Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel
Arrows from Zion
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This week one of the Revive Israel ministry team wrote what I think captures the sentiment of many of the Israeli ministries and believers: “Despite the attacks, pressure, exhaustion, and disappointments, the kingdom of God is breaking through. We feel the prophetic destiny of end-times revival closing in on us.”
Pray for the LORD to send a respite for the weary.
Pray for the LORD to rouse the spirits of brothers worldwide to lift up the arms of the Israeli Messianic Jews and Christian Arabs – to come alongside in both spiritual and material terms.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11
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Arrows from Zion
Strategically Aimed for the Lord’s Harvest in Israel ________________________________________
If ever there was a more fitting passage of scripture describing the Body of Messiah in Israel, I don’t know what it would be if not this passage from 2 Corinthians 4:7-11
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Yeshua might be made manifest in our body. For we which live (as unto Him) are always delivered unto death (of self) for Yeshua' sake, that the (indwelling supernatural) life of Yeshua might be made manifest in our human flesh.
Pray and stand, therefore, with those lives that are laid down to the will and purposes of Messiah in Israel for the salvation of all Israel. Lift up their weary arms in the battle as many are dogged daily by those intent on troubling Messiah’s Body. Pray for waters of refreshing to be poured out on the believers in the Land – as in the Days of Elijah, they are declaring the Word of the LORD.
We see in the reports this week the contrasts between intense pressures and resounding victories – it is the battle from here on out, we believe, with the Body in Israel a prophetic picture of the battles that lie for the worldwide Body. Talk about real “training for reigning!”
Inside the Weekly Summary is an excellent article by Howard Bass that touches that conviction, Of The Breaking of Covenants and Treaties. Howard writes, “God has given Israel as an example to the Church, and what happens towards Israel will also happen towards the Church: first the natural; then the spiritual. If people want to make Israel the scapegoat for all the world’s troubles, they will also make Christians scapegoats.”
Bass also makes this wise observation: “According to God’s covenants, He will bless those who bless the seed of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and He will curse him who makes light of them. This also would apply to how Jewish people (the House of Jacob) consider especially Christian believers, who are also of the seed of Abraham through faith.” Good news to report finally in the trial of Jack Teitel, the Yad L’Achim religious terrorist who tried to murder the Messianic Ortiz family in 2008. Teitel has been declared – at long last – mentally fit to stand trial. The defense maneuvers are not over but this is a major hurdle that was not looking promising because of how long it took the courts to make this determination.
On the down side of news, the Arab victim of Teitel who was murdered in the 1990’s was officially declared a victim of terror allowing the family to collect Social Security compensation. Ami Ortiz was denied terror victim status, denying him compensation even though the Purim bomb was a clear terrorist act. Read the newspaper articles on both stories about Teitel inside the Weekly Summary and pray for a reversal of this unjust decision in Ami’s compensation case.
On the upside, Far East groups continue to make mighty connections with the Body of Messiah in Israel. On the downside, even those connections are opposed by the religious as they become aware. Thank God for the Korean, Chinese and Japanese believers who are getting rightly aligned with the spiritual brothers in Israel – the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
Also affecting Revive and other ministries who live in the Messianic kibbutz in Meveserret Zion, is an illegal targeting of believers – posting their photos, names & addresses is illegal because it is like declaring open season on them, inviting people like the Jack Teitel’s of Israel to do believers bodily harm. Pray for this situation. Many ministries in Israel have been targeted in this manner – including the Ortiz family who were bombed. It is serious in several hot spots including ongoing in Arad.
On the upside of the believers at Yad Hashmona being targeted, is the “strongly supportive” write up in the Jerusalem Post. Persecution is deepening and widening, but it is also causing truth loving onlookers to stop, look and listen to the Messianic Jews with new eyes and ears. Pray than many will be given eyes to see and ears to hear the good news. You can read the article inside the Weekly Summary.
David Davis in Haifa points out that whatever the UN nations might say about Israel’s borders, God has already had the last word and God-appointed borders are all about world evangelism, (Acts 17:26-27) God “has determined their [the nations] pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they might seek the Lord…and find Him.” Take this nugget and run with it in your prayers about the Palestinian Stateship bid upcoming in the UN.
Davis asks: Please pray that the Lord will thwart the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State on Sept. 20. Pray God’s Word and beseech Him to perform it. The battle in Israel is over God’s Word and God’s Son. Pray Psalm 2 and stand on Ps. 33:9-12. Pray for the Lord’s word to be fulfilled.
No matter what anyone on the outside looking in might think, when I see Messianic ministries whom I know to be spiritually quality people joining the Tent City demonstrations in Israel, I KNOW there is real basis to the outcry. Always! Always what the indigenous believers have to say holds more weight than the greatest outside Israel supporter the world has ever seen. Selah.
Before the arrival of Jewish New Year and the High Holy Days, please pray about how the Lord would direct your giving towards the many outreaches in Israel during these holidays. This is always a powerful time for the believers to be a witness of Yeshua in their communities - and why not? These are the APPOINTED times of God for Israel to appear before Him. These are times APPOINTED for opening of eyes and ears to the Messiah of Israel.
8 to 10% of Israel’s population is ultra-Orthodox (haredim). They have large families and do not work or serve in the army. A demographic study indicates their numbers will double over the next decade. The taxes of the rest of Israeli society supports ½ million ultra-Orthodox who receive free health care & pensions. It is an unsustainable situation – and the political power of the religious only is increasing which is bad news for Messianic Jews.
Pray for the brotherhood bonds of unity to hold as each week closer to the UN bid for statehood, the tensions there rise. Replacement theology is alive and well in Arab Christianity – although there are many sincerely devoted to our status as brothers in Messiah. Whenever the politics of Israel-Palestinians is strained, it naturally creates strain in the Body. Pray for God to grant major breakthroughs in this regard for the indigenous believers.
Last week we recommended a re-read of Uzi Lotan’s Mosques, Minarets and Military Training. This week we can share their village is surrounded by 5 Palestinian villages in the Samarian Hills/WestBank and is always under 24/7 security – but they have not noticed heightened security arrangements in their village.
Another Israeli believer in Jerusalem noted this week that her new gas mask arrived but without the syringe….You see Israelis are hardening themselves for outbreaks of war – not sure where it will come from with so many current brewing situations.
Do you see intercessory prayer as plowing? If not, Josie Silver’s intercessory prayer encouragement article inside the Weekly Summary might change your mind . Plowing goes before planting.
The Druze are an off-shoot sect of Islam and there are distinct Druze communities in Israel that believers are a witness to. One ministry that must remain anonymous shares this week with good things happening in their outreaches to the Druze. Read it inside the Weekly Summary – and pray for the Druze to hear the call of Yeshua on their lives. Family violence is a special need in the Druze communities.
Thank God for the teams of Christians from around the world that God stirs to come to Israel to work alongside the Body in ministry outreaches! Blessings upon the young people from the far Northern Atlantic Faroe Islands who annually roll up their sleeves in the work of the ministry in Israel.
Boycott Durban III with the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, Eagles’ Wings, World Zionist Organization and the European Coalition for Israel On September 21, 2011 at 11 AM, we will be holding a demonstration opposite the UN headquarters in NYC as the UNHRC launches its Anti-Racism Week, a mere guise for bashing the nation of Israel. The rally will be held in Dag Hammerskojld Plaza (East 42nd ST, between 1st and 2nd Ave, close to the UN building). Be there in person – or by praying in the Spirit.
Inside the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries
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Links to important articles mentioned in this issue of Arrows from Zion
Messianic Jews ‘named and shamed’ in J'lem-area town
An anonymous group has taken to distributing flyers with the personal details of those from community who believe Jesus is the messiah.
By Ruth Eglash Jerusalem Post 9/1/11
‘State’s discrimination between terror victims unacceptable'
Arab family of east Jerusalem man killed by Yaakov Teitel petitions State to grant family of Jewish teen injured in incident terror victims' benefits
By Aviad Glickman Ynet (Yediot Aharonot) 9-4-11
Israeli Ministries on Tours
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BOOKING meetings now (See open dates)
Inside the attached Weekly Summary are itineraries and open dates for:
Moshe & Katya Morrison of Tents of Mercy;
John Myers of Jerusalem Institute of Justice;
Polly Sigulim of Ark in the Negev;
David & Karen Davis of the Congregation of Carmel;
Kobi Ferguson of Yeshua Israel Ministries;
Orna Greenman of A Sign & A Wonder Ministry;
David & Josie Silver of Out of Zion Ministries.
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