The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Psalm 122:1-9, “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the LORD.’
2 Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem,
3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
4 To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD– an ordinance for Israel– to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
5 For their thrones were set for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May they prosper who love you.
7 ‘May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.’
8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”
9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.”

If there is anything exciting about visiting another country, it is visiting Jerusalem! I remember well my first visit. I spent the night in an area so filled with history that I thought I’d never go to sleep. Truly, my “feet were…within the gates of Jerusalem.”

Yet, if there were ever a time we needed to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” it is today. The psalmist was “on target” when he wrote, “May they prosper who love you. May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.” It was and is a solemn prayer that is as relevant for today as it was for Old and New Testament times.

The Land currently occupied by the Israeli people belongs to Israel. All land is the LORD’s land, and it is His to give as He wishes. The Land that is today disputed was conveyed to Israel thousands of years ago; and He has never rescinded it!

The multiple atrocities that have been perpetrated by Hamas against Israel are so utterly egregious that the very Heart of our LORD Himself must be painfully broken! The Israelis need and deserve our prayerful attention and help.

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
‘May they prosper who love you.’”

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom