Shalom Torah fans!

Judith and I boarded the puddle jumper at the Grand Rapids airport for the first leg of our journey to Israel to prepare for our tour group that would be arriving one week later. I cannot tell you how encouraging it is it hear the words, "Shalom Torah Fans!" as we passed through security at a major US airport. To know that even the airport security guards, who are frisking 80 year old great-grandmothers in their tireless search for Osama Bin Laden, are watching our television programs - is truly encouraging.

Since planting myself in the office chair in November, after a seven month "inter-planetary" tour, I have read literally thousands of letters from those whose lives have been changed by our teaching ministry on television and via DVD passed from one friend to another. Scores of pastors write thanking us for our making the gospel records comprehendible through the Jonah Code seminar. They are leading their flocks onto the paths of righteousness with their eyes wide open to the gospel of the Kingdom for the first time in their lives.

Because of your faithful support, we are pressing ahead with great intensity as we expand our broadcast partners in the US and around the world. We are all on the same team - we just have different temporary jobs in the kingdom. Thank you for making it possible to add new staff members to our team in Israel and the US so that I can someday return to the ministry of the word and revelation. We still need more professional staff positions filled and the ongoing support for this much needed help. Thank you for your continued prayers in support of our worldwide ministry endeavor.

As we left Michigan, we had a crew of carpenters erecting the walls to our new set that will be the background to our new weekly Torah teaching platform. Each week we will post a new Torah study guide and an in-depth commentary written by our resident Torah scholar and Spirit filled teacher, Glenn McWilliams. Every Shabbat our website will feature the full length video teaching that will be produced on our new set. We are moving ahead full speed on building the set while electricians are wiring for the lighting controls. We are praying for another qualified video technician to help with the cameras and sound staging so that we can be ready to roll as soon as the New Year arrives. We need exactly $17,800 in dedicated funds to be provided to complete the work that has begun on this set. We need to be ready to record Glenn's first teaching that will be broadcast to the world via the Internet on the first Sabbath after the barley is aviv. Call me today if you can be the financial provision for this timely ministry endeavor.

As you have been reading in our weekly internet updates, we were preparing for a March 8th Rosh Hashanah if the barley was aviv. Since it wasn't, we are ready for the Head of the Year to begin in April. We have the new astronomically and agriculturally corrected BIBLICAL HEBREW CALENDAR that has gone to press along with the restored ancient triennial Torah portions listed for each Sabbath. This is the most beautiful calendar we have every produced. You will be proud to show it to your friends. It will make an excellent gift to introduce someone to this walk. Call my office and order yours as soon as possible at 1-616-583-0200.

We invite you to join us for this systematic, in-depth, video recorded study of the Torah in its original bite-sized portions that were in vogue during the time of Yeshuah.

To my sadness, I will not be able to host the grand Passover that I had articulated in last month's newsletter due to a very heavy workload, insufficient staff, and financial constraints that preclude such an investment of time, personnel and resources. However, we are planning a National Shavuot celebration June 13-15. We will do it in a major venue in Denver to facilitate air transportation access.

This will be a real Messianic hoot that will promote the meeting and fellowship of likeminded saints from across the USA and even the world. Paul Wilbur and Jimmie Black are going to provide the praise and worship time for the weekend.

The Almighty will always show up at His appointed times and if we are there, we won't be able to miss Him. For the first time in over 10 years, I will be taking the audience on a chronological journey through the Book of Revelation during the weekend. Television audiences will be able to enjoy this teaching next year - but those who attend Shavuot 6008 (Pentecost 2008) will be there to see and hear it in person.

We are going to throw a party as if the Messiah himself is attending. I am trusting in The Almighty that this event doesn't make us go broke; but I know that I need to be obedient to the call and the position He has put me in. I am hoping some of you can become Sponsors of the Shavuot 6008 (Pentecost 2008) Extravaganza to ensure that the electricity stays on here in Michigan.

Next year, we hope to have the grand Passover celebration that I had been dreaming about, but this year we will start the Messianic Festivities in the US with the Feast of Shavuot. Also, consider a grand Feast of Tabernacles (on the Biblically correct dates), a weekend bash for the Feast of Dedication (Chanukah) where we will dig deep into End Time prophesy events as foretold by Yeshua and Daniel relating to the Feast of Chanukah.

Each Feast is such a joy to celebrate - the Almighty always shows up at His appointed times, even though most of us have missed Him at His events most of our lives because we didn't show up.

When Judith and I arrived in Israel, we dropped the suitcases that we have been living out of for the past 10 months and hurried down the street for the Shabbat fellowship that launched the last day of Purim. After dinner, we retired to the packed living room where we took turns reading the "Megilah" of Esther to the epithetic cat calls at the name of Haman, the cheers at the name of Mordecai, and the wolf whistles at the mention of the lovely niece, Hadassah, renamed Easter/Esther after the revered Babylonian fertility goddess. It was soooo good being back home among Messianic Jews who are keeping the feast of Purim in the 12th month (as prescribed by edict of Mordecai and Esther) instead of in the 13th month as was recently changed by the Rabbis. To be in the unity of the Spirit and in the bonds of Shalom in the land of Israel was certainly a home-coming to be savored.

Yeshua lived to set us free from the rules, regulations, and traditions of man-made religious systems. He died at the hands of those who loved their own religious kingdom more than they loved the kingdom of God. He arose from the dead in a display of the ultimate authority over men, Satan (who held the power of death) and the dream world of false religion that entangles us in its endless nightmare. We have been set free to walk in obedience to the Torah that Moses gave us and that Yeshua taught us by both word and example. We have been set free from adherence to the system so that we can live by the Spirit and do the exploits of which Daniel prophesied. (Daniel 11:32) The planet is filled with extras on the set which give background and a colorful setting for the real stars of this play we call life. The Almighty does not need any more extras on the set. He is looking for the stars - those who will "shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars forever and ever." (Daniel 12:3)

I will see you when the final curtain falls!
Shalom from Israel,
Michael Rood.

P.S. Our tours in Israel are always filled with unique spiritual surprises for which we can never plan nor prepare. I invite you to join us for one of these adventures that developed during our recent A Rood Awakening spring tour of Israel. With this month's CD "Message From the Mountain" I can bring you a little bit of that tour.

P.S.S I will see you at Shavuot 6008 (Pentecost 2008). Please Click to register for Shavuot 6008.

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