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Mary Terry L retweeted
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The land was not stolen. It was purchased by Jews who then recovered it from nearly uninhabitable malarial marshes.
The Jews bought the deadly land painted dark blue in this 1920 British Mandate Palestine malaria map.
All the blue was malarial. The dark blue was so bad almost nobody could live there. That is what Jews purchased, usually from absentee landlords in Beirut and Damascus, at prices that assumed the parcels were worthless.
Then Dr. Israel Kligler and the Joint Distribution Committee drained it, oiled it, put fish in the water, and broke the fever. People stopped dying. Arab villages saw a population explosion because the swamp stopped killing them. That growth later got sold as “they stole our land.”
Now look at the UN’s 1947 partition map next to the malaria map. The Jewish share tracks the coastal valley land they made livable, plus the sand of the Negev Desert.
Still, the Arabs said no to any Jewish sovereignty and opened a war. Five Arab armies followed to destroy the Jewish state.
Before that war, nobody was displaced.
Partition would have left that number at zero.
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Mary Terry L retweeted
FROM THE DEPTHS: JONAH & YOM KIPPUR.
Every year on Yom Kippur, during the afternoon service, Jewish communities around the world read the book of Jonah.
Why Jonah?
Because Jonah is one of the clearest pictures in the Tanakh of teshuvah — turning back to God.
Nineveh was a violent, wicked city under judgment. God sent Jonah with a warning:
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
— Jonah 3:4
But something extraordinary happened.
The people believed God.
They humbled themselves.
They fasted.
They turned from their wickedness.
And Scripture says:
“When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them.”
— Jonah 3:10
That is why Jonah belongs on Yom Kippur.
The message is not simply:
Feel sorry.
It is:
TURN.
The Hebrew idea of teshuvah carries the sense of returning.
Return to God.
Return from sin.
Return while there is still time.
But Jonah is not only about Nineveh’s repentance.
Jonah himself must return.
He runs from the presence of the LORD, resists God’s calling, and becomes angry when God shows mercy.
The prophet preaching repentance is also being confronted by God.
It is easy to see the sins of Nineveh.
It is harder to see the Jonah within ourselves.
And then there is Jonah’s descent.
He goes down to Joppa.
Down into the ship.
Down into the sea.
Down into the depths.
For three days and three nights, Jonah disappears beneath the waters.
Then he is brought up again.
“I descended to the roots of the mountains... but You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.”
— Jonah 2:6
Jonah’s story is not only about repentance.
It is also about descent and deliverance.
From the depths, Jonah remembers the temple:
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.”
— Jonah 2:7
A man in the depths.
A holy God.
A cry for mercy.
And a return.
Yet Jonah contains another surprise.
Nineveh is not Israel.
It is a Gentile city.
And still God sends a prophet.
Still God warns.
Still God shows compassion.
The God of Israel reveals that His mercy reaches farther than Jonah wanted it to.
That is why the book ends with one of the most arresting questions in Scripture:
“Should I not have compassion on Nineveh...?”
— Jonah 4:11
And then the book stops.
No answer from Jonah.
Just God’s question.
Perhaps the reader is meant to answer it.
Do we share God’s heart for mercy?
Jonah knew exactly who God was:
“For I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.”
— Jonah 4:2
His theology was correct.
His heart still needed to change.
But Yom Kippur goes deeper still.
Because repentance is not the whole question.
The Torah asks how sin itself is dealt with before a holy God.
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls.”
— Leviticus 17:11
And Leviticus 16 gives one of Scripture’s most vivid pictures of sin being removed from the people.
Sin is not ignored.
It is dealt with.
Removed.
Carried away.
That makes Micah’s words especially powerful:
“Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity... You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”
— Micah 7:18–19
Jonah descends into the depths of the sea.
Micah says God casts sins into the depths of the sea.
Yom Kippur is about more than remorse.
It is about the possibility that guilt can actually be removed.
But then Scripture raises an even deeper question:
How does God ultimately provide that atonement?
Abraham once said:
“God will provide for Himself the lamb.”
— Genesis 22:8
The Torah teaches that God gives blood for atonement.
And later Isaiah speaks of a Servant who would be:
“Pierced for our transgressions... crushed for our iniquities.”
Then Isaiah says:
“The LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.”
— Isaiah 53:5–6
What a progression.
God provides.
God gives.
God removes.
God bears.
Repentance matters.
Humility matters.
Turning back matters.
But Scripture continually points beyond what we do toward what God Himself provides.
And Jonah stands quietly in the middle of this great biblical story:
A prophet who descends into the depths.
Three days.
Then deliverance.
No explanation forced.
No conclusion imposed.
Just the question left hanging before us:
Will we keep running from God, or will we return to Him?
And perhaps Yom Kippur asks one more:
When God provides the way of atonement, will we recognize it?
“Return to Me, and I will return to you.”
— Malachi 3:7
That is the heartbeat of Jonah.
That is the heartbeat of teshuvah.
And it may be one of the deepest heartbeats of Yom Kippur.
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Mary Terry L retweeted
There is a lot of talk about school closures and their impact.
Reminds me of a massive school closure from almost 20 years ago…
Let me tell you about it…
In the 1972, during the AIM movement, a Native American school was started near Minneapolis South High called “Heart of the Earth.”
It was well loved by the community.
In the late 1990’s it turned into a charter school and Minneapolis Public Schools became its “authorizer” responsible for oversight and audit…
Despite requirements to audit and look over finances, and despite some strange dealings of the executive director, MPS board consistently deferred their oversight responsibilities with Heart of the Earth, and in 2006 even unanimously reapproved the charter despite never once having conducted any glance into the operations of the school.
Well, an audit was finally done, and in 2008 the director of Heart of the Earth was convicted of embezzling millions of dollars meant for Native American students and, after nearly 40 years, the school was forced to shut down.
An entire community lost its school, one that had been hard fought to build, and it has never been the same.
One person should not destroy a legacy school. It’s actually not possible.
The gross mismanagement and lax oversight that befell HOTE was due to MPS and its board not prioritizing and fulfilling due diligence, and the entire community suffered for it.
They turned a blind eye before the check came due, much like we’re seeing revisited this week.
It’s an important cautionary tale for many reasons not the least of which is this:
Of the then 7 member Minneapolis school board that unanimously turned a blind eye to agressive fraud-
only one still holds elected office,
Only one was Native American,
Only one continues to preside over embezzlement and fraud.
Do you know who that member is?
Peggy Flanagan.
“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.”
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Mary Terry L retweeted
I’m an overthinker, and sometimes I create so much anxiety for myself worrying about things that are completely out of my control. I can run through every possible scenario in my head as if worrying about it will somehow change the outcome.
I’m finally learning to give those things to God. That doesn’t mean believing the things I fear will never happen. It means knowing that even if they do, God will still be God. He will still be with me. And I will still trust Him.
I think that’s what it really means to give it to God. To stop carrying all the “what ifs” and trust Him with the things I was never in control of anyway.
There is so much peace in giving it to God. 🤍
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Mary Terry L retweeted
The anti Israel movement has one intention: to bring about the end of the Jewish state. They would prefer the world cheers while they do it which is why you’re being subjected to constant propaganda.
Don’t condone genocidal intent. They intend to destroy a state and its people. That’s why they constructed the big lie. They created a fake genocide to prepare the ground for a real one
Tell the world you stand with Jews and Israel
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I'm happy that Believers are now starting to wake up to the Feasts that were observed by early Christians-because their Messiah observed them too.
Reposting this from Beit Immanuel in Israel:
Christians Were Keeping the Jewish Festivals in the Fourth Century
One of the most fascinating witnesses to ancient Christians observing Jewish practices comes from an unlikely source: John Chrysostom.
Around 386–387 CE, while serving as a priest in Antioch, Chrysostom delivered a series of nasty sermons commonly called the Eight Homilies Against the Jews. Why was he so angry? Because Christians in his community were observing Jewish festivals.
Chrysostom writes:
“The festivals of the...Jews are soon to march upon us one after the other and in quick succession: the feast of Trumpets, the feast of Tabernacles, the fasts.”
—John Chrysostom, Against the Jews, Homily 1.1
He then explains that Christians themselves were participating:
“Some of these are going to watch the festivals and others will join the Jews in keeping their feasts and observing their fasts.” —Against the Jews, Homily 1.1
The “Feast of Trumpets” is the biblical Yom Teruah, later known as Rosh Hashanah. The great fast of this season is Yom Kippur, followed five days later by Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles.
His next sermon makes the Yom Kippur connection especially clear:
“Their … fast will begin after five days.” —Against the Jews, Homily II.1
Chrysostom was preaching five days before the fast and urgently trying to prevent Christians from observing it.
Later he warns his congregation against going to the synagogue for the Trumpets, participating in Jewish fasting, or observing the Sabbath:
“If any of you … shall go to the spectacle of the Trumpets, or rush off to the synagogue … or take part in fasting, or share in the Sabbath, or observe any other Jewish ritual great or small…” —Against the Jews, Homily VIII.8
Consider what Chrysostom has inadvertently preserved for us.
This is Antioch in the late fourth century, more than three centuries after Yeshua and the apostles. Jewish observance among Christians was sufficiently common that a major Christian preacher devoted repeated sermons to stopping it.
Chrysostom's hostility toward Judaism is disturbing, but that hostility makes his testimony historically valuable.
The separation between Judaism and Christianity was neither instantaneous nor clean.
Even in the late fourth century, Christians in Antioch were still participating in Jewish sacred times—including the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur fasting, Sukkot, and Shabbat.
We know this because one of Christianity's most famous ancient preachers stood in his pulpit and demanded that they stop. It seems some refused to listen.
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