VOL. 33          NEWSLETTER           NOV./DEC. 1997

Dear “OR TZION” Family, 

Greetings, my dear friends and brethren, beloved saints in Yeshua theMessiah, and G-d’s blessings on you in whose hearts are the highways toZion. This issue will be lengthy since its contents are pressing and cannot wait until the March/April issue. Before getting into the message, however, let me share G-d’s faithfulness during my last trip: 

While in Germany I received the funds needed to get out of our terrible overdraft in Israel. But I flew to Dallas, Texas (U.S.A.) without a dollar to my name, and the Visa account I use for OR TZION was about to be closed unless I paid a certain amount immediately. I prayed that the account would be fully paid by the time I would leave again for Israel. I promised not to check the offerings as I did not doubt G-d's provision. 

The saints at Living Waters in Cross Plains, Texas, gave generously despite their limited means, and I received the precise amount needed to keep the account open. A few days before my departure I received a phone call from a couple I had ministered to, saying that the Lord had told them to give me a certain amount. Before I left I had the exact amount needed to pay off the Visa. Hallelujah! 

I was without any transportation, yet the Lord put it on the hearts of brothers and sisters to pick me up from where I stayed and drive many hours to bring me to my meetings in Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, and other places, and back. May G-d bless them richly for their service. Indeed, by them the Lord carried me both “in His arms and on wings of eagles.” PTL ~ Baruch HaShem! 

At my first home meeting in Grapevine, Texas, a long-time friend came who had cerebral palsy. Many years ago I prophesied her healing and shortly thereafter the Lord began her physical and inner healing. We prayed for the completion of her healing. The next day she called excitedly: “The Lord has straightened out my spine 4 - 5 inches!” A few hours later she rang again, “My spine has straightened  8 inches! Everybody is amazed at the miracle!” she laughed and cried. Furthermore, her proposals for a nationwide television mentoring program to help handicapped people went through, to be funded by the National Cerebral Palsey Association and by several United Cerebral Palsey Affiliates. Ah yes, the Lord is good! 

(Daily the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, BBC and all television broadcasts demonize Israel and Judaism, forever harping on the same theme: "Nazi" Israelis brutalizing helpless Palestinians. Never a good word about Jews, never a bad word about Arabs: Arab atrocities are minimized, while Jewish mishaps or -deeds are maximized. 

Minimal attention is given to the ongoing slaughter in Algeria (by now numbering 65,000 dead), or to the massacre of Christians in Egypt (by the Moslem Brotherhood, which has vowed not to rest until all the "infidels" are killed, converted, or expelled). The ongoing slaughter and enslavement of black Christians in Sudan by racist Arabs is not at all mentioned, neither the persecution of Shiites by Sunnis in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, nor the genocide of Bahais in Iran (or the emerging Islamic fundamentalist state in Afghanistan). And no mention is made of the Arabs, Turks, and Iranians conspiring to deprive the Kurds of their own state (the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world, 20 million plus, that are denied their own government)².(

In a recent e-mail message Cosette Sullivan from San Angelo, Texas, wrote: “May I ask you some questions, Annelore? Because all forms of media are so very powerful in swaying the people, some reference must be made of that in G-d's Word, huh? Propoganda has played a very, very prominent role in fostering and spreading lies about Israel and G-d's Chosen People for, how long?, for ever? Thinking of Israel / media is what got me to thinking about this. I'm in no way a scholar so I cannot find it in the Bible. Surely it must be there tho' not with words with which we (I) are familiar. I know that if it is there, you have found it!”

Oh yes, indeed it is there. G-d's own witness to this is particularly clear in Ezekiel 35:12-13, "You shall know that I, the L-RD, have heard all the revilings which you have uttered against the mountains of Israel... and you magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against Me; I heard it." Ezek. 36:3, "... and you [Israel] became the talk and lewd gossip of the people."

Still other Scriptures speak of the lies and false accusations against Israel in the last days. Daniel 8:12 says, in the time of the end, “truth shall be cast to the ground;”  and Psalm 12:8: “on every side the wicked prowl as vileness is exalted among the sons of men” (or, “the vilest men are exalted,”  such as Yasser Arafat with the Nobel Peace Prize). G-d pronounces a “woe” on “all those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight... who aquit the guilty [PLO] for a bribe [oil], and deprive the innocent [Israel] of his right [to land and sovereignty].” ³

We can plainly observe in our national life and on the news that “justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.” ⁴

Furthermore, the apostle Paul warns us “that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a believer. For people will only love themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at G-d... and thoroughly bad. They will be hardheaded and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and troublemakers and will think nothing of immorality. They will be rough and cruel and sneer at those who try to be good. They will betray their friends; they will be hotheaded, puffed up with pride, and prefer good times to worshiping G-d. They will hold a form of godliness, yes, but they won’t really believe anything they hear.”⁵

The prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah pronounced G-d’s judgment upon liars who oppress Israel in the last days, because among many other things they “have broken the everlasting covenant”; “they have made lies their refuge and in falsehood they have taken shelter;” and “... they have called Zion an outcast... for whom no one cares.” “Because there is none to uphold Israel’s cause, no medicine for her wound, no healing for her..., the L-RD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their hosts who have said to Israel: ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and [the Jews] have made their back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.” ⁶