A Letter to Those in Pain from Israel and the Bride of Christ: From our Lord Jesus Christ, our King and Shepherd

 

Love One Another, As He Loved Us When We Were Still Enemies. 

As stated by Amir Tsarfati from Behold Israel:

“For Christians around the world that may be surprised why we are engaged in the complete destruction of those who are plotting day and night to kill us I suggest you remember what the world did to the Nazis and to ISIS and more so I will say - read your Bible and start with Romans 13:1-7. It is the duty of a government to use the sword to execute judgment upon the evil doers.”

Romans 13:1-7

“Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. “

Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. 

   But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. 

Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing.

 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs (revenue) to whom customs, fear (respect) to whom fear, honor to whom honor.”

 To those who are in Israel and everywhere else in the world that are hurt beyond reason and legitimately angry and hurt, I understand that you are in that pain and suffering at the moment. When our loved ones are hurt, when our country is hurt, we lash out at the ones who hurt them. 

  The Lord Jesus brought to my attention after much time with Him in the secret place, and He showed me something that was catching me off guard. 

Mercy kept being the theme. “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. It is something that came at me and wouldn’t leave me alone. I began to labor over the pain and suffering in my life. It hasn’t ended. The Lord reminded me about how He calls me to forgive those who did and still do hurt me severely. They don’t know any better. They are children of the flesh and they are being manipulated by the one group of authorities that genuinely deserve our utmost hate and despising. The enemy Satan and his minions have done a wonderful job reminding us that we have sinful flesh. That we are all susceptible to death, pain, suffering, and need I say: hate and blind fury. Sin blinds us and we all struggle greatly to do what is right when we are in the thick of it. I know I struggled more in my past, which the Lord Jesus graciously reminded me about. I used to be more vehement with my reactions in that pain and struggle. It is similar to a child that reacts to protect their own needs, as they don’t have the proper ability to handle their flesh..they are babies. They don’t have the development of the frontal cortex. Adults do. Adults have had plenty of time to reason and logically come to understandings, as well as control their thoughts, actions, and words. The problem is deeper though:

 We are all born and continue to be unrighteous, if it weren’t for our beautiful Savior and Mighty God, Jesus Christ. He is my Adonai and My Messiah. I choose to follow Him and be like Him. Believers….people who follow Christ Jesus, the One true Holy One of Israel, I call upon all of you. I beg you to hear the voice of the Spirit of God, as He brings me to my knees and asks you to reconsider your hearts and repent if you indeed desire destruction of your enemies. Eye for an Eye…the old testament in action. 

   Let me share something that our dear sweet, broken brother in Christ seems to be blinded about at this moment, in his pain and suffering. 

   Jesus made it very clear through the disciple Paul, the greatest prosecutor of the Christian church at the time. He was Jew and He was used by God to preach to those he use to hate and despise, the Gentiles. He also had to face his own people whom he hurt in a lack of understanding. Thought he was completely literate of the Law of God, he was still wrong in his actions, thoughts, and words. He was angry, with an anger that was misplaced. 

  Let me continue with a story in the ancient past, Jonah. This is the story of a man who was angry and furious that God would even ask him to forgive and provide forgiveness to a group of people, a nation, that was all about the massacre of Jews. They were the ones that Hitler himself reflected as much as possible, the Ninevites. Amir taught on this, as has many Bible teachers about how they used to wear their skin as lamp shades and do abominable things to them when they killed them or kidnapped them. 

Read Jonah 1:1-3. 

He ran far because he didn’t believe they deserved forgiveness and a chance for salvation. 

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

Read Jonah  2:7-9

“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

“Those who regard worthless idols
Forsake their own ]Mercy.
But I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have vowed.
Salvation is of the Lord.”

Jonah 3:10

“Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.”

Jonah 4:1-2

“But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry. So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.”

Jonah 4:10-11

“But the Lord said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”

 God is worthy to be praised for His tender mercies. He is so merciful and gracious, not just to the enemy, but to us. We are not devoid of sin and evil. Before we were given the Holy Spirit by our Lord and Savior Jesus, we hated good and did not know better. We were children of darkness. We couldn’t see and understand. Our ears were plugged and eyes were blinded by the darkness and evil within and outside. The flesh wars against the Spirit. The Spirit wars against the flesh. 

Read Galatians 5:7-15

You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 

Galatians 5:16-18, 22-26

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

I don’t need to remind the Bible scholars, teachers, and the Pastors out there, but to the rest of the body of Christ I raise this point. What does the flesh reside from? Does it come from our emotions and reactions? Does it come from impulsive and defensiveness? Does it come from offenses? Does it come from feelings?

  Is not walking in the Spirit about having a sober mind? 

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:13-16

If you want to know what holiness is, reflect on Jesus and His ministry on earth and how they beat Him, scourged Him, spit at Him, tore His beard, called him terrible obscenities, broke almost all flesh off of His back with 39 lashes with a bone hook whip. They placed a wreath of thorns on His head that, if I remember correctly were  30 mm, or over an inch long.  He still had to carry that cross up a hill after many hours and days of brutal beatings and emotional/mental abuse. He still chose to do that for you and I. All Jews and Gentiles alike. Even those mean and evil behaving Arabians who took God’s land, knowing full and well it isn’t their land. 

     Jesus continued to the top of a large hill in pain, exhausted, and without food and water for a long time. He probably would’ve thrown it up anyways. He was in anguish because His Father in heaven, to Whom He had been deemed faithful and true, was turning His back on His One and Only Son, even though He was a perfect human being and unlike anyone God had made. I won’t fail to mention that He is God. Jesus kept going to the point where He laid willingly on the cross, even though He could’ve called for a legion of angels to take Him off of this terrible and merciless ride. 

    This same man and Son of God laid there and allowed men to not just place large spikes into His hands and feet, but also strip Him and caste lots (gamble)  on His clothes. Eventually, they had to lug a man that was probably about 6 feet tall on this cross, with His back in severe pain and exposed organs, upright to place His cross in a hole so He can die a death of slow suffocation. He had to lift His body with His feet stacked in pain below Him to breath. His back was exposed mind you. He did this and even in that moment of torment and pain…He took the time to offer the salvation we have to a man who was a thief. At the same time, he offered the same offer to the guy on the other side of Him, but He spat at Him with His words and rejected the living gospel in front of him. The man and the God, Jesus Christ, died after giving one last cry that all was completed. The fulfillment of salvation with the blood of a perfect and spotless lamb was complete.  He died and rose again 3 days later. During that time He set captives free in the pit of the earth where Abraham’s Bosom resides. 

     This same man saved a wretch like me thousands of years later. A sinner, a person who didn’t know better. A person not raised in a Jewish family nor a Christian one. I am a person He died for who was put into situations no child should be placed into. I was rejected and treated like vermin. I was lied to and hurt severely. Jesus saved me at 11 years old and to this day, He showed me that He was always waiting for me and watching over me, as a child. The enemy came at me like a roaring lion a year later, and my journey into what I thought was easy, became harder than I ever imagined. Persecution from the enemy of the air is a real thing that most people in the family of Christ Jesus should understand. 

Read Ephesians 6:10-18

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

A believer’s life is not one of comfort on it’s own accord. It isn’t for those who are unwilling to die to themselves, but die to yourself so you can live and be free. 

Luke 9:23-24

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross ]daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 

Do you remember that King David has God’s heart? He is the seed God used to bring Jesus into the world for us. 1 Samuel 24 and 26. Saul and his men hated David and were really cruel to him. What did he do? He waited on God and let God show His righteous and true judgment upon Saul.  Was the blood of Saul on David’s hands? No, not at all. Because he waited on God and let God be the judge and executioner. 

Romans 12: 1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:9-21

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient  in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs of the saints, given  to hospitality.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Therefore

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

This is the verse right before Amir’s reasons and I am sure other peoples justification for why they think it ok to destroy families of human beings who are from a line of people not raised in a Christian nor Jewish home. People whom we judge to say they are unredeemable and they have no right to know and understand the grace and mercy of God, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 13:8-10

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 9:14-29

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

As He says also in Hosea:

“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
“And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
The remnant will be saved.
For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

And

as Isaiah said before:

“Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed,
We would have become like Sodom,
And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Flesh is flesh and Spirit is Spirit. You can’t be walking in both at the same time. Who is in control of your soul and your walk? The enemy laughs at us when we are stumbling on a path where we will say, do, and think things that are unholy and not like Jesus. He calls us to fight the flesh and pray for our enemies. Love and do not curse. 

Jesus our King has one last correction: From His own words on the earth before He went on that old rugged cursed cross for us ALL to be redeemed:

Matthew 5:38-48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Jesus, the Holy One of Israel and Rightful King of Israel, loves you Israel and He knows your pain, He sees your pain. He literally felt your pain. He knows what it is like to be persecuted and despised. He knows what it is like to be abused and beaten, killed even when He did nothing against the other person. Yet, He died for them too.

Can’t you see? Your emotions and feeling are clouding your judgment and God calls us to pray and mourn, to let God take care of the enemy. Where is your faith? Why are you taking it out on innocent children and babies on the enemies side for the sake of yours? Eye for an Eye? Is that what God calls us to my dearest family and Jewish nation? Are you living in the law or the grace of God, under the cloak of His righteousness? The law doesn’t set you free, nor does it help you or anyone else. It showed you and I we don’t know any better.

Even Stephen, the first martyr in our family of God was killed, while saying to Father God, to forgive them, as they don’t know better. They don’t know nor see God. They don’t know Jesus. They are blinded by their sin, as you are right now if you genuinely believe that those innocent people out there who are babies, orphans, children, teenagers, young adults, Special needs, mothers, pregnant mothers, fathers, and elderly all deserve suffering and death because you were wounded severely on this cross of pain and persecution.

Hmm…my dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, I beg you to reconsider your stance. Are you of the world and serve their purposes? Or are you a child of God? Are you a believer in what Jesus did for ALL Jew and Greek on the cross? Or is it just for those who are really good to you only? Those men may have never heard the gospel. They don’t know salvation. Did you until some person or Pastor told you? Someone had to die in their flesh and walk up to you and tell you, even if you would have treated them evilly and killed them.

I don’t know you nor did I know you before you came to Christ Jesus. Read Psalm 139 and then read Psalm 19.

Read how Holy God is and what kind of Judge He is. He knows the end from the beginning, do you? Do you know the plans of God for all men? Do you know if one of those men, women, or children were not seen and heard asking for the true God of this existence, Yahweh? Who was there to tell them? Whose to say that innocent child who is now suffering and hungry, just like your babies did, needed to know someone out there really loved them?

What if that child survives and all they know is hate. Isn’t Jesus a redeemer of souls and a healer of hearts and bodies? Isn’t He the Jehovah Rapha? Isn’t He the Prince of Peace and Everlasting Father. He isn’t just the Jew’s Savior. He is everyone’s Savior. We need to keep our flesh in check and remember why we are still here on earth at this time. Jesus has a plan for all of us to do our calling.

It isn’t just to teach the Bible, but bring the good news of Jesus being a Savior of our souls from the eternal death to come to those who are perishing. 

God isn’t willing that ANYONE would perish, but that all would come to eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. 2 Peter 3:9

I love you Israel and stand with you as you are in pain. I am praying for you and am spreading the word of your plight. I will not pray for the death of the enemy though. I will do as my Savior Jesus told me to do, spread the Gospel of His everlasting grace and mercy, and make disciples of all nations and teach them His word.. Matthew 28:18-20 

Being that we are going to be kings and priests in our future with Jesus our King, with all of my heart I pray this for you Israel and all those whom Jesus saves Jew or Gentile, or even Arab.

Numbers 6:24-26

“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.” ’