August 28, 2007
Yam Ha'Melach (The Dead Sea)
Blessing in Judgment
Blessing in Judgment
Yam HaMelach (The Dead Sea)
August 28, 2007
I first came here 20 years ago. I came for my skin. I had a bad case of psoriasis. I stayed the recommended 4 weeks and as I lay in the sun from 3 to 5 hours a day, I watched the red patchy scales disappear. I also watched other people from around the world improve as they lay in the sun for their skin. Some didn’t have psoriasis, but a skin discoloration where the pigment of the skin shrinks away leaving white areas. As they lay in the sun, the pigment spread out to where it should be.
I also watched people crippled by various reasons, notably improve as they took advantage of treatments here using the Dead Sea waters along with the sun.
One young woman from England suffered from a terrible case of psoriasis. Her skin was badly marked and she had psoriatic arthritis as well. She could barely negotiate the two or three steps in the solarium. A doctor’s aide told her, “We’ll have you dancing at the disco before you leave.” And she did.
With long hours lying in the sun, I’ve had plenty of time to pray and meditate on the Word of God. So once, I asked the Lord, “What is this? What is going on here? This is a wonderful place of healing.”
Before I tell you what I received in reply, let me tell you what happened here. This is the place of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is the lowest place on earth. That’s why one can lay in the sun so long without harm. Its rays are filtered. As I see it, when God hit Sodom and Gomorrah with judgment, it blasted the spot causing it to become the lowest place on earth.
So, here’s the answer I received, “This place is a witness to the world that even in judgment there is blessing.”
The Numerical Bible has a commentary on the Book of Revelation which reads something like this: “The future is as bright as God can make it. However, before that the world will alas know judgment.”
Oh! That men and nations would read God’s Word and work with God’s plan!
Shalom,
Billye Brim
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
First Shabbat: At the Salt Sea
Yam Ha Melach (The Salt Sea) aka The Dead Sea
Friday, August 24, 2007
Shabbat comes in at about 6:57 p.m. (The time is posted in the newspapers.) But the people started coming in to this hotel right on the Sea all day Friday. Young and old. Very healthy and the infirm. Most in families. The health benefits of the Sea and its environs draws them. Even in this hot (110 F) weather.
I looked forward to my first Shabbat meal. Every day the Mediterranean food buffet is wonderfully varied in its tastes. (I actually feel sorry for those who won’t try the tasty and healthy cuisine. If you are joining me here on our Rosh Hashanah Tour, decide now not to miss the food.) But on Shabbat there are certain foods one can count on to be there. Gifelta fish, for instance, with horse radish and beet sauce. This is a food from the Ashkenazi (European) Jewish community. It’s right there midst all the food favorites of the Jews who came from the Mediterranean and Arabian Diaspora.
Shelli and I walked into the (heder ochel) the dining room when it opened at 6:30. White tablecloths covered the tables. A small bottle of wine labeled “Sweet Kiddush Wine” sat atop each one. The Israelis around us simply poured the wine and began to eat. Was there no one who would make the Kiddush (pray over the wine and the bread as in our Communion)? Then I remembered. It is summer. The days are long. Shabbat begins in the evening at 6:57. The religious Jews would be in the Synagogue at prayer until later. (Every hotel provides a synagogue for its guests.)
We finished the delicious meal and sat in the lobby. About 8:15 a long line of those who had been at prayer came through to the dining room. Men wearing kippahs (yarmulkes). Women wearing festive dress. A large group of Yemenite Jews sat in chairs drawn up in a circle while they waited for a table to sit together. Joyously, they began to sing the Yemenite songs. The Jews from Yemen left the Land it is said in the days of Solomon. They went to the far South.
Oh yes, I noticed something new on the Shabbat buffet. Black caviar. The Russian Jews have come back in large numbers since 1991. Their ancestors went to the North.
Here I sit again. Touching shoulders with prophecy fulfilled. He has brought them back from the North, the South, the East, and the West.
After dinner, most gathered in the lobby for live music and dancing. No hard drinks. Young and old. Children. Families. The music is enjoyable. Fun.
Never mind the headlines speak of Syria and Missiles and IDF buildup in the North. It is Shabbat. One is not even to think of business, let alone those troublesome things.
Next Shabbat I am going to eat with the 8:30 crowd.
Shabbat Shalom
Billye Brim
Friday, August 24, 2007
Shabbat comes in at about 6:57 p.m. (The time is posted in the newspapers.) But the people started coming in to this hotel right on the Sea all day Friday. Young and old. Very healthy and the infirm. Most in families. The health benefits of the Sea and its environs draws them. Even in this hot (110 F) weather.
I looked forward to my first Shabbat meal. Every day the Mediterranean food buffet is wonderfully varied in its tastes. (I actually feel sorry for those who won’t try the tasty and healthy cuisine. If you are joining me here on our Rosh Hashanah Tour, decide now not to miss the food.) But on Shabbat there are certain foods one can count on to be there. Gifelta fish, for instance, with horse radish and beet sauce. This is a food from the Ashkenazi (European) Jewish community. It’s right there midst all the food favorites of the Jews who came from the Mediterranean and Arabian Diaspora.
Shelli and I walked into the (heder ochel) the dining room when it opened at 6:30. White tablecloths covered the tables. A small bottle of wine labeled “Sweet Kiddush Wine” sat atop each one. The Israelis around us simply poured the wine and began to eat. Was there no one who would make the Kiddush (pray over the wine and the bread as in our Communion)? Then I remembered. It is summer. The days are long. Shabbat begins in the evening at 6:57. The religious Jews would be in the Synagogue at prayer until later. (Every hotel provides a synagogue for its guests.)
We finished the delicious meal and sat in the lobby. About 8:15 a long line of those who had been at prayer came through to the dining room. Men wearing kippahs (yarmulkes). Women wearing festive dress. A large group of Yemenite Jews sat in chairs drawn up in a circle while they waited for a table to sit together. Joyously, they began to sing the Yemenite songs. The Jews from Yemen left the Land it is said in the days of Solomon. They went to the far South.
Oh yes, I noticed something new on the Shabbat buffet. Black caviar. The Russian Jews have come back in large numbers since 1991. Their ancestors went to the North.
Here I sit again. Touching shoulders with prophecy fulfilled. He has brought them back from the North, the South, the East, and the West.
After dinner, most gathered in the lobby for live music and dancing. No hard drinks. Young and old. Children. Families. The music is enjoyable. Fun.
Never mind the headlines speak of Syria and Missiles and IDF buildup in the North. It is Shabbat. One is not even to think of business, let alone those troublesome things.
Next Shabbat I am going to eat with the 8:30 crowd.
Shabbat Shalom
Billye Brim
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Billye Brim's family heritage on every side was Christian. The Bible was a guidebook and a study from childhood. At three years of age she sensed the call to preach and began preaching to any congregation she could gather from neighborhood children to family adults. She was married, however, and mother of four children when an experience in God (the baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1967) reawakened her call to the ministry.
In 1971 she changed from working in the business world to working for a ministerial association. From 1971-1980 she worked for Kenneth Hagin Ministries in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The greater part of those years she served as editor of publications editing Kenneth E. Hagin's teachings into books and a monthly magazine The Word of Faith.
During those years she taught regularly in the local church, and began to travel and teach on weekends and vacations, etc.
She also taught selected classes at Rhema Bible Training Center.
In 1980 Billye Brim resigned from KHM to answer the call to travel and minister full time.
In August 1980 she began what proved to be repeated trips to the Soviet Union where she witnessed the dramatic changes there. The ministry behind the Iron Curtain began with actually running from the KGB.
Ministry teams took in past hostile borders, ink to the underground press, Bibles, books, and engaged in teaching, preaching, and ministry. Later she has witnessed the relative freedom to preach the Gospel behind the former Iron Curtain and has been part of organized ministry in the CIS.
Billye Brim's life has been especially blessed and enriched by close association with people wholly given to God, particularly in prayer, who were a part of the move of the Holy Spirit in the earlier part of this century. Some of those are: Elsie Ford, Reverend and Mrs. J.R. Goodwin, Dr. Kenneth E. and Oretha Hagin, Phillip and Fern Halverson, Dr. Frank and Irene Lindquist, Carrie Pickard, Wilford and Gertrude (Lake) Reidt, Carl and Grace Roos, Rachel Teafatiller, Jeannie Wilkerson. Billye Brim considers these, among others, to be her mentors.
A twenty year "knowing" that she is to work with and help people of prayer has found direction in the developing of Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks. A 102 acre site near Branson, Missouri will include log cabins nestled in the woods for people to stay in for times of individual prayer. And a multiple story Prayer Tower will be used as a place of united prayer.
Billye Brim's parents, Willie and Marie Combs, taught her from the cradle about the Lord and exhibited His love in their home as she was growing up and to this day. She in most blessed in that her two daughters and two sons and their families, including eight grandchildren, love and serve the Lord (1 John 5:4).
Billye Brim's ministry literally transverses the globe through multiplied thousands of teaching cassettes. Her writings have been widely published in various magazines and through her periodic newsletter The Glory Watch. She also has edited books for Dr. Kenneth E. Hagin, Dr. Lester Sumrall, Dr. Fred Price, Reverend and Mrs. J.R. Goodwin, and others.
In 1986, after her beloved husband, Kent, moved to Heaven, Billye went to Israel and began to study and to watch Bible prophecy unfold in the Holy Land. About twice a year she leads seminar study groups to Israel.
Billye considers her ministry to be that of a witness - witnessing the work of the Lord and telling others about it. A key Scripture the Lord gave her is, "Give none offense, nether to the Jews, nor the Gentiles (Nations), nor the church of God" (1 Corinthians 10:32). Therefore her ministry is three pronged. She watches the Jews and their place as God's time clock in these last days. She watches ministers in the nations (particularly the other nations of Bible prophecy in Europe and the Middle East). And she loves to watch for the Glory of His presence prophesied to the Church of God.
In 1971 she changed from working in the business world to working for a ministerial association. From 1971-1980 she worked for Kenneth Hagin Ministries in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The greater part of those years she served as editor of publications editing Kenneth E. Hagin's teachings into books and a monthly magazine The Word of Faith.
During those years she taught regularly in the local church, and began to travel and teach on weekends and vacations, etc.
She also taught selected classes at Rhema Bible Training Center.
In 1980 Billye Brim resigned from KHM to answer the call to travel and minister full time.
In August 1980 she began what proved to be repeated trips to the Soviet Union where she witnessed the dramatic changes there. The ministry behind the Iron Curtain began with actually running from the KGB.
Ministry teams took in past hostile borders, ink to the underground press, Bibles, books, and engaged in teaching, preaching, and ministry. Later she has witnessed the relative freedom to preach the Gospel behind the former Iron Curtain and has been part of organized ministry in the CIS.
Billye Brim's life has been especially blessed and enriched by close association with people wholly given to God, particularly in prayer, who were a part of the move of the Holy Spirit in the earlier part of this century. Some of those are: Elsie Ford, Reverend and Mrs. J.R. Goodwin, Dr. Kenneth E. and Oretha Hagin, Phillip and Fern Halverson, Dr. Frank and Irene Lindquist, Carrie Pickard, Wilford and Gertrude (Lake) Reidt, Carl and Grace Roos, Rachel Teafatiller, Jeannie Wilkerson. Billye Brim considers these, among others, to be her mentors.
A twenty year "knowing" that she is to work with and help people of prayer has found direction in the developing of Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks. A 102 acre site near Branson, Missouri will include log cabins nestled in the woods for people to stay in for times of individual prayer. And a multiple story Prayer Tower will be used as a place of united prayer.
Billye Brim's parents, Willie and Marie Combs, taught her from the cradle about the Lord and exhibited His love in their home as she was growing up and to this day. She in most blessed in that her two daughters and two sons and their families, including eight grandchildren, love and serve the Lord (1 John 5:4).
Billye Brim's ministry literally transverses the globe through multiplied thousands of teaching cassettes. Her writings have been widely published in various magazines and through her periodic newsletter The Glory Watch. She also has edited books for Dr. Kenneth E. Hagin, Dr. Lester Sumrall, Dr. Fred Price, Reverend and Mrs. J.R. Goodwin, and others.
In 1986, after her beloved husband, Kent, moved to Heaven, Billye went to Israel and began to study and to watch Bible prophecy unfold in the Holy Land. About twice a year she leads seminar study groups to Israel.
Billye considers her ministry to be that of a witness - witnessing the work of the Lord and telling others about it. A key Scripture the Lord gave her is, "Give none offense, nether to the Jews, nor the Gentiles (Nations), nor the church of God" (1 Corinthians 10:32). Therefore her ministry is three pronged. She watches the Jews and their place as God's time clock in these last days. She watches ministers in the nations (particularly the other nations of Bible prophecy in Europe and the Middle East). And she loves to watch for the Glory of His presence prophesied to the Church of God.
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