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Six million Christian children to pray for Israel on Purim
Jerusalem Post ^
| February 28, 2007
| MATTHEW WAGNER
Posted on 02/28/2007 6:39:54 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Inspired by a kabbalist rabbi, an Evangelical leader from Ft. Worth, Texas, plans to enlist the "pure hearted prayers" of six million Christian children worldwide to protect the Jewish people from the Iranian nuclear threat.
The prayer rally will take place before Purim, a holiday that commemorates the redemption through divine intervention of the Jewish people from an evil Persian ruler about 2,500 years ago. Purim starts on Saturday evening.
Michael D. Evans, best-selling author of The American Prophecies: Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future, said on Monday evening that the inspiration for his idea from a report in The Jerusalem Post.
"After reading about Rabbi [David Batzri's] campaign to enlist 10,000 children to pray that God annul [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's plans for the destruction of the Jewish people, I said to myself, 'Why stop at 10,000?'" Evans said in a telephone interview from his Jerusalem hotel room.
"The number six million is a reminder to Christians that never again must we allow a Holocaust," he said. "And since the young suffer most in times of catastrophe, it is fitting that children should be the ones praying."
Evans, who heads the Jerusalem Prayer Team, an Internet-based initiative to encourage Christian prayer for the State of Israel, said that Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell would undoubtedly join forces to muster the 6 million young prayers. Evans said that there were approximately 1 billion evangelical Christians worldwide.
Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, son of David, welcomed the initiative.
"Hopefully, it will awaken the entire world to the Iranian threat," said Batzri. "If the goyim have come to the realization that we are in danger, maybe the Jews in the Diaspora will finally wake up."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; christian; israel; prayer; purim; sixmillion
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To: West Coast Conservative
Intolerant Jesus Freaks. [/DU mode]
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:43:11 PM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:51:02 PM PST
by
madison10
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:51:06 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
To: West Coast Conservative
"If the goyim have come to the realization that we are in danger, maybe the Jews in the Diaspora will finally wake up."I think I would have liked to have been present when he said that
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:55:18 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: West Coast Conservative
Sounds good to me! I know about Purim because when SirKit was in Grad School, we were good friends with a another couple, Tom who shared an office with my hubby, and his wife, Nancy, who is Jewish. Her Grandma Gruber sent her Hamentashen every year for Purim, and when Nancy told her how much I liked them, she always sent extra for me. ;o)
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:55:38 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: West Coast Conservative
Excellent post.
I now await the NY Times story on this...
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:55:59 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:56:44 PM PST
by
Reddy
To: SuziQ
I live in FL now, and do I miss Hamentashen. I guess they are around, but I haven't found them yet.
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posted on
02/28/2007 6:59:02 PM PST
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: West Coast Conservative
It's hard to forget the terror bombing of a Purim party in Israel during Arafat's reign of terror.
Blessings on all those who will pray for innocent lives to be free from terror.
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posted on
02/28/2007 7:27:49 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Swiftboating - Sinking a politician's Ship of Fools by Torpedoes of Truth)
To: I still care
LOLOL....if you can't find hamentashen in Florida you can't find them anywhere!
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posted on
02/28/2007 7:28:59 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Swiftboating - Sinking a politician's Ship of Fools by Torpedoes of Truth)
To: West Coast Conservative
Thank you for the post.
I am forwarding this to
my friends.
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posted on
02/28/2007 7:55:05 PM PST
by
mogump
To: West Coast Conservative; Texas Termite; manna; Okies love Dubya 2; Fawnn; Harmless Teddy Bear; ...
The prayer rally will take place before Purim, a holiday that commemorates the redemption through divine intervention of the Jewish people from an evil Persian ruler about 2,500 years ago. Purim starts on Saturday evening.
A call to prayer....
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posted on
02/28/2007 8:58:11 PM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
(DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT! http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx)
To: OldFriend
Well, I'm west coast. Maybe on the East coast it's easier.
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posted on
02/28/2007 9:07:59 PM PST
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: Brad's Gramma
To: Alamo-Girl
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posted on
02/28/2007 9:22:53 PM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
(DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT! http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx)
To: I still care
I live in FL now, and do I miss Hamentashen. I guess they are around, but I haven't found them yet.Given the population in FL, there's GOT TO BE a Jewish bakery around somewhere!
Mark
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posted on
02/28/2007 9:29:16 PM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: West Coast Conservative
Inspired by a kabbalist rabbi, an Evangelical leader from Ft. Worth, Texas, plans to enlist the "pure hearted prayers" of six million Christian children worldwide to protect the Jewish people from the Iranian nuclear threat.
While thousands of Hassidic Jews the world over will be drinking alcohol until they cannot tell the difference between saying "Bless Mordechai" and "Curse Haman."
Maven
Really. This is the only holiday where you're supposed to get drunk.
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posted on
02/28/2007 10:07:06 PM PST
by
Maven
To: Maven
Why are they supposed to get drunk?
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posted on
02/28/2007 10:13:49 PM PST
by
aberaussie
(Ignorance has a cost.)
To: MarkL
They're all in Broward and Palm Beach.
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posted on
02/28/2007 10:39:41 PM PST
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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