This is a Time to Align with God's Covenant People
At our most recent Firstfruits Gathering on April 4, the Spirit of God came on me in a powerful way regarding the nation of Israel. The Lord began to say:
Watch this month for I will change the atmosphere and stir it over Israel. I will begin to cause Israel and its atmosphere to go into tumult. I say even along the Jordanian border I must have an uncovering of the enemy's entry plan. I say now is a time that the enemy would love to rise up and enter in through a gate that he does not have legal access to. Get ready, for a gate must now be blocked with the enemy.
You will hear of the rumor of the war in Israel. But you will also see that a plan must be uncovered now. Even those that would lead your nation, watch their alignment with Israel, for many now are saying the words of change, but I say they will realign you out of My covenant plan. You must understand that there is a word from Zion, stirring, that says all of Israel will now come to the forefront this month so that My decisions and My realignments can be made. This is a different season that has begun. I am birthing a new thing. You must know that the nations will align in a new way. And even now, unless you cry out, you will not see a heart for My covenant plan proceed forward. You must cry now, and the armies must be amassed now to move forward in Jesus' name.
For the intensity of times will now cause a mustering and drawing together of My troops in the earth. Get ready, for I will have a people that will create the sound of advancement and acceleration. You will lay down that comfortable place that you have known, and you will realign in a new way and move forward with Me.
No longer will My people be at ease, for too much is changing in the earth as you know it. Your generations must be aligned now or some will be pulled away and go into the ranks of the enemy. This is a season of alignment. Now this nation that you are a part of is at its decision making time. But in the voices you are hearing, you must hear My plan through them to stand with My covenant plan or else you will be deceived and led astray.
This was such a powerful word! The Lord wants us to know that our whole nation is at its Kairos time of choosing this month, and we need to understand how things will happen. If we do not hear a message coming out of our leaders about what is happening and how they will align with God's covenant plan in Israel, then we had better run away from them and run from them quickly. Otherwise, within the next eight years we will no longer be the same covenant land which we have known.
I know the spirit of God, and something has to come off of Israel now. The presence of God has to go into Israel and uncover now. I don't know anything in the natural - I know it by the spirit. Something has to be uncovered now in Israel, and our nation has to be realigned now. And it's not just about being a Christian. It is about this nation saying, Wait a minute, we will align with Israel!
I hear the Lord. Whatever happens these three weeks in Israel sets the course for where we are going in this land. There is something going on. It is almost like there has been a death shroud in place in Israel that has to be ended and removed. There has to be a changing of guard completely now in Israel. Whatever happens in Israel now will cause realignment in the nations of the earth. The United States of America must be the first because we have the strongest of covenant alignments.
In light of this powerful word on how we must align with God's covenant plans in Israel, I wanted to share this incredible report from the State of Kentucky and how they have aligned with the remnant in that land. Let's continue to cry out for state to state and nation to nation to align with God's covenant plan for Israel.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
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This resolution was sent to David and Leah Ortiz, parents of the 15-year old Amiel:
A RESOLUTION adjourning the 2008 Session of the Kentucky House of Representatives in honor of Ami Ortiz, a world-class example of how one teen and his family have demonstrated God's love and forgiveness in the face of murderous religious persecution.
WHEREAS, at 2:30 p.m. On Thursday, March 20, 2008, a 15 year-old Ami Ortiz, the son of a well-known pastor in Ariel, Israel, miraculously escaped death when he opened a traditional "Happy Purim" gift loaded with explosives and delivered to his home by terrorists intending to frighten members of the tiny Messianic community into fleeing their homes, city, and nation; and
WHEREAS, a March 23 Jerusalem Post article reported that Ami's "neck had an eight-inch gash like someone slit his throat. He has a ruptured lung. Doctors had to operate on his tongue. He has second-degree burns to his chest and arms, and there is no flesh on the thighs." The article further disclosed that doctors amputated two of Ami's toes and are working to prevent the loss of his arms and legs and to remove fragments of nails, bolts, screws, and metal shards from his entire body, including his right eye; and
WHEREAS, prior to the murderous bombing of his home, Ami Ortiz, the youngest of David and Leah Ortiz's six children, had also endured, along with other family members, years of harassment and intimidation associated with anti-missionary efforts to frighten the family by throwing a Molotov cocktail at the family's car, vandalizing their property, demonstrations, threats, and distribution of hurtful flyers and "wanted" posters plastered around their town with the personal information about the Ortiz family; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Ortiz's ministry to both Arab and Jewish believers resulted in death threats from the Hamas terrorist organization in the mid-1990's for preaching the Gospel to Palestinian Muslims; and
WHEREAS, the Ortiz family has also received similar threats from certain ultra-Orthodox Jews, some of whom have been involved in anti-missionary efforts to outlaw the free expression of Messianic faith in Israel; and
WHEREAS, the latest attempt to murder the Ortiz family marks an escalation of physical attacks on Messianic Jews in Israel, following the fire-bombing of a Messianic house of prayer in Jerusalem several months ago, and the ongoing attacks in Arad; and
WHEREAS, prior to the bombing of the Ortiz home, the Messianic community complained that Israel's media have often under-reported, downplayed, or reframed the significance of deadly attacks on Jewish believers; and
WHEREAS, the evening following the attack on the Ortiz family, Israel's Channel 10 news unwittingly justified such attacks with the statement, "Where there are missionaries there will be anti-missionaries;" and
WHEREAS, a recent article on Ami Ortiz in the March 25 issue of The Jerusalem Post quotes Howard Bass, head of a Messianic congregation in Beersheba as saying there has been "very little sympathy for our plight. We get the feeling that nobody in Israel is willing to take a strong stand against violent, anti-missionary activity;" and
WHEREAS, just before Christmas in 2005, Bass' congregation was attacked by hundreds of demonstrators who received the backing of the local rabbinic leadership, the Post said. Another Messianic believer, Edwin Beckford, is under house arrest. Last Fall, arsonists set fire to Jerusalem's Narkis Street Baptist Church, which sustained minor damage; and
WHEREAS, the government of Israel's history of reluctance to aggressively prosecute anti-missionary terrorists who have attacked Messianic Jews and their congregations in Beersheba and Arad with the same zeal that Israel prosecutes other terrorists dehumanizes a religious minority and emboldens terrorists to believe that Messianic Jews are fair game; and
WHEREAS, the police and courts in Israel may soon face pressure by certain ultra-orthodox religious politicians in Israel's Knesset and government ministries to "go easy" on the perpetrators of this attempted murder of the Ortiz family because some of these politicians believe missionaries to be at fault for being a "severe provocation;" and
WHEREAS, in the face of death, Ami Ortiz called upon the Messiah Yeshua, and has continued to set the right example for all believers by embracing the words of Yeshua: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;"
NOW, THEREFORE,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
Section 1.
The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby adjourns the 2008 Session of the Kentucky House of Representatives in honor of Ami Ortiz and his family for demonstrating the love and forgiveness of God in the face of murderous religious persecution.
Section 2.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall send copies of this Resolution to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 3 Kaplan Street, Hakirya, Jerusalem 91950; Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, Knesset, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem 91950; Mayor Ron Nachman, Ariel Municipality, Ariel City Hall, Ariel, Israel 40700; and Ambasador Sallai Meridor, 3514 International Drive N.W., Washington, DC 2000
