1. Praise:

   In Jeremiah 3:4 in the prophetic portion, God says there is a day coming when Israel will truly understand that He is their Father– and has been their Father from the beginning: Will you not from this time cry unto Me, 'My Father, You are the guide of my youth?' (Jer. 3:4)

   • God, what a joyful privilege we have as born-again believers to already know You as our Father.

   • We bless You that Messiah Yeshua taught us to address You in prayer as Our Father (Matt. 6:9).

   • We praise You for enabling us by Your Spirit to call You Abba, Father (Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6).

   • We thank You Father for loving us and calling us sons of God(1 John 3:1).

   • We confess that because You first loved us, we now love You (1 John4:19).

   • Lord Yeshua, we declare that You are the only way to the Father (John14:6), and we praise You.

   • Thank You Lord for revealing to us the Father's essential nature (John 14:7-9; Heb. 1:1-3).

   • Praise You for grafting us in with the remnant of Israel who knows You as Father (Isa. 63:16; 64:8).

   • It is wonderful to read that You are regathering Your nation because You are their Father (Jer. 31:9).

2. Government & society:

   There appears to be an infiltration of demonic spirits into the anti-government demonstrations. They block highways, disturb the personal homes of politicians, some refuse to serve in the IDF, and more. This is causing much anger and stress in Israelis who voted for this government with the full knowledge and the hope that they would pass into law some type of judicial reform to halt the dictatorial decisions about anything by an unelected Supreme Court.

   • God of Israel, cast out the spirits of anarchy, rebellion, intimidation, rage, jealousy, hatred and even insanity from Israeli demonstrators and calm this dangerous storm (Psa. 35:1; 107:29; Zech.3:2).

   • Do not leave these zealous Israelis empty but fill them with a bible-based love for Zion (Psa. 87:2).

   • Continue to cause the numbers who come out to the demonstrations to diminish (Deut. 28:62).

   • Warn the leaders of these anti-government demonstrations –especially the heads of the opposition political parties – that they are doing that which You clearly state that You hate (Prov.6:16-19).

   • You said that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft, but we ask You who are the Strength of Israel to deal with this rebellion against Israel's current leaders whom You have permitted to rule at this time, with as much mercy and grace as possible – but please do deal with it (1Sam. 15:23, 29; Prov. 8:15).

   • Expose the spirit of pride that undergirds this rebellion and bring it down (Prov. 8:13; 13:10; 29:23).

   • Expose and dry up all foreign funds which finance these pre-planned demonstrations (Luke 8:17).

   • Stop Israel's mainstream media from fanning the flames of this anti-government agitation (Isa. 54:17; 59:19b; Rom. 13:1-2).

   • Help the police to quickly stop all illegal and/or dangerous actions of the demonstrators (Eccl. 8:11).

   • In Your timing and in Your way, use the judicial reforms to help fulfill Isaiah 1:25-27.

   • Let every minister, who in their pre-election promises committed to reform the justice system in Israel press on to do that which they promised (Num. 30:2).

   • Overrule in the hearts and minds of all the coalition members so that they accomplish that which is Your will for them, while preventing them from touching anything else (Prov. 16:9; 19:21: 21:1).

   • Impart wisdom and courage to PM Bibi Netanyahu in dealing with US President Biden's anti-Israel Administration and to have wisdom in responding to Biden and America's Israeli Ambassador Nides denigrating and ridiculous remarks concerning Israel's current government (Psa. 81:10; Isa. 54:17).

   • Let this push Israel away from trusting in America and pull it to trust more in You (Isa. 30:1-2).

3. Internal security:

   Israel is being forced into a position where it must extend sovereignty over all of the land west of the Jordan Valley. Only by doing this is there any possibility of defeating the expanding terrorist threat which is armed and financed by Iran via its proxies in the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria. Iranian proxies are also operating against Israel from Gaza and from southern Lebanon, both of which are part of the land promised to the nation of Israel by God.

   • Since You are Lord of all (Acts 10:36), You are arranging the circumstances so that Israel obeys Your will and possesses all of its possessions (Obad. 1:17), so therefore guide us as we pray into this.

   • Reveal to Israelis out of Shabbat's prophetic portion that their land is actually Your land and Your heritage(Jer. 2:7) over which they are Your caretakers for Your holy name's sake (Lev. 25:23).

   • Lord, as in the Torah portion, rebuke all politicians and military leaders who discourage Israel from taking all of the land which You swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob (Num. 32:7, 11b).

   • Cast out any humanistic thinking which has confused many of Israel's political and military leaders to see Abbas' Palestinian Authority[PA] as an actual benefit to Israel's overall security (Isa. 36:6).

   • Show them that the PA's very existence hinders Israel from both extending its sovereignty as well as from taking total responsibility to defeat its terrorist enemies, thus making the PA the main problem which keeps Israel's precarious security situation growing today (Psa. 55:21; 120:7; Prov. 27:6).

   • In light of this, please watch over and fulfill Jeremiah 12:14-17 in relation to the PA in our day.

   • God, as You do that, prepare Israel for the aftermath of the PA's collapse (Isa. 42:9; Acts 15:18).

   • Raise up a new generation of military leaders in Israel who reject humanistic thinking (Mark 8:33), and instead who love and trust You and who trust in and follow Your Word (Psa. 119:97-100).

   • Confront and change the hearts of any IDF reservist who refuses training and service as a protest against judicial reform (Ezek.11:19).

   • In mercy, save multitudes of Palestinians and use them, even while being persecuted by Palestinian Muslims, to impact their society for You (1 Pet. 1:19-20; 3:14, 17; 4:15-16, 19).

   • As Western nations reject Israel's right to build in Judea and Samaria, show Your people that what You said in Shabbat's Torah portion still applies today: You shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. (Num. 33:53)

   • In the Torah potion You again stress the death penalty for murderers so we ask that Israel would obey Your Word and cleanse its land from this unrighteous shedding of blood (Num. 35:33-34).

   • Provide angelic protection on Israel's roads against terror attacks and traffic accidents (Deut. 28:6).

4. External security:

   While Western nations come to Ukraine's defense, they get upset if Israel dares to defend itself against its enemies. Iran and its proxies are Israel's main foes today and they all have openly declared that their intention is the annihilation of the world's only Jewish State.

   • Lord, You are the One who defends Israel (Jer. 31:10) as well as makes the IDF an exceedingly great army (Ezek. 37:10), so we ask You to war against Iran's Islamic regime – either sovereignly or through the IDF – or as You have done in the past, both at the same time (Josh. 10:11).

   • As You did during the 1967 Six Day War, impart to the IDF supernatural courage, wisdom and an anointing to fight when it is faced with a multi-front Iranian-inspired war (Deut. 28:7).

   • Overshadow the IDF's Iran Command, and bring them into unity around Your plans (Prov. 21:31).

   • Unify Israel's political and military leaders as to when and how to strike Iran (Prov. 20:18).

   • Forbid that Israeli leaders would look to, and trust in, any other nation to help them (Psa. 124:1-8).

   • Continue to cause the Iranian church to grow in numbers and in spiritual maturity (Eph. 1:15-19).

   • Please fulfill that second part of Jeremiah 49:38 and destroy Iran's current leadership.

   • Prevent Iran from receiving any finances through the easing of sanctions by the West (Jer. 5:25).

   • Also, destroy the relationship between Iran and Russia and Iran and China (Prov. 11:21; 16:15).

   • Impart wisdom to Israel in its diplomatic relations with Russia and China – both of whom are not Israel's enemies at this time (Job12:12-13).

   • Lord God, release a host of angels to guard over Israel's northern border with Lebanon (Psa. 68:17).

   • Remove far away from Your nation Iran's main proxy – Hizbullah in Lebanon (Joel 2:20-21).

   • Do not let Israel be distracted by inner turmoil if the time comes to act against the threat of Iran in Lebanon through Hizbullah (Psa.44:4-8).

   • Ignite unquenchable hatred, division and chaos between all of Iran's proxies (Psa. 55:9).

5. Aliyah:

   The regathering of Jews who live in the captivity is essential for God's plans today, as it is prophesied to occur before all Israel is saved (Ezek. 36:24-28), as well as before the return of Messiah Yeshua (Matt. 23:39).

   • Yes I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land most assuredly with all of My heart and with all of My soul. (Jer. 32:41) Lord, as this is the only verse in Your Word where You state You will do something with all of Your heart and soul, it is obviously important to You – and we bless and praise You for being alive to see it happening today (Isa. 32:3;Matt. 13:16).

   • Use the recent massive Muslim riots in France to chase the French Jews home (Jer. 16:16).

   • Also use these riots to wake up Jews in Europe and the UK to also return (Isa. 43:5-7).

   • Lord, we ask You to roar for Your people who stubbornly remain living among the gentiles, and make them genuinely terrified to remain there any longer (Hos. 11:10).

   • Do not let any more Jews fall into the mind-traps of the German Jews who in the 1930s just could not believe that what the Nazis said – they actually meant to do (Psa. 41:9).

   • Forbid that the "evil reports" in most of the mainstream media, including in Israel, about Israel's current situation would hinder any Jew from coming home today (Num. 13:32; 14:37).

   • Change the Law of Return to line up with Your Word, and not rabbinic tradition, so that those with Jewish fathers can become Israeli citizens and who are recognized as Jews (Mark 7:9).

   • Remove the bureaucracy that complicates the whole process of getting one's citizenship (Isa. 57:14).

   • Direct the new immigrants to settle throughout the land of Israel(Jer. 32:42-44).

   • Plant their roots so deep that they will not be moved from off the land ever again (Amos 9:13-15).

6. Salvation:

   The prophetic portion describes the results of Rabbinic Judaism's exaltation of the Talmud – the words of wise men – to be equal with the Tanach: For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jer. 2:13)

   • Raise up many rabbis who will very clearly state that the Talmud is in no way equal to the Tanach – the Word of the Only Wise God (Rom. 16:27; 1 Tim. 1:17; Jude 1:25).

   • Use the persecution of Messianic Jews and Christians by extremist Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] groups to cause many Israelis to seek out the truth about what Messianic Jews really believe (Rom. 8:28).

   • Lord, also use this persecution to cause Messianic Jews to pray to You like the first Messianic Jews did after they were beaten by the Jewish leaders of their day (Acts 4:29-31).

   • Erase the demonic lie that if Jews believe in "Jesus" –they are no longer Jewish (Acts 24:14-15).

   • You promised to give to Your people as they return to the land a new heart and a new spirit, even giving them Your Spirit, so we pray for You to speed up this promise's fulfillment (Ezek. 36:25-28).

   • YHWH, save Your people, the remnant of Israel. (Jer.31:7) Please save a huge remnant from the following groups: soldiers and officers in every branch of the IDF; use Messianic Jews and Christians in the IDF to provoke fellow soldiers to jealousy; politicians, their families and aides, both from the coalition and opposition; Israeli diplomats; medical professionals; teachers and professors; students; scientists; archeologists; tour guides; tour operators; taxi and bus drivers; very wealthy and very poor Israelis; terrorist victims and families; Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as families of those slaughtered in the Holocaust; Jews in prison in Israel and in the nations; other Jewish criminals; members of gay communities; hippies; drug users and drug pushers; Jews seeking for spiritual truth; unsaved family members of Messianic Jews throughout the world and in Israel.

   • Continue to save multitudes of Muslims and turn many of them into lovers of Zion and provokers to jealousy of unsaved Jews (Psa. 78:68;87:2; Rom. 11:11).

7. The Body of Messiah:

   We noted in last Friday's alert that Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion movie, said that believers today fear Satan more than they fear God. Now consider, how often have we heard a message about the fear of God, or how often have we heard excuses that the fear of God is only another way of saying to be in awe of Him? Yet in both the Hebrew and the Greek "fear" means both to be in awe of Him and to be afraid of disobeying God our Father. Here are a few verses on this from the New Testament, because to fear God is not only a Tanach command:

   • Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.2 Cor. 7:1

   • Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.Eph. 5:20-21

   • Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.1 Pet. 2:17

   • Lord, teach us how to fear You in a way that pleases and glorifies You (Psa. 25:12; 34:11; 86:11).

   • Raise up more elders in the Body who do fear You and are willing to teach about it (Psa. 19:9a).

   • Enable Your Body to be like the Bereans who studied Your Word carefully – and enable today's believers to see that the only word the Bereans had was the "Old Testament" (Acts 17:10-12)!

   • We bless You that Your fear in us enables us to conquer all other fears (Jer. 32:39-40; Luke 12:4-5).

   • Thank You for never stopping to work in us so that we can work out our salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12b-13).

   • We bless You Lord that in Shabbat's prophetic portion You again prophecy of the link between Israel being restored to You and the salvation of gentiles (Jer. 4:1-2; see Gen. 12:3b and Gal. 3:8).

8. IFI:

   The spiritual warfare over God's Word being fulfilled in Israelis increasing. This is only to be expected, but it is difficult on those of us who live and minister here. So once again, we thankyou for your prayers, support and encouragement.

Shabbat shalom and blessings from Jerusalem

Chuck Cohen, for the IFI team

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