The
Word of the Lord shall again come forth from Jerusalem. The very place where
the Lord God of Israel chose, of all the places on earth He could have chosen, is
the land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael. His Word will again go forth in power and
truth from that very location. In our day.
I
like how The Message also states the verse above, as I have included more
verses in order to get a fuller picture of what the prophet Isaiah proclaimed
centuries ago. This very Word of the Lord is coming forth in our time, directly
from the land of Israel.
“The
message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: “There's a day coming when
the mountain of God's House will be The Mountain — solid, towering over all
mountains. All nations will river toward it, people from all over set out for
it. They'll say, "Come, let's climb God's Mountain, go to the House of the
God of Jacob. He'll show us the way he works so we can live the way we're
made."
Zion's
the source of the revelation. God's Message comes from Jerusalem. He'll settle
things fairly between nations. He'll make things right between many peoples. They'll
turn their swords into shovels, their spears into hoes. No more will nation
fight nation; they won't play war anymore. Come, family of Jacob, let's live in
the light of God.” (Isaiah 2:1-5, THE MESSAGE)
I have become more
attuned in recent years to those Jews whom the Lord has chosen, saved and now
set in place, as teachers in the Body of Christ, the Body of Messiah. These are
ones who even more so are prophetically and accurately speaking to the nations.
From their lineage, history, culture and with a deeper, fuller understanding of
the Scriptures, these ones get it, and are giving it. And now they are the ones
chosen by the Lord to proclaim it to all the nations.
They are the Messianic
Jews, or “believers” as some of them prefer to be simply called.
As I look back at the
great Bible teachers in my lifetime, men such as Derek Prince, Bob Mumford,
Charles Simpson and several others, I have realized that these were (still) all
Gentiles. The Holy Spirit had anointed them with the gift of teaching, and they
did an excellent job, equipped with the understanding and knowledge having been
given to them. They had brought us thus far.
But now, as the days of
the Gentiles are waning, the years of the Jewish believers are coming on
strong. It is as it has been prophesied.
As Yeshua (Jesus) Himself
proclaimed and prophesied, “And they (the Jews) will fall by the edge of
the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be
trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” (Luke
21:24 NKJV)
The time of that time is
now.
In 1967 the nation of
Israel, the Jews, once again took rightful control and ownership of all of
Jerusalem, as they were the victors during the Six Day War over the millions of
Arabs who had surrounded them. Not since 70 A.D, when the Roman General Titus
destroyed Jerusalem, and in particular the Jewish Second Temple (which was
standing on what is today the Temple Mount), did the Jews possess this sacred parcel
of land - the very land which the Lord Himself had said He had put His name on
it. Forever. For all eternity.
Scripture says, “…in the
house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this
house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I
will put My name forever; and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore
from the land which I gave their fathers — only if they are careful to do
according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that
My servant Moses commanded them." (2 Kings 21:7-8 NKJV)
The Jews were scattered
throughout the earth as it been so prophesied. During the days of King David
and King Solomon (Jewish kings), the Jewish prophets were speaking of return. And
then, since the days of the Roman (Gentile) rule over this land, when the
Romans drove them out, scattering the rightful inhabitants of the land, the Jews,
to the wind, Gentile kingdoms ruled over the land. For these past 2000 years,
Gentiles had “trampled” the land.
But that has now come to an end. Again, as historically
written, and proclaimed in Luke 21:24 by the Messiah Himself, Yeshua, Jesus
Christ, these times of the Gentiles were coming to an end at some point in
time. That time has now been fulfilled, since that historical triumph at the
Kotel, the Western Wall, in 1967. It ended the Gentile rule.
It is now the appointed,
prophesied time for the Jewish believers to take the lead, to be the ones taking
charge. They shall be doing the proclaiming and teaching.
As I understand it prophetically now, Yeshua-believing Jews
are now the primary ones we should be looking to, as they are being raised up
to bring forth the Word of the Lord from His Land. Those Jewish teachers and
prophets from the group of Messianics, the Jewish believers in Yeshua
HaMashiach. They will have the most current word for the nations. They do even now.
I have found myself
listening and learning more and more from Messianic Jewish Bible teachers and
prophets in these past years, than from any other teachers of the Word. Men
like Jonathan Cahn, Barry Segal, Joel Rosenberg, Peter Wyns, Michael Brown, Warren
Marcus, Sid Roth, Ron Cantor, Sam Nadler, Chuck Cohen, Scott Volk, Jonathan Bernis,
Aviel Schneider, Richard and Carolyn Hyde and many more.
Though not all of these fore
mentioned men of the Lord are currently living in Israel (not yet), they are
Jews, believers in Yeshua, who are expounding on the full Word of the Lord,
from Genesis to Revelation. Their understanding of the Jewish prophets, from
Moses through Micah, is beyond any of that which Gentile teachers have
understood thus far. They have been given the fuller package.
Ruach HaKodesh (Hebrew),
the Holy Spirit, has once again chosen the Jews to bring forth the Lord’s word
from Zion, and specifically from the Jewish city of Jerusalem.
I encourage you to watch them on TV, get their emails, read
their websites, and subscribe to their YouTube messages. You will be blessed if
you also pray for them, and give financial support (out of your wallet,
checkbook or credit card!) for their ministries. My good wife Laurie and I
certainly do, and have been for over a decade.
Since the first days of
the church, beginning in Acts with Peter, James, John, Paul - or should we call
them by their Hebrew/Jewish names (Peter was Shimon, James was Yakov, John was
Yocahanan, Bartholomew was Bar-Talmai, and Paul was Saul) – Jewish believers
have once again been gifted with His word, to be proclaimed in the nations now.
The Jewish prophets
proclaimed this would happen. Our Savior Yeshua affirmed it. We are living in
the times of the end when it is happening now. What a blessed people we are –
the One New Man of Jews and Gentile believers!
I encourage you to listen
and learn from them. I believe they have been given the NOW word, for these
days and times the world has entered.
The marathon baton has been given back to our Messianic Jewish brothers, for this final sprint, to take the lead in telling the world of the good news of Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ.
