Planted in the Land 

FathersJoy has just returned from Israel. We led a team of 38 from 2 congregations in Tacoma, Washington on a 12 day tour. Our time there was incredible from visiting all the sites to getting to meet Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair.

Over several months spanning from April – August 2018 there has been a reoccurring theme in my study of scripture and I don’t believe its a coincidence – it’s what I call a confirmation.

The first one was: 

Amos 9:14-15

I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,” Says the Lord your God.

The second was: 

Jeremiah 24:4-7

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart. 

The third was: 

Ezekiel 37:14  &  37:21

I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’ ”

“Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

The fourth was: 

Isaiah 65:21-23

They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat;For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble;For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, And their offspring with them.

As I was in Israel on the last day I walked into the FOZ ( Friends of Zion )  museum and in the third room some of the scriptures from above were on the walls and even more scriptures that said the same things.  Prophetic things about people returning to the land.  It was then upon walking into that room that I realized what the previous four months were about.  These scriptures the Lord gave to me were not necessarily about me  ( that I would be planted and not plucked up) but that I, as a gentile, would be a part of these prophesies being fulfilled.  Ah – now it makes sense.  The big Questions is HOW……that’s up to Him to reveal.

I’m excited to see what these scriptures have to do with FathersJoy and until then

we will pray for the peace of Jerusalem as well as the return of His people to the LAND!

And stay tuned for our dates for our next tour to Israel in the fall of 2019………….