Wednesday, April 27, 2011

A Prophetic Call to Prayer Given by Lance Lambert


Sunday April 17, 2011
Taken from the website of Lance Lambert


Lance Lambert
 


It is well with you that you intercede for Israel that she be saved, for it is My purpose to save her. I will complete the circle of Redemption that began with Abraham and my promise that a great nation would come forth from him, and that in him would all the families of the earth be blessed. And so it has happened! For Israel became the vehicle through which My Word has come to all the nations; And also My Salvation; and the knowledge of My Purpose. From this nation, above all, came the Messiah. Soon the fullness of the Gentiles will have been saved, and I will turn again to Israel, to My Jewish People. They shall be reingrafted into their own olive tree, and My promise to Abraham will be gloriously fulfilled. Then their hardness of heart will melt, their blindness be turned into sight, and their suffering to radiant Glory. This is My determined purpose, and I shall not be turned from it. It will shortly begin to be fulfilled. I will turn all their weakness into unbelievable power, and I will use this nation as the last witness to the world as to who I am.

Take very seriously what is taking place in the Arab world. It is no good for Israel! It is not a move toward freedom and true democracy, but an enormous gain for militant Islam. They will seek to annihilate and liquidate Israel, but they will not only fail; their strength and power will be broken, and a huge harvest of souls will be saved from amongst them.

Hear Me, I call you to intercession! It will not be easy. All the powers of My enemy are centred and focused on stopping this people from coming into My Redemption and Salvation. But he will fail! I look therefore for those who will stand in the gap, who will build up the wall; those who will stand in the place of intercession.

Shortly also I will begin more serious judgment on the Western nations. I will bring them to nothing; I will turn them upside down; I will grind them to powder. They will not know what has hit them. It will seem as if there is nothing left of what once I worked in those nations; Especially that Superpower. I will bring it to weakness; she will no longer be super, but a pity of the nations.

Hear this Word of Mine; I call you to intercede for those who belong to Me in those nations; that they will be saved from it! Hear this cry. My heart yearns for those who belong to Me, that they might be clear in their understanding, clear in the way that they are to walk in the midst of all this. Do hear Me! For I speak to you who love Me, and who have this morning remembered Me; I do not desire judgment, but judgment of the most serious and devastating kind will fall upon those nations. Hear this Word from Me, and obey My call to intercession! 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Never too Old to Make Aliyah!

 At the sprightly age of 100, Judith Brodkin is one of the oldest immigrants ever to arrive from North America. Despite visiting some 15 times over the past 40 years, Brodkin never imagined she would end up living here. She was a devout Yiddishist, steeped in Yiddish literature and culture; indeed, she spoke only Yiddish for the first years of her life.
Judith Brodkin
Judith Brodkin


But when her health began to fail, she decided to join her daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren in Jerusalem.

LIFE BEFORE ALIYA

Brodkin attended New York’s Hunter College, then a free school aimed at training women who wanted to be teachers. She subsequently worked most of her career in public schools as a high-school language teacher – in addition to Yiddish and English, she speaks French and German.

But it is her earliest years that stand out. Brodkin’s family was active in the Workmen’s Circle, an organization founded in 1900 with the aim of promoting secular Yiddish culture. In 1912, her parents moved to Clarion, Utah, the site of a brief experiment in Jewish rural living. At the same time as Zionists in Palestine were promoting the concept of a brawny new kind of Jew working the land, the Jewish Agricultural and Colonial Association was doing the same in the US.

Twenty-three families – including Brodkin’s – moved to Clarion that year, creating a secular socialist collective under the framework of the US land grant program.

“If you were willing to learn a little about agriculture, you could receive a piece of land,” Brodkin recalls. “The government even paid our transportation from New York to Utah.” This American “kibbutz” was all-Jewish, and everyone spoke Yiddish – a kind of “little house on the shtetl.” Life there was lonely, however – “I had no other children to play with,” she says – and the proto-commune went bankrupt by 1915.

RELIGION
Brodkin is not religious nor does she particularly consider herself a Zionist, though “I believe in having a Jewish state,” she says. Her daughter, Dina, and son-in-law, Moshe, however, became religious in 1969 and made aliya to Kibbutz Lavi, prompting the first of Brodkin’s many visits.

What does she think of her religious children? “Dina wanted to keep the dishes separate, so we arranged for it. I did think that some of the details were overdone, though,” she quips. Nevertheless, Brodkin was a regular visitor to the kibbutz and occasionally gave talks there on the Yiddish language. “It was a wonderful place,” she says.

ON BECOMING
100 Brodkin turned 100 in September. That’s five years beyond the next oldest immigrant, 95- year-old Zelda Weiner, who made aliya with Nefesh B’Nefesh in July. How does it feel to reach a full century of life? “Well, it’s quite an accomplishment,” she says modestly, then adds that the mayor of the New Jersey town in which she lived “came to give me a proclamation” prior to her move. She is still in good health. “I had very intelligent parents. We didn’t eat junk food. We exercised.” She works out regularly now with a physiotherapist.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Brodkin’s husband worked as an air-conditioning engineer. He died in 1978. Other than her daughter, she has little family and, sadly, no friends left. “None of them have lived as long as I have,” she laments. But even at her age, she is open to meeting new people and she participates in activities at a senior center in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Baka, where she now lives.

OTHER INTERESTS
She enjoys writing poetry. “I kept records of my own life,” she says, including her many travels (in addition to her trips here, she once landed a Fulbright scholarship to Germany). She used to enjoy folk dancing but “not anymore,” she says. “I don’t need it at my age!”

ARRIVAL


While she was the only new immigrant on her flight, a large group from Nefesh B’Nefesh on a different plane landed at the same time, so she was able to enjoy the festive welcome. Is she proud to be an Israeli citizen after all these years? Absolutely, she says. “I did it because I wanted to do it. That’s it.”

PLANS

Living with her family has its charms, but Brodkin says she’s ready for her “own place.” She hasn’t had much of an opportunity since her arrival to see much of the country – she hopes that will change. And perhaps she’ll even learn Hebrew.


This article Came from the JPost online edition:

http://www.jpost.com/LifeStyle/Article.aspx?id=217464