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December 2019 $2.25 53 Billion Barrel Oil Field Discovered P. 16 Startup Fundbox Raises $326 Million for High Tech P.19 Healthcare Investment Low, Life Expectancy High P. 21 Is Immigration to Israel More Important Than the Prayer for Conversion of the Jews? Israel: Part 5 P. 9 The Lost Temple • Solution Preventing Bridge and Tunnel Disasters A perfect gift for all who love Israel! NEW Looking at these glorious pictures of Israel, you will be reminded daily to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” with the knowledge that “they shall prosper that love thee” (Psalm 122:6). Also, this calendar is a great gift for family, friends, coworkers and church members. 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This belief strate beyond all doubt who is is based on Isaiah 49:6, in which meant by the term “servant of the the servant of the Lord is said to LORD.” be the light to the nations. Who is These passages were originally meant by the “servant of the considered messianic in Judaism. LORD”? We can draw the clear But in response to the spread of conclusion from verse 3 and other the Christian faith, these texts passages that Israel is meant, since speaking of the Lord’s servant as it says, “Thou art my servant, O the Messiah were later said to Israel, in whom I will be glori - reference Israel. According to this fied.” interpretation, Judaism today re - But in verses 5 and 6, it is said gards Israel as the suffering ser - that the servant will gather Israel vant of God, and thus also the to Him and raise up the tribes of light to the nations, or la’Goyim Israel. This makes it clear that Is - in Hebrew. rael itself cannot be meant by the In Matthew 5:14, Jesus calls the servant, but someone else. Fur - ones who follow His Word and thermore, it’s made clear in Isaiah act accordingly “the light of the 42 that the Messiah is meant. world.” However, it needs to be Verses 1, 4, and 6 particularly clear to us that we can never truly 4 be light, but can only emanate the prising, since only the Messiah light He has given us (just as the is the bearer of the true light of moon itself cannot shine, but only God. reflects the sun’s rays). Yet God will uphold what He God had chosen Abraham to has intended to do for the peo - bless all peoples through his seed. ple of Israel. In the coming mil - In Galatians 3:16, Paul explains lennial kingdom, in which the that the term “seed” doesn’t mean Messiah will reign, the blessing all the people of Israel, but the that God promised Abraham Messiah: “Now to Abraham and will be completely fulfilled and his seed were the promises made. will pervade all nations. He saith not, And to seeds, as of At Christmastime, when we many; but as of one, And to thy commemorate the coming of seed, which is Christ.” Abraham’s promised seed—who God made His promises come has brought us God’s true light true in Jesus Christ, Abraham’s and blessing—this desire is re - greatest descendant, and so the peatedly fulfilled in us: that it pr omised blessing came to all would soon be visible to the nations through the proclama - whole world by His coming again tion of the gospel. to establish His kingdom of light In Israel, you repeatedly hear and blessing on earth. the view that they, the mem - In the joy that we can know bers of the Jewish people, actu - the Prince of Peace and believe ally have a calling to be a light in Him, I send you my warmest for the nations. At the same regards with Shalom and best time, however, the speaker al - wishes for a blessed holiday ways expresses disappointment season. that they are repeatedly, Yours, shamefully, failing in this sup - posed mission. This is unsur - % 1-800-845-2420 Visit midnightcall.com DECEMBER 2019 5 Cover Story Prayer for Israel: Part 5 BY JOHANNES PFLAUM Paul writes to the Romans in chapter 10:1, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” The apostle prayed for the salvation of his own people. 6 Cover Story Clearly, the watchmen on Jerusalem’s walls are not the Israeli army or mem - bers of the Secret Service … They are those who fear the Lord. arlier, in the first few nese Christian hope that verses of chapter 9, many Chinese could be Ehe speaks of his won for the Lord. There intense wish for the salva - is nothing wrong with that. tion of “my kinsmen In fact, Christians should according to the flesh.” have an overarching mis - That means more than an sionary concern for their overall patriotic concern own countrymen. for salvation … such as a In chapters 9 to 11, Paul Swiss believer might discusses the election of, express a wish that many and promises for Israel; of the Swiss would come God’s dealings with His to faith in Christ, or Chi - people; and the relationship % 1-800-845-2420 Visit midnightcall.com DECEMBER 2019 7 Prayer for Israel: Part 5 of Israel and the Church, Going back to the con - until such time as God has versation between two completed His purpose for Christians concerning any Israel and all honor and responsibility the Church glory is His alone. That might have for the Jewish is the reason why Paul people: one of them had a implores God for Israel. simplistic answer, namely, He desires that the Jews “The Lord will see to already at his present time Israel’s future.” Yes, defi - would recognize Jesus as nitely, He will! We read their Messiah and be about Jerusalem in Isaiah brought to salvation. At chapter 62, and we know the same time, though, it that its fate is always inex - is also a prayer for the tricably bound to Israel’s return of Jesus and the final destiny. But God wants us salvation of Israel. to remind Him of this. The responsibility to pray Clearly, the watchmen is also incumbent upon the on Jerusalem’s walls are Church of Jesus Christ. And not the Israeli army or it is in this manner that we members of the Secret Serv - should pray for Israel. ice … They are those who “I have set watchmen fear the Lord, who know upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, His salvation plan and take which shall never hold their it seriously. Since that peace day or night: ye that prophecy has not yet been make mention of the LORD, fulfilled, this is the com - keep not silence, And give mission for the Church of Him no rest, till He establish, Jesus Christ.