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David Davis

David Davis (1938–2017). Born in 1938 in the United States, David Davis was the founding pastor of Kehilat HaCarmel, a Messianic congregation on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. A former Broadway and off-Broadway actor and chairman of Fordham University’s Division of Arts at Lincoln Center, he experienced a dramatic conversion during a 1980s revival among New York’s performing artists, where he met his Jewish wife, Karen. Mentored by David Wilkerson of Times Square Church, he ministered to drug addicts and alcoholics before moving to Israel in 1989. In 1990, he and Karen founded Beit Nitzachon (House of Victory), Israel’s first Bible-based rehabilitation center for Jewish and Arab men, in Haifa. In 1991, with Peter Tsukahira, they established Kehilat HaCarmel, growing it from a Bible study above House of Victory into a vibrant congregation emphasizing the “one new man” vision of unity from Ephesians 2:15. Davis served as senior pastor for 25 years, known for his prophetic teaching, shepherd’s heart, and mentorship of leaders like Dani Sayag, who succeeded him. He authored no major books but inspired ministries like Or HaCarmel women’s shelter and Raven’s Basket feeding program. After battling cancer, he died on May 7, 2017, in Haifa, survived by Karen and two adopted sons, saying, “The Word of God is sufficient to change any life.”
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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the increasing number of Jews and Arabs getting saved, comparing it to the early days of the church in the Book of Acts. He urges the audience to wake up spiritually and see the need to share the gospel with the Jewish people. The speaker also mentions the importance of picking up books from different speakers at the conference to deepen their understanding and faith. The sermon concludes with a personal testimony of the speaker's encounter with Jesus and the transformative power of His forgiveness.
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My first introduction this morning was to those of our speakers that I have known the longest. This one is the ones that I've known the briefest. In fact, the first conversation of any length I've ever had with David Davis was on the telephone about three or four months ago when we spoke at some length. And as we then had further conversation in the month of June, I, of course, had invited him because of very, very clear understanding of who he and Karen were, what they were about, what their source was, and what the fruit of their ministry was, the character, family, everything about their lives that you are most interested in if you're going to platform in any environment, but certainly in this one. And I have enjoyed so much just the briefest touch of sitting with them personally during the time we had the break, which my first actual face-to-face time with them each. And they're just such delightful people. They pastor Mount Carmel Assembly. Mount Carmel Assembly is the largest fellowship of believers in the land. They came in 1989, established a work up on Mount Carmel. And that work has become a tremendous example of what the scriptures speak of, of Jew and Gentile framing up a new picture of one new man that are born together in Christ. Their congregation is made up of both Israeli Jews and Palestinians, or Israeli Arabs. And this group of believers model that unity that is not always possible to find with ease because of the depth with which, at times, the strain racially in the land has separated believers. That is not anything that ought to be viewed as foreign, as a challenge to those of us in America who have a sad record of that being the case between the African-American and the Caucasian-American historically, as with others, the Latino population and Asian at points. This is a sad commentary, of course, on humanity and reflective of sin that sometimes is not dealt with in the early sanctifying of believers in their walk with Christ. In fact, sometimes separatism has been sanctified. And that's unworthy by any terms. They have modeled something that has touched this country in its own distinct way. And it's a joy to have that testimony of theirs. Karen's musical gift has had a voice to the nation as well. Their ministry is esteemed throughout the land by the believers everywhere. And the gifted, prophetic, cutting-edge ministry of David as well as his great pastoral heart is something that makes him so welcome to all of us today as the two of them come. Will you welcome David and Karen Davis. This is Karen, in case you didn't know which one. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. We come from the mountain of Elijah, where Elijah confronted the powers of darkness. And the God who answers by fire made Himself known to the people of Israel. And we believe the Lord has called us, as He's positioned us strategically on that same mountain, to walk in that same legacy. And week after week, we stand and we proclaim that the Lord is above every other God. Adonai tzevaot, the Lord God of armies, has won the victory through Yeshua the Messiah. And He gave us a mandate from Isaiah 42 that we were to shout from the top of the mountains to give glory to the Lord and that He would go forth as a mighty warrior. The Lord would roar and He would prevail over His enemies. And we see Him high and lifted up. And we see the victory of the Lord. We use the weapons of our warfare. That's why I tend to travel with my tambourine. And with loud clashing cymbals, we are driving back the powers of darkness. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And I just am so blessed that you have all come, that the Four Square Association has heard to be here. We are, as you know, the Lord is calling His body, the Jewish bride and the Gentile bride, together to prepare the way for the coming King, for the Lord is coming soon. And we're to look and see Him high and lifted up. And our hearts are not to be shaken, even as we hear these things at lives. And you've come to our region, where we are facing life and death daily. And we have rockets coming in. As a Jewish believer, when I first met the Lord in New York City many, many years ago, I began to experience the unspeakable joy of knowing Jesus. And at the same time, He began to fill my heart with the grief of the Jewish people. And He said, I will take you back to the land of your inheritance. And you will share this gift of love and life with your own people. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And it's an amazing. We're not ready for this. I'm not ready for this. OK, just a moment. Hallelujah. We're going to do that in a minute, because I just want to explain to you what this song is about. The Lord really, the miracle of knowing Jesus and of carrying the joy. And at the same time, as we know Him and we share in the power of His resurrection, we also share in the fellowship of His sufferings. And I believe that one of the reasons the Lord has brought all of you here is that you would share, that He would impart to you some of the grief that has been in His heart for the Jewish people for centuries. And that through the mercy that has been shown to you, they will be shown mercy. As we come together, Jew and Gentile, before the throne of grace, and we cry out for mercy for this nation, that He will once again reveal Himself. He will. This song I'm going to sing for you in Hebrew. It's what a miracle. Not only is the nation of Israel been resurrected, but the language is a living language, the Hebrew language. So I'm going to sing for you in Hebrew as well. And the song says, Lord, remember the covenant that you've made with our fathers and return our Redeemer. Show us your mercy. Show us your mercy. Avinu malkeinu, our Father, our King. You can start. Avinu malkeinu ma'adim shimcha b'chol ha'aretz Avinu shuvol-leinu Adonai v'altishv'ah v'yit'chaleh avoteinu Our Father, return to us again and remember your covenant with our fathers. Show us your mercy. Send out your light. Send out your truth. Reveal the glory, your sauce, and your compassion. Show us your mercy, Lord. Show us your mercy. Avinu malkeinu How excellent is your name in all the earth. Avinu Return to us again and remember your covenant with our fathers. Show us your mercy. Send out your light. Send out your truth. Reveal the glory, your sauce, and your compassion. Show us your mercy, Lord. Show us your mercy. Avinu malkeinu Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Amen. My wife always leaves her weapons all around our house. But it's one of the joys of being married to a psalmist. Hallelujah. She didn't tell you, but when I come into our living room where her keyboard is and she's weeping I know God is downloading a new song on her so I carefully go to my prayer closet and just intercede. And this song the Lord gave her after a terrible suicide bombing in our neighborhood. There were body parts of teenagers. One was a believer. All over the streets. And as the worship leader in our congregation Karen needs to then go into our Shabbat meeting and lead the people in worship. And so the Lord gives us worship from the Father's heart to try to minister to the wounds of all of our people. Up on Mount Carmel right now we have a new congregational building where the fire has begun to fall in small measure and we're believing for the fullness. And I'm privileged to not only be the senior leader of that congregation there but I oversee an Arab congregation in Haifa. The pastor of that congregation just baptized 24 Arabs. Hallelujah. He's one of the spiritual kids that is an Arab who loves his people of course but also loves the Jews. He's on Karen's worship team. He's a great guitar player. His name is Yusuf. He also has an internet radio station which is becoming a television station in Haifa. And he has over a million hits on his internet radio station every month from Muslims all over the Islamic world. So the word of the Lord is going forth to Muslims from Haifa. Hallelujah. From Mount Carmel. We're also privileged to... Amen. In the year 2000 when the South Lebanese army came out of Lebanon and when Israel pulled out of Lebanon 7,000 South Lebanese came. We were up there the next morning. We planted a congregation with them. So I also have the privilege of being an overseer of a congregation of Lebanese. So it was Arabs, Lebanese, there's Ethiopian Jews congregation in Haifa where they're overseer of them. And so it's wonderful when the Lord gives you a vision of the one new man of Jew and Gentile in one body. He just keeps multiplying and multiplying and multiplying. Amen. Another thing that's of interest perhaps you've read in the papers that a lot of the Sudanese refugees that have been not just in Darfur but a million Christians have been killed in southern Sudan by Muslims in the last few years. And a lot of them have fled to Egypt. They've been persecuted in Egypt and several hundreds of them have come into Israel. And our government is trying to decide what to do about it but they've sent us a lot of Sudanese. So if you happen to come to our congregation you're up on the top of the mountain in our women's refuge you'll see a lot of African mothers and a lot of African kids running around. We just baptized seven of those and one of them is named Mohammed. Hallelujah. So God... We serve a wonderful God. So I want to read a scripture to you. If you have your Bible you can turn to Zechariah chapter 4. If you're interested in any more of what's happening up on Mount Carmel our newsletter is out there a couple of my books. And one thing I felt to just suggest to you before you leave the conference I think it would be very valuable to you to pick up a book or two from different speakers here because I know sometimes you get excited about what's happening and you go back and you say what did that guy say or what was... that you would have some more food to take with you like Asher's books or Ari's and some of the other things that are out there and I just thought it might be of value too. So Zechariah chapter 4 the very end of the passage verse 14 it says these are the two anointed ones a better translation in the Hebrew these are the sons of fresh oil who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth. So I want to ask you something today do you want to be a son or a daughter of fresh oil? If you do raise your hand. Praise God. I do too. And you've heard different testimonies different messages here so far and mine's a little bit different because I grew up in America in a nominal Christian home but my father was an orphan and his name was Davis and we don't know where the name came we don't know who his father was so Jewish friends of mine say you're Jewish and Welsh friends of mine say you're Welsh but my mother was Irish and English so maybe I'm Jewish, Irish, Welsh whatever but it doesn't matter because I'm a new creation in Christ. Amen? And so I grew up in America and I did not know that you could know Jesus no one ever told me that it was completely I knew I believed he was the son of God but I didn't know you could know him so I ended up in New York as an actor and I was in a Broadway play one time and had everything that I had you know, struggled for and trained for and living the jet set life and the limousines and the whole thing and there was a standing ovation and bravo and all of that and I went home that night and this thought came to me it doesn't mean anything and I started to weep and I started out on my journey to try to find God and the journey that I'm on is the journey my specifics are different than yours but the journey we're all on the same journey to get deeper and deeper and deeper into who God is through Jesus, the Messiah so I tried to find him I went to some strange places in New York City in Greenwich Village where I lived he wasn't there but somebody took me to a meeting in a recording studio on Broadway in Times Square and I walked in there were a couple hundred people in there it was an upper room they had their hands lifted they were African Americans and white Americans there were Jews and Gentiles there were Asians and I had been done a number of plays about the race issue in America and I thought we could change America through the arts and all that kind of thing so I walked in I saw all these people raising their hands that was strange to me I'd never seen that before and they were Broadway actors and dancers and singers and models and fashion industry you know my kind of people that I hung out with so I felt well I know some of them I knew who some of them were they were all worshiping Jesus and as I walked somebody took me to my seat all of a sudden I couldn't stand up and I collapsed on my knees in the presence of the Holy One and started to weep and sob and shake and I looked up and I met Jesus and He's all light and I was dark and He forgave my sins and I'm on my knees weeping and sobbing and the guy that brought me there some actor brought me there probably wondering what's happened to David and I just kept weeping and it was the love of God streaming into my heart and forgiving me and these people were just worshiping the Lord so let me challenge you today the power of worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth is what we need in our meetings up on Mount Carmel Jewish people will come in it happens every week they just start weeping they don't know why they just know they're in the presence Muslims come in Arabs come in and we need the presence of the Lord in our meetings and that's how I got saved I didn't even know the Gospel I just knew Jesus had just saved me and I was transformed then I got baptized in the Holy Spirit hallelujah everything changed I started to care about people living on the streets and cardboard boxes that I used to step over and I didn't care about my whole heart changed I ran through New York trying to get to the Bible studies I was so starving for God I felt robbed why hadn't anyone told me this as a little boy and I just wanted to get it get it get it get more of who Jesus was I fell in love I fell in love with Jesus He was everything I was fanatical about it my friends ran away from me on the streets that didn't know Him it was just I told everybody I sent emails there weren't emails yet I sent letters to people faxes hallelujah and I started to learn to hear the voice of the Lord we need to train ourselves to know this is Him this is what He's saying and I began to understand what He was saying do this don't do that do this do that and so all of a sudden this burning compulsion to go to Israel invaded my being I didn't know why I didn't know what it was all about I just knew I've got to get to Israel I wasn't married so I got on a plane and came to Israel I came up from the airport like you did I saw Jerusalem through the cab window I started to weep I walked the streets of Jerusalem as you're doing I saw there's over a hundred nationalities of Jews back here they've come from all over the world the scriptures are being fulfilled I was undone this is the moment that the prophets were talking about I will bring them back to the mountains of Israel he who scattered Israel will gather them and not just from Babylon it's from all the ends of the earth and so I realized I was walking in this prophetic moment in this prophetic city the holy spirit told me to pray for an Arab woman who had had breast cancer it was the first miracle the Lord did through me she got healed from breast cancer a Jewish doctor gave her the confirmation of it so I was in Israel and God started doing these miracles and I went up to the sea of Galilee and I asked the Lord to speak to me I was keeping a record of all I still have the notebooks as he just downloaded things on me if you don't keep a prayer journal I advise you do it it will build your faith you'll look back on it a year later and say oh my God that's what he said he was going to do and he does it so I said Lord speak to me he didn't say anything I was in a car in the rental car came a voice singing in English it is finished with a choir behind them I don't know if it was from Lebanon I don't know if it was a heavenly choir I don't know what it was but all I know is the Holy Spirit the fire of God fell in the car the Holy Ghost descended in fire in my car I couldn't drive I sobbed I had to turn the car over to the side of the road I couldn't I couldn't go on I couldn't I couldn't take it anymore and it was all the love of God and me feeling unworthy the love of God he was saying David it's finished it's finished it's finished he was finishing me I'll tell you that much hallelujah it was it was an invasion of the fire of God I asked him to speak to me on Mount Carmel it went on time stopped I tried to drive again I couldn't I couldn't started shuddering I stoped I limped back when I got back to America I was undone about Israel then I met Karen and we had dinner one night with her spiritual mother who happened to be an African-American lady that she lived with named Mother Jackson, who was teaching this Jewish woman, Karen, God's purposes about the Jews. And she was learning this from an African-American woman, and Karen didn't know anything about it. Talk about a Gentile leading a Jewish woman. They were the funniest couple in New York, Mother Jackson and Karen. I'm sitting in the restaurant. Karen is telling me about her love affair with Jesus as she soaked in the Song of Solomon. It's really the Song of Songs is the title of the book. It means there's no other song like it. It's the love affair between the bridegroom and the bride. It's for the Gentiles, but many rabbis and many sages know it's also a symbolic picture of the Jewish Messiah coming for his people. It's a prophetic song that is starting to be fulfilled in our day. It's for Jew and Gentile together. But as I watched this lady, she was a model and a singer and so on. She was on the worship team in the recording studio where we all met. And as she told me about her love affair with Jesus, the Lord said, this is your wife. I knew the voice of the Lord. Man, I skipped back to the subway that night. I was going, oh, hallelujah. I met the one I'm going to marry and she's a Jew. Hallelujah. So we were married and we got involved in ministry. I love show business. I was ordained a minister of the gospel in a Broadway theater, which is now called Times Square Church. And I had gone there years before for the Tony Awards. The play where I was in was up for the best play on Broadway. And when I was ordained, I was back there two weeks ago and spoke. I'm overdone. I'm undone every time I go there and try to speak because the old me, you know, used to be involved in all that stuff. Only God could have written my movie, believe me. So Karen and I got involved in ministry and then I brought my Jewish wife to Israel for the first time. She'd never been here. We flew in over Tel Aviv. She looked out the window at the land of her inheritance and she just started to weep. We came up to Jerusalem. We had lunch with the Arab woman who got healed. The Arab woman who got healed made us this beautiful meal. And I had sent her David Wilkerson's book, The Cross and the Switchblade. I'd led her to the Lord. She was a believer. And so now I'm with a Jewish wife and I'm with the Arab lady with her husband and her Arab daughter. And we're having a one new man lunch in Jerusalem, you know, Jew and Arab and Gentile sitting there. And she looked at me and she said, David, so you're working with these drug addicts now? And I said, mm-hmm. And she said, we have drug addicts all over the old city of Jerusalem. And I was shocked because I thought this was the Holy Land, you know. You probably did too till you got here. We need Jesus just the way America or Nigeria or anybody else needs Jesus, you know. And so I said, yeah. And she said, she looked at me, looked me in the eyes, this Arab woman. She said, I can't let my daughter go out at night. Her daughter was 16. There's crime all over the old city. And she said, can you bring your church here? It was a Macedonian call. It was the propulsion of the Holy Spirit. It was the arrow of the Lord. It's like, you know, God shot me over to Israel to begin with and I had nothing to do with it. It was just, you know, it's like getting on automatic pilot with the Holy Ghost and letting him take you and do what he wants to do. And so this lady, this Arab lady said, can you bring your church here? I started to weep. My wife started to weep. We knew it was the call of the Lord. We knew it was Arabs and Jews. It didn't take a prophet to figure that out. It was to come here and minister to both. So that was the beginning of the call. And the Lord, my book that back there, The Road to Carmel, if you're interested, tells the whole story because people said, how'd you leave Broadway and go to Mount Carmel? And I don't get tired of telling it, but the whole deal's in there if you're interested. So the Lord brought us up to Mount Carmel. We became citizens. The Gulf War started. As the Gulf War was about to start, the first one, 1991, when Saddam Hussein was firing his scuds in here. As that was about to start, maybe you didn't put these two together, but the Soviet Union collapsed. The Soviet Union collapsed. The centuries of persecution. And a million Jews came back to Israel. And a lot of them came into Haifa. And we would sit on there and watch the boats come in from Odessa. And here came all of these immigrants. In the meantime, Saddam Hussein is firing missiles. We're running through in the middle of the night, you know, putting on our gas masks and trying to get into our bomb shelter. Mount Carmel is shaking. The first rocket, the first scud that hit Haifa missed the major oil storage area at the port of Haifa by less than 50 yards. The whole port could have gone up. In the next morning, there was a rainbow over Haifa Bay, and we were going, hallelujah, God's going to watch over us. But the Lord was working out His purposes. He said, I'll bring them back from the north. And wham, down went the Soviet Union. And here they came. And we all knew what was going to happen. It's in the Scriptures. People had prophesied it and marched around the Kremlin and prayed and written books about it. And so we saw the hand of the Lord going and the enemy trying to stop what God was doing. So in the midst of this war, the Lord gave us this wonderful old building on Mount Carmel. In English, it's called House of Victory. It's still there. It's 17 years old. Hundreds of Jews and Arabs have come off drugs and alcohol. They fall in love with Jesus. They get reconciled to the Father, and they get reconciled to each other. Hallelujah. It's Jews and Arabs in the same building. He's able to do it. When we came to Israel, the Jewish leaders said, who are you going to work with, the Jews or the Arabs? I said, both. They said, you can't do it. The Arab leaders in the north, in Galilee, they said, who are you going to work with? You're going to work with us, right? Not the Jews. I said, both. They said, it'll never work. Now they come to House of Victory. Now they say, hallelujah, it can work. God can break down the walls of division. In fact, he's already broken them down by the blood of Jesus on the cross. You just need to believe it and walk in it. He said it, and he will do it. If God gives you a vision, don't listen to men. I have a PhD. I'm a doctor of philosophy. I look for truth everywhere. But when I met Jesus, he's the truth, and he's love, and he's all I need. And I don't believe in the wisdom of men anymore. I believe in the power of God, and that's what we need. Hallelujah. Now today, you know what's happening today? There's a prayer shield all across northern Israel. Our congregation, other congregations, there are congregations now all across northern Israel. They weren't there 10 years ago. Arab groups, Russian-speaking groups, our group, which is both Messianic Jewish groups, they're all across the north. And we have a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, 24-7 prayer shield going across northern Israel and Galilee. And there are two Lebanese congregations on the other side of the border praying with us that God will stop Hezbollah. And praise the Lord, He's done it. It hasn't happened. And so we know that God can bring the plans of man to nothing, and God's Word and His counsel will stand. I'm here to tell you there is good news coming from Israel, not what you see on television, not what you read in the New York Times. There is good news. Jews and Arabs are getting saved in more numbers than any time since the book of Acts. And it's just the beginning. It's the early rain. Hallelujah. Now let's go back to Zechariah 4. You probably think, what does that have to do with all of this? Well, in some ways, everything. Zechariah 4, God wakened up His prophet. Church, wake up. Hello? Wake up. Open your eyes, your spiritual eyes. You need to walk these streets of Jerusalem. These Jewish people, when I saw them, it broke my heart. They don't know Jesus. Go see the sites and all that. But look at the people. Do you know why they don't know Jesus? I know the Lord has put a veil over their hearts. But do you know why else? That veil is much harder because of what people that have called themselves Christians have done to them. I was telling a young couple at breakfast this morning from Pastor Jack's church. I was telling them that the Crusaders came here, called themselves Christians from Europe. They put all the Jews in Jerusalem in the Grand Synagogue and they burned them to death, all of them. And they walked around with crosses singing, Christ, we adore Thee. So why would a Jew want Jesus? You see, when our nation, when there's this national repentance and they turn to the Lord, He's coming back. His feet will be on the Mount of Olives. It's here. So Satan is doing everything he can to stop that. And now that the Jews are turning to the Lord in all these incredible numbers in the nations and here in Israel, Satan is furious and doing everything he can to stop it. So when you walk the streets of Jerusalem or Haifa or Tel Aviv and they know you're Christians, they're suspect because of the history. And so it's so important that you get a heart, that you will pray for the peace of Jerusalem. That means the whole nation too. In peace, shalom comes from the word le-shalom. It means something that's been purchased. When you pray for the peace of Jerusalem, you're praying for the salvation of the Jews and Arabs of our land. And you need to do it for us. We need you. Okay, so the prophet wakes up and what does he see? He sees one of these. This is called a menorah or seven-branched candlestick. He sees one of these and the prophet knows what this means. And I'm sure you know what it means too. In the temple, there was a seven-branched candlestick. The original one was made for the tabernacle in the wilderness. And it was made out of beaten, hammered gold of one piece of gold. One piece, not a bunch of pieces. I don't know how Bezalel did it, but he got the anointing of the Holy Spirit to do the original one. And there were seven branches to it. And it represents the fullness of the Holy Spirit. How many of you here want the fullness of the Holy Spirit for your nation? This is all about the fullness of the Holy Spirit. You might say, well, that's the temple. What does that have to do today? Well, where does this show up in the B'rith HaTosha, in the New Covenant? The best commentary on what you would call the Old Testament is the New Testament. Praise God for all the great commentaries. And where does this show up in the New Testament? In Revelations chapter one. There's seven of them, which means completion, fullness. Who's standing in the middle of it? Jesus. What does it mean? He literally tells us it's the church. So, of course, Zechariah didn't understand that. But we know if you understand exegesis and how to study your Bible, this is about the church. And Jesus has to be in the middle, first place in everything, preeminence in everything. So he sees this, but there's an olive tree on each side. And he says, what are these, my Lord? He didn't know what the two olive trees were. So the Lord says, not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies. Can you imagine the prophet that heard that for the first time? When they had stopped building the temple and he said, tell Zerubbabel, he will finish the temple. It's grace, grace, grace, grace. Don't despise the days of small beginnings. All these biblical truths that have thundered down the centuries and feed us and change us. This prophet is hearing it for the first time. I think he got excited. It's about Zerubbabel. It's about Joshua. It's about priests and kingly power. You and I are supposed to be kings and priests. It's all about that. The fullness. I know all that. That's for sure. But what are the two olive trees all about? He didn't get it. He didn't understand. There was really no way he could understand. So look what it says in verse 11. He asked him three times, what are these two olive trees? Verse 12, there's silence. Then he asked again, what are the two olive branches? He sees, it's like the camera zooms in in his vision, he sees olive branches dropping pure, beaten, virgin olive oil, golden olive oil into the menorah, the church, if you will, the fullness of the presence of God. You know what it represents. It's the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Don't get any flies in your perfumer's ointment. You know, make sure your ointment, your oil is clear, is pure. It doesn't have some junk in there. It has to be pure. And so he cries out again. Verse 14, so he said, these are the two anointed ones are the sons of fresh oil that stand beside the Lord of the whole earth. And it's the end of the vision. He never found out. Well, I have a question for you this morning, church. What are the two olive trees? And so he cries out again. Verse 14, so he said, these are the two anointed ones are the sons of fresh oil that stand beside the Lord of the whole earth. And it's the end of the vision. He never found out. Well, I have a question for you this morning, church. What are the two olive trees? We know that he knew who one of them was. It's Israel because Israel is called an olive tree in the Psalms and in the prophets and so on. So he knew that, but he didn't know what the other olive tree was. Well, how do we determine where do the two olive trees show up? They show up in Romans 11. What is my wife, my Jewish wife? According to the truth of the scripture, she's a natural olive tree, a cultivated olive tree, and she is cultivated. Hallelujah. I'm a wild olive tree and I was wild. Don't laugh at me. You were out there too. How many of you were not a wild olive tree? I want to see one hand go up. Now a wild olive tree lives out in the desert and nobody takes care of it. Doesn't have the prophets, doesn't have the patriarchs, doesn't have the revelation of who God is. These wild Gentile olive trees that lived in California, forgive me, hallelujah, lived in wherever, but they don't have much sap, they don't have much oil, but they do have something, they're alive. And the scriptures say in Romans 11 that the wild olive branches have been grafted, cut, circumcised into, it's in Romans 11, into the olive tree of Israel. So the dead olive branches of the Jews are falling off in the desert, but along comes a Gentile and starts pumping some oil and prayer and support and love and mercy in there. And miracle of miracles, the dead olive branches of the Jewish people get up out of, off of the desert and they get back in their own tree. And you have two, one new man, Jew and Gentile in one body, broken down by the blood of Jesus. That's the way the church started. It's in all the letters. It wasn't until the third century that this was lost, but we're in the last days. We're in the days of the restoration of all things. It's being restored everywhere I go. It's being restored here. I go to Indonesia. There's a huge revival of Muslims in Indonesia. I go to a church of 30,000 people. They're all young ex-Muslims. They love Israel because they just read the scriptures. It's, there's a whole movement in the biggest revival in the history of the world. The Chinese underground persecuted church called Back to Jerusalem. They're sending a hundred thousand missionaries. They've already started it because they read the scriptures. They go, oh no, I take my wife to India. They've never even met a Jew. And they went, oh my, she's a Jew. They put her in a sorry, they're going to kidnap her and take her passport and not let her leave. They loved her so much. And they're singing Yeshua. Brothers and sisters, the fullness of the move of God in the last days is going to be the Jew and Gentile in one body. If you don't have Israel on your heart, and listen, and if I don't have the nations on my heart, my heart is shattered for Britain when we go there and do prophetic meeting. My heart is shattered for America. I love America when I see what's happening. But if I don't carry that and you don't carry that for Israel, you won't have the fullness. You won't have fullness of revelation. You won't have fullness of grace. You won't have fullness of power and the anointing. Now we want to do a prophetic act here. So I'm going to ask Karen to come and I'm going to ask Pastor Anna, Jack Hayford's wife. We're going to light these seven candles. It represents the fullness of the presence of God for church on the way, for Foursquare, for any other believers here, for us in Israel, because we're all in this together. And this is the church. Gold, pure beaten gold. Now the gospel is to the Jew first. So if it's all right with you, I'm going to ask Karen to light them first. Don't you believe in miracles? Can't you talk into a candle? Unbelieve. Now, if this was our messianic congregation on Mount Carmel and we'd say, yes, we're reaching the Jews, it's to the Jew first. When God told us to reach Jews and Arabs, we might have this much going. That much anointing. Look, we need it all. And so do you. So I'm going to ask Anna. Now let's do the center one together. Jew and Gentile bringing in the fullness. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. Praise you, Lord. The Jewish and the Gentile bride in the last days for the nations and for Israel. And then he's coming back. Now, one last thing. This anointing. How many of you want you said you wanted to be sons or daughters of fresh oil. So I assume that's all of you. This anointing. Is so it's everything. It's being led and controlled and directed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, which I didn't learn about till I met Jesus, and I never knew about it. But the cost of the anointing. It's costly. It means sacrificing, spending time in prayer on your knees, weeping and travail and triumph. It means praising the Lord and worshiping the Lord and thanking him in the middle. It's the anointing. When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, if you haven't been there, you'll probably go there before you leave over here on the Mount of Olives. And as he was on his knees and his men fell asleep and as he prayed and cried before the father and sweated big drops of blood, he was in Gethsemane and Gethsemane in Hebrew, the word for it is Got Shemin, which means oil press. Jesus was in the place of the oil press. An oil press, it's still done sometimes here in Israel. We have oil trees, I mean, olive trees at House of Victory and up on our congregational building and so on. You shake the olives, the tree, you get the olives. You put them in a sort of a scooped out stone thing with a spout at the end. And then pure virgin olive. It's the first pressing of the olives. And kids, families will do it together. They take off their shoes, they step on them, they try to be careful not to destroy the olives so you can eat the olives but also get the oil. Well, think of this for a minute. Our blessed Savior was in the olive press, being pressed out in pain we don't know much anything about. Choosing to take your sin and my sin, all the hatred, the racism, the perversion, wars. He took it all, he chose. And when he walked out of that olive press, he was ready to go and die for us. My friends, this anointing is so pure, is so holy. This last day's anointing of Jew and Gentile. God wants to release a fresh anointing to you in this place, at this moment. Let's stand. If you feel led by the Holy Spirit, just raise your hands to the Lord in a gesture of surrender, of supplication, and tell the Lord if there's anything between you and him, especially about racial division. Oh God, give it to the Lord. He broke it all down. If he can reconcile Ishmael and Isaac, the longest running family feud in the history of the world. He can reconcile marriages, fathers and sons, different racial groups. If there's anything, your heart has been a little hard since you've been here. You haven't got a burden for the Jews and Arabs of the land. Praise God. Go and see all the stones, but look at the living stones, the body, and all those lost. Now, Lord, I ask you for a download of your spirit. I ask you, Lord, that you will come right now by the power of your spirit and you will release from the throne room of God. Jesus, we thank you for what you did for us, that you might give us this anointing. Lord, we want all seven. We want the fullness. We want more and more of your spirit, more anointing day by day by day by day for our congregations, for our walks with you, for our marriages, for our nations, for Israel. Would you download, Father, in heaven? You watched Jesus do that. In agony, you must have gone through ABBA in this moment in Jerusalem with all these wonderful Gentiles that have come from the ends of the earth. Give them supernaturally through a broken heart, a heart for the Jews, the Muslims and the Arabs of the Middle East. We ask you to do it, Lord, and to carry it back to their nation. Come upon us, Lord, we pray. In Jesus' name, lift your hands to the Lord and worship Jesus. They're singing Kaddosh. They're singing holy in the throne room. Worship him. We lift you up, Jesus. It's all about you. Kaddosh holy. Kaddosh. The Lord God of armies. It's not by might. It's not by your power. It's by the Holy Spirit, says the Lord of armies. Supernatural empowerment, Lord. Your troops with fresh anointing, sons and daughters, new anointing. Hallelujah. Holy. He's the Lord. Praise you, Lord. We praise you, Lord. Just continue to lift your voices and worship. Hallelujah. We worship you, our Father. You are the true Lord. Praise you, God. Praise you, God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you.
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David Davis (1938–2017). Born in 1938 in the United States, David Davis was the founding pastor of Kehilat HaCarmel, a Messianic congregation on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. A former Broadway and off-Broadway actor and chairman of Fordham University’s Division of Arts at Lincoln Center, he experienced a dramatic conversion during a 1980s revival among New York’s performing artists, where he met his Jewish wife, Karen. Mentored by David Wilkerson of Times Square Church, he ministered to drug addicts and alcoholics before moving to Israel in 1989. In 1990, he and Karen founded Beit Nitzachon (House of Victory), Israel’s first Bible-based rehabilitation center for Jewish and Arab men, in Haifa. In 1991, with Peter Tsukahira, they established Kehilat HaCarmel, growing it from a Bible study above House of Victory into a vibrant congregation emphasizing the “one new man” vision of unity from Ephesians 2:15. Davis served as senior pastor for 25 years, known for his prophetic teaching, shepherd’s heart, and mentorship of leaders like Dani Sayag, who succeeded him. He authored no major books but inspired ministries like Or HaCarmel women’s shelter and Raven’s Basket feeding program. After battling cancer, he died on May 7, 2017, in Haifa, survived by Karen and two adopted sons, saying, “The Word of God is sufficient to change any life.”