Rocket Fire on Israel Largest Spike in Two Years

Gaza Rocket Fire on Israel

Julie Stahl
CBN News Middle East Correspondent

March 13, 2014

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Islamic Jihad terrorists, backed by Iran, launched dozens of rockets from the heart of Gaza on Wednesday. It marked the largest spike in Gaza rocket fire since 2012.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel wouldn't tolerate terror from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

"If there is no calm in the south, there will be no calm in Gaza, and that's putting it mildly," Netanyahu said. "I call upon the residents of the south to follow the instructions. The IDF will do the job."

The Israeli Air Force struck nearly 30 terror sites in Gaza in retaliation for the barrage. The IDF said it targeted infrastructure terrorists use for training, planning and implementing attacks.

More than 60 rockets fell inside Israel, including at least five that exploded in populated areas, but caused no injuries.

Several rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-rocket system.

Islamic Jihad, which is armed by Iran, claimed it fired the rockets in retaliation for the deaths of three members killed earlier this week in an Israeli airstrike.

The IDF released a video that it says clearly shows those three terrorists launching a mortar shell at Israeli soldiers and running from the site.

Visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country stands with Israel on security matters.

"Let me be absolutely clear about these attacks from Gaza, we condemn them completely," Cameron said during a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres.

"I think there are three important points to bear in mind; first of all they are a reminder once again of the importance of maintaining and securing Israel's future and the security threats that you face. And you have Britain's support in facing those security threats," he said.

Cameron is here on a 30-hour visit, in part to promote the U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Netanyahu said there can only be genuine peace if Iranian-backed terrorists can't fire rockets at Israel.

How Did Messianic Speakers Do at Christ at the Checkpoint?

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It is no secret that much of the Israeli Messianic community was wary of some of their number not only attending, but accepting invitations to speak at the Christ at the Checkpoint currently taking place in Bethlehem.

Most in the Messianic community view Christ at the Checkpoint as a platform for thinly-veiled Replacement Theology and anti-Israel propaganda, and feared those Messianic leaders who were scheduled to speak there would fall into the trap of appeasing their hosts.

Now that both Messianic leaders who were scheduled to speak from the main podium - Dan Juster and Oded Shoshani - have done so, how did they do?

Firstly, readers should head over to the Christ at the Checkpoint video site and watch the recorded speeches for themselves: Click Here

For those wanting some more commentary on the talks delivered by Juster and Shoshani, our friends at the Rosh Pina Project have posted “performance reviews.”

First up was Dan Juster, who most in the local Messianic community hold in highest respect as an authoritative Bible teacher. In summary, Juster did begin to challenge the problem of Palestinian Christians allowing the emotions of their situation to drive their theology, but he seemed to back off that point and ultimately adopt a more conciliatory position that painted a somewhat grim portrait of Zionism and the modern rebirth of Israel.

Read the full Rosh Pina Project review on Dan Juster

Shoshani, by contrast, really brought the heat, directly challenging many faulty points in both the theology and the political assertions of Christ at the Checkpoint. As 2012 Christ at the Checkpoint speaker Wayne Hilsden later commented, “I commend my friend and ministry colleague, Oded Shoshani, for sharing glaring truth with amazing grace…he is a man of peace and demonstrates love not only for fellow Jews, but for Arabs as well. Oded expressed his convictions biblically and from personal experience on the ground — fearing God and not man.”

Read the full Rosh Pina Project review on Oded Shoshani

How do you feel these two men did stepping into what many viewed as a hostile environment to present a position that they knew would not be well received?

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The Grandmas Are Coming by Julia Loren

Julia Loren:

The Grandmas Are Coming

The Elijah List

I was just waking up, and in that drowsy state it was as if an angel whispered in my ear, "The grandmothers are coming." 

I could have dismissed it as the tail edge of a dream, but the next morning I heard it again. And the following morning. Finally, I sat up and began listening for the more complete word the Lord was speaking. It was just about a week ago that a more complete word emerged, and this is what I believe the Lord is speaking:

"The grandmothers are coming. They are the young grandmothers who are seeing in the spirit and the older grandmothers who have seen in the spirit. Their revelatory insights are coming to the foreground – now that so many other distractions of life are falling away.

"In an instant, the weighted ceiling of the enemy's oppression will shatter and the grandmothers will rise up into the heavenlies and see more clearly than ever before.

Let your spirit soar! For it will not be as before. 

The brokenness of the years are releasing a new fragrance to your prayers, to your nurturing touch, and adding joy to your years.

"You are of the age to receive an 'Anna Anointing,' and it is being poured out for any who will receive it.

The anointing to see the unseen potential in the infant, the child, the teen, and the young adult and call it forth is yours for the asking.

It is like the Anna in the temple who took the infant Jesus in her arms and saw the light of the world and his destiny. And because of your age, you will be received. And because of your anointing, you will be heard.

"It is a gentle anointing. It is a nurturing anointing that calls life into infant hearts, infant ministries, and stands back to bless and intercede, rather than stepping forward to direct and care for that which you see emerging.

It is the freedom of a grandmother to bless and not have to undertake the responsibility for the care and feeding of another's child or ministry. It is the joy of a grandmother to see what is emerging and 'gentle' it into birth." 

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In Luke 2:36-38, we read about Anna, a widow who happened to be a woman given to prayer: "Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem."

How did she see the true identity of this infant?

She entered into continual awareness of God's presence through prayer.

Prayer was the intimate dialog between herself and God, her true and constant Companion who met her in prayer and would tell her His secrets (see Luke8:10) because of their close relationship.

So, if you are a grandmother, this is your time to "see" the unseen in the younger ones among us and call it forth. The world has need of you. And what is to come needs those who will call it out in the young and release it through intercession.

Julia Loren
Julia Loren Ministries / Blue Moth Media

Email: bluemothmedia@yahoo.com
Website: julialoren.net / bluemothmedia.com

Julia Loren is a prophetic author of several books including Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Power, Claim Your Anointing and The Future of Us: Your Guide to Prayer, Prophecy and the Coming Days. She lives on an island in the Pacific NW.

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Why Israel? by Steve Martin - coming in April, 2014

Coming April, 2014

Why Israel? Why not?

This little booklet consists of messages previously written in my books, which of themselves contain many various themes. I wanted to devote one book to just Israel and the Jewish people, and so this small booklet was compiled. (It is 46 pages with six chapters and a few photos, as usual!)

Once you get the book, either paperback or Kindle e-book through Amazon, consider the truth contained in Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. They are there, declaring out the commitment of God the Father to choose a people who will be a light to the nations. He chose the Jews, and gave them the Promised Land of Israel. As believers, we can also now be grafted in to those promises (but not with replacement Theology).

It does not matter what other national governments try to say, do, or accomplish, apart from the plans and purposes of the Lord. They will fail.

His Word is true. It is eternal. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever, and thus His commitment in keeping His promises made to the Jewish people will be fulfilled.

I hope you stand with them in these last days.

Steve Martin

Founder/Author

Love For His People

David Cameron's speech to the Knesset

David Cameron's speech to the Knesset March 12, 2014

Dear friends, I wanted to make sure you all read Prime Minister David Cameron's powerful speech to the Knesset yesterday. This was a really important statement of the UK's support for Israel and opposition to boycotts and de-legitimisation. You can read the full text here: http://www.bicom.org.uk/news-article/19365/ There is further analysis from BICOM of the PM's visit to Israel here: http://www.bicom.org.uk/spotlight/cameron-visit-to-israel/ and Professor Alan Johnson writes about it here: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alan-johnson/new-vision-middle-east-peace Best wishes, Luke Akehurst Director, We Believe in Israel

Prophetic Words Point to Move of Spirit in Ukraine - R. LOREN SANDFORD

Prophetic Words Point to Move of Spirit in Ukraine - CHARISMA NEWS

3/12/2014 R. LOREN SANDFORD

R. Loren Sandford

I feel compelled to call for intense and concentrated prayer for the situation inUkraine.

On the surface, it may appear to be only a political struggle between those who desire closer ties with Russia and those who want to integrate more closely with Europe. Having spent many weeks over a seven-year period ministering in Ukraine in both the eastern and western regions, I believe I can say with some certainty that a majority of Ukrainians in both the east and west do not desire a close alignment with Russia.

That being said, the real battle isn’t about political alignments or economics, although those things are indeed important. I believe there are underlying spiritual realities to be considered. I have long prophesied that Ukraine is a spiritual stealth torpedo in the arsenal of the Lord, a weapon of power that the enemy of our soul has not seen coming until now.

Historically, Ukraine has been a kind of innocent player on the world stage, ravaged by armies from Europe rampaging over it on their way to attack Russia and then trampled again by the armies of Russia driving back the armies of Europe. Ukraine itself has had little blood on its hands. Who would expect anything world-changing to come out of Ukraine? A parallel might be what the Jews said about Galilee: “They answered him, ‘You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee’” (John 7:52, NASB). The Jews used to ask, “Can anything good come out of Galilee?” And yet from Galilee came Jesus and the 12.

Powerful voices will arise out of Ukraine carrying a fresh stream of the Spirit and of power. Out of Ukraine’s relative innocence—and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union—a number of strong Christian leaders have been rising, mostly unknown and in hiddenness—hence my “stealth torpedo” metaphor. These are among the finest men of God I have met or had the privilege to know in my travels over the years. Although the number of charismatic and evangelical Christians in Ukraine remains small relative to the overall population, in terms of spiritual power and maturity their growth has been strong and wonderful to see. This has often been accompanied by signs and wonders that have garnered little attention outside of Ukraine.

It is my opinion that this political turmoil over the determination of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to align Ukraine with Russia and to turn away from economic alliance with the European Union strategically coincides with a time of ripeness for Ukrainian Christians. An underlying intent of the spiritual hosts of wickedness in this conflict is to dampen, squelch or hide the influence of a Ukrainian revival and Ukrainian spiritual leaders upon the rest of the world, as well as to simply create as much human suffering as possible.

In short, please pray for Ukraine. The consequences of what happens there go well beyond what you see in the news. There are kingdom of God issues at stake.

R. Loren Sandford is the founder and senior pastor of New Song Church and Ministries in Denver. He is a songwriter, recording artist and worship leader, as well as the author of several books, including Understanding Prophetic People, The Prophetic Church and his latest, Visions of the Coming Days: What to Look for and How to Prepare, which are available with other resources at the church's website.

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Friends Remembering Bob Jones, Part 3 - James Goll - Rick Joyner Video | Prophetic Perspective on Current Events

James Goll, Ministry To The Nations

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Friends Remembering Bob Jones, Part 3

Rick Joyner

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

James Goll talks about traveling with Bob Jones in the early 1980s. No one impacted his life more than Bob.

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James Goll - "Believe the prophets and you will receive."

"RECEIVE THE WORD

TRUST THE LORD

YOU WILL RECEIVE"

James Goll

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 

9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls

Researcher finds tantalizing tefillin parchments
from Second Temple era, overlooked for decades
and unread for 2,000 years

BY ILAN BEN ZION March 12, 2014


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They’re not much larger than lentils, but size doesn’t minimize the 

potential significance of nine newfound Dead Sea Scrolls that have 

lain unopened for the better part of six decades.

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An Israeli scholar turned up the previously unexamined parchments, 

which had escaped the notice of academics and archaeologists as 

they focused on their other extraordinary finds in the 1950s. Once 

opened, the minuscule phylactery parchments from Qumran, while 

unlikely to yield any shattering historic, linguistic or religious 

breakthroughs, could shed new light on the religious practices of 

Second Temple Judaism.


The Israel Antiquities Authority has been tasked with unraveling 

and preserving the new discoveries — an acutely sensitive 

process and one which the IAA says it will conduct painstakingly, 

and only after conducting considerable preparatory research.

Phylacteries, known in Judaism by the Hebrew term tefillin, are 

pairs of leather cases containing biblical passages from the books 

of Exodus and Deuteronomy. One case is bound by leather thongs 

to the head and one to the arm during morning prayers, as prescribed 

by rabbinic interpretation of the Bible. The case worn on the head 

contains four scrolls in individual compartments, while the arm 

phylactery holds one scroll.

The interior of the Shrine of the book, the home of the 

Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum. (photo credit: Flash90)

At least two dozen tefillin scroll fragments were known to have 

been found during excavations of the limestone caves overlooking 

the Dead Sea at Qumran in the 1950s (several phylactery boxes 

and straps were unearthed as well). They were among the 

world-famous cache of thousands of scrolls and scroll fragments 

containing biblical and sectarian texts from the Second Temple 

period. Since their discovery, the Qumran scrolls have been housed 

at the Israel Museum, and scholars have pored over the ancient 

documents and opened a window into ancient Jewish theology.

But these nine latest tiny scrolls had been overlooked — until now.

Dr. Yonatan Adler, a lecturer at Ariel University and a 

post-doctoral researcher on Qumran tefillin at Hebrew University, 

was searching through the Israel Antiquities Authority’s 

climate-controlled storerooms in the Har Hotzvim neighborhood 

of Jerusalem in May 2013. There he found a phylactery case from 

Qumran among the organic artifacts stored in climate-controlled 

warehouses. Suspecting the case could contain a heretofore 

undocumented scroll, he had it scanned by an MRI at 

Shaare Zedek Hospital. The analysis suggested there might 

indeed be an unseen parchment inside.

While that analysis has yet to be confirmed, Adler was 

spurred on by the discovery, and in December visited the 

Dead Sea Scroll labs at the Israel Museum. There he found 

two tiny scrolls inside the compartments of a tefillin case 

that had been documented but then put aside some time 

after 1952. The scrolls were never photographed or 

examined, and so have remained bound inside the leather 

box for roughly 2,000 years.

Then, just last month, Adler told The Times of Israel 

he “found a number of fragments of tefillin cases from 

Qumran Cave 4, together with seven rolled-up tefillin 

slips” which had never been opened.

Dr. Yonatan Adler of Ariel University 

(photo credit: Devorah Adler)

“Either they didn’t realize that these were

 also scrolls, or they didn’t know how to 

open them,” Pnina Shor, head of the IAA’s 

Department of Artefact Treatment and 

Conservation, explained.

Józef Tadeusz Milik, the most prolific publisher 

of the scrolls after their discovery last century, 

reported on the Cave 4 tefillin case finds but he 

“didn’t say why they didn’t open them, [and] he 

also didn’t say they were scrolls,” even though 

the parchments were identified as part of tefillin 

assemblage, she said.

Shor and her team have managed the painstaking

task of maintaining the thousands of scroll 

fragments found at Qumran, removing them 

from the glass casings in which they were 

entombed in the 1950s and mounting them on 

fine cloth mesh, then digitizing each minute scrap 

with multi-spectral photography. Each scroll 

fragment is photographed at 56 different exposures 

— 28 per side (as some scrolls have writing on 

both) — in 12 different wavelengths ranging as 

far as the infrared. The team will be tasked with 

a similar mission with the new scrolls once 

they’ve been opened.

Dead Sea Scroll expert Eibert Tigchelaar of the 

University of Leuven in Belgium said that the fact 

that these nine scrolls went undetected for so long 

should not come as a surprise, considering the 

scrolls’ complicated administrative history (which 

includes a change in sovereignty in 1967). 

”Things physically remained somewhere, but 

administratively were forgotten,” Tigchelaar said.

Moreover, “confronted with 10,000 or more 

fragments from Cave 4, of which the last were 

only published a few years ago, there was little 

attention [paid] to those tefillin that might not be 

opened at all,” he said.

None of the phylacteries has been radiocarbon 

dated, but the cache of scrolls and religious objects 

from the caves at Qumran date from the second 

and first centuries BCE and first century CE — a 

critical time in the development of Judaism and 

early Christianity.

Like many of the finds at Qumran, some of the 

tefillin slips that have previously been opened have 

yielded astonishing differences from the standard 

Rabbinic text known as the Masoretic.

“Some tefillin use a spelling very close to the traditional 

one, [but] there are several tefillin that use an extreme 

form of divergent spelling that also occurs in many 

other scrolls,” such as additional letters in possessive 

suffixes, Tigchelaar said.

Seven recently rediscovered unopened tefillin 

scrolls from Qumran. (photo credit: Shai Halevi 

via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Professor Lawrence Schiffman, a vice provost at 

Yeshiva University and expert on Second Temple 

Judaism, explained that some of the tefillin texts from 

Qumran were identical to those used today, but others 

have the same text with additional passages, extended 

to include the Ten Commandments. He also 

pointed out that it would be interesting to see the 

order in which the scrolls were placed inside the 

tefillin compartments — a practice debated by 

rabbis for centuries.

“From my point of view, the most significant thing 

about all of this is that they actually have tefillin from 

2,100 and plus years ago,” Schiffman said of the

 Dead Sea Scrolls generally. The continuity of 

phylactery traditions — over the centuries and 

across the various sects that comprised Second Temple 

Jewry — was something he found remarkable.

“We have to be prepared for surprises,” Professor 

Hindy Najman of Yale University said, of the new 

discoveries. “On the one hand there’s tremendous 

continuity between what we have found among the 

Dead Sea Scrolls — liturgically, ritually and textually 

— and contemporaneous and later forms of Judaism. 

But there’s also tremendous possibility for variegated 

practices and a complex constellation of different 

practices, different influences, different ways of 

thinking about tefillin.”

Tefillin cases from Qumran 

(photo credit: Clara Amit via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Schiffman, however, said he doesn’t expect 

any “bombshells” emerging from the new scrolls 

that will “overturn the concepts that we have.”

“Given the amount of research that’s been 

done… important discoveries like this don’t 

overturn previous ideas,” he said. “We’re going 

to be able to augment what we know about the 

tefillin already.”

Tigchelaar concurred, saying that the Dead Sea Scrolls 

in general, and these tefillin in particular, are important 

not because they would shed light on one particular 

sect during the Second Temple Era, but because 

they demonstrate that rabbinic practices had deeper roots.

“Whether one wants to emphasize the continuity, 

or the differences, is another thing,” he said.

Shor will be in charge of the project of meticulously 

unraveling the newfound scrolls and ensuring their preservation.

“We’re going to do it slowly, but we’ll first consult 

with all of our experts about how to go about this,” 

she said, reluctant to say when the process would 

commence. “We need to do a lot of research before 

we start doing this.”

A single tefillin scroll found in phylacteries at Qumran. 

(photo credit: Shai Halevi via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls
Researcher finds tantalizing tefillin parchments from 

Second Temple era, overlooked for decades and 

unread for 2,000 years.

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