Half of the Jews in Israel waits for the Messiah

51 per cent believe in the coming of the Messiah. Only 46 per cent consider them selves as “secular”.

Soldiers in Jerusalem will soon see the Messiah as the only solution for the state of Israel.

The latest findings from  the AVI CHAI Foundation in Israel is astonishing. The study was done in 2009. The findings are only being published now due to the passing of the head of the research team, Prof. Asher Arian.

Although 46 per cent of respondents defined themselves as secular, it turns out that this self-definition is not directly linked to a belief in extraordinary forces and in the veracity of the Jewish religion.

The longing for the Messiah is on the rise among Jews in Israel. Here are a flock of Ethiopean Jews.

Apart from the fact that four of five Israeli Jews believe in God, the study’s findings revealed that 77 per cent are convinced that the world is guided by an “extraordinary force”, 72 per cent believe that praying can improve a person’s situation, 67 per cent are convinced that the Jews are the chosen people, and 65 per cent think Torah and mitzvot are a divine order.

According to 34 per cent  of the respondents, a Jew who fails to observe mitzvot puts his fellow people in danger.

As for the ramifications of the human conduct, 80 per cent believe there is a reward for good deeds, and 74 per cent say bad deeds are punished. Fifty-six believe in an “afterlife” and 51 percent believe in the coming of the Messiah.

Source: Ynetnews.com

My comment:

Working with ex-Israeli soldiers for four winters in India, I discovered that the longing for the Messiah was high even among “secular Jews’.

The last decade we have been told that 70 per cent of the Jews are secular. But his number has been to high. The latest survey expose this number to have fallen to 46 per cent.

All who have shared their faith with secular Jews, have discover that few Jews are atheists. They have “faith in God”, but is not willing to accept Orthodox Judaism. Frankly: They are right. No Messianic Jew can accept Orthodox Judaism.

When I have shared the good news about the incoming Messiah with secular Jews, almost two dozen of them have accepted a New Testament in Hebrew. The longing for knowledge about the Messiah is rising.

For the Evangelical Christian World, the alarm bells must sound in every congregation. Because the Bible explains that when the full number of gentiles have come into the Kingdom, Israel shall be saved.

The last days shall not be recognized by a massive revival in the paganized World, but rather the great apostasy and the falling away. In their tens of million, Christians who do not obey the Word of God will worship the last as false Messiah as “god”. Many Jews will join the last fatal deception.

  Romans 11:25-26

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

    “The deliverer will come from Zion;
   he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

Now, all of this is taking place right in front of our eyes.  To be acknowledged by all who are willing to listen and obey.

Written by Ivar

Hamas to shift terror base from Syria to Jordan

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal has received a warm welcome in the Kingdom of Jordan.

The Hamas-leder recived a warm welcome at the office of King Abdullah.

Signaling a thaw in relations, Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday hosted Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, who made his first official visit to the country since his expulsion more than a decade ago in a crackdown on the militant Islamist group.

The visit was part of a Jordanian effort to play a more prominent role in Middle East diplomacy and engage with Islamists who have become a rising political force in the aftermath of revolts that have unseated autocratic leaders across the Arab world.

Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, is contemplating relocating its political headquarters from Syria, which has been shaken by a popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, long a patron of the Palestinian group’s exiled leadership.

Source: Washington Post

My comment:

Peoples attitude towards Islamic terrorism is changing. To chant “death to Israel” in no longer considered an extremist view on the Jewish state. Jew-hate has become the mainstream political force in the Arab World.

Jew-hate is also becoming the mainstream political attitude in Europe. On Dateline London on BBC yesterday, nobody objected to the Arab Journalist calling Israel a “holy cow”.

Since Israel is shining as a light in the Middle East, people living in darkness can not face it. Islam has produced nothing but wickedness, poverty and tyranny.  To have a Jewish state in the heartland of Islam, is simply not tolerable.

Behold: God of Israel is watching. His salvation, Jesus the Messiah in the King of the Jews. 

 Zechariah 2:8
For thus says the LORD of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

The Jewish people is the apple of His eye. Non of them have a righteousness of their own, but He still love them. Those who harm Zion put their fingers in the very eye of God.

Written by Ivar

People on Haiti leaves witchcraft for faith in Jesus

Jesus wants all people to accept His Lordship.  Also the people of Haiti. The earthquake made 300.000 people accept the gospel.

A voodoo priest showns items used on Haiti during worship of witches and spirits.

Two years after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people in Haiti, Christianity is fast replacing Voodoo in the lives and practices of the people, a missionary has revealed.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, there is a fusion of beliefs in Haiti – 80 percent of people profess to be Catholic, and another 16 percent are Protestant yet roughly half of the population still practices Voodoo.

However, it is no secret that Christianity has been expanding as a religion in Haiti – and a host of Christian missionaries and charity organizations who flew to the Caribbean nation to help the millions in desperate need have also contributed to a large conversion movement.

One such group, the Haiti Foundation of Hope, a Christian organization addressing the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the people in the impoverished rural communities of northern Haiti, has built a number of community health programs in local villages and has seen firsthand people giving up their Voodoo beliefs and turning to Christ.

“The background of the religious belief in Haiti has been Voodoo. This came from Africa, and has been integrated into Catholicism.

Source: Christian Post

My comment:

The Bible says that God do not want anyone to perish, but that all might turn to Jesus and be saved.

In a population where the majority practiced a mix of Voodoo and Catholicism, God needed to give people a stern warning.

It is fantastic news that 300.000 people in Haiti has turned to Jesus the Messiah. It is a prove that tribulation can be a good medicine for getting people to wake up.

  1 Timothy 2:1-5
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior,  who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.

As a Norwegian national I would like to pray for a similar revival in Norway:

I hope and pray that the people of Norway will take their own disasters as a warning from God. Like the massacre that left 69 youth dead by a single gunman on July 22nd 2011. The large majority of the people in Norway need to repent or perish.

Written by Ivar

EU governor to rule the Parliament in Greece

Greek officials have reacted angrily to a leaked German proposal for an EU budget commissioner with veto powers over Greek taxes and spending.

The EU will force the Greek to delegetimize their own democratic statehood.

The Greek government said it must remain in control of its own budget.

The European Commission says it wants to reinforce its monitoring of Greek finances, but Greece should retain sovereign control.
Meanwhile, Greece and its private investors are close to a deal which will pave the way for a second bailout.

Greek government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis told the BBC the discussions between the two parties had gone well and they were “close to an agreement”.

Greece must reach agreement in the next few days in order to receive the next tranche of funds from its first bailout.

Source: The BBC

The whole idea of the EU, is to create a United States of Europe.The process of integration will take time, but the very goal stands.

To achieve this goal, each individual nation has to be delegitimized.

The EU-law has to become the law of every member state.

Like in ancient Rome, the emperor will send a supreme  governor to each of the subject areas.  Pontius Pilate was Rome’s man in Jerusalem. When the religious leaders wanted to get Jesus executed, they sent the Messiah to the office of the Roman governour.

  Matthew 27
Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.  So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

The Greek people will not easily submit to Rome. Neither did they do in ancient times, nor do they today. But the EU-empire will have its way. Greece will have to chose the money and the governor, or non of them.

But did not ancient Rome have a senate?

Yes the Emperor kept a senate. Even Hitler had a puppet “parliament”, as long as he found it useful.  Sometimes cartoons explains the political process better than words:

The PM who kissed the feet of the Germany leader is gone. Another has come.

Money makes the world go around. In Greece the money simply has disappeared.

You have to dance to the true rulers of Europe.

The Worlds population will have to get use to the Prophetic Word being fulfilled. There will come a One World Government that will have a supreme “king” on top. This man will be the last and final antichrist.

 Daniel 11:37-39
New International Version (NIV)

 He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all. Instead of them, he will honor a god of fortresses; a god unknown to his ancestors he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price.

Written by Ivar

Cartoon of the day # 262

A good Cartoon often tells the story in a better way than 1000 words

The Old and the New Covenant

Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.

Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.