that I knew only one thing about….

ONE THING, that is, except the obvious. He was male. He was young. He was Caucasian. He was sweet, polite and funny! He was nice! And: upon a brief interaction with this young man, made in the image and likeness of God Almighty, he came to tell me… he was Jewish! Fun! This was not obvious to me for Jewish people, like many others, come in all colours and sizes and live in all parts of the world!

Selah.

God honors Israel! They are the apple of His eye!

Deuteronomy 26:16-19
The Lord your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.  You have declared this day that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws—that you will listen to him.  And the Lord has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands. He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations he has made and that you will be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.

I AM TELLING YOU it is an absolute thrill for me to meet a Jewish person! I immediately think of the covenant between God Almighty and Israel: the covenant God instituted! I am thrilled about the love God has for them; as well as His Church does! Of course, God loves all people He has lovingly created in His own image and likeness for His glory and good pleasure. But God’s people brought Jesus! Jesus is Jewish! satan and the evil powers that be have tried to eliminate Israel since the first prophecy of the Bible:

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Yes, Beloved:  Christ will crush satan’s head soon!

Romans 16:20
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

ISRAEL HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO GOD AND MAN and will continue to be!
Selah.

Israel has given the world the Bible; most all of the sixty-six books were God-breathed to a Jewish man. She has given us The Messiah. Israel has been hated by satan, his principalities, his authorities and yet they cannot and will not wipe them off the face of the Earth! As Pastor John Hagee loves to proclaim: “Israel lives!”  Each Christian feels the same way and loves the Truth: Jesus Christ. We love His people, our brethren, Israel. To Hell with the devil and to Hell with his lies; he’s going to Hell and he’s going to fry!

YES: it is a thrill to meet a Jewish man and to know how very special and precious each and every Jewish person is! They are God’s chosen people, dearly love and dearly blessed in spite of the persecutions. I thank each and every Jewish person that they have chosen life! They have tenacious in not allowing evil to conquer them! They will not be wiped off the face of the Earth! Again, a quote from Pastor John Hagee: “Israel lives!”

Genesis 12:1-3
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Acts 3:17-26
 “Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.  Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,  and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.  Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.  For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.’ “Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days.  And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’ When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY

Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”  So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.

Acts 17:24-28
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.  God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.  ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’