Six million Christian children to pray for Israel on Purim
By MATTHEW WAGNER
Jewish Post 27 February 2007 / 9 Adar 5767
FORT WORTH, Texas — Inspired by a kabbalist rabbi, an Evangelical
leader from Ft. Worth, Texas, plans to enlist the "pure hearted prayers"
of six million Christian children worldwide to protect the Jewish people
from the Iranian nuclear threat.
The prayer rally will take place before Purim, a holiday that commemorates
the [alleged: ed.] redemption through divine intervention of the Jewish
people from an evil Persian ruler about 2,500 years ago. Purim starts on
Saturday evening.
Michael D. Evans, best-selling author of The American Prophecies: Ancient
Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future, said on Monday evening that the
inspiration for his idea from a report in The Jerusalem Post.
"After reading about Rabbi [David Batzri's] campaign to enlist 10,000 children
to pray that God annul [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's plans
for the destruction of the Jewish people, I said to myself, 'Why stop at
10,000?'" Evans said in a telephone interview from his Jerusalem hotel room.
"The number six million is a reminder to Christians that never again must we
allow a Holocaust," he said. "And since the young suffer most in times of
catastrophe, it is fitting that children should be the ones praying."
Evans, who heads the Jerusalem Prayer Team, an Internet-based initiative
to encourage Christian prayer for the State of Israel, said that Pat Robertson
and Jerry Falwell would undoubtedly join forces to muster the 6 million young
prayers. Evans said that there were approximately 1 billion evangelical
Christians worldwide.
Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, son of David, welcomed the initiative.
"Hopefully, it will awaken the entire world to the Iranian threat," said Batzri.
"If the goyim have come to the realization that we are in danger, maybe
the Jews in the Diaspora will finally wake up."
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