Jerusalem, Israel
NOVEMBER 2016 PRAYER UPDATE
Israel
and the Nations
In praying for the U.S. elections, one of the greatest concerns from
an Israeli perspective has been the Anti-Semitic undertones among both
Democratic and Republican campaign supporters. Anti-Semitism is on the increase
in both America and Europe. The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS)
is being spearheaded by students on U.S. college campuses, with the worst
attacks on Israel and the Jewish People coming from Brooklyn College,
Northwestern University, and many schools in California.
In America, 60% of reported hate crimes are against Jews. Last year,
there was a 50% rise in violent anti-Semitic attacks in the US.
Reportedly, 25% of Western Europeans are anti-Semitic. There’s been an
increase in hate attacks against Jews in France, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria.
Jewish people in Europe are afraid to identify themselves as Jews. This has
caused 33% of the Jewish population to consider emigrating from Europe to other
countries.
A “code of conduct” is being established by Israel and Jewish leaders
for the Internet, calling into question methods from Google, Yahoo, and other
search engines. The rules Israel hopes will be implemented is that incitement
against Jews will be taken off the Internet within 24 hours of it being
reported.
PRAYER
POINTS:
THE
ANSWER TO INCREASED PERSECUTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IS FOR THEM TO COME HOME! DECLARE
SCRIPTURES ON ALIYAH THAT DRAW HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO CONSIDER IMMIGRATING TO
ISRAEL. AND, PRAY THAT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WILL WELCOME ALL JEWS WITH OPEN
ARMS:
PSALM
107:2-3: “Let the redeemed of the LORD say so; whom He
has redeemed from the hand of the adversary. And, gathered from the lands. From the east
and from the west; from the north and from the
south.”
HOSEA
11:10: “They
will follow the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When he roars, His children
will come trembling from the west.”
ISAIAH
11:12: “And He will lift up a
standard for the nations. And, assemble the banished ones of Israel. And, will
gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
ISAIAH
43:5-7: “Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring
your offspring from the east; and, gather you from the west. I will say to the
north, ‘Give them up!’ And, to
the south, ‘Do not hold them
back.’ Bring My sons from afar; and, My daughters from the ends of the earth;
everyone who is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory; whom I
have formed, even whom I have made.”
ISAIAH
49:22: “This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the
peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on
their hips.”
AMOS
9:14: “I will bring my exiled people of Israel back
from distant lands, and they will rebuild their ruined cities and live in them
again. They will plant vineyards and gardens; they will eat their crops and
drink their wine.”
The Israeli government has said that the greatest stumbling block to
ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the refusal of the
Palestinians to recognize Israel as the Jewish State. What the Palestinians are
doing is challenging Israel’s sovereignty… not just along the 1967 borders, but
throughout the whole land!
The nations voting within the United Nations Education and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), passed two resolutions recently, declaring the holy
sites in Jerusalem, as well as the Temple Mount itself, as having significance
to the Muslims (using Muslim names to describe the areas). There was no
emphasis on these sites as being holy to Christians or Jews.
This was a victory for the Palestinians, but proved that they not only
do not want to recognize the Jewish State, they are also looking for ways to
deny Jewish historic ties to the Holy Land!
Israeli leaders have declared that attempts to cut off the Jewish
people from their homeland and heritage will not be successful, and will not
bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Furthermore, the battle for
Jewish sovereignty over the land that God has given the Jewish People
continues. A type of diplomatic terror against Israel is happening at UN
institutions.
Israel is preparing for a possible escalation of pressure against the
Jewish State at the UN Security Council, sometime after the November U.S.
elections and before the new U.S. President comes to power in January 2017. The
concern is that outgoing American President Barack Obama may give his approval
to binding UN resolutions that would change Israel’s land status at the
UN.
Since 1967, the UN resolutions that have been binding have been 242
and 338, which explain that the land areas in question are the “disputed
territories” of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), to be determined in future
peace negotiations between the parties in dispute.
If Obama sets parameters for a two-state solution in a new UN Security
Resolution, it could be considered an update to those resolutions, resulting in
the area of dispute being called “occupied territories”. It could pave the way
for other international binding resolutions, calling for the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be determined with the UN becoming a third
party in peace talks.
PRAYER
POINTS:
Ask God
to hold back any U.S. or European resolution in the UN Security Council that
would hurt Israel’s diplomatic standing among the nations. Intercede that there
will be no success in passing resolutions that would challenge Israel’s
sovereignty over the land that the Lord has given her… land from the Great Sea
to the Euphrates River. Declare
that all attempts by the Palestinians to push forward documents that challenge
Israel’s historic ties to Jerusalem and its holy sites, especially the Temple
Mount, will be null and void. Entreat the Lord for Israel’s standing to be
favorable among the nations:
ZECHARIAH
8:22-23: “So many peoples and mighty nations
will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of
the LORD. “Thus says the LORD of Hosts, 'In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.' "
ROMANS 9:4-5: “They
are the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs is the
divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and
the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human
ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.”
DEUTERONOMY 7:6: "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God
has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who
are on the face of the earth.”
PSALM 78:5: “For He established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a law
in Israel,
which He commanded
our fathers;
that they should teach them to their
children; that the generation to come might know, even the
children yet to be born; that they may arise and tell them to their children…”
PSALM 147:19-20: “He declares His words to Jacob;
His statutes
and His ordinances to Israel.
He has not done this for any
other nation; they do not know His regulations. Praise the LORD!”
ZECHARIAH 12:2-4:
“Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all
the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be
against Judah. It will come
about in that
day that I will make Jerusalem
a heavy
stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And, all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.”
ZECHARIAH 12:8-9: "In that day the LORD will
defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in
that day will be like David, and the House of David will be like God, like the
angel of the LORD before them. "And, in
that day I will set about to destroy
all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
PSALM 122:6-7: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May they prosper who love you. May peace
be within your walls; and, prosperity within your palaces. For
the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, May peace be within
you…’ ”