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Aliyah
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Edited by Vanessa Alexander
Music provided by Congregation Etz Chiam
Habbakuk 2:1-2 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. (2) And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
For Hundreds and hundreds of years God has continued to raise up a people who embrace these verses in Isaiah 62---
Isa 62:6-7 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, (7) And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
There is a people raised up in this hour, the darkest hour, to lift high the banner, to say Aliyah to the Jews all over the world, to cry out before Him, the God of Israel, open the gates in every village, in every town, every city and nation of the world to release the remaining Jews to make Aliyah to Israel now.
The tumults in the world are speaking louder and louder like a shophar blowing in the wind carrying the cry for Aliyah. Hatred for the Jews is increasing. We would be remiss, wholly remiss to believe it is the Arab people only who alone are fielding the hatred in the world for the Jewish people.
The Bible prophesies that the nations altogether (the Gentiles)of the world and not the Arabs only would market and increase the hatred. Many Arabs love the Jewish people. Many Arabs are Christians. Many are of Jewish descent. A number are involved passionately and with great courage are standing along side Israel. We will not hear that on the nightly News. Nor is it reported among Christians to our shame.
There is a biblical precedent for believers in Jesus Christ in this hour as the door of the Gospel is closing for then the time of "Jacob's Trouble" will accelarate. The world looks on but cannot understand. They see but do not perceive they are playing into the hand of the anti-christ spirit. But Israel, the Bible says, shall be like those that dream when the Lord turns their captivity.
Psalm 126:1-6 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. (2) Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
(3)The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. (4) Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. (5) They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. (6) He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
What does Aliyah mean?
Aliyah, "ascension" or "going up" is the arrival of Jews, as individuals or groups, from exile or Diaspora to live in Eretz Yisrael - the Land of Israel. Those who "go up" for this purpose are known as olim - a term used in the Tenach when Jews Return Home to their own land Israel. God has promised that the remnant shall return!
As it is written in the Tenach:
The Almighty one of Israel will gather His people from the four corners of the earth. Yes He will find the lost. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. Ezekiel 39:28.
The sound of the shophar is no longer distant and difficult to hear among the nations of the world. The hour is late. It is time for the last remnant of the "olim" to go home to Eretz Israel.
What is the sound of the Shophar for?
The Shofar is blown on many different occasions:
on the Jubilee Year, on Rosh Hashana (New Years), also called the day of blowing
The Shofar reminds us of the ram that Abraham sacrificed in the place of his son Isaac.
When God gave us the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the sound of a Shofar.
The Shofar is the call of redemption. The Shofar reminds us that God redeems the Jewish people. From jewish-issues.com
Finally as Visionary Prayer Advance continues, let us remember that the Jewish people were the first to receive the Gospel on the day of the fullness of Pentecost in Acts 2. God had gathered them from all over the world on that day of the feast. And in the streets of Jerusalem, The Holy Ghost came down and filled the apostles of the Lamb of God their Messiah, as well as the remaining disciples totaling 120 in all in the upper room.
Then speaking in the tongues (unlearned languages) of the Jews represented there, by the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit, they presented the Gospel to them and the first 3000 believers in Messiah, their eyes were opened and their hearts and minds pierced with the light of the glorious Gospel. They asked, "What must we do?" You can read the account in your Bible. They were given a clear Gospel message and the promise was repeated from Joel that it was for them and their children just as Joel the prophet had spoken. The promise of salvation was a clear prophetic fulfillment of both the prophets Joel and Ezekiel. It is not yet over.
Many who make Aliyah will be converted to believe in their Messiah including Samaritans in this hour as they return to Israel. Others will harden their hearts against Him as many of the Jews did in Jesus' day and during the first Century after the birth of the church that bears the Messiah's name.
Apostle Paul said this of those Israelites who reject Jesus during the Gospel age---
Romans 11:25-36 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
(26) And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: (27) For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (28) As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. (29) For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
(30) For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: (31) Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. (32) For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
(33) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? (35) Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? (36) For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
The great move of God to finish bringing salvation to the Gentiles (the nations) in the Gospel age is coming to a close.
There is not much time left for Aliyah in this Age. Many warning signs have come and gone. They are becoming more fierce with each one. Removing the Ten commandments rock in Alabama in 2001-2003 from a courthouse where law is dispensed was a deafening cry. It made news all over the world and is still being watched and fought in the U.S.
The Holy Bible is under attack altogether even in the churches and the discernment of Christians is at an all time low to believe God is winking at the taking away from and the adding to of His Holy Word. That can only mean one thing, more darkness for the continent called Norht America, specifically the U.S. as they continue to forge a one world, corrupt Bible to replace the Holy Bible. They are shipping the corruption into the other nations of the world.
Visionary Prayer Advance is a watchmen prayer advance, called military and prophetic to use the Word of God as the Sword to pray for the Aliyah of Israel daily and to keep watch over the Word of God itself.
Daily Scriptures are posted here as the Lord has given them to me that you may join me if you have an unction to remember what the Word says of the times and the seasons, to watch and to pray.
I am especially burdened with the Jews in America making Aliyah and have been pressed by the Lord to hold a personal vigil of prayer and fasting as He leads me.
God bless you if you too are being moved with increase in this hour to give some attention to Aliyah from America as well as from the nations all over the world. I believe the Jews in Israel will have a first Century wave of Pentecost before the great and Terrible day of the Lord come and many will come to Messiah from Jerusalem, from Judea and from Samaria.
Shalom in Messiah
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ambitious goal is of bringing a million Jews to Israel in the next 12 years.
"By 2020 we should gather most of the Jewish nation in the State of Israel. About 230,000 Jews in Argentina are in dire material straits… There are hundreds of thousands of Jews in the former Soviet Union, more than 100,000 in Brazil, 150,000 in Mexico, 600,000 in France, 80,000 in South Africa, thousands in Ethiopia," said Sharon, who cited these and other countries as prime immigration (aliyah) candidates. He added that Israel is "the only place in the world where Jews can continue to live as Jews and withstand the danger of assimilation."
http://www.jewish-issues.com/eretz_israel.html
A Massive Exodus to Israel
jewish-issues.com
Something may happen soon that will change the world. We are now on the threshold of a massive exodus of the Jews from the four corners of the earth. We must be ready, for it could happen any day now.
I believe this unprecedented return to Israel of the Jewish people will spread to all nations. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will raise His banner and demonstrate to the peoples of the world that He alone is the true and living God.
The Tenach explains clearly that this end time exodus will have an enormous impact on the nations because it will completely overshadow the first exodus from Egypt, including all the miracles God did before to His people
Jeremiah 16:14-15
The days are coming, declares the Lord, when men will no longer say, As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt, but they will say,
As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had scattered them. For I will restore them to the land I gave to their forefathers. Jeremiah 16:14-15
Behold I am bringing them from the north country, and I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labour with child, together; a great company, they shall return here. With weeping they shall come, and by supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, on a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Jeremiah 31:8-9.
Listen to this message from the Lord, you nations of the world, and publish it abroad: The Lord who scattered Israel will gather them back together again and watch over them as a shepherd keeps his flock. Jeremiah 31:10.
See, I will beckon to the gentiles... They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters upon their shoulders. Isaiah 49:22
I will say to the north, "Give Them Up!" And to the south, "Do Not Hold Them Back" bring my sons and daughters from the ends of the earth. Isaiah 43:6.
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ALIYAH FROM THE WEST NEWS INFORMATION
TERROR VICTIM ONE OF 200 OLIM ON WAY TO ISRAEL
6th September 2005
Wednesday's sixth Nefesh B'Nefesh flight this summer includes a victim of Arab terror and a New York couple celebrating a post-wedding festival meal on the plane.
More than 200 new immigrants are scheduled to land at Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday afternoon. One more flight of new immigrants (olim) is planned in December, bringing this year's number of North American olim to 3200.
Chicago-born Tuvia Grossman, 25, said his moving to Israel is a way of showing how a small country can stand up against terror. He was one of the first terror victims in the Oslo War which broke out in September,2000 the day before Grossman was brutally attacked. He was riding in a cab with two friends to pray at the Western Wall Friday afternoon before the beginning of the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah).
A mob of Arabs stopped the vehicle with a barrage of rock throwing near the Lions Gate which leads to the Temple Mount. His friends jumped out of the car and escaped,but Grossman was dragged out by the mob and severely beaten and stabbed. "I understood they had one objective to murder me in cold blood because I am a Jew in the Holy Land,"Grossman said. As the terrorists tried to kill him, he said "Kriyat Shema," the prayer Jews recite when faced with death, and the recital apparently stunned the mob momentarily and allowed him to flee, with a knife stuck in his leg.
International attention on the attack was intensified after the New York Times and other newspapers published an Associated Press picture of the wounded and bleeding terror victim. Standing behind him in the picture was an angry Israeli policeman with a club in his hand. The caption of the picture which read, "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount," clearly implied that the Jewish victim was a Palestinian beaten by Israelis.
Arutz Sheva English radio interviewed Tuvia who said, "That policeman was yelling at the Arabs to back off, and was protecting me from them - so to change it around and to say that he was beating me, that's just total distortion, and the world must be notified about how this is not true - the Jews are the ones suffering at the hands of the Arabs."
International attention on the attack was intensified after the New York Times and other newspapers published an Associated Press picture of the wounded and bleeding terror victim. Standing behind him in the picture was an angry Israeli policeman with a club in his hand. The caption of the picture which read, "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount," clearly implied that the Jewish victim was a Palestinian beaten by Israelis.
Arutz Sheva English radio interviewed Tuvia who said, "That policeman was yelling at the Arabs to back off, and was protecting me from them - so to change it around and to say that he was beating me, that's just total distortion, and the world must be notified about how this is not true - the Jews are the ones suffering at the hands of the Arabs."
Arutz Sheva radio proceeded to interview both the New York Times and the Associated Press. Hear all three radio interviews as they were presented on one of the classic shows of the station's history. Grossman, a law school graduate, plans to live in Tel Aviv and work as a clerk for the Supreme Court while preparing to pass examinations to practice as a lawyer in Israel.
Joy Langer and her new husband Jeremy Jutkowitz are planning to celebrate on the plane a festive meal as part of the seven-day "Sheva Berachot" (literally: Seven Blessings) celebrations which follow a Jewish wedding. The New Yorkers were married last Monday and will live in Jerusalem. Jutkowitz already is an oleh and now brings with him his new wife from the Diaspora.
Foreign Ministry and Jerusalem municipality officials and Rehovot Chief Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook plan to welcome the newcomers at the airport. (By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - Arutz Sheva)
U.K. ALIYAH AT FIVE-YEAR HIGH
September 2005
Just over 100 British Jews immigrated to Israel in August, the highest number from the U.K. in a single month for at least five years. The figure brings the number of new arrivals from the U.K. this year to 324, also the highest eight-month total since the Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out in October 2000.
"It's very difficult to know exactly why the numbers are up," said Neil Gillman, an aliyah counselor with the United Jewish Israel Appeal, which advises immigrants from Britain, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia. He pointed to three main factors he believes are likely to have pushed up immigration figures over the past year: the upturn in the Israeli economy and job market; increased numbers of British Jewish youth attending short- and long-term educational programs in Israel and new initiatives by Jewish Agency emissaries posted in the U.K.
While some have speculated that the terror attacks that hit London in July have encouraged aliyah, Gillman disagrees: "People [in Britain] plan their aliyah fairly meticulously and if we see a rise as a result of the terror attacks in London, it will only be toward the end of this year or in 2006."
Gillman said that just over half the Britons who arrived last month are Orthodox, with more than a quarter identifying themselves as traditional or progressive and 10 percent as ultra-Orthodox. A little more than half the new arrivals were single and the most favored destination was Ra'anana, which overtook Jerusalem as the most popular destination.
This month's new arrivals included the Kaye family, who relocated from northwest London to Ra'a nana last week in order to be in their new, rented home in time for their daughters, Eliana and Gabriella, to start kindergarten when school year opened yesterday. "It's been a mixture of emotions this week," said father Jeremy Kaye. "On the one hand, we really feel like we're at home in Israel; on the other hand, we're living in a shell and of course, it's difficult starting off." (Haaretz - Charlotte Halle)
FRENCH ALIYAH HITS 35-YEAR HIGH
August 2005
Two planeloads of immigrants from France arrived in Israel last month, marking the largest French immigration to Israel in decades.
The 330 new immigrants arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on two flights, from Paris and Mareseille, which arrived simultaneously.
The mass Aliyah (immigration to Israel) was organized by the Jewish Agency and AMI, a voluntary organization set up by French Jews to provide assistance for immigrants from France, modeled after the Nefesh bNefesh Aliyah assistance organization which assists immigrants from North America. AMI grants financial aid to those who need to pay back loans or move their businesses to Israel, as well as stipends for students making Aliyah.
The new immigrants were greeted by President Moshe Katzav, other government officials and mayors of towns they will be settling in.
The new immigrants include 100 children and 70 recent high school graduates who will begin their university studies in Israel. The students will begin special preparatory Hebrew-language programs at Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan and Jerusalems Hebrew University.
Most of the new immigrants will be taking part in the Absorption Ministrys Community Absorption Program. The aim was to create a community of immigrants while still in France, and for them to make Aliyah together, and to assist in their absorption once in Israel on a group basis, said French Aliyah representative Arielle Di Porto.
The towns chosen for the groups of Olim (new immigrants) to settle in are Netanya, Beer Sheva, Modiin, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beit Shemesh and the city of Ariel in the Shomron.
In the first half of 2005, there was a 30% rise in immigration from France compared to the same period the previous year, according to Jewish Agency statistics. During July, 900 people will immigrate to Israel from France, said Jewish Agency Immigration and Absorption Director Mike Rosenberg. By the end of the year, it is expected that 3,300 new immigrants will arrive from France - the highest number from that country in 35 years.
Four Torah scrolls were also brought to Israel together with the new immigrants, signifying a continually increasing flow of Frances Jewish community toward the Jewish homeland. France still has a Jewish population of about 600,000, but Aliyah continues to increase and we hope all of French Jewry will come home soon, Israel National Radios Walter Bingham said, summing up the sentiments of those who addressed the new immigrants upon arrival. (Ezra HaLevi, Arutz 7)
HUNDREDS OF NORTH AMERICAN AND
ETHIOPIAN JEWS MAKE ALIYAH
August 2005
In a simultaneous ingathering of exiles from two sides of the globe, two planes filled with new immigrants touched down in Israel - one from America and one from Ethiopia.
The flight from the U.S. was the third of seven flights this year bringing immigrants from North America to the Jewish State. It was organized by the Nefesh b'Befesh organization, which encourages Aliyah (immigration to Israel) by removing the financial and logistical obstacles facing North American Jews who dream of making the move.
"I am here because I think it is so important to make Aliyah. If you are Jewish, Israel is the place to be," said Elana Wenner from Vancouver, Canada, who came to the airport with members of her summer program to welcome the new arrivals. "We need to be together here in Israel to be united, to be together and to make a difference in the world." Wenner says she is excited to make Aliyah herself in the coming years.
Chaim Moche of Montreal stepped off the plane with his family. "We have been here on many visits, we were seduced, and at a certain point we just could not leave," he said. "It is a little like getting married."
"We were planning on moving next year but we decided after our last visit, five weeks ago, to move now," said Peretz Rickett, who made Aliyah from Dallas, Texas. He and his family plan to settle in the Gush Etzion town of Alon Shvut.
Eighty new immigrants also arrived in Israel Wednesday from Ethiopia.
They plan to settle in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Tzion, the northern town of Tzfat, and the coastal city of Ashkelon.
The 150 new immigrants from America will be settling in Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Gush Etzion and the communities in the Benjamin Regional Council region of the Shomron, north of the capital. (Ezra HaLevi, Arutz 7)
BRINGING THE FALASH ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL
August 2005
It has been decided by the Ministerial Committee for the Remnants of Ethiopian Jewry to increase the quota of Falash Mura (Ethiopian Jews who supposedly converted to Christianity) being allowed to make Aliyah to Israel.
It has been decided that by the end of 2007 the remaining 13,000 Falash Mura will be brought to Israel in accordance with the finalized and agreed upon list of potential immigrants approved by the Ministry of Interior, of whom 4,300 have to date immigrated to Israel.
Shinui MK (Member of Knesset) Avraham Poraz has initiated legislation to give to Ethiopian immigrants from the Falash Mura community (Jews who had previously "converted" to Christianity) by giving Law of Return status to great-grandchildren of Jews.
Poraz said the decision made on Ethiopian immigrants in which it gave "wide interpretation" to the Law of Return, had created "discrimination" against potential immigrants from other countries, especially from the Commonwealth of Independent States. According to Poraz's amendment to the Law of Return, not only children and grandchildren of Jews could enter Israel as immigrants with all the benefits, but great-children as well. At present, great-grandchildren are brought in under the Law of Entry, according to which the interior minister may grant non-Jews who wish to live in Israel a long-term visitor's visa, a temporary resident visa or a permanent resident visa. Poraz claims Falash Mura include descendants of Jews that include great-grandparents.
In January, the government decided to double the number of arrivals a month to 600 and bring them all (around 13,000) by the end of 2007. According to the decision, the Falash Mura arrivals are to be given citizenship immediately upon arrival and not after converting to Judaism. (Excerpts from articles by Nina Gilbert and Keren Hayesod)
HOW MANY JEWS HAVE EVER MADE ALIYAH ?
Latest Aliyah Figures!
August 2005
Sources of figures: Central Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
Number of Olim since the beginning of this year:
Total: 13,022
From FSU: 5,176
Number of Olim since massive Aliyah began from the Former Soviet Union in 1989:
1,108,567
Number of Olim since the Six-Day War in 1967:
1,708,460
Number of Olim since the founding of Israel in 1948:
2,983,556
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