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 Things have been quite intensive here this week in Jerusalem. Thursday, there were wildfires — you probably have read and heard about that — all over Israel.

Why does the Wicked Man Revile God?

It was Independence Day, the 77th anniversary of the modern nation-state of Israel, and wildfires were happening, many that have now been traced to arson.

Here in South Jerusalem, where we live, a Palestinian man was caught trying to start a field on fire. Praise God, he was stopped, and was not able to do it.

Then, yesterday morning, Saturday, sirens going off woke us at 6:23 a.m. due to a Houthi missile aimed at the region where we live.

We had to run down three flights of stairs early in the morning to our shelter where we joined our neighbors. Praise God that the missile was intercepted.

But today, on Sunday another Houthi missile was not intercepted, and struck right next to the Ben Gurion airport. This is a huge development because, if it had struck the airport, hundreds of people could have been killed. It could have been a major, major thing.

But it’s already a major development because many airlines are cancelling flights for at least 24 to 48 hours, until they see, uh, that it’s safe to come in here.

The tourist industry in Israel has already suffered from a year and seven months of a severe lack of tourists coming in. They were just starting to come back. We were starting to see more of them, but we expect this will prevent people from traveling here.

But it has seriously affected, uh, Israel’s economy because tourism is such a huge part of the Israeli economy. So at the same time Israel has been fighting a seven-front war, now there is this new development which could again affect the economy and tourism.

We praise God for people like you, our amazing prayer warriors who ran to the fire during these months and came to pray because of the war and in spite of the war.

At the same time also there have been attacks from militias that are connected with the government in Syria. The government claims they can’t control them, but it’s very obvious they could if they tried.

They’re also attacking the Druze in Syria, and Israel is the only country that has come to the side of the Druze people. They’re a very ancient people in this region, and, they have kind of a mixture of beliefs, but they’re still considered more within an Islamic region.

So Israel is fighting to defend them now, and there’s quite a lot of escalation.

How should we pray right now? Psalm 10

Pray that what Satan has meant for evil will be turned into good, that it will boomerang upon him. Sometimes he thinks he’s doing really well and then he goes too far, and gets caught and things change.

And so even as Haman was caught and in the end hung up on his own gallows, pray that these demonic extreme terror groups that control Lebanon through Hezbollah, Gaza through Hamas, Yemen through the Houthis that ultimately they would all be traced back to the Iranian regime.

And the Iranian regime has been using lies and all kinds of things to stall and, and do what they can to put off any kind of an attack to take out their nuclear program, which could be very close.
Some estimates say within one or two weeks of, of focused attention, they could develop a nuclear weapon.

So we’re in a very serious situation right now. Pray that it will backfire on the enemy. They have gone too far, and this time pray that the powers that could deal with the Iranian regime will have their eyes open and will do something, very quick to hit the head of the octopus.

Our friend, Rana Sai at the Nazareth House of Prayer, had a vision some time ago of an octopus. The tentacles of an octopus can be cut off, but then they grow back new tentacles.
So you have to hit the head of the octopus.

She felt the Lord would come Himself with His own sword to, to pierce the head of that octopus.
So pray in that way. Pray that God will arise in defense of Israel right now.

Here’s a scripture I felt today: Psalm 10:12–16:

Arise, O Lord. Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
Why does the wicked man revile God?”

They revile the God of Israel, uh, just like Goliath.
And who—why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”?
But You, O God, see the trouble of the afflicted.
You consider their grief and You take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to You.
You are the helper of the fatherless.

There’s so many orphans here in Israel of those who’ve lost their fathers in the fighting, but also in these areas like Gaza. So many orphans, not because of Israel, but because of a demonic terrorist group called Hamas that must be uprooted.

So we need to pray together and believe together that it will be uprooted.

He says in that same passage, “Break the arm of the wicked, O Lord.
Call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.”

So we need to pray that this arm represents strength, and that the strength of the wicked will be broken. And that instead, Israel will rise in strength.

This Thursday is the nation of Israel’s 77th anniversary, and 77 in the Hebrew letters stands for strength. So may this be a year of God’s strength coming upon Israel in her moment of weakness. And may God break the strength of the wicked, and call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.

Then he says, “The Lord, the Lord God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Father of our Lord and Messiah and Redeemer and Savior Yeshua the Messiah, The Lord is King forever and ever.”

And then it ends with this promise:

“The nations will perish from His land.”

So they will not be able to take over this land. They will not be able to exterminate the Jewish people. But God promises that the nations will perish from His land.