Israel and the Church
Restoring the Identity and the Covenant "Aliyah"
By Shoshana Laniado Azadinio
Published on Apr 26 2020
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Shalom from Israel.
We are going to continue studying the Book of Ruth. Today we’re gonna read chapter 1 from verse 7 to 17. Let’s go?
Ruth 1:7-17 “so she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!”
Then she kissed them and they lifted up their voices and wept. And they said to her “No, we will return with you to your people.”
But Naomi said, “Turn back my daughters, why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? Turn back my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No my daughters for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.”
Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. And she said, “See your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to hook her gods, return after your sister-in-law.”
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Wow, this is amazing, the vow that Ruth makes with Naomi.
And now we see here two types of Churches – Orpha is the one that is completely disconnected from Israel. She prefers to stay her way, with her traditions in her way of worshiping God.
But Ruth, she decided to walk with Israel, to learn from Israel and Ruth knows, this Church knows that Israel is still the priestly nation, the priestly people and in order to walk in his calling Israel needs to rescue the land, to retake possession of the land. Why is this so important? We’re gonna read in Genesis 13 from verse 14 and 15
Genesis 13:14,15 “The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, for all the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever “
So, this is an everlasting covenant with our forefathers. All the covenants that Elohim made with our forefathers, they were connected to the land, but today you see, we have Israel, we have the State of Israel since 1948 and it’s completely open to receive all the Jews from the nations. But the number of Jews we have here is the same of the number we have in in United States. We have here around 6 million and a half jews and the same amount in America, why?
We are in a comfort zone, but look at what the Lord says in Ezekiel 39:28
Ezekiel 39:28 “then they shall know that I am the Lord their God who sent them into captivity among the nations but also brought them back to their land and left none of them captive any longer “
So, you see he calls the Exile a place of captivity for us. He wants us back in the land of Israel.
So, if you want to be like Ruth, learn how to pray the Word and pray for the Jews to return to the land.
In our website you can find more than 160 passages about Aliyah. You can see the link in the description of the video and you can pray the Word, pray that the Jews will return.
And another thing that this Church understands is that if we have a covenant, an everlasting covenant with this land, we cannot give the land, we cannot divide the land, you know? Even if there are promises of peace from our enemies, amen? So let’s pray!
Lord, thank you ABA, thank you for teaching us through your Word Lord. On how to be Israel, how to be the Church. The church that you enjoy to be with, the Israel that you enjoy to be with, that you praise.
Help us as Jews to awake in the nations and return to the Land. Help us as Church Lord, to support the Jews to pray for them in a wise way, Lord bShem Yeshua haMashiach, amen!
On the next video will be starting reading chapter number 2 of Ruth and when Boaz comes in the scene, okay?
So we’ll be talking about the true Messiah and the true Church, amen? See you, shalom shalom!