tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24308225668972520552024-03-18T11:42:35.302-07:00Fruit of the Fig TreeDonna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-51275414328979819782024-03-18T11:41:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:41:47.551-07:00Dr Daniel C Juster comments on IHOPKC<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJIPh-AG5q-vX8RAn4kxBibbQQ76GTX8d23rrQj8d2twbHrhymxjPr_FhF4-FHW7rxuGUsTSFHkG3mwUgCwxLImkDZeKNp4ijxemgKYftXBtb6r6IQ6l4_hVGfSvvzkTHdaaC96Y3rLWAlVwPLOiJlI0bDVC-4h4Wyr4UZ_l7oS6Rdex7AGcy2pqzEY7D/s967/Due%20Process.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJIPh-AG5q-vX8RAn4kxBibbQQ76GTX8d23rrQj8d2twbHrhymxjPr_FhF4-FHW7rxuGUsTSFHkG3mwUgCwxLImkDZeKNp4ijxemgKYftXBtb6r6IQ6l4_hVGfSvvzkTHdaaC96Y3rLWAlVwPLOiJlI0bDVC-4h4Wyr4UZ_l7oS6Rdex7AGcy2pqzEY7D/w278-h400/Due%20Process.jpg" width="278" /></a><br /><a href="https://www.tikkunglobal.org/product-page/due-process-dan-juster" target="_blank">Due Process</a></div><p></p><p><b>INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER, KANSAS CITY, A PERSONAL RESPONSE</b></p><p>By Daniel C Juster, <br /><a href="http://www.restorationfromzion.com/" target="_blank">Restoration from Zion</a><br /><br />Not long ago I signed onto a joint statement on the present situation at IHOPKC. However, my main emphasis and reason in supporting this statement was again to call for an impartial judicial eldership board. Only this can finally bring judgement and clarity at a level that will settle the controversy, for we now see people on both sides in social media pressing their views, though the larger number is anti-IHOP and Mike Bickle. </p><p>I am not happy about how either side is handling this, either IHOPKC or the Advocates that have taken up the grievances against Mike Bickle and IHOP. Both sides should have called for an objective panel of elders that was so credible that all sides would submit to their decisions on guilt, innocence, discipline and restitution. They would oversee an objective investigator if still needed. This is the main issue in my view. It shows how far the modern churches and ministries are from biblical standards of justice and judicial process (Deut. 1, 16, Matthew 16, 18 and I Cor. 6). This was well established in many Protestant denominations and is also today found in some new church streams. </p><p>In the statement that we put out, some misunderstood the idea that the accusers’ testimonies were credible. Credible does not mean proven but sufficiently serious and with enough description and corroboration that they should be taken seriously and heard in a fair court. But unless there is a court with cross examination, we can have views, can think something looks credible, but conclusive judgement requires a court. Again, this was common process in many historic Protestant denominations. In civic law an indictment does not mean the accused is guilty but that there is enough evidence to bring a trial, but the accused is still innocent until proven guilty in such fair court. Therefore, we have written, called, and cajoled, but it is still not clear that this to finally be done. </p><p>And what is happening now? Trial by social media continues. There is a contingent that is now on a feeding frenzy that is discrediting the prophets that were part of the early days Kansas City Fellowship (the predecessor of IHOP) from 30- 40 years ago. Some who related to IHOP are in a full confession mode, but their confession includes why they were sucked in, but at the same time their confession is full of severe judgments and accusations. It does not seem only a confession. Another contingent, smaller but also very strong, is blasting the accusers and seeking to discredit them. One video that was sent was about a primary accuser being mentally ill and needing intervention. If true, how sad, and if not true how painful to the accuser! Actually it is painful in either case!</p><p>We do know that Mike Bickle has repented of somethings that are serious. We know that IHOPKC has drawn conclusions on Mike’s sin as the overseers of IHOPKC today oand their conclusions are credible and may be seen has having judicial weight. However, there is much more that has not been disclosed including the life that Mike Bickle and some other leaders have lived over more than the last 20 years. That is foggy. IHOPKC has also admitted a woefully inadequate government structure of accountability. </p><p>However, I want to speak to the feeding frenzy of attack against IHOP and its history. First, the leaders’ falling into sin does not mean that mighty things were not done through IHOPKC and Kansas City Fellowship and through its leaders. I do believe in New Testament standards for qualification and discipline but do want to say something about examples from the Hebrew Bible. Did God work through Aaron, the brother of Moses, in the Exodus? He was the voice to Pharaoh. He was witness as an instrument of the most amazing signs and wonders, amazing prophecy and more. Yet, he gave himself to make the golden calf and then was in denial as if it happened without his agency. God nevertheless restored him after his repentance. Did Mike Bickle sin more than King David? Not only did David commit adultery but murdered the husband. He was restored by God and made the preparations for the building of the Temple. However, his sin was probably the cause of much of the division and civil war that ensued under his son Absalom. Great tragedy was experienced! Yet, David unified Israel and established so much and is the ancestor of the Messiah. I am not writing this to say that those who sinned and covered up should be restored. I am writing about what God obviously did through Kansas City Fellowship and later through IHOPKC. I personally experienced some amazing times of holiness there over 33 years ago including supernatural signs and wonders. There was a holy fear of the Lord in His presence. </p><p>Now there is a deep revulsion and rejection of the Kansas City prophets by those who were themselves involved with them. And this leads to the idea that no great work of God was done as a result of the leadership of Mike and his prophets. I was there in the Vineyard Conference in Anaheim in January 1989 when John Wimber introduced Paul Cain. His word to John before coming to visit John was an amazing supernatural word that John confirmed. His ministry in January 1989 came with signs and wonders and a presence of God that was the greatest I ever experienced. There was a holy Presence that gave rise to deep reverence and fear. The Holy Spirit electricity in the air even set off the fire alarms. Should I deny this because Paul Cain later fell into sin and refused the directions that were given to him for repentance and restoration? Then there were the other prophets, ones that to our knowledge never fell into sin who prophesied over our ministry and its future, Jim Goll and John Paul Jackson are two I will name. I don’t think they have any skeletons in their closets. John Paul wrote a great book on avoiding wrong ways and the casualties from wrong prophetic order. Then there is the discrediting of Bob Jones. Did Bob really prophecy that Mike Bickle’s ministry would focus on Israel and its greatest task and fulfillment would be raising 100 million intercessors for Israel? Yes, he did. Did he do this before Mike had a clue about Israel? Yes. Did his later fall did discredit the amazing prophetic happenings and signs and wonders in the early 80s. The history is in Anglican Bishop David Pytches’s book Some Said it Thundered. It is credible and happened. The later sins of some did not discredit what happened. I was a witness to some of this. As for Bob Jones, he did not have a history of sexual sin to my knowledge, stepped down form ministry for a season and was fully restored under a well known national leader who does repentance, discipline and restoration. </p><p>For me, it is amazing how many forget that the greatest prayer meeting for Israel’s protection and salvation took place on May 28. Are we forgetting this so quickly. Without any knowledge of this date, my son led a gathering of leaders in Januray 2023 and called for fasting and prayer on May 28. The word from Bob Jones form 40 years ago was amazingly fulfilled and that some years after his death. It seems to me that God allowed Mike Bickle’s sin to be hidden until this word was amazingly fulfilled. IHOPKC and the early prophecy was a key to launching great prayer worldwide for the salvation of Israel, prayer houses, integrated 24/7 prayer with congregations and more. The pattern of Zinzendorf’s Moravians was resurrected in many nations. Some even have said they want to destroy IHOPKC. I think that would be terribly wrong. Shall God destroy the innocent with the righteous? Abraham plead.</p><p>Do I still want fair judgement for those women who are bringing the accusations against Mike Bickle and IHOP? Yes! Do I grieve over abuses? Yes. Do I want to see an opportunity for cross examination if there is a desire for a defense to be made by Mike and the former leaders of IHOPKC who are charged? Yes! Then he and others can be found guilty of what they did do and not guilty for what they did not do. Do I want to see other charges of manipulation and the use of prophecy for controlling others to be heard with cross examination? Yes! But that is a bit harder to prove. Strong prophetic gifts can cause people to fall in line. We too easily forget the responsibility of all believers in the New Covenant to hear the Spirit and to confirm prophetic words for their own individual lives and corporately as well. Yes, we have to constantly emphasize this. But none of this discredits that a mighty work was done worldwide though IHOPKC and Mike Bickle. Again, prayer ministries have been raised up all over the world that pray for Israel and the Messianic Jews. Also, let us not forget the many who for years served at IHOPKC. They were not in gross sin, but morally righteous. They served under a bad leadership structure according to IHOPKC’s present evaluation. Some of these are now on the Advocates side in this battle. Also, many were blessed, renewed in strength and sent out to serve the Kingdom after leading to walk in the power of the Spirit. </p><p>So here I am, like a voice in the wilderness. I am calling for two things. Do not discredit what God did through Kansas City Fellowship and through IHOPKC. This is independent of the sin of leaders. Secondly, let there be fair judgement. And please stop the prosecution through social media from both detractors and supporters. I wait and wait for IHOPKC to publicly declare themselves as committed to this objective fair eldership judiciary.</p><p>FOR A BOOK THAT PRESENTS THE CASE FOR ELDERS AND THE WHAT, HOW AND WHY OF THEIR JUDICIAL FUNCTION, DO ORDER AND READ MY BOOK "DUE PROCESS, A PLEA FOR BIBLICAL JUSTICE AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE.".</p><p> </p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-65530697567904152122024-03-16T09:41:00.000-07:002024-03-16T09:41:12.743-07:00I have not forgotten<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjo7F_PgwZLfY7YiQghcSyjySKXfIFBan7qGehBfo82b0GosEDUIGB5Eqatf_V2k2kNLWI2kdl-LFyoa2jVkO5Ln6RGGsGm1D8PpYT-dgv6vl0YdzsKfFR9Nctb8LB0gMOdjmRkGCMS9eH2X-Cnm0X6fAvVd4DNp4T-kXdvLM4nJ7ZIsZ5epXGKZPfsdpnU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="600" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjo7F_PgwZLfY7YiQghcSyjySKXfIFBan7qGehBfo82b0GosEDUIGB5Eqatf_V2k2kNLWI2kdl-LFyoa2jVkO5Ln6RGGsGm1D8PpYT-dgv6vl0YdzsKfFR9Nctb8LB0gMOdjmRkGCMS9eH2X-Cnm0X6fAvVd4DNp4T-kXdvLM4nJ7ZIsZ5epXGKZPfsdpnU=w400-h239" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have not forgotten.<br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have not forgotten my calling is to the Israeli ministries. I work on that every day. <br /><br /><b>My draw to such a focus on the things at IHOPKC are based on Mike's dual-mandate for 24/7 prayer and worship AND praying for Israel. I believe God raised up that house in Kansas City and the network internationally for such a time as this: Christians praying for the salvation of Israel. With Israel at the height of warfare, so is IHOP.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I have looked deeper into those gathered against Bickle and IHOP as a whole, I have seen God is exposing far more sins than just sexual sin. Same as the sins of the nations, the undercurrent of international antisemitism has been exposed by the brutal terrorist war launched by Hamas. And nation after nation failing to stand with Israel but demanding Israel let up on those murderers seeking to annihilate Israel. Many Christians are among those who believe Israel deserves what Hamas gave it. They are indoctrinated in lies. Don't have a handle on the truth of the in the least. <br /><br />I have wondered from the beginning if that was not paralleled in the attack on Mike Bickle and IHOP. Murder and character assassination are closely related sins from God's position. Is this why the accusers will not allow their charges to be examined and cross examined within the spiritual leadership of the body of Christ? Surely there are international leaders who possess enough integrity to judge this matter. But they insist it must be in secular courts so the unrighteous can judge us. This is where bitter unforgiveness has led us - far from God's heart for restoration of ALL. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We have an inheritance that in this time we are to walk in, in a greater degree than ever before. Those who are allowing themselves to be "transformed" into the likeness of Jesus, walking as He walked in the flesh, are going to begin to lay hold more of the "inheritance" that Yeshua spoke of, <i><span style="color: #990000;">"Truly, I say unto you, Except you turn, and become as little children, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." </span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Further down in Matthew 18 and Yeshua goes on in the parable in verse 32-34 to say: "32 <span style="color: #990000;">Then the master summoned him and declared, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.</span> 33 <b><span style="color: #990000;">Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’</span></b> 34 <span style="color: #990000;">In anger his master turned him over to the <b>prison of torments to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1 Corinthians 6:9 Paul talks about the things that stand in the way of Christians and Messianic Jews entering into the **full inheritance** on earth of Yeshua's kingdom: <br /><br />9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: <b>Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, </b>10 <b>nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. </b>11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>That blows the social justice Christians viewpoints on what is sin right out of the water.</b> It is not just about sexual sins either. <b>Search out who will not see or inherit the kingdom of Heaven and you will see many things that are practiced by many Christians </b><u>that will stop us from even being able to see our full inheritance in Him!</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been guilty of many things as a Christian, but I am pressing in to become like Yeshua, walking in such a way that I will be able to walk in the full inheritance given to those who will be transformed completely. I pay special attention to becoming unforgiving. I have already failed in that before and there is no way I want to EVER fail in that again. God is gracious to restore, but the price paid is steep.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The intolerance, even hatred expressed of those supporting accusers of Mike Bickle and IHOP is the thing no one is really talking about. <br /></b><br />It is no wonder so many of the IHOP musicians and singers have abandoned their time there - the pressure coming from all those who support the accusers is INTENSE. It is n</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">o wonder there is such oppression on everyone who have remained in place at IHOP. There is oppression beamed at them day and night from the accusers a group and those that have gathered with them to condemn Bickle and IHOP. This is true of especially female woke activists who are beating on IHOP and Bickle day and night on social media. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br />Those words amount to Christians spewing curses - oppression on the target is the result. It is the sin of witchcraft.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just a few days of going to X - <i>watching only what X curated "for you" to watch</i> - I have little by little seen that what is motivating the intensity of many. It is past personal experience that have become bitterness in their own lives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">One is so bitter against IHOP because her son died after she claims people at IHOP told him it was a sin to take his medication. Many times in the past, before this broke out at IHOP, I was prompted to talk to her about perhaps all her continual sicknesses were related to unforgiveness. I should have spoken to her then.<br /><br />I have run into many people in charismatic circles in my life don't believe in doctors and medications, <b>but God gave us the Holy Spirit within our hearts to guide us. God never told us to follow what other Christians had to say about our personal decisions. </b>We all have faith for different things in our walk and lack faith in other areas, because we are not made perfect as soon as we believe. We grow in faith. No one should presume to tell anyone else not to take medication or go to a doctor. If you have faith have it to yourself. But also we cannot blame others if we listen to their advice on these faith issues and don't follow what are own hearts tell us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another still is angry because her accusations of abuse against her Baptist pastor <u>father</u> resulted in the church board calling for her to be put out of church. Although I feel for how she was not protected, I also understand she cannot let what happened in that instance make her so certain of every woman's accusations. Women also lie for their own reasons. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">When our cups overflow from all the sins piling up because God will not continue to forgive us when we harbor <i><u>unforgivness of others</u></i>, according to Matthew 18, that is when we begin to experience all sort of torments from physical to mental illnesses. <b>This one chapter, Matthew 18 is where Jesus spoke entirely <u>on something most of us don't even realize God demands of us </u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yesterday a woman told the Cancel Culture crowd that I was guilty of doxxing <i><u>and called for people to report me to X</u></i>. <br /><br />The charge of doxxing was because I used the #1 accusers initials in a tweet. Of course the whole name is found on a parody account on X and the woman's identified in Google searches for JaneDoe#1. The grop also do not hold themselves to the same standards of "doxxing" because one accusers initials are used routinely. The ex-wife of another person they unmasked as a skirt chaser. Hypocrisy usually accompanies bullying tactics.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another from the accusers informal support group tweeted that I am a liar and told their followers that on Facebook I posted from the beginning that I would never believe anything against Mike Bickle. <b>Too bad she didn't include the proviso that I would not accept accusations <i>without proof via due process </i>for Mike.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meanwhile Dr. Michael Brown is in their cross hairs big time. They aer going after him hammer and tong. To them, if you are not on board with their all out acceptance of accusations of Mike Bickle and rooting for the doors closing at IHOP, then you are their enemy. <br /><br />I have no problem being the enemy of such actions...but I don't want to listen to them every time I log in on X either. Mute is a fine feature on the platform.<br /><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-2296671160610125692024-03-13T08:27:00.000-07:002024-03-13T08:39:50.210-07:00Speak life, not a fiery death<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif25Mk_BhhyPj4SsBm_5Oeu8yIskwiO67OIa5pSz09B_8iTdVweCwxcqo5us3maN0LZDs56Rxa09tmANbpMeBHMFyPxHbt00rsknT8IU-u6p29MgNmPZ3pk4KTDtJFfxBV7uBFvDcAI7dbfu6YTrw8J7R-ttCpNNbWkLU5LP7XuDMx4PaYWuoAhNhahHF3/s680/GIhIyu-XAAAkp8s.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="680" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif25Mk_BhhyPj4SsBm_5Oeu8yIskwiO67OIa5pSz09B_8iTdVweCwxcqo5us3maN0LZDs56Rxa09tmANbpMeBHMFyPxHbt00rsknT8IU-u6p29MgNmPZ3pk4KTDtJFfxBV7uBFvDcAI7dbfu6YTrw8J7R-ttCpNNbWkLU5LP7XuDMx4PaYWuoAhNhahHF3/w400-h386/GIhIyu-XAAAkp8s.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I post this picture ONLY BECAUSE it depicts what I believe SO MANY have in their mind for IHOP.
May in never be, in Jesus' name.</span></b></span></div><p></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am listening to the live <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ihopkc?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXI3bTHeJUecsW_FB0PEvDQa-Z4iGt25B3T4KiB6bhSUnjJaZs5Q9SEBB2ra-OzQ8_hT4Z7C5HVYhYtExyE0kHJOXrIzOPeL2mArAbKpYvREg&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#IHOPKC</a> with Sarah Edwards singing some Matt Redman songs I fell in love with in the mid-2000's when I was seriously wondering what was going on. God was rebuilding me after a major stumbling that I was so ashamed of that I could not forgive myself, even realizing God had. A friend gave me some Matt Redman music and those songs were songs of life to me. They continually told me God loved me.
</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do not follow in the path of those with such bitter, victim-images of themselves <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>that they believe it will serve the Body of Christ if IHOP is burnt to the ground. I just saw a post on X by the sister of the accuser who claims she was abused at age 14. They are speaking death over IHOP. Join me in speaking life over IHOP and RESTORATION of all - including Mike.
<span style="white-space: normal;">If you are wondering what my sin was, it was bitter unforgiveness.</span>
</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </div><p> </p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-20719867632260575342024-03-12T10:44:00.000-07:002024-03-12T10:44:39.122-07:00Where I differ from the holier than Mike crowd <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjei6nygtnCDRVFpXgRLwSx8QGS3fSsqGzo_Y4_hDL0cXZbXekLQoDPUjiIaGVt_M_MbjMwFnjKs-XdJsSipZV7Zx83a5u7fXzV95PqUOKMCihXBrPM8OX1CoTYcnKVMtcLdGr4liTLk4RoeZmdAAriUHg0WMYKBao_G6su6eXkdKKdwTqFwHlkuBlM7Zqx/s960/Scales%20of%20Justice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="960" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjei6nygtnCDRVFpXgRLwSx8QGS3fSsqGzo_Y4_hDL0cXZbXekLQoDPUjiIaGVt_M_MbjMwFnjKs-XdJsSipZV7Zx83a5u7fXzV95PqUOKMCihXBrPM8OX1CoTYcnKVMtcLdGr4liTLk4RoeZmdAAriUHg0WMYKBao_G6su6eXkdKKdwTqFwHlkuBlM7Zqx/w400-h266/Scales%20of%20Justice.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where I differ from the many ministers, many my friends, on the subject of Mike Bickle's sins, is that I do not believe most of the accusations against him have been proven. </b>The sins he has admitted to - with light petting, not sexual or oral intercourse - Mike has said it happened over 20 years ago, he repented and it was he thought under the blood. To repent doesn't just mean confessing he was sinning, it means turning from that sin. Bickle indicated that he had and had <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>been walking free of it in the 20+ years since. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For me, that means God forgave him, and scripture says that the things God forgives He remembers no more, they are dropped into the "sea of forgetfulness" - Micah 7:18-19</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">18 <i>Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? </i>19 <i>He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea. </i></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>People are the ones who cannot let past sins go </b>and believe that people should be set aside forever, even for a sin that is in the past and under the blood.
I cannot tell you how that bothered me in the beginning of all this, because if Bickle was honest in his admission, and people could still drive him from ministry by exposing his forgiven sins, where does that leave the rest of us who have repented of sins that we no longer walk in but have overcome? It means we are fair game for unforgiving Christians to destroy us, pull us from further ministry, slander us far and wide. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>As far as I am concerned Mike Bickles' word is just as acceptable as the words of those who have accused him. </b>Since sexual accusation became a weapon of Feminists, I am not swayed by multiple 'support accusers' with no-evidence accusations.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I look at the array of accusations that have multiplied and spread like wildfire throughout the body of the Messiah/Christ and I see people willing to ignore what Bickle exactly confessed to</b> <b>willing to conflate them in wild assertions that are magnified, overblown and embellished.</b>
Conflated is the word I'm searching for and is the problem in all of this. His confessed sin has been conflated to every sexual sin that ever took place at IHOP by any other people. Bickle is charged now to the point that he is held responsible for every other sexual sin. The original accuser is not even held responsible for her choice, dismissed as a child, not the young adult she was. The accusation dump-it-all-on-Mike have so enflamed people to the point they are ready to burn Mike at the stake and raze the IHOP ministry as well. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This tells me THE Accuser of the brethren is very much attached to one side of this. </b>It makes me recoil from the lot of them. How can I trust them when they approve of the rampant portrayal of Bickle and IHOP as a predator haven for the sexual grooming and exploitation of girls. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">I think that everyone is turning a blind eye to how many young church going women (and men of course) are secretly sexually active Christians. What if every pastor of every church where this was the case was held responsible for their sins, saying it was the spiritual climate that the pastor fostered? Well in fact, because the contemporary church does not preach about sins very much, social media standards do dictate a lot of the sinful choices that even Christian young people choose. They even deny the sins are sins. </span></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Also, the Advocacy Group are all about blaming Mike for the sins of young people in the IHOP arena</b>. Why didn't they do anything about the misgivings they had over how things were handled? Did holding onto their jobs mean more to them than pleasing God?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Mike has remained silent in the face of all these accusations by friends</b> - close and not so close. He is doing what I have seen others do in the face of accusation against them. If he truly has long ago repented and turned from walking free of the sin before God, than God will arise for him at some point, but God will also allow the due judgments to fall on false accusers too. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When King David sinned with Bathsheba, sending her husband who was faithful to the king into a position that mean certain death for Uriah so David could have her as his wife, God confronted David. First by David's counselor telling him he was doing wrong by Uriah, and after the fact by sending the prophet Nathan, to tell him God's displeasure and how David would pay for it. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, David did repent and God did forgive, and the consequences were borne by David. 2 Samuel 12:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1<i>3 So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”</i></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die.”</i></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We all have to pay for our sins - even believers - when we repent we are forgiven by God but there are consequences we will pay personally and we "HAVE GIVEN GREAT OCCASION TO THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD TO BLASPHEME".
<b>That is exactly what the enemies of the LORD are doing in this case, and don't think a legal civil or criminal case against Mike will not result in more of the same: more enemies of God given occasion to blaspheme. </b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>That is the real tragedy here </b>- blown far out of proportion to Mike's actual sin because of the days we are <b>in. unproven accusations are now the standard of evidence.</b></div></div><p> </p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-3864927383461985902024-03-10T10:41:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:41:23.480-07:00A Warning to the Shebna's of Today from Isaiah 22<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his article <i><a href="https://garriselkins.com/the-nail-of-the-lord/" target="_blank">The Nail of theLord</a></i>, Garris Elkins brought a great insight about Shebna from Isaiah 22:19. I
couldn't place the name, so I did a search and see he was in Hezekiah's time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Garris was talking about how
Shebna was such a high up person in Hezekiah's reign that he considered himself
in a sure position...but the word of the Lord came that although he thought he
was a nail in a sure place, he was going to removed and the Lord would raise up
another of Hezekiah's governmental leaders Elikim, son of Hilkiah. Shebna is
referred to as the "treasurer" and consequently, this is a common reason for men to
fail, for the love of money. Judas was the treasurer for Yeshua and His
apostolic team. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Isaiah 21 God is speaking a prophetic word the
defeat of all the enemies of Israel: Babylon, Edom and Arabia. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then in Isaiah 22 God gives a prophetic word
<b>to the Valley of Vision</b> (hizzayon, vision properly means prophecy or revelation)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God speaks of an enemy that comes
against His people: Elam. In Isaiah 11:11 Elam is called the abode of dispersed
Israelites (many Persian Jews have returned to Israel since Israel became a
modern state.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In verse Isaiah 22: 8 God says
that, <b><i>"And he </i>(Elam)<i> discovered the covering of Judah, and thou did look
in that day to the armour </i>(weapons)<i> of the</i> (bayit ya'ar') <i>house of the
Forest."</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Bayit ya'ar can also mean House
of the "honeycomb" and in a spiritual sense, this speaks to me of the
House of the Remnant (Jewish believers in Yeshua) in Israel whose
"armour" is the prophetic Word of God. </b>This is the opposite of what
God is about to take exception to when dealing with Shebna.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shebna is a "major
domos" of Hezekiah (One definition of Shebna's position is a "majordomo is a person who speaks, makes
arrangements, or takes charge FOR ANOTHER ...the highest person...acts on
behalf of the owner (KING)....oversees the day-to-day responsibilities." This was Hezekiah's right hand man in the palace and in governing the nation. This is the role Shebna played. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God says of this Shebna, "<i>On
that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.</i> 9 <i><u>You saw that
there were many breaches in the walls </u>of the City of David. You <u>collected water</u>
from the lower pool.</i> 10 You <u>counted the houses</u> of Jerusalem <u>and tore them down
to strengthen the wall</u>. 11 <u>You built a reservoir between the walls for the
waters of the ancient pool</u>, <b>BUT YOU <u>DID NOT LOOK TO THE ONE WHO MADE IT,</u> <u>OR
CONSIDER HIM WHO PLANNED IT LONG AGO</u>. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then God says, verse 12-13: 12 <i>On
that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing,
for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.</i> 13 <i>But look, there is joy and
gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and
drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God was looking for sorrowing,
for fasting and prayer, but instead what He saw was them looking to the arm of
the flesh to defend Jerusalem, and the fatalistic, "Party on Garth,
because we will be dead tomorrow."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Now God addresses Shebna by name
and remember this man ran things in King Hezekiah's stead. ..</b>his job that was entrusted to him by King Hezekiah: 15 <i>This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go,
say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:</i> 16 <i>What are you doing here,
and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your
tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?"</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKEqNRn1-Ipxy9nB3Ey-VlYZFwjMiIagiUa-uOApLVyOPTAyxgKYlny6g2qVKX2zTDTkGi2EsA9fzup3J3Ai26b9o7enTv3OZerLeNo-KfYBJ-gbZdKsZme-ik5DhBDaa0zr42Tv3l88k93Hy3HUDnFuH4oKTPTjEqyoR4ObSh3O9fCEgXqLwKjzqyC6NQ/s1203/sepulcher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1203" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKEqNRn1-Ipxy9nB3Ey-VlYZFwjMiIagiUa-uOApLVyOPTAyxgKYlny6g2qVKX2zTDTkGi2EsA9fzup3J3Ai26b9o7enTv3OZerLeNo-KfYBJ-gbZdKsZme-ik5DhBDaa0zr42Tv3l88k93Hy3HUDnFuH4oKTPTjEqyoR4ObSh3O9fCEgXqLwKjzqyC6NQ/w400-h264/sepulcher.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />The Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>In his pride and ambition, Shebna
presumed to carve a sepulcher out for himself in the place where the kings of
the City of David were buried: </b>"a collection of tombs in the form of
chambers in the rocks" on the "east of Jerusalem, on the western
slope of the Mount of Olives, and in the wall of rock to the west of
Jerusalem."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God rebukes Shebna: "17
<i>Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold
of you, </i>18 <i>roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will
die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of
your master. </i>19 <i>I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your
position."</i> (See <i><a href="https://christiancourier.com/articles/the-saga-of-shebna" target="_blank">The Saga of Shebna</a></i> about an interesting archaelogical find)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shebna was to be taken captive
and would die in a foreign land, called by God <b>"a disgrace to the house of
your master." </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">20 <i>On that day I will summon My
servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.</i> <br />(<b>Eliakim means "God raises" or
"God sets up"</b>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">21 <i>I will clothe him with your
robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, <b>and
<u>he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah</u>. </b></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shebna failed because of his
ambition and having his head turned by the amount of money he had control over
as the King's treasurer. He came to regard the large sums of money as belonging to him.<br /><br />That's not what God was looking for - someone who
spent huge amounts on <b><u>misguided building</u> of the City of David, <u>not according to
the plans God had given</u>.</b> Also spending a huge amount on his own "legacy" burial place
among the kings of David. What God was looking for was<b> a man <u>to act as a
"father" to the people living in Jerusalem and the house of Judah</u>.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">22 <i>I will place on his</i> (Eliakim's) <i>shoulder
the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts
no one can open.</i>b </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">23 <i>I will drive him like a peg
into a firm place, <b>and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his
father.</b></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This promise of "the key to
the house of David" is the same key that Yeshua-Jesus was given by God, and in turn, the keys that He gave to His apostles,
and by extension </span><u style="font-weight: bold;">all</u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> who follow him. </span><br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEw8PEu-Vm7SbFpgciWSvfCwMLIxl3SkzMpX9rwvTKzx8bFhKnQaPclnWcaXcZBTflPf3i_n0TLYH54KcXgbD-6fKRTBmIkRgPzzjEZ2lcX1GYpua-l9PeDIBg175z6eti73pZDwsVZslv8xSiqWyjXptXMqrudCYlCD1qE6TA2mbykTTGo6G1NOhQLbh5/s400/GatesOfHellRiver%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEw8PEu-Vm7SbFpgciWSvfCwMLIxl3SkzMpX9rwvTKzx8bFhKnQaPclnWcaXcZBTflPf3i_n0TLYH54KcXgbD-6fKRTBmIkRgPzzjEZ2lcX1GYpua-l9PeDIBg175z6eti73pZDwsVZslv8xSiqWyjXptXMqrudCYlCD1qE6TA2mbykTTGo6G1NOhQLbh5/w268-h400/GatesOfHellRiver%20(2).JPG" width="268" /></a><br />The gaping mouth of the Gates of Hell</span></div><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>As Yeshua was preparing the apostles for
His coming death in Jerusalem, he took them up to Caesarea Philippi, near the
southwestern base of Mount Hermon</b>. There looking upwards one sees the gaping
hole in the mountain known as Banias, or "the gates of hell." It was a
place of idol worship and human sacrifice in Israel. <b>In the view of this place is where Yeshua told His
apostles that He was going to give them "the keys of kingdom" based
on the revelation that He is the Messiah. </b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>The key to the house of David -
that which opens doors no man can close, and closes doors no man can open </b>is a
prophetic foreshadow of the key that would be laid on Yeshua, as the Messiah of
Israel. When He passed the key to His apostles, He called it keys - <b>keys that
would restrict things from hell on earth and release things from Heaven on
earth. The key became multiple and was given by revelation of who Jesus is. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Matthew 16:18-19 18 <i>And I tell
you that you are Peter, and <u>on this rock (revelation) I will build My church</u>,
and <u>the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.</u></i> 19 <i>I will give you <b>the keys
of the kingdom of heaven.</b> Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I see applications of this some
current situations, but it is not for this post, except to say that <b>these keys
to the kingdom are certainly for the Remnant of Israel, the believers in
Israel, and also for those who will stand with them in these times </b>- binding
the hell coming against them, and loosing the will of HEAVEN toward the
salvation of all Israel. </span></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-5144180939404057692024-03-07T07:11:00.000-08:002024-03-07T07:11:05.163-08:00A Thyatira Moment<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLUMy9PkNQI0iRifRZb1AZJwj61GlfeURD3O2Gq2uGe_X0nadVod-EjDTTn7eMtgUhCTpM1YB5iByYMukb7V6vdiTl8caPOFqYTc1qpKLwPLG4H57ZCBM87eA8dBCU5MAJ31NRSXmuJrZ4r3n3vQ0xptak7YwUyFeFAhFGthO4Cj81d8rXAFQ1VEKvmsN/s1119/Jezebel%20Thyatira.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="1119" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLUMy9PkNQI0iRifRZb1AZJwj61GlfeURD3O2Gq2uGe_X0nadVod-EjDTTn7eMtgUhCTpM1YB5iByYMukb7V6vdiTl8caPOFqYTc1qpKLwPLG4H57ZCBM87eA8dBCU5MAJ31NRSXmuJrZ4r3n3vQ0xptak7YwUyFeFAhFGthO4Cj81d8rXAFQ1VEKvmsN/w640-h296/Jezebel%20Thyatira.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>A Thyatira Moment </b>| by Donna Diorio<br /><br />My thoughts in the early morning hours. Yesterday I was online searching and was exposed to a great deal of Christians speaking bitterly against someone. Later I watched a British movie called The Victim that again highlighted the self-destructive path of seeking our own vengeance instead of doing as Jesus told us about in Matthew 18, especially how He lays it out in parabolic form in the last half of chapter 18.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Christians don't realize the damage they do to themselves by failing to forgive others and leaving judgment at the Cross. In the world of unbelievers, we are seeing how bitterness and unforgiveness is literally driving people mad and plunging them into illness, both physical and mental. Christians think that because they are saved they are safe from this happening to them. Sadly they are wrong, and Jesus told us this exactly in Matthew 18. We are forgiven by our Master, but we still need ongoing forgiveness as we walk out this life that is fraught by betrayals, woundings, sins and trespasses against us. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>Our most intense failing after we come to the LORD is not forgiving others, knowing how much God has forgiven us.</b> Jesus said after we are saved, when we don't forgive then God stops forgiving our ongoing need for forgiveness, especially the bitterness that starts forming in our hearts because of those we refuse to forgive and release for the "debts" we feel they owe us. A debt to apologize for what they did, how they treated us, stole from us, marked us for disregard - whatever it is. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Automatically those begin to fill our cup, and as they do, demons are attracted to our vulnerability to sin. Many begin to fall ill and can't figure out why their health is so terrible, never considering what Jesus said in the Matthew 18 parable applies to them. Many begin to suffer various forms of mental illness. We cannot hold bitterness in our hearts without it corrupting all of our mental capacity. Demons flock to wounds that we refuse to release to the LORD completely. Wherever the dying body is, there the vultures gather. (Luke 17:36)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">In Revelation 2:21, in the letter to Thyatira, Yeshua tells them He is aware of the praiseworthiness of their lives living for Him, but He has against them that they "tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess." We are talking about in the congregations of the saints the spirit of Jezebel is greatly tolerated. Jezebel is the "patron demon" not only of our sexually-saturated society, but sex is only a tool for power-hungry control. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Yes, it forms in women and men who have felt powerless, but they did not process this wounding at the Cross. They did not lay that down at the altar, but kept it locked up in their heart. We do that easily. We think we deserve to hang on to this one bitter unforgiveness...but it just attracts more demons to us. Feminism in this country is the spirit of Jezebel and Cancel Culture is her weapon of revenge. Accusation is the tool to get what we want ourselves. God has no part in it, no matter how religiously we frame it for public consumption.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">But Jesus said to the church, verses 21-23: <i style="color: #990000;">"Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. </i>22<i style="color: #990000;"> Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. </i>23<i style="color: #990000;"> Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">The immorality of Jezebel is not only sexual. The Church is held responsible for allowing those with a Jezebel spirit to teach. This is not about women teaching, it is about allowing those with controlling Jezebel spirits to teach without discerning it and disallowing the woman or man to teach the congregation. It's not so hard to recognize, but many have become dependent upon those operating in a Jezebel spirit. They fill roles that leadership does not want to have to fill with someone else. Highly capable people, gifted with manipulating others' support, deceptive enough to keep their own influence hidden under the radar...except from those who exercise discernment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Jezebel in the leadership of the congregation will instruct others in her devious ways, her immorality will be duplicated in others - immorality that is not always sexual - and to spiritually consume "food sacrificed to idols" - that which is passed off as the prophetic from the throne of God, but is not. "Prophecy" that turns people into following a spiritual life full of idolatry. What is idolatry but following fake signs, wonders, and parlor tricks instead of focus on the one thing that protects us against such things: being transformed into the likeness of Yeshua, who is the express image of God in the flesh. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>The whole prophetic movement is having a Thyatria moment. </b>Only those who lay bitterness at the Cross, who forgive as they have been forgiven, will come out of this still walking with God. Those who stand accused by the Jezebel spirit will not all be like Naboth who was murdered so Jezebel could give her weak husband King Ahab Naboth's vineyard. It was Naboth's inheritance she stole by manipulative, deceptive means. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Jesus means us to course correct from what He told the church at Thyatira. If we will not, He has told us illness and even death await.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-71154552714145268822024-03-06T10:50:00.000-08:002024-03-06T11:05:51.869-08:00Captives in Gaza<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-3qI1YMLpeLOsa6IBEKiwYm7WyChXSi4PLzu_f5OQZx9hNE5oLmxFaRed0EzaUOyNSr4MLENtDaDRo1K7RL22lcZSa-h_zxtAhtDaBRADnhoj1uYQgj3yZ36iKH3r-PkdOvKdz0zaSgItFEiVSMCst3cYfwJvah-MKtpuHs84W7IhmLs-14iwDplAT-R/s1284/Captive%20in%20Gaza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1284" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-3qI1YMLpeLOsa6IBEKiwYm7WyChXSi4PLzu_f5OQZx9hNE5oLmxFaRed0EzaUOyNSr4MLENtDaDRo1K7RL22lcZSa-h_zxtAhtDaBRADnhoj1uYQgj3yZ36iKH3r-PkdOvKdz0zaSgItFEiVSMCst3cYfwJvah-MKtpuHs84W7IhmLs-14iwDplAT-R/w400-h399/Captive%20in%20Gaza.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Isaiah 52:5 <b><u>And now what have I here?</u> </b>declares the LORD. <b>For My people have been taken without cause; those who have power over them taunt, </b>declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">6 Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that <u>I am He </u>who speaks. <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;">Here I am!</span><b>” </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(*Is 8:17-19) </span>
</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">7 <i>How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, <u>who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, <b>who proclaim salvation</b></u>, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” <b>
</b></i></span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">8 Listen! <b>Your watchmen shall lift up </b><u style="font-weight: bold;">the voice, with the voice together </u>shall they sing. For they shall<b> <u>see eye to eye</u> </b>when the LORD shall <u style="font-weight: bold;">bring again Zion</u><b>.</b>
GOD WILL DO THIS FOR HIS OWN GLORY</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Our support of Israel </b>should be wrapped up in God's intent that "all Israel shall be saved" and our support should express itself FIRST with the Israeli Body of Messiah who live in Israel, are Jewish believers in Jesus, His feet as spoken of as beautiful in Isaiah 52:7
</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">* Isaiah 8:17-18 </span></span><span class="reftext" face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: text-top;">17</span><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him. </span><span class="reftext" face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #aa4400; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 15px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><span class="highl" face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/2009.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="2009: hin·nêh (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! Prolongation for hen; lo!">Here</a> I <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/595.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="595: ’ā·nō·ḵî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Sometimes; a primitive pro. I.">am</a></b></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/595.htm" style="color: #008cea; text-decoration-line: none;" title="595: ’ā·nō·ḵî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Sometimes; a primitive pro. I.">,</a><span style="color: #001320;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3206.htm" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" title="3206: wə·hay·lā·ḏîm (Conj-w, Art:: N-mp) -- Child, son, boy, youth. From yalad; something born, i.e. A lad or offspring.">and the children</a><b> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/834.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a></b><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3068.htm" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a><b> </b><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5414.htm" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" title="5414: nā·ṯan- (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">has given</a><b> </b><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/l%C3%AE%20(Prep::%201cs)%20--" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">me</a><b> </b><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/226.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="226: lə·’ō·ṯō·wṯ (Prep-l:: N-cp) -- A sign. Probably from 'uwth; a signal, as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.">as signs</a> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/4159.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="4159: ū·lə·mō·wp̄·ṯîm (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-mp) -- A wonder, sign, portent. Or mopheth; from yaphah in the sense of conspicuousness; a miracle; by implication, a token or omen.">and w</a>onders <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3478.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="3478: bə·yiś·rā·’êl (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity."><b>in Israel</b></a> </i><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5973.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="5973: mê·‘im (Prep-m) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">from</a> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3068.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6635.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="6635: ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ (N-cp) -- Or tsbadah; from tsaba'; a mass of persons, especially reg. Organized for war; by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively.">of Armies,</a> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7931.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="7931: haš·šō·ḵên (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root (by transmission) to shakab through the idea of lodging; compare cikluwth, shakam); to reside or permanently stay.">who dwells</a> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/2022.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="2022: bə·har (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Mountain, hill, hill country. A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills.">on Mount</a> <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6726.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" title="6726: ṣî·yō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- A mountain in Jer., also a name for Jer. The same as tsiyuwn; Tsijon, a mountain of Jerusalem.">Zion.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span> </p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-36352838420302071692024-03-04T05:16:00.000-08:002024-03-04T05:16:19.448-08:00Gideon's 300 at IHOPKC<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLRVyvBdCoRtAJAco7fc7oqgeW4aOroOltYU2ceYzf2GXGgdBJhCpB9NTzxkvyC4cG5ihfky9wlbsg4gB0O4SzjBYkZbMg5bDm_05G_8KHd8IsHc917GwsoSl0Bwz5ESkchpYdnlTANLO3z6AwJuh4z0A0EccUpjTidfYhmf9VPbr4f4snGlMhab4Uvki/s335/Lapping%20Water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLRVyvBdCoRtAJAco7fc7oqgeW4aOroOltYU2ceYzf2GXGgdBJhCpB9NTzxkvyC4cG5ihfky9wlbsg4gB0O4SzjBYkZbMg5bDm_05G_8KHd8IsHc917GwsoSl0Bwz5ESkchpYdnlTANLO3z6AwJuh4z0A0EccUpjTidfYhmf9VPbr4f4snGlMhab4Uvki/w359-h400/Lapping%20Water.jpg" width="359" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Lapping water with abandon</b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On February 22nd I posted on Facebook the word I had been getting in relation to what has been happening at IHOP. This morning it has returned to me. Again, I see Gideon's 300. Those that stay, who do not flee to please the crowds who want more to please their outraged friends, but the ones who stay, these are going to dig deeper wells of their own salvation.<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Sb4ZSvx19rVk0XFU7E6aETo5vJJXLS1WNYoBMMh8EmTxAbwvz4pCDpEuxQGFtlrTjyRjzpzhLjlT4_Sn_22cGMkSSU_8Nfj3cgVtqJxxArGPUuB-BOvoqgs7BfVEJo-ur6FFUYYdKMvOK5AciCu7cdxTFcQShMBrWsp4QrE_WK1skIq6cK92-Kk275Lf/s618/IHOP%20banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="618" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Sb4ZSvx19rVk0XFU7E6aETo5vJJXLS1WNYoBMMh8EmTxAbwvz4pCDpEuxQGFtlrTjyRjzpzhLjlT4_Sn_22cGMkSSU_8Nfj3cgVtqJxxArGPUuB-BOvoqgs7BfVEJo-ur6FFUYYdKMvOK5AciCu7cdxTFcQShMBrWsp4QrE_WK1skIq6cK92-Kk275Lf/s320/IHOP%20banner.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Feb 22: <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">GIDEON's 300. That is the word I keep getting since yesterday for IHOP. </span></b></span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There has been a separation there, like in Gideon's story when he was about to go into a <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>major battle against "the Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other people of the east who had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts."</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Amalikites, to this day are seen as the spirit of the archetypal enemy of the Jews. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Medianites were the who God specifically referred to that He was leading Gideon in to defeat. The meaning of Medianites is "strife" and they were a nomadic group. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gideon has 22,000 fighters with him, but at the En-Charod, "the fountain of trembling," where Gideon was encamped 10,000 turned back because they were "fearful and trembling."</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Afterwards God told Gideon there were too many people still, but to take the men down to the water, where God said, "I will sift them for you there."</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have never understood why the sifting process was to choose the ones who lapped up the water with their tongues like a dog and to dismiss the ones who just knelt and cupped the water in their hands. But now I see it speaks to the abandon to their thirst for the water.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because the word of the LORD for our day is sifting out the enemies of Israel, and choosing those who are thirsty enough to receive God's "water of the word" about our spiritual battle related to Israel, there has to be a Divine sifting process. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Out of 22,000 fighting men to start, Gideon ended up with only 300 to fight that great camp in the valley. But God assured Gideon it was enough. Better to go into spiritual battle without the fearful, without the nomads of strife, but only with those who thirst for God's direction and assurance that, verse 9</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand."</span></div></div>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-22575306838870124002024-03-03T09:27:00.000-08:002024-03-03T09:27:16.397-08:00What's in a name?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpNDqzBcIFG0NuJMrL6-bwsJDHACyOIFBllSliAvX5SQvIwgeVvpN0g0V5KLvCZHx1Q9ArNPlpN4NtW_NXw6pVsv8EaMayJIjLURw2XI8Yj9pQYOcmyfopfinkI3lHvZULcyCM0gNjPuRcIQ6QNvZzFj87La4qPnMJq3g2wHdko5DhjEzREOAk85kB1hFT/s768/Ephesians-2_8-9-1-768x505.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="768" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpNDqzBcIFG0NuJMrL6-bwsJDHACyOIFBllSliAvX5SQvIwgeVvpN0g0V5KLvCZHx1Q9ArNPlpN4NtW_NXw6pVsv8EaMayJIjLURw2XI8Yj9pQYOcmyfopfinkI3lHvZULcyCM0gNjPuRcIQ6QNvZzFj87La4qPnMJq3g2wHdko5DhjEzREOAk85kB1hFT/w400-h263/Ephesians-2_8-9-1-768x505.png" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Cinzel;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: Cinzel;">What's in a Name? </b><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">by Donna Diorio<br /><br />March 3, 2024: As I read through my morning emails, I was quite riveted by the comment made by a Messianic rabbi in Ukraine who wrote the following: </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"HOW DOES GOD UNITE THE TRIBE OF KINGS AND THE TRIBE OF SLAVES? How was the very first Temple built? At the head of the building of the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) were Betzalel (in the shadow of God) and Oholiav (My Father's tent). Betzalel was from the Messianic tribe of Yehudah, the tribe from which our Savior shone, and Oholiav was from the tribe of Dan, the tribe of slaves. God brings them together! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> "In the One New Man, all are essential to building the Kingdom on earth: Jew and non-Jew, man and woman, rich and poor, noble and common! "... "BUT EACH MAN SHALL SEE HOW HE BUILDS." <br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-end-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Names are very important in the Scriptures. </b>There is meaning and significance to the names. This is not like astrological signs or numerology where numbers supposedly write your future, those are demonic imitations of the Divine process and intention. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"What's in a name?" Much if the name appears in Scripture, because even the names given are messages from God. There is also a Divine principle involved in the name of persons and places in Scripture that does spill over into our lives today. We see that when God takes a particular hold on someone in scripture, there is often a name change. Examples are how God took Jacob in Genesis 32:22-23 and changed his name to Israel. Then in Matthew 16:17-18 Yeshua gave Simon bar Jonah, the fisherman, a name change too. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> What was the thing that prompted the name change to Peter? The fact that Yeshua saw His Father had given Simon a spiritual revelation, which is just to say that God had spoken understanding into Simon's mind which he had no capacity to understand otherwise. No human being could have made Simon Peter understand what God had revealed to him in a thought directly from His Throne in Heaven: that Yeshua, Simon Peter's own teacher, was Israel's Messiah in the flesh, sent from God.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> As for Jacob, who wrestled with "a man" all night in Genesis 32:24-32, and had his name changed in that night of wrestling with the pre-incarnate Yeshua, we see that name-changing is a major intention to Jesus. As Jacob wrestled with "the man" he told the man that he would not let Him go until he got His blessing. When we 'wrestle' with God in our lives, we should not let of Him until we get His blessing either. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> After Jacob spoke that to the man he had been wrestling through the long, dark night, the man told him that from that point on Jacob would be called Israel. Then Jacob, now Israel, asked the man His name, and the man answered, "“Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Peniel means "face of God." Yeshua, in the form of a man, had asked Jacob a rhetorical question when he asked Him his name, because like Simon Peter thousands of years later, Jacob had already been given a revelation of who it was He wrestled with. That is why Israel knew to name the place Peniel, meaning the face of God. Israel knew he had looked into the face of God in the flesh of the man he had wrestled throughout the night.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> These things are shouting so many spiritual things to us: one that we can hear God for ourselves but it will take wrestling in the long dark night to receive that blessing of God. When it does happen, our own names are changed. Whatever name the enemy of our souls tried to make our names mean - Loser, Liar, Addicted, Afflicted, Sin-Laden, Murderer, Thief whatever you have had to wrestle with God for to get His blessing and name-change - the release is what we get when we contend, wrestling with God for that breakthrough. It will always be Yeshua/Jesus who gives us His blessing and He will re-name us Overcomer, a Champion over the sins that tried to destroy our lives. This is the blessing of the LORD.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> That is individuals, but there is so much more here, because it is also a peek into the Divine mystery of how Jacob is STILL going through a long, dark night of wrestling with JESUS, but they will receive Divine understanding that this, Yeshua IS the Face of God in a man, Israel's Messiah made flesh. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> One of my favorite prophetic verses that always causes me to smile is Psalm 24:6 "Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob." I have understood that "all Israel" are now known in this verse as "Jacob" but they will come to know Yeshua and it will be IN A GENERATION (or a season of a generation of Israelis) who seek the face of God as Jacob did. That season has already begun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Psalm 24: 3-6 speaks of this generation: "3 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully. 5 He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation. 6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> These are the conditions to the generation of Jacob who gets the revelation from Heaven that Yeshua is Israel's Messiah. It is the same thing we go through as individuals, but it is also what STILL lies ahead for Israel. We come closer to it every day because that season of the generation has already begun. In 1948 Israel had only 23 known Jewish believers in Yeshua; today estimates range from 20 to 30 thousand and increasing more rapidly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> In the beginning of writing, the rabbi from Ukraine, Vlad Nagirner wrote how God was able to take from the tribes of Israel, greatly diverse into one: "Betzalel was from the Messianic tribe of Yehudah (Judah), the tribe from which our Savior shone, and Oholiav was from the tribe of Dan, the tribe of slaves." (Exodus 31:1-11 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> He relates how it shows that God can make "One New Man" from Gentile Christians and Messianic Jews. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> There things that the Messianic Jews are going to bring into this building of the Spiritual Temple, that is not made with hands. It will take humility by Christians because we have been in the majority so long that too many of think we are far advanced compared to the smaller Messianic Jewish part of the body of the LORD. We Christians tend to think we already have it all spiritually, and the Messianic Jews are just trying to catch up to our spiritual stature. That is misreading the reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Messianic Jews have many important things from God, as Christians also do but neither of us have ANYthing that God didn't give us. It is also like the marriage of a man and a woman - each bring distinctively different things into the union that makes the marriage work. It is a mystery, Paul said, and is humbling when we take it to heart. But when we do take it to heart we no longer feel competitive when our elder brother in the the faith, the Messianic Jews how up to bring there gifts into the "one new man" marriage. The final great harvest of souls will only begin when both Christians and Messianic Jews receive each other in taking our places in God's building of the Heavenly Temple as described above in Exodus 31.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> We both must make room for each other's gifts to build God's spiritual temple. "He showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God" (Revelation 21:9-10).</span></p><p><br /></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-37987341285856696772024-03-01T07:10:00.000-08:002024-03-01T07:10:29.063-08:00The Origins of Israel's Presence<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCWIwptINx6wrskX08h6Lp_CJqJ7NT0hfdahuRXluLmDKyAOxcpiQTPXg0dp_hFt4FdR1YhB0avthryNaA3p-An2iBRWUyD8a-i3lV05Ki5i5hQbku7sQjsW9_peD_weGea9j8I1MLXLQJWODJQ1TcAaO-QLKGmtPGGp6XHEy1V9a4iq8e3eu9cOsBa7z/s640/Torah%20scroll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCWIwptINx6wrskX08h6Lp_CJqJ7NT0hfdahuRXluLmDKyAOxcpiQTPXg0dp_hFt4FdR1YhB0avthryNaA3p-An2iBRWUyD8a-i3lV05Ki5i5hQbku7sQjsW9_peD_weGea9j8I1MLXLQJWODJQ1TcAaO-QLKGmtPGGp6XHEy1V9a4iq8e3eu9cOsBa7z/w400-h240/Torah%20scroll.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Word of God</b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* I searched for an online source to be able to share a link to the instructive article by Eitan but did not find one. So in order to share this with my mailing lists, I am uploading it here. We need to be equipped to answer the accusations and questions that are being posed about Israel. This will help many to do that.- DDiorio</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Origins of Israel's Presence</b><br />by Eitan Shishkoff <br />Founder of Fields of Wheat<br />Northern Israel<br /><br /></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">“Aren’t the Israelis just colonizers, imposing their
imperialist, racist designs on the poor Palestinians?” </b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a version of what’s been posed around the
world as historically accurate “analysis” of what’s been happening since
October 7 and ever since the Jews declared statehood in 1948. </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">In this update
we felt it timely to step back from our “on the ground reports” to look at the
origins of Israel’s presence on the narrow strip of land at the east end of the
Mediterranean Sea. </b><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #c00000; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As ambassadors of the God of Israel, whose sacred truth
stretches from Genesis to Revelation, we must equip ourselves to answer the
question posed above.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b><span style="color: #c00000; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Understanding the
eternal purposes of the King of all the Earth regarding Israel is essential</span></b><u> in these days of grueling, complex war on the
ground—and the deceptive war of international opinion.</u> <b><span style="color: #c00000; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Is it legitimate and just for us to say that this is the
divinely granted home of the Jews?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Is God
Sovereign?</b> | Before reviewing the biblical basis for the descendants of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob having “title deed” to the land of Israel, <u>a
foundational issue must be addressed. That is, the sovereignty of God</u>. “<i>The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness
thereof; the people and all who dwell therein”</i> (Psalm 24:1). Is the
Almighty really almighty? Does He actually have all authority in heaven and on
earth? <i>“Yeshua said to them…’All
authority has been given to me in heaven and on the earth…”</i>(Matthew 28:18).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Way back
in Genesis, we see God choosing one man. After Adam blew it, the LORD needed
another human son who would be truly faithful. He found Abraham. And all
history has been impacted by their first recorded conversation. <i>“Get out of your country, from your family
and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a
great nation. I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a
blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses
you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”</i> (Genesis 12:1-3 emphasis added)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Israel’s
Calling = To Serve All Mankind</b> | The key here is that Abraham’s family has
a calling to serve every family in the world. God guarantees that through him He
will bring redemption to ALL humanity. This profoundly consequential promise is
emphasized again in Genesis 18:18, 22:18 and Galatians 3:16. <u>Here is our
response to the false claims that we Jews want genocide. Our purpose is in no
way to destroy, but to serve all mankind.</u> Oddly, perhaps this explains the
resentment against us. <b>The Father set us apart to reveal Himself in His
dealings with us throughout history. We were not chosen to lord it over others,
as anti-Semites think. But to serve every nationality in humility. </b>(In
this, we have often failed and are certainly still being tested!) Later, at Mt.
Sinai, the LORD tells Moses that the children of Israel will be a kingdom of
priests (Exodus 19:6). This defines our role of securing atonement for all the other
nations, which was forever fulfilled through the ultimate High Priest, Yeshua
our Messiah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>But
whose land is it really?</b> | Nearly 4000 years ago Abram dwelt in Canaan. In
another divine encounter the LORD set in motion an everlasting covenant, changing
his name to <i>“father of many nations.” </i>|
<i>“…the LORD appeared to Abram and said to
him ‘I am Almighty God (El Shaddai); walk before me and be blameless…And I will
establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in
their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your
descendants after you. Also, I give to you and your descendants after you the
land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting
possession; and I will be their God.’ “ </i>(Genesis
17:1,7-8 emphasis added)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Clearly,
the Almighty is emphasizing the “forever” nature of His relationship with Abraham’s
heirs. This eternal covenant contains a specific “land grant.”</b> Appearing
also to Abe’s son, Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob, the LORD carries His
promises through to the Tribes of Israel in perpetuity (see Genesis 26:3 and
35:12). Our stewardship of the land must include gracious relationships with
those NOT of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. “<i>You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were
strangers in the land of Egypt”</i> (Exodus 22:21;23:9). <u>The word “stranger”
can also be translated “resident.”</u> And while the treatment of the 2,000,000
Arab Israeli citizens living peacefully within Israel’s borders is not perfect,
they are entitled to equal rights under the law, are represented in the
Knesset, and have full access to higher education and every profession. (We
were cared for by an Arab Israeli doctor this very morning.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Are we
imperialistic colonizers who dispossessed an indigenous Palestinian nation? Are
these charges historically accurate?</b> | Briefly, we have to look at the
basic history of the 20th century. When Jews began returning to Palestine in
the late 1800s and first decades of the 1900s they were called Palestinians.
That’s right! Because there was no such Arab-speaking nationality then defined
with that term. We honor the Arab families who have lived for centuries,
tilling the land between Lebanon in the north and Egypt in the south, between
the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. However, when protesters chant “From
the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” they fail to realize that (1)
this territory has been inhabited by the Jewish people since the time of
Abraham, a presence of some 4000 years. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> And (2)
the name Palestine (Palestina) was given to this real estate by the Romans
after conquering Jerusalem and the Jewish nation in 70 CE. <b>It was never used
exclusively to describe a local Arab-speaking population until September,1948</b>
<b>when the so-called “All-Palestinian Government” was formed (in Cairo) <u>in
reaction to Israel’s independence</u>.</b> “The institutions of a Palestinian
nationality emerged slowly in the Palestinian refugee diaspora” (Wikipedia,
“Palestinian Nationalism”). Yasser Arafat and others popularized the term from
1954 on with the formation of the Fatah and PLO movements <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Please
know that we do not begrudge our Arab brethren who want to self-identify as
Palestinians, given the broad acceptance of the term in today’s vocabulary.
However, the charge is patently and historically false that we are colonizers</b>
imposing a foreign government upon the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria,
Gaza, the Galilee, and Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> We were
exiled from this land nearly 2000 years ago after living here the previous 2000
years. <u>We began returning, legally purchasing land in order to resettle in
fulfillment of God’s promise to the Hebrew prophets.</u> Then, after the murder
of 6,000,000 Jews for the “crime” of being Jewish (1939-1945) we declared that
our ancient homeland was once again a sovereign nation. We were immediately
attacked from every direction by six Arab countries, determined to destroy the
Jewish state at its rebirth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Modern
Israel: A Miracle, not a Menace</b> | Beloved readers, we confess that as a
modern nation we have imperfectly governed the land divinely granted to us.
Thousands of Arab residents were expelled from their homes during the War for
Independence. Nineteen years later, left with the perplexing dilemma of
territory captured in the 6 Day War of 1967 (the Gaza Strip, Judea-Samaria), a
significant number of Arabs came under Israeli rule. Our government’s intention
was not to be an “occupying force,” <u>but to assist them in establishing a
good life.</u> <u>Tragically that intention has received the response of
pre-meditated terror and slaughter ever since.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> We hate
the notion of being a “menace” to our Arab-speaking neighbors. This is a
conflict Israel sought repeatedly to avoid. Yet the appalling events of October
7 left no choice but to take solemn measures. Yes, there is continuing
opposition to the Jewish people living in the land where God instructed us to
live. <u>But the miracle is that we are back in the land promised to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob so long ago. Truly, God’s promise was and is “to all our
generations.”<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the words of His prophets, <i>“If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that
they have done, says the Lord”</i> (Jeremiah 31:37). <i>“<b>Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed
through you, I will make you an eternal majesty, a joy of all generations…and
your people shall inherit the land forever.”</b> </i>(Isaiah 60:15,21 emphasis
added)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Planting
a Seed for A Different Harvest</b> | We are simultaneously living out two
realities rooted in God’s covenant dealings with mankind. First, our very
existence as Jewish disciples of Jesus living in Israel is the fulfillment of
His eternal covenant with Abraham. Second, we share equally the New Covenant of
Yeshua with our Arab brothers and sisters. We are one in Messiah! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b><span style="color: #c00000; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That is why Fields of
Wheat is determined to establish a Messiah-centered young adult discipleship
experience for both Jewish and Arab believers. </span></b>We are convinced that all the political and
historical analysis will not overcome the personal experience of individuals.
The future will be shaped by relationships forged in love and trust by God’s
Spirit and His word.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b>Please
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<br /><br /></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-53990642880022062912024-02-28T10:37:00.000-08:002024-02-28T10:37:14.504-08:00WHY ARE THERE TWO PURIMS (Book of Esther) in 2024? <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB-gPMwD8VC9mCTpIAi1eG3_P7_D7BugjUrHl1v6WY21YC1IU04g4_EtdxTJJJJt2JLmtZ2w51-_Ijq-R84Gk8th_ajpAtsTWtuTFeNCC2VVpPyN_sCEr-ye8a7_yPEneqLwABx0Cz4IDMkqQ8vOhh-UThzIOh-Q0WhchuO01DkeN_Aj4EQp3jnaRQmet/s1000/Esther%20painting.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1000" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB-gPMwD8VC9mCTpIAi1eG3_P7_D7BugjUrHl1v6WY21YC1IU04g4_EtdxTJJJJt2JLmtZ2w51-_Ijq-R84Gk8th_ajpAtsTWtuTFeNCC2VVpPyN_sCEr-ye8a7_yPEneqLwABx0Cz4IDMkqQ8vOhh-UThzIOh-Q0WhchuO01DkeN_Aj4EQp3jnaRQmet/s320/Esther%20painting.jpeg" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Queen Esther<br />"For such a time as this."</b></span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I know most of you don't like getting in the weeds, but sometimes it is necessary to sort things out. <br /><br /><b>I just have to say that this 2 Purim's in 2024 has stuck with me as somehow prophetically significant to us. This is me searching for what it might be.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week, Feb 22-23 was a holiday on the Hebrew calendar called Purim Katan, or Minor Purim. A friend in Canada pointed it out and explained it as a "leap year" type of adjustment that is made to the lunar calendar that are how the Hebrew calendar is counted by. As Canadian friend Peter Robertson noted, "It is an ancient adaptation, attested in ancient literature and necessity requires it in a lunar calendar that has less than 365 days."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why? "It is necessary to have an extra month or all the feasts, including Passover would creep earlier and earlier into the year, like Ramadan does in the Islamic, 12 month lunar calendar. Because Passover was a barley harvest festival and Shavuot a wheat harvest festival and Sukkot a fruit festival."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The normal Purim festival will be the one most Jews will celebrate on March 24th. Looking into the Little Purim a little deeper, I discovered that in 1612 a tradition grew up in Frankfurt, Germany to celebrate how Jews had been expelled from that city in an uprising <i>only to be returned two years later</i>. <b>The following is a report I found in a religious Jewish source from a German rabbi.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There were "spasms of antisemitism" that plagued Europe over centuries. But in 1612 a protest grew against "the lead up to the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Matthias, the citizens of Frankfurt." It's leader "resented both the authorities and the Jews. As his gang’s list of demands grew, one remained relatively constant: expel the Jewish community from the city." They attacked the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, looting and expelling the Jews. He was arrested "and two years later executed, his home destroyed, his allies banished. On the same day, the Jews were permitted to return to Frankfurt, their rights and citizenship restored."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"On the surface, nothing seems too peculiar about this persecution. Antisemitism in Germany in the Middle Ages probably surprises no one. But the sudden reversal and homecoming was. When the uprising was over, the Jews began the process of commemorating the experience....Every year, the Jews observe a day of fasting followed by a day of feasting in memory of the events of 1614. The tradition continued in the Frankfurt Jewish community for 200 years. . . .Declaring a Second Purim (also known as Purim Katan, “Little Purim”) was <b>once a common practice in Jewish communities that had experienced threats of extermination that were suddenly — in true Purim spirit — turned upside-down."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purim Katan 2024 is not about a historical event, but the current moment in the Jewish calendar. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am reminded by "Little Purim" how the Islamists have referred to Israel as the "Little Satan" and the United States as the "Great Satan."<b> In the Spirit that is upside down</b>, the U.S. spiritually is the "Little" enemy and Israel is the "Great" enemy of Satan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>If I was going to take a prophetic message out of the Little Purim of 2024, I would say the attack against IHOPKC is related to that. And I do believe the attack there is going to be overturned, as the many incidents in Jewish history that were "turned upside-down" - that so will this attack on IHOP, "threatened with extermination" suddenly "in true Purim spirit" to be restored.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Great Purim is the prophetic foreshadowing of the days Israel has already entered into of being the target of attempts to banish them from the Land of Israel. But as it is written, Zechariah 12:2-3 </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Behold, I will make Jerusalem <i>a cup of reeling like-drunkenness </i>to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, <i>I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured."</i></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taking a line from Israeli prophetic minister, Jennifer Guetta of Plant Hope Israel: "<b>Purim is a time of exposing evil, turning tables and revealing the Hidden Messiah."</b></span></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-26491172543004783742024-02-27T06:46:00.000-08:002024-02-27T06:46:25.624-08:00IHOPKC is God's PLAN, not Prophetic Manipulation!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDyDz6g8Erhbzi5XLZbFXqzrwH4NMaIszPYTsh_LWAVNKVoIlMRyqljleSp_WmUVdKIzALDpQdaNYQkHSu2glOqzaBTkHPptR8_OWexC-tAbvptzUXJbcnrEmfMdQYTOo5n_zU3FjZNQ3ecJiw34LObl5DGPW2-ouvzsXiyCSpFDMurUNn9aHDlpd9n-8/s618/Israel-Prayer-Room-session-banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="618" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDyDz6g8Erhbzi5XLZbFXqzrwH4NMaIszPYTsh_LWAVNKVoIlMRyqljleSp_WmUVdKIzALDpQdaNYQkHSu2glOqzaBTkHPptR8_OWexC-tAbvptzUXJbcnrEmfMdQYTOo5n_zU3FjZNQ3ecJiw34LObl5DGPW2-ouvzsXiyCSpFDMurUNn9aHDlpd9n-8/w400-h171/Israel-Prayer-Room-session-banner.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #073763;">Kansas City IHOP </span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">God has been working a long range plan </span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">in raising up IHOP 24/7 Worship & Prayer:</span><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #990000;">a truly dedicated </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #990000;">Christian Prayer network</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #990000;"> <br />for the Israeli Body of Messiah <br />for such a time as this.</span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">The Israeli Remnant are God's plan </span><br /><span style="color: #073763;">for the salvation of "all Israel"</span></span></b></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">Posted Feb 27th:</span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #050505;"> </b><span style="color: #050505;">One of the things I have thought many times over the past months since allegations came out against Mike Bickle - </span><i style="color: #050505;">but I have not said it because I knew it would cause a major ruckus</i><span style="color: #050505;">, </span><b style="color: #050505;">is that while those accusers of Mike Bickle are raising all hell against Bickle and IHOP over their c</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #050505;">harges of </span><span style="color: #20124d;">sexual abuse that didn't include intercourse</span></i><b><span style="color: #20124d;">, that it has diverted the prayer focus IHOP was raised up to deliver on behalf of Israel. </span></b></span></span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #050505;">The accusations were made public in October </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-weight: bold;">at the <a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>same time that the Oct 7th Hamas attack visited the most heinous rapes ever seen on Israeli women during and after the attack.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">So while the snowflakes were playing victim over their sexual interaction with Bickle - light petting it sounds like at most - Israeli women were being brutally raped unto death by brutal terrorist beasts </span><b style="color: #050505;">and IHOP was almost completely distracted by the demonic attack on that prayer house.
</b><span style="color: #050505;">I realize how much of a blow to IHOP it was to receive such an attack against their leader. I am not faulting them from being distracted from the intercessions for what was unfolding in Israel. I'm just saying that is what the accusations and uproar did and from the spiritual standpoint, this is what attack was supposed to do! This was the "Black Horse" spiritual attack. Those who have held on despite all of the pressures to throw IHOP and Mike Bickle under the bus have literally been tried by fire. God bless them for it.
</span><b><span style="color: #990000;">The "Prophetic History" of IHOP has been attacked as being a purposeful manipulation ploy. NO it is not. It is the vision given over many years with signs to build the faith of those running with God's vision.</span></b><span style="color: #050505;"> Any person who believes in the prophetic, if you don't recognize this as an attack on ALL prophecy, you have become so dull of spirit, wake up! </span></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That is what I really think about it.<b> Thank you for those who continued faithfully to pray for Israel, the body of the LORD in Israel, and for Mike.
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I agree with Rick Joyner's assessment back in November 2023 (I just discovered it for the first time 2/27/24) t<b>hat it will not be the last of Mike or of IHOP. He quoted Proverbs 24:16 and I believe this word is the word that applies to Mike:</b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #050505;">Proverbs 24:15 </span><i style="color: #050505;">Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place. 16 <b>For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up</b>; but the wicked stumble in bad times. 17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, 8 or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him. 19 Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked. 20 For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
<b>On Feb 23 I posted: </b></i><b><span style="color: #990000;">GIDEON's 300. That is the word I keep getting since yesterday for IHOP. </span></b></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">There has been a separation these past months at IHOPKC, like in Gideon's story </span></b><span style="color: #050505;">when he was about to go into a major battle against "the Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other people of the east who had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts."</span></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Amalikites, to this day are seen as the spirit of <u>the archetypal enemy of the Jews</u>. </span></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Medianites were the who God specifically referred to that He was leading Gideon in to defeat. <u>The meaning of Medianites is "strife" and they were a nomadic group.</u> </span></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gideon has 22,000 fighters with him, but at the En-Charod, "the fountain of trembling," where Gideon was encamped 10,000 turned back because they were "fearful and trembling."</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Afterwards God told Gideon there were too many people still, but to take the men down to the water, where God said, "I will sift them for you there."</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have never understood why the sifting process was to choose the ones who lapped up the water with their tongues like a dog and to dismiss the ones who just knelt and cupped the water in their hands. <b>But now I see it speaks to the abandon to their thirst for the water.</b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Calibri;">Because the word of the LORD for our day is sifting out the enemies of Israel, and choosing those who are thirsty enough to receive God's "water of the word" about our spiritual battle related to Israel, there has to be a Divine sifting process. </span></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Out of 22,000 fighting men to start, Gideon ended up with only 300 to fight that great camp in the valley. But God assured Gideon it was enough.
<b>Better to go into spiritual battle without the fearful, without the nomads of strife, but only with those who thirst for God's direction and assurance </b>that, verse 9, <i>“Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand."</i></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505;">On Feb 22 I posted on Facebook: </span><b style="color: #050505;">Even with the losses at IHOP</b><span style="color: #050505;"> (see my Gideon's 300 post) </span><b><span style="color: #050505;">I do not believe it is too late to impanel a group of impeccable </span><span style="color: #990000;">charismatic</span><span style="color: #050505;"> leaders in the body of the LORD - known for integrity, </span><span style="color: #990000;">having the understanding of the Israel Mandate (including Israeli ministry leaders) </span><span style="color: #050505;">- who are capable of making judgments on the facts, evidence, examination of ALL witnesses.
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Perhaps the Advocate Group will continue to balk at anything </span><u style="color: #050505;">but their insistence on secular-oriented rather than God's spiritual leaders to judge the matter</u><span style="color: #050505;">, in which case, proceed anyway and </span><u style="color: #050505;">let them bear the spiritual consequences of that</u><span style="color: #050505;">. </span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505;">
Perhaps the Advocate Group will participate and accusers will come forward also, </span><u style="color: #050505;">but if they balk at the findings and judgment of the godly international leaders panel, and decide to press on for secular judgments, then let them go, and God will decide the spiritual consequences for them. </u><span style="color: #050505;">
</span><b style="color: #050505;">I believe God wants this settled in the way He has set up: </b><i style="color: #050505;"><b>"</b>If any of you has a grievance against another, <b>how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!"</b> </i><span style="color: #050505;">1 COR 6:1
I</span><b><span style="color: #990000;">HOP needs a spiritual miracle financially to keep going.</span></b><span style="color: #050505;"> So many have dropped funding WITHOUT and evidence of the accusations being true. I don't know about you, but keeping the operation of IHOP is important to me. I listen every day as I work on my Israel Prayer elists. If you can make a donation at this time, please let them know you value it too.</span></span></span></div></div>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-53199775108870261982024-02-24T08:01:00.000-08:002024-02-24T08:03:04.606-08:00Ministries Call to Fasting & Prayer Call to Fasting & Prayer <p><b>Important Call to Fasting & Prayer Feb 25-27 from the Leaders in the Faith of Yeshua in Israel. </b>It is being endorsed by so many, see the prayer points and their names at the end.</p><p><b><span style="color: #990000;">A CALL TO THE BODY OF MESSIAH IN ISRAEL <br />FOR THREE DAYS OF REPENTANCE, FASTING AND PRAYER FOR OUR NATION, 25-27 FEBRUARY</span></b></p><p><i><b>Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I may weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.</b></i></p><p><i><b>For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn themselves, cisterns – broken cisterns that can hold no water.</b></i></p><p><i><b>Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord. </b></i>(Jeremiah 9:1, 2:13, 17:5,7)</p><p><b>Our nation is passing through, what could be, the most critical hour that we have faced in our history since our establishment as a modern State in 1948.</b></p><p>We are confronted with war on multiple fronts, within and without the present borders of Israel. We have been fighting a war in Gaza for months and have suffered great losses and casualties, whether it be the deaths and severe wounding of many of our civilians and soldiers or the deaths and inhuman humiliations of many of our hostages.</p><p>The unexpected invasion of Hamas on Shemini Atzeret and the invasion of our unprotected security barrier by thousands of terrorists resulted in the first nightmarish holocaust on the soil of Israel. This happened, not by coincidence, one day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, which also took Israel by surprise.</p><p>The unprotected southern border of Israel was a reflection of an ominous spiritual reality that our spiritual gates were open and unprotected so that Satan could bitterly attack us because of sin in our Land.</p><p>We are facing a desperate situation that challenges us as never before in our modern history. All human solutions are feeble in the face of the multiple dilemmas and quandaries that face us concerning internal and external battles that threaten our existence as a nation.</p><p>The sinister pressures and demands of the US and other nations that are weighing upon Israel, if conceded to, are sure guarantees of future disaster. If we do not submit to this outside pressure, we could well find ourselves fully isolated from the world community of nations.</p><p>Before us, remain the unresolved questions of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and an ever-increasing possible future atomic war with Iran and her proxies in the nations that surround us.</p><p><b>If ever there was a time when we, the indigenous Body of Messiah in Israel, needed to take our place as a priesthood before the throne of God on behalf of our nation, it is now! </b>There have been several calls to prayer in Israel by the religious establishment, but we as a Body have not yet gathered together to humble ourselves before heaven on behalf of our nation, beseeching God that His mercy, forgiveness, protection, and divine intervention be extended to us.</p><p>There has been prayer in the individual congregations, but we have failed as a Body to be united as one Voice before heaven, in fasting and prayer as a priesthood on behalf of our people. There was one joint Zoom prayer meeting at the beginning of the war and another meeting of approximately 100 leaders, Jews, and Arabs, who prayed and repented before the Lord.</p><p>The sin in the Land has opened spiritual gates for this present disaster to come upon our land and people. The divisions and enmity within the nation and its leadership, the hatred without cause, the shedding of innocent blood through abortions, the advocacy of immorality and sexual perversion, the idolatry and pride, and the great sin of rejecting the sovereignty of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob over this land and its people - have all worked to remove God’s covering of blessing and a great measure of His protection from upon us.</p><p>The Nova party, at which our youth were dancing around a large statue of Shiva was reminiscent of the sin of the Golden Calf and a clear warning of its consequences. We do mourn with all those who have suffered and lost their loved ones at this event.</p><p>We have indeed failed as a Body to beseech the Lord in unity and unison for His mercy for Israel and to stand in the gap before Him in asking Him to forgive us of our many sins against Him and each other. Before we can effectively stand in confession and the humbling of our hearts before God for Israel, we must first begin with ourselves. We, the undersigned, in deep agreement and conviction of heart, believe that it is time to seek the Lord and to call the Body of Messiah in the Land to three days of fasting and prayer with a main emphasis upon Repentance.</p><p><b>The following is our understanding of how we are to seek the Lord during these three days, from the 25-27 February:</b></p><p> The first day of the 25th is to be a day of personal repentance of each individual believer, for sins against the Lord and one another. Repentance must first begin with each individual human heart before God.</p><p> The second day of the 26th is to be a day of repentance and prayer for the Body of Messiah in the Land. We have been delinquent in our priesthood as was clearly revealed during the period of the coronavirus pandemic when we could not meet together as a Body in prayer and repentance before God for our sins and the sins of our people.</p><p> There is hardness of heart within the Body, unresolved and unrepented issues between brethren which include unforgiveness, divisions, a lack of confession of sin, and a poverty of grace and love. This refers to unresolved issues within the various congregations, unresolved issues between different congregations, and unresolved matters between the leadership of different congregations. Judgment begins in the House of God and so we must humble ourselves for these matters and other serious issues within the Body.</p><p> The third day of the 27th is to be a day that we stand before God together for the many sins of our nation as mentioned above, according to the call of Joel 2:12-19. We beseech God to have mercy and to forgive our people of our sins, of our turning to the arm of flesh rather than to Him, the living God of Israel. We will bring the sins of our nation before Him and remind Him of His covenantal promises to Israel and pray that His Name would be honored and His glory revealed amongst us.</p><p> It is our understanding that the leadership of each congregation that agrees to commit itself to this Call, should lead their people during these three days as the Lord would direct them. Rather than calling for joint meetings on Zoom, it would be better for the leadership of each congregation would gather its people together and help their congregations to relate to these specific issues together. Congregational leaders should orient their preaching of the Word before these days, to prepare the hearts of their congregants for this time of repentance, fasting, and prayer.</p><p>The Lord has long waited for us to come before Him together and He is faithful to do a deep work in our hearts as we humble ourselves before Him. If we come to Him in an attitude of mourning and sincere faith, He will surely hear our prayers for Israel and respond to our cry for mercy on behalf of our people. Our only true hope, legitimacy, and destiny as a nation is in the Lord Yeshua and His Word. Our only confidence is that as we honor, exalt, and enthrone our King through our lives as His Kehilah in His land, in faith and in lowliness of heart, the Lord will have pity on His people, will answer us and will be zealous for His Land (Joel 2:18).</p><p><b>In the true bond of His fellowship, love, and faith, your brothers</b></p><p> Avi and Chaya Mizrachi - Tel Aviv</p><p>Reuven and Benjamin Berger - Jerusalem<br />Tony Sperandeo - Kfar Sava<br />Evan Thomas - Netanya<br />Rick and Patti Ridings - Jerusalem<br />Eitan Shishkoff - Haifa<br />Claude Ezagouri - Tiberias<br />Shmuel Birnbaum – Bat Yam<br />Dani Sayag - Haifa<br />Karen Davis - Haifa<br />Beni Mugas - Haifa<br />Najib Attieh - Haifa<br />Nizar Touma - Nazareth<br />Saleem Shalash - Nazareth<br />Ariel Blumenthal - Jerusalem<br />Michael and Dina Beener - Sderot<br />Victor BahBah - Ramley<br />Eehab Ashkar – Shefa-‘Amr<br />Daniel Matiash - Haifa<br />Gil Afriat - Tel Aviv<br />Alexsey Raikhstad - Tel Aviv<br />Michael Yaron - Rishon Letzion<br />Howard Bass - Beer Sheva<br />Chad Holland - Jerusalem<br />Guy Cohen - Akko<br />Jonathan Moore - Jerusalem<br />Marcel Rebiai – Jerusalem<br />Simcha Davidov - Ashdod<br />David Injiashvili - Rishon Letzion<br />Daniel Rozen - Tel Aviv<br />Argaw Andargachew - Tel Aviv<br />Lev Guller - Neytanya<br />Gennadiy Shykhotvsov – Haifa<br />Eli Dorfman - Jerusalem</p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-86831205097791171382024-02-24T06:28:00.000-08:002024-02-25T11:02:25.585-08:00Indoctrination of Young People the Root of IHOP Chaos? I believe so.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9N5-RL7oAVheXoznoa-FL0A1YY0LR8CWSMH6D5xkpKIhzhi4kz0RQ3JUKWwwiWAKWNGW04C5Y-novZ8ZG1yOxl5TUg3H2-AmxFMcZ3hLI-aiyVukCJ0ccGj_WFFq1nSO7A5nYA-4ACrG0yOqJ2dXNXK-i_81Ja8gjxksTLtkYjMKrgfoWTG-UrbAb8oKo/s750/enemy%20tactics.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9N5-RL7oAVheXoznoa-FL0A1YY0LR8CWSMH6D5xkpKIhzhi4kz0RQ3JUKWwwiWAKWNGW04C5Y-novZ8ZG1yOxl5TUg3H2-AmxFMcZ3hLI-aiyVukCJ0ccGj_WFFq1nSO7A5nYA-4ACrG0yOqJ2dXNXK-i_81Ja8gjxksTLtkYjMKrgfoWTG-UrbAb8oKo/s320/enemy%20tactics.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Indoctrination of Young People the Root of IHOP Chaos? </span><br />I believe so.</span><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">IHOP could not be playing better worship music in between its only 2-a-day live worship sets. "And what else can I give? I'm desperate for You." <b>Amazing worship, a deep reminder of the value of IHOP to the greater community.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yesterday I read some of the comments from people about IHOP that were on Michael Brown's Facebook page. He was asking for some of the positive reports people had about IHOP. There were many I could agree with, but many came to silence any good reports. <br /><br />One negative comment came from a young woman who had been at IHOP who regarded the telling of the "prophetic history" of IHOP as manipulation. The prophetic history of IHOP is, of course, its vision: 24/7 prayer & worship and the Israel Mandate - that God means for the Church to pray and prophesy over Israel for Israel's salvation. <br /><br />That young woman actually wrote that it was the young people who were targeted with the prophetic history: "They literally targeted those with more vulnerability to fantastic tales." Also that "what <u>older</u> people got was a fraction in emphasis and weight of what the young and the involved or staff got." <br /><br />Also she said, "Without understanding the psychology, the sociology, and those all consuming dynamics you will never come close to beginning to understand the impact one facet of a teaching had on the people who were in it."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I recognize a narrative when I see one. </b>Where is God in all that? Nowhere to be found.<br /><br /><b>Yesterday the name "Absalom" was dropped in my spirit. I need to go study the verses again, but I remember what Absalom did: he betrayed his father who loved him. He went around behind David's back spreading unrest and badmouthing David, while wooing people that he would be a much nicer leader for them to have than David. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It makes me both sad and mad that so many young people, who have self-confessed "more vulnerability to fantastic tales" have believed the narrative that has been spoken to them how Mike Bickle was leading "a cult". That's why the noncharismatic/prophetic always say about the charismatic/prophetic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Why are so many Christians NOT alarmed by these things going on among the young people tearing a ministry down to the ground? <br /></b><br />Why would so many Christians just accept accusations against a minister and not be concerned that there has not been biblical due process carried out. We Christians even in the current corrupt political environment, have realized that a person is "presumed innocent until proven guilty." Why has that been absolutely thrown overboard in Mike Bickle's case. <br /><br />The woman referred to above, and many of the Christians who have tried to silence my questions of what is going on there, said that it is biblical that all that is required to determine guilt is two witnesses. That is one verse but that is not the whole counsel of God on passing judgment. God saw there were different levels of complications in human matters that required more standards of justice. <br /><br /><b>Anyone in the United States or Israel, or other nations across the earth today, should be well aware by now that even multiple accusations against a person does not equal guilt. A perfect example of that is seen in the story of Jezebel, patron demonic spirit of Feminists, in her orchestrating two lying witnesses against Naboth so she could STEAL NABOTH's vineyard for the wicked King Ahab. We have seen this play out in the political realms and now we see it play out in Kansas City at IHOP. Stealing Bickle's vineyard that the LORD gave him.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Would you begin to pray over all those who have been caught up in the narrative that is destroying IHOP, for God to blow away the fog of deception that has settled on the Kansas City House of Prayer? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Break the power of deception, on all those who have embroidered a false narrative, we pray the Spirit of conviction would fall upon them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Terrify them to catch a glimpse of how they have aligned themselves with the Accuser of the brethren. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Break the power of the lies, cause people who know better than to believe all of these grandiose narratives, to rise up and declare freedom to the captives and a release of repentance to sweep across all of them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Declare a reckoning with reality of all those who have believed in lies and a release of repentance on all liars. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In Jesus name, I pray Abba Father You would move now, and not allow the enemy to have the upper hand in this place, this network, this holy work You called to be raised up for such a time as this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Release an anointing of spiritual courage to rise up and oppose the overweening flood of lies that have been spilling out of so many, marring those in its path, discouraging faith and revealing so many to be in great envy and jealousy of the work in IHOPKC. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do not let them destroy what You called and anointed, O LORD.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-74021340909219432002024-02-09T13:34:00.000-08:002024-02-09T13:34:49.636-08:00A Prophetic Warning: Did God speak about Oct 7 BEFORE it happened?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtILqFo6ex9gRLcgDRsd9Y233TXzFJvKfpywmd3_Mv6Z1qtynlHBu9je1HxFOyWsC60i3R-vPusGSx02Jr-wQDqqWXeCj9TLfwJtJstkd3FKRjmi96hydiOZPlOAQLBqsl9nmwOyPVQzhBX1DkGACkvgwpYeOVv4o6Z7R04YyWAENvCJVmyZrAkdhKU8Bx/s400/Mia%20Lamberg%20and%20dog%20Bella%20Bida%202%20(400%20x%20217).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="400" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtILqFo6ex9gRLcgDRsd9Y233TXzFJvKfpywmd3_Mv6Z1qtynlHBu9je1HxFOyWsC60i3R-vPusGSx02Jr-wQDqqWXeCj9TLfwJtJstkd3FKRjmi96hydiOZPlOAQLBqsl9nmwOyPVQzhBX1DkGACkvgwpYeOVv4o6Z7R04YyWAENvCJVmyZrAkdhKU8Bx/w400-h217/Mia%20Lamberg%20and%20dog%20Bella%20Bida%202%20(400%20x%20217).jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">In late November, after being held hostage by Hamas for over 50 days, 17-year old Mia Lamberg clutching her beloved dog, Bella Bida, was released in a hostage deal that included her mother and her aunt Clara. Mia is shown here “perp walked” through a crowd of civilians in Gaza snapping pictures of their victorious hostage grab of a young Israeli. Many female hostages that were released from captivity have spoken to being victims of rapes and sexual assaults while in Hamas captivity. Even more women on October 7th were victims in a frenzied attack of unspeakable brutal – not only sexual assault but also horrific murders of entire families.
<b>How are Israelis to process that level of violence in their own land?
What will God do to punish the wicked and vindicate and heal the innocents? </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My cover story this week in Arrows from Zion is from the Tel Aviv Tiferet Yeshua congregation,
<b>A Prophetic Warning: Did God Speak about Oct 7th BEFORE it happened? </b>
by Tamar Afrait</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Last year <u>on Purim</u> (March 7th, 2023), an announcement was made that there would be a historic global prayer initiative for Israel which would take place in May. By all accounts, this global prayer initiative, called “<b>The Isaiah 62 Fast\Global 21 Day of Prayer for Israel</b>”, was <b>unprecedented: over five <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>million believers from around the world</b> committed to stand in prayer for Israel during that time.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> One of my fellow worshippers at Tiferet Yeshua who had also heard about this prayer movement for Israel said to me,<b> “What is going to happen here that God is raising up so much prayer for us right now? It’s kind of scary. There is definitely a reason that we are going to need this prayer.”</b> If we had known what was really in store for us exactly 7 months later…frankly, we would have been terrified.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> That horrific tragedy would strike our people on October 7th, the dimensions of which we are still living out today. However, as we gathered together as a congregation on zoom that day to seek the Lord, we recalled a prophetic word which was shared in our midst less than one month before and realized with awe that God had been lovingly preparing us for this moment.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> God is Speaking to Us and to You | The idea of suffering and enduring persecution is terrifying and naturally something one wants to avoid. This is perhaps one of the main reasons the theology of pre-tribulation rapture is so largely embraced and advanced (Tiferet Yeshua leadership does not hold to a pre-tribulation rapture of believers). The point here is not to argue the theology of those differing positions. What I want to convey is that, here in Israel, we are experiencing a tribulation: a condensed, microcosm of the worst of human horrors (sadistic rape, torture, murder, captivity in abominable conditions) which has then been followed by a growing chorus of hate, blame and offence from many in the world.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> God, however, in His mercy, spoke to us before it happened. Even though we had no idea how quickly and how literally the prophetic word would come to pass, it continues to be an encouragement and guide to us as we navigate this difficult, frightening and often confusing situation. This prophetic word strengthened us in the knowledge that God is sovereign, that He is motivated by perfect love for us, and that He will clearly speak to us in order to prepare us beforehand.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> In this tribulation, we are discovering how incredibly present He is. We are also discovering how this tribulation is causing so many frivolous pleasures and worries of the world to simply evaporate. It is causing His Word and promises to burn within us. We do not see explicit promises in the Word of God to take us out of tribulation: on the contrary, Yeshua promises that we will have tribulation in the world (Jn. 16:33). However, the Word promises that God will be a very present help in tribulation (Ps. 46:1). Discovering that through experience is gold refined by fire!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> A Word from the LORD | In September of 2023, Oren, a greatly gifted teacher at Tiferet Yeshua, submitted a word he had received from the Lord to Gil, our lead pastor. Oren, a truly humble and sincere man of God, explained to Gil that he had never heard a “word” from the Lord before and, furthermore, that nothing like this had ever happened to him. Oren described how on the evening of Rosh Ha Shanah he experienced an overwhelming presence of the Holy Spirit and was moved to write words which he felt were barely His own.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> After prayerfully considering the word and sharing it with our elders, Gil felt that Oren needed to share it with the whole congregation at the next service which was the service right before Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). The timing was perfect, of course, because it was God’s timing: that service was dedicated to standing before God in humble repentance and intercession for our people.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Continue reading the Word given to Oren online</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftiferetyeshua.org%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fgod-is-not-silent%2F%3Fblm_aid%3D30794%26fbclid%3DIwAR3a_23LDQhm3rHbymvJdDN-cb1jlwJ_aD6mdRq4A-jS6nlhZHx0ZMKKMIQ&h=AT0S7Bi1WKNDem3vUNjN8weTB4Z5YmbVKex9oxqxYSxW4tGubPpj507Af54cOjNuab6r-nUAGsPRixkyBU9t9-NPRya_R2H3lFhjdr7WY-3OvObxfiWdO_PNUiFG73sLrahnMqjRMZKUf2Fn2A&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2K07qZ9HyRUHxdTyFVGxrUDZDRlPKF_2JSO5JqGMSZCznUI1UatCSFPIjh-yUwWa-7IoAlB0em4lXh8HZOsjEMoLl4bxhEqZyGi3zpKwnu72w4g_7pfSGa6Iw0lDfTq8wL" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://tiferetyeshua.org/2024/02/05/god-is-not-silent/...</a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Donna: There was a cry this week I heard in a Zoom meeting as Joel Jelski of Fields of Wheat expressed the level of grief, pain, sorrow and hurt that Israel is reeling from still after 4 months since the attack on Oct. 7th. It is much more deeply felt than most people realize, then the PTSD of what their eyes have seen, and the shock of how the world concerns itself over what Gazans instead of having empathy for devastated Israelis.
<b>That is why this Feb 9th issue has that as a major there in the ministry letters I have shared, also there is a strong theme of the prophetic too. What is happening is prophetic. </b>The anguish, the terrors – these are what <u>real people are experiencing</u> as the devil challenges God for Israel as the place the throne of King Yeshua will be seated in Jerusalem – on earth as it is in Heaven. As people of this only true King, it is our duty to intercede as His kingdom is birthed in Israel. It is coming.</div></div></div><p><br /></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-20094553450505421262024-02-08T06:19:00.000-08:002024-02-08T06:19:46.031-08:00Smite the Shepherd to Kill the Israel Mandate<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh61P-uuXfbTbMCbLCd6qklttCGBP5HrqhRTQ4silf23mY9BBJQ67Hy_kRv9tqHetON3WaE48noTdP9EzemKGJIsRfyLR9GC9b_astRzCMaQvZcICHd8b2xP8VuNlxaYKMgUVfzJ7Xl8Cif6r8HRR9-zCv2O0i_Phyphenhyphen6wCW19I12J56eCgqTPotWaW7W0YwX/s500/Smite%20the%20Shepherd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh61P-uuXfbTbMCbLCd6qklttCGBP5HrqhRTQ4silf23mY9BBJQ67Hy_kRv9tqHetON3WaE48noTdP9EzemKGJIsRfyLR9GC9b_astRzCMaQvZcICHd8b2xP8VuNlxaYKMgUVfzJ7Xl8Cif6r8HRR9-zCv2O0i_Phyphenhyphen6wCW19I12J56eCgqTPotWaW7W0YwX/s320/Smite%20the%20Shepherd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r1lj:" style="padding: 4px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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.
<br />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.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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?"</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>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. </b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To increase the numbers of those willing to dedicate themselves to prayer requires being </span></b></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> #1 taught the scriptures related to God's promises to Israel and how it impacts ALL believers Jew or Gentile, and </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> #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. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>I thought the accusations rolled out against Mike Bickle stunk like rotten fish from the beginning. </b>
Because having just begun to follow the IHOPKC Prayer Room in March 2023, I had seen that <b>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.</b>
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. <b>This is not about loyalty to Bickle, it is about seeing his loyalty to the Heavenly vision given to him for Israel's salvation.</b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>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.</b> 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? </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Making Israel's salvation a priority prayer every day in the Global Prayer room is exactly what Mike Bickle was moving it. </b>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. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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 .<b>..and it has dwindled away since Mike was separated permanently from IHOP BEFORE the investigation and judicial hearing for him!
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<b>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.</b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God is never defeated. As Mordechai told Esther, <b>"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.</b> Esther 4:13-14</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">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. <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 0.9375rem;">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 <b>faked traumas to halt the intercessions about real and devastating traumas that would unfold </b>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.
<b>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. </b>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. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="504" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7R7SFqqeLt6WEm1Me2uW_al1Jnk4RGDoX0o8gsgha2bHVLjkWk8et-cBIea-MKmPLHo8IA9nC_i4CYSW3eh_YfTdR_kT2jXcd4WPdqdkxX_txiI_6BPbi0rMFs8_6dP3FJ6WE1VlP5ps3RcrIPE_yGSJqJ6KTSESMS1qumbL9VZVFVet-NWSF__Tae_Mx/w400-h329/joband%20friends.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Caveat; font-size: medium;"><b>Job Rebuked by His Friends </b><br /><b>Painting by William Blake (1757–1827)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Caveat; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Yesterday a Christian minister I have connected with in the past, and with whom we continue to follow each other on Facebook, contacted me. He wrote to get a clarification about what I have written in response to the situation we have all been watching at Kansas City IHOP. Probably it was the last thing I wrote that he was referring to, which was <a href="https://figtreefruit-israelwatcher.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-is-happening-at-ihop-kc-is-demonic.html" style="font-style: italic;">What is Happening at IHOP-KC is a Demonic Assault that Impacts Prayer for Israel</a><i>.</i><br /><br />Since he asked, I'm sure some might have the same question for me which he framed as: <i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Several of your posts have seemed to infer that the ‘only’ reason all of this is happening to IHOP / Bickle is because they have prayed / do pray for Israel and have a commitment to Israel as part of their mandate. Maybe this is not what you meant to convey, but that is what seems to be coming across.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Sadly & unfortunately, I don’t think that this is ‘only’ reason this exposure and clean-up is happening to IHOPKC. I have sadly walked through 4 moral failures among pastors in the last 20 years of being in Texas – all very close to us. Our involvement spans from; watching ‘others’ decide everything as junior leaders, to being involved in direct confrontation and decision making. Some worked out well and some did not.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Based on 30 years of pastoral ministry, the fact that moral failure being cleaned out in every corner of the Church (Ravi Zacharias, Hillsongs, Southern Baptists, Bill Hybels, etc.), AND observing the processes and communication coming from IHOPKC - there has to be by default, unhealthy governance issues within the IHOPKC organization that have overridden the ways of God for an extended period of time. These need to be revisited and reset. I don’t agree that separation with Mike Bickle was needed – but this also depends on whether he was cooperative with their internal process (if any is in place) for discipline and restoration. We may never know.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"For me, inferring (intentionally or not) that IHOP’s current issue is ‘only’ related to Israel, is problematic. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br />I appreciate my friend's feedback on how he perceives what I have written, though as I told him, I have written a lot on what's happening at IHOP and I doubt he has seen all of what I have written. I say that because there are obvious issues amiss, but I believe what is amiss at IHOP is general practice in the non-denominational church and perhaps in denominational too. It is due to a lack of understanding the justice principles God lays out in the Hebrew scriptures. Since there is so much rejection of the "Old" Testament among Christians, there is the idea that everyone can make up their own rules for handling things. That is like the Book of Judges where "everyone did what was right in their own eyes."<br /><br />Early on in my exposure to the Messianic movement I came across Daniel C. Juster's book called, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Due-Process-Biblical-Justice-People-ebook/dp/B0794VXY4Y" target="_blank">Due Process | A Plea for Biblical Justice Among God's People</a>. Over the years of my walk with the Lord, I have discovered that biblical justice means a lot to me. That is one of the reasons I vehemently reject the ideas of current "Social Justice" warriors. Their justice is doing what is right in their own eyes, not in God's eyes. It is a sure formula for injustice. <br /><br /><b>To get Mike Bickle and IHOP-specific,</b> hopefully within all I have written about what has been happening there I have managed to communicate that I don't believe there was nothing broken that doesn't need repair at IHOP. Certainly there is, as there is in so many congregations. <br /><br />But I do look at Mike Bickle as being similar to the example and case of Job. There were things that God wanted to do in Job, as He wants to do in Mike, but it was not as his friends accused him of. What they did was dump every biblical reason someone might find themselves in such a bad place in life as being the result of some sin they in essence were accusing Job of. <br /><br />I believe the same has been done to Mike Bickle and when the dust has settled we are going to find that God actually has a really high regard for this man.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As I just wrote in my blog post, <i>What is Happening at IHOP-KC is a Demonic Assault that Impacts Prayer for Israel</i>, I do believe this is a WOKE attack against Mike to destroy the Israel Prayer Mandate of his dual commission from God. And just to make it clear, I DO believe there is a raised level of warfare against Mike Bickle because of the Israel Mandate. I don't want to waffle of that point. Many reject it thinking the Israeli Mandate is just another ministry focus a person can be devoted to in ministry. That is not the case. The Israel Mandate is truly the final frontier in the kingdom of God. So, YES: I do believe the attack on Mike, in the hidden demonic shadows, is to dismantle the IHOP network for praying for Israel's salvation. No waffling on that point for me.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are all in a process of being transformed into the likeness of Yeshua/Jesus. We are not perfected. We all still have pockets in our hearts that God does not fully occupy. We are pressing toward it, but as 1 John 1:7-9 tells us: "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."<br /><br />One of the few things we have learned from Mike Bickle is that he acknowledged an inappropriate relationship 25 or so years ago that did not include sexual intercourse, which he confessed to God, repented of, turned away from and thought it was under the Blood of Jesus. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />On the other hand, there are two women who have accused Mike Bickle during the time period of 20+ years ago. Accuser #1 and accuser #2 have been misrepresented as if they were children. There has been ZERO talk of the women to confess, repent and turn from their sin. They are not acknowledging their sin, seeing themselves as victims only. This is typical religious woke feminism.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From the beginning I was alarmed to see the Advocacy Group and their close allies among the former IHOP central leadership, <u>conflating</u> the handling of all sexual-related issues at IHOP in the past as Mike's sin. <br /><br />From my observation throughout the prophetic circles and many churches there are no policies for dealing with sexual accusations involving leaders or members. If the person accused is a frequent visitor, minister or supporter of the ministry not directly under the authority of the minister involved, there is a reluctance to address the person because they are not under direct authority of the minister. <br /><br />It is a bit of widespread cowardice I think, because if someone is being accused of repeated sexual impropriety, whether directly under the ministry authority or not, it is a matter of protecting the sheep in my view. We would do almost anything to keep from confronting on the issues of sin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I don’t know if you read <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flathropgpm.app.box.com%2Fs%2Fvtosy7hqsqwgf0ozhiwz1ht52eukb9l4%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2wvJB9BPcmVOl-ruFXo9t1yNMdnRN6tq2f4nnhAPRVq4nxjzQG46FTQ68&h=AT1EY_WhwFsMFEeEFa5rWEPQjo8CVtNSUKJavwjbVLIehTSWq0c5XY54mFrmp2eE9J3fkmRhUE7EN-IrobdgPfX4bmxHlbY36LTR7yPhbXhKj76lBQ2YZllFpjyYkC6W5cgGnj_r6mz6ecZVUA&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2zeWpwT9GnJX8Tqp7OS6R3Cs4TachpTsBoNJRQjaCScfvGYlhLiMG73jf9tIDnPhvVdNDWu-wO3ZR9C0ndWbYWRjJHa6Eqjc2hvYC-DGX1anRbwWO7CdKlE82mkfet4OYCfwu07RPn11BQuJjY0OYC6tVnKgLDpCCVtM_kTZ_Ru-_r7ZoScR1NrmV9CIBtfzJyv6qhfKoCKyHlA8wCp-OH">the latest investigator’s report</a> or not, but I was struck at how many of the unnamed accusers were divorced with their ex-husband’s involved in whistle blowing or adding some layer of character reference. <br /><br />The church doesn’t even bother preaching about divorce anymore and the rate of Christian divorce is on par with the unbelievers. Sure there are plenty of things wrong that need to be addressed, but I deeply oppose all those things being dumped on Mike Bickle’s shoulders. Gee, if we could just get rid of Mike, we could be so much holier - we might even be without spot or wrinkle! (Huge eyeroll!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I to believe the moral failures of Mike differ from those named by my friend <b><i>because Mike said he repented – confessed and turned away from the sins going forward the next 20 years.</i></b> That is a huge difference. <br /><br />I cannot even fathom God letting Mike go on in unrepentant sin all the way to 2023 where Mike would actually for the first time in history, orchestrate worldwide prayer for Israel's salvation. It was the largest Christian prayer for Israel EVER held. Believe me, this is a priority to God. Just like God is not going to allow any war to wipe Israel off the map, He is also heavily invested in Christians in ALL nations praying for Israel's salvation. (<i>Not just the Asian Christians as</i> one prophet had the audacity to suggest recently!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>It is not even expected of the two women accusers that they be held accountable.</b> 19 is not a child as they are being portrayed. This is WOKE justice <i>and I am increasingly convinced a Woke-Feminist (Jezebel) attack on Mike.</i> I have to repeat what I wrote days ago: <br />At the end of the age two chief principalities make war on the saints of God: Jezebel and the Beast (brute beasts like Hamas, China, Iran, etc.). Since this is so, why don't we see the Jezebel warfare involved in destroying Bickle?<br /><br /><b>Every young congregation needs to look at IHOP-KC as a cautionary tale:</b> <b>if young people are not rooted and grounded in God's intentions and plans for Israel and how they fit in, a coup may be waiting in the wings. </b>Many of the ideas of equality and social justice are not rooted and grounded in God's Word at all. The younger generation carries the baggage of indoctrination into the views of secular social justice. <b>They must be taught Biblical justice. God has real justice. </b><br /><br />Those are some of the reasons I stand by my assessment that the attack is primarily to do with the Israel Mandate that was blossoming at IHOP the last year. I don’t believe IHOP’s current issues are only related to Israel but I believe the hidden demonic agenda to destroy the Israel Mandate is also exposing <i>the issues common throughout the body of Christ</i> from all who are participating in dumping all blame on Mike. <br /><br />I do not mean a bunch of people at IHOP got together and formed a conspiracy, but in the demonic realm the uprising has been forwarded in order to abort the worldwide prayer commitment for Israel's salvation that Mike initiated in 2023. It is just as clear to me as it was Pharaoh ordering the murder of babies to stop Moses and Herod ordering the murder of babies to stop Yeshua. The baby in this instance is a 24/7 worldwide prayer for Israel's salvation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In one of my favorite passages, Isaiah 54:14-17 “In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you. 15 I<b>f anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.</b> 16 Behold, <u>I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc</u>. 17 <i><b>No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the inheritance of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I expect to see Mike Bickle emerge at the end of this thing vindicated by God. I hope that clarifies my thinking somewhat.</div><br /></span></div><p></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-11161205825242135912024-01-31T08:07:00.000-08:002024-02-01T10:33:11.540-08:00What is Happening at IHOP-KC is a Demonic Assault that Impacts Prayer for Israel<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3vJvT3R9hDnzNbCjdSu2Kh59O6hY8W4D9Q5HjncqGWGLFrm5HdWF0Dg2gWbOwmeyNdb9VdFvikfQRISTUsa0DoOd8h6pzdlMK-J4Jyrzndln9iGqE9gDpakYbcNoRT80QdQsvWcda8HdT-vXABJI4TKnPzOv6eizVb17ijsY3IwX7DhhGOOTH6e4FOpP/s669/IsraelMandate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="669" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3vJvT3R9hDnzNbCjdSu2Kh59O6hY8W4D9Q5HjncqGWGLFrm5HdWF0Dg2gWbOwmeyNdb9VdFvikfQRISTUsa0DoOd8h6pzdlMK-J4Jyrzndln9iGqE9gDpakYbcNoRT80QdQsvWcda8HdT-vXABJI4TKnPzOv6eizVb17ijsY3IwX7DhhGOOTH6e4FOpP/w400-h301/IsraelMandate.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> I often feel like the voice crying in the wilderness on this one and everyone else seems to be baying for Mike Bickle's blood. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The other day I was listening to the IHOP singers and one of them started a 'chant' personalizing that she was "the apple of God's eye." I happened to catch her give one of the musicians a mischievous eye and smile when she repeated it and others picked it up. <i>Maybe it is just her way</i>, but it troubled me and seemed purposeful - a knowing "appropriation" of a uniquely specific God-to-Israel verse. The Church has not replaced Israel as the apple of God's eye. Church people are no more worthy of God's love and loyalty than Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It disturbed me seeing that in one of my most favorite musical teams at <b>IHOP, but this is an overwhelmingly young congregation. They did not come to Kansas City untouched by the indoctrination</b> of what their peers believe about Israel. <b><span style="color: #990000;">Every young congregation needs to look at IHOP-KC as a cautionary tale: if young people are not rooted and grounded in God's intentions and plans for Israel and how they fit in, a coup may be waiting in the wings.</span> </b>Some of the ideas of equality and social justice are not rooted and grounded in God's Word at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I know that the apple of God's eye can include all followers of Jesus who have been grafted in, however, many do not realize <i><u>that is because</u></i> we <b>Christians have become the "commonwealth of Israel." <span style="color: #cc0000;">It is only those Christians who embrace Israel who are going to go on into "the fullness" of spiritual maturity to the identification </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">by God</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> of being called "Zion" along with the "one new man" Messianic believers.</b> </span> I honestly do not think that embrace is a mere elective; it will be the ultimate litmus test of our caring about God's way or our way.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Calibri;"><b>As far as Israel is concerned, I don't consider what is happening at IHOP-KC a distraction, but a pointed indicator of the warfare ahead for standing with Israel as a Christian. It is not only an indicator, but the first major case of a hostile take-down of a ministry that was raised up for such a time as this to watch over worldwide prayers being made on Israel's behalf to the throne of God. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That is why <b>God gave Mike Bickle a dual mandate</b> for 24/7 prayer and worship houses network to ultimately pray for Israel's salvation in such a time as this. The heat is on and the work of the enemy has benched Bickle and sidelined the vision of IHOP-KC. If you took a poll at IHOP-KC and alumni, I believe it would show overwhelming that they believe IHOP-KC could continue to thrive as a 24/7 prayer and worship house network <i>WITHOUT praying for Israel except as a token gesture</i>. But <b>that is not the vision God gave when establishing it. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the past week Jeremiah Johnson published a dream he had about Mike Bickle being "the pope" of 24/7 prayer houses. In the dream God gave JJ a prophetic word telling how <b>God was taking Mike's 'pope crown' away, throwing it down and breaking it and JJ was to distribute it out pieces of it to other prophets.</b> Johnson named a few. <b>Then he said he gave a piece of Mike's "crown" to the believers in Asia and they would be the ones that carried the ISRAEL MANDATE. <span style="color: #cc0000;">That is so against what God's WORD says about the mandate to pray for Israel being ALL Christians in ALL nations! <br /></span></b><br />God never set up Mike Bickle as "the pope" of the work he was called by God to build, and he sure never acted like "the pope" in the eyes of those of us who watched him over the years. I am reminded suddenly of the rebellion of Korah who led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, accusing them of exalting themselves above the congregation of the Lord ( Numbers 16:1-3 ). BEWARE what you accuse Bickle of. Tread carefully. <br /><br />Mike's rollout of the fasting and prayer for Israel and for the worldwide intercessors who would be praying for Israel at the end of May 2023 <i><b>was with all humility</b></i>. In honesty, much of what has come out from the prophets smacks of envy to me. There is always a willingness to assume the worst about someone we feel competitive against. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>I know that many are thinking, well what do you do about the accusations of sexual impropriety against Mike Bickle, just give him a pass? No. But I do recognize that ALL OF THE ACCUSATIONS four months later are still just accusations even though most of the charismatic world has already accepted all the accusations as true, and dismissed Mike Bickle without so much as even knowing, much less questioning his accusers.</b> <br /><br /><b>This is why God calls us judge all matters His way - not our own way, and not the world's way! Because His way is measured, calm and just - <i>it does not spiral into judging matters based on our emotional ties with someone, like an accuser. </i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are instructed by God that we HAVE TO judge matters without "respect of persons" - without strong emotional ties that do not allow us to judge without prejudice or bias; and on the basis of facts, not accusations alone. Anyone can make accusations for any number of reasons, but facts are the high standard to convict anyone of anything justly. Family members make terrible investigators, prosecutors, judges and juries because they are too clouded with emotion to focus only on facts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have watched the accusations made against Mike Bickle quickly grow into being a serial "predator" who "manipulated using prophecy" to "groom" young women for "future forbidden relationships" to being the spiritual world's version of Jeffrey Epstein, allowing other sexual predators a place to pick out victims. No evidence, just accusations that are being hidden from the rest of us. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have seen prophets pontificating on how he was always the spiritual offspring of other older prophets who were tied with IHOP early on who had their own sexual sins. What bitter, envious, wrong-spirited accusations against Mike Bickle! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It has been a full on demonic assault against him. It may not be a human conspiracy, but it sure is a demonic conspiracy. Mike Bickle carried a mantle for raising up 24/7 prayer and it was for the purpose of creating WORLDWIDE PRAYER HOUSES THAT WOULD BE ENGAGED IN THE PRAYER FOR ISRAEL MANDATE. Never has Israel needed worldwide prayers more than now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>This attack on Mike Bickle began to unfold on the very month - March - when Bickle first shared his vision for the 21-days of prayer for Israel's salvation to engage the worldwide intercessors who would be meeting in Jerusalem at the end of May to pray for Israel.</b> Most of that second group that Mike was directing prayers for them to catch the Israel vision, had NO inclination to understand GOD's HEART for Israel - that is why Mike called for IHOP to completely immerse themselves in Fasting and Prayer for this extensive worldwide group of intercessors to get the revelation. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The truth is, most of IHOP-ers have had no clue why they should be involved with the Israel Mandate. <br />[My source of this comes from an "insider" in IHOP who confided it was so before the controversy of 2023). <b>Most IHOP-ers only have the vision for 24/7 prayer and worship. I believe the same is true in the international network of associated prayer houses.</b> <b><span style="color: #990000;">IHOP-KC was a foothold that if this controversy had not broken out, would have become the launching point of God's vision of the "one new man" (Ephesians 2:15) breaking new ground internationally.</span></b> I pray God will make a way for that to be carried out still.<br /><br /><b>Also I do believe the lack of understanding at IHOP about the essential role of the Israel Mandate is due to a lot of generational baggage younger people have been indoctrinated with.</b> They have been taught to equate Israelis and Palestinians as mutually aggressive rather than understanding the the terrorists who rule Palestinians have for over 70 years been fully committed to annihilation of all Israel. Many Christians have bought into the lie that if they are not pro-Palestinian and instead support Israel, that they are not really being "Christian" about it. Lie. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>I don't believe that it is by coincidence that Accuser #1 had a 20 years later traumatic revelation in March of what her sexual activities with Bickle meant to her. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her view was that he had victimized her, not that she as a 19 year old woman had decided to engage in a romantic involvement with a married man. <b>At 19 she is responsible for her own decision regardless of how she might idolize Mike.</b> For me it is not so hard to understand that she would throw Bickle under the bus as a predator, so she could remove herself from any responsibility or accountability. She would not be the first woman to do such a thing - feigning innocence and blaming the man entirely. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>We have been overly sensitized to the #MeToo Feminist version of sexual encounters, that many men are eager to prove they are not one of those brute beasts males who take advantage of the weaker sex. </b>Hence they "Believe the Woman"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the Deep South 100 years ago, when a white woman would have consensual sex with a black man, then afterwards have fearful regrets of being caught, she would accuse the black man of rape. Of course her word was accepted over his and he would end up swinging from a tree for consensual sex. <br /><br /><b>Pardon me speculating but I fear this is exactly what is happening to Mike Bickle.</b> If it were not the case, then he wouldn't be left hanging for the past four months <b>being tried in public opinion instead of getting a real, just, fair, impartial investigation and hearing of the facts - within the body of Christ.</b> If there are none among us who can be considered impartial judges, able to hear the facts and give judgment without bias or prejudice, <i>then we are far truly in horrible condition as His representatives on the earth.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>The refusal to allow cross examination of the accusers</b> and with the "Advocacy Group" now making <b>videos to tell 1-sided stories</b> that further inflame public opinion <i><b>is a huge red flag to me</b></i>. One of the women featured in the YouTube Advocacy Group gave us another layer of the story by saying it was because she was seeing <i>the life of the husband of accuser #1 </i>blowing up, she got him to confide in her the story his wife told him about Mike Bickle. <br /><br /><u>That is what set everything in motion.</u> Why must we just accept that she told her husband the whole truth, keeping nothing back? People keep secrets even from their spouses, especially guilty secrets. How much greater do the stakes become to the accuser's marriage if an honest and fair cross examination pokes holes in what she told her husband? It is motivation to stick with the story, isn't it?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b> Any group that seeks to silence a fair hearing for Mike Bickle is censoring fact-finding and that will only lead to gross injustice.</b> </span>Personally I believe there is much jealousy being exposed in those who are so <b>willing to believe the worst of Mike Bickle without a fair investigation and hearing by judicial, <i>spiritual </i>elders in the international body.</b> Also that <b><span style="color: #990000;">among many of the women involved in the controversy surrounding this there is an aspiration for a spiritual version of the Feminist movement in Christian circles</span>.</b> I believe the hearts of many are being exposed, and really it is for the purpose of everyone being able to repent for their failures and sins, <i>not just playing at holier than Mike.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I pray God will speak mightily into this nightmare at IHOP-KC which is bringing denunciation of prophesy altogether and causing others to walk away losing faith. "Its all been a lie."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As for Mike Bickle, he has confessed to an out-of-bounds relationship with accuser #1 that was just short of actual sexual intercourse. Still forbidden, <b>but he also said he confessed his sin before God, repented of it - which means turned away from the behavior - and believed it was a sin under the blood of Jesus. <br /></b><br />As for accuser #1, it ludicrous to me to believe that after 20-something years of keeping her secret from everyone, she finally had a sudden revelation </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">while watching the trial of Bill Cosby</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">that her sexualized romance with Bickle <b><i>had been all his fault</i></b>. She never told anyone in all those years what had taken place. <b>That is guilt, not repressed memory.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I believe we should pray for God to arise and shake the lies out of this whole thing. Let the sunshine in and the truth be known.<br /><br />* <b>UPDATE</b>: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">On
2/1 the investigator for IHOP released her </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flathropgpm.app.box.com%2Fs%2Fvtosy7hqsqwgf0ozhiwz1ht52eukb9l4%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1--JkX_F_EfLvhy0TNnDY7RwUd6_kd90H21UgHqun-wo6JlzPovLYORCE&h=AT3NnagGY_nzNz7z2gPdMy1PxIwuzpzZJlS7TYtioRCYO6c4n2jc-q-nkGbDsIpYjhUAwVcJxe" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">findings
which can be downloaded</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">. From these findings & additional information,
I stand by completely what I wrote above several days ago. </span></p><div><br /></div>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-2876511046360653382024-01-31T05:53:00.000-08:002024-01-31T05:53:47.469-08:00"Never Again" really is NOW<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaz52y-MThyphenhyphentCfjwGFCB_rz-JCeqszUBBCHthpYbBllBZlVUT6P4cmpwVO71e_5bkazbgL-RIzNlrwXV32TXrLhUoS0NrCZNcT0PRK6YhkJ3RMx0UM4Gg9GFEPMPf2Kw9J2jEW1ufcKW5bHbXnluuE5lqZCybohCUF8t1IMdYzPm3RWsuYwqZqvWHqW0X/s600/HagueIsraelOnTrial%20(600%20x%20395).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="600" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaz52y-MThyphenhyphentCfjwGFCB_rz-JCeqszUBBCHthpYbBllBZlVUT6P4cmpwVO71e_5bkazbgL-RIzNlrwXV32TXrLhUoS0NrCZNcT0PRK6YhkJ3RMx0UM4Gg9GFEPMPf2Kw9J2jEW1ufcKW5bHbXnluuE5lqZCybohCUF8t1IMdYzPm3RWsuYwqZqvWHqW0X/w400-h264/HagueIsraelOnTrial%20(600%20x%20395).jpg" width="400" /></a><br /></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A majority of at least 15 out of 17
judges voted in favor of imposing the so-called provisional measures, including
the court's president, Joan Donoghue of the United States. The International
Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel on Friday to take action to prevent acts
of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but
stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.<br />
<b>Five days later the full impact has hit
me that “Never Again” really is NOW</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Never Again” really
is NOW<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Donna Diorio<br />
<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I found I cannot walk together with people who do not embrace Israel. When I
left the Messianic congregation I was a member of for many years, my full
intention was to go to D/FW churches to bring in awareness of God's intentions
for the restoration of Israel. I realize this doesn't speak very well of me,
but I found I could not exist among a people who could not grasp the intentions
of God's heart toward Israel. <br /><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">They made me too mad teaching the
whole book of Romans and just skipping over Romans 9, 10 & 11 like those
chapters held no relevance to the church. Or hearing a famous healing minister
take the pulpit of that same church to say he didn't get Mike Bickle's ‘Israel
deal.’ Things like that ended up making me flee. Even in the beginning of my
discovery of the Messianic movement, hearing a major prophet preaching from a
replacement perspective one night rolled off the platform and hit me like a
physical gut punch. When I took the issue to discuss with the pastor later, he
denied there was any prejudice in himself or the prophet. But what else
explains a theological conviction that in God's eyes there is no more place was
found for Israel, but the Church has replaced them as God's chosen people? How
does anyone erase the reality of Israel in the whole Bible? How do we get so
blinded we "appropriate" God's promises to Israel for ourselves and
leave all the punishments to Israel alone?<br /><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Believe me, I tried to stick it out
among people who don't believe God's everlasting intentions for Israel, but the
spiritual warfare swirled around me so much I could not stay in those places.
There are those who obviously must be far more mature spiritually than I am,
who can just sit there and intercede for them, but I couldn't. I had to run
away—far, far away. My place is where believers understand that Israel is God's
and He will give them sight to see Yeshua is their Messiah.<br /><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
Israeli ministries having been saying for a while now, "Never Again is
Now." Not until just this minute had that statement hit me full force that
it really is now.</b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> In my mind I had set that time farther out in the
future—the things I studied in the 1990's about the Holocaust, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's
life, about how eventually we will all be "counting the cost" in
hostile, anti-Semitic times. It was my great desire not to fail to stand with
the Jews if I was ever in the place where it would cost dearly to cast my lot
with God's plans for the restoration of Israel. Now I can't keep the tears from
flowing realizing just how </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u>now</u></i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
'Never Again' really is. <br /><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This is the place where the devil begins
peeling away in earnest all those who didn't realize it was going to cost them
something to stand with Israel. It does cost something, but not making the
choice to stand will cost more in the end.</span></div></span></div><p><br /></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-45110119471911504892024-01-26T13:45:00.000-08:002024-01-26T13:45:57.832-08:00The World Entertains the Enemy’s “Days of Rage”<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The
Hit Israeli TV Series</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">“FAUDA”</span></b><b style="color: #215868; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">IS </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">ARABIC </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">FOR </span></b><b style="color: #215868; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAOS </span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzsiDM3DEsYV3sCXH_Kyu9bxp-mqyfsD6l8Pfc9-faiqDG1vWjc7_3_uNXb6PwfS-qhGJSENLWz7rATKzLobfs8ZmayumUIc5uKQMqvegbI6sIIygEYltkIivj_oXbSzeFfFxEZ4aCD1LCLA6qwN829ZHb5ofDPr2-Tmz1ppw5ud7WrUL5WQSBNpSOxTrz/s640/0940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="640" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzsiDM3DEsYV3sCXH_Kyu9bxp-mqyfsD6l8Pfc9-faiqDG1vWjc7_3_uNXb6PwfS-qhGJSENLWz7rATKzLobfs8ZmayumUIc5uKQMqvegbI6sIIygEYltkIivj_oXbSzeFfFxEZ4aCD1LCLA6qwN829ZHb5ofDPr2-Tmz1ppw5ud7WrUL5WQSBNpSOxTrz/w400-h226/0940.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><b><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">FAUDA</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> is what OCT 7th <i><u>released <br /></u></i></span><i><u><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">throughout</span></u></i><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"> the world</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> </span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The World Entertains <br />the Enemy’s “Days of Rage”</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It
was just a matter of days after Hamas launched one of the most brutal attacks
on Israel that has ever been seen, that a “Day of Rage” was called for
supporters of Hamas to demonstrate in cities around the world – many cities in the
nation, not just one city for each nation. Israel was staggered not only by the level of
violence against them, but deeply grieved by the level of international support
for the terrorists. The brutality of Hamas even exceeded the brutality of Isis
that stunned the whole world. Why was there such a wide empathy gap for what
Hamas terrorists did to hundreds of Israeli citizens? <br /><br />
It has been the blatant lies of the
enemy that international governments have played along with over 70 years of
ruthless attacks on citizens in the modern state of Israel. Israel and their
terrorist attackers were portrayed as equally provocative with each other. Lie.
Israel has always been on defense posture against intractable aggressors. If
anyone <u>wanted</u> to know the truth they could find it. Instead lies are
chosen. <br /><br />
On the 99<sup>th</sup> day after the
Hamas attack, even more people around the world came out to “Globalize the
Intifada.” This is Fauda – pure and simple: Chaos. It is lawlessness and no
so-called Christian can explain it away to me as anything else. If people align
themselves with brutal terrorism and call it “freedom fighting” that doesn’t
mean I have to trust their emotions are rightful. What these demonstrations are
a witness to is not the globalization of the intifada, it is the globalization
of lawlessness expressed in anti-Semitism. It is both spiritual and prophetic
that the whole world is mobilized to such an irrational, undeserved hatred of
Israel and the Jewish people. It is rebellion against God and a rejection of
the truth. <br /><br />
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 says, <i>"The coming of the lawless one will be
accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false
wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are
perishing, <b>because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved
them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they
believe the lie."</b></i><b> <br /></b><br />
If that verse doesn’t fit this
situation, as we like to say in Texas, then I’m a monkey’s uncle. –D.Diorio<br />
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<!--[endif]--></span><p></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-50029124955122709472024-01-26T09:01:00.000-08:002024-01-26T09:01:47.903-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYak8DFUQm8ecX01oABFkVGQ5Dy-O1IQvymSuni9PSfZwHbKyIbx3Ij1S71eLqwASqpsTGjfsEdMGS8a82fSr2XYo56virJJq55HDvMTwy9sxL0nircqLwjeh70_nCFRJuH2Cdly8VPFSXvn4uYjrjJiVyHZyweFPdkZ-vjGvwqezai2kWyXQZYSMs9BX/s400/2024%20sparkling%20background%20(400%20x%20225).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYak8DFUQm8ecX01oABFkVGQ5Dy-O1IQvymSuni9PSfZwHbKyIbx3Ij1S71eLqwASqpsTGjfsEdMGS8a82fSr2XYo56virJJq55HDvMTwy9sxL0nircqLwjeh70_nCFRJuH2Cdly8VPFSXvn4uYjrjJiVyHZyweFPdkZ-vjGvwqezai2kWyXQZYSMs9BX/w400-h225/2024%20sparkling%20background%20(400%20x%20225).jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The last week of 2023 I was in expectation of what God would speak to me about 2024 and within days the Spirit began to impress on me that the word God was giving me for 2024 was "Generations." It has be a concern to me for several years the great chasm between generations that exists in the world, now exists in the body of the LORD. <br />This is so against God's desire for all generations alive today. </b><br />Donna Diorio, January 26, 2024</span></div><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A FUNDAMENTAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN YOUNG AND OLD IN THE BODY OF THE LORD </b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I am opposed to the youth divide that is so evident in the body of the LORD today. It should not exist! There are no Gen X or Z, Baby Boomers, Millennials or Alphas in the spiritual body of the LORD - that is the divisions that seculars make to divide and conquer.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> There are no disrespectful divisions if we follow Yeshua, but VALUE for all ages. We will reject the popular secular divisions according to <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>decade-"generations" in favor of His making of us all "one New Man" in Himself. There is a God given beauty to every age that is to be valued and respected, not disdained as youth have chosen in the past decades. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know this is true: my generation of the 60's and '70's were led down that same path too and deep divisions were the result. When I rediscovered God in the 80's, I was so blessed to see youth and the aged value and respect each other. It spoke to me the truth, "and they shall know you by your love for one another." </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Can't have love of one another with value and respect regardless of age. And when we are alienated by each others views, someone is not aligned with the Word of God.</div></div></div><p><br /> </p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-84980753728208390032024-01-25T05:39:00.000-08:002024-01-25T05:39:28.057-08:00The Age of Consent<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQt_lNXjPmnVX7TJPWj9IxJ1fr6UaZlvoy-ww2F8V9QboTXa6gKw7DQdHnC-2xuSxPxRBw6lGjBHYqfg0TN0UCPvRPAm8dgNPq-Rd14k9_T2svMo_1d2K4lXjxK_Kowithhc9uZAajTL8VrRXzYmgTrl1yMhS35IWsSlwNLRIpO80W9lXEArsCVKsBucd/s500/Consent%20Definition%20(500%20x%20219).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="500" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQt_lNXjPmnVX7TJPWj9IxJ1fr6UaZlvoy-ww2F8V9QboTXa6gKw7DQdHnC-2xuSxPxRBw6lGjBHYqfg0TN0UCPvRPAm8dgNPq-Rd14k9_T2svMo_1d2K4lXjxK_Kowithhc9uZAajTL8VrRXzYmgTrl1yMhS35IWsSlwNLRIpO80W9lXEArsCVKsBucd/w400-h175/Consent%20Definition%20(500%20x%20219).jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Strictly speaking, this article is out of the bounds of Israel orientation, but not really because it is something that the Israeli body of Messiah handles better that Western Christian ministries do. It is also about a Christian ministry that raised up both 24/7 prayer and worship houses and intercession for Israel worldwide. My focus on what is happening in Kansas City is directly related to my mission of advocacy for the Israeli body of Messiah.<br /><br />First written Jan 24, 2024 on my Facebook page: </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">One of the incidents that turned me off to American prophetic circles is an experience I had many years ago with a group of female intercessors who were so caught up by the prophetic that they did not use any discernment with prophetic words or prophets. I created a great uproar when I told them that the male prophet whose word they were passing among themselves was in opposition to the Word of God. The spit hit the fan and I was #1 bad guy to them.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">What was he saying? He was telling married women how God saw how wonderfully spiritual they were and what a spiritual deadbeat they were married to, that God was going to get rid of their husband and grant them a spiritual partner on the same level of spirituality as the women.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Frankly I could not believe that any of those women accepted this kind of "prophecy" but they just adored the prophet, who went on to become quite a famous name in prophetic circles. Of course that was not the end of what this group of women followed prophetically. I couldn't be a part of that, and anyway, I was already marked as an 'enemy' to their prayer vision which I have always believed "preyed" on me in witchcraft prayers.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">That is part of my turn-off experience to the prophetic, although I have always believed in the true prophetic - it just has to align with God's Word, that's all. I have developed a zero tolerance for prophetic weirdness.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I have told this story because although I believe some good efforts are being made in the IHOP situation, there is still something that troubles me greatly and that is the "believe the woman" thread running through everything I see coming out of the investigations there. That there has not been even a hint of accountability for the women involved in accusing Mike in the first place, is greatly troubling to me. The women are being treated like child abuse victims, instead of women making bad decisions which allowed sinful sexual relations.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">As long as we realize Jezebel, the principality so rampant in Western nations, has a part in all that is going on, how can we possibly ignore what scripture has to say about these situations?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Here is what the Apostle to the Gentiles had to say in</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /></div></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!</span></div></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">6 FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THOSE THAT *CREEP* INTO HOMES *AND LEAD INTO CAPTIVITY* SILLY WOMEN" (gynaikarion) and LOADED DOWN WITH SINS, LED AWAY WITH (epithymia) desire for what is forbidden/various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.</span></div></div><p></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Women can look for love in all the wrong places too, but God's Word does not absolve them from their choices to sin even when wooed by men who are also being led about by "desire for what is forbidden/various lusts".</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">As Daniel Juster of Restoration from Zion </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">has said, "the male minister carries a deeper accountability," but there is no justice if the women are treated as abused children, and not held accountable as having chosen sin at an age of consent. We aren't taking about 12-year olds or about rape, only regret after the fact and many women carry that same regret without trying to shift all blame on the man.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The level of Jezebel influence in this thing is a true bother to me. I get it the men who want to protect their daughters, but as a woman of God, I can tell you: women make choices to sin just as much as men do.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I am also concerned that even though we have had hints thrown out about the sexual exchange between Mike and accuser #1 - that the exchanges fell short of actual intercourse, but involved everything else, that is really all we have been told about any kind of sexual interaction with Mike himself by any of the accusers. Even that accusation is over 20 years old. Mike has been reported to have said he believed it was a sin repented of and under the blood of Jesus. I have seen nothing of substance in all the accusations to doubt this.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">What we have heard is accusations against Mike that he did not do the proper thing when incidents were reported to him about other men who pursued women at IHOP for sexual purposes.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This is why I believe this aspect is being mishandled because Mike saying the man was not under his authority to deal with on accountability level is pretty much the same thing you would hear across the board in prophetic circles in America, and probably beyond prophetic circles too. This is kind of 'spiritual rule' to keep to your own sphere of those under your authority and accountable to you, and not to intervene with people who are not under your authority and accountability. I think this is wrong when we a speaking of wrong-doing that impacts the body, but this is just the way it is practiced widely across ministry.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">So it is easy to see why the women holding Mike's feet to the fire on this point would think it Mike's personal failure, instead of realizing it is 'industry standard'.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">One of the men who is accused of preying on women at IHOP and through his own ministry, has been conflated to add additional weight to accusations against Mike, as if he has been running a sexual predator's pleasure resort. That is so out of the bounds of justice in my view.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Other leaders who were contacted to do something about that prophetic man also declined to intervene with one citing the 'not under my authority rule' and the other given a pass because it was in the midst of his wife dying of cancer.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The fact is, if 10 - 20 highly placed prophetic ministers had been contacted about the man, likely all would have passed on doing anything. This is not Mike's failure alone, this is 'industry standard'.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br />It is not fair or just even to imply it is all Mike's fault publicly, in my opinion, seeing how it is only the "insiders" with a certain view of Mike that have been allowed to publicly air their narratives about what is going on. No defense of Mike is allowable and until transparency and accountability for ALL involved is embraced by the authorities over this, injustice is the only thing that can come out of it. And leaving the whole prophetic world divided against each other for the failure of biblical justice.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Genesis 3:13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” <br />The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”<br /><br />Blame shifting doesn't get by God.</span></div></div><br /><p></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-6606003901476375582024-01-10T10:31:00.000-08:002024-01-10T10:31:43.788-08:00Rachel weeping<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVMAVTxsEz3YTcFktp0DqXJHUhsAwbMHAsdMuFKi2gnE7gycuBk8rKSFufT8IyevsBnrJKQomFUDXsTbwlTkS1hNPmyIuZhZ_LvlMz-LGllEpET6TdZgBJx7Pq01diBH__hGkVKO5QfOXyh30Z6w7GDvM9v4EhLrufE2K_NJ721Nrhapn2vMYoGUMu2zF/s600/rachel%20weeps%20for%20her%20children%20(600%20x%20375).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="600" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVMAVTxsEz3YTcFktp0DqXJHUhsAwbMHAsdMuFKi2gnE7gycuBk8rKSFufT8IyevsBnrJKQomFUDXsTbwlTkS1hNPmyIuZhZ_LvlMz-LGllEpET6TdZgBJx7Pq01diBH__hGkVKO5QfOXyh30Z6w7GDvM9v4EhLrufE2K_NJ721Nrhapn2vMYoGUMu2zF/w400-h250/rachel%20weeps%20for%20her%20children%20(600%20x%20375).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"Prayer request for Israeli Messianic minister, Guy Cohen: </b>"There are many soldiers who were injured and killed from this Gaza war. Please pray and share for need of recovery and consolation to the families who lost their beloveds."</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Donna: </b>I was reminded of Matthew 2:18 <b><i>“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”</i></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The fuller context may be prophetic still, as God has a habit of <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>repeating prophecy in the time it was spoken, and then in the far off time of the future. </b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Slaughter of Innocents</b> | Matthew 2:17-20 <i>Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: </i>18 “<i>A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” </i>19 <i>After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. </i>20 <i>“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”</i></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The time of Yeshua being taken to the hurting "Rachel" after this horrible war and so much loss, is when the persecutor is dead. Herod is like Hamas, slaughtering innocents to make a claim that God does not back. </b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Pray even now for the body of Messiah in Israel</b> to comfort their people with the knowledge of the promises of God in Yeshua, to be with them and the save them. Like Job, after the trial of his faith, losing his children and all that he had, after he prayed for his accusing friends, God returned to Job many children to comfort him, and restored Job's peace and all he had lost. </div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Pray for the body of Messiah in Israel </b>who are suffering right alongside their countrymen - sharing in the losses, sharing in the great hurt of being a people persecuted and hated century after century because God called them "chosen."
Pray for comfort of their hearts, their souls, restored vision for the salvation of "all Israel" that is at the DOOR even as we speak in the beginning of 2024.
<b>Now is the time to lift they arms in the work of the ministry and to lift their spirits in encouragement that WE DO SEE - it is them who are the CHOSEN OF GOD for the salvation of all Israel.</b></span><b> </b></span></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-48367324930819325932024-01-08T09:31:00.000-08:002024-01-08T09:31:15.934-08:00The Will of God is Taught in the Word of God<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaXZkyY-4Kw_xzZLUJys_n7Fo3DDYhKVkoXJqNhRNNCVYOqLB55-LlfYXq_S0jCaT587YgH3whc4Yh7v0vAZOUUt4yrFkVztTkPc0ZMEX5z9Lv1ywYG2AuhuyQc9ok5kLN6w8kmStrIefjRSL-IwI0FF0HR94bzjhRUU9yRtcBAQId5RBgolTRWjzjWPtd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="900" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaXZkyY-4Kw_xzZLUJys_n7Fo3DDYhKVkoXJqNhRNNCVYOqLB55-LlfYXq_S0jCaT587YgH3whc4Yh7v0vAZOUUt4yrFkVztTkPc0ZMEX5z9Lv1ywYG2AuhuyQc9ok5kLN6w8kmStrIefjRSL-IwI0FF0HR94bzjhRUU9yRtcBAQId5RBgolTRWjzjWPtd=w400-h322" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>You do realize that you can never know the will of God by listening to the Spirit only? That's because the Holy Spirit is not the only one with access to speak to you in thoughts. There is also the human spirit of your own thoughts and there are demonic thoughts that have access to every person's mind. They love putting on spiritual airs as they speak as if they were God. Demonic spirits can't read your mind, but they can speak demonic reasoning into your thoughts just like they did in the Garden of Eden speaking to Eve. Thoughts that lead you away from God, not toward God.</p><p>Why was Eve not able to refute what the serpent told her about the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Because "She erred when she added that even 'touching the fruit would lead to death.' The serpent took advantage of her error, but it seems Adam did teach her God's word." </p><p>Because Eve ate from the tree and enticed her husband Adam to compromise God's instructions, all humanity now eats from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. Compromising God's Will doesn't kill us instantly, and if we don't repent, how great is our fall.</p><p>The ONLY thing that stands between our compromise of God's Will is not knowing what His Will actually is. In other words rejecting the very Word God gave to Moses and the all the people He chose to walk in His Will. So many Christians reject the Hebrew scriptures completely, thinking, "We have the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth, what do we need God's Word for?" If we are really listening to the Holy Spirit, He will guide us into all truth BY God's Word. Selah.</p><p>God told Adam what not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but He did not speak the same to Eve. Adam was expected to lead his wife and family into knowing the Word of God. Instead Adam compromised what he knew to be forbidden by God's own Word and comprised his relationship with God by allowing his wife lead him astray in her ignorance of God's Word. </p><p>We have a special problem with the same thing in believer families to this day: family members who know the Word of God compromising it because of other family members ignorance of God's will. It is a sticky and widespread problem, but we need to seek God for the answer to how to show love to family members without compromising either our relationship with God or with God's Word. If we cannot be counted on to stand faithfully with God's Word then our family will never follow after us toward God.</p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430822566897252055.post-2796780493890237352024-01-08T09:24:00.000-08:002024-01-08T09:24:35.304-08:00Don't Pray for Israel like there is no Remnant of Faith within Her<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIG8g9K-6kk-CkTJnvqi1OVTo7VHmTQLHfpaTfZq-c4E9Ohlqp2esa7yGYNBgvIrtJAOPmmFIWXp6nA9dt5TdBlufQjJVi51Xop2SpcN50a26O5OTegF5Za3M_bUebipKcoW65DWVGtgm2kEkDyIEdfOd4VR0Z52n3YXsOpTIJtt-DuRiKbZ7sPzSyMdF/s1200/Isaiah%2052_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIG8g9K-6kk-CkTJnvqi1OVTo7VHmTQLHfpaTfZq-c4E9Ohlqp2esa7yGYNBgvIrtJAOPmmFIWXp6nA9dt5TdBlufQjJVi51Xop2SpcN50a26O5OTegF5Za3M_bUebipKcoW65DWVGtgm2kEkDyIEdfOd4VR0Z52n3YXsOpTIJtt-DuRiKbZ7sPzSyMdF/w400-h266/Isaiah%2052_7.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The beautiful feet in Israel belong to the Messianic Jewish believers.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please do not pray for Israel as if the LORD does not have a Remnant of faith in Yeshua within them. As if the Gospel is not going forth in Israel, as if there are no worshippers, no intercessors, no 24/7 houses, no congregations discipling people, none helping lost people in need. God placed them there and they are increasing daily. </span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Lift up their arms and speak prayer support towards their needs when you set yourself to pray for Israel. They are doing all the work of the ministry that is being done in every other spiritually conscientiousness congregation of our faith. Don't assume they are of lesser spirituality level than you - some are, some aren't exactly like in your nation.</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The beautiful feet in Israel belong to Israeli Messianic believers.</span> </span><p></p>Donna Diorio, IsraelWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17047389276345782181noreply@blogger.com0