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The importance of the creation of the State of Israel Posted on Monday 5 May 2008 It is not really possible to exaggerate why David Ben Gurion’s declaration – 60 years ago this May, of the independence of the State of Israel for the people of Israel – is one of the most important historical happenings ever to impact the world. Stan Goodenough Why was the creation of Israel on May 14, 1948 so significant? It was important on many levels for the Jews themselves, but not only for the Jews: It marked the arrival of the Jewish people at a – for them – long-feared unreachable milestone in their millennia-old history – the end of their worldwide Diaspora or dispersion. It signified the total failure of Adolf Hitler – and the myriad antisemites before him: the Vatican, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the Cossacks, the rulers of Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Slovakia, The Netherlands, France, England, Poland, Bohemia, Russia and all the other nations that expelled their Jews – to do away with God’s Chosen People. It established a port of safety – a haven – for a nation whose people for 2000 years had been denied acceptance and lived precariously virtually wherever they sought to dwell among the gentiles. It gave a long-scattered people a single address – a home of their own in which they were reconstituted and could once again build themselves up as a nation in their own right. Within that homeland the Jews, who had been always at the mercy of their host nations, could organize their own defense and victoriously withstand, as they have often had to do, the onslaught of millions of their foes. Ask the Jew living in Israel today why the creation and existence of his or her homeland is so important to them, and you will receive these and perhaps a few other, similar, answers. Of as great significance as all these reasons and, in the thinking of millions of Bible-believing Christians around the world of even greater import, is Israel’s rebirth for the following reasons: It underscores and proclaims aloud for all the world to hear, God’s faithful keeping of His covenant and His word. It heralds the approaching end of this age, the coming of Messiah and the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth. Apart from the coming of Jesus, Israel’s rebirth – an event without precedent in the history of nations – is the most dramatic fulfillment of prophecy ever to have taken place. It adds enormous weight to the veracity of the Bible. Perhaps the most important thing for Christians about Israel’s rebirth and preservation is the message it sends about the absolute and unshakeable faithfulness of God. Conversely – those Christians who will not see modern-day Israel as the fulfillment of that prophecy, and as a nation whose future is guaranteed by God, cannot themselves be very secure in their own salvation. For if God could change His mind about who should be His Chosen People, then He surely can change His mind about who is saved and who is not? Accurately speaking, what took place 60 years ago was not the creation of the Jewish nation but its resurrection in its ancient homeland, as foretold by its ancient prophets. Questioning one of those prophets concerning the future of His people, God says: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a rod of an almond tree.” Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it.” (Jeremiah 1:11-12) The Land of Israel, the Bible further tells us in Deuteronomy 11:12, is “a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.” He has, indeed, been jealously guarding His Word concerning this land, and His intention to restore its people to the land, and to Himself. Although the return of the Jews to their land began in serious a little over a century ago, the restoration of the land to the Jews really only took place with any sense of certainty 60 years ago.  And during these past 60 years the Jews have continued to come back to their land from literally the four corners of the earth even as, for 60 years, the forces of hell have been working to reverse and so thwart this process of restoration.
Jerusalem Pulse Radio
Despite the incessant battle for survival and the overwhelming international prejudice against the Jewish state, in May 2008 the Jews of Israel will be able to proclaim as they sing and dance once more on the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: “Am Yisrael chai.” (“The nation of Israel lives.”) And those of us who love Israel, who prefer Zion above our chief joy and who pray for the peace of Jerusalem, will sing and rejoice with them.
Link: http://www.holyland-inc.net/highways-to-jlmCreate physical/spiritual highways, pathways, escape routes from the nations to Jerusalem for immigrants and refugees, with tabernacles at starting points and along the way. List your Israel "friendly" site at Highways to Jlm. The tabernacles (tents, buildings, kiosks, storerooms, etc.) can also be used for teaching, ministering, hummanitarian aid, etc. Here is an example in what Jews want to do in east Europe: September 20, '07 Teaching Tents Against Anti-Semitism( IsraelNN.com) Jewish activists in Paris, Warsaw, and Kiev have put up tents in order to teach others about Jewish history, religion, and culture. The activists hope to combat anti-Semitism by “opening European Jewish communities.” Activists expressed satisfaction with the levels of participation in events held at the tents, saying that the communities seemed very interested in hearing about Jewish life. In Warsaw, police came to the tent to hear about an increase in anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism in Poland.
| After 37 years of boasting of "inalienable solidarity" with the people of Israel, the Netherlands' second largest church plans to reexamine its stance this fall. A group of notables from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN) warned last week that the organization, which has over two million members, is in danger of being "hijacked" by pro-Palestinian activists. |  | | |
The warning - coauthored by Dr. Jan van der Graaf, who served for 35 years as PCN's general secretary, and three other prominent church figures - was an open letter against changing the reference to Israel. It was addressed to Minister Henri Veldhuis, a General Synod member who said the clause made the church adopt a biased view that ignored Israeli actions against Palestinians.
At a speech last month in Utrecht for Friends of Sabeel (a Jerusalem-based Palestinian organization), Veldhuis said the church should commit to a bond with Israel "as people of the Torah" instead of the "Jewish people as an ethnic group." Veldhuis also complained that currently, "the church has a stronger bond with a non-believing Alaskan Jewish person than a Palestinian Christian."
The open letter accused Veldhuis of a slanted and hypocritical approach. "We were astonished by your address before a Palestinian liberation organization that pretends to be promoting reconciliation," it read. "You accused Israel but ignored Hamas's Jew-hating ideology. You overlooked the alarming anti-Semitic upsurge in Arab countries."
Veldhuis responded that the signatories "were regrettably and falsely" trying to portray Sabeel and himself as radical left-wing activists. In a conversation with Haaretz, Veldhuis said: "It is important to preserve the lessons of the Holocaust and never forget the Jewish roots of church and bible and to fight anti-Semitism, but we have to take a more realistic position on the Jewish people as an ethnic group and on the State of Israel. The PCN's theology is now idealizing both."
He added that he believes the coauthors - Van der Graaf, Dr. Theo van Campen, Dr. Wulfert de Greef and Dr. Henk van der Meulen - are circling the wagons because of "mounting criticism of Israel's policies."
Van der Graaf said that those who advocate changing the church's charter are "only a highly motivated minority" within PCN, and he believes the clause will ultimately remain unchanged.
The PCN, which was formed in 2004 as a merger of the country's three largest protestant churches, is scheduled to discuss revising its stance on Israel in November. | |
|  | | Apart from players and a ball, the game requires THREE ELEMENTS: |  | A playing field; | | A will and strategy to win; | | A referee, the whistle blower | | 
| | | | God created a playing field, Paradise, and two players in his image (with a body, a soul and spirit), Adam and Eve to play - or actually just to live in this field and manage it. Then Satan came and turned their lives into a competitive game/struggle by giving them a choice to live according to God's rules or to do their own thing. And they fell for it, causing God to have to evict them from this pleasant field to take up the challenge to play in a rough field that they needed to tame while all along fighting against their inclination not to do the right thing. Those who opted in principle not to make a commitment to play according to God's rules became Satan's players, opposing God's players. And this on a playing field that God had to share with Satan. (The football game has the same "components" as God himself, a Body (field), Yeshua; a Soul, the Father, the thinking, feeling One, the heart; The Referee, Whistle blower, the Spirit. This game with its three components plus God's players and His ball represents the Kingdom of God.) The ball represents the TRUTH, that which is in agreement with God's perfect rules for living and acquiring eternal life, as against Satan's lies. Actually, there are two balls in this game since the truth and the lie cannot exist side be side like in the YingYang concept or "Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security!" In other words, the players on both sides have a ball they need to get into the other side's goal post and one that they need to prevent from getting into their own goal post. Until one of the sides wins, both balls will remain in the playing field. God's players should play to win, although in love and according to his laws, while Satan's team plays dirty and anything goes for the sake of winning, including playing the man and not necessarily the ball. For that reason his players all leave the playing field with red cards, while God's players retire with honors. Some are carried off on stretchers, of whom some don't survive and join the martyrs who are waiting under God's throne. Soon the situation became so bad that God only had eight players left, Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives. Consequently he had to destroy Satan's whole team in the flood and start all over again with players from Noah's family's offspring . Satan, nevertheless, managed to establish himself firmly in Babylon, that became the breeding ground for demon worship and a one world system of rule for mankind. God foiled his one-world aspirations by dividing the people into groups speaking different languages that caused them to migrate over the world and set up independent nations speaking different languages. Satan kept on developing his evil doctrines in Babylon and disseminating them over the earth - actually, the different language groups already took these doctrines with them when they dispersed over the earth. And Satan is, of course, still in our day trying to set up his one-world system. God all along had a perfect means of salvation built into himself in that he had a Body who could become human, with flesh and blood, that could be sacrificed to establish salvation by his unblemished blood - since salvation is only by blood. However, he didn't have a playing field of his own with players set aside for his purposes. That is, to practice his rules under more favorable conditions with help from him - as well as to provide a mother from among them to give birth to his Son as a Son of man -- to be sacrificed for the sins of mankind. One who was one of them. For this purpose he took Abram and Sarah from Babylon to go and establish a new nation (players) on a playing field that he promised would eternally be theirs - as well as his own personal inheritance. He built an assurance of victory into them by promising that their nation would exist eternally - contrary to other nations that come and go. His honor is therefore tied up with his ability to preserve this nation, the Hebrews, eternally. The match became limited to Canaan, renamed Israel, the home stadium, from where it spread on a limited scale to some other nations like Ethiopia. It became a very boring football match in which the balls were kicked this way and that way for thousands of years. At one time so many of God's players, the Israelites had walked over to the opposition that God exiled the whole nation, Judah and Israel, back to Babylon, allowing his home field to become desolate with only a small number of Israelites left in it. It is actually a notable fact that his inheritance becomes desolate when the Hebrews don't live in it. We see it even in our day in areas occupied by the Arabs. The "Greenline" got its name from everything being green up to the area that was under Jordanian occupation. The settlers in Gaza even produced masses of vegetables on sand dunes that the Arabs said were cursed. Satan was actually awarded a penalty goal when Adam and Eve chose to do things their own way. He was therefore one point up on God. To catch up, God needed to wait for about 4,000 years after the fall of the first Adam for the right scenario to develop, namely the rise of the Roman Empire, for his Son to be birthed in Betlechem. Then God could score that most classical goal by the death and resurrection of Yeshua. It cancelled Satan's penalty goal in paradise, but it didn't disqualify him from the game. He could keep on playing. The Jews were not disqualified either from their role of being the source of the Gospel and of re-establishing the home stadium in preparation for the return of Messiah - to score his second and final goal in the game and thereby bar Satan from further participation in the game - for a thousand years. In the year 70 CE, however, all but a hand full of the Hebrews had to flee from the home stadium and got dispersed into the nations (the Galut, Diaspora) - where God enabled them to maintain their Jewish identity by subjecting them to laws that they kept slavishly without questioning their legalistic nature. It took nearly 2000 years before the home playing field, Israel, was re-allocated to the home team. It cost God the lives of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust to create a psychological moment in the United Nations in which a fleeting sense of guilt caused the nations to vote in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in the British Mandate area west of the Jordan River. Although they had to share it with Satan's false claimant, Ismael's seed, it was a beginning towards restoring the home land to the format and size of that of king David's dynasty - in preparation for the ultimate David in his royal line to rule over Israel and the nations. For 2,000 years the Kingdom of God had to function purely on the strength of the Gospel and God's grace without a home stadium. For most of this time the players (church) were kept in total ignorance of the rules of God's game and doctrinal truth due to the Babylonian practise by the dominating powerful Roman Catholic church to reveal knowledge to an enlightened few in leading positions. (They were vitually just playing with Satan's ball.) The Reformation opened the door for God to bring life into the church and to build a remnant of true believers from the nations who could be added to his Kingdom as members of the Commonwealth of Israel. Ephesians 3:6 This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. Satan managed, however, to divert the majority of the church to Babylonian roots and gnosticism that rejected the Jewish roots of the Kingdom. They therefore belong to Satan's and not the God of Israel's Kingdom. A huge sector of the Jews have also become rooted in the Babylonian model in their thinking and lifestyle and it is these Jews who were behind the re-establishment of Israel and they have mostly subsequently been its rulers. They for sure don't play in God's team, since their agenda is not to restore Israel to a powerful state worthy to be ruled by Yeshua's on his return, but to maintain a weakened multicultural state that will not be too strong to fit in a one world system. God nevertheless used them to re-establish his inheritance for him to resettle his faithful remnant - whom he will use to restore Israel to her former glory under king David. A land we see in Ezekiel 38 in which her people will live in safety and so wealthy that the nations, Gog and Magog and their allies will come to rob her of her wealth. God's hometeam will be so powerful that it will take an alliance of just about all the nations to take them on. It will only be Yeshua's return to fight for them, that will preserve them at that time. How will Israel become that wealthy? It seems that it can only be as a result of the war of Isaiah 17 in which Damascus gets destroyed and Aroer (Jordan) gets emptied out of people, followed by the war in Isaiah 18/19 in which Egypt will be defeated. It is important to note that the struggle for the Kingdom returned to Israel after her re-establishment. It probably set an approximate for the "fullness of the gentiles" to have come in. It make the Jews once again the main players in the game in the run up to Yeshua's return. How ironic, that they need to battle for the restoration of the dynasty of the the ultimate David, before they even know who he is. However, He will reveal himself to them in his time like Joseph did to his brothers. See "...And then all Israel will be saved." (Based on Romans 11:26) What then about the gentiles in this time while Israel is being restored? They should preserve and separate themselves from the apostasy that has taken root in most churches and congregations and start acting in solidarity with the Commonwealth of Israel to which they belong. Psalms 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them 35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it 36 The children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there
Rom 9:21-25 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved." NKJV
Amos 9:11-12 "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; 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom,And all the Gentiles who are called by My name," NKJV
Isa 56:8 For the Lord God who brings back the outcasts of Israel says, "I will bring others too besides my people Israel." TLB
See Tribulation Scripturally, the gentiles should also help to restore Israel, the home base of the Commonwealth of Israel, as well as help to re-settle the Jews in it: Isaiah 14:2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD'S land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors
Isaiah 49:22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Isaiah 60:10 "Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.
Isaiah 61:5 Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards 
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| "Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,"
Isa 43:19 NASU | . . | | God said that He would establish a pathway through the
wilderness and desert for His people to return Home. | How to Establish a Highway | | There are, many ways, but we have opted for establishing tent tabernacles as our main strategy, because it is such a "visible" and versatile way. Everybody will ask, "what is this tent about?" Especially if you display a minorah or an Israeli flag. It gives you the opening to tell them. Even set up a little exhibition, (including a map of Israel stretching to the Euphrates!), display a few Israeli products especially from the settlements! What a turnover you'll soon have of Israeli products from 1... 10 ... 100 tabernacles - and we understand that people have been setting up tabernacles in America for the last 17 years. |  | | Now, the added idea of tabernacles forming dots on a highway, will start giving them real meaning by being "dots" connecting pathways across continents to each other. The tabernacles will indicate the way and and serve as beacons. Every Tabernacle will indicate the directions and distance to the next one. In this way all will be linked and pilgrims will never be lost without knowing were to go next. The Tabernacle could also be a food and medicine distribution center to assist those in need and to assist pilgrims (even refugees) on their way to Jerusalem. It would be ideal to offer teaching at Tabernacles, such as in discipleship and prophesy - to show the increasing importance of Israel as we get closer to the end of our era. In third world countries teaching of skills would be very beneficial, especially farming for the production of food to assist those in need. The graduated disciples will have the opportunity to establish tabernacles or assist in established tabernacles or simply in their own communities. http://highways-to-jlm.tripod.com |
I have discovered that the easiest way to figure out the multiplicity and characteristics of our Elohim (gods - plural), is to do understand our own make up of body, soul and spirit. I discovered this about fifteen years ago during a time of extreme emotional trauma in which I had to deal with the problem of bringing the whirlpool of thoughts that were going around and around in my mind into order to be able to sleep. I realized that one's mind is just able to juggle what it knows into different combinations to find some rationality in a given situation and that my mind wasn't going to come to rest without input from my spirit from God's Spirit. The obvious way to get this input was to pray in tongues, thereby cutting out my mind, but that was all it really did and it didn't result in anything tangible that could ease my mind. It's a sure way to receive instructions and strategies from God, but not of finding rest in him. For that I needed to apply the spiritual principle that God descends on us as our worship goes up to him. Consequently I started worshiping him from a Feast of Tabernacles songbook of the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem (IECJ). I'm not a singer, but a good whistler (like God - Isa 5:26), so I whistled as I read the words, and it enabled God to minister directly to my soul from lyrics like, "Be still my soul, the Lord is on thy side! Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; Leave to thy God to order and provide. In every change He faithful will remain... Needless to say, this spiritual operation enabled me to receive so much rest and peace in the Lord that I was able to sleep. It was like a sleeping pill from the Lord, just better, because it resulted in natural, relaxed, vs. a drug induced sleep. The battle wasn't over though, I still needed to get answers and a strategy from the Lord. The Jewish Yom Kipur day of fasting came up, and I decided to fast for three days in stead of just the one -- not that I normally feel obligated to fast on Yom Kipur - I received my "chatimah tovah." (signature of approval) in Yeshua. We lived on a mountain high above the Hadassa Hospital in Jerusalem and there were terraces below our house where I spent many hours praying and worshiping and it didn't just give me the answers I needed, it also showed me the clear distinction between my soul and my spirit persons. Discerning the three persons, body, soul and spirit, that constitutes my being, made me realize that God saying "let US create man in OUR image," can only mean that He also consists of a Body, a Soul and a Spirit. A conclusion that God's BODY is the body in which he appears on earth is fairly logical. Apart from Yeshua having taken up that body, there are many instances where God appeared in person on earth, while we know our heavenly Father is always in heaven. For instance, Abram eventually calling one of the three men who visited him, LORD. Similarly Gideon realizing that he had to do with God in person, etc. This singles out the God of Israel, ELOHIM, from "other" gods, in the respect that he doesn't need a statue or an image to represent him, like Hari Krishna, a Buddha, the moon god Allah's black rock, a cross, a fish, etc. - see Symbolism. What would they be without those objects??!! NOTHING. Saying that the God of Israel is the same God as Allah of Islam, based on the devil's handy tool, called MONOTHEISM, is unspeakably blasphemous!! Most Christians understand that God's Spirit Person is the Holy Spirit although few know him intimately or have an inkling of how vital it is to be filled (baptized) with him and to receive input from him. King David showed this clearly in saying to God: Psalms 51:11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me The fact that it is the gravest of all sins to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, shows us that he is God like God the Father. (I think some evangelists' using the Holy Spirit like a gimmick also amounts to blasphemy) Matt 12:32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. NIV The Apostle Paul explained that God the Father, one of the three Persons of God, is uppermost: 1 Cor 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. NIV
Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. NIV Humans are body, soul and spirit similar to Elohim, and I have identified the Body and Spirit Persons of Elohim. It leaves us with just one option, namely that God the Father is the SOUL Person of God. The soul person is the thinking and feeling (center of emotions) person of man and therefore of God as well. It is in the SOUL Person of God (the Father) where love (for us) is centered as we see in John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. NKJV Let me ask this: In Abraham's having to slaughter his son Isaac on the altar, who suffered the most agony, Abraham or his son? I contend, Abraham, since Isaac didn't even know about him going to be the lamb until Abraham actually raised his knife to kill him. Similarly Yeshua only really agonized about being slaughtered when it was about to happen, while His Father suffered all along about having to send his only begotten Son to die for us. In view of the fact that is the soul person of man that needs salvation for him not to be lost, we should really identify the MOST intimately with God the Father (the SOUL). Ex 30:11 And Jehovah said to Moses, "Whenever you take a census of the people of Israel, each man who is numbered shall give a ransom to the Lord for his soul, so that there will be no plague among the people when you number them. TLB
Job 33:29 "Yes, God often does these things for man- 30 brings back his soul from the pit, so that he may live in the light of the living. TLB
Ps 49:14 Death is the shepherd of all mankind. And "in the morning" those who are evil will be the slaves of those who are good. For the power of their wealth is gone when they die, they cannot take it with them. 15 But as for me, God will redeem my soul from the power of death, for he will receive me. TLB
Prov 22:24 Keep away from angry, short-tempered men, lest you learn to be like them and endanger your soul. TLB Luke 16:22 Finally the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham in the place of the righteous dead. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went into hell. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham. TLB Christians talk about being the bride of Christ, as well as, God is my husband: Hos 2:16 "And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me 'My Husband,'
And no longer call Me 'My Master,' NKJV [In Hebrew the same word, baal, is used for husband and master.]
Isa 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth. NKJV
Jer 3:14 "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. NKJV
Hos 2:7 She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.' NKJV To be a good wife, a woman needs to know the likes and dislikes of her husband; his prerogatives, vision, aspirations, desires, hopes, etc. Most Christians, however, only identify with the Jesus formula for salvation and prosperity, in which their only responsibility is to keep a local congregation going, or to at least attend church services - even get a once a week spiritual high from being swept along in worship. It's mostly about Jesus with whom they identify because he was with us (Emmanuel = God with us), he paid the price for us, is God's WORD, LAMB, etc. But God the SOUL is the one who appreciates our worship most. He is the One who wants to be glorified. He is the One who says, "I am a JEALOUS God. To truly know God, we need to know what is uppermost in his heart; that with which he is pre-occupied! It is Israel, and we see it from the word Israel appearing 2567 times in the NKJV, Jerusalem 821 times, Zion 162 times - not to mention a multitude of other expressions related to Israel and Jerusalem like, "My holy mountain, hill, etc. It is with Israel that God has an eternal covenant, no other nation. His HONOR depends on the existence of the State Israel and the Jews. That's why Satan tries so hard to wipe them out. The primary reason for Yeshua's coming to earth was the Jews. He said it himself - he didn't come to to establish the church as Brother Jim also explained to us - ssbnsailor.multiply.com. It's about the Jews that God says, "They are like the apple of my eye!" Israel needs to exist for Messiah to return to. However, very few Christians identify with this pre-occupation of God the Father. For 99 percent of Christians who do involve themselves with Jews and Israel, it's exclusively about applying the Jesus-formula to the Jews and Israelis. The few times I've left Israel the last years, I always felt extremely unwelcome wherever I visited because nobody could ever see any relevance in introducing me to their friends, churches etc. as somebody serving the Lord in Israel or having firsthand knowledge about Israel. Of course, it also has to do with my calling to Israel being in solidarity with God's agenda with the Jews and not to apply the Jesus-formula. It also has to do with the idea that somebody who isn't sent out by the church doesn't have validity, covering etc. God is the ONE who calls people, not the church. You have to go even if the church doesn't agree or identify with your mission! For these reasons I have never ever really received any support from any church since I was called to go to in 1982. On my last visit abroad from Israel more than three years ago, I discovered that lectures were going to be given about the Jewish Feasts at one of the churches in the town where I was visiting. I phoned the man who was going to give the lectures and it turned out that he was a Jewish believer. And boy, was he delighted to speak to someone who actually lived in Israel?! In the end, however, he didn't even acknowledge my presence at the meeting - not even as a stranger. It eventually became clear to me that the only interest the Christians at the meeting had in Israel was that it helped them to formulate feasible eschatological understandings. I nevertheless received a strategy from the Lord before I left from there to accommodate refugees from the nations in Israel and to re-settled land that is presently under ARAB OCCUPATION. It is to settle the land like Abraham did, setting up campsites from place to place, as set out in Holy Land Camping. | 
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