Chronicles 2001 — 2026

This just made my day. One of the Israeli ministries just emailed me about getting a picture I had used at some point, of the globe flattened out with Israel at the center of the world. He told me that I had gotten the picture from Eddie Santoro, who passed into glory in 2019. I must have hundreds of emails from Eddie and Jackie Santoro since I got the first one in 2004. AMAZINGLY I found the email that shared the picture Howard Bass wanted in a 2014 Santoro email.
I have history with these people. . .sort of like their "Chronicler" of the 2000's.

By the way, the article I wrote in 2014, The Centrality of Israel, is online. Here is what I wrote:

When Eddie & Jackie Santoro of Ahavat Yeshua congregation in Jerusalem were here in the Dallas area a few weeks ago, we were talking after the service about the centrality of Israel in the plan of God - especially here as His plan is culminating. There may be an earthly argument over who possesses the Temple Mount where the Dome of the Rock stands, but in Heaven the issue of ownership has long been settled, Mount Zion belongs to God.

God put His name on that mountain, and it is that mountain where His Son's Throne will be set up to rule the kingdoms of the earth in the Millennium. Why do you think it is inscribed on the Dome of the Rock, "There is no god but Allah" and "he has not begotten a son".

Islam lays claim to that mountain as a direct challenge to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and also to Israel's Messiah Yeshua. This is the real reason for the rage of Islam against the existence of the nation state of Israel - their existence is proof that Allah and the demonized prophet Mohammad are usurpers, laying false claim to the Throne of Righteousness which is destined by God to be situated in a precise geographical location - Mount Zion.

I'm taking the long way there, but Jackie and Eddie remembered during our conversation a picture they were given many years ago by a pastor in a European country. This picture above is that. It shows all of the continents of the world contained within a globe-like circle and here is the kicker: there was only one way that all the land masses would fit inside the circle at once and that was only if Jerusalem was placed dead center in the circle. If Jerusalem was not situated in the exact center of the circle, not all of the nations could be fully contained and visible in the circle.  Pretty amazing, no?

Tell me Jerusalem is not central to God's plan. I'm just going to shake my head and pray that God shows you what He is up to soon.

* Because I don't own the picture, I cannot post it here, but I have posted it on my Facebook page if you are interested. 

Relating to Tabitha

 

Relating to Tabitha

by Donna Diorio

Some time in November I came across an article from the Biblical Archaeology Society about Tabitha. Up to that point it had never occurred to me that Tabitha and Dorcas were one in the same.

I knew Dorcas as the woman who made clothes for the poor widows who were Jewish believers living in Israel. I assumed they lived in Jerusalem close the the apostles, but it turns out Dorcas and the widows she made clothing for lived in what is now the Old City of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean coastline. That surprised me. I thought all the believers huddled together in Jerusalem close to apostles teaching, but obviously this was not the case. Some must have returned to their homes.

It is kind of obvious that would be the case, now that I think about it because there were thousands in Jerusalem for Feast of Shavuot when the Holy Spirit descended on those in the Upper Room and they spilled out onto the street speaking in all manner of different tongues. Those were real languages, spoken by the Jews who had come from not just different towns in Israel, but from places that they lived in other nations. They came because of Shavuot, which means Tabernacles. We know that feast as Pentecost because of what happened there that day, is one of the 3 Feasts of the LORD where Jews are commanded to return to Jerusalem to appear before the LORD. Back to Tabitha. She probably got the name Dorcas from the Greek Jewish widows living in the coastal city of Jaffa. Tabitha is the Aramaic for her Hebrew name, Tsebiyâh. So it was likely Jews from Greece living in Jaffa that called her Dorcas. All three mean Gazelle, usually understood for beauty of the gazelle, but I thought it was funny that the Greek version Dorcas is also described as a "wild she-goat." Of course Tabernacles is about the indwelling Spirit of God, what went from symbolism to fulfillment in Acts 3, the pouring out of God's Spirit on the disciples in the Upper Room, who then went into the street where the Spirit continued to pour out on others causing them to come to faith in Yeshua, Jesus.

Maybe that last is part of what I identified with Tabitha for. No, seriously I identified with Tabitha having died, and being brought back to life by the healing prayer of the apostle Peter.

I have been increasingly feeling like my ministry was dying - losing subscribers because of Big Tech not allowing delivery of my emails to subscribers calling them suspected spam. I have watched my lists dwindle for several years and nothing has worked to stop me losing people. I don't even know how many of my emails were getting through - maybe hardly any! I just came to end of watching it die. Something drastic had to change.

It was around November that I began to feel like everything I had been about up to that point was dying and I really didn't know where that left me.

My identity is linked to the Israeli Messianic ministries, but all the frustrations with seeing my subscriber lists continuing to dwindle away was just like seeing the death of what I have been doing for the past 25 years. Even though I have no intention of stopping advocating for the body of Messiah in Israel, I related to being like Tabitha — who had been doing good toward the believer "widows" — then just dying off.

When I say I have been doing good towards the believer widows in Israel, I don't mean they are without God, but they sure have been without spiritual kin to help them in their situation. In the last 25 years it has gotten better, but it sure has not ended their need for those who will appeal to the church and state their case to international Christians for the assistance they need.

In that I do consider that I have done good for the Israeli body of the Lord. There have been times when I knew they could look at me knowing that I knew what God was calling for the Church to do to assist them, and to keep that hope alive that if I knew, then more would come to know. When you are in the trenches of spiritual warfare, any glimmer of hope will boost the heart. I realize I have been small potatoes, but I know what God says about the body in Israel and the one new man. That's not small potatoes.

I have left the article about Tabitha up on one of my browsers for the past months since I first came across it. It's here as a reminder to me that Tabitha didn't stay dead.

It's a good thing to remember because right now I have been feeling pretty stripped down to nothing. Oh, I am feeling good about not being on a weekly treadmill of putting my Israel Prayer lists out every week. I have rested and written more in this first week of going only twice a month with the lists. That is good. But changing my means of the distribution of the email lists, I haven't got a clue how that is all going to work out. I just know I could not stay where I was letting subscribers be picked off without trying to do something better. Maybe that is going to be the same no matter what. If the EU has convinced Big Tech to censor according to their preferences, then I imagine that is just how it is going to be. Tech censorship will increase, not decrease.

Like Tabitha, I sort of feel dead right now, waiting for whatever God has for me to be able to arise and stand up again for the sake of the body in Israel. This part of my life has not "passed away." How could it? It isn't done yet.

Of all the women in the Bible that I have related to in my past, I never even considered that I would relate to Tabitha/Dorcas. I'm not looking at a physical death, but everything I have been about for 25 years spiritually is hanging by a thread right now. I don't know what God is going to do, but I do believe God is going to do something for me here.

 

Christians Who Reject Supporting Israel

Sometimes I think Christians are looking for a way out of God's command to stand with Israel when their respected spiritual leaders — the ones who actually do — tell them God said they need to do that. Instead they want to know which Israelis it is okay to hate: Are they just supposed to support the general Israeli public leaving them free to hate the Israeli government, or what? It always makes me wonder just who they are listening to that they want a clear path to hating the Israeli government for decisions they believe deserve their hatred. It isn't God's Word they are listening to. I heard today that one Christian woman said she would rather go to hell and praise God from there rather than to support Israel. This is a woman who does not know God, does not believe His word is true, and does not respect the FACT that God Himself calls EVERY Christian to love and support Israel. She surely may end up in hell if she doesn't have a change of heart.

The people of Israel are like all human beings on the planet: they need salvation by faith in Jesus. Jesus to English-speakers, Yeshua to Hebrew speakers and his mama.

I don't always agree with the Israeli government especially when the religious Jewish leaders have too much influence on Israeli policy and ALSO when the Liberal parties are running the country. I have very little beef with ANY of Netanyahu's policies - except when he bends to the ultra-Orthodox or Orthodox parties on issues that impact religious freedom among my friends, the Jewish believers in Yeshua in Israel.

I suspect that the woman who said she would rather stand in hell praising God than support Israel has been feeding on the abundance of FALSE narratives about Israel. Maybe she is in the fold of those Christians who know NOTHING about the facts of history regarding the conflicts between the Palestinians and Israel (or the other Arab Islamist states against Israel.

If she doesn't wise up and start loving the truth and trusting God and His Word, I imagine she is going to have a lot of like-minded friends in her corner of hell designated especially for antisemitic haters. Seriously, antisemitism is a form of mental illness. Spiritual mental illness.

My Intolerance in Spiritual Things

 

by Donna Diorio

This morning I have been thinking about my intolerance about spiritual things over the years. First of all was the prosperity message. I was just learning the Word of God but I knew the way it was being taught by the premier prosperity preacher of the day, it was not God.

Then came my intolerance for Christian preaching and prophetic that smacked of replacement ideas (Christians have replaced Israel as God's Chosen people after God rejected Israel). Not what I was reading in my Bible and in the same time frame I was exposed to an Israeli believer who opened my eyes to "one new man."

When I went into a Messianic synagogue next I found I became intolerant of the delight in people as prophets who claimed whenever a natural disaster like a hurricane or volcano or earthquake hit, that the reason was God punishing America for some bad move the President made against Israel.

And I also became quite intolerant that Christians who hung on every word of unsaved rabbis talking about rebuilding the Third Temple. Don't people read their Bibles, or what?! That temple is not the one GOD is building in Israel by faith in His Son. That Third Temple is the AntiChrist temple. Why would Christians delight in the building of that and not in the building of the LIVING Temple. (Yeah, I know, you only embrace that because it means Jesus will be returning soon. Honestly, the salvation of Jews in Israel is a MUCH BIGGER sign of Yeshua's return).

And why don't American Messianic congregations correct that? Maybe because at least Christians are finally supporting Israel. Or,
maybe even because there are some Messianic ministries in Israel that embrace the fascination of rebuilding the Third Temple themselves.

It is disconcerting to me that what the Bible calls things that are earthly symbols of Heavenly realities, that so many Christians get fixated on the symbols, ignoring how the earthly symbols only become idols to people who throw off their focus of the Heavenly reality. Yes, I'm talking about red heifers, 3rd temple, Ark of the Covenant.

When I left the Messianic congregation I went out to find Christian churches in the area that were open to embrace the body of Messiah in Israel. It would have been nice to find some that also operate in the gifts of the Spirit, but mostly they were too focused on gifts to embrace the Israel thing. Other churches, not so spiritual gift focused, did embrace Israel, but much fewer had any vision whatsoever of God specifically committed to raising up of the Body of Messiah in Israel.

Both types were disconcerting because God has made it a necessity of "one new man" unity between Christians and Israel's Messianic believers fulfilling their mandate of bringing Israelis into the faith of Messiah before the end of the age.

That unity is why Israeli unsaved rabbis rally against the Messianic believers and those that support them. Yeah, I have been intolerant of them too, although I am well aware that the apostle Paul was the proverbial forerunner of rabbinic opposition being knocked off their high horse blinded by the radiance of Yeshua.

They are coming too, but they aren't the first ones that are coming to faith. Many Christians seem to think the religious in Israel are closer to God than the worldly, but it isn't so. The worldly will seek His peace long before most of the religious.

I found I could not sit in Christian churches that did not have an inkling of what God is going to do in one new man. Long term for me it would be like going to a church were the gifts of the Spirit are not believed to be for today. Some are called to sit there and pray for that church, but I guess I need to be fed myself more than that. I get that online.

My intolerances about spiritual things. I truly don't want to be abrasive to people who don't see what God is up to with the Church and body in Israel. I never have been a Diplomacy-First writer. I do pray God will help me to be more patient with people so they can learn about the things so pivotal to what we have already begun to walk out regarding one new man. And I pray also that more Christians would Awake and Arise to their calling to unity with Israeli believers.

I searched for a suitable picture to go with the verse in my spirit this morning. In the place that I found this picture of Amos 3:3, I also found this quote which is ultimately the answer.

"The essence of faith is the power of agreement with God and who He is that releases His supernatural power. The Word of God has the inherent power to carry it out (Hebrews 4:12; Isaiah 55:11). Therefore, we must walk in agreement with God and His Word. But we must grow into agreement with God which is a process (Romans 10:17)."

A Deeper Look at the Beit Asaph Netanya Congregation & the State of One New Man

by Donna Diorio
January 10, 2026 
Yesterday I put my Israelprayer Summary and Arrows from Zion out. I want to go deeper into the report of one of the ministries in the Mediterranean seaside town of Netanya. I love the cities along the the coastline so much - just my preference for being near the water - but that is not why I want to talk about the Beit Asaph congregation in more depth. More so it is because of their journey over the past years and what the senior leader Evan Thomas just reported this week.

The Israeli ministries have been living through a 'Great Depression' as deep as the stories I have heard about the American Great Depression (1929-39). Their ministry letters mostly sound upbeat, but also there has been a deep sadness of a people who are dragging themselves through extremely depressing circumstances. The kind of malaise that settles on people experiencing great lack with no end in sight. These are exactly the kinds of depression that most godly people want to keep tucked in so everyone doesn't see it and heap condemnation on them on top of it.

What happened in Israel is that when Covid hit, their government, like the rest of the governments, believed what they were seeing as China pantomimed great disaster befalling them. We should have known it was not real because China would have made sure we didn't see their weakness if it had been real. It was all a show to terrorize the world into shutting down everything completely and giving harmful vaccinations to everyone.

When Israel shut down everything there were few who opposed the vaccines and refused to be arm-twisted into taking it. Most obeyed the government, everything came to a halt and Israelis were given one of the worst of the vaccines available. Approximately 5.1 million Israelis took two doses of the BNT162b2 messenger RNA vaccine (Pfizer–BioNTech) within a year and a quarter after the "pandemic" broke out in January 2020.

I can tell you that the Israeli ministries were already hurting financially before the phony pandemic, but the closure of all public activity was a hard body slam on the body of the Lord in Israel. Yes, they went to Zoom meetings to keep their congregations fed and ministered to, but everything that normally funded the operations of the congregations and ministries came to a full halt. Among their own people few held jobs that kept them earning through the shut down. The need for humanitarian help grew increasingly to include congregational members suddenly without incomes.

There was no tourism - one of the great sources of jobs of many in the congregations. Also that dealt a blow to connecting with international Christians who had been coming to Israel to acquaint themselves with the believer ministries and become financial supporters of them. Staffs had to cut. There was no way to pay them. Outreaches had to be cut with little funding to continue at the levels they had been operating in. It can be quite depressing to make these kinds of cuts.

I want to say right here that most of the ministries I have featured in my Israel Prayer lists for the past 25 years, if not ALL, believe that it is part of the biblical promises of God that in the end times and leading up to them. In Yeshua/Jesus, He is going to bring a unity and cooperation between the Church and the believer body of Messiah in Israel that will fulfill what Paul spoke in Romans 15:27:

"For if the Christians in the nations have been made partakers of the Jews' spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in material things."

What that means is that among Christians, there will be a recognition of the fact that everything we stand in before God, all of the yes and amen promises in the faith of Jesus, came to us through the Jewish lineage and faith. God developed His point of view - His Word - among the called out and chosen people that He has good plans for all the way to the end. It was always in the plan to set them aside for a season where faith would be opened to bring in His promises to all nations, and then return to reclaim His inheritance in Israel. God will do that through the unity of "one new man" that He is creating in Jew and Gentile to be the same sort of beneficial team that a husband and wife are created to be in marriage before God.

Right now, despite the late spiritual hour, "one new man" looks more like Ezekiel's vision of the valley of Dry Bones! Our bones may be assembled and we may be standing, but a living in a unity together does not have much flesh on those bones! The Holy Spirit has breathed life into our unity on only a very few entering into to unity earnestly.

As for the Jewish people as a whole, they operate under the widely believed proverb that they only people that Jews can count on are other Jews. This is a wall between Christians and Messianic Jews and Christians really have not demonstrated we can be counted on - not as a widespread group. Not every Christian will move into the "one new man" relationship that God sees for Messianic Jews and Christians in the end time - but I tell you, those Christians that refuse to enter into it are jeopardizing themselves. It is going to take us both in the faith of Yeshua/Jesus to do what God wants. This is not a cafeteria choice. It is not optional for our futures.

That is why in one way I thoroughly rejoiced at Evan Thomas' news that after two years they had successfully signed the final documents for their purchase agreement for the Beit Asaph Community Center. You see, when the pandemic began, they made the hard decision to close down their congregational meeting place completely. They judged that they had no ability to hang onto it, continuing to wrack up debt. It was tough because the pandemic would lift at some point, then what would they do?

They planned out the best ways to deal with going forward after the pandemic and then worked their plan. I know of no other congregation in Israel who went about dealing with the rough situation as Beit Asaph did, but I know plenty of congregations in Israel that I have sensed a great depression resting upon them. It is the result of dealing with the lacks they have been dealing with for years. When does relief come?

Almost as soon as the pandemic closures ended and travel became available again — IF you took the coerced vaccines — then came the 2023 war because of Islamist hatred. Even more grief, depression, lack, overwhelming of all the Israeli people - including the ministries. If you ever meet ministers who are unaffected by trials like this, that is not super faith, that is not caring. Yes, we hold our peace and continue forward to do the work the Lord has given us, but we are not without the emotions of battering and lack.

What Evan Thomas reported was that since 2023 their Beit Asaph congregation of 90 souls in Netanya has raised the 4.5 million shekels for their congregational Community Center! That is astounding.

Evan writes, "We keep being reminded of God's timing (Kairos) as we live and serve Him in this unique place, Israel. There is no doubt in our minds that this is a 'watershed season' in history. We are reminded of the words from the Apostle's letter to the Romans, chapter 13, verse 11: "And do this, understanding the present time: the hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed."

His citation of "the hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber" is EXACTLY what my changes with my Israelprayer lists are about! I am shutting down the old operation to turn my message into the more demanding message, that it is time to AWAKE and ARISE to the glory of our one new man identity and responsibilities for the coming years.

I want to share with you other things Evan wrote - not everything, but I thought key things he said that Christians need to know. First because I think that both Christians and Messianic Jews in the Diaspora have the idea that 'Ministry is tough all over, why should the Israeli ministries get special treatment in donations?

Let me tell you why: Jews do get saved in the Diaspora, but the promise of God in the end times is that He is regathering Jews back to Israel where He is going to remove the veil so they can see Yeshua/Jesus. Salvation of the Jews is going to be most VISIBLE in Israel - and it is not going to come about because of evangelistic tourism, it is going to be Israeli believers ministering to their own people, discipling them, nurturing them, sending them out in operation of the spiritual gifts and administrations the Holy Spirit gives them. Yeah. Israel is significant, and Diaspora Jews and international Christians should AWAKE to that reality, and ARISE to the calling God has for us to support them - in every way!

So Evan wrote, "We knew we must begin the funding process within the congregation, starting with the pastors and their families. The next step was to send out an appeal to the pastors of the local Messianic and Christian Body in Israel. In both cases, the results were exceptional and the level of giving was truly sacrificial! The final step was to reach out to our international community, with whom we have developed deep personal relationships over four decades of ministry. Everyone’s support and generosity have humbled us.

"The two pastors of Beit Asaph have ‘separate yet connected goals’ for the project. Lev’s goal is to provide a permanent home for the Beit Asaph community for the generations to come. Evan’s goal is self-sustainability – to break the financial dependency on the International Christian community for our existence. Both goals resonate deeply with many of our ministry colleagues around the country. We pray this successful completion of this project will provide a valuable example to the Believing community in the Land – to Jewish and Arab Yeshua followers alike! Pray together with us please towards that end!"

Now what broke my heart is that Evan's goal was "self-sustainability – to break the financial dependency on the International Christian community for our existence" and the fact that many of their ministry colleagues in Israel resonated with that.

I'm sure many Christians and Diaspora Messianics are thinking, 'What's wrong with that? That's how we all have to operate.'

I'll tell you what's wrong with that, first of all it fails to acknowledge the significantly greater hardships that the Israeli Messianic congregations and ministries face every single day and every single year. It also sounds to me like the Jewish adage, "The only ones we can trust are other Jews." That may be the historical case, but it is NOT the prophetic declaration that God has made over us becoming truly "one new man."

I am thrilled with the great blessing that has come to the Beit Asaph congregation. But I have not given up on seeing God's plan for us to finally enter into the kind of relationship that is best analogized as a marriage between a man and a woman. Two differently designed human beings to come together bringing their differences into a unity that makes them together a much greater home for offspring to be born into. Each of them bring how God designed them differently as male and female (Jew and Gentile) into a unifying covenant that benefits them and all the family born because of their love for one another.

That is the answer to Christians of 'What's in it for us?' Because as more and more Jews come to faith, God is going to bring more and more Gentiles into faith too. In the final witness against all the international hatred of Israel — really hatred of God — there is going to be a huge light set upon the hill of Israeli Jews in the faith of Yeshua/Jesus before the end. That's what's in it for us. . .plus the pleasure of God that we could lay it all down in obedience to His word about it.

Congratulations, Evan. God is with you.

Arrows Jan 9 2026 And We're Off!

 And We’re Off! 
A New EVERYTHING Going FORWARD

Arrows from Zion
Summarized  Prayer Requests Israeli Ministries

Arni & Yonit Klein of Emmaus Way write, “Never before have we launched into a new year with the kind of vista we have presently before us….The nature of what is before us will require our making four trips to Uganda in 2026 for a month each time. The way it all began, has unfolded, and is projected bears the testimony that God has gone before us. Please write to Arni and Yonit on the financial breakdown of the ministry commitment to the Ugandan ministry brothers. Ask them to email you their last two ministry letters regarding how this came about and how they are going forth. | Donate here

Howard & Randi Bass of Yeshua’s Inheritance write, “2026 looms as a pivotal year towards moving along prophetic foretold future history. . . . I do not remember when we started so well here in the northern Negev so early in the season, but we have already had several good and heavy rains….We have also had some very strong winds. . . .Three new articles by Howard are The Gospel, the New Covenant and the Messianic Faith are neither Jewish nor Greek | Living Bread of Redemptive Progress | Replacement Theology and the Millennial Kingdom.  Thank-you all for your active interest and prayerful support spiritually and materially in the life which God has called us to, and sent us out to do as good and faithful stewards within His house and Kingdom. See donation information on Streams in the Desert website page.

Jackie Santoro, Zion’s Glory, writes about things going on in Israel and in her congregation, Ahavat Yeshua in Jerusalem which she reports God is moving them forward with 3 Sabra Israelis baptized recently and last week 3 young non believers attended their meeting. Jackie writes, “We are entering a new season in our children's program and we are anticipating entering into a new level with the kids. We are keenly aware of the responsibility we have to steward them in the unique calling that they have as they grow up in Jerusalem, the epicenter of some of the most intense spiritual warfare in the world. . . . While we are excited to see all these wonderful things beginning to happen, there is a sobering rise of antisemitism in the world that is increasing every day. It is incredible to think how the Jewish people have never had a break from this curse.” . . .  The good news is that the light of the Lord is growing brighter each day here in Israel and we have a unique calling to hold our ground in Jerusalem and to prepare the way for Yeshua's coming. . . . . As there is no retirement in the Lord, I continue to look forward and press on to the high calling for which Yeshua took hold of me for.” Email Jackie

HaMaayan congregation publishes their whole ministry letter (with many pictures) online (click here) They write how “the Lord is opening new doors of ministries to reach out to the Gentile nations” with activity in outreaches in India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Ukraine, Armenia, Cuba and minority groups throughout the Middle East. “This vision of the “One New Man” Jews and Gentiles working together to bring the Kingdom of the Peace of God, is growing in our midst.” Donations info online

Evan Thomas of the Beit Asaph congregation is over the moon at the unbelievable thing God has done with securing their final documents for their Community Center: “4.5 million shekels is a lot of money for a congregation of ninety souls to raise in only two years!”….Numbers of you have acted as ‘advocates’ on our behalf and this proved to be an enormous help. Thank you everyone for your various roles in this process. We knew we must begin the funding process within the congregation, starting with the pastors and their families. The next step was to send out an appeal to the pastors of the local Messianic and Christian Body in Israel. In both cases, the results were exceptional and the level of giving was truly sacrificial! . . . .The two pastors of Beit Asaph have ‘separate yet connected goals’ for the project. Lev’s goal is to provide a permanent home for the Beit Asaph community for the generations to come. Evan’s goal is self-sustainability – to break the financial dependency on the International Christian community for our existence. Both goals resonate deeply with many of our ministry colleagues around the country. (DD: If you ask me, this is a shame because of the amount of money believers donate to Israel – just not to those share the Gospel in Israel!)   All those interested to know more about this exciting development, email Evan at ethom56@gmail.com 

Ronit Bender blesses people she meets in her community and her blessings become an open doorway to their heart to share her faith. In this latest letter she shared about 4 women she met, blessed and was able to share with. If you want to learn how to do organic personal evangelism, you should subscribe to her email. Ronit has been a widow for 12 years, lives in Isfiya and is part of the Carmel congregation. Your donation will help her Spirit led generosity to strangers the Lord points out to her, as well as her own life expenses. PayPal: trbender@gmail.com

Avner Boskey of David’s Tent had two new articles out in December 12/21 Writing on how the US is handling the rising anti-Semitism in Broccoli and blessings | and on 12/29 Where is the Promise of His Coming? To What Shall I Compare the People of This Generation? The mockers the Apostle Peter warned us about at the end of the age. Subscribe and Donate

Reuven Doron One New Man Today has a great Facebook post called 2026 PREP JOB with the important reminder that Israel was and always IS our example of what’s coming next – for good or for bad! “Consequently, as 2026 rolls in, what examples can we learn from Israel during this season of war, hardship, and harvest?” Subscribe and Donate

Chaim Malespin The Faithful Galileans another great Facebook post: Water from the Rock: When the Flow Depends on Alignment. “The flow was released because Moses was aligned with with Elohim’s instruction. This is quite excellent to examine what is blocking our flow of blessing. [and Aliyah Return Center]

Dani & LuAnne Sayag at HaCarmel congregation cite Ps 102:14 "You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to be gracious to her, for the appointed time has come." This verse gives us hope in times of great pain. It carries a promise that God is not indifferent to His people. He will arise. He will act. He will show mercy. In Hebrew, this word “mercy" means grace that is not dependent on our good deeds, but on God. . . . The same God Who has shown mercy and grace to Israel in this last year will show mercy and grace to you as you call out to Him in the midst of your challenges.| Watch weekly services:  Kehilat HaCarmel YouTube channel  To Donate | To Subscribe email

Avi Mizrachi of Dugit Messianic Outreach announces announce our upcoming Dugit Living Stones Tour in Israel! We’ll journey together through the Land, meet the people, and experience firsthand what God is doing through Dugit in Tel Aviv and beyond. This is more than a tour—it’s an opportunity to connect with the heart of the ministry, encounter living testimonies, and walk the ancient paths where Scripture comes alive. If you’ve been praying about visiting Israel or wanting to learn more about the work happening here, this is a beautiful opportunity. Early bird registration

Out of Zion Ministries’ David Silver returns with The World Versus God. “In Genesis 15, God seals that promise (of the land of Israel) through a blood covenant, personally defining the borders of the land He was giving…."Scripture is not vague on this matter. Numerous passages affirm that the land of Israel was promised to the Jewish people and that God would regather them there in the latter days. The Bible also declares that Yeshua will one day rule the nations from Jerusalem, from a rebuilt Temple, in the undivided capital of Israel." To receive this email by forward, click here then fill in your name & email address. Then you can read it in full.

Jennifer Guetta of Plant Hope Israel gives an end of the year message VIDEO. ALSO Pray for Jennifer’s Blocked Book on Amazon: The Strategies of Jezebel Exposed | Jennifer is busy writing several new books. One of her books about exposing the spirit of Jezebel was recently blocked on Amazon. This means she will not be able to publish the original version on Amazon because the content was too controversial! It is basically because Amazon is censoring Christian books about spiritual warfare. | To support this ministry To subscribe to the ministry letter.

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Youval Yanay directing the community of Revive Israel talks about the Luke 8:4-8 sower sowing seed parable with a new twist: “What if the four soils are not four different people, but one heart? I know that even as a believer in Yeshua, my heart is not made of one kind of soil. There are places that receive the word with joy, and places that resist it. Places hardened by experience, places crowded with thorns, places still rocky and shallow. And then, by God’s grace, places that are becoming good soil. Jesus draws our attention to the good soil because this is where fruit is born. But good soil is not clean soil. And it is not painless soil. Good soil is living soil. . . .Really good soil is full of life, millions of microorganisms, bacteria, fungi, and unseen creatures working constantly beneath the surface. Their task is not to keep things pristine, but to break down what is dead and turn it into nourishment. Fallen leaves. Dead roots. Decaying matter. Life comes from death. This is what makes soil good. In the same way, God is not looking for a heart that is untouched or flawless. He is looking for a heart that allows Him to work. A heart that does not hide its pain. A heart that brings what is broken, heavy, or dead into His presence and trusts Him to transform it….”
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The Season of Accusation

 The Season of Accusation

The current trend of Christian accusation against fellow Christians is an easily recognizable pattern with the foremost being Christians taking up the offense of the women's movement mindset of being abused by the patriarchy leading to the onslaught of sexual abuse accusations currently roiling the Church in America.

The second is a by-product of the accusations of rapes where no rapes occurred, and that is in the accusation of "prophetic manipulation" which has been used primarily as an excuse for women who have been involved in any level sexual activity - including sexual fantasies - related to their accusation of sexual abuse against a Christin leader.

"Prophetic manipulation" is the equivalent of "grooming" in non-religious sexual abuse accusations. It is used to weaponize normal behaviors making them more sinister than they actually are. Grooming is a valid term in CHILD sexual abuse, but is no excuse for any level of sexual temptations involving people of the age of consent.

The standard of judging these accusations is so loose, that almost anything can be chalked up to sexual abuse by a Christian leader and the accusation of "prophetic manipulation" can also be widely applied. It's now becoming a trend in non-sexual accusation, mostly applied to money. No one has to give any donation they don't want to, but for some reason asking for donations is OFTEN seen as a manipulation Christians use.

Many non-believers love to weigh in online on these particular accusations and parts of the Church even have developed a code name - NAR - that they use to discredit the Christian leaders who follow the New Testament injunction, "Do not despise prophecies." 1 Thessalonians 5:20

Is there sexual failure in church leadership? Yes, and even more in the pews.

Is there prophetic manipulation among those who prophesy? Yes, but whose responsibility is it not to be led around by your nose because of prophecy? It's your responsibility and if you do not exercise your own discernment, it will be your own failing when you do not reject all forms of prophetic manipulation.

As the Bible advises us, in 1 John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."

In the first year of my return to God I was in a Faith church where everybody prophesied to everybody. But one day as a man started prophesying to me, the voice of God in my head spoke louder telling me that I had been absorbing everything I heard like a sponge since I returned to faith, and I needed to stop doing that and starting testing what I was hearing or I would end up with all the errors of those who were speaking to me.

Some call me rebellious but I have taken that word to heart. God made my love His Word, directly from the pages of the Bible, and nothing anyone ever said should be made higher than His Word.

Manipulation comes from every direction in human life. Sometimes we have a mother or father that uses manipulation to dominate us, even as children. It makes us wary of authority figures when we realize this is what our relationship was like with a parent.

But it also does not destroy the natural love we have even for a manipulating mom or dad. This should be true of our spiritual moms and dads too. Manipulation is a technique human beings pick up to better control what happens to them in life. The primary purpose is to look out for themselves, often they live with a deep sense of having not being taken care of, so they must take care of themselves through manipulation of those around them.

That is not to excuse their sin, but to humanize it. We all sin - before and after salvation. Manipulating others can turn into much greater sin becoming habitual and allowing the controlling spirit of Jezebel full reign in us. This is a sin that we must first repent of, get deliverance from, and for the rest of our lives keep watch over ourselves not to fall back into that spirit-sin. Using sexuality is just one tool of the Jezebel spirit, who driving force is to control others. The book of Revelation mentions "Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess" specifically because the end times will be fraught with the sins of that controlling spirit. Anyone who can see in the Spirit of God should be able to recognize the flood of activity of the Jezebel spirit already a major spirit of this age.

Whether it is in family relationships or in the church, at some point as we spiritually mature, we each have take responsibility to recognize attempts to manipulate us and to reject it. That doesn't always mean burning down the House of God to do it. In fact, it is not spiritually mature at all to take that route!

One of the biblical examples I can think of is in 1 Kings 13 when a young prophet who was sent by God on a mission with very specific orders "‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came’”. That was going well UNTIL an old prophet comes out and LIES to the young prophet on his way home by saying, "“I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’”

At supper the old prophet suddenly received a true word from God: “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have defied the word of the Lord and have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you. You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.”

When the young prophet left, “a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.”

The old prophet who had lied buried the young man of God in his own grave and instructed his own sons to, upon his death, to bury him beside the young prophet. In doing these things, the old prophet showed his sincere belief that the prophet who died had been a true man of God—his prophecies against the idolaters of Israel would come true (1 Kings 13:31–32).

True prophets sometimes don't obey what God tells them, even after they deliver a hard word to a king, and sometimes even seasoned old prophets lie. The greatly revered prophet Moses is also an example. He struck the rock instead of speaking to it as commanded. His consequence was not going into the Promised Land, although Moses surely ascended into Heaven at death.

We are ALL RESPONSIBILE for what God speaks to us. There is no "entitlement" for the young prophet to say, the OLD prophet lied to me. And even the old prophet who lied to the younger prophet recognized that the younger's failure to obey the word of God to him, did NOT MAKE the young man A FALSE prophet.

Why did the older prophet lie to the younger? Clearly he did not intend to cause the death of the young prophet, but he did not take seriously the parameters that God had set out for the younger prophet to follow.

Both the donkey and the lion stood by the young prophet's dead body - the donkey as a witness to the stubbornness of the king who would reject the young prophet's prophecy and the lion as a witness to the old prophet who lied and caused the death of the younger prophet - whose death potentially impacted the king not to pay attention to the young man's prophetic warning.

The old prophet recognized that because the LORD allowed the lion to kill the young prophet on his wayward way home, that the word of the Lord to the young prophet was true. That is the reason the old prophet told his own sons that when he died he should be buried next to the young prophet as a sign that the younger had truly been a prophet of God.

What does all this have to do with the accusations against the men of God in our time? A lot.

First the season of accusations come out of the secular mindset of entitlement and their bogus attempt to establish justice apart from the accountability of ourselves before God. This entitlement has infantilized women and young people. Where no personal responsibility is expected, there entitlement stands to accuse others of our own failures to test the spirits and not blame others for the failures we take part in with others.

I did a lot more research this morning on Grok about who is talking about "prophetic manipulation," who is accused of it, what is "prophetic witchcraft" and other questions I had about it. The one thing lacking that I saw is what I wrote about today. And I hope you are paying attention out there, because like someone told me recently, "I tell my kids, 'when you stand before God, mama won't be standing beside you.' Which is a great way to express how we are ALL responsible for our own stuff before God. There is no "entitlement" excuses that works with our Heavenly Father.