I woke up at 5 am yesterday morning, refreshed and eager to get back to the Israel prayer letters. But I am going to stick with the plan to stand down for a full week, listen for God and putter around my house.
Still listening for God's direction on the year ahead for me specifically. I am hearing from credible prophetic voices like Garris Elkins that the year ahead is going to be challenging, disquietening for many. I want to enter it knowing I am prepared - spiritually clean and trusting in God to continue to stay above the threatening winds and waves.
Some spiritual oppression I experienced in the past, I brought on myself because of unforgiveness - which is really just giving up on God to make things right for you. Parable of Matthew 18:21-35. To get out of this deeply shaming state, I had to forgive my way out and it was not an overnight experience.
Since then I have gone through several times, in specific situations, that I knew there was strong demonic oppression hitting me, overwhelming me. I knew it was witchcraft, but the confusion that comes my original experience of self-inflicted demonic oppression, made me question if I had done something wrong to cause me to be vulnerable for random oppressive spirits to set upon me. The oppressive spirits in those several experiences were not random, and were not because I had done something wrong, but because witchcraft from others being beamed at me.
Remember: Eric Volz is one - maybe the only one - who had several hours-long interviews with Mike Bickle in the process of being hired to manage the crisis of the accusations. In a recent interview with Eric Metaxis, Volz voices that his interviews with Mike did not manifest ANY hint or signs of the alleged sexual abuse at IHOP.
I got a lot of understanding for myself out of listening to Eric Volz' account of seeing the demonic oppression of spirits in the Nicuraguan prison. He was not saved at that time, but God was showing him Jesus even in the midst of the swirling demonic spirits there. He was there innocent of the murder charges, but not yet saved. His book, Gringo Nightmare, tells the whole story.
Volz again saw heavy demonic oppression at work at IHOP while he was there. I believe it. Even watching from home I saw one musician on stage almost going comatose during a worship set playing a dirge. It was so alarming to me I emailed the prayer team that someone needed to go see about him. They did but within a week he was back on the platform leading, even more certain his response was the right one - drowning in hopeless sorrow. People who only have a mental assent understanding of spiritual demonic attacks cannot believe the reality even when they are witnesses to it.
Eric's interview with Metaxis helped clarifiy to me the several instances of great demonic oppression I have personally experienced in the past two decades in religious settings. It was witchcraft, and specifically a Jezebel undercurrent of witchcraft. I have read about the ways to identify an attack of witchcraft, but confusion is big during such an attack, so you question yourself, when it is really an attack on you because you aren't lining up with those operating in the witchcraft.
Christians can operate in this witchcraft when they speak and pray against other people, even Christians they don't agree with. The manipulation of their 'entourage' can sic demonic attacks on others just as much as dedicated witches. Intercessory groups can devolve into this, especially the more secrecy that is required of the intercessors involved and complete submission to the leader. This is why God forbids us such talk against other believers and all the other manipulative practices of witchcraft.
Interestingly enough, one of the incidents I experienced was in a church that did not care for my Israel orientation, and questioning a famed Christian healing guest speaker, he commented from the platform while looking directly at me, that he did not "get" Mike Bickle's Israel focus. There was a heavy demonic oppression I experienced at that meeting before and after his statement. If I had not come with someone, I would have departed after that comment, because I then knew it was witchcraft.
A third major experience of demonic oppression occured more recently, just months after the attack on Mike Bickle and IHOP. It was confusing and depressing to me to attend a conference of ministries I have followed closely for many years. I knew something was off from the beginning, and that sense only increased until the day of the closing night banquet where it became a full on attack. After lunch I was so spiritually wornout, I fell fast asleep in another attendee's room. Then during the banquet I became so sick I needed to leave the room many times. I was so sorry I had tried so hard to attend the event because it wiped me out. It is clear to me this was also an attack. And if you can hear it, it was also about defending Mike Bickle.
Today I have more clarity about the three major experiences of a swirling demonic attack that I have had in congregational settings and they are all related to my activities for Israeli ministries. Hearing Eric Volz' similar experience has been affirming to me. When there is a spiritually oppressive atmosphere it is to keep God's people thrown off balance by the oppression and witchcraft spinning around them.
What happened at IHOP was on a grand scale spiritually impacting hundreds on scene. Making the misery level great so people could not even function and had to flee to escape it. Most never knew what hit them. They thought it was godly sorrow, but it was a demonic attack controlling God's people to move in the wrong direction - into ungodly condemnation, prejudged 'facts' and lies that washed over social media like a flood against the prophetic and charismatic Christian world. Nothing was done according to Biblical judging and everyone there was oppressed by the demons delighting in their destructive works. The damage was not contained onsite, but was far reaching.
As I am rewriting this from the original I posted yesterday on Facebook, more is coming to me. That often happens as I write. I stand by these added observations. Eric Volz recently commented on X, “We thought going with certain investigators would increase the likelihood of them finding sexual abuse. Still stand by this statement,"
I agree. Alliances that were formed with the AG Group from the beginning are bound to come to their conclusions regardless of claims that they can fair and unbiased. That is a controlling lie.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE HOW SATAN OPPOSES WHAT GOD IS BRINGING TOGETHER IN THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH AND THE ISRAELI MESSIANIC BODY.
The storms that are coming are going to be confusing to people who only have a mental assent understanding of the dark spiritual powers. We have to move closer into God and trusting He holds us in the palms of His hands.
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This is the original post I put on FB and I am adding it here because it gives more of Eric Volz' background, which is significant.
This is Eric Volz who IHOP hired to handle the crisis of the AG accusations in the beginning. Eric was targeted by all of the AG & their supporters as evil trying to cover Mike Bickle and IHOP.
After Eric left his representation of IHOP as a crisis manager, he spoke of how intense and heavy demonic spiritual warfare was over IHOP the whole time after the accusations came out. Spiritual warfare can be so heavy that people either flee from it, or bend the knee to what the demonic spirits want to achieve. The few that remained there faithfully have been through so much spiritual beat down.
Recently Eric said of the IHOP situation, “We thought going with certain investigators would increase the likelihood of them finding sexual abuse...Still stand by this statement." - Eric Volz
DONNA: I am stating this with purpose because too few have seen the darkness of spirits that surrounds the accusations unleashed at IHOP against Mike Bickle, and then multiplied out to so many other spiritual leaders since. I have had my own awakening to the certain reality of dark spiritual forces, not as dramatic as Eric's, but real enough to see this is what was happening in the IHOP situation and others. Eric was no PR guy trying to cover over sins. At the 31:00 mark in the Eric Metaxis interview, he talks about the Mike Bickle case. (https://x.com/EricVolz/status/1860521413435883810)
I firmly believe like Volz, that ANY choice of investigators requested by the AG group is a slam dunk guarantee of finding sexual abuse. Although the person the AG requested to form an investigation and spiritual elder review and verdict in the matter has said he did not seek the request to do that, but innocently claims they asked him, the truth is he was already all over social media connecting with the AG & their supporters, in support of their accusations against Mike Bickle.
This is not to be taken lightly. Because of my own years of close support and connection to those this man is affiliated with in Israel, I have refrained from confronting this publicly. One because I believe my friends were not fully aware of their collegues clear siding with the AG group & their supporters before taking on the case.
Seeing now that Eric Volz is beginning to speak up, I believe I must also. Too few have discerned the spiritual warfare behind the accusations. I sense a travesty of injustice set to unfold because of the intense spiritual warfare surrounging this case - and the many others that have followed. We should not stand idly by and let it happen. Like Eric, I would never defend real sexual abusers. I do not hero worship or idolize any leader, spiritual or political, enough to do that. But I will defend against false accusations as much as within my ability.
Eric's book
Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua Hardcover – April 27, 2010
by Eric Volz (Author)
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In the spirit of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter comes the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
Eric Volz was in his late twenties in 2005 when he moved from California to Nicaragua. He and a friend cofounded a bilingual magazine, El Puente, and it proved more successful than they ever expected. Then Volz met Doris Jiménez, an incomparable beauty from a small Nicaraguan beach town, and they began a passionate and meaningful relationship. Though the relationship ended amicably less than a year later and Volz moved his business to the capital city of Managua, a close bond between the two endured.
Nothing prepared him for the phone call he received on November 21, 2006, when he learned that Doris had been found dead---murdered---in her seaside clothing boutique. He rushed from Managua to be with her friends and family, and before he knew it, he found himself accused of her murder, arrested, and imprisoned.
Decried in the press and vilified by his onetime friends, Volz suffered horrific conditions, illness, deadly inmates, an angry lynch mob, sadistic guards, and the merciless treatment of government officials. It was only through his dogged persistence, the tireless support of his friends and family, and the assistance of a former intelligence operative that Eric was released, in December 2007, after more than a year in prison.
A story that made national and international headlines, this is the first and only book to tell Eric’s absorbing, moving account in his own words.
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