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Friday, April 11, 2014
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Congratulations from Sweden & Others - on the Celebration of our 4th Year Anniversary of Love for His People
I want to congratulate you, your wife and also other people involved in the ministry "Love For His People"! Thank you so much to you and your wife for starting this ministry and that you are moving forward with Yeshua in strong passion for Him!
Thank you for blessing many people and that you bless Israel and the Jewish people strong in a time of increasing anti-semitism!
Thank you for following Yeshua in working in this ministry. Thank you to your wife and you for being so mature leaders in a time when several are not and for your love to Yeshua! God will give you back for what you have sown into the Kingdom of God and your reward is big in heaven!
Maybe I have a word for you. Please check all words! I think it is a new time for you! God will show you new things! Isaiah 43:18-19. I am thinking about that God is rejoicing so much over you! I also think Yeshua is celebrating today!
I send many blessings to you, your wife, family and to people involved in this ministry! Thank you so much, Steve and this greeting to your wife, too, for starting this ministry!
Shalom!
Eva Haglund
Sweden
MANY CONGRATULATIONS AND
BLESSINGS FROM SWEDEN!
From Others Who Sent In Blessings
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Steve,
Congratulations! In some ways it's hard to believe it's been four years - my how time flies! Your accomplishments in four years have been astounding and very impressive. Way to Go! We're so pleased to call you "friend". Adonai's continued blessings upon all that you do. B'Shem Yeshua.
Shalom,
Curtis
Shalom,
Curtis
Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion, Charlotte, NC
Peter Wyns, Christians For Messiah Ministries, Antioch Intl. Church - Fort Mill, SC
Mary L. Smith, Charleston, SC
VERY NICE Steve!! Great work!! Love you!!
Have a blessed day,
Mary
Bless you, Brother! I will be reading all of this in detail later but wanted to immediately say Mazel Tov and to tell you and Laurie how blessed I am to have you in my life and to be on this journey together. You have persevered and He has given you much fruit for your labors. Bless you all day long! Love you! Cathy.
PS Which of your books is the one that has the large amount of photos? (Book - "Now Think On This - The Inspiration Continues" has over 165 photos.)
Well Done Steve,
Keep up the good work for Israel.
Thank you for your support for Antioch’s first Sunday.
Many Blessings,
Peter
Mary L. Smith, Charleston, SC
VERY NICE Steve!! Great work!! Love you!!
Have a blessed day,
Mary
Karla Shrake, Mantles of Glory Ministries, Fort Worth, TX
Hello Steve,
Congrats on the four-year mark, that is awesome. It is amazing all the publishing and all the media sites and development you are doing ....and doing so well...glory to God!
Your four books being published and all the other made me remember how God spoke of you as Jacob/Israel while he had to serve Laban...and then was tricked into serving Laban again. But how God gave him that supernatural strategy of putting the rods in front of the sheep, etc. so they would reproduce, etc to Jacob's benefit. When you first sent me the finishing of the fourth book, the photo of all four together, that’s what instantly came back to my spirit /mind...about how the flocks and herds had supernaturally reproduced and increased, I do think that was definitely a Holy Ghost thought.
And the awesome tours to Israel, and your ministry "Love for His People". Good-good-good! Rejoicing with you and believing for more and more doors of teaching, mentoring, touring and traveling to open for you and Laurie.
Blessings to you and Laurie --
Karla
Moses Jilius, Shalom today Worldwide Ministries, Pakistan (Lehore)
Dear Brother Steve!
Well done, Brother and your coworker! I can't express how much I appreciate your efforts. It's great to have someone as special as you to work for His People. I am proud to be a part of your organization.
Yes the same thing was happened to me since 2011 when God spoke to me to Work for His people here in Pakistan.
Congratulation with depth of my heart,
Love and Blessing
Shabbat Shalom - Blessings On Ye Heads!
Lighting the candles - Janice Anthony
Blessing the bread - Chuck Anthony
Blessing the fruit of the vine
Sharing Love From Sweden - GOD HAS NOT REJECTED THE JEWS by Eva Haglund
Shalom Steve!
I have been thinking of the Jewish people and send you what I wrote.
Some trees here have begin to become green and some flowers comes up so I take photos. Sometimes you see deer close. They are beautiful!
Many blessings and greetings from Sweden!
Eva
GOD HAS NOT REJECTED THE JEWS
I wanted to write about the Jews because anti-semitism is increasing and we as Christians need to make our voices heard. When anti-semitism increases God's love to the Jewish people remains eternal.
When people are against Israel Yeshua, the Lion of Judah, we know Who fights for Israel. The Lion is strong and has authority. God keep His promises to the Jewish people in the Bible. God told Abraham to look at the stars in Genesis 15:5 he heard the number for stars.
The state of Israel will remain and He loves the chosen people so much! God do not reject the Jews when there are some people who do. Israel, His people, are so precious for Him like a precious lamb for a shepherd or like a child a parent loves very much. God has not abandoned the Jews but God has done everything for the Jews. He gave his Son.
Would He reject this people? No, He does not! In Rom.11:1 Paul says, "I say then ,has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."
Paul did not deny that he was a Messianic Jew. I also think he kept the Jewish feasts as I think it is a blessing to keep for all people. Also for Christians who are not Jewish to keep His feasts.
The Jewish people are like a treasure for God. They are like a golden necklace for Him with diamonds in His hand. He do not reject the Jewish people.
In the newspapers we could read about a big heart as birds created in the air in Israel this year. God sent birds to create a heart to show that He loved the Jewish people when people wrote that anti-semitism had increased.
Yeshua loves the Jews so much and in His name is eternal salvation.
John. 3:16, "For so God loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
Eva Haglund
ISRAEL - PRECIOUS LIKE A CHILD
Israel is amazing like a star.
Israel is beautiful like a rose.
Israel is like a golden necklace
with diamonds for God.
with diamonds for God.
Israel is like a fragrant garden
with fruit trees.
with fruit trees.
Israel is like a vineyard
with grapes looking like precious stones.
with grapes looking like precious stones.
Israel is like a precious lamb
for a shepherd
for a shepherd
or like a child a parent loves so deep.
God loves Israel!
Isaiah 62:3, Isaiah.40:11
Eva Haglund
Controversial Holocaust Memorial Draws Protests
Controversial Holocaust Memorial Draws Protests
“The memory of the righteous shall be for a blessing; but the name of the wicked shall rot.” (Proverbs 10:7)
Nazi roundup of Jews in Budapest, Hungary, October 1944. (Photo: Faupel/ German Federal Archives)
Protesters broke through a construction cordon Tuesday to hold a vigil at the site of a planned Holocaust memorial in Budapest. The monument is meant to commemorate the victims of Nazi atrocities, but opponents say it whitewashes Hungary’s complicity in the Holocaust.
The planned monument, which depicts Hungary as an angel being attacked by Germany’s eagle, was intended to be unveiled on March 17, but construction was postponed when Hungary’s largest Jewish organization, Mazsihisz, refused to attend. March 17 is the anniversary of Germany’s occupation of Hungary.
Following national elections which took place on Sunday, construction was supposed to resume this week. Roughly 300 protesters turned up to prevent that from happening. Participants recited Kaddish, the Jewish mourning prayer, at the site.
“It is an extremist memorial that covers up the past with a lie, and a gesture (by Prime Minister Viktor Orban) to the far-right,” remarked Szabolcs Kerek-Barczy, an opposition politician. “We won’t let it be built!”
Miklos Horthy was Hungary’s anti-Semitic leader during the Holocaust. When Germany invaded in 1944, the government actively participated in the deportation of 450,000 Hungarian Jews, most of whom were gassed in Auschwitz. Even prior to the occupation, Horthy enacted a series of restrictive laws similar to the Nuremberg Laws which restricted Jewish freedoms in Nazi territories.
Socialist politician Csaba Horvath called the monument a “disgraceful Nazi memorial” and said it was meant as a “symbolic demonstration of power.”
Another protester, Gergely Karacsony, said the monument would “humiliate those that we should commemorate.”
The newly-re-elected government tried to tone down the memorial, saying it would no longer be “dedicated to the memory of the German occupation,” but to the “victims of the German occupation.” They insist the work is progressing on schedule despite the protests, and will be completed by May 31. The government considers it a priority to pay tribute to the memory of the victims on the 70th anniversary of Hungary’s occupation.
Anti-Semitism is a growing concern in Hungary. The country’s far-right extremist Jobbik party made significant gains in Sunday’s elections, earning 20.5% of the votes. Jobbik is blatantly anti-Semitic, despite the fact that one if its founders, Csanád Szegedi, recently discovered he is a Jew. In the words on one Jewish resident of Budapest, “This party embraces everything that used to be the National Hungarian Guard, which was founded in 2000 and was outlawed.”
Israel Sanctions, Severs Ties with Palestinian Authority
Israel Sanctions, Severs Ties with Palestinian Authority
“Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.” (Proverbs 11:21)
(Photo: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
Israel has officially suspended its formal contact with the Palestinian Authority as part of punitive measures in response to the PA president’s move to join 15 international bodies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the move which now restricts governmental officials to meet with their Palestinian counterparts. However, due to security concerns, the ban does not extend to the Defense Ministry. A senior Israeli official told Ha’aretz that low level cooperation in the field will continue.
An anonymous Israeli official told AFP, “In response to the Palestinian violation of their commitments under peace talks…Israel government ministers have been told to refrain from meeting their Palestinian counterparts.”
Netanyahu’s decision comes at a time where U.S. brokered peace negotiations have come to a complete standstill. Last month, Israel refused to release Palestinian terrorist prisoners as part of a previous deal that brought the PA back to the negotiating table.
Israel blocked the release due to the escalating demands of the PA, which included the release of 1,000 additional prisoners, and the lack of PA commitment to continue peace negotiations past their April 29 deadline.
Upon submission of the applications to join international bodies, Israel announced it would begin instituting low-level sanctions against the PA. Severing contact between ministries is part of a series of moves by Israel, including canceling telecommunication permits for a Palestinian company and withholding tax revenues.
A senior Israel official told the Times of Israel, “We’re thinking of deducting from the PA’s budget the money they spend on terrorists and their families. This step would be less dramatic than cutting entirely our monthly tax payments to the PA, but it would be a step that would be in place.”
According to Israel, the PA Ministry of Prisoner Affairs spent $75.5 million in 2012 that went towards terrorists serving in Israeli prison and their families. Israel considers these payments a form of funding terrorism.
According to the PA, Israel’s sanctions could lead to the total collapse of the PA. Speaking on Israel Radio, senior Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmad said that the PA would hold Israel and the US responsible should the PA be toppled.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry placed most of the blame for failed peace talks on Israel. Testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kerry said, “The prisoners were not released by Israel on the day they were supposed to be released and then another day passed and another day, and then 700 [new housing] units were approved in Jerusalem and then poof – that was sort of the moment.”
Naftali Bennett (Photo: Ministry of Economy/Wiki Commons)
Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett responded to Kerry’s comments by saying, “In light of all this, it is clear the current process has run its course and that we are entering a new era.” He urged Netanyahu to walk away from the failed negotiations and annex portions of the West Bank.
In a letter to the prime minister, Bennett urged Netanyahu “to have a session as soon as possible on an alternative plan (Plan B0 to begin the process of applying Israeli sovereignty on areas in Judea and Samaria that are under Israeli control.”
Bennett listed specific blocs of territory he wants annexed, including Gush Etzion, Ma’ale Adumim, and the Ofra and Beit El settlements. These areas are home to more than 400,000 Israelis and only tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Bennett pointedly addressed Kerry’s criticism of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem. “Israel will never apologize for building in Jerusalem,” Bennett wrote in a Facebook statement. “For many years people have tried to prevent us from living in the eternal capital of the Jewish people. This won’t happen. Building in Jerusalem is not a ‘puff’, building in Jerusalem is Zionism.”
Thursday, April 10, 2014
French anti-Semitism and French Aliyah Skyrocket on Parallel Tracks
French anti-Semitism and French Aliyah Skyrocket on Parallel Tracks
“In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.” (Psalm 4:8)
An aliyah information fair in central Paris on March 30. (Photo: Alain Azria)
By Josh Hasten/JNS.org
Against the backdrop of studies revealing rising anti-Semitism both in France and across all of Europe, as well as one particularly brutal attack in Paris last month, French Jews are flocking to Israel.
On March 30, the Jewish Agency for Israel released figures showing that aliyah from France increased dramatically over the first two months of 2014. In January and February alone, 854 French olim (immigrants) arrived in Israel, compared to 274 over the same period last year, representing a 312-percent increase.
Shay Felber—the Jewish Agency’s deputy director-general for community services and resident expert on France, who made aliyah from France with his parents in the 1970s—cites three main reasons for the current trend. Two are anti-Semitism and the difficult economic situation in France. But from a more positive perspective, the high level of Jewish education and Zionistic identity prevalent in the French Jewish community is also leading to an upswing in immigration to Israel, Felber tells JNS.org.
Pictured is David (identified only by his first name), a 59-year-old Jewish teacher who was severely beaten in Paris last month. The attackers drew a swastika on David’s chest. (Photo: David via The Algemeiner)
In Paris during March, a 59-year-old Jewish teacher was subjected to anti-Semitic slurs and then severely beaten by a group of young men identified as being “Maghreb.” The men proceeded to draw a swastika on the chest of their victim with a marker, and vowed they would return to finish the job. No arrests have been made yet for that attack.
Felber believes that the current rise in anti-Semitic incidents and attacks in France is a direct result of the situation on “the street,” with many of the episodes being perpetrated by local Arabs and Muslims. Yet Felber stresses that the anti-Jewish sentiment is not French government policy, but that the government “is trying very hard to combat” anti-Semitism.
One recent study that reveals the worrisome realities for French Jewry is the 2013 report on anti-Semitism in France compiled by SPCJ, the security unit of France’s Jewish communities. According to the report, 423 anti-Semitic acts were recorded in the country in 2013 alone. The research also indicates that last year, 40 percent of all racist violence perpetrated in France targeted Jews. The report amplifies the ramifications of that statistic by explaining the trend from a proportionality perspective.
“Since Jews represent less than one percent of the French population, what this shows is that less than one percent of French citizens were the target of 40 percent of racist attacks perpetrated in the country,” says the report.
The document also states, “Since the year 2000—and for 14 consecutive years—the number of anti-Semitic acts in France has been very high, about seven times higher than numbers recorded in the 1990s. During this period, six people were murdered because they were Jewish, including three young children.
The report concludes that anti-Semitism in France “cannot be considered anymore as a temporary situation associated with the situation in the Middle-East; it is a structural problem that has not been fought as such and has not been halted yet.”
While many French Jews are moving to Israel to escape their situation at home, Israeli tourists are known to travel frequently throughout Europe—often ignoring the situation on the ground in hopes of having an enjoyable vacation.
Gideon Behar, director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department for Combating Anti-Semitism, tells JNS.org that while he is “concerned about the rising anti-Semitism in Europe, and it is something we are following very closely,” his office has not issued any travel advisories or warnings for France or any other European Union countries leading up to the current robust Passover holiday travel season.
Mark Feldman—CEO of Zion Tours, a leading Jerusalem-based travel company—concurs that there is “no direct guidance for traveling to France” at this time. He says his company sends many Israeli travelers on vacation to places like Morocco, and that to “avoid speaking Hebrew, don’t be overly loud, [and] walk in numbers are what we would advise clients traveling to many cities throughout the world [to do], and not just [in] France.”
Regarding aliyah—not only from France, but from Europe in general—being a result of rising anti-Semitism, Behar cites the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) November 2013 study. That study was based on a survey given to 5,847 Jews from EU member states, asking them about their own experiences and perceptions of discrimination, hate crime, and anti-Semitism.
Two-thirds of FRA respondents (66 percent) consider anti-Semitism to be a problem across the EU member states surveyed, while three-quarters of the respondents (76 percent) indicate that anti-Semitism has worsened over the past five years in the country where they live. Almost half (46 percent) of the respondents worry about becoming the victim of an anti-Semitic verbal insult or harassment in the next 12 months, while one-third (33 percent) fear a physical attack in the same period.
In the 12 months before the survey, 26 percent of all respondents reported experiencing an incident or multiple incidents involving verbal insult or harassment because they were Jewish, and 4 percent experienced physical violence or threats of violence. Seventy-five percent of respondents consider online anti-Semitism to be a problem in their country of residence, and almost three-quarters (73 percent) said that online anti-Semitism has increased over the last five years.
The Jewish Agency, meanwhile, recently unveiled a new government plan to encourage aliyah from France. Along with the Israeli Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, the initiative is boosting the number of Jewish Agency shlichim (emissaries) in France, increasing marketing efforts, developing new immigrant absorption programs, and establishing a special committee headed by the director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office to remove obstacles to French aliyah.
The proposal also sets clear benchmarks for increasing the number of olim, seeking to double their numbers in the coming years. The plan was developed in consultation and cooperation with French Jewish organizations, both in France and in Israel. Other partners include the World Zionist Organization, the Israeli Ministry of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, and Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal, who are all are working together for the first time in order to strengthen French aliyah.
The Jewish Agency’s Felber says the plan is two-fold, “to promote aliyah in France through aliyah fairs, Hebrew-language courses, and sessions which assist in potential olim to find jobs in Israel, while the second part is kilitah (absorption) in Israel.” Felber says the Jewish Agency is in the process of constructing two new absorption centers, and at the same time is working with local municipalities in order to help French olim secure employment while also integrating into society.
Felber says he is confident that based on the large aliyah figures for French Jews—he estimates that there have been 100,000-120,000 total olim from France to date—these new immigrants will also succeed in building their new lives in the Jewish state.
3,300-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Coffin Exposed in Israel (Photos)
3,300-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Coffin Exposed in Israel (Photos)
“Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.” (Isaiah 36:6)
Parts of the coffin’s lid after an initial cleaning. (Photo: Clara Amit/ IAA)
A 3,300 year old Egyptian coffin was exposed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) containing the personal belongings of a wealthy Canaanite, possibly an official of the Egyptian Army. Among the items discovered is a gold signet ring bearing the name of the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I.
The rare artifacts were uncovered during salvage excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Tel Shadud, prior to the installation of a natural gas pipeline to Ramat Gavriel by the Israel Natural Gas Lines Company (INGL), during which the fascinating and exceptional discovery was made.
Part of a burial site dating to the Late Bronze Age (thirteenth century BCE) was exposed in an excavation at the foot of Tel Shadud. According to the excavation directors, Dr. Edwin van den Brink, Dan Kirzner and Dr. Ron Be’eri of the IAA, “During the excavation we discovered a unique and rare find: a cylindrical clay coffin with an anthropoidal lid (a cover fashioned in the image of a person) surrounded by a variety of pottery consisting mainly of storage vessels for food, tableware, cultic vessels and animal bones. As was the custom, it seems these were used as offerings for the gods, and were also meant to provide the dead with sustenance in the afterlife.”
The gold scarab. (Photo: Clara Amit/IAA)
The skeleton of an adult was found inside the clay coffin and next to it were buried pottery, a bronze dagger, bronze bowl and hammered pieces of bronze. “Since the vessels interred with the individual were produced locally”, the researchers say, “We assume the deceased was an official of Canaanite origin who was engaged in the service of the Egyptian government”.
Another possibility is that the coffin belonged to a wealthy individual who imitated Egyptian funerary customs. The researchers add that so far only several anthropoidal coffins have been uncovered in the country. The last ones discovered were found at Deir el-Balah some fifty years ago.
According to the archaeologists, “An ordinary person could not afford the purchase of such a coffin. It is obvious the deceased was a member of the local elite”.
The graves of two men and two women who may have been members of his family were also located near the coffin. The discovery of the coffin at Tel Shadud is evidence of Egyptian control of the Jezreel Valley in the Late Bronze Age (thirteenth century BCE). During the period when the pharaohs governed the country, Egyptian culture greatly influenced the local Canaanite upper class.
Signs of Egyptian influence are occasionally discovered in different regions and this time they were revealed at Tel Shadud and in the special tomb of the wealthy Canaanite. A rare artifact that was found next to the skeleton is an Egyptian scarab seal, encased in gold and affixed to a ring. The scarab was used to seal documents and objects.
The name of the crown of Pharaoh Seti I, who ruled ancient Egypt in the thirteenth century BCE, appears on the seal. Seti I was the father of Ramses II, identified by some scholars as the pharaoh mentioned in the biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. Already in the first year of his reign (1294 BCE) a revolt broke out against Seti I in the Bet Shean Valley. Seti conquered that region and established Egyptian rule in Canaan.
A picture of the bronze dagger and bowl. (Photo: Clara Amit/IAA)
Seti’s name on the seal symbolizes power and protection, or the strength of the god Ra – the Sun God – one of the most important deities in the Egyptian pantheon. The winged Uraeus (cobra), protector of the pharaoh’s name or of the sovereign himself, is clearly visible on the seal. The reference to the pharaoh Seti on the scarab found in the coffin aided the archaeologists in dating the time of the burial to the thirteenth century BCE – similar to the burials that were exposed at Deir el-Balah and Bet She‘an, which were Egyptian administrative centers.
A cemetery dating to the reign of Seti I was previously discovered at Bet Shean, the center of the Egyptian rule in the Land of Israel, and similar clay coffins were exposed. Evidence of an Egyptian presence was detected in archaeological surveys conducted in the Jezreel Valley in the past but the discovery of the impressive anthropoid at Tel Shadud surprised the archaeologists.
The clay coffin at the time of its discovery in the field. (Photo: Dan Kirzner/ IAA)
Tel Shadud preserves the biblical name ‘Sarid’ and the mound is often referred to as Tel Sarid. The Tell is situated in the northern part of the Jezreel Valley, close to Kibbutz Sarid. The city is mentioned in the Bible in the context of the settlement of the Tribes of Israel. Sarid was included in the territory of the tribe of Zevulun and became a border city, as written in the Book of Joshua
Tel Shadud is strategically and economically significant because of its location alongside important roads from the biblical period.
The Israel Antiquities Authority is currently looking into the possibility of sampling the DNA from inside the coffin to see if the deceased was originally a Canaanite or an Egyptian who was buried in Canaan.
A general view of the excavation area. (Photo: Skyview Company/ IAA)
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/13572/ancient-egyptian-coffins-exposed-israel-photos/#VD7HVk0fkE8EHlW5.99
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