Showing posts with label Hindus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hindus. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2016

Mob Viciously Attacks Christian, Mockingly Parades Him Around Like Jesus - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

Mob Viciously Attacks Christian, Mockingly Parades Him Around Like Jesus






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Hindu activists mobbed a Christian man, shaved his head, then paraded him around on a donkey like Jesus, according to reports.  
Bajrang Dal activists cornered Christian Awdhesh Kumar Savita and accused him of forcing Hindus to convert to Christianity.  
"I have been practicing Christianity for the last few years. But I have never insisted on converting anybody," the 35-year-old told police, according to RT
Despite his denial, the radicals still shaved Savita's head before forcing him to parade around on a donkey, mocking Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem.  
More than 200 witnessed the torture, according to some reports.  
The Bajrang Dal is a militant organization closely linked the Indian VHP party, according to their website. They have been linked to several attacks on Christians. 
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Dreams from the Throne of God by Elaine Tavolacci

Dreams from the Throne of God 

by Elaine Tavolacci

Indentity Network
We have entered into a new year, which I believe is going to be an exciting year filled with encounters from God. Many will begin to hear the Holy Spirit in a new way through dreams and visions. 

I would like to share an incredible dream that I had several years ago which I feel is relevant for today. At the time I had just came home from a powerful meeting in which the anointing was so strong on me that I actually had to wait a couple of hours before driving home. When I got home I was still in the presence of God and I didn't get to sleep until 4 am. As I fell asleep I had an awesome dream - encounter.

In the dream I went somewhere with my family. My cousin Raymond showed up and I was happy to see him because I hadn't seen him for some time. I noticed oil splattered on the right leg of my jeans above my knee. I wasn't too upset about it but Raymond said, you better get that oil out before it sets in. Note: In the natural this is the same leg that I broke (hip - femur) in 2011. I had screws in the right side of the leg at the time of the dream but since that time I had the screws removed. Then the dream shifted to another scene.

There were two other ladies named Pat and Cathy with me in the dream who I don't know in the natural. We walked down the street, and I was looking for a place named "Crown Palace."  I noticed a little storefront, which had very bright fuchsia pink and purple curtains. It looked like a stage with curtains and I thought to myself that it looked tacky because of the bright colors.  I peeked in and I said, this must be the place. Pat and Cathy left as they were driven away in fear.

As I stood there observing, I began to hear ancient music with a constant drum beating. It was like a tribal or bongo drum. Everything was very vivid in color. Then people began to come walking out in a line. I recognized that they were Hindus or Muslims. The ladies were all dressed in long colorful gowns with veils. I don't think that the men had head wraps. They all moved at the same time doing some kind of dance ritual. 

They were in three groups of three people in each group. One group of three was making a motion with their hands as if they were winding something like a big wheel in reverse. They all moved and turned at the same exact time. Then they moved back in reverse in one accord. Then they all turned around and pointed towards me at the same time. Then one (or two) groups held their hands up to their eyes as if they had binoculars and they turned towards me and were watching me. They were doing everything in unison at the same exact time in this ritual.

When they were finished they all lined up and began to walk away. As I watched them, it appeared as if their bodies were turning into stone as they were leaving. I called out to one of them who was a Christian lady, and said: "What are you doing with them? Come on sister you know better than that, you know Jesus. You are not supposed to be with them."  

She avoided me and tried to hide her face as she was leaving with them because she didn't want them to know that she was a Christian. When they left I called out to Pat and Cathy again. They came out from hiding and asked me if I was alright. I said yes of course, I am fine. They told me that they were afraid of those people. They recognized that it was spiritual but not from God. I told them that they shouldn't fear them.

End of dream.

A Spiritual Journey into the Spiritual Realm

The dream was so profound that as I was waking up I felt a strong presence of God and I was still hearing that ancient ritual Egyptian sounding music. It also reminded me of the four living creatures which were all moving in one accord with the wheels within wheels in the book of Ezekiel.

This is what the Lord is showing me. The spirit realm is real. As long as we don't open ourselves up to anything, there is no need to fear. We must have discernment in the times that we are living. The Lord is calling us to a season of prayer. This is so important to stay connected to Jesus so that we will recognize the genuine from the counterfeit and understand our assignments. We must stay in His word, pray in the Spirit and stay in the communication of prayer so that we will not be deceived in the days ahead. Also our words have power. Death and life are in the power of our tongues. Our words carry authority.

In the natural I know a restaurant named Crown Palace. I passed by it the day after this dream to see if the Lord would show me anything. There is a huge sign advertising for psychic and tarot card reading right above Crown Palace. This is the demonic counterfeit of the works of the Holy Spirit.  I also looked up the names in the dream.

Raymond means "Wise protection, adviser"
Cathy means "Pure, purity"
Patty means "someone of noble and high rank"

A friend of mine who is a prophet sent me the interpretation of the dream at that time. This is a small part of the interpretation that he gave me. He said: Your dream is a spiritual journey (through the dream) into the spiritual realm to observe what the enemy is doing, so you in turn can veto or over rule it. (Ezekiel and others (Ezekiel Chap 40) and other prophets were often taken by the Spirit of the Lord into the spiritual realm to observe) Notice the winding and unwinding motions which are depicting (visually or by interpretative dance) the reversing of something through the dance ritual. This reversal is focused on reversing what God is doing through Spirit led worship and ministry.

So we are living in exciting times. The Lord wants to do wonders among us and He will use us and give us discernment as we are submitted to Him.

Job 33:15-16 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction.

Daniel 2:22 He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.

Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Elaine Tavolacci


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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Pastor John Ebenezer in Murchela, A.P. India - His Mission Church - video

Pastor John Ebenezer from Hyderabad, A.P. India
(Photo above taken in Jerusalem, Israel 2013)


Pastor John Ebenezer in Murchela, A.P. India - His Mission Church  Feb. 2010. He shares the work of the Gospel mission among his people in southeast India.

We support Pastor John and his work with the orphans and the training of new pastors. I was amazed at how much he has done, and continues to do, among the Hindus and Christians.

(Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.)

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

India and Israel: Two Great Democracies that Should Deepen their Strategic Ties


Editor's Note: We have helped a 75 year old Indian pastor from Hyderabad get his visa to come join us in Israel Nov. 3-11 on our annual Ahava Adventures trip. It will be his first trip!

In Feb. of 2010, as part of our work on staff at Vision for Israel, we went to his village of Murchela, east of Hyderabad in southeast India, and held a conference for 70 pastors he works with. The theme was "How To Bless Israel."

I taught several times during the three day conference. One night they held a "Feast of Tabernacles", complete with marching around the building, shofars blowing, and an ark of the covenant carried on poles.

It was a memorable time, as they love the Lord Yeshua and bless the people of Israel! 
Steve Martin


India and Israel: Two Great Democracies that Should Deepen their Strategic Ties

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |  Noah Beck  
At first glance, Hindu-majority India, with approximately 1.2 billion people and an entire subcontinent, would seem to have little in common with Jewish-majority Israel, which has only about eight million people living on territory that's just roughly 15 times the size of India's capital city. While full diplomatic relations were established between Jerusalem and New Delhi only in 1992, the two countries actually have much in common.
Both countries are homelands for ancient peoples who gained their independence from the British in the 1940s. Both states have gone on to create vibrant, multicultural democracies that have experienced dynamic, technology-driven economic growth. India and Israel each also has a large Muslim minority population, and each faces an ongoing terrorism threat from foreign and domestic Islamic extremists; indeed, both Israelis and Indians were targeted and killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Even more serious, India and Israel each faces ballistic missile threats from at least one close, hostile Muslim state. India already faces the nuclear threat posed by Pakistan, and Israel may soon confront the same threat from Iran, if Iranian nukes aren't stopped.
There is also a blossoming military and commercial relationship between India and Israel. Israel is India’s second largest arms supplier after Russia, and Israeli-Indian military cooperation extends to technology upgrades, joint research, intelligence cooperation, and even space (in 2008, India launched a 300-kilogram Israeli satellite into orbit). Israel has upgraded India's Soviet-era armor and aircraft and provided India with sea-to-sea missiles, radar and other surveillance systems, border monitoring equipment, night vision devices, and other military support. Bilateral trade reached US $6 billion last year and negotiations began this year for a free trade agreement.
Israel-India cooperation in agriculture and water technology is growing both through government-sponsored initiatives and private business deals. Last year, Israeli and Indian government institutions jointly launched an online network that provides real-time communications between Indian farmers and Israeli agricultural technology experts, and Israel is in the process of setting up 28 agricultural training centers throughout India. Israeli Professor Yoram Oren has been studying the potential use of nano-filtration to filter out harmful textile dyes from India's polluted Noyyal River. Last June, a delegation of 16 high-ranking Indian officials from the water authorities of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Goa and Haryana traveled to Israel to visit wastewater treatment plants and meet with some of Israel’s leading environmentalists and agronomists to learn about the desert country's newest green technologies.
Tata Industries, the multi-billion-dollar Indian company, recently invested $5 million to kick-start the Technology Innovation Momentum Fund at Tel Aviv University’s Ramot technology transfer company. Tata Industries hopes to capitalize on future Israeli innovation, like the algorithm for error correction in flash memory (which is one of the patents filed by Ramot and now inside billions of dollars worth of SanDisk products).
These are but a few examples of the remarkable cooperation between India and Israel. Such a synergistic relationship is unsurprising, given the historically harmonious relations between the peoples of Israel and India.
Judaism was one of the first foreign religions to come to India: the Cochin Jews arrived about 2,500 years ago and settled in the city of Kerala, where they flourished as traders. In addition to the few thousand Jews who live in major Indian cities like Mumbai, there are also some larger Indian communities, like the 8,000 "Bnai Menashe" (from the northeastern Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur) who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. While Jews have always been a minuscule religious minority in India, they have historically encountered very little antisemitism. In Israel, about 1% of the Jewish population has Indian ancestry.
In addition to the many historic and economic reasons for India and Israel to strengthen their ties, there are also strong geopolitical motivators. Israel's tiny land mass (about 21,000 square kilometers) makes the Jewish state particularly vulnerable and compels it to make strategic use of seaborne offensive and defensive military capabilities. A vital component of those capabilities is Israel's submarine force, which requires friendly waters in which to deploy and maintain such a force -- something that the Indian Navy can provide with its dominance of South Asian waters.
With the ongoing security threats posed by India's nuclear-armed rival, Pakistan, the Kashmir conflict (which recently claimed five Indian soldiers), and potential conflict with the other Asian heavyweight (China), India needs the kind of military edge that Israel can help it to obtain. Insofar as India provides an Asian counterweight to Chinese dominance, a powerful India bolstered by Israeli technological expertise is also in the interest of smaller Asian countries and the United States.
One area where India could deepen its alliance with both Israel and the U.S. is on the issue of Iranian nukes. India, the second largest importer of Iranian crude oil after China, won its third 180-day waiver from U.S. sanctions last June after reducing its oil purchases from Iran. But in 2012, Iran and India agreed to trade in rupees for shipments of oil, rice, sugar and soybeans, to circumvent U.S. financial sanctions on Iranian oil shipments. And Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals is now reportedly receiving a cargo of Iranian crude, after a 4-month hiatus, with Hindostan Petroleum also restarting imports soon. Iran may also become the top buyer of soybean meal from India for a second straight year, as Iran turns to Asia's biggest exporter to replace imports disrupted by Western sanctions.
While India has its own commercial interests, India also has a strong interest in a peaceful resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue. India's economic and diplomatic clout can help to pressure Iran into a compromise that prevents a catastrophic Middle East war. Such a regional conflagration could spread beyond the Middle East and, in any case, would send India's energy costs skyrocketing, disrupt global trade, and dangerously destabilize India's geopolitical backyard.
India's history of religious tolerance stands in stark contrast to that of Iran's. Indeed, one of India's religious minorities, the Zoroastrians, have been fleeing persecution in the territory that is today Iran (Persia) for about 1,200 years. Since Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has been regarded as one of the world's worst offenders against freedom of religion. Iran's vicious human rights abuses and undemocratic political system are also well known. Would India want such a country to have nuclear weapons? Isn't Pakistan enough?
As a responsible member of the nuclear club, a fellow democracy, and one of the greatest rising world powers, India should approach the Iranian nuclear issue as an opportunity to demonstrate how growing Indian clout can promote global security and curb extremist, undemocratic regimes like the Islamic Republic. By deepening India's ties with other innovative and economically advanced democracies like the United States and Israel, India can better secure its own interests and position itself for continued growth and leadership in a more stable world.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, a war novel about Iranian nukes and an Israeli submarine with an Indian Jew on board.