Prophetic Warning In A Time Of War

When the world feels like it’s coming apart, what if the deepest issue isn’t politics or headlines, but whether our hearts are ready for God? We talk about prophetic ministry as a mercy, a forewarning that helps us understand the times without getting swallowed by fear. With war escalating in the Middle East and Israel once again at the center of global attention, we explore why Israel is described as “God’s sundial” and how events there can signal larger spiritual realities.

From there we move into a sobering theme: the manifestation of God’s presence comes in waves, and those waves don’t land the same way on everyone. We unpack the line, “the same sun that melts butter hardens clay,” and connect it to the difference between living in relationship with Jesus versus clinging to dead religion or false security. As God reveals His majesty, some people long for His glory, while others experience terror because they feel unprepared to meet Him.

We ground the conversation in Isaiah and Revelation 6, where people hide in caves and among rocks, even crying out for the mountains to fall on them to avoid the face of God. That raises an honest question: if you feel dread about the day of the Lord, could that be a spiritual alarm telling you God wants to deliver and purify something? We close with prayer, pointing to Jesus Christ as our refuge, strong tower, and only real security. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s wrestling with fear, and leave a review. What part of this stirred questions for you?

Transcript

Israel As God’s Sundial

Waves Of Glory And Terror

Isaiah’s Vision Of Humbling Pride

Revelation’s Cry To The Mountains

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One of the good things that we have found concerning prophetic ministry is that it can give us some forewarning, or it can give us a heads up regarding where we're living at currently. And to be forewarned is to be forearmed. We're living in obviously some very stressful times across the nations, on one hand. We're living in the year 2026, it's now April, and things have escalated over the course of the past several months in the Middle East, and now we're facing a war that is raging between Iran and Israel, but also some of the surrounding nations with Israel being in the center. So we have a real highlight, a spotlight, if you will, that's on the Middle East and specifically on Israel. And anytime, anytime Israel is in the news, pay attention. Because Israel is God's sundial. What takes place in Israel has an effect both spiritually and in our natural world. Israel is a sundial, and what happens there affects things all around the world. And there's a few things that have been brewing in my heart over the po it's been over the course of the past probably two years. And it's an interesting passage that's initially taken from the book of Isaiah, but it's also found in the book of Revelation. And it's a passage about the people that are experiencing a real terror when it comes to what God is doing on the earth. And it has captured the attention of people to a degree that they are frightened because they're not prepared to see God. Their realization inside of their own lives is that they are ill-equipped and not prepared at all to come in contact with the Most High God. And that is an ominous feeling, to feel ill-equipped, not prepared at all. In fact, just the opposite. You're on the wrong end of things, and God is revealing his majesty. And the same sun that melts butter hardens clay. Meaning God's presence that brings a manifestation of his glory. Things that we have been praying for, longing for, wanting for, those of us who have relationship with Jesus, who've been introduced to God our Father, and have a right relationship with Him, and who are filled with the Holy Spirit, God Spirit, God the Spirit, the very Spirit of God, the life of God in us, longing for His glory, longing to be consumed with His glory. That same sun that melts butter hardens clay, where other people feel that presence of God being manifest are terrified. They are not prepared to meet him, and in the manifestation of God's presence, there are waves that come with the manifestation of God in his revealing himself on planet earth. They come in waves. He comes in waves. His presence comes in waves, ever increasing waves and ever increasing depth until it consumes things. And those that can be consumed by fire will be burned up. And those that can't be consumed by fire will be moving forward in the very glory of God, because their hearts have been melted like gold being melted and molded into one. One body, one faith, one baptism, one Lord, one savior, one spirit, being one as God is one. But in the process of that, there are manifesting, there are waves of God's presence that are being manifested. We're in the process of experiencing some of that again now. And it's increasing, it's going to increase. But we're at a place right now where some of the things that have been spoken prophetically, we can see them more clearly than we've ever been able to see them before. And one of the things that used to really just boggle my mind was the thought of people being so afraid of God that they would want the rocks of the mountain, mountain rocks, they would want the mountains to fall on them. And I thought, how how bizarre. I mean, how could that even happen? Where there'd be people, groups of people, that would say, Let the rocks fall on us. In fact, we're going to be reading from two passages that very statement that's being made concerning the things that are taking place on planet Earth as a result of God manifesting his presence in the end times. And we, folks, are living in the end of the age. The age that's known as the time and space continuum, where we live in the realm of time and space that's carved into eternity. That realm of time and space is coming to a close. Time on earth is coming to a close, and the final judgments of God are being revealed. And a few years ago, a couple of years ago now, when Gaza Strip first, I mean, when Gaza Strip really came into focus again, and when Hamas in October of 2023, when Hamas invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip, and Israel retaliated, we come to find out that there are tunnels built all throughout the Gaza Strip. Underground tunnels, deep underground, vast tunnel systems where many people were living and doing business beneath the surface, preparing for war, preparing literally to annihilate Israel and usher in their Messiah through a jihad, through a holy war, where Israel would ultimately be annihilated. That is the creed of those who live with radical Islam in out of Iran, the center hub. And so we found all these tunnels, found out about all these tunnels, and started bombing them. And now finding out that there are vast systems all throughout Iran, in the mountains, in the mountains, where there are vast systems, even cities built into the mountains, where people are living, and their intent is to wage war against Israel, God's people, God's sundial, God's chosen people. They are not going to be annihilated, by the way. God is going to do something significant to and through Israel again. But in the times leading up to it, we're going to be seeing waves of God's presence come. And with each wave, there's a greatness that comes, but there's also a terror involved with it because of the manifestation of God's judgments and things that start taking place as a result of his judgments. Prior to his revealing his mighty right arm, he's going to show some of his judgments, his decisions, his the consequences to life lived in rebellion to God. Because it's God who's revealing himself. He is more loving than we give him credit for, but he's also wiser than we give him credit for. He has wisdom and knowledge and abilities that we don't give him credit for. And he is going to show us who he is. We don't need to be telling people about him. Isaiah saw these days, and he reported on what he saw. You see, he could see things, and he would say things. He would say what he saw. That's part of the prophetic ministry, is to foretell. There's the foretelling and the fort telling. The F O R E and the F-O-R-T telling. When it's telling proclaiming before it takes place, and when it's proclaiming it is taking place. Isaiah was reporting what he saw that was going to be taking place, and he said The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted, and they will be humbled, for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks of Bashan, for all the towering mountains and all the high hills, for every lofty tower, every fortified wall, for every trading ship, every stately vessel, the arrogance of man will be brought low, and the pride of men humbled. The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will be totally and the idols will totally disappear. Men will flee to caves, in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols and silver and idols of gold which they made to worship. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty when he arises to shake the earth. Stop trusting in men who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he? Wow. Isaiah saw people fleeing to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground from the dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth. We're starting to experience some of that taking place on a level that we've never experienced it happen on planet Earth before. And Isaiah saw this take place hundreds, even thousands of years earlier than they are right now, but we are living in the days that Isaiah saw. John, the Revelator, two thousand years ago, heard the Lord speak to him in the book of, and he records it in the book of Revelation chapter six, verse sixteen. Actually fifteen and sixteen, excuse me. John said, Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. For that great day of the wrath has come, and who can stand?

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Powerful. The fortelling and the foretelling.

Self Examination Repentance And Refuge

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The benefit of prophetic ministry is a heads up, and it is a point of encouragement for us to hear some of these things because we want the glory of the Lord to be manifest. We want to be with him. What a unique difference takes place when we're in relationship with God versus having a dead religion that ultimately has led us astray, away from God, so that when he does reveal himself, we don't want to be seen by him because we're not ready. A person cannot experience the presence of God without being prepared for his presence by God. God prepares those of us ahead of time to receive his glory so that we can welcome it as he manifests himself, versus being on the other end of the spectrum where we are praying for the rocks to fall on us so that we don't see the face of God, the terror of the Lord, the great and terrible day of the Lord. Well, folks, my encouragement is this to take and examine yourself in light of the Holy Spirit and see if there are things that God wants to modify and sanctify, purify, deliver you from, so you can be free to welcome the presence of the Lord versus being afraid of the presence of the Lord and want the very rocks to fall on you because you are hiding. Even though those places that are in the rocks right now are meant for protection, they're ultimately unable to keep a person from experiencing the presence of the Lord. Because he will penetrate all things until everything is brought into a place of submission. And every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus Christ is Lord. Jesus Christ is Lord. What a wonderful thing to say, what a wonderful thing to say when that's a reality. Jesus Christ is my Lord. He is my leader. My father is my boss. Hallelujah. It's only because of the blood of Jesus that we have the ability to say that when we believe in him as our salvation. He makes things right. He's the one who made things right. So I can have a right relationship and not be in dread of the Lord. If you have a sense of dread in you concerning the day of the Lord, that is an indicator that there are things in your life that God wants to take care of and deliver you from. So you can be in a place of anticipating his presence, not dreading it.

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Don't harden your heart, but repent.

Prayer For Deliverance And Salvation

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Turn from those things that are holding you down or trying to provide for you some false sense of security. When in all reality, the only security that ye have, that I have, that we have, is found in Jesus. He is our strong tower, he is our refuge, he is our fortress, he is our deliverer, he is our king, he is our conquering king, he is our soon to return conquering king, and we are going to experience we are going to be experiencing all of his glory being manifest on planet earth. And this is heads up, considering the fact that there are people that are going to be experiencing just the opposite of anticipation. They're going to be experiencing the dread found in God revealing himself because God's not going to stop revealing himself. The earth is the Lord's in the fullness of it, and he's coming to claim what's his. Hallelujah. Let's pray. Hallelujah. Father, thank you for showing us in your word ahead of time your plans and your purposes, and we can see them unfold. And in so doing, we can walk accordingly. As you empower us by your spirit, we thank you, God, that we're not doing this on our own, in our own strength. We can't. I can't. I can't, I can't do this on my own. I won't try. But I thank you for hearing my cry and being my deliverer, being our deliverer, and setting us free so we can anticipate with great anticipation your soon return. And for those who don't know you like that yet, Lord, I ask that there would be a revelation of you, Jesus, that would come by you, Holy Spirit, granted by you, Father, that there could be salvation, a redemption from things that are holding someone down.

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Deliver us from evil.

How To Contact Us

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For yours, Lord, is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. And we honor you, and we stand here and we pray these things in the name of Jesus. And we say amen. Amen. Amen. Alright, folks. We love you. And if you have any thoughts, questions, concerns, please feel free to drop us a line at life on the fire at gmail.com. That's our email address, or just type in LifeRun the Fire and look us up on the web. We would love to hear from you. In the meantime, God bless you. Adios, amigos.