The Mishkha Returns

February 12, 2026

Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. God gave him the daunting task to proclaim to Israel that her neighboring enemies were heading their way to take them captive. Painfully, he described how they would betreated in the coming days before Babylon invaded. He spoke with tears because it was too late to change the decree.

Israel was assigned a seventy-year sentence–the adults would never again see their beloved homeland. The next generation would return to desolation.

As the remnant arrived, they must have wondered why Israel, God’s people and the Land He gave them, was in such a wretched condition.

Surely it would never happen again. But it did.

About six hundred years later, the Romans ruthlessly forced those who escaped execution into exile, where they remained for almost 2,000 years.

What I am about to say is crucial to understand biblical history and the spiritual condition of the church through the ages.

• God allowed Egypt to make Israel slaves, but He despised their harsh mistreatment.

• God allowed Israel to become exiles in Assyria then, Babylon, but He despised their harsh mistreatment.

• God allowed the Romans to exile the Jews from Israel, but He despised their harsh mistreatment.

For two thousand years as the Jews wandered the earth from nation to nation like vagabonds. God allowed it, but He despised their harsh mistreatment.

None of those empires exist today.

Against the odds, the Jewish people do exist for they held onto God’s promise.

“Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6

One day, He would guide them home to their promised Land—Israel but one thing became clear– the world was not their friend.

Through Isaiah, God plead for someone to;

It was a prophetic cry for future Christians to consider Israel’s pain-filled history and do something.

“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” Isaiah 40:1

This is why Comfort My People was born. Israel has received double from the Lord’s hand. First as captives and second as exiles. In Jeremiah’s day there was no one willing to comfort. In our day there is.

In his day there was no balm that could heal the disease of her soul, nor was there a Physician.

No wonder Jeremiah wept.

Israel is weeping again. Relentless attempts by her neighbors to destroy her are accompanied by voices around the world who cry “crucify!”

Only Jesus can mend a gaping hole in a wounded heart. I wanted so much do to something for those forsaken, but knew I was helpless. At that point, God began to reveal how we could help. It began with a word study. Think about it;

“He sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from their destruction.” Psalm 107:20

That is when the word “mishkha” came to light.
משת

Mishkha means anointing or consecrate. But there’s more.It has the same root as the word “Mashiach,” which means Messiah. Whenever you read Christ in the New Testament, it refers to Yeshua ha Mashiach in Hebrew.

The Mishkha was the ointment used to anoint the articles of the tabernacle, the priests, and later the Kings of Israel. It was a physical representation of what God alone does in the spiritual realm.

David was anointed King over Israel after Saul forsook his role. David did exploits beyond the human level because of his devotion and love for his Messiah.

Jesus is the Mishkha, the anointed One, it is literally His name, and what Israel so desperately needs.

During the last eighteen months, the vision for a Mishkha Center developed. It would be a place where soldiers, first responders, and Israeli believers come for a 3-day biblically based, Yeshua centered, worshipful environment to experience God’s Presence amongst His people and begin healing.

The second phase of our brief time together is interwoven–the calling of Israel to the nations. Since the days of the patriarchs–Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and his descendants–the calling to be a blessing to all the families of the earth has laid dormant.

This blessing was in the realm of the impossible. From early on, Abraham was met with impossible challenges that are too numerous to mention. However, the greatest challenge was the one in which Abraham shined.

He believed God. It was impossible for him to own land in hostile territory, impossible for him to have a child at his age, and impossible for Sara to get pregnant. It was impossible for him to rescue his nephew Lot from the hands of warring kings. Isaac’s challenges were more in his home with his marriage and raising boys where one son vowed to kill the other. For Jacob it was within his soul. He was a deceiver but could do nothing to change.

Everything seemed impossible…until God showed up. The Land was promised to them, and they prospered in it, children were born and their descendants grew in number. But as time went on, the choices of their children were not always in line with the faith of their Fathers. Throughout their biblical history, Israel was immersed in battle within and without. The world beyond their borders would have to wait. Survival was all they knew for centuries, other than a few lapses of prosperity. For two thousand years the blessing remained in limbo, awaiting a generation to arise.

But God, who never changes, promised the Land would always be theirs and their children would continue to multiply.

Think about it. God has fulfilled two-thirds of His prophecy to Abraham. “…in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3

The “blessing” produces visible results, but it is spiritual in nature. It does not end with the seed of Jacob, it flows through them, which is why Jesus is in that lineage. The blessing flows through Jesus, which is why it is also spiritual, but remains in the line of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel.

For two thousand years, the Jewish people largely ignored or gave up on their calling. When Jesus appeared everything changed.

Beginning with His disciples, the promised blessing spread steadily as thousands of Jews came to faith, followed by tens of thousands of Gentiles. Their love for one another was evident and their care for each other, the widows, and the poor was undeniable. By the middle of Acts, all of Asia had heard the gospel, which to them was the known world. (Acts 19:10) But it wasn’t. The world was larger and the blessing needed to go further.

However, the devil was furious and began his ingenious plan to break up the family. By the second century, the Jews were lumped together as one and declared enemies of God by the Gentiles, using baseless theology as a weapon. False teachers ran with it and by the fourth century, Jews were no longer worthy of the gospel or associating with Christians. For the centuries to follow, Jews have never had a Bible in a language they could read. (Learn more from a previous blog post on this topic here.)

Now they do.

A few days ago, I returned from Israel for our first Mishkha event. It was beyond my expectations. There were 26 us, not including nursing babies and children–soldiers and wives who endured the hardship of two years of war against Islam’s warring neighbors. Every aspect of their lives was impacted as Israel evolved into national trauma. I will never forget one little girl who always smiled at me and let me hold her, standing alone in a corner facing the wall. She wouldn’t look at me or speak.

I know what some of you are thinking, “What about the innocent Gazans?”

The horrors of war and the extent the IDF went to avoid civilian casualty is documented, but I quote from the former Prime Minister, Golda Meir, who addressed the Palestinians after the ravage of the Yom Kippur war,

“We can forgive you for killing our children, but we cannot forgive you for making us kill yours.”

Palestinian children were used as human shields in this war, as they have been in all the others.

The good news is that genuine Christians can put an end to these hostilities. Muslims need to come to faith in the Jewish Messiah, but so do Israelis. Comfort My People supports Israelis who are on the front line of this effort.

I will write more about our event soon. For now, I want you to know our two goals were initiated and accepted.

Assure them that God will heal their souls.

Embrace God’s collective calling on Israel by His anointing (mishkha).

This can only be accomplished by Believers in Yeshua. Please ask God what is your role to play.

Shalom and blessings,

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