WAR

 NOVEMBER - Day 27 of Swords of Iron War.

Thursday - 02.11.2023

The fighting is spreading fast on all the borders. But God is the Lord of Hosts and His angels are fighting with our soldiers on Land - Sky – Suez Canal and – Sea.

I thank God for His protection; His prophecies, His love for His people. I thank God that He answers prayers and teaches us how to pray and what to pray about even when we are unable to do it ourselves.

I also thanked Him for the many people who dare to pray and make Praise videos being shown all over the media. On one such reel, IDF Soldiers sang and prayed “Shema Israel, Adoni Eloheinu Adoni Echad”, they added to it other short verses in the song, before they went to battle. For some of them, it might be the last opportunity to say that sacred prayer; but it will carry them all to the battlefield with much courage. Today in prayer, He reminded me of a spiritual vacuum. I recalled the teaching in Matthew 12:

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

So we read and prayed that the Holy Spirit will fill all the places that the devil leaves; all the spiritual places that became a vacuum and also the physical places that IDF cleaned out as it cleared the land from Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorists.

As I was praying the above, I was reminded of the prophetic borders of Israel. In Ezekiel 47 the borders after the war of Gog and Magog are described as follows:

“This shall be the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, by the road to Hethlon, as one goes to Zedad, Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim (which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), to Hazar Hatticon (which is on the border of Hauran). Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

“On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side.

“The south side, toward the South, shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.

“The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This is the west side.

I believe in every word in the bible as is. Meaning that If God says this will be so, then it will be so. As such, if God says that the borders will be those of Ezekiel 47, then it is so.

Putting that together with the writings from Matthew 12, my prayer now changed to:

God, please fill up all the empty places within the borders you declare with your Holy Spirit and your angels and your people, so there will be no vacuum, nor desolation, no place for the devil to come back with his demons. Please keep your nation alive and well and keep the land within your prophetic borders for your nation. Amen.

The next portion of the above writings was a bit puzzling at first,

“Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord God.

I thought about all the non-Jews who are living among us. Some are married to us, others come as workers from other countries, some have Jewish DNA through a generational family member, and others just want to live here... whatever the reason, if they are among us I understand God is commanding us to accept them as part of our nation. Therefore, those are friends, not enemies. And by the time the borders will be as Ezekiel wrote them we will not have enemies inside of these borders.

When Daniel realized that the 70 years of captivity were up and it was time to go back home, he prayed to God to fulfill the promise. He reminded God it was time to return from exile.

I am following Daniel's example and reminding God that it is time to bring His people home from all the corners of the earth; settle the borders of Ezekiel's prophecy, and clear the area from enemies. It is time to fill up the space with the Holy Spirit and the offspring of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.