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"Yahweh's dealings with me about Israel"      by Elisabeth Avallone.


Introduction
Yahweh has been dealing with me about His people Israel for many years, from my first introduction to Yahshua in 1967. A special year, also, for His people Israel, being the year of liberation, after the six day war. I believe that many Israelites were also liberated outside Israel at that time, in a different way.

My first understanding of Yahweh's heart for Israel was shortly after I received the holy Spirit.


I was decorating, and praying at the same time. I began thinking about Jerusalem and Israel, and felt a tremendous sadness. I prayed without, at that time, a great deal of understanding. I prayed that Israel would be restored, and that the people living there would know their God Yahweh, the God of Israel.

During the years following I attended a congregation where the importance to the Father of Israel and the Jewish nation was honoured. This ministry brought life to my spirit and I enjoyed it immensely, and I was inspired to write many songs.

Years later I was helping to pastor a church in Northumberland, and one day I was sitting praying on the beach, when a large group of orthodox Jews came and spent the afternoon with their families, not far from me.

I observed their ‘family-ness’ and their quiet togetherness, their sanctified clothing, the little boys with their caps on, playing together. The women quietly chatting and laughing together. Their modesty and joy, and togetherness, and I thought of their important place in the heart of YHWH Almighty. I found a great jealousy rising within me and I longed to be a part of their community. I was unaware of the scripture I now understand in Ezekiel where it says

"Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall no more vex Ephraim" in Isaiah 11:13.

Shortly afterwards I returned home and busied myself with my daily work. I still thought about the Jewish people I had seen on the beach. Later, I began to feel the familiar Presence of Yahweh (God) all around me, and I felt these words resounding from Him into my heart. (only those who have felt His Presence in this way will understand what I mean) "You, too, are my Israel!" Into my heart flooded the understanding that I, too, was a daughter of Abraham. Not through the Tribe of Judah, the Jewish nation, but from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel. I felt the Presence of the King close to me, surrounding me, adopting me. I felt loved, and closer to Him than I had ever felt before. I knew I was His own, and somehow part of the people I had seen. I did not fully understand what He was saying to me, but I knew, deep down, that I belonged to Him in a special way, that I was His own, His daughter, and part of His Israel.

During my stay in Northumberland, one Saturday morning (I had been keeping the Biblical Saturday Sabbath for some years at this point) I was looking out of an upstairs window and observed the people passing in and out of a large store opposite my home. I had an overwhelming desire to rush into the street and cry out to them all,

"Do you not know? Have you forgotten? It is Sabbath!" It was some years before I really came to understand why this cry came from my heart, when I finally discovered that a large number of the people in the community where I was working, in all probability, were in fact descendents of the ten lost Tribes of Israel. I lived in Northumberland for twelve years, and saw many people come to know Yahshua as Saviour.

On another occasion, after I had been going through a particularly difficult time, I was truly exhausted, and although it is a delight to serve the community, one eventually becomes as I was, quite ‘empty’ spiritually. I felt I had nothing left to give, and went down to a rocky outcrop on the beach, and wept. I called out to Yahweh my Father, and asked, "Would You mind very much if I gave up this calling, which I am finding so difficult, so demanding and exhausting?" His answer was prompt in my heart;

"But what about My people Israel?"     He asked me.     READ ON