Zechariah these are those whom the YHVH has sent to patrol the earth.
And they report, 'We have patrolled the earth, and behold,
all the earth is peaceful and quiet' (Zec 1:10-11)

We each find ourselves in the middle of the story of our lives. For each of us, it is a story that is sometimes wonderful, sometimes awful, and often a confusing mixture of both. Furthermore, we often don’t have a clue as to how to make sense of it all. It’s like we’re holding in our hands some pages torn out of a book. These pages are the days of our lives, they are fragments of a story. Each fragment seems important, or at least we want to think they are, but what does it all mean? If only we could find the book that contains the rest of the story. (see Epic, by John Eldredge, p.8; Nashville: Nelson Books, 2004.).

Where is the book that contains the rest of our story? It is the book that recounts His story: The tale of human redemption, most commonly referred to as the Bible. Another key question is, "What control do we have over writing the rest of the story of lives?"

Zechariah reveals that YHVH is receiving regular patrol reports concerning conditions on earth. Surely, an insight into these reports could prove helpful to each one of us as we seek to exert influence upon the future pages of our story.

The initial patrol report described by Zechariah was,"We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is peaceful and quiet" (Zec 1:10-11). But that was then. The current patrol report is, "We have patrolled the earth and behold, all the earth is rumbling with wars and rumors of war."

However, the current patrol report did contain some good news:

YHVH, we are pleased to report that the Messianic Israel Alliance is continuing to move forward in its efforts to regather Your lost sheep of the whole house of Israel. They realize that the first step in redeeming, reuniting and restoring Your people Israel is identifying them.

Their current Messianic Israel Alliance Herald magazine is titled Israel’s Future, and among several fine articles it contains How Will Israel Survive? This article not only outlines the massive challenges Israel faces, but it incorporated a plan designed by Scott Diffenderfer to help lost sheep rediscover their heritage. The article is available at http://www.messianicisrael.com/news/briefings/how-will-israel-survive.html

We are hopeful that future patrol reports will reflect that Messianic Israelites took this plan to heart and aggressively moved forward with its fulfillment, rather than Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody doing what they have so often done in the past when there was an important job to be done, Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. When Nobody did it, Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Somebody would do it, but Nobody realized that Nobody would do it. So consequently Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place.

Angus Wootten, for the Patrol