PENTECOST IN THE HOLYLAND
AND MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU
Christine Darg reports: Shavuot (“Weeks” in Hebrew),
8-9 June, is one of the three great pilgrim
festivals. As the second festival of the Lord,
Shavuot brings closure to the first festival,
Passover. Shavuot follows 50 days after Passover and
is known in the Christian world as “Pentecost”
(meaning 50). The Torah commands the seven week
counting of the “omer” (sheaf) between festivals as
a
spiritual buildup to the spring harvest when the Law
was given. If Passover commemorates liberation of the
Hebrews from Egyptian slavery, Shavuot memoralizes the
receiving of the Law in Sinai. And in New Testament
times on Shavuot (Pentecost), the Holy Spirit was sent
with tongues of fire as the law of God was written on
the hearts of Yeshua’s disciples.
Here in the Holy City, I have never felt such a
Revival in the hearts of Orthodox Israelis as this
year. They dance with the Torah scroll joyfully with
all of their might—soldier and scholar alike. A
couple of nights ago on Yom Yerushalayim,
commemorating the re-unification of Jerusalem in June
of 1967, groups of Orthodox Jews, many very young,
paraded past our ministry balcony all night long
singing about Jerusalem, the geographical heart of
Israel’s hopes and dreams for 3,000 years. For a
moment, as I drifted out of sleep because of glorious
sounds, I felt the Rapture was happening—that the
Bridegroom was descending in the night as part of an
ancient-sounding procession of joyous and holy
singing. But I quickly realized it was yet another
group of Orthodox Jews singing of their love of
Jerusalem as they rushed through Jaffa Gate, the
“front door” of Jerusalem, down to the Western Wall.
Whenever you visit Jerusalem, you are a part of
ongoing history, but this week the joy in the
atmosphere among believers in God is that, despite
threats of terrorism and destruction on every side,
the praises of God go up with great liberty. We are
holding an evangelistic outreach on the Mt. Of Olives
next week. A tent now on Mt. Scopus is pitched for
the praises of God. While the president of Iran is
determined to nuke this Holy Land, the true believers
here continue to praise and trust the Sovereign of
Israel who sits in the Heavens laughing in derision at
all enemies.
If you are called to be a watchmen upon the walls of
Jerusalem, you are cordially invited to three upcoming
conferences for continual times of ministry. We are
offering a package including the Feast of Tabernacles
followed by the Christian Assembly at the Knesset
(Israeli Parliament)— a total of 17 days of prophetic
ministry in October. Intercessors for Israel and the
Middle East should also prepare now to come up to
Jerusalem for our New Year Intercessory Prayer
Conference, Women on the Walls, here in the Old City
1-5 January 2009.