ISRAEL PRAYER UPDATE

Israel Prayer Update (September 14, 2009) –From Glory of Zion (www.glory-of-zion.org)

This week in Israel:

1. SATURDAY IS THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND THE “HEAD” OF THE HEBREW YEAR 5770-A YEAR FOR SHARPNESS OF VISION, AND OF COMING FULL-TERM TO BIRTH.
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing (of shofars), a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD’” (Leviticus 23:23-25; see also Numbers 29:1-6).

“Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, with their voices they shall sing together; for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD brings back Zion” (Isaiah 52:8).

This coming Saturday marks the beginning of the Fall Feasts-Yom T’ruah, the Day of Blowing (of Shofars). It is also the “Head of the [civil] Year” (Rosh Hashanah). As such, it is the day on which the Hebrew year-number annually changes; it is also the first of the month of Tishrei. It is a joyous holiday in Israel-a day of wine and feasting, of giving gifts, of eating apples dipped in honey and wishing each other “Shana tova” – a good year!

However, this celebration was a later development-after the Captivity in Babylon. It is at the same time a day for sobriety, a sabbath of taking account, of becoming awake and alert-a day for remembering, and of looking forward to the Day of Atonement nine days later. And it is to be a day of “t’ruah as a memorial”. ” T’ruah” means a shout, a cry, an alarm, a blast or series of blasts on the shofar (ram’s horn). Psalm 33:3 says that musicians are to make t’ruah skillfully on their instruments together with singers singing a new song! Suffice to say that it is a day on which a ’sound’ is to go up memorializing the greatness and faithfulness of YHVH, the LORD!

AYIN: It is interesting to us that the Hebrew letter-numbers for this new year 5770 end with the letter “ayin” (70). This letter was derived in ancient times from a “pictograph” of an eye; in fact, the word for “eye” in modern Hebrew is pronounced the same as the letter.

PLEASE PRAY: For sharpness, clarity and singleness of spiritual vision among Israeli believers this year-that we see “eye to eye” (see Scripture at head) as the Lord continues to restore Zion!

TESHA: It is also of interest that combining the letters for 5770 actually spells another word, tesha-Hebrew for the number “nine”. This brings to mind many things-it is the number of months during which new life forms in the womb before coming forth “full term”; there are nine “fruit of the Spirit” (Col. 5:22); one may see within this number the “triune” nature of God, itself repeated three times (as is Holy in Isaiah 6:3); the number is also related to God’s judgment and finality-and in Psalm 9 that judgment is mentioned six times. Although idle speculations are fruitless, we believe this “coincidence” something we would do well to hold before the Holy Spirit, with ears to hear what revelations He may desire to release concerning it.

PLEASE PRAY: That all which the LORD has ordained to come forth this year will do so exactly in His timing; that it would be a time of the Holy Spirit coming to full fruition in the Body in Israel; that there be revelation here of the “tri-unity” of the LORD-that Yeshua and His Father and the Spirit of Holiness are indeed One; that that Spirit will grant revelation regarding the “Death of the Son” in the heading of Psalm 9; that “praises outside and within Israel will be sung to ‘The LORD who dwells in Zion!’” (Psalm 9:11).

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2. TWO TESTIMONIES

There have been many wonderful testimonies coming out of the Elav youth/young adults conference of two weeks ago. One young lady, a friend of ours, after attending a session on ‘healing’ at the conference, felt a strong anointing and a desire to ‘go to the streets.’ As she did so, she met a trio of young religious Jews. One had a pain in his face, the other in his leg. After asking if she could pray for them and doing so, they were both healed. Two weeks later she tells of groups of young people going out repeatedly since then and praying for those who will allow it-and people keep getting healed! In a different situation, another friend, a young officer in the military was getting married. A young man with a religious Jewish background who had recently been attending our congregation was at the wedding and was astounded to suddenly have a vision of two angels above the wedding ‘huppa’ (canopy). Visibly shaken, he shared this the following week in the congregation.and at the end of a message on Salvation came forward to give his heart to the Lord!

PLEASE PRAY: for protection over the anointing which has been released and is increasing in Israel.that young believing Israelis will go from “strength to strength”! Pray for those who have been healed-that they will come to know the Healer personally.

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3. PRAY FOR THE FAMILY OF ASAPH RAMON

Today all of Israel is mourning the death of Asaph Ramon, whose F-16 jet crashed Sunday afternoon in the South Hebron Hills. Young Ramon was a son of Illan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who died in the Columbia space shuttle disaster six years ago. Asaph, 20, was valedictorian of his training unit and was highly respected as an airman coming up in his father’s footsteps. (The elder Ramon was one of the pilots who bombed the nuclear facility in Iraq in the early 80’s.) To the widow and mother Rona Ramon, President Shimon Peres at the funeral said, “Rona, you were already brave and you will remain brave. Our broken heart is with you in every tear that falls, in every memory that causes you to smile, in every moment of stinging pain. I know that words that can heal this wound have not yet been created, there aren’t proper words of consolation when an entire nation is aching and crying-there is nothing that can replace the heartbeats when one hears the steps of a son returning home from his base at the end of the week, nor is there anything that can fill the empty bed, the closet, the military shirt with the wings, the laughter, hugs and kisses, the ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’.” There were reports after Asaph’s father died of a believing crewmember who had shared with him regarding his Messiah before his death.

PLEASE PRAY: that Av harahamim v’Elohei kol nehamah-The Father of Mercies and God of all Comfort will be very near to Rona Ramon, her family and friends.that in this time of darkness, a Light of mercy will shine guiding them into a place of life and hope. Pray for all those serving in the Israeli Defense Force-that those there who already know their Messiah will have boldness and compassion to share their hope and trust in Elohei Ma’archot Yisrael-God of the Armies of Israel.