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Shavuot Gathering Draws 600 Young Adults to Worship Yeshua

It’s been a long time coming, but finally we were able to host another nationwide event for young adults where we could celebrate and worship Yeshua together! We have held these events on Independence Day in the past, but they have been cancelled due to the ongoing war, and also

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Pentecost meant that all nations were included in God's family

Pentecost: The Promise and the Gift of the Holy Spirit

A lot of Christians don’t realize that Pentecost is a Jewish holiday known as the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot in Hebrew. Well — not Jewish so much as biblical — one of the feasts given to the Israelites by God in the Torah. Pentecost means 50th because it’s 50

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Shavuot: The Feast Of Weeks

What do a harvest festival, 49 days, and a passionate love story have in common? They are all major components of the Feast of Weeks, Shavuot! (What is Shavuot? Shavuot means “weeks”.) God said: “Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing

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Pentecost meant that all nations were included in God's family

Pentecost: The Promise and the Gift of the Holy Spirit

A lot of Christians don’t realize that Pentecost is a Jewish holiday known as the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot in Hebrew. Well — not Jewish so much as biblical — one of the feasts given to the Israelites by God in the Torah. Pentecost means 50th because it’s 50

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When is Shavuot? Counting the Omer, counting down to the time of Pentecost

What is Shavuot?

Unlike every other feast in God’s calendar, Shavuot (Pentecost) is held not a specific date but a specified DAY: Sunday. Passover is always on the 14th of the first month, Nisan, Yom Kippur is always on the 10th of the seventh month, Tishri, but the date of Shavuot changes from

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Bible Teachings

Gideon breaking down and building up

Gideon: Breaking Down and Building Up

When God spoke to Gideon (which means “hewer”) he was hewing wheat, separating the wheat from the chaff which is pretty remarkable when we think of what he went on to do with God. Through Gideon God weeded out the “wheat” from the “chaff” in his army through different tests

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Reset the restoration of all things

The Greatest Reset: The Restoration of All Things

We want a do-over. A fresh start. Especially when we go into a new year or a new season, we want a clean slate to start again. Maybe we just want to go home. It’s a visceral yearning, and the answer to the existential dread so many suffer from. But

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Perspective

Insights from Hebrew

why is Israel called Israel, and what does Israel mean?

What Does Israel Mean?

How did Israel get the name Israel? And what does it mean? The answer is not so simple. The word “Israel” is mentioned 2362 times in the Bible, 2284 times in the Hebrew Scriptures and 78 times in the New Testament as well. Where does the word come from and

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Where can I find hope

How to Find Hope

You might have thought the word “hope” would appear in the Bible all over the place. Hundreds of times. But if you’re looking to find hope, the word itself is mentioned just over 80 in the 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures, and just under 80 in the 27 books

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The choirmaster: Praise and victory are linked in Hebrew

The Choirmaster: How Praise is Linked to Victory

After outlining all the desperate straits that he and his countrymen are in, the book of the prophet Habakkuk ends on an extremely interesting and unusual note. The last verse says this: “God, the Lord, is my strength, and He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and He makes me to

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Arabic Ministry News

Reaching our neighbors

Arab youth event: Useful to the Master of the House

Useful Vessels for the Lord: Arab Youth Conference

Well over 100 Arabic-speaking Christians aged 18-35 from all over the north of Israel came for a conference held by “Eternal Moments,” the Arabic ministry of ONE FOR ISRAEL. The conference was entitled “Useful to the Master of the House”, with the focus on becoming useful vessels for God based

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The Believers: Jews and Arabs who Follow Jesus in Israel

There are some wild ideas of what life looks like for Israeli Jewish and Arab believers in Jesus, but what’s the reality? It’s not easy that’s for sure, but some viral videos give a completely misleading idea of what happens to the believers here in Israel… And there are some

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Miracles in the Arabic Ministry

ONE FOR ISRAEL’s Arabic ministry team “Eternal Moments”, though just three people in number, are seeing some wonderful fruit from their labor. “We saw the work of God, there have been some big challenges, and we needed miracles,” Carlos Damianos relayed. They needed miracles and they got them. But there’s

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Messianic Perspective

Jewish Apologetics

Jesus’ Genealogies: Contradictory or complementary?

Jesus’ genealogies are frequently said to be irreconcilable. They are not. They are an invitation to delve deeply into the history of both Israel and her Messiah, intended not to mystify but to edify. Guest blog by James Bejon The New Testament attributes two different genealogies to Jesus. One is

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Why are the Torah’s Commandments so Cruel?

Capital punishment by stoning!? By hanging!? By burning at the stake!? Sometimes to the modern reader the maximum penalties in the Old Testament may seem cruel, barbaric or primitive. On the other hand, our system of punishment in modern day western society would be regarded as weak, too soft and ridiculous in

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The Perfect Sacrifice

God created an escape from eternal death through his Word, which became flesh. He is the Messiah, Yeshua, who was born of the virgin Mary (Isaiah 7:14), in fact, all the Old Testament prophets pointed to him for thousands of years. In the Holy Scriptures we learn that God has

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