Billye Brim Blogging from Israel April 16, 2008
Yam Ha’Melach (The Salt Sea)
The tour flew away to their homes. I came on down to the Dead Sea. Here I will study, write, do radio, rest, and recuperate. The Psoriasis I fought, and from which I had been clear the past few years, made an attack this past winter. So—I am here in the sun, getting it under again. When I first came here years ago and I watched people as their skin seemingly miraculously cleared, or they got better from crippling conditions, before my eyes, I asked the Lord about it. The answer I sensed was this: This place is a sign to the world that even in judgment there is blessing.
This is the place of Sodom and Gomorrah. The judgment that hit them made this the lowest spot on earth. That’s why one can lie in the sun for hours—its filtered. Sun is what clears Psoriasis.
The Change in Christian and Jewish Relationship
Moshe Kempenski, from the Shorashim book store in the Jewish Quarter, made a statement to our group. He was speaking on the phenomena of Christians and Jews and what’s happening between us. (He is Orthodox Jewish.) He happened to say that he’d been thinking about it, and he believes that things started to change with the fall of the Berlin wall and the great coming home of the Russian Jews.
I’ve been thinking about what he said. You know, everyone here is getting ready for Pesach (Passover). You should see the cleaning that’s going on. Not one crumb of leaven can be left in one’s house, or in what I’m watching, this hotel. Of course, this is one of the three major moeds (fixed dates) on God’s calendar of Redemption. Even secular Jews will celebrate Pesach.
The Passover commemorates the Jews exodus from Egypt.
Year’s ago a Gallup Poll discovered that the best known Bible story throughout the world is Moses and the parting of the Reed Sea (Red Sea).Think of that in light of the Scriptures where God says, “Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But the LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries, where I had driven them: and they shall dwell in their own land” (Jeremiah 23:7,8). (See also Jeremiah 16:14, 15)
Straight north of Jerusalem is Moscow. The bringing home of the Russian Jews has so changed this land. Now, signs are written in Russian as well as Hebrew , Arabic, and English. Everywhere one hears the Russian language.
Here at the Dead Sea there is an abundance of Russian tourists. They are not Russian Jews come home, but they are affluent Russians who love to vacation in this area. In the years I’ve been coming here, I’ve never seen anything like it. I’d say more than half the guests at this hotel are Russian. And that’s just a side note to the really, really big thing God’s done and for which His great reknown will come of bringing home the Jews from the north.
Billye Brim