Prophetic Word from our service in Jerusalem Today:

Song: He is our peace . . .

It’s easy to sing about, but sometimes it’s hard to do. But we’ve got to do it.

He is our peace . . .
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You are our peace, O Lord. O my, You are our shalom. We thank You. We thank You for the Shabbat peace. We thank You for the peace of the Sabbath. We thank you, Lord, that You are our Sabbath, You are our peace. And we bless You. We bless You. We bless You. Hallelujah. O Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Let’s sing that one just more time if you would. I feel the Lord speaking something into my spirit. I need just a few more seconds.

Let’s sing: He is our peace . . .
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

I’ve been very careful lately, the last few weeks and a couple months not to read what other people were saying concerning the disengagement. I get all kinds of e-mails from Jewish agencies, from Messianic ministries, from Christian ministries, from prophetic ministries, and I only read them when I feel that the Lord is dealing with me to do so.

And I’ve been very, very careful not to read what other people are saying about the withdrawal from the Gaza because I believed that the Lord would speak into my spirit and give me the peace that I needed. And I felt the Lord beginning to do that during the praise and worship this morning.

I saw a dividing wall, a large, large dividing wall that was beginning to crumble. And when I first saw it, I thought, "My, what is that wall? Perhaps that is the wall between the Arabs and the Jewish people."

But as I began to hear and listen carefully to what the Spirit was saying, I saw and heard that the Lord was saying that this is in His plan. And I’ve been very careful not to say that because it’s big. It’s very big when you say that God is doing thus and this and such and such. It’s a big thing for me.

And I know that everyone has different opinions. And I know sometimes our opinions are political and not spiritual. But I feel to say this morning that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, whether we like it or whether we don’t like it, God has given this Land to His people. We know that. And we know that the Lord is not slack concerning His promises as men count slackness, but He is always faithful to do that which He has spoken.

We mentioned last Shabbat morning that it may not come when we want it to come, but God is always on time. And I saw in the Spirit that the Lord is allowing this threat of disengagement and withdrawal from the Gaza, that the Lord is allowing it to happen for not one reason, but for many reasons. And that it is His hand.

And I know that goes against, perhaps, what a lot of other leaders would say. But I sense that God is going to do as He always does, He’s going to use the most awful thing. I see Joseph so clearly in the Spirit, just now. That it seemed to be the most awful thing that could happen to Joseph, but it was really the greatest thing that could ever happen to him because God made him a savior to his own brethren.

And we know that this withdrawal will not be permanent. And we know that the Gaza, that the West Bank . . . We know that even beyond the present borders of this nation have been given to the Jewish people by God. And we know that God is going to keep His promise. The rest is none of our business. How God does it and when He does it and what He has to allow to happen before He does it is really none of our business.

I sense in the Spirit that the Lord is going to use the withdrawal and the disengagement to speak to a lot of Jewish people. And not only is God going to use it to make them more . . . to fill up their hearts with Zionism - because Zionism is a concept. It’s a thought. It’s a wonderful thing. I am a Christian Zionist, or a Messianic Zionist. I believe in this Land. But it’s not Zionism that God wants to fill His people up with. He wants to fill up their hearts with a hunger and a longing for Him.

And if I tell you what I saw, somebody may be offended, but I’m going to say it anyway. I saw in the Spirit . . . and anybody who knows me knows that I have a real feeling for the religious Jewish people and even the ultra-orthodox people. I have a real feeling for them. I don’t understand how so many of them have trusted in the words of teachers instead of trusting in the Torah that was given to them. There are many things I don’t understand about them. But there are many things that I appreciate about them, and that’s their desire to go beyond, to do more than what is required of them because they want to please God.

But I saw so clearly that this disengagement and withdrawal - that God’s going to use it. And it’s going to speak, not to the religious, but it’s going to speak to the secular Jewish people because the Lord said, "They’re Mine as well. Even though they’re not wearing black coats and black hats, and they may not be covering their heads, and they may be going from a party to another party, or they may be moving in worldly things," the Lord said, "they’re still Mine, and I still claim them."

And this disengagement is going to cause a rallying among them. And it’s going to cause them to be a little zealous and religious in the fact that they’re going to begin to see what the enemy’s doing and how he’s taking away what belongs to them. And in doing so, I saw that the Lord is going to cause them to become more observant . . . into a place where they would draw from the Lord and from the Torah.

And I saw (I hate to say it this way) but what I saw was that most of the religious, most of those who are so steeped in the traditions of man, they’re going to be the ones who accept and see in the end when the Lord comes, when our Joseph, Yeshua, our Messiah, when He comes and stands on the Mount of Olives with those nail scars in His hands. The Bible said there are going to be those who will ask Him, "What are these scars in your hand?" And He’s going to say, "This is that which I received in the household of my friends."

And then their eyes will be opened, and they’ll recognize that this is the same that has been called Jesus, or as they often like to say "Yeshu" instead of Yeshua, showing Him disrespect. Many of them are going to have their eyes opened that day. And I saw, (I have never seen it this way before) but I saw a great crowd of religious, of black coated Jews who were going to see the scars in His hands.

And so what I believe the Lord was showing me was the stirring that’s coming now from the Spirit is going to be among those who are not so religious, but are secular Jews who are settlers and who are consumed with that settlement spirit. You know, they want to settle in the Land and drive their roots down. And God’s going to begin to speak to them and draw them.

And that we should only pray the will of God. That we should be careful how we pray. And when we don’t know how to pray, we should only pray, "Let Your will be done."

In the Charismatic world we have heard so much about specific praying and how we should command it to be done this way, and this should be bound, and this should be loosed, and so forth. And all of that is good when we know that we’re thinking in the mind of the Spirit. But when we’re not sure, it’s always appropriate to pray, "Not my will, not the will of this one or that one, but O Lord, let Your will be done." And I see very clearly that the Lord is allowing this, and He’s using it.

And I can also see in my spirit that the heart of Ariel Sharon is in the hand of the Lord. It doesn’t matter what people think about him, it doesn’t matter what our opinion of him is, that God still has the power and the ability to turn his heart. In fact, I hesitate to say this, but that’s what’s happened. I see in the Spirit that the thing that he was the most adamant against is the thing now that he has introduced. And he’s taken a very hard rap for it.

But I see that the Lord will use these things to establish His will, to bring people to Himself. And in the end, we know without a doubt that this Land belongs to the Jewish people, and God will give it to them no matter who squats on it, no matter who claims it for themselves.

But I see that this is a time where things are happening in the Spirit realm that we don’t know anything about. And since we don’t, we should just say, "Your will be done. Your will be done, Lord. You allow these things to be turned and to change directions for Your glory."

And when I think of that in the Spirit, it so excites me because I know that God is in control of everything, and we should just praise Him. We should just give Him glory and not be moved and not become . . . You know, the Lord has warned me before about becoming political, not to become political in these things, but to give it all to Him because He is the One who sits on top of the flood. He is the One who rides the winds, and He sits on top of all the . . . you know, the Scripture, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, He, the Spirit, shall lift up a standard against him."

And I see the Lord raising up His holy standard against the works of darkness and against the hand of the enemy. And in all these things we must rejoice anyway. Hallelujah.

Are you saying that it’s God’s will? Ultimately it’s not His perfect will, His perfect plan that’s going to be revealed in the future, but yes, I’m sensing very strongly in the Spirit that God is allowing these things to happen for the salvation of the Jewish soul - the most important thing. God loves the Jewish people, but He loves their soul. He’s after their soul. He wants to have their heart. Hallelujah. And I see that God will stand back and allow these very painful things to happen because it softens their heart and will cause them to begin to look to Him.

And the Lord said for too long we have trusted . . . and I know He is speaking in this sense, not to Jewish people alone, but all of us. For too long we have trusted in our own ability and in our own strength and in our own power, but God is quickly bringing us all to that place where we realize we have no strength, no power, no ability outside of that that He gives us.

Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. We bless You, Lord. We worship You, O God, in the Spirit of Your holiness. We don’t understand all of these things that are happening around us, but we know You are God. And we know that You are in charge of it all. And we know that You are going to work Your will. No man or devil will be able to keep Your will from being accomplished in our lives and in this Land. For this is the place that You have chosen to establish that work and that Kingdom that is promised that shall never come to an end, when Messiah shall sit again on the throne of David. We look for that. We embrace it, and we reach for it.

And we thank You that You have not forgotten the secular Jewish people, that You have not forgotten the non-religious and those who are as the sinners in every land are - they’re just secular like Americans who don’t know the Lord, or Europeans who don’t know the Lord. But You have not forgotten the Covenant that You made with them as well.

And it is not only the Orthodox, or the extremely religious, that You love, for You came to seek that which was lost. And Lord, we thank You for whatever it takes, however You plan to do it, to draw them.

And I saw just then in the Spirit that it will come among the younger generation of Israelis - that God desires to speak among the young people, to call them. And I see them fellowshipping with one another, but not around alcohol and all of the things that they have fellowshipped around. But I see them joining together, hungry, desiring to know the God of their fathers. We declare it and prophecy a change for the young people of this nation. We decree and declare that the bondage of drugs will be broken in their lives and that You, O God, will break forth in this hour, in this moment of time, to fulfill Your will among the secular young Israelis. Lord, let it begin now in the Spirit. We may not see it with natural eyes, but let us continue to sense and to discern that which You’re doing in the Spirit.

We bless You. We bless You, Lord. We bless You, Lord.

And the Lord is also dealing with me that our focus should not be so internal, but that we should begin to focus outwardly and let God take care of us. If you really believe Him, and you really believe that you’re in His care, let’s begin to see the burden and begin to see the need out there and pray about it.

You know, I’m reminded of what David said, "When they attacked me, or when they persecuted me, or when they came against me," he said, "I humbled myself with sackcloth, with prayer, with fasting." And he said, "My prayer returned unto my own bosom." In other words, "I became the benefactor. I became one who would reap even the prayer and the fasting that I offered for other people. The blessing came back on me."

And I see how the Jewish people sow their bread into the water. And the Bible said, "But it shall return not many days hence. The bread that we . . ." Hallelujah. Glory to God. "The bread that we cast upon the water shall return to us not many days hence," saith the Lord.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Song: He is our peace who has broken down every wall . . .

Cast all of your cares on Him for He cares for you . . .

(Then followed a message about the characteristics of the believers in Bethany in the time of Yeshua.)