 March 12, 2010 | | One of the Best
Each Friday we provide you with one of the week's most thought-provoking articles. | |  Prime Minister Netanyahu affirms Christian Zionists
Speech by Netanyahu:
Welcome to Jerusalem, the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Your presence here today represents a profound transformation in the relationship between Christians and Jews. This transformation has its roots in the 19th century when the early Christian Zionists came to the Land Israel and when they began exploring the land of the Bible, when they began to yearn for the Jewish restoration in this land, the restoration of our numbers, the restoration of our sovereignty. In fact, Christian Zionism preceded modern Jewish Zionism, and I think enabled it. But it received a tremendous impetus several decades ago when leading American clergymen began to say to their congregations and to anyone who listened, it’s time to take a stand with Israel. It was time to take a stand with the sole democracy in the Middle East. It was time to take a stand against the lies and the slander and the vilifications. It was time to defend the Jewish state’s right to defend itself. Read on... | | One that calls for a Response
Each Friday we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Rabbi Brad Hirshfield said: “Far from being a threat to religious freedom, proselytism is one more expression of it. In fact, in countries in which proselytizing is illegal, people are literally dying for the right to share their beliefs with others. We should be far more concerned about those nations in which one is barred from sharing their beliefs than we are about individuals who may annoy us with the overly enthusiastic religious salesmanship.”
God says: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, even to the end of the age.” … “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8).
 The Jerusalem Connection says: Where true freedom of religion exists there is freedom of speech – which implies freedom to proselytize. Where there is no freedom to proselytize there is no genuine freedom of religion or freedom of speech. Make no mistake, these are inseparably linked. In the world of Islam proselytizing warrants the death penalty. Forget about freedom of religion or freedom of speech wherever Muslims rule. While we welcome the acceptance and affirmation of Prime Minister Netanyahu of Christian Zionists, we are sadly aware that freedom of religion in Israel basically means one is only free to practice his own religion. Proselytizing is illegal. Too many Christians have been kicked out of Israel for what has been called “missionizing activity.” Israel needs to do some internal house cleaning regarding proselytizing if it is going to have true freedom of religion. Bigotry and intolerance lies at the core of anti-proselytizing efforts. It only reveals an insecurity and lack of confidence in ones own religious beliefs. Israel can do better than this. |  Nasir Siddiki, former Muslim, becomes an evangelist for Christ. Here is his testimony.
Watch Video | |  In Passover, offerings of unleavened bread and olive oil were made at the temple. “And when thou bringest a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.” (Leviticus 2,4)
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