 Operation Tarshish
God tells us in the Bible that ships will be used to rescue His
Covenant peoples, the Jews, from the land of the North - Former Soviet Union (FSU)
- and all the countries to where He has scattered them, and He is going to bring
them back to Israel, the land He gave to their forefathers.
We have the privilege to be living in the days when these ancient prophecies,
some more than 2,500 years old, are being fulfilled before our very eyes! Dare
we ignore what God is doing in these end-times? No! The time is upon us to put
our every effort, our whole being, our very "heart and soul", into this awesome
work which God is performing now, with "all His heart and soul!" (Jeremiah
32:41)
Operation Tarshish's compass bearings!
The prophet Jeremiah told us (Chapter 16 verse 16) that first God would send
Fishers, to "fish" His people back, and then He would send the Hunters, to "hunt
them down." The Fishers are already at work, with many Christian teams working
in the FSU to call the Jews home - but we also see the anti-Semitic "hunters"
already at work.
Operation Tarshish believes that when the doors close for Jews to leave the FSU,
and persecution begins on a massive scale, that will be the time when "the ships
of Tarshish" shall be called upon by God, to bring His scattered children home.
We believe this will happen soon!
We hope that many with small boats, yachts and ships, will be ready to leave the
safety of their harbors, and venture out across the seas to help in this massive
regathering of the Jews. God tells us in His word that Gentiles will be used in
this great move of His. (Isaiah 49:22) Are you ready to be available if our
Captain commands?
In July of 1995, Operation Tarshish was represented on a ship reenacting the
1947 voyage of the Exodus, which attempted unsuccessfully to bring Jews to
Palestine, as Israel was then called! On the 47 Exodus there was a Christian
minister, the Rev. John Stanley Grauel, who has gone down in history for the
blessing he was to those early pioneers.
Is God not asking you to help his people too?
Where is Operation Tarshish heading?
The course on which God has Operation Tarshish
heading at the present time is to make captains, skippers, and those with ships,
as well as prayer partners and those committed to helping the Jews come home,
more aware of the situation in the FSU, elsewhere in the Diaspora, and in
Israel. We are hoping that when the time is right, and the huge floodwaters of
Jews fleeing to Israel begins, then those who have been receiving the Operation
Tarshish newsletters will be aware of the situation, will have been praying for
the Jews, and will know in which way the Lord would have them carry out their
duties. Then they will move, according to our Captain's commands.
ISRAEL'S MAP
Operation Tarshish's Map!
Operation Tarshish's map is the Bible! There are many Scriptures referring
to the Second Exodus, which is taking place even now.
Here are just a few:
Isaiah 60:9 - Surely the islands look to me;
in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your sons from far, with their
silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD our God, the Holy One of Israel, for
he has endowed you with splendor.
Isaiah 43:5, 6 - Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your
children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north,
`Give them up!' and to the south, `Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from
afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth--
Jeremiah 16:14,15 - "However, the days are coming," declares the LORD,
"when men will no longer say, `As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the
Israelites up out of Egypt,' but they will say, `As surely as the LORD lives,
who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the
countries where he had banished them.' For I will restore them to the land I
gave their forefathers.
Jeremiah 16:16 - "But now I will send for many fishermen," declares the
LORD, "and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and
they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the
rocks.
Isaiah 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I will beckon to
the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons
in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Ezekiel 36:8 - "But you O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and
fruit for my people Israel, or they will soon come home.
Ezekiel 36:24 - "`For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you
from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.
Ezekiel 37:12 - Therefore prophesy and say to them: `This is what the
Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you
up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 39:28 - Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for
though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own
land, not leaving any behind.
Deuteronomy 30:3,4 - Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes
and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where He
scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under
heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.
See Aliyah
Scriptures for a few more.
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