Bat Tzion
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February 5, 2003
Shalom Friends,
After reading the letter about Israel yesterday, the LORD literally moved me to write this letter to all on my mailing list. And I did not do it immediately, as a result, I had no peace the whole day. I was so grieved by the incidence of Colonel Ramon, I was speaking in tongues most of the day. I was convicted by the Holy Spirit. Is that all that I can do? By prayer and by speaking the message to the body of Christ, what do I do in practical to help the Jews to return to Israel? The LORD also spoke to me that from now on, wherever I go to speak, I will collect a special offering for Israel. Not just speak the message but do something practical to help!!!
If you see someone who is starving, you won’t just preach the gospel and pray for that person,right? You would buy food to feed the person,wouldn’t you?
And if the exiles in the Arab Nations are our children or our loved ones, do you think that we would be sitting still and doing nothing, just pray for them and that’s it? Surely, we will sell everything that we have to get the money to help to get our loved ones out, won’t we? Even if we have no money to give, we would be desperate to do something to get money, like sell our jewellery, if we really do not any jewellery at all, do something , like forward this message to those who have the money to give.
Israel is God’s first born son (Ex 4:22), and we know very well that Israel is number one in GOD’s heart! And as believers of the God of Israel, what are we doing to help the exiles to return to the Land?
At this juncture, I am not able to give as I am in deep financial difficulty myself. But I am willing to do anything that the LORD wants me to do to bring in the resources to help.
Yesterday Luke 10:21 (Then Jesus filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit and said,“O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,thank you for hiding the truth from those who think themselves so wise and clever,and for revealing it to the childlike.Yes,Father,it pleased you to do it this way.)kept coming to me, as I prayed for George Bush to humble himself like a child to seek God’s face, then God will reveal Himself to him.
The same with all of us.
Since January 6, 2003 the LORD sealed His message on my heart that the exiles must return to the Land quickly, He has opened doors for me to worship lead & to speak to various groups of businessmen. Some of the meetings I was the worship leader & also the speaker. The Holy Spirit moved mightily in meetings where the people were hungry for Him. But in one meeting, some of the professionals & businessmen did not even want to hear what I had to share about Israel, they left before I even started to share.
This morning the LORD kept bringing me back to the scene of my first visit to the (Yad Vashem) Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.October 2002, my first visit to Yad Vashem, I just stepped into the museum and just looked at the first picture on the wall, I started to cry vehemently, uncontrollably, for more than two hours, it was not me, it was the Holy Spirit inside of me that was so grieved! Later the Holy Spirit revealed to me that because those Jews who died in the holocaust were my own loved ones, my own people!
Many people told me they have no burden for Israel, I think they should go to Yad Vashem to see what is holocaust then they will have the burden for Israel!
In 2002,during the Jerusalem Day march, I happened to be on the same street as the parade, when the soldiers were marching, I started to cry vehemently, uncontrollably! The Jews must be thinking how come this Chinese was crying when they were not crying!
Around July 2002, I was invited by a Jew to watch the National Memorial Service of the soldiers held by Ariel Sharon in the TV, I wept & wept vehemently again! It was the Holy Spirit in me who was bleeding & crying vehemently for the many young soldiers who were killed by the terrorists and not me!
Attached below are articles written by Mark Kagan,Hebrew Scriptures, USA and Daniel & Drienie from Israel. YOU MUST READ THEM! God is speaking to you!!!
In Messiah’s service,
Our debt and how to pay it. THE JEWS FIRST (Rom 1:16)
As Christians we owe a great debt to the Jews, for everything precious to us comes through them. The Apostle Paul appreciated the debt we owed them when he said, “ Ï say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost. My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief for my people,my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed- cut off from Christ!- if that would save them.They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God’s special children. God revealed HIS glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave His law to them. They have the privilege of worshipping Him and receiving His wonderful promises. Their ancestors were great people of God, and Christ Himself was a Jew as far as His human nature is concerned. And He is God, who rules over everything and is worthy of ternal praise. Amen. (Rom 9:1-5).
The above scriptures tell us that the Jews were the custodians of the oracles of God, to them belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the worshipful service of God, and the promises to the fathers, but above all to them we owe our Lord Himself, for He was born of a Jewish virgin.
No wonder our Lord told the Samaritan woman that “Salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22)God used the Jew as His instrument to bring to us the Bible which is the written word and Christ Who is the Livng Word. How sad that Jews today possess neither.
The society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures gives us a clue as to how we may repay this debt:
1) By giving the Jewish People a Bilingual New Testament, remembering that “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Rom 10:17)
2) By praying for them. Samuel understood it would be a sin not to pray for them – he said,”God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you”(1Sam12:23) Many a Christian is sinning against the LORD by not praying for the Jews. Paul knew how to pray for them. He said: “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayers to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.”(Rom 10:1) Do you ever pray for the Jews? If you do not, don’t be surprised that you have no soul prosperity. (Ps 122:6)
3) It is imperative, we must pray for the Jews, for the salvation of the world depends upon their salvation. Not only will God use them to the blessing of the nations.(Is 27:6 and Is 66:19),but what does Paul say? “For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?”(Rom 11:15)
Again, when writing to Gentile believers he says, Äs concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. (Rom 11:28-31)
What a glorious message we can give to the Jew by proclaiming Christ their Messiah to them and saying to “the cities of Judah,Behold your GOD!”(Is 40:9).
MARK KAGAN
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This is an excerpt of Daniel’s letter:
When the space shuttle was launched on January 16, I thought to myself that this was such a tremendous event for Israel and the world that something extraordinary had to come out of it! However, I did not know that this space probe would be unique from others in the terrible devastation that it brought.....
The disaster is so great and so full of pain that it is impossible to separate it from God's eternal HAND and to say that this was just a coincidence!!! 28 Shuttle flights have been successful before this one. What is the reason for this one???!!!
ISRAEL'S UNIQUE CALLING
I believe that this space disaster brings us face to face with the true reality and calling of Israel in the end times. Israel is not first and foremost called to be a very successful democracy in the midst of a sea of Islam. No! It is much much more! Israel has the calling of GOD on her life to be a kingdom of priests unto the LORD!
However successful the land has been on a technological and democratic level, even the amazing success of space travel simply will not be enough to pull it through for the days that lie ahead. Neither will it pull the world through. Mankind's vast technological frontiers is not the key to its future.
Secondly, the USA too, will not be the solution for Israel in the long run, no matter how big it is or how much of an ally -politically, financially or technologically. This alliance will fail the test when Israel will have to come face to face with the reality of the true heavens in our life time.
It is Israel's spiritual leadership that GOD is interested in. Much more than its material blessings or level of international success! Israel is not just called to point to the glories of heaven but to bring it down to earth in power. And that only comes through death and resurrection. It already happened when JESUS of Nazareth came to earth the first time and it will happen again at the end of the age.
We must remember that the church was born after the seeming disaster of the cross. Also that the modern state of Israel was born after the worst disaster in our modern history, the Holocaust.
God certainly too will bring good out of this disaster.
Psalms Chapter 143 10 Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness. 11 Quicken me, O JHVH, for thy name's sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble. 12 And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.
May the Holy One of Israel bless you
Daniel & Drienie February 2, 2003