“At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel would set out…even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the sons of Israel would keep the LORD’s charge and not set out.” (Numbers 9:19. From this week’s Torah…
PRAYER UPDATE FROM ISRAEL, MAY 13, 2013 Day 48 Counting the Omer (Leviticus 23:15-16) SHAVUOT NOTICE: Since this festival centers round several key Scripture passages including those recounting the release of God’s laws on Mount Sinai,…
Day 41 Counting the Omer (Leviticus 23:15-16) 1. ISRAELI THUNDER IN SYRIA AND A JOURNEY TO CHINA. Friday the Israeli air force struck deep into Syria, targeting shipments of Iranian long-range Fateh-110 surface to surface missiles (capable of hitting virtually anywhere…
34th day Counting the Omer (Leviticus 23:15-16; from last week’s Parasha) 1. THE GOD WHO ARRAYS ISRAEL: “But I come to you in the name of YHVH Tzevaot (‘Yehovah of Armies’), Elohei Ma’archot Yisrael (the ‘Arraying God of Israel’), whom…
FOR NATIONAL LEADERS: A WORD FROM SAINT PAUL AT ST. PAUL’S IN LONDON. The funeral of Margaret Thatcher in London last Wednesday (most of the order of which she prepared before her death) was from beginning to end an incredibly powerful…
ISRAEL’S 65th AND LAYING FOUNDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE Today Monday, April 15 is the first day of the second Hebrew month, Iyar. This month is mentioned specifically (using the Canaanite name Ziv) in I Kings 6:1, 37. It was…
“And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath. From the day that you brought the omer of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you…
“When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring an omer (Biblical measure of grain; KJV: “sheaf”) of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the omer before…
PRAYER UPDATE FROM ISRAEL, MARCH 25, 2013 PRESIDENT OBAMA’S VISIT TO ISRAEL. NOTE: We realize that the visit of the American President plus the beginning of Passover have necessitated a special Update of greater length than usual. We pray…
Rainbow over the Sea of Galilee “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of shalom and not of evil, to give to you a destiny and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). 1. NEW ISRAEL GOVERNMENT…