By Eric C. Martienssen - english translation by Pastor Rolf Piller

In due time, on May 7th, 2008, the day preceding the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Israel‘s birthday, transmitted the working cooperation of public broadcasting bodies in Germany (ARD – also called First German Television) an encouraging report. In it, according to the Interior minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, is reported about „a stroke against Spiritual Arsonists“ of the Nazi- and Holocaust denial scene. However, Christian Ahrendt from the parliamentary section of FDP, finds with regard to the ban of the rightwing extremist organisation „Collegium Humanum“, that 45 years are too long, to forbid such an association, that worked since 1963 in the right scene. read more…

A story, how it could have really happened, a story written to comfort all those having lost a parent by death or parental divorce. May you know that there is someone who cares and will never forsake you like human fathers or mothers are sometimes forced to do. By Eric Martienssen.

Isn`t it strange, that grown-ups kneeling under the cross, often have such heavy hearts? While I am doing so, I always feel reminded to the strong, blessing arms of my heavenly Father. You wanna know why? – By the way, my name is Saskia Fee. The latter name means fairy. Of course I am not a real fairy, it is just how my father used to call me by my name (Isaiah 43:1). I am a teenager of 16 years now and I like to take you back with me into the time of my early childhood to an event that should change my whole life.

It was Good Friday´s Eve in 1996. This time, both, the Jewish feast of Passah and the Christian Easter were celebrated in the same week. This is necessary to mention as you will see later on. read more…

By David & Josie Silver, Out of Zion Ministries, Mt. Carmel, Israel

As the Jewish world once again prepares to remember the exploits of a beautiful young Jewess, Hadassah or Esther as she is more commonly known, the same spirit that was at work through the wicked Haman, is still at work in 2008. As the Jewish people celebrate this Purim, the spirit that controlled Haman, is controlling most of the world’s leaders, and using them to bring about the weakening and then destruction of the 60 year old Jewish state. read more…

by Eric C. Martienssen - Translation by Pastor Rolf Piller

The collective national consciousness of the Germans seemed to have successfully thrust aside after 60 years, that the spiritual authorship to the Holocaust did originate from the German former Martin Luther, here comes the next ’spiritual arsonist’… and again it is a German! It seems to be, as had a repentance about this greatest crime against humanity in the history of the world never happened in the inner man of the Germans – the least in the German clerics. How akin the diction of the spiritual Shoa by Martin Luther and Pope Benedict XVI.? The later had in his Good Friday Intercession for 2007 out of archtypical envy about God’s Israel-choice, proclaimed to his sheep through all roman-catholic priests worldwide about the „blindfolded Jews“ in the „darkness“. In comparison: also Martin Luther had hoped all his life, that Jews would after the completed Reformation „amend“ and convert to the – in his opinion – „true faith“. As he saw his hope disappointed, Luther followed it up with his momentous call to Christianity, that was put into reality fourhundred years later in the Holocaust: „Firstly, that their synagogues or schools be set on fire and, what may not burn, be heaped over with earth, so that no human being could see a stone or cinder for ever. And such should be done to honour our Lord and Christianity, so that God may see that we are Christians. // Erstlich, das man jre Synagoga oder Schule mit feur anstecke und, was nicht verbrennen will, mit erden überheufe und beschütte, das kein Mensch ein stein oder schlacke davon sehe ewiglich. Und solches sol man thun, unserm Herrn und der Christenheit zu ehren damit Gott sehe, das wir Christen seien.“

Was it remorse about the possible consequences of his spiritual arson 2007, that let the Good Friday Intercession prayer 2008 of the ‘German Pope’ looks more subtly, although as well devastating, where it reads in arrogant, again directed against God’s Holy people, in Jewish Mission-German simply, „… that God, our Lord, may light into their hearts, that they may know Jesus Christ, as the saviour of all mankind“?

Question, is it a coincedence, that God’s Holy Passah feast and the heathen Easter feast (since its invention by emporer Constantine) has in 1700 years never been more separated than this year 2008 (5768)? Could it be, that the inner brokenness increases in every person, and especially in the so called ‘Holy Father’, the further we distance ourselves from His Holyness?

God says to us in the Bible, that HE alone is holy, what HE sanctifies (first in the Bible, the Shabbat, see Genesis 2:3) and what or whom HE will sanctify. Christians, likewise the Moslems, keep nowadays nothing of it holy, what God calls holy in the Bible, least of all His Holy Feasts (hebr. Moedim = appointed time for the meeting with God). The more vehement we try, naturally unsuccesfull, to destroy everything, what God sanctified – so that we may forget our own guilt. And so it comes to psychical catastrophes, like in the case of Luther (through a lack of repentance about Luther’s delusion, mentally, especially in the German people archetypical, over 400 years further handed down) six million gassed and otherwise killed Jews. Let us pray, that the consequence of the intercession prayer request by Pope Benedict XVI. will be a nationwide repentance – conversion to Holyness.

Hearty prayers for repentance, perhaps even to Constantin’s Easter feast, are welcome ‘look up under comment’. By the way: God’s Passah feast is on April 20th and 21st.

Seasons Greetings, personal stories as Greetings for these Seasons instead of posting cards with heathen Christmas motives, is as I find, more than just a wonderful tradition of our Anglo-Saxon friends. It is suitable to the season, the contemplative time between the Feast of Lights “Hanukkah” and the heartily expected new, the year of our Lord - a promise pointing towards the fulfillment of our longing for peace. God, what did You have in mind with this?

Eternal peace between Christians and Jews, or even more? …Meditate about holy matters! Suddenly stands that, what belongs to God (in the Bible called „holy“), in opposition to what mankind made for herself, made herself sanctified. To celebrate my self-made feasts, but am I happy with it, without God? HIS feasts – for Ever holy – HE has called them „moed“ in the Bible/Tanach, which means translated stated appointments. Was it not me myself, who stated new times, on which I wanted to have „a date“ with HIM and wonder now, that HE does not turn up and simply no peace will enter me - and where is the „peace on Earth“?

HE is already here, in you, everything premeditated from the glorious Creator God before all time, in unsearchable love, if we just want to recognize the beauty of His thoughts. For instance, there is Friday – Shabbat – Sunday. Friday has been sanctified by the Ishmaelites to be their holy day, the Christians the Sunday. And in between lies – some day reconciling - the Holy Day of God. Actually from the beginning, as the creation history (Genesis 2:3) shows, He gave „complete rest“ (hebr. Shabbat) for all mankind. Could one not conclude, that Christianity moved as much away from God, as the Ishmaelites? Listen to God:

“In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.” (Isaiah 19:23-25) - New Jerusalem, did you not feel it? Is „you longing“ not even finding home in every name of God? Pastor Rolf Piller had once the joy to translate some of them (Names of God, PDF).

We wish you a peaceful season, a shining kind light, a soul that touches your longing desire and shares it with you, as well as a blessed start into 2008.

David & Josie Silver, Out of Zion Ministries, Mt Carmel, Israel

John 10:22-23 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Yeshua walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. (NKJ)

As the secular year rapidly approaches its end, Jewish people in Israel and around the world, are preparing to celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights. This non-Levitical feastival commemorates the defeat of the Greco-Syrian dictator Anitochus Epiphanes 180 years before the birth of Yeshua. read more…

David’s Comment: The Relevance of the Feasts of the LORD
David & Josie Silver, Out of Zion Ministeries, Mt Carmel, Israel

Leviticus 23:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts. (NKJ)

The Biblical Feasts are often called the “Jewish Feasts “, but they are not Jewish Feasts, they are God’s Feasts. They were given to the Jews to celebrate and I believe our calling to be a “light and blessing” to the nations means that we are to teach the nations about the feasts, as they are the perfect tool to teach about the nature and character of YHVH and His Anointed One, Yeshua. One of the primary purposes of the annual Feast cycles was to teach the children about God in a family and fun environment. For we who are living at the end of this age, the Feast cycle also gives a prophetic view of the redemption plans and purposes of God for Israel, ( the Church included) and the world. read more…

By Eric Martienssen – translated by Pastor Rolf Piller
(Actual Sabbath-Reading)

Chistians with a heart for Israel are not powerless. Just in last weeks Shabbat-Reading spoke “the LORD to Mose (Numbers 27:12): Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.” Thereupon – highly actual – referred also in an indirect way the Haftarah (Prophet reading, 1.Kings 18), for the land on which Mose was allowed to view, which God gave then first time to the Israelis and now, 59 years ago gave it back again, that included also Samaria, that was shown in last weeks Haftarah (verse 2) to be in great need – and is today again! Even as at that time king Ahab with idolatry, so wants nowadays the World Council of Churches / WCC after its own believe*** and after “prophetic comments from its own church leaders in Jerusalem …in the service of peace and justice”, as announced three weeks ago in Amman, want the land afresh partitioned, which God – because it belongs to HIM (holy), in our actual Parasha (Numbers 32) already allotted to the tribes of Israel.

(1.Kings 18:9): And he [Obadiah] said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?” But Elijah, the prophet of the LORD and of Israel repeated only once more (that Obadiah may unmistakably hear and ‚understand’! Faith is a matter of fact in God‘s eyes, no imagination!), so that Obadiah, now trusting in the Almighty God, could go to Ahab (the World Council of Churches), who stood formerly under the influence of Isebel (Constantine, Martin Luther‘s > the spiritual originator of the Holocaust and already almost everything exterminated had, that is holy to the LORD (including the Shabbat, the day of the LORD!), only 100 prophets of the LORD had Obadiah been able to save before Ahab (verse 11): “And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord (Ahab), Behold, Elijah is here!”

(Verse 14-18:) And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me. And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah. And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

***)Sara Marita Meyer wrote in the introduction to her Shabbat-treatise about the “theological displacement/dispossession of the Jews“. As implemented by Constantine at the foundation of `the present church´ in the 4th century `after Christ´, so it goes for the World Council of Churches again about dispossession, this time about the `theological dispossession of God`! Israel is His Land – with borders laid out by Him, as we will read in this weeks Double-Parasha, this year to be read together (”defined by these borders”, Numbers 34:2). The World Council of Churches represents officially (founded August 28th, 1948) only 550 million Christians (including almost all protestant and orthodox Churches – except the Catholic Church), but as far as the dispossession of God from His property is concerned (for ever holy, see Shabbat and all feasts of God = hebr. Moedim = determined times) stated he as a matter of fact (in the name of Emperor Constantine) represents since 1.700 years in worldly authority all Christianity. For the end in the Holocaust – where Jews, therefore also the Jew Jesus, because the ‚poor creatures’, that even did not recognize their Messiah, have been murdered as ‚invaluable lives’ – is in reality still not the end for the World Council of Churches. But rather as shown 3 weeks ago in Jordan, only the beginning of the clearing up of Christianity from the Jews. I allow myself to say this, as a German and as Christian (what a Jew never could say, even not a messianic Jew), who hears daily in churches and home groups the pitying mission zeal from brothers and sisters: “the poor beings have after all nailed the Messiah to the cross”. And contrary to His gospel deny for themselves to understand that they, that HE was nailed by them likewise to the cross, so that their guilt be paid! With every “after all they have not recognized Jesus” the mission zeal is spiritually justified, not needing to mention worse (see ‚invaluable lives’). One has learned over the centuries, ‚to cleanse Jesus from Jewishness’ (the Juden-rein-Prozess) HIM – who said, “He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.” (John 12:44) - to disown His FATHER and now, after the Church founder Constantine has already disowned the FATHER His property, the Shabbat and the feasts, goes the World Council of Church about, also to disown Him of the Land.

How encouraging for Israel against the World (Ahab/World Council of Churches) the Haftarah of the last and of this Shabbat look like: Was it last week Elijah who asked Obadiah to trust God from his heart, it is this Shabbat God Himself, who says to Jeremiah (1:9 -12): “Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.”

And in our Parasha HE asks therefore (Numbers 32:7): “And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?” Israel is only a mirror for God‘s eternal plan of Salvation for all Nations, in the love of His Son. Perceived from the beginning, wherefore His Shabbat is creation history (sanctified, Genesis 2:3), and always is His WORD encouragement, to be happy for His happiness (Is. 58:13-14): “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”

Shabbat Shalom

by Eric Martienssen

The WORD speaks referring to God’s Feasts (hebrew: Moedim) translated from “determined times” and first winds – the wind blows where It wishes – are reaching also single Christians “again” – in fact we do have a mercy God who undoes His Kingdom and restores what was lost. For remembrance: the God chosen determined time for the puring out of the Holy Spirit was – long long after biblical times – changed by people ! (To even recognize worldly changes on Eternally Holy items, it needs first of all a fair share on perception capability of the “Date of change”! We speak here from the gift of discerning the spirits, to recognize what is from God and what from people, respectively what is biblical and what is worldly –according the holiness of God the “fleshly will” of man ?)

The receiving is determined on fifty days past Pesach. But also, for His ordination, His love for us, connected with keeping His commands (write them on the tablet of your heart) – the feast of remembrance of the Giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai. Thereafter stands the keeping of His commands in dependance to the receiving of the Holy Spirit. We are invited to share this joy with His people for one day from this evening on (Actual Shawuoth-Reading, Jerusalem).

Hag Sameach