Dear Mishpacha (family),
I would like to start off this newsletter with a big thank you for all those who served and participated in our Fall Feasts for 2025. I have always enjoyed celebrating the feasts personally but it is so much better when you get to do it with your community. We are commanded to come together for a public assembly (convocation: “miqra”) found in Leviticus 23:2. I have been celebrating the feasts since 1995 and now it’s been thirty years. Since our Heavenly Father did not blow the trumpet on Yom Teruah this year we can continue to rehearse the feasts and further His Kingdom. I would also like to thank our dance team for going to Chirstian Retreat and ministering in the dance during the Feast of Tabernacles on the last night. I was able to share the message of “Judah approaches Joseph” about the two houses and I am pleased to announce that it was well received. I also was able to give Pastor Phill the Lulav as a gift. To top it all off on the Eighth Great Day the Israel hostages were released and that is a true praise report. It’s interesting that on the Eighth Great Day two years ago on October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorists
murdered, raped, and kidnapped Israelis taking the lives of over 1,200 people. This Eighth Great Day in 2025 was a time to celebrate not only the release of the hostages but Israel’s great victory over their enemies.
Antisemitism is at an all time high and many people curse the Jewish people and the state of Israel. In Genesis 12:3 it says, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” This is the Lord blessing Abraham for His obedience and making a covenant with Him. From Abraham the Lord would have the nation of Israel for Himself and to do His bidding. In Galatians 3:29 it says, “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” All of us in the community of Beit Tehila will continue to bless not only the Jewish people but the Nation of Israel. All I know is that Israel wins in the end and I want to be on that team. After the Tower of Babel incident God created the nations that would be scattered throughout the world. God wanted His own nation and chose Abraham to birth it. It would be called Israel and the three patriarchs are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If you think of what is taking place today it goes right along with God’s original plan when He made a covenant with Abraham. Later on, historically in 722 B.C. the House of Israel was divided and the Northern Kingdom (Ephraim) would go into captivity. In 586 the Southern Kingdom (Judah) would go into the Babylonian Captivity. While the Chosen People of God (Judah) the Southern Kingdom came back as a people who founded the Nation of Israel on May 14th, 1948, the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Ephraim) remained scattered throughout the nations. Please don’t forget that Ephraim would become a multitude of nations (Genesis 48:19) and He would return in the latter days to be a part of the House of Israel. Ephraim is not Jewish but He is grafted in (Romans 11:17) and becomes part of the Common Wealth of Israel (Ephesians 2:12).
There is no denying the truth that God is restoring and regathering the whole House of Israel made up of Jews and Non-Jews. I believe Beit Tehila is being used to accomplish all that the Father wants. Our community at Beit Tehila is not only receiving our Jewish friends from Israel but local pastors as well. This is a sure sign of the Father’s heart to expand His Kingdom and even build up Beit Tehila. If we truly want to participate in this incredible movement, we have to be not only mature but be responsible as well. I am also enjoying my fourth cycle of reading through the bible with “The Daily Bread” devotional. This has changed my life and I highly recommend it for everyone, get your copy at our Marketplace.
This month we celebrate Thanksgiving and we have so much to be grateful for. Both Danielle and I are thankful for all of you who share in the Vision.
Shalom, Pastor Nick