“Listen to Me, O
house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth and
have been carried from the womb; Even to your old age I will be the same; And
even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you”
(Isaiah 46:3-4).
Hey Gang, If could stand on the top of the Mount of Olives
and shout so as to heard across the land of Israel, that is what I would
shout. Zechariah tells us precisely what
is going to happen in the last days just prior to the end of the age when he
wrote “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all
the people around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will be against
Judah” (Vs. 2).
He goes on and paints
a panoramic picture of 2015 when God has fulfilled His word to ”make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the
peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be
gathered against it. (Zech 12:3).
I would shout, “Listen up people - “The apple of God’s
eye’, “In the day the Lord will defend
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day
will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of
the Lord before them” (Zech 12: 8).
Listen up readers of Gramps Morning Thoughts, the Lord
decreed: “Then it will happen on that
day that the Lord will again recover the
second time with His hand the remnant of His people who will remain, from
Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of
the sea. And He will lift up a standard
for the nations, and will assemble the banished one of Israel, and will gather
the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth” (Isa.11:11-12).
After retiring as president or Eagle Village we placed all
of earthly possessions in a storage unit and moved into our fifth wheel with
the intention of traveling and volunteering in ministries as long as our health
allowed. After several trips in the middle parts of the states, we were heading
for the south to spend the winter months and decided to visit friends in route
but God had another plan in mind for us.
It was to be a two or three day visit and then off to the
sunny south but God had a different idea., We were asked to remain in the Outer
Banks of North Carolina and pray for our hosts as they sojourned to Jerusalem
for meeting for an missionary organization called The Ebenezer Emergency Fund.
This organization sent out fishermen to the old USSR to find Jews who wanted to
make aliyah (return to Israel) and help them travel to Kiev, Russia where they
were put on ships to travel to Haifi, the port of embarkation for the Olim (returning
Jews).
Our hearts desire was to be a fisherman and go to Kiev and
be part of the crews that ministered to the Olim that were found and brought to
Kiev; many of whom were in very poor physical condition. Although the fisherman on land and on the
ships were not allowed to witness to the Olim, many came up to them and said,
“We know why you are here and want you to know we believe in your Lord.”
One story that was very special involved a very elderly lady
who was bed fast. They found her in a
very isolated remote village more than a thousand miles from Kiev. Her heart’s desire was to go to the land she
had always loved, Israel. The story
of getting her to Kiev was a story of God’s loving and powerful hands; one of
one miracle after another until the day she was carried aboard the ship and
bound for the land of her dreams.
Five days later she arrived in Haifi and was taken from the
ship to the embarkation center where shortly after her arrival her heart gave
out and she passed away. The question
is often asked, “Why did you invest so much in an old lady whom you knew might
not survive the rigors of a trip of this magnitude? The answer is very simple but not understood
by many folks today – because Jesus said, “Go into all
the world and save my people”.
There were as many hallelujahs that were heard in the heavenlies when
this dear saint passed through the gate of heaven as when Peter and Paul and
the great saints of the ages reached their heavenly home.
Soooo, my friends, there is so much that wants to get out my
heart and brain to you but will have to restrain myself until another
time. But let me add one last comment
before closing: the wonderful things about Israel becoming a nation and seeing
Jerusalem come under Jewish control is it is fulfilled prophecy that you can
touch. We were blessed to be able to go
to Israel, not to do the tourist thing but to get our hands dirty in the soil
of the land. Did you know you can be
blessed filled sand bags when you know those sand bags may one day protect one
of God’s chosen people?
The word says one day Israel will become a home of God’s
chosen people, the Jews, once again, and the olim will come from the four
corners of the earth. That is not pie-in-the-sky
but pure reality. Something that can be
shared with someone that is not so sure the Bible is the Word of God.
Blessings,
PS Next one on Fri then return to regular schedule
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