Zion – “A Journey of Faith”
To: Zion’s Family and Friends
Subject: Zion – “A Journey of Faith”
The attached Oil & Gas Financial Journal article dated 2/16/16 paints a very dire picture of where the experts say the oil and gas industry may be headed in 2016. Well, I thought it was the right time to share with you all where I believe that God has said Zion is heading in 2016, and it is not in the same direction (Psa. 20: 1-9).
First of all, Israel needs approximately 245,000 barrels of oil per day just to maintain their present economy and military strength. Therefore, what this could possibly mean is, after we discover oil, then we could sell up to that amount of oil to the state of Israel. Anyway, this is what I have always believed. Because this was what God had originally led me to write in “The Vision Book” in 1983 and “The Oil of Israel” book in 2010, that we were to support and minister to the state of Israel in their petroleum and material needs (Rom. 15:27). So I have “By Faith” always believed that we would someday discover a huge oil field on the head of Joseph (Heb. 11:21).
I am sending you an updated teaching of Zion – “A Journey of Faith” in hopes that it will encourage you as to what we expect to see happen very soon in Israel (Heb. 10:35-36).
I wanted you all to know that as a “faith” person I haven’t paid much attention to what the world says anyway (I John 2:15-17) but I do listen to God when He directs me in the Scriptures and I follow Him (John 10:4). The Word is what I obey. It teaches me that through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, which gives hope (Rom. 15:4).
So, when I hear or read about the stock markets or the share prices, or what the so-called experts in the oil and gas business say (worldwide), I think it’s funny because our journey is one of faith in God and based on His promises; that as the Creator of all things (Neh. 9:6-15). He is our source of information and what He says is what we do and it’s not the world’s way. Because as His chosen ones (Eph. 2: 1-22), we are only led by Him (Psa 32:8), having been called by God from out of this world to serve Him only (1 Kings 8:53). And if He says in the Bible that there is oil in Israel (Deut. 8:9) and that Israel will be blessed with it (Gen. 49:28) (Deut. 33:1), then I simply believe it because, “we walk by faith and not by sight.” (2 Cor. 5:7)
Shalom,
John Brown
ATTACHMENTS:
Duet. 8.9 doesn’t talk of oil. Please clarify your understanding of this verse.
The verse says the land will “lack nothing”. We believe that this infers that it will also *not* lack oil.