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Shalom everyone! We at Down Home Shalom always try and find interesting ways to let you know how much G-D loves you! And we also try to connect scripture with current events so you can know where we (as a people) are prophetically in time. We use humor, news stories, music, personal interest segments, and even just plain old talk to help you with your walk in faith as a believer. We will never intentionally use the blessing of our broadcast to hurt the innocent, but for the sake of ZION we will tell the truth!

Recently, Ira wrote a blog on why he would not visit Israel any time soon. He wrote this because of some in the Israeli government who persecute Jewish believers (like you and me!) by making it difficult for us to make aliyah (emigrate back) to Israel. I am hard-pressed to remember a better friend than Ira and I am blessed by his friendship. I also know that he loves Israel! You see, since Benjamin Netanyahu lost Tzipi Livni as part of his coalition in government, he had to use the Orthodox leadership to keep his majority. The Orthodoxy in Israel are the ones who are the most responsible for the difficulty that Jewish believers encounter when we try to use our Right of Return to Israel! The Haredi (a name for Orthodox Jews), don’t even believe that Israel (as you and I know it) has the right to exist yet! Did you notice that I said “yet”? You see, the Haredi are Jewish non-believers! They say that according scripture and Talmud that the only true Israel will exist after Messiah returns and establishes it himself! You see, they are still waiting for a Messiah who has already been here! Interestingly, although they say they do not recognize the present statehood of Israel, they still live almost totally on the welfare rolls of the Israeli government!! (do you see the immediate hypocrisy?) They will not hold jobs (for the most part), they will not serve in the Israeli military (IDF), and they have large numbers of children which they teach to do the same. Now, we will give to and try to promote giving to various charities in Israel, but this is why Ira and I are hesitant about spending vacation money in Israel-because unless you or I (as Jewish believers) are just visiting on vacation, we don’t seem to be welcome! So, until all Jewish believers are welcome to come home to Israel and be free citizens of the only true democracy in the Middle East then we will anxiously wait until the good people in Israel stand and and say enough is enough and bid us (Jewish believers) come home! Until then, we here will continue to end every Pesach with the old words “next year in Jerusalem!” Mr. Sherbow, I hope this helps.

Shalom and Blessings!

AJ

Shalom All! Please tune in today to Down Home Shalom for an exciting and thought-provoking show! Ira and I will share interesting information concerning the distinct possibility of Christopher Columbus actually but secretly being Jewish! Remember Down Home Shalom is on every Sunday afternoon on 96.3 FM from 1:30-2:30. See you on the radio!

Shalom and Blessings!
AJ

Yep, I’m back! If you keep up with the show, you know that we are pro-BIBLE, pro-AMERICA, pro-ISRAEL and pro-LIFE! This makes us diametrically opposed to the Obama Administration. Yes, Obama is President and yes, the scripture tells us to respect proper authority. But, we can speak up, stand up and speak out when our elected officials overstep their bounds and attempt to usurp our G-D-given liberties! I recently heard a man say that although G-D created good, HE also created evil! How idiotic to make such an open-ended statement! (especially when it was a congregational leader who said it!) Of course Genesis 2:v 8-9 tells us that Adonai planted the garden and caused the trees therein to grow (including the tree of the knowledge of good and evil). However, the original sin was disobedience! You see beloved, it is easy for us to blame G-D when we hear on the news where a terrorist murders a crowd of people or a loved one falls on hard times, I hear people often times say “if G-D is so good then why does he allow bad things to happen to people?” The fact is HE DOESN’T! HE gave us dominion over the earth, we are the caretakers, we make the choices! He gave us the rule book! It’s called the BIBLE!! We are the ones that allow bad things to happen because we stay in denial concerning our own responsibility! We continue to disobey G-D and therefore keep ourselves out of HIS protection! Remember, Adonai will have no part in evil or confusion.

There is a BIBLE story that describes the Devil as a roaring lion searching the earth for whom he may devour. This scripture used to confuse me as a hunter and an old Marine. I thought, “How can a roaring lion ever catch anything?” Then some years later, I met a family who were missionaries to Africa. After a while, I brought that little BIBLE story up and got my eyes opened real quick. They told me that on the African savanna (plains) it is pitch black at night and that the lions are night hunters! The herdsmen build fence pens for the cattle and put a light post in the center of each pen to keep the herds calm and safe at night. The lions have figured a way around this! After dark, the lions will circle the pens in the darkness and roar in an attempt to scare the cattle and ever so often a goat or a sheep will get frightened and jump the fence to run away-actually running into the darkness and into the teeth of the lions! Had the animals stayed calm and had faith in their shepherd and his pen (hedge of protection), they would have stayed alive! We as a people cannot continue to attempt to soil G-D’S HANDS (with the evil that we as a people allow in our society!) by making an open-ended statement that G-D created evil, somehow insinuating that it’s all HIS fault?!! The BIBLE warns us that those will be cursed that claim good is evil and evil is good! Doesn’t anyone realize that Adam and Eve were allowed to eat forever of the fruits of the garden including the tree of life!! That is of course until disobedience (the original evil!), caused Adam and Eve to be separated from G-D!, cast out of the garden and eventually to die!  Disobedience to G-D is the original evil! It started when Eve and then Adam ate of a tree that they were told by Adonai not to even touch!

Did anyone notice that I did not say that Adam and Eve were “condemned” to die? You see G-D LOVES US!! Let me explain. If Adam and Eve, after disobeying G-D had been allowed to stay in the garden to live and continue to eat of the fruit trees (i.e., tree of life), they would have been separated from G-D forever by sin and the fact is that “they would have been condemned to live forever separated from G-D! Adonai had to make a way for Adam and Eve to have the chance for redemption through Yeshua the same as you and I do! If they could die, then they could one day be redeemed as the scripture describes. You see beloved 1 Peter 3:18-19 says that although for a few days Yeshua’s body lay in the grave, he was preaching salvation at the gates of Hell so all those imprisoned there that believed might know salvation through HIM! Revelation 1:v18 tells us that Yeshua (THE FIRST AND LAST-THE LIVING ONE) has the keys of death and Hell!, and Mathew 27:v 51-53 tells us that many of the saints arose from the grave with Yeshua when he was resurrected and went into the city where they were seen by many (Firstfruits!). Because of HIS SHED BLOOD you can be redeemed! The Devil can’t stop you from accepting your Messiah and Savior! The Devil has NO POWER over YESHUA HAMASHIACH your SAVIOR AND MESSIAH! It’s your choice.

The real fact is that G-D will soon come back and judge the whole earth! Are you ready? The book of Malachi tells us in chapter 4:v1 “For behold, the day is coming burning like a furnace: and all the arrogant and every evil doer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” say the L-RD of hosts “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” Beloved, don’t think to wait until that last minute to accept Yeshua (Jesus) as your savior, because frankly speaking, do you know when YOUR last minute is?

I will continue in hopefulness and prayer that more and more of you accept Yeshua HaMashiach as your savior before it’s too late.

Blessings and Shalom

AJ