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Welcome to Celebrate Israel

Dear Lover of Israel, welcome to Celebrate Israel

This site is to support the Celebrate Israel ministry which is based in Australia for believers that love Israel and pray for Yeshua HaMaschiach to be revealed to all Israeli people.

We meet monthly, once face to face, and once online via Zoom.  See the About page for more information.

We support Messianic ministries in the following locations in Israel, with regular donations:

  • Haifa / Mt Carmel
  • Be’er Sheva
  • Kfar Saba (Tel Aviv)
  • Jerusalem
  • Jezreel Valley

Next Meetings 13th and 20th April

Face to face on the Saturday 13th April and then  Zoom online Saturday 20th April

Note: THIS month, Sat 13th April Passover Seder starting at 12.30pm (face to face only)

NOTE: This event is at CAPACITY and no more registrations are possible, please do not come is unregistered

Zoom Date: 20th April 2024. Time 2:00PM – 3:30PM (Adelaide time)
2.30pm Sydney Time

LINK: https://zoom.us/j/89086525260 (waiting room, no password)

Face to Face Saturday 13th April Field of Dreams Chapel, 12.30pm (Seder, FULL – no more registrations)

Prayer Points for Israel

Prayer Points:

•             The salvation of Israelis – Lord please save your people, especially the new immigrants. Also, the Muslims that they would find Christ.

•             Pray against anti-Semitic hatred 

•             Pray for Stability in the Government

•             Pray for Truth regarding the war situation with Hamas, Hezbollah etc.

•             Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 122 – Internal security – As expected, with Ramadan overlapping Passover, violence was ignited by Muslims in and around Jerusalem’s Old City and especially on the Temple Mount.

•             Aliyah – Since last Passover, over 40,000 new immigrants have arrived in Israel.

Hadassah’s Preparations – The Bride made ready

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory,
For the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and His wife has made herself ready.
Revelation 19:7 NKJV

Introduction

At this time of year, as we celebrate the Feast of Purim, we are encouraged and inspired by the story of Esther and see in it the analogy to Yeshua and his Bride. Continue reading “Hadassah’s Preparations – The Bride made ready”

DOUBLE PURIM 2022 – a double portion of breakthrough

The festival of Purim commemorates the divinely orchestrated salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day.” It is celebrated with Megillah readings, gifts of food, charity, feasting, and merriment.

Ref: Chabad https://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/default_cdo/jewish/Purim.htm

Introduction

Welcome to one of the happiest holidays on the Jewish calendar – Purim. You may also like to see what I wrote last year where I outlined the highlights of Purim. Continue reading “DOUBLE PURIM 2022 – a double portion of breakthrough”

“Love and Sorrow” – Jesus’ cry on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles

“On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out (in a loud voice), saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.  He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

“But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified”.  John 7:37-39 NKJV

Continue reading ““Love and Sorrow” – Jesus’ cry on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles”

Tisha B’Av

Ninth of Av

Tisha B’Av means Ninth of Av.  Av is the fifth month of the Jewish sacred calendar, which begins with Nisan, the month in which Passover occurs.  The civil calendar begins with Tishri, which is the seventh month of the sacred calendar, in which the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles occur.

Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of both the first and second temples, as well as other events.  It is the second most solemn fast day in the modern Jewish calendar, after Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).  It is considered to be the saddest day of the year, a day of misfortune and tragedy.

Continue reading “Tisha B’Av”

Replacement Theology

What is Replacement Theology?

Replacement Theology, which is also called Supersessionism, has been common throughout most of Church history and still exists today.  It is the false supposition that the Church has replaced or superseded Israel and the Jews in God’s purposes.  According to this theology, when the Church began, God forsook the Jews, because they did not accept Jesus as their Messiah and because they had a part in His death.

Under this doctrine, all of God’s promises, prophecies and blessings in the Old Testament now apply exclusively to the Church and no longer apply literally to Israel or the Jews.  Where the word “Israel” occurs in the Bible, it really means the Church, which is the true, spiritual Israel.  Consequently, all the verses referring to Israel returning to their land and dwelling there are seen as spiritual allegories for the blessings of the Church, and not as something to be literally fulfilled by the Jews and the nation of Israel.  However, the curses and distresses in the Bible (e.g. Deuteronomy 28:15-68) still do apply literally to the Jews, due to their role in the death of Christ.

Continue reading “Replacement Theology”

May Prayer Focus

PART 1:     Celebrate the birth of the State of Israel;   the joy and the fulfilment of the promises to Abraham and our Faithful Covenant keeping God – as your heart is led.

PART 2:      SHIELDS OF THE LORD RAISED FOR ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM

The same enemies who started a war against the Declaration of Independence made on May 14, 1948, have never ceased their attacks on Israel to this day to destroy Israel.   Today in 2022 killing the innocent, threatening the people of God, even with nuclear weapons; seeking to surround Jerusalem; to turn the world against Israel in whatever way they can.

We intercede for Israel to the Captain of the Hosts of Heaven, Yeshua Ha Mashiach;

•             that the leaders and the people of Israel would cry out to their God who saves and keeps them.

•             a miracle for unity of Government, of God’s wisdom and for stability and freedom from fear and intimidation and oppression in these days.

•             protection and wisdom for the IDF leadership; Mossad to hear plans of the enemy.

•             comfort for the wives and children and communities for those murdered in terror attacks.

•             that in these times, the eyes of the Israeli people would be opened to see Yeshua and know who He is and turn and love Him.

•             prosperity and safety for Israel in every dimension and increase and restoration; and for salvation – the precious Blood of Yeshua – their King.

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD,

The shield of your help And the sword of your majesty!

Your enemies shall submit to you, And you shall tread down their high places.”

Deuteronomy 33:29

Behold, He who keeps Israel

Shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is your keeper;

The LORD is your shade at your right hand.

6 The sun shall not strike you by day,

Nor the moon by night. 

Psalm 121: 4-6

For You are the glory of their strength,

And in Your favor our [a]horn is exalted.

18 For our shield belongs to the LORD,

And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 89:17-18

But You, O LORD, shall endure forever,

And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.

13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion;

For the time to favor her,

Yes, the set time, has come. 

Psalm 102:12-13

June Prayer Focus

  • The salvation of Israelis – both Jews and Arabs
  • A new government: IFI – During prayer, before Lapid’s announcement, we asked God to show us what He was doing. He said to two of us at the same instant, “I am answering your prayers!” For a government to be quickly formed that will be stable and not compromise with Israel’s enemies. Ps 33:12. Nel is incubating Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; (tohu ve bohu) and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Order out of chaos.
  • Security – Iran & its proxies
  • Security – internal: Biblically, Hamas is an internal threat since Gaza is part of the tribe of Judah’s inheritance (Josh. 15:1, 47).
  • The Body of Messiah: It is distressing to see how many born-again believers do not see the prophetic implications of Israel’s restoration. In fact, many in the Body stand against God’s will as revealed in the Scripture, by standing with the Palestinians’ demand for a state. These believers think they know what “social justice” means more than what God’s Word says.
  • The Iranian regime is playing mind games with most nations.
  • Messianic leaders/congregations/unity
  • Poverty – Olim not the main problem but Arabs, Orthodox and Sephardics, lesser educated in villages are the poor ones in Israel.
  • Pray against the rise of Anti-Semitism/Anti Zionism in whatever form it takes.
  • Aliyah/anti-Semitism: The doors of Israel should be flung wide open to Jews in Exile who find themselves under increasingly violent attacks. Yet there are very disturbing reports of some of Israel’s representatives in the nations who place unnecessary stones of stumbling in the paths of Jews trying to make Aliyah.