Jewish believer added to Netanyahu's team! - ONE FOR ISRAEL

Dr. Erez Soref, President of ONE FOR ISRAEL  Shalom! Our Prime Minister has dropped more than one bombshell lately: we were shocked to see in the news that a Jewish believer has been appointed to Netanyahu's team as Deputy Social Media Advisor! Just as we have been taking stock of the progress of the Body of Messiah in Israel from such small beginnings, it is very encouraging to see a believer reach such a position of influence.  As we grow in numbers and maturity, our prayer is that more and more Israeli believers will faithfully represent Yeshua in all aspects of society. "We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone." (1 Thessalonians 5:14) Our campus here at Israel College of the Bible is an ideal venue for seminars and conferences on subjects that affect the whole Body of Messiah. On Tuesday, Samuel Pfeifer, director of a Christian psychiatric hospital in Switzerland and author of many books on Christian counseling, came to share with us on the subject of one of his books: "Supporting the Weak". The first lecture was entitled, "How can we integrate modern psychiatry and biblical soul care? Opportunities and limitations," and the second was on the practicalities of supporting the weak - how to create hope and understanding in our congregations. The day of training was held for pastors, ministers, former students in counseling, teachers at our Bible college, and anyone involved in pastoral ministry here in the land.  We praise God that the Body of Messiah is getting equipped and trained, and going from strength to strength. Pray For Netanyahu's New Adviser: Jewish Believer, Hananya Naftali "I am just a normal guy who made his own decision to follow Jesus," explains Hananya Naftali. But the appointment of a Jew who loves Jesus to the office of Deputy Social Media Adviser was shocking enough to end up on the front page of the Jerusalem Post. Hananya's appointment will not go uncontested, and he needs our prayers. Continue reading... How To Share Jesus With Israelis You Meet If you watch our Israeli testimonies, you will see that many times, their interest in Yeshua (Jesus) was piqued while they were traveling overseas. They met Christians, like you, who caused them to consider who Yeshua really was, and then started to investigate the matter for themselves. Perhaps you have come across Israelis where you live? What is the best way to share Jesus with them? Here are some tips from us. Continue reading...   FOLLOW US:

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Does the Promised Land Still Belong to the Jewish People? - SAM NADLER CHARISMA NEWS

Does the Promised Land Still Belong to the Jewish People?

 2/12/2016 SAM NADLER  charisma news

Does the Promised Land still belong to the Jewish people? (Wikimedia Commons )

Today there are many different opinions regarding critical issues about Israel and the Jewish people, even among believers. Many have questions such as:

1. "Can a religious Jewish person be saved apart from faith in Yeshua?"  

2. "Are the Jewish people still the 'chosen people'?"  

3. "Does the promised land (Israel) still belong to the Jewish people?"

Such questions tend to create a spiritual ambiguity in the minds of many, which produces an uncertain rather than fervent witness to the Jewish people. As believers, this brings us to a foundational issue: the need for proper discipleship concerning God's promises, plan and purpose for the Jewish people according to His Word.

Let us now look to this plumb line for our faith in order to help clarify the issues raised by these three questions:

1. "Can a religious Jewish person be saved apart from faith in Yeshua?" No. No matter how religious, no one can be forgiven of their sins and accepted by God without personal faith in Yeshua. It was to Jewish men that Yeshua spoke when He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). Think of it this way: If there were some other way for Jewish people, or any people, to be saved other than through faith in Yeshua, then God the Father would have been a fool for letting His Son die on a cross! If keeping the Law of Moses could save people, Yeshua would have told people to keep the Law. But instead, Yeshua declared that Jewish people and all people need to trust in Him: "If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me" (John 5:46).

2. "Are the Jewish people still the 'chosen people'?" Yes, according to the Law of Moses (Deut. 7:6; 14:2), the Prophets (Is. 41:8; Amos 3:2), the Writings (Ps. 33:12; 135:4), and the New Covenant (Rom. 9:3-5, 11:1-2). But isn't the body of Messiah called a chosen people as well? Yes, 1 Peter 2:9 declares all believers in Yeshua to be "a chosen generation (or people), a royal priesthood." However, please note that Peter refers to the body of Messiah as "a chosen people," but not as "the chosen people." Though Israel is chosen for a specific purpose (see next question), during this time of Israel's national unbelief, they are "sidelined" from being God's instrument of service until they return to God and confess Yeshua as the Messiah (Matt. 23:39; Hosea 5:15).  

For the present time, the body of Messiah is the spiritually active instrument of ministry, "a royal priesthood" for service and worship. Though Israel is chosen to be a "witness people" for the Lord (Is. 43:10-12, 44:8), they cannot be an active witness until they first believe in Yeshua as Lord (Rom. 10:14, 15). Israel is chosen as a people for God's purpose, which, in the past, was to bring Messiah into the world (Rom. 9:5), and in the future, to bring about the return of Messiah to planet earth (Matt. 23:39; Zech. 12:10). This will happen when the Jewish people collectively confess their national sin of rejecting Messiah (Is. 53). Though nationally chosen for God's purpose, each individual Jewish person still has to have personal faith in God's salvation on God's terms to be saved. Otherwise they are as lost and unsaved as any pagan (Jer. 9:25, 26).

3. "Does the promised land (Israel) still belong to the Jewish people?" Yes! The present spiritual condition of Israel does not change the promises of God, for even though Israel is nationally unfaithful, He is still faithful. This is Paul's argument in Romans 11:1-2, where he writes, "I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite. ... God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew." Israel returned to the land after the Babylonian exile, but that wasn't to be their last return. In fact, Isaiah prophesies Israel's return to the same land for the second time in Isaiah 11:11-12: "Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people ... from the four corners of the earth."  The Jewish people's present return to the land is the fulfillment of this promise in Isaiah.

Now this doesn't mean that everything the present Israeli government does is praiseworthy, but it does mean that Israel is entitled to the land, and that we, as believers, must support them in this. Even though this and their status as the chosen people remains unchanged, each Jewish person can only be saved through personal faith in Messiah. For all people, Jew and Gentile, Israeli and Palestinian, there is no peace apart from the Prince of Peace.

By understanding these critical, sometimes volatile issues, and having biblical answers to address them, believers in Messiah can have a boldness and confidence to share their faith with Jewish people. Outside of God's miraculous, heart-changing power found in the Good News, there is no solution to the present and future problems we see in the Middle East, and the world.

So get involved! Share this with your friends! You can help get the message out. Since God has not forsaken the Jewish people, let us not forsake our responsibility to proclaim Yeshua to Jewish people.

Dr. Sam Nadler is a Jewish believer in Jesus who has been in Messianic Jewish ministry for over 40 years. Sam is the president of Word of Messiah Ministries, which is bringing the Good News to the Jew first but not to the Jew only, and planting Messianic Congregations in Jewish communities worldwide. To encourage and equip the Body of Messiah in our shared calling, Sam is invited to speak in churches across the country, and has written multiple books on Jewish evangelism, discipleship, and the Feasts of Israel. For more information and resources, or to invite Sam to speak at your church, visit: wordofmessiah.org.

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The Coming Blood Moons...Time to Cross Over by Karla Shrake

A Prophetic Newsletter www.MantlesOfGlory.org

By Karla Shrake
March 13, 2014

"And the Lord Roars from Zion...And utters His voice from Jerusalem." Joel 3:16

"The Lord utters His Voice before His Army; Surely His camp is Very Great, For Strong is he who Carries out His Word." Joel 2:11



The Coming Blood Moons...Time to Cross Over
by Karla Shrake

March 13, 2014

Most of you have probably heard about the upcoming blood moons, the four lunar eclipses that will begin next month. What is about to unfold in 2014-2015 is a rare and extraordinary event called a tetrad and we can be assured it is a major historic prophetic marker in the timeline of the last days. This has happened only seven times in the last two thousand years.

History in the Making

April 15th will mark the first full lunar eclipse falling precisely on the Biblical Feast day of Passover, and the second one will occur on the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot in the fall. The exact same thing will happen in 2015 and if that isn't enough to get your attention, there will also be solar eclipses on significant calendar days in between the lunar eclipses. 

Only the One who created the moon, sun, stars and the heavens can orchestrate such an amazing event and it is truly a time for us as His people to turn our hearts toward Him to come into perfect harmony with His unfolding plan. In order to be prepared for it, it is helpful that we look at what has happened during past tetrads and for our purposes here I will cover the last three. It is interesting to note that each time very significant things transpired involving Israel and the Body of Christ.

1967

The last time was in the time-period of 1967 and following, when Israel regained possession of Jerusalem her capitol. And in the aftermath of that and paralleling it, there was a release of a worldwide move of the Holy Spirit, it was called the Jesus movement and the charismatic renewal.

1948

Before that was the time-period of 1948-49 and following when Israel became a nation again, something that has not been done by any other nation. And another worldwide move of the Holy Spirit began during this time that included the salvation message of Billy Graham and the healing movement that swept the Body of Christ.

1492

The previous tetrad occurred in 1492 (and following) when Queen Isabella of Spain expelled the Jews. Many did escape and were transported safely, but many others died. And of course this parallels the launching of Christopher Columbus to discover America and the establishment of a land of religious freedom for both Christians and Jews. 

While the Jews lost the territory of Spain they gained the settlement of the colonies where they would have a safe refuge in America for hundreds of years (and hopefully forever).



Trial Brings Increase for Israel and the Body of Messiah

From the historical overview it is clear that the Jewish people are central in the last three happenings of the tetrad / lunar eclipses, with the Body of Christ experiencing subsequent and parallel gains. The gaining of territory for the Jews did not come without a price however, as there was loss of life and war launched against them. And because the Body of Christ is directly connected with Israel, as the Jewish people gained territory in the natural we gained ground in the spiritual by reclaiming the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

So What Does it Mean?

That is a big question and I'm sure it is in the heart of many who are aware of the phenomenon that will be unfolding in the heavens above us these next months. I certainly do not pretend to know the details of what will come, but I do have a sense of anticipation and even joy, knowing that our faithful Father is up to something of epic proportions. It seems very logical to believe that Israel will again be at the center and that we as believers in Yeshua/Jesus will also gain more ground. It also seems reasonable to believe that this may also involve significant turbulence, as it has in the past.

Preparing our Hearts to Cross-Over

So how do we prepare ourselves? The short answer is that we need to prepare our hearts and we need to bless Israel. When the Lord spoke to Joshua about the children of Israel crossing over the Jordan to take their promised land, He instructed them to take three days to prepare their hearts and sanctify themselves. We in the Body of Messiah need to be doing the same, as we invite Holy Spirit to search us in all our ways.

Critical that We Support Israel's God-given right to her Land

Secondly it is imperative that we understand and understand clearly that we must be in a posture of blessing Israel and the Jewish people. It is especially critical that we stand with Israel in her God-given right to her land, ALL of her land that the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob gave to her over four thousand years ago. He said forty-six times in the Bible that the land belonged to the sons of Jacob and their descendants and three of those times He said it was forever. 

Forever means forever and nothing has changed in spite of all the political pressure and double-talk! We must recognize and resist the deception of replacement theology that has crept into the church like a thief in the night, saying that because Israel sinned she forfeited her right to the land.....NOT so! (I will be covering more on the great importance of blessing Israel and her God-given right to the land in later newsletters.)

I hear the Father saying:

"My children as I am aligning the moon, sun and the stars with My last-day purpose, I desire that you align your hearts with Me in a new way. As you behold My sovereignty and majesty in the heavens above, allow My Holy Spirit to work more deeply than ever before and allow Him to establish the plumb-line of The Lamb within you, that His character and ways would become your own. 

As I spoke through the prophet Isaiah long ago, truly it is a time for you as My Bride to arise and shine as never before in history, for many things will happen quickly now as the birth-pangs of the end are accelerating."

Believe Me as Caleb & Joshua Did



"Look to Me for I am doing new things in this hour, and I need My people to shift into new mindsets as these last-day things unfold. The day of being confined and limited is quickly coming to an end, for it is time to believe Me as My sons Caleb and Joshua believed me in the taking of their land of promise. For there are many promises I have made to you My people, and I intend to keep them. But I need you to do your part in remaining in faith and obedience and as you do, surely you will eat the good of the land."

Come Join Me in the Harvest Fields

"For there is much work to be done in the preparation for My Son's return. Come join Me in the harvest fields and vineyards of the earth where the lost and dying are, where the widows and orphans and the hurting are. Come join Me in supporting and blessing Israel and her people worldwide, as more and more are seeing Yeshua / Jesus as their Messiah.

Truly the nations are beginning to line up now as either sheep or goat nations and remember My children, My heart is for the nations of the earth. And finally come join Me in the preparation of the Bride for her soon-coming Bridegroom!"

Be Ready for Much Change

"Be prepared for much change in the days ahead My warriors, be prepared for the unexpected. Make the choice to open yourself more than ever to the truth on all levels, the truth of who I am, the truth of the condition of your own heart and life, and the horrific truth of what the enemy is doing in your midst to rob, kill and destroy. 

His tactics are insidious and hidden and I cannot have you naive and unaware My children, for much is at stake and you are My ambassadors of truth in this late hour. The darkness is deeper than most have realized and I will use many of you to uncover and destroy his wicked schemes, for this is the hour I will begin to judge the powers of darkness as never before," promises your faithful Father.

"This is not a time to shrink back, but rather a time to step up My courageous ones. For I chose you to be born during this time of human history and you will succeed My precious ones, as those who have paid a great price in the last seasons of adversity, trial and preparation. 

Keep oil in your lamps and remain close to Me as the pace accelerates," exhorts your loving Father, "and be assured that you stand in a place of certain victory My mighty ones, the victory that was secured long ago on Calvary's cross. Yes it is true that deep darkness is covering the earth, but this shall be your finest hour as you reflect My light, My goodness and My glory to a dying world." Glory to His Name!


Davidic Warriors


Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, 

but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel..."

Greetings dear Faith-Friends,

What a time we live in and how encouraging to know that our Father hand-picked us to be born during this age. All of our lives have been so very carefully formed and planned to prepare and season us for this hour, that we would succeed and live in triumph, as our Yeshua / Jesus did. We are the triumphant Bride in all her last-day glory, giving all honor to our Beloved who made the way for us to be able to stand and overcome in all things. I pray you will take courage and be strengthened this day dear ones, as you ponder these things. The Greater One lives within us and we live out of His life, strength and anointing. What a great exchange -- our weakness for His strength!

Blessings upon all in the Davidic Warrior prayer family as we prepare our hearts to cross-over and to take all that He has promised, for ourselves, our families and for one another.....Amen.

Love to all,
Karla

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Assignment Not Yet Done - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Assignment Not Yet Done

by Steve Martin

 “…since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;” (Acts 17:25-28 NASU)

The Lord speaks to you unexpected sometimes. I think He waits to get a word in when there is a break in the music we have on the radio or in our ear; when the conversation between people takes a pause; or when the complaint we just “voiced” in our thoughts has died done for a minute. That can be a good time for Him to interrupt our train of thought.

And so it was, driving home from work on a Tuesday late afternoon. I know I was asking, wondering, begging and complaining – all in my head of course, “When will this job be done?”

I continued maneuvering around the heavy traffic, Jeff Gordon #24 NASCAR style of course, and listening to the CD in the car. Mostly I was day dreamingly complaining. I am sure you have done that too.

“When can I get on with what I really think I should be during in this time of my life?” I was murmuring again in my thought pattern. I wasn’t really expecting an answer. I was just wanting it to be known. To the Lord, of course, in case He had forgotten of my situation these past months.

“When your assignment is done,” came the unexpected reply.

I shut my thoughts up immediately. Not only had He, in that brief statement, told me when the time would be completed, but even gave me the way to move on. When I had completed the assignment He had given me to complete on this job, He would direct me to the next one. Thus I could rest in that, be assured of that, and get on doing what I was called to do while there.

His word to me was “as clear as a bell”, as a former boss would say after making his point.

Often in these writings, believing it is quite so, I share the fact that we each have specific purposes to fulfill in this life, according to the wise plans of God the Father. Out of His infinite wisdom and knowledge, being Omniscient (all knowing) and Omnipotent (all powerful), His ways are above our ways. That in itself can give us peace, knowing He is always in control.

"...appointed times and the 

boundaries of their habitation."

Having a basic understanding of our purpose and function, as part of the Body of Messiah, and using our gifts and talents faithfully in that purpose, will enable us to know the current assignment the Teacher has given. Then we can do it to the best of our ability, complete it, and move on to the next one.

When we have completed all the assignments He has put in our personal life book, then we will have completed the race, and will receive the eternal reward He promises to give to us.

Now think on this.

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People. Inc.