Their Lives Were Not Lost In Vain

Today is Yom Ha'Zikharon in Israel...Memorial Day...for the thousand of Israeli Men, Women and Children whose lives have been snuffed out by the Enemies of God...some were murdered by terrorists...some were butchered in one of the many Wars and Operations that Israel has been forced to participate in to defend Herself...each death has one thing in common: that life was destroyed because he or she was a Jew...and because the terrorist enemies who hate Israel and Her Eternal Covenant Children do not know The Most High God of Avraham, Yitzchak Yaakov...and certainly do not bow their knees to His Immutable Word and Truths...

We know many of these Israeli families now...having worked closely with and for Israel for so many years, we know the Soldiers and Leaders and Am Ha'artez who make up this beautiful Land of God...and we grieve with them...

The loss of one life is too many...Israel was reborn on the ash pile of over SIX MILLION of their fellow Jewish Men, Women and Children who were butchered in Hitler's Hell known as the Holocaust...each Israeli Jew knows that the Land they are living in; have fought for and labored for; have given their 'ALL' for...this Land their Forefathers were promised in an ETERNAL COVENANT GOD MADE WITH AVRAHAM...this is THEIR LAND and they are NOT going to give it up EVER...which makes Yom Ha'Zikharon so emotionally draining BECAUSE each Israeli Jew KNOWS that their lives are expendable for the good of THIS NATION CALLED ISRAEL...

At the tender age of 18...just when these beautiful Israeli Young Men and Women should be thinking of their future life path...at this age, each Israeli young boy and girl - for that is what they truly are - young people - not yet men and women - but soon to be...at this tender age, each Israeli boy and girl is inducted into the IDF to be trained to serve their Nation and to protect it, if need be, with their own lives...

What a difference PRIDE and HONOR in your Nation make...all over the rest of the free world, young 18 year olds are able to actually begin to walk their life path as it is not 'mandatory' that they enlist in the military of their respective Nation...I often wonder what a difference it would have made if American 18 year olds were forced to enter the military - both male and female 18 year olds...would there be PRIDE in America rather than the socialism and communism that has penetrated our Academic Institutions and turned so many of our young people away from the knowledge that Freedom is the basis of our Nation's Founding...

Freedom isn't free...it has been bought with a price...and many times that price is the shed blood of others who were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice so that those who came behind them COULD live in Freedom...

In the case of Israel, FREEDOM is what drives this Nation to SUCCEED at EVERYTHING it puts its' hands to...they know what the LOSS OF FREEDOM meant to their extended families from all over Europe who perished in OVENS and CONCENTRATION CAMPS because they were JEWS who were NOT free...

On this day, Iyar 4, 5773...what the world calls April 14, 2013...I lend my voice in prayer to The Most High God I love and serve to say along with my beloved Israeli Brothers and Sisters...

NEVER AGAIN! Each life HONORED and REMEMBERED today MEANT SOMETHING to Israel's God! He has NOT FORGOTTEN any of these whose lives we recall today...for He tells us that 'He knows the very number of the hairs on our head'...and He 'stores up our tears as Prayers of Incense before His Throne'...and that He knows when each sparrow falls...LIFE is precious! He gave the LIFE OF HIS SON for us...SURELY, if He was willing to pay that price for us, His Eternal Covenant Children's Lives are worth far more than one can imagine...

May G-d COMFORT and STRENGTHEN each Family in His Land as they pause to honor their own who have given their all for Israel!

'Hiney Lo Yanun, Ve Lo Yishan, Shomer Yisrael!'

When Words Fail....


The CalendarToday is Nisan 27, 5773 on of Time that The Creator G-d gave Israel...on the Gregorian Calendar...the Calendar Pope Gregory instituted as he did not want 'any similarity to the time the Jews keep'... this is called April 7, 2013. It is Day 12 of the Counting of The Omer since Cha Ha Matzot, the SECOND Day of the FIRST Moedim/Appointed Time of God called PESACH...the Biblical Counting we do as we approach the Fourth Moedim/Appointed Time of G-d called SHAVUOT...what The Church has renamed 'Pentecost'...we are commanded in B'Midbar/Numbers and Vayikra/Leviticus to 'COUNT THE OMER for 49 Days PLUS 1 as we reach SHAVUOT, the FOURTH of the SPRING MOEDIM/Feasts of the
L-rd....Shavuot is the Feast YHVH commanded as we HONOR the GIVING OF THE LAW at Mt. Sinai when HE THUNDERED the "TEN WORDS"...Shavuot is to we who Believe that Yeshua WAS and IS The Messiah Of Israel the POURING OUT OF THE RUACH HA KODESH/Holy Spirit as the SECOND TIME FIRE FELL FROM HEAVEN...this time over the heads of the Talmidim who were gathered in Shlomo's Portico ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT, EXACTLY as they were COMMANDED by YHVH to do as a REGALIM Feast...one of the THREE Regalim Feasts of HaShem when 'all Jewish Men are to appear in HIS TEMPLE to give account of themselves and bring their LEVITICAL TITHES and OFFERINGS to HIM...seeking HIS FACE and FORGIVENESS as they made ATONEMENT for themselves and their families...just having to write these above sentences to TRY to explain to you, my readers, what is TRUTH rather than the FICTION we live with, drains my already weary soul...


Not only is today Nisan 27, 5773, Day 12 of the Counting of the Omer, it is also HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. Today, Israel HONORS the over SIX MILLION of their JEWISH BROTHERS and SISTERS...MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN...who were BRUTALLY MURDERED BY PLANNED DECREE of the EVIL MADMAN named Adolph Hitler...who was INDWELT with SATAN'S DEMONIC FORCES to try to annihilate G-D'S ETERNAL COVENANT CHILDREN...


Today, all across Israel...and throughout the World where SANE and GOOD PEOPLE STILL DWELL, men and women will 'STAND AT ATTENTION' and pay HONOR to the MEMORY of those SIX MILLION who were so brutally murdered...a NATION was BORN of the ASHES of Hitler's Hell and that NATION TODAY FLOURISHES and PRODUCES EXCELLENCE IN ALL IT DOES...regardless of the STILL evil plots to destroy Her and Her People...

For you see, ISRAEL is the BELOVED OF G-D! HE tells us CLEARLY in HIS INNERANT AND IMMUTABLE WORD that 'he who touches Her, touches The Apple of His Eye'...that HE BOUGHT HER with the BRIDE PRICE OF HIS SON...that HE IS COMING AGAIN TO REDEEM HER...and that ISRAEL will be the DWELLING PLACE OF HIS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM where HE WILL SIT ON HIS THRONE in HIS TEMPLE on HIS TEMPLE MOUNT...and where the NATIONS OF THE WORLD WILL COME TO BOW DOWN AND PAY HIM HONOR...that at HIS NAME, EVERY KNEE will bow; and EVERY TONGUE will confess that HE IS LORD to the GLORY OF THE FATHER...


Israel IS His Beloved. NOTHING and NO ONE will EVER CHANGE that DIVINE COVENANT HE CUT WITH AVRAHAM...


Today, as we who LOVE HER and STAND FOR AND WITH HER RECALL the horrific horror HER CHILDREN were forced to endure, we have NO WORDS...I was a Journalism Major with English as a minor....my desire was to write and teach....so 'writing words' comes naturally to me...BUT G-D had plans for MY LIFE that I did not know...I was born a WWII Baby and was the FIRSTBORN of two parents who LOVED OUR GOD; and a Father who SERVED HIS COUNTRY in the South Pacific during WWII...BOTH of these parents TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN to LOVE THE JEWS as we grew up in a predominantly all Jewish Neighborhood...where MY friends had no 'extended family' as they had BEEN BURNED IN THE OVENS OF HITLER...at an early age I learned of The Holocaust...and I have spent my ENTIRE LIFE devouring EVERYTHING I COULD on it...


Through the GRACE OF GOD people have been brought to my life walk that HE has sent to continue my education on this dastardly subject...and THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD I have been DEEPLY HONORED to have MET and BECOME FRIENDS with KEY LEADERS of HIS NATION, ISRAEL...I have sat with them and HEARD from them FIRSTHAND of the Holocaust and the Rebirth of their Nation...of the WARS they have been FORCED to fight to DEFEND themselves from the EVIL that is insatiable for Jewish Blood...


Last year, on a Stormy Shabbat, I was given a present by Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann. Rabbi Areyah and I have become very dear friends over the course of my years of working for and with Israel...he came to the Ohio Home of my husband, Bill, and I one Sunday simply saying that 'I was told to come to you'....which in itself is a strong testimony of G-d about our work and friendship...Rabbi and Esther Kaltmann hosted our Jewish Roots of the Faith Class at a Shabbat Supper this past June....the night spawned one of the worst storms Central Ohio has ever had...and Electrical Power was lost to most of Central Ohio as a result...nonetheless, Rabbi and Esther hosted our group who wound their way in the dark and storm to be with them for Shabbat...as I left their house that night, Rabbi gave me a very heavy package...when I arrived at my home very near midnight, I openend that package to find a copy of an AUSCHWITZ TORAH TRACTATE...the TORAH that General Dwight Eisenhower had DEMANDED the printing presses of Germany's Heidelberg PRINT FOR EVERY JEWISH SURVIVOR OF AUSCHWITZ....I was OVERCOME with emotion as you can imagine...and told Rabbi that I felt he should keep this as Rabbi's father had survived Auschwitz and is still alive and living in Australia...but Rabbi has insisted that I keep this AUSCHWITZ TORAH TRACTATE and it is PROUDLY and REVERENTLY displayed along with other Memorabilia I have been given or received from Israel...the CIRCLE OF LIFE GROWS EVER WIDER as we walk the PATH HE HAS FOR US...


As I close, I want to list those who are BELOVED FRIENDS from Isrel that I have met and worked with, and who are MY KINDRED SOULS in this walk we are on: Christian and Jew TOGETHER STANDING STRONG AND PROUD FOR HIS LAND AND NATION, ISRAEL! May EACH OF THESE LISTED BELOW be DIVINELY BLESSED AND PROTECTED BY THE GOD OF AVRAHAM, YITZCHAK AND YAAKOV ALL THE DAYS OF THEIR LIVES! And May All of Israel, be Blessed and Protected every day from their enemies!


Ziva Ben Reuven; Major General (Res.) and Yael Ben Reuven and their children: Yotam, Roi, Maya, Hilel, Shir and Gan; Brig. Gen. Deputy Commander Gal and Donna Hirsch and their children; Meori, Ofri and Nir; Napthali (Nati Yeyni); Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Oded and ZaZa Tyrah; Morry and Ilana Sivan; Amit Marom; Yuval Tanuri; Dr. Nitza Nachmias; Col. (Ret.) Ofra Ben Yishai; Eyal Arad; Nir Arieli; Eyal Levin; Amihay Noy; Asi Yariv; Gadi Zeder; Yoni Ram; Dr. Amy Lippmann; Linor Shachar; Alex Shafran; Lior Amsalen; Major Edan Chudy; Major Zohar Cohen; Micha Danieli; Daniel Bar-Am; Martin and Fay Novak; Rabbi Tuly Weisz; Rabbi Areyah and Eshter Kaltmann; Yossi Katlmann (the father of Rabbi Kaltmann)...and the countless thousands of IDF Men and Women PAST AND PRESENT who are Today's ARMY OF GOD as they stand STRONG AND PROUD AND TRUE to DEFEND THEIR NATION...and who say, along with we who love them dearly:


NEVER AGAIN! AM YISRAEL CHAI!

Hiney Le Yanun, Ve Lo Yishan, Shomer Yisrael! Psalm 121:4 (He Who Keepeth Israel Neither Slumbers Nor Sleeps!)