But Satan himself strains and struggles under great
limitations. One of the strengths of this
house is worship. It just is.
You do the priestly so well, and the priestly always goes 1st and
then the kingly. Judah always went first into
battle. And when Judah went first they
paved the way for victory in battle.
The priestly always happens before the kingly.
And as Pastor Dave said about authority, authority is in the
that part of who God says we are by identity as both priests and
kings unto Him. And not to preach on authority,
but just as to give you a little encouragement, we all through
Jesus blood and name have a first level general, general
authority in his name through his blood.
Amen. And then there there are other
layers of authority. I like to call the next layer
authority by assignment or authority by mission.
There's a Bible word metron, which means measured out place
or metered out place. Literally it means this.
So when God gives you something to do for Him, He will measure
out a jurisdictional level of authority from where you are now
to where you complete that assignment.
And that is another layer of authority, and it's operational
authority. So we have a general authority
that we all have in Jesus through His name and by his
blood, Amen. But we also all walk in
assignments from the Lord. All of us are men and women on a
mission, and he gives us operational authority or
jurisdictional authority that extends all the way to the
completion of your assignment and mission.
That's very important to understand that there's a
military term that is said in the Pentagon.
From what I'm told there is that there's a concept in military
called inherited authority. An inherited authority simply
means this, that if you are a captain in one of the branches
of service, let's say in the Army and and you work at the
Pentagon for let's say a four-star general, and that
four-star general sends you down the hall to deliver some
classified information to another general.
Then when you leave that office of the general you work for, you
then operate under what's called an inherited authority of that
general's 4 four-star rank until you finish delivering those
papers and come back and report that that your task was
completed. And then you go back into, if
you're a captain, back to the captain rank.
So there's a technical part that anyone that is sent by a
superior officer is operating under an inherited authority of
the one who sent you. And then in Matthew 28, Jesus
said all authority has been given unto me in heaven and in
earth. So he was making a declaration
that he had been given all authority in all realms of
existence. And then he said, therefore you
go and disciple the nations. And so there is a perfect
picture of inherited authority that comes from Jesus.
It's never ours by ownership, but we have been loaned that
operational authority to to more than conquer darkness and to
complete the mission of the Lord.
Amen. But I believe that this house
has been marked by the Lord for the things that are the most
important to him, and worship is one of those.
The church at Antioch came together and the first thing
they did when they met was they ministered unto the Lord.
You know that. And then it says as they
ministered under the Lord, that's the, that's the priestly,
that's the worship, that's praise and even intercession
falls in there. It said.
Then the Holy Spirit spoke and then the Holy Spirit sent out
Saul and Barnabas to the missions that they went out to
do, and they were sent by the Holy Spirit.
So everything begins with the priestly and culminates and
climaxes at the completion of missions in the kingly.
But I heard the Lord say about you, is this He said there would
be worship that is now emerging out of this house that will
break the spiritual sound barriers because there are sound
barriers that block the fullness of what God really wants to
release through you and me and worship and in praise.
I believe we're doing the best we can out of a heart after God.
But I think there are some limitations to regions and
territories and things and places that often try to limit
the full release of the worship God is worthy of through his.
People but he said you here are going to break the spiritual
sound barriers. That will also create the Sonic
boom because that's what happens when an aircraft breaks the
sound barrier. Usually there's a Sonic boom to
follow, right? We've all been around those, I'm
sure. And in the pictures on the walls
of your house vibrate from the the boom of the Sonic boom.
But I believe God is releasing. From.
Your worship that is breaking the sound barrier to create the
Sonic boom in the deep places of darkness that are the real true
core structures of the of enemy evil things in the world, both
locally and clear across around the world.
Amen. So you're you're destined to
break the spiritual sound barriers.
You're also destined to exceed the spiritual light spectrum.
Jesus is going to use this house to bring light into the darkest
places of the world. Amen.
I like the story of 1 missionary who spent his entire life taking
the gospel of Jesus into some of the darkest and the most
difficult regions of Africa, eventually dying on that mission
field, showing honor to that missionary they had come to love
so dearly. The African tribesmen of that
territory buried the missionary in the jungle at the spot that
he came and preached the gospel for the first time.
They placed a cross at the head of his grave and then they
placed a small plaque beside the cross and hear the words that
the Africans inscribed upon that plaque.
They said when he came there was no light, when he left there was
no darkness. And I think that should be said
of all of us, that when God sends us on a mission under His
inherited authority, he doesn't just give you his authority to
take the gospel as a message, but also to bring even nations
into the discipline, because that's what he said.
He said to disciple the nations. There's an inference to bring
discipline to nations and bring them out of incorrect places
into an alignment pleasing to the Lord.
Amen. So I hope that would be your
testimony, that wherever God sends you, you may not have
found a lot of light there, but when you left that assignment
and completed it, you didn't have much darkness there, if any
at all. Amen.
Isaiah 60 says arise and shine, for your light has come, and the
glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and even a deep
darkness shall cover the people. Do you believe we're living in
such a time when it seems so? But the Lord will arise over you
and His glory will be seen upon you.
And then I love what verse 3 says.
The Gentiles, that is, the unbeliever, shall come to your
light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
We're living in the days of the sharpening contrast between
darkness and light. I know of no other time in my
lifetime where evil seems to be apparently conspicuously evil
and light and righteousness is obviously right and righteous
and the Lord is drawing the contrast.
You know, as a as a kid, I remember when we got our first
televisions set, you know, it wasn't the big string, big
screen TV's we have today. It was a big block of wood and
it had this big tube and you had to turn the the TV on by
twisting this knob that powered it up.
But it took like 5 minutes for it to warm up before a picture
ever came on the screen, right? And, and I remember the
excitement of when my dad would turn on the TV and we would see
this little flicker of light on the street.
You know it's black and white TV, right?
Nobody even thought about color TV in that time.
And then the little black, the, the little white dot just kind
of filled out the screen and it was like a mess.
And then finally, you know, if you move the antenna around and
put some aluminum foil on the antenna, how many of you ever
been there and done that? And you finally get in the best
signal you can from the antenna and the aluminum foil and it's
still not real clear. It's black and white and kind of
fuzzy. And then there was a, there was
a knob on the TV called contrast and you could turn up the
contrast that sharpened the dark tones and the light tones so
that you got a clear picture. We're living in an hour when God
is turning up the contrast to obviously show us the
differences between dark and light.
Amen. And kings are coming to the
brightness of our rising in the sharpening of contrast.
The clarity of difference between evil and good is
sharpening. And kings that are hungry for
learning how to govern righteously are coming to that
light. I've never had more government
officials and presidents come and ask to be trained how to
rule and govern righteously in their realms of authority.
And it's wonderful to watch. And it's a fulfillment of the
Isaiah prophecy. But I believe kings are also
coming to the light, not to be trained because they don't want
to be trained, but they're coming to the light because
God's bringing them into judgment.
The evil kings of the earth are being brought to the light to
expose themselves and they're they're horrible evil deeds that
are that they've been doing. So we're living in the hour when
kings are coming either with hearts open to the Lord to be
trained and taught, or they're being pulled into the light and
their darkness is being exposed. Amen.
Now we know that God is omnipotent, that is, that is, He
is all powerful. He is omniscient.
That means he knows everything. And he is also omnipresent.
That means He's everywhere, all at one time.
But did you know that Satan has none of those characteristics?
He has none of those qualities. He is not omnipotent, He is not
all powerful, He is certainly not all knowing, and he is
certainly not everywhere all at the same time.
Now he has his generals and his principalities that are
scattered around everywhere. But Satan himself strains and
struggles under great limitations.
Amen. And you know, somebody said to
me the other day, boy, it just seems like the devil's getting
stronger. But you know what I said to
them? I said that's impossible because
his power levels were set. He cannot get more powerful
because he is not omnipotent. And omnipotence is not a
characteristic that Satan enjoys.
So his. His.
Powers are greatly limited and he cannot get strength by power.
They're fixed. But what it feels like sometimes
is when darkness is being exposed by the light of God,
darkness becomes more reactionary by the exposure
itself. And when darkness reacts, it
looks like that it might be getting stronger, but it's not.
It's just becoming more reactionary because it begins to
UN destable at the exposure of light.
So a lot of good things are happening around the world.
Amen. But I believe this house has a
has a powerful, powerful assignment from the Lord.
And a big bulk of your assignment is worship and
intercession. You're going to break the sound
barriers, you're going to exceed the light spectrum limitations.
Most of you know about Hubble telescope.
When NASA sent up Hubble many years ago, the mission of Hubble
was ultimately to find the end of the universe, the edge, the
outer limits of the universe. But Hubble could not see far
enough to see the edge. So they set up James Webb
telescope with much higher technology and better optics
than Hubble. And James Webb is sending back
some new batches of photographs of looking at the farthest
reaching edge of the universe. And there's a couple of things
that is puzzling the scientific community is what they thought
was just going to taper off into nothingness is actually they're
seeing new galaxies being created because when God said
let there be light, he set creation into motion.
And His word, just like the words that you speak, are
vibrating when you speak. Them.
They never stop. Can you imagine God's word never
stopping And it has the power of creative energy to create.
And so science through James Webb Telescope is discovering
some fascinating facts that they can see new galaxies unfolding.
And the further out you look, science has believed the dimmer
light is the further out you look.
And they're finding that light from these stars and galaxies is
getting brighter the farther out James Webb Telescope sees, which
is by itself a miracle. But we serve the God of light.
Light exposes darkness. And when darkness gets exposed,
it becomes reactionary. Amen.
You know, in Texas. We have these snakes where I
live called copperheads, and copperheads are everywhere in
East Texas, where the Piney woods part of Texas, we call it
the pretty part of Texas, East Texas, But copperheads are
everywhere. And we used to have a lot of
trouble with these copperheads coming to try to get inside our
house. And we would get very near to
almost step on some of these copperheads.
Then they're very aggressive. They're not like some snakes
that'll try to get away from you.
They will come after you. They're very offensive.
And my wife had had enough of that and she just started to
pray. So God, I want you to put a
boundary around our property. We have one acre of land we live
on. And she started to pray that God
would put a spiritual boundary. And we've not had a copperhead
since then. So she's got faith for that.
You know, she's really got more faith than I do.
She's got a faith that when she goes to the shopping mall, she
believes her parking places at the front door of the mall.
And when I'm with her, I'm so I'm saying to her, honey, don't
bother God with a parking spot up front.
I said, besides, we probably need to walk.
We need the exercise. And lo and behold, the Lord will
give us a parking spot right up at the entrance of the mall.
So she's got faith for parking spots at the mall and keeping
Copperheads off of our property. But that's what darkness does.
It reacts. It actually comes after you.
It moves into an aggressive, offensive posture when you're
exposing it. But read that the way it is.
Read that as a positive and not a negative.
Some of you are feeling the push back of darkness and it's
causing you to even question maybe your assignment or what
you're believing for. See that as a positive,
guaranteed evidence that you're on the right track, doing the
right thing. If you're getting a reaction
from darkness, that's a good sign.
Amen. Amen.
Daniel chapter 2 verse 20 through 22.
Daniel chapter 2 verse 20 through 22 Daniel.
Daniel answered and said, blessed be the name of God
forever and ever. I like that because he begins
with worship and praise for wisdom and might are his.
Now watch what he says in verse 21.
He says he changes times and seasons.
So Daniel recognized that God is a God who's first of all worthy
of worship, worthy of praise. And then he declares that God is
the one who changes times and seasons and removes kings and
raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and
knowledge to those who have understanding, and he reveals
deep and secret things. He knows what is in the
darkness, and light dwells with him.
We're serving a God who commands in his first the winds and the
ways of everything, and he even owns and sees what is in
darkness. Last year I was struck by a
contrast between darkness and light at the US Capitol building
in Washington, DC I was there for an evening to speak to a
group of US Congressmen and we were in the Rayburn Room of the
Capitol. And when I was standing at the
podium to speak to this group of members of Congress, I was
struck by the contrast because behind me was a full length
original painting of George Washington.
So within a a three or four feet was were the feet of George
Washington. And then as I looked out the
Rayburn room, I could see in the corridor the the door of Hakeem
Jeffries office building or office array.
Hakeem Jeffries is the Minority Leader, Democrat leader, and and
I was struck by the contrast of being right at the foot of
George Washington, which reminded me of our history as a
nation and yet seeing the darkness represented there as
well. But I love the fact that God is
changing times and seasons and removing kings and raising kings
up. I'm going to tell you dark evil
kings are lining up to be removed.
They're standing in a sequential order of removal, not by the
United States government, but by the king of all kings, Amen.
And we're going to see more kings, dark kings, removed,
especially in the next couple of months.
Amen. Well, Daniel said it would
happen. He changes times.
I don't know about you, but it just feels like time is speeding
up to me. I don't know if I'm just getting
older, but it just seems like yesterday we were celebrating
Christmas and the New year and here we are just pushing toward
the end of the month of February and spring is right around the
corner. What is happening to time?
Is it possible that God, who is enthroned in the eternity of
heaven, that is not bound by time or space?
Is it possible God is speeding things up?
He said he would hasten his word to perform it.
That means he he wants to do his word.
He wants to do what he's promised, maybe earlier and
certainly never later. Then I thought about the wedding
at Cana that in John chapter 2, we won't take time to read
through it, but you know the story well, when Jesus and his
disciples and even Jesus mother Mary were invited to a very
important wedding. Obviously it was some someone
wealthy and they had, they had set up a beautiful wedding and
during the wedding there at Cana, something terrible
happened. The worst thing that could ever
happen at a wedding was they ran out of wine.
And in that culture and in that time period and that part of the
world, that was a crisis. And Mary, mother of Jesus,
overheard the servants who discovered that the the wine had
replenished, went to the master of the wedding feast to tell
him, we're out of wine. And what does Mary do?
Mary walks right over to Jesus and says, son, they've run out
of wine. They've run out of wine and
Jesus. Almost sounded disrespectful,
but I think he was speaking out of the strength of knowing what
heaven's plans and timing were. When he said woman, what does
that have to do with me? My time has not yet come.
He knew that if he did a miracle to meet the need of that wedding
feast, that his identity would surely be exposed as to who he
was. And it wasn't yet on Heaven's
schedule for that to happen. And so he says to Mama Mary,
It's not my time. And Mary didn't try to argue
with him. She just walked over a few feet
to those servants and she says whatever he says for you to do,
do it right. And then he said to them, fill
the water pots full of water. By the way, that wasn't clean
water. That was kind of dirty water
because those water pots were there for purification and
washing, ceremonial washing of the Jews.
So it wasn't clean water. He said fill them all the way to
the top with water. And you know the rest of the
story. He turned that dirty water
miraculously into not just not just cheap wine, but the best
wine anyone had ever tasted. The point is this, he changed
his mind and when he changed his mind, he changed time itself.
He literally at the persuasion of his.
Mother. He moved Heaven's plans and
timetable forward and did a miracle that exposed and
identified who he was before it was on the schedule.
For that to happen, and that's what we do in intercessory
prayer, we come into the place of making petition to the King
of all kings and to our Heavenly Father.
We come and ask God to change his mind.
Think of all the times God's changed his mind.
When Moses and Abraham and others came and made an appeal
to heaven and it changed the mind of God to do something that
he wasn't planning to do. You had the power of persuasion.
I think we do that when we step into the place of prayer.
We're asking God to change his mind.
And when he changes his mind, sometimes he changes time
itself. So he was moving time forward to
do something earlier than had been planned.
He also might have been moving time out because he changed the
water into not just ordinary cheap wine, but he changed it
into the best wine, which was wine with age.
So I just wonder if God was just messing with earthly time,
turning the dial up and turning it back.
Daniel said he would. He's the God who changes times
and seasons and removes kings and raises kings up.
So there are evil dark kings in the world lined, lined up,
waiting their turn to be removed.
And that's a good thing. Amen.
Now I'm going to shift gears a little bit here with you and
talk about the Middle East for just a few minutes.
I want to give you a briefing on what God is doing in the Middle
East, specifically with Israel and Iran, and I'd like to take
you on a little scriptural journey here for a minute.
First of all, in Psalm 74, Psalm 74, verses 18 through 20, now
before we read that God has a protection plan for Israel and
He has a redemptive plan for Iran.
He has a protective plan for Israel and He has a redemptive
plan for Iran. So there are evil kings and
there are evil systems that are warring against Israel, against
God's people, against America, against you and me.
We are the enemy of an old ancient Persian principality
that is in a hierarchical, structured place in what is
modern Iran or ancient Persia. God has a protection plan for
Israel. He will protect Israel at all
cost. And.
When I began working with Israel and helping them on some of
their security matters years ago, he spoke to me and he said,
I want to get this very clear to you as you begin what I have you
to do for Israel, to bless Israel and to keep them safe.
He said I will protect them at all costs.
And the reason I do is because of the covenant I have with
Israel. The covenant that God made with
Abraham is the reason we should bless Israel and the reason we
should pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
We should have respect to the covenant that God made.
But he went on and just said I will protect them because of my
covenant. And he said, if I have to, I'm
going to rain on the Iranians, I'm going to rock the Iraqis,
I'm going to sear the Syrians, and if I have to, I'm going to
roast a Turkey. I never had God speak that to me
in prayer ever. And I wrote it down.
It was just kind of stunning and almost shocking because God was
just matter of factly saying, here's how it's going to be.
I'm going to protect Israel because I have a covenant with
them, not because they do everything righteous.
Because guess what? We got a whole Bible of Old
Testament history where Israel was wicked more than anyone else
and disobeyed God and rebelled against God more than any other
people. We got a biblical history of the
disobedience of Israel. But that doesn't mean we don't
bless them. We bless them because of the
covenant that God will never break with them.
Amen. Now, I don't believe in
replacement theology. I don't believe the church
replaces Israel. I believe through the blood of
Jesus, you and I are grafted into that family.
We become God's people too, the cause of the blood of Jesus
sacrifice, Amen. So let's get that straight.
I don't know where you stand on that, but that's my theology.
I was brought up in a denomination that strongly
believed in replacement theology, that the church just
outright straight up replaces Israel.
I don't think so. I think Israel still has a very
prominent special place in God's heart because of the covenant.
Amen. So God has a protection plan for
Israel. He has a redemptive plan for
Iran. Here the problem, I called him
the three H problem of the Middle East.
Number one is Hamas. Hamas #2 is Hezbollah #3 are the
hoodies. So you have the Hamas primarily
in Iran, you have Hezbollah primarily in Lebanon, you have
the hoodies primarily operating out of Yemen.
But all three of those HS are spread out throughout the entire
Middle East. So God's God's going to deal
with those 3HS. Those hierarchies of evil are
satanic, They are demonic. They are not just another form
of government. They are of a structure of dark
evil that hates God and hates anyone who serves the Lord and
God's dealing with those 3 entities.
Look at Psalm 74 and I want to show you a little bit of what I
mean regarding Hamas verse 18. Remember this, and by the way,
this is a prayer of Asaph, but it sounds like an imprecatory
prayer of David. It's a prayer of God being asked
to judge his enemies. So he says, remember this, he's
telling God remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O
Lord, and that a foolish people has blasphemed your name.
So looking at the Hebrew meanings here, when it says a
foolish people, it is literally referring to a Pagan and godless
people. And the word blasphemy literally
means to be openly defiant and disrespectful to the Lord.
So there is an amazing thing that Asaph does He's.
Calling God into remembrance. God's not this old forgetful man
that sometimes forgets things that we need to remind him of.
But you know what? Sometimes it's a, it's good for
us to call out to God and bring him to remembrance of the things
that he already wants to do. He didn't forget any of them.
But I think sometimes it's us that need to be reminded that
we're bringing God into remembrance, but we're really
remembering ourself and it brings our faith into a level
that God is pleased with. All right then verse 19.
Oh, do not deliver the life of your turtle dove to the wild
beast. The word turtle dove, there is a
reference to Israel. Do not forget the life of your
poor forever. Another direct reference to
Israel. So he's asking God to recognize
and remember what darkness and what the enemy is up to, but
he's also asking God to bless and protect Israel.
And then he ends verse 19 by saying, and have respect to the
covenant, the covenant. It's all about the covenant.
That's why we should bless Israel.
We're blessing Israel, but beyond Israel itself, we're
blessing the covenant that God made with Israel.
Amen. So Asaph is actually asking God
not just to remember what the enemy's doing, but to remember
and respect his own covenant that he has with Israel.
Verse 20 says for the dark places of the earth.
The dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Some of your translations may say violence, very important
verse because the word cruelty or violence there is literally
the Hebrew word Hamas. It is the exact word Hamas.
So in that day that Asaph prayed this prayer, he was praying
against an enemy force. That is today operational in the
nation of Iran. And in fact the first part of
verse 20 says for the dark places of the earth, this is
where he's saying Hamas is. And in the Hebrew, it means the
very underground tunnels and caverns underneath the ground,
which is primarily where Hamas operates, not only Hamas but
Hezbollah and. And some other terrorist
organizations. Their primary place of
transportation of weapons and soldiers is in deep underground
tunnels. Some of those are 40 feet
beneath the surface of the desert, and others are as deep
as 100 feet underneath. Some are only a few feet wide
enough for one man in his gear and equipment as weapons to get
through the tunnel. Others are 10 feet wide that you
can drive it's small military vehicles, vehicles through.
But isn't that amazing? This is where a lot of military
operations are going on right now.
And being formulated and planned is to do a final blow to these
tunnels and underground passages of Hamas, because in doing so,
we cut off their activities, their supply lines, and all of
their ability to position themselves strategically against
Israel and even our own folks. All right, so that's a little
bit of something to give an insight of how God has set a
plan to to do something to stop the darkness.
God, we sang about it today. Did you notice everything we
were singing in worship had to do with God dealing with
breaking darkness? It's a win, win.
It's a win for God and a win for you and me.
And I think Israel will win. Amen.
All right, then one other verse or maybe two more.
Jeremiah chapter 49. Jeremiah chapter 49, and verses
34 through about 39. One morning recently I woke up
out of a dead sleep and I woke up shouting Elam, Elam, Elam.
I think I literally woke myself up shouting Elam, Elam Elam and
Sherry. My wife said what is?
Who is Elam? I was like calling unto
something. I didn't even know what it was.
Well, here's what Elam is. Verse 34, the word of the Lord
that came to Jeremiah, the prophet against Elam in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah
saying thus says the Lord of hosts, behold, I will break the
bow of Elam, the foremost of their might.
So what is Elam? Elam in that time period was
what was a sliver or a little portion of modern Iraq today,
but primarily it was a portion of Iran, mostly Iran.
So Elam is modern Iran, and God's talking about dealing with
and breaking the bow of Elam. That's a weapon system.
In fact, he says even the foremost of their might, you
know what that is? That is nuclear weapons, so Elam
is modern Iran and what is the big to do?
It's all about stopping the nuclear weapons development of
Iran, which is tagged and purpose to destroy the whole
nation of Israel. Just to bring you into
remembrance, in June of last year, AUS military operation
under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer, where our
aircrafts, some of our most advanced aircraft carried about
a dozen GBU Dash 57 massive ordnance deep penetration bomb
bunker Busters. We call them unnoticed,
undetected right into the heart of Iran and at three different
target locations, which represented some of the most
advanced portions of the nuclear weapons development program of
Iran. Our guys dropped, surgically
struck those facilities, dropping some of those GBU Dash
57 bombs down a four foot wide ventilation shaft that came up
out of those deep bunkers up to the surface of the desert.
Try that when you're trying to avoid enemy anti aircraft
batteries. And it was a great success, but
it did not destroy the entire weapons program.
But it set Iran back significantly in their pursuit
of nuclear weapons. Well, God said to Jeremiah, this
is my plan. I'm going to break the bow of
Elam. I'm going to destroy and break
the foremost of their might. That's nuclear weapons.
Amen. God cares about it.
Did you know in 2009 I literally taught the Israelis how to use
the. Power of prayer.
To defeat inbound enemy missiles.
And they'll never admit it, but there are people in in Israel
today that deploy that as part of their missile defense system.
Because I showed them that if you knew what the enemy was
about to send your way, you could do something in prayer to
pray against the guidance system module, which is the most
sensitive part of a guided missile.
And I said, you could literally cause a disturbance and create a
catastrophic failure in the guidance system module of an
inbound enemy missile. And you know what?
They listened to me, they took notes.
I was there teaching on this in Israel when they were being
bombarded by thousands of Katusha rockets out of the West
Bank and out of out of the Gaza Strip.
And there was a couple there. And that's one of those sessions
that I was teaching this on. And I just said, it's a, when
you pray, you pray with the target in mind, right?
If you have a financial need, you're asking God to meet a
financial need, right? God answers specifically when we
what pray specifically. I learned that in Sunday school.
God likes it for us to tell Him what our target list is and then
He answers accordingly. So I said, what is the
difference between praying for a healing for somebody or praying
against a Katusha rocket or enemy inbound missile?
Because God can change that situation just like He can heal
someone of cancer. It's really easy.
So a couple that were there that headed up what's called the
House of Pre House of Peace in Jerusalem, a couple that have
been there leading, that's Gwyn Shaw's ministry, for those that
may know. They're in that, that one
session. I'm teaching them how to combat
enemy missiles. They're taking notes because
everybody's spending more time in the bomb shelters in
Jerusalem than up above ground because we were getting hit,
bombarded. I was, I was staying in a secure
location, but not right next to my pillow.
I had a gas mask every night because of the threat of the
chemical weapons of Hezbollah. So Jean and Mary Ann, the, the,
the couple I'm talking about, they went home that on that
Friday afternoon and went to their home.
It was located on the outskirts of Jerusalem and the, the, the
bomb sirens went off and everybody's supposed to go to
the bomb shelters in Jerusalem. Instead they went up onto the
flat roof house that they lived in.
All the roofs over there are usually flat and, and they they
look toward the Gaza and they could see not the missiles, but
they could see the white smoke contrails of two Fodger 5
Iranian made missiles being fired toward Jerusalem.
They saw them in the distance, but they could tell they were on
a parallel trajectory to Israel from the Gaza and they knew they
had a matter of seconds to pray. They threw their hands up and
they just said we command failure and confusion in the
guidance system module of these two missiles.
And they didn't even yet have a chance to say Amen.
And those two parallel missiles side by side parted ways.
One went the other one way, the other the opposite, and both
nose down into the ground and exploded in an unpopulated area
just outside of Jerusalem. I believe they used the power of
interruptive intercession to save Jerusalem.
Later I found out through the Pentagon, because anytime
anybody shoots a missile anywhere on the planet, we know
all about it. We know it before they shoot.
We know what it is. We know that all the technical
data, if it's guided, unguided, etcetera.
So I checked in with the Pentagon and I found out those
were two Fazer 5 Iranian made guided missiles and they were
considered what we call tactical nuclear small charge.
Not like a strategic nuclear like an ICBM missile that
carries A nuke, but these have these for small tactical nukes.
Enough explosive in both of the warheads of those two missiles,
one was designated for Jerusalem, the other was going
to go right on past to Tel Aviv, enough to destroy entirely the
two cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
But for that couple that believed, you see, because they
know the word of God, God promises to protect Israel.
God has a protection plan for Israel.
Amen. And it's part of what Jeremiah
talked about, Amen. So here in a nutshell, as I
close this today is what I believe God is going to do and
is doing and as we speak He's doing right now by the way, He
is going to destroy the three HS that have breathed out the most
terrifying and violent threats against the United States and
against Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah and the hoodies.
Now listen, Ezekiel says, God said in Ezekiel, I take no
pleasure in the death of even the wicked, but he goes on and
he says, therefore repent and live because even when God is is
releasing judgment, he also has a redemptive plan of his mercy
connected with the judgment. And if you don't believe that,
think about your own life. I think about my life that even
in God's kindness and mercy, sometimes he's had to bring
judgment to my front door. But with it has always been a
component of mercy, that if I would turn away from wickedness,
I would receive the redemptive power of his mercy.
So God has a plan even for the wicked, but he says if they
don't repent, he says I'm going to bring death to their door.
So my thought and my belief of everything I'm looking at on the
landscape of what's happening in the Middle East, God is going to
further destroy the hierarchy of evil, of radicalized Islamic
terrorism being perpetrated primarily through Hamas,
Hezbollah and the hoodies. But he's going to redeem the
Persian people of Iran. God is not going to destroy the
nation of Iran. Now listen, there are folks, let
me just say, there are some people in government that would
like to see Iran destroyed. But I don't think that's God's
plan. I don't think it's his will.
I don't think it's his way. He's going to destroy the the
foremost weapons of Islam, but he's going to redeem and save
the people of Iran. He is.
But, and we're seeing it happen to this day, more people are
coming to Jesus in Iran than anywhere else in the world, even
more than in China. China has held the record for
the most hour to hour, day-to-day salvations of people
coming to Jesus right in China. But Iran has just has just run
right past China. They hold the world's record for
the most people coming to know Jesus.
It's incredible. So I believe we have the
evidence that God is going to redeem and restore the Persian
people. He's going to destroy the
hierarchy of evil of Islam, including the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the military might and the
real core evil that drives what is happening in the the the
destruction and killing of over 30,000 Iranian protesters
against their government. And that's probably going to end
up being a conservative figure. God's going to take out these
kings and they're just standing in line waiting their turn.
But God's got a redemptive plan. He's got a protective plan for
Israel and he's got a redemptive plan for the people of Iran.
Think about the Persian the the Persian people in the history of
the Persian people when it was. King Darius and King Cyrus and
other Persian Pagan kings that even did the will of God and
rebuilt Jerusalem, paid for it out of their own treasuries and
in those days were a friend to Israel.
It was only beginning really after 1979 when the Shah of Iran
was disposed and and radical Islam came into power.
The Persians loved Israel, Mordecai and Esther.
Esther was Jewish by birth, but she was Persian by nationality
and culture. And Mordecai said, don't tell
these Persian officials that you're Jewish.
So he gave her a her name, Esther, her Persian name.
And it was Esther and Mordecai that were given the ring of
authority over the entire Kingdom of Persia.
They exposed Haman, who was out to destroy the Jewish people.
I'm telling you, Mordecai and Esther today are still counted
as heroes in Iran, and school children are still required to
read the book of Esther in Iran because they are counted as
heroes. There was a day there is a
righteous thread that runs through ancient Persia that is
righteous. And I believe God is going to
pull that thread of righteousness and pull out the
harvest from Iran, which he's doing now.
But he's going to destroy these wicked systems that are killing
the innocent people. Oh, God's got a redemptive plan.
So when you pray for Israel, pray for Iran, pray for the
harvest in Iran Church, get ready.
Some of you are going to go to Iran.
Some of you are going to be sent there to steward the harvest of
souls. What are they going to do?
Who's going to go and train them?
I can't go over there. They won't.
Washington won't let me go. But you can go if you have a
heart for the Persian people and even if you have a heart for
Israel. I believe God's going to do
this. We're not in the Ezekiel 38 time
period yet. In Ezekiel 38, it talks about
all nations rising against Israel.
That is the end of the very end. I think we're probably around
Ezekiel 36, maybe 37, but I believe the day is coming when
God is going to cause Iran to be a bright shining light to the
world and maybe even a good friend of Israel.
In fact in that same chapter of Jeremiah chapter 49, this is
amazing what God said in verse 38 after he does all of this to
deal with the hierarchy of evil of that ancient principality of
Persian structure, that anti God Antichrist system.
In verse 38 he declares I will set my throne in Elam.
It's the only place I found in scripture besides Jerusalem
where God said he would set his throne in Iran.
How is that possible? Because I believe God is so
going to so thoroughly deal with the three HS, the real threats
against God in his Kingdom and his people, that he will have a
presence in Iran. It will be so rich and so real
and so powerful. And, and to think about this,
think about all the souls getting saved in Iran right now.
What are they doing? They're worshipping first thing
they do. They're going to be worshippers
of Messiah Yeshua and they. Are and what are they doing?
They're doing what the Bible says, that God is enthroned upon
the praises of his people. Israel.
When we worshiped this morning, we were creating a throne for
God to sit into. In fact, the Hebrew says for the
word enthroned there, it literally means to be seated
deep into a throne. When we worship, we create a
throne. Listen, the the, the body of
Christ is expanding and Iran is coming into the Kingdom.
They're coming to know Jesus and they're worshiping and by
worshiping they're creating a throne.
Any lamb and God is going to rule from that throne.
We're in an hour. When God is doing the most
unusual things in the most unexpected places, and it's just
like God to do that of all places, to set up his throne and
do something incredibly powerful and righteous would be Iran.
Are you kidding me? But I think God loves to do what
everybody says he couldn't do or wouldn't do in some ways just to
prove us wrong. I've heard a lot of talk about
your neighboring state of Illinois.
Oh, it just, it's so dark there. Chicago, Springfield, so dark.
And, and listen, just because people call it that has got
God's attention. And he's going to turn the
states of Illinois and Iowa right around.
Watch it. He's going to do the most
phenomenal things in these two states that are divided by the
great Mississippi River. He's going to do what everybody
said could not happen and you're going to be a part of it here in
Iowa. The other day I was in Moline,
IL, and they put me in a hotel right on the Mississippi.
So out of my window I could see the the great waters of the
Mississippi River. And I had an open vision.
And I'm not a prophet, so might want to judge this and take it
for what it's worth. But I had a prophetic vision and
I saw the waters of the Mississippi stop and reverse and
flow the other direction. And I said, Lord, what does that
mean? Because I thought the only thing
that could cause that would be some kind of seismic event in
the natural right. He said no, this is, he said
this is a spiritual signal to you that everything in Iowa and
Illinois is about to have a turn around and flow the right
direction. So I speak that to you today.
But the Lord is going to set up his throne.
He is setting it up in Iran. He is.
Do you know that 10 to 15% of the Muslim population of Iran
even go to mosque? Do you know that?
You see, we have this concept that all these Muslims, they're
all just so powerful and plentiful that they're just
packing into the mosque to worship Allah, to read the
Quran? No, not so.
They've abandoned most of the mosque.
Hundreds and hundreds of mosques are boarded up, closed up,
because no one was showing up. Do you know that 10 to 15% of
the population of Iran even go to mosque?
The Muslims, the Christians that are coming to know Jesus, are
now opening up some of those mosques and having worship to
Jesus in those mosques, not in Tehran, but in outlying areas
throughout Iran. In the smaller town areas,
they're literally taking possession of mosque where Allah
and Muhammad and the Quran were worshipped and adored, and now
Jesus is being enthroned there. Amen.
So we need to pray and pray for the protective plan of God for
Israel, but we also need to pray for the redemptive plan for
Iran. Do you feel it?
Does anybody sense that? You know, I, I'm here because
I'm, I, I bring what I believe the Lord says to bring.
And that's what I, I believe. He wants to cast vision today
that we, we shift our thinking that we want to see Iran
destroyed. No, we don't.
We want to see the precious Persian people of Iran redeemed
and brought into the Kingdom of God.
Amen. And as we pray for the peace of
Jerusalem and the blessing of Israel, you should continue to
do that. I do it every day.
I pray for a blessing on Israel. But when I pray for a blessing
in my blessing, I'm praying and asking God for for Israel
contains justice and judgment and correction.
The Bible says God disciplines the Son He loves.
He does that for us, doesn't He? The discipline of the Lord is a
sign and evidence of His love for you.
Well, why doesn't he do that for nations?
I believe he's going to discipline Israel and bring
Israel into a knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
Remember this, Islam is an Antichrist system, an ungodly,
unholy, false religious system, Islam, and they believe in the
implementation of Sharia law. And I promise you, there's a
plan for implementation right here.
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