DAY 2 anzac israel tour

Today after we awoke to light rain which cleared quickly. There were a number of issues going on around us including our qwn Cat at home who we were phoned about to say she was Paralyised in the back legs. Urgent prayer went up for cat & people and the Lord answered so that by last night the cat was healed and people were getting their answers.

Its so good to be in the land of the God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob. we set out and spent some time around Joppa (Jaffe) We were in the place where Jonah had his encounter that ended in three days of rest & relaxation in the belly of a fish and eventually the word of the Lord being delived to a gentile nation of Assyria. We also were in the area where Peter recieved his vision of clean & unclean food that resulted in the first recorded convertion of gentiles to Messianic fellowship in Yeshua. Theres something about Jaffe that says I am the God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob but I extend an invitation to the nations to know me. Romans 11 says the gentiles are grafted into the root stock and for this the group gave thanks and offered praise & worship to the Lord most high.

From Jaffe we headed alonf the Med coast to Ceasarea, also a place of significants to the gentiles because it was here that Peter traveled to the house of the Roman centurion because of that vision he recived in Jaffe. Ceasarea was also where Paul the Apostle stood before Felix & Festus and was imprisioned waiting for his appeal to be heard in Rome. We sang in the Roman Theatre an offered praise to the king.

On our way to Haifa we passed over the river that the Aust light horse & NZ Mounted rifles had suffered loss of life but also victory in 1918 we prayed that the ANZAC blood in the ground would continually remind the Lord that he gave that Land to Abraham and confirmed it through Isaac & Jacob and all of the prophets to be a land given forever to the decendants of Jacob.

Our accomidation was at Beit Yedi a part of the ministry of kehilat Ha Carmel.

During dinner the news came through that Israel had lost two soldiers in the Gaza region and the burden of this came upon me heavey. I was so sad and I knew that all of Israel would be sad as well. Ive been in prayer for much of the night over this issue and I know we are here to continue in the tradition of the ANZACs in seeing Israel released into all God has for them.

We know we are here to give and to release but also to pick up our ANZAC mantle and offer it back to the Lord in the land of Israel and also in our ANZAC nations of Australia & New Zealand.

There is much more to write about in the near future concerning the ANZAC mantle and our place in history but for now I will hold back until clarity comes.

Today we will worship at Kehilat Ha Carmel and in the afternoon depart for Tiberius. We will stop somewhere on our journey to pray for Israel as she mourns her sons. Probably over looking the plains from the top of Mt Carmel/

Ian Johnson
www.hisamazinggloryministries.org