To our Jerusalem Vistas Partners and Friends:
We in Jerusalem are wishing you and your loved ones a sweet and blessed Jewish New Year.
We join with our Jewish family in marking this last month of Elul
with sincere soul-searching accompanied with repentance. The path always
seems to get narrower and steeper but blessed.
The only hope for Israel, with Iranian forces amassing on our
Northern Border in Syria, is Divine intervention. We all know that
Israel’s enemies will continue to expand until they are stopped once and
for all and that apparently is what the United States and Russia hope
to do. Do you believe it? I
hope not. Man is only man.
Our God who sits in the heavens shall laugh
at the folly of men...Psalm 2.
Do not for a moment be tempted to think
that your prayers and support are not important! Thank you.
John Bolton, US National Security Advisor said recently in a press
briefing in Jerusalem; “Putin has told Trump that he “would like to see
the withdrawal of Iranian troops from Syria, but he is not able to do it
himself.” As the scriptures below forecast, we are living to witness
this end time military build up “from the land of the north.”
"Thus says the LORD God, Behold I am against you O
Gog, the prince of Rosh, Mehech, and Tubal. I will turn you around and
put hooks in your jaws, and lead you out with all your army…Persia,
(Iran), Ethiopia, and Libya…they will come to a land that dwells safely
to take a booty…Ezekiel 38:3,5. ” (Booty-Israel has discovered one of the largest natural gas finds in the world today in their offshore gas wells)
It will be 50 years (as of Oct 2019) that we have been set as “Watchmen on the Walls of Jerusalem,”
proclaiming Biblical events in the media as they have unfolded for over
half of Israel’s modern lifetime. As you probably know we have been
struggling financially for the last six months. We realize that many of
our partners are elderly and are on fixed incomes. We are sensitive to
these facts so we work to create a new support base, which is difficult
because now that we are appealing to internet-based audience, people
feel little compulsion to support Jerusalem Vistas.
How well I remember Dr. James Dobson, Founder of ‘Focus on the Family’ and what he did when the ministry was in dire financial need. After seeking the LORD, he wrote to his partners and said: “IF this ministry is no longer supported by its partners, I will have to close it.”
It was just that simple, and that is exactly the situation that we at Jerusalem Vistas/Israel Vision find ourselves today. I
know that we are not afraid to change. Meridel and I feel very badly
that none of our team have been paid their small salaries for the last
three months. This has caused tremendous stress, piled upon the added
stress of just living here. We cannot carry on in this manner. We have
never shirked from ‘following hard after God’ and this crisis is
absolutely no different. The truth is, the future of this work lies in your blessed hands.
If you have any way of helping us to go on, we pray that you will find a way to do so and do it immediately.
In His Love,
Jay and Meridel and team
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