Record Breaking Granny has 1400 Relatives
September 22, 2009 9:29 AM
Here
is an article on a Jewish Woman who died at age 99 who left 1400, children
grandchildren great grand children and even great great grand children. When I look at this article I see an indictment
against the whole of the church in this day and hour. Had there been just 100
Born Again Spirit-Filled had did this in one town, in one city, in one state
how different would that place be today from what we see this day and hour?
How
would it be that you had lived to see the day that you had 1400 descendants
that were all Godly and Serving the Lord Jesus Christ? How would the local
public schools be affected by this in your local community? How would local your
government be affected by 1400 people voting as a block. How would the effect
be affected by just 10 familes within a local having 14,000 voters. Know that
1400 people could more than decide the election in any small local, 14,000
could well decide the election in any town or small city, and with one hundred
such families having an output of 140,000 people would be able to decide
elections in most large cities and even in a good number of state elections.
Further
if these children as they grew up and became parents and worked in a given
local community or city if every one during 30 years brought just two people to
the feet of Jesus Christ, the effect would declared to be a great revival.
Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the
glory of children are their fathers (Crown).
Psalm 127:3-5 3Lo,
children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of
the womb is his reward. 4As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
so are children of the youth. 5Happy is the man that
hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak
with the enemies in the gate.
ABC's Simon McGregor-Wood reports from
Rachel Krishevsky was 19 when she married her cousin Yitzik from within the
ultra orthodox Haredi community in
By the time she passed away last Saturday in
According to one unnamed grandchild Wednesday, “grandma knew all of her descendants by name.”
Despite such a fruitful life members of Rachel’s huge family said they felt great sadness at her passing.
“Grandma was a God-fearing woman her whole life, and her door was always open to the homeless and poor near the market. We are sad about her death, but proud of what she achieved in her life,” said another grandchild.
Mrs Krishevsky lived near the Mahane Yehuda market in West Jerusalem and was a well known local figure. The area is a center for the strictly orthodox sects of Judaism, most of which follow the tradition of having large families. In recent years the demographic mix of the city’s population has been changing as a result.
According to the Israeli daily paper Yedioth Aharanot, Rachel Krishevsky’s achievement although remarkable was not record breaking.
The paper claims at least two local people are known to have great-great-great-great-grandchildren. And one senior rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, recently celebrated the birth of his great-great-great-grandchild’s first child.