Smite the Shepherd to Kill the Israel Mandate

 

Yesterday I got a comment that helped me distill my great dismay about the situation at IHOP. Someone was encouraging me to realize that the Israel Prayer room is going on as it always has at IHOP. That is just the problem: the idea that it can just be a take it or leave prayer room one can enter, instead of it being a major emphasis of the congregation, church or prayer network.
What I was watching throughout 2023 is Mike Bickle removing Israel Prayer from a small side prayer room, out into the central global prayer room where it belongs. It is not a side-issue to the dual vision given to Mike to raise up a 24/7 prayer house network that would pray for Israel's salvation in such a time as this.

Everyone makes prayer for Israel a side room not understanding the ripple effect that Israel's salvation is going to have on the last great harvest of souls: "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?"

People want to pray for themselves. Everywhere - from Messianic synagogues to churches with a major commitment to support the work of the Israeli ministries doing the work of Jesus' ministry to Israelis - it is hard to get more than a few dedicated souls to treat Israel prayer as something more than a 'side room'. They may have a full house for prayers for the congregation, the city, healing, etc., but Israel prayer will be a side issue comparatively. And few of those want to lift up the arms of our Israeli Messianic brothers doing the ministry in Israel because everyone is more interested in praying for the 'big issues' of wars and politics and Israel's public relations in the nations.

Until prayer for Israel focuses on the SALVATION of Israel, and until the people are rooted and grounded in Israel's central position in God's plans for the end times, praying for Israel will always be just a little side room where a handful of dedicated souls gather.

To increase the numbers of those willing to dedicate themselves to prayer requires being

#1 taught the scriptures related to God's promises to Israel and how it impacts ALL believers Jew or Gentile, and

#2 to be taught the TRUTH which wipes out the lying narratives about Israel that many Christians are entrenched in along with their unsaved loved ones and peers.

I thought the accusations rolled out against Mike Bickle stunk like rotten fish from the beginning. Because having just begun to follow the IHOPKC Prayer Room in March 2023, I had seen that what Bickle was rolling out was breaking out of the side room vision for intercessions for Israel and making it a significantly increased theme of the prayers made from that Global prayer network. DISCLOSURE: I have been to a couple of past Israel Mandate conferences at IHOP, but I have never followed IHOP or so much as said "Hello" to Mike Bickle. This is not about loyalty to Bickle, it is about seeing his loyalty to the Heavenly vision given to him for Israel's salvation.

The IHOP 24/7 prayer and worship house was raised up for the purpose of prayer for Israel's salvation - it was not to be just another side room for prayers in the house, it was meant to be the primary purpose for the Global Prayer Room for such a time as this. Did God not intend IHOP to be leading prayer for the horrors and needs of Israel facing the first great outbreak of brutal attack in the Oct 7th massacre by Hamas?

Making Israel's salvation a priority prayer every day in the Global Prayer room is exactly what Mike Bickle was moving it. That began to unfold with the announcement in March to do the 21-day of prayer for Israel on behalf of the worldwide prayer group that was going to meet in Jerusalem at the end of May. The intercession specifically was for God to open their eyes to catch the understanding of what God is calling the ENTIRE church to - intercession for Israel's salvation in the time when the warfare against it would begin to increase in earnest.

There is no other way for me to look at this than an attack on the Israel Mandate. Even after that 21-days ended there was an increase in the prayers being made for Israel in the main prayer room continually ...and it has dwindled away since Mike was separated permanently from IHOP BEFORE the investigation and judicial hearing for him! The vision Mike carried from God was to finally merge into the dual mandate 24/7 prayer & worship & Israel's salvation. Now Israel is back to being treated like a side issue.

Some good strides have been made toward investigative and judicial hearing that is fair to Mike, but already, the new leadership of IHOP has stepped away from Israel Prayer intercession as even mentioned in the recent speech about what IHOP's commitments would be going forward. Israel prayer was not even mentioned.

So no matter what, without Mike Bickle, IHOP may continue, but the reason God raised up that prayer house will have cut out the primary purposes of God that the Church would be the intercessory midwife that helped Messianic Israel to bring forth the birth of "all Israel" being brought forth.

God is never defeated. As Mordechai told Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Esther 4:13-14

I know that everyone thinks this is about Mike's sins over 2 decades ago, but in the end I believe it will be shown to be something else. It will be about Mike taking IHOP to a level of commitment to Israel that the people under him did not have grounding in to support, so like Korah fighting Moses, a revolt was led to oust him. The enemy knocked out the Israel Mandate at Kansas City just when the need for intercessions has never been greater. The #1 Thing Most Christians Know RIGHT NOW is just how severely traumatized and hurting Israelis are. You really have no idea how deep the wounding, pain and grief really are even among believers. In my view, the accusations against Mike Bickle were faked traumas to halt the intercessions about real and devastating traumas that would unfold among Israelis at the hands of Hamas terrorists on October 7th. What has been revealed ever since has been at a horrific level of man's inhumanity to man and most of the world lines up spouting foolish defense of Gaza. It is also impacting the horror, sorrow and grief in Israel. It is appalling to me that the feeble accusations against Mike would wipe out the prayers being made for Israelis at this time, but that is exactly what has happened. From Israel-oriented prayers being made 7 days as week in the Global Prayer room at IHOP, going out all over the world, dribbling down to focus on one day only? That is what this fake sex controversy has been about. Nothing about the accusations so far have given me any reason to believe this is nothing but trumped up #MeToo inflated sexual false allegations. Traumatized? See what the Israeli women suffered Oct 7th. That is sexual trauma.