This sermon delves into the spiritual battle in the Middle East, contrasting the shedding of blood in the region with the sacrificial blood of Jesus. It emphasizes the need for a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit to navigate the challenges and stand firm in faith amidst turmoil and persecution. The message calls for prayer, repentance, and a deeper connection with God to receive His empowerment and walk in victory.

Turn in your Bibles to Acts Chapter 2, Ma'asei Shlichim Bet. Ma'asei Shlichim Perek Bet. Acts Chapter 2. Ma'asei Shlichim Bet. First of all, I want to pray for this message, if you would pray with me. Father, I need your help with this word. We really want to see your point of view of what's happening here in our land. And in the Middle East. We pray for clarity, anointing in your heart for the Jews and the Arabs of the Middle East. And thank you Lord that Kamal is a sign and a wonder, a Muslim who's come to the Lord. And it's happening all over the Middle East. Speak to your children. Give us ears to hear. Release your word, we pray. In Yeshua's name. Amen. Acts Chapter 2. Ma'asei Shlichim Bet. Begin reading in verse 16. Acts Chapter 2, 16. This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last days, says the Lord, I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my men's servants and maid's servants I will pour out of my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy. I will show them wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath blood. And fire and vapor and smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. These are the words of our holy book. These words are true. These words are written by the finger of God. The Holy Spirit spoke these words to Joel and to Peter. This is what God is going to do. And the devil is trying to do everything he can to stop the completion of God's work. There's another book that is read all over the Middle East. It's called the Koran. And that book that some people try to call holy says this. The true believers of Islam fight in the way of Allah. Killing and being killed. Their promise is written in the blood of the moon. That's the Koran chapter 9 verse 112. The red crescent moon of Islam represents the blood on the moon. Mohammed shed the blood of thousands of people. He is the leader of the ideology that surrounds us. Yeshua shed his own blood that hundreds of thousands of millions of people might come to salvation. He allowed his holy blood to be poured out for you and me. There's blood on the moon in the Middle East. There are crescent moons on mosques all over Galilee. We live in a land drenched in blood. If you look out over the Megiddo Valley or over the valley here. The Assyrians came. The Assyrians came. The Assyrians. They slaughtered millions of Jews. The Babylonians came. The Greeks came. The Romans came. The French came. The Germans came. The Turks came. The British came. And shed blood all over this part of the world. And the followers of the fanatical Islam think they're going to do it again. Islam says kill the infidels. If you don't believe in Allah, you're an infidel. Allah will torment the infidels. Murder them. Crucify them. Kill them. Slaughter them. First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people. First the Jews, then the Christians. Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him. These are the words, the so-called holy words of Islam. Islam means submission. Submission. We have some friends who just went into Iraq. They are the leaders of a large humanitarian aid organization that we've been part of. They went to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey. And they said, what is going on here? Muslims slaughtering Muslims. Sunnis slaughtering Shias. Iraqis slaughtering people. All over the Middle East, slaughter, slaughter, slaughter. How can people take children and line them up? Christian children. And say to their fathers and mothers, Renounce Jesus or we're going to cut off the heads of your kids. And they're doing it right now. There's fierce warfare going on on the border of Syria right now. It looks hopeless. It looks terrible. But when we worship the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, they may be following a flag with a bloody moon on it. We follow a flag that has the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world. This is our standard, Jesus, Yeshua. The horrors that are happening not far from here. And so the great brilliant minds of the West, America and Britain, they all get together in Switzerland or Austria. And they say, we know what we'll do. We'll make a deal with Iran. We'll sit down and have dinner with the devil. And we know that Iran is the biggest supporter of terrorism in the world. But I've got a great idea. Let's give them billions and billions of dollars. And maybe they'll change. Maybe the leopard will change his spouts. This is happening right now. We need to really hear from the Lord this morning as we seek the Lord. What is God saying about all of this? Turn to Ezekiel 35 for a moment. Ezekiel 35 We're talking about blood on the moon. Ezekiel 35 Verse 5 Because you have had an ancient hatred and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity had come to an end, therefore as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you, and you have not hated blood, but blood shall pursue you. I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you, and you have not hated blood, but blood shall pursue you. Therefore as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you, and you have not hated blood, but blood shall pursue you. Ezekiel 35 and 36 are like the headlines of the paper that's happening. This is happening right now. Ezekiel 35 and 36 are like the headlines of the paper that's happening right now. Verse 6 I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you, since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. Says the Lord. This is verse 6, Because you have said, verse 10, Esser, These two nations, that's Israel and Judah, and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them, although the Lord was there. Therefore as I live, God is taking an oath about what he's going to do about all this. As I live, says the Lord God, I will do according to your anger, and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. Hallelujah. How God is going to intervene in this terrible situation we're in. Verse 12 Then you shall know that I am the Lord. When I have heard your blasphemies, which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying they are desolate, they shall be given to us to consume. Verse 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, multiplied your words against me, and I have heard them. These people proclaim from their mosques, from their terrorist strongholds, God has no son. God has no son. Allah is not Elohim. Our God Elohim has a son, his name is Jesus, and he died for the Muslims. Hallelujah. They're blaspheming against God. Verse 15 You rejoice when the inheritance of the house of Israel is desolate, so I will do to you, O Mount Seir, all of Edom, all of it. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. Verse 16 You know, I was going to call this message dining with the devil. But I've been meditating on this since the people were still dining and talking to each other, and now they've made their agreement. Karen didn't like that title, by the way. So what happened in the newspaper yesterday, the day before, an article, the big headline is, A Deal with the Devil. Now that's not my title, that's somebody else's. I happen to agree with that title. Now, turn to Isaiah 19 for a moment. I've been seeking the Lord about all this, and I feel I've gotten something prophetic about it. Isaiah 19 Isaiah 19 There's a highway from Egypt that comes through Israel and down into what is today Iraq, and it goes through Jordan, and it goes through Lebanon. And many of us know about this, been praying about the Isaiah 19 highway for many years. I remember 20-some years ago, a whole busload of leaders from Israel, we went to Egypt, and we met with the Egyptian leaders, and we started praying about this highway. I remember 20-some years ago, a whole busload of leaders from Israel, we went to Egypt, and we started praying about this highway. We were not allowed to mention the word, Islam, because there was secret police recording everything we were saying. We were not allowed to mention the word, Islam, because there was secret police everywhere. Isaiah 19, verse 24 In that day, Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth. Hallelujah. There's going to be a great move of the Holy Spirit from Egypt, to Israel, to Lebanon, to Turkey, to Iran, to Iraq, and Jordan. There's going to be a great move of the Holy Spirit from Egypt, to Israel, to Lebanon, to Jordan, to Syria, to Iraq, and to Turkey. This is God's word against the word of Islam. Islam just says there will be slaughter all over the place. God is doing this now. When I went to Cairo with the leaders of Israel, we were there near the end of that big move of the Holy Spirit in Egypt. There were huge meetings in caves where they were worshiping Yeshua. There were meetings that weren't announced. Somehow thousands of people knew to go somewhere on the streets, some big warehouse. The Holy Spirit was just poured out all over Egypt. And these Egyptians said, we love the Jews. Don't record that. One pastor said, I study Hebrew, careful. They said, we read Isaiah 19. We know there's going to be revival in Egypt, and it's coming to Israel. I know leaders along this whole highway. I've known them for over 20. Some of them have passed on and gone to be with the Lord. Now we have the new generation doing it. It's wonderful when an Iraqi believer will come to a Jewish believer. It's wonderful when a believer from Iraq comes to a Jewish believer in a secret meeting on Cyprus and fall on his knees and say, would you forgive me for what the Babylonians did to the Jews? And you see Jews and Arabs and Iraqis and Iranians hugging each other and loving one another as the one remaining Messiah. Look at verse 25. The Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, blessed is Egypt, my people, Assyria, that's all these nations around us now, the work of my hands, and Israel, my inheritance. Blessed are my people Egypt. She's from Egypt. Anybody here from Iraq? Well, we've had some Iraqis here. His father. Hallelujah. There's going to be a great move of the Spirit all around the Middle East. Now there's a covenant that was made called the, I don't know what they're calling it, the treaty with Iran. The religious leaders of Iran are this extreme brand of Muslim fanaticism. Years ago, Karen and I were in Germany. We did this meeting in a congregation in Germany. Do we have a problem here? What? Pardon me? Oh, okay. Lord, fix the channels, the earphones. Karen and I did this meeting in Germany. She sang and I spoke. And when the meeting was over, this fellow came up to us, I knew he was from the Middle East, I'd seen him in the back of the meeting. And he said to me, did I hear you say your wife is a Jew? Yes, she's a Jew. He said, how can she believe in Jesus? I said, Jesus is a Jew. He said, no, he's a Christian. I said, read the Bible, he's a Jew. So I said to him, where are you from? I knew he was from the Middle East, so I said, where are you from? And he said, Iran. I said, oh, now I understand. He said, you do not know what they taught us as children in school, that the Jews are demons, they hate the Jews. And that we will destroy the Satan, the Jews. I could tell this fellow was a believer. Can you move back some? I need to talk to them, too. You're not left out, I know you're there, hallelujah. So I said to him, you believe in the Lord, right? I said, well, how did you, as an Iranian Muslim, meet the Jewish Messiah, Jesus? He said, when the Ayatollahs came to power, this was the late 1970s, he said that in the 1970s when all the Ayatollahs came to power, 6 million Iranians left Iran, they did not want to deal with the Ayatollahs. They are scattered all over the world, he met them in Scandinavia, everywhere. So this fellow says to me, I was living with 16 other people from Islam, and we were living in one room apartment here in this German city. And he said it was terrible. So I decided to kill myself. So I said, I was sitting in this graveyard, this cemetery, on a tombstone, and I said, I'm going to go home and get a knife, and tomorrow I'm going to come here and kill myself in this cemetery. Next day he got a butcher knife, a knife, big knife. He went to the cemetery, and he looked at this tombstone and it said, Jesus. There's a stone cross that said, Jesus. So he stood there getting ready to kill himself. He looked at the tombstone and said, well maybe you can help me. He started to weep. He got rid of the knife, he's walking back trying to figure out what to do. He saw a group of young people singing on the street, worshiping Yeshua. It was a YWAM group from Norway, I think. So he listened and he gave his heart to the Lord. And he married the leader of the YWAM group, this lady. And he said, if only my people in Iran knew about this. So I prayed for him. One way you can pray for Iran, there are millions of Iranians around the world and they're getting saved. In Sweden there's a big move of God going on there. So we said goodbye. We went out to get in the car. The last thing I saw was this fellow looking out the door, looking at her going, a Jew, who believes in Jesus. This is happening all over the Islamic world. They have been told the Jews are evil, the Christians are evil, they're going to try to destroy them. But they believe in Yeshua. This deal with the devil legitimizes evil. The Iranian regime is evil. It's not the people. We've done three television shows into Iran from America. These Muslims call in on Skype and they get saved on television through Skype. We saw it happen. There's at least a million young Iranians that have come to the Lord. They're hungry for truth. It's illegal to have satellite television, to have a dish. And our friend the evangelist who has the TV show into Iran says, it's illegal to have a satellite dish on your roof. He said, that's why everybody has one. It's illegal. They're watching Christian television all over Iran. Hallelujah. Satan. America is the big Satan. Israel is the little Satan. If you're from some kind of Christian country, I guess you're a very little Satan. Billions of dollars are going to be released from the Americans, from the Russians, from the Chinese, from the British, just dumping billions of dollars on this evil regime. And what do you think they're going to do with it? They're going to buy weapons. They've already armed Hezbollah. They're going to stand with Assad in Syria. They're proclaiming it right now. Syria is on our border here. Hezbollah is 25 miles from where I'm standing. Hezbollah is 25 miles from where I'm standing. Truckloads and truckloads of new weapons coming to the enemies of Israel right there. I thought about this. Can we put up that map, please? Can you get my magic wand out of my Bible? You see this map here? You see this map here? I want to talk to you about the highway. I want to talk to you about the highway. Ah. I hide it from her. Peter Sukahira gave me this. It's top of the line. Peter gave it to me. It helps. Let's look at this map. I'm totally confusing our cameraman. Okay. Where is Israel? Can you find Israel? See if you can find Israel. Anybody see it? You need a periscope, a microscope, a telescope? Okay, here's Iran. Here's Turkey. Here's Syria. Here's Iraq. If you look very closely, that's Israel. Now if you look even closer than that, that's my house right there. So this is our neighborhood. All right. This highway of revival is going to go through Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, part of Iran. That's the highway. Now what has Satan done? This deal with the devil? All these weapons are coming from here, across here, here, back down through Israel. They're coming the opposite way. The Lord showed me this deal, this nuclear deal. Some of you probably aren't that much aware of it. This nuclear deal is a counter-attack of Satan to stop the highway. You know, demons know who Jesus is. Did you know that? They all know who he is. The principalities and powers of darkness are trying to stop the great move of God that's going to sweep. We're standing right now on the highway. This is part of the highway, Isaiah 19 highway. The devil is trying to stop it. My question is, what are we going to do about it? All these Christians that are being slaughtered, and hardly any of the European Union and the United Nations, they don't even talk about it. All these horrors that are going on, drowning people, burning people to death. We need to have such a heart for the people of our neighborhood. This treaty, or whatever you want to call it, it defies logic. How would anyone give all this money to people they know are slaughtering people and encourage it? So the highway comes right to Israel. We were doing damage to the enemy today. These victorious songs we were singing, if God is for me, who can be against me? All Israel will be saved. We stand on the Word of God, and we proclaim it, and we prophesy it, we pray it, and we preach it. And we just read in Ezekiel 35, He is going to intervene. And millions of Muslims are going to meet the Lord, and millions of Israelis are going to meet the Lord. Now, let me talk to you about something else. The blood of the moon. This moon god that these Muslims follow and don't realize it's a moon god. Yeshua. When he instituted the new covenant in his blood, we're going to take communion in a few minutes. Yeshua said, this represents my blood, shed for the forgiveness of sins. Yeshua allowed his blood to be shed. When he went to the garden of Gethsemane, his men fell asleep. Peter, James, and John fell asleep. He needed them. And as they slept, he was stretched out on his face in a place called Gethsemane. In Hebrew, it's Gatsheman. It means oil press. The foot of the Mount of Olives. You shake the olive trees, like all these olive trees here. You get the olives and you crush them. And it makes pure, virgin, never before touched olive oil. It represents the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Yeshua was stretched out in the place of the olive press. And as he cried to his father, the pure, perfect, holy Son of God, who came in the flesh as a man to die for us, as he was wrestling with, how can I take all the sins of the world upon myself? All the wars, all the abominations, all the horrors that have happened. He stretched himself out and he said, O Father, if there's any way I cannot drink this cup, there is silence from the Father. He said, not my will, but yours be done. Luke says in Luke chapter 22, he was stretched out in such an extremity of agony and pain, that the sweat that came out of his body was like great drops of blood falling on the ground. And then they took him. They almost beat him to death. There was blood pouring out of his body. The crown of thorns, his whole face and head were covered in blood. Nailed to a Roman cross. His hands, his feet, the sword that went into his side. Blood was being poured out. The enemy may have the blood of the moon on their flag, but their Savior and our Savior willingly allowed his blood to be poured out on the highway, right in the center of the highway, in Israel, in Jerusalem. And he did it for you and me. And we might have eternal salvation with him. And he wants to release this kind of revelation all over the Middle East. There are revivals breaking out in Syria and different places. Among the Kurds, as a matter of fact. But there he was in the garden. He poured out his heart. He poured out his blood. And then died for you and me. But praise God, on the third day, he rose from the dead. And if he is for us, who can be against us? Now listen to me. This oil, the anointing oil, the olive oil, it represents the anointing of the Holy Spirit that should be on the priesthood of Yeshua. It costs him everything. I have a question for you. Do you want that kind of anointing? Do you want a new anointing? Do you want an anointing that you will cry out for people like never before? Do you want to move in resurrection power? It costs. The anointing costs. It costs Yeshua everything. And all we need to do is come to him and say, take out the stuff that's not supposed to be there and fill me with his fresh oil. He wants to fill all of us with a new filling of the Holy Spirit. With what's coming in the Middle East, we need a fresh anointing every day. How many of you are really desperate for a fresh, fresh oil? Come on up here. Get out of your seats and come on up here. Hallelujah. He who touches Israel touches the apple of God's eye. It doesn't look like it, but these nations that are coming against Israel, they're in trouble. Beginning with America and Russia. God sees. God's going to defend his people. Come on up. Get up as close as you can. Come on up here. The Lord is speaking here. Some of you have not been spending time with the Lord. That is why you don't have the anointing that you need. Look, we're going to win. We know how it ends. There are battles on the way. Whether you're from Israel or whatever nation you're from, you will be going through battles, and you need the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit, to walk in victory. I don't know about you. I want more of the Holy Spirit. Lift your hands to the Lord. Take out the stones. Take out the sin. Take out the compromise. Take out the laziness. Take out everything that's unlike you. And now fill me to the fullness of God. Lord, make me a prayer warrior. Make me a person of prayer. Anoint me to pray like never before. Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit.