The following excerpt “Do Today’s Events Have To Do With Ezekiel 38 War?” by Billye Brim on January 3, 2020:
“First, an Urgent Prayer Request
First of all pray that our leaders, especially America’s and Israel’s, will have the wisdom of God regarding these matters.
Pray for God’s protection of military personnel involved.
Pray for protection of Israel.
Pray for the salvation of souls.
Pray in the Spirit asking the Lord to give you utterance to direct your prayers according to His will.”Regarding my opening question, “Is this Ezekiel 38?” “Probably.” They are at least a preamble to the war of Ezekiel 38. How long the “preamble” lasts is unknown to us.
The players of Ezekiel 38 have a physical presence in the area: Russia, Iran, Turkey, et al.
Time Line of Most Recent Events
For some time:
Dozens of attacks directed by Iran and its proxies against American and Israeli interests culminating in a missile attack in Northern Iraq that killed an American contractor last week.Sunday December 29, 2019
In retaliation US air raids against Iranian backed Hezbollah militia bases.Tuesday, December 31
Iraqi paramilitary groups storm the US Embassy in Baghdad.January 3, Friday (Today)
At the direction of President Trump, US kills Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Corp-Quds force. (Quds means Jerusalem)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in media interviews that this was: “an intelligence based assessment” that drove the U.S. decision to target Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force. “He was actively plotting in the region to take actions—a big action as he described it—that would have put dozens if not hundreds of American lives at risk. [Brim comment: Not to mention hundreds of lives in Israel and the area.] “These were threats that were located in the region,” Pompeo added. “Last night was the time that we needed to strike to make sure that this imminent attack … was disrupted.”
End of Days Wars
Jewish sages teach that there are two Gog-Magog wars.
I believe there are two Gog-Magog wars, but that there are possible three end-of-days wars.The first:
Ezekiel 38, 39
(An invasion of Israel by Gog’s forces. This war could occur at any time now.)The second:
Zechariah 14, Revelation 16:16. Battle of Armageddon. End of 7-year Great Tribulation. The Antichrist and his forces. The return of the King Messiah ends.The third:
Revelation 20:8. At the end of the 1,000 year Millennial Reign when Satan is “loosed out of his prison.” He goes forth to deceive the nations. Gog/Magog gathers a large army of followers. God destroys with fire from Heaven.Psalm 83. I see as an ongoing war of attrition with the forces of Islam against Israel. Does not have an exact date we can point to as a starting date. Called by some the Arab-Israeli conflict. But it is really an Islamic confederacy.
Jihad
The storming of the US Embassy in Baghdad (Babylon, by the way), reminded me of the storming and hostage taking of the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, forty years ago. This was the start of the current Shia Islamic State of Iran.It was my blessed privilege to be called by Lester Sumrall to help him write a book even while the hostages were being held. He said, “We have to get this out quickly for this is JIHAD and no one knows what that means.”
That book will help you understand. Entitled JIHAD: THE HOLY WAR, The Destiny of Iran and the Moslem World.
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Pastor Ray…
I wanted to read that because Billye is so knowledgeable about the Middle East and all the things that are taking place.
Ms. Annie…
It came up when we were talking about this right beforehand, and it keeps percolating in my heart, about the “fake news.” They fake the news but we make the news. Why? Because we shall decide and decree a thing and it shall be established unto us. So, we are making the news by speaking God’s Word. Because He put His Word in the mouths of His prophets from the earliest days. He created the world with His Words and He is still creating with His Words. So, His Words are settled in the heavens forever. But the Words that we speak are also settled forever when we speak His Words. So, we speak His Words over all of these things.
And I was reading yesterday that Jesus said, “You’ll hear of wars and rumors of wars but don’t let your heart be troubled. The end is not yet. This Gospel must first be preached to all the nations.”
So, we occupy and we don’t let our heart be troubled by all these things. We make the news!
Pastor Ray…
And it’s good news!
Ms. Annie…
And we’re not troubled when they “fake the news.” Because the Devil is a liar, he’s a faker. He is the father of fakery! But we are in the Holy Ghost bakery and we’re baking some good cakery! (ha, ha, ha)
Just the whole Islamic thing is so… it can be terrifying. It’s a religion of terror that has spread through terrorizing people. But perfect love casts out fear, and we yield to the perfect love of Jesus and it overcomes. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony.
Pastor Ray…
Our President will address the nation sometime today. So, we are believing for wisdom, revelation, a boldness, courage, that he is hearing from heaven and he will speak forth the things that need to bring comfort to the people because that’s the group he is over – the US.
When he says “Make America great,” it’s not like we are really patting ourselves on the back but we are to be great in America, we’ve sent out so many missionaries over the years and years and years. It’s all about the souls and we can’t forget that. But we do have to keep our joy. I don’t want to mope out of here every day – oh my (ha, ha, ha). We have to stay up because He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords!
It’s good to lift Him and it brings our eyes up, keep that joy knowing that He hears our prayers, prayers that are based on what He said will come to pass. Hallelujah.
Ms. Annie led us singing Oh, the Blood of Jesus
Pastor Ray…
We worship You, Lord. We do lift up Your name, magnify that name. We know Your Word says that we overcome, first of all because You overcame, but we overcome because of that blood, the power that is in the name, no name is above that name – Jesus. And we testify about it. We speak about it. We declare it, believe it. We have confident trust to know we are safe when we are covered in the blood. We’re safe, there is safety there, protection there, direction through the blood, all the protection.
So, when we plead that blood, use that blood, and declare the blood… We do. We pray it over our leaders, positions of authority. We cover them with the precious holy blood of Jesus. We believe right decisions are being made. We believe protection is there. We believe for wisdom and understanding. Hallelujah! And we can say no weapon formed against us will prosper because we are covered, protected, and under that precious blood. Thank You for the blood, Lord.
Ms. Annie…
As we were singing and exalting the blood of Jesus, it flashed before my face. I have seen video pictures of over in Iran where they celebrate at these special festivals. The men and all their little sons all walk through the street with swords and they are all slashing themselves with swords. Their blood is pouring out and covered with blood everywhere. And the Lord had spoken to me. He said that the Devil demands that these people give me their blood. But I never demanded anything from you. I gave you My blood and My blood is all you need.
Ms. Marian…
Last night while witnessing, I met some teenage girls shopping at the mall. I asked them, “Do you know for sure you are going to heaven?” And their mouths dropped open. They said that on the way to the mall they ran out of gas. They were sitting on the side of the road wondering what we were going to do. A man pulls up, pours gas in their car and leaves. They all were saying “He was an angel.” So, that immediately sparked a conversation amongst them about God. They were discussing the questions, “I wonder how you get to heaven?” And they walked into the mall and there I am waiting for them.
They prayed and received Jesus. And they said, “We never talk about God. And today we were talking about God.” I told them, “God wants you to talk about Him all the time. So, keep talking about Him!” (ha, ha, ha).
But the blood, that blood was protecting them and they didn’t even know it.
Pastor Ray…
And it makes a way to have you in the mall at the right time and on the right day to show them the way.
Ms. Annie…
But it’s the demonstration that God is a giver; that God is there to give to them, to open their hearts. Our God is a God who gives. He doesn’t demand. He gives. He supplies what we need. All He demands from us is that we receive His blood, His love, His supply, what He provided.
Ms. Marian…
This is what we have been praying for, the Awakening. They are waking up. I met also three guys from Canada and they said, “We leave tomorrow.” So, they prayed, received Jesus, and out they went. Away they go, with Jesus. They didn’t even know why they were coming to the mall.
Pastor Ray…
And it didn’t even cost them anything.
Ms. Annie…
It cost Jesus everything for us to have eternal life. But it doesn’t cost us anything but to humble ourselves before Him and receive it. And so we do receive, Lord. We receive Your love. We receive Your blood. We receive Your power. We receive Your redemption. Not only for ourselves but for our families and for our nation and for all this world that You died to save. We receive it in Jesus’ name. Thank You, Lord.
Pastor Ray…
Let’s pray in tongues for a while. We want His will, the perfect will so let’s talk to Him. (tongues)
An intro… Many, many, stability…no, no, no we head that off, we stop it, take authority against those works of the enemy… No, no, no, we plead the blood, this church is covered in the blood of Jesus, our pastors are covered in the blood, the school, all the staff is covered in the blood, we believe it, declare it.
Unlimited access today, the right keys for the right doors. We lift up Your body, so we watch, take our seat in heavenly places… That’s a suddenly, it’s turning in the right way, we see it.
Ms. Annie led us singing in the Spirit…
Pastor Ray…
An abundance, glorious way, open, open up that way, there is a way, a holy way, a right way, we choose to walk in those ways, speak those words.
Ms. Annie…
♪ They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony
And they loved not their lives unto the death
But they spoke My name and My Word with their every breath, every breath, every breath
Lord we love not our own lives unto the death
Lord we overcome by the blood You shed and we love not our own lives unto the death. ♪
Pastor Ray…
Hallelujah. So in the days to come, the times we are living in, we overcome through that precious blood. Today, we’ve overcome. Whatever the enemy had planned, we overcome by the through that precious holy blood.
The following is a prayer for our nation by Pastor Lynne Hammond:
Father, in the name of Jesus, and according to your Word, we pray for those in authority in our nation. We lift up President Donald Trump, his family, his staff and cabinet members. Let Your Word cling to them and let them not depart from your plan. Strengthen them with mighty power by your Spirit to stand against wickedness, lies and deception. Guide President Trump’s decisions; let Your light shine upon his path and show him the path of reversal for every evil way. Continually surround him with godly men and women who impart wise counsel to him. Cause the way of the wicked to be set to confusion and come to nothing. Deliver us from the traps and snares the enemy has laid for us, and let the wicked be caught in their own devises and be brought to shame.
Pastor Ray…
Confusion, cross their wires, whatever needs to take place, You know how to do it, Lord. You know what should be said, what our President has to do. You know what he must speak. You know the words that he should say. So, now let’s lift up this today. (tongues)
Words that will bring about change in those that have spoken absolutely lies, brought about blockages, whatever they could do, let their eyes be opened.
Healing, restoration.. the enemy is confused but our President is not confused. We’re not confused. We’re not fake news! We’re making the news and we declare “the United States of America is a holy blessed nation! Jesus is Lord over America!”
And we call up today the Church and speak to the Church, the body of Christ and say “Wake Up! Wake Up!” Be alert, plead the blood, know the power that’s in the blood. Use your faith. Walk by faith, in faith, and come together—unity, especially in the body of Christ.
An alignment, lining those things up that needed to be lined up all along. Thank You, Father.
Before we leave, Ms. Annie, welcome the Holy Spirit, welcome His presence even in a greater way today and not just for us here in the chapel. Remember Pasty Cameneti did a meeting here and she said, “Up from this place right here, there is like a tower that goes up and it sends out the Word, prayers all over the earth.” We believe for the power of the Holy Spirit to move not just across this nation but all over the earth. So, we’ll welcome that today.
Ms. Annie led us singing Holy Spirit, You Are Welcome Here
Pastor Ray…
If we just think about it, the days gone past, the greatest changes that have taken place within us personally have been when we sense that mighty manifested presence of the Holy Spirit and sense and know and walk out the changes that He brings. For He is changing and rearranging us internally and externally. We’re whole, healthy, wealthy, prosperous in every way spirit, soul, and body. And what we put our hands to prospers. Where we go, the presence goes with us. You said, Lord, You’d never leave us. We believe it.
We’re just opening our hearts and praying in and to all over the earth that hearts would be softened and opened for Your mighty presence to bring that change and souls would come in and come in and come in.
Thank You for the laborers, Lord, for supernatural strength, knowing where to go, what to do, and what to say. We lift up this day. The blood of Jesus is over it and we believe to be right where we should be full of divine strength, empowered, encouraged, and lifted. Thank You for it.
We know Your joy brings strength in us to move, to step, to walk, to run, to go ahead. Thank You for it. You get all of the glory, all of the honor, all of the praise for this day. Amen.
