Shalom Friends,

Abba has given me this fresh word today for not only our personal spiritual nourishment, but also its follow through equipping effect it will have as you help others in your sphere of responsibilities (2 Cor. 1:1-16).  A few days ago I was experiencing the natural sentence of death (2 Cor. 1:8-10) in an Ironman competition in Frankfurt, Germany.  While I have been very accustomed to enduring pain, affliction, persecution, backstabbing, betrayal, and the host of other things that we who are in the ministry experience in our desire to spread His glory (2_Cor. 4:1-18), this pain however, was something I have never encountered before at this mysterious level.  It was both physical as well as mental and has direct applications for those of us in this “outside the camp” lifestyle of suffering His shame per (Hebrews 13:12-14).

First let me brief you what happened on July 4th in Frankfurt, Germany for the European Championship of Ironman.  If you have not yet seen the video we put together please click here or here for HD YouTube version.  I was with the best and fastest athletes from the Nation of Israel and we had trained hard the last several months for this Championship event.  There were high expectations for all of us in this group because our racing times in practice where spot on!  However, during the race I had a major mechanical malfunction on the bike course and then became either dehydrated and/or afflicted with severe food poisoning from bad energy gels.  I was not a happy camper when I finished the 185 kilometer bike course and began to run the Marathon in the tormenting heat.  So in the midst of severe cramps, fainting, and semi-delusional thinking [some folks think we are crazy/delusional already just doing an Ironman...but that is another topic (LOL)], I checked myself immediately into the hospital tent for observation.  After 30-40 minutes of checking me out, the German doctor could not find anything wrong with me and began to frown at my Israeli flag that was painted on my right shoulder.  Whatever was going on with me was not good and laying in a hospital tent stretcher starting to lose consciousness was not a way to represent Jesus and Israel in Germany!  It was at this moment I heard the gentle whisper of the Holy Spirit telling me to get up and run the race and FINISH!  So I did everything in my power to get up, pull my wet racing shirt and number back on, put on those Nike Elite lunar racing shoes, and get back out in the packed Marathon course full of  people!  The Doctor looked at me like I just came from planet Mars as I left the tent and slowly picked up the pace by faith and shuffled forward into a eventual strong stride.

What happened?  Well somewhere between lifting my head off that stretcher and getting back on those wet Nike Lunar racers…the supernatural resurrection power of Jesus flooded my earth suit and activated a strong healing miracle!  I felt like I was dying and losing consciousness…to suddenly being empowered by moving my legs with ecstatic joy!  I realized a Divine intervention was happening in this brutal Ironman event and as I looked around at the rest of the 2000 competitors I was the only one smiling!  It was so cool and I’m so glad I got out of that hospital tent and away from that Dr. Frankenstein attitude of the medical staff when they saw I was a “Jude” or “Jew”!   (Now let me say that this was a rare event of anti-Semitism while in Germany and most of the people we meet there were absolutely beautiful hosts)! My grandfather was a German Jew from Berlin and he left Europe quickly and immigrated into NYC when he saw what happened after WWI and the beginning of the Hitler years, so I knew I could not lie down in that hospital tent but had to rise up just like in the macro God rose up the Nation of Israel out of the ashes of the Holocaust in 1948!  Glory to God!

Now let’s talk about this phantom pain topic….

It was in this race I was preparing for the so called “wall” that the coaching staff told us was going to hit us around Kilometer 35.  Supposedly this wall was going to rear its ugly head and try to shut us down to quit the race.  I still do not know what there are talking about because I did not hit any wall at Kilometer 35+!  I hit a wall of at Kilometer 1.5 (LOL)!!!  Anyway, I was looking for this mysterious wall to appear in this run and it never appeared.  But something did appear that has spiritual connections big time for us this morning!  I remember in this Marathon portion after getting that supernatural healing in Dr. Frankenstein’s tent, that my spirit man was so alive and active and full of intoxicating joy, but yet my body/mind was beginning to act weird.  Now I don’t know all that was going on inside of me but I do know when I smell devils trying to nest in my hair!  Suddenly I began to have all these phantom pains!  I had a family member who is now in Heaven, but before they left their earthsuit for their reward, they had both of their legs amputated.  I remember sitting and speaking with this family member and they would suddenly try to scratch their legs and would cry out about this phantom pain they had even though it was years since they lost their legs!  So we know that our nervous system makeup can play tricks on us and this was exactly what began to happen to me!  I was starting to get all these phantom pains in my body from past football injuries that I suffered over 30 years ago and were already absolutely healed!  It was crazy…suddenly different parts of my legs started to hurt and I was not injured but fully healthy!  The pain was so strong that I was being not just tempted, but literally hijacked by my mind to stop running and just lie down and call for my Mommy (LOL)!  So I would just flat out ignore these phantom pains and they would leave and never come back…but in the next Kilometer suddenly a new phantom pain would appear even more tormenting!  Now I don’t know when the mental neuron activity aspect quits and the spiritual aspect of demonic temptations kick in, but I do know that I was now under a stronger terror attack from the underworld and it was time for some devil casting out maneuvers!  I love it!!!

At one of the 10K race course turnarounds, I took note of the battle situation I was in….   “OK, I know what physical pain and torment is because I have been going thru that the last 9 hours of this brutal Ironman race in July heat.  I know what the miracle joy healing power is because that is flowing thru my body and dispelling all this pain and lactic acid buildup.  And I know my mind is moving aggressively against me  in the pursuit of self preservation because it has a safety valve being pushed  because it does not want to run a 12 hour Ironman.  Ok…I understand these dynamics happening in me and even some of this phantom pain/scar tissue of old injuries is just some old cobwebs being blown out of my system…fine.  But now I’m encountering some really ugly and evil spirits of the underworld here in Frankfurt and I need to blow my shofar but it is back in Israel!  Why a atmospheric change in this race?  Because all these hundreds of thousands of spectators partying along the running course have not stopped drinking beer for the last 8 hours!  That means we got some really drunk Germans here during this evening (yes, it was getting dark now) and they are starting to do some really immoral stuff here in this park area along the river!  And now we got the hybrid Gothic’s and Zombies movement starting to show up here with all the wanna-be vampires. That is why so many demons are now here and because they are manifesting big time in this debased atmosphere”!

(Photos of the zombies and vampires movement in Frankfurt, Germany)

So here I am at the end of the Ironman Marathon portion having successfully fought thru dehydration, sickness, and food poisoning.  Now having successfully overcome and cast down the thoughts of phantom pain that my mind was releasing as it tried to hit the default button and restart the program because it did not like this situation and only thinks…”self-preservation”!  And now I’ve got to literally fight thru the demons manifesting in all these drunken German spectators on this sidewalk with all kinds of weird young people dressed up like zombies and vampires doing insane things in front of me with a Israeli flag on my shoulder and no police protection!  …While also we got boatloads of Muslims now in this park area looking for the prostitutes and they do not like seeing the Israeli flag on my shoulder!  And many of these Muslims were from Turkey and are looking for Jewish blood!  I kid you not!   Even one of the special forces officers on the Israeli team refused to have a similar Israeli flag painted on his shoulder for fear of being shot by someone in the crowd of 500,000 spectators and some are from the huge Turkish population in Germany!

Anyway, I finally got myself gathered together and started audibly rebuking the demons that were manifesting around me and let them know that their feeble attempt to gain entrance into my mind with fear of physical attack, terror attempt, phantom pains, and suggestions of defeat was useless.  I may be running my first Ironman and being a rookie at this long distance stuff, but I’m a Titanium Holy Ghost Man in the Spirit realm and because of the Blood of Jesus I have come to make war against you and WIN!  Hallelujah!!!!  You should have seen those demons run for cover as I lifted up my voice as a shofar!  I love witnessing and sharing Jesus to those about to fall into the underworld for eternity!  I was really tired but there was nothing like the smell of Heavenly napalm as His truth was marching right thru that demented drunken Zombie infestested German crowd in Frankfurt Germany this July 4th evening!

OK, I hope this little testimony helps you identify the tactics of the enemy….  There are natural and physical pain.  There is mental pain and operations of imaginations against us.  And there is of course the fallen spirit world trying to gain access to us if we yield to these phantom pains or suggestions.  The enemy is the father of all lies and though there are real phantom pains for those who suffer terrible physical handicaps in the natural…there are also real phantom pains that the enemy uses to stop you in this race of faith!!!!  Don’t let him trick you with his cunning schemes!  Pull down those vain imaginations (2 Cor. 10:3-6)!  Don’t let the strongholds of fear and doubt be built out in your minds!  There is a three dimensional war going on and Abba has given you and I by the Holy Ghost and His Holy Word the ability to put on the full amour of God and speak His Rhema Word/Sword for victory (Ephesians 6:12-19)!

Keep Give’n Them Heaven!

In His service for your faith,

Scott

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Shalom Friends,

It has been a wild week and may this communiqué update you’all with great refreshment in the Holy Spirit!  My morale is so pumped up and the river of God is so strongly flowing in my belly in this late hour to serve you’all and do whatever we can to help you become overcomers per Revelation 21:7.  We no longer live for ourselves but for you’all as this is our new life expression since encountering the desert wasteland glory realm of Gethsemane!  We exist to service your faith and there is no other desire so grand!

So how can we serve you’all with a fresh new move of the Holy Spirit?  Well the first way is to get you under the spout where the glory is coming out…and that location in Heavens GPS scheme of things is Israel and the coming awakening here. The glory of God is moving in these last days apocalyptic grand finale towards a great visitation upon the currently blinded Jewish people and you and I have been given the great privilege to be involved in a ground floor opportunity of unprecedented fruit production for the Master!  All of us believe in the promise of Genesis 12:3 and desire to experience the overflow of those blessings in our lives.  And I believe that we have found the most profound way you can bless the natural seed of Abraham anywhere on planet earth!  It is thru these special operations He has given you and I an unprecedented way to bless and comfort His ancient people!

Most of our operations with the IDF warriors these last three years has been shrouded in stealth secrecy due to the security restrictions placed upon us.  However, what I’m about to share with you’all is one of the little side operations we have found ourselves windwardly blown into by the Holy Spirit that has recently produced great fruit.  It continues to amaze us how great a fisherman the Holy Spirit is if we will just yield and serve people here and not let our brain tissue default us into the paralysis of analysis of what we think “will work and not work”, in fishing for men in this tough neighborhood!  So what I’m about to share with some of you’all may cause a religious knee jerk response of disbelief or varying opinions of criticism to flow, but what we cannot deny is the tremendous fruit being borne for the Master thru this latest small excursion away from the traditional ways all of us usually conduct local outreach events!

IDF Night Warriors

OK, let’s now go outside the box and explore one of these new ways we have been reaching the Israeli Night Warriors here….

As many of you remember from last July 2009, I was strategically placed by the Holy Spirit into the 18th Olympic Maccabiah Games and won a silver medal in the Cycling Time Trial Championship race with absolutely no background whatsoever in this difficult sport (see link).  After these Olympic games were over, unbeknownst to me, my name was being floated around the Israeli sports community as one of the upcoming new athletes in long distance events.  Now those who know me know that I’m in no way interested in sports or competition events, as I would much rather be conducting revival meetings, casting out devils, and doing shofar drive-by’s against the underworld.  But what Dalit and I recognized in the community of IDF special forces was this fierce desire among these incredible warriors to keep fit thru this new avenue of endurance sports (i.e. cycling, Ironman, etc…).  This fascination with extreme endurance sports is what fits perfectly into their ethnos of the Israeli mindset of overcoming and winning when one is facing overwhelming odds.  So a few months ago I was invited to join a new professional Ironman team here even though I had never done one or even much less cared to do a intense long distance Ironman race!

This professional team was made up of IDF officers from many different special units and the training classes as well as the training camps were fashioned to mirror that hard and rugged discipline of the Israeli special forces.  Being the oldest person on this team, I suffered greatly trying to keep up with all these young bucks and for the first few weeks I felt like I was being run over by a Mack truck repeatedly (LOL).  It was crazy in the natural…but God was so in this thing as this professional group was just dumbfounded to see how fast I would recover and excel even faster in my interval sessions than most of them.  The coach of this team would make comments of how I was becoming an “aerobic monster” and that if I would keep it up I could qualify for the World Championships.  I would always respond that I was not interested in the World Championships and just wanted to serve them and see them (not myself) reach their athletic potentials.  This attitude was blowing their minds, as we were to found out, because many here do not know how to respond to acts of kindness and thus many on the team have since become very endeared to us these last few months.  I remember that it was during one of these crazy early morning endurance camps last Spring that I was finally accepted into their “fraternity” of warriors even though I have no special forces or military background.  The hand of God was moving and I was granted unprecedented favor to become a part of again another Israeli special forces community and its mysterious IDF ethnos.  We are literally become all things to all men that we might save some (I Cor. 9:19-27)!  (And all of this was transpiring while the other stealth operations we were doing with the other special units was still going on).  My mind was spinning at all the open doors and the huge network that was opening to us on so many different fronts these last few months, and it was like I was multitasking so many huge programs all at once!  I knew Abba had called us to Israel for a special work…but in no way had I ever envisioned so many different doors opening simultaneously to us for new fishing adventures galore!  Glory to God!

Ironman Germany finish line in downtown Frankfurt

The culmination of all this early morning endurance training happened this last weekend on July 4th, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany whereas Dalit and I traveled with this professional Israeli team to the Ironman European Championship.  The atmosphere of this Ironman event was just incredible with hundreds of thousands of German spectators cheering us on.  On race day I had a Israeli flag painted to my right shoulder as a sign of not only the new friendship Germany has with the State of Israel, but also as a sign of how we were being killed here by the Nazi’s 65 years ago, but now we were back from the ashes of the Holocaust as a people due to God’s unbreakable covenant!  Most of the Germans loved us but there was a few that would call out a anti-Semitic remark when I flew past them on the 185 kilometer bike course.  But for the most part it was a very lively celebrative atmosphere especially with 24 hours earlier the German national team powerfully defeated Argentina in the World Cup quarterfinals.

The results of the Ironman Germany European Championship for our Israeli team was awesome, yet for me it seemed to a huge let down.  The great witness to the Ironman sporting world was that two new Israeli athletes hammered out amazing course times and secured slots to attend the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Gilad Rotem (special Sayeret officer and now medical student) scorched the course as a amateur with professional results!  And one of our dear friends Nina Pekerman (a Jewish immigrant from Moldavia), also set a record as a amateur finishing in the top ten of the professional women overall!  They both are very incredible and gifted athletes and are going to put Israel on the map in the Ironman scene for years to come!  We are thrilled to see these two represent Israel in such a new surprising way!

Bird’s eye view of Ironman Germany swim start

So what happened with me?  Well, it is amazing how God can use a seemingly defeat into such a great testimony for His glory!   My race started out awesome with a fast 3.8 kilometer swim.  I came out of the water in the top 10% of over 2000 athletes and hit the bike course with a fast transition.  However, 50 kilometers into the 185 kilometer course my front handlebar bracket snapped off and I almost crashed into a German country villa!  After getting myself back on the bike course, I noticed that my bike was incapable of getting above 35k per hour so I was left to just trying to survive the long ride and get back into downtown Frankfurt and the running section of the course.  Upon arriving back into the transition area I noticed I had either eaten bad gels or forgotten to keep hydrated and began to have severe nausea and dizzy spells.  Once on the first kilometer of the marathon run I decided to check myself into the hospital tent for emergency observation and the medical staff began to check out my vital signs and I was immobilized on a stretcher.  Everything within me was seemingly telling me to call it a day and just go to sleep…however, at this my greatest moment of pain, weakness, and disappointment I heard the still small voice of the Holy Spirit telling me to get up and finish the race!  I knew it was the supernatural secret place to victory and healing coming to me like a gentle fall breeze rustling thru the leaves.  So I did everything I could to get up off that hospital tent stretcher and put my Ironman uniform back on!  The Doctor and medical staff looked so stunned and asked where I was going…I smiled and said, it is time to finish this 42.2 Kilometer Marathon!  I struggled greatly to get out of that tent but as soon as my feet hit the running course I felt the Holy Ghost take over and His supernatural energy pulsed thru my weakened tabernacle!  And finally at 12 hours and 58 minutes I was able to cross the finish line in tears of joy to see Dalit and the other Israeli warriors waiting to embrace and hug me for not giving up  (see video link below).

(Video link to Scott at Ironman Germany)

Praising Abba for finishing the longest day

Now what has transpired from this unexpected slow race time in the natural has now blossomed into a great testimony to the Israeli warriors who know us.  It is not winning the race or doing well with few circumstantial difficulties that has interested these IDF warriors we know.  What has gripped their conversations and curiosity is how in the world did I get up from the hospital tent and finish the Marathon!?  It is unheard of!!!  Here is some of the emails and messages I have received the last 48 hours from these IDF warriors.  “Shlomo, you are a true warrior!” “WOW, amazing!  How did you get up and finish the marathon?  What power is in you?”  “Shlomo the Great”!  “There is power in your legs not heard of before”!  “Tell me how did you do it?  What is in your mind that caused you to get out of the hospital bed”?  “Absolute brilliance!  Courageous”!  And from one of the champions they said, “Shlomo, I’m not at Ironman today…you are the true Ironman”!

Now please understand I’m not listing these reports to lift myself up in any way, shape, or form.  I’m very content in remaining unknown and living in the motif of the scum of the earth message (link).  But what I have finally realized is that the best fishing lure we have to break thru the stubborn rebellion and unbelief of the Israeli ethnos here is not to display only a theory of overcoming from the Scriptures, but to live before them a real example of overcoming in a real time Scriptural event of miraculous power that stuns and opens up the Israeli warrior here to the message of the Good News!  It is the overcoming mixed in with them seeing the trials and suffering I went thru that opens up the hardened Israeli to the secret power of the Cross within us who believe!  Glory to God!!!  For when we are weak then we are strong (II Cor. 12:7-12)!

So that is a quick summary of another exciting weekend here at Rivers in the Desert and it is good to be back home in Eretz Israel and getting my shofar ready for some more drive-by’s against the underworld and the terrors of the night!  We also have worded hard the last 48 hours to put together a inspiring video of this Ironman Germany event and scroll below for the link!

Keep in touch and may this testimony encourage you in the fight of faith you maybe waging in your sectors of responsibility!

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit

(Video link to Scott at Ironman Germany)

This is a Holy Ghost weather update of what is now happening in the sovereignty of God. The Yishimon desert of Israel has been hit by flashfloods the last 72 hours. This is a very rare event in the desert wasteland area just south of the Dead Sea. Though the rains fall each year in the other desert regions of Israel (there are 6 other desert regions in Israel), yet in this specific area it is very, very rare! The prophet Isaiah declares to us that the premier sign that God is doing something new on the earth is when this certain desert known as Yishimon breaks out with flashfloods and rivers! (Check out the video footage of this area from earlier this year)

“Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the Desert (Yishimon). The beasts of the field will glorify Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and Rivers in the Desert, to give drink to My chosen people. The people whom I formed for Myself, will declare My praise.”

Isaiah 43:18-21 (NASB)

It is happening right now! Meditate on Isaiah 43;18-21!!!

Pull out the slack, get serious for God, and get mobile you mighty Desert Shepherd Warriors!!!!!

In His weather watchtower,

Scott and Dalit

You maybe thinking this morning what does “Gideon-Type” warriors make reference to? Gideon’s name in Hebrew can be translated as “one who hews down the enemy”! And that is exactly what The Commander and Chief wants to raise up in this hour! Not believers who just stay perpetually in a combative defensive mode, but rather warriors who put on the night vision goggles and do recon up the River of God looking for M.I.A.’s in the P.O.W. camps of sin! Their whole lifestyle is to enforce and occupy the finished work of the Messiah at the Cross and they are filled with a different Spirit than other professing believers!

We see this “different spirit” mentioned for the first time in Numbers chapter 14 of which we will look into this morning.

1) The 12 spies return from doing reconnaissance of the Promised Land. Ten come back with a evil report (except for Joshua and Caleb) which was an accurate status of the strength of the enemy that was before them but they left out what God was also able to do in battle in their report to the congregation (Numbers 13:25-33)!

2) When the 10 spies make mention of the demonic race of Giants (Anakim) and the Fallen Ones (Nephilim Gen. 6:4) that is also in the land before them, immediately all the people get panic stricken with phobia and want to go back to Egypt (slavery) rather than go to war! The people care more about their self-preservation and prodigy than believing the voice of the prophetic minority (Joshua and Caleb) who want to obey God fully and ruthlessly!

3) The whole congregation then decides to appoint a new leader that will take them back into Egypt! Which represents going back to predictable lifestyles rather than the unpredictability and suddenness of living by faith for battles! War and the unknown takes courage and faith. And slavery is the full manifestation of the pathos of fear as is seen in I John 4:18. When people are in the slavery to fear they need something that is seemingly “stable” and will “systematically” take care of them….

4) As Joshua and Caleb began to preach against this rebellion of self-preservation…the whole congregation spontaneously rises up to stone them with stones. It was at this moment that the Glory of God appeared at the tent of meeting. As I have studied out the times in the Scriptures when the Glory of God has appeared in the natural…it is always when there is a judgment coming and a divine separation from the old! This is what we all must come to grips with and embrace when so many in the prayer services are calling out correctly for God’s glory to be revealed, but must now understand that it is for Judgment and Separation from the old unbelieving religious order and not for our entertaining unrealistic thoughts “that everything is just going to be all right” once the glory falls on our nations!

5) Moses intercedes and gets a stay-of-execution and forty year extension for the peoples lives…but it was a desert wandering extension of a death march so that a new generation could be raised up for war. And notice this phrase when God says, “But indeed as I live, all the earth will be filled with the Glory of the Lord”! The greatest way for God to reveal His glory is through a faith-filled people who understand war and are not bound by fear about what “could happen” to their families and children!

6) In this discourse, Caleb is singled out due to having a “different spirit” and one that followed the Lord fully. I looked up this word “different spirit” in Hebrew and it is not the word for soul (nephesh) but rather the same word for the wind and Spirit of God (Ruach)! This warrior, whose name means “dog” in Hebrew, received an impartation of the Spirit of God because he was windward for war and battle! And this was before anyone could be Born from Above through the blood of Jesus (John 3:3, II Cor. 5;17)! OHHH, so much more is available to us in this New Covenant time if we just get more courageous and bold in our faith! (See John 14: 12-18; Ephesians 3:20-21)

What else does this “different spirit” that was on Caleb allow him to later do?

1) To endure forty years of desert wandering with a bunch of stiff necked rebellious cowards! This different spirit will give you the patience and perseverance to patiently wait for God’s justice to kick in without losing your cool when you are surrounded by a bunch of cry babies!

2) When Caleb was now 85 years old he goes up and kicks out the doors of the city of Hebron and takes it as his inheritance. But a even deeper research will reveal that this 85 year old warrior went into this area and killed not just one giant as David later did…but three giants! (See Josh. 14:1-15; 15:14; Deut. 9:1-).

3) It is also interesting to note here that the reference in Hebrews 12:29 of “God being a consuming fire” is directly associated with this operation of taking the Promised land by A) destroying this fallen race of giants and other perverted demon worshipping peoples and, B) His divine jealously if they take on their idolatry of this Promised land! (See Deut. 9:1-3 and Deut.4:24)

God’s passion is burning like a fire for a people who will be courageous for His war and will not become wrapped up in the idolizing the blessings that is in the Promised Land of blessings!

It is time to rise up and ask God for this different Spirit! O Fellow Gideon Warriors!!!! You could be in a dry desert wandering march right now because your spiritual leader(s) you are sitting under has decided not to obey God fully!!! Many are in a dry desert wandering march and may never get out because of the unbelief and disobedience of those leaders they have chosen to follow! Wake up and come out from among them!!!! If you do not have an oasis or river breaking out in the desert land you are in…it is because you are not fully following the Lord but man!!! Wake up and receive a different spirit like Joshua and Caleb had!!!

May the Love of Abba flush your heart of any fear of the unknown this morning and eject you into a new courageous modis operandi of Battle!