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Tikkun Global Jerusalem

Tikkun Global Jerusalem

Leadership Team

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From left to right: Jeremiah and Raquel Smilovici, Asher and Betty Intrater, Ariel and Vered Blumenthal.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. “Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! For I say to you, from now on you shall not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Matthew 23:37-39)

In Yeshua’s words from Matthew 23, I hope you can hear the pathos, the hope and all the contradictions that this city represents.  It is, on the one hand, “the city of the great king”--the place of David’s throne, and the future seat of the Messiah’s kingdom that will one day rule over all the earth. (Psalm 48:2; 2 Samuel 7)  The Bible is full of astounding promises to flood Zion-Jerusalem with peace like a river, the glory of the nations, and tremendous comfort and salvation that only God can provide. (Isaiah 66:12-13) 

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On the other hand, she is allegorically compared to Hagar, the bondwoman—a stronghold of religious bondage that constantly wars against the gospel freedom of the spiritual sons of Abraham and Isaac, the children whose “mother” is the New Jerusalem from above. (Galatians 4:21-31; Revelation 21:2) It’s not hard to see this today when one strolls the streets of both the new and old cities of Jerusalem: the spirits of religion that resist the gospel and God’s promises to the nation, the strongholds of Rabbinic Judaism, Islam, and a historic Christianity cut off from the Jewish root of the Romans 11 olive tree.  

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So here we are, a small Messianic Jewish remnant located in the downtown heart of this growing metropolis that is modern-day Jerusalem.  But our vision at Tikkun Global is not small, it is Jerusalem-sized and Jerusalem in character—full of seeming contradictions.  It is for local community—both for Jew & Arab; but it is also for the nations; it is for continuity with all of the past and all of the promises; but we want to leave ample room for the new things that God is doing; its ministry, and also its business.​

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