what if what's happening between Israel and Iran didn't begin in a war room but in the word What if the missiles sanctions alliances and threats were just echoes of something far older something spiritual something prophesied You've watched the headlines You felt the tension But deep down you've also asked what few dare to say out loud Is this just politics or is this prophecy Is this just conflict Or is this the beginning of something we've been warned about Because no matter where you fall on the map the ache you feel when the Middle East erupts isn't just about land or religion It's about something eternal unraveling in real time When Israel is surrounded and Iran speaks of annihilation your spirit whispers "This isn't new." And you're right This didn't start in 2024 It didn't start in 1948 This started in the garden when enmity was sown This started in Abraham's tent when two sons divided a house And this will continue until a king returns to make peace that no prime minister no president no prophet can broker In this video series we will take you from Genesis to Revelation through Daniel and Ezekiel from Cyrus to Gog from the birth of nations to the rise of enemies We'll explore how God used Persia before Persia became Iran We'll uncover why Israel remains the most contested piece of land on the planet And by the end you won't just understand the headlines you'll discern the heavens behind them Before we go deeper make sure to like and share this deep Bible stories video Someone else is watching the same news but doesn't realize they're watching prophecy unfold This may be the truth they didn't know they needed We've already covered every book of the Bible prophecy the kings of Israel Revelation and more You can explore it all adfree on our website And for deeper study we've turned our most impactful videos into ebooks to help your Bible study go further It's all linked below With that let's begin It wasn't just a palace drama It wasn't just about one woman with beauty and bravery It was about extermination An ancient echo of a hatred that still breathes fire today Long before news cycles mentioned missiles treaties or nuclear arsenals a war for the survival of the Jewish people played out behind the velvet walls of the Persian Empire And it started with a man named Hmon and a spirit much older than him You might know the story but you've likely never seen it this way The book of Esther is not merely a tale of courage It is a prophetic mirror reflecting the unrelenting hatred that hell has always held for Israel When Hmon high official in the court of King Xerxes rose in power something ancient stirred in him His rage wasn't just political It was spiritual When Morai refused to bow Hmon didn't merely want Morai punished He wanted his entire people wiped out Genocide annihilation a final solution Esther 3:6 says it bluntly Hmon sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes Why Why such disproportionate hatred Because Israel's survival is a threat to darkness God chose this people not because of their greatness but to reveal his The enemy's rage against them is not new It started in Eden when the serpent heard that a seed would one day crush his head That seed would pass through Abraham through Isaac not Ishmael through Jacob not Esau through Judah through David through a virgin through Israel To destroy Israel is to try to break the prophecy before it can finish speaking That's why Hmon rose That's why Herod killed the infants That's why Hitler lit the ovens That's why missiles point at Jerusalem today And that's why Esther matters She didn't rise to the throne by coincidence Esther 4:14 holds the trembling question of history And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this She wasn't just a queen She was a vessel She didn't just fast and pray She risked her life She walked into a throne room uninvited and faced death so her people could live Do you see it Esther's intercession in Persia was a dress rehearsal for Christ's intercession at the cross She didn't only save Jews then She pointed to a pattern God uses again and again raising someone in obscurity then revealing them in crisis to preserve the promise he made long before the threat began And Hmon the one who built gallows for God's people ended up hanging from his own design This too is prophetic Evil always digs its own grave What was meant to destroy becomes the stage for deliverance Now zoom out The same region that once called for Jewish extermination under Hmon is today called Iran The same spirit that breathed in the courts of Persia breathes through certain leaders today who openly vow to wipe Israel off the map You think that's just politics It's prophecy The names have changed but the hatred hasn't That same demonic hostility the one that hissed at Esther and schemed through Hmon is still whispering through regimes This isn't about geography It's about God's promise and Satan's panic But Esther's story doesn't end in fear It ends in reversal God turned the enemy's plot against him Israel wasn't just spared They were honored They were elevated They were given victory in the very land that planned their demise So what does that mean for us now It means don't be shocked by the headlines Be sobered by them It means don't view Israel's conflict as merely regional See it through the eyes of scripture It means remember God's people have always been surrounded and always been preserved Hmon's fall is coming for every enemy of God's covenant And those who pray fast and stand with God's purposes like Esther will not be forgotten Long before missiles pointed toward Jerusalem there was a Persian king who pointed Israel home His name was Cyrus and he was not a Jew not a prophet not a man of covenant Yet God called him my shepherd and even more shockingly my anointed Let that settle in The same God who split the Red Sea and raised up Moses now reached into the heart of Persia and crowned a gentile king with prophetic purpose Isaiah had spoken it long before Cyrus ever ruled naming him by name over a century in advance Thus says the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus whose right hand I have grasped Isaiah 45:1 It was a title reserved for priests and kings for men like David and now incredibly for a Persian emperor What kind of God does that A sovereign one A god who controls not just holy lands but enemy thrones Cyrus stepped onto the world stage in the 6th century BC as the founder of the Akeminid Empire His conquests were vast but his role in scripture was singular He broke Babylon He shattered the empire that had enslaved Israel for 70 years But he didn't just win wars he signed releases with royal decree recorded in Ezra 1 Cyrus not only permitted the Jews to return to Jerusalem he funded the rebuilding of their temple This wasn't political maneuvering This was prophecy unfolding line by line Isaiah had seen it God had willed it And Persia the very name now synonymous with opposition to Israel had once been an instrument of Israel's restoration Think about it In today's headlines Iran the modern-day successor of Persia is the greatest state level threat to the Jewish state But back then it was a Persian hand that unlocked the prison gates What changed Not the throne but the spirit behind it Cyrus acted under the compulsion of a God he did not fully know For the sake of Jacob my servant and Israel my chosen I call you by your name though you do not know me Isaiah 45:4 That verse haunts and humbles God is not limited by the saved He can stir the hearts of kings who do not bow to him He can use the pagan to protect the elect He can put purpose in the heart of an empire that does not carry his name The story of Cyrus reminds us that Persia was not always Israel's enemy There was a time when God's glory passed through Persian corridors A time when the Persian king was the bridge between exile and return between rubble and rebuilding But that spirit did not last In time Persia hardened its heart What began as obedience gave way to resistance And centuries later the land once used to restore Zion now plots to erase it Cyrus is gone The temple he helped fund is gone But the god who moved empires for the sake of his people he remains And maybe that's the message When you look at today's Iran with its missiles its threats its theology soaked in hate you need to remember God once moved through Persia He can do it again or he can break it again The issue is never about how big the opposition is It's about whether or not that opposition still trembles before the God who names kings before they're born If you've ever doubted that prophecy and politics overlap just read Ezra one alongside Isaiah 45 It's not just history It's the map Because when you understand that God once used Persia to raise up Zion you won't fear today's headlines You'll start watching for his next move What if the greatest battles shaping our world aren't fought with drones nukes or armies but in realms we cannot see What if the headlines coming out of the Middle East Missile strikes assassination plots threats of annihilation are only shadows cast by ancient powers wrestling above our skies That's not speculation That's Daniel 10th And if you've never truly seen it before it will change the way you read the news forever Daniel was not a military man He didn't hold a sword or command an army He was an old exile aged weathered fasting by a river Yet the heavens trembled when he prayed Because the real war was never Babylon versus Israel It was never even Persia versus Israel It was spirit versus spirit And Daniel quiet as he seemed was shaking the realm where kings are made and unmade Daniel had been mourning for 3 weeks No choice food no wine no oils just silence and seeking And then came the vision A being of terrifying brilliance stood before him His face like lightning his eyes like flaming torches his voice like the sound of a multitude And this divine messenger brought a message that pulled back the veil between two worlds The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days Daniel 10:13 What does that mean that for three weeks an angelic emissary from heaven had been blocked by a dark territorial spirit a demonic entity so tied to Persia's empire that scripture called it its prince Pause That is not symbolic language its revelation Heaven just told us that nations are not only political structures they are spiritual battlegrounds And behind Persia's courtrooms and campaigns was a supernatural resistance to God's purposes This wasn't about Cyrus or Darius It was about the thrones behind the thrones And the reason Daniel's answer was delayed because angels were in combat with demonic forces fighting to influence the fate of Persia and through it the fate of Israel Now fast forward to today Modern Iran the heir of ancient Persia is once again posturing planning and preparing against Jerusalem But if you only see flesh and blood you'll miss it Because the prince of Persia never truly died That spirit the one that delayed answers opposed angelic messengers and resisted God's people is still at war And the battleground is still the Middle East But don't think this battle is only over land It's over covenant It's over promise And Daniel centuries ago stood in the crossfire But here's the question Why was Daniel's prayer so important that it triggered warfare in the heavens Because intercession bends history Because when a righteous man prays heaven moves and hell resists You may feel like your prayers for Israel or for peace are weak but they are not Every time you fast every time you cry out for clarity in chaos you enter the war Daniel once stood in You take your place in a battle that is older than Persia deeper than politics and more decisive than nuclear negotiations And make no mistake this war was never about geography It was always about dominion Satan knows what Jerusalem represents And he knows that if Israel flourishes prophecy progresses So he works through nations ideologies regimes and over Iran over Russia over every empire that lifts a fist against Zion there are princes not born of flesh but forged in rebellion But you child of God are not powerless You're not meant to spectate You're meant to see Daniel wasn't a prophet because he spoke well He was a prophet because he saw clearly He discerned the moment He felt the pressure in the heavens And he stayed on his knees long enough for heaven to break through If you've ever asked "Why does Iran hate Israel so deeply Why are their leaders obsessed with Jerusalem?" You now know It's the prince of Persia still resisting still raging but doomed Because Daniel's story doesn't end in delay It ends in victory Michael one of the chief princes came to help me The angel said Daniel 10:13 "Heaven does not lose battles It only waits for faithful watchers to stay on their knees." Because what Daniel saw is what you must now understand This war is real It is raging and it is not over But neither is the promise The one who called Daniel by name who sent angels to answer who broke Persia once before he reigns still And he's calling you to stand to watch and to pray like never before There are spirits that don't die when the body drops There are hatreds that don't fade with time Some wars are passed down not in battle plans or treaties but in demonic oaths and spiritual rage Hmon died on a Persian gallows Yes his pride was crushed under the very trapilade But the spirit that moved him the ancient hatred against God's chosen people never went into the grave with him It found new names new flags new speeches And today in the Ayatollas of Iran and the crowds chanting death to Israel that same rage breathes Psalm 83 is not just a poem It's a map of ancient hate It opens like a headline written yesterday They say "Come let us wipe them out as a nation Let the name of Israel be remembered no more." These are not metaphors They are the exact words preached from platforms in Tehran and whispered in corridors of power across hostile regimes But it was already in the word God heard it first and he never forgets Iran biblically known as Persia has worn two faces in history In the days of Cyrus it wore the face of a deliverer raising up exiles rebuilding temples funding worship But in the spirit of Hmon Persia twisted no longer a tool in God's hand but a spear raised against his people And like Hmon Iran's current leaders are not just angry at politics or borders They rage against a covenant They want to erase a promise written in heaven's ink Ezekiel 35 echoes the same spiritual root because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword Therefore as I live declares the Lord God I will prepare you for blood This isn't about ancient Edom alone It's about any power political or spiritual that delights in Israel's downfall God does not forget who touched his firstborn Some Christians are afraid to name this Others are quick to politicize it But this war is neither left nor right It is ancient It is prophetic and it is spiritual Hmon hated the Jews not because of their politics but because of their purpose They carried the seed of the Messiah They bore the mark of a covenant that Satan could never replicate or destroy Iran's leaders today whether knowingly or not have aligned with that same spiritual rage Their weapons are new Their speeches are digital But the spirit it's old Very old And yet just as in Esther's day God always has a remnant who interceded a Mordei who watches an Esther who risks The gallows were meant for Israel But they became the place of reversal And we believe the same God who turned Hmon's plot into Israel's deliverance is still watching the nations rage If your heart burns to understand this more deeply we've created ebooks and deep dive resources to help you study biblical prophecy without fear or confusion These aren't just tools they're torches for your study Visit our site to explore them all and free Thousands are already using them to grow bold and anchored in the word while the world grows loud with lies The spirit of Hmon didn't die but neither did the God who sees it Neither did the God who responds and he is not nervous He is not scrambling He's simply unfolding what he already wrote The gallows are being built again But so is the deliverance Let the wise discern Let the church awaken Let the intercessors rise And let every Hmon spirit know Esther still has a voice and the king is still watching It's not the nukes that should make us tremble first It's the scrolls Long before missiles had range long before alliances were signed there was a prophecy A vision given to a prophet in exile Ezekiel who saw something so vast so terrifying and so precise that scholars soldiers and saints are still whispering about it today Gog Mog Persia a coalition of nations a storm cloud gathered against Israel and behind it all a God who is not surprised Open Ezekiel 38 and you'll see names that sound ancient almost mythic Gog of the land of Magog chief prince of Meek and Tubal But tucked in the coalition is a name that still burns in the headlines Persia That's not just history That's modern-day Iran The same Iran chanting death to Israel in parliament The same Iran that arms Hezbollah funds proxy militias and races toward nuclear capabilities while denying the Holocaust ever happened The same Iran that according to ancient prophecy will one day march in an alliance against the land of God's people This isn't sensationalism This is scripture Ezekiel 38:5 explicitly lists Persia as part of the warf frontont that will converge on the mountains of Israel Persia isn't a footnote It's a major player Alongside Kush Put Gomer and Beth Tagama the alignment Ezekiel describes mirrors the growing geopolitical closeness of nations that on paper have no reason to unify unless it's against a common enemy Israel We are watching this alignment begin in real time Russia grows closer to Iran Turkey shifts in tone And Western influences slowly pushed out of strategic regions The Abraham Accords have stirred hatred in other corners Israel's technological boom and military dominance have made her a target and a prize Just as Ezekiel said they will come to plunder to take spoil to strike when Israel seems unsuspecting But it's more than maps This isn't just chessboard politics It's spiritual theater What Ezekiel saw was not just a war of nations but a war of spirits God says in Ezekiel 38:4 "I will turn you around put hooks into your jaws and bring you out." This isn't just Iran deciding to attack It's a sovereign God directing a final showdown Persia will not move unless heaven permits it And when they do it will be for one climactic reason so that the nations may know the Lord Here's the paradox Israel will be surrounded The nations will rise and God will respond not with a diplomatic resolution but with a shaking earthquakes confusion among the enemy fire hail a divine defense that leaves no question Israel survived not because of the Iron Dome but because of the heavenly throne Ezekiel 39 describes the aftermath corpses cleansing and the world stunned into reverence You must understand this The threat from Iran isn't new It's old It's foretold It's not just geopolitical It's prophetic The rise of Persia in this final war isn't the beginning of the end It's part of a divine strategy to awaken the world and humble the proud Every move is accounted for Every threat seen every headline pre-written in the scrolls of scripture So what does that mean for you It means don't panic but don't slumber Watch pray discern the times Don't be so busy arguing over politics that you forget prophecy Don't get so numb to the news cycle that you ignore the ancient warning Iran will rise Persia will march But God will win While nations prepare for war we prepare our hearts And prophecy is not meant to terrify It's meant to train You are not watching the end of the world You're watching the word unfold And every headline still bows to his hand They said it was just another headline just another round of fire exchanged between Israel and her enemies But what if it was more What if the shaking in Jerusalem isn't just political but prophetic What if the missiles aren't the beginning of chaos but the echoes of something ancient written long before tanks lined borders or diplomats wrote treaties In Zechariah 12 God declares "I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." And in chapter 14 for I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken These aren't metaphors These aren't poetic warnings These are divine pronouncements and we are living on the edge of them Jerusalem has never been just geography It's not just an ancient city It's the epicenter of God's promise God's covenant and God's final war Iran knows this not just as a state but as a spirit Their threats to wipe Israel off the map aren't born from mere policy They're fueled by an ancient hatred The spirit that stirred Pharaoh to kill Hebrew infants The spirit that filled Hmon to plot genocide The spirit that whispered to Hitler It breathes again And its eyes are set on Zion But Zechariah saw it coming He saw the trembling the siege the betrayal He saw a day when Jerusalem would be like a burdensome stone to the nations Think of it The world has over 190 countries Yet this one sliver of land barely the size of New Jersey is at the center of every UN debate every global alliance every international headline That's not random That's divine Zechariah 14 says the Mount of Olives will split in two That God himself will descend to fight The battle for Jerusalem is not just human It's heavenly And when Iran raises its threats when the world calls for Israel to be divided remember this They're not just resisting a nation They're resisting God's covenant We see it already Drones in the sky missiles intercepted cyber warfare political pressure mounting Jerusalem isn't trembling because she's weak She's trembling because prophecy is waking If you've been watching the headlines with fear pause Zechariah didn't write these verses to stir anxiety He wrote them to stir alertness Watch and pray Jesus said in Matthew 24 Because when the whole world focuses on Jerusalem it's not the end but it is a sign A sign that the king is near a sign that the clock of redemption is ticking toward its final hour And here's the mystery Though nations rage God protects Though alliances form God rules Though threats multiply heaven laughs Psalm 2 says "Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain He who sits in the heavens laughs." That is not mockery its sovereignty And so we lift our eyes not in panic but in prophecy Zechariah saw the trembling but he also saw the triumph The Lord will go forth and fight as in the days of battle His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives and the Lord shall be king over all the earth So don't just watch the news read it through the word Don't just see rockets see revelation Don't just hear the threats hear the trumpet Because the shaking in the Middle East is not chaos It's alignment It's the lining up of kings and kingdoms for the return of the true king The missiles may not have landed yet The nuclear threats might still be suspended in negotiations and sanctions But there's a war written in the ancient scrolls that very few even know is there A prophecy buried in the middle of Jeremiah's warnings so often overlooked that most churches have never preached it not once And yet it's the one that speaks directly to modern Iran Not metaphorically not symbolically by name Ilam Before it was called Iran it was called Ilam a kingdom occupying the southwestern region of modern Iran And in Jeremiah 49:34-39 God did not whisper He thundered He declared judgment He named the sword He foretold disaster that would scatter Elam's people to the four winds A divine strike against a nation that once knew his purposes but turned its back Elam he said would face his fierce anger and it would be shattered before its enemies This wasn't geopolitical analysis This wasn't the rhetoric of a prophet angry with his neighbors This was God naming the end from the beginning This was the Lord of Hosts laying bare his plan I will break the bow of Elum the mainstay of their might Not just military humiliation This was a spiritual stripping A kingdom known for its skill in war would lose its strength not to men but to God himself And here's what shakes you to the core The prophecy isn't over Because at the very end of that same warning after speaking of terror and exile and shame God says something no one expected Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elim in the latter days The same nation judged is promised mercy The same Iran that now threatens Israel is according to scripture not beyond the reach of God's redemptive hand judgment and restoration wrath and hope What looks like nuclear doom in the headlines is already accounted for in the word and it ends not only in shaking but in the possibility of revival This is no endorsement of Iran's current regime This is not a denial of the threats the terror funding or the genocidal rhetoric that regularly pours from its leaders This is about something deeper This is about a war that started before oil pipelines or international summits A war between heaven and the spirit of Hmon A war where God will both shatter and restore crush and call home Could revival break out in Iran before the final trumpet sounds Could the same soil that burns with hatred today burn with holiness tomorrow Do not be surprised because in the places of deepest darkness God has often poured his spirit with the most undeniable fire Underground churches in Iran are already growing Muslim background believers are meeting in secret to worship Jesus And some of the fiercest threats against Israel will one day become part of the family of God What do you do with that If you're watching missiles and waiting for apocalypse you're watching wrong What you need to do is lift your eyes to the word and ask "Lord what are you doing He is breaking the bow but he is also preparing the mercy." Now the question is will you pray for Elam Will you watch not just for war but for wonder They're not just headlines they're harbingers When you see Israel and Iran flash across the screen you're not just seeing politics You're watching prophecy knock louder In Matthew 24 and Luke 21 Jesus didn't give a vague sermon about peace and inner tranquility He gave warnings Global geopolitical unsettling warnings Wars and rumors of wars Nation rising against nation Jerusalem surrounded earthquakes famines fear and in the middle of it all his words "Watch." What does it mean to watch It doesn't mean scrolling through social media caught between distraction and despair It doesn't mean panicking every time there's a missile or a vote in the UN Watching means discerning It means knowing the word so well that you can tell when the world has stepped into its pages It means staying awake while others fall asleep It means refusing to call evil political when God has called it spiritual Watching means you're not surprised because Jesus told you it would happen Jesus warned us of persecution of false prophets of lawlessness increasing and love growing cold He warned that Jerusalem would be trampled by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled He said the nations would be in anguish and perplexity and men's hearts would fail them from fear But he also said something else When you see these things begin to happen look up Not because the news got better but because your redemption draws near And today Iran threatens Israel openly Jerusalem is a global pressure point The nations are aligning trembling preparing The west is confused The east is emboldened Believers are divided Some asleep in comfort some awake but paralyzed But the word the word is alive and cutting through the fog The word saw this before the first headline The word said "Watch Not just the skies but your soul." The shaking is not random It's surgical It's pruning hearts exposing idols and drawing lines You either fall asleep with the world or wake up with the word You either dismiss what you see as political noise or discern that heaven is getting louder Friend this is not the time for lukewarm faith This is the time for firetested watching for fasting for repenting for living as if what Jesus said is actually true Because it is This isn't fear-mongering This is fear awakening The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom And wisdom is what we need Iran is more than a nation It's a stage Israel is more than a country It's a covenant And every alliance every tension every fire on the border is echoing something deeper something ancient something inevitable God is moving The hour is late and the church must watch Let those who have ears watch Let those who believe burn They think of Iran and they think of missiles They think of tyranny black flags nuclear threats But heaven once looked at this land and whispered "Harvest." Before it was ever a threat in the news Persia was a field in God's eyes You need to know something that's been forgotten Paul the apostle of fire and chains once longed to take the gospel into the eastern edges of the Roman world into lands we now call Iraq Iran and Syria In fact the early church didn't just survive in those places It exploded And now even under the shadow of oppression and secrecy the spark is catching again You might be surprised to learn that the gospel reached Persian soil early Church history shows that after Paul's ministry in the Roman West the faith flowed eastward Thomas one of the 12 is believed to have gone through Persia on his way to India A powerful underground church thrived in what is now Iran for centuries long before political Islam took root This is the soil God had touched These were the people he had not forgotten It was never just a political map to him It was a soul map When Paul cried out in Romans that he was eager to preach the gospel where Christ had not been named we often picture Rome and Spain But what about the other direction What about the road to Elam What about the sons of Ishmael and the remnant of Shem What about the places where Daniel once prayed and where Ezekiel wept What about Persia In Acts 2 at Pentecost Persians were in the crowd They heard the gospel in their own language when the Holy Spirit came like fire They carried that word home There's no record of Peter or Paul making it all the way to Persia But the fire made it By the 3rd century the church of the east largely based in Persia was sending missionaries as far as China The gospel wasn't western It was global But that story got buried under centuries of blood and invasion Zoroastrianism gave way to Islam Churches were turned into mosques Bibles became illegal Pastors disappeared And yet the underground kept growing Even now while governments boast of missiles house churches bloom Right now Iran has one of the fastest growing underground Christian movements in the world Not in buildings not with stages but with whispered prayers secret baptisms and people who've seen Jesus in dreams and visions They're risking prison torture even death not for religion but for a man named Jesus If you think Iran is just a threat you don't know the full story Iran is a prophecy Paul said "I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes First the Jew then the Gentile." Do you see it now Iran isn't just a villain in some apocalyptic theater It's part of the inheritance of the nations Satan hates it because he remembers the glory that once passed through its soil And he fears the glory that is coming again This should change how we pray Not just for protection from Iran but for revival in Iran Not just for missiles to stop but for hearts to break and bow Some of the fiercest preachers of tomorrow's gospel may today be holding rifles Some of the mothers of the next evangelists may still be veiled in silence whispering prayers behind locked doors But God sees God knows And the gospel never retreats It only waits So pray for the believers in Iran Pray for the ones in hiding the ones awakening the ones who've just heard his name for the first time And don't forget this When the Lord said he would pour out his spirit on all flesh he meant Persian flesh too He meant them then and he means them now It's possible to scroll through headlines and not realize you're watching prophecy unfold in real time That's how numb the church has become We see missiles fired toward Jerusalem and think it's just politics We hear threats from Iran and chalk it up to old rivalries But heaven sees a clock ticking not toward chaos toward culmination Because Israel is not just a country it's a countdown The church was never supposed to fall asleep here Romans 11 shouts a warning wrapped in revelation Paul tells us that Israel's rejection was not final and their story is not over He calls them beloved for the sake of the patriarchs and insists that their restoration is part of the mystery of God's redemptive plan Yet we the church grafted into the olive tree act as if we replaced Israel instead of being added to it We've stopped watching stopped waiting and because of that we're unprepared for what's coming And something is coming Revelation 12 peels back the veil to show a woman Israel pursued by a dragon This is not poetic fantasy This is a war the church was meant to see The dragon's fury isn't random It's prophetic It's strategic And it's escalating What began in Pharaoh's edicts against Hebrew babies continued in Hmon's plots Hitler's ovens and now in Iran's vows to wipe Israel off the map We've spiritualized too much sanitized too much But what God wrote is happening and we are either awake and praying or we are asleep and perishing We must stop treating Israel's news as their problem The church must stop divorcing itself from her prophetic mother because to misunderstand Israel's place is to misread the hour To ignore Israel's battle is to misunderstand our mission She's not perfect but she's chosen And her survival is not a coincidence It's covenant So when you hear sirens in Tel Aviv when you see war rooms in Jerusalem lit up by threats from Persia don't just tweet tremble and then kneel Pray like someone who knows what time it is Cry out like someone who knows we're not just heading toward a climax We are living inside one When Ezekiel said the bones would live again when Zechariah said the nations would gather against Jerusalem when Jesus said "Watch the fig tree," this is what they meant And to the church that is tired distracted or entertained "Wake up This is not a drill You are not powerless You are not passive observers You are the intercessors of this age the Esther generation the Romans 11th remnant the Revelation 12 warriors You carry a trumpet in one hand and the gospel in the other You are not called to panic You are called to prophesy You are not called to fear You are called to faith And if today's message has shaken you good Maybe it's the alarm you've needed because the clock is ticking and the spirit is moving Israel is the time piece but you are the response Let's rise like we were born for this hour because we were They said it would just be another headline another conflict another round of fire and retaliation But for you the one sitting quietly scrolling through a world unraveling You felt something deeper a shaking in your spirit a pressure behind the panic a question you can't shake What is God saying in all of this What does it mean to be alive right now You are not just a spectator You are a watchman You've seen the tremors on the earth but also sense the vibrations of eternity While others curse the chaos or cling to conspiracies something in you is calling you higher You're not here to panic You're here to perceive The news won't tell you this The headlines won't name it But heaven is speaking And you yes you have ears to hear This is your hour to rise not with fear but with faith Not to shout louder but to pray deeper Not to choose sides on the map but to draw near to the heart of God For this shaking isn't the end It's the signal It's the trumpet blast before dawn It's the midnight cry echoing through the oil dim lamps of the slumbering church And you dear watchman have been given the grace to stay awake So now I pray for you Father for the one whose soul is heavy from watching awaken their spirit Let them not fall asleep like the disciples in Gethsemane while the battle moves into position Give them clear eyes eyes not dullled by distractions or dimmed by despair Let them see through the fog of geopolitics and the noise of media and discern the ancient battle unfolding before them Give them courage Lord not to argue but to intercede not to hoard supplies in fear but to store up the oil of intimacy Make them like the sons of Issachar those who understood the times and knew what to do Let them not freeze in terror or burn out in frenzy Anchor them in your word Steady them with your promises and anoint them with boldness from on high Let them remember you are not nervous You are not guessing You have not been caught off guard by missiles or media spin You sit enthroned above the circle of the earth And the nations are as dust on the scales Iran does not write history Israel does not control prophecy you alone do And you have called us to stand not in confusion but in commission Let this one Lord be a light a burning lamp in the night a voice of peace in the uproar a soul who knows the shepherd's whisper above the shriek of war And when the shaking comes closer and it will let them be rooted ready and radiant not because they had all the answers but because they knew you And now we invite you to go deeper If today's message gave you clarity imagine how much more awaits We've created powerful ebooks and an ad-free library that dives into prophecy the Middle East and how to live faithfully in the last days You'll find it all linked below And if you believe in what Deep Bible Stories is doing we'd love your support as we keep telling the truth while the world grows louder Amen Stay blessed