Shalom Fellow Heirs of the Kingdom With Messiah Yeshua!
Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement regarding last night’s [12 Feb 2005] anti-Messianic demonstration sponsored by the local Rabbinic Religious Council and Yad L’Achim (Hand to the Brothers anti-missionary organization). It was a cold night here in Beer Sheva. A large screen was placed outside the synagogue from which they broadcast all the proceedings to the public outside. Not very many ordinary Israelis were there. . . mostly activists against the great commission of the gospel to go out from Israel to all nations, and from the nations back to Israel. I and a couple of others who were present outside drew attention at least as much from the fact that we were not “one of them”, and we were always watched and taunted regarding any recording which we tried to do with tape recorders. We simply responded that it was open to the public. The video which they showed “to shock” the people regarding the believers’ missionary activities combined Jehovah Witnesses with the Messianic believers, and most of the footage was old. The point of the video was to get contributions for Yad L’Achim to carry out more effectively their mission. The chief Sephardic rabbi of Beer Sheva, Yehuda Deri, boasted that their demonstration over six years ago against us had silenced the believers, and now they had called this protest rally to assure that the next six years would finish us off “by use of the law”. This is also what he said to us six years ago.
Some points for prayerful consideration with some understanding:
-Remember that Israel is presently an enemy of the good news, and beloved by God for the fathers’ sake, i.e., Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel. Even though it may be that in so-called
democratic societies, inciteful language is not an accepted norm – while in the same breath calling for our destruction and banishment – we must remember that our Lord told us that these things would happen to us on account of Him. When He was reviled, He did not revile back.
-Chabad (Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge), the religious movement of most of these activists, and Yad L’achim, the organization of mostly volunteers (often offered inducements for carrying out the activities), do not want Christian money or support for Israel. They made it very clear last night that such money is “unclean”, and that the motives of the believers is to displace Israel and to make every Jew a Christian – meaning, to believe in “that Man”, “may his name and memory be blotted out forever”. Good deeds are seen by them as only a devious means towards the end of making even one Jew change his religious faith by believing in Yeshua.
– We are Amalek in their eyes and mind, and therefore YHVH is against us from generation to generation until the memory of us is blotted out, and they are His warriors to carry it out this generation. They see that we are near the end of the era before the Messianic kingdom is ushered in. [This is true, but their version is far different from that presented in the Scriptures, and they will again, by rejecting the true Messiah, accept a false one. I got the impression last night that someone who will join them to make war against the saints – and prevail – would be able to make his claim heard and received. Thank God that the day is nearing when He will reveal Yeshua to them for salvation and cleansing and healing!]
-We, the Messianic believers, are considered a greater danger and enemy to the State of Israel than Hamas or other terrorists. They can only kill our bodies, but we can take their Jewish souls and condemn them for eternal judgment. Let us remember that the Lord Jesus said that they would kill us, thinking to be doing God’s will. Saul/Paul was like that.
-We want to honor the name of God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah (by whatever name in any language to honor Him. The day will come when YHVH will be one and His Name one; until then there is room for variation). We want our people (I write as a Jew and Israeli) to repent and believe the glad tidings of great joy, to be immersed in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah for the remission of sins, to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and of eternal life. We want all Israel to be saved for the great joy and “pride” of the Father to see His children restored to His loving kindness, that we may know His righteousness and peace and the fullness of joy, both Yeshua’s and their own with us. We want faith to overcome the world that opposes the Kingdom of YHVH God and of His Anointed one.
For my fellow believers who are not Jewish, please continue to bear the children of Jacob/Israel on your priestly breastplates and shoulders in prayer and intercession. Continue to pray and act towards the fullness of your fellow gentiles to come back to God through saving faith in Jesus, that they may be used of God to show mercy to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, while provoking them to jealousy through your humble appreciation of being recipients of the manifold grace of our great God and Savior.
In the love of the Father,