Sid:  I can’t think of a better time to be alive; I can’t think of a better time to have intimacy with God, everything is about ready to happen. The thing that all of the prophets and all of the believers before us have been praying and fasting for this is the generation that is going to see it. The spiritual scales are literally coming off of the eyes of Jewish people; Israel is a modern day nation. The nations of the world are trying to come against Israel and destroy it, they won’t be able to because God says in Amos once He draws the Jewish people back to the land no one will ever drive them out again. Doesn’t mean there won’t be problems, but I tell you Israel is a Jewish nation getting ready to welcome the King. You and I have been given the high privilege, the high privilege of preparing the body, of promoting the kingdom of God; in order to do this the New Covenant church is deficient without the Jewish branches being grafted back into the olive tree. That’s why Paul said “Salvation has come to the Gentile” this is Romans 11:11 “to provoke the Jew to jealousy.” The call of the Gentile Christian is to reach the Jew; the call of the Jew was to reach the Gentile so that we are all equal in the Messiah. This is it.  I have on the telephone Ayelet and Sean Steckbeck. Ayelelt… they’re a perfect One New Man couple. Ayelet is sabra, a native born Israeli, Sean comes from a Gentile Christian background and the 2 have become one. We found out the amazing testimony of Ayelet where literally human agency didn’t lead her to God, Jesus Himself, the Holy Spirit, led her to know the Messiah. So she was so hungry for God she heard about a revival and she literally went to this revival for 3 months in Brownsville in around the year 2000.  She was at a meeting in which Sean, who became her husband, was… Sean was a waiter in a restaurant and a woman argued with the Holy Spirit and finally said “Okay.” So she went into the restaurant and had a word for Sean. What did she say to you?

Sean:  She came up to me and she said “I don’t know you but I was on a 40 day fast and the Lord told me to walk into this restaurant, and the young that would be my server has a call to Israel.” So she told me this, and I was like “Okay I believe in prophecy; I’ve been prophesied over before, but never anything like this.” At first I thought it was a little weird, but I said “Okay, I’m gonna test this.” She invited me over to her house. So I went over to house the next day, and I knocked on the door and there was that girl that I saw at the Israeli prayer flag that I thought she was really cute praying.

Sid:  This is Ayelet and of course, for those that didn’t hear, you had known the Messiah most of your life; you’ve walked with Him, and you hadn’t even kissed a woman before. So now you didn’t think in terms of marriage, you just thought “Well she’s a cute girl,” but then you get this prophetic word about Israel, then what happens?

Sean:  When she saw me in the door, coming to the door, the Lord told her…

Sid:  Ayelet, wait a second. Ayelet what did you hear from the Lord?

Ayelet:  I heard the Lord say “This is your husband.” It was pretty clear, but I remember my first response was “Okay I need to check this word.” [Laughing]

Sid:  [Laughing]

Ayelet:  So I didn’t tell him that until a year or so later when he already came to Israel to propose.

Sid:  Well Sean what took you so long? [Laughing]

Sean and Ayelet:  [Laughing]

Sean:  Well I wasn’t, you know, I’d just been going after God my whole life and you know I wanted to just test this word. She gave me Hebrew lessons, and she began to be my Hebrew teacher because she said she believed in my call to Israel. In one of the prayer meetings she laid hands on me and prayed the Aaronic Benediction and anointed my right ear lobe, my right thumb, and my right toe like they did to the Aaronic priest, and I felt like it was like a hot liquid fire coming from the top of my head to the soul of my feet. I really felt like the Lord confirmed that I was called to Israel right then and there. Then she left, and I never told her I loved her, and she never told me she loved me, but we kept in touch as friends. Until a year later after I met her, I had already graduated the school. I worked a job in the factory, and I called her up and I said “Ayelet would you like to take our relationship further?”  She said “I’ve been praying for the Lord to give you the guts to ask me that, but there is only one thing you need to know. I am not called to live in America, I’m called to live in Israel.”

Sid: [Laughing]

Sean:  “If you want to marry me, if in condition that you live in Israel and you have to check it out before you even make that decision.” So six months later I saved up and came to Israel stayed there for a couple of months and there I proposed. We came back to America, we got married because a Jewish person is not allowed to marry a Gentile in Israel. So then we came back to Israel to serve God.

Sid:  Now before we find out the exciting thing God has for both of you doing in Israel, and to me it’s high adventure. I want to hear a little bit in reference to when Ayelet you were taken up in the spirit and you saw the Holy of Holies, and the Ark of the Covenant. What did you see in the Ark of the Covenant?

Ayelet:  That was when I just got saved and I was still, you know, just came out of the Orthodox teachings. My question before I saw that was “If I didn’t receive the teachings of the rabbis as the Torah, the oral Torah, how can I accept the New Testament as Torah?” Then the Lord took me in the Spirit into the Holy of Holies and when the Ark of the Covenant opened up I saw the Tenach, the Old Testament, and the Brit Hadashah, the New Testament. So it settled in my Spirit that was divine from God.

Sid:  Tell me about, obviously your parents are Jewish, and I didn’t realize it, is your whole family from Brazil?

Ayelet:  My dad is from Brazil he was raised in Brazil.

Sid:  He had a serious heart problem, what happened?

Ayelet:  Right. He had, not this Rosh Hashanah, but the Rosh Hashanah before in the Jewish New Year. They took him to the hospital with his arteries clogged, but they couldn’t treat him through the holidays so he had to wait in the hospital. So we went… Sean and I we went to pray for him, we laid our hands on his heart and we prayed, of course in Yeshua’s name. The next day when they took the video camera to check his arteries, all his arteries were completely open, more than a few years ago when he had the same condition.

Sid:  Two weeks after what happened?

Ayelet:  He prayed to accept Yeshua, and he loves Yeshua, yeah.

Sid:  Now Sean, tell me a bit about what you 2 do in Israel.

Sean:  We do evangelism, first of all we were youth leaders in Tel Aviv for 2 years; helped raise up a youth group there, and helped raise up its leaders and release them. Train up the Israeli’s in the power of God, native born, indigenous, sabra, Hebrew speaking Israelis. We really strongly believe now is the time to see Hebrew speaking Israeli’s come to the faith.

Sid:  Okay, are you seeing… of course you haven’t been there that long, but I can tell you it’s highly unusual for an Israeli to come to the Lord every week. I’m told in some congregations this is what’s going on.

Sean:  Yes in our home congregation where we were youth leaders, we had in the last 3 years we’ve had an Israeli native born, Hebrew speaking come to Yeshua every single week. This is absolutely outstanding because before 3 years ago this was unheard of, and that is one of the reasons we really see a need to disciple these indigenous Israelis and see them start winning people to the Lord, them start being used in the power of God praying for the sick and seeing words of knowledge, and words of wisdom, and healing. We really believe that now is the time to release the indigenous Israelis because now we are beginning to see them come in at such a level that we believe it’s important for them to be the leaders.

Sid:  Now I understand you have a unique gift, that when you speak many times the prophetic starts operating on the people listening, explain.

Sean:  This is actually… well I’ve always believed in the prophetic, and we talk a lot about Israel in the churches when we come to America. Just recently this past time, I don’t know what happened, it just started happening but I started getting lots of words of knowledge and just started calling them out. We are beginning to see healing come with those words of knowledge. To me it’s been kind of an adventure because it was something I wasn’t used to. It’s been like…

Sid:  Tell me one thing you’ve seen from a word of knowledge.

Sean:  I just tell you what happened in a church I had spoken in Tampa. There was a church that had invited me to speak in Tampa about Israel, and afterwards that invited me to give them… help with something that is called a Prophetic Presbytery, a room where everyone gets together and starts prophesying over people.  I was with a team of 4, and every single person that came in everybody had prophetic words, but for some reason the Holy Spirit gave me words of knowledge. One person I got a word of knowledge for him, and I said “You have a shoulder problem” and he said “Yeah.” I said “The Lord is healing that right now” and I laid hands on him. He turned as red a tomato, I’ve never seen anything like it his face was like plum red. He started heating up and taking off his clothes. It happened to be that he had a bus hit him, and the doctors had to take muscles out of his shoulder.

Sid:  Bottom line, was he healed?

Sean:  The Holy Spirit restored muscles in his shoulder.

Sid:  Okay, we’ll pick up here on tomorrow’s broadcast.

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