Late on the morning of Sunday the 26th, after an interval of almost two months, I visited my mother's in the same city where I live and, as I was planning, presented her a bottle of Yarden Chardonnay. We enjoyed the whole afternoon chatting about this and that while having a meal and in the evening she cooked dinner.
Now dinner was ready and we made a toast to reunion. All the dishes she prepared for me during my two-day stay were great as always, but the ones I had on the two evenings were special because we coupled them with the Israeli white wine. It was for the purpose of blessing Israel and the Jewish people that I gave my mother the Israeli white wine and during dinner I really felt that based on Genesis 12:3 I was blessed not only because the wine itself was so good but also because it helped the two of us have a great time at table as never before. I told her about the Bible verse and, not being a Christian, she looked a little interested.
But did she feel she was blessed during dinner? I don't know. So far I've tried a number of times to invite her to become a Christian and to be a member of the Japan-Israel Friendship Association, but unfortunately she hasn't said yes. Ah, how very difficult it is to lead one to believe in God and to become a Christian! She's been so sweet to me for so many years now that the mere thought of her going to hell after leaving this world makes me shudder. At least I told her about the YouTube videos by Bible teacher Goichiro Takahara, hoping that she'll become a Christian Zionist like her son before it's too late.
As for the good things that seem to have happened to me soon after blessing Israel and the Jewish people by drinking the Israeli wine at my mother's, my reply must necessarily be positive because I'm so grateful to our heavenly Father for them all. Whatever atheists say to contradict me, my faith in God will never be shaken because I'll always stand with the Jewish people in Israel and anywhere else in the world and with the evangelicals in America. I'm 100% sure that Japanese as I am, I'll never be influenced in any way by the atheists and the heathens in Japan.
