VOL. 51           SPECIAL EDITION     AUGUST 17, 2005

Dear Friends of Israel and “Or Tzion”,

Today, August 17th, 2005, two days after Tisha B’Av, the black day in Jewish history, another disaster is being added to the list of the Jewish drama.

I am astonished beyond measure how it is that the Body of Messiah, both in Israel and abroad, whether Jew or Gentile, seems not to grasp what is happening before our very eyes, except for a very few, not to say – a mere handful: Nils Peter Hansen, 54, a believing Christian from Sweden, came to Israel in order to support the settlers. Shocked by the thought Jews are again being expelled while the world remains silent, he and his wife felt that they needed to do something. “So I came to sit with my brothers, here in Israel, to share in their pain, support and comfort them, and pray with them,"said the civil aviator, who views himself as a genuine friend of the Jewish nation. "We've seen expulsion of Jews before, and we know how it ended," he said1. 

Another non-Jewish Christian felt the same way: Dov Hikind, an Assembly of G-d man from New York (D-48th District), said he came to stand in solidarity with the residents of Gush Kativ in their most difficult hour and snuck into Gaza through the IDF roadblocks².

Only two? Where are the millions – or at least hundreds of thousands – of “believing” Christians from the well-to-do Western countries who could afford to come? What an incredible opportunity – alas missed! - for demonstrating Yeshua’s love, to let His light shine among the Israelis, whether residents of Gush Kativ, or soldiers and police. 

Without G-d’s people regathered into the covenanted land as a sovereign people, with Jerusalem as their capital, Yeshua can’t and won’t return. This in turn would delay the “rapture” and the wedding supper of the Lamb, for He won’t “transfer” to Rome, taking His seat in the Vatican. There is only one place on the whole earth His feet shall touch ground – and that is the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, capital of the reborn sovereign nation of Israel!

All hell, from Satan down to the least of the devils, know – and FEAR! – what that means for them! The prospect of getting bound and thrown into a bottomless pit where he won’t be able to rest for a thousand years does not thrill Satan nor his host of demons who shall get bound as well.

Hence they are extremely anxious to annihilate the Covenant people of G-d, wipe out their sovereignty and have the land of Israel given to a people readily doing his bidding to plunder and destroy it. To achieve his aim, Satan launches his offensive from several angles, in case one or the other should fail. 

A house divided cannot stand, Yeshua already said. Pitting Jew against Jew, religious against secular, by dividing them in their beliefs and way of life could destroy them from within. Better yet, by Jews expelling Jews from their homes, destroying the communities they built and hand them over to Israel’s enemies may prove an even more effective way to disband the Jewish nation.

Secular Israelis wish to think of Israel as just another democracy, wanting to be like all the other nations, rejecting the epitaph “Chosen people of G-d”.

However, G-d speaks by His prophet Ezekiel in ch. 25:8-11 saying, “Because Moab³ and Seir⁴ said, ‘Behold, the house of Judah [i.e. the Jews] is like all the other nations,’ THEREFORE I will lay open the flank of Moab… and I will execute judgments upon Moab. THEN they will KNOW that I AM the L-RD.”

G-d repudiates having Israel labeled as being “like all the other nations.” Moses said, “Although you were the smallest of all peoples, because the L-RD loves you, He is keeping the OATH which He swore…”⁵ Therefore G-d Himself commanded Israel to be SEPARATE UNTO HIM from all the other nations⁶ because He chose them to be His own portion⁷.

Yet secular Israelis, in the hope to no longer be a rock of offense due to the “chosen” status, see Israel as just another democracy among the “family of nations” in order to be accepted as “one of them.” But the “familiy of nations” not only rejects Israel’s “chosen” status but also her being “one of them”, treating Israel with contempt.

Worse yet, the majority of Christianity feels the same way because they regard themselves as being the “true Jews”⁸, G-d’s “chosen people”, the “new Israel of G-d,” because ignorant and unstable people twisted Paul’s teachings to their own (and others’) destruction⁹. They excised Yeshua from the Jewish people as though Him being of this people according to the flesh was no longer relevant.

This, in spite of Yeshua’s pledge that until heaven and earth pass away not so much as one single vowel sign (dot or tittle) of Torah (the Law) and the prophets will be dropped until ALL is accomplished (and this will only be the case as recorded in the last chapter of the Book of Revelation). Yet millions of Christians deem only the New Testament as pertinent, treating the two thirds of Scriptures labeled as “OLD Testament” mainly as historical records.

But the Lord warned, “Whoever then RELAXES [or abolishes] one of the LEAST significant of these commandments and so TEACHES the people, shall be of LEAST significance in the Kingdom of heaven.”¹⁰

Nevertheless most Christians believe that since Jesus Christ came and established the New Covenant, nothing of the former dispensation and what is written and commanded in the “Old” Testament is relevant for the believer. Hence, whatever is done to and happening to Israel, the “good” Christian may feel sorry for it, but that is as far as it goes. He neither considers it relevant for himself as believer, nor that it has anything whatsoever to do with the Lord’s Return. 

Satan is truly a master deceiver!