Heaven Bound

     Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone! I will be traveling to the mainland tomorrow to spend the holidays with my children and grandchildren, so, I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah!

It’s been a great year and I have enjoyed so much getting to know all of you through the format of this blog.  How blessed we are to live in a time when we can share information like this. My hope and prayer is that we will continue to make wise use of this tool (the internet) for as long as God makes it available to us in these days before his soon return.

How blessed we are to live in a time when we are seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled before our very eyes. I was tremendously excited to receive information via the Joel Rosenberg blog yesterday, regarding a Bible study to be held in the home of Prime Minister Netanyahu.  Amazing!  I was giddy with happiness and expectation all day long after reading it. God is beginning to move in the heart’s of his covenant people, just stand back and watch!  The more isolated they feel, the more driven they will be to look back in to their history and to search their scriptures – and, to ultimately receive their rightful King, Yeshua!  I believe we are seeing the first move in that direction today.

*If you haven’t yet read this exciting article, take a few minutes to check it out, its copied below.

On that exciting note, I will sign off.  Feel free to post in the comments section, (news, links, comments for discussion, etc.) while I am away – I’ll check them as often as I can.  

 Until then, see you in the air or back here in time for 2012.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and keep looking up!  Much love and aloha in Messiah Jesus!  Cindy

* (Washington, D.C., December 13, 2011) — I read a fascinating story in the Jerusalem Post this morning and it gave me fresh hope for the nation of Israel.
“Taking a page out of David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin’s playbook, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will begin hosting a regular Bible study group in his official residence for researchers, public officials and invited guests, “reports the Post. “Netanyahu announced the establishment of the study circle on Friday at a ceremony marking 30 days since the passing of his father-in-law, Shmuel Ben-Artzi. The study group will be named after Ben-Artzi, a noted poet and Bible teacher. Both Ben-Gurion and Begin, when they each served as prime minister, hosted regular Bible study groups. Netanyahu said he was establishing the class to perpetuate love of the Bible.”
This is an excellent step by the Prime Minister, and he should be commended for it. Indeed, let us pray that the study of the Word of God has a powerful, personal impact on the Prime Minister and his family and each of his colleagues and guests. Let’s pray that many Israelis would follow the Prime Minister’s lead and begin reading the Holy Scriptures again, and that Bible studies in people’s homes would spring up all over the Land of Israel.
Such a national reawakening to the importance of the Scriptures has happened before in Israel’s history. Remember men like Nehemiah, Ezra, Josiah, and Joel? These were beloved governors, priests, kings and prophets whom the Lord used to turn the Jewish people back to the Scriptures and the need for national and individual prayer, fasting and repentance. One of my favorite examples is found in 2 Kings 22. I’d encourage you to read it afresh, for it is the remarkable story of King Josiah.
At the age of 8, Josiah took the throne. When he was 18, he instructed the temple to be cleaned and renovated. In so doing, he learned that a long forgotten copy of the Scriptures had been found in the temple. Indeed, someone brought him the dusty scrolls and read the Word to the king. “When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes” in repentance for all of Israel’s sinful ways, and his own. Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest and several other servants, “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”
In 2 Kings 23, then, comes the equally amazing story of King Josiah gathering all the people of Israel tand reading the Word of the Lord to them. Together, convicted of their own sins, they chose to make a covenant before the Lord to obey His all of His commandments. “Before him,” the Bible says, “there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his might, according to the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.” Let us pray that Israel once again experience a national renaissance of hunger for the Word of the Lord. Amen.
[To see read the full Jerusalem Post story — and more details about Netanyahu’s growing interest in Bible study in recent years — please go to: http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/; or go to www.joshuafund.net]