DECEMBER 2007 -
CHESHVAN/KISLEV 5768
Happy
Chanukah Jan Mikael!
 
This month let us truly rejoice, remembering that Yeshua (Jesus) was
born in order to die for our sins, giving us eternal life!
Both Chanukah and Christmas are known
as the "Festivals of Lights;" they are celebrated in December; and they both remind us of God's
salvation.
Yeshua celebrated Chanukah in John 10:22, when He went to the Temple in
Jerusalem during the winter to celebrate the "Feast of
Dedication."
Christmas is about our Messiah's birth (even though we
know that He was born in the fall and not in the winter) and Chanukah is
about the nation of Israel being saved from the Syrian/Greek armies, 165
years before Yeshua's birth.
Chanukah fulfills God's Prophetic Word in Jeremiah
31:35, 36 as it says that the Jewish people will never be wiped out as
long as the stars and the sun exist. It is also the miraculous story of
the oil burning for eight days in the Jerusalem Temple.
Yeshua's miraculous birth took place to fulfill Isaiah's Messianic
Prophecies:
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(1) "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The
virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and she will
call him Immanuel." Isaiah 7:14
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(2) "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and
the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace." Isaiah 9: 6,7
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Can you imagine what it must have been like for the prophet Isaiah when
he supernaturally received the Messianic Prophecies? I wonder how the Lord
revealed to him the words he was to write down. Did Isaiah receive them in
a dream or a vision? Did he audibly hear the voice of God instructing him
what to write down?
One thing I do know is that Isaiah clearly knew
who the Messiah would be 800 years before He was born! And I believe
Isaiah's heart leapt for joy when he began writing those words of the
coming Savior .
"For to
us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on
his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9: 6,7
Isaiah was a Jew who lived in Jerusalem almost 800 years before
Yeshua's birth. He was just an ordinary man. Isaiah was married,
had two sons, and worked as an official for King Uzziah during his early
years. However, later he was called by God to be a prophet, and he obeyed
that calling!
On a Shabbat (Saturday morning) 2000 years ago, one of Isaiah's
Messianic Prophecies was read aloud by the Messiah himself, to the other
Jewish men in the local synagogue.
Luke 4:16-21 says: Yeshua went
to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went
into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read the scroll
of the prophet Isaiah which was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the
place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because
he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to
proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to
release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Yeshua
said to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in you hearing it."
God used ordinary people like Isaiah 2800 years ago; and today God
wants to use people like you and me Jan Mikael, to proclaim His Word and
His Prophecies about the Messiah to the unsaved Jewish people.
Did
you know that the book of Isaiah has 66 chapters? And, did you know that
your Bible has exactly 66 books in it? The Old Testament (First Covenant)
has 39 books in it and the New Testament (New Covenant) is comprised of 27
books.
The book of Isaiah is like a miniature version of the
Bible. The first 39 chapters dwell on humanity's failure and chapters
40-66 emphasize the hope of the coming Messiah! I do not believe that this
is coincidence, because God is so precise in what He does and His Word is
so perfect!
I recently met with Rabbi Skobac, an anti-missionary,
orthodox rabbi. We opened up the Jewish Scriptures and looked at the
Prophecy of Isaiah 9:6. He harshly responded, "Zev, this is not a
Messianic Prophecy and it is not speaking about Jesus. No child could be
called 'Mighty God!'"
but it is clear that Isaiah is speaking
about a person who would be called God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of
Peace. And although this rabbi refuses to acknowledge the Messianic
prophecies, I know hundreds of Jewish Believers like Avi, Sarah, Eyal,
Rachelit, Jacob, Ofir, Laura and Sam, who have all received eternal life
from reading this prophecy in Isaiah, or another one of the other
Messianic prophecies!
It is through these prophecies that most
Jewish people accept Yeshua as their Messiah and that's why our Messianic
Prophecy Bible is so very much needed.
Here is what Sam said: "During
the
Chanukah/Christmas season, when my
Christian friend opened up
his Bible, and
showed me Isaiah 9, I couldn't accept it at
first. I
was told my whole life that as a Jew
we can not believe in Jesus
because he is
the God of the Gentiles. Jesus started his
own
religion and he was a traitor to
Judaism. But two weeks later I opened
up
the Bible my Christian friend gave to me,
and I read the prophecy
in Isaiah 9, over
and over again. As I read the prophecy
God
supernaturally revealed things to me,
and I instantly knew that this
was speaking
about Yeshua. I accepted Him as my
Messiah, and
I was born again! This
was the best Chanukah gift I could
ever
receive," exclaimed Sam.
because of your involvement with this ministry, people like Sam
will receive eternal life when they read the Messianic Prophecy Bible.
With your help we can get Jewish people like Sam Messianic Prophecy
Bibles. They will be distributed to Jewish people for free in Israel, the
U.S., Canada, and around the world.
On December 25, millions of
born-again Christians around the world will celebrate the birth of Jesus
because they have called upon the Messiah of Israel.
However,
99% of the Jewish people do not believe in Yeshua, and they will spend
eternity separated from God because no one has taken the Gospel to
them.
The Messianic Prophecy Bible, still in development, along with our
Israeli Outreach Workers/Missionaries are able to do what has never been
done before. For the first time, a Jewish person will have a Bible that
presents God's Word in a distinctly Jewish manner - answering the
prophecies and Jewish objections. This Bible will be printed in Hebrew,
English, Russian, and Spanish.
I believe that just as God used
Isaiah to proclaim some of the original Messianic Prophecies, God wants to
use you and me today to tell the Jewish people about Yeshua.
Now,
as the end of the year approaches, please take this opportunity to send in
a generous tax deductible Chanukah gift before December 31. This
will allow you to save on your taxes and we can expand the
Kingdom in a mighty way by reaching God's Chosen People! click here to
make a donation to Bibles For Israel
Your brother in Messiah's love, 
Zev Isaacs
Founder
P.S. "Each man should give what he has decided
in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a
cheerful giver."2 Corinthians 9:6 Giving to this Bible ministry will also help you save
on your 2007 taxes.
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