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Zechariah 8:23 says there is going to come a time when 10 men from the nations will grab the hem, the tzit tzit (the fringed tassels), of a Jew, and they will say, “We are going with you because God is with you.” If we are not at that place, we are quickly approaching it. The Church is coming back to its Jewish roots. Believers are longing to see life Biblically (Hebraically) and not from a Greek mindset as we have been doing since the days of Aristotle and the Age of Enlightenment. The nations are becoming a large part of Israel, the Bride of Messiah.  The 10 men from the nations are awakening!

In rabbinic understanding, in order to start a synagogue or to pray effectively, there must be a minion which is made up of 10 men, usually. According to Zechariah, 10 men WILL embrace the Jewish roots of their faith and be the catalyst for the nations to come. Is one of those men — YOU?

But Mark 5 tells me of a woman. She wasn’t from the nations. She was very sick, had been that way for twelve years. She was not supposed to appear in public because not only did her perennial hemorrhaging make her unclean, but those who touched her would be unclean as well.  But she was in a desperate situation, having spent all that she had and the doctors still left her in that same sickened state. She had nothing to lose. Rejection had been her life before, so to be rejected by appearing in public was nothing new. She had heard “No” a million times before. She had been told, “There is nothing I can do.” So she had nothing to lose. She pressed her way through a crowd to get to Yeshua.

I don’t know if she had ever heard the rabbis read the Scripture about “the sun of righteousness rising with healing in his wings” (his tzit tzit) (Malachi 4:2), but she was about to test its veracity.  There was the Son of Righteousness, some had said. He was in front of her, encompassed by the crowd! And there were His wings (fringed tassels — tzit tzit) trailing him as he walked. There was no prophecy of her as it was of the 10 men.

This one woman reached out and grabbed his tzit tzit, and her whole world changed. The blood stopped. A miracle took place in her body, and the King of the world stopped to address her: “Woman, Your faith has made you whole!”

“What faith??” I can hear her asking. “My desperation? All of my life’s experiences that brought me to this point? You saw faith, Healer. I saw my only hope! I saw that crawling on the ground to get to you was no worse than being ostracized from the hub of Jerusalem. So I did it!”

10 men will!

One woman did!

Is that woman — YOU!!!