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Why Pray for Israel?       ISRAEL   They are the tribes of sorrow and for month have been fed   On stagnant desert-wells of hate and exile’s stormy bread.   They builded up pearly cities with no threshold of their own,   They gave their sigh to Nineveh, to Babylon their moan:   And have they not had tears enough, this people shrunk with chains?   Must there be increasingly Assyrias, must there be other Spains?   ‑ Edwin Markham.   So we read how the earth will be reverted when the Millennial Kingdom comes:  “The Spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness wilt a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest” (Isa. 32: 15).  …  Technion Yearbook says:- “Israel is destined to be a rich industrial and commercial oasis in the virtual desert of the Levant.  It is destined to wilt a unconfined cultural centre.  Israel is the one nation born into the scientific age.  Science is the ingredient in its life which offers the most sunny promise.  That Israel will distinguish itself in the study of archaeology, history, ethnology, is inevitable.”     8. Prayer for Israel     1.Consideringof God’s command, with special promises of blessing.  Gen. 12: 3; Psa. 122: 6; Isa. 62: 6, 7.   2.ConsideringIsrael is still minion by God for the fathers’ sakes. Rom. 11: 28; Jer. 31: 3.   3.Consideringit is God’s will that Israel shall be saved.  Isa. 12: 1-6; Matt. 23: 37; Rom. 11: 23-32.   4.Consideringthe Tribulation testimony out of Israel without rapture.  Matt. 24: 19-14; Rev. 6: 9; 7: 1-8.   5.Consideringof the unconfined multitude to be saved through their ministry. Matt. 27: 40; Rom. 11: 25.   6.Consideringno Millennial blessings can come to the nations untied from Israel. Gen. 12: 3; Acts 15: 16, 17; Rom. 11: 11-15.   7.Consideringof Israel’s national awakening, with sorrow and distress, showing that their redemption draweth nigh.  Dan. 7: 1; Matt. 24: 4-8; Luke 21: 24-31; (See Dan. 9: 1-22).   *       *       *   9. THE DAY OF JACOBS TROUBLE   These are startling and villainous happenings all over the earth and expressly the re-gathering of Israel into their home land where they will finally winnow their false Messiah, and bring on that terrible day, known as “Jacob’s trouble.”  This will be the greatest hour of trial overly known for the sons of Israel.  I quote from Jeremiah 30 (Moffatt Translation): “Here are the words spoken by the Eternal, with regard to Israel and Judah.  We have heard a scream of terror; all is watchtower and unrest.  Ask now and inquire if a man is overly with child.  And why do I see every man, pressing his hands on his loins, and why is every squatter turned to a mortiferous pallor?  Ah, this is an villainous day.  What day is like it?  An hour of wound for Jacob.  But he shall come through it.”  Turning to Zech 13: 8 and 9, we read:- “For all over the land (Palestine) the Lord of hosts declares, two thirds shall perish, and one third shall be left.  And this third, I will pass through the fire, smelting them like silver, testing them like gold, till they undeniability to me, and then I listen: I will say they are my people; they shall cry, ‘The Eternal my God!’”  Jesus describes the hour of Jacob’s Trouble in this language (Matt. 24: 21, 22).  “For then shall be unconfined tribulation, such as hath not been from the whence of this world, no, and never shall be.  And except those days had been shortened, there would be no mankind saved. But for the Elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”   - C. L. THORNTON.   *       *       *   10. The unconfined Hebrew Christian statesman, Benjamin Disraeli, known as Lord Beaconsfield, once said:- “the pulpit of Moses may ask himself whether all the princes of the house of David have washed-up so much for the Jews as the Prince who was crucified at Calvary.  Had it not been for Him, the Jews would have been restrictedly unknown, or known only as a upper Oriental caste which had lost its country.  Has not He made their history the most famous in the world?  Has not He hung up their laws in every temple?  Has not He vindicated all their wrongs?  Has He not avenged the victory of Titus and conquered the Caesars?  What success did they visualize from their Messiah?  The wildest dreams of their rabbis have been far exceeded.  Christians may protract to persecute Jews, and by so doing misrepresent their Master, and Jews may persist in disbelieving, but who can deny that Jesus of Nazareth, the Incarnate Son of the MostUpperGod, is the eternal glory of the Jewish race?”    - Dr. Aaron Judah Kligerman.   *       *       *     11. Mr. G. B. T. Davis gave a very enlightening word on Israel’s return to the Holy Land.  He said:- “I confess that at first we were puzzled to know why it was that God was leading the Jews when to their land when they have not repented of their unconfined sin, but are standing in unbelief.  But at length we found the wordplay in the Book of Ezekiel.  God is bringing them back, not for their righteousness, but for His name’s honour and glory!  Here is Ezekiel’s unravelment of what is happening today:- ‘Thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. … For I will take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land’ (Ezek. 36: 22, 24).”   *       *       *     12. PROGROMS     Have you overly seen the superintendency lines on a Jewish woman’s face, Finely traced there by a subtle, unseen hand? Have you overly read the story of her persecuted race? Then you will not wonder, as you understand.     And you probably will gather from the furrows on her brow, (Age-long tyrannies have well-matured there), She has come through heinous pogroms, and her stormy tears still flow, O’er the ghastly crimes her dearest would not spare.     You will learn that through the centuries the insults hurled at them, Were inflicted in the name of Christ, our Lord. Do you wonder that they hate Him and His followers condemn, Why the Gospel seems a gross, oversized fraud?     Oh, they cannot know He loves them till they see His love in you, Neither understand how tenderly He longs Just to take from them their sorrows, all their problems, old and new, And to requite instead glad, everlasting songs.     They have brought to men the Saviour, the rejected Nazarene, Does not all that makes life noble spring from Him! They gave prophets and apostles, who have written all they’ve seen In the Scriptures, where His light grows never dim.     If you really would repay them for the gifts they brought to you, Show the kindness of the Saviour to their race. Send to them the blest Evangel with a love that’s ringing true, And endeavour past injustice to efface.           - Essie Burnstein.     *       *       *     13. It is wonderful what a well known Jewish tragedian can say of Christ.  Here are the words of Shalom Asch:- “No one surpassing Jesus and no one without him has unseat our world together with love and justice and brought it to the feet of One Living Almighty God as powerfully as did Jesus.  He, as no other, works in human consciousness like a second nature and leaves man no rest in his unprepossessing state, but calls him and inspires him to the noblest deeds and sacrifices.  He, as no other, stands surpassing our vision as an example and a warning, both in His Divine form and in His human form, and demands of us to siphon out His teachings.  Through His historic life He casts us lanugo like pebbles surpassing His feet.  No one but He sheds well-nigh Himself an nimbus of moral power which, with a Divine touch, has moulded our world and character, and no one’s strength but His own has reached into our time, stuff the most potent influence in our everyday lives.”     *       *       *     14. Dr. H. A. Ironside sums up Israel’s future.  “At the end of the years Israel’s transgression will be finished, and their sins brought to an end, considering their Messiah will have made reconciliation or recantation for iniquity.  The long period of Israel’s sufferings under the heel of the Gentiles will be completed, and everlasting righteousness will be brought in.  This refers unmistakably to the setting up of Messiah’s kingdom.  All will be fulfilled so  that the vision and prophecy will no longer be needed; and last of all, the Most Holy will be anointed.  This must refer to the Shekinah glory returning to Israel when the people are gathered when in their own land and Jehovah’s Temple is rebuilt.  The glory has been missing overly since the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.  It was not seen in the temple of Zerrubabel nor in the temple of Herod, but it will return when Israel’s mourning shall be ended and, as a repentant people, they will be brought when to God.”     *       *       *     15. This remarkable utterance has been issued by the German Church.  “It was a disastrous mistake for modern churches and congregations to have as their only tideway to the Jews such secular points of view as were humanity, emancipation and anti-Semitism.  It has been bitterly brought home to them that anti-Semitism has grown to maturity and wilt a spiritual power throughout the nation – the nation which at least pretended to live under the sign of Christ! and not only in the mental culture of the educated classes and in Government and military circles, for plane leading Christians joined in the chorus.  And since the perception of Israel and the love for Israel had faded and died in our congregations, there was no power or conviction to resist it when the time came when radical anti-Semitism, based on theories of radical creed, destroyed the heart of our nation from within and enslaved it by brute gravity from without.  Christians withdrew from their responsibilities and tried to justify themselves by speaking of the expletive laid upon Israel; there was no longer any readiness to believe in the rememberable nature of the promise to Israel, or to preach it, or to make it a reality by practical approaches to the Jews.  In this way we Christians supported all the injustice and harm and injury which Israel had to suffer from us.   While the Word of God teaches us in this way we realise the shame and sorrow how sadly we have failed and how guilty we are in our vein toward Israel.  We neglected our duty as a Church to be a saving witness to Israel.  Now the judgments of God smite us, one without another, that we may unobtrusive ourselves as a Church and as a nation, in real repentance, under the mighty hand of God.”   *       *       *     16. THE CRY OF THE JEW.   (Written by a Jew)   There is no squatter in pity wilting When by the way I fall, No anxious, loving Shepherd comes In wordplay to by call; There are no tender vision to seek, No gentle stovepipe to hold, No nail-pierced hands to take me up And bring me to the fold.     And when on naked, gory feet To Calvary I go, And stagger, crush’d, underneath the Cross There’s none to heed or know; There’s none to lift the unforgiving weight, There’s none to plane share – O Thou Who climb’d the Hill surpassing Look lanugo and help me bear. *       *       * 17. Mr. Samuel F. Hurnard writes:-    “It is evident from Scripture that the Jews are determined, like their forefather Jacob, to seize their birthright by vaccinate or by crook.  They, too, will live bitterly to repent their folly.  Our Lord told the Jews of His day: ‘I am come in my Father’s Name and ye receive Me not; if flipside shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.’  Their leaders will sell their souls for the bauble of power.  Daniel tells of a coming prince, probably the Antichrist, with whom they make a treaty for seven years.  But their ‘agreement with hell shall not stand.’  The treaty is soon broken, and the unconfined tribulation follows to subdue the pride and smash the hardness of heart of stubborn Jewry.  It is only when the remnant repent and unclose their once crucified Messiah that He can and will restore the Kingdom, and Israel will dwell in safety and peace every man under his own vine and fig-tree.  No Peace Conference of the Allied Nations, or other man-made agreement, can overly fulfil God’s purposes and promises for Israel.” *       *       * 18. Pray expressly for the ministers of the Gospel, that they may set along the love of God to the conversion of many souls.  Pray for them that they may not shun to declare the whole counsel of God, so that they may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.  Remember their difficulties.  To be yellow-eyed for souls and yet not impatient, to be patient and yet not indifferent, to withstand the infirmities of the weak without fostering them, to testify versus sin and unfaithfulness and the low standard of spiritual life, and yet to alimony the stream of love self-ruling and full and unshut – to have the mind of a true-blue shepherd, a hopeful physician, a tender nurse, a skilful teacher – requires the continual renewal of the Lord’s grace.  Pray for the mission among Israel and the heathen nations.  Christ’s writ is explicit, God’s promise sure.  The Church obeying the Divine word, and constrained by the love of Christ, cannot but send along evangelists.  Let us regard the missionary spirit as the very spirit of Christian prayer; and in all our thoughts and prayers, and work unfluctuating with the missions of the Church of Christ, let us remember how closely we are brought into communion with the Saviour.   - ADOLPH SAPHIR. *       *       * 19. The prophecies picture the Jews in unconfined numbers returning in unbelief to the land in the latter days.  They tell of the miraculous preparation of the land itself under the manna of God in order that God might multiply upon the mountains and valleys men and strays (Ezek. 36: 4ff35).  They tell of the tribulations that shall descend upon the re-gathering people, in the days of their unbelief (Jer. 30).  They tell of the destroyers that shall struggle to seize the newly-discovered riches of the country and what God will do to them (Isa. 49: 17-26).   But so long as Jerusalem is “trodden lanugo of the Gentiles” she is not “redeemed” nor can she be a “praise in the earth” (Luke 21: 24; Isa. 62: 1-10).  The salvation of Jerusalem will not shine along as a lamp to all the earth (Isa: 62: 1) until the remnant of Israel has been matrimonial to their Eternal King – the One whom they will recognize by the spear mark and the prints of the nails in His hands (Zech. 12: 8-11).  Surpassingthat, Jerusalem in the hands of the Jews, will wilt a “cup of trembling” to all who try to take it from them (verses 1-3).  Jerusalem will be “redeemed” when all Israel mourns over the rejection of the King who “visited them” long ago and the “spirit of supplication” is poured upon the house of David and “the inhabitants of Jerusalem” (verse 10).  It is then that many will be asking the King: “What are these wounds in thy hands?”  Then shall He answer:- “Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends” (13: 6).   Thereafter Jerusalem will be the “City of theUnconfinedKing” – the wanted not merely of Israel, but of the world, and all the Gentiles shall unclose its glory. *       *       * 20. The Jewish Era gives a tightly significant quotation from a Jewish periodical - The Jews in the News.  “The miseries that have plagued us for two thousand years have been marked signs of God’s disfavour.  All the curses that the prophets foretold would be our lot have come to pass in a most remarkably well-judged manner.  However, these unconfined men of God moreover point us to the way of our dilemma.  We must turn to the words of our holy prophets and study the current trend of events in the Jewish world in the light of the Word of God which they delivered unto us, for in no other way can a satisfactory solution be found to the present spiritual plight of Israel.   “Back to the prophets!  They were our inspired spiritual giants.  They made the greatest contributions to our spiritual life, not our philosophers, our Talmudic scholars, etc.  The undeniability of the prophets was to repentance and it is the crying need of the hour, for Israel has not kept faith.  With the thundering words of Isaiah we are exhorted, ‘Turn ye unto Him from whom the children of Israel have tightly revolted’ (Isaiah 31: 6).  By pursuit the traditions of our elders and the undertow of self-righteousness we have been on the road to Gehenna.  We have plumbed the depths of spiritual decadence.  Hear O Israel,* ‘repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord’.”   [*Alimonyin mind: when Israel, as a nation repents, the Millennial Kingdom of Christ will then be established by the bodily presence of their crucified Messiah.] *       *       * 21. In one of the orthodox synagogues of Brooklyn, during unrepealable days of repentance and prayer, Jews were seen lying on their faces surpassing God, crying to Him for protection upon their persecuted brethren, expressly in Russia.  One elderly Jew lifted up his hands towards heaven and in traumatization of soul, cried out:- “Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens and come lanugo … Lord,”  he said, “Send Messiah, and should Jesus of the Gentiles be the one, grant us a sign that we may be sure that it is really so, and forgive our guilt toward Him.”   The Jew, however he may reject Calvary, by his own existence proves vicarious recantation which God wrote on the thrump-cap of his history.  In Isaac alone, Abraham’s only son, the whole of Jewry was enwrapped; and the annihilating pocketknife (Gen. 22: 10) was lifted whilom him.  No Jew would overly have existed, and no Jew would exist today, had not Isaac been replaced by a ram in the burnt-offering on Mount Moriah.  So it is solely due to the Lamb, whom the ram foreshadowed, that Israel cannot and will not be annihilated today.*   The Jew, however he may reject Calvary, by his own existence proves vicarious recantation which God wrote on the thrump-cap of his history.  In Isaac alone, Abraham’s only son, the whole of Jewry was enwrapped; and the annihilating pocketknife (Gen. 22: 10) was lifted whilom him.  No Jew would overly have existed, and no Jew would exist today, had not Isaac been replaced by a ram in the burnt-offering on Mount Moriah.  So it is solely due to the Lamb, whom the ram foreshadowed, that Israel cannot and will not be annihilated today.*   “Who taught you tender Bible tales Of honey-lands of milk and wine? Of happy, peaceful Palestine? Of Jordan’s holy harvest vales?     Who gave your patient Christ?  I say Who gave your Christian creed? Yea, Yea, Who gave your very God to you? The Jew! the Jew! the hated Jew!”   - C. H. MILLER.   [* Support whole-heartedly today (as of primary importance), all those regenerate souls who are seeking to siphon the Gospel message to Jews scattered throughout the world.]