March 18, 2005

7 Adar II, 5765

Dear Praying Friends and Tent Pegs*,

The Holy Spirit stirred me (arni) this morning.  There is more we need to say about the moment we are in. 

As I look out over our situation, with the natural world as the backdrop, I can’t see where the answer to our need might possibly come from.  Moreover, I can’t imagine or even construct a scenario that is remotely plausible within any frame of human reason.  In all our activities and acts of faith, I have never been in this realm before.  Raising the dead is more graspable than what we are facing.  These days our team is speaking much about coming out of the natural realm and living in the spirit.  We are spirit.  Everything that has been made was made from what can’t be seen.  We are stretching to come into “the real reality.”  Peter stepped out of a boat and defied the physical laws of the natural world.  Yeshua fed thousands, essentially out of the air.  The thing that wipes me out is trying to see our thing in the context of the normal working of the touchable universe.  Going this route is a sure way to depression and emotional exhaustion. 

We have got to get into the realm of the spirit.

We have got to break out of the illusion we have lived in all our lives.

This is not about tempting God by jumping off the cliff, or trying to fly with paper wings, or speaking our wants and desires into being.  Nor is it about screaming at the enemy until we are hoarse and exhausted.  It’s about understanding the invisible, hidden, underlying principles out of which the universe was created.   It’s about believing.  It’s about seeing the unseen.  It’s about knowing God and His ways.  It’s about really knowing who we are.  The earth is groaning for the revelation of the sons of God.  This is our press and our quest.  We need a key which opens more than a door to financial provision. 

This next step is a quantum leap into another universe.

We are encouraged by the many friends saying they are standing with us.  We are grateful, blessed, and humbled to be cared about. However there is a deeper place on which to stand.  This breakthrough concerns Israel and the revelation of the glory of God.  It is not a work we either chose or consider our own. Those who stand for it are not standing with us, but with God.  True unity will occur when we are each individually standing with God and do what we do because we see Him doing it.  We are then automatically standing together.  Our hope and prayer is that you will be able to see that the Tabernacle in Tel Aviv is a portal into the heavenlies designed to release blessing into Israel and out to the rest of the body.

We are not making much -- or anything -- of ourselves.  But this Tabernacle has come into being by a Divine mandate and a release of a staggering amount of money.  The funds did not come from a billionaire. They amounted to a very significant percentage of the giver's total wealth.  (We share this to help you get a better sense of how important this must be in the Lord’s plan).  God has invested something here that is transferable.  Numerous individuals and ministries that have visited us at the worship center have caught  the burden to minister to the Lord and set up Tabernacles in various places around the world.

A breakthrough in Tel Aviv is not just for Emmaus Way

or even the body in Israel, but for all of the body. 

When the glory comes we will see as we have never seen.  Do you believe this?  Do you believe that the coming outpouring of the glory of God will come first to Israel?  Do you believe that  this Tabernacle, in the gateway to Jerusalem, plays a role in preparing the way for what lies ahead...even the coming of the Lord?

We have passed the point of soft-peddling our need, our heart, or what we believe is at stake.  We have an opportunity to confound the enemy and push back forces of darkness that have been undisturbed for over four thousand years...since the time of Noah’s grandson Canaan. 

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In our last letter we neglected to mention that on Wednesday March 23rd, Jon and Arni are flying to Switzerland to take part in a conference involving leaders of worship ministries from all over Europe.  We will join Rick Ridings from Succat Hallel in Jerusalem to lead worship for a number of sessions during the three-day gathering.   We would appreciate your prayers for the trip and that a door would be opened for us to share our understanding of the centrality of Israel in the release of true Davidic worship in the earth.

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May God bless you from Zion!     

                                                                        Your servants...

                                                                            For the Glory of His Name,

                                                        Arni and Yonit