Shalom Friends,

It is a winter white-out here in Northern Israel this weekend with a large storm coating the mountain’s ridges of the Hermon with beautiful frozen precipitation!  This is another excellent addition of water for this drought stricken country while at the same time our national joy is being buffeted by the renewed rhetoric of war coming from our Northern enemies.  Therefore it is time for a tactical examination of what the strongman of the Prince of Persia (Iran) is cunningly crafting with his Islamic antichrist armies against our tiny country and inhabitants!

In this latest Audio Podcast Update, I discuss this sophisticated warfare front developing against us here as well as several other vital alerts for this late hour.  Some of the questions I will help answer in this latest podcast are:

1. What is the most effective way to comfort God’s chosen people per the command of Isaiah 40:1-3?  And is this now being done by the plethora of pro-Israel efforts by believers?
2. What is the key strongman needing to be plundered behind Iran’s quest for tactical nuclear weapons?
3. What will the next war against tiny Israel look like that is different than past Islamic campaigns?
4. Is Iran planning to capture Northern Galilee towns with the newly armed/trained brigades of Hezbollah commando’s?
5. Do most Israeli’s believe in Gog/Magog per Ezekiel’s prophetic oracle of ominous implications?
6. Will there be a successful missile attack upon Israel in the near future?
7. Has the liberal “Tel Aviv” establishment become so desperate for peace that it has critically negated the founding ethnos of this country?
8. How can Spirit filled believers step up into this vacuum and effectively war this conflict into a resounding victory?  …And not another UN bartered standoff.
9. What are the urgent needs facing our family here in Israel?  And how you can help.

We have included below some recently de-classified photos of one of our many special ops in the Mt. Hermon region that is buttressed up against Lebanon and Syria.  This highly sensitive alpine area is a key to Israel’s early warning capabilities for survival against our enemies.  We are working with leaders in the North who not only believe, but also have seen the power of the shofar soundings that have flushed out many who are demonized serial terrorists!  The regions of the underworld are being exposed and plundered thru this ministry’s boldness and tactical prophetic ambushments!  Glory to God!

Enjoy the fresh spiritual feedings this latest audio podcast has to offer and know that your support for these tactical prophetic ambushments is producing fruit that is beyond current description.  We love you’all and are standing with you for God’s best in your sectors of responsibility!

(Listen to “Israel Tactical Update (Winter 2010)” Podcast)

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit

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)

Today begins the Biblical Feast of Shavuot (i.e.Pentecost) which always directs my mind back to the time of the 120 disciples tarrying for 50 days in Jerusalem for the promise of the Holy Spirit! As you know from our past EMM entitled, The Javelin of Shavuot, the Holy Spirit has been signaling that there is a whole new move now happening on planet earth that will be very different than the last 2,000 years of Church history (i.e. early rains). This Early and Latter combination of rain is in the form of the justice and judgment of God and we all better wake up to this and quit always seeking out the soft ear tickling messages of “God’s acceptance” …and truly learn to repent!

There is no greater warning to me that we are now in this new Shavuot (i.e. Pentecost) outpouring than what just happened to me. Earlier this afternoon I received a phone call from a very anointed and powerful ministry couple in Canada that they had shocking news to share with me…and then asked if I was “sitting down…”. They then detailed to me that a major Spirit-filled leader of Canadian Christian TV has just stepped down because of a scandalous adultery. When they told me this I was not shocked at all…instead I just felt compassion and sadness because I know this man and his ministry. My thoughts quickly went back to over 2 years ago when he and his gracious wife interviewed me on their popular weekly program. It was a not a great time, but a very frustrating interview because whenever I began to speak about the judgment of God coming and holiness, this host would interrupt and shut me down. To the causal onlooker it was a very interesting dynamic that began to build on this TV set…it was obvious he was trying to water down my message, but his wife kept probing me for more prophetic words for Canada and then further details about our book The Mystery of Lawlessness. Finally when the interview concluded, I sounded the shofar and this host suddenly could not speak (literally)! I knew it was God warning this man to basically “shut up” and quit interfering with warning the nation on coast to coast TV.

A few months later I was surprised to get a call back from this popular Canadian Christian TV couple desiring yet another interview. Upon arriving on the set…they proceeded to tell me how they had received letters from their viewers’ upset that they had not given me more time to warn and exhort Canada. Yet again this interview never really got off the ground and at the conclusion they wanted me to sound the shofar again over Canada. However, this time when I did… a candle on the set behind me suddenly exploded and began to burn parts of the set! This created no little stir among the staff and “chief intercessor” saying in panic, “what could this mean?” I knew exactly what God was signaling and began to probe off stage to speak into this man’s life about his secret sin and his control…but was again immediately shut down. Even though we received later many requests from their viewing audience to again return to that program…this man would have nothing to do with me and never once returned any of my multiple phone calls and emails to get into dialogue with him the last 24 months. Sad to say it is very obvious why he did not want to talk…he was in sin and those who are in the darkness hate those who are walking in the light (John 3:19-21). The sin of being a Spirit-filled minister in the national spotlight and hanging out with all the “soft prophets” and then to suddenly fall into disgusting adultery did not happen overnight…it was a long process of being warned and never laminating and fearing the justice of God! I feel so sad for his graceful wife, children, and their staff…. Again Canada has to endure another public scandal because a Levite could not keep his “Levi’s” on!

After this episode I had with this man, I noticed the prophetic consortium of people that gathered around this man were those who peddled the “soft prophetic” messages. Then what came forth from this camp was a demonic jealous revenge against myself and the message we bring. Many meetings and relationships throughout Canada were evaporating from us due to the whispering of these people! Again it can be traced to those who do not want to be exposed for their sin. Thus, such is the nature of the true prophetic ministry and it is a place of loving the truth yet having to go outside the camp and bear His reproach (Hebrews 13).

Then again today, I received another phone call for a 2nd time from my Canadian minister friend who spoke of another sudden dire emergency with still yet another minister in this area…who right now is being operated on and in a very critical condition. Unfortunately again, this is another of the same “soft prophetic” ministers who also refuses to repent for spreading slander about us all over Canada and again is at odds with the message we bring (i.e. The Mystery of Lawlessness). I know that the severe judgment hand of God is now falling in the North American church and that this has never been more highlighted than today…today is Pentecost (i.e. Shavuot)! The minister on the phone then concluded to tell me that they are going to sow $120.00 into our Israel operation and encouraged all the others on our mailing list to do the same today…it was going to be a supernatural sign of blessings!

Dear fellow warriors, I’m very concerned that many are not waking up and hearing the 911 trumpet call to repent. Here are two ministers, one in the most tragic state of adultery and the other in an emergency surgery because they did not listen to the prophetic words of warning we delivered to them. I need not go into any more detail…God is vindicating this ministry, but that is not my preoccupation today. My desire is to warn even more people of the current new Pentecost outpouring we are now facing! I encourage you to not delete these “agitating” emails I send out, but press into repentance and realize that God is not mocked, whatever you have been sowing secretly is going to be revealed! Repent and quit running from the light…especially you ministers out there who get our emails!!!! This is a warning!!! Let Him agitate you to humility and repentance!

We need your support and this dear friend that called me earlier today suggested that I should ask the many people (who do not have much) and who get our emails to each send in $120.00 (minimum) and then this operation can purchase this facility and we all go into the next level for Israel!

So don’t hit that delete button…your miracle is in listening to His prophets …thus shall you prosper.

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit Holtz