VivianThere is something that I have seen from the start of the Gaza War (Operation Iron Swords). At the time, I wrote about it privately to friends. I have not been sure about writing about it publicly, as it’s not going to win me any friends in the Christian sphere, nor in the Jewish sphere.
Yet, this morning, I came across a BBC article, that gave me a push, to finally write about it on this blog. The BBC article mentions that Israel is pushing herself onto the Temple Mount, by contravening laws & restrictions, that restrict access for the Jews to the Temple Mount, because the Muslim Dome of the Rock is there, too. The Muslims currently control the physical area of the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount is where Solomon built the Temple, and it’s the highest Holy Place, for the Jews. The Dome of the Rock is the Muslim Holy Place. Now, I definitely don’t agree with the restrictions, but I read with alarm that Israel is pushing herself onto the Mount, because it’s not going to turn out well.
As always, Jesus has already given us wisdom & knowledge, to guide our discernment in regards to End-Time events. God intersects earthly events with his Holy Dates, to speak out something.
I’m going to tell you what God spoke out, on October 7, 2023, when the Gaza War broke out on that day, because Oct 7th was the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles in 2023.
There are 7 Feasts for the Jews. Each feast points to Jesus, in some way. The holy date gives us more illumination as to the identity of who Jesus is. The first 4 feasts that happen during the Spring, were fulfilled in Jesus’s first coming. The Messianic Jews believe the last 3 Feasts, that occurs during the Autumn, will be fulfilled in His Second Coming, and this will also be the time that the Jews will accept Yeshua (the Hebrew equivalent of the name, “Jesus) as their Messiah and Saviour.
The Seven Feasts–already fulfilled in Jesus
1. Passover (Good Friday)– Jesus was crucified on the Passover to confirm His identity as the Lamb of God
2. Feast of Unleavened Bread (Holy Saturday)– When Jesus lay dead in the tomb on the Saturday, He was the Bread of Life, with no breath of life in Him. Unleavened Bread is bread that has no leavener to give it lift through air.
3. Feast of Firstfruits (Easter Sunday)– Jesus rose from the dead on the Feast of Firstfruits, showing us that He is the firstfruit/Firstborn to rise from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20)
4. Shavuot (Pentecost)– Holy Spirit came during Shavuot, which celebrates the gathering up of the early wheat harvest. The Jews celebrate Shavuot by holding water festival activities: water fights, pouring water onto the streets, waterslides, slip & slides etc.
The Seven Feasts—the remaining to be fulfilled in Jesus’s Second Coming
5. The Feast of Trumpets– Yeshua’s Second Coming will be as Joshua blowing the trumpet signalling the start of the Last Great Battle, as well as as the sound of Victory! This Feast also symbolizes the Bridegroom (Yeshua) who blows His trumpet, signalling to His Bride (Israel), that He is on the way to her home, to fetch her for their Great Wedding. The trumpet also wakes up the villagers to summon them to the Last Great Battle that occurs as the backdrop to the Great Wedding. Sorry folks, but we first have to battle and fight satan, before we get to sit down for the Wedding meal. The Feast of Trumpets is also the Civic New Year’s Day for the nation of Israel. A new year symbolizes a new beginning, as well as release of Slave from slavery (Exodus 12:1-2), referring to a Second Exodus.
6. The Atonement- On the day of Atonement that happens only once a year, the Great High Priest throws bull’s blood against the altar to make repentance for the sins of the nation (Leviticus 16). Yeshua’s Second Coming will be Judgement for the Nations, which means judgement for evil National Leaders (Prime Ministers, Presidents, Kings) who don’t give God glory for the power & authority that they wield, but instead use their power for evil purposes. So, that would be judgement against every national leader on earth, without exception. None of you are good. None of you are god, who is saviour of the world, though you all think you’re God!
7. The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot or The Ingathering– Yeshua’s Second Coming is when the Spirit of God comes to dwell with Man, again, as God’s Spirit did when He dwelt in the Tabernacle during the Exodus. We’re in a Second Exodus that started with the release of Covid on New Year’s Eve 2019. It will be the Ingathering (Revelation 14: 14-19), too, which is the gathering in of the harvest that happens in the AUTUMN, which is a bigger wheat harvest than the earlier one that happens during the SPRING during PENTECOST. This will be a Second Pentecost, which is the latter, but bigger harvest than the first Pentecost was. What happens between the spring harvest and the autumn harvest? Well, there’s a whole lot more of SUNSHINE (revelation) and HEAT (The Great Tribulation).
Because the Gaza War (Operation Iron Swords) in 2023, started on the last and greatest day of the FEAST OF TABERNACLES, I believe that the symbolic meaning of the 7th festival (see above) is currently being fulfilled. This blogpost is going to argue for this, and by it, speak a Prophetic Word, as to what God is doing through Operation Iron Swords, that God’s Church may align correctly with His Purposes for it. Without God’s prophets speaking a Prophetic Word, it seems that His Church consistently goes the opposite direction of what world events are asking of The Church. Therefore I spend time writing these blogposts, hoping that God’s Church may receive divine revelation through these Words, that she may correctly align herself to His Purposes, to carry out His Will correctly through these world events which are End-Time events, so that we may come out of the Last Great Battle victorious.
The War in Gaza started on October 7th, 2023. This was the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles in 2023. The Last & Greatest Day of this feast is a feast of rejoicing for the Jews. It is a great water festival! Prayers are sent up for great rain, so that the coming autumn festival may be plentiful. The Great High Priest has a ritual of drawing water from the Pool of Siloam and pouring it onto the altar.
So, Jesus is the middle of all this. In John 7, we have this passage about Jesus:
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. John 7: 37-39
By shouting out these words on “The Last & Greatest Day,” Jesus was presenting Himself as the Great High Priest fetching the holy water to cleanse and refreshen the people. Moreover, the Pool of Siloam would soon be the place where Jesus would heal the blind man, who was blind from birth. Jesus put mud on the man’s eyes and told him to wash it off in the Pool of Siloam. The word, Siloam means “SENT!”
This is Jesus saying that whomever’s eyes are opened by His Living Water, is being SENT by Him, to carry this Living Water, to others.
If you look at the text, this “Last & Greatest Day” was not that long after Jesus had spoken to the Samaritan Woman, who was the Woman at the Well. The visit that Jesus had with the Samaritan Woman, was Jesus’s earlier discussion about Living Water. The Samaritan Woman had a very important question for Jesus. The Samaritan Woman asked Jesus, “Where js the proper place to worship God? Does it have to be on the Temple Mount?” This is because the Samaritans were forbidden to worship on the Temple Mount, so they had built an alternate temple on Mount Gerizim.
So, here we have the question of which physical temple was required for proper worship? As well, here we have a prior appearance of a very modern question: “Who, by ethnicity, is disbarred from the Temple Mount, and so should find an alternative location to worship God?”
What was Jesus’s reply to her question?
“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” John 4: 21-24
Scholars say that the Samaritan Woman was the world’s FIRST EVANGELIST. After Jesus spoke revelation to her, she went running, crying out to anyone who would listen to her, “Come and SEE! Come and SEE! I’ve met the Messiah, the Christ, the Saviour!”
As a consequence the villagers all streamed out to see Jesus.
Scholars have speculated that Jesus was so encouraged by what happened as a consequence of His conversation with the Samaritan Woman, the Woman at the Well of Jacob, —that this inspired Him to have the boldness to take a big public stand and cry out those words about BEING LIVING WATER. Here again, Jesus is making a connection between what is physical (literal) to something invisible, which is figurative or spiritual. He’s connecting the literal water to Himself being the spiritual water.
Through divine-timing, when Operation Iron Swords started on October 7th, 2023 on the Last & Greatest Day of the Feast of Tabernacles which was during the Jewish water festival, coupled with the timing of Jesus’s Words on Living Water in the Gospels, that occurred “on that same date,” a millennia ago—THIS is what I hear God saying:
We are to stop fighting over the physical Temple on the Temple Mount, and a physical temple/church, anywhere in fact! This is because God’s True Worshippers will worship him in Spirit & in Truth. It is no longer about a literal location, but a spiritual location of where is your heart?
As Christian, we should know better to fight about a physical temple. But, because we are so bound by earthly eye-sight, we can’t help but be caught up in the intrigues of the nation of Israel, as she fights to regain control of the Temple Mount. It takes extra effort to reach the invisible spiritual, so we take a short-cut and go directly to the earthly literal.
I get it! The Temple Mount is such a sacred place for both Jews and Christians. It is the site where Abraham offered up Isaac to God. It is the place where King David offered up sacrifices of repentance for counting his royal strength in human terms, rather than in the strength of God to back up his battle plans. This was when the Temple Mount was merely the threshing floor of Aranau (1 Chronicles 21, 2 Samuel 24). Significant to this discussion, is that this the same site where Solomon built God’s glorious Temple that held His Spirit until The Holy Spirit was given to us, to live in US, as God’s Holy Temple (1 Corinthians 3:16-17). No longer do we need a physical temple! We have the figurative Temple, which is our hearts!
“But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth,” John 4
Do we not know better than to get into physical wars over the Temple Mount, when the warfare should be spiritual (invisible, figurative language) and directed against the Kingdom of satan? Spiritual warfare is won by winning more souls to join the Kingdom (Nation!) of God, than those who belong to satan’s Kingdom, which include earthly nations. Period.
During the Last Great Battle, God asks us to choose our citizenship. Whose kingdom do we belong to? If you belong more to an earthly nationality, then naturally you get caught up in physical wars, and fights over physical things like land boundaries, buildings, church buildings, and physical temples.
Does this mean that Israel and The Church need to give up the Promised Land, which is the physical land Inheritance as promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as fought for by Moses, and possessed by Joshua?
Absolutely not!
It’s just that we’re going about it in the inverse way, and so it’s bound to fail. Therefore when I read this morning the BBC article that says that Israel is pushing herself onto the Temple Mount, I am alarmed because this is not going to be blessed, let-alone successful, because we are not aligning ourselves to the truths that Jesus taught, about the physical temple, when it comes to the issues of where can we worship. God, and who is excluded from it, based on ethnicity. The is is important because these are End-Time concerns as God works to cleanse and restore the world to a new creation and establishes the rule & reign of King Jesus Christ.
The Temple Mount will belong to Israel and will belong to The Church, when we Jews, Christians, and Arabs, all gather under the banner of King Jesus Christ. In days of old, nations physically gathered on the battlefield identified by the banner (flag) that they flew. Then, they fought in the name of that banner, that represented the Kingdom they were from. It is the banner of Jesus, representing the rule of the Kingdom of God, that holds the ONLY POTENTIAL for world-peace.
I love this music playlist from One for Israel, as it’s such a beautiful representation of how world peace will finally be brought about. One for Israel is a Messianic organization that also witnesses for Yeshua to muslims. This is a music playlist of worship songs to Jesus, with EACH song sung in all THREE LANGUAGES; English, Hebrew, and Arabic! These songs are a symbol of what happens with Christians, Jews, and Arabs unite under the banner of Jesus! Our differences melt-away as we become brothers and sisters of the same spiritual family, which is the Family of God. There is no other way that World Peace will ever be achieved. How many millennia have we tried, using our physical eyes and using physical weapons?!
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. 2 Corinthians 10: 3-6
Jesus, in the Book of Revelation, is pictured with a double-edged sword coming out of His mouth. It is not a physical sword to kill other humans (Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against satan! Ephesians 6). It is not an earthly sword to figuratively kill people with our Words, either. The double-edged Sword that come out of Jesus’s mouth in the Book of Revelation is the Prophetic Word, sharp, accurate, and so strong enough to KILL THE ENEMY. The enemy is satan and his many lies that fill our minds about how to rule the world and how to have a world peace. Hint! Hint! It’s not going to come from the United Nations, which is the modern form of the Tower of Babel but re-grouped again, which is also the reversal of the Pentecost of Acts 2. Pentecost was the gathering of many languages united by the Holy Spirit so they could understand each other’s mother tongue. The United Nations is united by translation technology so that we can understand each other’s mother tongue, but it’s an effort to try to be “God,” to be the Saviour of the world’s problems, including the problem of World Peace. Because it is all Man’s Wisdom, done to glorify Man, and done apart from the saving blood of Christ, it is DOOMED to fail. History has told us and is telling us, that the re-grouping of the Tower of Babel, where the nations network together in a common human-project, can never be “AS GOD!”
HERE, I am giving you the double-edged Sword of Jesus Christ, which is the Prophetic Word from God, to kill the lies of the enemy, once and for all, surrounding the question of the Temple Mount, to help solve the problem of the Temple Mount that is causing so much division and blood-shed between the two sons of Abraham: Isaac (the Jews) and Ishmael (the Muslims)
The Answer
We will ALL get the Temple Mount, one day but it will be when we are all united as brothers and sisters in the Family of God or as the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. THEREFORE, our strategy should be to get busy evangelizing the unsaved. The Messianic Jews are ALL MOBILIZED and super organized to take advantage of the brokenness that has happened in the Jewish community around the world, as a consequence of the anti-semitism that has erupted around the world, as a consequence of the War in Gaza. Who is looking after the Muslims? Well, it’s supposed to be The Christians, then!
Unfortunately, Christians, in our inability to read and understand New Testament scripture, is still bound by the physical, and so we’re spending our energies hating the Arabs and the Muslims, when they are our mission field, ripe with harvest, as a consequence of the Operation Rising Lion (the US/Israel war against Iran). The account of Jesus’s teaching with the Woman at the Well, should make us understand that we need to stop fighting physically, but to fight spiritually.
By winning the spiritual fight, which is won when the whole world accepts King Jesus and His principles for Kingdom Living (The Beatitudes) and obeys them. Then we ALL get the Promised Land. Then we ALL have access to the Temple Mount. My guess that we’ll care a lot less about the physical Temple Mount, at that time. (Those who resist King Jesus, will be removed by God through plague, thus cleaning up the world, like that. God cleansed the world through drowning during literal flooding in the account of Noah’s ark. God will make His final cleansing through pneumonia, which is drowning from within. Figurative drowning?)
The Church messes up her discernment when we mix-up what is figurative with what is literal.
Jesus is saying that God transcends physical things (He is Spirit) and so He is not limited by time and space. So, neither is worship of Him, when we have His Spirit (The Holy Spirit) within us. As Christians, we’re supposed to know that worship is not limited to a single temple or any temple, yet we see Christians around the world expecting the Temple Mount to be given back to the Jews. So, the “Temple Mount” will belong to all of us, when all of us belong to Jesus. So, the point is to bring people to Jesus, so we should stop fighting over the Temple Mount, but we don’t have faith to believe that it is possible to bring the world to Jesus, so let’s kill each other generation over generation over that piece of land.
Therefore you may understand why I feel alarm to read this morning, that the Jews are flaunting the restrictions to force themselves onto the Temple Mount. It’s not going to turn out well.
We keep on doing it backwards. We must start with the spiritual, and then the physical will be realized. If the Jews, Christians, and Muslims were all united under the banner of Jesus, we’ll all get the Temple Mount. Instead, we start with the physical to try to force the attainment of the spiritual: “Let’s kill everyone and take the Temple by force, and the we’ll usher in the Messianic Age.” This ain’t going to happen folks! We’ve been trying for millennia and so we know what is over the horizon if Israel continues her push onto the Temple Mount.
Are your eyes opened to what the physical on earth is pointing to, which is invisible, of The Spirit, so it belongs to the heavenly realms? If yes….THEN the following belongs to You!
Siloam means “SENT”. When Jesus heals your spiritual blindness, you are SENT to be as the Samaritan Woman–running around, can’t contain yourself, you have to shout out to everyone, “Come and SEE! Come and SEE!– See the one who gives us Living Water, so that our dry, boring, dead, desert, spiritual lives can be revived and be filled with Life instead! It is LIFE so overflowing that it can’t help but spill over to others, making them feel their dying of thirst, so that they are drawn to you, as a dying man in a desert, crawling for water. .
Sometimes that dead spiritual life is symbolized by the dead physical building that you frequent weekly as your “worship temple.” You have traded being a LIVING TEMPLE for the Spirit of God to dwell in, for a physical temple that your physical body dwells in. It’s so easy for us, in our earthly eyes to prioritize the literal because it takes faith (extra work) to believe in the figurative (the spiritual).
I’m hoping that by writing out what God is saying through the physical (the intersecting of many things through the intersection of divine-timing), that it will be easier for you to see the spiritual, which is the invisible. Then, you, too, have the Sword of the Spirit, which is the uttered/prophetic Word of God, to strike down the enemy. Then, the Kingdom of God can be expanded through, just that little bit. If we all did “our bit,” then world peace will be wrought. THIS is how Jesus is the PRINCE OF PEACE.
By serendipity this morning (a.k.a. God!), I came across this Bible verse. It FITS! So, I believe it is God giving me scripture to confirm This Word of Prophecy, through me:
“The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.”
Proverbs 17:14 ESV
During the water festival during October 7, 2023, great amounts of water were let out. We can think of the waters of SILOAM, which mean SENT! God SENDS you, by this Prophetic Word, that I am writing out for you, today.
We can also say that the great amount of water let out, on that “Last & Greatest Day” was also the great amount of tears that flowed out, as a consequence of the start of the Gaza War. It is not God’s Will that we let it become a great quarrel in The Church. God permitted all these prophetic End-Time events to happen, to ripen the fields for harvest. So, let’s not be distracted “by wars and rumours of wars” (Matthew 24) but hasten our efforts to do the Great Commission, because it is only by finishing the Great Commission that we win the Last Great Battle (the Great Wedding between Jesus and His Church), and then we get to finally sit at the table with Jesus, for the Great Wedding Feast.
The Feast of Tabernacles reveals the identity of Jesus/Yeshua’s Second Coming. Jesus comes again as God’s Spirit dwells with us, yet again, and WALKS with us, just as God’s Spirit walked with the first Adam & Eve, in the Garden of Eden. It will require a great Ingathering of the greatest harvest, but the harvest will not be without blood (Revelation 14). Some will only come to Jesus, at their last breath. This has already started in fact. We’re in the middle of the Great Tribulation. The question is do they know THE NAME. upon which they need to cry out for salvation for deliverance out of their earthly crisis, and as well as for deliverance out of their spiritual crisis (their moments before drawing their last breath on earth?) Are we out there, giving them THE NAME. The name, Jesus/Yeshua/Joshua all means “Salvation!”
The Promised Land, during the Second Advent (Arrival), during Second Exodus, during the Second Pentecost, is a Second Garden of Eden, which is Revelation 21 & 22.
Amen and amen! Maybe it be so, dear Lord! He who has eyes, may he SEE into the spiritual realms, after drinking Living Waters, so as to be SENT out to take in the last great harvest, which is winning souls for God, during the last great spiritual awakening before Christ’s Return. After he SEES, may he be like the Woman at the Well:
Come and SEE! Come and SEE! I have met the Christ!
Through divine-timing, of when Operation Iron Swords happened (Oct 7, 2023), God is fulfilling the identity portion that the Feast of Tabernacles points to, to tell us who the Coming Messiah is. He comes as Living Water, which is world-wide revival, when His Spirit dwells with us, again, and this does not require a physical temple, but a softened and repentant heart.
Water Flowing from the Temple
47 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 2 Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side.
3 Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits,[a] and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. 5 Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. 6 And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?”
Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 7 As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh. 9 And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.10 Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea. 11 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. 12 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre.” Revelation 12: 5
To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron sceptre and will dash them to pieces like pottery’ —just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give that one the morning star. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ Revelation 2: 25-29