The Israel Story
Last week John emailed me, "I want to share the following with you to see if this something that you would like to share with your readers."
"Two years ago I founded a non-profit called The Israel Story. Its name reflects its purpose. Our primary goal is to share the story that God is telling through Israel and the Jewish people. In a world where the foundations of society are shaking: marriage, family, gender, faith, even climate, The Israel Story stands as an immoveable, unchangeable testimony to the truth of the biblical narrative and a powerful declaration of the gospel message."
After investigating the web page and signing up to view the episodes, I am happy to report that this is something I believe my subscribers will find to be a valuable resource to incorporate in their prayer for Israel groups and to share in special Israel studies their churches. What is this all about? In their own words,
"There is a Big Story that encompasses all of our smaller stories. It is the story that God is telling and it is found in the pages of the Bible. The central characters in this story are the Jewish people and the nation of Israel, not just in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, not just in the past, but in the present and the future, as well. As you might expect, the hero of the Israel Story is a Jew. His name is Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew.
They write, "We are excited for you to experience God's story in a deeper way through The Israel Story video course & bible study. "
It is 7 hours of content broken into 20 study sessions which you are free to watch online - for FREE. You can also watch it through the iOS App, the Google Play App or Roku TV. Plus, there is a Study Manual with Supporting Bible Verses, Content Essence and Summary, Content and Discussion Questions.
"In our time, when life on earth is changing at a breathtaking pace, when faith, family, and societal foundations are shaking, when information is zipping around our planet in quantities and at speeds never dreamed of before, the reality of Israel stands as an immovable, unchangeable declaration of God’s faithfulness, the truth of His Word, and the gospel message. The Israel Story study is built on these beliefs."
"The essence of the Israel Story, it's through-line, central theme, is the gospel message. God’s relationship with the Jewish people and the nation of Israel is the most powerful, in-your-face, real-world declaration of the gospel.
"The Israel Story communicates the role of Israel and the Jewish people in God’s plan of redemption for all mankind. The story is communicated in a way that is comprehensive, simple, invitational and disarming without compromising truth. It is a bridge to connect both individuals and faith communities to this important truth at this important time. "
I’ve seen it open the eyes of many who had no understanding of this reality and change the minds of many who previously only viewed Israel and the Jewish people in a negative light.
"The Israel Story video episodes, which were professionally filmed with young adults in an interactive group setting, are available for free on IOS and Android mobile apps, Apple TV, Roku, and our website. The 270-page supporting manual to the video teaching is currently available on Kindle, iBooks, and in hard copy on Amazon.
Are you passionate about what God is doing with the Jewish people and in Israel today? Are you part of a network or community of people that can benefit from a Bible study about Israel? If so, we encourage you to lead your own Israel Story group. We give you all the tools you need to lead your own group!
Please investigate further with these links to help introduce you to The Israel Story:
The Israel Story Intro Video
The Israel Story Church Partnership
The Israel Story group leader guide
The Israel Story partnership guide
100% Of Your Donations Go To Furthering The Advancement of The Israel Story | Private donors cover our operating costs and staff which means that every dollar you give goes to advancing the Israel Story.
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During
the Fall Feasts, Israeli ministries are always super busy from the activities
in their own families and congregations, to hectic swirl of visitors who flood
into Israel to celebrate the Feasts. Typically we do not get a great amount of
communications from the ministries during this time for that reason. Next week
will be another story!
Israel Pochtar's Voice of Judah ministries has also been in the midst of major things during the festive week of Sukkot. He shares the traditional verses that God enjoined Israel to observe as well as enumerating why "Sukkot has tremendous relevance to us as believers in Yeshua" — including the New Testament account of Yeshua at the Feast, and the prophetic future of the feast described in Zechariah 14:9,16. Truly to understand the New Testament, our Messianic Jewish brothers have so much insight to these things! Israel also shares a video of their great outreach Jerusalem Outreach 2019 - Feast of Tabernacles
Israel Pochtar's Voice of Judah ministries has also been in the midst of major things during the festive week of Sukkot. He shares the traditional verses that God enjoined Israel to observe as well as enumerating why "Sukkot has tremendous relevance to us as believers in Yeshua" — including the New Testament account of Yeshua at the Feast, and the prophetic future of the feast described in Zechariah 14:9,16. Truly to understand the New Testament, our Messianic Jewish brothers have so much insight to these things! Israel also shares a video of their great outreach Jerusalem Outreach 2019 - Feast of Tabernacles
We received a short note from the lead pastor, Dani Sayag, at the Carmel
Congregation in Haifa: I was
thinking of a well-known verse that relates to this holiday "On that day I will raise up the
tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, and repair its damages; I will
raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old" (Amos 9:11).
. . . ‘After this I will return And will rebuild the tabernacle of David,
which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; So that
the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, Even all the Gentiles who are called by
My name, Says the Lord who does all these things’” (Acts 15:14-17). At this
Feast of Tabernacles, we remember that God expanded the family in the Succah
(Tabernacle) of God to include Jews and Gentiles, one new man together in
Messiah Yeshua.
From Revive
Israel October Team Update Including a report from Iris Chang: Hong Kong Report
and the very interesting story of Revive Team Members Youval and Valerie. PLUS
2 VIDEOS Healing the Broken Hearted (Best of
2019) and What
Is Faith Part 1 | Look together with Asher at the concept of
"Faith" in the Bible. Starting with the book of Hebrews, chapter 11,
we search the scriptures for God's message on our faith.
The upcoming conference in November in
Florida registration overflowed into a larger venue. This is a
Tikkun Int'l event "Israel and the Coming Worldwide Revival". Also check out Ron & Elana's next 2
Messiah's Mandate Up to
Zion Israel Tours (Dec and May).
PLUS
some other great news from Ron about the Nov 3rd Annual Christian Media Summit hosted by Israel’s
press office in Jerusalem. Ron writes, "My best friend and colleague, Ward
Simpson, the CEO of GOD TV, has been asked to give remarks at the President of
Israel’s home before the president himself speaks! It is amazing to see how
Israel is opening up to evangelicals." Support Messiah's Mandate
KehilaNews.AllIsrael.com/ does a bang up job of covering the body of
Messiah in Israel with news, articles and videos. This is a ministry well worth
supporting even if it doesn't fit your traditional concept of what constitutes
a ministry. Anyone that overlooks the impact of a resource like this - and its
ability to plant the seeds of the Gospel, is really missing it like those who
thought automobiles would never replace the horse drawn carriage. ;-)
Here are some of the items that caught my eye in the last issue of Kehila: Going from bad to worse: Russia creates alliance with Iran & Turkey. Turkey invades Syria. Trump abandons the Kurds. Evangelical leaders speak out. It’s a mess by Joel C Rosenberg | Release of new worship song, Melech, by Jerusalem artist Birgitta Veksler by Karen Royel | and Sanna Erelä writes about Michael Kerem is a Messianic Jew living in Jerusalem, and a long-term missionary to Muslims in the Middle East. Together with his wife, he is part of the “Isaiah 19 Highway” vision From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth
Here are some of the items that caught my eye in the last issue of Kehila: Going from bad to worse: Russia creates alliance with Iran & Turkey. Turkey invades Syria. Trump abandons the Kurds. Evangelical leaders speak out. It’s a mess by Joel C Rosenberg | Release of new worship song, Melech, by Jerusalem artist Birgitta Veksler by Karen Royel | and Sanna Erelä writes about Michael Kerem is a Messianic Jew living in Jerusalem, and a long-term missionary to Muslims in the Middle East. Together with his wife, he is part of the “Isaiah 19 Highway” vision From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth
As the CEO of Tikkun Intl, Ron Cantor announces that GOD TV has committed
to donate up to a $50,000 matching donation to the local their Israeli pastors.
Ron writes, " Friends, your gift of $50, $100 or $500 will actually
be a gift of $100, $200 or $1,000 as GOD TV matches each of your gifts up to a
total of $50,000—which will be $100,000!" Each of the congregations has
their own specific and unique projects they would apply their share toward:
feeding the homeless, a music school for kids, expanding their property to
minister to more, serving poor immigrants - and all sorts of outreach materials
& evangelistic outreaches. www.tikkunmatch.com
I have a big backlog of articles written by the various Tikkun
ministries. (Let me say one thing: if it seems to you unfair that I have so
many Tikkun-related ministries, I want you to understand that even though they
are associated with each other, I see them like every other Messianic ministry
in Israel: individual congregations ministering to the people in their
communities who need to know the LORD.)
Here are some articles by several of them: Asia-Eagle
Project in Haifa 2019 by Yevgeni Stanukevich | Three Ages of Western History and Worldwide Passionate Love for God by Dan Juster | Eitan Shishkoff's Thought Life: Creepy Jungle or Fertile Field | Arab
Plumbers Refuse to Charge Holocaust Survivor for Work by Ron Cantor also Muslim
honored for saving Jews during Holocaust and Arabs
protest police inaction as Arab on Arab violence climbs
Orna Grinman focuses on the joy she has witnessed during Dukkot, but
especially on Water and the special
ceremony called
Simchat Beit Hashoeva (lit. “Rejoicing over Water-Drawing”). The celebration
lasted throughout the night and ended with drawing of water from the pool of
Siloam (Briechat Hashiloach). This tradition has much to do with the rain
season at hand. Read it online.
Kobi
Ferguson sends out a 6-focus list of prayer concerns and prayer points for Maoz
ministries this week including the Maoz Israel Team and their activities during
Sukkot, Israel's Government, the failing health and old age of the PA leader
Abbas and what that means in the future struggle to take his place of power,
the incredibly swift alliance-shifting that has gone on in the Middle East:
" This is a very volatile situation with a lot of shifting positions and
many conflicting reports. Abba, our prayer is for clear and accurate
intelligence on what is happening in Syria and on their border. Please give
wisdom and discernment to those who analyze this information. Find protection
for the Kurds in the midst of the shifts happening. Let them not run into the
hands of evil."
Also Kobi
writes on 2 issues I want to specifically point out for prayer: "Indigenous Israeli Leadership - When
Ari and Shira had two children in the late 1970’s they did not fully grasp the
significance that they would be taking part in birthing the first generation of
Israeli believers born and raised in Israel in 2,000 years. Even today, as the
second generation of Israeli-born believers is being raised up in Israel, there
are at most a few thousand of them. Though by default they have a unique
ability to understand how to reach Israelis, few of them are in positions of
leadership in the Body. We honor those
who came, rooted themselves in Israel and planted solid works all over the
Land. Now, we pray for God to raise up mature Israeli-born leadership to lead
and help shape the Body of Messiah in Israel."
The second issue: Delegates to the Feast: It has been a joy to see members of about 100 nations come to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. We bless our brothers and sisters as they return to their home nations with a burden to pray and intercede for Israel. The mandate to pray for Israel is diminishing in many places while it is increasing in others. May those who are in Israel catch the vision and may it rise up from You.
The second issue: Delegates to the Feast: It has been a joy to see members of about 100 nations come to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. We bless our brothers and sisters as they return to their home nations with a burden to pray and intercede for Israel. The mandate to pray for Israel is diminishing in many places while it is increasing in others. May those who are in Israel catch the vision and may it rise up from You.
FYI:
I asked Kobi to elaborate on the above statement, he wrote: "The older generation still has an overall burden
for Israel and praying for Israel. It’s a fact that the younger does not.
Again, increasing in places and diminishing in others. Especially globally. We
have thousands of older Intercessors in Europe but only dozens of younger
people are interested."
My
response is:
It is a great concern which I have also been thinking on most of this
year. Somehow the younger generation of international Christians have to look
up and see something that the younger generation in Israel has that they don't.
So many whose parents and grandparents are Israel-supporters, have been
hijacked by the social justice Islamist activities at all the colleges and
universities. They have been persuaded that the 'David & Goliath' story
Palestinians tell is the true story. I do believe it is going to take the
Israeli younger generation to turn them from that lie.
God knows the answer to this
troubling development and in fact, the subscribers to this mailing list are
exactly the right people to be praying over how God wants to turn the tide. It
is our children and grandchildren who have been taken in the web of deception
that condemns Israel instead of seeing God's own heart to restore them
completely.
Guy Cohen
who leads the Harvest of Asher congregation in his own birthplace of Acco,
sends a weekly teaching which he also shares on his Facebook page. This week
Guy is teaching about how many wonders and signs were done through the apostles
(Acts 2:43-47) as they came together " a group of people who are saved by
His Grace, dedicated to the work of God, obeying His Word and Will." Unity
receives the blessing of God so "there is an awakening in Israel and the
world and salvation comes to all nations. The purpose in all we do is to be in
one heart and to build the Kingdom of God."
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
Ruth Nessim Critical prayer need
she is losing sight! Prayers for a miracle for Ruth.| Continue to pray for Jacob Damkani |
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. | Ronit Bender says 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. Please pray.
Daniel the Musical
Prayers for South African singer/actor Andile
Gumbi, in critical condition and a coma after suffering a heart attack last
week in Jerusalem.
Performances of Daniel the Musical, a South African production which just premiered in Jerusalem last week, were postponed after the lead actor was rushed to the hospital where he remains in critical condition. Organizers suspended all shows after Andile Gumbi, 36, fell suddenly ill on Tuesday and suffered a cardiac arrest.
Later, the show was rescheduled to continue the following week: “We, the
cast and production team of DTM, have decided to keep going to see the vision,
of blessing Israel in friendship, through to the end and also now to honor our
beloved Andile who is still in ICU in critical condition. Our director will
step in for Andile, as King Nebu.”
According to a press release posted by the organizers, “the medical
personnel at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre managed to successfully resuscitate
him.” His condition remains critical and doctors are continuing to try to
determine the cause of his condition.
Even as the last show has just completed and the production team packs up
to leave Israel, Andile is still in ICU in critical condition.
One of the production team, Julita, wrote an update, "So many people
came and said this should become a world tour, so let’s see what God will do.
For now all I can say is, thank God we are at the last show for now. This was
hard. Andile is hard. The debt is hard. But amidst all of this, our hearts are
filled with joy!! We still believe God is a good God. We still trust Him. We
still believe. He will be glorified in
all of this. We have done what He asked. And that is enough."
"We have the seed in the ground. Israel 'cost' us a lot. We paid with more than money. But we were strong and courageous and we did what we came to do. Israel told us that we blessed them and that we should take the blessing back to our own country. Many said Daniel will not happen, but here we are..... it did happen."
"We have the seed in the ground. Israel 'cost' us a lot. We paid with more than money. But we were strong and courageous and we did what we came to do. Israel told us that we blessed them and that we should take the blessing back to our own country. Many said Daniel will not happen, but here we are..... it did happen."
Over many years of close connection with the ministries of Israel and
those that are heart connected with Israel, one thing I have learned is that you
can know the ones who are doing it for the Lord. That's because their testimony
even after the price they must pay is evident, is just like this person said —
they do not regret having done what they believed the Lord was calling them to
do. There is a warfare to tying ourselves to Israel and we have to be ready to
live in that.
Please continue to pray for Andile Gumbi to be restored to health, and for the debts incurred by the South African production to be covered. May this production go worldwide and many more be blessed by it.
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