A few days before 9/11, the United Nations mounted its greatest-ever attack on Israel’s existence. The week-long battle raged in far-off Durban, South Africa. Not a war of physical weapons, but one that was going for the kill – and its target, center stage, was the Jewish state.

You are obviously referring to is Ezekiel 18 and 33, where we learn that a wicked man who repents is accepted by God with no mention of sacrifices along with Daniel 6:10, where it tells us that Daniel, living in exile, prayed toward the Temple (i.e., facing Jerusalem) three times a day.

It was God’s prime directive to Israel to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deut 6:5). Yeshua echoed the same directive to His disciples (Matt 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27). Get that one commandment right and all the rest will follow.

On July 31, 2008 while in Red Deer, Alberta Canada for a conference, the Lord took me into a very interesting and enlightening revelatory experience.

We all know that there were different functions for the sacrifices, including ritual purification, thanksgiving, personal consecration, and making of vows, along with atonement for unintentional sins.

Pleasure and joy are part of God’s nature and in the environment of God, where He is, in His presence, there is pleasure.

There can be no question that blood atonement is the central and most important form of atonement in the Bible.

The Hebrews experienced the first few plagues just like Egypt did. Maybe it was just enough to convince them that God was seriously judging Egypt and that He had the power to do what Moses was telling them He was going to do–set them free!!!

Jesus tells us in Luke chapter 18 that we should always pray and not lose heart. We live in a day of crisis situations where many of God’s people have been overwhelmed with discouragement brought on by problems and perplexing situations.

Israel’s 32nd government will be sworn in this week, and a priority in the agenda of Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister will be the complex issues associated with arms smuggling from Sudan and other rogue states into Gaza.