Why does PTL help Jews home to Israel?

This is an artist’s portrayal of what it might look like when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven. No one knows what that will look like. A lot of people get stuck wondering about the details surrounding Jesus’ second coming while forgetting the most important thing: that there is a lot of work that needs to be done for that to happen. These things are: Helping the Jews home to Israel, preaching the gospel to all nations and being a part of the local church.

The photo above shows a baptism in the Jordan River during our latest group trip to Israel. Nine people were baptized, including a Catholic priest and a young girl from Brazil.

Today we can see that two movements that started 2000 years ago are now nearing their climax. The Jews are on their way home to Israel, and soon the gospel will have reached all nations. Everything is coming together perfectly according to God’s plan.

Just when the Jews started to return to Israel in the middle of the 1800’s, the revival church started to become empowered to conclude the Great Commission. Simultaneously, the Holy Spirit emphasized Bible verses about the Jews as God’s possession. The insight into the meaning of Genesis chapter 12 – where God promises that whoever blesses Abraham (that is, Israel and the Jews) will be blessed – revealed the lies of replacement theology while also revealing God’s true plan for the Jews. Christians began to actively work to help and bless the Jewish people. They realized the association between the final phase of evangelization, the restoration of Israel, the second coming of Christ and the Jews’ Messianic calling to receive Him in Jerusalem. See Zach. 12:9-14:4.

So, should we help the Jews home to Israel?

“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, and set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.” Is. 49:22. The oath is the virgin who will conceive and bear a Son, Jesus (Is. 7:14). When we see the oath, Jesus, all nations will help the Jewish people home to Israel.

“It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues…Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem.” Is. 66:18-21.

“It shall be,” Isaiah foretells, that the nations, you and I, as a way of giving thanks to God, will help the Jewish people home to Israel, to God’s “holy mountain in Jerusalem”!

So how many Jews do they have room for in Israel? “When I have brought them back from the nations…I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.” Ez. 39:27-29. There will be room for everyone, no one will be left behind, and everyone will be given the opportunity to return.

The inner motives of the church are tested and revealed in the history of the Jewish people. One church has persecuted the Jews for 2000 years and has been indirectly responsible for the suffering and death of a large number of Jews. This church has also intensely attempted to quench all revival movements. The other church, however, is just the opposite. With self-sacrificial love and a huge heart, they have fought for Israel while having a passionate commitment to reaching the lost.

14 baptized in Ashdod, Israel

For about two years we have been working with Pastor I. P. in Israel, an apostolic Messianic church movement that has seen the Jews of Israel come to faith in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel, the Son of God.

In his latest newsletter he tells about their struggles and their great needs, but also the wonderful news that they have recently baptized 14 Jews in the name of Jesus.

But even while the revival is gaining strength, the resistance is increasing too. There have been attempts to throw them out of their church building.

Just as Paul gathered help and support from the Gentile churches for the saints in Jerusalem, it is important today, too, that we support this church movement in Israel.

PTL Children Aid : benefiting both children and businesses

Alongside the revival ministry that PTL has, we also prioritize helping orphaned children in six different countries around the world. These projects have been under-financed and we haven’t been sure how the Lord would help us.

But this year we sensed the leading of the Lord to develop a way for companies to be able to purchase advertisement packages, where all of the proceeds go directly to children in the third world. It’s a project that benefits these children, first and foremost, but it is designed so that companies benefit as well. Read more on the PTL Children Aid homepage, http://www.ptlchildrenaid.com.

Several company executives are involved with this project and helping us out. All of them are working as volunteers. And since my own income comes from the church and PTL, that means that 100% of the proceeds go to these projects that help the children. We want to help as many as we can.

Do you own a company? Would you like your company to become a certified child ambassador, benefiting both children around the world and your company at the same time? Do you work for a company? Would you like to tell your bosses about this way of helping children while at the same time benefiting your company? E-mail us and we will send you more information from PTL Ministries about PTL Children Aid.

In Nepal we recently became sponsors for 16 orphans who had absolutely no one to provide for them. They risked being thrown out onto the street, into prostitution and drugs. We don’t even have the money to provide for them right now – about $800 a month, but we are going to figure out a way to make this work.