This is the second post on Ari Bussel’s experience at the
first Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem October 15-18, 2017. Note
though this is Ari’s third submission. I did not post the second submission. This
first post can be read HERE.
JRH 10/30/17
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The Gospel of Jerusalem - Last but not Least (First
Christian Media Summit) Part 2 (on this blog)
By Ari Bussel
Sent 10/28/2017 10:55 AM
Dear Friends of Zion and Jerusalem,
Dear Colleagues in the Christian Media,
It is said, that we save the best for last.
Indeed, take a peek, and see some of us seated at the
President’s welcoming room.
The staff person who granted us permission and stayed to
supervise us explained, that the President sits on the right, the other head of
state on the left.
So we took turns taking pictures, and ever since, I was
trying to identify this very room in press pictures of visitors of dignitaries.
It turns out that Israel is a hub on the global map, and
numerous world leaders arrive here regularly, possibly more than to any other
destination around the world. No wonder we were only granted an hour, and
were requested to put our phones away (the President does not like it
apparently).
None of the pictures from press releases of the last few
days is from this room, which leads me to believe that “we have seen nothing
yet,” and that there are numerous other receiving halls under different names
and guises in the President’s Mansion.
One thing I would greatly urge the organizers for future summits
is the following request:
If only the President had spent some time greeting us individually,
the representatives of the various Christian media outlets from more than three
dozen countries around the world.
The President could have taken a few minutes to pass through
the center and side aisles and say individual “SHALOM” to us. Here
Frank who gave him a book, there Susan with her Children’s book - Why is
Great-Grandma so Sad? (both books about the Holocaust). And we all
wanted a picture - a picture with the President of the Jewish State of Israel!
This would have been more memorable likely than the entire
speech, that was disseminated to the foreign press about an hour after it took
place. The speech we could read, but to meet the Tenth President of the
Jewish State of Israel is a different story altogether!
It is the personal touch - Israel saying “THANK YOU, DEAR
FRIEND.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!
THANK YOU FOR WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ALMIGHTY
THANK YOU FOR SPENDING THE TIME AND EFFORT TO COME HERE -
MANY ON THEIR VERY FIRST VISIT
MAKE IT A HABIT - COME AGAIN AND AGAIN
WE VALUE YOUR SUPPORT
WE CHERISH YOUR FRIENDSHIP
WE MIGHT LOOK ROUGH ON THE OUTSIDE, VOCAL, OPINIONATED,
BUT OUR HEART IS THAT OF GOLD, WARM AND CARING
AND WE ARE “THE APPLE OF GOD’S EYE”
IT IS A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
AND WE CANNOT DO IT ALONE
THUS WE COUNT AND DEPEND ON YOUR SUPPORT
IN BAD DAYS AND IN WORSE
IN DAYS OF JOY AND GREAT HAPPINESS
WE - THE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY PEOPLE -
ARE A FAMILY
FOR WE ALL SERVE THE SAME GOD THE ALMIGHTY,
YES, THE GOD OF ISRAEL
AND WHEN WE SOUND THE CRY OF “HEAR O ISRAEL”
IT IS DESIGNED TO THE EARS OF THE JEWS
OF OUR BRETHREN THE CHRISTIANS
AND TO THE EXCLUSIVE ATTENTION OF GOD THE ALMIGHTY
YOU HAVE DONE WELL
FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD
CONTINUE
FOR THE WORK HAS ONLY BEGUN
AND FAITH WITHOUT ACTION, AS YOU KNOW, IS OF NO VALUE
PRAY
STAND IN UNISON
STAND TOGETHER
AS ONE
AND WE ARE HERE TO SAY
"HALLELUJAH!"
(YOU SEE, YOU ALL DO SPEAK HEBREW,
FOR HALLEJUJAH MEANS “PRAISE THE LORD!”)
SHALOM
COME BACK
AND REMEMBER - YOU ARE ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS!
SHALOM, dear friends, from Zion Jerusalem!
[Blog Editor: Not all emailed are displayed due to
repetitiveness. Sorry Ari.]
At the President’s Mansion, Jerusalem, Israel
Note the official symbol of the State of Israel - in the
center the Menorah with seven lamps, on either side an olive branch and the
word Israel underneath (chosen and entered into law in 1949)
Working on the Israeli-Syrian border, extending help to the
real refugees and needy of the Syrian civil-war:
Israel’s First President, Chaim Weizmann
Israel’s Ninth President, Shimon Peres, a dreamer
Mike Evans and the Dutch contingency
“We knew President Navon”
Dreaming, thinking big and doing what no one has done before
Now looking into the future
For - as my father says - it is always the “repeat order,”
not the initial placement of a product that counts!
“A Blessing, I will lead us in a blessing!”
“Cousins” from across the Pond - US and UK
The artworks adorning the walls are indeed “museum quality:”
They are on loan from the Israel Museum
Line up, please, quickly, get ready:
Note the nine-lamp Chanukah Menorah on the right, and
compare with the Menorah on the State emblem (seven-lamp - as was inside the
Temple and whose work was considered more important than the sacrifices)
Zechariah Chapter
4 זְכַרְיָה
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א וַיָּשָׁב,
הַמַּלְאָךְ הַדֹּבֵר בִּי; וַיְעִירֵנִי, כְּאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר-יֵעוֹר מִשְּׁנָתוֹ.
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1 And the angel that spoke with me returned,
and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
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ב וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלַי,
מָה אַתָּה רֹאֶה; ויאמר (וָאֹמַר) רָאִיתִי וְהִנֵּה מְנוֹרַת זָהָב כֻּלָּהּ
וְגֻלָּהּ עַל-רֹאשָׁהּ, וְשִׁבְעָה נֵרֹתֶיהָ עָלֶיהָ--שִׁבְעָה וְשִׁבְעָה
מוּצָקוֹת, לַנֵּרוֹת אֲשֶׁר עַל-רֹאשָׁהּ.
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2 And he said unto me: 'What
seest thou?' And I said: 'I have seen, and behold a candlestick all of gold,
with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven
pipes, yea, seven, to the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;
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ג וּשְׁנַיִם זֵיתִים,
עָלֶיהָ: אֶחָד מִימִין
הַגֻּלָּה, וְאֶחָד עַל-שְׂמֹאלָהּ.
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3 and two olive-trees by it, one
upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.'
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(to be
continued … [Ari Bussel])
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Blog Editor: Ari wrote “to be continued”. That is a maybe if the
next email submission is as erudite as this one rather than repetitive. Just in
case, you can email Ari and I am confident he will send you all the updates
related to his experience at the First Christian Media Summit: bussel@me.com
Edited by John R. Houk
Text enclosed by brackets are by the Editor.
© Ari Bussel
Ari Bussel Bio via Saybrex International
Ari Bussel is Vice President of Operations at Saybrex
International, a privately held family business specializing in the
distribution of fine wines and spirits. He is responsible for the day-to-day
operations of the company and has held various positions in the company since
1993.
Prior to joining Saybrex, Mr. Bussel served as First Lieutenant in
the Center for Systems Analysis at General Headquarters of the Israel Defense
Forces, where he led the implementation of the Logistics War Doctrine in the
Computerized Wargame Program.
Mr. Bussel is involved in a variety of philanthropic and civic
activities. Mr. Bussel completed the Team Beverly Hills Leadership Program and
served on the Environmental Sustainability Topic Committee of the City of
Beverly Hills. He was a member of the Steering Committees of former Beverly
Hills Mayor MeraLee Goldman and the current Beverly Hills City Treasurer, the
Hon. Eliot Finkel. Mr. Bussel also completed and participated in the Community
Emergency Response Training Program of the City of Beverly Hills as well as the
Crisis Response Team of the Maple Counseling Center.
Mr. Bussel was among the founding members and served on the boards
of Gen. Shimon Erem’s Israel Christian Nexus, the Western Region of Friends of
Israel Firefighters and the Israel Institute for Alternative Energy
Advancement. He completed the Salvin Leadership Program of the Anti-Defamation
League.
Mr. Bussel writes regularly. For the past decade, his weekly
columns appeared in print in Israel Jewish Life, Shalom LA, Muslim World Today
and Israeli Week. Mr. Bussel’s articles appear on numerous websites, including
Canada Free Press, Free Republic, NewsBlaze, SlantRight and
OpEdNews. He is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club.
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