BE READY FOR THAT DAY!

Truly one of the greatest joys of my last twenty years has been following and keeping the feasts of the LORD. Once again I stand amazed at how He is moving according to HIS calendar, to fulfill His Word!  We are now in the Hebrew month of Adar, the month written about in the book of Esther.  Many know this thrilling biblical account of a wicked "royal official," named Haman, who is also called "the enemy of the Jews" (Esther 3:10). Haman devises an evil plot to annihilate all the Jews who live in the land of Persia (modern-day Iran).  Esther 3:13: "Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and and annihilate all the Jews - young and old, women and little children - on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would BE READY FOR THAT DAY."

My friends, THAT DAY will begin this Monday. At Sundown on March 2, it will be the 13th day of Adar on the Hebrew calendar. This is when the Jewish people celebrate the feast of Purim in remembrance of this great story of the deliverance of the Jewish people in ancient Persia (which is modern-day Iran). I hope you will take time to read this small book of the Bible if you haven't. Esther's courage has long been a great source of faith and inspiration to me!  At the risk of her own life, she went before the king and convinced him to "put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews" (Esther 7:3).

The biblical account continues into the 14th day of Adar: "So the king commanded that Haman's ten sons be hanged on gallows. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman. The Jews in Susa came together on the 14th day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder. Meanwhile the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder. This happened on the 13th day of Adar and on the 14th day they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy" (Esther 9:14-17).

I feel like we are staring straight into a moment in time when God again fulfills His Word to save His people! Israelis have just been told to be ready at any moment to run into their bomb shelters and "Persia" (Iran) is surrounded by thousands of soldiers and weapons, in order to protect the Jewish people. And if the timing of all this were not amazing enough, there will be a blood red moon on this time period of 13/14 Adar (March 2/3).  Most of you know that lunar eclipses are warning signs to Israel. Interestingly, there were blood moon eclipses on the LAST TWO Purim feasts as well! GOD IS SPEAKING TO HIS PEOPLE DIRECTLY ON HIS APPOINTED TIMES! 

Like everyone else, I am waiting and watching and feeling extremely certain that we are headed into a major war with Iran. Even the "waiting time," the delays and deadlines that President Trump has given Iran have been very interesting to me, because I feel that we are once again waiting, like Daniel did, for Michael to finish battling with the Prince of Persia.  In Daniel 10:12-14 Daniel is visited by an angel who says to him, "Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the PRINCE OF THE PERSIAN KINGDOM RESISTED ME TWENTY-ONE DAYS. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia. Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come."

Does this set off little explosions in anyone else's spirit as you read those words? There truly is a demonic entity known as "the prince of the Persian Kingdom" and this evil spirit is so unspeakably wicked and forceful, that even this warring angel had to get help from the Chief Angel Michael to overcome it, after twenty-one days of battle. I asked myself, "Has it been twenty-one days (three weeks) of negotiations and talks between the U.S. envoys and the Iranian official? Is that a picture of the intense spiritual warfare saber-rattling in the heavens, just prior to a major victory at Purim?"

It all appears to be ancient, biblical history playing out again, perhaps just as the angel foretold when he spoke to Daniel. "The vision concerns a time yet to come." This is the time.

Keep watch, my friends! And above all, stay in prayer. That is how we help to fight the battle against this serpent, this violent spirit of hatred against the Jews and against US, the believers in Yeshua/Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, that is still today over the kingdom of Persia. ...and spreading far and wide.