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Chapter 34: On October 6, 2023, when Hamas “Made the Decision” to Attack Israel on October 7, 2023, “It was a Day of the Worst kind of Evil”
After ten years of planning, Hamas made the decision to attack Israel on October 7, 2023. And, on the day of evil when Hamas made the decision to attack Israel, I put on the Whole Armor of God and I took my Stand on the “Front Line” at Islam’s “Fatima Gate” located in Metulla on the Israeli-Lebanese Border where Iran, via Hezbollah, drew their Front Line. Genesis 22:17; Ephesians 6:10-17
There were two specific reasons why God quickened me to go to Metulla, Israel in October 2023:
On October 6, 2023, the day Hamas made the decision to attack Israel, I stood at the Fatima Gate making a video speaking into the Spiritual Realm:
On October 6, 2023, just hours before the leaders of Hamas made the decision that they would cross over the border Gaza shares with Israel on October 7, 2023 and attack Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz located on the border, massacring residents and abducting over 200 hostages, I “Stood in the Fatima Gate,” in Metulla, Israel another Border community that butts up to the Border that Israel shares with Lebanon. And, in the Name of Jesus, I spoke a Creative Word into the Spiritual Realm because it is by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of the Believers’ Testimony that geographical principalities in the Heavens from within the dominion of the Prince and Kings of Persia were dislodged and brought their wrath to Israel’s Borders in both the south and the north. Revelation 12
The Purpose of Writing this Particular Chapter: The whole purpose for writing this Chapter is to demonstrate that it was not just happenstance that on the same day that I spoke a creative word into the spiritual realm that dislodged principalities from the spiritual realm that Hamas made the decision to attack Israel the next day. And, this is a point that I will come back to further into this chapter because the understanding that I was to go and stand in the “Fatima Gate” on October 6, 2023 and make an eight minute video of my testimony unto the Lord could only have come by “Divine Revelation.”
October 6, 2023: According to an article published by The Times of Israel on October 6, 2023, the five top leaders of Hamas decided that the “onslaught [on Israel] was to take place the next day,” which was October 7, 2023. Following is a Screen Shot of two pages of that five page article – a copy of the entire page article is posted at the end of this chapter. |
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The timing of Hamas’ decision to attack Israel is significant: According to the above mentioned news article published by The Times of Israel, Hamas had been making plans to attack Israel for more than 10 years, yet it was not until October 6 when I stood in the “Fatima Gate,” which is a Gateway of the Enemy that we are to stand in, that the top five leaders of Hamas made the decision that the onslaught of Israel was to take place the next day on October 7. In other words, the timing of Hamas’ decision they made on October 6 to cross over the border and attack Israel was not just happenstance. The timing coincides with the Creative Word that I spoke while standing in the Fatima Gate which is a Gateway of the Enemy.
They Rejoice in the Heavens – but Woe to the Earth when fallen angels are cast out of Heaven down to Earth because they bring their Wrath to Earth: Revelation 12:10-11 reveals that Satan is cast down and out of the heavens by the Blood of the Lamb and the Testimony of the Believer. And, in the context of Revelation 12, when the angels who fell along with Satan are cast out of heaven to the earth they bring their wrath. Hence, the wrath of the principalities that were cast to the earth on October 6/7, 2023 found their expression through Hamas when they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
In turn, this underscores the “spiritual” importance of the video I made at the “Good Fence” (known as the Fatima Gate by the Lebanese) on October 6, 2023, the same day the leaders of Hamas made the decision to attack Israel on October 7, 2023! See the following Preview Pane in Windows File Explorer regarding said video that documents that I made a video at the Fatima Gate on October 6, 2023. |
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Microsoft Windows File Explorer (or simply File Explorer) is the MS Windows application that displays characteristics of files stored on my computer (PC), such as file name, file size, and date created or modified. It also provides a “preview pane” of the file contents to the right side of a selected file. For example, in the screenshot shown below, the video file of me standing at the Fatima Gate is selected (highlighted). File Explorer shows the name of the file, the date and time created, and a single frame from the video that “previews” the contents of the video.
The Time recorded in preview pane in Windows File Explorer needs to be Converted to Israeli Time: The time and date stamp on the video camera used to record the video was set to reflect the time here in America. As can be seen in the highlighted entry, the Date and Time recorded on the top entry, “Gwen at Good Gate” reads “10/5/2023 12:25 PM.” However, as a reminder, the Hebrews reckoned a day from evening to evening: Genesis 1:5 and Leviticus 23:32. And, so it is in Israel to this day; the day in Israel begins after sunset – not midnight. In other words, the above image from a preview pane in Windows File Explorer is based on the time here in America and has to be converted to Israeli time because that’s where I made the video. More to the point, when October 5, 2023 at 12:25 PM is converted to Israeli time, it means that I was at the Fatima Gate at the start of October 6, 2023. In other words, I made the video while standing in the “Good Gate (Fence)/Fatima Gate” on October 6, 2023 at 7:30 PM Israeli time, one hour after the sun set in Israel.
Converting EST to Jerusalem Time: The following conversion chart confirms that 12:30 PM EST here in America was 7:30 PM in Israel. Keeping in mind that on October 5, 2023 the time in Israel was 7 hours ahead of the time here in America means I stood in the “Fatima Gate” one hour after the sun had set in Israel at 6:20 PM which means I made the video at the “Fatima Gate” on October 6, 2023. |
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The following calendar reveals that the sun set at 6:20 PM in Israel. |
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By the Word of my Testimony – Revelation 12: On October 6, 2023, I took my Stand on the “Front Line” at Islam’s “Fatima Gate,” located in Metulla on the Israeli-Lebanese Border, against the Wiles of the Devil and the Evil Spirits in the Heavenly Realm, specifically the spirit prince and spirit kings of Ancient Persia (modern-day Iran) operating behind Iran and their proxies: Hezbollah and Hamas – Ephesians 6:10-17. It was here that I lifted up my Testimony unto the Lord for we know that it is by the Blood of the Lamb and the Testimony of the Believer that Principalities are dislodged from the heavens. They rejoice in the heavens but woe to the earth because dislodged principalities bring their wrath to earth because they know their time is short. They know their time is short because Scripture tells us that Christ will not return until all His enemies are under His foot. And, when the principalities are dislodged from the heavens they know that they have been put under the foot of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:24-25
When all of Christ’s Enemies are under His foot, then He will turn the Kingdom over to God and establish His Kingdom – 1 Corinthians 15:24-25. Revelation 12 tells us that when the Principalities and the Devil lose their place in the heavens (when they lose their place in the heavens they are now under the foot of Christ), “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” Revelation 12
The Wrath of the spirit prince and kings of Iran: The Wrath of Hamas on October 7, 2023 was a reflection of the Wrath of the principalities after they were dislodged from the Heavens and cast to the earth on October 6, 2023. The Wrath of the spirit Prince and Kings of Persia was allowed to manifest through Hamas because Hamas is an Iranian-backed Terrorist Organization. Just as the Prince and Kings of Persia have a spiritual authority over all of Iran, they also have a spiritual authority over all the Iranian-backed terrorist organizations. In essence, proxies of Iran are proxies of the Prince and Kings of Persia – proxies that will do the bidding of the Prince and Kings of Persia just as they do the bidding of Iran and that is to act on Iran’s behalf to expand Iran’s influence in the region and wreak havoc on Israel’s border communities! Like all wars, war is one of the manifestations of their wrath!
Hence, Hamas’ wrath against Israel was also the wrath of Iran. On October 7, 2023 when Hamas attacked Israel, the world witnessed that Hamas’ wrath against Israel was pure unadulterated evil, the worst kind of cruelty and evil imaginable – a manifestation of the wrath of the spirit Prince and Kings of Persia.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Claims to be the Prophet Muhammad’s Earthly Representative: It’s also important to note that Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief, claims to be the Prophet Muhammad’s (Fatima’s father) earthly representative. As head of state, Ali Khamenei is the highest political, military and religious authority of the Republic of Iran and like all Iranians – Iran’s proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis) are subject to his authority as well.
People die, however, principalities don’t. The same geographical principalities that ruled over ancient Persia continue to have a spiritual authority over Iran and their proxies today just as they did in the days of King Darius when Persia laid siege to ancient Babylon and Babylon became part of the Persian Empire. Daniel who was in captivity in Babylon was taken into captivity by the Persians which explains why the spirit Prince and Kings of Persia were able to block Gabriel, the angel God sent to deliver a message to Daniel from delivering the message for 21 days – Daniel 10. Gabriel was only able to deliver God’s message to Daniel after Michael, the Archangel of Israel who protects the interest of God’s people, came to Gabriel’s aid.
On October 6, 2023 I took my Stand and held my Ground while I made a Video at the “Fatima Gate”: While I was making the eight minute video at the “Fatima Gate” several men stopped and tried to intimidate me with fear – their goal was that I would leave the Fatima Gate. I knew they wanted me to stop making the video. However, I stood firm and held my ground until I had finished making the video of myself lifting up my Testimony to Jesus Christ into the spiritual realm because it is by the Blood of the Lamb and the Testimony of the Believer that the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly realm are dislodged. (Ephesians 6 and Revelation 12) And, after I did all that God had asked me to do – I knew that having stood there and finished making the video I had held my ground.
Why Now? Why did Hamas make the decision to Attack on October 6, 2023?
By Way of History: According to an article published in The Times of Israel (“Hamas planned Oct. 7 from before 2014, with final decision made by 5 leaders – report”), Hamas’ decision to implement their evil plan to attack Israel on October 7, 2023 was only decided upon the day before – on October 6, 2023.
According to the article, Hamas had made plans to attack Israel before 2014. However, in 2014 Hamas put their plans to attack Israel on hold after Israel launched a military operation, “Operation Protective Edge.” Then in 2021 after another military conflict, “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Hamas made the decision to implement their plans to attack Israel.
Then on October 6, 2023 five Hamas leaders made the decision to attack Israel on October 7, 2023. Furthermore, these five Hamas leaders were the only ones who knew that they would actually carry out their attack on Israel on Saturday, October 7, 2023!
Why Now? Why wait all those years to implement their plans to attack Israel?
The Answer: Because God is in control of the timing. The Lord has His ways of prompting those like Hamas when to attack. For example, according to 1 Kings 22:1-28 the Lord sent a “Lying Spirit” to entice Ahab to go into battle against Ramoth-gilead so that Ahab himself would be killed. And , 2 Kings 19:5-7 reveals that the Lord told Isaiah to tell King Hezekiah not to be disturbed because King Sennacherib was speaking against the Lord – that He would send a message to Sennacherib that he was needed at home only to be killed.
1 Kings 22:19-23 19 Then Micaiah continued, “Listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the armies of heaven around him, on his right and on his left. 20 And the LORD said, ‘Who can entice Ahab to go into battle against Ramoth-gilead so he can be killed?’ “There were many suggestions, 21 and finally a spirit approached the LORD and said, ‘I can do it!’ 22 “‘How will you do this?’ the LORD asked. “And the spirit replied, ‘I will go out and inspire all of Ahab’s prophets to speak lies.’ “‘You will succeed,’ said the LORD. ‘Go ahead and do it.’ 23 “So you see, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all your prophets. For the LORD has pronounced your doom.”
2 Kings 19:5-7 5 After King Hezekiah’s officials delivered the king’s message to Isaiah, 6 the prophet replied, “Say to your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech against me from the Assyrian king’s messengers. 7 Listen! I myself will move against him, and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’” NLT
Which also begs the question – can someone be influenced by an evil spirit? According to John 13:1-2 and Matthew 16:23 the answer is Yes!
John 13:1-2 1 Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. 2 It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. NLT
Matthew 16:21-23 1 From then on Jesus began to tell His disciples plainly that it was necessary for Him to go to Jerusalem, and that He would suffer many terrible things at the hands of the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but on the third day He would be raised from the dead. 22 But Peter took Him aside and began to reprimand Him for saying such things. “Heaven forbid, Lord,” he said. “This will never happen to You!” 23 Jesus turned to Peter and said, “Get away from Me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to Me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.” NLT
In addition to the above, John 13:1-2 and Matthew 16:21-23 reveal that Satan can influence someone to do his bidding. Even so, God is in control of the timing as well as Satan. In Job 1:6-12 and Job 2:1-7 we find that Satan had to have God’s permission to test or afflict Job.
The Lord determines not only when, but also where principalities are dislodged and the path they can travel Psalm 78:49-50. We know from Psalm 78:49-50 that God is the one who determines the paths where His enemies can travel and where they cannot travel. Hezbollah was not able to breach Metulla’s borders with boots on the ground while I was there because God determined that Hezbollah could not travel on the path that would allow them to infiltrate Metulla while I was there. Again, one of the reasons the Lord sent me to Metulla was to push the principalities operating through Hezbollah back from boots on the ground while I was in Metulla. And, it was in the Lord’s Name, His power and His authority that I pushed them back. Ephesians 6
Psalm 78:49-50 49 He let loose on them His burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels. 50 He made a path for His anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague. ESV
The Lord Leveled and made a Straight Path for His Anger
Psalm 78 49 He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels of calamity and woe among them. [50] He leveled and made a straight path for His anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families] from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their eldest] over to the plague. Amplified Bible
“He made a way” is also translated “He leveled and made a straight path for His anger.” In other words, when principalities are dislodged from the heavens and bring their wrath – these “evil angels” cannot attack at random – they can only travel and attack on the “straight paths” that the Lord allows them to travel on. Ephesians 6 and Revelation 12
And without a doubt, principalities from within the dominion of the prince and kings of Persia, modern-day Iran, (Daniel 10) were dislodged and lost their place in the heavens on October 5/6, 2023 just hours before Hamas the Iranian-backed Terrorist Organization made the decision to cross over the border they shared with Israel and attack And, we know from Revelation that when Satan’s evil angels lose their place in the heavens – the heavens rejoice but woe to the earth because they bring their wrath because they know their time is short. And, all too often their wrath will manifest through a war.
At this point I want to share what my Testimony unto the Lord was when I stood in the Gate that Israel shares with Lebanon on October 6 2023.
As I stood in the Gate of my Enemy – the Gate that honored Fatima the daughter of the Muslim prophet Mohammad – I declared that this Gate of the Enemy was a “Good Gate” where George Otis displayed the Banner of his radio station that he raised up on the war-torn battle field of Lebanon just feet away from the Good Gate that read “The Voice of Hope.” And, as all Christians know, Jesus Christ IS the Voice of Hope!
The Muslims may have called the “Good Fence” the “Fatima Gate,” however, all the good that the Good Fence stood for can never be undone. For example, the Banner that George Otis displayed at Lebanon’s Fatima Gate – the Good Gate – was in honor of Jesus Christ and the radio station that George Otis built that was known as the “Voice of Hope” was the first radio station in the Middle East that carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ. George Otis was fulfilling the Great Commission to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations – and today the Voice of Hope, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is heard on every continent in the world.
And, Hezbollah was not able to stop all the good that the Israelis extended to those Lebanese civilians and the wounded SLA soldiers who needed medical care that was not available to them in south Lebanon because of the hatred of Hezbollah – hence, the Good Fence that God used for good. Hezbollah may have referred to the gate as the Fatima Gate in honor of the Prophet Mohammad’s daughter – however, they couldn’t stop the Christians from using the gate that was intended for evil for good and to the Glory of God and His Son Jesus Christ.
I acknowledged that during His time here on earth that Jesus Christ Himself crossed over into the Border of Tyre and Sidon in present-day Lebanon and the daughter of a Syrophoenician woman was set free of a demon. And, I also made the comment that the Border Gate I was standing in may have very well been where Jesus Christ crossed over into Tyre and Sidon. |
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In the screenshots above, taken from the eight-minute video I made on October 6, 2023, I am standing on the Israeli side of the Fatima Gate and Lebanon is on the other side of the Fatima Gate.
As can be seen, it was not happenstance that on October 6, the same day I stood in the “Fatima Gate” and lifted up my Testimony unto Jesus Christ into the spiritual realm, the leaders of Hamas made the decision to attack Israel on October 7, 2023. Every time that we are called to stand in the gateway of our spiritual enemies, God will use that for His purposes and according to His good will!
The War in Heaven: As discussed in previous chapters, there are many Scriptures that reveal that wars on earth between people are also being fought in the heavens at the same time between Michael, the guardian angel over Israel and his angels, who fights against Satan and the angels that fell when Satan fell. Judges 5:20, Ephesians 6 and Revelation 12 See Chapters 4, 16, 17 and 32 for more on the wars in heaven. Moreover, Chapter 2 (”God Established the Boundaries for each Nation here on Earth and these Boundaries have a Spiritual Aspect as the Boundaries God Established for each nation were According to the Sons of God” (Deuteronomy 32:8), and we know from Job 2:1-2 the Sons of God were Angels”) provides an in-depth discussion of Spiritual Boundaries and the wars that are waged in the heavenly realm.
When we stand in the Gateway of the Enemy – we are standing on the “Front Line” of the Battle that is being fought in the Spiritual Realm: In other words, when I went to the “Fatima Gate” on October 6, 2023 when Hamas made the decision to attack Israel the next day – I was standing on the “Front Line” of the spiritual battle going on in the spiritual realm at the same time the spirit prince and kings of ancient Persia were able to influence Hamas to make the decision to actually carry out their plans, ten years in the making, to attack Israel the next day.
As a Note, Carnal Christians are not called to engage in Spiritual Warfare nor will they understand Spiritual Warfare: It’s important to point out that Luke 10 reveals that not everyone will understand Spiritual Warfare. Christ revealed that this type of Spiritual Warfare was hidden from those who think more highly of themselves than they should and that would include the “Carnal Christian” who thinks they are wiser than the spirit-led Christian. The Carnal Christian will not be called to engage in Spiritual Warfare because the Carnal Christian is under the influence of the world, and because the Carnal Christian lives for the things of this life, he/she will not be able to submit their will to the will of the Holy Spirit. And, we know from 1 Corinthians 12:10 that not all Christians, including those led by the spirit, have the gift from the Holy Spirit to distinguish between spirits – to distinguish whether the message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit (1 John 4:1).
It’s not that we don’t have our battles with flesh and blood, because we certainly do have battles with those who refuse to obey God. However, our battle with those that Satan operates through in this world is easy compared with battling and causing the downfall of our invisible enemies who operate through those people that we can see. When we put on the full armor of God and take our stand, we know that Satan and those in his kingdom of darkness will continue to fall like lightening.
We know from Ephesians 2:2 and Ephesians 6:12 that even though Satan’s Kingdom is a spiritual kingdom and that the Believers battle is in the spiritual realm, Satan is still able to work through those individuals who, in their disobedience, fight against the purposes of God. Sadly, rebellion against Christ still exists in the world today, not just in the spiritual realm, but in those people who fight against the purposes of God here on earth.
Following is a copy of the 5 page news article, “Hamas planned Oct. 7 from before 2014, with final decision made by 5 leaders – report” |
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