Sid: My guest is certainly red hot for the Messiah, I mean how would you like to pray out to God and say “Jesus if you’re the Messiah show me.” As she prayed this she literally… tell me again Elisabeth Syre, tell me what you saw.
Elisabeth: I was a student in London and studied languages, and I was in 2 minds about this so called Jesus, was He really the Messiah, or was it all like the kind of story that wasn’t true? I had never really experienced Him. The moment I asked “If You really are alive, if You really are the Son of God tell me and show me.” Then I just saw also this wonderful scripture in Zechariah 12:10 and that really convinced me to no end. It says, “They would look up Him whom they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as an only son.” The prophet Zechariah of our own Tenach, of our own kind of Old Testament or the only Testament as we say, it said… it talked about Yeshua, it talked about Jesus. Then after that as I walked into the door into my place in Baker Street in London on the door I saw like a fragmentation of a picture of Messiah. I saw Him with His hands stretched out and He had nail prints in His hands and He looked with such beautiful gentle eyes; He looked at me and I just knew that was Messiah that was Yeshua. I said “Forgive me for not believing in You. Thank you and from now on I will believe in you.” That faith became stronger and stronger. As I started to study out the old scriptures and the new ones and they were all one, and I could find Him everywhere. Then since that time I’ve been standing up for the country of Israel because I know my Yeshua was Jewish.
Sid: Now let me ask you a question.
Elisabeth: Yes?
Sid: For those that are tuning in for the first time, Elisabeth is from South Africa. I’m interviewing her now because she’s on a speaking tour of the United States. She was involved in the holocaust in Holland. Her father had a Jewish sounding name, but he wasn’t Jewish. As a result they put him on a train to go to Dachau, one of the worst Hitler’s concentration camps. It was called a death train because no one ever came back, but he escaped and he took his family, which Elisabeth was just an infant, into hiding. Marvelous story but many years later Elisabeth someone gave you a prophecy about your heritage tell me about that.
Elisabeth: That is right. We were already living in South Africa and in a little colonial town called King Williams Town. We had like a gathering of many many congregations, and a wonderful woman of God, a prophetess, came and shared her story and her message to us. I had brought a whole lot of people in with a big truck, and I was standing in the back and suddenly she pointed her finger at me and said “Will you come forward?” Very reluctantly I went forward and she cried over my feet and she cried and cried and she said “The Lord is just revealing to me that you’re a daughter of Abraham, but you are a true daughter of Abraham and you don’t even know it but you belong to the family of Israel.” Well I cried myself and I thought “Well let’s check it out.” When I went back to Holland my father was in the old age home already. I said “Dad are we Jewish?” He got such a fright he dropped his teacup, he closed the window, he closed the door, and he said “Did anybody hear that?” I said “No there’s no one around.” He said “Well I’ll tell you a secret, you are Jewish by bloodline. Don’t tell anyone because people will hate you. There’s too much going on against people that have Jewish bloodline at any age. So just believe and follow whatever you do, but you know don’t talk with anyone it could cost you your life.” That fear in his eyes was so strong, but also the tears in his eyes spoke to me in such a way that I thought “Wow! What a tremendous persecution he must have been through. What a fear to be found out.” Then I found out his surname was a Jewish name, my grandfather’s surname was a Jewish name, and from my mother’s side was also Jewish, but I only discovered it after a lot of research.
Sid: All these you didn’t even know that you were Jewish.
Elisabeth: All these years it was hidden from me, you are right.
Sid: And I think it’s kind of interesting on yesterday’s broadcast you talked about Corrie Ten Boom laying hands on you and praying for you to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Just… You know Corrie Ten Boom was a very special saint of God, however, what did you experience when she laid hands on you and prayed for you?
Elisabeth: She laid hands on me and prophesied over me. She gave me a scripture from the book of Isaiah I think it was 58. She said “I would build up the broken ruins,” or something like that, I can’t quite remember the whole scripture but it was very special. Then she said to me “That you would go to many nations and you will be a witness, and you will stand in the gap, and you will see it, not in my time.” So she said “You will actually heal the brokenhearted and you will build up the ruins again,” something like that. I said “Well that prophecy is too big for me to understand.” But I said “Well Lord I’m not worthy of this but if that is Your will I will be able to do it.” You know I really felt totally unworthy to go into all the world, but the Lord has done it for 33 years. I’ve been travelling right around the globe to over 40 – 50 nations, I can’t count them anymore. To share the good news of the Lord and I’ve given a tremendous input about Israel I’ve studied every scripture from the Tenach, which is the Old Testament, to the New Testament; I’ve studied out everything in detail and carefully and I just know in Whom I believe. I can share even with people who have never met Him and they are convinced when they read the scripture there is something about this Jewish Yeshua there must be something. It is amazing even pastors are turning towards in effect they don’t have to be Replacement Theology, they can now put their life in the place of Yeshua and see how He lived.
Sid: You know Elisabeth what occurs to me is there is coming a real strong, and you can see it in the newspapers, a division of nations. Most the nations are on one side of the fence, anti-Israel, but there are some that are still pro-Israel. So just as there’s a division in the nations there’s also a division in the churches and some are for Israel, and some are against Israel. According to my understanding of the word of God that is a life or death. A lot of people think “Well all you have to do is believe in Jesus.” But as I understand the scriptures, especially in the days we’re living in right now, it’s a life or death issue, it’s being a sheep or a goat as Jesus said. It’s being for God or against God and I believe the division is going to get ferocious in the world and the division unfortunately is going to get ferocious in the church.
Elisabeth: Very ferocious, I totally agree with you. The book of Isaiah 54 verse 15 says “Behold they shall surely gather together but not by Me. Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.” This talks about Israel and I think that many many people will gather against Jerusalem, against Israel, and say “Why don’t they give the land away?” Then again in Joel 3:1, 2 it says “Every nation that rises up against Israel shall surely be destroyed.” God shall deal with that nation. Again I see big divisions in the churches at the moment. Now Sid it’s not as bad as this year, but I see wonderful congregations that have an anointing that have the word of God actually suddenly turning against Israel not having a clue from the Bible what the Bible says about this wonderful land that God has chosen for Himself according to Psalms 105:11 where He says “It is a promise for Isaac and not for Ishmael.” It says clearly “The land of Canaan is for Isaac and Jacob” which means Israel, and they don’t see it. So we have to pray this is a time that the remnant of the nations will stand together. I believe for America right now that America is at the threshold as it were. I believe that many many believers in this land have to choose that either choose to love the Jewish Messiah, or they choose to love their own buildings, and their own situations, and their own kingdoms. I believe we are not building our own kingdom we are building the kingdom of the Lord. I also feel strongly in America that there is a wonderful core of people hallelujah! These people are strong I’ve seen people that really know their Lord and fight the fight of faith. I have real faith for America and I believe God can do mighty miracle through this land because if the people stand together who are believers, just like they stood with 9/11 there will be a mighty revival in this land in spite of the difficulties that are going to come.
Sid: But you know what I believe? I believe the difficulties are going to come, I believe there will be a revival, but I also believe that the churches that stand with the Jew in Israel are going to be blessed in the midst of turmoil beyond their wildest imagines and the others are just going to be flattened.
Elisabeth: Yeah exactly! This is the same vision that I have. Do you know when the Lord spoke to me about those goat nations and sheep nations He spoke about the book of Joel as well, that’s a synonym version that actually says “That everyone that rises up against you God shall judge.” But we as individuals as people that stand for the Lord will have the same challenges as in the last holocaust; either we stand for Israel or we preach from the pulpits like they did in the free churches in Germany “Heil Hitler” then preached the gospel. This is totally uncalled for the whole nation lost a war, right? I think that we now have to come to the point where we say “We either believe the whole Bible and we know what is written in it.” For that point we will be blessed because if we are standing with Israel and we are proclaiming that in every congregation even if they say “You can’t come back” we still will love of course any other nation…
Sid: Elisabeth I’m sorry we’re out of time we’ll pick up here on tomorrow’s broadcast.
