When something terrible like the Fort Hood massacre happens, I get quite a few e-mails asking, "What do you think it means?" It is good that we are an AWAKE people, asking questions about what these things mean, instead of going blindly on about our days, with our heads in the sand. We are a people who know that YHVH speaks through the things that He allows to happen, and if we are paying attention and seeking the mind of Messiah, He will at least give us some clues along the way. Sometimes the clues are blatantly obvious - such as the days in 2005 when I was in Jerusalem weeping over the thousands of Jews being expelled from their homes in the Gaza, and knowing in my heart that as we pushed for the dividing of the Land of Israel and forced Jews into homelessness in the streets, there would be a response from the Holy One of Israel. Sure enough, three days later, Hurricane Katrina roared into New Orleans rendering thousands of Americans homeless in the streets.
But sometimes the clues are NOT so obvious. And so when I went to the Holy Spirit last night asking for any message we could glean from the tragedy at Fort Hood, this is what I received: the killer's first name is Nidal. It is an Arabic name that means struggle. Then I kept seeing the name Temple, Texas on the Fox News screen where the correspondents were relaying the story.
Nidal is in Temple...Struggle on the Temple, Struggle over the Temple Mount...
Those words continued reverberating in my mind as I drifted off to sleep last night, and when I awoke this morning I felt assured that this is an underlying warning message from YHVH of what is just ahead. PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM. Pray for many Jewish and Arabic eyes to be opened to Yeshua the Messiah. Pray for YHVH to defend His people, as He has promised, and for HIS NAME'S SAKE.
By faith pray Jehoshaphat's prayer in 2 Chronicles 20:
O YHVH, Elohim of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in Your hand so that none is able to withstand You. Did not You, O our Elohim, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham Your friend forever? And they dwelt therein, and have built You a sanctuary for Your Name, saying: "If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this temple, and before You - for Your Name is in this temple - and cry unto You in our affliction, and You will hear and save!"
Struggle over the Temple...
