Paul Longfield

Paul Longfield & his wife Marg are available to conduct Sabbath evenings and Seminars, on behalf of King of Kings International Ministries, teaching on Passover & the Festivals at your church or fellowship on request.

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Anti-Israelism, Zionism, Semitism, in the Christian Church Today

Anti-Israelism, Zionism, Semitism, in the Christian Church Today

In the last edition I brought an article on why it’s so important Christians for Israel and other Israeli support organizations, bring a message to the church regarding Israel and the End-Times.  Consequently, I have felt to continue the theme of what is happening in our society and the underlying reasons for it—particularly how this is affecting the Christian church. It is a curious and fearful thing that Anti-Semetism, Anti-Israelism and Anti-Zionism are so evident in our societies today. I firmly believe that this trend, which also effects much of the Christian Church today is demonic in origin having been perpetrated originally by Satan with the express purpose of nullifying God’s Word. The prophetic scriptures that many of us hold so dear have been derided, bent and twisted for one underlying reason, Satan knows that his time is short and his ultimate aim is to undermine and discredit God’s Word and in doing so, His Holy Name. Did not the God of the whole earth say… “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned […]

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Understanding the Feasts of the Lord, Part 2 – Shavuot / Pentecost

Understanding the Feasts of the Lord, Part 2 – Shavuot / Pentecost

For almost two millenia there has been controversy, particularly in Gentile Christian thinking regarding the Biblical festivals the Jewish people have upheld. By way of contrast, what most Christians have upheld traditionally in Sunday observance and Christmas and Easter celebrations are not directly given by God in Scripture. The origins of the Jewish feasts are clear and precise in Scripture as being God given, Holy convocations (special assemblies) which were intended by Him to be eternal. Most Christians have dismissed these God-given festivals as Old Testament and only for Israel and many believe that if New Testament believers were to observe them in any way, we could be placing ourselves under law and in effect negate the New Covenant benefits in our lives. If, however, we believe that the Body of Christ (Messiah) is consistent with Paul’s description in Ephesians 2, comprising both Jew and Gentile, we should at least be looking for a level of mutual understanding on these important issues with our Messianic brethren. We cannot expect Jewish believers to abandon the God-given Biblical Festivals in favour of our man-made alternatives. Let us look at the God’s 2nd. major festival which He introduced from Leviticus 23 PENTECOST / […]

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A Brief History of Jews in Australia

A Brief History of Jews in Australia

The first Jews in Australia came literally on the first day of European settlement on the continent – 26 January 1788. Among the 827 convicts on the English First Fleet who began Australia’s European settlement was a small number of Jewish convicts, estimated by historians at between eight and 14, transported from England to Botany Bay, near Sydney, for relatively trivial crimes. The first free Jewish settler to arrive in Australia, however, came in 1816. The first Jewish religious society in Australia, a burial society, began in 1817 and the first Jewish religious service took place about the same time. Jewish Community and Religious Life. Organised Jewish religious life in Australia began in the 1830s in Sydney, with the formation of the first permanent congregation. The first synagogue, Beth Tephilah, was established in 1837. Hobart Synagogue was the second to be built in 1845 and is the oldest synagogue still in use in Australia—and the southern hemisphere—home to the Hobart Hebrew Congregation. Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Survivors. The Australian Jewish community was transformed in the 1930s and 1940s by the arrival of approximately 8,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany Austria and Czechoslovakia and, slightly later, by approximately 35,000 East European survivors […]

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Israel’s Hope ‘Hatikvah’ is in the Lord!

There has been much speculation since the election of Donald Trump as to whether he will make significant changes to Israel’s position among the nations by relocating the US Embassy back to Jerusalem and other landmark changes regarding the so called ‘Two State’ solution. One can only imagine the fallout from just these two issues alone should they be changed from the current policies as they stand. The issue of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel should not be questioned but for the bogus claims of the Islamic religion and the Palestinian Arabs regarding the fictitious ‘ascent of Mohammed’ to heaven from the third holiest site in Islam. Islam’s association with Jerusalem dates back to ~650 AD and that by conquest, whereas Israel’s claim to Jerusalem dates back over 3000 years by decree of the Almighty… which no Bible believing person should ever question. “As long as deep in the heart, The soul of a Jew yearns, And forward to the East To Zion, an eye looks Our hope will not be lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free nation in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem.” Islam has its holy sites of Mecca and Medina in Saudi […]

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Return to the Promise Land

Aliyah (Hebrew: עֲלִיָּה aliyah, “ascent”) is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel in Hebrew). Also defined as “the act of going up”—that is, towards Jerusalem—”making Aliyah” by moving to Israel is one of the most basic tenets of Zionism. The State of Israel’s Law of Return gives Jews and their descendants automatic rights regarding residency and Israeli citizenship. For much of Jewish history most Jews have lived in the diaspora where aliyah was developed as a national aspiration for the Jewish people, although it was not usually fulfilled until the development of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century. The large-scale immigration of Jews to Palestine began in 1882. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, more than 3 million Jews have moved to Israel. As of 2014, Israel and the Palestinian territories together contain 42.9% of the world’s Jewish population.  Successive waves of Jewish settlement are an important aspect of the history of Jewish life in Israel. Eretz Yisrael (“Land of Israel”) is the Hebrew name for the region known in English as Israel. This traditional Hebrew toponym, in turn, has lent its name to the modern […]

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The West Bank … Occupied or Resettled?

The West Bank … Occupied or Resettled?

For those of us who believe that the Word of God is the final authority regarding all matters of life, Godliness and indeed the prophetic Word regarding Israel, God’s chosen people, we need not be confused about God’s will regarding the land of Israel and particularly that piece of land known as the West Bank or more correctly as Biblical Judea and Samaria. The West Bank The UN and the nations generally, call this area, variously, the West Bank or Palestine and refer to it as ‘occupied’ territory. There was a time when it was called disputed territory, but it seems that is not still the case. How should we view this ‘disputed’ territory as Bible believing Christians? From the time of Abram receiving the Promise of eternal inheritance as a land defined extending from the Great Sea (Mediterranean) to the Dead Sea and from the river of Egypt to the Great River Euphrates much has taken place. (Genesis 15:18 & Joshua 1:4.) Israel’s long history in the land cannot be disputed, even though some would try. From Abraham until exile in 70 CE is well over 2000 years of continuous residency in the land not forgetting those who remained […]

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