ONTARIO — Last month a group of clergy sent a correspondence to Israeli officials and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring their support for Israel. Within weeks of the clergy letter, Mr. Pompeo made a historic visit to Israel echoing the same positions on Israel sovereignty and the BDS Movement. It’s almost as if America’s top diplomat was….reading their mail.
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Mike Pompeo became the first United States Secretary of State to visit a Jewish community in Israel’s biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria. During his visit, Pompeo declared that going forward, products produced in the disputed region will now be labeled “Made in Israel.” He also said the U.S. would cut support to any groups participating in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) Movement against Israel.
Just one month prior to the state visit, thirty-three clergymen from the Buckeye Bible Belt sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ambassador Freidman, and Secretary of State Pompeo announcing their staunch support.
“We are declaring our commitment to the Jewish State by personally purchasing Israel bonds,” the clergy letter wrote. “We want to formally express our support for Israel and to demonstrate our approval of construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in its sovereign territories.”
“The Trump administration has the strongest record of any U.S. President for support of Israel. It’s been said for every letter sent to elected officials, that voice represents countless other voices. We put the clergy letter together so it would align with Scripture. I would like to think our small faith community has made an international impact and perhaps even a prophetic impact.”
Rabbi William Hallbrook, Sar Shalom Center
Co-signers of the clergy letter believe Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled with Israel. Absent for nearly two millennium, the Jewish State is now taking ownership of the land promised to their forefathers. One of the clergy elaborates.
“The Trump administration has the strongest record of any U.S. President for support of Israel,” mentions Rabbi William Hallbrook of Sar Shalom Center. “It’s been said for every letter sent to elected officials, that voice represents countless other voices. We put the clergy letter together so it would align with Scripture. I would like to think our small faith community has made an international impact and perhaps even a prophetic impact.”
When asked if he believes that purchasing Israel bonds can influence foreign policy, the Rabbi made a point.
“We have seen the clergy commitment to invest in Israeli bonds influence local officials on a micro level. Who is to say that it could not impact national policy on a macro level?”
County Treasurer Bart Hamilton first purchased $200,000 in Israel bonds at the request of forty local clergy. Mr. Hamilton has now invested an additional one million dollars in Israel bonds the same month of the clergy letter. He joins a number of other County Treasurers and the State of Ohio, which has bought more Israel bonds than any state in the nation.
Another co-signer agrees with the Rabbi. “I think purchasing Israel bonds could have possibly influenced the Secretary of State; that is our hope,” says Pastor Anthony Cooper of Shelby Life Church. “I also believe GOD is working in these last hours and prophecy is unfolding before our very eyes. A tiny speck in the desert is now blooming with new life.”
View the two minute video below produced by CBN News reporting on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit last week to Binyamin and the Golan Heights.
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The Bottom Line:
“Who has seen such a thing, who has heard such a thing? Can a land be born in one day? As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her sons and her daughters.” Isaiah 66:8
