“Did the ancient Hebrews make it to America, and other distant lands where they have survived to this day, lost and forgotten by men, but remembered by Elohim, who according to the word of His prophets as recorded in Scripture, He will regather in the last days?”

We are living in the prophetic times of the regathering of the “Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.”
“Was Christopher Columbus a Sephardic Jew? Was he a believer in Jeshua? Was he perhaps a messianic Jew? What we do know is that the source of Columbus’ motivation was his Biblical view of scientific data as well as spiritual faith in the Scriptures.”
This book will inspire you to begin to search your own Jewish Roots.

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Daniel Sanchez Tovar

(THE AWAKENING OF THE SEPHARDIC JEWS, THE HISPANIC PEOPLE AND THE COMING LATINO REFORMATION)
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Dedication
We have all heard that “it is time for the Hispanic people to be visited by God with revival!” This is the message that the Lord has placed in the hearts of many concerning the next visitation from God for our Hispanic people. I say that the time is NOW! It is already happening!

Though many Hispanic people have yet to see this, we the Sephardic Jew as well as all the Hebrew people (including the “Ten Lost Tribes of Israel”) are indebted to many whom largely and perhaps unknowingly (except by the prompting of the Spirit of God) have prayed for us and have embraced us. Many have responded to the prophetic call from God to pray for Israel and the Israelite people worldwide. We are indebted to “the World Prayer Movement”, “the Jerusalem Project” and the many respected theologians, pastors, prophets, teachers and authors such as Derek Prince, Dr. C. Peter Wagner (my former professor when I attended Fuller Seminary), Dr. Jack Hayford (former President of the Foursquare movement), Dr. Ché Ahn (my dear friend and apostolic mentor, senior pastor of HRock Church and founder/ president of Harvest International Ministry), Lou Engle (my dear friend and prophetic/intercessor mentor founder of Ekballo and who just recently moved back to Pasadena to dedicate himself to prayer and fasting for “the inauguration of a new era of revival and missions”), Dr. Don Finto, Robert Stearns, Ted Haggard, Michael Little, James W. Goll, Rick Joyner, Cindy Jacobs, Sandra Teplinsky as well as many other hundreds of Christian leaders from around the world, representing tens of millions of Christians who have been praying for the peace of Jerusalem. God intends to release the Jewish people from “the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them” (Jeremiah 23:8).

God is answering their prayers of intercession. God has been releasing our Jewish brothers who live in the biblical Land of the North (the area comprised by the former Soviet Union).

But, It is now time for the gathering of the descendents from the west, the Hispanic people, the Sephardic Jew our Spanish brothers and sisters of which I am one of them!

God is gathering His people, the descendents from the west!

I dedicate this book to all the forerunners of the prayer and prophetic movements throughout Church history who have prepared the way for us, for me today. Israel is a reality, and both the Church and Israel shall fulfill their greater place of destiny in these last days. We are in the midst of a “parallel awakening” of the Jewish as well as all the Hebrew people worldwide and the Body of the Messiah across the globe. It is an awakening of the Hispanic people, the Sephardic Jew as well as the beginning awakening of the Ten lost Tribes of Israel!
It is to all of them and the many others I have failed to mention, I dedicate this book.

Daniel Sanchez Tovar Pasadena, California September 14, 2013; 10th of Tishrei, 5774 Yom Kippur

Preface
Israel is in the headlines more than almost any other nation. Why all this attention to a country the size of New Jersey in a sea of hostile Islamic nations? Foes might say “oppression” of the Palestinians; supporters might claim anti-Semitism. While we can examine the issue from different angles, we would be remiss to ignore the ancient roots of Israel and of Christianity, a religion based on the teachings of a Jew born in Bethlehem in the biblical heartland of Israel.
Israel is a hot spot because it is the cradle of Western civilization, i.e. Judeo-Christian civilization. In the Bible, we find the values that have made that civilization the world leader. God makes clear where He stands on murder, marital fidelity, honesty, and humility. He also specifically refers to the land of Israel.

“Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea [the Mediterranean] shall be your territory”
(Deuteronomy 11:24).

These geographic references, found throughout the Bible, are called an “eternal inheritance.” The ramifications of these words on the current conflicts between Israel and its neighbors cannot be ignored by anyone who considers God’s instructions to be eternal.

But are they only for the Jewish people or for Christians as well? The founding father of Israel, Abraham, was given clear instructions on the nature of Israel’s relationships with the nations and the nations’ relationships with Israel.

“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed”
(Gen. 12:3).

Because the blessings for the nations go through Israel, the instructions concerning Israel are relevant to all the nations of the world. Events today in the Middle East demand that Israel be “a light unto the nations” (Isaiah 49:6), but they also demand the active involvement of Christians. The Prophet Jeremiah, born in the 7th century B.C., spoke about what would be happening today as Israel rebuilds its biblical heartland amid internal dissension and over the fierce objections of the world. Should Christians be involved in that process? Yes!

“I shall yet rebuild you and you shall be rebuilt, O maiden of Israel; …You will yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria, the planters will plant and redeem. For there will come a day when watchmen will call out on Mt. Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us ascend to Zion, to the Lord our God’”
(Jeremiah 31:4–6).

The Bible’s word for watchmen is “notzrim,” which in modern Hebrew means “Christians.” However one interprets the modern usage of an ancient word, the message seems clear: Christians are expected to support the rebuilding of Israel in these difficult times. It is indeed a privilege to be a watchman on behalf of Israel’s prophetic return to its biblical heartland “in the mountains of Samaria.” It was the “Belfour Declaration” in 1917 that started the movement in the 20th century to help restore the Jewish people back to their homeland.

The Balfour Declaration
Almost ninety-six years ago, Jews around the world had cause for celebration and breathed a collective sigh of relief following decades of political and diplomatic activism—and centuries of prayer—to reestablish a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel. On November 2, 1917 the British government under Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour sent a letter entitled the “Balfour Declaration” to the Jewish leaders from the Diaspora. It was this document that started the movement to restore Jewish sovereignty to the Jewish people.
At the time, since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the year 70, this was arguably the closest Jews had come to the restoration of Jewish sovereignty in the land. World events outside the control of any one individual came together to make this possible, clearly guided by the hand of God. But it would be three more long and painful decades (May 1948) at the cost of millions of Jewish lives, before Israel was to be reborn, fulfilling God’s promise and as a clear sign of biblical prophecy.
From 1919 to 1948, Great Britain occupied the land of Israel, calling it Palestine. The occupation followed the defeat of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had controlled the land for centuries (1516–1917). The British took control from the Ottomans, who took control from the Mamluks (1260–1516) and so forth, in a trail of one foreign conqueror and occupier after another for more than 1800 years.
Yet during the decades preceding 1917, Jewish leaders from throughout the Diaspora increased and intensified their lobbying to political and religious bodies throughout the world to realize the dream of modern Zionism—the movement to restore Jewish sovereignty to the Jewish homeland.
Here is a letter, dated Nov. 2, 1917, on behalf of the British government by Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour to Baron Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. The “Balfour Declaration” was clear, concise and unambiguous:
“His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
Following a nearly two millennia dream to return to the land, Jews around the world were filled with hope. As events unfolded, particularly in Europe, where life for Jews was never a walk in the park and getting worse, the level of urgency for reestablishing a Jewish homeland took greater importance. The Balfour Declaration was a meaningful light at the end of a very long, dark and painful tunnel.
Today, it’s clear the milestone of the Balfour Declaration is one that ought to be celebrated by Jews and Christians alike. Indeed, many notable Christians were active Zionists and supported the movement of the Jewish people’s return to the land, as that has multiplied many fold over the decades since.
While Great Britain would control the land of Israel under the League of Nations mandate following WWI, under the monarchy of King George V, we know that His Majesty, whose government “viewed with favour” the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, was not, is not and never will be the authority that determines Israel’s existence or its prosperity.
Despite all the odds—foreign conquerors, the Spanish Inquisition (Sephardic Jews who lived in Iberia for more than three millennia), the Holocaust, the persecution of Sephardic Jews throughout the dispersed Diaspora and the daily threats of its neighbors still today, Israel exists simply because of the promise of the God of Israel, “the one true Majesty”.
The Vital Role of the Israelite People
God has preserved the Israelite People not only because of His love for and faithfulness to Abraham, but because Israel plays a vital role in world redemption. This includes both the first coming and return of His promised Redeemer, the Messiah.

Dozens of Bible passages clearly reveal the pivotal role of the Jewish People in the Last Days of planet earth. Note the words of Yeshua himself:
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’”
(Matthew 23:37-39).
Obviously, Messiah was speaking to the Jews who lived in the city of Jerusalem at that time. Some rejected Him then and many continue to reject Him to this day. Today they reject Him out of blindness. Tomorrow, they will recognize Him as Messiah when the blindness comes off of their eyes.
Daniel Sanchez Tovar Pasadena, California September 14, 2013; 10th of Tishrei, 5774 Yom Kippur