A Word for Israel

from: Catherine Brown
Web Site: http://www.gatekeepers.org.uk

Dear Friends,

Before releasing this article into the public domain I have consulted with (Messianic) Rabbi Curt Landry and Pastor Tim Alsbaugh, leaders of the House of David www.houseofdavid.us in Oklahoma. We have prayerfully meditated on the revelation and its interpretation and are in agreement about the release of this word at this time.

A WORD FOR ISRAEL

"For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch." Is 62:1

On the evening of Monday 17 July, 2006 at 7.55 p.m. I received a vision in which I saw a young Jewish boy running with a piece of paper in his hand with tears running down his cheeks. The words on the paper read, 'Jihad Talmud'. He was running to his father to warn him about what he had discovered written on the piece of paper. At the end of the short vision the Lord gave me the following Scripture, "But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven." Deuteronomy 11:11

Upon receiving the vision I went straight to prayer and my heart was torn open once more for our Father's love of His people, His land and His word.

INTERPRETATION

At it's heart this simple visionary experience is a threefold reminder to believers all across the earth :

• to love the Lord with all their hearts and put Him first;
• to love His word and live by it
• to love all peoples, and in particular to pray for and demonstrate love towards the people of Israel.

Jihad means 'holy war' and the Talmud is a book of the thoughts of man - Rabbis' commentary's. This combination of words from two different cultures is extremely unusual and requires wisdom to interpret what the Spirit is saying to the church.

A WORD OF AWAKENING - LOVE AND PRAY FOR ISRAEL

Whilst receiving the vision my heart was filled to overflowing with love for the little Jewish boy. In a brief moment the Lord gifted me with a supernatural abundance of His love for this unknown Jewish boy as though he were my own flesh and blood. The impartation of the Father's love for Israel fuelled my prayers and for half an hour or more I travailed and prayed in the Spirit for the people of Israel, Lebanon and the middle East. God wants to fill our hearts with his love for the sons and daughters of Israel.

In Deuteronomy 11 the Lord makes promises to Israel that they will possess the land and their enemies. Never before has Israel needed our prayers as much as she does now and it is essential that we pray from a revelation of the Father's heart. There is an open window for the praying church to rise up in Spirit and in truth and pray for the Spirit to be poured out in an unprecedented way. Surely this is the time for the priests to weep between the porch and the altar?

This is an unusual time for Israel and the entire middle east; she has never been this way before. Just as in Deuteronomy when the Lord spoke, "The land you are entering is not like the land of Egypt" 11:10, Israel is once again entering an unusual time of transition towards her Kingdom destiny, with particular regard to taking up her inheritance in the land

A WORD OF WARNING IN A TIME OF GLOBAL TRANSITION

On another level the vision is also a warning to us all to depart from the traditions and the thoughts of man. God's desire is that we will submit to his sovereign rule and live our lives in absolute surrender to his will. As Israel and, therefore, the rest of the world transition through a season of massive global change we cannot rely on man's thoughts or ways - we must leave them behind. At such an historic juncture in history there is one thing that we must do and that is to turn our hearts fully to our Heavenly Father and focus on His ways, His word and His divine purposes and plans. It is essential that we function and live in the Father's compassion and his word. Our prayers for Israel and the situation in the middle East require to be uttered in the Spirit of wisdom and revelation and be saturated with the power of Scripture.

Even in the midst of these desperate times as Hezbollah continues to fire katyushas into Israel and Israel continues to push Hezbollah northward, out of the area south of the Lebanese Litani River, God is moving in power to reveal his heart of love to the people. Avner Boskey writes,

"We and others in our area are seeing the Lord open more doors to speak of Yeshua. His name is being lifted up. We are seeing more divine appointments, evidences of supernatural activity and sovereign revelation in the lives of Israelis around us. God is on the move." Avner Boskey www.davidstent.org

2ND VISION

Following on from the first vision, I had a further vision where I saw a missile heading towards the holy scrolls and in the vision these precious scrolls were being burned. The scrolls were made from papyrus and were extremely old, dating back to at least AD1000. Whilst Satan would delight in physically destroying God's recorded words, we understand that this would not detract in any way from the omniscience of God on the earth. Satan understands the power and authority of Scripture. I would ask you to agree with me in prayer for protection of ancient scrolls recording God's holy words. Interestingly, I recently received news that an ancient 20 page manuscript dating to 80-100 AD was discovered last week in a bog in the Irish Midlands.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/25/ireland.psalms.ap/index.html

The director of the National Museum of Ireland said, "This is really a miracle find." The book was found open to a page describing in Latin script, Psalm 83, in which the psalm describes how Arab and Middle Eastern powers form a last-days covenant against the God of Israel and against the Jewish people, in order to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.. This is no coincidence that God is using his word today even to speak from the Celtic lands that it is time to rise up and pray. It is a time to get back on the walls and pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the salvation of Israel, and the destruction of Satan's assignments and forces against the Kingdom of our God and His people Israel. Our hearts and prayers are with the hurting and broken hearted at this time.

"For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead." Romans 11:15

Yours in the love of Yeshua our Messiah

Catherine Brown
www.gatekeepers.org.uk
admin@gatekeepers.org.uk