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This is Rick Ridings coming to you with an urgent prayer alert from Jerusalem. Vice President Vance has just arrived in the city, along with others involved in the Trump peace plan.

We are very grateful for what the Lord has done and for their part in helping the twenty living hostages return home. What an answer to prayer that was. It was truly a miracle. Everyone said there was no way Hamas would release living hostages, but God made it possible. We thank you all for praying for that.

Pray for the total uprooting of Hamas

What is urgent now is the rest of the plan. Gaza was supposed to be demilitarized. Hamas and Islamic Jihad were to lay down their arms and hand them over to a third party like Egypt. So far, that has not happened. Instead, there have been over one hundred public executions in areas where the IDF withdrew.

Hamas has killed people they accused of speaking against them on social media. One tragic case involved an entire family, including a five-year-old child, who were executed publicly.

This is a very serious time to pray for the people of Gaza and for the Christians there. It is also a time to complete what God told us two years ago at the beginning of this war on October 23, 2023.

The next day, we felt the Lord say, “You must pray. It will be a miracle and a long haul, but pray that this time the pressure from the nations will not stop Israel.”

Hamas must not simply be pruned like a plant that grows back with more tunnels, terrorists, and missiles. Although Hamas is severely crippled, they are still not laying down their arms and are using them against their own people.

We encourage you to pray in agreement with us that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and these other terrorist groups will quickly lay down their arms or be eliminated. Pray that this will not be a long, drawn-out process but that there will be decisive action so rebuilding can begin for the sake of both Gaza and Israel.

Thank you for continuing to pray for total uprooting.

Isaiah 28: See I Lay a Precious Cornerstone

This morning in our Isaiah 19 Watch, where we pray for the Middle East, God underlined a key scripture for us from Isaiah 28. It is interesting because on October 28 there are two prayer initiatives planned here.

One group of mature Messianic intercessors will be praying at a key Freemasonry site that any covenant of death made in the past by Israeli leaders will be annulled, and that a covenant of life will replace it. At the same time, we will be praying in the Ben Hinnom Valley, worshiping and proclaiming Isaiah 28 together.

We believe it is important to start proclaiming this now. The passage reads,

“Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers.”

Scoffers are those who believe God is not real and will not intervene or deal with injustice.

The passage continues,

“Hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.”

We might add, “Who would like to rule this people,” referring to terror groups and nations that boast of making covenants with death. This culture of death, especially within Islamic terror groups, is like a covenant with the spirit of death.

The scripture says,

“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation.”

That cornerstone is Jesus, Yeshua, laid in Jerusalem.

“The one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.”

We are not panicking. We are trusting the Lord. God says He will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and water will overflow the hiding places. “Your covenant with death will be annulled.”

When the overwhelming scourge comes, it will sweep away what is false. We pray that any wrong foundations, even those from the early days of Israel, will be cleansed. We ask that every covenant with death and every evil alliance be swept away in the name of Yeshua.

The Vision of the Spider and the Lion

The Lord gave me a vision that we have been praying over, and I will briefly describe it.

In the vision, I saw a queen spider sitting on a Persian carpet. It represented tightly woven systems of evil. She had managed to weave together things that normally do not go together, such as Islamic fundamentalism and wokeism. These two should oppose each other, yet they were cooperating.

In the vision, the lion of Judah came up behind her and, with His claw, began to unravel the carpet from the West, then the East, North, and South. The woven systems began to fall apart, plans that had been in place for decades were undone.

As we prayed this morning, we asked to see a house of prayer established in Gaza City in God’s timing. God bless you, and thank you for standing with us in prayer. We deeply appreciate every one of you who are watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem.

Shalom from Jerusalem.