Dear friends:

The following fascinating information is from Christine Darg’s message at the Fountain, Old City Walls, Jerusalem, during her 2007 New Year prayer convocation.  I am highlighting the last especially interesting part about the anusim in Ramallah and elsewhere.

Jim
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We are acutely aware that in this year 2007, Jerusalem will celebrate 40 years, a Biblical generation, of having been recaptured by the Israelis in fulfillment of Jesus’ own prophecy in Luke 21: 24.  Signs of His return cannot be denied. 
 
Now with another Haman, the very Prince of Persia, daily threatening Israel and the West, we come with faith to this greatest season of prayer and this greatest day of Gospel golden opportunities. God will use the Prince of Persia to push Israel to surrender to the King. God says in the Bible 366 times “fear not,” one for every day of the year plus a leap year. 
 
In Genesis 15: 1, Yehovah exhorts Abraham, “Fear not.  I am thy shield (magen).”  The magen, or shield, was that piece of protective gear that the armour bearer carried into battle in advance of the warrior.  The LORD of hosts, Yehovah Sabaoth, has already gone ahead of us and Israel into this New Year as our very Shield.  So many Jewish people are in despair because of the madman of Teheran, but we have read Ezekiel Chapters 38 and 39, and even though Persia is part of the confederacy against Israel in these last days, God’s immutable word informs us that Israel will be saved and will shine as a result 
of Satan’s attempts yet again to destroy her.  Hallelu-Yah to the King!
       
In this New Year, Islam will wax bolder but as you and I pray, we will continue to see masses of Muslims spurning the doctrine of violence to embrace the Prince of Peace.  We still have unprecedented opportunities to preach in Islamic lands but we must continue to work urgently, giving all of our resources into the fray, while it is yet day “for the night cometh when no man can work.”  (John 9: 4)  Time is such a precious gift as the countdown to Messiah’s return draws near, so we must use it more wisely.  We must witness more frequently to the souls on whom the Holy Spirit lays a burden. 
 
Recently I have been evangelizing another Muslim family who are very open to the Lord, and the patriarch told me, “There is a priest [in one of the Orthodox Churches] whom I’ve seen daily for five years and he has never once talked to me about religion.”  What an indictment against institutional religion. How tragic that the priest has never enquired about the soul of this man and his family.  But Jesus said, “You must be born again” --never forget those words are the words of Jesus Himself.
 
Before our latest outreach we researched Ramallah and discovered that many of the Muslims in that region were once Jews who were forced into conversion.  It is the same in places like Bethlehem.  On a number of occasions, Bethlehemites have told me, “Who do you think those shepherds were who were watching over their flocks by night?  Jewish shepherds!  We Arabs in Bethlehem today, many of us, were descended from Jews who became Christians or Muslims.” 
 
Therefore in 2007 I prophesy that there shall begin a great awakening amongst many of the Arabs that they are crypto-Jews.  They will be awakened by the Holy Ghost Himself as to their roots and true identity and will “get with the program” rather than fighting against the God of Israel.  
 
But even though this is the prophetic intention of God, you and I must still be involved in prayer to see that God’s will comes to pass. In Hebrew, those Jews who were forced to convert to other religions such as Catholicism and Islam are called the anusim, or the “forced ones.”
 
Anusim is a rabbinic legal term applied to a Jew who has been forced to abandon Judaism against his or her will.  One Jerusalem Post article estimated a couple of years ago that there are 60 million anusim in the world today.  And many are in Islamic lands, such as Pakistan.  When they awaken, they will be a tremendous force for God.  We must breathe on these slain in prayer.  This is timely and linked with the “Mother in Israel” anointing.  In Hebrew, the words womb and compassion = rehem, are the same root word.  These anusim are children of Abraham, and we must pursue them in prayer and recover all. In central Iran, there is a village called Sebe, where the local Muslims practice many Jewish customs, such as women lighting candles on Friday night. Prior to sundown on Friday, they prepare a small fire which they leave on throughout Saturday, so as not to ignite the fire on Sabbath. It is believed Sebe is one of several Persian Jewish communities who underwent forced mass conversion to Islam.
 
Christine's Web site is at http://www.olivetree.org/ and her e-mail address is christine.darg@btinternet.com.