 It is for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity and that is through Jesus Yeshua our Savior We're so glad that you were joining us for hope today I am here with Tom and Amy and we have an incredible guest coming up Tom. We do what it 40 years Think what you can accomplish in 40 years Well, yeah, Lx Dean will be with us. She is the president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and they just celebrated their 40th anniversary yesterday and We're gonna hear about the great things that they're doing and what's going on in Israel right now So I know you're gonna enjoy that you're gonna enjoy hearing about the the great things that God has accomplished through their their ministry You know, I love what's going on in Israel. Actually, it's their anniversary, too Is it the 70th or the 75th? 75th anniversary of Israel being a nation. So man, are we actually Tonight I was supposed to be at an event for Israel for the anniversary Washington DC couldn't work out the details, but man, I mean right now something's going on with Israel Sydney They're even under attack with I think the other day 400 missiles being launched into the area of Israel So man Israel is on the front of our thoughts and our prayers You know one thing I remember a spiritual mom once told me is that when it comes to Israel if you look at Jerusalem It is literally in the center of the world that God picked out that city for all eyes to be on and we know that we can see With prophetic signs that everything with all eyes on Israel And you know, even when we talk about like Christians and Jews, you know coming together even my family background You know, I married into a family where it's like that's why my last name is Goldman Is that my father-in-law that he's Jewish and so just even I just have such a love for the Jewish people here in Pittsburgh We have a thriving Jewish community in Squirrel Hill and just all around the world So I think it is so important and these times and days like these for us to just pray for our brothers and sisters that are Jewish And just the whole community because they truly need our love our encouragement and our support That's absolutely true. And you know, we we know that you need love and encouragement and support as well You can always call our prayer partners if you have a need if you have a Something that you just want to pray about for your family or your finances or situation at work Whatever you can always call and get a hold of a prayer partner and they'll be glad to pray with you So avail yourself of that. But right now what I talked about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews It's a non-profit organization There's been building bridges between Christians and Jews and blessing Israel and the Jewish people around the world with humanitarian Care aid life-saving aid today We're going to be joined by the Fellowship's president and CEO Yael X teen as she shares how her Organization has been making a difference for over 40 years. Yael, welcome to hope today Thank you so much. Tom Amy Sidney. So good to be with you. We're joining us from Israel Tell us, you know, just give us a little bit of information With what it's like to be living in Israel right now. What's going on right now? Wow every day that I wake up living in Israel I praise God and I don't ever forget that this is what Moses dreamed about that in many ways I'm luckier than Moses And so it is such a blessing to live in the place that so many people are looking at and praying for That people dreamed about for generations that my people dreamed about for generations and I have the privilege of living here So it's both amazing Prophetic beautiful joy is and of course it has its challenges like you pointed out Last week in one day. We had 400 rockets in five days. We had over a thousand rockets And so it has its challenges But the fact that we have friends like you with us praying with us praying for us Just makes everything so comforting Well, and the organization is For friends, it's a fellowship right a fellowship of Christians Jews What was in your father's heart rabbi? Extin many years ago 40 years ago when he founded the organization Well, I think it's the Bible verse the book the book of psalm says it so beautifully that you quoted when you open the show He name at home and I'm she bet I'll clean come your head How good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell together and so my father had a calling I think you said it perfectly It wasn't just a job or even a mission It was a calling that it didn't make sense the only thing the Jewish community knew about the Christian community was what they read in the history books and as Children of Holocaust survivors people knew that over 70% of Nazis identified as Christian But my father said no, this is a new generation It's a generation that's gonna bring back the brotherhood to bring back the love bring back the communication And it all started with this calling of he name at home and I'm she bet I'll clean come your head How good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell together. This is what God wants of us Well, tell me about your organization International Fellowship of Christians to Jews many of our viewers may have never heard of it May not know of your long history and and the important work that you're doing share a little bit about the work The scope of what the fellowship is doing Well, we have three different ministries and they're all prophetic and biblical We always say there are so many different areas of need in the world when we look at where we are called We open up the scriptures and see what is God saying? So God says Nahamu Nahamu Ami come for you come for you my people's and so when we're talking about war and security needs The fellowship is in the area of security. We've built thousands of bomb shelters and many other security programs that we've implemented Both under fire and also after war when those needs are identified and everything we do is in the name of Christians Who love and stand with Israel? So imagine this as the rockets are falling. There's a woman named Aida Who's nine years old Holocaust survivor who lives in southern Israel who doesn't have a bomb shelter who doesn't have anyone to Help or think or support her and the fellowship comes with food because she has been under rocket attack for five days And doesn't have any food left and we say this is from Christians in America and around the world who love you and want you to be safe The same thing for a family who didn't have a bomb shelter and when the rockets were falling had a just sit together and pray in the Stairwell well now they have bomb shelters because of the fellowship and every time they go in and they turn on the news and they hear Everyone hates Israel. Everyone's critical of Israel. Suddenly they see that sign Christians love Israel. So one of our ministries is security. Our second ministry is poverty Providing food to the least of these so the elderly the orphans and the widows and the third is bringing God's children home from the Biblical land of the north from Ukraine across the former Soviet Union and anywhere where Jews are at risk So it's all prophetic What an incredible mission and vision that you have and man Are we praying for you and that ministry? What what would you say to Christians in the Western culture just that are like Why should we be concerned about Israel? Why should we pray for Israel? What I maybe they feel Disconnected what would you say to that person to connect them to the land and the people of Israel? Amy that is such a good question And you could find verses both from the Christian Bible and from the Old Testament, of course We know in the Christian Bible it says that Christians are Grafted onto the rich olive tree of Israel. And so as Christians this should ignite a wonder and in Exploration and wanting to know okay. What are these roots that I'm grafted onto? What are my what did come before me? What was Jesus studying? What was he celebrating? What was he? Reading when he was reading the scriptures and then you get a real deeper meaning for what it means as a Christian to read the Christian Bible And that all happened in Israel I mean, of course it was in Jerusalem over Passover that Jesus had the final supper and it was in Bethlehem in Israel where all Everywhere you walk in Israel you see the footsteps of our forefathers both as Jews and as Christians And of course when you look in the in the Old Testament, you see everything revolves around Israel as far as promises as far as prophecy And then you have the promises of God pray for the peace of Jerusalem And we know those who pray for the peace of Jerusalem are blessed God doesn't make many promises in the Bible But in Genesis 12 3 he says bless I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel and he promises those who bless Israel will be blessed tenfold and so there's something Intrinsically holy Sacred powerful about Israel not that I'm saying but that God says and when we look at the scriptures And even more relevant for us today Maybe for someone who feels disconnected when you look at the prophecies that we're living today You could only understand these crazy sometimes dark times if you understand what God's intention and vision is with it And we are word-for-word living so many of these prophecies from 2,000 years ago that Ezekiel and Isaiah and Jeremiah saw that Jerusalem is centered to that and when you're Captain and you're holding on to Jerusalem like you said the center of the world Suddenly everything falls into place and it doesn't look so dark. It actually looks hopeful Yeah, yeah, yeah that just brings me to the next question is that you just mentioned something that there's so many Prophecies that point to Israel and things are unfolding and we're seeing things happen in the news So can you just share with us some of the things that you have recently see prophetic signs that are unfolding right before your eyes and the People of Israel that right now that are happening Wow Sydney, you do not have to look far and I love that you asked me that so thank you so much You could go to just the last conflict that we had not even a week ago where a thousand rockets were launched at very very Crowded Israeli cities and either the Iron Dome shot them down Which is I mean a Incredible invention of technology that no one could have even dreamed about that in real time less than a second when there'd be a hundred Rockets launched in less than a second all of the mathematics takes place See which rockets are going to land in residential areas and another rocket is launched from the Iron Dome to Destroy that specific rocket one out of a hundred exactly the right rocket in midair I mean that is Hiney loyanum veloishan Shomer Israel the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps and those that land Inside of Israel landed right next to a home that there was a whole family inside or on a car that the family got out of The car two minutes before that you hear stories every day of these miracles that God does that just are Hard to fathom there was actually supposed to be a backstreet boys concert in Israel that there was a lot of Discussion whether they should cancel it or not they ended up canceling it that was very that you know You don't want to change Moving on with life because Israel is always in conflict you don't you want to continue living as normal But they decided to cancel it which is something that Israel wouldn't normally do well a piece of the rocket landed Exactly on the stadium that the backstreet boys were supposed to be playing at and so you see these stories that it's Prophecy that God will always protect Israel that he's the watchman on the wall that he doesn't slumber nor sleep And so that's one area that just last week you could write a book on the miracles that took place but of course when I greet the Aliya flights the flights of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine from the Arab world who are coming home on fellowship flights that is Christians that brought them home to Israel First of all the fact that there is an Israel for Jews to come home to is something that we haven't had for 2000 years and then that it's Christians bringing them all the prophecy say on the shoulders of the Gentiles right they'll bring them home on their shoulders their children On their hips and on their shoulders that they'll bring them home on wings of eagles, right? That's the name of our ministry that brings Aliya. That's exactly prophetic So the fact that the Jewish people are coming home and that it's Christians making this possible I mean just a hundred years ago if you told someone that they wouldn't have believed you Right. Wow fantastic. We're gonna we want to pray while you're with us here Yeah, I'm gonna ask Amy to pray in just a moment But as you're telling us about the the incredible scope of the wonderful things that are being done Is there one I'd like to put it on a personal level is there one? Person that's that you've helped the kind of their story speaks to you or there The that just you know that just stays with you somebody's story that you could share with us Yeah, thank you so much Tom. There's a woman Ludmila who I always think about Ludmila lived in eastern Ukraine She's a Holocaust survivor She's over nine years old and she's bedridden and when the war in Ukraine broke out She couldn't obviously go to her shelter. She had no one come visit her and bring her food The fellowship was there bringing her food for many many years and our we didn't have any people in those first few days That were able to go out because it was too dangerous for them And once we continued after three days going and visiting her and bringing her food She started crying and saying I just want to go to Israel. I just want to go to Israel But there was no way to take her out. She's a bedridden Holocaust survivor Well, the fellowship arranged for volunteer doctors in an ambulance to drive into eastern Ukraine under fire Put her in the ambulance bring her over the border to Moldova Where we flew her on a private chartered volunteer flight with a doctor connected to her side to Israel And I went to go visit her on Passover We had our staff and team that went and brought her food boxes and we continue to care for her here And she looked at our fellowship staff and she said if it weren't for this ministry I would be dead right now And looking at this woman who endured the Holocaust who for the second time had to leave her home Just to be so grateful to be living in Israel to be cared for and to know that it's Christians who are doing that For me told the entire story of the fellowship We will do anything to save a Jewish life and it's Christians who make that possible Wow, man, that if that doesn't shake us to the core. I don't know what will we are here To be God's representative his hands and his feet on earth And we just cannot thank you enough for what you and your ministry is doing You know as we take time just right now and we pray for Israel and we pray for the Jewish people It's really personal to me because I've developed some incredible friendships in the Jewish community here And at dinner recently one of the the women I was sitting with said I am fascinated I am infatuated with the blood of the lamb and she was talking about the Passover and I'm thinking about Jesus So let's pray right now for Israel and for the Jewish people. God. I just come to you right now You are the god of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and father I just thank you when they see Christians that they will see friends of Zion they will see friends in them They will see life and unconditional love and father I pray right now for the safety and the peace of Israel and Jerusalem and god I thank you for this ministry and all that they are doing to bring Christians and Jews together for such A time as this father. I pray right now that you open the eyes of the hearts of the Jewish people To see Jesus to see the Savior to see the redeemer to see the fulfillment of all of the prophecies And father, we just thank you right now that they this ministry will have more than enough to do everything that you've have accomplished Uh and foretold them to do in Jesus name. We pray amen Amen Yeah, El. Thank you so much. Thank you for everything you do. God bless you Well, thank you so much for being with us and congratulations on 40 years. Thank you Thank you. 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We do believe that hope happens here And also thank you for your love prayers and support for israel Let's dive into a scripture right now together as we talk about this psalm 128 verses five and six May the lord bless you from zion may you see the prosperity of jerusalem all the days of your life May you live to see your children's children Peace be on israel peace Shalom nothing missing nothing broken be On you israel, you know when I was recently there. I was amazed I don't know why I didn't see this before but you know in jerusalem. You've got muslims christians and jews that are all in this city together very strong distinctive Viewpoints coming and it was like you know what we see at one location the muslims are seeing something else The christians are seeing one thing the jewish people are seeing one thing. It was very very enlightening But one thing we know for sure Sydney is that jesus Jesus is the savior of the world and we want the jewish people to see that We surely do and you know when just thinking when you're talking amy about this all the three different faiths, you know One thing I just always heard about we're all like it's like a big it's a big family conflict That's going on that goes all the way back to abraham and just different things that we see But you know, I think it's so beautiful that we're seeing now more than ever We're hearing these testimonies you're seeing these stories pop up on youtube and on tiktok and different social media How yashua is appearing to jews and muslims like never before That he is going before them and revealing himself to them God is doing a mighty move In the midst of the conflict and even though we see there's a lot of gross darkness And things that are happening in israel in different parts of the middle east We know that god and yashua is on the move holy spirit is moving in Into those deep and those dark places where it's like the center of like prophecy is unfolding Because god is going to show up and to show out and one thing I love is even we were talking about what yael Was bringing up about you know, it's how beautiful it is for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity One of the things you see like all across is that the diversity and the different ethnicities like this the kingdom family is a beautiful Beautiful family and we talk about prosperity. It's this prosperity of us all dwelling together as one through christ Loving on each other moving together as one that is the greatest prosperity We have is having an understanding as we as the ecclesia That we have the power of the kingdom of god to move because of jesus and we can see signs and wonders And miracles and that's what i'm believing for and so i'm in this season. I know so many around the world You know the verse that we read about may you see your children's children? Hey check that one off I've seen my children's children praise the lord for that. I mean, you know You know, that's a promise that's been fulfilled in my own life But you know as I think about we've been talking a lot about family and we've been talking about the The family of god and of course there's different levels of that different ways we refer to it. Of course, there's the you know There's the christian family And in some sense all of humanity created by god and god desires them to be At children not just the children of of creation, but the children of adoption Okay, that we are all In that family of god like we've been yyle mentioned it We've been grafted in as christians grafted into the roots of israel But yet there's a an adoption that god wants to do with israel with muslims with hindu's with Everyone who has some faith or no faith He calls to them. He calls to them to be be known as a child It says it says in the new testament But as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of god received who will receive jesus Received the the the savior as lord and savior in their own life And I just want to ask you if you haven't done that today If you've got a form of religion, but you don't know that family You don't know that children's part You don't know that to be a children of a child of god in the way that he means there You can do that today and all you need to do is open up your heart And this is not the time to be Judgmental or critical or like angry at people that don't see eye to eye with you That's not how we approach this thing We're staying, you know in in israel david is a big deal So we're staying at the king david hotel and we're ubering to a couple of places And we have this muslim driver actually several muslim drivers. Where do you live? I was born and raised on mount olives and we're like That's the coolest thing ever. We're like we're brothers. We're brother and sister. We're like family. They're like, yeah I mean you you have to develop a relationship a friendship and a deep Sense of love towards people that don't see eye to eye and you pray for them I mean man, we we would touch them. We say we are praying for you And your family and that god would bless you and keep you and so Sydney if if ever there was a time for us to use wisdom In our words with people and in relationships. It's now it surely is now and just you know One something that god just placed on my heart is when we're talking about this whole show today about the connection and the thread with Jews and christians and just even in the holy land it just reminded me when i got married It was a very interesting thing is that i this i had a greater understanding of what god talks about about being grafted in Right and so i got married into this jewish family My husband was actually adopted by his jewish stepfather Who's our father and just even understanding that because i am now married into this family I know that i there's certain things that i have received i have inheritance of is because of israel So we can do ilya like his brother went there and just different things like that And that's what jesus is dead in a greater scale That when jesus died for us he was a jewish messiah died laid his life down for us Then he i mean we were the pearls of great price He laid it all down for us and rose again And because of the blood of the lamb that we are able to be adopted by the heavenly Father that we're able to come to the father to the gates to the throne of heaven and speak to him and have A relationship with him and receive revelation from him It is an amazing thing to be adopted and guess what we get in inheritance We understand our identity we understand who we are our destiny through him our purpose in him That's what it's all about and when you have your identity and you know who you are You can wear it with a badge of honor like i am a son of god I am a daughter of god. It is amazing It is an amazing thing that we have through yashua and through the holy spirit And so today we just want to ask you are you a son? Are you a daughter? Have you taken that moment to truly surrender all and i tell you friend It is the best decision you'll ever make because no matter what bombs no matter what storms No matter what comes your way you have a heavenly father that's going to fight for you a heavenly father That's going to love on you a heavenly father that's going to search the deep places of your heart and deliver you and to heal you And to set you free so that you can walk out with the kingdom family as the ecclesiast the kingdom of god And we're going to see change in this world like never before We should have a desire in our hearts friends that everyone should know who jesus is because it is the best decision It is life changing and it is amazing So if that's you today if you want to say you know what i'm ready to fully commit myself i'm ready to surrender All today give us a call at our prayer line at 888-665-4483 tom. What are your thoughts? You know, it doesn't matter where we find ourselves god knows your story He knows where you are He knows whether you're on the mountaintop or down in the pit of despair And it says that his arm is not so short that he cannot reach there in other words He can reach you wherever you are so god's reaching his hand out to you right now All you got to do is take hold of it. Let him pull you up out of whatever you find yourself in Let him pull you to himself And give you new life in christ That's what the message is today. That's what the message of god is today. Amen We're really the seed of abraham. I mean this is this we should feel very Connected to the land of israel because that's where jesus came. He died. 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