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Sephardic Anusim Summit
and Israel Tour
July 10-22
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Sephardic Anusim Center of the Americas
Newsletter
July 2009
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"The exiles from Jerusalem who are in
Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev."
(Obadiah 20)
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How holy is the Holy Land?
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The reason I'm writing on this topic is because I was
recently taken by surprise one midnight hour, while in
Old Mexico. God authoritatively spoke to me about how
He sees Israel. In fact, He sees Israel quite different
from most of us. This Word was so impacting within
my soul that it forced me to revaluate the intricacies of
how I see Israel. I thought I already had a strong
conviction and commitment to Israel but God showed
me otherwise.
God asked me to begin seeing Israel as He does
and to value and yearn for her more than I do my own
country, own state, my native city and even my own
home in Texas. To those of us with Jewish roots,
including my people the Sephardic Anusim, we're to
yearn over Israel more than any other geographic
location in the world.
Now, the world has forever referred to Israel as "The
Promised Land" and "The Holy Land." But God sees it
as much more than this. He sees His Israel as:
beautiful, desirable, pleasant and lofty.
For example, Daniel, the Prophetic seer refers to
the "Beautiful Land" three times in his
revelatory book. (Daniel 8:9; 11:16, 11:41)
The Prophet Ezekiel says. "On that day I swore to
them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land
I had searched out for them, a land
flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of
all lands," Ezekiel 20:6. (my emphasis)
The Prophet Jeremiah says, "I myself said, 'How
gladly would I treat you like sons and give you
a desirable land, the most beautiful
inheritance of any nation. . .'" Jeremiah
3:19. (my emphasis)
This is why the prophetic psalmist exclaims, "How
can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign
land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right
hand forget [its skill]. May my tongue cling to the roof of
my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not
consider Jerusalem my highest joy,"
Psalm 137:4-6. (my emphasis)
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As I kept digging, I made another interesting
discovery. I kept bumping into the terms heir,
inherit and inheritance.
In this context I found out that the Hebrew root of the
word, "heir, inherit and inheritance" is the exact same
word for the term, "to occupy."
Instantly I remembered the Prophet Obadiah when he
stated ". . .the exiles from Jerusalem who are
in Sepharad will occupy the towns of the Negev.
(Obadiah 20b)
My thoughts shouted, "wow,
this will teach real well." Therefore what I'm saying is
that the words "shall possess"
or "to occupy" in Obadiah 20b is the
exact term for "heir," "inherit"
and "inheritance."
This is why the Prophet Amos 9:11 and verse 12 says,
"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David
that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I
will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days
of old: 12 That they may possess the
remnant of Edom. . ."
There you have it folks. This is despite the fact that I've
abbreviated this message as much as I could.
God is ushering (and with some of us catapulting) us
into an accelerated season of taking possession
and occupying the Land of God's Inheritance so
that His end-times plan may begin to be fulfilled and
truth stream out of Zion. Now to a personal request. . .
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We dare not neglect the fact that God loves both, His
Chosen People as well as His Beautiful Land; and
that they are inseparable! One without the other
means they're both unfulfilled and incomplete. This
means neither one is able to achieve its fullest,
prophesied potential until they become one forever.