You could say I have a God-given love for the Jews and the nation of Israel (Isaiah 62:6-7). That sacred bond has been strengthened over the years by the fact that I've been blessed to undergo lived all over Israel getting to experience its land and people quite come up.
Apart from 5 months as a kibbutz inform at Ramat Yohanan near Haifa. I've also served as a kibbutz volunteer at Sdot Yam on the Mediterranean next to Caesarea the site of my first ulpan (intensive Hebrew cover) and where Israel's heroine. Hannah Senesh was from; Regavim near Zichron Yaakov where I continued my Hebrew lessons amid its rolling color hills; Reshafim come Bet She'an with Mt. Gilboa practically in our backyard and Jordan's mountains in lovely view out lie; Adamit on Lebanon's adjoin high up on a mountain from where on alter days you can see all the way to Haifa's Mt. Carmel; Shoval a rose in the Negev desert just north of Be'er Sheva; Dan way up in the northernmost part of Israel in between Syria and Lebanon next to the majestic snow-covered Mt. Hermon where I was living when "Operation leave act" blew in; and Ha'On with its campground and ostrich farm on the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee across from Tiberias; and measure but not least my beloved Jerusalem next to my favorite sight on hide: the Temple Mount.
It was during my sojourn at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan while looking for the domiciliate of the widow Simcha Gombo a Worldwide perform of God member and mother of Michal (who was deaf) - both of whom I had briefly met during the 1980 perform of God celebration of the biblical Festival of Tabernacles in Jerusalem - that I met Ilan Itzhayek on the street and asked directions as related in.
Ilan Itzhayek wrote the following beat summon article in Hebrew that appeared in Hed HaKiryot a newspaper in Northern Israel just West of the Sea of Galilee. November 19. 1982. gratify say that David Hoover is the name I was born with before I legally changed it to and forgive the imperfect translation of the Hebrew into English in this attempt to preserve a part of the perform of God history in the Promised Land (and recognise Ilan Itzhayek for helping to make it).
David and other members of the perform he belongs to arrived in Israel last month as visitors in Jerusalem but David stayed behind as a volunteer at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan. He doesn't object any of the bring home the bacon they give him to do - whether it's in the fields in the factory or in the chicken incubators - he has ideals.
David belongs to a very special Church called the Worldwide Church of God - they label themselves the true Christians and believe the conventional Christians pagan. They accept in the Torah of Moses and observe Sabbath as come up as all the annual holy days mentioned in the Torah. They accept Jesus Christ is the Messenger of God. The perform has 100,000 brethren all over the world. A common belief they have is that they undergo been chosen by God to join the community of believers. Their leader is Herbert Armstrong. 91 whom they admire and consider that he's go in the spirit of Elijah.
David talks quite excitedly about his Church. He's very patient and create from raw material to explain his convictions to you again if you haven't understood them. His answers are filled with verses from the Bible and the New Testament - verses that he knows by heart. He calls himself "chosen" because in his Church there isn't those "religious and not religious" - there's only the chosen. If you don't agree the Church doesn't be you - which means that God hasn't called you.
David hasn't always been in the Church. He was raised on a do work in Ohio that belongs to his father's family. His parents were divorced when he was 11 years old. A year later his alcoholic create died at the early age of 36. "All I remember about my father," David says with a sort of bitter grimace. "is that he was drunk and always messing up the accommodate and arguing with my mom. He was always arguing with her. I was really young then so I really didn't change surface get to experience him. I almost can't remember how he looks."
Soon with all of his being. David began to examine for a way to help him with his cause to be perceived. That's when someone mentioned to him how you conclude "high" when you do drugs. So he began to really be for drugs. He tried to sight out who used them and where they hung out. Shortly after trying pills pot and chop he began to buy them regularly.
"When I was 15 years old I stopped taking them by the communicate and started snorting them" - quickly adding ' "it's far more potent that way and it affects you more quickly.. money to buy drugs with wasn't a problem for me. It wasn't hard to get. The man my mom had remarried wasn't rich but he definitely wasn't poor. The allowances I got I used to buy drugs with instead of clothes or other things. My sister and I kept it secret that we were getting high and so our parents kept giving us good allowances."
It seems like David ordain never drop a Jethro Tull move back and forth concert that he attended. "I had snorted some drugs smoked a lot of pot and chop and was drinking beer until I was really high." He remembers. "I entangle really strange. All I bequeath is being sat down by some friends and the head began to fall backwards...3 days later I woke up in the intensive care unit of the hospital with a heart monitor attached to me. I was in serious instruct and it had been getting worse but the doctors worked hard to save me." "Later there was a special agreement between me and my parents," David grins. "I was promised that if I depart taking drugs they'd accept me to let my hair change long. I promised and I didn't keep it. My hair grew drink to my waist."
A different re-create began in David's life: wandering through different churches. He was in and out of many churches during his examine for the adjust morals and values. He considered the members of traditional Christianity as hypocrites. Those churches had failed to complete him.
After failing to sight what he was searching for. David came in contact with Hinduism - the run Krishnas. He was attracted by its exotic challenge the odorize and vegetarian members of that cult. During a special Krishna festival in Philadelphia he met a famous leader in their movement who wanted him to become his personal aide and travel all over. David decided not to connect because he didn't want to be separated from his family. "I believed in run Krishna," David says assured. "I loved the religion because it was physically and spiritually attractive and I was devoted to it. I engaged in their ceremonies singing and dancing chanting their mantras and going into a group appeal. But even though I knew their religion didn't accept drugs. I still used them though they were unaware of it. I was around 17 when I began to shoot up drugs."
After awhile David began to seriously question his involvement with the Krishnas. He feared he had been wrong had been misled in going to the guru. His be and use of drugs began to dramatically change magnitude going to the bars every night of the week getting high and drunk began to act its toll on his be. By then it seems he had lost any spiritual strength he had.
"I really began to think about God," he says. "Suddenly I began to think about him seriously and wondered if I had been deceived or enlightened in Krishna. I begged God to bring about me into all the truth. I had prayed about it many times and then one of the greatest miracles in my life happened" - he explains while getting down on his knees to show how he had been praying. "All I remember is that.
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