A Serious Look Around

Several times this past couple of weeks I've sat down to write a report - but each time I discovered that there was a very pressing burden on my spirit and mind, and yet I was unable to express how I felt.  Not to mention the disaster we faced with 120 km winds that tore down sea walls at the Tel-Aviv Marina and sank 20 boats in Tel-Aviv and Herzilya marinas.  Thank God our boat was spared and Joel fought the winds and ropes for two days to save it.

The boat now moored in Turkey survived the storms as well. God was, as always, taking care of us, but we feel for all those who lost boats and property.  Here in Israel there was wind damage up and down the coast as well as in the Judean Hills.

As distracting as that was,  it is pales in comparison to what is happening throughout Europe with anti-Semitism spreading at an alarming rate, as the strikes continue in Greece and France. With the bad economy once again being blamed on the Jews, it sounds a lot like what happened in Germany in the 30's when Hitler made plans for his final solution - kill all the Jews.  Today in the Netherlands, Jews fear for their lives, as Islamic Arabs are calling for the death of all Jews.  It seems that most of Europe has woken up to the Islamic threat, but most believe they woke up too late.

Everyone is watching North Korea, and its threat to use nukes if South Korea doesn’t' stop their military training in the area and rightly so, because this could start the Third World War.  But in the meantime Hamas and Hezbollah are making plans in co-ordination with Iran, Syria and Lebanon to start their own version of the Third World War -  by forcing Israel to do things that others certainly will not like, or want to understand, in order defend themselves.

All the above reminds me of the year 1973 (The Yom Kippur War) when Israel was attacked by its Arab neighbours and things looked very bad. In fact it came to the point that only a miracle could save Israel, and God confused Israel's enemies causing them to lose the war.  Yet what reminds me of that time is that today we see something else happening just as it did in 1973. Then it was called Watergate, and God was in the process of bringing the USA face to face with her own sins, and the US experienced its own Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement.  Today America is once again in turmoil, fighting corruption and possibly the collapse of the dollar, and even worse,  their way of life that has been the envy of the rest of the world.

Like 1973 and Watergate, today Americans are so involved with their own very serious problems that only a few are watching Israel.  It is only those believers who know and understand God's Prophetic Word and the importance of Israel in these last days.

It's like watching a horrible storm coming right at you and there doesn't seem to be anything you can do to stop it but prepare the best you possible can, and have faith that God's Will be done in your life and Ministry.  But as spiritual as you may think you are, there is always the tormenting carnal thoughts that speak to your intellect saying that you should have done more - but now it may be too late.  I am certainly not immune to those thoughts, as I know there must be something I should have done but didn't. Surely if I had tried harder the larger boat could have been purchased, and it would have been possible to save more Jewish lives.

As the time for a Jew to live safely in Europe closes, and the possibility for them to get on a plane and fly home to Israel ends, the time will also end for this Ministry to raise the needed finances to do more ground work, establish better and more communications and contacts, and to purchase the larger boat.

Connie and I pray daily for the United States, for we know it has been the greatest country in the world and has done more good than all the others combined.  But it is Israel which is the Apple of His Eye, and it is Israel that God has brought this Jew home to, and established this Ministry.  With time running out I can only trust God that He has touched those who He would, to send the needed finances to complete the work that we know must be accomplished for us to do the most good, when the time comes.  We are also heavy in spirit for the families we have assisted over the years here in Israel, and wish we could have done much more ,and we want to do more, while there is still time.

We know that God cannot lie, and many have been blessed for blessing Israel. We pray for God's blessing to come in abundance to those who have been so faithful to this Ministry.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers.  Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, Jerry Golden