Shalom Partner and Friend of Israel,

Throughout history, many great minds such as Augustine, Isaac Newton, and Leonardo Da Vinci, showed more than just a passing curiosity regarding the importance of Biblical numbers. Even our Lord Yeshua (Jesus) reminded us in Matthew 10:30; “The very hairs of your head are numbered!” Every letter in the Biblical Hebrew Alphabet - God has a number connected to it …and so, Bible numbers should be carefully considered. This had us thinking… “What about the numbers of man? And who used numbers and why?

“Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the ruler’s band together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.’” – Psalm 2:1-3. Hitler in his “final solution” Holocaust numbered people – why? What was the meaning? Besides just keeping count of all the Jews it became “a plot” he devised in his evil mind sending them to gas chambers in his “death concentration camps.” And the Antichrist WILL use numbers in his “plot” to rule the world and will destroy ALL who will refuse to take “the mark” and the Bible prophetically warns us …it WILL happen with “the Mark of the Beast” – 666! Control of the coming New World Order or End-Time Government will be consolidated into the totalitarian hands of the Antichrist. The “dragon,” which is the devil, gives this New World Governmental system its seat, power, and great authority (Revelation 13:2). ALL people will feel the oppression of this coming evil government structure because it is “satanically” inspired …and it is forming right now! God will save His true Church from these terrible times; “…In a twinkling of an eye” - 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (see also: John 14:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-17, 5:9; Titus 2:13; Revelation 3:10).

The Church is no longer mentioned after Revelation Chapter 3 as it has been Raptured! Revelation 13:7 states that power WILL be given to the Antichrist over “all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” Verse 3 says; “And all the world wondered after the beast.” This World Governmental system ruled by the Antichrist, “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.” - Daniel 7:23. The Prophecy tells us that this evil One-World Government will rule the world UNTIL after the 7 years of the Great Tribulation at the Second Coming of Christ.

We don't know everything …but our God does. The Bible is our guide and therefore, when we see a disaster and will try to explain it with our limited earthly understanding, while Almighty God puts the disaster in the context of everything. God may allow something we find dreadful for a number of reasons: a). He is punishing an evil about which we do not know. b). He is preventing an even greater evil by allowing that one. c). through the suffering He is achieving an ultimate good purpose that requires such an evil to take place. In the case of the persecution of the Jewish people and of Christians today - God has warned us in Scripture that His chosen people will face an additional source of evil in their lives since they are special targets of Satan …and of the world at large because of the world is in complete opposition of evil and good. We can see this when we read the opening chapters of the Book of Job. 

Whatever circumstances believers may face, evil is transformed from something in itself – “just plain evil” - to something with a purpose at its end which is good. Paul puts it like this; “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to his purpose.” - Romans 8:28-39. No “evil” can separate the true believers from the love of God …because He has tamed evil through Christ, who has defeated Satan and sin on the cross …and disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them (Colossians 2:15). God’s immediate answer to evil in this world is NOT to remove it but to endure it with us. The death of Christ on the Cross and Resurrection was to defeat evil’s destructive power. However, wickedness, rebellion against God and His Word, the Bible, will continue until Christ returns and then He will re-create the universe to be without sin and evil at all.

Did you know that anti-Semitism in Europe did NOT just begin with Adolph Hitler and that it still continues on today even though World War 11 ended on the 08^th May, 1945? Although the use of the term itself dates only to the 1870s, there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust …even as far back as the Ancient World, when the Romans destroyed the 2^nd Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave their land in 70AD. The “enlightment” during the 17^th and 18^th Centuries emphasized religious toleration, and in the 19^th Century - Napoleon and other European rulers enacted legislation that ended long-standing restrictions on Jews. The anti-Semitic feeling endured, however, in many cases taking on a “racial” character rather than a religious one in our times.

Hitler’s Nazi’s “dehumanized” Jews by reducing them from a name to a number… Primo Levi was an Italian Jew who survived Auschwitz was a Scientist who also wrote powerful poems and memoirs about his experiences in the camp; “I have learnt that I am Häftling (prisoner). My number is: 174517; we have been baptized; we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die!” He describes his first days as a prisoner in Auschwitz; “In a moment, with almost Prophetic intuition, the reality was revealed to us - we had reached the bottom! It is NOT possible to sink lower than this; NO human condition is more miserable than this, NOR could it conceivably be so. NOTHING belongs to us anymore; they have taken away our clothes, our shoes, even our hair; if we speak, they would NOT listen to us, and if they listen, they will not understand. They will even take away our NAME …and if we want to keep it, we will have to find ourselves the strength to do so, to manage somehow so that behind the name something of us, of us as we were, still remains.”

Primo Levi’s memoirs shared his heart in the poem; “Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses - he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself. He will be a man whose life or death can be lightly decided with NO sense of human affinity, in the most fortunate of cases, on the basis of a pure judgment of utility. It is in this way that one can understand the double sense of the term “extermination camp,” and it is now clear what we seek to express with the phrase: “to lie on the bottom…. The operation was slightly painful and extraordinarily rapid; they placed us all in a row, and one by one, according to the alphabetical order of our names, we filed past a skilful official armed with a sort of pointed tool with a very short needle (for number tattoo). It seems that this is the real, true initiation: only by “showing one’s number” can one get bread and soup. Several days passed, and not a few cuffs and punches, before we became used to showing our number promptly enough not to disorder the daily operation of food-distribution; weeks and months were needed to learn its sound in the German language. And for many days, while the habits of freedom still led me to look for the time on my wristwatch, my new name ironically appeared instead - a number tattooed in bluish characters under the skin…!”

Did you know that the practise of “dehumanizing” people thought to be inferior began decades before by the Nazis who later turned to the Jews? German Colonialists in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) “dehumanized,” built death camps for and slaughtered tens of thousands of African tribes’ people in Namibia in a systematic genocide before WW11. The Second Reich of Germany, enthusiastically joined the so-called; “Scramble for Africa!” Beginning in November 1884, Germany convened the Berlin Conference of leading the European powers to co-operatively carve up the African continent. Commonly said is that the Armenian Genocide of 1914-1915, perpetrated by the Turks, was the first genocide of the 20^th Century. That is wrong. History records the first deliberate effort to systematically exterminate an entire group was by the Germans in Southwest Africa during 1904-1908 and the horrors visited on this defenceless group of people endured …and later became a template for Hitler’s Final Solution. Students of the Holocaust are accustomed to looking backward long before the Third Reich …and long after the evil demise of the Nazi war machine. (By Edwin Black - Times of Israel 5/5/2016)

There are two events that have dramatically impacted the welfare of Jews in modern times; (1) The remarkable re-birth of the Nation of Israel in 1948 (2) and its growing prosperity “of the desert blooming” today - both are God’s Promise and are visible evidence spoken in the Bible by Prophets thousands of years ago regarding these two events.  But just not so long ago in time we are able to look back at what lurked - another event; the Holocaust or in Hebrew the word is “Shoah.” 

This unspeakable evil saw the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s and their collaborators. The origins of the word “Holocaust” comes from the Greek words “holos” and “kostos,” which combined mean "totally burnt." At its core, the term describes an animal sacrifice totally burnt on an altar in order to please a god. In Hebrew, they use a different word, which is also ancient: “Shoah” (sho-Ah). The word appears in the Bible more than a dozen times, always to signify complete and utter destruction. For example, consider; Zephaniah 1:15; “That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of Shoah and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.”

During the Middle Ages, the word began to mean “disaster.” Samuel ibn Naghrela, the great Talmudic scholar and statesman who lived in Moorish Iberia in the 11^th Century, wrote this poem; “Angered by difficulty …and angered by want of sin …and there is “Shoah” hidden in good - and good hidden in “Shoah.” Every year in Israel, the annual Holocaust Memorial Day is called Yom HaShoah. In 1865 in Israel, the word “Shoah” appeared in the first Hebrew newspaper in the Holy Land, “HaLevanon.” However, the first person believed to use the word “Shoah” specifically to describe the Holocaust was writer and editor Yehuda Erez, in 1938 who emigrated from Russia to British Mandate Palestine 1923, wrote the article "With the Shoah in Europe" in December 1938, saying; “We are horrified at the foundation by the “Shoah” that is taking place upon the heads of German Jewry." Even BEFORE World War II broke out, ultra-Orthodox publications began calling the events befalling Germany’s Jews a “Shoah.” Once the Nazis invaded Poland and the war truly erupted, the word “Shoah” began to spread to the daily newspapers.

At the end of the 1930s, Hitler ordered the construction of a special train that could transport him around safely and appease his growing paranoia... It was like a fortress on rails and this armoured fifteen-carriage convoy served as his mobile headquarters, and was where he met privately with other evil leaders such as Mussolini. The luxurious interior of each coach was designed by the evil Führer himself. According to Daniel Ablin, very little is known history of this special train and pierce the secrets behind Hitler's “beast of steel.”

Initially, the SS authorities “marked” prisoners who were in the infirmary or who were to be executed with their camp serial number across the chest with indelible ink. As prisoners were executed or died in other ways, their clothing bearing the camp serial number was removed. Given the mortality rate at the camp and practice of removing clothing, there was no way to identify the bodies after the clothing was removed. Hence, the SS authorities introduced the practice of tattooing in order to identify the bodies of registered prisoners who had died.

In the spring of 1943, authorities adopted the practice of tattooing almost all previously registered and newly arrived prisoners, including females. The only exceptions were German prisoners who were held in a separate compound. Perhaps the most notorious of the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1.1 million Jews were killed at Auschwitz. All incoming prisoners arriving were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Auschwitz prisoners, both Jewish (and non-Jewish) were “tattooed” with serial numbers, first on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated 400,000 numbers were tattooed in Auschwitz and its sub-camps only some several thousand survivors are still alive today.  The camp consisted of three main parts: Auschwitz I (the base camp) Auschwitz II - Birkenau (the extermination camp) and Auschwitz III - Monowitz (the labour camp). During the war the camp was staffed by 6,500 to 7,000 members of the infamous SS - 15 % of whom were later convicted of war crimes. It was run by camp commandant Rudolf Höss who was tried and hanged in 1947 for his part in the extermination.

Only prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers. BUT those prisoners who were sent directly to the gas chambers were NOT registered and received NO tattoos. So, the people with a tattooed number in this case were last on the list to be sent to the gas chambers (a miracle in itself) as many survived to tell the story of cruelty. Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army - January 27 1945; this day is subsequently declared; International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Following its liberation, the camp has become a symbol of the Holocaust and has operated as a museum since 1947.

Did you know that the “dehumanizing” of people occurred in the 1700’s during the “slave trade” …and then followed the Socialist Workers Party (1889-1945) of Nazi Germany’s Holocaust of Jews (and other people they branded sub-human)? BUT how about today? The murder of innocent babies that are “aborted” daily …and “dehumanized?” 42 Million babies were aborted in 2019. Babies in the womb are labelled by the abortionists as “not human!” As Bible believing Christians, we should always see people made in the image of God and every life as precious …and we should NEVER vote for any leader who supports abortion! Socialists, Democrats and Liberals have played a major role in recorded historical truths of “dehumanizing” people over past years. Radical leftists continue to do so today. They support legalizing the murder of innocent babies through abortion and justify this evil by calling it pro-choice, family planning, woman care, not a baby… etc!

In Genesis 4:15 we read; “And the Lord put a mark/sign (’ôt’) on Cain so that anyone who finds him will NOT kill him.” This permanent mark (a tattoo or brand mark?) would have served to protect Cain from avengers and other dangerous persons. We believe that even in the evil plans of Hitler’s Holocaust or “final solution” …and numbering Jews – that there can be found “a miracle.” It just so happened that God’s protection over Jews who survived the horrors of the concentration camps gas chambers would live to tell the story and so they could show the world the “mark” or “number” on their arms as “a sign” to next generation and proof that these Holocaust atrocities had in fact taken place! Their number is a testimony! Amazingly today the living Holocaust Survivors continue to tell their story to their grandchildren even long after Hitler and his Nazi collaborators are long gone! 

The picture above with tattoo on arm and flag is the number of Irena Sendler a Polish Catholic Social Worker who saved more than 2,500 Jewish children between 1942-1943 by sneaking them out and placing them in Orphanages or getting Christian families to adopt them. When caught Irena was tortured, numbered just like the Jews she tried to help …and then placed in prison where she was to be sent to her death. However, she survived and lived to a ripe old age of 98 years until 2008.  God is true to his Word and blesses those who bless His people (Jews) and land of Israel; “I (God) will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I (God) will curse…” Genesis 12:3.

Pray4Zion has for almost 13 years helped support 150 Holocaust Survivors. It is our desire to ensure that they live their final years with help and dignity… It just doesn’t seem right that after all the horrors, hardship and suffering during some of the cruellest years of human history of the Holocaust that those who survived should live out their final years in poverty? Yet many Holocaust survivors in Israel are experiencing just that! Elderly and fragile, about two-thirds of them are classified as “poor” and live below the poverty line in Israel. Many have NO family as their families and communities were destroyed by the Nazis. Here in Israel they struggle to survive in their few remaining years and many are lacking the means to buy even the most basic of human necessities such as food, medicine, heat and shelter and many live alone in harsh conditions. Approximately 1/3 of the Holocaust Survivors are impoverished, struggling with illness or living alone!

What was stripped from these Holocaust Survivors during the Holocaust? Dignity! They were treated as “sub-human,” disposable and even vile. The brutal way they were treated for simply being born Jewish; their property confiscated, packed into freight cars, wrenched from family, physically abused, beaten, starved, tortured, and worse inhuman. The most basic need and right of every human is “dignity and respect” but for them it was denied! Today’s indignity of insufficient means surely whispers inside them as echoes from the past. We are so grateful to you for your financial support and together Pray4Zion WILL continue to be a blessing to the aging Holocaust Survivors in Israel and strive to make a huge difference in their lives - for as long as we able. Thank you for your kindness!

Many people ask these questions; Why did God allow six million Jews to be murdered and even allow the Holocaust? Didn’t God have the power to stop this evil? First of all, we believe that God DID save the Jews from the Holocaust. Although millions tragically died (and in no way are we trying to downplay this) Hitter’s intent was the COMPLETE destruction of Europe’s Jewry …and in this it did NOT succeed! Secondly, for those saying that this is “proof” that God does NOT exist - is wrong! For one, the concept of God is extremely abstract so the notion that any physical event, discovery or character could “disprove” God’s existence completely misses the point. On top of that, there are numerous precedents for this in the narrative of Jewish history. Jews were devastated multiple times in the Bible, from slavery to destruction and near-genocide. Whether or not we buy the notion of “divine punishment,” the Holocaust is NOT the first tragedy to strike the Jewish people. Thirdly, since the Holocaust, Jews have become more prosperous than ever (or at least more than any time in the past couple millennia). As horrific as the Holocaust was, the Jewish people emerged (albeit slowly) stronger and more resilient than before!

BUT, truly no one really knows the exact reason why God didn’t save the Jews from the Nazis… There will be those who would also ask why God didn’t save the Jews from the Assyrians and the Babylonians? Why didn’t God save the Jews from the Romans …and the destruction of the 2^nd Temple in 70 AD? The Jews as a people were exiled from the Land of Israel. The only reason this would have been allowed was through “divine” action. What it really means is that the Jews have been on their own for much of Jewish history after they were exiled from the Promised Land and lacked the previous “divine” protection – YET they survived. God has NOT forsaken the Jewish people NOR Israel. They are back in the Land again after 2,000 years just as God promised. If God didn’t allow the Jews to be persecuted, they would NOT have returned to their Promised Land – Israel!

As the Scripture says that God’s way is NOT our ways and His thoughts are NOT our thoughts! “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways.” – Isaiah 55:8-9. God is not absent from history. He is working out His perfect will in His timetable. The world events are being arranged by God so that what He has revealed will come true. The world is NOW becoming a One-World Government with One-World Currency and One-World Religion. YES, God’s way is NOT our way and He is carrying forth His plan of Salvation …and the world will see His plan unfold further and even with the rebuilding of the 3^rd Temple in Jerusalem. As hard as it is to write this - God in His “divine” mercy and plans allowed the Nazi’s to persecute the Jews so that they WILL return to the land and rebuild the Temple which will lead to the Return of their Messiah! The final redemption of the Jewish Nation as a whole WILL occur with the Coming of Mashiach – Messiah Yeshua – Jesus!

Think on this! God saved Jews from the Holocaust of Europe - He saved them from the Holocaust of Ukraine - He saved them from the Holocaust of Spain - He saved them from the Holocaust of Rome, Greece, Babylon, Assyria, and Egypt. The next time you see a Jew, you are looking at a living miracle example of God’s Mercy, Protection and Eternal Salvation of His beloved Nation Israel …from Ancient times to this very day! When you look at Jerusalem and Israel you see God’s Hand and miracle! Nazism was eradicated from the face of the earth and the Jewish people not only remain but are stronger than before! After WWII, for the first time in several millennia the Jews were being protected in the larger political sphere, to the point where boundaries for their land were set aside for them. They have an extremely strong army and the IDF is well prepared for any attack.

There is coming a time once again soon another “mark” and “number” 666 that WILL this time affect the whole world not just the Jews when the Antichrist is finally revealed! The Apostle John predicted in the book of Revelation that when the Antichrist arises, he will require EVERYONE in the world to obtain “a MARK” / number on their right hand or forehead and that NO one will be able to buy or sell without it. Actually, the Bible says that there will be three requirements for doing commerce in that day; “And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads …And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” - Revelation 13:16-17.

The Mark of the Beast” is the Greek word for “mark” - “charagma” which means a “stamp” or an “imprinted mark” or a “mark providing undeniable identification” and a symbol “giving irrefutable connection between parties.“  “The Mark of the Beast” on the hand or forehead is therefore “a seal of ownership,” and those who take the final “mark” are branding themselves and showing their allegiance to the Beast, while at the same time signifying their absolute rebellion against God. The fulfilment of the final “mark” could be a digital ID number that is implanted within or just under the skin and thus it could become the number used in conjunction with smart card technology to validate identities. 

Only this generation could relate to technology and able to understand what all previous generations couldn’t! The technology is already in place and it is happening right now. Economic, political, and religious conformity can now be enforced with technology which is already available. Just as the UN pressures “rogue states” into conforming through economic sanctions, a One-World political system, a One-World economy, and a One-World religion will also be enforced through individual economic sanctions. A tiny microchip inserted under the skin can replace the need to carry passports, ID, keys, credit cards and train tickets. Think this is impossible today? No! Thousands of Europeans had microchips embedded into their hands because of risk of their personal data being “used against them.” More than 3,000 Swedes have microchip implants that let them pay for shopping, enter buildings and book train tickets. According to Revelation 13:15-18 - every person will be forced to have a number, without which they will be unable to buy or sell. If we want to have a job, we would have to have a valid, government recognized ID, and be in the Global Database.

The most common belief about the identity of the “Antichrist” is that he will come from a revived Roman Empire. However, it is quite extensively possible that the “Antichrist” will come from the Middle East and be a Muslim …since the plain reading of Daniel 12:4, 9 is that Daniel was to “conceal / hide” the meaning of the prophecy “until the End Times.” The traditional meaning of who the Antichrist would most likely be is wrong! Christians have believed that the Antichrist would be a Roman for nearly 2,000 years and NOT taken into account that it may be the “Islamic Antichrist!” To go along with this idea is Matthew 24:15 and the meaning of Daniel 12:4 “has to be preserved” because Yeshua (Jesus) tells us to understand the book of Daniel; “…So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel – let the reader understand…” Here Yeshua is speaking about Jerusalem …and today who occupies the Temple Mount? Yes, you see it! It’s the Islamic Al-Aqsa Mosque an “abomination” on top of Mount Moriah!

When the Antichrist finally comes to power, the people of the Globalists New World Order WILL be ready for a radical transformation in society a change that will include the total elimination of cash and the sworn allegiance of every person to the Global Empire.  The Antichrist will then issue a strict Law for everyone to obtain the final “mark!” This event will be the ultimate turning point for the entire world.  This WILL happen and the world is being prepared for it! Anyone daring to refuse the “mark” will be cut off from society …however, anyone that receives the “mark” will suffer the Wrath of God and Eternal damnation!  That will be the final day of decision!  The choices that are made will seal everyone’s destiny forever! God bless you!

Think on this… Was God to fault and who let us down for NOT saving the Jews from Germany’s Nazi Holocaust during WW11? It wasn’t God! It was us who let God down for NOT doing everything in our power to put pressure on the Allies and the Western World to bomb the Nazi Crematoria and the railway lines leading to the Nazi "death camps." The Allies, ALL knew about what was going on during the Holocaust …Christians were SILENT …and even the Jews of the Civilized Western World should have pressurized them to act earlier. Fortunately, today we now have the State of Israel to see that atrocities like that NEVER happen again. As true believers in Yeshua (Jesus) we should ALWAYS stand with Israel and the Jewish people! Maybe we should also consider questions such as; Why did God allow the Jews to be freed from slavery in Egypt? Why did God allow the re-establishment of Israel as a Nation? Why did God send many Prophets and ultimately His own Son Yeshua (Jesus) to die on the cross to NOT only to save Jews but the Gentiles - from sin? The answer is to all these questions are being revealed to us written for our generation, in the God’s Word – The Bible. As believers we don’t understand fully why evil things happens to good people …but we have this hope that one day soon we will all understand more when we see our Lord face to face!

According to God’s Holy Scriptures, when we violate His instructions - we limit His legal ability to protect us; "Yes, again and again they tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel" - Psalm 78:41. During the Passover, Jewish homes were protected from the "angel of death" and plans of Pharaoh who was controlled by the Satan to destroy the Hebrew people (Jews). Most people today do NOT understand the significance of the power of the blood! In Ancient Israel, they understood it! If a sacrifice of an animal’s blood was poured out by the door to identify a friend but if there was NO blood, it meant they were enemies. "Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I (the Lord) will pass over the blood and this plague of death will NOT touch you when I (God) strike the land of Egypt." – Exodus 13:13. Also read; Exodus 12: 23. God Himself would be in the house and NO destroyer would dare enter! When the Jewish people placed "the blood of a lamb" on their doorposts, they proclaimed something even greater - they fulfilled: Leviticus 17: 11; "For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I (the Lord) have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls." The blood of the innocent lamb was a "foreshadow" of the blood of the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). After violating God’s Ten Commandments, we too limit the Holy One of Israel from protecting us. The Bible says we ALL (Jew and Gentile) have sinned and violated God’s Commandments (Romans 3:23) - even the most righteous have sinned, knowingly or unknowingly.

 What was the Lord doing when the Jews were going through so much pain and torment during the Holocaust? We believe that the Lord was weeping for them, but His hands were limited; "In all of their affliction He was afflicted"- Isaiah 63:9. When all is lost, we MUST invite the Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus) our Passover Lamb, to enter our hearts (house). His Blood has made "Atonement" for our sins and He protects us from "the destroyer"- Satan. God has never let us down! It isn’t God who punishes us – it’s when we leave His protection, we become vulnerable to the plans of the Devil and his evil co-workers! Yeshua (Jesus) also warned His followers that the world hates them with a spiritual malice and dislike (John 15:18-21). Regarding individuals, God doesn’t cause suffering but often uses circumstances in order to lead us from "earthly" to "spiritual" things. This can sometimes be a matter of setting us free from something that holds us back spiritually. Example: For us to lose our financial security because we have placed our confidence in that …instead of spiritual riches and God as our provider. The Lord tells a Parable about this in the story of the rich young ruler in Luke 18:18-23. God may allow suffering in our lives to teach us patience and reliance on Him, as He did with the Apostle Paul in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 12:1-10).

God’s Word is true! He IS watching to see how the nations are treating His people. God will have mercy on Israel through Gentile believers acting as mediators towards them… This is one of the most amazing revelations ever given to the church – an opportunity to do something that carries the highest priority in the heart of God. Yet, sadly, so few have seen the potential and the rewards of serving God in this manner - as agents of mercy to Israel and the Jewish people! Israel was and still is despised today and a despised nation continually turning away from God BUT nothing ever altered the purpose of God for that nation. The despised element is always a noticeable element in the purpose of God. When the Saviour of the world came, He came of that despised nation; like Israel… He Himself was; "despised and rejected by men," …and there is that despised element; "…things that are despised God has chosen," 1 Corinthians 1:28. Now, more than at any time is the time to support Israel and the Jewish people - the Lord’s Brethren! We are witnessing the nations and people turning their backs on Israel. Thank you once again for your prayers and generous support!

We hope that you enjoy and become more informed by our work. We serve an awesome God and we are humbled by this opportunity to bring you this information. With Shalom to you and your family always,

Alf & Julie Saunders

01^st March, 2020

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