“It is the first time that I have ever believed in anything in my whole life! … I live my life for Him. Thank you, praise our Lord in Heaven Jesus Christ. I kissed your tomb and lied on the floor and begged for your love because you rose again to give me eternal life and kept me from hell … I love His Word. It is powerful when I read it. I want to be immersed (baptized.) Jesus, my Savior, I belong to you forever, Satan stay away!” … “You cannot imagine the fear that comes on the religious Jews when the name of Jesus is spoken. It scares their minds more than anything.”
These are the words of a ninth-generation Jerusalemite, grandson of Holocaust survivors, who believed in Yeshua last April and received Him as His personal living Messiah.
I used to overlook the mass of young lost sheep of Israel, lying on the beach. I thought, “Lord, there is a mass of lost Jewish souls on this beach. How can I reach just one, Abba, for You who will tell the rest of them of their Messiah.”
God heard my heart and saved Ori—who is now evangelizing his own with the great power of the love of His Messiah to his own generation. His hunger for more of Yeshua, His love for His Word, and his knees bent in fervent prayer with us astonish us as we watch over His life for the Savior and observe how the Spirit of the Living God reveals the Messiah to Him in power!
It is unheard of for a genuine Jerusalemite to believe in Yeshua. But the soul of this one is no longer held by Satan to take him to hell. He now belongs to Jesus Christ!
“Abba, Father, today the religious say that the lost sheep of Israel do not need Your Son, the Messiah, to enter Heaven. They deny Your Cross. They do not know that in a moment Your wrath can come on them to expose Satan’s lie who wants Your chosen in hell. They do not realize that Your power is greater than the enemy’s lie. In one moment, the deception will be brought into the light and their tongues will cleave to their mouth.
“Abba, Will you not use this one whom You have saved, who represents Your young lost sheep in Israel? Through Your life in Him, will You tell of Your truth with power that salvation belongs to the Jew first and then to the Gentile?
“Messiah, You hung on the Cross in Israel forgiving the sins of Your people and all the people of the world. In the Cross, there is the power of forgiveness.
“Messiah, will You not make the crooked hearts straight through this one whom you have saved to reach his own people in Jerusalem? Will You not reveal who You are by Your living Word in Him? Will You empower him by your Spirit to tell the Good News to Your own, whom you have chosen to reveal Your glory? Will you not reveal the Cross of Your Son, on which He triumphed over the powers and principalities and made a show of them publicly? Will You not reveal the power of Your love in the minds of those who forsake Your Name in fear of You?
“Messiah, expose the lie of Your enemy Satan, that Your own may be saved!”
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (John 4:22, KJV)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. (Romans 1:16, NIV)
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his Cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Colossians 2:14-15, NIV)
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8
And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Zechariah 3:2
For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction … (Romans 9:22)
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. (Psalm 62:11)