Party on, Garth

 Feb 3, 2026: Party on Garth. This is what I have thought about for YEARS as I considered the charismatic part of the church. Not that I don't believe in the charis (gifts) of the Spirit, but I just have seen the Christians in the charismatic end of the body of Christ as more interested in their party-happenings paying zero attention to the relatively fledgling Messianic Jews part of the body.

"Party on, Garth!" is always the image I got when I considered Christian leaders of the charismatic part of the body expressing genuine puzzlement over any of their fellow charismatic leaders "Israel thing."

I'm not exaggerating. I sat in Sojourn Church probably around 2010 and watched as Bill Johnson said that exact thing about how he didn't get Mike Bickle's "Israel thing." Johnson was even looking at me off to the side when he said this from the pulpit. I can only imagine there was conversation prior that prompted him to say such a thing in the beginning of his healing service. All I know is that the whole time I sat there in that chair there was intense spiritual warfare swirling around me. If I had not come with someone else I would have fled the scene. The panic mode was on me intensely.

So when the attack came on IHOP and Mike Bickle, you will just have to understand that I have experienced the spiritual warfare of standing with the Israeli ministries when 90% of the charismatic world does not have the least bit interest in what God is doing among the Messianic Jews of the international body of the LORD.

In part the charismatic/Pentecostal part of Christians dismiss the salvation of so many Jews since 1948 as insignificant, no impact on them. Party on, Garth. It is because they are too caught up in enjoying their spiritual gifts — not unlike the Corinthian church — to take notice of how much of the prophetic verses of Bible are God's promises to spiritual restore Israel. . .after the physical restoration of the State of Israel.

Another part of the charismatic/Pentecostal part of Christians is pure ego: because it is mostly the non-charis part of the Church that has understood God's promises to Israel. These are the ones who stepped in to provide the necessary Christian support of God restoring the physical State of Israel.

They are not the ones that are most needed in the spiritual restoration of Israel. #1 their understanding of God's vision and desire for Israel's restoration ends with the physical for the most part. They support all Israel with an enormous amount of money, and that is good except they give their donations to traditional rabbis who have convinced them if they want the "honor" they get from Israel, they MUST steer clear of relationships and especially donations to the body of the LORD in Israel: Messianic Jewish ministries.

So the Jews bearing the Gospel in Israel get hardly any of the Christian donations streaming into Israel and that is a HUGE problem, because we are talking about a place where it is impossible for most of the Israeli ministries to be self-sufficient especially in forwarding their Gospel among their people. Not only because of the small numbers in membership but also because of the massive poverty levels in Israel where war and terrorism takes a massive bite out of their economy.

It is unacceptable to me that this is the case, and that the party goes on in the USA charismatic/Pentecostal churches with the Israeli Messianic Jews are struggling to keep their head above the floodwaters against them.

While I am holding back nothing, let me not hold back on the exposure situations that have rocked American churches - especially the charismatic ones. When we go through storms it is an opportunity God uses to take us deeper. As far as I'm concerned the exposures are not just about what the accusations have been about.

#1 I have done a lot of watching and investigation into the accusations against Mike Bickle, for instance, and I am still not convinced that the accusations were valid or accurate. I am still of the mind that it was a Jezebel attack on Mike Bickle as one of the few major prophetic people in the US who understood that the Israeli Body of Messiah was important. And what has the attack on him managed to do? Drive a stake in the heart of relationship that he had with Israeli ministries, and likely the closest relationship he had with Tikkun.

That one of the younger members of Tikkun, the one who was heir apparent to taking Asher Intrater's position when the baton pass was made, joined the attack against Bickle from the get-go is mind blowing to me. Tell me the devil isn't a treacherous foe to orchestrate something like that. And one year into the attack against IHOP, having already dismantled it down to a skeleton crew, Ron Cantor managed to manipulate the Tikkun leaders into an already prejudiced "investigation" into Mike Bickle and IHOP.

The final report was laughable, if it didn't make you cry. The accusations were tissue paper thin, and it was accepted without any attempt at defense investigation. I have said these things repeatedly but everyone just seems to want to push past all the red flags of lies, manipulation, evil schemes involved.

God will work it out. He will vindicate and He will convict.

We are talking about believers who did so much damage and at the same time took the Israeli body off the table. I can't live with that so I have to speak to it all the more. There are none who cannot repent and be restored, but those who will not repent are in for some terrible days ahead as the storms grow stronger.

As for me, I am going to keep speaking, calling the charismatic Church to quit partying so hard and take a look at what God is doing among the body in Israel. They need us to Awake and Arise to the hour we are in.

In the days ahead, the body in Israel needs the support of charismatic Christians to come alongside them as they reach out to their people. Most all of them are reporting that hearts of Israelis are more open now, after the horrible events of the Hamas war, than ever before. The time of the spiritual restoration is upon us. If that shatters your eschatology what are you going to believe? Your favorite end times theory or was is unfolding in the midst of God's timepiece Israel? Wake up and mature into our calling of the unity of one new man. Ephesians 2:15. Like a marriage, we come together with our difference intact and our unity made complete by our commitment before God. 

Restoring What the Locust Has Eaten

 Feb 2, 2026: "I will restore to you the years the locust has eaten." - Joel 2:25 | Someone else posted this verse with a beautiful graphic background and I loved it because of the vivid favorite colors, but mostly I loved it because this verse came to mind this morning. Immediately I wondered how could God do this for me? And just as immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of many years-old writings that I have run across in the past week.

Those writings were seen by very few people. From the first year of my return to faith in 1983 I have written about what God was showing me. I had no outlet for others to read, so I wrote for myself not worrying about publishing what I wrote. Later I discovered the beginning stages of the internet. Before social media there was written exchanges on what was known as Bulletin Boards. I did a lot of writing there. Between that and social media, I have probably lost more of my writings than I saved to my document files. Water under the bridge.

I still have so much writing squirreled away in document files it hardly matters. And as I read them today, some things that I saw through the glass darkly in 2004 have become glaringly obvious to me in 2026. I had considered all those writings and biblical studies dead and buried in my files. They might as well have been eaten by locust because I never thought I would be worthwhile to resurrect them! But as I have read some, I see they are still useful to speak to people today.

It is clear to me that I will be resurrecting old writings that still speak, or ever that help clarify what is going on today. I have already decided to develop a couple of new platforms specifically for my writings. The chief goal is to reach Christians who haven't been interested in the past. I have one message but it can target different audiences. The writings will target mostly those Christians who haven't been interested in the past. I believe the time is coming that they are going to finally be able to hear. And for some others, the message will expand their view of what it means to support Israel's spiritual restoration.

Why the Church and the Israeli Messianic Jews are coming together like never before. It's because it is in God's vision and timing ... and the clock is ticking. Are you still standing on the outside of that?