Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, begins Friday night at sundown. For the next 25 hours, Jews will fast and pray, pleading with God to be sealed in the Book of Life. We pray for a year of peace, safety, good health and prosperity.
NEWS UPDATE: Jerusalem is on high security alert as the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has declared war by giving the "green light" to terrorist attacks against Israelis, particularly in Jerusalem, on Yom Kippur.
Memories of the Yom Kippur War, 40 years ago, are still fresh in our minds. We remember the heavy casualties but also the great miracles of survival and ultimate success. And it was just 40 years before that, in 1933, when Hitler rose to power. Memories of the unthinkable, horrific atrocities of the Holocaust will never escape us. And then the great miracle of 1948 - an independent Jewish state re-established in the Land of Israel after 2000 years of exile!
Our sages teach us that even one act of kindness can tip the scales. Charity, we are taught, 'saves us from death'. And it can save the entire world! Our fate as individuals and humanity as a whole, is on the line. Let's pray that we will all be sealed in the Book of Life!
It is for this reason, on the very last day before our fate is sealed, that we appeal to you for perhaps one more act of kindness.
United with Israel has been there to help the People of Israel in so many ways. Many of you have helped us to:
- Send pro-Israel messages and action items to millions of people every day
- Build 10 Portable Bomb Shelters for Israeli communities under fire
- Plant over 3000 Fruit Trees throughout the Land of Israel
- Provide thousands of IDF soldiers with warm winter gear
- Send toys, gifts and personal notes to victims of terror and their families
Your donation can help us to do much more. And perhaps this extra act of kindness, right before Yom Kippur, will make all the difference in the world. It can tip the scales and seal our fate for a year full of blessing! Amen.
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The People of Israel thank you for your generous support and pray for the day when peace will reign in Jerusalem, the Land of Israel and the entire world.
Please forward this email to your family and friends. Give them the opportunity to perform another act of kindness by standing united with the People of Israel.
We wish you a wonderful New Year full of blessing, hope, happiness and peace. May we all be sealed in the Book of Life.
With Blessings from Israel,
The 'United with Israel' Family
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Chastity, Purity, Sanctified
Today, we live in a society which advocates that it is "ok" to sleep with your boyfriend/girlfriend and even enter into a form of marriage – that is cohabiting.
Yet, as fellow heirs to the Kingdom of God what does God say about this.
Clearly in the Word of God it says we should not enter into sexually immoral behaviour, 1 Thessalonians 4: 3-5
3. What God wants is that you be holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality.
4. That each of you know how to manage his sexual impulses in a holy and honourable manner.
5. Without giving into lustful desires like the pagans who don’t know God.
6. No one should wrong his brother/sister in this matter or take advantage of him/her, because the Lord punishes all who do such things.
Therefore although we have all been involved in some form of sexual immoral behaviour in the past because of lack of good teachers it is only right and proper that today I can at least encourage young people not to feel ashamed if they choose to remain virgins until they find their mates.
Even when we have found our mates, we should be able wait until we have taken part in a marriage ceremony, a declaration of union before man and God that there is no other in your life that you will keep yourselves to each other. So that we can be holy and sanctified
before the Living God to be sure that we are obeying Gods teaching on the matter.
I understand today that it is unheard of that people wait until they get married – having tries out and experimenting, yet if both the boys and girls of today were given good guidance regarding sexual behaviour and not be made to feel embarrassed that they are virgins when they are in their late teens then there would be a better chance for people to have good strong relationships based on Godly values. Respect, dignity, chastity, sanctified and purified. To come to the bridal bed with the joy and expectation of a genuine understanding that the person you are married to is also just as excited at being one with each other. For when we join ourselves to others without being married we take on some of their nature because it is carnal lust that leads people to sexual intercourse without the proper boundaries of love and commitment. We have all done such things.
I personally have entered into relationships believing that it is "ok" because we are going to get married, yet at the end of the day, the relationship fails and you are left feeling used and dirty, cast off – not only does this happen to girls but also to boys.
Moving on from one relationship after another without really considering the consequences, either pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases.
So to take Gods advice of remaining holy, sanctified and pure until your properly married with an equally pure person then with God’s blessing your marriage bed will not be defiled. As in turn you are faithful to each other and learn to grow together in love and in faithfulness and prayerfulness you will see your relationships blossom and not fail.
Bringing everything to God in prayer is really important. For having had two marriages relationships which were not God based I have come to realise that I have made many mistakes because of lack of knowledge and understanding of what is the right way before God.
So if you are really interested in putting your life right before the Lord we need to look at and clean up our past mistakes through lack of understanding. For when we do receive the enlightenment from God and revelation of what God has planned for us then we then can adjust our behaviour accordingly. For me, I pray that I will be patient and wait until God brings the right man in my life. For when God does the joining together no man can break it apart.
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Yet, as fellow heirs to the Kingdom of God what does God say about this.
Clearly in the Word of God it says we should not enter into sexually immoral behaviour, 1 Thessalonians 4: 3-5
3. What God wants is that you be holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality.
4. That each of you know how to manage his sexual impulses in a holy and honourable manner.
5. Without giving into lustful desires like the pagans who don’t know God.
6. No one should wrong his brother/sister in this matter or take advantage of him/her, because the Lord punishes all who do such things.
Therefore although we have all been involved in some form of sexual immoral behaviour in the past because of lack of good teachers it is only right and proper that today I can at least encourage young people not to feel ashamed if they choose to remain virgins until they find their mates.
Even when we have found our mates, we should be able wait until we have taken part in a marriage ceremony, a declaration of union before man and God that there is no other in your life that you will keep yourselves to each other. So that we can be holy and sanctified
before the Living God to be sure that we are obeying Gods teaching on the matter.
I understand today that it is unheard of that people wait until they get married – having tries out and experimenting, yet if both the boys and girls of today were given good guidance regarding sexual behaviour and not be made to feel embarrassed that they are virgins when they are in their late teens then there would be a better chance for people to have good strong relationships based on Godly values. Respect, dignity, chastity, sanctified and purified. To come to the bridal bed with the joy and expectation of a genuine understanding that the person you are married to is also just as excited at being one with each other. For when we join ourselves to others without being married we take on some of their nature because it is carnal lust that leads people to sexual intercourse without the proper boundaries of love and commitment. We have all done such things.
I personally have entered into relationships believing that it is "ok" because we are going to get married, yet at the end of the day, the relationship fails and you are left feeling used and dirty, cast off – not only does this happen to girls but also to boys.
Moving on from one relationship after another without really considering the consequences, either pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases.
So to take Gods advice of remaining holy, sanctified and pure until your properly married with an equally pure person then with God’s blessing your marriage bed will not be defiled. As in turn you are faithful to each other and learn to grow together in love and in faithfulness and prayerfulness you will see your relationships blossom and not fail.
Bringing everything to God in prayer is really important. For having had two marriages relationships which were not God based I have come to realise that I have made many mistakes because of lack of knowledge and understanding of what is the right way before God.
So if you are really interested in putting your life right before the Lord we need to look at and clean up our past mistakes through lack of understanding. For when we do receive the enlightenment from God and revelation of what God has planned for us then we then can adjust our behaviour accordingly. For me, I pray that I will be patient and wait until God brings the right man in my life. For when God does the joining together no man can break it apart.
Complete Jewish Bible-OE
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