Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Some Great Answers to the Mystery Jerusalem Pictures taken on Passover Eve in 1917

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


Posted: 30 Mar 2015
German soldiers, World War I, 
Within minutes we started receiving answers from readers as far away as New Zealand suggesting the locations of these pictures of German soldiers marching down Jerusalem's streets during World War I.  Below are some of the answers, but we await pictures of how the streets look today today.


Marching on Good Friday/Passover Eve 1917
Marching on Good Friday/Passover Eve 1917


















A reader named Simon sent this answer: 

The first picture is lower down Jaffa Road nearly at the Jaffa Gate: the building at the top left is the old Hotel Fast where the Jerusalem Pearl is today (with "Fast" just visible at the edge of the photo). Many of the same buildings are visible at http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/matpc/20400/20457v.jpg  

The second picture is outside Jaffa 17 (note the number ١٧ in Arabic numerals near the top left), along what is now the light-rail line outside the Municipality complex at Kikar Safra. The same shop fronts, arched doorways and balconies are still visible in Google Street View, not much changed.  -- Simon 

Compare the features on these buildings in this picture from February 1941. (Library of Congress)
We actually planned to present this 1941 picture, similar to the one Simon mentioned, to show the buildings 24 years later.  It shows Australian soldiers greeting the Australian Prime Robert Menzies and the commander of the Australian troops in Australia, Lt. Gen. Thomas Blamey.

The "Matson Photo Service," shown in this picture, was a breakoff from the American Colony Photo Department, the creator of hundreds of pictures featured in this site. Some 20,000 of Eric Matson's photographs were donated to the Library of Congress where we discovered them.

From Jane: Greetings from NZ, The first picture looks like Jaffa Road and the building on the horizon looks like it is on the intersection with King George V Street. So the children in the foreground would be passing where Ben Yehuda street starts. But as I don't have any photos in front of me, I couldn't be sure. I have forwarded these pictures to my Israeli friends to see if they can assist. Kind regards,  Jane, Manakau

From Gil: The bottom photo is shot on the south side of Jaffa Road in front of the Armenian Block opposite the British-built city hall.  Chag sameach  -- Gil, Nachalat Shiva, Jerusalem 

* From Gideon:  I still have to figure out the location of the German procession, but you may notice at the bottom right of the second photo two boys in uniform, one of whom is dressed very similarly if not identically to the "British soldiers" that you pointed out in the recent "mystery photo." This reinforces my opinion that the uniform in question is not a military one at all, but one of many that were used in schools and colleges. The other boy is wearing another variety. Thanks again for the pictures which are an unending source of interest and pleasure. Hag Sameah, 

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Historic Pictures of the Armies that Fought in the Holy Land

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


Posted: 07 Nov 2014
A memorial erected by the Jews of Rishon LeZion
 in memory of the New Zealand soldiers who died
in the battle of Ayun Kara on November 14, 1917 
(Victoria University of Wellington Library)
We have often stressed in these posting the huge dimensions of World War I in Palestine.  The armies, battles and casualties were often on the same scale as those on the "Western Front" in Europe.  The war raged from the Suez Canal to Damascus and Iraq.

The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that carved up the Middle East after the war is being ripped to shreds in the regional fighting today.

Commemorating the centenary of World War I, we present the picture history of the Palestine battles, the soldiers from Turkey, Austria and German on one side and the British army with its contingents from Australia, New Zealand, and India.  We will also post pictures showing the Jewish soldiers and volunteers from Great Britain, Australia, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Palestine itself.  The Jewish soldiers also provided incredible pictures of the Jewish communities they found in Palestine.

school house in Rishon LeZion with Jewish students and teachers. The picture was taken by Trooper Charles Thomas Broomfield of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles after the November 14, 1917 battle of Ayun Kara and the liberation of Rishon LeZion. Rishon was founded on July 31, 1882 by Russian Jews who purchased 835 acres from the Arab village of Ayun Kara. Find more Broomfield pictures here.

More on the New Zealand soldiers, Broomfield, and the Jews of Rishon LeZion can be found here. We provide a fascinating quote from Broomfield's diary:

The people and the settlement [Rishon] was to have a strong influence on the New Zealanders. The Jewish village was the first taste of something closer to the environment of home. Since crossing the arid Sinai Desert and its confrontation with a hostile Turkish enemy and, more often than not, a treacherous contact with Arab Bedu tribesmen - The Auckland Mounted Rifles agreed it was a joy to meet a people who had just been freed from Turkish tyranny. It was a land worked into agriculture and planted with fruit trees and vineyards.

"Mounted rifle troops and horses stopped to the side of a road through the mountains of Palestine." The photo appears to be at the Sha'ar Haggai/Bab el Wad junction between Jaffa and Jerusalem.
(National Library of New Zealand)

"Mounted New Zealand World War I troops in Palestine, moving towards the Jordan River. Photographs taken during World War I of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces in Jerusalem, and the Auckland Mounted Rifles in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Ref: 1/2-066833-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand"

Monday, November 3, 2014

"Supernatural Doors - An Invitation to Heavenly Realms" by Kathie Walters


"Supernatural Doors - An Invitation to Heavenly Realms"
Kathie Walters, Macon, GA
The Elijah List

Supernatural Doors At the Airport

The first supernatural door was at the airport in Sydney, Australia. And the second one, well, I want to show you a picture of a door where something supernatural happened just recently.

Two years ago, I arrived at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport. I fly in and out of Sydney quite often, so I know the airport well – like I know Atlanta. I had three large cases, two of them with books and CDs for my conference. When you bring books and CDs into another country, it sometimes takes 20 minutes (after standing in the line for 40 minutes) to explain what the books are for and that you are not part of a weird cult.
As I had flown all the way from Atlanta, I felt tired and didn't feel like getting in the long line or trying to give an explanation to the customs guy.

I was at the baggage claim area, and I had just gotten my three cases onto my cart, and I grumbled a bit to God, "Can't You get me out of here without all the lines?" A security lady then walked up to me. "Let me see your customs declaration," she said. I handed her the white customs form and she looked it over. She made a huge red line right across it, and I thought she was mad. "Go through the door in the corner over there," she pointed to the right hand corner of the baggage claim area. (Photo via Flickr)

As I said, I know the airport well, and I had never noticed a door there before. I thought, "They are waiting for me, and they are going to give me a hard time because I have three cases." I walked with my cart over to the corner and through the door expecting to see some stern-faced man waiting there. 

To my surprise, I was suddenly in the main terminal. I totally bypassed all the security! "Thank You, Lord!" I said. I was so happy!

Again... Another Airport Door Appears

I had meetings that week and the following week; I went to New Zealand as I always do. I had a great time in New Zealand, and returned to Sydney a couple of weeks later. I flew into the same international terminal and baggage claim. I was feeling happy, because although I had three cases (someone in New Zealand makes CDs for me), I knew which door to head for. Easy.

I went through the initial customs where they check your passport and then went to the baggage claim and gathered my three cases.

I wheeled my cart toward the corner to go through the door I had been through two weeks before. When I got to the corner, to my dismay, there was NO DOOR THERE at all.

I had no choice but to go and get at the end of a very long line of people going through the security, but I was not a happy camper at all. I complained to the Lord about it. "I don't know about that, making doors and then taking them away again. Now I have to get in this big, long line."

I stood there because I didn't have a choice. After about five minutes, a security man walked up to me; "You and you (he pointed to the lady next to me whom I didn't know), go through that door there." He pointed to a door straight ahead of us. We looked at each other and both walked through this door. We found ourselves in the main terminal. (Photo via Pixabay)

Afterwards I said to the Lord, "Why did You take away the first door and then make another door?" He didn't give me any great theological answer, "I am the door, I can do what I like," is all He said. 

But I thought about it afterwards: He can do what He likes and what He desires – He is the door, He is the key, He is the beginning and the end...He can make a way where there is no way, and make a door where there is no door! Simple really. Just need a bit of faith, which we have already been given. "To every man [is given] the measure of [God's] faith" (Romans 12:3).

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It's a Heavenly Door and Invitation

I had just returned from Wales and England. We had a great time. I take a group to Ireland and Scotland every April, and Wales and England every October.

So, I just returned from the October tour. While we were visiting Bedford area, we went to the church where John Newton (author of the famous hymn "Amazing Grace") preached and is now buried – Olney Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, was imprisoned in Bedford for preaching without being "ordained." The famous politician and slave trade abolitionist, William Wilberforce, went to rest often at Moggerhanger estate in Bedford, too. Quite a grace history in Bedford.

While we were at the Olney Church, we had sung "Amazing Grace" around John Newton's grave. I walked back to the front gate, and I passed a side door into the church. The door was a muddy brown color and surrounded by the grey stone arch design around the door. I stopped and took a picture of the door because I noticed a pattern on the door, but the door was not very attractive really. We got back on the little bus and went on with Michele Grandfield to the next place. Michele has a great ministry in Bedford called "His Fragrance Ministries."
On the bus I opened the picture app on my phone to check my pictures

I was totally amazed when I saw the brown painted door. It was an amazing blue color (right), and the grey stone around it was now pretty hues. 

I did not do anything to the picture in the way of color or anything like that. None of the other pictures I took had color apart from the actual color they were at the time. It was a cloudy day, so none of the pictures were bright. It's a heavenly door, and I believe it's an invitation to the heavenly realms – and a reminder that Jesus is supernatural, and the supernatural realm of the Holy Spirit is our inheritance. (Photo by Kathie Walters)

Come on in through the Heavenly Door (Jesus), and remember that He can make a door where there seems to be no door to go through, and He is the Way and the Truth and Life, nothing is too hard for Him. He loves you.

Kathie Walters
Good News Ministries

Kathie Walters is an international speaker who brings freedom to those who feel they have to "qualify." She also ministers in the supernatural and believes that the supernatural realm is for everyone.

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

"Australia and New Zealand – Seven Words From God For You" - Brian Simmons



"Australia and New Zealand 
– Seven Words From God For You"
Brian Simmons, Wichita, KS
The Elijah List

God has a wonderful word He wants to speak over Australia. The land down under will become one of the most desirable places to live on earth as the Holy Spirit begins to fall, kissing the hearts of His worshippers. Throughout your nation, the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit, a wave of God's favor is about to sweep over you.

Churches will grow, new converts will birth churches filled with more new converts. Established churches will be like the fathers and mothers of this great move of God. Expect to see many who have immigrated to Australia, especially Iranians, Indonesians, and Indians, along with many middle eastern refugees, become mighty evangelists after they come in contact with God's power flowing the churches of Australia. (Photo via Pixabay)

My wife and I just returned from a three-week ministry tour of the beloved nation. While there we both received a number of dreams from God, Holy Spirit-inspired visions, and words of prophecy for that beautiful land.

Allow me to share the seven prophetic words He spoke to my wife and me. Although Australia is highlighted, I believe these words apply to the wonderful nation of New Zealand as well! These will begin to manifest immediately and move into greater fulfillment throughout 2015:
1. Australia will experience an immediate Holy Spirit shift that could be compared to the WINDOWS of Heaven being open over your nation. This involves great financial blessing that will increase (see Malachi 3:10-11), but even greater will be the revelation of the Holy Spirit that comes over the nation. Of all the nations, Australia will be given insight into global events that will startle the powers that be. You will be given eyes to see and ears to hear, and the Spirit of Understanding will rest upon your political leaders, intercessors, and pastors. Expect to see an even greater alliance forged between Australia and Israel. 
2. Australia will be a healing center. Many healings will come to the praying Believers who have great faith for healing. The anointing of Smith Wigglesworth, the noted healing evangelist of generations past, will be re-deposited in the Church. Healing services will begin to fill with people turning to Jesus Christ. I awoke this morning to the sounds of, "I am the Lord who heals you, I am the Lord your healer." As a sign that you will be a healing nation, there will be a great healing of the rift between the native Australians and the government. Watch a tearful move of God sweep into Canberra. (Photo via Pixabay) 
3. Truth will prevail. Aussies love the truth, hate the hype, and have been given great discernment. God has put a root of truth into your DNA. You will help the global Church navigate many thorny theological issues that will soon arise. Authors will be anointed to point us to truth. You will carry the Spirit of Truth and the Word of Truth as discernment flows through you. Never fall back from your calling to preach the truth. 
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4. The Battle of Hope continues. The Hope of Christ must win over every pocket of fear of the future. Hope is the answer and will become a great invitation to the lost in your nation to come to the God of Hope. Every state of your nation must bring forth your message of hope! Hope, come back and burn bright in Oz! Hope will win in the end! I saw Perth give birth to a move of mercy, giving compassion to the Asians that have come to your land. Perth will soon be called "a Global City of Refuge" (see Joshua 20). 
5. Judah praises. I see high praises rising from all over the nation. Aboriginals will join in as the celebration of freedom and power sweeps through the Church. Expect new moves of God, much like Hillsong, to come forth with a brand new sound that will cause shaking and trembling in God's presence. 
6. You will move from following the pack to leading the pack. As my Aussie friend says, "It smells better up front anyway!" Your leadership calling will not be stifled. An apostolic renewal will come. What was cut short and went dormant will now break forth with new grace as true apostles begin to emerge. 
This move of leadership grace will startle Australians who have been content to let other nations lead the way, but now grace has come for you to lay hold of your destiny. And the voice of the Church will be heard in parliament as you bring wisdom to the decisions of your nation. Your greatest export to the nations will be the move of God's Spirit. (Photo via Pixabay) 
7. The Gift of Fellowship (Mateship). The redemptive calling of Australia is to model community, fellowship, partnership in the Gospel, fighting for your brother and sister, serving them as you display the love Jesus speaks of: "So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you're My true followers" (John 13:34-35 TPT).

Lead the way, Australia; we're waiting to celebrate your victories! So, we will watch the nation of Australia experience God's kiss this coming year. May the lovers of God take the nation!

Brian Simmons
Stairway Ministries
The Passion Translation

Brian Simmons is known as a passionate lover of God. After a dramatic conversion to Christ, Brian knew that God was calling him to go to the unreached people of the world and present the gospel of God's grace to all who would listen. With his wife Candice and their three children, he spent nearly eight years in the tropical rain forest of the Darien Province of Panama as a church planter, translator, and consultant. 

Brian was involved in the Paya-Kuna New Testament translation project. He studied linguistics and Bible translation principles with New Tribes Mission. After their ministry in the jungle, Brian was instrumental in planting a thriving church in New England (U.S.), and now travels full time as a speaker and Bible teacher. He is also the lead translator for The Passion Translation Project which will result in a new, dynamic version of the Bible for this generation. He has been happily married to Candice for over forty-two years and is known to boast regularly of his children and grandchildren.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

World War I in the Middle East - I'd Walk 100 Miles with My Camel

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


Posted: 29 Sep 2014

Volunteer Arab Camel Corps led by Turkish officers leaving Jerusalem (circa (1915)
The scope of the World War I battles in Palestine are simply not understood by most students of the Middle East today.  The Turkish, German, Austrian, British, ANZAC and Indian forces numbered in the hundreds of thousands. 


Mounted troops from the Australian, British, New Zealand and Indian battalions of the Imperial Camel Corps

To provide some perspective, we present pictures of one of the most utilized tools of that war -- the camel.  Tens of thousands were used in the war in Palestine.
Australian camel corps hat pin

The difficult terrain of the Sinai, the Jordan Valley, and the Samarian/Judean hills required extensive use of the sturdy and powerful four-legged "supply truck."


Consider this report by a New Zealand officer in his book With the Cameliers in Palestine:

In the advance up the coastal plain in Palestine, in November, 1917, General Allenby used thirty thousand (30,000) camels for carrying food, water and ammunition to the troops of one portion of the eastern force of his army. 
Turkish account of the war, and specifically the 1914-1915 campaign against the British on the Suez Canal, describes the forces and the logistical nightmare of crossing the Sinai desert:
Turkish Camel Corps in Be'er Sheva, 1915

The gathering point for the VIII Corps was Beersheba, which was inland, well away from the reach of British naval artillery. From there, 25,000 men would march 300 kilometres across the desert and reach Ismailia. However, this was nothing but a mission impossible. Moreover, every man was allowed one kilogram of food and drink water per day and this meant that they needed 15,000 camels. But what they had was just 2,000 animals. [Commander] Cemil Paşa mentioned this problem in his memoirs as follows: “I think there are many people who are wandering why we couldn't find the required 15,000 camels in a place like Syria and Hejaz.  We had to find 14,000 camels within one month.” Five kilograms of barley and 18 kilograms of water were allowed per horse and three kilograms of barley and five kilograms of water was allowed per camel.
British Imperial Camel Corps outside of Be'er Sheva on November 1, 
1917, during the critical battle to capture the Turkish outpost and wells 
The Turkish account continues, describing the Turkish army's strength after difficult battles in Gaza and prior to the British General Allenby's move north into Palestine: As of May 1917, the Ottoman Fourth Army was consisting of 174,908 men, 36,225 animals, 5,351 camels, 145,840 rifles, 187 machine guns and 282 artillery pieces.


Click on pictures to enlarge. Click on captions to view the original pictures.

World War I combat ambulances. Camels carrying wounded Turkish soldiers -- two per camel 
on a litter called a "kankalah" or "cacolet." (1917, Ottoman Imperial Archives) See also here

Wounded Australian cavalrymen on their way to
medical attention (Australian War Memorial)


The following description is from 
"With the Cameliers in Palestine:"

The field ambulance, instead of using wheeled vehicles, transported the sick and wounded in "caco-lets," on the backs of camels. These consisted of two canvas stretchers balanced horizontally, one on each side of a specially constructed saddle. In these the wounded men could either sit or lie at full length, and were shaded from the sun by a small canvas hood. The jolting 
Indian army's camel ambulances
motion of the camel frequently was most trying to the badly wounded men, but it was sometimes a case of this kind of carriage, or death, and these camel cacolets, going as they did where wheeled transport was impossible, undoubtedly were the means of saving the lives of many wounded men who otherwise would have had a poor chance of being carried back to safety. 



Only male camels were used in the 
German soldiers loading wounded onto an "ambulance," 1918
Camel Brigade. It would have been an unworkable system to have mixed the sexes, as in the East no mutilation of male animals, either horses, donkeys or camels for sterilisation purposes, is ever practised by the Mohammedans. 









British Imperial Camel Corps "ambulances" in action, 1916

Horses generally have a strong dislike for camels, but this dislike can be overcome by daily contact. Some of the officers of higher rank of each battalion used horses during part of the campaign, and these soon grew quite accustomed to the company of their more ungainly associates.


Turkish army camel convoy, 1917. The caption in the Harvard University places the picture near the modern 
northern Israeli town of Afula in the Jezreel Valley. The body of water, however, suggests it was taken near the 
Hula Valley swamps which was sparsely populated by a Bedouin tribe living in reed huts, likely pictured here.

Turkish officers at David's Citadel in Jerusalem


Turkish camel corps in Jerusalem



















Original captionThe Camel Transport of the Australian Light Horse at the railhead dump, on the Philistine Plain (near Ashkelon). The camels are seen on their way to the forward area, loaded with Australian frozen mutton for the troops. In the background can be seen the tent camp.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Chuck D. Pierce: A Key Prophecy! The Sound that Prevails! Hear the Sound of the Ancient of Days that Prevails Against the Gates of Hell!

August 21, 2014

Chuck D. Pierce: A Key Prophecy! The Sound that Prevails! Hear the Sound of the Ancient of Days that Prevails Against the Gates of Hell!

From the Desk of Steve Shultz:

Steve ShultzThere are Words that break forth that have such an urgent and profound quality that we MUST STOP and pay attention to it... even more than with most words. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WORDS. STOP NOW and read this...

Here's just a portion of it through Chuck Pierce:

"But I will blow! I will blow forth with My breath. This will activate the sound that I have placed in lands like Africa, Asia, China, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Mexico and Central America, and India.

"Panama will become a shofar in My mouth! The frozen religious power that holds Europe in its grip will begin to thaw! Russia and the surrounding nations, listen carefully: a distant wind is blowing! There is a sound arising in the Middle East. Jerusalem will sound My sound! Israel will assemble with this sound! This is the sound of the Ancient of Days. This sound will set courts of rule in place. This sound will rule on behalf of My righteous remnant. This is the sound of the strength of God to bring strength to the weary!"

There is so much more to this word that you must stop and read it now!

Be encouraged!

Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
The Elijah List & Breaking Christian News 
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Chuck D. Pierce: A Key Prophecy! The Sound that Prevails! Hear the Sound of the Ancient of Days that Prevails Against the Gates of Hell!

Chuck D. PierceDear Friends, Warriors, and Kingdom Advancers:

There are certain times when a portal of Heaven opens and revelation flows. This Sunday was one of those times. I have captured this flow from Heaven on August 17, 2014, from 10:30 until 11:14 AM (CDT), at Global Spheres Center. You will want to interact and decree what the Kingdom of Heaven is saying to and over you!

Prophetic word from Chuck Pierce and Team:

"Give a shout! Invite the fiery angels to come in! It's time for a re-building to go on. My Tabernacle will be rebuilt! That which is stopping praise from coming forth will be torn down! The rebuilding of David's Tabernacle today will cause the praises of My people to explode! I will then inhabit those praises! Evaluate your ability to praise!

"Get ready; you are going to sing at the gates of Hell! The gates of the enemy will shake in every nation. The nations are in the valley of decision. Hell will have to back up. Come alive, and develop My sound today! 

The gates of Hell will not withstand the sound that's coming from Heaven. Every continent will feel the power of the movement of Heaven!I will be the sound of the four winds within you. The winds of Heaven are coming with a mighty force, to set the sound of the continents in order.

"The earth is producing a sound of confusion that the enemy is stirring. The people of the earth are listening to the sound of confusion and moving with this sound. But I will blow! I will blow forth with My breath. 

This will activate the sound that I have placed in lands like Africa, Asia, China, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Mexico and Central America, and India.

"Panama will become a shofar in My mouth! The frozen religious power that holds Europe in its grip will begin to thaw! Russia and the surrounding nations, listen carefully: a distant wind is blowing! There is a sound arising in the Middle East. Jerusalem will sound My sound! Israel will assemble with this sound! This is the sound of the Ancient of Days. This sound will set courts of rule in place. This sound will rule on behalf of My righteous remnant. This is the sound of the strength of God to bring strength to the weary!

"This is the day of turning the battle at the gate. The court has been seated and judgment has been rendered in favor of the remnant. El Gibbor is standing at the gate, to strengthen those who turn the battle. For the refuge of lies will be swept away where the new cornerstone is going to be laid, and My Kingdom will prevail where those who had taken refuge in works of darkness are uncovered and exposed.

I Am Burning a Fiery Path Before You With the Wind of My Spirit!

"I am forming a fiery trail following you. The Ancient of Days will blow open a path and then blow a rear-guard behind! Your cries are becoming a thunder! Stir up the heavens! Decree that the fire of the enemy will be quenched! Cry for revelation to fall down from the skies!

"Ask for fullness! Ask for sustenance! Ask for multiplication! Cry for the lands to be revived! Decree dryness and desolation will break and healing will come! Ask to walk in the coolness of the day again! My desire is for the cool of the day to return! Decree motion in your atmosphere! Decree all stagnation is going! Everyone in the earth was knit with a sound! A sound! A sound! A sound!

"A tug of war is going on in the Heavens over many. The enemy is defining the rope. If you'll just look and say 'I'm not playing this game today,' all of a sudden the enemy will find himself lying on his back. Let go of the bait the enemy has given you!

There is a Sound that the Tribes of the Nations are Going to Begin Loose.

"There is a sound being released – the sound of thunder as in the days when Moses went to the mountain. I AM calling My people higher. I AM calling My people higher. This is an hour that My people ascend the mountain of the Lord. The tribes are assembling! The peoples will assemble, for there will be a sound of the Lord on the mountains that will begin to divide.

"Let the sound go up so the division can come down. Sound up! Cry up! Division down! Sound up! Sword down! Division down! You will see the nations shake! I'm going back deep in your bloodline and I'm going to call forth that which has never moved in you. There's a movement that I must have in the earth now, for the enemy is moving and amassing. There's a movement I have put in your blood that I will draw out!

"You've heard the raging of the nations, but now the time has come when you're going to hear the laughter of the Lord. Because He who sits on His throne hears the nations raging, and laughs!!!

"Don't miss your spoils from war by being distracted. There's always spoils and booty that comes from war! You are moving in a dimension of war that you've not known.

"Don't miss your spoils in the war as you move across the land! I have booty that you know not of. Keep your eyes keen and your ears sharp! Know that the sword of the Lord is coming! I have disguised My sword to surprise My enemies! Your feet will be the sound! You may not have to open your mouth, because your feet will loose light. Do not miss your spoils in the war.

"I will have a triumphant reserve that is beginning to come together! My people will stand up. As your sound goes up and comes down, it will be like a lightning strike, and it will begin to uncover everything that's been hidden; you will reach back to all the hidden treasures from your bloodline and you will pull them up!

"I have released My breath and I will dry up the seas of darkness. I will dry this in ways that will protect My people and expose the enemy when he comes in. I AM releasing My breath and pushing back that which would overtake you. I will cause you to walk in victory!

"The prophetic anointing will now be released in My people in a new way! When you hear what I am saying and march where I say march, this anointing will pierce the atmosphere on your behalf. There is a legion of fiery angels surrounding you and you will go with an authority that you have not gone with before. Fiery feet will walk on continents. Reach up and grab the atmosphere! I AM there! Your prophetic words will change the course of continents.

"Pull up the false tent pegs that the devil has tried to stick into your ground. There's a covering that's over each one of you that is preventing high praise from unlocking a two edged sword of Heaven. Both edges are needed now in the earth! False tent pegs that are creating a false boundary and covering that which has stopped your advancement must be removed! Comfortable stagnation must GO! Pull up the false tent pegs. Pull them up and advance!

"Where leviathan, the twisted communicator of pride and exaltation, has lied to you and said that you cannot hear and you cannot praise in this hour, I say that I AM chopping off his seven heads one by one and blinding his watching eye! You will walk on the back of leviathan and you will make shoes out of the serpent. You will war from a place of truth and understanding, wisdom and revelation in this hour! [The next seven months, there will be a war over communication and twisting powers, but My people will prevail, and the evil eye will be defeated!]
"Get to the end of that war you're in, for through the war you are in is how I will make you triumph as you begin.
"There is a marching in the earth that is not of Me! 

Unless My people rise up this hour and align with Me and allow their gifts to explode, they will not be able to stop the cadence of the enemy in this generation! 

Understand anti-Christ. Understand what he looks like and let your alignment come into place with Me this hour. Get moving with Me! Quit putting off the movement of My people this hour! If you don't make a shift now, you will be marched over in this nation within two years! Hear the word of the Lord!"

A New Song Breaks An Old CYCLE!

In the midst of war,
We cry holy is our Lord,
The giver of breath and builder of joy.

We cry, "Send Your holy breath on the earth today!"
The ancient ruins will be re-built this day;

We will enter a new day of praise;
The ancient ruins will be re-built today,
We will enter a new day of praise;
The ancient ruins will be re-built this day;

We will enter a new day of praise.
This is a holy shake down;
I'm shaking everything that can be shaken. 
This is a holy shake down;
Everything is shaking that can be shaken.

Bones are coming together,
Breath is blowing,
A new bride is arising!
I will grab the corners of the earth and
Shake out the wickedness from the darkness!

I will grab the edges of the earth and shake out the wickedness.
The enemy will trip and stumble and you will advance in his stead!
I will have a Temple of Praise
Rebuilt on every mountain of the earth;
Yes, I will have a Temple of Praise,
Rebuilt on every mountain of the earth.


Note from Chuck D. PierceIf there's an area in your life you can't praise in, a demon is blocking you! Decree right now that you will praise in the midst of the mess and rubble around you! Traditions are shaking! Demons of doctrines are shaking loose! The devil will take a demon of doctrine, will take one truth, and cause that truth {which is meant to be built into a full counsel of God} to build a box around you. Knock down that structure of the narrow letter that kills and decree that boxes of religion, like cardboard, will not prevent a new living structure to form around you.

Declare that any one-dimensional truth will reform and new revelation will adhere and bond to build new faith in you. We decree right now that the power, manifold wisdom and counsel of God is invading the earth this week!
I want to suggest that you stop and take communion. The Lord uses this prophetic act to cause us to remember Him. Lord, we remember You. We remember how You endured religious forces! We honor you for enduring political forces. You showed us how to endure the unbelief in our territories, because you endured the unbelief of Nazareth!

You endured the desert! You endured the devil in the wilderness. You knew how to move better in timing than the enemy, to cause him to move away until a better, more opportune time. We remember Your body and Your Blood and we ask You to make it active within us! That's what makes us win. We war not with the weapons of this world!

May the Spirit of God rest on you and His fire stir in you! Remember that you can send satan into his own fire. Quit allowing the enemy to burn up and create a desert around you. He'll take everything you've got, including your last breath. Decree right now you have been called to abundance! The enemy comes to kill, to steal and to destroy, but God's Son and by His Spirit creates an abundance of life within us. Father, let us see the fiery path in front of us and let us feel the fire of glory behind us, in Jesus' name.

Lord, I take the Apostolic Authority You've given me and I decree a bloodline around each of you. I decree the bloodline of the Lord Jesus Christ is being set in place over us and is determining our boundaries for the future. I decree that that no demonic host can illegally invade that bloodline. I decree that the enemy is going to be seen and exposed in his workings! 

I declare that through the blood of the Lamb we will see the enemy's strategies.

I decree right now that a new energy and a new spirit of revelation is falling on each of us so we know how to define the gates of Hell, a gate that is in our bloodline, a gate that has tried to come into our cities, a gate at every nation. We decree now that the gates of Hell will not prevail but they will shake and fall, and Your people will rise up this hour in a new way, in Jesus' Name. 

A new discernment and a new anointing, the anointing breaks the yoke, is coming upon your people! Now say out loud, 'The gates of Hell will not prevail against you!' Rise up in your gifting and align in your membership, stay connected into Heaven and triumph this week in Jesus' Name!

Prophecy, Words & Decree From: Chuck Pierce, John Dickson, Allen Faubion, Linda Heidler, James Vincent, Acijam Otxoa, Brian Kooiman, Anne Tate, Diane Rousell, Tobias Lyons, Melinda Richardson, Michelle Hadley, LeAnn Squier and Raymond Banks.

Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries