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VP Blames Israel for Iran’s Drug Problem

 
One European diplomat described it as “definitely one of the worst speeches I have heard in my life. My gut reaction was ‘Why are we supporting any cooperation with these people?’”

He was describing the vitriolic tirade of Iranian Vice-President, Mohammad Reza Rahimi at a recent UN Conference on Drugs and Crime held in Tehran. Proving that he is cut from the same cloth as President Ahmadinejad, Rahimi accused “Zionists” of being the driving force behind the drug trade that plagues Iran and the entire world.  The Fars News Agency reported that Rahimi said the “prevalence of narcotic and drug addiction throughout the world finds it roots in the wrong teachings of the . . . Talmud.” He declared that the Talmud teaches “how to destroy non-Jews so as to protect an embryo in the womb of a Jewish mother.”  Although UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pleaded with Iranian officials to refrain from making anti-Semitic statements, Rahimi expanded his verbal attack, claiming that Zionists had ordered the slaughter of black babies by Jewish gynecologists. He ultimately blamed the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on the Jews, claiming that “mysteriously” no Jews perished in that conflict.

As Christians, we should feel some compassion toward Iran and its campaign against the illegal drug trade carried on within its borders. Iran is a favored route for moving drugs from Afghanistan, its neighbor to the east, to drug dealers in Europe. Iran has lost millions of dollars and over 4,000 lives trying to combat the transit of drugs through its country.   But neither should we tolerate the baseless, irresponsible and nearly unceasing ranting of a country that is willing to blame all the problems of the world on a people it has vowed to destroy. Especially when those people are God’s Chosen.

Ultimately Jehovah will judge all things, and “the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down.” (Isaiah 29:20) Until then, we need to remember that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,” (Ephesians 6:12) because, ultimately, that is who is stirring up both the drug trade and the hatred toward the Jews. Our most effective weapon is prayer. Join us, please, in praying for the peace of Jerusalem and for God’s protection over the land of Israel.

Dachau Concentration Camp

The Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the Nazis in March 1933.

A Passover Message from Jerusalem

By Mike Evans

I received an email from a friend in Jerusalem talking about the coming of Passover, and I wanted to share some of the preparations that are being made in the Holy City with you:

Shabbat Shalom dear friends - the countdown is on!

Jerusalem is so clean! I swear that the white stones are glistening, the streets gleaming, and the parks have not one sweet wrapper on the ground as we prepare for the last run-up to Passover! Despite the wonderful orange blossoms on the trees the predominant scent is of cleaning fluids!

The shouk, Mahane Yehuda, is buzzing and the multi-coloured mountains of newly picked fruit and vegetables are grabbed as if going out of style. In the markets, the fish are jumpin' in the springtime, too. Carp, traditionally used to make gefilte fish, is so fresh that it is bought alive, and I won't describe the other part! Remember the supermarket I went to last week that had nothing on the shelves because they were cleaning them all? Well this week, even the wide passageways were filled to overflowing, and the streets around Givat Shaul were lined with huge delivery trucks trying hard to keep up with demand!

Seder, the order of reading the story of the Exodus from Egypt, is brilliantly put together. We eat herbs, we bless the wine, the children ask four essential questions: "Why is this night different from all other nights?" pertaining to our behaviour on this night; the host then reads the story to explain to the children so that they will also make their nights different to all other nights and respect our incredible achievements for a nation that has been in slavery not once but many times.

We eat unleavened bread - to appreciate the simple essentials of life of a free man.

We eat a hard boiled egg in salt water - to celebrate new life embodied in an egg, combined with the tears we shed in slavery.

We eat bitter herbs, herbs and a delicious combination - to remember the bitterness, to celebrate the green of new growth and to remember the cement between the stones of the incredible structures we built in slavery.

 

Know more about all these and the Ten Boom who helped the Jewish people.

Books by Corrie Ten Boom

* Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, The Hiding Place, Guideposts Associates, 1971. ISBN 0-340-17930-9, ISBN 0-340-20845-7
* Corrie ten Boom with Jamie Buckingham, Tramp for the Lord, 1974, Hodder and Stoughton, London.
* Corrie ten Boom, Not Good If Detached, Christian Literature Crusade, 1980.
* Corrie ten Boom, Amazing Love, Christian Literature Crusade, 1982.
* Corrie ten Boom, Defeated Enemies, Christian Literature Crusade, 1983.
* Corrie ten Boom, Common Sense Not Needed-Revised, Christian Literature Crusade, 1994.
* Corrie ten Boom, Marching Orders for End Battle, Christian Literature Crusade.
* Corrie ten Boom, Plenty for Everyone, Christian Literature Crusade, 1980.
* Corrie ten Boom, In my Father's House, 1976.
* Corrie ten Boom, Each New Day, 1981.
* Corrie ten Boom, Father Ten Boom, God's Man, Fleming H Revell Co, 1978.
* Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom Co, 1977

More about Corrie and the ten Boom family at http://www.tenboom.com/en/

Extend the 100-Year Prayer Meeting

“God does not have problems. Only plans,” proclaimed Corrie ten Boom when a clerical error allowed her to be released from a Nazi concentration camp one week before all women prisoners her age were executed.

Though she was released from the horror of Ravensbruck concentration camp, Corrie continued to live with a remarkable reliance on God, just as her family had as they hid Jews from Nazi terror. Generations of ten Booms held Christian prayer meetings for Israel for 100 years prior to World War II. Click here to begin our inspirational virtual tour of the ten Boom home.

Traveling the world as an ambassador of the power of forgiveness in Christ, Corrie later established rehabilitation centers to help other Holocaust survivors. Her 1971 autobiography, The Hiding Place, became a movie in 1975, inspiring many to see God at work through the darkest of life’s circumstances. You can preview a portion of this powerful movie within our virtual tour by using the compass to visit location #3.

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Keeping Alive the Corrie ten Boom Tradition of Care

The Corrie ten Boom Fellowship and its sister organization, The Corrie ten Boom Foundation of Holland, are also charged with carrying forth the vision of the ten Boom Family. Specifically, that vision is to care for and protect the Jewish people and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, which was a 100-year weekly tradition in the ten Boom household.

The ten Boom family were devoted Christians who dedicated their lives in service to their fellow man. Their home was always an “open house” for anyone in need. During the Second World War, the ten Boom home became a refuge, a hiding place, for fugitives and those hunted by the Nazis. Like the famed Oscar Schindler, the ten Booms were instrumental in saving nearly 800 Jews from the Nazi death camps, and were imprisoned themselves for their efforts. Life in the camp was almost unbearable, but Corrie and her sister, Betsie, spent their time sharing Jesus’ love with their fellow prisoners. Many women became Christians in that terrible place because of Corrie and Betsie’s witness to them. Four members of the ten Boom family gave their lives for the family’s commitment, but Corrie came home from the death camp. She realized her life was a gift from God, and she needed to share what she and Betsy had learned in Ravensbruck. At age 53, Corrie began a worldwide ministry that took her into more than 60 countries in the next 32 years.

The Jerusalem Prayer Team is a direct outreach of the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship. The family ten Boom started a weekly prayer meeting for the Jewish people in 1844, after a moving worship service in the Dutch Reformed Church of Rev. Witteveen. Willem ten Boom felt the need to pray for the Jewish people, so he started the weekly prayer meeting where the family and others who stopped by specifically prayed for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6). These meetings took place every week for one hundred years, until February 28, 1944, when Nazi soldiers came to the house to take them away for helping local Jews and hiding them in a secret room. On that day, the family was together for a Bible study and prayer meeting. Following the tradition of the ten Boom family, Jerusalem Prayer Team continues to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and encourages Christians to exercise their faith by helping the Jewish people – God’s ancient people.

Hiding Place - The Movie

Have you watched Hiding Place?

It is the story about sisters Corrie and Betsie, who spent 10 months in three different prisons, the last being the infamous Ravensbruck concentration camp located near Berlin, Germany. Life in the camp was almost unbearable, but Corrie and Betsie spent their time sharing Jesus' love with their fellow prisoners.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073109/

Read more about Corrie and the ten Boom family at the http://jerusalemprayerteam.org

Happy Birthday Israel

Happy Birthday Israel! Let's continue the legacy of helping our fellowmen from the Ten Boom Family http://bit.ly/ayfS3G

Corrie Ten Boom

Keeping Alive the Corrie ten Boom Tradition of Care The Corrie ten Boom Fellowship and its sister organization, The Corrie ten Boom Foundation of Holland, are also charged with carrying forth the vision of the ten Boom Family. Specifically, that vision is to care for and protect the Jewish people and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, which was a 100-year weekly tradition in the ten Boom household. The ten Boom family were devoted Christians who dedicated their lives in service to their fellow man. Their home was always an “open house” for anyone in need. During the Second World War, the ten Boom home became a refuge, a hiding place, for fugitives and those hunted by the Nazis. Like the famed Oscar Schindler, the ten Booms were instrumental in saving nearly 800 Jews from the Nazi death camps, and were imprisoned themselves for their efforts. Life in the camp was almost unbearable, but Corrie and her sister, Betsie, spent their time sharing Jesus’ love with their fellow prisoners. Many women became Christians in that terrible place because of Corrie and Betsie’s witness to them. Four members of the ten Boom family gave their lives for the family’s commitment, but Corrie came home from the death camp. She realized her life was a gift from God, and she needed to share what she and Betsy had learned in Ravensbruck. At age 53, Corrie began a worldwide ministry that took her into more than 60 countries in the next 32 years.Page 2

Ten Boom

The ten Boom family were devoted Christians who dedicated their lives in service to their fellow man. Their home was always an “open house” for anyone in need. During the Second World War, the ten Boom home became a refuge, a hiding place, for fugitives and those hunted by the Nazis.

In the tradition of the ten Boom family, The Corrie ten Boom Fellowship continues to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and encourages Christians to exercise their faith by helping the Jewish people.

"Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem", Psalm 122:6