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Shalom Friends,

There is a really, really, really big separation going on right now that we all must take very, very, very seriously.  God, who is the Master of the threshing floor is using circumstantial shakings and desert dryness to sift His people right now!  I’m not talking about the unbelievers but the believers’.  God is throwing all of us up into His windward invisible jet stream to separate those of us who are secretly warriors or phobia driven pretenders.  Winners or whiners’.  Champions or complainers.  Prophetic or pathetic.  Eagles or turkeys.  Bond servants or just believers.  Yet, even the demons BELIEVE and shudder with fear (see James 2:19)!

It is so complex what is happening right now but also very simple.  Let me help you this morning.  The great dividing plumb line is simply Gethsemane.  The place where the Master first encountered the deepest and most difficult decision of His earthly ministry.  He was the Logos of God tabernacled in human flesh.  He was the one who walked on the water, stilled the storm, healed the multitudes, and was all knowing about everyone and everything.  Yet, in the garden of Gethsemane He did not want to drink the Passover cup He was predestined to fulfill.  He even asked for it to be taken away in the midst of the moist blood droplets forming and dripping from the sweet glands of His body.  But He finally agreed to the cup and fulfilled the ultimate death to self to secure Abba’s will and secondarily our reconciliation.  This is what we must know and yield ourselves to if we are to win this race of faith….  It is not about knowing the prophetic mysteries of God or moving in the powers of the age to come.  It is only about winning this race when everything in you does not want to do Abba’s will.  This is the sweet spot of knowing you are in Abba’s perfect will…it is when you know what He wants you to do and everything in you does not want to go that direction.  It is in this military campaign and war of the lower nature that you and I must win and catapult ourselves into only obeying His will.  Not my will Thy will be done (Mark 14:32-42).  Please re-read this episode in the Gospel of Mark until you become transfixed by it and you too enter that place…the no-man’s land of faith that so few have chosen.

Once you cross this great dividing plumb line, the race will have already been won for you and what remains of your time here on this planet is helping others find this secret location of becoming a bondservant (i.e. this is what it means to make disciples).  In my years of ministering to millions of believers the last 25 years, I simply categorize them not by their education, gender, theology, friendship or aggression they display.  I categorize believers by either they are in the Pre-Gethsemane death march arena or in the Post-Gethsemane course of a victory sprint.  Why?  Because until a believer, no matter what their beliefs, gifting, anointing, or even leadership fruit has been displayed…until deep fire has resulted in destroying the root of self, ego, preservation, etc… they are not to be fully trusted when the hour of darkens comes.  Do they know that place of death (i.e. blood stained boulder of that Garden outside the Temple gate)?  Then I do not know them, trust or believe them.  Yes, maybe they are sweet wonderful and gifted people with great aspirations to serve God and help people, but until they really know Abba in that execution experience of Gethsemane, then they are not to be fully trusted.  They do not know how yet to navigate the hour of darkness, betrayal, and most of all the mysterious forces that destroy a man or woman and then resurrect them to newness of service.

I have for years laid hands on multitudes of people, and preached to the masses and spent countless hours counseling and encouraging even leaders.  But all that is peripheral if I cannot get that believer/leader into the secret sweet spot of death in Gethsemane where their will evaporates and His will takes over completely. I call it full possession…why, because if the Gadarene demoniac could have a legion of evil spirits, then why cannot we also have a “legion” magnitude of singular possession of the Holy Spirit?   Let us just face the facts this morning and don’t blow head gaskets if your toes get stepped on about our your favorite ministry getting highlighted here.  Recently they brought into Israel Daystar TV alongside the already present METV inspirational network.  I have maybe viewed a few hours of this programming that last few months and really cannot view anymore.  It is very simple…all I hear is messages gearing believers on how they can be supposedly blessed, encouraged, comforted, prospered, and entertained in the Pre-Gethsemane plumb line zone.   But there is no message of Gethsemane even though I’m really looking hard for it in a positive loving attitude.  There is no message of death before the cross there among the well known prime time pulpits featured (who also strongly support Israel by the way)!  There is sometimes good preaching about all the sins and problems in the Church but nobody is bringing the people into the place of death to ones will which is the only viable solution.  The messages are earthly and humanistic with Scriptures taken out of context to tickle the ears.  I wonder what Dietrich Bonhoeffer would say if he came back from the dead and would be invited to preach on these programs?  Read his book on the Cost of Discipleship and then try to find that same message on Sunday morning Christian programming!  You won’t became it is not there!  Thus, all this simply is Pre-Gethsemane ministry activity that does not bring the believer into the maturation and maturity of becoming a bondservant.  Listen folks, I’m not blind, stupid, or naive…I know very well the churchianity game, the politics, the personalities that lead today’s Charismatic world view.  Some are rotten to the core with self preservation and others are really good people.  But until they radically volunteer to the death zone of Gethsemane, their cries for revival will just be that…rapidly fading echo’s in the corridors of God’s threshing floor quickly drowned out by the howling new trade winds of separation that are now blowing thru His Church!  I know so many ministers who have correct theology and really want to serve God and speak of the Fathers love so intimately…but they do not know Him as Abba (Daddy) because they have not been totally pressed out and killed in Gethsemane.  Because once one enters this secret zone you no longer have a life or ministry. Your only reward is found in Galatians 2:20 and 2 Cor. 4 and in this lot is the place the transitory race of faith quickly speeds up with zealous acts of obedience geared like a war campaign only for His Glory and Namesake!

My task on this glory side of Post-Gethsemane is to bring others to this place of desert mystery so we can serve together in this Great Commission.  In this hour He has told me only trust and yield to those who are displaying the fruits of Gethsemane’s vaporizing experience.  It is very easy to find these bondservants and handmaidens because we all speak the same language and have the same look in our eyes.  It is the look of complete lack of self-preservation and only that of robust zealousness for a holy war to be waged against the evil underworld.  It is the look of a identity that has been transferred only by Him and those who do not bear this reflection, even though they may have gifting, anointing, and signs/wonders readily evident, are seen to be still stained with the spirit of this world’s system (i.e. The Pre-Gethsemane plumb line waiting area of wilderness wanderings and disobedience even though the cloud, pillar, manna, water, and tabernacle is amongst them).   Think and ponder this deeply….

Lately, we have many new comers to our subscription list and thus, many our emailing me of their love of our website and the messages we bring concerning the adventures here in the Land of Israel.  Let me use this moment to welcome you but also warn you…the messages and trumpet sound we are issuing forth in our communiqués here will do only two things for you in this late hour.  It will either awaken you to the desert testing’s that He has placed you in and thus you must find that blood stained boulder outside the gate to enter that sweet spot of Abba’s will by a completed death to self.  Or these messages and last day anointing evident here on this ministry will soon offend you and cause deep sorrow to come upon you…even to the point of slumber and not being able to tarry even for one hour, because your secret carnal hopes in following Him are not manifesting in the time table you desired.  This is what happened to the disciples and this is what will happen to you if you do not run this race to win by tarrying in Gethsemane’s zone and never reappear as you once were.

You and I are called to seek His face…yet no man can see His face and live.

He is calling you to the other side.  He is calling you to join yourselves only to those who have successfully crossed over.  Time is short and listen to the Holy winds of separation that are now blowing thru His threshing floor.  Don’t return back to the city but follow it (Him) to the Is. 35 and 43 rivers east of Jerusalem.  The same word to go Eastward in ancient Hebrew is the same word also to go FORWARD!   Selah….

Lose yourself and truly find Him!

Waiting for you on the other side to welcome you home outside the camp,

Scott

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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 and Fellow Warriors,

It has come to our attention today that many people did not know that there was a video testimony included in our last email communique to you’all. So take a few minutes to view this video link below of a supernatural healing miracle that embedded inside of me representing Israel at the Ironman Germany European Championship last weekend that has gripped many at the awesomeness of God and His alien works of power per Isaiah 28:21!  When we are weak then we are strong in Him!!!

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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)

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends,

Abba has more fresh manna for us this beautiful new day so open up your hearts to this windward word and yield to this nourishing IV!  There is nothing like a fresh hydrating IV of the Holy Ghost early in the morning to set you up for miracles throughout the day!  Onward Gideon warriors in this late hour!  It is 911 in the Spirit right now and a plethora of warning dreams and words have been signaled to us here that dangerous times are coming!  Even Dalit has had a mega warning dream last week on the same watershed scale as the Twin Towers coming down in NYC 9 years before it happened!  Those of you who know us…know that we do not play around with these warnings but take evasive maneuvers very quickly!  So now quickly to the theme text!

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?  It is good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.” (Matthew 5:13)

Here in Israel not far from our base of operation are several IDF special forces training centers.  In our working relationship with these units, there is a beautiful expression that is used to describe a soldier that is the true expression of all that makes Israel a unique place.  The saying is “Malach Haaretz” which is translated The Salt of the Land.  I remember the first time I heard this phrase used was when a IDF Air Force commander told me that the person I had just been speaking with is “the salt of the land” here.  What he was communicating to me was that this young officer had just finished his IDF army service in a very elite unit called Sayeret Machtal and thus had earned the freedom to go travel or attend University.  But instead of pursuing his own life, he saw the security problem facing Israel and decided to re-volunteer his life back into this elite unit and serve this country.  There are not many people like this here I was told and they are the true salt of why this nation is preserved and not destroyed from within.  I thought it was unique that this term was also first used by the Messiah Jesus in the Beatitudes and is the key exhortation to being a reflector of His glorious light as He was introducing His first followers to the Kingdom of God.

In our travels and high adventure operations here the last three years I have come across this rare breed of soldiers here who exemplify to us that there is a remnant of Jewish people here that truly is the key to this nation’s survival.  They are a special breed of people that we are fishing for and they are the ones to whom Abba is opening their eyes to see the Lamb of God in all His glory!  Stealth ops for the salted ones (LOL)!

But I don’t want to rain on anybody’s pro-Israel parade here, but in all reality, let’s face the facts and evaporate any illusions or fairy tales we may have about the nation of Israel today and its presumed “holiness” before God by much of Charismatic/Pentecostal churches today.  I’m called to sound the shofar and warn people that there is some strange things going on here among those who are believers and have been recently visiting this Land.

1. This is a very foolish nation of stiff necked rebels that is the manifestation of everything Jesus and the prophets of old warned about in their discourses.  Everything anti-Messiah or anti-anointed One is resident here in continuing and increasing hybridization of new forms of evil not yet released on planet earth.  The greed, corruption, dishonesty, and blasphemous instances being exhibited here are too numerous to recount in this communiqué.  The bottom line is that it is getting really dark in Israel today….
2. Take a few days and read the book of the prophet Jeremiah while taking special note of the terminology and illustrations he uses to describe the sinfulness and utter rebellion Jerusalem and Israel exhibits towards God’s commandments.  It is like reading today’s newspapers here in modern Israel!  For a small nation of 7 million people they sure know how to maximize their rebellion into new sinful ways never seen before in the history of mankind!  Evil seems to be invented here then spread worldwide!
3. Then conclude your readings this week with a review of Romans and Hebrews combined with Peter’s two Epistles and see the warnings of what will characterize the Jewish people in the last days as the anti-Christ system in conjunction with the false prophet will birth from this region of the planet.  One may also launch into the final chapters of the Book of Revelation to see how bad Jerusalem is described before the new Jerusalem is manifested!  The Jerusalem tourists flock to today is very evil and nothing more than a harlot and is named Sodom and Egypt per Rev. 11:8.
4. If you will allow the Holy Spirit to flush your mind of hidden false doctrine, you will notice that much of the Charismatic/Pentecostal churches love and support for Israel and the Jewish people is very unbalanced and really border line idolatry.  We have written in detail about this before but again we need to pay attention to this warning sound of the shofar today.  It is fine and wonderful to provide humanitarian aid projects and have prayer gatherings or political rallies to support Israel.  But to not proclaim the message of the Cross and the atoning blood of Jesus as the number one basis for why we are helping them with these solidarity works is to be rooted in the deep fear of man and is nothing more than idolatry and witchcraft (I Sam. 15:22-24).  This nation needs repentance from blasphemous hedonism and deliverance from demons…not just solidarity rallies and political niceties from the believers who love this land and visit here!
5. You wonder why this nation is being besieged by new virulent strains of anti-Semitism and the seemingly unstoppable success of mafia sized terror organizations winning in their aggressive pursuit to delegitimize us and change the rules of modern warfare?  It is real simple…read the OT prophets and see that when we sinned here that He did two main things in His sovereign judgment, A) Withheld the rains, B) and caused our enemies to rise up on all sides against us.  And guess what?  We have both going on right now!  A massive new media blitz is hitting this nation this week warning of the water crisis and to conserve ASAP!  And on every side (including the Med Sea), we have hostile mafia militia sized enemies that are weaker militarily than us, but have us wrapped around their little finger on the world stage.  It is so bad many Israelis’ are calling that the chessboard has now moved to checkmate!  We can longer survive in the future as a nation…so make plans to move to Berlin, Miami, or LA!
6. There is a dry humor here in Israel that if we didn’t have the Arabs to fight that we would fight and kill one another.  It is sad but true.  This nation is splintered into tribal loyalties and no one trusts each other especially when it comes to the leadership of this country.  People here have resolved to live for themselves and no longer on the mass scale produce patriotic self sacrifice for this country and what it’s corrupt leaders promise.  As one outside observer from Europe noticed…everyone here just seems to be chasing their own tail.  The morale of the nation is at the lowest it has been in years and this is not the same wonderful country it was 15-20 years ago where enthusiasm and optimism reigned supreme for Zionism.

If this sounds like a bleak picture you do not want to hear then you need to wake up and clear out the wax buildup in your ear canal.  As Isaiah 60 has announced, deep and gross darkness has ascended upon the earth and in the center of it all is the Middle East and Jerusalem!  I in all honesty cannot sit back and tickle your ears with well meaning faithful declarations of Israel’s prophetic destiny that usually morphs into illusionary presumptions of collective myths and fairy tales about Israel’s “invincibility”.  Judgment is on this nation and we are in the pre-stage days before missiles start reigning back down on this tiny land bridge between Europe, Asia, and Africa!  We need to urgently equip our local bomb shelter and time is of the essence to get it ready!  We are needing your continued help!

I personally would also in this communiqué like to address those who are perpetuating this climate of collective mythology about Israel’s prophetic destiny that is showing itself very unpractical for Israel’s salvation and deliverance in this 911 hour.  What good is it in all your prayer and humanitarian support endeavors to stand with Israel when you are ashamed to proclaim the stumbling block to them which is the message of the Cross?  It seems you are more interested in your prophetic charts and stimulating intellectual so called “prophetic” mysteries being unveiled, than you are in evangelizing those who are going to hell here in a hand basket!  I see a lot of love and compassion given by God to the Gentile Charismatic/Pentecostal church right now to stand with Israel in this time of surmounting dangers, but what about standing even closer with Jesus and fulfilling the Great Commission?  Why is it you think unsaved Israel is so “holy” and if you sow your prayers and financial seed into these idolatry Israel gatherings you will actually reap the promise of Genesis 12:3?  Or could it be that your support for Israel is really secretly a quick way to get blessed personally without going thru the eye of the needle approach of Gethsemane martyrdom?  Time to check your hearts!  The Apostle Paul raised up and supported the believers in Israel…not the unbelievers!  Not the modern rabbi’s here that are enemies of the Cross!  Why have we become so naive and hood winked?

So how has the salt become unsalty?  I have come to the realization today that this idolization of Israel and the Jewish people is based on the kool-aid message of fulfilling your own destiny desire that has become popular in our seeker sensitive Spirit grieving false teachings of today.  It has raised up a generation of believers who only believe in the “good” promises of God and give into what will expand their own self-centered materialistic lifestyles.  This is another symptom of why there is so many “growing” seeker sensitive based monarchial churches today and the lack of solid cross based discipleship.  And guess what…they are coming over here to Israel in the droves this year!  And then on the other end of the spectrum is the male effeminate mystical crowd that is drowning in their own fortunetelling imaginations as the focal point of revelation instead of the Scriptures, as they too are doing their yearly pilgrimages to Jerusalem to engage the “heavenlies” and loose another new wave of healing anointing (aren’t you getting tired of all these promissory words on new waves of healing miracles being released each year! Where are the wise ones in the midst of all this imaginative prophetic froth of brain tissue activity)?  This is the age of foolishness like never before!

OK…so let me tell you what is being said here on the ground by the Israeli’s involved in the tourism industry or encounter this new wave of pro-Israel solidarity groups coming over here.  The first thing I’m noticing is the awareness that even those most secular Israeli will say that they are amazed at the number of “born again’s” that love this nation.  At times it is even more than the Diaspora Jewry are showing!  However, the salt has lost its saltiness.  Because these same Israeli’s see two things, 1) Some of these Christians are really weird and they coin this illness as the “Jerusalem syndrome”.   2) Yet they see a great financial deal going on here and these same pro-Israel groups are very naive and easy to get money from!  That’s right…this is what we are hearing here that religious and secular Israeli’s alike (including the political parties that lean Right), are saying!  These type of believers are a great way to earn money from if you can put up with their weirdness and feign “curious” openness to their spiritual beliefs!    Yet, I’m proclaiming…where is the Godly sorrow, repentance, humility, shame, and fear of the Lord hitting these same religious and secular Israeli’s that are working in partnership with many of the pro-Israel Charismatic/Pentecostal groups to ‘bless Israel” per Genesis 12:3?  What grieves Dalit and I is to hear the unsaved Israel’s here laughing at the naivety of these groups as they make their enriched bank deposits as they feign that they too are believers in the same “God”!  This is a classical example of the salt losing its saltiness!

I want to sound the shofar and warn today not to lose your saltiness!  God has placed a supernatural love for the Jewish people in you and the only way to preserve life here is to obey the Great Commission and not some mystical prophetic word that has evolved quickly into a entrenched false doctrine now in the pro-Israel camp of today!  I’m exposing this business “ministry” system here that has developed between the luke warm believers and the greedy rabbis and secular businessmen.  There is great profit today in the churches if you fly a Israeli flag and have bless Israel rallies and prayer services and highlight it with a bi-yearly tour to the “Holy” Land!  I see it enriching the bank accounts of the unsaved here and the leaders of the churches!  Yet those of us here on the ground in Israel enduring persecution for our uncompromising stand for the Gospel towards the lost Jewish people, but are ignored or marginalized by those who are suppose to be leaders in the Charismatic/Pentecostal community of the West.  The time has come to remove the useless salt and refill it with fresh new deposits!  Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing!  Test all things!  Hold fast to the good!

Let this IV of truth burn thru your veins with a fire of singleness of devotion only to the Messiah Jesus!  Let it today remove the waste products of the kool-aid doctrine that has evolved in the camp of faith by the unsuspecting episodes in your life of spiritual slumber or the fear of man.  Ask for the complete Royal flush to emancipate you in this hour of the contemporary doctrines of man and not that of the Holy Scriptures!  May this early morning communiqué help fuel this process!

Yes, we do need funds ASAP for the exciting fishing adventures and ops we are doing here in Israel.  But this in no way influenced what I have written this morning!  My concern is the winds of the doctrines of the cunning craftiness of men are flowing like never before.  Be on the alert and let no man steal your reward….

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit

Shalom Friends,

Mega greetings to you from the Promised Land!  I just love the early morning atmospherics of His glory realm here in Israel in how He gives me these sudden transfusions of fresh manna via the Scriptures.  It is in this realm that the Spirit of God begins to bring together texts that I may or may not have not read or seen for quite a long time into a sudden succession of understanding that opens up more about the deep things of Abba.  So yesterday I had another one of those Scriptural theophanies happen in the early dawn hour here that just blew my mind about the real dimension of the “love walk” commandment that we do not hear much about in contemporary services today.

This audio podcast is just a little over 30 minutes long, but if you will listen intensely to the Scriptures woven together, hopefully you will see what I see is the main foundation of the real Agape love walk.  It has to do not with an emotional feeling of being patient or compassionate, etc…, but rather a commitment of obedient slavery!  All of this comes out of a Gethsemane Christianity that is not based on the ear tickling message of self that so many pulpits today are poisoned by!  Don’t drink the kool-aid that maybe passed out in your areas fellowship or religious programming!  Test and sift thru the message in this hour!  Don’t be unsuspecting!

(Click here to listen to this audio podcast message entitled NT Slavery)

It is a real joy to be coming out of His glory zone here in Israel to service your faith!  Keep in touch and don’t forget that our fishing ops are in full swing here and we need more help!

In His love,

Scott and Dalit

Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors in Arms,

Mega Blessings to you from the Promised Land!  A huge testimony just occurred this week on the CT (counter-terrorism front) that just highlights again the unique Rivers in the Desert warfare stratagems that are producing boatloads of fruit for The Master.  But first before I share this update I would like to give you some other updates and interesting particulars to stir your heart to keep the faith and also don’t lose focus of the vision He has given you and I to complete here in Israel (Hab. 2)!

• Today is Dalit and I 22nd Wedding Anniversary!  It seems just like yesterday that we were loading the container to move to Israel.  Dalit keeps getting more beautiful and wiser with age…she is an amazing women who loves action and adventure, thus her new name sometimes given here by the commanders we work with is “Mrs. James Bond”.(LOL)
• The regional Police Department has awarded Dalit and I with a special commendation for service.  It’s kind of like a thank you for our volunteerism, bravery, service, and whatever else that has helped them extinguish crime in this area.  Since our last exploit of catching those Israeli thieves breaking into a house and chasing them down in a local strawberry field that ended with the high speed chase and them destroying their car in a drainage ditch and being apprehended.  The Police commander has not been calling us back to help with more night recon runs on paycheck nights in the Israeli workweek.  We tracked him down about this yesterday and he ashamedly confessed that though we are the “talk” of the area and would love to have us come back, but they don’t have money to repair our vehicle that was slightly damaged in that exploit.  We just chuckled and told them to forget about the money…just get us back out there on the third shift night patrol so we can do some more exploits against the underworld!  (Come to think about it things are really quiet here in this area lately…guess the rats are afraid of our hunting capabilities.  They don’t like the sound of that shofar)!
• Dalit has decided to use some of those free educational shekels (typical Prov. 31 woman) they hand out here to go to morning classes and learn hair design.  I thought they used to be called “haircuts”, but anyway she is the best student there and is always going out of her way to do extra clean up and volunteerism projects at a school which has a lot of people who want to hurry up and cut hair but very impatient with the road on how to get there.  Sounds like a another good place to go fishing if you ask me.  …And by the way, Dalit now has turned in her resume for a special security and Israeli bodyguard course in August.  It is kind of fun to watch her at home one minute doing her homework on these Styrofoam human head replicas with mocked up wigs, then a few minutes later practicing take down maneuvers or rapid fire 9mm pistol protection on the same Styrofoam heads.  Kind of fun to see all this multi-tasking going on….(LOL)!
• Our oldest son is all pumped up since getting accepted and then passing his final basic training paratroopers course in the IDF.  We went to his graduation from basic training and they got their special colored berets and next these fancy new assault weapons will be issued.  I spoke to him last week when he had one of those brief moments to call from the desert base they are adapting to.  He said that they are now learning night navigation courses and it was awesome.  He was telling me how they are doing all these cool combat tactics and how they got lost one night near Hebron.  (Mental note- please call his unit commander and make sure our son really passed the navigation course and didn’t fake it.  That is the last thing I need is to have Mrs. Bond driving into Hebron at night or into some unfriendly Bedouin camp; looking for our son and his buddies.  You never know what these Jewish mothers are capable of when they hear that their sons are in need…..
• Our oldest daughter is just a couple of months away from going to the IDF and she is also excited.  Apparently she scored really high on her I.Q. aptitude test and they are giving her some type of advanced interviews for one of those smart jobs in the Army.  I really don’t know where she got all these smarts from and it must be one of those mysterious floating DNA/Genes reappearing from way back.  I sure wish one of those things would hit my brain tissue again because I’m having problems still remembering to return all these emails that are in my inbox!
• Our other two daughters are going thru the ebbs and flows of loving the Israeli public school system…then abhorring it.  They know that this is the Promised Land and all these promised people are here, but they really get annoyed with the “mentality factor” here.  We wanted them to expand their athletic abilities with after school activities like gymnastics, ballet, piano lessons, and perhaps home economics.  But no they were very set on joining one of the local girls soccer teams.  Now the female soccer teams here are so different than the States in that I would really call it a mix of Australian rules football and rugby with a bit of ice hockey laced in.  Our girls really seem to get their warrior instincts honed in this mix and I was shocked to see the aggression (or as they remind me “competitive nature’), being manifested in these well manicured pieces of real estate in a desert region.  I now have figured out what the Palestinians mean when they say Israeli aggression, it has nothing to do with the aggression of IDF’s counter tactics against terror.  What they are really talking about is the way football (soccer) is played here (LOL)!
• Speaking about football (soccer), it is interesting how I think I have figured out the mentality of living here after 3 years now.  Most of the Middle East residents are really only interested in two things (Football and Hummus)!  Really, this Eastern desert end of the Med. Sea is just consumed with who is making the best Hummus and then the religion of football.  (I really think now is a good time to attack Iran’s nuclear reactor program.  Why wait?  I mean really, this whole region is like in a 30 day long Super Bowl party).
• Have you ever wondered why it is difficult personally to take off (and keep off) the excess weight living in the fast food culture of North America?  I think I have found the reason why.  It has to do with adrenaline and eating barbequed Middle Eastern food.  There is this way of celebrating within the subculture of the special forces of the IDF that keeps the weight off their combat units.  Whenever a all night CT operation is completed or some type of critical training exercise is completed…out comes the charcoal for a barbeque!  It is the same delicious menu each time…grilled chicken, grilled kebab, grilled eggplant, Israeli salad, and of course…lots of Humus!  I’ve noticed lots of kilo’s dropping off my 49 year old frame and I think it has to do with this high exploit adrenaline combat excursions and Humus!  Did you know that there is a very serious war going on right now between Israel and Lebanon (and I think it is why Turkey and Iran are upset also).  Israel and Lebanon are in a Humus war right now!  You should see the size of the dishes these folks are kicking out for the Guinness Book of World records!  Humus, Humus, Humus…this could be the answer for the Middle East (LOL).

OK, back to the CT testimony update I promised at the beginning of this communiqué.  This week was again a very important week on the security front here in Israel with massive amounts of terrorists activity going on.  The news has not yet billed it as such but I might as well fill you’all in that the 3rd Intifada has begun.  It is an uprising by our enemies that is being waged right now on these three fronts.  1) The Media and Political spectrum,  2) Iran, Saudi, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, etc… drive for their personal designer-styled nuclear “power”,  3) Palestinians worldwide replicating the early Zionists mode of crashing the British control over this area.  You’all can read about much of this online via JPost or Debka files, but what you may not know is the intensity of this week’s  major terror attacks…strategically stopped!  Glory to God!   And when some commanders or soldiers come over to our house to celebrate this security victory, guess what we do…that’s right, we do a barbeque with lots of Humus (LOL)!  I think one of the most under-rated ministry tools we have in our portfolio here is that big JennAir grill Dalit bought at Home Depot and just managed to stuff into our overseas container!  You guys in the West have great altars for worship and beautiful buildings to fellowship in, but our magnet of attraction is grilled eggplant, kebab, and Hummus late in the night with some of that Turkish espresso coffee around a Ben Hur style outdoor patio  (LOL)!  Now you can see why we want to build out this tactical center and put in a industrial size barbeque!  It is the secret for attracting the warriors of the night!

Well I’m getting a little off topic here in this update but just know we had great victories on the CT front this week and many terrorists with pipe bombs and other serial killing devices were stopped before they reached our population centers.  And for that I’m so thankful to be here and do our part in the tactical warfare against the underworld and also servicing these special units who are our first line of defense in the natural against the terrors of the night.

All of them are wielders of the sword, Expert in war; Each man has his sword at his side, Guarding against the terrors of the night
(Song of Solomon 3:8)

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit

*PROPHETIC WARNING*

A few years ago while ministering in Atlanta, GA.  I was taken up in the Spirit of God and saw a major offensive being planned against the Body of Messiah from deep within the enemy’s camp.  It looked like a storm or squall line of dark clouds suddenly rolling in like you would experience in the Summer months on the plains of Oklahoma.  The next thing I saw was many believers going about their daily activities totally unaware that this attack was about to hit and that they would also not understand even where this attack was coming from until it was too late and that the damage was done.

During this same time I also received a sudden rush of Internet orders for our 1995 teaching tape THE TORNADO VISION and then a young man who receives many accurate dreams (verified by his pastor in Oklahoma) suddenly calls me out of the blue describing to me these dreams of a sudden storm system coming with many tornadoes!  As the prophetic hydraulic fluid pressure continued to build within me that something very dangerous was coming… suddenly later that weekend the United States was hit with the most tornadoes ever in one day!  Then to top these things off 90 minutes later I’m invited to sound the shofar of warning on a live international TV program by Juanita Bynum!  Those who saw the broadcast
(Click here to watch) can attest to the Awe of God that invaded that interview and shofar soundings!  (We were subsequently invited to minister at Juanita Bynum’s The Threshing Floor camp meeting the at the Georgia Dome with an expected audience of 80,000 plus people!).

Let’s now examine some key end time Scriptures about what this storm is….

” And because lawlessness is increased, most peoples love will grow cold”
(Matthew 24:12 NASB)

Notice here that the word love is “Agape” (the God kind of love) will wax and grow cold in the hearts of believers during the last days before Jesus return to planet earth.  This is a very serious warning and we must not be caught off guard to this epidemic of apostasy and secret falling away that is now happening.

But let’s look even deeper into the context of why and how this is happening….  It is found in the verses proceeding which has this progression.

1. Believers will be offended
2. Believers will betray one another
3. Believers will hate one another

…And out of this environment many false prophets will arise and mislead many (Matt 24:11)!

So it is not just the false prophetic and lawlessness we need to try to avoid and combat in the front-lines…it is OFFENSES (in our flank) that is the bottom line weapon that the enemy is successfully using to wear down God’s people in this final hour!

THE WARNING I SEE OF THE COMING STORM UPON THE HORIZON IS THAT OF A NEW WAVE OF OFFENSES, STRIFE, AND DIVISIONS BEING RELEASED FROM THE GATES OF HELL AGAINST GOD’S PEOPLE!

We need to NOW then take evasive action!!! But How?

I suggest we all right now look into a subject to strengthen our faith muscles for the love walk and that subject can be coined as CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS.  Because this storm I see coming is very, very evil and cunning and we must be ready….

Let’s look at this brief summation of the Biblical facts-

1. Jesus is warning in the Last Days that a lawlessness will erupt and evaporate the Love of God from believers hearts (Matt. 24).
2. This will be centered around offenses and betrayal.
3. Proverbs 5 and 7 describe the portal to Hell is illustrated by a wicked adulterous woman who is very cunning and tempting.
4. James 3 describes this woman as the wisdom which comes from below…earthly, natural, and the epicenter of all demonic work.
5. And portal of all demonic work is characterized by strife, jealousy, and selfish ambition. (See James 3:14-16)!

Notice what the Holy Spirit is saying thru these texts in Proverbs and James to us today.  ALL DEMONIC ACTIVITY IS CENTERED IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF JEALOUSY, SELFISHNESS, AND STRIFE.  (this is the storm that is upon us all now)

….AND the warning from James is for us not to be arrogant and lie against this truth!

What is our first step of Evasive Action? DEATH!

1. Take up our cross and die to self ambition, self justification and only obey the Word of God!
2. We must be brutally honest with ourselves and not lie against the searching Truth of His Word!
3. James says the wisdom from above is first pure…  That means we must radically take inventory and cleanse ourselves of all worldly pleasures and stimulations.  Purity in speech, thought, and what you allow into your eye and ear gates concerning electronic entertainments.  Be Holy and be blameless in your conscience is a pre-req in this hour!
4. Take up the attitude of Hebrews 13 of being a scapegoat and going outside the camp bearing the reproach.  (Very rare character trait seen today).

The Second step of Evasive Action is RECOGNITION and RECON

1. Recognize that the enemy’s secret but very lethal weapon of first choice to take us down is by strife and division.
2. He will strike repeatedly at the areas he smells the most flesh of self ambition and a Cross-less lifestyle.
3. He will send offense which will usually ride on the back of jealous believers, family members, and then strangers.
4. He wants to create a division… a wedge…and operate from that launching point. Don’t give him place!
5. Stay in continual alertness and RECON mode for offenses and strife.

The Third step of Evasive Action is JUDICIAL PRECEDENT

1. The Word of God already states the Judicial Precedent that must be followed in
   Matthew chapter 18 (please read this chapter now).
2. If your brother or sister offends or sins against you…go directly to them First!
   (not anyone else or the justice system of God is not in your favor).
3. If they do not listen…bring in witnesses who know intimately of the situation or are directly affected by this offense and will be the next step in line to receive fallout and the collateral damage of this persons sinful and lawless actions.
4. Then you bring it before the local church (that is why it is good to be part of a God ordained gathering place of believers in a NT pattern).
5. If there is still no repentance then you treat that person as a heathen and tax gather…not reject them and cut them off…but rather love them unconditionally as Jesus did the heathen and tax gathers in His earthly ministry.  However, to often the guilty person is treated as a heretic and outcast and unknowingly that silent treatment and distancing by believers (i.e acting like beavers in their secure lodge) is what cements the division that the enemy has wanted all along!

(Is this helping some of you’all this morning? Hint, hint!!!)

Time does not allow me to go into more Scriptures this morning concerning love, unity, restoration, etc… But let me sum up some concluding thoughts for you dear warriors.

Everyone of us do not like this grieving process of strife and division. That is one reason why it is so much easier on our “flesh” to just avoid these issues and not follow the proper
Matthew 18 guidelines when somebody sins against us.   We are too quick to cut them off and distance ourselves from them and the issue.  We must be lovers of THE TRUTH and employ the evasive action of confrontation to stop dead in it’s tracks this very lethal weapon of strife and division the enemy has been using to destroy, maim, and hamstring so many believers (if you don’t deal with this it will also effect your health)!  The fight is on and the enemy is throwing everything…including the kitchen sink at all of us in this final battle.  There are no rules of engagement here and there are no Geneva convention guidelines.  Our enemy has no conscience and is moving swiftly against all of us even now.  We must strike back and transition into a life long commitment of love an unity at all cost….  (How many believers and ministries out there are really going to listen to this today?)

In the last 25 years of ministry, I have seen that usually the hardest group to get “un-offended” are full-time ministers.  They think that just because the anointing of God is manifesting in their services and they are doing so many good works that they are above the Judicial precedent of The Word of God.  In so many past Matthew 18 conflict resolutions I have either been involved in or was asked to be a part of I have noticed that many ministers or believers who are well seasoned in the things of God have a big “Achilles Heel” of self delusion.  They (and even I have been guilty before) of placing prophetic words, or what they hear in prayer as having more precedent than the written Word of God!  We must not dance around the topic and be arrogant and lie against the truth.  It does not really matter what we have heard in prayer or received in prayer or prophecy from others because that can come forth from a impure conscience or hurt and the enemy loves to play upon this with very cunningly craftiness.  WE MUST OBEY THE LITERAL WORD OF GOD! PERIOD!!

Take this short teaching this morning and let us search our hearts.  Be brutally honest and then have the courage to contact that brother or sister who has offended us or we them…and reach out the hand of unconditional love and reconciliation.  Go to them first and them only…. And even if they don’t listen calibrate yourselves to keep up the momentum to keep talking to them no matter how long it takes to bring in those who are acting accountable only to themselves.  Don’t give up and do not get tempted into a place of anger or frustration…  Stay in that place of gentleness and the inner shalom that you will experience supernaturally as you are a warring peacemaker!

The storm is upon us all…are actions will determine our destiny.  Be courageous and go that extra mile to maintain unity no matter what the cost!

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends,

We have been getting some feedback from this week’s latest counter-terrorism exploit in the Ocean and it is sending seismic waves thru the enemies encampment!  However, there are some questions that need to be answered to set the record straight and encourage those who deeply desire to move in this radical spontaneity with the Spirit of God…yet need some cobwebs blown out of the top floor brain wave room (LOL).

“Scott, did you really swim out into the heavy surf of the Med and into the deep waters 2 kilometers from the shoreline or was that just a spiritual vision?”

Yes, I really did swim out into the deep blue ocean and participated in spontaneous warfare under the direction of the Spirit of God.  It was not a visionary experience.  It is the real McCoy….  There was evil in the waters and this stop gap maneuver was Spirit led and not brain tissue led.  I only shudder to think what would have happened with those terrorists Frogmen if I did not obey and easily fall back into the paralysis of analysis that we all so many times do!

“Is this something you do regularly in prayer and can one join you next time this happens?”

No, this is the first time I have ever done anything like this especially in the context of going after the evil in the waters which later turned out to be Palestinian terrorists in diving gear and heavily armed trying to strike deep into the Israeli coastal area.  If you want to visit us and get up and 4:30 AM and hit your face in prayer, not seeking for exploits, but rather learning the ebbs and flows of Gethsemane death to self…then feel free to contact us next time you are in Israel.

Why doesn’t my local church do wild things like this?  It seems the leadership is really desirous of revival but we never seem to see the breakout that you regularly have.  We have been following your ministry for quite some time.

I must be honest and direct, Dalit and I have travelled to thousands of places all over the Western hemisphere conducting revival meetings and most leadership teams we have seen are seeking God’s hand and not really His face.  They want their will to be blessed and not His will.  Most leaders are afraid of totally going after God because they know what they have built and servicing is a man pleasing altar.  God will give a maintenance presence to the Saul monarchy request but the deep waters of the Spirit realm are only for those who have truly been guillotined at His altar.  Don’t follow man in this hour but only the Holy Spirit!  He is your best friend

	Scott, I really love God and His Word but there seems to be something missing in my devotional walk.  How can I break out of this rut I’m in?
	The Bible says in Proverbs that he that waters others shall be watered himself.  The key is to live only to water others.  Find that sweet spot of Gethsemane where your will becomes His will and you will become like a garden of Eden wherever you go.  It is so simple…ask yourself daily, “whose will am I actually doing right now”?

Ok friends, let me just get down to the real issue here that has caused the feedback from the first email I sent out this week.  There is a realm of the miraculous that flows in sync with your will being evaporated and His will is all you want to do per Hebrews 10.  When you give Him your will then Hebrews chapter 11 radical miracles will become evident on a very common basis.  However, the key to not get off track here and get weird like so many other believers have this last decade is real simple.  The Holy Spirit is “HOLY”!  Which means you must live a consecrated, holy, pure lifestyle or you will become a carrier of a familiar spirit of this world system that is camouflaged as the real anointing, but is a strong delusion from God or the underworld (2 Thess. 2).

As you mature in causing your senses to discern between what is good and evil ,then the Holy Spirit will begin to fill you with His fire for His next wave on planet earth which is the Spirit of Justice.  This theme is all over the prophetic oracles of the apocalyptic end time segments of the Scriptures.  The problem is that most well meaning believers are seeking a destiny and self-improvement fix that automatically will default you back to square one in Gethsemane’s garden.  You can only flow in this miracle end time justice anointing if you have been pre-qualified by Gethsemane’s testing’s.  Sure you may at times experience His healing or provisional blessings…but to enter into these alien works of God where He alone does wonders you must become the scum of the earth per 1 Cor. 4!

This week’s testimony of going out into the deep Med waters and prostrating myself with the help of my buoyant wetsuit for radical intercession against evil, may seem wild and very strange to many believers.  But it is actually just another day at the office so to speak when it comes to being a Spirit driven vessel fashioned for specialized warfare against the underworld terrorists.  There is so many wild miracles and prophetic gestures He has us doing that have not even been published yet and may never be since it is involving the security situation here in Israel.  And this method of operation in stealth has been so successful in raiding the enemies encampments here that I feel like we have yet to really scratch the surface in what God wants to do here in Israel!

The final purpose of today’s communiqué is to stir you’all up to now begin to yield to the Holy Spirit’s gentle nudge to get out of bed and seek Him in the pre-dawn hours.  To do this you will need to go to bed earlier and evaporate all that late night activities and entertainments.  And then in His pre-determined zone of choosing these wild and radical winds of exploits will suddenly begin to fill your weekly schedule!

Don’t follow man’s opinions!  Don’t be double-minded!  Lift up your sails and let Him fill it with the winds of Justice He wants to bring onto planet earth in this late hour!  It is time for the alien and strange works to be employed (Isaiah 28:21)!  He is so Wonderful!

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit