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Friday, May 3, 2019
Walk With Me - Steve Martin in Netanya, Israel - evening walk in May 2019 (2)
Walk With Me - Steve Martin in Netanya, Israel
- evening walk in May 2019 (2)
Walk With Me - Steve Martin in Netanya, Israel - evening walk in May 2019 (1)
Walk With Me - Steve Martin in Netanya, Israel - evening walk in May 2019 (1)
Greetings from Israel!
May 3, 2019
Greetings from Israel!
My good wife Laurie and I arrived last night and drove to Netanya on the Mediterranean Sea, about an hour north of Tel Aviv. We then head to Tiberias for three days at the Aliya Return Center (Chaim Malespin), a Shabbat evening with Richard and Carolyn Hyde, and then a trip north to the Golan. I promised Laurie I would take her to a very nice winery.
From there we drive up to Jerusalem! We will be there for 5 nights, spending time with our very good friends Nissim and Hadassah Lerner for the Israeli Independence Day celebrations, and their children's families.
During our stay in Jerusalem will be anticipated time with our shop owner friends on Ben Yehuda Street - Abraham Saiden and sons, daughter; plus dinner with Gary and Geri Jorde here from Montana; Israel Today magazine staff (thanks for the apartment stay!); Breaking Israel News/Israel365 Tuly Weisz; and more.
Thank you, Yeshua, for this time with Your chosen ones in their Promised Land. May Your connections and relationships become ours, as we come to support our good friends in this Land of Y'israel!
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Love For His People ministry
Charlotte, NC USA
P.S. I left my laptop charger at home in my other black bag, so I hope to check in from time to time as I conserve power. But I have my iPhone 8, so the pictures will still come.
Netanya, Israel evening
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Unique Treasure - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
Unique
Treasure
“For you are a people set apart as holy for Adonai your God.
Adonai your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth
to be his own unique treasure. Adonai didn’t set his heart on you or choose you
because you numbered more than any other people — on the contrary, you were the
fewest of all peoples. Rather, it was because Adonai loved you, and because he
wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors, that Adonai
brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from a life of slavery
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Complete Jewish
Bible)
Some understand and get it when I explain to them why we,
Love For His People ministry, support Israel and the Jewish people. They know
that the Word of the Lord, complete from Genesis through Revelation, explains
the redemption process the Almighty God Himself gave to us, from eternity.
And others? Well, not so much.
Simply put, God created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman
(yes, true stories that really happened as written in all the Bible) and gave
them life from which they later turned against due to the commitment of sin. This
separated them from having fellowship with God. Then this very same God proceeded
to bring forth His plans and purposes: send a Redeemer, through a chosen
people, to once again have a family who would love Him, His only Begotten Son
Yeshua, outworked through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
This God-head, Three-in-One, wanted to share His eternal love
with an eternal people, for all eternity. Because a path was needed to come
back into His fellowship, and a blood sacrifice was required to redeem mankind
from sin, He would send His Son, His only Begotten One, through the people
called the Jews, for all the nations to receive His mercy and love.
The people could, if they would, receive Him, the Redeemer. If
they received His free offer, fellowship would be restored.
And that is as simple as you can state it.
So how more completely was He going to do it? How would He reveal
Himself, His love and mercy, His abundant grace reaching out to any and all who
would seek, find, and accept His free offer of forgiveness, reconciliation, and
redemption?
He chose the Jews, since the very beginning, to bring forth His
plan, to themselves and all the nations. He sent His Son, Yeshua, to become a
man, a Jew, and suffer, die, be crucified, and rise from the dead, as the Blood
Sacrifice that God required, to cleanse mankind from sin.
As the above quoted, written Word clearly states, “Adonai (the
Lord) your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the
earth to be his own unique treasure. Adonai didn’t set his heart on you or
choose you because you numbered more than any other people — on the contrary,
you were the fewest of all peoples. Rather, it was because Adonai loved you,
and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors…”
No nation, no dictator, no country filled with anti-Semitism,
will keep the One and Only from completing His perfect plan and purpose, begun with
man in the Garden, to the complete fulfillment of all prophetic words – spoken and
written – up through the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. All these redeemed people,
from all nations, will then be seated with Him and His Son Yeshua HaMashiach in
His heavenly realm.
This unique treasure, the Jews, those who through it all,
despised and rejected, just like their Messiah Yeshua was, are the ones who
have carried these promises of redemption and restoration for these thousands
of generations. This people, whom the Lord describes as the olive tree, has
been brought through the test of times, and now shine forth from their land of
promise, Israel.
God the Father gave His promise to the Jews, and
through this very tree, the olive tree as described throughout Scripture as a
visual for all, has also extended His offered life to the Gentiles, described
as the wild branches of the olive tree.
Some have falsely believed, to this very day, that the
Jews gave up their inheritance when they failed to recognize Jesus’s first coming
as the promised Messiah. But as the apostle Paul clearly states in Romans, it
was only for a time, to allow the Gentiles, non-Jews, to also receive the promise of salvation.
As he so adequately wrote in Romans 11:11-16, “I say
then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through
their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now
if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the
Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an
apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke
to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being
cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but
life from the dead?
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy;
and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches were
broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and
with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not
boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not
support the root, but the root supports you.
Otherwise you also will be cut off. And
they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is
able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive
tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree?
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that
blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has
come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
"The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will
turn away ungodliness from Jacob;” (NKJV)
Those who chose to stand with His chosen people will
reap the benefits of the same, this unique treasure to which the nations will
either stumble over or acknowledge as the work of God.
We go today in support of our friends, believers in
Yeshua, and rightful heirs of the Land He has brought them back to. May your
heart and soul also be in support of these through whom the Savior of the
world, Yeshua HaMashiach, has come, will come again, and justly rule from the very
city He has placed His eternal Name on, Jerusalem, in Israel.
Now think of this,
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
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Global Persecution Report: 'Christians Are the Most Persecuted ...and It's Accelerating' - CBN News Jennifer Wishon
Global Persecution Report: 'Christians Are the Most Persecuted ...and It's Accelerating'
04-30-2019
CBN News Jennifer Wishon
WASHINGTON – Religious persecution plagues countries around the world and the problem is only getting worse. Now, an annual report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) gives us a clear picture of the world's top offenders.
Burma, Central African Republic, China, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam are where people of faith face the most aggressive and violent forms of persecution.
Gary Bauer, one of the nine commissioners on USCIRF, is particularly concerned about China's inclusion on the list because of the influence it wields.
"So here's a rising power. It's economy is growing bigger and bigger each year, its military is expanding. It's got worldwide ambitions and every place it reaches it's bringing these values of persecution along with them," he tells CBN News.
So called "tier two" countries of concern include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, and America's NATO ally Turkey.
Turkey, of course, made international headlines for holding American Pastor Andrew Brunson hostage for nearly two years before releasing him last fall.
"One of the things the commission is really focused on is not only when there are governments perpetrating violence but when governments are tolerating the perpetration of violence," USCIRF Commissioner Anurima Bhargava told CBN News after release of the report.
This report is unique in that the nine commissioners on USCIRF aren't burdened by diplomacy. Unlike many State Department accounts, these observers are free to tell it like they see it.
"We believe as a commission that no person of whatever faith they are should have to fear within their house of worship," says Commissioner Tony Perkins.
For the world's Christians, the situation is especially dire.
"Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world and it's accelerating," says Bauer.
In its report, the commission calls on President Trump to appoint a special adviser on international religious freedom, target top offenders with sanctions, and put money toward the State Department's effort to help houses of worship protect themselves.
"Churches, which are soft targets, have become targets for terrorists and so we believe this would be a very effective role for our government to come alongside these governments to provide the training that would be a combination of police officers, the law enforcement agencies, the domestic security, along with the houses of worship to provide the security," says Perkins, who has also served on the security team at his own church.
"Churches, which are soft targets, have become targets for terrorists and so we believe this would be a very effective role for our government to come alongside these governments to provide the training that would be a combination of police officers, the law enforcement agencies, the domestic security, along with the houses of worship to provide the security," says Perkins, who has also served on the security team at his own church.
For so many people around the world, finding religious tolerance is increasingly a matter of life and death.
Watch report here: Countries with Major Persecution
Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog: Last week, I was interviewed by a Saudi newspaper & Christianity Today about the White House peace plan...even as the Turkish & Qatari media spread lies & Palestinians vow to defeat a peace plan they haven’t read.
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