Friends of the Jews

Jerusalem Report

from the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team

Dear Art,

I am writing you from Geneva where I have come to defend Israel as the anti-Semitic nations of the world attack her. Iran’s president has led the way, accusing Israel of being a racist and apartheid state while delegates from assenting nations smile and applaud him. The Jerusalem Prayer Team is the only U.S. Christian organization here standing up for Israel.

On May 14, 2009, Israel will celebrate her 61st birthday. It is an historic celebration of one of the greatest miracles in history. A nation was born in a day just as the prophet Isaiah had predicted thousands of years ago.

That Word is found in Isaiah 66:8: “Who has ever seen or heard of anything as strange as this? Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Jerusalem's birth pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will come forth.”

Since May 14, 1948, Israel has lived with the threat of extinction. And though the threat today is greater than ever, God is still defending His chosen people.

I am going to Jerusalem to celebrate Israel’s 61st birthday, and want to take your gift to bless the Jewish people with me. God’s word says, “I will bless those who bless thee and curse him who curses thee.” (Genesis 12:3)

The Jerusalem Prayer Team is leading a worldwide effort to encourage people worldwide to unite…to join their hearts and prayers together to support Israel.

I believe with all my heart that America has been greatly blessed because America recognized Isaiah 66:8. Vice-President Harry S. Truman was sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 1945. His love for the Bible (he had read it twice through by age twelve) gave him a natural inclination to favor "God's chosen people" in their quest for a safe homeland.

Another factor that would influence Truman's support of Zionism was the plight of the remainder of the Jews in Europe. When the Nazis were finally defeated, the death camps were liberated. The world was not only shocked by what had been done to these people, but over the months to follow would also be shocked about what was to be done with them in their "liberation."

On May 14, 1947, Soviet ambassador Andrei Gromyko stood before the United Nations General Assembly and said that the Soviet Union understood "the legitimate rights of the Jewish people" and that the Soviet Union supported the formation of an "independent, dual, democratic, homogeneous Arab-Jewish state" in Palestine.

Having the U.S.S.R. give such strong support to the proposed Jewish state forced the U.S.'s hand, despite State Department pressure in the opposite direction, to try to become an even stronger supporter of the new nation or risk Israel becoming a Soviet satellite.

Tens of thousands of Russian Jews immigrated to Israel as a result of the anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Today thousands of those who now live in Israel are poor and are living with the barest of necessities needed to survive.

When you give, the amazing power of the eternal blessing God promised to those who bless the Jews will be unlocked in your life and upon our country.

For more than six decades Israel has been threatened…but she has always survived by God’s grace. Why? During each time of threat and challenge, men and women such as you, men and women of courage and conviction have answered the call.

Isaiah 58:11 and 14 says: “The LORD will guide you continually, watering your life when you are dry and keeping you healthy, too. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring…the LORD will be your delight. I will give you great honor and give you your full share of the inheritance I promised to Jacob, your ancestor. I, the LORD, have spoken!"

Your ambassador to Jerusalem,

Mike Evans