Am Israel Chaim - Dennis McCleod, Christian Friends of Israel New Zealand

                                             Am Israel Chaim - Dennis McCleod, CFI-New Zealand 

 

It is interesting that at the moment, the number of world leaders who are deciding not to step over the line and side with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to stand with Israel, is growing. Moses said, "Those who are for God step over here," and those who didn't failed to reach the promised land. To be born again is to be totally for God's Word and all it stands for, without questioning the bits you do not like or understand. Yeshua said – "I am the way, the truth, and the life" [John 14:6]. He is the Word made flesh, and when He speaks, He speaks from the Word that He, according to John 1:1, has manifested through.

 

To go against this Word is to go against God Himself. We read in the Book of Obadiah about what happens to those who oppose Israel, in light of the Truth of God and His Word. To claim to be born again and to say that Yeshua made mistakes, and did not mean what He said, is to read the Word from a humanistic perspective and not through the Holy Spirit's power. 

Only when we surrender ourselves to His will can He then reveal all things to us. [John 14:26] It has been reported that there is a very high percentage of American evangelicals who do not believe God gave Israel to the Jewish people. Is it any better in any other country? 

Many years ago, I attended a meeting in our city where the Dean of a Cathedral in Israel stated that the commandment, thou shalt not kill, can mean anything you want it to mean. He was trying to draw a parallel between this scripture and those that said the land had been given to the Jewish people, which was clearly against. In other words, we can interpret any scripture to follow our personal beliefs. Where does it say in the Word that we can change His commandments, no matter where in scripture they can be found; in fact, the Word clearly warns us from doing this. [Revelation 22:18-19] 

 

God has purchased us with the Blood of His firstborn, Yeshua, and this happened while we were still sinners. [Romans 5:8] He did not wait for us to repent but met us in our darkness and then brought us into the light through His love and grace. God then placed Yeshua at His right hand, and He became our only advocate with the Father, [1 John 2:1]

"What you ask in my name I will give you." [John 14:13] It is evident we can only be genuinely following the Lord if we are prepared to be totally obedient to the Father without doubting His Word. Obedience comes from hearing, believing, and obeying , not by questioning the truth of what Yeshua said or did; we must remember, He is the truth.  

In John's Gospel, Yeshua says many times, "I am telling you the truth."  He is the way; He is the shepherd of the flock.  If we claim to be a people who God purchased by a very painful price, as He watched His sinless Son, the guiltless one, die for the sins of the guilty, to bring life to the world. [John 3:16-17] Then call into question His actions, are we true followers or telling Him He has it wrong?

 

God has every right to expect us to try to be holy as He is Holy [Leviticus 19:1-2], and we do not achieve this by good works, but by surrendering to the one who set us free from the punishment that lay in our path. To be born again is a privilege, not something that we can claim for ourselves and then stand with God’s attackers. 

By attacking the Jewish people, the Apple of God’s eye, [Zechariah 2:8] is a direct attack on Elohim Himself. To be born again is to be saved by grace, a free gift of God. If we attack or abuse His chosen people,  who were chosen above all others, Deuteronomy 7:14 and confirmed in Deuteronomy 14:2 with a stronger explanation, something even many Christians call into question. 

 

God’s Word has been proven correct, time and again. I am reminded again of the words my Penny once spoke. God has been proven correct in the things I do understand; therefore, He must be correct in the things I don’t understand.

 

With this philosophy, we can move forward in the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding [Philippians 4:7], with confidence, knowing that Elohim guides us in all things, and standing with the Jewish People gives us confidence that we are on the right side of His-story.

 

God had His son die in our place that we might not only live, but come into a knowledge of Him and His Word through the power of the Holy Spirit, [John 16:7-8] If we go against Israel. The promises of God for that nation are that we are really falling under the power of the Holy Spirit, or the influence of the world?

 

We cannot claim to be born again, baptised by the Holy Spirit, then stand with God's enemies against the nation of Israel, working to destroy the Jewish people. People claiming to be Christians have abused us several times because we stand with the people of the book, as proclaimed by the very book they claim to follow. 

Living in Bethlehem,  I have seen and heard many things, PLO flag flying from a Bible college, anti-Jewish statements, suffered abuse from ex-pats just for studying Hebrew while working for the Arabs, and more.

 

The Word of God either stands forever, or it doesn't. Isaiah 40:6-8, which is repeated in 1 Peter 1:24-25, tells us it does. Yeshua clearly stated it is everlasting, [Matthew 5:17-18] for which we can be forever grateful. As I have stated at meetings, it is our time to stand, step over the line in the sand, and stand with the Lord, standing tall and clearly stating, Yam Israel Haim. The people of Israel LIVE. 

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“ECHAD WITH GOD” By: Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion

“ECHAD WITH GOD”

By:  Cathy Hargett

After an intense time of preparation for a recent seminar entitled “The Land of Israel and You”, I realized my own spiritual understanding of this subject had been greatly expanded. Trying to describe it reminds me of a balloon that had some air in it, even a goodly amount of air, but all of a sudden the balloon is being inflated way beyond what it looks like its capacity can hold!  That’s really how I felt, as if I would just explode with trying to process what He was pouring into my heart.

The significance of the Land of Israel and God’s covenant with Israel, and as a Gentile being grafted in by the blood covenant of Yeshua, has been a revelation I have carried in my spirit for many years. But the purified essence of this relationship with the God of Israel, with the Land of Israel, boils down to this one thing – “Echad With God”. What is “echad”?  It’s all about Oneness with God. Through His revelation of Israel, we go ever so much deeper in Him.

Think of the words of the Sh’ma – “Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.” In English, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” The word, “echad”, is a Hebrew word for “one”. There is another Hebrew word for “one” and it is called “yachid”. There is a reason that the Lord used “echad” in the Sh’ma and not “yachid”. The difference in the two words is that “yachid” refers to a singular, unique, solitary oneness, and “echad”, while also referring to singular oneness, carries with it the understanding of the idea of unity, as in the phrase "one flesh" referring to a married couple. 

With this “echad-description” of God, we also see His tri-unity – He is One God with the expression of the distinctiveness of Abba, Yeshua, and the Ruach ha Kodesh joined together as One. He is One in the fullness of His divinity. He is past finding out. In Him is the revelation of all things. The revelation of Israel’s place in His plan expands this understanding to the point that we are now able to see that in many ways He is Israel. Loving Israel is loving God.

With every growing revelation about the relevance of the Land of Israel in the life of a follower of Yeshua, there is a growing intimacy with the God of Israel, truly becoming “Echad with God”, married to God. The distilled essence is that God’s desire when He created humankind has always been that we would be One with Him, allowing Him to consume us, spirit, soul, and body. We are His workmanship, created to be like Him. We must be like Him or we cannot be One with Him. We must be made acceptable by the blood of Yeshua, fulfilling Torah.

We also see other “types” of oneness with God and each other revealed in the Land. These types include Yeshua’s physical body, your body, the eternal kingdom, the wife of God, the Bride of the Lamb, His dwelling place, the good fight of faith, Eden restored, God’s portion, the Ephod of the great High Priest, and many other amazing things. Each of these “types” are so very beautiful, intricate, and require deep study and meditation to even get a glimpse of the vastness. In fact, the revelation of Israel, the Land of Israel, reveals the whole story of the Kingdom and its coming restoration. It reveals so much of what it will be like to be in total unity with Him.

There is much more to ponder on this subject of “Echad With God”. I am asking Him to continue to take me deeper into His heart. I so desire to know Him better. Yeshua said that to know Elohim is eternal life. The Kingdom is in your heart and soon will be tangible in the restoration of all things on planet Earth. He will reign out of Zion. We will see Him face to face, and being married to God will become our everlasting reality, “Echad With God”.

Cathy Hargett

          06.29.25 

Highway to Zion Ministries
http://www.highwaytozion.org

#echad #Cathyhargett #jesus #yeshua #landofisrael #revelation #holyspsirit #highpriest #faith #bible

 

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All Israel News: Mossad spies (Israel) were active in Iran for over a decade, visited every factory ahead of Israeli strikes – report

 

Mossad spies were active in Iran for over a decade, visited every factory ahead of Israeli strikes – report

Israeli Air Force began training for long-distance operations in Iran date back to 2010

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 28, 2025 

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Israeli Mossad agents operating in Iran (Photo: Screenshot)

Days after the ceasefire ended the war between Israel and Iran, new details about Israel’s intelligence feats that led to its incredible achievements in the 12-day war against the Iranian regime continue to be released.

According to a new report from the UK’s The Times, which is based on leaked intelligence documents shared with Israel’s western allies, the penetration of Iran’s security and nuclear forces was far more extensive than previously thought.

Israel’s vaunted intelligence services, particularly the foreign intelligence agency Mossad, began recognizing signs of a nuclear weapons program back in the 1990s.

Israel began building an extensive network of agents and collaborators within Iran, but for decades, mainly used them for sabotage operations at nuclear facilities and assassinations of scientists.

Despite the setbacks, the Iranian regime pressed forward, leading Israeli leadership to conclude that only military action could effectively neutralize the nuclear threat. According to The Times, around 2010, Israel began closely monitoring and collecting intelligence at the dozens of sites connected to the nuclear program, both military and civilian, with “boots on the ground.”

Israel’s intelligence agents – most of them being non-Israeli citizens – were present at every workshop and factory that was attacked during the 12-day campaign. Some were not officially part of the military but were involved in producing components essential for nuclear research or for manufacturing the ballistic missiles ultimately intended to deliver a nuclear weapon.

Israel struck “the entire industry that supported the manufacturing of large amounts of missiles,” according to an intelligence source cited in the report.

When preparations for a military option were launched, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) did not yet have the capability to carry it out.

According to a Wall Street Journal report based on interviews with 18 current and former Israeli and U.S. security officials, Israeli pilots needed to train for the extremely long flight in formations of up to 10 aircraft around a tanker plane; to refuel several times during the journey; and to precisely time their airstrikes for maximum effectiveness against hardened targets.

The IAF began conducting even more frequent training operations, simulating these kinds of missions over distances exceeding 1,500 km (1,000 miles), including a 2008 exercise where over 100 fighter jets flew to Greece.

Since the start of the war, Israel has struck Houthi rebel forces in Yemen several times, which also provided the IAF with the necessary experience to conduct large-scale operations over similar distances.

Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence succeeded in tracking movements of the regime's top military and government officials, while the Mossad set up covert drone bases and other weapon systems in Iran.

According to the leaked report, at the end of 2024, intelligence officials concluded that the nuclear program was already running concrete experiments, an “advanced explosive and radiation system,” and was only “weeks” away from nuclear capability.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed throughout the war that the goal was to destroy the twin threat of the nuclear program and the ballistic missile array.

The intelligence report cited by The Times assessed that Iran was aiming to ramp up production to approximately 1,000 missiles per year, with the goal of building a stockpile of around 8,000 missiles.

When Israel launched the overnight attack in early June, the nuclear program was almost at the finish line and the regime possessed an estimated 2,000 to 2,500 ballistic missiles.

And then, the decades-long, painstaking intelligence work paid off. The three sites in Tehran and Isfahan, where Iran produced centrifuges that enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels, were destroyed.

The seven components of the Natanz facility, which had been mapped by spies on the ground to an extraordinary level, were destroyed.

Israel had intelligence regarding the site’s “overground and underground buildings which included piping, feeding and solidification of uranium,” and struck its “electricity infrastructure, a research and development building, the transformer station, and the generator structure to back up the electric grid. The attack also hit ventilation and cooling ducts,” according to The Times.

Other sites identified by intelligence and destroyed in precision airstrikes included the nuclear facility in Isfahan, “the Nur and Mogdeh sites for calculation and labs, the Shariati military site, and a hangar at Shahid Meisami, which manufactured the plastic explosives used for testing nuclear weapons.”

The airstrikes targeted facilities involved in producing every component necessary for missile manufacturing, spread throughout the vast country, highlighting the extensive reach and depth of Israel’s intelligence penetration

For example, airstrikes hit a site in the far north – on the coast of the Caspian Sea – that produced the carbon fiber for missile production. Dozens of additional sites involved in the production of “guidance, navigation and control of missiles and the production of warheads and engines needed to fly the missiles” were also destroyed.

Most of the targeted sites were set up by the SPND, a research and development agency of the Iranian Defense Ministry created by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered to be one of the fathers of the nuclear program. He was reportedly killed spectacularly by a satellite-controlled machine gun, allegedly by Israel.

Nine of Fakhrizadeh’s successors were killed simultaneously in their beds in the opening hours of the attack. The incredible success of “Operation Narnia,” so named because even its planners considered it to be fantastical, is another demonstration of the unprecedented intelligence penetration.

The Wall Street Journal also revealed “Operation Red Wedding” – its name being a nod to the TV series “Game of Thrones” – during which the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Air Force brass and several other Iranian top generals were killed.

Overall, 29 Iranian officers at the rank of brigadier-general and higher were eliminated by Israel.

“For decades, Israel has been observing activities inside Iran,” Efrat Sopher, an Iranian-Israeli analyst at the University of Haifa-UK, told The Times.

“[The] Mossad has played a pivotal role in the success in thwarting the Iranian threat, where its successful operations vis-à-vis Iran and its proxies will be chronicled in the history books,” Sopher said.

Read more: OPERATION RISING LION | MOSSAD | IDF INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE (AMAN) | IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM | ISRAEL AIR FORCE

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