Today I am sharing with you something very powerful written by my beloved Swedish friend, Fredrik Säfsten. He originally wrote it in Swedish, and Facebook translated it into English. Therefore, there is some unusual and quirky syntax and some spelling errors, but the essential and overall meaning comes through brightly. Fredrik is a Gentile who …
The Cost
How costly has Jewish and Gentile pride, arrogance, and rebellion towards God and each other been over the course of history? More than our minds can fully comprehend. For most Jews it has cost them the recognition of the Messiah at His first coming, followed by two thousand years of painful dispersion and persecution. This …
Gentile Stewardship? No.
The last two thousand years have not been about Gentile "stewardship" of the promises and covenants of God that He made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This period of time has been about Gentiles having the right attitude towards Jews and Israel as we await the full restoration of those particular people from thousands of …
The God Who Orchestrates
Astonishing and minutely detailed divine orchestration of people and events extending from Scotland to the land of Israel to the Austro-Hungarian empire and the city of Budapest from 1837-1847 form one of the most remarkable sagas in Messianic Jewish history. To recount it is to see the God of Israel at his most intricate and …
Meeting My Father
The taxi was screaming though the streets of Vienna on August 12, 1982. I sat plastered against the back seat with a smile of child-like joy covering my face. “Yes, this is really happening. It has now come to this. I am in the beautiful capital of Austria on a mad dash ride down to …
Encounter at the Wall
The day had finally come. The day for which every Jew yearns. At least every Jew who has been alive since June of 1967, when Israel took back the Temple Mount in the heart of Jerusalem in a six-day war with its Arab neighbors. I was in Israel for the first time as part of …
Lost Man Standing
Standing on Interstate 40, west of Greensboro, North Carolina in May of 1972, trying to hitchhike a ride to the mountain town of Montreat, I had no idea that my life was about to be radically invaded and forever changed by a visitor from an unseen realm. My best friend, John Grubbs, had suggested that …
Mourning for Messiah
During the current Covid-19 crisis my attention has been drawn to the plight of the Hasidic Jewish community in New York City. They have been hit very hard by illness and death, way beyond proportion to their numbers. Hasidic Jews are a very tight-knit community, with large families living in homes and apartments, and many …
The Story of Israel and the Gentiles
Israel has had so many starts and stops and hesitations and renewals and falls in their history. The Messiah's first coming and the subsequent pouring out on Israel His Spirit on Shavuot was a major restart and reboot of the whole history of Israel, a galvanizing of the restoration of Israel from apostasy. Even though …
No Apologies
None of the Hebrew prophets, up through and including Yeshua of Nazareth, ever apologized afterward for any of their pronouncements of judgment, catastrophe and doom that would lead to great suffering. Suffering must have a beneficial and restoring purpose in the mind and will of a loving, merciful God, for He is the One who …
ZEALOUS FOR ZION 