Twins Adopting One Another

Co-authored with the Israel Gathering Team

We recently returned from a prayer gathering in Bahrain and UAE in the Gulf, with friends from around the world including David Demian and Watchmen for the Nations. We came as a mixed group of Jewish, Arab and Palestinian believers from Israel. During our meetings in Bahrain, the Lord highlighted Genesis 25:23, where He spoke to Rebekah about her sons, Jacob and Esau, in the womb:

And the LORD said to her:

“Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger.”

The word “stronger” here is ye-ematz ( ) – to prevail in a struggle. In Hebrew, this word shares the same three root letters (A.M.Tz./ ) with “adoption” (eemutz / ).

For years, we have been growing in the realization that the Lord has bound our peoples (Arabs and Jews) together in the Land from the womb as “twins” with almost identical DNA, and a joint destiny. Our shared history has been one of us struggling to see who is stronger, or who will serve the other. Yet in Him, we can choose not to struggle, but to adopt one another as inseparable, twin brothers.

As we were praying, one of the Palestinian women felt as if a spiritual birth was taking place inside of her. While we joined around her as Jews and Arabs, a militant Palestinian song popped to her mind: “Resist, resist, resist!” rings the refrain.

She said to the Lord and to the Jewish family, “I don’t want to resist anymore! We lay it all down.” There was an immediate sense of spiritual breakthrough, a birthing of deeper surrender of our own rights, and release of His peace and joy – twins of a joint destiny, adopting one another.

Afterwards, representatives of many nations came forward with gifts they had prepared in prayer, in many cases months in advance of the gatherings. Amazingly, many gifts centered around the theme of twin babies or brothers. Among them were twin Korean baby blankets and an Indonesian painting of twin brothers hand in hand with Yeshua (see picture).

The same Palestinian woman, and another Messianic woman from our team stood representing the two nations receiving the gifts.

Another precious gift was two engagement rings, given from two separate Indonesian couples. These were the actual, personal rings that were used to propose marriage. As they tearfully shared their story, that God had been speaking to them to offer these rings in obedience, Sarah (the Messianic representative) felt the gift was too great; it was a greater honor than one person could receive. However, standing together with the Palestinian representative, she felt the strength of both receiving it together. It was too much for one person to carry, but together they received it as one.

I (Sarah) realized something from John 17: the glory of the Trinity that Yeshua longs to give us is too great for one person to bear. We can receive it only when we come together in unity as one Body. When we come together, we can hold and release that wondrous glory for the world to see.