Previously posted ...
Americans Are Bowing to Demonic Pharaoh - Dominoes !!!
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A beautiful vid for you and your beloveds ...
Alisa Sadikova playing
The Fountain — Marcel Lucien Grandjany
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This is the very young, Alisa Sadikova playing "The Fountain"
by Marcel Lucien Grandjany on the harp at the Rimsky-Korsakov
Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Music School in Russia, two years ago.
Видео — Дмитрий Вологдин
Звук — Борис Алексеев, Федор Наумов
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Eikev: The Heel of Messiah
The plan to destroy Israel is of the enemy, and all those who make themselves God's enemies will find themselves under the feet of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah). (Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 10:13) The word eikev comes from the verb akav, which means to take by the heel. And the Hebrew noun akev means heel, as in the heel of a foot. Ancient Jewish sages interpreted this dual meaning of ayin-kof-vet to refer to the generation of the “heels of Mashiach (Messiah).” The last generation of the Exile is called ikvata d’meshichah or the heels of Messiah, since that generation was expected to hear the footsteps of the Messiah. The word akev is first used in Genesis in an important prophecy that the seed of Chava (Eve) will eventually crush the head of the serpent. “And I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.” (Genesis 3:15) This is the first Messianic prophecy in the Bible. From it we understand that the enemy would attempt to strike at the heel of the Messiah; instead however, our Messiah would crush the enemy’s head and destroy the works of the devil.
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Anti-Semitism and its limitations
by Caroline B. Glick
Outside the US, throughout the Western world, anti-Semitism is becoming a powerful social and political force.
And its power is beginning to have a significant impact on Israel's relations with other democracies. [...]
http://www.jewishworldreview.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/
http://www.israpundit.org/
JWR contributor Caroline B. Glick is the senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy
in Washington, DC and the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, where her column appears.
Islamism Made Simple
by Bill Levinson
…in terms even a dhimmi can understand. [...]
http://www.israpundit.org/
The West’s Prostration to Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim
...But on the other hand, in the West, the narrative was very different and based on a “new paradigm,” one that saw Islam and Muslims as perpetual victims of all sorts of outside and material pressures, mostly from the West. Thus the analyses that were being disseminated through media and academia were to my mind immensely flawed and, while making perfect sense to people in the West—for they were articulated through Western, secular, materialistic paradigms—had little to do with reality as I saw and understood it. [...]
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/
http://www.fronda.pl/a/
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/
Thanks - Christina
ISIS Message to the US? 'We Are In Your State, Cities'
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He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works of the devil..
1 John 3:8 JKV
Shabbat Shalom - Parsha Eikev !
ISRAEL RALLY - Union Square NYC 8/17 4pm !!!
Thanks - Ted Belman
HUGE Pro-Israel Rally, Union Square, NY, THIS SUNDAY 8/17 4pm !
Stand Against the Jihad Against the Jews, Christians, Hindus, Yazidis, Chaldeans, Buddhists and all other religious minorities.
Facebook Link to the Rally
We must speak, stand and fight for freedom NOW. RSVP here
https://www.facebook.com/
Hamas is the "Palestinian" version of ISIS (and Boko Haram, Hezb'Allah, Al-Qaeda et al.
It is the same fight, the same struggle and freedom loving peoples must unite to defeat it.
On Sunday, August 17, from 3:45 to 7PM, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting a rally in New York City’s Union Square from 3:45 to 7PM. Speakers from a huge variety of backgrounds will stand for Israel and all the minority populations worldwide that are threatened by the global jihad.
Speakers will include AFDI President Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Sudanese freedom activist Simon Deng; Ashraf Ramelah, the head of Voice of the Copts; Mark Arabo, a leader of the Chaldean American community; Israeli scholar Mordechai Kedar, and a host of other representing the populations around the world that face the greatest threat today from Islamic jihad violence and supremacism. Also invited are Indian, Yazidi, Kurdish, Sikh, Assyrian and Buddhist leaders.
Speakers are flying in from all over the world.
There will be singers and dancers - a celebration of life.
AFDI’s Pamela Geller said in a statement: “Israel is on the front lines of the global jihad, and we stand resolutely and proudly with her. We must also remember that the same jihad that threatens Israel threatens free people around the world. That’s why we are featuring speakers from groups from around the world – people who have experienced the horror of Islamic jihad firsthand. We need to unite and stand together for freedom.”
Thousands Expected to Rally in Solidarity with Israel’s South in Tel Aviv and New York
http://pamelageller.com/2014/
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A yad (Torah pointer) helps
the reader follow along during the public reading of
the Torah scroll.
Shabbat Shalom !
Welcome to this week’s Parsha (Torah Portion), which is
called Eikev (Because).
We hope you enjoy this portion of Scripture that will be
read during the morning services this Shabbat (Saturday) in
synagogues around the world.
EIKEV (Because)
Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25; Isaiah 49:14–51:3; John
13:31–15:27
“Because [eikev]
you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord
your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast
love that He swore to your fathers. He will love you,
bless you, and multiply you.” (Deuteronomy 7:12–13)
Reading from the Torah scroll
Last week, in Parsha Va'etchanan, Moses predicted that
the people in future generations would be exiled from the
Promised Land and scattered among the nations because they
turned from God and worshiped idols. But Moses also foresaw
that they would once again seek Him and obey His
commandments.
The title of this week’s Parsha, Eikev,
means because. It is
used in this Parsha as a conjunction to create a
relationship between experiencing God’s blessings and
obedience to His Torah.
In connection with this, this week’s Haftarah portion
contains an important prophecy that provides us with added
insight into how to walk in the blessings of Adonai—through
faith.
These three—faith, obedience and blessings—are seen
operating in our forefather Abraham, who first believed and
then out of faith, obeyed God and was circumcised.
Abraham
exemplified the concept that obedience is more than
exercising our will over our own flesh; it is faith in
action. Out of his faith flowed obedience to God.
In Genesis 15:6, we see that his faith was counted to
him as righteousness, and the ancient Hebrew prophet
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) beckons us to look to Abraham, our father
of faith. We are to be like him, experiencing the
blessings that flow from obedience—faith in action.
“Listen to me, you
pursuers of justice, you who seek ADONAI: consider the
rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you
were dug—consider Abraham your father and Sarah, who gave
birth to you …” (Isaiah 51:1–2)
"Follow in His steps." (1 Peter 2:21)
Eikev: The Heel of
Messiah
The word eikev
comes from the verb akav,
which means to take by the
heel. And the Hebrew noun akev means heel, as in the
heel of a foot.
Ancient Jewish sages interpreted this dual
meaning of ayin-kof-vet
to refer to the generation of the “heels of Mashiach
(Messiah).” The
last generation of the Exile is called ikvata d’meshichah
or the heels of Messiah,
since that generation was expected to hear the footsteps of
the Messiah.
The word akev
is first used in Genesis in an important prophecy that the
seed of Chava (Eve) will eventually crush the head of the
serpent.
“And I will put enmity
between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your
offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will
strike His heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
This is the first
Messianic prophecy in the Bible. From
it we understand that the enemy would attempt to strike at
the heel of the Messiah; instead however, our Messiah would
crush the enemy’s head and destroy the works of the devil.
“The one who does what is
sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared
was to destroy the devil's work.” (1 John 3:8)
Israeli siblings
The Promised Land
In today’s climate of the new anti-Semitism,
many consider it factually or politically incorrect to
refer to Israel as the land promised to the Jewish People.
The Word of God has no such limitation.
God is Lord of all the earth, but the land of Israel is
unique among the nations; it is not like any other nation of
the earth. It is a land that God cares for and watches over
continually.
“The land you are crossing
over to take possession of is a land of hills and valleys,
which soaks up water when rain falls from the sky. It is
a land Adonai your God cares for. The eyes of Adonai your
God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to
the end of the year.” (Deuteronomy 11:11–12)
In Parsha Eikev, Moses, who is continuing his closing
address to the Israelites (which he began at the beginning
of Deuteronomy) before they cross the Jordan River, tells
them that if they are obedient to the Torah, they will
prosper in the Land they are about to conquer.
They are to
possess the Land and not fear the nations living there
because God would expel them.
“You
are to devour all the peoples that Adonai your God hands
over to you … nevertheless, you are not to be afraid of
them; you are to remember well what Adonai your God did to
Pharaoh and all of Egypt…
“You
are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God
is there with you, a God great and fearsome. Adonai your
God will expel those nations ahead of you little by
little.” (Deuteronomy 7:16–22)
A girl prays at the Western (Wailing) Wall in the
Old City of Jerusalem.
Even today, Israel is not to fear the people of
the Land, for our God is with us to help us, just as He
helped us in ancient times in Egypt.
Although Hamas and
other terrorist organizations are currently engaged in a
brutal battle to eventually attempt to take the land
from the Jewish People, the soldiers of
the Israeli Defense Forces are bravely risking their lives
to restore the security of the land given to the Jewish
People.
While it looks as though Israel is vastly outnumbered by
enemies, the Word of God promises that He will watch over
her day and night.
“He who keeps Israel
neither slumbers nor sleeps.” (Psalm 121:4)
The plan to destroy Israel is of the enemy, and all
those who make themselves God's enemies will find themselves
under the feet of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah). (Psalm
110:1; Hebrews 10:13)
There are those who are not prepared to hear the
Biblical truth that God has given the Land of Israel to the
Jewish People, but those who know their God will stand
firmly upon the Rock of God’s Word.
Jewish men pray in the men's section at the Western (Wailing) Wall Plaza
in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Turning to the
Source of Blessing
In Israel today, because of this terrible
struggle against terrorism, many of God’s people are
turning their hearts towards God and looking to Him for
help and victory.
“I raise my eyes to the
hills, from where will my help come? My help comes from
Adonai, the maker of heaven and earth.” (Psalm
121:1–2)
Throughout the history of Israel, however, we see over
and over again that when God blessed the Jewish People, many
soon forgot Him as the source of their blessing and turned
away from their devotion and obedience to Adonai.
God said of Gomer, the unfaithful wife of the prophet
Hosea, “She doesn’t
know it was I who gave her the grain, the wine and the
oil; I who increased her silver and gold, which they used
for Ba‘al.”
(Hosea 2:8)
Harvesting wheat in Israel
We must always
remember that when we prosper in the land that He gives
us, it is God who is the source of our every blessing.
We must never think that our own abilities are
the source of all that we have and enjoy.
As well, if we understand that what we have has been
given to us by God, we are more likely to maintain an
attitude of gratitude, and to be good stewards, using our
blessings in a way that pleases God.
Moses' warning to the people of Israel should be
considered by us today, as well:
“…you
will think to yourself, ‘My own power and the
strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’
No, you are to remember Adonai your God, because it is He
who is giving you the power to get wealth, in
order to confirm His covenant, which He swore
to your ancestors, as is happening even today.” (Deuteronomy
8:17–18)
Fruit stalls in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
Though it is obedience that releases the blessings of
God, He is not so much after our obedience as He is our
hearts.
It is not just about outward obedience; it is
about the inward attitude of the heart. True obedience
begins with love for God and faith in His character.
Therefore, even more than the physical circumcision of
covenant, which is of course important, God desires that
each one of us be circumcised in our hearts. We cannot only change
outwardly, putting on a show of religion; we must change
inwardly, becoming soft, pliable clay in the Potter’s
hands.
“Therefore, circumcise the
foreskin of your heart; and don’t be stiff-necked any
longer!” (Deuteronomy 10:16)
If we will love the Lord our God and cling to Him and
keep His mitzvot (commandments), then He will faithfully
care for us and protect us from all evil. What a wonderful
assurance we have of God’s love.
“For if you will take care
to obey all these commandments [mitzvot] I am giving you,
to do them, to love Adonai your God, to follow all His
ways and to cling to Him, then Adonai will expel all these
nations ahead of you; and you will dispossess nations
bigger and stronger than you are.” (Deuteronomy
11:22–23)
In these troubled, difficult last days, please pray for
the salvation of the Jewish People and help us bring the
Good News of Yeshua to the Holy Land.
"You will again
have compassion on us; You will tread our sins
underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of
the sea." (Micah 7:19)
"Hear the word of the
LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: 'He
who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over
His flock like a shepherd." (Jeremiah 31:10)
Shabbat Shalom from the Entire Bibles For Israel
Staff!
“‘Bring the whole
tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My
house. Test Me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and see
if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to
store it.’” (Malachi
3:10)
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