The Chosen People NOVEMBER 2016 Volume XXII, Issue 7

PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF INSIDE: The Psalms of Ascent • U.S. Presidents and Israel: 1948 to Today • The Superior Priesthood of Yeshua: Hebrews 5:1-10 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 122:6 Reprinted with permission of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 2016. Credit: Timothy R. Botts/IFCJ Timothy Reprinted with permission of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 2016. Credit:

Dear friend in the Messiah, Please share this with your family, Aliyah (“to go up”) Festivals: , Shalom in His peace. This is an study groups and local congregations. Shavuot (Weeks or Pentecost) and important time for us in the United The more we pray the greater we will Tabernacles. States of America as we choose our next experience God’s blessing upon our president. Of course, I am writing to country. Psalm 122:6 you before the election and so I have no In looking over various Bible studies idea at this stage who won! I know that The Psalms of Ascent on the Psalms of Ascent, especially whoever wins the election will find Psalm 122 is considered one of the Psalm 121, one begins to notice a their work blessed by God when they Psalms of Ascent and King is pattern that strikes at the heart of base their decisions and policies on the usually recognized as the author of this everyday biblical interpretation. Most principles of God’s Word. beautiful piece of divinely inspired commentaries or Bible studies on the As a Messianic Jew and leader of one poetry. Psalms identify the major theme of of the oldest Jewish missions in the This grouping of Psalms includes these Psalms as worship. Certainly there world, one of my deepest concerns Psalms 120-133. Thematically this is much in the text about worship, as in regarding the election is that whoever section of Psalms begins with verse 1, “I was glad when they said to me, our nation chooses will be favorable repentance and concludes with the let us go to the house of the Lord.” And towards the nation of Israel. This is one Psalmist extolling the virtues of then again in verse 4, “…to give thanks of the reasons why I have decided to community. We all know the well- to the name of the Lord,” which could issue a call to prayer for all of us, so that known beginning of the last Psalm in specifically refer to the offering of our national and church leadership will this group, “How good and pleasant it is thanksgiving sacrifices at the Temple seek the face of the Jewish Messiah for for brothers to dwell together in unity.” and not simply to singing songs of the good of His chosen people. Traditionally, it is understood that thanksgiving. In Psalm 122:6, we are actually these Pilgrim Psalms were sung by the However, a more literal reading of commanded to pray for the peace of children of Israel as they climbed the the Psalm would bring you to the Jerusalem. It is my hope that we will craggy and dangerous paths towards conclusion that the real focus is the take this mandate for prayer seriously. Mount Zion to celebrate the three actual destination of the pilgrims—

2 The Chosen People January_2009_Newsletter_Lead-MG_AS_Draft.doc 3 President Dr. Mitch Glaser Mitch Dr. Your brother in the Messiah, brother Your Mitch Thank You For Praying Thank You If we bless Israel then we are are we Israel then bless If we Thank you so much for praying for for praying much so Thank you for the to pray Please remember especially grateful are for your We Thanks for caring. be translated as “put at ease” or to at ease” “put as be translated The prosperity described is “quiet.” This soul and life. a quality of therefore to Jerusalem those who love enables a similar personal as peace enjoy city. chosen God’s by enjoyed participating of God’s in the unfolding which people, Jewish to the promises One of impacts the Gentiles. directly Israel and the can bless we the ways for the peace of people is to pray Jewish will receive we do, When we Jerusalem. buy—His can never what money very which is the in our lives, presence of both shalom and shalah! source the peace of Jerusalem—that the Prince in the hearts might reign of of Peace in the land of Israel and individuals the globe and experienceacross the life that the Messiah promised abundant 10:10). ago (John years so many Ministries in People of Chosen work center in the especially our new Israel, I cannot tell Aviv. Tel heart of greater excited I am about this how you midst of will be in the as we outreach secular of thousands of more hundreds literally have Israeli families who would no other witness for the Lord. could not as we support as well, without your this work continue consider you Would sacrificial generosity. giving a special gift to help this month us bring the message of the Prince of chosen people? to God’s Peace

, which can easily shalah, And I will bless those who bless you, you, those who bless And I will bless — and wholeness peace, A Comparison Between God promised to bless those who to bless God promised Abrahamic Psalm 122 parallels the term of the Hebrew used The root The blessing attached to this call to The blessing and the one who curses you I will curse. I will curse. and the one who curses you of the earth all the families And in you will be blessed. When we pray for the peace of for the peace pray When we Psalm 122:6 and Genesis 12:3 bless the Jewish people. The reward for reward The people. the Jewish bless However, Israel is to be blessed! blessing not God had in mind are the blessings and The promises primarily materialistic. obey that come to us when we blessings shapes and formsGod come in many and should not be limited to the things in a right are When we of this world. with Him and obedient to relationship receive we then the blessings Word, His will be myriad! that those promises as David Covenant for the peace of Jerusalem who pray It is curious that the “prosper.” will “love is for those who promise understand we and therefore Jerusalem” are prayers that the aforementioned as holy city, for God’s love by motivated prosper they “May the Psalmist writes, you.” who love is for “prosper” prayer is important and harkens back to is important and harkens prayer God where Abrahamic Covenant the to those who bless blessings promised people as outlined Israel and the Jewish Abram, told Lord the As 12:3. Genesis in Jerusalem. The very name Jerusalem very The Jerusalem. The term hope for peace. includes this word Hebrew the from comes “salem” shalom completeness. for the praying are we Jerusalem hostilities (such ascessation of temporal the enmity terror and missile attacks, Israelis and that exists between most of all for the but Palestinians), Our hope is for return of the Messiah. in the personal peace of those who live the Holy Land!

The First Five Verses Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May “May for the peace of Jerusalem: Pray Three times in a year all your males all your Three times in a year A Focus On Verse Six A Focus On Verse

With this as our context, let’s take a take let’s this as our context, With We should take the Bible and this the Bible should take We The Psalmist calls upon the people The Psalmist instructs the pilgrims to, Then, in verses 3-5, reference is reference 3-5, in verses Then, There is so much to learn the is so much There from they prosper who love you.” they prosper who love shall appear before the Lord your God in your shall appear before the Lord at the Feast of the place which He chooses, Bread and at the Feast of Unleavened and and at the Feast of Booths, Weeks they shall not appear before the Lord as shall give Every man empty-handed. of the to the blessing according he is able, God which you. your He has given Lord

November 2016 November further look at the Psalm. de-literalize the words of the holy text. de-literalize the words Scripture the temptation to - resisting with His Spirit so that we can obey with His Spirit can obey so that we follow, but we should ask God to fill us we but follow, Scripture difficult to sometimes are meanings we attach to it. The words of The words attach to it. meanings we what He actually said and not thewhat He actually said the blessings of God’s Word as we obey obey as we Word of God’s the blessings Psalm as literally as possible and enjoy and enjoy possible Psalm as literally as forms took place. of worship Temple where sacrifice where all other and Temple is Jerusalem! This is the home of theThis is the home is Jerusalem! if this is taken literally, and it should be, and it should be, literally, if this is taken Jerusalem. The great theme of the Psalm, greatThe of the Psalm, theme Jerusalem. of God to pray for the peace of of God to pray to the appeal for prayer in verse six. six. in verse to the appeal for prayer to the role of the Davidic kings, leading kings, of the Davidic to the role to the courts, thrones of David, referring of David, thrones to the courts, the city, thrones of judgment referring thrones the city, made to the tight knit construction of 16:16-17, outlined in Deuteronomy refer to the thanksgiving offeringsrefer term to “give thanks” may very well well very may thanks” “give term to the three great Aliyah Festivals. The Festivals. Aliyah great the three

the Lord—again, on one of probably would travel to Jerusalem to worship to worship to Jerusalem travel would whereby members of the tribeswhereby of Israel the scene by describing a pilgrimage, describingthe scene by a pilgrimage, first five verses of Psalm 122. They set They of Psalm 122. verses first five Reprinted with permission of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 2016. Credit: Timothy R. Botts/IFCJ R. Timothy Credit: 2016. Jews, and Christians of Fellowship International the of permission with Reprinted It was under the Kennedy Administration that Israel was able to purchase Hawk antiaircraft missiles in 1962. The telegram from the Department of State expressing U.S. willingness to sell the Hawk missile system to Israel reads in part, srael and the U.S. share a long history. Israel has proven to “…[in view of the] build-up of offensive air and missile capability be a loyal ally and valuable friend in the Middle East. Once in the area we are obliged to respond sympathetically to Israel’s request a month, hundreds of Department of Defense personnel for short-range, purely defensive ground-to-air interceptor missiles.”6 travel to Israel for joint military, naval, and police exercises heldI between the two nations. In fact, Israeli military Gerald Ford, equipment is often used by the United States. Furthermore, the “A strong Israel is essential to a stable peace in the U.S. and Israel share many political and philosophical values, Middle East. Our commitment to Israel will meet the such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. test of American stead[fastness], fairness, and resolve”7 Since Israel’s founding as a nation she has been supported Ronald Reagan, by the U.S. military and also by our presidents. The U.S. was “I welcome this chance to further strengthen one of the first to recognize Israel in 1948. the unbreakable ties between the United States and President Truman proudly stated: Israel and to assure you of our commitment to “I believe it has a glorious future before it - not Israel’s security and well-being. Israel and America just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of may be thousands of miles apart, but we are the great ideals of our civilization.”1 philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and Even as early as 1922, the U.S. Government the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and foresaw the re-establishment of Israel. In House Resolution 322 friendship, qualities that, in our eyes, make Israel a great nation. No On the Establishment, it is stated in the preamble: people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom”8 Palestine of today, the land we know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the By the end of Reagan’s second term, America regularly held ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.2 joint training exercises with Israel, and the two democracies began co-development of the Arrow Anti-Tactical Ballistic Presidential Administrations that followed Missile. It was also under President Reagan’s administration that, shared this sentiment: as Mitchell Bard points out, Dwight D. Eisenhower, “In 1985, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “The people of Israel, like those of the United (DHHS) and the Israeli Ministry of Health signed a Memorandum of States, are imbued with a religious faith and a Understanding (MOU) that provided for the exchange of information sense of moral values.”3 and scientific, administrative and academic personnel; the education and Although, it is true that the Eisenhower administration did training of manpower; conferences and symposia; and, mutually agreed minimize relations with Israel, it was committed to the survival upon collaborative projects addressing common problems.”9 of Israel as a nation. Some have said that while saying little, In 2008, George W. Bush, in Israel, said, Eisenhower did a lot for U.S.-Israel relations. In fact many trace the emergence of America’s interest in the “Our two nations both faced great challenges when Arab-Israel conflict to this era.4 they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We’ve John Kennedy, built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to “Let us make it clear that we will never turn our us by an Almighty God. We’ve welcomed immigrants, backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose who have helped us thrive. We’ve built prosperous economies by http://www.zionism-israel.com/zionism_timeline.htm adherence to the democratic way must be admired by rewarding innovation and risk-taking andhttp://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000031 trade. And we’ve built an all friends of freedom.” 5 enduring alliance to confront terrorists and tyrants.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks10 U.S. Presidents and Israel: 1948 to Today 1948 1953 1958 1963 1968 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2017 Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower J. F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama David Ben-Gurion Sharett David Ben-Gurion Eshkol Golda Meir Yitzhak Rabin Menachem Begin Shamir Shimon Peres Yitzhak Shamir Yitzhak Rabin Peres Benjamin Netanyahu Ehud Yitzhak Rabin Ehud Olmert Benjamin Netanyahu 40 47 23 17 9 ? 1948 1956 1964 1967 1973 1978 1982 1987 1991 1993 1995 2000 2002 2006 2008 2012 2014 Israel War of Suez Campaign PLO founded Six Day War Yom Kippur War Nobel Peace 1979 Israeli First Palestinian Madrid Oslo Palestinian 1996 Palestinians Operation 2003 Second Operation Operation Operation 2015 Independence Prize to Begin Peace invasion of Intifada / Hamas Conference Peace Authority Al-Aqsa riots Defensive Geneva Lebanon Cast Lead Pillar of Protective Vatican & Sadat treaty Lebanon founded Accord established tunnel Wall Peace War Defense Edge recognizes Information gathered from these web sites: www.zionism-israel.com; israelipalestinian.procon.org; en.wikipedia.org = suicide bomber Egypt-Israel (Oslo II) riots Accord Palestinian State 4 The Chosen People January_2009_Newsletter_Lead-MG_AS_Draft.doc 5 ? 2017 2 State but the statements 2015

Vatican recognizes Palestinian Edge 2014 Operation Protective 2013 Barack Obama 2012 Defense Pillar of Pillar Operation Operation Benjamin Netanyahu of the bill help us to better understand the us to better understand of the bill help 1 2008 2008 Cast Lead Cast Operation Ehud OlmertEhud War 9 2006 Second Lebanon 17 selected below from the text selected below US BILL 322 BILL US of America of the United States 2008 the 110th Congress On April 24, the founding of the modernrecognized passing a bill state of Israel by anniversary 322), in honor of the 60th (H.Con.Res. of the of the founding modern of Israel. It is worth state entire text, the reading 60 years ago, the modern State of Israel has rebuiltWhereas since its establishment created a thriving and dynamic democratic society, a nation, forged a new and and intellectual life despite the heavy costs of war, economic, political, cultural, ofdiplomatic and economic boycotts against the people terrorism, and unjustified Israel; have established a vibrant, pluralistic, democraticWhereas the people of Israel of speech, association, and religion; a vigorouslypolitical system, including freedom judiciary;independent a fully of law; elections; the rule fair and open press; free, free practices; and principles democratic other and the Israeli people based onWhereas the American people feel a strong affinity for and heritage; cultural shared and values common a strong and trusted ally andWhereas the United States continues to regard Israel as it, be therefore, Now, partner: strategic important an Congress— That (1) recognizes the historic significance of the 60th anniversary of the reestablishment for the Jewish people; of the sovereign and independent State of Israel as a homeland neighbors; its with peace pursues Israel as Israel for support its enduring reaffirms (2) right to defend itself against threats to its security (3) reaffirms its support for Israel’s existence; and achievements in building a(4) commends the people of Israel for their remarkable face of terrorism, as well asnew state and a pluralistic, democratic society in the neighbors; their of many from belligerence and ostracism, hostility, which have existed between(5) reaffirms the bonds of friendship and cooperation the United States and Israel for the past 60 years, and commits to strengthening those and bonds; (6) extends the warmest congratulations and best wishes to the State of Israel and future. successful and prosperous, peaceful, a for people Israeli the deep and abiding commitment of the U.S. to Israel. deep and abiding commitment www.GovTrack.us.2008.October October 2,2016. www.govtrack.us/congres/ October 2,2016. www.GovTrack.us.2008.October bills/110/hconres322 George W. Bush W. George 23 Peace Accord 2003 Geneva 1 www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hconres322 2 Yitzhak Rabin 47 2003 Wall 40 2002 Operation Defensive Defensive Ehud Barak Ehud riots 2000 Palestinians Palestinians s 1998 Benjamin Netanyahu riots tunnel 1996 Al-Aqsa Bill Clinton Peres with whom the 1995 President Carter’ President (Oslo II) (Oslo Authority Palestinian established Yitzhak Rabin As early in President Obama As early in President Oslo 11 Peace Accord 1993 1993 President Obama, President 1991 Madrid George H. W. Bush W. H. George Conference It was the Carter Administration that made that Administration Carter the It was Even Even Israel eligible to sell militaryequipment to the It was United States. administration as 2010, the two governments governments the two administration as 2010, relationship has been the rockiest, said, “the said, has been the rockiest, relationship America is Israel and bond between unbreakable.” involvement in the peace treaty between Israel between in the peace treaty involvement in Accords (at the Camp David and Egypt Middle East also led to the two 1978) that Prizeleaders (Prime Peace winning the Nobel Minister Begin Sadat). and President 12 Yitzhak Shamir 1988 1987 founded

This is why we must pray for our leaders to make good for our leaders to make pray must we This is why However, recently there has been a rise there recently in antisemitism and However, Ever since her re-birth as a nation in 1948, Israel has had Israel has since her re-birth as a nation in 1948, Ever Remarks at Welcoming Ceremony for PM Menachem Begin, September 9, 1981, as 1981, September 9, Begin, for PM Menachem Ceremony Welcoming Remarks at Virtual Library cited in the Jewish Speech at Eastern Oregon College of Education, November 9, 1959, http://www. 1959, 9, November Speech at Eastern College of Education, Oregon jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/presquote.html Radio Address on Situation in the Middle East, February 20, 1957, as cited by the as cited by 1957, February 20, on Situation in the Middle East, Address Radio Virtual Jewish Library May 26, 1952, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/presquote.html 1952, 26, May First Palestinian First

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12 www.mythsandfacts.org/NOQ_OnlineEdition/Chapter17/unitedstatesisrael1.htm 11 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/presquote.html 10 news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/14/content_8169390.htm 8 9 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/health.html 7 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/presquote.html 6 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/FRUS9_14_62.html 5 4 www.danielpipes.org/610/eisenhower-and-israel-us-israeli-relations-1953-1960 3 1 2 varimail.com/asp/broadcast/ILIST/resolution322.pdf join the enemies of Israel, in thought or deed. in thought or deed. join the enemies of Israel, decisions: That they view Israel correctly, and that they do not and that they Israel correctly, view That they decisions: president deals with our Israeli friends?president antisemitism and anti-Zionism play a role in the way our new our new in the way a role antisemitism and anti-Zionism play people, Israelis, and friends of Israel worried. Will the tide of Will and friends of Israel worried. Israelis, people, racial anti-Zionism. Understandably so, this has many Jewish Jewish this has many Understandably so, racial anti-Zionism.

States does too.” States does too.” when Israel is strong, not only does Israel benefit, but the United but not only does Israel benefit, when Israel is strong, cooperation’ (in 1981). America has come to the conclusion that (in 1981). cooperation’ (from 1948-1951) to a ‘strategic asset’ (in the 1970s) to ‘strategic (in the 1970s) to ‘strategic asset’ 1948-1951) to a (from the special relationship has been gradual: from ‘a moral stance’ ‘a moral stance’ from has been gradual: the special relationship up this way: “A study of American policy toward Israel shows that Israel shows American policy toward “A study of up this way: America as an ally. This should not change. One analyst summed it One analyst This should not change. America as an ally. signed an agreement to increase aviation security aviation signed an agreement cooperation. to increase

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1983 Israeli 1982 Lebanon invasion of invasion Peace treaty 1979 Menachem Begin Egypt-Israel Jimmy CarterJimmy 1978 1978 & Sadat Nobel Peace Peace Nobel Prize to Begin to Prize http://www.zionism-israel.com/zionism_timeline.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks Gerald Ford Yitzhak Rabin http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000031 1973 1973 Yom Kippur War Yom = suicide bomber Golda Meir Richard Nixon Richard 1968 1967 Six War Day Levi Eshkol Levi Lyndon B. Johnson B. Lyndon 1964 PLO founded PLO 1963 J. F. Kennedy F. J. 1958 David Ben-GurionDavid 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Sharett Suez Campaign Suez 1953 David Ben-GurionDavid Harry S. Truman 1948 1948 Israel War of War Israel Independence Independence See the Bible Through Jewish Eyes BY DR. RICH FREEMAN, D.MIN.

Dr. Rich Freeman serves as the Vice President for Church Ministries and Conferences with Chosen THE SUPERIOR PRIESTHOOD OF YESHUA: People Ministries and lives in South Florida with PART 2 HEBREWS 5:1-10 his wife, Julia.

As we transition to Chapter 5 of the writer of Hebrews beginning to show the order of . In combining book of Hebrews, looking at the the superiority of Yeshua’s priesthood. the text of Psalm 2:7, which had been superiority of the priesthood of Yeshua, We are reminded that the High Priest quoted before in :5, and the in 5:1-4, the writer lays out what would was to be a man set apart to minister on text of :4, the writer joined be the general qualifications of the High behalf of men in things relating to God. the two great truths about the Messiah Priest. He was to present his brethren’s gifts which are at the heart of this epistle. He The High Priest is appointed to and sacrifices for sins and also sacrifices is indeed the Messiah King and Our represent men in things pertaining to for his own sins. He was to be a man of Great High Priest. God, that is the presentation of gifts and compassion as he could sympathize with In Hebrews 5:7-10 the writer sacrifices for sins. To qualify for the his brethren’s weaknesses. But with reaffirms that Yeshua qualifies to be the High Priesthood in Israel, one had to be Yeshua, note the distinction: while He High Priest. “In the days of His flesh,” a man. was fully man, on the cross our Lord when He was here on earth in human presented the sacrifice for the sins of the The High Priest was to be a man of condition, He found Himself totally people, once for all. In heaven now, He compassion, especially for those who are dependent on the Father, having offers our gifts of worship and praise to ignorant and going astray—the reason “offered up prayers and supplications,” God. Since He is without sin, there was being that he too was prone to accompanied by “strong crying and no need for Him to sacrifice for weakness and subject to failure. tears, to the One who was able to save Himself. He was in perfect fellowship Him from death.” Because of the reality of his own with the Father and needed no He was heard, the writer says, sinfulness, the High Priest was not only cleansing. Though He was without sin, because of His godly fear. Though He required to make offerings for the sins He still could have superior compassion was not saved from death He learned of the people, he was also required to for His brethren. make offerings for his own sins. obedience through His suffering. It is In Hebrews 5:5-6, we see the divine through His suffering, death on the Finally, a man could attain the high appointment of His priesthood by God. cross, and offering for sins that He priesthood only by divine appointment. The name Christ was not Yeshua’s last became perfected and the author of Only those whom God chose served in name but rather His title, Messiah or eternal salvation to those who this office. These people were primarily Anointed One, emphasizing His humility appropriate His death for themselves. and his descendants. Eventually, and calling from God. Quoting the office of the High Priest became a Psalm 2:7 and Psalm 110:4, the writer lucrative political appointment and was of Hebrews observes that the One who corrupted. declared Yeshua to be the King-Son Does Yeshua () qualify to be a referred to in Psalm 2, declared Him High Priest? This is where we see the also to be a Priest forever, according to

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7 You can read a longer report on the conference prepared by can read a longer report on the conference prepared by You The meeting took place in mid-September and was the was and mid-September in place took meeting The Mike Hertz, our New York Regional Director, recently recently Regional Director, York our New Hertz, Mike Dr. Mitch Glaser by visiting chosenpeople.com/russianconference. Mitch Glaser by Dr. (House of the Prince of Peace), our new Brooklyn CongregationBrooklyn our new the Prince(House of Peace), of neighbors forming with our Jewish relationships and of course, Brooklyn. in the heart Jewish of Orthodox as the students live largest gathering of Messianic Jewish people in Poland since since people in Poland gatheringlargest Messianic Jewish of had 3 million This is significant as Poland the Holocaust. By the end of of terror. reign Hitler’s before people Jewish people than 10,000 Jewish less were there II, War World 150- 2016, 14-17, September From Poland. in remaining in leaders gathered Messianic Jewish plus Russian-speaking, celebrated the We the God of Israel. to worship Warsaw Russian Jewish among Messianic movement of the growth Israel, from came Representatives the globe. around people Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Canada, the U.S., Germany and other countries Russian- where Belarus, for prayer, The group gathered people live. speaking Jewish to lead Russian Jewish and furtherworship training on how Messiah! Join as the Jewish Yeshua congregations that follow us in praising God for His goodness and faithfulness. had the privilege of leading Camp Kesher, a Messianic had the privilege Kesher, of leading Camp is the Hebrew Kesher summer camp. week-long Jewish is all Kesher and that is what Camp “connection” for word each other, the Messiah, to Jesus connecting youth about; to assist our desire We community. and the larger believing identity in the Lord in formingchildren a well-rounded We that will carry adulthood and beyond. them into young as duringpraise God for a successful week the last service more and several the Lord to receive prayed children five to Him. their lives recommitted MESSIANIC JEWISH LEADERS GATHER IN GATHER MESSIANIC JEWISH LEADERS AND WORSHIP PRAY POLAND TO WARSAW, THE NEXT GENERATION OF JEWISH OF JEWISH THE NEXT GENERATION OF JESUS FOLLOWERS NewsBriefs

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