Please read the story below. I have had a passion to pray for the conversion of the people of the Middle East for a long time now, and this is a wonderful confirmation of that prayer being fulfilled. JESUS is awesome, folks, and the HOLY SPIRIT is working so much in the hearts of all sorts of people in the Mid East to bring them to CHRIST! If only our Jewish friends in Israel would do the same...they will, when JESUS returns and is seen by the whole world!



If you have not read any of Joel Rosenberg's books, you really should. He is a messianic Jew who's family (dad and then his mother and then himself) accepted CHRIST in the 1970s. GOD has used this man in several ways, and he has put together an organization called the Joshua Fund designed to bless Israel and Jerusalem, and bring medicines, food and other essentials to those people in Israel being hurt by Hammas and other terrorist organizations. His book entitled "Epicenter:version2.0" is out and it is fantastic. There is so much in there that most of us have never heard about - like Russia's aggressiveness in establishing a foothold in the Middle East, and how Russia - under Putin and his puppet Medevdev - are trading, training, and arming the Arab states of Libya, Iran, Syria, Sudan and even Saudia Arabia for an eventual war with Israel to gain control of the oil fields of the Middle East, and make itself the superpower of the world. Read the book and you will be surprised about what happened in 1967 and the 1973 war that Israel was plunged into by the Arabs, and how the Russians (Soviets back then) were pulling the strings!!!!

This is stuff the US liberal media will not report, because they do not believe that Russia is really aggressive. How short are their memories!

Blessings in the name of JESUS CHRIST, who is coming soon!

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That is a wonderful post and Good News indeed. The Lord said that He would do this before our eyes.

Concerning the Jewish people :


Israel's Messianic Jews: Some Call it a Miracle

By Wendy Griffith

CBN News Senior Reporter
July 22, 2008


CBNNews.com - In Israel, a resurgence in the number of Jews who believe in Jesus is getting a lot of attention. Many leaders say it's the strongest growth since the time of Jesus and that the Messianic movement could be on the brink of a great revival.


"This is the first time where we've seen Israeli society in general being so open to consider who Yeshua is," said Messianic leader Asher Intrater. "This is a real miracle, and there's beginning to be grace and favor with us in the land."



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Although Jesus and the early disciples were Jewish, for nearly 2,000 years the gospel has been viewed as a religion mainly for Gentiles. Even the name Jesus or Yeshua has been a forbidden word among many Jews. But in the last few years, Messianic leaders in Israel say something important is happening. "I believe with all my heart, after we have come back to the land, we are seeing the Lord, the Holy Spirit, is removing the veil from the eyes of the Jews and more and more Jews are realizing," Tel Aviv pastor Avi Mizrachi said.

Although nobody knows for sure how many Messianic Jews live in Israel, it's believed there are about 120 congregations now and 10,000-15,000 Jewish believers in Jesus.

That may not sound like many given Israel's nearly six million Jews, but it's a far cry from 10 years ago when there were only about 3,500 Jewish believers and 80 congregations.

A good example is Shemen Sasson in Jerusalem, where attendance has nearly tripled over the past four years. Today, close to 300 people attend the meetings, most of them Jewish or people married to Jews.

And salvations are increasing.

Meet the Ronens. Daniel, Ayelet and their five children are Israeli believers. Ayelet is an Israeli Jew and Daniel is a Finnish Gentile. But his family has been here since before Israel became a nation. They believe Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.

"When Jesus came, when Yeshua came, he came to talk to our people," Ayelet Ronen said. "He walked on our land, He spoke our language, He spoke in our synagogues. Really, He came for us!

Yad-Hashmona is a beautiful little village about 10 miles outside Jerusalem, and the only one home to just Messianic Jewish believers like the Ronens.

For this family, being Israeli and believing in Jesus is a natural fit. They keep the Jewish feasts, circumcise their sons, keep the Sabbath and serve in the army. And even though they live in a Messianic village, they don't feel secluded from the rest of Israeli society.

"Our kids go with everybody else to school... I go to work outside...Our principle is to go out and be part of society," Daniel Ronen explained.

Their children sometimes face challenges but have used those occasions to witness.

"My friends started to know I'm a believer and they ask me if I'm a believer. I tell them I'm a believer in Yeshua and it's really good to believe in Him and that maybe you can one day believe in him, too," third grader Adan said.

The Ronens are sometimes accused of being missionaries, a very bad word in Israel. But they insist they are not.

"My point is to share my faith with anyone who wants to hear me and I will gladly share the Good News of my faith," Ayelet said. "I never speak of you should do, and you should change."'

In addition to Israeli-born believers, many are from other countries. American Jews Eddie and Jackie Santoro became believers during the1970s Jesus Movement.

They made aliyah to Israel 11 years ago, learned Hebrew, and now lead a growing congregation in Jerusalem.

"Our current congregation, we started almost two years ago with about 20 people. Today we have over 100," Eddie Santoro explained. "We see salvations here and there, but we feel like there's something yet to come. It's definitely growing."

But being a Jewish believer in Israel isn't easy.

"I think probably the greatest challenge is that you always feel that the rest of society isn't accepting you. And so when you meet somebody and you want to talk to them and you want to tell them who you are, there's always that challenge of, 'should I say something,";Jackie Santoro said.

For the first time, the secular media are saying something, even mentioning Messianic Jews in a more favorable light. A recent wave of persecution, including the bombing of a young Jewish believer, have put Messianic Jews on the front page.

"At least we see that believers are being asked to explain who they are, what they believe in, why they are here...how they can be Israeli and believe in Jesus and be given an opportunity to tell their story and share their testimony," Knut Hoyland of the Caspari Center said.

What does this movement mean for the Body of Christ?

"It really is ultimately a battle for the return of the Lord - because Jesus will not return until the Jewish people say Baruch h'abba B'shem Adonai - Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord," said worship leader Karen Davis.

"One of our other banner statements is from Romans 11, that all Israel will be saved. So we are focused, not just on growth in the body here and revival - but as I said, ultimately, bringing Yeshua back and His Kingdom being established on the Earth," Asher said.

Ayelet said, "If it wasn't for Yeshua, we would be lost - just like the lost sheep of Israel we would be. It's because of Him there is that completion in our life and hope for the future."

"If it wasn't for Yeshua, we would be lost," Ayelet said.




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Yet I have reserved for myself seven thousand Jewish ones in Israel, all with knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and all with mouths which hath not worshipped him.
I Kings 19:18


But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans 11:4

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Shalom Cindy,

I just read an article from the Haaretz newspaper and I sent it to an Orthodox Jewish friend who told me that Jesus (Yeshua) could not be the Messiah because one of the qualifications of the Jewish Messiah is that He brings peace to the world.

I explained how Yeshua has brought peace to the hearts of hundreds of millions of “born-again Christians” who personally know Yeshua and therefore God (our Father in Heaven). Through Yeshua these people now have Peace with God.

Of course that explanation wasn’t accepted by this Orthodox Jewish friend. He meant “world peace/political peace,” not peace in an individual’s heart.

However I just sent him this article that I read because it proves that Jesus also brings “political peace” towards Israel when her enemies believe in Yeshua (Jesus).

Hamas' Christian convert states that he left a society that sanctifies terror
(Cindy, remember that Hamas is deemed as a terrorist organization.)

The story starts out describing Masab, who is the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef. Masab meets a Christian friend at a restaurant where they say grace, thanking God and Jesus for “putting food on their plates.”

Masab was a vehement enemy of Israel. He is the son of a Hamas Member of Parliament who was also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization. He assisted his father for years in his political activities! But now he has become a Believer in Yeshua (Jesus) and he goes by the name Joseph instead of Masab. "I'm now called Joseph," he says.

The articles states that Masab (who now lives in California) knows that he won’t be able to ever return to visit the Holy Land in this lifetime. If he does, the Palestinians would kill him. To them he is an Arab traitor by believing in Jesus.

"I know that I'm endangering my life and I am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he'll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I'll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God," the Haaretz articles quotes him saying.

Masab now has a love for the state of Israel which was once his enemy.

“Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country," he says in the article.

Masab says that the Jewish people need to understand that they will never have peace with Hamas because it is based on Islam. He says that Muslim ideology forbids achieving a peace agreement with the Jewish people and that Islamic tradition states that: “the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death." He continues saying that Palestinian society sanctifies death and suicide bombings.

It is only through Yeshua the Prince of Peace, that an enemy of Israel can love the Jewish people, and receive eternal salvation.

AMEN!

Praise G-d!

Todah!