Welcome to Journey from Jacob. From our first
breath to our last heartbeat, we are all on a
journey. Jacob was a biblical character whose
journey is documented for our benefit. Like all
of us, there were unforgettable moments along
the way which required decisiveness. One of those
decisions determined his destination. We will
not only discuss Jacob's journey, but Israel's
as well, right up to date. May this podcast inspire
you to make choices along your way that will
benefit others and guide you to the destination
we all long for. Shalom and welcome back to Journey
from Jacob and Ministry of Comfort My People.
Today I'm going to go a little bit off the beaten
path of Journey from Jacob's story to something
that's very relevant to today. the unfolding
of a vision that we've had for over a year and
a half that God has given us and developed through
time, that is going to take place very shortly
in Israel. So before I do, I want to share with
you something about God's unfailing love, which
he repeats throughout the Psalms in different
places. His unfailing love, the love that is
covenant. in its root, its foundation, its covenant
to love. Unfailing love means it's got to succeed.
And so this is his promise to those he loves.
He wants us to succeed in accomplishing his will
as he reveals it. So this is the verse that's
been telling to me lately, hopefully for you
as well. Psalm 34 24 says, The Lord be exalted
who delights in the well -being of his servant.
This is something that we need to know about
God, and I hope you've seen this already in Jacob's
life and in Abraham's life as we went through
it, that God delights in the well -doing of his
people. That's why we said the Covenant, the
first sign of it was laughter. God wants us to
face this world with the confidence that he is
with us and he wants us to succeed. He takes
delight in us and in the well -being of his servant.
You know, to me it's really... telling because
I was always a doer of things. I worked my hands
all my life and always had to have an end product
or I wouldn't be paid. And so it was part of
my makeup to get something done. But this doesn't
say that God delights in well -doing. It's not
that he delights in what we do or what we accomplish
or how we perform. It's when we are being. It's
a state of mind, a state that indicates the relationship
we have with him. And he delights in that when
we are at peace with him. and in peace with those
around us. We're living according to his will,
we're walking by his spirit into the world that
is in such great need. So the world again, and
it's like one after the other, and it doesn't
take much to pay attention, but we do need to
pay attention, if ever. You know, don't turn
off the news. I know it's painful, but we need
to know it, not from one source, because there's
so much false news out there. But again, the
world is reeling like a drunken sailor, though.
The world hardly takes notice, and don't be part
of that. Iranians now. Iranians have not been
in the news for good. But recently, very recently,
within the last three weeks it's been mounting,
but in the last three weeks especially, the Iranians,
the citizens of Iran, have found the courage
to openly profess that they're done with this
ruthless regime that has brutally governed them
for the last five decades. This Islamic regime
responded, though, publicly. So without fear
of the world watching, which they tried to hide,
but they responded publicly by executing between
12 ,000 to 20 ,000 citizens, their own citizens
on the streets and in the hospitals they went
to for help from the healing, from the gunshot
wounds. And in jails across the nation, they've
been imprisoned thousands, tens of thousands
of their own citizens. Why? Because they don't
like the government that has mistreated them
for so long. So has there been an uprise of grief
though, and the horror of what's going on from
the free world? Those of us who have this freedom
to express ourselves, freedom of speech. The
thing that they're saying from Iran, we're hearing
this and you will too if you pay attention to
newscasts that are not mainstream media, that
the question from the Iranians is where is this
outcry from the world? And it's the same silence
that Israel has experienced for over two years
since October 7th, when they were brutally and
savagely attacked. There's a likeness here that
I want to bring out, and it's a spiritual thing
that I hope that you will explore and consider.
Why is this relation? What does this have to
do? Relationship with Iran and Israel makes no
sense. Iran has been behind the the financing
of the proxies which are Hezbollah, Hamas, the
Houthis, Iraq, Syria even, and others that have
joined forces to try to destroy Israel over those
last two years. There are nearby successes with
thousands upon thousands of missiles being launched
and cities burning on fire and children running
for protection from the sirens constantly. I
mean, this frantic sense of life in Israel and
people saying, yeah, but how about these poor
Palestinians? And that's not what I'm talking
about. So this isn't about trying to even out
the playing field. It's Israel under assault
and at risk was their survival as a nation. So
there's other things to talk about, and this
is about God's fairness, His justice, and the
world's unfairness and injustice, but I'm not
going to deep dive into that because I'm concerned
about the silence. This, what's going on now,
has been misreported. The numbers were like 500
when it was already in the thousands, and then
they went up maybe five, six hundred or hundreds.
But right now, from those who are in the know,
and this is not just, you know, approximates,
there's at least 12 to 20 ,000 citizens that
have been executed, mostly in public, right on
the streets, gunned down. But that unlike the
accusations against Israel about genocide, they
were saying, you know, the world was just screaming
and the UN was on us, the world court. that Israel
is committing genocide. They had all these cases
against them and all these world accusations.
But instead of genocide, they were actually at
the same time feeding the enemies that were sworn
to their destruction. But this is different in
Iran. The question is, why is the world silent
about them? Because the Iranians are not Jews.
In fact, beneath this veiled population is a
thriving group of believers in Jesus who meet
underground. but they're considered by those
who keep track to be the fastest growing church
in the world. And so maybe this affects me much
more, and maybe this is why I might sound a little
bit emotional, but it's because I've had the
privilege, along with my wife, to meet many Iranian
believers beginning years ago. And the most unexpected
element of meeting them was not just that they
were believers, that they were born in a Shia
Muslim world, that when they'd get up and go
to school from first grade on, before they went
from the schoolyards, this is personally told
by those who escaped this, they became refugees
in Europe, specifically England, and then in
the United States, and received asylum status.
But these were Iranian -born Muslims. And before
they started the schoolyard, this is what they
told us personally, and I heard the story over
and over, they had to chant. They would pray,
you know, the typical prayers, but they would
speak, make confession, and even sing songs about
the destruction of the Jewish people and Israel
as a nation entirely. They didn't consider Israel
a nation. They were an illegal occupiers. But
this is what the school kids would chant every
single morning. That gets drilled firmly into
your mindset. And so my friend, I have a friend,
I won't name him now, but he's someone I met
in the last six years, and he's now living in
Israel. He's an Iranian -born believer. He was
in a jail in Iran, and he escaped, and he was
able to escape as a newborn believer. Born -again
believer in Israel, I mean in Iran, and he was
able to escape through Turkey where he began
to be discipled at the time when it was safe
to be in Turkey before the growth of the incredible
spurt of extreme Islam took over their culture
as well. But it's where, in this ministry in
England, my wife and I served there a few times.
I was served there a little more in construction
work, but we met so many Iranian believers. I
was so loving, so spirit -filled, but the unexpected
element was to hear them speak so fondly. I mean
like a love affair with the Jewish people and
so supportive of Israel. We were so welcomed
there. They didn't know that, you know, they
were hosting a Jew and my wife as well as one
of our little son. at the time, and so in this
place they translated the Bible. The reason they
did is because they fell in love with the God
of Israel, the Jewish Messiah, and they wanted
their people to know the same, but they had no
Bible in their own language. So these people,
along with the English -British believers who
were totally behind them and with them, but they
were the ones that were scholarly, and they began
to translate the Bible into Farsi. And they did.
They translated the New Testament first, and
then the entire Hebrew Bible, and they not only
Did they translate it? They published it. Beautiful
bound Bibles. And then the hard part was taking
it into the nation. I won't go into the details
of how they did it. They were able to smuggle
it into Iran. Hundreds of thousands of copies.
And this spread rapidly, and this underground
church, which I literally, this is hard to believe,
but met the father and his adult son at the time,
who began, they didn't begin as a church, they
just began meeting in their homes, and other
homes started meeting in their homes of believers
who got saved. through Armenian believers and
started reading and teaching the Bible and their
hunger and thirst and their courage began to
grow quickly and they became martyrs quickly
as they became a threat to the regime. And many
died and they would hear these deaths inadvertently
because they would just basically disappear and
they didn't know what happened. But then the
ability, they became very skilled at being able
to smuggle people out of the country quickly.
In those days they had very good ways of doing
that. It's become more difficult lately. So the
population grew in both the United States and
in England of those who escaped this tyranny.
But they were so determined to see their people
get a Bible in their hands because they knew
what it would do to them and do for them. So
to have a Bible in their own language and read
how connected the Persian people were with these
Israeli Jews because they were in captivity in
their land centuries ago, you know, think of
There's so many. Daniel and the three Hebrew
lads, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Haggai, Esther, Mordecai,
Nehemiah, Ezra, the three wise men in the New
Testament, and so many others that I don't want
to miss, but you have to look it up. They spent
time in Persia. They spent time in the courts
of the kings in what was then called Elam, but
this is what's now and it's been for many years,
Iran. But it's not the Iran from long ago. It's
a stolen entity. And talk about an occupation
and a genocide. I mean, think about these things
and let's make sense of what has been said and
what has not been said. So as a ministry of Come
From My People, we support this one brother that
I tell you, who was, you know, born an Islamic
Shiite. So we support him and he's married to
an Israeli messianic believer. And so we support
their ministry in Israel. But right from the
get go, when he moved to Israel, He began serving
the people. He has a love for the Jewish people
and they recognize it and it's genuine. He's
so effective in sharing the genuine love of Yeshua
because of his background and this spiritual
reality that he lives by, along with his wife.
And when the war broke out, he had a background
as a cook and he began to share what he knew
with a man who had a restaurant or not a restaurant,
but a large facility where they made meals, large
meals, catered meals. So he had this big professional
kitchen and so he and my friend got together
and they decided to make meals for the soldiers
and they did along with a lot of help. And they
made a hot meal every day for 500 soldiers and
then transported them to the bases because the
war broke out so quick. They were not prepared
for the onslaught of soldiers that started coming
to these bases. And so the same thing. What is
that? What in the world is an Iranian man doing
on an army base? And it took a lot for that to
happen, but he did. He didn't originally he didn't
go with the deliveries, but then ultimately he
did. And they received him because they saw he
was real. Of course, he was interviewed and to
make sure, because Iran is the supporter, the
sponsor of the destruction of Israel with all
these other factions. So two weeks ago, though,
my friend texted me and told me about what happened
to his brother. So this is, you know, I knew
that this outbreak on the streets of Iran had
taken place, but he told me that he was notified
that his brother was shot. and taken prison.
They thought he was taken prison. He was captured
after he was shot, but they heard nothing else.
That's all they heard from people that knew him,
that were onlookers. They saw what happened,
but they tried to find out where he was taken.
No one could find out. And only recently they
found out, they discovered that his brother was
taken to a prison and he was definitely wounded,
but they knew nothing else, but he was alive.
So that was good news. But only recently, almost
the exact same time, he learned that on top of
the good news, he learned that his other brother
was also shot in two places and wounded, and
the wounds got infected, but he was in hiding.
They don't know where he is, but they know he's
alive. So this is very close to home. I could
hear his heart and feel his pain. So this is
like my purpose. I just want to make clear. It's
not to chastise anyone, especially Christians,
because we are still considered the salt of the
earth. the hope of the world, you know, that
this living presence of Jesus is what the world
is dying for. I'm looking to inspire you to speak
out. We do have these freedoms here still. Those
freedoms were taken away. In 1979 they were free
people until this regime came over and took over.
And freedom was just another word, not a reality.
One week from tomorrow, though, I'm leaving for
Israel. And the purpose is for what we call the
mishkha. event. It's a long story, but this is
a vision that God gave us about a year plus and
a half ago, and so it's been in preparation since
then. But now we have a date, the end of this
month, where we're going to have our first session,
our first event for the Mishra Center. In Israel,
I'm not going to disclose where, but the purpose
is to bring comfort. and confidence to those
gathered. These will be Israelis, to those gathered.
And that God will meet them. He will meet them.
He will heal them. There's so much trauma. It's
a nationwide dilemma. But He's going to heal
them. We're believing for His healing. There's
emotional healing. There's physical healing.
There's spiritual healing. But these are believers
that are going to come. And they know what we're
seeking to do. We're not offering any kind of
therapies. We're not offering techniques to feel
better. But we are going to address those things.
We have things in place like a sauna and a ice
plunge where they could get this physical sort
of a, you know, this wake up call in a sense
to be able to think clearly. And then we're going
to spend time together for three days. And in
that time, we're going to begin with letting
them know our purpose is to let them know that
we personally are confident that God will heal
them. And I am. I am confident. But it may not
be instantly, but it may be instantly. I mean,
this is all up to God. It has to be His doing,
but we believe that He's here because He does
delight at the well -being of His people, and
this is part of their need right now. And so
we want to bring that sense of comfort and confidence
to them that they will be restored in every way
and encourage them to take this road of recovery
to the place of determination where they will
accept and embrace the long -avoided calling.
from God, from God Most High, to bring the Abrahamic
blessing to the families of the earth. This has
been God's calling on the Jewish people from
the beginning, and there's a lot to go through
in that, but we're going to discuss this to see
the authentic nature of it and why it's been
avoided for too long. It was not avoided, it
was embraced fully in the first century, and
we will briefly discuss about what happened to
dismantle that. But it's time now to embrace
what has been long avoided, misunderstood and
shelved. To put it on a shelf somewhere as this
maybe this is for someone else, but it doesn't
seem like it's possible. And that's a sad place
to be. So we're going to accompany them. It's
not. something that we're just believing that
it's for them, it's for us as well. But this
can only happen, this sense of taking on this
calling. It can only happen to bring this message
of salvation in Yeshua, this message of well
-being in Yeshua to the nations. It cannot happen
alone. In fact, Jews are not even allowed in
so many nations anymore. Israelis, especially
if they're in any way recognized as being part
of the IDF, which is happening all over Europe
and other places. You hopefully heard about what
happened in Australia only a few weeks ago, in
the middle of a day where some radical Muslim,
a father and son team shot and killed a kin to
remember because these things are so frequent
that it's hard to keep track of Jews gathering
on a beach for just a happy time together, a
celebration, so sad. But this is happening all
over the world. There's so many synagogues. Just
recently in Mississippi, the largest synagogue
in Mississippi was burnt down. So this hatred
for the Jews is not simply an Islamic thing.
It's all over the globe. So if this... determination
and this reception of this the Abrahamic blessing
which later the prophets called the light Jesus
called the light you are the light of the world
shine your light you can't hide it but it got
hidden for too long and it's still hidden this
light has to be lit it's like in Matthew where
it talks about Jesus when when he comes when
he comes into town he won't snuff out This wick,
this smoldering wick, that's representative of
Israel's calling that was so dim you could hardly
see it. But he wouldn't put it out because he
knew it was going to light up individual believers
and one by one that would begin to glow and spread
and go into the nations as a light. This is the
time. This is the acceptable time, the set time,
to favor Zion. But this can only happen if once
their decision is made, it's followed by a growing
number of Gentile Christians who will come alongside.
and accompany them to venture into the darkness
and brokenness of a world eager to be rescued
from the chaos that has covered the earth. If
Jews are not allowed to go, and on their passports,
one of the things that we'll say in these other
countries, that they can't go into certain countries.
And so, if they can't go, how are they going
to get there? The only way they'll be able to
go, if they're welcomed in, and that's going
to happen if Gentile Christians from different
nations, accept them, not only accept them, but
support their coming. Because Israel is not afloat
with money. In fact, because of generous donors,
this whole conference that we're having is paid
for. They don't have to pay for it. There's a
token fee which is going to go to a local non
-profit there, but this is on us and on you,
you who have been generous to help us. So this
calling and the accept, the receptivity of it
and the embracing it and moving forward in it,
In Hebrew it's called biyachad because biyachad
means together or as one, literally as one. But
in the Bible it's called the one new man and
the one new man is so representative of the work
of Jesus because on the cross he created the
one new man and the first fruit of it is peace.
The very thing that is so missing in our world
today is what Jesus created on the cross 2 ,000
years ago in the one new man. But sadly, the
one new man needs to return. Not sadly, he needs
to return is the sad part, but he will return
is the glad part. And together, you and I, as
believers, we represent that. But literally,
physically together, my friend, my Iranian friend,
who's in Israel, he's fighting, in a sense, for
his citizenship. You could pray for that. But
he is going to join me, along with 12 couples,
Israeli couples, And each couple has a husband
who served in the IDF as a reservist. And we,
the two of us, are going to represent, even in
front of them, the One New Man. He being the
only Gentile in the room. But he'll be the One
New Man as a believer because he believes in
the same Yeshua, the same Messiah, the same God
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And we're going
to represent him because we are truly brothers.
We both love each other because we love... Yeshua,
Jesus the Messiah. So together this is a representation
and it's a return. This is the return to the
rightful role in the redemption story that we
have as believers. And in this, this Mishra center,
we're going to see things happen that are going
to be life -changing and world -changing. Mishra
means anointed. That's the same root word as
Mosheach, which means Messiah. Jesus is the anointing.
Jesus is the Mishra center. This is in response
to the age -old question that Jeremiah asked,
or was asked. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is
there no physician that can cure the disease
of the daughter of Zion? That's how God left
that question, but there was never an answer.
And the balm of Gilead was something that was
real. It was real to them. It was an anointment
that was used. an ointment that was used as healing,
you know, for minor wounds basically or burns.
But it wasn't internal in nature. It didn't go
any further than the external. And so it worked
for those kind of things. But nothing in Israel's
day at that time could cure the disease of the
daughter of Zion. Why is that? Because the disease
was unbelief. And they were about to go into
captivity in Jeremiah's day. And that was because
of unbelief. There was no bomb in Gilead. And
there's still no bomb in Gilead, but there is
a mishchah in Israel that is longing to enter
into the sorrows and the broken expectations
and the lost hope and lost lives and inability
to cope. and no money, no future. It's just so
typical right now throughout Israel and so many
circles that the troubles just keep growing and
they don't know what to do. There's many therapists,
there's many psychologists and psychiatrists,
and God helped them to do or work to help these
people, but it's not internal. It's temporary
at best. Israel needs their Messiah. Israel needs
Yeshua, the only one and true lasting Messiah
who can bring peace to their personal problems,
their family problems, the national problem,
and the global problem. And I'm praying that
you would join us to pray that God would accomplish
His way, that the mishchad, the anointing presence
of Yeshua haMashiach would be in us, around us,
and surround us. The last day we will finish
on the Sabbath with a worshipful event. And then
we're going to have prayer for them by different...
leaders in the community, and pass out to them.
Each couple is going to receive one of the new
Bibles at the Bible Society, which is also one
of our partners, that we helped you, if you've
contributed, have helped to produce this, the
first time in 2 ,000 years, plus that they'll
be able to read the Bible in their own language.
And they're going to have their own Bible. And
this is going to be the beginning of an outburst
of spiritual awakening, I am sure of. So those
who come, this is what our prayer is, that they
would be healed and commissioned by Ruach HaKodesh,
the Spirit of the Living God, and with intentionality
and confidence and great joy, they will go out
into their, not their Jerusalem, but the Jerusalem
the Bible talks about, which all are supposed
to be going to. First, according to Jesus, Jerusalem,
and then Judea Sumeria, which is a very unrestful
place, and then into the uttermost parts of the
world. I believe this is going to happen in rapid
fire, and there's going to be joy unspeakable
that those who are part of this, sadly, there'll
be others who decide to remain silent and watchers
on the outside, and instead of being a part of
what's happening, they're going to be wondering
what happened. Don't be one of them. And I pray
that if this is of any meaning to you, any value
to you, this is a time to share it. with people,
friends, neighbors, it's very easy to share these
things with a link, these podcasts, also what
we write, I pray that you would Go to our website
comfortmypeople .com and see some of the things
we've posted. We have videos that we post on
YouTube. Yeah, we have a YouTube channel. And
so there's social media stuff going on. We don't
do a lot of it. We're not forcing ourselves on
other people, but we support. And we've been
so blessed by the generosity of Gentile Christians
who have come alongside, just like Ruth did,
for Naomi. And we've seen great and wonderful
things happen, including this mishchad. Shalom
and blessings. We bless you for taking the time
to consider this message. May it cause you to
be fruitful and effective and lead others along
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