Some thoughts and some pictures

Wow! I just really want to tell you tonight that our Heavenly Father is moving mightily in this Land. If you do not understand the significance of Israel, the people and the Land, then I would beg you to read through the entire Scriptures looking for the Father's heart in all of this. Yeshua came to restore Israel to the Father. He came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel! Yeshua did not come with a new agenda. Believers are a part of this plan, but certainly do not replace Israel. Today He is rejoining the Jewish people with their lost brothers. It is visibly happening in the Land and we see that revelation is happening everywhere as Jew and non-Jew recognize that together they are Israel. The brothers are moving toward each other with an ever quickening pace! Pray that the Holy Spirit would give you truth about this! It is an important prophesied end-times revelation!

Here are the lyrics of a song we heard sung here. I promised you these in an earlier blog. Dawn Rogers and Tricia Walker are on the sheet I have a copy of. I know you can find this song on I-tunes.

Verse 1 - Who am I to be part of Your people; the ones that are called by Your name? Could I be chosen as one of Your own, could it be that our blood is the same?

Chorus 1 & 3 - Baruch Hashem Adonai, Baruch Hashem Adonai. Blessed be the name of the Lord, Baruch Hashem Adonai.

Verse 2 - How can a stranger, a remnant of nations, belong to this royal line? You showed Your grace when the branches were broken, and I grafted into the vine.

Chorus 2 & 4 - Baruch Hashem Adonai, Baruch Hashem Adonai. Blessed be the name of the Lord, Baruch Hashem Adonai. Blessed be the name of the Lord, Baruch Hashem Adonai.

Verse 3 - How could You show me such bountiful mercy by taking the life of the Lamb? Your love is greater than I can imagine, I bless You with all that I am.

Verse 4 - Praise to You, Jesus, the veil has been parted, and what once was secret is known. Now I can cry to You, Abba, Father, and praise You as one of Your own.

Okay, I also want to share with you a few pictures from when Cal and I travelled up to the Golan for an overnight stay.

First view of the Sea of Galilee

The beautiful Sea with the visibility a bit better now.

Some interesting facts about the Sea

En Gev - The beautiful kibbutz on the east side of the Sea.

A curious friend.

Her egg was huge!

The Jordan River Paradise!

Dead Sea, Judean wilderness and Samaria

Sorry so long to post some pictures. As relationships are being built, there's not much time to blog except for sleep time! We took a wonderful trip to the Dead Sea this past week.

The Judean hills are spectacular this time of year.

Splashes of green like soft carpet.

Happy sheep feeding on the spring grasses.

This was exciting. We were in the lowest part of the earth here, near Jericho. It's also the area where John the Baptist was baptizing people for repentance. In humbleness, Yeshua was baptized here, picking up those sins that others left in the River. We also know this to be the area where Elijah crossed the River and went up into the clouds. And this is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan River into the Land of Israel. Notice the valley between the mountains. Continuing on through this valley would take the Israelites to the Mount of Blessing and the Mount of Cursing where the covenant would be renewed with the 2nd generation out of Egypt at Shechem.

Interstingly enough, our Jewish friend told us everything green we saw in this area was edible. We munched the salty herbs along the way.

And here, my friends, is the Land the Israelites walked on. We took off our shoes and walked on this holy ground. Moses would only have seen this Land from across the Jordan on Mount Hor. The second generation of Israelites were also circumcised here.

It's a good Land, flowing with milk and honey!

An abandoned tank from some previous war.

Dead Sea and Jordan in the background.

More of the same.

Across the Dead Sea to Jordan.

We avoid these many, many busses! But happily, many people are in the Land!

Spectacular shots of the Judean wilderness.


More splashes of green. An awesome view.

A bedouin camp in the valley below.

Have I showed you this one yet?

Flowers are coming to life everywhere.

The wall of protection, sad but necessary to preserve life.

A checkpoint.

Ooops! Wrong turn!

One of many mountain tops where fires were once built to signal Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) clear to those in Babylon.

Beautiful evening entering into Samaria.

Numbers 10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your Elohim: I am YHWH your Elohim."

Our guys blow the specially made silver trumpets for New Moon.

The peach orchard

Today we went out to the peach orchard. Below are some of the beautiful trees.

Here are some fruitful branches. Sadly, this fruit must be thinned or none of the peaches will grow to be large, beautiful peaches. I think you can compare this to fruit in our lives. Do we sometimes get too many things going, so that nothing becomes fully developed?

The peaches on this thinned branch will become large, beautiful peaches!

Another of the many orchards of some indigneous fruit.

Aliyah Museum - Zichron Ya'acov

The Aliyah Museum is 120 years. When first built, it was the most beautiful building in all of Israel. The following pictures were taken in the museum. Most speak for themselves of the courage and the tenacity of the Zionistic settlers who established Zichron Ya'acov in 1882.

The original main street of Zichron Ya'acov

The same main street today!

The following pictures were taken from a movie from 1913!