Ezra Europe Making Aliyah

It is becoming increasingly unsafe for Jews to remain in the former Soviet Union countries due to the rise of severe Anti-Semitism. Following an Ezra International sponsored concert last October in Kiev, Ukraine the Ezra staff, the attending Jewish community and the Israeli dignitaries were all shocked to see the scene that awaited them out on the street.

As far as one could see in all directions there were riot police dressed in full riot gear. Each one was dressed in black, wearing their black helmets, holding their Plexiglas shields in front of them, carrying their automatic weapons and their night sticks. Their vast numbers could be seen up and down the city street and even spilling over onto the intersecting side streets.

The most shocking thing to witness was the hundreds of neo-Nazis who had taken their positions between the concert attendees and the riot police.  The crowds were shouting, “Six million was not enough,” “We will finish what Hitler could not finish,” “Death to the Jews,” “Let’s all kill one Jew,” and many more hate filled slogans.

Fear immediately ran up and down the spines of the Ezra staff and our attending Jewish guests. We were seeing and hearing first hand the hatred for the Jewish people that is boiling over in many countries of Europe and the former Soviet Union.

One evening after a soccer game held at the Kiev stadium a riotous crowd with blood in their eyes marched through the city streets. When they arrived at the central Synagogue they stoned out every window in the building, drug the Rabbi out onto the street and stoned him.  He did survive the attack but he was severly injured.

A few weeks later arsonists set fire to a Jewish school in Kiev. They were successful in burning down a wing of the 600-student school that serves preschool through 11th grade. The brutal reality of these tragedies has ignited a holy fire in every staff member, every volunteer and the leadership of Ezra International to do even more for suffering Jewish people around the world.

Added to the dangerous levels of anti-Semitism, many nations of the former Soviet Union may soon close their borders – meaning all immigration to Israel will come to a halt and the Jewish people remaining in those countries will be in grave danger. We must understand that we are in a race against time to get these suffering Jewish people to Israel!  

Viktor Mikhaylov, who overseas all of Ezra’s work throughout the former Soviet Union countries, was recently told by a Christian friend who works at the Ukrainian Passport Office that they have been instructed to draw out the passport process as long as possible to discourage Jewish people from applying for their passports to leave for Israel. She also told Viktor that she expected the approval of passports to Jewish people and others to come to a halt very soon.  

Our dear Christian friends, the clock is ticking and the time to do what we must do to rescue, return and restore precious Jewish lives is quickly running out. What we must do we must do quickly!

During the holocaust years God was calling out to righteous Gentiles to save Jewish lives. Heroes like, Corrie ten-Boom, Oskar Schindler and many more. Today, God is still calling righteous Gentiles to save Jewish lives. Today is a different time in history but the need is the same.

Will you please respond to the same call that those earlier righteous heroes responded to? Ezra International is presently working with over 32,000 Jewish men, women and children who are waiting for their turn to flee the anti-Semitism and the stark poverty for a new life in Israel but they can not do it without your prayers and your financial help.

We are hoping that you too will become one of the modern day righteous Gentiles. Corrie ten-Boom’s family gave everything they had, even their own lives to save Jewish lives. May each of us as the Body of Christ now rise to our high calling in this desperate time of need?  

Let us not see ourselves as descendents of the Crusaders, the leaders of the Spanish Inquisition or the descendents of those who massacred six million Jews. But let us instead see ourselves as descendents of the Corrie ten-Booms, the Oskar Schindlers and the many other righteous Gentiles that God used to save hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives.

Please don’t wait.  Write the largest check possible to assist in the re-gathering of God’s chosen people to their“Promised Land.” Thank you so very much for what you are about to do on their behalf. We can’t help them withoutyou!

By Rev, Barry Wagner, Vice President Ezra International – May 4, 2009

Time is Running Out!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only are there tens of thousands of Jews suffering in poverty and sickness, but many are targeted for violence by anti-Semitic groups around the world. More important, the doors for immigration are closing in many former Soviet nations – and the latest reports are that once again mass killings of Jews will take place once the borders are closed.

Ezra wants to rescue these Jewish people…f rom violence and possibly death, from poverty, sickness, hoplessness and broken hearts. Please pray now about standing with Ezra.

Respond today………….. while there is still time to make a difference.

A word from Mel Hoelzle

– Founder Ezra International

I read that: The president of the USA said that America is not a Christian nation.

I read that: The president of the USA said that America is a great Moslem nation.

I read that: The president of the USA told Israel they need to change and to stop

expanding the settlements.

Then I read what GOD says:

Genesis 12:3 says, “I will bless those who bless you, (Israel) and whoever curses you (Israel) I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Israel)

As true believers we have received the blessing GOD sent through Israel (the messiah Jesus Christ). So how can we be a friend and bless Israel? One of the greatest blessings we can do for Israel is to help one more Jewish person return to their homeland according to Bible prophesy in God’s Word.

Ezekiel 36:24 says, “For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.”

Today, Ezra International is working with over thirty thousand Jewish people in the former Soviet Union countries and South and Central America that are ready to leave for Israel.

Many could leave today except for the lack of finances to finish their process­ing. The average cost from start to finish in getting one person to Israel is approximately $360.00.

Can you please help, whether $36.00 or $360.00 or any amount will help us send one more home.

And you will have blessed Israel.

Thank you for your continuing support and prayers.

Mel Hoelzle,

Founder Ezra International

The following message is from my heart to every Jewish person that may happen upon this site.

Shalom,

Ezra International is firstly an act of obedience towards the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by Gentile believers.

We at Ezra, are not unaware that for the Jewish people the sign of the cross is seen as a symbol of retribution, anti-Semitism and betrayal by the “Body of Christ” over many years. The Spanish Inquisition, The Crusades to “liberate” Jerusalem, Russian Pogroms and of course the Holocaust were done in the name of Jesus or for G-d…………..there is nothing we can do to change our past shame other than ask for your forgiveness, it seems so insipid when reading the history of the churches utter blindness towards G-d and hate towards you, the Jewish people.

We owe our salvation and the Torah to G-d in His working with you, thankyou. I believe the time of opportunity has by the grace of G-d come to the Gentile believers to help you instead of hurt you. Let me state honestly that among the church today many will still want to destroy you, due to the demonic heresy that is, Replacement Theology.

Hear this, G-d has not forsaken you, neither will He ever leave your children, He that made a covenant with you will keep it.

I believe that with all my heart.

At Ezra, we DO NOT use the opportunity to help you make Aliyah as a handle to convert any Jewish person or child to Christianity, our ethos is to do the bidding of the Lord as expressed to us in His Torah…..Isaiah 49:22-25 ie: to carry and facilitate by any means possible the Aliyah, every staff member is aware of this and anyone who steps over this boundary is asked to leave. I am aware that as the Torah declares in Jeremiah 16:19, we as the Gentile church have inherited an enormous amount of lies and deception, which is one of the reasons we were so “out of touch” with you.

G-d forbid that we should try to teach you those same chains and deceptions that keep us away from the full presence and council of G-d.

You are the people of G-d and as it is written in the Torah, Ezekiel 36:12-38, He will meet with you in His own way, it is not for us to interfere with that process, He will do it for His Name sake. Our responsibility is helping you return, don’t believe that human rights clauses and aid to establish you in some part of the world will succeed, the time is coming when Israel will be the only obvious choice, but that decision and conviction is yours alone.

May the Lord cause His face to be turned towards you and give you peace.

Awaiting our Messiah

Paul

I heard an interesting poem the other day, it is so simple yet profound in the message it carries. As you all understand the heart of the Father has always been for His people to make Aliyah, and return to the land He promised them thousands of years ago.

“How odd of God to choose the Jews,

but odder still are those who choose, the Jewish God,

but shun the Jews??” ———————-

When one reads Romans Chapter 11, we see that Jew and Gentile will be united in the olive tree that is Israel. Unfortunately, due to the heresy of replacement theology ie: that God has replaced the Jewish people with the Gentile church, we as Gentiles have been severed from the truth and the nourishing sap which comes from an understanding that our God is a God that keeps covenant.

Has He forsaken the Jews, GOD FORBID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are the words of the Apostle Paul, and if you consider yourself to be a true believer in Christ, yet hate the Jewish people, you are fallen from grace, the truth is not in you and your salvation is cut off. My brother and sister, I say this in strong terms as the Gentile church has indeed inherited lies vanity and things wherein there is no profit. Jeremiah 16: 19.

It is time to wake up and realise the season we find ourselves. There is no peace, the Jewish people must be helped in returning to the land. I’ll go sofar as to say that in the time we are living this is the most important task in the vision of any Gentile church, salvation has come to you because of their blindness, don’t let your blindness be the loss of their INHERITANCE.

The fullness of the Gentiles has come in the eyes of the Father are turned upon His people………………………do something, support us in bringing them back.

Making Aliyah is their destiny, their right and our obligation.

Making Aliyah—In the context of Isaiah 49, verse 25 gives us insight into God’s passion and set will in His people coming home. Whether you even believe in Him or not does not change the fact that He is, as He has said, “I am, that I am.” Our Father does not suffer from an identity crisis that He should justify that statement. Those countries, governments, organizations or institutions that try to prevent them leaving will contend with the Almighty, and sudden destruction will come to them without remedy.

Perhaps you don’t believe, Psalm 14:1, has a very brief and frank reply to those who don’t, “The fool says in His heart there is no God…”, I mention this not to offend you, but to encourage you. We place so much faith in the deeds of men that we forget that in the 1980′s, of the 735 prophetic statements in the Bible, 590 had come to pass in our physical world. Friends the time is at hand.

The Aliyah of the Jewish people will take place, and is taking place.

The situation in Europe, the Former Soviet Union and many other countries is becoming desperate for many Jewish families. Ezra International has already helped 38 000 of these precious people make Aliyah, and return to their land. Currently, we have an enormous need for both prayer and financial support, another 32 000 Jewish people are bound in their countries simply because they cannot afford to make Aliyah. The average cost for one Jewish person to leave is 250-00Euros or 360 US dollars. Costs include an international passport for every member of the family, transport to and from the Jewish Agency in that country, accommodation as many of these people live in poverty, shunned by local communities and of course humanitarian aid as required while awaiting permission to leave.

Thats correct approximately 11 500 000US dollars or 8 000 000Euros is needed!!!!!!!!!

I am confident that not only will God provide the above by whatever means, but that indeed He will provide more than enough for every Jewish person to make Aliyah according to His good pleasure.

Don’t suppose that the financial obligation stops there, many of these people live in government owned accommodation, outstanding rent and utility bills MUST be settled before their release is secured.

Pastor, on pensions of 7US dollars/month and salaries of between 17-40US dollars/month they have no chance……………we need your support. Isaiah 49:22-end

There is no doubt that now is the season to act in partnership with the Holy Spirit, and bring His children home. Contact me for more information on presentations in your congregation.

Shalom

Paul

This is just to thank the leadership and congregation of Paphos Christian Fellowship for allowing me once again to minister amongst them recently. As usual your hospitality and encouragement in the work of Ezra International is not only appreciated, but indeed blessed by our wonderful Father in heaven.

May He cause you to walk on the high places in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Thankyou once again

Shalom

Paul