Blessing Israel Together

Can you imagine if your country’s population was all army trained?   If every single perpetrator was found and caught because of the state of alert of your army and the majority of its citizens?  if you took out your enemy’s missiles before they had a chance to even think about being deployed?  Every country is ready to fight for its own freedom, but to what extent are they actually trained and prepared to do that?

I was thinking about the Feast of Tabernacles when I booked my train ticket to London and was rather tickled by the Virgin Trains slogan ‘Be bound for glory’, obviously based on the traditional gospel hit  This Train . If it means Virgin boss Richard Branson is spreading the good news, who’s complaining?  read more...

If Yeshua HaMashiach is the Lord or your heart and life, in Him, your Father Elohim has delivered you from the power of darkness, the world, and translated you into the Kingdom of the Son of His love, Messiah Yeshua. (Colossians 1:12-14)

Numbers, it has been said, simply records the  highlights  of Israel’s wilderness trek. To that I would respond, (1) it seems to me to be more of a record of Israel’s  low-lights  (not highlights) and (2) there’s really nothing “simply” or simple about the book. Not long after the Israelites leave Sinai and approach Canaan, trouble begins—and the trouble is relentless, throughout Numbers.  Unfortunately, many read Numbers and castigate the Hebrews for their disbelief, for their complaining, and for their forfeiting their rights to Canaan for a season. The problem, for most, becomes those people over there, those Jews. For me, however, this isn’t as much a story about Jews as it is a story about humanity— all of us.

At a time of great turbulence, when all around is sinking sand, there is a rock of perfect security on which to stand. His name is Jesus. And those who fail to honour Him will stumble. (Isaiah 8.14; Romans 9.33)

Don’t bend…do not blend. You are a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, (1 Peter 2:9 CJB) today’s embodiment and proof of Torah to the nations.

We know that God has set times to accomplish His purposes, for the Bible tells us “there is an appointed time for everything” (Eccl. 3:1). We saw it with Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness, in their 70-year incarceration in Babylon and more recently her return to the land after a 2000-year Roman exile. Once His purposes are accomplished, and the lessons learned, He moves on to the next phase of His plan to redeem, not only Israel, but the whole world.   Read more...

In the never-ending debate between political rivals, the latest fracas erupted after right-wing Minister of Education Naftali Bennet posted to Facebook this week stating, "I am proud to announce that fifty years after Jerusalem was freed, the educational system will devote the next year to our united capital."

But now we have been released from this aspect of the Torah , because we have died to that which had us in its clutches, so that we are serving in the new way provided by the Spirit and not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the law.  Romans 7:6

If someone started watching the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life , in the middle of the film, would they ever figure out the point of the story? Or appreciate the challenges Jimmy Stewart had to overcome? I doubt it.