Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Chuck D. Pierce: Key Prophecy: Reconnecting Your Roots: "My Bloodline Will Become Your Bloodline"

Chuck D. Pierce:

Key Prophecy: Reconnecting Your Roots:

"My Bloodline Will Become Your Bloodline"

Dear Friends:

This is a time to reconnect your roots.

I love the wonderful example of this from Peter and Doris Wagner. Several in our office joined them last week for a wine tour of the Finger Lakes region in New York, as well as two additional days where they retraced the steps of where Peter and Doris grew up, honeymooned and enjoyed their formative years in life.

They just celebrated their 63rd anniversary. They also took time to reconnect with remaining relatives whom they have not seen in years.

Last Thursday, they located the log cabin they stayed at during their honeymoon, exactly 63 years ago to the day!

As shown in the picture, they were joined by their three daughters, Karen, Ruth, and Rebecca (all standing in back row), as well as one of their granddaughters, Jenny (kneeling). Jenny is holding a picture of Peter and Doris at that location on their honeymoon.

Here are several other pictures where they reconnected with their past, including the home where Doris grew up, the actual room where Doris was born and where Peter accepted the Lord, and the home where Peter spent his summers with his grandparents, as a young boy.

Godly Roots and Your Bloodline

This past week I have been praying for each of you to connect with your godly roots and to know the One who is your source of every good and perfect thing! During "Judah Goes First" last Wednesday (read more below), I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.

This is your week to tell every familial spirit that is speaking from the past in your bloodline to be quiet.

Know that angelic hosts have come and now you will have peace! I declare that the Blood of Jesus will start covering the confusion that has been around you, and that His Blood will start covering your family bloodlines in a new way. This allows the Spirit of God to purify your blood and cause you to gain victory over familial spirits in your bloodline.

Prophetic Word Given! The Lord Visited Tuesday and Wednesday Prayer Times!

Last week we had our "Judah Goes First!" gathering on Wednesday Noon. You can click hereto watch the webcast replay of this powerful time of worship, prophecy, visions, and more.

Here is just a portion of what came forward during that time from myself, Janice Swinney, Elaine Priestly, Dee Dee Roberts, and Joe Knight:

"I Am Coming Like the One that Will Tear Down"

"In the midst of your battle you have attempted to hide out, but I AM coming down with a sign and a wonder to show you that I am present. From this sign and wonder, I will reveal My peace in your spirit.

Though the enemy has tried to upset your peace and keep you out of the joy and comfort that I have for you, I will be Jehovah Shalom to you.

I am setting your peace right and in that confusion and dismay that you've been in.

"I say into that battle – Jehovah Shalom now comes. Even now, I will overturn a seven-year reproach that has been creating confusion against you. (Over) that bankruptcy and breach that came into your life, I am coming to heal and cause you to have peace.

"I am coming like the One that will tear down, laying the axe to the root of the tree against those structures that have been set against your gift and your call and your bloodline.

I am laying the axe to the root of those trees that have grown along the bank of your bloodline.

"Today, the voice of My Blood is beginning to be released through My people!

I will speak into their bloodline and call forth provision, peace, redemptive, salvation, and deliverance. I will cause My Bloodline to become your bloodline.

"Your Status is Getting Upgraded!"

"I will send you in again, and that favor you didn't receive last time, know now that I Am That I Am. I will be with you in that place where you need to go sit and gain the favor you need to move forward. I am sending you in, and the favor of I AM will come.

"Expect the unexpected phone call! Expect the phone call that will come and say, 'We need to meet again.'

Expect the unexpected! (Over) the inheritance that's been in confusion in your family where brother has been against brother, and sister against brother, now expect the unexpected phone call for I am settling what needs to be settled so you can move forward.

"Your status is getting upgraded! Your status is getting upgraded! Your status is getting upgraded! Get ready, for I am going to upgrade your status!

When you present the card that says 'This is who I am', I am going to cause angelic forces to cover over and say, 'This is who they really are!' – and to let you go through!

"It's due time! The fresh dew of Heaven is coming upon you and this fresh dew is the new identity and the new anointing. As you walk through the door, you'll be so wet with the dew of Heaven that you'll slip right past the enemy and he won't be able to hold on to you. It is due time!

"This is a New Time of Identity"

"You've been standing in line for a long time. You've been in the queue, but now I am going to change the queue to bring you in, through, and into the place you've been waiting to go into.

And even while you're waiting in that queue, I'm breaking out that double-mindedness that has caused you to sit out of that queue. You are going to look in the mirror and you are going to remember who you are.

"This is a new time of identity when there is not going to be a double-mindedness. I am breaking it off of your mind. I am breaking it off of what you used to think about you.

This is a time that you will come back to the place that I have purposed you, I have called you, and I have reminded you. You will remember and look in the mirror and see who you are and stand in that and walk forward.

"The cross winds are blowing in your life. They are blowing across you to take you off course, to take you off course from the direction that I have for you.

But I am going to show you how to navigate the cross winds to reach your appointed place and your destination in the time ahead.

"It's almost like the enemy has tried to break that which will cause My people to become hot and passionate at this time and conceive their future. But I am blowing upon My people and causing them to rise up with heat!"

Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries

Email: chuckp@glory-of-zion.org
Website: http://glory-of-zion.org

Charles D. "Chuck" Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. GSI facilitates other ministries as well, and participates in regional and national gatherings to develop new Kingdom paradigms.

Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches, and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live.

Chuck and his wife, Pam, have six children and seven grandchildren. He has authored over 20 books, including the best-sellers Possessing Your Inheritance, The Future War of the Church, The Worship Warrior, God's Unfolding Battle Plan, Interpreting the Times, Redeeming the Time, andTime to Defeat the Devil.

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Thanks!

I will give thanks this Thanksgiving season - even for the candy corn! One gulp and it is gone.

Be thankful this fall, and throughout the year.

Steve Martin

Love For His People

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"Thank you very much!"

Fire In My Bones - J. Lee Grady - "John MacArthur"

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To My Fundamentalist Brother John MacArthur: Grace to You Too

Fundamentalist pastor John MacArthur is a gifted preacher, author and lover of Scripture. His Grace to You radio program points countless people to the Bible, and his Master's Seminary trains hundreds of ministry leaders. He’s a staunch Calvinist, but that doesn’t make him any less my brother in Christ.

Unfortunately, MacArthur can’t say the same about me—and that’s sad. In his new book Strange Fire, he declares in no uncertain terms that anyone who embraces any form of charismatic or Pentecostal theology does not worship the true God.

My brother in Christ has written me off.

In John MacArthur’s rigid world, anybody who has sought prayer for healing, claimed a miracle, received a prayer language, prophesied, sensed God speaking to them, felt God’s presence in an emotional way or fallen down on the floor after receiving prayer has already stepped out of the bounds of orthodoxy.

MacArthur says charismatics think they worship God but that actually we are worshipping a golden calf. “Every day millions of charismatics offer praise to a patently false image of the Holy Spirit,” MacArthur says early in the book. “No other movement has done more damage to the cause of the gospel.”

He doesn’t just write off fringe elements of our movement; he skewers the original founders of Pentecostalism and even goes after Baptist author Henry Blackaby for teaching that God can speak to people today.

MacArthur, who is 74, urges evangelical Christians to engage in a “collective war” to stop the spread of the charismatic movement, which he describes as a “deadly virus,” a “deviant mutation of the truth” and a “Trojan horse” that has infiltrated mainstream Christianity. MacArthur writes, “Charismatic theology has turned the evangelical church into a cesspool of error and a breeding ground for false teachers.”

No one familiar with MacArthur is surprised by Strange Fire, since it is really a rehashed version of his 1993 book Charismatic Chaos. Unfortunately, some charismatics have given MacArthur plenty of new ammunition to support his case that we are all a bunch of sleazy con artists and spiritual bimbos. Our movement is new and fraught with problems, so MacArthur doesn’t have to look hard to find examples of troublesome doctrine. But instead of offering fatherly correction, he pulls out his sword and hacks away.

I’m no five-point Calvinist, but I will make five points here in response to MacArthur’s book:

1. Not all charismatics and Pentecostals have embraced errors or excesses. To MacArthur’s credit, he quotes charismatic leaders who have addressed legitimate abuses and errors in our movement. But then he writes us off with a broad brush. Actually, the majority of our movement is not in error, even though we all know of doctrines and practices that need correction. There are millions of healthy charismatic and Pentecostal churches around the world that are winning the lost, launching missionary endeavors and helping the poor. And charismatics and Pentecostals are fueling the global growth of Christianity—even with our flaws.

2. We must leave room for the present-day power of God. MacArthur believes God’s miracle-working power stopped around 100 A.D. He says healing, tongues, prophecy, visions and other supernatural manifestations described in the New Testament don’t work today. MacArthur is particularly irked that charismatics emphasize speaking in tongues (which he calls “gibberish”); he also complains that we have a “perverse obsession with physical health” (in other words, if you get sick, just accept it because God doesn’t heal anymore). But the New Testament doesn’t tell us that heaven flipped a switch and turned off the Spirit’s power. That is MacArthur’s opinion, not a biblical doctrine.

3. The church needs a fresh emphasis on the Holy Spirit. MacArthur says charismatics are guilty of an unhealthy focus on the Holy Spirit. He claims that the Spirit points only to Jesus and that we shouldn’t seek the Spirit’s power or presence because He likes to stay in the background. My question: If that is true, why did Jesus teach so much about the Holy Spirit? And why is the Spirit’s powerful work so clearly highlighted in the book of Acts and the epistles? It’s true that the Spirit wants all the credit to go to Jesus, but we are making a huge mistake if we ignore the Spirit or limit His power. The church today needs God’s power like never before.

4. There is a difference between biblical correction and judgmentalism. Anyone who reads this column knows I speak out regularly about whacky practices in our movement—from prosperity doctrines to necromancy to adulterous pastors who say God told them to divorce one wife so they could marry another. I believe we must address sin in the camp. But there is a difference between confronting specific sins and condemning a whole movement to hell. John MacArthur’s book has crossed that line.

5. We should love MacArthur anyway. Strange Fire lists numerous ways charismatics are misusing or abusing the Holy Spirit, in MacArthur’s view. But he forgets to mention that one of the important works of the Holy Spirit is to unify and connect the Christian community in deep fellowship. The New Testament urges us to “preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:3, NASB), and we are also told that love is part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. But Strange Fire was not written out of a heart of love.

Still, there is no need to retaliate against MacArthur. He is our brother because we all believe in and worship the same Savior. The best thing we can do in response to this extremely unkind book is to love our brother in spite of his unfortunate bias against us.

J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma and the director of the Mordecai Project (themordecaiproject.org). You can follow him on Twitter at @leegrady. He is the author of The Holy Spirit Is Not for Sale and other books.

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Israeli Bible Museum Debuts 'Book of Books' Exhibit

Israeli Bible Museum

Debuts 'Book of Books' Exhibit

By Julie Stahl and John Waage

CBN News Middle East Bureau

Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- A unique exhibition of Bible history opened this week at Jerusalem's Bible Lands Museum.

They call it the Book of Books. The museum's latest exhibition traces the history of the Bible and the Jewish roots of Christianity, tracking the story of God's written word from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Gutenberg Bible and beyond.

Bible Lands Museum Director Amanda Weiss says there's no more important city than Jerusalem to host such an exhibit.

"It's the first presentation of this collection of rare and important Bibles and manuscripts and biblical texts looking at the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, together in one exhibition here in Jerusalem," Weiss told CBN News.

"The significance is that we are trying to show the Jewish roots of Christianity," Cary Summers, chief executive of the Green Collection, said.

"We've put in added effort to make it an equally balanced and important exhibition for both a Jewish audience and the Christian world," Weiss said.

"The exhibition begins in the Judean Desert," exhibit curator Heather Reichstadt explained. "We have a representation here of facsimiles of those Dead Sea Scrolls that belong to Amman, Jordan."

Reichstadt says the dispersion of the Jewish people in 70 A.D. sets the stage for the exhibit.

"We move into North Africa where we then start to see introduction of Greek, where you have the Septuagint, it's the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament to Christians in the Greek language," Reichstadt continued. "After that we have the introduction of earliest New Testament text."

The artwork on the walls related directly to the exhibits, and a floor map traces the spread of God's Word throughout the world.

Interactive iPads allow visitors to zoom in on texts like a genealogy from Adam to Christ.

There's even an exact working replica of the 15th century Gutenberg Press, which printed the famous Guttenberg Bible.

"And you have a printed page. You could make several thousand in a day," Reichstadt explained.

"We do end the exhibition with one of the oldest biblical texts known to date…which is a blessing from Numbers 6:24-26, 'May the Lord bless you and keep you….'"

Most of the exhibit comes from the Green family collection, which will one day have a permanent home in Washington, D.C.

Cary Summers, the Green collection's chief executive, says they want to change the notion many people have that the Bible is not readable.

"We take on that challenge to provide a means for people to get comfortable reading it," Summers said. "It's literally one of the great, great writes of the world. It's fantastic. It's entertaining. It's mystery. It's everything that good movies are made of -- are found in the Bible."

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Israeli Minister: Our Capital Cannot Be Divided - ISRAEL TODAY

Israeli Minister: Our Capital Cannot Be Divided

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 | Ryan Jones, Israel Today

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Israel's cabinet has thrown its weight behind a bill requiring a large Knesset majority to approve a new division of Jerusalem, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to the motion, arguing that it will hinder peace efforts.

The bill would require the approval of at least 80 Knesset members (two-thirds of the 120-member parliamentary body) to even start negotiations leading to the division or relinquishing of even a small part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation backed the bill in a vote of 5-4 on Sunday.

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) said the vote was yet another reminder that "we won't divide Jerusalem or negotiate the eternal capital of the Jewish people."

Bennett said he expects Netanyahu to bring the bill before the Knesset for an official vote in the very near future.

But Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, whom Netanyahu appointed to oversee negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, is doing her best to squash the bill before it ever reaches the Knesset floor.

"Members of the coalition are ruining the ability of Israel to make diplomatic decisions," complained Livni.

Insisting that her demand to be able to negotiate away parts of the holy city stem from a position of caring, Livni continued, "Do they want the government to defend our interests, including Jerusalem, or do they want to lead us all to chaos? No one can teach us about Jerusalem and no one loves Jerusalem more than us."

Netanyahu is expected to support Livni's appeal aimed at freezing the bill.

Opposition MK Yaakov Litzman of the religious United Torah Judaism party sponsored the bill. In remarks to Yediot Ahronot, he called it a means to hold Netanyahu to his campaign promise never to divide the city.

"Netanyahu promised more than once not to negotiate on Jerusalem," Litzman said. "The message of the bill is clear: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and is outside of any negotiations."

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The Whole Story Project - Short Films from the Jerusalem Institute of Justice

Calev Myers - Founder, Jerusalem Institute of Justice

Published on Oct 1, 2013

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The Jerusalem Institute of Justice (jij.org.il) is partnering with

Epipheo (epipheo.com) for The Whole Story Project, a series of

short films addressing Key Issues in the Middle East.

Keep up to date on the progress at our facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/calevma
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Film & Animation

Editor's Note: Love For His People, Inc.
contributed $25 for this project to advance.
Hope you give to it also, as you can.

Shalom.

Steve Martin
Founder, Love For His People, Inc.

More on Calev Myers:

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Calev Myers

Calev Myers, Israeli human rights lawyer and activist
Born United States
Nationality Israel
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation Lawyer
Years active 2004-present
Organization Jerusalem Institute of Justice

Calev Myers is the founder of the Jerusalem Institute of Justice (JIJ), a human rights group in Israel. He finished a degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and joined the Israel Bar Association as a licensed lawyer after having immigrated to Israel from the United States in 1992. He founded JIJ in 2004 as non-profit organization that takes on cases of religious persecution, and advances freedom of conscience and civil justice in Israel.

Myers also owns and manages the Jerusalem City Center branch as a partner at Yehuda Raveh & Co. law offices. The law firm was established in 1940 by Gideon Hausner who served as Attorney-General of Israel and member of Knesset in 1965, 1969, 1974 and 1977. Myers has been published in the International Law Review and currently works in the fields of corporate and intellectual property law, charity law, and civil rights law.

When Christian humanitarian aid organizations were charged a 15.5% value added tax (VAT) on relief shipments for Israeli victims of the 2006 Lebanon War, Myers negotiated a one-time $3,090,000 VAT discount, from the Ministry of Finance, on a $20,000,000 shipment. In 2008, Myers was asked to act as spokesperson for the family of Ami Ortiz, a 15-year-old who was critically wounded by a bomb that had been planted by Yaakov Teitel in hopes of killing Ami's father, David Ortiz. After hundreds of New Testaments were publicly burned by Orthodox Jews in Israel in 2010,Army Radio interviewed Myers, who called for all involved parties to be prosecuted.

In 2011, Myers founded a caucus with Likud Member of Knesset Danny Danon to combat anti-Semitism internationally. Myers described the caucus's goals as being "to empower Israel's friends around the world to fight anti-Semitism everywhere it exists".

Myers addressed the European Parliament in 2012 challenging Europe's funding the Palestinian Authority while overlooking human rights violations and was the key-note speaker at the opening event of Palestinian Human Rights Week in Toronto, Canada in April 2013. At the event, Myers stated, "We try to look at the issues from a human rights perspective. When you put on your human rights lenses you see what’s really happening and who the true abusers of human rights of the Palestinians are. It’s not primarily soldiers at checkpoints, the Israeli government [or Jewish] settlers in the disputed territories: it’s the Palestinian Authority itself and the nations surrounding Israel.”

Myers has been published in the Justice Magazine of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, and serves as one of their Representatives before the UN in Geneva and New York.
From their website:

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. – Israel's Declaration of Independence

In order to ensure the fulfillment of the vision of our nation's forefathers, our small team of advocates from the Jerusalem Institute of Justice (JIJ) has tirelessly challenged discriminatory governmental practices within Israel's democratic system. We have handled over 500 cases, during the first eight years of our existence, including twenty victorious petitions before the Supreme Court.

Within Israel, we pursue freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and advocate for members of minority religions, as well as citizens lacking any religious affiliation. We have also done extensive work on behalf of victims of human trafficking, advanced affirmative action for Ethiopian new immigrants, and provided representation to Lone Soldiers who have been abandoned by their ultra-Orthodox families for choosing to serve in the IDF.

Our passion for freedom, truth and moral clarity has driven us to pursue justice, not only within Israel, but also on behalf of Israel. While most human rights organizations superficially point to Israel's occupation of the disputed territories as the foremost abuse of human rights in our region, we espouse a more thorough and unbiased view on the matter. We have drafted and disseminated extensive reports on the human rights abuses of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and the Hamas government in Gaza.

Our work in this regard has taken us before the UN and the European Parliament, as well as esteemed academic venues on several continents. We continue to call upon the international community to monitor and require accountability for the billions of dollars of aid donated to the PA per annum; aid which rather than building the infrastructure for an independent, democratic Palestinian administration, has thus far been deposited into the bank accounts of corrupt leaders, financed militant terrorist activities, and funded education of the next generation in values of hatred, violence, racism and anti-Semitism.

We believe that the only legitimate solution for the Arab-Israeli dispute is one that will enhance freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law for all peoples on each side of the controversy. A resolution based on any other grounds simply cannot provide lasting peace.

This has not been an easy battle, or one that has been met with much applause. At times, we have found courage in the words of Mother Teresa, "we, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing".

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website and review our activities. We ask you to partner with us, and by so doing, to strengthen our efforts to advance justice both in Israel and for Israel.

Justice, justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you. – Deuteronomy 16:20

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