This past weekend at the Grand Palais in Paris, art galleries displayed the best of their modern art collections. The range of work was amazing as you will see at https://picasaweb.google.com/messianic.initiative/March31201202. Some of it was annoying and repulsive but I was surprised at how much of it I liked. More to come from Paris and Europe. David Schneier
Monday, April 2, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Update from the Schneiers in Paris
Dear Friends of the Schneiers,
As I am writing this update, the French police ended their siege of the apartment of the murderer of French Jewish children, a rabbi and three French soldiers. The gunman, firing a hail of machine gun bullets, was eventually shot dead as he plunged out the window in an attempt to escape. This cold blooded killer murdered a rabbi and two of his children at point blank range while kids were being dropped off for the day. Then he chased down an 8 year old girl, grabbing her hair and shooting her in the head. He had to use his second gun to accomplish his deadly task because his first gun jammed. During his rampage of death, he recorded the horrific events with a chest mounted camera. You have to ask yourself what kind of hatred had been encouraged and cultivated in this young Muslim man for him to so coldly kill innocent children? Here are some photos from Toulouse:
French police special forces in Toulouse
Credit: Getty Images/Pascal Pavani
Parents evacuating their children from school Credit: AP Photo/Jacques Brinon
This is the situation for Jews in Europe. They need protection and hope that can only come from the God of Israel, their Messiah, Yeshua, the Ruach Hakodesh (the Holy Spirit) and the body of Messiah. Thanks so much for your prayers and financial support as we try to bring comfort to the Jews of Europe by building up a vibrant and relevant Messianic Jewish movement, by sharing the gospel with Jewish people we meet and by encouraging leaders, those starting outreach efforts and Messianic Jewish congregations.
We are blessed by what the Lord has before us in the months ahead. We will be at Glory of Zion's Passover celebration which is being held in Corinth, Texas from April 5-8. If you go to their web site at www.gloryofzion.org you can find out the schedule of the conference and when David is speaking. They will be broadcasting live the sessions of the conference on the internet which you can sign up for at Glory of Zion's website.
Following the Texas conference, David will be sharing at a leadership conference in Nikolaiv, Ukraine in mid-April. We expect leaders to attend from our 17 IAMCS congregations (International Alliance of Messianic Congregations & Synagogues) in Ukraine plus representatives from England, Finland, Belarus, Romania, Russia and Croatia. The word is out that the Lord is moving amongst the Messianic believers in Ukraine. At the end of April a prayer team from Louisiana is coming to Paris and we will join the team in Paris and when they travel to Le Chambon. It is a small town in the south of France that saved 5,000 Jews during Nazi occupation. This is an important time for prayer for France given what has just happened here in Toulouse. Please join with us in lifting up this nation and the third largest Jewish population in the world.
In May we are hoping to travel to Spain to meet for the first time with Messianic leaders in Madrid and Toledo. This is an exploratory trip to link up with what the Lord is doing there amongst our Jewish people. Please lift this trip up to the Lord so we are on time to meet whomever He wants and to see whatever He wants.
This October we plan to have a blowout leadership conference in Odessa and two concerts featuring Maurice Sklar, a world renown Messianic Jewish violinist. Anyone interested in attending should let me know ASAP because flights to Odessa are limited and Rabbi Eric Walker and his wife, Laura, from Birmingham, AL already plan to come with a team of 17! We expect Messianic leaders and congregants to come to Odessa from all over Europe and the US to participate in this time of unity, fellowship, teaching and worship. Will we see you there? Just before the October gathering in Odessa David will be flying to Orlando for the four day annual meeting of the Steering Committee of the IAMCS. Please pray for wisdom as they gather to seek the Lord's will for 140 Messianic congregations of this International Alliance.
So a lot going on including ordinary life in Paris. We love and appreciate all of your and hope to get to see you some time in 2012. Please pray for us, our travels, our health and family. You can follow what is going on here by visiting our blog at www.closeupsfromfaraway.blogspot.com.
If you would like to financially partner with us you can do so as follows below. We need to regain significant financial ground in 2012 because of the loss of partners due to a foundation shutting down this year, the economy and a key donor passing away. None of this is under our control but we know the one who called us is able to keep us.
Please send your check, made payable to Glory of Zion Int’l Ministries, to:
The Schneiers
c/o Glory of Zion Int’l Ministries
PO Box 1601
Denton, TX 76202-1601
(Please include a note with your check that it is “For the Schneiers.” (Your gifts are tax deductible).
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Blessings, Love and Shalom,
David & Leslye
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Murderer of French Children and Rabbi and French soldiers shot dead in Toulouse
The French foreign minister has just confirmed that the murderer of 3 Jewish children and a teacher/rabbi and three French soldiers has been killed while resisting arrest. He was shot while his guns were blazing at police and then leaping out his apartment window,
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Suspect surrounded by French police in Toulouse, France
From David Schneier in Paris: Early today in Toulouse, France a house was surrounded where the police believed the murderer of French Jewish children and a teacher/rabbi was hiding. A shootout followed and two French police were wounded. The man inside says he has been trained by al Qaeda and he wants to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children. The French police say they want to take the suspect alive. Interestingly,a bomb exploded this morning outside of the Indonesian embassy in Paris so terror activities seem to be on the rise here.
Many have said here it seems so hard to believe that the intentional murder of Jews could happen in Europe in the 21st century. But they said the same thing about the 20th century in the 1930's. Anti-Semitism is a deadly virus that needs little to surface in such a horrible way. It has been cultivated for 2,000 years and yet we are surprised when it rears its ugly head. Toulouse is proof of the dangerous situation facing Europe especially in France which has the 3rd largest Jewish population in the world and Europe's largest Muslim population. Shalom from Paris. David Schneier
Many have said here it seems so hard to believe that the intentional murder of Jews could happen in Europe in the 21st century. But they said the same thing about the 20th century in the 1930's. Anti-Semitism is a deadly virus that needs little to surface in such a horrible way. It has been cultivated for 2,000 years and yet we are surprised when it rears its ugly head. Toulouse is proof of the dangerous situation facing Europe especially in France which has the 3rd largest Jewish population in the world and Europe's largest Muslim population. Shalom from Paris. David Schneier
Monday, March 19, 2012
Jewish students and teacher murdered in France
Grief in Toulouse - Credit: AP Photo/Manu Blondeau
From Paris: The situation in France is heating up as 3 Jewish kids and their teacher were murdered at a Jewish private school in southern France. One child was just 3 years old. The shooter escaped by motorcycle. What kind of coward enters a school yard and fires deliberately at the heads of children and teachers?
Three soldiers have been murdered in a similar fashion leading police to believe that this all may be the work on one gunman. Here is where you can find out more at http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/19/world/europe/france-shooting/?hpt=hp_t1 and http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/french-schoolchildren-killed-by-a-lone-gunman.html. Please be in prayer for the Jews of France. Shalom. David Schneier
Thursday, March 8, 2012
"Christian" Anti-Semites gather in Bethlehem to demonize Israel at Christ at the Checkpoint conference
Read this article and think about what is going on in Bethlehem right now by those who call themselves followers of Yeshua (Jesus). Same type of logic the Nazis used to demonize Jews in pre-war Germany. Nothing new under the sun. Shalom. David Schneier
Here's an article I just found about the CATC conference at http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2012/03/01/this-bethlehem-conference-is-no-purimshpiel.html:
BY ABRAHAM COOPER AND YITZCHOK ADLERSTEIN, JPOST—
As Julius Streicher was led to the gallows, he understood the irony in 10 major Nazi criminals being hanged in the space of 103 minutes. “Purim-fest 1946!” he exclaimed, referring to the hanging of Haman’s 10 sons after their father’s attempted genocide of the Jewish people was thwarted by Mordechai and Queen Esther in ancient Persia. This year on March 3, Bethlehem will play host to a gathering whose purpose also resonates with the Purim story. This time, the object is ostensibly not the annihilation of Jews, but rather of the Jewish state.
The Christ at the Checkpoint Conference (CATC) differs from other church Middle East “peace initiatives” like Israel Apartheid Weeks or BDS campaigns. Those preach – mostly to the converted – that immoral Israel is the greatest threat to world peace, while hoping to energize the apathetic and ignorant. There is little indication that these hostile activities have impacted erstwhile supporters of Israel.
CATC, however, is taking dead aim at Israel’s single largest and most reliable supporter: tens of millions of evangelical Christians who have stood with the Jewish state since day one. If it achieves even some of its aims, the consequences will be disastrous for Israel and world Jewry.
CATC, which first met in 2010, attacks the two pillars of evangelical support.
Some evangelicals – but definitely not all – find theological roots to stand by Israel. Past presenters at CATC have strenuously argued that Christian Zionism is a perversion of Christian belief. With the arrival of Jesus, Jews and their descendants lost all claim to Biblical covenants – replaced by the New Jews, or Christians. To achieve their political goal, some CATC presenters resurrect Replacement Theology, which together with the charge of deicide, were key theological inspiration for Jew-hatred for two millennia.
Those evangelicals who embrace the justice of Israel’s historical claim to the Land face CATC’s shameless rewriting of history. Jews are depicted as recent usurpers while Palestinians are presented as the true descendants of the Biblical Jews! At CATC 2010, Pastor Mitri Raheb, head of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, said, “Actually, Israel represents Rome of the Bible, not the people of the land. And this is not only because I’m a Palestinian. I’m sure if we were to do a DNA test [comparing] David, who was a Bethlehemite, and Jesus, born in Bethlehem, and Mitri, born just across the street from where Jesus was born, I’m sure the DNA will show that there is a trace. While if you put King David, Jesus and Netanyahu [to the test], you will get nothing, because Netanyahu comes from an East European tribe who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages.”
The campaign of Christian Palestinianism first wooed the evangelical Left and Center with activists going church by church with an emotionally charged, visually driven narrative of suffering at the hands of brutal Israeli occupiers. Now CTAC hope to win over some important conservative backers of Israel who are attending this year’s Bethlehem conference. They will be lobbied by Christians – not Muslims – to avoid the inconvenient truth of the atrocious treatment of Christians by Muslims throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Key presenters at the conference include Anglican Rev. Stephen Sizer, who keeps company with people like Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, deputy chairman of Hezbollah’s executive council. He and Holocaust denier Frederick Toben participated in the Voice of Palestine’s Nakba Conference in Jakarta, where Sizer proclaimed, “The church in Palestine was telling me something very different, and what I learned was that Palestine needed to be liberated from the Jews!” One Anglican cleric, Rev. Nick Howard has called on the Church of England to move against Sizer for online posting of anti-Semitic and Holocaust revisionist materials.
Another speaker is Gary Burge, author of Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians, who sits on the board of directors of the Middle East Fellowship, The Holy Land Trust’s US partner. An early anti-Israel activist and biblical authority, Burge opined that “The people of Israel cannot claim to be planted as vines in the land; they cannot be rooted in the vineyard unless first they are grafted into Jesus. Branches that attempt living in the land, the vineyard, which refuse to be attached to Jesus will be cast out and burned.”
Also presenting is Porter Speakman, Jr., who produced the horridly biased and widely viewed film, With God On Our Side, that urges Christians not to assist the Israeli brutalizing of Palestinians through the support of Christian Zionism. It openly endorses replacement theology, and initially featured words concocted by Israel-hater Ilan Pappe but falsely attributed to Ben-Gurion: “The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment to make it happen, such as war.”
And then there is long-time UK anti-Israel activist Ben White, who has declared, “I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, yet I can also understand why some are. There are, in fact, a number of reasons. One is the state of Israel, its ideology of racial supremacy and its subsequent crimes committed against the Palestinians.”
CATC’s fuels its outreach on a growing mix of toxic theology and politics – from the Kairos Palestine Document which lays all blame for Holy Land troubles on “Apartheid” Israel to the recent Bethlehem Call that Christians should not be balanced and fair, but committed only to the Palestinian cause. As for a two-state solution? Those Bethlehem conference organizers who still speak of two states have refused to acknowledge that one of them is Jewish.
Haman would be pleased.
The writers, both rabbis, are respectively the associate dean and director of Interfaith Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
As Julius Streicher was led to the gallows, he understood the irony in 10 major Nazi criminals being hanged in the space of 103 minutes. “Purim-fest 1946!” he exclaimed, referring to the hanging of Haman’s 10 sons after their father’s attempted genocide of the Jewish people was thwarted by Mordechai and Queen Esther in ancient Persia. This year on March 3, Bethlehem will play host to a gathering whose purpose also resonates with the Purim story. This time, the object is ostensibly not the annihilation of Jews, but rather of the Jewish state.
The Christ at the Checkpoint Conference (CATC) differs from other church Middle East “peace initiatives” like Israel Apartheid Weeks or BDS campaigns. Those preach – mostly to the converted – that immoral Israel is the greatest threat to world peace, while hoping to energize the apathetic and ignorant. There is little indication that these hostile activities have impacted erstwhile supporters of Israel.
CATC, however, is taking dead aim at Israel’s single largest and most reliable supporter: tens of millions of evangelical Christians who have stood with the Jewish state since day one. If it achieves even some of its aims, the consequences will be disastrous for Israel and world Jewry.
CATC, which first met in 2010, attacks the two pillars of evangelical support.
Some evangelicals – but definitely not all – find theological roots to stand by Israel. Past presenters at CATC have strenuously argued that Christian Zionism is a perversion of Christian belief. With the arrival of Jesus, Jews and their descendants lost all claim to Biblical covenants – replaced by the New Jews, or Christians. To achieve their political goal, some CATC presenters resurrect Replacement Theology, which together with the charge of deicide, were key theological inspiration for Jew-hatred for two millennia.
Those evangelicals who embrace the justice of Israel’s historical claim to the Land face CATC’s shameless rewriting of history. Jews are depicted as recent usurpers while Palestinians are presented as the true descendants of the Biblical Jews! At CATC 2010, Pastor Mitri Raheb, head of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, said, “Actually, Israel represents Rome of the Bible, not the people of the land. And this is not only because I’m a Palestinian. I’m sure if we were to do a DNA test [comparing] David, who was a Bethlehemite, and Jesus, born in Bethlehem, and Mitri, born just across the street from where Jesus was born, I’m sure the DNA will show that there is a trace. While if you put King David, Jesus and Netanyahu [to the test], you will get nothing, because Netanyahu comes from an East European tribe who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages.”
The campaign of Christian Palestinianism first wooed the evangelical Left and Center with activists going church by church with an emotionally charged, visually driven narrative of suffering at the hands of brutal Israeli occupiers. Now CTAC hope to win over some important conservative backers of Israel who are attending this year’s Bethlehem conference. They will be lobbied by Christians – not Muslims – to avoid the inconvenient truth of the atrocious treatment of Christians by Muslims throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Key presenters at the conference include Anglican Rev. Stephen Sizer, who keeps company with people like Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, deputy chairman of Hezbollah’s executive council. He and Holocaust denier Frederick Toben participated in the Voice of Palestine’s Nakba Conference in Jakarta, where Sizer proclaimed, “The church in Palestine was telling me something very different, and what I learned was that Palestine needed to be liberated from the Jews!” One Anglican cleric, Rev. Nick Howard has called on the Church of England to move against Sizer for online posting of anti-Semitic and Holocaust revisionist materials.
Another speaker is Gary Burge, author of Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians, who sits on the board of directors of the Middle East Fellowship, The Holy Land Trust’s US partner. An early anti-Israel activist and biblical authority, Burge opined that “The people of Israel cannot claim to be planted as vines in the land; they cannot be rooted in the vineyard unless first they are grafted into Jesus. Branches that attempt living in the land, the vineyard, which refuse to be attached to Jesus will be cast out and burned.”
Also presenting is Porter Speakman, Jr., who produced the horridly biased and widely viewed film, With God On Our Side, that urges Christians not to assist the Israeli brutalizing of Palestinians through the support of Christian Zionism. It openly endorses replacement theology, and initially featured words concocted by Israel-hater Ilan Pappe but falsely attributed to Ben-Gurion: “The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment to make it happen, such as war.”
And then there is long-time UK anti-Israel activist Ben White, who has declared, “I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, yet I can also understand why some are. There are, in fact, a number of reasons. One is the state of Israel, its ideology of racial supremacy and its subsequent crimes committed against the Palestinians.”
CATC’s fuels its outreach on a growing mix of toxic theology and politics – from the Kairos Palestine Document which lays all blame for Holy Land troubles on “Apartheid” Israel to the recent Bethlehem Call that Christians should not be balanced and fair, but committed only to the Palestinian cause. As for a two-state solution? Those Bethlehem conference organizers who still speak of two states have refused to acknowledge that one of them is Jewish.
Haman would be pleased.
The writers, both rabbis, are respectively the associate dean and director of Interfaith Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Is David Schneier really an angel?
Not sure how this happened but the photo from Tampa reveals all! I guess my angelic roots have come to light. Shalom from David Schneier
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