This is a Word the Lord gave me when I arrived in Israel.
I believe it is a word for Christians to contemplate.
As you look and gaze upon the land where I birthed
My people, drink in the refreshment of My presence. As you walk and touch your
feet upon the very ground where My prophets tread, know you are standing on Holy
ground.
For this nation called Israel is My homeland. I
choose it to be the home of My people--the place I called Abraham to pitch his
tents, the land I called the Israelites to come to through Moses, and
told Joshua to conquer and inhabit, and most importantly, the birth place of My
Son, Yeshua
Ha-Mashiach.
Behold the land, the mountains, the plains, the desert
and the valleys, the dusty roads that My Son traveled to bring the Good News to
all the nations. These are the very hills My Son tread to perform miracles and raise
the dead to life, to help the blind see, the crippled walk, the hungry filled
and the thirsty quenched.
As you view Jerusalem, know you are looking upon a
city that My Son longed to embrace as a mother hen embraces her chicks. Know this
is My heart because this is My city and the place I chose as a homeland. I made a covenant with them, which I will not break
no matter their waywardness.
As you have a special love and affinity for your
homeland, so too I have a special love and affinity for Israel. It is a place
that needed much rebuke and discipline, just as a father rebukes a son. Yet it is
also a place that I bless, as a father desires to bless a child and most especially
a prodigal.
Though many of My people do not recognize the blessings bestowed
upon them come from My hand, someday they will. I am fulfilling what I spoke through
the words of David, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. “Sing with joy for
Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations (emphasis mine, Jeremiah
31:8). “Hear the word of the Lord, you nations;proclaim it in distant coast-lands:‘He who
scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a
shepherd.’For the Lord will deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those
stronger than they" (v. 10-11). You have already seen the fulfillment of
the prophecy and it is continuing to be fulfilled.
Even so I have spoken more of My Word to Israel
and your eyes have seen its fulfillment: "They will be like a well-watered
garden, and they will sorrow no more. Then young women will dance and be
glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into
gladness; I
will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow. I will satisfy the priests
with abundance, and my people will be filled with my bounty,” declares
the Lord" (Jeremiah 31:12-14). I AM blessing My nation, Israel, and I
have used the new (Christians) to bless the old (Jews).
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