Ezekial 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
As the East African country continues a bloody civil war the leaders of Israel have plans to potentially bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on leaders to quickly bring Ethiopia’s remaining Jews to the Holy Land as a bloody year-long civil war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region continues to threaten their lives.
“We must continue to act to bring them over to Israel quickly,” Herzog said Thursday during a speech marking Sigd, an ancient Ethiopian holiday dedicated to celebrating the return to Jerusalem after the exile.
Israeli officials believe at least 7,000 Jews are remaining in Ethiopia and many of them live in the Tigray region the hotbed of the country’s year-long civil war.
Since December, Israel has airlifted 2,000 Jews out of Ethiopia and brought them to the Holy Land. The plan applies only to Ethiopians who already have first-degree relatives in Israel.
Some 16,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in secrecy in 1984. Another 14,500 were airlifted in just 36 hours in 1991 and some 8,000 in the years in between.
Ethiopian Jews thank God for bringing them back to Israel and Jerusalem and for uniting them with the Jewish people.
It’s called Sigd. It’s an ancient holiday that Ethiopian Jews brought with them when they returned to Israel. Sigd comes from a Hebrew word that means to worship God.
Psalms 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Psalms 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
For generations, Ethiopian Jews dreamed of returning to Jerusalem. Now they celebrate the holiday of Sigd right here in the holy city. “What we did there was to go up the highest mountain and face the direction of Jerusalem, pray for the peace of Zion and Jerusalem,” said Dr. Simcha Gathon, board member of the Center for the Legacy of Ethiopian Jewry.
Psalms 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
For the last 10 years, the holiday has been an Israeli national holiday. Celebrated at the Haas Promenade overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City and the Temple Mount, it’s marked with prayers, fasting and an official ceremony.
Although Sigd is not named in the Bible, Gathon says its origins are found therein celebrating Jerusalem and the unity of the Jewish people.
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Romans 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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