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Greetings LoveMusic! friends of Love For Your People,
With these being the days to celebrate the fall feasts of the Lord (thanks to the Jews for obeying the Living God of Israel to maintain them!), we must recognize the great Messianic music of Barry and Batya Segal. For many decades they have been out front with their Hebrew/Israeli Messianic sound, producing over 7 CDS in that period. (You can see and purchase them on their Vision For Israel website here.)
I first met Barry in 1982 in East Lansing, Michigan, on the softball field! We were both members of the Shiloh Fellowship church's men's softball league (different teams). He was on the elder's team (pictured here with another, Jeff Williams.) Me? Another one. Barry then made aliyah and moved to Jerusalem, where he served in the IDF, before becoming the Personal Assistant to Bible teacher Derek and Lydia Prince. He met his bride Batya in the gift shop he owned, called "Greetings From Jerusalem." (I believe she was an employee, and also a Sephardic Jew, with parents having made aliyah.)
In 2005, when I was with Derek Prince Ministries in Charlotte, North Carolina as Director of Finance and Operations, Barry requested of my boss, David Selby, (International Director of DPM) to let me come work for Barry, who had by then founded Vision For Israel/The Joseph Storehouse (established in 1993) in the Jerusalem area. Barry wanted to move his USA office from Savannah to Charlotte. David agreed, I accepted, and for the next five years I was the Vision For Israel - USA Director. I left that position in 2010 to start our own ministry Love For His People, Inc.
During those five years with Barry and Batya, I admired the hard-working and passionate spirit these two have, for their Land and all the people in Israel. I was a blessed man to make five Sukkot Celebration tours and conferences in Israel, and listen to their worship times during the conferences. (Photo to the right by Steve Martin)
We also held a few conferences here in the USA for the ministry.
Their humanitarian work has blessed the IDF, school children, those needing assistant after making aliyah from the nations, and much more. Barry's adventurous TV program Roots and Reflections is the Israel travel magazine I watch weekly (schedule is on their website). Barry's JNN News has weekly reports; and their tours (Sukkot Celebration and Roots and Reflections), with Barry as "co-guide", are really fun! He might even share some of his choice food ideas with you.
With all that said, enjoy their music! It is now my joy to share this special song In the Latter Days, which was joyfully sung at every conference. I have also included links to several more of their popular songs, following this video.)
After listening, I also strongly encourage you to support of Vision For Israel! During this fall Feasts of the Lord special season, now would be a great time to do so to start the new 5778 Jewish new year (which by the way, "5778" represents "going through the gates." It just happens to be the album name containing In The Latter Days.)
It is my joy to share this special song In the Latter Days!
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore In the Latter Days · Barry & Batya Segal Go Through the Gates ℗ 2002 Greetings from Jerusalem Released on: 2002-01-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.
Recently I got to spend more time over one week in Jerusalem's City of David than I've spent there in the past 30 years. Living a mere 15 minutes from Jerusalem, I try to be mindful of how incredible it is to have the privilege to be in the holy city often, even for things as mundane as business meetings, to see a movie or go shopping. However, there are special places within Jerusalem that are at the very foundation of the city, literally, and being able to spend time there is indescribably awesome.
My visit was in two parts, under the auspices of The Jerusalem Watch, which hosts extensive and compelling daytime tours (The Jerusalem Watch Tour), offering those who are passionate about Jerusalem a "tangible opportunity to connect by taking an active role in uncovering the glory and history of ancient Jerusalem; literally becoming part of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy."
The excitement of any visitor is magnified by that of AnaRina Heymann, director of The Jerusalem Watch. Her passion for being able to share and connect people to the City of David's significance is matched by the abundance of information she transmits; connecting ancient Jerusalem to the Bible and making it come to life with incredible depth.
Because Jerusalem is built with Jerusalem stone, a pale limestone common 3000 years ago and today, I've always been frustrated that pictures don't do the scenery justice. Up close, the majestic beauty is vivid, and made even richer by the dimension and color AnaRina adds.
While the history of the City of David goes back 3000 years to King David, only in the past 150 years was it clear that the original biblical Jerusalem lay just south of and outside what's today known as the Old City. It doesn't make the Old City any less significant, but in finding and excavating the original city makes that all the more important. It's the very foundation of Jerusalem, wrapped up in biblical prophecy that's unfolding today, the foundation of both Judaism and Christianity, and of course biblical history and modern politics.
Simply, visiting the City of David is a must for anyone visiting Israel.
In 1867, British officer and engineer Charles Warren set out to discover Jerusalem. He was the first to begin to unearth 2000 years of civilizations that had been buried as foreign occupiers destroyed and then built new atop the old. For thousands of years, while the world looked inside the relatively modern walls of the Old City, the original Jerusalem lay buried.
Just 50 years later, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, the world power affirming the Jewish right and destiny to return to Zion. In the same year, as he conquered Jerusalem from the Ottomans, and in a moment of great humility, General Allenby depicted how awesome a moment it was and dismounted his horse to enter the Old City by foot. If he had only known what lay buried just several hundred yards south and east, he might have prostrated himself and kissed the ground.
Fifty years after Allenby conquered Jerusalem, Israel, already a thriving albeit newly reborn Jewish state, reunited modern with biblical Jerusalem. And today, 50 years later and 150 years since Charles Warren discovered the ancient City of David, the intersection of the Bible as a roadmap with modern archaeology is revealed one bucket of dirt at a time, with stones restored one by one to the wall of the city King David built.
There are many unique and indeed compelling aspects of a tour of the City of David that are a must. Each will have his own highlights. Mine were varied.
I saw a 3000-year-old olive tree just south of David's palace. Did David plant it or was it planted at his instruction? Either way, the tree has witnessed and survived countless wars and sieges, majestically still bearing fruit today.
I appreciated a deeper understanding of ancient Hebrew and how the biblical names overlay the history and geography, and enrich understanding of the biblical accounts about which we read and pray.
It was awesome seeing actual spots at which biblical kings were anointed, where King David spotted Bathsheba bathing, and where pilgrims prepared to ascend to the temple, providing a vivid depiction and understanding that's unparalleled and transforming.
With an ancient aqueduct at the end of my block miles away that used to provide water to biblical Jerusalem, it's incredible to see Jerusalem's original water sources, and engineering to harness the water before our eyes.
Seeing the prophecy of Isaiah 37:33, "Therefor, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, no build a siege ramp against it." In fact, archaeologists have found arrows only from the Babylonian and Roman period, but none from the Assyrian besiegement.
The second part of my visit was to the new nighttime multimedia program, "Halleluyah." I enjoyed it thoroughly and found it meaningful on a variety of levels. Children and those who are more visual will especially appreciate this unique multimedia presentation of Jerusalem's history, where the canvas depicting the destruction and restoration of the city is the actual walls of the original City of David over which Jews wept 2500 years ago.
In short, I came away with the awareness that there is no more significant place in Jerusalem. It underscores 3000 years of unbreakable Jewish history as well as the foundation on which Christianity was born, and makes the 1400-year old mosque sitting above it seem all the more out of place.
As I emerged from a hefty hike ascending through an ancient drainage tunnel from the bottom of the City of David until almost the point where it reaches the Temple Mount, I was refreshed by a cool breeze. But I was chilled by the realization that in this same place, the breeze that felt so good to me was the same breeze that David himself felt sitting in the exact same location.
I found another unintended meaningful part of the visit. At the end of the "Halleluyah" multimedia presentation, the prophesy of Jews returning from exile is depicted, beginning with Nehemiah and continuing throughout the millennia, including me and my family. Animated arrows represented the sources and origins of Jewish migration back to the Land. But it is also a metaphor for something archeologically incontrovertible.
The opposite of arrows and siege is strength and reinforcement. Unlike the arrows found from ancient armies that sought to conquer Jerusalem, these arrows depict the prophetic Jewish return to the Land, also representing the strengthening of Jerusalem today, which is how we will continue to be protected from arrows and sieges in the future.
If you want to see and understand the foundation upon which Jerusalem, and all of the past 3000 years of Jewish history, is built, and to see the fulfillment of Isaiah's words, ""Shake yourself from the dust; arise, O captive Jerusalem" (Isa. 52:2a), the City of David needs to be your next stop.
Jonathan Feldsteinwas born and educated in the U.S. and immigrated to Israel in 2004. He is married and the father of six. Throughout his life and career, he has been blessed by the calling to fellowship with Christian supporters of Israel and shares experiences of living as an Orthodox Jew in Israel. He writes a regular column for Standing With Israelat charismanews.com. He can be reached at firstpersonisrael@gmail.com.
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Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker welcome William Koenig and John Shorey as they discuss what it looks like living in the “swamp” of Washington DC.
Quotes
An EMP bomb is our number one threat to our homeland. -William Koenig
When the flood comes in, your house is wiped out. Everything is gone, nothing is ever usable again. -Pastor Jim Bakker
Scriptures
2 Timothy 3:1 KJV This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Proverbs 22:3 NCV The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.
Matthew 5:45 MEV That you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jeremiah 19:9 MEV I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone will eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their lives will distress them.
Revelation 6:6 MEV Then I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not harm the oil and the wine.”
Revelation 12:1 MEV A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Matthew 24:7-8 MEV For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places.All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Luke 21:25 NIV There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
Luke 21:11 KJV And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Matthew 25:41-45 KJV Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
James 2:17 MEV So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Daniel 9:27 MEV And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.
Luke 12:2 MEV For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Isaiah 5:20 MEV Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who exchange darkness for light,and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet,and sweet for bitter!
Matthew 24:12 KJV And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Joel 3:2 KJV I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Our Love For His People - Pakistan office, headed by Director Moses Julius, sent me copies of the new business/visiting card and letterhead.
He purposely placed Scripture from the Torah/Bible on the top of the letterhead, with Genesis 12:3 proclaimed. The ministry main purpose is to share the love of Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach with the Pakistani people, and the nations. (See image below.)
I also would like to note the special projects Moses has established, which this USA office from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA supports with monthly financial funds.
Sewing Center - to train widows and mothers with skills to earn a living
Beauty Parlor - also training women to earn a living to support their families
Adult Education
Education for Orphans
Hebrew School - with the first Hebrew calendar from the ministry coming out this year
We welcome your support!
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.
Charlotte, North Carolina
USA
For more information please contact Love For His People Founder Steve Martin. (loveforhispeople@gmail.com) You can now use the "Donate To Bless" tab at the top of our ministry blog website.
For more information please contact Love For His People Founder Steve Martin. (loveforhispeople@gmail.com) You can now use the "Donate To Bless" tab at the top of our ministry blog website.