Ruins of the Church of the Nicaean Council Hidden Underwater (Video Screensave)

Did you know that after the first century apostles died that there was a gradual loss of connection among the churches established by the Apostle Paul and others among the non-Jewish churches?

Before Paul was arrested in Jerusalem and imprisoned in Rome, he established an offering be set up among all the churches he established. The offerings were collected over about a three year period before Paul, along  with representatives from each church, brought the donations to Jerusalem. The donations were for the Apostles to administer. The purpose was to help sustain “the poor” body of Messiah to continue to minister in Israel.

By 318 AD no churches had continued sending financial assistance, even though Paul knowingly paid for delivering it with his freedom.

As he made his journey to Jerusalem to carry the FIRST donation from ALL the Churches, prophets came out warning Paul that if he continued forward, he would be arrested. Paul already knew there would be harsh consequences for him delivering this important financial gift to the Apostles in Jerusalem for sustaining their ministry and for assisting Jewish believers in Israel.

 In Paul’s letters to the churches four out of six times that Paul uses the phrase, “the poor,” he is clearly in context referencing the poor believers in Judea.  One of the remaining two is in reference to himself.  (Ro 15:26, 1 Cor 16:1, 15; 2 Cor 9:1, :12-13). They were of the Jewish people, but were shunned because of faith in Yeshua. It has been much the same today as then and it the reason for much of the lack of financial blessing among the body of Messiah and their ministries in Israel.

Consider the mystery of Ephesians 2:15-16 making of Jew and Gentile “one new man” with Ephesians 5:32 “great mystery” of “Two Shall Become One”

For months I have heard Christian prophets giving me wonderfully encouraging words that built me up in the midst of relentless warfare that has been beating me down.

My mind was set to endure all things for the sake of what God has given me to do, but at times the mental exhaustion of it has had me really worn out. I have struggled to overcome the realization that my mailings on behalf of Israeli believer ministries has just about been wiped out. But I have had no real way to assess just how wiped out the lists actually are.

I just knew I had to find an alternative way to keep moving in advocacy for the body of Messiah in Israel.

Of course this was not the entirety of the battles I’ve faced. The beat down was happening on many fronts.

But back to the encouraging words of the Christian prophets. I haven’t paid any attention to Christian prophets for years – a decade and a half probably because I was so put off with the ZERO understanding most have for Israel’s place in God’s full vision for us. I only started listening to Christian prophets again after the attack on IHOPKC/Mike Bickle shut down the leading Christian prophet (of the slim to almost none) who ever considered Israel and how God cherished the Jews and His intent to restore Israel.

It flabbergasts me still that there is so much God has revealed in His Word about that, and in the biblical prophecies that have unfolded in our natural eyes in the past century. How could a prophet miss such things?