Good morning from Galilee.

Good morning from Galilee.

It is not even 6:00 AM, and the sun is not up yet. It is one of those three-hour-sleep nights.

I am going over my notes for the Exploring Ezekiel conference. Teaching all 48 chapters of this amazing book in six sessions aboard our upcoming Norwegian fjords cruise will be both a challenge and a blessing for Pastor Barry and me.

What an honor it is to live in the days that the prophet foretold 2,600 years ago!

Despite all the evil in this world, we must not miss the fact that God is in full control and is fulfilling every promise He made to His people.

My grandparents could only dream of being born in a sovereign Jewish state after nearly 2,000 years of exile.

Yet here I am - the first generation in my family to be born in Jerusalem, from the tribe of Judah.

I am merely one person, yet I am living proof of the covenant-keeping, promise-keeping nature of God.

Israel as a nation and the Jewish people as individuals are here to declare that God not only exists - He is faithful!

We are a flawed nation - often unfaithful - yet chosen and preserved by God. As the apostle Paul wrote:

“For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not!”
Romans 3:3-4 NKJV

Israel is guilty of breaking the Mosaic covenant. The law was impossible for sinful man to keep perfectly because it was never intended to save. It was given to expose sin and reveal mankind’s desperate need for a Savior. As Paul wrote:

“Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
Galatians 3:24 NKJV

That is why a new covenant was necessary - one based not on man’s ability to keep the law, but on the finished work of Yeshua. Jeremiah wrote:

“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

“No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NKJV

Keep praying for the nation of Israel to recognize its need for salvation and redemption through the shed blood of Yeshua - the blood of the new covenant.

Awaiting His Soon Return,

Amir