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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.
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 a wonderful Spirit
of adoption.
I felt these words resounding from Him to me. "You, too, are my Israel!" Into my heart flooded the understanding that
I, too, was a daughter of Abraham. I felt the Presence
of the King close to me, surrounding me, adopting me. (only those who have felt His Presence
in this way will understand what I mean) 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,
and that I was a part of Israel. In John 14:21 it says "He that hath My Commandments and
keeps them, he it is that loveth Me and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him and will
manifest Myself to him." The Commandments were given to Israel.
Was YHWH telling me that my ancestry stemmed from one of the actual tribes
of Israel? or that in Yahshua the Mediator of the New Covenant I was grafted into the root of Israel? It matters not,
as in Him we are made one. In Galatians 3:28 the writer stated that "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor
female, for all are made one in Yahshua, and if you belong to Yahshua then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according
to promise". The important thing therefore is to know that we are in fact accepted by Him.
All I know is that I had a wonderful enlightening experience, which helped me to realise that I wasn't a 'second class' citizen
in the Kingdom,
always to feel a little inferior to my brother the Jew. It is exciting to think that some of us Gentile believers who love
Israel could in fact stem from the lost Tribes, but we need to keep a balanced view as there is a danger of a doctrine called
"Replacement Theology" which believes that the Church has replaced Israel. This could never be, as Israel has been and is and
always will be Yahweh's choice with a great future ahead.
"But what about My people Israel?" He asked me. READ ON