27-04-2024_Aliyah:Fishers and Hunters

    Isaiah 60:8

    Future Glory for Zion
    7All the flocks of Kedar [Beduins] will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house. 8Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters? 9Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.

    Jeremiah 16:15-17

    God will Restore Israel
    15Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers. 16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks. 

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    “Almighty God, our Father in heaven, we now come before you on behalf of all the Jews in the Diaspora, who have become prey to the haters of Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. Jews are no longer safe, even in America, a haven of safety Jews have trusted now for several generations, when they fled from their European and Asian persecutors.”

    “You had sent out Your fishers to catch Your Jewish exiles and bring them to the shores of their covenanted homeland, Israel. But many have remained in America and Europe, having lived there now for many decades, built families, homes, businesses, and their host- country became for them their homeland. But it is still Diaspora, exile. You declared and promised that You will bring all the descendants of Jacob home, not even leave one of them remaining among the nations anymore.”

    “But the 2-3 millions of Jews in America have no desire nor intention to return to their homeland Israel. They send their kids here to college and university, even to serve in the army, and support the nation with many Jewish organizations – just short of returning to Israel for good, building a new home and future there. Many American Jews are famous movie stars, scientists, leaders in many categories of national service, especially in NASA, artists, GEO’s of big companies, bankers, and more. They built a life there, free from anti-Semitism. But now this has changed.”

     You have sent out the hunters!”

    “Jews can no longer safely walk on university campuses or attend classes, getting hunted down by the Jew haters, the Israel bashers! They are screaming ‘Death to the Jews! Annihilate Israel! Palestine be free, from the river to the sea!’ It is like in the early days of anti-Semitism during the Nazi era. And we know where this led to.”

    “In Isaiah 60:8 we see Your exiles come home by plane, described like clouds, like doves, flying to their safe haven, their shelter, the Land of Israel. They also will come with ships – for the prophet refers to the ships of Tarshish. Tarshish is thought to have been Spain, from where ships crossed the Atlantic and came to the shores of North America, where they robbed and killed the indigenous people. The prophet states that these ships will bring Jacob’s children even from far lands, their possessions and wealth with them.”

    “The only Jews known as being a wealthy community are the American Jews. And it is this community the ‘hunters’ are attacking, threatening their lives. Therefore we pray, Abba in heaven: please prepare both plenty of planes and ships for the children of Jacob to bring them safely home to Israel, their silver and gold with them, which they have acquired during their years in America, having built there a life, a family, businesses. The prophet Jeremiah says that those hunters will hunt Your people down from wherever they may live or have fled for safety. You will have them even ‘hunted’ home to their own land. So, whether willingly or unwillingly, You are restoring Your people, the children of Jacob, back into their own land, leaving none of them remaining among the nations anymore.”

    “Lord, Holy One of Israel, please, do not let the terrible Nazi days come back upon Your people, but be their Guardian, their Shepherd and Keeper, and restore them to their own land safe and sound, with no loss of the possessions they have acquired over the years of exile.”

    “Moreover, please, overturn the law that Ariye Deri had brought successfully through the Knesset, becoming Your opponent with the new laws of Aliyah, restricting severely the Return of Your people. Instead, cause the original laws of Aliyah be restored, where every Jew, regardless of their religious status, had the right to the Law of Return, as long as at least one grandparent (or great-grandparent) was Jewish, as this was sufficient for the Nazis to put them into the death camps – tracing back 4 generations.”

     We pray for this rise of anti-Semitism, triggered, birthed forth from the Oct. 7th brutal slaughter of Israeli Jews, will accomplish Your purpose of gathering all of Jacob’s children back into their covenanted land. As the fishers were not able to draw them all back to the shores of Israel, may the hunters succeed with it but only as far as You allow it. Let no weapon fashioned against them prosper, let none be injured or killed by the hunters. May this new anti-Semitism only accomplish Your perfect will, plan and purpose – the complete restoration of Your people into their own land.”

    “Not only this, Father in heaven, but we pray that moreover all their wealth, their gifts, talents, abilities, knowledge, will turn into a huge blessing for Your nation, increasing and enlarging her as is written in Isa. 54:2-3, ‘Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left,’ and render her more powerful than before, making Your people a shining light even to the ends of the earth, as many of them turn to Yeshua, becoming your messengers, Your harvesters going out into the world to every people, nation, tribe and tongue, to gather with the Gospel all those who have been foreknown, predestined and called by You from before the foundation of the world.”

    “May what Satan means for evil with this rise of anti-Semitism, be used by You for the welfare and blessing of Israel, for the returning of her exiles, and the fulfillment of Your promise to Abraham that his descendants will be a blessing in all of the earth.”

    “Am Israel Chai! Let none of them be missing whose names are written in Your book (Ps 139:16; 87:5-7). In Yeshua’s Name we pray, giving You thanks and praise for Your wonderful and mighty deeds on behalf of Your people, Your exiles, the Body of Messiah, and the restored house of David. Amen and Amen.”