Reclaiming Yerushalayim

B"H

I have, for the most part, put my blogging on hold so I can better prepare for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur but I felt it was important to post this now. Yerushalayim has been taken over by goyim. Everywhere you look there are tourists, Darfur refugees, Fillipinos and xians. When I am walking in the center of town or riding a bus, I don't even feel like I am in Israel anymore. Of course, what can we expect when many Jews are leaving Yerushalayim for places like Modiin, Maaleh Adumim or Beit Shemesh. Why are people leaving? Apparently a bigger apartment, a yard or a car are more important than the kedusha of Yerushalayim or the kotel or Har Habayit. So, how can we complain about the government wanting to give away Yerushalayim if we don't appreciate her?

I stopped going, for a few months, to daven in the Old City because it seemed like every time I went, I had to fight with goyim just to daven. It seems insane to me that I, as a Jew, have to fight with goyim to daven at our holy sights. When I go to Kever David, tourists push me aside so they can take pictures, they are obnoxious and rude. They have no respect and they look at us as if we are on display, even taking pictures of the women davening without asking permission. Kever David(the women's side) is a small place, 12 women could fill the place and the tourists wouldn't be able to get in. You would think there would be atleast 12 Jewish women davening there at all times but there isn't. It is even worse at the kotel. It is nearly impossible to actually touch the wall because the tourists all have to get a picture of themselves posing there. They don't understand that a Jew can't move during certain parts of davening so they just move you over with their bodies. Yesterday there was a group of nuns there. What possible reason could a nun have to go to the kotel. They don't believe it has any spiritual significance. Once a xian woman actually crossed herself next to me. Many years ago there were rules. Women must cover up their bodies. No crosses were showing. No pictures being taken of the worshippers. Now, apparently, anything goes and no one says anything about it.

The last place to daven in peace was the ezrat nashim off the kotel tunnels but that has even been taken over by tourists now. Yesterday morning a group of ten women tourists scantily dressed came into the ezrat nashim when I was leaving. Their tour guide waited outside which seemed strange to me. They were talking, completely oblivious to the fact that they had just entered a shul where people were davening shacharit. They opened the curtain to take pictures of the men davening below and one woman turned to photograph the women who were davening. This disrespect for our holy places and the sanctity of the intimate moments of our conversations with HaShem, enraged me. The tourists went out to the tour guide and I noticed she was speaking in English, so I interrupted her and told her that it was extremely rude and disrespectful to take pictures of people davening. She first denied it then apologized, obviously not caring.

We need to correct this chillul HaShem. We must reclaim Yerushalayim and demand respect before it is too late. This is our country and our holy places and no one is going to do it for us. Everyone should remember that not long ago, Jews cried and prayed and sacrificed for Yerushalayim. We have a great privilege, don't take it for granted.

Update on Worldwide Biblical Zionists and Likud

The following went out in an email from Hear O Israel website.

Biblical Zionists Discussion

Monte Judah, Sagiv Assulin, Joel Bell, and Eddie Chumney discuss the foundation of the Biblical Zionists organization. You can view video discussion here. (link no longer goes to video)

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE WORLDWIDE BIBLICAL ZIONISTS.

"We actively develop opportunities through partnership for your participation here in Israel. Investments, jobs, housing, education, military training, community, and tools you'll need to make Israel your home. Our aim is to secure and protect the Biblical homeland for the Jewish people. In our ability to show solidarity, commitment and action to the vision of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin, we as children of the God of Abraham have an inheritance with our brother Judah.

We will show the Israeli people through our activity that we are friends and allies like Charles Orde Wingate. We will replace all the blood thirsty terrorist organizations that work day and night for the destruction of Israel murdering Jewish men, women and children. We will show through our money, talents, skills and good old fashioned blood, sweat and tears that we make better neighbors than Hamas, Hizbullah, Fatah or the PLO.

We declare an end to the false peace process and the leadership that has lost its way and sold its birthright. We have clearly seen the leadership in Israel sell innocent Jewish lives for a false peace. Jewish blood has become negotiable in exchange for more terror. We will fight to change the direction and we will elevate the value of Jewish lives to the most precious and above our own".

The Restoration of the Kingdom Is at Hand

In 921 BCE the Kingdom Of Israel was divided into two reigns. The northern kingdom (consisting of 10 tribes) became known as the Kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom (consisting of two tribes) became known as the Kingdom of Judah.

Between 734 and 722 BCE, the Kingdom of Israel was taken captive by the Assyrians and dispersed throughout their kingdom. This was a judgment from Elohim for their idolatry and sin. When Assyria was later conquered, Israel began to disperse throughout the world. As Yahshua was about to ascend into heaven, His taught ones asked Him, in Acts 1:6; "Master, would You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" They were referring to that which all the prophets spoke of in the TaNaK (Old Testament). It would only be a few years after Yahshua's disciples asked this question, that even the Kingdom of Judah would be dispersed by Rome throughout the earth.

But, as the prophets testified by the Spirit of Elohim, there is a day coming, as spoken of by Yehezqel, in Ezekiel 11:16-19: "Therefore say, 'Thus said the Master Yahweh "Although I have sent them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the lands, yet I was for them a set-apart place for a little while in the lands to which they came." ' Therefore say, 'Thus said the Master "And I shall gather you from the peoples, and I shall assemble you from the lands where you have been scattered, and I shall give you the land of Israel.'

Judah's regathering began in 1948, as the Nation State of Israel was reborn. And now, among Christians, there is an ever-growing return to the Hebrew Roots of their faith. Messianic and Israelite congregations are springing up all over the world. After 2730 years, the Northern Kingdom is being called to return to the Land, as prophesied by the prophet Ezekiel and spoken of in Leviticus 19. Jews in the Land of Israel are beginning to call for their brothers to return and build up Zion.

Worldwide Biblical Zionists was recently formed in Israel, by Jews, to help facilitate the reunification of both "Houses" of Israel. We have developed a network of proven leaders throughout Israel, Members of the Knesset, Government officials, Local Mayors, land and business owners, teachers, and Rabbis. This team is fully dedicated to the vision of Biblical Zionism. We are working to secure your participation in the Restoration of the Kingdom to Israel. And, we are uniting proven leaders around the world, who keep Biblical covenants and are actively fulfilling this vision: people of like mind who long for the restoration of Israel and the Kingdom of Elohim.

Please visit and join with us in building up Zion. And, plan to attend the first International Board of Director's Meeting in Jerusalem and a very special tour of Israel, November 7 ~ 18, 2008

Hear O Israel is a xtian group that subscribes to the two-house theology. On their website there are "spies reports" in which they tell about their trip to "the land".

Rivka says

My report is EXCELLENT!!! Brother Judah was, for the most part, happy – at least interested – OK, sometimes scared – to meet us. We were pretty amazed at meeting brother Judah. The most lasting impact I feel of the people is that Judah is laying down their very hearts, souls and lives for The Land. Their Land and Our Land. They need our help, and I felt pretty much like a slouch about it. One of the most poignant moments of the trip was when we met Leah and Rabbi Moshe in Itimar. Ben Ehrhardt had been listening to Arutz Sheva the night her settlement neighbors were being attacked. She had called the radio show from the “Safe Room” in her house, not knowing if she and her family would die next. She begged, “Ephraim – COME HOME! We NEED you!!” Obviously, not a dry eye n the bunch as this dear Leah ran from her house and tried to hug us all at the same time (we REALLY should have watched the diet). Ben, in their lovely home over treats, tearfully told her, "Here we are – help your government to let us come home”.Wow.

In fact, ”Wow” became a word well-used on this trip. As we explained to one Yehudite after another who we were, we kept hearing it. Wow. As we met one brave citizen after another and heard their faith expressed, we kept saying it, too. Wow.

One day we were in the Van Hellion driving through the land of Benjamin on the way to Ephraimite Land. By His Ruach, we all began to cry and shout as we passed the border. “We’re Home!” “ Baruch HaShem Yahweh”! This would have been very nice, but there was one amazing detail. As we crossed the unmarked boundary between Judah’s land (Benjamin) into the land of the Ten Lost Tribes (Ephraim), nobody told us we had crossed over. We just knew. Baruch HaShem Yahweh, indeed.

There is so much to relate this little spy is just plumb tuckered out. All in all, I can summarize by saying that THE LAND is indeed flowing with milk, honey, flowers. oranges that look like grapefruits, and every blessing possible. To live there and join our brothers and sisters is now my passionate dream. These people make me want to be a better me. Those who are too steeped in their Talmudic traditions to find time to read their Tanak will be surprised when Yahweh brings us home without giving up Yahshua, but we will be sure to invite him to the party. We know the Real people will rejoice with us, and Yahweh will come from afar off to greet us. No giants or adversaries too big. Yahweh can take this land, and He will have no trouble making these two sticks ONE in HIS HAND!!!!!

From biblicalzionists.org

The Biblical Center

The Biblical Zionist Strategic Center is designed to enhance the development of our Biblical inheritance. This is a partnership project with the Israeli people.

We will be located North of Jerusalem, deliberately situated to show
support for the future of Zion. As people become more familiar with the Biblical land of Israel, it’s easy to discover new revelation in the scriptures and to find their place among the people.
(Isaiah 56)

Yeshua taught us that we have to be a light to the nations and teach Torah. There is no better place than from the heart of Judea and Samaria where the Bible comes alive.

Goyim and certainly these idolators have NO inheritance in the land of Israel. The Jews who are working with these xtians have thrown out halachah to fulfill the xtian view of our prophecies.

In the news

Arab Worker Injures Jewish Boss with Hammer

(IsraelNN.com) An Arab construction worker attacked a Jewish contractor with a hammer in a construction site at Masuot Yitzchak near Kiryat Malachi. The contractor suffered moderate wounds.

Arab Rock Attack in Samaria, Civilians Fire in Air

(IsraelNN.com) Arabs threw rocks at cars near Yitzhar Junction in Samaria Thursday. A civilian who saw that the soldiers present were not doing anything took a soldier’s gun and fired in the air. Another civilian who was armed also fired his weapon in the air.The two Jewish civilians were detained for questioning.

Rock-Throwing Arabs Rampage at Old City, One Injured

(IsraelNN.com) Police at this hour are trying to disperse a large number of rock-throwing Arabs who attacked pedestrians and cars at Sha'ar Prachim (Gate of Flowers) and near the American Colony Hotel.

One woman tourist from Argentina was lightly injured as she was driving with her three children. She was treated on the scene.

Arabs Riot in Binyamin Region

(IsraelNN.com) Arabs have attempted to block Highway 60 with burning tires, between the Jewish town of Adam and the Shaar Binyamin Industrial Park. No injuries have been reported. Police and Magen David Adom are on scene.

Arabs Hurl Rocks at Israeli Cars In Gush Etzion

(IsraelNN.com) According to the Yesha News Service, Arabs threw rocks at Jewish cars on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Highway close to El Aruv. No injuries have been reported.

EPHRAIMITES(XTIAN ZIONISTS) FORM ALLIANCE WITH LIKUD TO WORK TOWARDS THE GOAL OF XTIAN ALIYAH

Eddie Chumney (who sometimes uses the title Rabbi) is one of the main leaders in the Hebrew Roots movement which has evolved into the xtian zionist movement. The two-house theology orginated with him as far as I can tell. He has authored many books including Restoring the Two Houses of Israel in which he writes

“Who are the two houses of Israel? Historically, they were the Northern Kingdom (house of Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (house of Judah). Today, the two houses of the G-d of Israel are known by the more common names of Christianity (house of Israel) and Judaism (house of Judah). Both Christianity (house of Israel) and Judaism (house of Judah) worship the G-d of Israel. However, they have historically disagreed with the method of expressing true Biblical worship to the G-d of Israel. These disagreements have divided the children of the G-d of Israel into two houses of worship of the G-d of Israel. Why are the two houses of Israel (Christianity and Judaism) divided?

There are two MAJOR disagreements between the two houses of Israel (Christianity and Judaism). These two major disagreements are the role of the Torah in true Biblical worship of the G-d of Israel and who is the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach). In spite of these two disagreements, both houses of Israel have been used by the G-d of Israel to preserve the following two very important truths within the Kingdom of the G-d of Israel. Judaism (house of Judah) has preserved the truth that the Torah is eternal and is the Tree of Life given by the G-d of Israel. Christianity (house of Israel) has preserved the truth that [yeshu] is the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)."

From Chumney's website

"JUDAH AND EPHRAIM FLEE BABYLON AND RETURN TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
During the tribulation period/Jacob’s trouble, the house of Judah (Judaism) and the house of Israel (Christianity) will be fleeing from the land of Babylon (America) and returning to the land of Israel. When both houses of Israel return to the land of their forefathers, the centuries of exile will be over. The house of Judah (Judaism) and the house of Israel (Christianity) will be one nation when they return to the land of Israel. They will be redeemed, restored, reconciled and unified in the land of Israel (Ezekiel [Yechezekel] 37:15-28). After this event happens, the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) [yeshu] will set His feet on the mount of Olives and be King over all the earth (Zechariah [Zecharyah] 14:4, 9) and usher in the Messianic Age (Athid Lavo) teaching the Torah to the nations from the city of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) (Isaiah [Yeshayahu] 2:2-3)."

The following are excerpts from an email sent by Eddie Chumney of Hebraic Heritage Ministries.

This e-mail concerns the plans to start a GLOBAL organization to be called,"Worldwide Biblical Zionists" at the invitation from World Likud in the land of Israel to work with Judah in the land to "build up Zion".

In January 2007, the Chairman of World Likud, Danny Danon appointed Joel Bell to begin the initiative to unite Bible believers all over the world to work with World Likud to "build up Zion".

Within a year, we want to have 1 MILLION members of this organization. Joel Bell will be the director of Worldwide Biblical Zionists. Eddie Chumney of Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l will be working closely with Joel to build the network to accomplish this vision.

Joel Bell and the Sagiv Assulin will be speaking at the "Restoration of the Kingdom" conference July 17- 20 in Portland, Oregon at the Shilo Inn and Conference Center about the vision of "Worldwide Biblical Zionists" and how you can become an ACTIVE member.

Joel and Sagiv will also be available to speak to churches in NE and Central Ohio during the week of July 28-August 3.

If you have a church or fellowship group in FLORIDA and you would like Joel and Sagiv to make a presentation on the vision of Worldwide Biblical Zionists encouraging people to become members of the organization, please contact us.

WORLDWIDE BIBLICAL ZIONIST TOUR TO ISRAEL There will be a Worldwide Biblical Zionist tour to Israel from November 8 - 18. This will be a MEMBERS ONLY tour. If you are not a member, you need to join! This tour will be focused on connecting with those in the land of Israel who will be working to promote Worldwide Biblical Zionists.

This tour will be highlighted with a 3 day World Likud Board Governors conference where we will interact with Knesset members, Mayors throughout Israel, and Senior advisors on security, trade, education, and Aliyah. You will go behind the scenes with senior military officials. We will visit the Military Academy and explore the opportunities available. This tour will include touring Judea and Samaria - travelling to Beit El, Shilo, and visiting our offices in Sha'ar Benjamin as well as lunch with the mayor of Ariel. We'll also visit the ancient city of Hevron where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah and Leah are buried as well as Jesse and Ruth. In Hevron we'll visit the Torah Academy where the children memorize the Torah and the Prophets and Psalms. -Meet Gush Katif leaders and visit the refugee camps and the new planned communities and farms where you will find great investment opportunities. We will introduce you to the leaders in Israel who are partnering to promote the vision of Worldwide Biblical Zionists.

Other events and activities are being planned. This Biblical Zionist tour will truly be an Abrahamic journey as we experience the true meaning of "crossing over" with brother Judah. You will receive true Jewish hospitality."

The xtians involved in this "World Biblical Zionist" organization are the leaders of the Ephraimite/Two-house movement, people who believe that the xtians are the lost tribes and are the inheritors of the land of Israel specifically in Judea and Samaria.

Joel Bell and his wife are xtians living in the tribal land of Binyamin. They run Frontline Israel.

"They serve the Jewish people in the land of Israel teaching the covenants that G-d has with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their descendents, and with those who have been grafted in to the commonwealth of Israel.

Says Joel Bell, Director of Frontline, “G-d is so real to these people and to us simply because we hear the Word of G-d and we obey it - together, becoming pleasing to our Heavenly Father and receiving our eternal inheritance.” "

In a video on the World Evangelical Zionist website Joel Bell says one of the goals of the World Likud is to build a highway for Jews and lovers of Zion to come home.

World Likud Evangelical Department


Jan Willem van der Hoeven, shown in this video, is the founder of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and the International Christian Zionist Center in Binyamin. I hope to write more on him in a future post.

Joel Bell and the Sagiv Assulin will be speaking at the "Restoration of the Kingdom" conference about the vision of "Worldwide Biblical Zionists".

The "Restoration of the Kingdom" conference is a meeting of the leaders and teachers of the Ephraimite movement.

From Hear o Israel the host of the conference:

"Two-House 101
The Restoration of Israel
The House of Israel mentioned in Jeremiah is Ephraim, those born-again non-Jews. Remember that all Jews are Israelites but not all Israelites are Jews. In the heavenly Jerusalem of Revelation 21:12 notice that all those born again folks planning on having everlasting life must enter the city through one of 12 gates, one for each of the twelve tribes. Isn't it funny and strange how ------ forgot to make a gate for Christians or "saved Gentiles". The reason is that everyone in Renewed Covenant Israel from both sides of the physical family is a descendent of Israel. In Jeremiah 31:3-22 we read detailed descriptions of Ephraim (ten tribes) returning to the land. We see the ten tribes being replanted on the mountains of Israel. It was [yeshu himself] who promised the twelve talmidim a millennial rule over twelve verifiable and recognizable tribes of re-gathered Israel (Matthew 19:28). Zechariah in chapter 8:22-23, specifically refers to ten men representing the ten returning tribes grabbing the tzitzit (fringes) of a Jew (Messiah) and declaring that they will also return to Zion and Torah. Notice that these ten returning men speak all of the world's known languages. In this passage we see the ongoing return of all Israel, to Israel!"

This is from the website of another Ephraimite group Messianic Israel Alliance

"We had several very interesting conversations with Sagiv, and we have established an ongoing working relationship with him. One remark he made to me really struck home, “We have six million Jews in Israel, and some six million Jews in the rest of the world. We don’t have enough Jews!”

They don’t have enough Jews to possess the West Bank! And it was a lack of Jews that caused them to give back the Sinai and withdraw from Gaza.
Sagiv was describing the same problem that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob faced, they didn’t have the numbers to take possession of the Land that the God of Israel had given them. Therefore, they were limited to being aliens in the land of promise (Heb 11:9-10).

What are the Jews to do?

Sagiv is speaking for a new generation of Jews, who no longer define friends and enemies on theological lines. They see their enemies as those that are trying to destroy them, and their friends are those that are trying to help them. They are looking to “Bnei Efraim" (B’nai Ephraim, or Sons of Ephraim) as Sagiv calls us, for the numbers to enable the people of Israel to possess the land. Or, to enable them, at the very least, to keep the entire city of Jerusalem and the settlements that they now have on the West Bank.

Sagiv is not alone in looking to Ephraim to join with them. I have been in touch with several members of the Sanhedrin and the New Jewish Congress who join Sagiv in his expectations that Ephraim will prove to be a great help to the Jews.

Sagiv and like-minded Jews, realize that the Messianic Israel movement does not have the needed numbers at this time to fulfill the prophecies regarding Ephraim once again being a Mighty Man, becoming “one stick” with Judah, and returning to, and filling the land until there is no more room (Eze 37:15-28; Zec 10:7-10). But they believe that the present “Believers,” who today see themselves as B’nai Ephraim, being in some manner part of Ephraim and his companions, are forerunners of the lost sheep whom the God of Israel is calling primarily out of the two and half billion people in the world labeled Christians."

Here is a preview of what MIA believes

"Messianic Israel declares that Believers in [yeshu] were not meant to replace Judah as Israel, but as "Ephraim," they are part of the called out ones (ekklesia), and in these latter-days, the Father is leading them to, whenever Scripturally possible, join with Judah; that Judah (faithful Jewish ones who will receive Messiah) and Ephraim (faithful non-Jewish Messiah followers) ultimately will fulfill the destiny of the two houses of Israel: that together they might fulfill the prophesies about the one, unified, victorious people of Israel.

Messianic Israel maintains that up to this general time "blindness in part" has happened to all (both houses) of Israel, and as the blinders are lifted, non-Jewish followers in yeshu will gain insight into their role as Ephraim, they will become defenders of Scriptural Torah and of Judah, and due to this character change, many Jewish people will accept [yeshu] as Messiah. This process has already begun as indicated through the Judah(Messianic Jewish Movement), Ephraim (Christian Zionism movement ), and the union of Judah and Ephraim(Messianic Israel Movement).

The reunion and full restoration of the two houses: This is the hope that burns in the hearts of those of Messianic Israel...

Notice that Jews who don't believe in [yeshu] are not included in the "commonwealth of Israel".

From the MIA website

"This summer, big things are going to happen. In August, we will be hosting our international conference (“I Am Israel”) in St. Louis. During that event, we will be forming the first Congress of B’nai Ephraim, which will place our movement on the path toward having the people of Ephraim legally recognized by the international community as a people. The significance of this act cannot be overstated.

That same weekend, we will be hosting our unprecedented March Through the Arch, an activist-style rally held at the “Gateway to the West,” signifying the prophetic return of God’s people “from the west.” The March Through the Arch will also include a parade through the streets of downtown St. Louis. The purpose behind all of these actions is to announce to the world that Ephraim exists and showcase our support for the nation of Israel. We expect this event to generate significant and widespread media coverage, which will carry our message throughout the world."

There are differences between these "Ephraimite" groups but they are all working toward the goal of mass aliyah of xtians to Judea and Samaria, which they believe must happen before the Jews accept yeshu as their messiah, enabling his (yeshu's) "return".