What do the rioters’
destructive pogrom-like attacks on American Jewish synagogues, temples and
community institutions point to?
Rotten to
the core | One of the main messages that the Black Lives Matter movement (BLMM)
hammers into the floorboards of America’s consciousness is this: the
established order (and especially the police) are corrupt to the bone and
rotten beyond redemption with systematic White racism. There is a burning need
to defund, dismantle and destroy such systems, with special focus on the
police. Another message in their political manifesto deals with the need to
redistribute wealth based on an anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois worldview,
as well as a call for White Americans to pay financial reparations to
African-Americans.
A glance at youth movements over the past hundred plus years (see
Professor Walter Laqueur’s
‘Reflections on youth movements’; 1971; The New Left and the
Jews; reveals that the BLMM tactics of ‘removing rotten systems’ are not new:
[For space considerations, these are only excerpts from this
fantastically detailed overview of critical issues researched and presented by
Avner Boskey. I wish every college student and young adult in America would
read and get hold of the facts presented here. Read in full at Avner's website,
My name is
called Disturbance.]
....Here is where revolutionary Marxism and the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement intersect: they both declare that the established order (and especially the police) are corrupt to the bone and rotten beyond redemption. BLMM would then point the finger on its take that systematic White racism is the prime culprit. According to this synthesized Marxist/BLMM perspective, there is a burning need to defund, dismantle and destroy such systems. This hybrid strategy is being played out on a daily basis across the TV screens of America and the world.
....Here is where revolutionary Marxism and the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement intersect: they both declare that the established order (and especially the police) are corrupt to the bone and rotten beyond redemption. BLMM would then point the finger on its take that systematic White racism is the prime culprit. According to this synthesized Marxist/BLMM perspective, there is a burning need to defund, dismantle and destroy such systems. This hybrid strategy is being played out on a daily basis across the TV screens of America and the world.
The radical
Sixties revisited | The ‘Swinging
Sixties' were not only known for Carnaby Street fashions and pop groups. They
also birthed the hippie counterculture and the revolutionary
Left. Many of the strategic goals of the Black Panthers seemed revolutionary
back then, but have become mainstream in the BLMM today. Source
Part of the
negative fallout in the Sixties was a turning away from critical thought,
analysis and careful consideration. Instead, there came an embrace of the
primacy of experience, personal affirmation and hedonism. One side-effect is
that a whole generation has grown up with no sense of history, and no awareness
of the consequences of social violence. Many are pathologically afraid of
appearing unfashionable or being perceived as representative of older ways and
more traditional truths. Values are on the outs, replaced by a frantic desire
to fit in with whatever is avant garde. The Zeitgeist – the spirit of the age –
is all the rage, even though whatever is currently ‘in’ will morph within a few
years into something barely recognizable to any of us today.
Post-modernist thinking – that there are no objective and timeless truths
– is what dominates today’s public square. This popular belief system road
marries skepticism and subjectivism to relativism. It also is highly suspicious
of reason and facts. Whatever perspective does not meet the current definition
of ‘politically correct’ is axed and censored in what is now called ‘the cancel
culture’ Source and source. The
widespread destruction and defacing of both the symbols of America and the
fathers of American history show how mob violence is blending with
anti-Americanism in a classic display of the Marcuse/Carmichael/Panther
ideological strategy. Statues Sources: sfexaminer, cnn, chigagotrib, inquirer and cbsnews
1984
revisited | The tsunami of censorship, called the ‘cancel culture,’ is sweeping
the internet and the media. Wear the wrong t-shirt, use the wrong noun, speak
out the name of certain historical figures – and you can easily find yourself
blackballed, shunned and without a job. George Orwell described such a society
in his (then) science fiction novel ‘1984.’ Today truth is stranger than
fiction.
The ‘cancel culture’ has roots and they are not all communist/fascist.
What we are seeing is actually the outworking of the Abrahamic Covenant’s curse
in Genesis 12:3. The one who mocks/scorns /disses the Jewish people (that is the
meaning of the Hebrew word meqalelecha), will be directly cursed by YHVH.
For years the world has generally tolerated the anti-Semitic Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), a Marxist-energized attack on the
Jewish state. All of a sudden, the Western world finds itself wounded from
within, with citizens boycotting and sanctioning each other. As Lutheran German
pastor Martin
Niemöller said after the defeat of Nazism: “First they came for the
Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came
for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for
the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak
up” Sources: ngo-monitor, gov.il, aipac, adl
....For
every action, there could be an equal and opposite reaction | The
recent riots in America are a form of domestic terrorism. Calling it for what
it is seems to be beyond the capabilities of most in the media today. Nightly
news is taking its talking points from the BLMM playbook. The rioters’ and
semi-violent protesters’ threats have been heard by Americans across the board
– even by those Americans who are strongly opposed to Marxist justifications
for revolutionary rioting. It is also quite possible that more radical elements
in the White community may eventually respond to these events with violence of
their own. We need to remember that there are intelligent and determined people
on both sides of this raging river. The presents tensions have the very real
possibility of escalating into ethnic clashes across America. This scenario
should move us all to our knees in fervent prayer, asking for God’s oil to
anoint and heal the United States of America.
The penetrating Jewish writer Irving Howe spoke these fifty years ago
which still ring true: “Human beings will tolerate almost anything but the
threatened loss of authority in the social order – the authority of law, custom,
convention . . . Every state must react against terrorism, otherwise it ceases
to exist . . . In a democratic society minorities have no right to inflict
damage on property simply because they oppose [capitalism]. The aim of
socialists [should be] to socialize the control of property, not to vandalize
or destroy it” (Howe, Political Terrorism)
Self-hating
Jews | Jews who know their own people’s history and culture hit a wall when
they come face to face with Karl Marx. According to classical Marxism, Zionism
is an outmoded expression of nationalism and a bourgeois non-progressive
political philosophy. It is ‘old and in the way.’ Jewish people who believe in
the continuity and restoration of the people of Israel to their own land can
expect short shrift from the Communist and Socialist worlds.
These anti-Semitic tendencies and positions were examined in detail in our
last newsletter, A Time to be Silent, a Time
to Speak. An anti-Semitic snake path wends its twisted way from the PLO to the
Nation of Islam/Malcolm X, from Stokely Carmichael to the Black Panthers, and
up to the present in repeated official anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist
declarations by BLMM spokespersons. These issues are very much alive and of
great concern to all Jewish people and Bible believers today.
A sorry phenomenon exists among some Jewish people. A minority of Jews
are ‘self-hating.’ They are knocked off balance by their encounter with racist
anti-Semitism, and in fear they attempt to escape from their own Jewish
identity and community by assimilating into the universalistic Gentile world.
This phenomenon was widespread among Left-leaning German Jews before the Nazi
period. It is becoming a major problem for today’s American Jewish community.
Some modern examples follow.
One of the leaders of the New Left Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) was Michael Kazin, a Jewish radical. In 1969 he explained that “SDS has
consistently supported the political viewpoints and actions of the most
militant segments of the black movement . . .
from Malcolm X to SNCC to the Black Panther Party” (Kazin, American
Scholar; ‘Some Notes on S.D.S’; August 1969).
Here is an example of a Jewish leader trying to build his mass radical
movement among fellow Jews by getting them to follow the political path of
Black extremists, while ignoring the virulently anti-Semitic propaganda of its
founders.
....Today it is not hard to run into American Jews who combine left-wing
outlooks with right-wing lifestyles. A famous Jewish thinker (and friend of
Martin Luther King) described some of these Jewish people as sitting in quite
nice homes in “Scarsdale, Great Neck and Beverly Hills, discussing what an
awful corrupt, immoral, undemocratic and racist society the US is” (Seymour
Lipset, ‘The socialism of fools: the left, the Jews, and Israel’; 1970). This
unsettling scenario calls us to redouble our prayers for a spiritual wake-up
call to come to Jacob’s children, especially in America.
Once there were strong bonds and deep friendships between the broader
Jewish community and the Black civil rights leaders and movement. Today, these
have been dealt a severe blow by a myriad of influences, including the PLO, the
Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers, The
latest link in this venomous chain can be found among some of the spokespersons
for BLMM.
American
pogroms | The riots in May and June 2020 saw an unusual amount of attacks on
Jewish synagogues, temples, kosher food stores and Jewish owned shops. Here is
a small list, mostly from the Los Angeles area:
Congregation Beth Israel,
Fairfax District; spray-painted with the phrases “F*** Israel” and “Free
Palestine”
Congregation Beth El, Beverly
Blvd in LA; vandalized
Kehillas Yaakov, Fairfax;
graffiti and vandalized.
Shaarei Tefila, Fairfax; attempted
defacing
Ariel Glatt Kosher Market,
Mensch Bakery & Kitchen, Syd's Pharmacy & Kosher Vitamins; Fairfax
district; vandalized
Congregation Beth Ahabah,
Richmond Virginia; bricks thrown through windows
Sources: israelhayom, algemeiner, jpost, jpost
Specific attacks on Jewish houses of worship and places of business are a
serious red line to cross for American society. For the most part this story
has gotten lost in the U.S. media. But it is speaking loudly (to those who have
ears) of dangers lurking in the BLMM and in the hearts of other ‘non-violent
protesters.’ This is a wake-up call to American Jews that our people’s time in
the U.S.A. is drawing to a close.
‘Go
home Jacob, go home!’ | An event which has prophetic significance occurred in
Minneapolis on Saturday June 6, 2020. Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish) came out
to speak with protesters from Black
Visions Collective an organization involved in BLMM. A spokeswoman from BVC asked Mayor
Frey publically if he would defund and disband the Minneapolis Police
Department, threatening him that a ‘no’ answer would cause his defeat in
upcoming elections. Sources: rollingstone and newsweek
When Frey said that he would not abolish the Minneapolis police
department, chants of “Black Lives Matter,” “shame, shame” and “get the f***
out” were yelled at the mayor. Frey then
began to walk slowly away through the profanity-shouting crowd. The mob all of
a sudden began to chant repeatedly: “Go home, Jacob, go home! Go
home, Jacob, go home!”
These mocking protesters were castigating their Jewish mayor (see Genesis 12:3). But like Caiaphas in John 11:49-51, it seems as if they were unwittingly prophesying God’s strategic heart over all of America’s Jews: “Time’s up. That’s it! Time to leave what has been the land of the free and the home of the brave. Follow God’s pillar of fire, because He’s leading you back to the land of your forefathers!”
Arrows from Zion
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We start with an urgent prayer request from the City of Life congregation
on two fronts. Michael Beener writes that rockets from Gaza have started up
again, as have the balloons with explosives attached. Their town stands in the
place most likely to be hit. But they are also getting it from increased
religious persecution as word of their humanitarian and social work of hundreds
of S'derot families has become well known. Yad L'Achim, the religious
anti-Messianic activists "have harassed us with hateful phone calls,
messages and threats. In the last call, this individual, a former police worker
radicalized in recent years, among insults, threatened us, among other things,
with taking legal action against us or applying more violent methods if we did
not desist from our “mission”.
Pray for religious persecution against Israeli Messianic ministries. Just because they don't often talk about it does NOT mean it is not happening. We don't "hate" the religious persecutors as they are all potentially like Saul who was present at and agreeable with the stoning of Stephen in the first century, and who was later saved, turned from his evil ways to become the apostle to the nations, known as Paul. We don't hate them, but we can sure pray against the plots they hatch against the Messianic believers!
Pray for religious persecution against Israeli Messianic ministries. Just because they don't often talk about it does NOT mean it is not happening. We don't "hate" the religious persecutors as they are all potentially like Saul who was present at and agreeable with the stoning of Stephen in the first century, and who was later saved, turned from his evil ways to become the apostle to the nations, known as Paul. We don't hate them, but we can sure pray against the plots they hatch against the Messianic believers!
Yariv Goldman who is the head of the Hands of Mercy humanitarian aid in
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and S'derot, and Tents of Victory in S'derot, also give us
the update on their continued work in spite of the downturn in financial
support as the world has been grappling with the Corona virus. They are
focusing on elderly and vulnerable residents of Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox
neighbourhoods, destitute families in the rocket-ridden community of S’derot,
Arabic speaking believers in the Bethlehem area, African asylum seeker
communities in need, as well as homeless people in Southern Tel Aviv. Goldman
writes, "By working with members of different communities, we are aiming
to create a bridge between our ministry and different sections of Israeli
society. Creating peace, unity and reconciliation through connecting with
people from different backgrounds and working together on compassion outreach
projects across Israel remains a big part of our mandate from G-D." Learn
more by contacting the
ministry directly for more information and sign up for their Facebook "Lost
Sheep of Israel" prayer and support groups
From the Tiferet Yeshua congregation in Tel Aviv led by Gil Afrait,
writes an encouraging report Who is Your Neighbor in Crisis? about how
they were able to activate help in their neighborhood during the Corona virus
for people who had lost jobs and struggling even to eat. Another encouraging
article is For 15 Years I Couldn't Witness to my Friend. Then
Corona Happened. "She realized that witnessing to
strangers can be easier than witnessing to a friend...{and} shares her powerful
testimony about God's patience and grace, and the surprises He sometimes has in
store for us when we obey His call."
Plus, like many are witnessing in various countries, Corona on the Rise Again in Israel.
Revive Israel, Asher Intrater's ministry sends an article by Ron Cantor, Don’t Fear Corona Conspiracies! also this
Passover book which you can download free: "the story of a unique,
historic moment at the 2020 Global Passover and Last
Supper alignment."
Richard and Carolyn Hyde of Heart of G-d Ministries catch us up on how
they are doing in their little village outside of Tiberias (with an excellent
view of the Sea of Galilee) where so many Messianic Jewish families reside.
"What a joy to reconnect with some of my dear friends recently at their
home group. Often travelers would join in this home group, but since the
lockdown, it’s mostly just with local Jewish believers. Throughout the worship,
the L-rd poured out new songs and everyone felt free to declare a prophetic
word or scripture. At one point the L-rd gave me a new song about the breath of
G-d (she is in the studio with Andrey Levin recording that now)....also someone
who had been attending, believed, but could not bring themselves to say the
name Yeshua was saved and set free. Carolyn shares one of her other new songs
for you to enjoy, In The Lovin' Arms. For more about their ministry you can sign up
to receive their monthly ministry letter, see details at the website.
Avi and Chaya Mizrachi, who lead the Tel Aviv Adonai Roi congregation and
the Dugit Messianic Outreach Center are happy that they have been able to open
their HaOgen coffee house ministry and their humanitarian aid Distribution
Center. Just days after opening a woman came for aid, saw an open Bible which
led to a discussion of faith and ended up getting that Bible and receiving the
LORD all in one visit! Praise His holy name! Avi writes, " We have wasted
no time in restarting our evangelistic outreaches with the resources available,
but like many in Israel, we have been impacted by the crisis. Many trips and
fundraising activities that I planned had to be canceled. And the number of
people in need looking to us for help has only grown. I am so grateful and
humbled that God has allowed us to be part of what He is doing in the land of
Israel at this time. I believe that your role is just as critical for this
nation as what we do—I believe that every prayer and every gift make a huge
difference for the kingdom of God." They are offering a special piece of
art created by someone in their
congregation for donations this month: Click to see the Grafted In art work and to donate
At the Immanuel Church & outreaches led by Israel Christian Arabs
Najeeb and Elizabeth Atteih, they relate some of the encouraging things that
have taken place since we last heard from them, and also some of the really
tough situations they are helping some of the people they are minister to through.
They have a lovely story about three orthodox Jews who were visiting the grave
of Rabbi Nahman, but were drawn to their Christian Soldiers’ Center when they
saw the Israeli flag flying overhead. They asked to speak with Pastor Najeeb
because they were so intrigued and many seeds were planted in the ensuing
conversation. They also write about the heavy situation for the young boy whose
father got saved, it living at the ministry as his son is battling through a
rare cancer in his jaw. He had a successful chemo and groundbreaking surgery,
but with 2 weeks the cancer returned. The mother is hostile to the Gospel.
Please pray for this really hard situation. Also for the refugees who are so
connecting to the church through continued Zoom meetings and services. To learn
more, contact ministry directly
Kehila News Israel has many
articles, teachings, videos from the congregations (kehila) of Israel. Here are
a couple of the items we loved reading about in the past week: This is No Time in History to Deny Any Jew
Citizenship and a Safe Haven and Engaged in a military tank! Messianic couple's
proposal makes Israeli news This is about the son of a Beer Sheva
Messianic leader and the daughter of a Yad Hashmona leader, who found true love
& made the Israeli news for the unusual way he popped the question.
Chuck Cohen sends Friday Prayer Points 6/19/2020 during a week they were
not able to meet because of an eye surgery....but he still has plenty for you
to pray about! Heal quickly, Chuck!
Jackie Santoro writes from Jerusalem where she and many friends just
observed the one year passing of dear Eddie Santoro into the arms of the LORD.
She wrote of the memorial, " I was very encouraged by the day and the love
that was shared and felt by everyone. I said to some people afterwards how
incredible it is to feel such hope and joy at your husband's memorial service.
Only in God!" Jackie also shares about the congregation they helped to
co-found, Ahavat Yeshua in Jerusalem. They have been holding meetings in the
park because only 50 people are allowed to congregate indoors. It has been a
little difficult to hear with no amplification, but people do wander by as they
are "singing and talking, giving testimony, sharing a message and often
praying for people. God, who as always works everything to the good is allowing
us to bring the congregation outside the walls of the building and be a witness
to everyone who is near us!"
Jackie asks prayers for "the Israeli government continues to be
filled with difficulties and disunity" for the potential of "500,000
Israelis would be incorporated into the state of Israel" from Judea and
Samaria. "500,000 Israelis would be incorporated into the state of Israel"
...."Please pray for wisdom, discernment and boldness to enact legislation
that is in the heart of God. Timing is crucial and pray that the Israeli
government would know when to wait and when to move forward."
She writes about concerns for "those of us who were born in America
and still have family and friends there" about what is happening in the
USA. She writes, " Yet in the midst of these shifting sands, we stand on
the rock. God cannot be shaken and his word is true and unchanging. He is the
same yesterday, today and forever. Pray that this is the day and the hour that
the Body of Messiah rises up and takes its stand against the schemes of the
enemy. May our voice be heard above the other voices. May the word of life be
stronger than the word of death being proclaimed on the streets. May good take
its rightful place over evil and may the light of Yeshua shine brighter and
brighter each day. Let us be bold and declare the power and love that are in
the name of Yeshua in the face of this increasing darkness. There is no time to
waste. As always, I thank you for your continuing support and encouragement
which helps me to walk more confidently through these uncharted roads."
Urgent HEALING Needs: Life and Death is
in the power of the tongue
Please keep in prayer these Israeli ministry leaders
and believers with urgent health needs
URGENT PRAYER NEED 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, as she has been prepared for chemotherapy which will begin next Monday.
| Ronit Bender whose cardiologist told her that
her irregular heartbeat is SEVERE, and is suggesting further tests. Please
intercede for Ronit: No weapon formed against her shall prosper! | Olga Bikas severe back pain has kept her in "quarantine"
for the past 4 years or so! Please pray for God to do a miracle of healing for Olga. | Please pray for Rachel Netanel's brother who is
recovering | Please continue to pray for Jacob Damkani for the LORD's mercies
over Jacob and his dear wife, Elisheva | Continue please to pray for Ruth Nessim Critical prayer need she is losing sight! Prayers for a
miracle for Ruth.| Pray for Rania Sayegh who asks for prayer of restoration of strength, energy,
and complete healing.
An Intercession
An Intercession
The following is by an
intercessor in northern Israel who must remain anonymous. The person is a
congregant of the Carmel congregation that I have had email contact with for
over a decade.
6/14/20 (A congregant at Kehilat HaCamel ) Houses of Beauty ministry on Mt Carmel, Israel Write to at
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Dear friends, the Lord woke me up recently with a strongly highlighted
thought. Every time I've needed to heal something that involved other people or
situations, with challenges that seemed out of my control, or problems that
escalated on top of each other, when I healed the related issues of my heart,
giving them over to Christ, letting Him restore His kingdom within me, all the
associated external problems immediately dissolved. On that recent morning,
when the Lord shocked me awake into alertness, I wondered what He was
cooking. I'd seen this truth so many
times it was like the law of gravity to me. It always worked, often
miraculously. But it took all my guts to accomplish it. Why was He highlighting
it now?
He asked some questions that took my thoughts to the next level:
"What is the connection between your personal repentance and the health of
My nation? (Continues at Arrows from Zion blog here)
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