Dear friends:
The following interesting story is from Christine Darg’s new book, The Jesus Visions, chapter 4. The book is available at http://www.jesusvisions.org/index.html . This supports the belief that born-again Jews in Israel will be raptured.
Jim
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Matthew Schwartz, a Messianic Jewish leader, brought a group of tourists to Israel because he had a burden to pray. Speaking at The Cornerstone World Outreach Center in Springfield, MO., he told an amazing experience that happened while his group was in Tel Aviv.
Many Will Be Raptured Out of Israel
Matthew and his group were marching down the streets of Tel Aviv in parade-like fashion. They were singing choruses and encouraging people.
While passing a store, the owner, a 72-year-old man named Moshe, came out to talk to them. He told this amazing story:
“My wife and I moved here to Israel years ago because we wanted to be here when the Messiah came. We are waiting for His coming.
“I have been having a recurring dream the last three months, and it is disturbing me, because I keep having this same dream over and over again. I have been to the Rabbis; I have talked to four or five of them, and none of them can interpret my dream. Can you help me? Can you explain it to me, and tell me what it means?”
Pastor Lane, who was a part of the group answered him, “I don’t know if I can; but let me hear your dream.”
He called Brother Matthew over and five or six others joined them, to listen to the story about the old man’s dream.
“I keep dreaming that I am awakened up from sleep, in my bed, in the middle of the night. I dream that trumpets are sounding, and I run to the front door and look out, and thousands of people from the nation of Israel are going up through the clouds, and they are wearing white robes, and the heavens are parting, and the Angel Gabriel is standing in the heavens, blowing a trumpet. And there is a rider on a white horse, with thousands of armies behind him. The man on the horse is ‘The Conqueror.’ I have had this dream about twenty times in the last ninety days. I told my wife, ‘I see a man on a white horse.’”
He had never read the New Testament. But he knew the Old Testament; and he knew that there are two archangels. He knew one is the Angel Gabriel.
He said, “No one understands it. I told my wife, the rabbis and the people in the store, but no one can interpret it.”
Brother Lane, Matthew and the others opened the New Testament and read to him from 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
When the old man heard it, he exclaimed excitedly, “That is my dream!”
When they explained to him that The Conqueror was Yeshua, his Messiah, he began to cry. They asked him, “Do you want to ask Jesus Christ to come into your life?”
He said, “Yes.” And right there on the street…he was born again. Then they prayed for him and he was baptized with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues…right there on Diezengoff Street in Tel Aviv!