Shavuot is called the Feast of First Fruits because of the celebration of the harvest when the Israelites brought the first fruits of the soil as a free will offering to God. It is also known as the Feast of Weeks because we count seven weeks from a particular day during Passover.
I know I don’t have to tell you that the Middle East is already a volatile, incendiary powder keg. Even so, it seems the current U.S. Administration’s policies in the region are about to make it much more so.
“The world’s oldest hatred has reached surrealistic levels.” This was the sad but credible assessment of author and human rights activist Isi Leibler in an opinion column in the Jerusalem Post this week.
Thank you for praying for our Mberengwa, Zimbabwe Medical Outreach two weeks ago, and the Messianic Leadership Training that took place simultaneously. Because of your prayers and the gracious blessings of Yeshua, we saw challenges overcome, needs met, and lives changed.
7,659. That’s the number of patients who received treatment in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe last week during the Jewish Voice medical outreach there. Some walked for hours just to get to us and then stood in line for hours more. But they were desperate for treatment.
Zemzem is 70 years old and she lives two hours away from our Gondar clinic site. She came too late to receive treatment the previous year. The $1.00 bus fare was expensive for this impoverished woman, but far less costly than the price of a visit to a doctor, if not for our clinic.
The family was staying at an upscale hotel in Southern Europe when the son returned to their room visibly shaken. He told his dad about a man who had just spewed insults at him while he was at the hotel’s pool.
“But this is so the Scriptures would be fulfilled” (Mark 14:49 TLV). Yeshua (Jesus) spoke these words to the band of people sent by the religious leaders into the Garden of Gethsemane to arrest Him. Bible prophecy conveys two very different portrayals of the Messiah.
