Saturday, June 7, 2025

Arrows 6 6 2025 Tending the Fig Tree

 

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit
Proverbs 27:18
by Donna Diorio

Advance Notice: Spiritual Parallels abound

As I write this on Tuesday morning with my coffee, I am eating a giant fig from my fig tree. For the first time since I planted it in 1998, it has finally produced fruit, and it is fruit in abundance! Most years it produced absolutely no fruit whatsoever.  
     Several times I concluded it was not planted in the right place to get the sun it needed. Even when we left the apartment and moved into this house in 2003 I had to replant it at least three times trying to find the place it would thrive.
     It has been in the same location now for over a decade, a perfect spot but it continued not to produce fruit that could be eaten. Twice the bitter winter has leveled it to the ground, but it grew back stronger, and even produced 3 or 4 figs we could eat. Every year my fig tree was a spiritual sign to me and not a good one. I was going nowhere fast for all my hard work and hardship doing my Israel prayer elists. The trickle of fruitfulness seemed to mock me in that barren fig tree, but I could not quit knowing the promises of God toward the abundant spiritual restoration of Israel. What I saw in that fig tree was not unlike the things I’ve heard from Israeli ministries at times. The promises of God inspire great hope of what He is doing among us, but the day to day reality is depressing if we let feelings rule us. We are waiting for something BIG. We know it is out there, it is coming, but here we are with not a lot to show for it.
     Oftentimes that fig tree in my backyard has felt something like a prophetic slap to me! Many times after another disappointing season tending that fig tree, I thought about just giving up, but I couldn't. I couldn’t give up on the fig tree in my back yard just like I couldn’t give up on advocating for the body of believers in Israel. The fig tree in the Bible is a prophetic symbol of Israel, and my backyard fig tree symbolized my sense of not accomplishing nearly as much as I desired to in the Weekly Summary and Arrows from Zion.
     Always there has been so much resistance and challenges, and seeing a lack of breakthrough and growth that I have always expected from it. From time to time I have read the same sense from Israeli ministries, wondering when does the breakthrough begin in earnest? Where is the abundant fruit? We have great expectations in our hearts from all of God’s promises in His Word, yet there is little fruit on the fig tree – certainly not as we expect the harvest to produce.
     Today I read that the age of a fig tree is a determining factor if it is not producing fruit. In the past I assumed that meant the fig tree can get too old. Old age is not issue! The age factor is about a fig tree maturing enough to produce seeds.
     The fig tree expert I was reading wrote that the trees  “need to reach a certain maturity before they can produce offspring. Fruit is how a fig tree creates seeds. If the fig tree is not old enough to produce seeds, it will also not produce fruit. Typically, a fig tree will not fruit until it reaches two years old, but it can take some trees as long as six years to reach the right maturity. There is nothing you can do to speed up the rate a tree matures at. Time and patience are the only fixes for this."
     A minister I know teaches that the timing of Jesus return to earth is not based on based on numbers  of how many have become Christians in the nations. He’s referring to interpretations of when “times of the gentiles be fulfilled.”
     It’s rather about the maturing of Christians to the point of “one new man” with Jewish believers – and this will be most obvious in alignment with Israeli Jewish believers in Yeshua. It is not because Israeli believers in Yeshua are more special than those in the nations, but it is because of all the promises of God in scripture that God is gathering Jews from the nations back to Israel for the purpose of spiritual restoration. The physical restoration had to come first – the State of Israel, now even the anti-Semitism that is erupting all over the world has become the driving force for Jews to return to their land of Promise from God.
It takes Christian fruit of maturity to produce the seed for Israeli ministries to sow/plant among their people so “all Israel shall be saved.” It takes the fruit of maturity to produce seed for the Israeli Ministries to bear more fruit.
     In the spiritual maturity of Christians in the nations toward the spiritual the fig tree of Israeli believers, helping them so they can plant the seed of the Gospel more and more in Israel, this is the maturity of unity that is going to produce fruit in Israel! God is not going to initiate the final harvest until we have reached the peak maturity He is looking for.
     Now my fig tree is 27 years old! Far beyond what the expert said it should take to produce fruit. But it never did. If it had not become a spiritual sign to me, I would have discarded it years ago and bought a new fig tree. But it was and is spiritual to me. To me it represents my own ministry to the church as I am “tending the fig tree” of Israel.
     One of the scriptures I took hold of when in 2005 I started Arrows from Zion from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries, is Proverbs 27:18 -
"Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit;  So he who waits on his Master will be honored."
     I never knew it before today, but Hebrew word in “Whoever
nāṣar (keeps) the fig tree” is 90% the exact same definition as “So he that šāmar (waits) on His Master.”  Both mean “to watch, guard, keep, preserve ….watchmen” but added to šāmar (waits) on His Master are to “heed” and “observe.”  
     The first thing that came to my mind discovering this is that God considers it to be the same thing those that watch over the fig tree (Israel) by being a watchman guarding over it, to keep and preserve it, God considers that being a loyalty to Himself. If one watches his Master, heeding and observing his Master, he will also do the same for Israel.  Maybe you think that is taking it too far, exalting Israel too much, but exalting Israel is not the point. The point is for each of us to be in an active solidarity with God’s desires, God’s plans and whom God loves.
     Year after year my tree and my ministry reflected little fruit. How could any take me seriously when there was so much struggle and so little visible fruit? This year all that has changed! My fig tree in the first season of annual harvest times is loaded down with giant luscious figs! Every branch of the tree is loaded down with figs.
I see that not only as a prophetic sign of my own ministry finally bearing fruit, ultimately I see it as the promise of God to the spiritual restoration of Israelis beginning to produce abundant fruit the Israeli ministries will begin to reap.
     That is exciting to me! The prophetic sign that has tested me for years- would I give up and turn away? – is now is urging me forward in new excitement, new hope and a new burst of trust that God is bringing to pass His good will for Israel and for me
. Our destinies are intertwined in Yeshua.
     I lift my eyes unto the LORD, and as that fig tree has spoken to me of not giving up in the face of seeming barrenness, but to keep trusting Him that the fruitfulness He promised is surely coming, that fruit tree is speaking good things to me this year: the blessings of fruitfulness in Zion.
     For 24 years I have weekly summarized ministries letters from the Israeli Messianic Jewish ministry letters. My mission was to make them known to the Church. Like I was before Reuven Doron introduced me to the body of Messiah in Israel, Christians mostly have had no idea of the existence of Jewish followers of Yeshua in Israel. Not only was my mission to make Christians aware of their existence, but in time it became my mission to let Christians know why the body in Israel is significant to Christians worldwide and why we are to help them specifically. It goes far beyond advocating just for the Jewish state; the Israeli believers in Yeshua are significant to the building of the House of Our Lord 
Jesus, and Israel's too. Yeshua, Israel’s Messiah King, Deliverer and Savior.

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you." Jeremiah 29:11-12

Arrows from Zion
Summarized from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests Israeli Ministries

Avi Tekle, the son-in-law of Eitan Shishkoff, whom Eitan passed the pastoral leadership of the Ohalai Rachamim (Tents of Mercy) congregation, sent a Shavuot/Pentecost message that was perfect in line with what I had written for the cover story above! He spoke of joining in a hand-harvest in a field of wheat to get a deeper connection with the harvest that Shavuot is about. He wrote, “we noticed something striking: weeds had grown up alongside the good hay. It was a vivid, living picture of the parable Yeshua told, reminding us that even in a fruitful harvest, discernment and care are needed. And yet, the harvest is plentiful, and we are honored to be laborers in it.” He went on to thank financial supporters of Tents of Mercy for making it possible for them to “to bring practical help and encouragement to new immigrants and needy families” in their area. Avi wrote,Each family we reach with compassion is another sheaf gathered into the storehouse of the Kingdom. Through your giving, you are not only meeting immediate needs – you are sowing eternal seed.”  From the bottom of our hearts, todah rabah – thank you. You are truly standing with us in the fields, helping us to bring in the harvest, both physically and spiritually.”

     DD: Yesterday morning the Spirit spoke to me that God said He would “open the windows of Heaven.” When I looked the Malachi 3:10 verse up, I understood God was calling me make a tithe from response of the special donations appeal that I received to pay off a debt back into the Israeli ministries. It was a blessed response, made even more blessed for the beautiful Israelis ministries who responded giving donations too. 
     I am sharing this because what God spoke goes beyond a personal instruction to me. 
     “Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure."  
     This is no general call to tithe but is specifically
God’s call for Christians to tithe into the storehouses of the Israeli body of Messiah so they would have food – natural and spiritual    they could sow among their people.         Even as Israel is counting the omer  (the sheaves) – in the period between Passover and Pentecost – the sheaves are the spiritual harvest in Israel (“bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, we will come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves!”)
     God is challenging us to tithe into the storehouses of the Israeli ministries who are literally making food from God’s house in Israel available so “all Israel shall be saved.  God is telling Christians to test Him in this and He will open the windows of Heaven to them!

Dov and Olga Bikas who leads the Aviv Ministry to the lowest members of Israeli society really – the drug addicts, sex workers, women escaping domestic abuse – and doing it giving these hopeless human beings a reason for hope to rise again, have a new format in their ministry letters. You can read the whole prayer letter here in  PDF format for Newsletter - May 2025.  As always, they share some of the recent interactions they have with people and as always it brings tears to my eyes to hear about the people they are reaching. They give prayer requests also for their Women’s Shelter, Humanitarian Aid center in Ashkelon, and the Arab Rehab Project they are working to set up. Also videos of two of their Aviv Team members:  From Gangster to Minister — Eduard's Testimony (Askelon Humanitarian)| Vadim Birman Bringing Hope Through Media  
     Maybe you are like me. I used to have no interest in ministries working among the drug addicts, homeless, sex workers. During missions week I would skip those presentations. But then I came close enough to the problem by seeing that several members of my extended family could easily end up in same dire situation as the people the Aviv Ministry reaches out to. Drug abuse is so widespread. Maybe our loved one or friend can show up to a family get together and not look as out of control as they did last night on the mean streets. Or maybe we can turn a blind eye pretending not to see them slipping away into self-destruction. The Aviv Ministries are people with a heart of love for Yeshua to reach out and save those who are self-destructing. Sowing a seed toward their ministry is planting a seed towards your own struggling loved one. “Test me and see if I will not open the windows of Heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.”  Go here ! For more information and for donations information. If you follow the Aviv Ministry on Facebook, they often share insights that will help you to pray for and minister to someone you know personally.

Earlier in May I received this report from the Justers (Dan and Patty, Ben and Lorena)of
Restoration from Zion (Tikkun from Zion). Dan wrote about his 30 year involvement in Towards Jerusalem Council II which is moving toward a significant summit in Jerusalem in Oct 2025 of the 1700 year anniversary of the Council of Nicea. Dan writes, The original vision was to gather the leaders of all large denominations and streams of the Body of the Messiah in Jerusalem, to host a council parallel to the Acts 15 council that embraced Gentiles in the Body without mandating that they become Jews or live a Jewish way of life. The Church of later centuries, largely Gentile, declared that maintaining Jewish life and identity in Yeshua was heresy. The Church had largely embraced replacement theology, that the Church had replaced Israel as God’s elect and ethnic Jewish people were no longer elect. The original vision embraced the importance of official declarations on the continued election of Israel and the importance of the restoration of Messianic Jews as the saved remnant of Israel, as the Jewish members of the Body….To see the completion of God’s work in this age, this ancient rift has to be healed. This reconciliation and resulting unity opens the heavens and will bring new power and revival. … Leaders will be coming from all over the world, every continent.  Last week, our Executive Committee planned this convocation for 400 to 500 people. We see momentum building and a path for more and more senior leaders to embrace this vision…. Imagine the unity of the Church rightly connected to its Jewish roots, to the Jewish people/Israel and rightly in unity with the Messianic Jewish community. This is our hope and quest. We are closer to the goal of the Council than ever before. 
     Dan notes that it is their personal ministry that has financed much of his involvement in TJCII through all the years of international travel - flights, hotels, communication and so much more. Donations to Restoration from Zion continue to do that as they are coming up this pivotal meeting in Jerusalem. You can also mail donations, please note Restoration From Zion Ministry and mail to Tikkun International | PO Box 535157 | Grand Prairie TX 75053

From Out of Zion Ministries, David and Josie Silver’s ministry up in Haifa, in the 5/30 son Stefan Silver wrote in Make it Count about the season of biblical counting that goes on in the 49 days between Passover to Pentecost which is called the “Counting of the Omer.” If you understand that ALL of the biblical holy days are pictures from God about His plan to restore “all Israel” to Himself, then even there days between Pesach and Shavuot are important.  As Stefan reveals, the word “omer” in Hebrew means a sheaf (like “bringing in the sheaves”).  After Passover/Pesach it is 49 days to the time of the harvest.  Stefan writes that it would be “the fiftieth (Pentekoste in Greek) day when the grain harvest would be ready.”  The grain harvest representing the time between Passover and the Lord’s death on the cross until the grain harvest, when, as Stefan writes, “the Holy Spirit descended in Jerusalem ... (and) three thousand Jewish people came to faith in Yeshua and were baptized in the temple pools! Acts 1.
     DD: In my understanding, these things also foreshadow the gap be the Yeshua/Jesus paying for our sins as the Passover Lamb, and at long last the spiritual harvest that has begun in Israel since 1948 when God restored the State of Israel as the Promised Jewish homeland. There were 23 Jews in Israel in 1948 at the declaration of Statehood – and since that time it has increased to between 15-20,000 Israeli Jewish believers in Yeshua/Jesus. The increase continues to be released – these are the “sheaves” that the Israeli ministries are bringing in.
     Also on 6/6 Josie Silver’s article One in Messiah, “
Last week we heard of what could be small new beginnings. At an event in Jerusalem an Israeli Orthodox Rabbi shared at a global gathering of Christians and Jews. He shared that through the tragedy of the double murder of the two American Messianic Jewish Embassy employees, he felt he wanted to visit the Israeli family that lost their son and to pay respects during their Shiva. Shiva is the time Jewish people sit for a week and mourn their loss of a loved one, with visitors, friends and family, who bring comfort and prayer.  During the course of a conversation at the Shiva, with the brother of the murdered Messianic Embassy employee, Yaron, and hearing about the heart and the work that Yaron did at the Embassy, it came as a first time realization to this Orthodox Rabbi that Jews who believe in Yeshua as the Messiah, are still very Jewish, contrary to what the religious Jewish community believe. And their goal, love, work, dedication, cause and focus for Israel is the same as theirs. In essence he began to see that there shouldn’t be a shunning away or exclusion of Messianic believers from the Faith.  He shared about Jews and Christians that we all share and have a common fate, a blood covenant, and it is dangerous to be on the spectrum if you are on the Jewish side or the Christian side of the spectrum.
    Josie had many other great connections to these things about a coming unity as is found in the biblical record. She wrote,“ There are greater things still to happen when Religious Jews and Messianic Jews come into the true identity and unity of being one people, one in the household of God in the same Jewish Messiah, along with those from the nations (the global body of Messiah) that have joined and aligned themselves with Israel, as a one new man.
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Reuven Doron, what can I say? His insight in God’s one new man plan has always inspired me. Watch this 12 minute video he made 5/31 called Take Courage. His opening words are, “It’s not going to get easier.” That is the thing we have to realize – even in all the wonderful things that are coming in terms of Israel’s spiritual redemption and the harvest that will likewise unfold in the nations – everything will not be wonderful.
     There will be BATTLE as Reuven shares: The scripture Genesis 15: 5-18 is the very first time that the word INHERIT (root word “YARASH” in the Hebrew) appears in the Bible. It shows up more than 200 times in the Scriptures, speaking equally about
the right of INHERITANCE, and also about the act of TAKING POSSESSION and actually acquiring that inheritance. Possessing God’s promises always required unwavering faith, sacrifice, and struggle. This principle is the reality behind the prolonged war Israel has been facing ever since its resurrection as a modern day nation in its ancestral homeland. We are fighting for our inheritance.
     The Hebrew nation was given the land of Canaan as their inheritance from their God. Hell knows the meaning of this reality, and so this inheritance is greatly embattled. In addition, those grafted into the commonwealth of Israel through faith in Messiah (those born again by God’s Spirit) are also given an inheritance to possess. These promises, also, must be contended for. Israel, and the Ecclesia Church of Jesus all over the world, are fighting the same fight, and the ONLY QUESTION heaven and hell are focusing on these last days is: “Will the Word of God be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven.”
     ….. As God answered Father Abraham long ago, only His sacrifice will secure Israel’s inheritance. The best thing you can do to uphold Israel on her difficult journey back to God is to support the testimony of Jesus and the work of the Good News of Messiah in Israel.
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Sally Shiff, my friend at the HaMaayan congregation in Kfar Saba, wrote on the 600th day since the war with Hamas broke by a brutal invasion that killed 1200 people and kidnapped over 250 to hold as bargaining chips against Israel. She has been writing to her list every day since, updating on the daily news of the war, the state of the people at home, in war, held hostage. Sally is an intercessor in her congregation, so she has a spiritual view, not just a news rendition. On the 600th day she wrote about the 6:29 am ceremonies that marked the moment Israel knew they were under attack on that day: “…our nation was invaded by the most ruthless terrorists some call in history. Sixty entry points all at the same time, by land, sea and air they came leaving a devastation that could only be called a pogrom, a holocaust on our small nation. And, 600 days later, it was discovered they did it so peace would not be achieved here in the Middle East. Hamas (Iran) was concerned that Saudi Arabia would recognize Israel and join the Abraham Accords against Iran.” Of the Hamas leader that led the invasion attack, she writes that she doesn’t think he realized that “what he meant for evil, God is using for good…. that day changed the face of our nation. It divided us and united us at the same time. Our soldier generation has once again understood the gravity of defending our nation and will in time be the leaders of tomorrow not forgetting today and all they fought for on behalf of us…. One thing is for sure, miracles of Biblical proportion are happening before our very eyes. Your prayers are working. Please keep it up. I am so honored, humbled to be your “hands, feet and heart” here representing you to a nation that needs Yeshua so much, now more than ever.”
     Sally wrote on 5/23By now the world knows that antisemitism is on the rise and now has become deadly. Just like the beginnings of Nazi Germany, what started in the institutions of higher learning quickly moved to murder. It’s the same playbook. But this time, it’s different. Because we know the playbook, have the history, and most importantly prayer warriors like you who know how to love and pray for Israel.  The silver lining about these two victims of terror, one is confirmed coming from a Believing family, and only because of that, I cannot confirm that she is too. If that is the case, we know where they are. Right now, they are face to face with Yeshua.
     In WW2, The greatest population of Messianic Jews was in Europe. I cannot confirm, but have heard they were the first to be given over to the nazi's for the concentration camps...by the rabbi's. What Satan meant for evil, God used for good. Just like Corrie ten Boom, believers in the camps to share the gospel to the Jews and others in their last moments.
    These two became platforms for the rest of the world (like you) to wake up and see that this is not just Israel. But a demonic darkness that is trying to take over the land. But one person, or in this case two...a couple who were soon to be engaged shed light into a dark world.
     This war is NOT about Hamas, or Hezbollah. It’s not about the ballistic missiles that have come for the last few nights and disturbed my sleep. It is the war of light (the light of Yeshua) and darkness.
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 Jennifer Guetta of Plant Hope Israel has a Video teaching for you about fire on the mountain Watch my teaching on Shavuot and Pentecost and fire on the mountain.  Also this “I need to ask your help. I have a unique opportunity to buy back the rights of my book Awestruck by Glory/Lichtinslag from my former publisher. This would mean that we have the opportunity to publish it in any language, and for any price. Praise God! It also includes 4000 English books that are stored in Oklahoma. … These books expose kabbala, the spirit of Jezebel and bring many New Agers to Jesus! We have had many testimonies of people new agers coming to the Lord supernaturally after reading the book (see Testimonies Here). The books also turn people on fire for Jesus. Therefore we want to get this book to the heart of America as soon as possible…. 
    Jennifer has to pay $10,000 for the rights and the books privately so we kindly ask if you can send a financial gift to help her fund this amazing project: Accountnr.  | Name: Jennifer Guetta | Iban: NL34ABNA0472761749 | Bic/Swift: ABNANL2A | Bank adress: Gustavmaldernlaan 10, Amsterdam 1082PP
     Or you can donate through her paypal account: jennifer.guetta@kpnmail.nl  | Or: if you would like to help with the costs of the outreach you can also send it through our ministry link. Please use this description: Outreach USA.

Cookie Schwaeber-Issan | Opinion Columnist in Jerusalem  | |  Available for Zoom Calls for your Israel-interested groups: EMAIL itscook7@gmail.com  || AllIsraelNews  5/27 When Verbal Antisemitism Crossed Over into Cold Blooded Murder | 5/29 Israelis Who Spy for Iran | 5/31 Why Does Everyone Want Israel to Lose | 6/3 The Global Intifada is Here | 6/5 I don’t feel safe in America anymore |     Jerusalem Post 5/27 The Demonization of Israel - Coverage of the mass famine in Gaza has been used by media outlets to demonize Israel, overlooking Hamas's responsibility.

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David’s Tent Avner Boskey rightly notes satan is the WAVE maker in this article on the worldwide wave of Anti-Semitism. | ALSO A generation that did not know Joseph | On June 1st an Egyptian who illegally overstayed his work visa, violently attacked a weekly walking group in Boulder, Colorado Run for Their Lives, "an apolitical global organization with the sole mission of walking peacefully to raise awareness for the 58 hostages still held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza.” He set 8 of the walkers on fire with an improvised flamethrower and also through Molotov cocktails at them. The victims are aged between 52 and 88. This follows the murderous terror attack that killed two young Messianic Jews in Washington, DC less than 2 weeks ago. As Avner rightly notes in this article as well, “Jihadi terror has landed on American shores and has dug in for the long haul. Time to connect the dots.

Carolyn & Richard Hyde report there were “many open doors and hearts during our journey through Texas” where they had “divine appointments with Israelis, counseling Jewish believers on Aliyah plus prayer-walks with local prophetic teams. We're so grateful to have ministered in churches that never had a message from Israel before. Did you know that 96% of churches in the West never had a message about Israel? If you'd like to do something about this, please share this prayer guide. 21 Day Prayer Guide "All Israel will be Saved"
     ….Many secular Israelis often explore other religions, so when a group wanted to know what Messianic Jews believe, our son Ariel was called upon. At one point the leader of the group declared, "We've been told lies about Yeshua for too long, and the name we called Him - Yeshu - is a curse. But He is one of us and He brought blessings to Israel. We need to examine this more!" Hallelujah - please keep the Tree of Life Israel team in prayer!
    ….Richard was able to minister “Table & Well with pre-believing IDF Soldiers” A heartening report I wish I had more room to report
     Thank you for your love, prayers and support. Lately Adonai is giving dreams of a new dimension in Kingdom Philanthropy. Upon sharing these words with some anointed young Israelis, they were all "moved to tears of joy" for the confirmation they'd been waiting for! If this resonates with you, feel free to request the dream. Blessings in Yeshua's love, Carolyn and Richard

This VIDEO  from Tikkun Global is from the Latino Conference with English Translation – a three days in Jerusalem of our Latino Alignment Summit 2025 with 30 plus leaders (Portuguese and Spanish Speakers). Asher Intrater is teaching on Alignment, and it is good to note this: Alignment WITH HIM | When Asher wrote the book, Alignment, the intent was not that people would align themselves to a particular ministry or to Tikkun Global. The purpose of the book was for all of us together to align ourselves with God’s eternal plan; the plan God intended from the beginning. God is the architect and engineer who purposefully designed creation to teach us a lesson about the Kingdom of God, to teach us about His unfolding plan…. ultimately, the whole plan of God centers around Yeshua…. Alignment is seeing God’s plan from beginning to end and yielding ourselves to His purposes. WATCH today’s Global Broadcast as Asher shares this important message with the nations.     







Sunday, June 1, 2025

Arrows 5/30/2025 My Righteous House Will Be Built

 


Even though wickedness is growing
My Righteous House will be built
by Donna Diorio

Week after week I find myself reading about and reporting on the increase of wickedness. It is vexing, but it is also reality. We are in warfare and the battle is pitched, being fought to the finish with our very lives if necessary.
       The physical warfare that Israel is in, is in fact a mirror image of the spiritual warfare going on all around us in every nation. Few are oblivious to it now because it has come too close to us and invaded our personal spaces. Some try to cope by just partying on, but few of us are unaware that wickedness is growing everywhere.
     It is interesting to me that 2 days after writing this intro article to the Weekly Summary for this week, I received “An Urgent Shavuot Message” from Tiferet Yeshua’s Moti Cohen that is pictured here and elaborated on below. Israel is on the frontlines of both the physical and the spiritual warfare. This is a confirming word about the subject of this article and issue focus.
     It was a blessing over the past couple of days to get great news from several Israeli ministries of breakthroughs that they really needed. In the already taxing emotional and concerning situation of their family members and loved ones fighting in an intense war on 7 fronts, the ministry leaders in my weekly summaries are also still pressing forward to advance the Kingdom of Our Lord in Israel. 
     Although the nations of the whole world are critical of Israel’s existential battle to exist in the Land Promised to them by God, we who honor God also honor these men and women, our spiritual family laboring in the LORD’s vineyards. The spiritual vineyards of God in Messiah, which many Christians are still utterly blind to, believe this is ‘just another people group, just another nation’ completely unrelated to the Israel of God in their own Bibles. Their blindness make them like the little foxes of the Song of Solomon 2:15, "Take for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom."  Take for us is 'āḥaz and it means “seize, take possession” – we are implored to take possession of those little foxes who are spoiling the spiritual vineyard in the time of the spiritual harvest.
     Because so many Christians cannot see who the Israeli body of Messiah really are, they not only do not help them with their vineyards that are in bloom, they often misidentify them as either insignificant to Christianity, or as a dangerous “cult” that traditional religious Jews tell their Christian supporters Messianic Jews of Israel are. We are implored to seize them, take possession of them which I interpret as praying for God to remove their blindness to these important matters.
     A week ago in the power struggles in Israel over the war, we saw the mirror-image of this same type of spiritual warfare. Not even recognizing how the damage he was doing to Israel was far greater than any gains he might have turning people to himself and away from Netanyahu, one of Israel’s ex-generals and opposition party leader made the accusation that Israel was ‘killing babies as a hobby’ in Gaza. His accusation called into question the morality of ALL Israeli soldiers and gave more ammunition to Israel’s enemies to abuse them with. As a Gatestone article by Nils Haug called it, the ex-general’s “suspiciously self-serving ruminations” are a case of 'Foxes in the Vineyards': Israel's Very Own Subversives
     It is a fault and even a sin to be so focused on our own desires that we are willing to pull our whole house down to have it the way we see it. We cannot forget in the kingdom of God, we are one body.
      So many times over the years I have watched Christians who raise funds to bless Israel treat their brothers and sisters in Israel as if they are nothing. Some have even gone so far as to denounce those that are in the faith of Jesus in Israel – and it is all in order that the Christian can maintain their ‘witness’ to unbelieving Israelis. What witness?! The witness that Christians will betray even Jews who profess the faith of Jesus? How hugely disappointing the Church must be to Messianic Jews! Yet in Israel these disciples of Yeshua forge ahead with faith that as God has promised, so shall it come to pass and all Israel shall be saved because they do not give up. They continue on with the work Yeshua called them to be as witnesses of Yeshua to Israel. He is the only restorer of Israel, as a nation and in spiritual unity with Israel’s God.
     In Matthew 16:18 Yeshua told Peter that upon the rock of God’s revelation to Peter that Yeshua is the Messiah, that "on this rock I will build My ecclesia, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it."
     When the days are so dark with the increase of wickedness, of violence, of hearts set on evil, it is taxing on human emotion not to give up and just lie down in the dust. But those that know the LORD thrown off the spirit of heaviness knowing that “the gates of hell will not prevail.”
     This week the focus is the good news of how the Israeli ministries are pressing in to advance Yeshua’s kingdom.

First, I need to address my comment last week about the young Jewish couple murdered by a terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. I wrote that the targets were a prophetic symbol of one new man in Messiah because of reporting that identified Yaron Lizchinsky as an Israeli Messianic Jew and the young woman he intended to propose to the following week in Israel, Sarah Milgrim. Sarah was reported to be an American Christian. There is a reason for the great confusion over the faith of this couple, and if you want to work out what I don’t want to write about here, then I suggest you read this & the highly unusual blog post in the Times of Israel by journalist-Rabbi Joshua Hammerman (One of the D.C. shooting victims was a Messianic Jew. Should that matter?)  I accepted the reporting that Milgrim was a Christian because I do not automatically separate Messianic Jews from “real Jews” as some do. But when I wrote that we should view their terrorist murders as a prophetic symbol and a prophetic warning, it was with the background of having watched over the past month the exposure on X by journalist @AmyMek of the startling level of Islamist community hubs in Texas and the close relationships with Texas politicians. It is not just happening in this state, but in many states, however Texas appears to have been targeted specifically. Probably because of our STUPID political leadership in this state. My thinking is that the time has come that Islamists in North America are ceasing to develop under the cover of darkness. They are coming out of the closet and they will not just be targeting Jews, they will target Christians too. This is why I called it a prophetic warning. –Donna Diorio

Arrows from Zion
Summarized from the Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests Israeli Ministries

HUGE Congratulations to Pastor Israel Pochtar of Beit Hallel congregation in Ashdod for getting a great last minute victory from the LORD raising all the funds needed to buy the building. Israel wrote, “After months of prayer, faith, and your incredible support, the final amount came through and we’ve received the keys to our new spiritual home. This is a huge step forward for our congregation, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Your fingerprints are all over this miracle! Watch his video here.
     ….With this breakthrough fresh in our hearts, we’re heading straight into preparations for Shavuot (Pentecost). Just as the Holy Spirit was poured out in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, we’re getting ready to bring busloads of Israelis—many hearing the Gospel for the first time….And we’re stepping in to support dozens of local IDF reservists currently serving in our area. Many of them are young believers, putting their lives on hold to protect our communities. They’re in real need of basic supplies and encouragement…. And just beyond the horizon, an incredible opportunity awaitsPastor Israel and a team of Israeli pastors are heading to the Balkans for a special gathering with church leaders from across the region. It’s a modern-day Macedonian call…. Also Watch Pastor Pochtar’s message of Shavuot – A Feast of Harvest, Holiness and Heart.

Also another ‘nail-biter’ we have been watching for the past 2 months is where would Avi Mizrachi’s Dugit Ministries land after being given notice that the landlord would not renew their lease. A 2-month turnaround is near impossible to raise funds to buy their own building, but they knew this was ultimately the answer. God is clearly leading the ministries to put down permanent roots – it is an act of faith not unlike God instructing Jeremiah (32) to buy a field as the army of Babylon was blockading Jerusalem!  Dugit, which means a “small fishing boat,” has been 30 years in Tel Aviv calling out in the name of Yeshua. They’ve been the target of persecution in the past, and losing their lease is another discouraging blow – BUT they put their faith in God’s call and provision and Avi reports “the Lord has graciously answered our prayers by providing us with a temporary space that is close by. Thankfully, we will still have a roof over our heads until we can secure a permanent home. As we approach Shavuot ….we are reminded of something undeniable: the Spirit of God is still moving powerfully in Israel today. . . . we see it every day. In the middle of uncertainty, hardship, and heartache, we are witnessing a quiet but powerful spiritual awakening. People are hungry. People are searching. And hearts are opening to the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah. Even though the loss of our facilities has been challenging, we have not stopped doing the work of the ministry. In fact, we are leaning into it, believing God to do even more! I believe that now is a time of spiritual harvest. The same Spirit who was poured out on Pentecost is continuing through our ministry today—and we are honored to be His hands and feet in Israel. But we can’t do this alone! We believe that you are co-laborers together with us in the Lord. One plants, another waters, but God gives the increase. Would you prayerfully consider giving a special gift during this season? Please give your most generous Pentecost offering today to help us reach the lost and hurting in Israel.

REMEMBER Over the last months we have shared the needs of many of the Israeli Ministries in similar situations to being suddenly thrust into the need to move from the rental property their congregation or ministry has been set up in, or in meeting overly strenuous demands by the city upon them because of their faith in Yeshua. It is a super-prevalent form of persecution the religious opposition leverages against the Messianic body in Israel. I have seen it more times than I can count! The only way to deal with the “rental pogrom” is to raise the funds necessary to purchase a facility. Please remember even as we celebrate God’s answers above, others await Victory in the LORD’s Answer! We know that Michael Beener of City of Life needs to raise funds to purchase a building to escape constant persecution in Sderot. Also the Tiberias ministry of Daniel Yahav & the 35 yr old school for Messianic & evangelical families in the Galillee be allowed to reopen (closed after meeting all upgrade demands imposed by the city!) Here’s the petition Reverse the Closure of the Messianic Peniel Primary School in Tiberias, Israel!

REMEMBER Also remember that so many of the pastors and ministers that are featured in this weekly prayer summary are doing double duty. Not only serving their congregations and ministries, but also serving reserve duty in the war. Recently Israel did one of the largest ever call ups for 450,000 to leave daily life to fight in the war. That includes Chaim Malespin, Moti Cohen, Nati, the pastor at the Tel Aviv congregation Avi Mizrachi founded, Joel Jelski from Fields of Wheat – so many more. They need special prayer to be able to go in and out of a war zone then suddenly back with family and ministry. That is no easy transition! Pray for all of them and their families – at home with great concern and a lot more on their shoulders than they are used to. THIS IS ALSO A PRIORITY PRAYER.
     Abba let them be known for their emotional stability and the excellence in every service. Protect them so that no weapon formed against them shall prosper and give them clarity of vision in the battlefield – protectors of Israel, never avengers but mighty men of valor full of the strength and wisdom of the Lord their God, and filled to overflow with the Holy Spirit.

I hope I can get this out in time (9 pm Israel time) for you to tune into the live streaming Friday (today!) by Chaim Malespin’s Faithful Galileans Shavuot Worship life with Shai Sol. Register here and watch on Facebook or YouTube.  Also they have a free gift of Shavuot recipes from a renowned Israeli chef Shani Sanders Download traditional recipes

It was like a confirmation of the cover story I had written two days prior when I opened Tiferet Yeshua’s 5/29 email “An Urgent Shavuot Message” and my eyes landed on the picture of the new congregational senior pastor Moti Cohen standing on a tank with a heading reading, On the Frontlines Physical and Spiritual! Exactly my focus this week. This is true of all Israel – the tip of the spear in fighting the physical opposition warfare of Islamism/anti-God evil within the nations – and it is also true that the Israeli Messianic Ministries are the tip of the spear in the spiritual opposition warfare against the body of the Lord – Christian and Messianic Jew throughout the world.
     Tiferet Yeshua writes, “Here in Israel, we cannot forget that we are still at war. Everyone either has a family member fighting in Gaza or personally knows someone who is. That goes for all of us at Tiferet Yeshua too – our dear Moti was called up to reserve duty and is serving with his unit in Gaza. By God's grace, the army agreed that Moti would only come for a week in order to help train new recruits. The battle rages on, in the physical but also in the spiritual. In fact, we are always more or less in a spiritual war, but God has equipped us with the weapons we need: "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds" 2 Cor 10:4  Weapons of the flesh are what human nature and worldly culture instruct us to fight with when we feel threatened or attacked: arrogance, dishonesty, money, competition, control, influence, power and fame. In contrast, the weapons God gives us are weak and lowly in the eyes of the world…. We can so easily slip back into operating in the ways of the world – unfortunately it's our natural default. In this special Shavuot holiday season, we pray that the Lord would give us all the grace to walk daily according to the Spirit and not the flesh!
     Earlier they wrote about an outdoor grilling outreach they did on the Tel Aviv beach – feeding people great BBQ and spiritual food too. They also shared the amazing testimony of a woman new to their congregation who is a fashion designer with nearly a half million Instagram followers she has shared her newly found faith with! Read More | The also shared about honoring all the volunteers in their congregation in One Body, Many Members. To bless this Tel Aviv congregation with support Give Today

Leon Mazin of Return to Zion in Haifa gives a brief update on what they and daughter congregation, Or Chai have been up to with a women’s retreat. Leon writes, “Many of us, or maybe all of us, feel tired and even exhausted for various reasons. In the spring season the body is subjected to great stress and reacts with fatigue. The other reason is the long-lasting uncertainty due to the situation in our country. So, special restoration events were organized for the Congregation men and children.” Last but not least the women enjoyed a time of refreshing. ALSO another significant event for the congregation as they ordained an elder among them, Evgenii S, who Leon says had actually carried out this ministry for many years unofficially and contributed in great measure to the live of Shavei Tzion congregation. May the LORD continue to bless through this elder among them.

Tikkun Global leads with a VIDEO of Asher Intrater and Paul Wilbur sharing in a Netherlands “one new man” conference. Very powerful – especially enjoyed Paul speaking of the early days of their relationship. Watch Covenant Relationships in Action. | Reead Soviet Siberian Snow Story by Leon Mazin “Sometimes we feel like our ‘legs are buckling,’ and then an uplifting message comes from you, and the world around becomes more colorful and joyous.”
   
 Shavuot | Sunday June 1 PM 7:30 PM Israel time/ 12:30 PM EST | Mark your calendar! Tikkun Global is hosting a Shavuot online event on June 1, 7:30pm Israel time, 12:30pm USA EST. We will have many different worship groups representing the Body of Yeshua in Israel. Translation from Hebrew to English will be offered during the livestream. Please be sure to subscribe to our Tikkun Global Youtube channel.
    Israel, the Church and the Last Days BOOK by Asher Intrater and Dan Juster

Eitan Shishkoff did a wonderful interview with a young mother who has been instrumental in organizing the Katzir (harvest) Youth camps for the last 9 years. Eitan calls Moriah “an unsung hero.” For herself, Moriah says “At age 12 I knew that I wanted to be involved in youth camps for the rest of my life.” What a blessing to go off to youth camp at that age and begin to experience God’s call on your life! Moriah says her parents became believers as young adult Israelis and that impacted her: “I grew up looking forward to every opportunity to be with other Messianic kids. That’s when the desire to serve, to be a counselor took root. I remember leading a group of 3rd and 4th graders, sitting on the grass with them. It felt truly amazing to be able to help them know God and to encounter His love. I went on to become a counselor in teen camps for many years.”
     When Eitan asked how she connected to Katzir, Moriah says, “One day when my daughter was only a few months old, I was looking for work I could do primarily from home. I got a call from Chaim, then the director of Katzir. ‘We’re looking for an administrator to help us take our ministry to the next level. Would you be interested?’ This was a perfect fit. It combined my many years of experience in youth camps with a love of excellence in organization.”
    “My early impressions were very positive. I felt drawn in. For one thing I noticed that you, Eitan, and two other mature pastoral couples were present during the camp. Your presence, being available to the young adult counselors, to our leadership team, and to the youth gave the entire camp a secure feeling. I also loved the atmosphere of openness to the Spirit of God.”
     Nothing speaks quite so clearly of excellent ministry as when those being ministered to are inspired to the same ministry themselves. Your donations help pay Moriah for the high quality ministry she performs. Donate at Katzir
          One more thing to say about Moriah: Her brother Amitai was gravely wounded in the early stages of the Gaza war. Four of his team were killed instantly, Amitai survived by the quick action to get him medical help although his legs had to be amputated. Moriah says of her brother, “His incredibly upbeat and resilient response to this life-altering loss has gained national attention. My husband and I moved to an apartment near the hospital to assist my brother in his recovery and rehabilitation. He is one of so many sacrificial heroes.”
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From Maoz Israel’s Kobi and Shani Ferguson, they have led a team into Europe called ISRAEL AND ISHMAEL WORSHIP TOUR—bringing the sound of Jewish and Arab worship to 16 cities across France and Belgium!  | The write about Israel’s external war and internal division. In our latest Israeli Insiders podcast, we dive into the deep challenges Israel faces post-October 7, political unrest and its spiritual implications. We also discuss why protecting and investing in Israeli worshippers matters now more than ever. Thank you for standing with us—in prayer, in support, and in worship! If you haven't already, join us on social media to catch our ISRAEL AND ISHMAEL WORSHIP TOUR in France!
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From Avner Boskey of David’s Tent He writes Running the race well about the deaths of – Israeli Yaron Lischinsky (age 30) and his soon-to-be fiancée American Sarah Milgrim (age 26). | Also Avner writes about the (mindboggling) denial of an American Jewish friend about the explosion of anti-Semitism in the USA. Read it in Never Again?

Reuven Doron has started sending out short videos which I greatly appreciate. Watch Reuven speaking from his backyard in Israel on the Sabbath of God’s faithfulness – even in the case of the Fishers & Hunters of Jeremiah 16. Reuven speaks to the “ongoing cycles of “Fishers” and “Hunters” as the prophetic Word continues to unfold according to God’s promises from age to age. And though the path may be difficult and seeded with suffering, God’s Spirit carries His people through “from grace to grace and from glory to glory,” even to the end of days.” The whole email was a great encouragement that God’s promises are true and faithful. He also sent a catch up the war focusing on the various fronts Israel must fight from. You can read Reuven's War Report online at Facebook

This is quite an enlightening ‘day in the life’ account of an Israeli best friend of Orna Grinman on her blog: How are we doing? | Here is a peek into the reality we live in. Talk about a roller coaster ride in a normal 24-hour period! It will help you to relate to them so you can pray better.

And Norma S writes in her From this Mountain blog post about the delight of resting on Shabbat – part of what Norma calls a rhythm of life that God wants us to enjoy and be refreshed in. Finding Rest and Rhythm

Howard Bass of Yeshua’s Inheritance in Beer Sheva also writes about “The terrorist ideologically-driven murderer of the two US Israeli Embassy staff members last week in Washington, DC -- Yaron Lichinsky and Sarah Milgrim -- were both Jewish believers in Jesus/Yeshua. Yaron lived in Israel and was part of the Messianic body here.  (It's a small world, a small land, and a small remnant of believers in Israel:  Yaron's brother is married to the wife of our daughter-in-law Eden's best friend on the moshav where she and Tal live.) They were planning to get engaged here this week.
    I don't know if the murderer knew that they were believers in Jesus, but that was not the issue with him:  they were Jews who identified with Israel. That's all it takes to be a target. Hitler didn't care either what type of Jew someone was; it only mattered that their DNA was Jewish enough only as far back as a grandparent from either side. And, today, just being "for Israel" is good enough to be suspect enough to eliminate.
     …. One thing that reveals the "world's way" and its hypocrisy is how the nations and the churches during the Nazi years generally left the Jews at the cruel mercies of the Nazis, and did little, if anything, to protect and save the Jews; but they were determined to defeat the Nazis. Afterwards, the US led the way to "hire" Nazis to work in the government and in the military-industrial complex, compromising their resolve against an ideological enemy. 
      Today, we see how much the Muslim nations, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE have for decades been encroaching by their vast wealth and precious "black gold" into American society -- in academia; local and state and national government; the media; sport and culture; alluring vacation destinations. We also know by now how much they support Hamas, while at the same time playing as mediators, "wanting peace" on their terms. And despite all this, Israel's leading "friend and ally" is being played by these same ideological enemies of Judeo-Christian "rules of life and living" to become as all the other "exceptional" world leaders and empires of their time. 
     Howard had a great many excellent observations – which I wish I had room to share. Write him to subscribe to his list. He also shared good news – of the ladies’ meeting last week and also the baptism of their two oldest grandchildren, Aviyah and Natan. Howard and Randi are blessed with children who serve the LORD, and grandchildren who are also following in the spiritual family of Yeshua.

Last, but not least, I must make mention of Michael and Dina Beener whose ministry in Sderot is so generous to their community in humanitarian care – which makes the local ultra-Orthodox enraged with envy at their goodness to people in the name of Yeshua. That is why I want to point out this:     Persecution and Plans | We are facing ongoing pressure from local authorities, influenced by ultra-Orthodox extremist groups like Yad L’Achim, trying to shut down our distribution center and congregation. They see our work and the support we receive as a threat. In the midst of this, we believe the Lord is leading us to something greater, acquiring our own building. This would give us the freedom to continue serving, supporting the needy, and proclaiming His name without restrictions. Watch our video & learn more | Also Watch Our Exclusive Video About Jerusalem Day