It isn’t often that you’ll hear the names Ariana Grande and T.D. Jakes mentioned together by a prophet, but recently Troy Black received a prophetic word that included both the secular pop star and the long-time kingdom preacher.

Concerning Grande, Black says the Lord told him that the flamboyant singer “is not too far gone. With Jakes, he has a warning to those who listen and follow the senior pastor of the Potter’s House, a nondenominational megachurch in Dallas, Texas.

The prophetic dream, Black says, “woke me up in the middle of the night.”

Grande’s secular popularity is off the charts, and much of that is due to the sexual lyrics of her songs. Popcrush.com reported that her four-album, 80-plus song discography is packed with sexual references that range from subtle, cheeky nods to “Urban Dictionary-grade explicit. She’s as sex-positive as a pop star can come,” and her videos are often filled with sexually explicit material.

Yet Black says while Grande seems “too far gone” to come to Jesus, the Lord recently told him she’s not.

“I heard the Lord say this is what He wants to happen,” Black says. “I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen. God said, ‘She’s Mine; I have her resting in My hand. And she will come back, even if it takes a lifetime of servanthood to the world to see the difference between My goodness and the world’s goodness.’

“‘She has a free choice, but I’m calling her and reaching out to her,'” the Lord said, per Black. “The Holy Spirit is saying to a lot of you, ‘I’m calling out to you and reaching out to you. But no one is going to make the decision for her. It is her own to make.’ God won’t force her hand to make a change in her life.

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“God loves every single person, as it says in 2 Peter 3:9: ‘The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness. But He is patient with us, because He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance,'” Black says. “Are you willing to come home? He is willing to have you if you will come. Rest in the Father’s house, where it is safe.”

In the same video message, Black strangely calls out Jakes and his followers. Jakes has 7.1 followers on Facebook, 4.6 million on X and 2.67 million on YouTube.

“There are a few of you people out there listening here who either attend T.D. Jakes’ church or you listen to him online,” Black says. “Although you hear the messages, you have yet to make the relationship real.

“The Lord says, ‘You have yet to come home to a real friendship with Jesus,'” Black says. “It is just religion and a game right now. The Lord is saying, ‘Come home to Me, My son; come home to Me, My daughter. Now is your chance. Now is your time. If that’s you, if you say, ‘Hey, that’s speaking right to me today, I want you to take this opportunity. Don’t waste time. Don’t throw it away. It is a rare and beautiful thing that God is giving you. He’s reaching out to you right now and saying, ‘I’m coming for you today, and I’m not going to let you go.’ … Make a decision right now to give your heart to Jesus.” {eoa}

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Eagles Wings founder and director Bishop Robert Stearns and his family spent five days in Israel earlier this month, including Oct. 7. That was the day when an early-morning brutal surprise attack rocked Jerusalem and saw hundreds of innocent Israelis die.

A few days after he and his family returned to the United States, however, Stearns, who has been doing Israel-connected ministry for what will be 30 years in 2024, said he never felt more in danger than when he stood in the middle of Times Square in New York City. There on American soil, he feared for his life.

That’s the day when a throng of individuals—a group that filled an area three full city blocks in size around one of the most famous areas of the most famous city in the world—cheered on the terrorist organization Hamas. They rallied to support a group of people who only days before beheaded dozens of Israeli babies, burned other Israelis alive and took about 200 hostages, including some Americans.

“When we got to New York City and to JFK Airport, we felt like, ‘Whew, we’re safe, we’re home,” Stearns tells Charisma News in a recent interview. “And then I got a text from a friend saying there was going to be a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square the next day. I thought, ‘now how does anyone hold a rally that would support Hamas after what they’ve done?’

“There is a thing called evil, and you don’t negotiate with evil,” he says. “I thought that I would go to the rally and share the truth of Christ with those who would listen. It’s in our own backyard in New York City, so it should be fine. But there were thousands of pro-Hamas supporters there, and they were all chanting, ‘Death to Israel; death to America.’ Hamas, in their legal charter, openly calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. They are not there for the creation of a Palestinian state. They are not there to compromise or build for a better future for humanity. They are there to kill. And in our nation, in Times Square, [people] were there in support of this evil.

“Two days later, I got a call from the governor’s office, Gov. Kathy Hochul,” he continues. “They said the governor was coming to Buffalo for a private meeting. The governor asked if I could come to this meeting. I shared this story that I’m sharing with you.

“I said, Gov. Hochul, with all due respect, I felt safer in Jerusalem with the bombs going exploding overhead than I felt standing in Times Square,” Stearns says. “I’m a lifelong New Yorker. I felt safer in Jerusalem than in New York City because they are not in denial about the reality of the problem and they are not confused with what is at stake.”

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Stearns said it took a friend to help he and his family “escape” Israel through Aman, Jordan, in what he called a “harrowing” experience.

In speaking to Calvary Assembly during its regular service in Orlando Sunday, he pointed to the younger generations’ consciousness of social justice, which he said is needed and valid.

But Stearns says we must also get our facts straight because social justice can be twisted into something “very, very backwards,” as in what is happening now with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Pro-Hamas demonstrations have been held globally including across the U.S. in cities like New York, Chicago, Tampa, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Anaheim, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

More than 100,000 people turned out in London late last week for a pro-Palestinian rally.

All Israel News reported that secular media outlets such as MSNBC and CNN are constantly spreading false narratives about Israel. Charisma News columnist Dr. Michael Brown reported last week about the “mythical” Israeli bombing of a Gaza hospital.

“All of a sudden, you can make the oppressed into the oppressor,” Stearns says. “You have to know your facts. You need to know the truth of what is happening. We have to lift our eyes from this thing we call denial. Golda Meir, the first woman prime minister of the state of Israel, said, ‘You can’t negotiate with people who have come to kill you. You can negotiate if you’re trying to build a state or live in peace or if you’re trying to build forward a better place for humanity.’

“Israel left Gaza a long time ago,” Stearns says. “A beautiful city could have been built, with billions in American taxpayer money. What did they do? They chose to spend it on 50,000 rockets that have fallen on Israel day and night. You say, ‘Bishop, you’re getting political.’ No, I’m not getting political; I’m getting biblical. …

“The Palestinian people deserve to live in peace, with a hope for the future,” he adds. “But they have to put aside hatred, this blind ideology by the way they’ve been brainwashed. We have the problem for three or four decades through the school systems of brainwashing these young people, so now you’ve got a brainwashed society.”

Stearns says believers must lift up their heads in the midst of the battle because God is a good Father. They must lift their heads from distraction and to make a decision to be less focused on pleasure and entertainment and prepare themselves as soldiers for the end-times battle that we are now in.

The battle is happening in a place that doesn’t matter much to many Americans, but it still affects them greatly.

“We are living in a moment where all of us are going to have to be fully declared disciples of Jesus,” Stearns says. “What can you do right now to bless and help Israel? Do this: This tiny thing will change the world. Pray over your meal and then add this line: ‘God, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem.’

“You will come into agreement with Psalm 126, and you know what will happen when you do that?” he asks. “You will start to pay more attention, and you’re going to tune into what’s happening with Jerusalem. Your kids are going to hear you praying for Jerusalem, your grandkids.

“And make sure you get into a church that completely stands with Israel,” Stearns says. “School yourself on replacement theology. I challenge people to talk to their senior pastor and ask if your church stands with Israel and the Jewish people. If it doesn’t, then you need to find a new church and get into one that is not susceptible to antichrist spirit because many churches are already on their way to an Antichrist mentality.”

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Through social media, multitudes of friends, family and those touched by his ministry are calling for prayer for author, filmmaker, television producer, speaker and ordained Messianic minister Warren Marcus, who is in the hospital fighting for his life.

Believers are asked to pray for Marcus and also for his wife, Donna; their children, Joe and Tara; and their families.

“Overwhelmed is not a strong enough word to describe all the prayers and stories of how Warren touched you,” Donna Marcus wrote on Facebook. “Warren is feeling them. Please continue. I love you all.”

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In addition to writing the books “The Priestly Prayer of the Blessing” and the accompanying “Praying the Priestly Prayer” for Charisma House, the Lord has used Warren to produce inspirational television programs for Dr. Jerry Falwell’s “Liberty Broadcasting Network and to work with the Inspiration Network in Charlotte, North Carolina. He served as the executive producer of Sid Roth’s “It’s Supernatural!” weekly television program, paying special attention to the dramatic reenactments that help bring to life the testimonies of real people’s encounters with the supernatural of God.

Warren’s covenant with God shone when he went to work for CBN, where he produced the animated Bible series for children “Superbook” and “Flying House,” which has been translated in manifold languages and distributed worldwide. {eoa}

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The first time I heard the statement “garbage in, garbage out,” I was in middle school and my health class teacher was talking to us about junk food in our diets. His point was if you fill something with garbage, then you can only expect garbage to come out.

While I haven’t always applied this concept to my diet (although I have been much more successful lately), I have tried very hard to apply it to my walk of faith. Unfortunately, there are too many people who claim to be believers in the Bible who have never tried to apply this concept to their faith walks.

There are people who have never taken the time to actually read and study the Bible for themselves, people who simply accept whatever opinions are regurgitated into their minds and hearts like a baby bird eating from a mother bird. We are seeing the result of the mass consumption of garbage around us today, especially within those who proclaim faith in Yeshua. 

“Garbage in, garbage out” has resulted in false doctrines entering the minds and hearts of people, and because they consumed a diet of garbage (false doctrines) instead of truth, what comes out of the people is also garbage (false doctrine).

We see the result of garbage in, garbage out when people who say they believe in the Bible try to use Scriptures out of context to support abortion. We see the result of garbage in, garbage out when people who say they believe in the Bible cherry-pick biblical text to promote racism.

We see the result of garbage in, garbage out when people who say they believe in the Bible unhitch themselves from the Old Testament to promote ungodly sexual relations and unbiblical marriage. We see the result of garbage in, garbage out when we hear people teaching Replacement Theology and Dual Covenant theology.

It is interesting to note that many times it is the same people who are promoting each of the above false doctrines and beliefs. This garbage in, garbage out concept is not new and has been around ever since humanity walked the earth. However, because it has a long history of existence, it doesn’t mean we should ignore it and hope it goes away.

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It was because of garbage in, garbage out we saw riots and protests in support of Black Lives Matter, an organization that, according to their webpage, is anti-family, anti-fathers, and antisemitic.

Right now, we are seeing the results of garbage in, garbage out when pastors teach that the church replaced Israel in all of the promised covenants of G-D—the result of which is the lie that Israel doesn’t have a right to live in peace within their historical and biblical covenant homeland. 

It is because of garbage in, garbage out that we see people who say they believe in the Bible protesting Israel and supporting Hamas Terrorists in the streets around the world, and on school campuses in the United States. 

It is past time for Rabbis and Pastors to stand boldly in front of their people and teach them to change their diet. As good shepherds, they must bring their flocks to good pastures of biblical accuracy.

Yes, it is easier to serve junk food, pre-packaged by internet celebrities, just as it is easier to serve literal pre-packaged junk food. But, it is our responsibility to make sure that our flocks are fed the good food of Scripture in context from both food groups: the Old Testament and New Testament.

If we don’t, this destructive pattern of garbage in, garbage out will continue to divide G-D’s people and we will see more people dying of starvation, while sitting at our tables. 

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Eric Tokajer is the author of Overcoming Fearlessness, What If Everything You Were Taught About the Ten Commandments Was Wrong?, With Me in Paradise, Transient Singularity, OY! How Did I Get Here?: Thirty-One Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Entering Ministry, #ManWisdom: With Eric Tokajer, Jesus Is to Christianity as Pasta Is to Italians and Galatians in Context. Visit his website at rabbierict.com.

Pastor Jack Hibbs likens the nation of Israel to a mother hen, as Jesus referred to in Luke 13:34-35 (MEV):

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing! … Truly I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”

When He first came to earth, the majority of the Jewish people rejected Jesus as their Messiah. But Hibbs, the founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino Hills, California, says as a brutal and costly war that began with the terrorist group Hamas on Oct. 7 and continues to rage in the Holy Land, they have but one choice for their survival: to turn to Christ.

“When you are in distress and all things come upon you in the last day, when you turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice, for the Lord God is a merciful God, He will not forsake you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them,” Hibbs says.

More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed since the war began, and equally as important in God’s eyes, 3,785 Palestinians have been killed. Many other Israelis have been kidnapped, women have been raped and babies have been beheaded by Hamas, the Hebrew word for “violence.”

For more than 2,500 years, many countries and factions have tried to exterminate the Jewish people, including the Egyptians, the Romans, the Nazis and now Hamas—to name a few—but the Jewish people, as Jonathan Cahn says, are miraculously “still alive.”

Yet, when the gospel of the kingdom is preached in all of the world as a witness to the nations, the end will come.

Hibbs says we are living in a time right now that is the most accurate age to live in regarding the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. “We could say that the fuse is about to be lit if it hasn’t already been lit now,” Hibbs says. “… According to the Scriptures, we are living in the last days …

From Scripture, Hibbs warns the Jewish nation:

“Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. Let him who is in the field not return to take his clothes” (Matt. 24:16-18).

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Many have interpreted the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 14 to be recently converted Jewish evangelists who are sent out to brin sinners to Jesus Christ during the seven-year tribulation. While the Tribulation period has yet to begin, are we getting close to seeing this come to fruition?

Revelation 14:1-5 reads:

Then I looked. The Lamb was standing on Mount Zion and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of a great thunder. I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn that song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as first fruits to God and to the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths, for they are without fault before the throne of God.

Today, although small in numbers compared to the Jewish population, Messianic ministries exist in Israel to spread the gospel of Christ to the Jewish people.

Hibbs says that Israel is now fighting its greatest war since the Holocaust. Soon it will not only be against Hamas, but others like Iran, China and Russia will join in, as well as countries like Turkey and Syria.

The odds, he says, will be overwhelming. It’s why Christian intercession for Jews is not only a duty, but should also be a priority for believers.

But will the Jews eventually accept Jesus as their Messiah? Some see this idea as controversial, disruptive and inconvenient. But then Hibbs says everything God does is controversial.

“God is loving, forgiving, merciful and kind—yes,” Hibbs says. “As we speak of the pierced hands and the pierced feet, we know that Your anointed one has come to Jerusalem to an empty tomb leaves, just as the prophets foretold. So, Father God, in Yeshua’s name, we pray that You would open the eyes of the people to know that the price of sin by the Lamb of God has come, and the only hope possible is in Him.

“You are soon about to deal with Israel in its reawakening, and the gathering of the Jew will come soon,” he adds. “But Lord, your word is clear that when we hear the gospel, we are to say yes to it now; the ancient promise of eternal life. The just shall live by faith.” {eoa}

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The question stunned David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Nearly two weeks ago, as the war between Israel and Hamas was just getting started, he saw the joy of his family visiting turn to horror with the sound and danger of exploding rockets and the need to take refuge in a bomb shelter.

That’s when his 12-year-old granddaughter asked him, “Why do they want to kill us?”

“That’s not something you want to explain to your grandchild, ever,” Friedman tells Charisma News during a recent interview relaying the events currently in Israel. “But early on in the battle, there [were] a lot of sirens in Jerusalem. It was very hard for me because I had some of my children and grandchildren visiting.

“I had to explain to my granddaughter—as I ushered her into a bomb shelter—about what was happening,” he says. “She wanted to know why, why are we doing this?” I had to explain that there are people not far away who want to kill us because we’re Jewish. They’ve never met us; they’ve never met a single Jew. No in the Gaza Strip has met a Jew in the Gaza Strip because there are no Jews in the Gaza Strip. So people they haven’t met, they don’t know.

“But nonetheless, they want to kill us, and they don’t care,” he says. “If one of their rockets hits any family, you know, they’ve nothing against us personally; they just want to kill us. This is a message that’s not really appropriate for somebody at that age. And that’s the reality of living in Israel within this these times. I mean, I had to explain it … I couldn’t just rush into a shelter, with sirens going off without explaining why to this bright little girl. But it’s a shame. I thought that we were past this point in our history. But we’re not.”

Indeed. As Jonathan Cahn calls, “Jew hatred,” or antisemitism, continues to spread throughout the world, including on top college campuses in America like Harvard. Anti-Israel protests, combined with the silence of major universities like the University of Pennsylvania, have caused an uproar in the Unites States educational community and prompted some prominent donors to withdraw their money from these institutions.

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“From looking at all of these protests at all these college campuses, one would have thought reasonably intelligent kids would do this,” Friedman says. “But antisemitism is at a level the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades.”

Many accused Elon Musk of being antisemitic and said antisemitism was cruel. But when Israel began to defend itself against Hamas and its brutality over the past couple of weeks, the same people have become blatantly antisemitic and pro-terrorism. Along with antisemitism, hypocrisy is rearing its ugly head in this world. As Charisma Media interviewer John Matarazzo says, it has become Orwellian.

“It’s stunning,” Friedman says in their interview. “I went to undergrad to Columbia University, and then I went to law school at NYU. And these two places over the last weeks have been so shameful. I mean, [there are] professors who have glorified the attack. They’ve glorified it. They said this was an incredible, awesome, attack by Hamas. That was at Columbia and NYU. The student Bar Association put out something the first day—like before Israel even responded—that all of this is Israel’s fault.

“So, imagine the pain on the parents of their people, their parents now have children who died, their parents have daughters, who have been who have been sexually abused, over and over again by these animals and then taken over into Gaza and held them hostage,” he says. “And what these, for lack of a better word, idiot college students and law students are saying is that she had it coming to her because she lives in Israel. It’s her fault, we can’t imagine that.

“The parents are not suffering enough without seeing that the insanity that has become of the world?” Friedman asks. “So yeah, I have to tell you … Israel, with all its problems, I mean, Jerusalem, we’re in a war zone here. But it’s almost easier to be here, because at least we’re living in a place where, you know, my neighbors to the right and the left and all the other people I know who are politically to the right and the left, in the center … at least here, everybody agrees that these are barbarians who have to be defeated. At least we’re not finding a war of communications in Israel.”

But it’s communication that Friedman would rather not partake in, especially with his preteen granddaughter. {eoa}

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Jonathan Cahn says it’s time for the Jews to follow the words of Ezekiel 45 and 46, which tell them to “Remove Hamas [violence] and execute justice.” Isaiah 60:18 (ESV) reads that “Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.”

For more than 2,000 years, Cahn says, the Jewish people have been seeking peace. But no matter what they do, they haven’t been able to find it.

Whether by the Philistines, the Romans, the Nazis or Hamas, the Jewish people have been despised by many throughout the world. They work diligently for peace, but it eludes them because of prevailing antisemitism.

But peace is conditional, Cahn says. The Jewish people must turn to Messiah. And, he says, that very thing is beginning to happen in the Holy Land.

The terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and certainly the country of Iran, have made it clear in no uncertain terms about wanting to annihilate the Jews from the earth. The latest brutal invasion of Israel by Hamas is just the latest shining example.

And with the rebirth of Israel as a nation in 1948, and the thousands of Jews making Aliyah to Israel the past several years as was prophesied in the Old Testament, it is not surprising that these enemies, through Satan himself, will do anything they can to stop the purposes of God.

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“Israel is once again in the center of the news and controversy,” Cahn says. “World War II is no longer a news story. The cold wars is not a new story; the Reagan years, the Clinton years, the Obama years, not the story. But Israel is still the story and the same controversy that it was before.

“The Bible reveals that there is a war against the existence of the Jewish people,” he adds. “It is natural, and it transcends time and space. You can find the hatred of the Jewish people and Israel in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and even in America, everywhere. Even when there are no Jewish people, you find the hatred of the Jewish people. You find it in the modern world, you find it in the ancient world and you find it in the Middle Ages. Everybody gives a different reason.

“It’s not about the reason,” Cahn explains. “It’s not natural. It’s supernatural. It’s spiritual, it’s demonic and it’s satanic. The hatred, fury and age-old war against Israel is a sign that the enemy of God, the enemy of Israel (Satan) is also real. What those Hamas terrorists did to those families wasn’t natural; it was satanic.”

Hamas’ actions were reminiscent, Cahn says, of the horrors perpetrated against the Jews by the Nazi death squads during World War II, where they would go house to house looking to round up Jewish families to “slaughter them.”

What Hamas did was no accident, Cahn says. “It’s the same spirit that impelled them to do what impelled the Nazis to do it; same satanic theory.”

Cahn says throughout history, Israel, as a physical nation, has had to fight hard to stay alive. And, he says, we who are of Messiah are of a spiritual nation, and we must fight in the Spirit—for Israel, for America and for ourselves—against spiritual evil. That’s where the command from Ezekiel 45 comes in to expel Hamas (violence) and to execute justice.

The Jewish people have been waiting for Messiah for 2,000 years, Cahn says. But what if the Jewish Messiah already came and most of them missed it? Jesus himself looked out over Jerusalem and wept for the Jewish people.

“He said, ‘Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem.’ Your peace, or shalom, is hidden from you,'” Cahn says.

“When it looks like they’re about to have peace, as it did with recent peace talks [before the war in Gaza began], then something happens to take it away,” Cahn says. “Yeshua happens to be their Messiah. He is their Prince of Peace. Without Him, there is no peace. Only when they turn to Him, who is the hope of Israel, will they find their shalom, their peace.”

Cahn says that what we have witnessed recently with Hamas in Israel is part of an ancient war and ancient mystery playing out in modern times before our very eyes.

“In the book of Jeremiah, God said this concerning the Jewish people,” Cahn says. “The Lord says, ‘He who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, the Lord of hosts is His name. If this fixed order should depart from Me, says the Lord, then the descendants, the children of Israel, will cease to be a nation before Me.”

That has not happened yet, although the enemies of Israel, including hell, have raged against them for more than 2,500 years. The miracle, Cahn says, is that the Jews are still alive.

“They live, and they should not be alive under the circumstances,” Cahn says. “The enemy has raged for ages to wipe them off the face of the earth. The Pharaohs tried to destroy them; Syria tried to wipe them out. Babylon tried to smash them. Rome tried to eliminate them; the Nazis tried to annihilate them. The Soviet Union tried to crush them. … Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the mullahs of Iran and all of the terrorists of the world have tried to destroy them from the face of the earth.

“But they are all gone,” he adds. “The terrorists will be no more. They have fallen, but the nation of Israel lives on. The nation of Israel lives because the God of Israel lives. If you will follow the God of Israel, you will live. He who keeps Israel will keep you, and the enemy will be gone and you will prevail, and like it says in Ezekiel, no more destruction will be heard in your land.” {eoa}

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Multitudes around the world have been waiting for prophet Jonathan Cahn’s thoughts on the recent atrocities in Israel. He let loose with a furious message of current events, historical significance and a portrait of the suffering of the Jewish people since the beginning of time in a recent sermon to his Beth Israel congregation in Wayne, Jersey.

Many around the world have celebrated Hamas’ dastardly deeds since Oct. 7 against Israel and the Jewish people, most with a glib and enthusiastic show of support for the brutal terrorist organization.

One thing that disturbs Cahn, however, is that many in the United States have followed suit and rejoiced over the murderous and senseless destruction of Jewish families, women and babies. Because of that sick attitude, Cahn believes the same situation the Israelis have experienced over the past week could invade the shores of America with a much more intense execution.

You thought 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were bad? This could take on exponential proportions in the U.S.

“It wasn’t just the people of Gaza that celebrated. Students at our Ivy League colleges in the West such as Harvard also celebrated [the attacks on Israel],” Cahn says in a recent video. “Chapters of BLM—Black Lives Matter—cheered on the killing and the bloodshed, the decapitation of children. One chapter actually had a picture in which they glorified a terrorist paragliding into Israel to murder innocent men, women and children with machine guns. But they said they were for the destruction of Israel from the beginning. That same organization also said it was for the destruction of the family.”

It’s not surprise, too, Hollywood celebrities joined in on the nauseating and shocking support for Hamas. Many in Hollywood threw their enthusiastic weight behind BLM.

“They could not even throw a crumb of support to the fathers and mothers and children who were slaughtered in their homes,” Cahn says. “Jew hatred, like evil, is a sickness that transcends politics, the Left or the Right. There were extreme right-wing groups as well that also blamed Israel, but overwhelmingly it came from the Left. The fact is that antisemitism has now become a contagion, a sickness increasingly afflicting the mainstream Left and justice.

“While Mainstream left-wing news channels featured commentators who blamed the Israelis for the massacre of Israelis, most of academia grew strangely silent,” he adds. “Harvard University overwhelmingly saw support for the murder of the innocent. Most of corporate America grew strangely silent.”

And that, Cahn says, disturbs him greatly about the future of America. The popular attitude of intolerance toward injustice seemed to just magically disappear.

“Most of the woke of the wokedom who would fly into a rage of condemnation of the slightest trace of what they would call microaggression, they fell strangely asleep from their state of wokeness,” he says. “They couldn’t think of a single word to condemn the murder of children.

“Those of you who have put your faith in the Left, let this be a revelation to you and a wake-up call or a ‘woke-up’ call.”

Cahn says the elite universities in America, who are supposedly producing the future leaders of America, have made it apparent how frightening the country’s future will be with those woke individuals at the helm.

“Fear what America or the West will become,” he says. “If these can shed the blood of the innocent in Israel, then they can shed the blood of the innocent in America or the West.”

In particular, Cahn pointed toward Rep. Rashia Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, who this week repeatedly dodged a Fox Business Network reporter’s questions about Hamas terrorists “chopping off babies’ heads” Tuesday night.

The reporter asked, “Congresswoman, Hamas terrorists have cut off babies’ heads and burned children alive. Do you support Israel’s rights to defend themselves against this brutality?” Tlaib shrugged off her query about reports by Israeli military that at least 400 babies and young children were slaughtered in their beds—some beheaded.

“You can’t comment about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads?” the reporter demanded. “Congresswoman, do you have a comment on Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads? You have nothing to say about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads?”

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Stepping inside an elevator to avoid the questions, the reporter once again asked of the left-wing lawmaker, “Congresswoman, why do have a Palestinian flag outside your office if you do not condone what terrorists have done to Israel? Do Israeli lives not matter to you?”

Not surprisingly, Tlaib stayed silent. And that comes from a U.S. Congresswoman. On X, formerly Twitter, she recently responded, “I’m proud to be a Palestinian American and I want the Palestinian people to know that not all Americans support apartheid. No one can erase our existence.”

Except it’s the other way around. Palestinians want to erase the existence of Jews, whom they claim occupy their land.

“And you wondered how the Nazis perpetrated their atrocities and no one said anything or did anything?” Cahn asks. “You don’t have to wonder anymore. The Bible says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.’ The nations of the world had a part in helping this happen. They gave billions of dollars to Hamas—even America.

“Trump stopped it, but the next administration resumed it. Instead of putting the money into helping the city of Gaza, Hamas put it into missiles to help destroy the Jewish people.”

Cahn says that if government officials have their way, the same thing will happen in America, and it won’t stop with the Jews. Christians will feel the wrath of the enemy, and it won’t stop until he sees the purposes of God in the end times halted.

So, Cahn says, don’t be surprised if violence and bloodshed akin to what has happened in Israel will indeed darken the shores of our beloved America. {eoa}

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Apostle Tim Sheets says there has never been a prophetic word downloaded to him that he wishes he had missed more than this one.

In early June, Sheets prophesied that a great shaking would come to the nations later in the year. And, he says, he doesn’t know of any greater sign that this is a shaking taking place than “the covenant nation with Almighty God, Israel, declaring war.”

Shortly after Oct. 7, when Hamas launched a shocking and unexpected attack on Israel, the Israeli government declared war on the terrorist organization. The war continues to rage today (Oct. 17) and promises to become even more intense the coming days.

“What a sobering time we live in, and it’s not that God hasn’t warned us and prepared us,” Sheets says in a recent message. “But when you get into the middle of an Antichrist uprising, it is time to pay attention and time to pray.”

Sheets points back to June 4, when he said a great shaking would come and lead to a reset of not only America but also many nations back to covenant roots with God.

“Obviously that shaking has begun,” Sheets says. “… There has been a festering of evil all over this planet and in even in our own United States. But God has said that festering is all going to come to a head. The evil is going to cause a great shaking, and that is now before us.

“But He also said, if you remember, ‘Don’t get shook. Don’t be fearful.’ We will win, but we must stand. It’ll will be painful, but we must stand,” Sheets adds. “That is now before our eyes. We must be a people that stands in great faith and a people that that prays as intercessors and intervenes on behalf of our nation and our world and Israel.

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“Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, killing over a thousand,” he says. “We’ve got Americans that have been killed, and so many have been captured. I know that most of you are paying close attention; you’ve seen the news about kids being killed and babies beheaded, women. It’s terrible, Violence, brutality barbarians are on the loose, and it is Israel’s 9/11; it is their Pearl Harbor.

One of the worst and most shocking parts of the entire situation, Sheets says, is that people around the world are actually cheering on this “slaughter” and when Israel defends itself, the nation is accused of its own brutality.

While American soldiers have been dispatched in Israel and the Israel Defense Forces have been battling the enemy since the war began, Sheets says he has is certain that heaven is heavily involved in this conflict.

“In heaven, angels have been dispatched to minimize this and fight for God’s nation of Israel,” Sheets says. “I have no doubt that Michael the Archangel the seraphim [are] very involved at this moment.

“Israel has been through tough times for 3,000 years, and some of it was painful, but God has always brought them through, and He will again,” Sheets says. “Psalms 121:4 says, ‘He who watches over Israel neither slumbers or sleeps.’ Also and let this clearly be known, Genesis 12:3 says of Israel, ‘God says, “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.”‘ God Almighty will curse Hamas, and we command it with Him in Jesus’ name.”

Sheets encouraged all believers to pray for Israel and for its military:

We pray, God that You would intervene, that Your angels would indeed protect supernaturally. Lord, let there be let there be testimonies of divine supernatural deliverance that takes place and begins to turn things around. We pray for the military leaders, that You would give them supernatural wisdom and understanding. And I pray, God, for the Prime Minister Netanyahu and for the pressure that this man is under at this point. Lord, we pray that You would enable them to make exactly the right decisions at the right time and the right place. We pray for decisive victory, in Jesus’ name. {eoa}

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Since the days of Israel’s rebirth in 1948, Jonathan Cahn says, “the forces of hell have been trying to wipe it out. From the day it was declared, they have been trying to wipe it out.”

The United Nations, Cahn says, refuses to condemn countries like China and the former Soviet Union for killing millions of their own people. Yet the U.N. doesn’t hesitate to condemn the “tiny little democracy called Israel more than it has condemned the nations of the world put together.”

Constantly watching the multitudes of rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and with the support of Iran behind it reminded Cahn to turn to the book of Daniel. Scripture reveals this “demonic entity”—the principality of Persia—which in Hebrew is pronounced “Sar Paras.”

“The nation of Persia has not died. It’s still alive, and principalities do not die,” Cahn says in a sermon a month ago , a couple of weeks prior to Hamas’ sudden and malicious recent attack on Israel. “Iran is Persia. … The fury now against Israel, against America by terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah is Islamic. Yet what it reveals—deeper than Islam, deeper than that label, are principalities.

“They don’t care if it’s Islamic or not; they will use anything and everything,” he says. “But take this revelation further. It doesn’t mean just that. There could be organizations, movements, nations, people in the 21st century that maybe consider themselves secular, it doesn’t matter—right-wing, left-wing—but it behind it may be principalities, ancient principalities.

“There are things happening in America right now that are linked to ancient principalities,” he says. “That is for another time, but this is also about that. The revelation that the angel had given to Daniel had to do with the Jewish people in the end times. It is blocked by the principality of Persia, Iran.

“Today, Israel views was its greatest enemy: Iran,” he adds. “That happens to be the same one that is linked to the principality that is trying to stop the revelation of Israel in the last days.”

The prophecy of Israel “coming back” as a nation was fulfilled 75 years ago, but prophecies continued to be fulfilled about Israel’s role in the end times, Cahn says. It’s what prompted the battle over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem earlier this year, and it is what has accelerated the war that is now going on in Israel.

“Israel comes back into the world and it’s as if it reactivated the principalities,” he explains. “The principality is trying to stop the revelation about what’s going on right now with Israel. Iran is behind it.

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“Where did [Hamas] get those missiles from?” Cahn asks. “They got them from Iran, all from Iran. Which, behind Iran is the principality which wants to destroy Israel. Where did all of this conflict begin? On the Temple Mount. Why? It’s for the same reason that Israel itself is the center of conflict and fury. Why? The Jewish people have to battle just to stay alive because of the purposes of God.

“The Bible says the purposes of God come through Israel,” he says. “If you are born again today, it’s because the purpose of God came through Israel. They brought the Word, they brought Messiah so you could be saved. It is foretold that at the end the nation of Israel will come back again—it’s back—and will usher in the purposes of God and the coming of Messiah and the kingdom of God.”

Cahn says the apostle Paul said when that happens—when the Jews come back to God—the “curse itself will be lifted off the creation.”

“How big is that?” Cahn asks. “The enemy is finished, and the knowledge of God will cover the earth. This is big; this is the end game. This is the fulfillment of all the prophecies and purposes of God, and darkness knows it. The enemy doesn’t know everything, but he knows some things. The forces of hell know it, and the principality of Persia knows it. He’s tried to stop the angels from even talking about it.”

It’s a concept that the secular world refuses to wrap its thoughts around and even ridicules, as we have seen in the secular media.

The enemy—the principalities—may be laughing now, but all true Christians know who is the victor in the end. The purposes of God will not be stopped. {eoa}

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