The Learning & Turning Corner

Spiritual Instruction for Those Called to Restore Israel

This section offers "solid food" (Heb. 5:14) for mature followers of Yeshua. 
Our aim is to challenge you to go yet deeper into Him in union and service. 

Reader responses are encouraged.

1. The Danger of Falling in the Spiritual Battle

In the attempt to recover lost territory from the enemy, there is a real danger of losing soldiers in battle. Satan is like a roaring lion, looking for people to devour. There are measures you can take to avoid becoming one of his victims.

2. Circumcising Our Hearts: A Call to the Lord's People to Repent

Before we can call Israel to repent and be circumcised in their hearts, we must examine ourselves to see whether we are worthy to bring that call by having done the same ourselves. Otherwise, we are nothing more than hypocrites.

3. The Calling of the Gentiles to Restore Israel

Israel's physical return and spiritual restoration have begun, but both are a long way off from completion. Isaiah tells us that the Gentile believers in Yeshua have a central role to play in this two-fold restoration of Israel.

4:  Prophecies Which Must Still Be Fulfilled

Many prophecies speak of situations that G-d will bring about or allow at the end of the age, and we must be able to confirm and support them when they do take place. This applies especially to prophecies concerning Israel.

5:  Two Parables of the Restoration

The Scriptures (the Law, the Prophets and also the New Covenant) teach us about the Jewish believers returning to the practice of the Law of Moses. Here are two spiritual pictures that show how this is connected with Israel's restoration.

6:  Proclaiming the Kingdom in Judea: Restoring Jewish Evangelism

This is not a guide to improving your technique for sharing the gospel with Jewish people. It is a call to followers of Messiah everywhere, and especially to those involved in Jewish evangelism, to repent.  Repent from what? Read on.

7:  Knowing the Word of G-d: Not "What" But "Who"

The "inerrancy", "sufficiency" and "authority" of G-d's Word are not found in the Bible's pages. You can, and must, completely rely on the Living Word for all these things.  If you do not, trusting in the Scriptures will actually hurt you.

8: "A Most Annoying Shofar" (a Messianic Parable)

During the High Holy Days (10/2011) and the month preceding them, RZ intercessors spent focused time in repentance and mourning for our sins.

For the record, we don't mean some anonymous multitude, where we could hide in the crowd and be one-percent shareholders in "our" group sins. We don't mean a Daniel thing, where we could grieve for sins that we knew others of "us" had committed, and offer ourselves as an innocent stand-in. No, this was a humiliating time of discovering dirty secrets about ourselves... our very own evasions, blind spots and self-serving impulses laid bare, with nowhere to hide and no one else to blame.  We will spare you further details, other than to say that these were private appointments with the Lord. If you have ever met Him in this way, you will not want or need further details.

By the end of that time, we were flattened by the knowledge of where we were... in relation to where we had imagined we were. Instead of seeing ourselves in comparison with other believers, we saw ourselves in comparison to HIM: the Holy and Perfect One, who never fails in either Love or Truth, and who deserves so much more from us than He receives.

After being thus stripped of some illusions about ourselves, the Lord gave us a message to share with our brothers and sisters in Israel and around the world. The message took the form of a short story. Although it is creative, it is not fiction. We are sharing how it came about, in the hopes that it will be received in the same spirit in which it was written.

9: Rescue and Restoration of Ex-Believers

This series looks at "rescue and restore" instruction in the Scriptures, in order to apply them to today's spiritual battlefield issues.
(pages under construction - stand by...)

Part 1: Lost Sheep or Lone Wolves?  
The difference between a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and a "sheep caught by the wolf" is huge, and the shepherd's response is supposed to be vastly different. Are we to up the challenge of either situation?
The comments are addressed particularly to leaders in congregations, but they are profitable for all mature believers trying to relate to someone who has "fallen away from the faith" or who appears about to walk away.

 

 

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