PRAYER FOR JERUSALEM DAY
Father, in anticipation of Your Son’s phenomenal victories for Israel at both ‘Armageddon’ (Har Megiddo) (Zech 14) and at Rev 20:7-10’s “God and Magog” (both cataclysmic battles characterized as a warning to all who have the spirit of Edom, as the fateful “day of Jerusalem” in Ps 137:7), please help us constantly refresh our commitment to “prefer Jerusalem above our chief joy,” namely Zion, the Eminent Place of Your Name, YHWH TZIDKENU (2 Chr 6:6; Jer 33:14-26), being Your CHIEF RIGHTEOUS CAUSE and therefore satan’s PRIME TARGET in all his warfare against Israel (Ps 74:2,22; 102:12-22; 105:6-11; 122:6-9; 129:5-8; 132:13-18; 137:5-7; Is 60-62), to help prove that we’re “magnifying Your Word (Instruction) above even Your Name” (Ps 138:2), causing it to be honoured for the sake of Your righteousness (Is 42:21; Matt 5:18,19; Rom 3:31; 8:4).
O Jerusalem, “City of the Great King,” “Princess of the provinces,” “Watchtower of the flock” whose crown (the monarchy of the dynasty of the House of David) has temporarily fallen (Is 9:6,7; Lam 1; Matt 5:35; Mk 11:10; Acts 1:6,7), take heart, for the time is near when “the fallen sukkah (house, throne, kingdom) of David shall be raised up and rebuilt as in days of old” (Amos 9:11-15; Acts 15:14-17) and “there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean (continually blaspheming My Name), but My people shall know My Name…they will know in that day that I am He Who speaks…How beautiful upon the mountains are the Feet of Him that bringeth Good Tidings, that publisheth shalom; that bringeth Good Tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that says unto Zion, ‘Thy God reigns’” (Is 52:1-10,13-15).
For to you the Redeemer will return, to those in His vineyard (Ps 80:7-19; Is 5:7; Matt 21:37-44) worthy of exaltation with Him in Zion, His footstool (Lam 2:1), as “Yeshurun” (ideal, refined, reserved-remnant, beautified, chaste virgin, Messianic Israel – Deut 26:16-19; 33:26-29; Is 24:23; 44:1-8; 46:13; Zech 9:16), by having turned from their transgression through the grace for repentance and forgiveness offered through the redemption which is in the Blood of Yeshua the risen Messiah Son of David as “the sure mercies of David” (Is 55:1-5; 59:20,21; Acts 5:31,32; 13:32-39), to be made heirs of the righteousness of YaH which is of faith, by their justification by faith, to find the narrow way of sanctification by the Spirit (Is 35:8-10; 51:1-7,11), to keep themselves in the love of God to be accounted worthy of the “Everlasting Kingdom,” to escape the second death (Lk 20:35; 21:36; Jn 15:3-15; Heb 12:14,28; 2 Peter 1:1-13; Rev 20:6).
Like Moses, who by the Spirit wrote about Yeshua, “as seeing Him Who is invisible” (Is 63:11-14; Jn 5:46,47; Heb 11:26,27); and like Abraham, to whom the Gospel was first preached (Gen 12:3; Gal 3:8,9) and who “ ‘saw’ My Day and was glad” (Jn 8:56,58), many more who are “of Israel” and not subverted and disqualified by wilful ignorance, will come to recognize, believe in and know and love Him AS WE HAVE, by faith not by sight (1 Peter 1:7-9), through their intense trials of refinement during the worst of the times of Jacob’s trouble (in which the fiery Message of Moses and Elijah, who attended upon Yeshua on the Mnt of Transfiguration – Lk 9:28-35, will help remedy prejudice against the Gospel – Jer 30; Dan 12:1-3; Zech 3:11-14; 13:6,8,9; Matt 24; Rev 11), “as seeing Him (“Who was wounded in the house of His friends”) Who is invisible,” as the Anointed One (the Messiah), the authenticity of Whose Resurrection their spiritual leaders have lied about for generations (Matt 27:52-54,62-66; 28:11-15).
So shall the prophesied “rebuilt (in Messiah) fallen virgin Israel” (the Jewish bride first acknowledged at Sinai on acceptance, on our behalf as seed of Abraham, of the ketubah/marriage covenant of Ten Words – Ex 19:4-8; Deut 29:12-15) be completed through their obedience to sanctification in the Land of Israel by the Spirit, through their Hebrew New Covenant (Is 44:1-8; Jer 31:4-17,31-36; Ezek 36; Matt 25:10-12), for the church (which has always belonged to Israel, as Abraham’s dynastic household) to recognize at last, just as it was prophesied to Abraham (Gen 12:3; Gal 3:8,9), that the nations have no hope of “everlasting salvation” (Is 45:17-25 advertises the promise of Hebrew eternity for Gentiles, as Israel’s ingrafted inheritance – Is 49:5-8; 54:3; 56:1-8; Jn 10:16; Rev 21:12) APART FROM ‘joining affinity with’ (cleaving to the God of Jacob and His household) the House of Jacob, by surnaming and adoption through justification by faith, as “one new man,” dedicated to the holy vocation of a life of consecration to be righteous (Acts 10:35l 1 Jn 3:3-10), to uphold the integrity of “the unity (of doctrine) of the one faith” under one law of life (Ex 12:49; Deut 4:5-8; Is 45:4; Rom 3:31; 11:17-29; James 1:22-25), which is for Zion’s, and all Creation’s sake (Is 14:1; 60-62; Lk 1:33; Rom 8:4-23; Eph 2:11,12,15,19; 3:6; 4:1-5,11-14).
With all this in mind, we rejoice, Father, in Your vision of Zion as “the PERFECTION OF BEAUTY” (Ps 50:2), and ask You to imprint YOUR VISION OF HOLINESS “that becometh Thine House” (Ps 47:8; 93:5; 119; 2 Cor 7:1) on our souls, without which our understanding of the PURITY necessary to attain that perfection, and our obligation as co-heirs of Israel, to contribute towards it by submitting to the personal sanctification necessary to aim to be a perfect man (Ps 101; Matt 5:48; Lk 6:40; Eph 4:13; 1 Thess 5:23,24; 2 Tim 2:19-26; 3:17; Heb 6:1-12; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Jn 3:3,4), will be far from complete (Col 1:28,29).
In Yeshua’s Name, we pray.
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