Zion is the Seat of the Messiah’s earthly Reign

Another significant reason why Christians should rejoice in Israel’s physical restoration and strongly support her continued existence in the Middle East is the prophesied future of her ancient and modern capital city, Jerusalem. Holy writ reveals that Zion is to be the very seat of the Messiah’s earthly reign. The nations on earth will come up to visit Jerusalem when Jesus rules from the holy city as King of Kings and Lord of Lords! This is revealed in several Scriptures:

“Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3). 

“Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, A tabernacle that will not be taken down; Not one of its stakes will ever be removed, Nor will any of its cords be broken.” (Isaiah 33:20) 

“Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion, And will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, The Mountain of the Lord of hosts, The Holy Mountain.’” (Zechariah 8:3) 

 “I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids, Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the Mighty One of Jacob…For Your servant David’s sake, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed…For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place. ‘This is my resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it’” (Psalm 132:4-5, 10, 13-14). “Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and MOVE NO MORE; nor shall the children of wickedness oppress them any more, as previously” (2 Samuel 7:10). 

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Israel

Israel. By all measures it’s a tiny country. With a population of less than 8 million and a land mass that is comparable to the state of New Jersey—the fifth smallest state in the U.S.—Israel’s role on the world stage should be relatively minor. Yet, hardly a day goes by when Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process do not dominate the international headlines.

Israel has always been surrounded by enemies. On the day after Israel was reborn as an independent nation on May 14, 1948, she was attacked by her much larger Arab neighbors, who supported the Palestinians. Only through the grace and protection of God was Israel able to survive. Again and again over the years this tiny island of freedom has suffered assaults and attacks from evil men dedicated to her destruction.

Today Israel is more isolated than ever before. Security is a constant struggle as all of Israel’s neighbors either actively oppose her or at least harbor those who do. Since the reuniting of the city of Jerusalem, there have been nearly 10,000 terrorist attacks in the Bible land. There have been more suicide bombings in the city of Jerusalem than in any city in the world.

As my good friend of more than 30 years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly pointed out, the issue of contention is not about a Palestinian state, the division of Jerusalem, settlements, checkpoints, security fences, or borders. The issue is Israel’s very right to exist as a nation. Most of the Arab world still refuses to accept this simple proposition.

Not only do they think Israel has no right to exist as a state, but they think the Jewish people have no right to survive. The resistance of the Arab countries to Israel’s national aspirations has always been tied to the Muslim world’s ultimate resistance to the right of the Jewish people to exist at all. Peaceful co-existence has never been the goal of the Arabs, nor even having Jews living dispersed in other lands without a country. The real goal has been the abnegation, and in its worst and most absolute form, the very extermination, of the Jewish race itself.

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I Confessed My Sins to My Father

The more I tried to impress God, the sicker and more depressed I became. Weeping on the steps of our ministry offices, I got “low” with Jesus. I kept saying, “Lord, I don’t understand why I am so weak.” Everyone is weak. If we weren’t weak, we wouldn’t need Jesus! When we have Christ, we are strong; but it’s His strength, not ours. When I pondered this, I had the first glimmer of understanding about dying-to-the-flesh, and allowing Christ to live though me. I was too tired to play “catch-up” with the evangelical Joneses anymore. I was sick of being proud, arrogant and manipulative in my flesh. I had to get low with Jesus again.

When I did, Jesus softly spoke to my heart, and told me to do the last thing I would ever have dreamed. He said to go to my father and confess my sins to him and have him pray for me. I could hardly believe it. Why tell my sins to a cruel father who abused me all my life? I didn’t want to tell him I was a liar, proud, and sinful, even though I was in ministry. What would he think? He had little enough respect for ministers as it was!

For years I had tried to lead my father to Christ. I preached, prodded, and poked literature at him. I tried to get him into every service I could. I fought for his attention, then came away defeated when he paid none. It had become a source of embarrassment to me, that I could lead others to Christ, but not my own father. 

But I was desperate to get out of the depression I was in, so I tucked my tail between my legs, died to my flesh, and obeyed Christ. Every time I had done anything of any value for God, it was always following a state of total desperation, and this was no different.

I went to my father and said, “God told me to confess my sins to you and have you pray for me.” I told him my long litany of sins, then, I ducked my head as he laid his hands on me to pray. I had never wanted to feel those hands on me again. It was the hardest thing I could ever have done—to humble myself before that man, allowing him to touch me, and even pray for me.

What I didn’t know was that my father was” eaten up” with his own flesh. He was so full of his flesh, that it was easy to repel me when I came at him in the same spirit – full of my flesh. But when I came to him with the opposite spirit, not exalting, accommodating, or feeding my flesh, he had nothing with which to resist the love of God. He prayed for me, and then cried for one of the only times I’d seen him cry in my life.

“I can never be saved because of what I did to you,” he said with his head bowed.

“Yes you can Dad,” I said. Right there, I led my father in the sinner’s prayer and he was gloriously saved.

My father wasn’t going to get saved by my religiosity and flesh, preaching at him with all my doctrines. I had actually just been carrying out his heritage of fleshly living, but it was on a higher level of “sanctification.” Even though I was a minister, I was still walking after the flesh, just like him. Humility is the badge of courage held by all “God wrestlers.”

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Have you been with Jesus?

Jesus planned a magnificent destiny for you, and gave you incredible prayers and prophecies, unanswered until now. Step out, to step up!

Have you been with Jesus? 

Are you a “God wrestler?”
When we’ve been with Jesus, a consuming fire burns in our bones. Idols are cast down. Anything that takes the place of Christ’s Lordship is gone. The idols are dealt with because pride is broken. The Bible says, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17 NIV).

Have you been with Jesus?

When we’ve been with Jesus, we’ve been sealed “unto the day of redemption” (1 Peter 1:18, Romans 3:24, and 1 Corinthians 1:30) which is the redemptive work of Christ in the now! Jesus said, “Behold I go and prepare a place for you.” This sounds like a mansion in heaven, but there is another Hebrew word in the original that describes Christ as preparing a “position” for us. It’s true, we may have a mansion, but I do believe we’ll also have a position in the kingdom of God. We will rule and reign in the millennium then, but we rule and reign on earth today. When Jesus left this earth, He sent His Spirit to us, and then sat down in heaven in intercession for us now.

Have you been with Jesus?

When we’ve been with Jesus, Christ’s promises are ours! Jesus said, “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me” (John 17:22-23 KJV). We know the glory the Father gave Jesus and have the closeness of being with Jesus. Christ dwells in us so fully that the world knows the Father has sent Jesus. What a way to live!

Have you been with Jesus?

Jesus proclaimed, “My Father will come unto Him and abide in Him” (John 14:21-23). By knowing, living, and breathing the fullness of being with Christ, and Christ being in us, we ask what we will and it shall be done. Jesus has all things under His feet, and is the Head over all things to His Body. This means, all things are under the feet of those who have been with Him.

Have you been with Jesus?

When we’ve been with Jesus we no longer fear man. All signs of inferiority and self-consciousness are gone as Christ takes over. We rejoice in persecution and bless our enemies because our flesh is already dead, and our “all” is surrendered to Jesus’ care. Our prayers frighten us, and time for Him is no longer an object as all our time is given joyously back to the One through Whom it came. Being with Jesus releases the gifts of the Holy Spirit, not to endorse a ministry or receive approval of men, but as a tool to accomplish present-day ministry on earth.

Have you been with Jesus?

When we’ve been with Jesus, He makes known to us the mystery of His will, which is His good pleasure. The eyes of our hearts are flooded with light so we can know the greatness of His power. We live to the fullness of the measure of Christ Who makes all things complete and fills everything with Himself (Ephesians 1:9-23). We sit together with Him in heavenly places and He demonstrates through us the riches of His free grace (Ephesians 2:6-7).

Have you been with Jesus?

When we’ve been with Jesus, we receive gifts to perfect and equip the saints, to build up Christ’s Body until we attain oneness in the faith and the comprehension of the Son of God. Our lives lovingly express truth and are no longer lived as heathens with spiritual apathy, sensuality, greed, and every form of impurity (Ephesians 4:11-13).

Have you been with Jesus?


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The Candidate by Mike Evans

The Candidate was written in order to expose the lie of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and to reveal the extent to which this lie has led to the ongoing hatred of the Jewish people and the state of Israel by her racist enemies.

It was written in fiction form in order to reach beyond an audience of scholars, academics and political pundits to the common man. Most are unaware of the extent to which even their own opinions about modern Israel and the Jewish people have been subtly influenced by the anti-Semitic slurs which ultimately flow from this hate literature.

The Candidate by Mike Evans is available at Timeworthy Books.

The Final Generation by Mike Evans

As Ezekiel   hears it, God  confronts Gog  and his coalition for  their evil intentions against the nation of Israel:

“It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,  and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at  rest,  that live securely, all of them living without  walls  and having no bars or gates,  to capture spoil  and  to seize plunder,  to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired  cattle and goods,  who live at the center of the world.’

“Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it?” —Ezekiel 38: 10-12,14

There  are some telling conditions  in the details of this prophecy that give us insight into how it will come about and just how close it might be. The first is that this will come in a time of relative peace and security  for Israel, something  the Jews haven’t really known since the United  Nations voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states  in 1947. This  is what has made  some  suggest  that this  attack will happen in the initial years of the Tribulation, soon after the peace accord engineered by the Antichrist,  and that it is impossible any time before that. However,  the initial years of the Tribulation  don’t appear to be any more secure than what Israel is experiencing  now. Revelation tells us those years will be filled with natural disasters, wars, plagues, and famines that will  kill  a quarter of  the  world’s  population. (See  Revelation 6:1-8.)

Visit Time Worthy Books to get a glimpse of The Final Generation by Mike Evans.

Dying To Self

The Christian life is to be lived in the Spirit, not the flesh. We must crucify the flesh, mortifying the members, and die-to-self so the Spirit of God can rule and reign in our lives. The Bible says it’s like a seed that falls into the ground and dies only to spring up.

A seed is a container of life. As long as this container remains alone, it cannot grow. Some seeds sit for decades with no growth and seemingly no purpose, until something breaks open the outer shell so the seed can interact with the soil and water to grow. A seed can sit for a hundred years in its own identity and accomplish nothing. But when a seed finally dies, one seed can feed millions. Jesus said, “The hour has come … when the Son of Man has to die” (John 12:23-24). He is our example.

A woman came to Jesus with a costly box of perfume called “nard,” worth an entire year’s wages. She broke the box directly on Christ’s head so that He would catch every drop of oil. The disciples grumbled that she’d wasted money, but Christ was so moved, He said she had anointed Him for His death and that wherever His gospel was preached, the story of her offering would be told. The box itself wasn’t the fragrant offering for Jesus. The woman didn’t paint or polish the box. She didn’t try to get the box to smell like perfume. Instead, she smashed the box so the purity of the nard inside the box could be released upon Christ. Through an act of humility and brokenness, she wrestled with God, enjoying the nearness of His presence.

For the life of God to be released, God Himself, through Jesus Christ, had to go into the earth to die. We follow Christ’s pattern. The person’s outer shell—the “natural man,” not the body—has to die for the “inner man” to be released. As long as we try to preserve the outer shell, keeping the flesh intact, the inner man will never be released. As long as we are enamored with our outer shell, we will never see the ministry of Jesus Christ live through us.

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us" (2 Corinthians 4:7 KJV). We have to remember the power is from God and is inside the jar, not outside. God literally placed the Person of Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, in our earthen vessels! Only when our external, fleshy part is broken can the power of the aroma of the treasure be received into Heaven.

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