Mike Bickle reacts to 21 day fast for Israel

0:00 Well, Mike Bickle, it's great to have you back on charisma news to talk about this Isaiah 62 fast. We talked before the fast began leading up to it to try to get people involved with it. And now the fast has completed its 21 days. It went from June 7th to June 28th and we're recording this. I'm sorry, May 7th to May. Let me start over because that's where we're at the beginning here. Good start over. Yeah, Mike Bickle. It's great to have you back on charisma news to talk about this Isaiah 62 fast that God called you to lead and get started and to promote. It started on May 7th and went to May 28th and now it's June 1st.

0:43 And so I want to hear what God did during this time. I know we talked about it before to try to get people to join and to be a part of this praying for Israel. So brother, what has happened? I want to hear results from this because I know you have been, you've had a watchful eye on this whole process. So, uh, fill us in on what God did over these last 21 days. Well, first I would appreciate your support and the whole charisma family. Steven Joy, you guys jumped in day one and helped get the word out. It really made a big difference. It really did. Made a number of phone calls and other people called. So I want to say thank you for that. Of course you did it for the Lord because you see you've got insight into his purposes for Israel, but still in the human arena. Thank you. It's huge help.

1:32 Absolutely. And I didn't sound, somebody calls for a corporate fast. I mean, our ears perk up because we know that these are very biblical things and it's not just a personal thing. It is a national, it is an international, it is the kingdom of God in action together in unity. And we know that the Bible says that how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity and unity commands a blessing. And so you forget, you get this massive amount of people in unity praying for one specific thing or one specific region. And, um, right. I had before we had our conversation earlier, I had no idea that Israel was in such potential turmoil and leading up to this time. So let's talk about what happened in Israel in the natural.

2:23 And then let's kind of talk about in the spiritual and maybe just connect those dots for us. Okay, good. Yes. Excellent. And I'm like you, when we first called this fast, it was March 7th, so 12 weeks before, you know, it ends on May 28th. We were not aware of any great crisis in Israel. It was the leaders in Israel. He said, are you aware what's going on? And I, and I honestly said, no, I honestly said a little bit, but not much. And they said, we're on the verge of a civil war and it's probably going to happen. Praise God it has not happened, but the conversation is not over right now. Here's the beginning of June. They're still fully engaged in the conversation. So no, we don't know where that's going. And they said, and Iran will have a nuclear weapon probably by the end of May. Well, it's June and we can't be for sure they have it, but if not they're a week or two or three or four away, or they do have it.

3:15 We don't know. So those are two giant negativities, but just an overview of the fast. First, well over 5 million Gentiles across the earth said, yes, I want to commit to pray one hour a day for 21 days in the month of May. And so we don't know how many actually did the full hour. We don't care. That's bigger than our database. Yes. But they said, yes. And we have a, I started a new website called Isaiah 62 fast or just Isaiah 62.com. And we said that website is not an IHOP website. It's not for anybody to promote their ministry. It's mostly as a directory.

4:00 If you want people in your area to know about your ministry and you're doing this, but you've got to commit to do it for an hour a day, put your name on it. We have 12,000 names. Wow. We could not fathom that we were. And you're talking not just individual names, but names of ministries that are saying we're going to be a hub. We're going to be a place where we're promoting. We're promoting this with our people of influence, our circle of influence. And we're, I know my church, nation's church did that. And they were very, they made announcements about it on Sunday mornings and encouraged people to do that. So, not individuals, individuals one decided, I go, no, no, we don't want a database of individuals.

4:43 You want to sign up and your ministry wants you to do that locally. That's not about us. We're just trying to let people around the world know ministries that are doing it. Like you said, they would be a hub of activity. They would mobilize it in their area. So 12,000 ministries did this, which was very mind blowing to us. We would have thought a thousand would have been amazing. Historic. It's in over 120 nations. And well over a hundred languages. And I don't know the exact counts because we're really doing the praying and fasting. It's got so weary. My tech team would tell me stuff. I go, you know, what? I don't even care. It is what it is. Leave me alone right now.

5:24 I didn't want to say, leave you alone. I didn't care because we were tired. Cause here at IHOP, we devoted all 24 hours a day, every prayer meeting, every two hour prayer meeting, that's 12 a day for, that's 84 a week. That's 252 in three weeks, 252 to our prayer meetings all for Israel. We'd never done anything like that. And I thought, and I even warned our people, I said, this could get boring. I just was being straight honest. It wasn't, I mean, it wasn't unbelievable, but it was not boring. I just thought it would be. And the reason it wasn't because we have every two hour prayer meetings led by a worship team of about 10 people and you get anointed singers and musicians, it makes a boring prayer meeting, not boring. I mean, it was so moving because of the music.

6:18 So the music kept going and we had an open mic and then the prayer on the open mic would interface with the music and the music would respond to the prayer. Like we'd say, Lord, release your glory. Then they would say release your glory or something a little more creative than that. But it would be a good example. Yeah, back and forth. So, uh, so my, and my point of saying that we did it so intense that I'm, I'm weary. So even to this day, I don't know what all the stats are, but those were the stats they gave me the last couple of days, but I don't care. That's between God and, and, and his people. But the fact is nothing like this has ever happened in history before. I talked to a number of leaders in Israel who, you know, and even there there's a house of prayer statisticians or prayer movements, statistic guys. Okay.

7:07 How many prayer networks in South Africa? They don't have any in Europe. I mean, I don't know how on earth you would keep up with that, but they do. And so I asked different groups and they said, I said, has there ever been a time where 10,000 Gentiles prayed for Israel for 10 straight days in a concerted effort that we know of? And each person I asked said, no, no, there's not even a hint of that. So not 10,000 people for 10 days, then 5 million for 21 days. And then those are low numbers. Like I'm guessing, right. I'm guessing it's a quite bitter born that, but they said, there's nothing like this in history. So if that's true, and I did lots and lots of zoom calls with different languages, Portuguese, you know, your wife's from Brazil, I've done a number in Portuguese.

7:59 Brazil really jumped in a bunch of Latin America with Spanish speaking, quite a few zoom calls with networks with a hundreds of ministries representing, you know, like a Brazil, 7 million believers under a hundred mega ministries. They were all in the zoom call and in Latin America, the a hundred ministries, but mega ministries, mostly 5 million believers under them. And they were all going, we're all in, which never means, because humans are humans, never means all. But when they said, we're all in, I only counted 10% because I wanted real numbers. They said, no, no, when we call it our people, they go with us. I go, well, I'll say 10% max. And because I know humans and then same with Mania, same in Italy, we did it in Japan, a whole network of Japanese believers.

8:46 We're all the way in China, of course, China, all over China, they're in Russia, Ukraine and Russia, two different situations. Two different sets of networks, two different groups of repeated, zoom calls with two different groups there. So this was not just the American church that was calling to pray for it. It was the international worldwide body of Christ praying for that. Yes, they had thousands. I quit doing zoom calls with Americans. I told Americans, go, go hear one of the recordings if you care, because I, because Americans were coming a lot, you know, a bunch of Baptist bunch of, I just said, go here, zoom call. You don't need me on it. Just go do your, you know what? You're smart.

9:27 Go do what you want to do. Cause cause the international community was so respond lots in New Zealand, Australia, quite a few zoom calls there, lots of national networks anyway. I didn't mean to go off that long on all that, but that's okay. That's okay. It's good to see this, the scope of what God said to do and how you can see the world in a way that you can see when his anointing is on something and he spoke it. You can see just how it blossomed in such a quick period of time. And you saw around the world that people were grabbing a hold of this and praying specifically for the nation of Israel.

10:07 Brother, what, what were some of the things that came out of this? I mean, was there any way of reporting test? I know that you're probably still gathering a lot of this stuff too. A little bit. I mean, because the thing with prayer, as you know, you're a prayer guy, prayer is invisible. You can't measure it. And often the impact a month, a year and a 10 years later, you go, oh my goodness, because the shifts happen in ways you can't tell the day after. You know, somebody gets prayed for and they're sick and their body gets healed. That day it's easy. He was sick. He is now healed. They laid hands on him. Wow. But shifting of patients is a little more nuanced and complicated.

10:49 It didn't. But one of the points I was going to make when I was saying all these nations are responding is that the common statement, which I said at first, but I quit saying it at the end, they, people would say, this is so exciting. And, and, and I started this call March 7th. So I did for 12 weeks and the first four or five weeks when the numbers were, the response was unbelievable. I was like, this is exciting. Then about the last five or eight, 10 weeks, I went, wait a second. This is alarming. What? Exciting. Wait, if this has never happened, this many Gentiles, pregnant, why is it happening? I shifted my question to in this amazing to why are you doing this for the first time in human history?

11:33 Oh my goodness. This isn't entirely good news. I mean, it is in one sense, well, because heaven is making a preemptive strike in the spirit. Wow. And, but obviously even if there's an alarm because God did it, there's also a release of glory because God did it too. Amen. Amen. And we get the glory part and that's the part we like to focus on. And I got a little bit on that, but the alarm is what I started really asking because Daniel chapter 10. You know, you would know this and some of your viewers would know Daniel 10. It's very famous, but many don't know Daniel 10. So I'll give a 30 seconds on it.

12:15 Daniel goes on this 21 day fast and Daniel chapter 10 and this mighty angel on day 21 breaks in and manifests himself to Daniel Daniel in his 80s. This angel says Daniel the paraphrase because I'm so glad you didn't quit praying because I was sent by the Lord on day one says in verse 12 and 13 Daniel 10. I was the Lord said, yes, go. I came day one, but the the demonic principality of Persia, which we know is modern day Iran, stop me. And that's a weird idea that a demonic hierarchy of the highest level could stop angels at a certain level.

12:58 Yeah, that's a discussion for another day. But many believe that and that verse pretty clearly is what it said. He said, but because you can't pray Michael came and and pushed back didn't say push back. Those are my terms this demonic principality of Persia or hindered this demonic principality and then the angels now I broke through because Michael came because you didn't stop. Well, here's the interesting thing. We know Persia ancient Persian is modern day. Iran, although ancient Persians bigger than that, but that's the core right. Iran has only been a world power two times in recorded history.

13:39 Mm-hmm. Six thousand years only two times beginning in the generation of Daniel when Daniel was talking about it was only 60 years later that the Esther, you know, Haman the Prime Minister of Persia wanted to destroy all the Jewish people. So that's even the same generation nearly as it's, you know, it's a 60 year mark. Yeah, you're some say but Persia was a world power for about 200 years plus then for 2500 years or 2000 years, whatever till today. They've not been a world power. They had a national Empire from 200 to 600 AD, but it was never a world power and Israel was living in the land.

14:19 They were already scattered to the nations after 78 days. So only two times in history has Iran been a world power. To attack Israel and Daniel's day and he had 21 days of prayer and fasting and stop it and today it's million member corporate Daniel and Iran's got a nuclear weapon. So we didn't even put that together till about halfway in this. I would wait a second. This is a corporate Daniel 10 because we're all on this 21 day fast. Some did it way more tense than others, but that's none of my business, but it's a corporate 21 day gen title Daniel standing before Iran who is not threatening to hurt Israel promising to hurt Israel.

15:04 Right will destroy you and when they get enriched uranium at 90% they will have a nuclear weapon and a lot of the authorities are saying they're 88 or 89% today. They were actually that far along in May. So we don't know that final 1% if you got it, they don't it's a week away a month away, but I ran has a nuclear weapon with a public promise to destroy Israel. So the Daniel 10 story happened again. So the fact they've been pushed back. What if I ran has a meltdown of their government because their government's being challenged by the people. What if they have a cave-in of some sort? I am sure somewhere these 5 million believers praying for 21 days because Daniel stopped it 2,500 years ago.

15:54 I mean, I'm getting a little ahead of myself because it hadn't been stopped yet, but I'm right. I know there's pushback coming from the government against each against each other. I go Lord. What if you just stirred that up some more and you know, demons don't like demons, you know, it's not like they're all buddies. They fight each other. I don't know that much about it. I don't like I do but yeah, so that's that's one thing. That could happen. Another thing that happened is that May 1st all of the headlines. They said Civil War is imminent because of the judicial reform and on May 1st, it was because of Passover.

16:34 I'm just saying May 1st. It could have been, you know, April 30th, but the Passover they the the Knesset the Knesset was in real division over the judicial reform and all through March and April. They were saying very possibly a Civil War Jews against Jews. Again, that was new to me. I did not know that but I checked out the internet and found out it was real and John just so you know, I saw over 25 minute clips on this. So I am now an expert on political dynamics of Israel. I am an Internet expert. I've seen over 25 minutes. So that's great. Questions on your guy. Okay, just come right to me.

17:15 No, I don't know much but they were all saying it. That's all I'm going to say and I don't know who lies and who exaggerates that's that's way past my pay grade. But if they're talking about it in the media, then they're talking about it in around the dinner table and that's one of the things that you can always you can always think about it's like what happens in culture is also talking about in the home and it's it's spreading it's so whether it's real or not. It's something that's being talked about it's something that's fear driven and you are three days before May 1st their bounce 500,000 people gathered two three four five nights in a row. I forgot how many to protest Netanyahu then after May somewhere the early May 500,000 protested for him.

18:03 And so I go this isn't and they have pictures. I go this is not a small issue. No, because the 500,000 in a protest when bombs are coming because they shot 1200 Rockets from Gaza, you know down over here Gaza Israel most know Israel Gaza's up right over here in the corner. Yeah, they shot 1200 Rockets in six days is a report I got from statistician guys over there who said they know they know remarkable out of six 12,000 Rockets. I mean we're talking about just shooting over the state line. He was like what and out of 12,000 Rockets only two Israeli deaths out of 1200 Rockets and many of them the iron dome stopped many of them very little damage ever hit the ground and so messianic believers some pastors, you know over Messianic congregations emailed me and said something is happening the 1200 Rockets and only two deaths in six days and they stopped it then and they were saying thank you body of Christ in the earth.

19:14 So that slowed things down the Iran might put a hold on this because of an implosion of or a strike in the government or something or Israel might do a preemptive strike. That's on the news day after day. Israel has to make a preemptive strike. I don't know that's but more than that. Well, I mean those are really important, but the my passion is Jesus be glorified. Yes, you are. And so I've heard Messianic believers not believers pastors email and we do a lot of back and forth because you know, because lots of dialogue they're saying more and more people are are saying yes to the Lord.

19:55 I don't mean thousands. I don't want to exaggerate but there's a tenderness in their congregations. There's a grace on their children again, maybe that's it's easy to say and hard to validate but there were encouraging reports of people coming to the Lord, but maybe they did before that. I don't know. So I don't have real data, but those reports were always very very heartwarming to me, but we'll see like in six months how much of that is verifiable but it's right. So we're still waiting to see the some of the results that we can measure and tan that are a little bit tangible whether they come through testimonies or other stories and reports, but I'm just reminded of something that my grandfather used to always say.

20:39 He said you never know what you prevented but you always know what you caused and your your obedience to do what God has said to do to pray and to gather the body of Christ together to pray. You don't know what you prevented but if you wouldn't have done that you would have known what you've allowed and so by standing up to this by standing up and saying we are going to pray just like Daniel did we're going to follow his model and we're going to do 21 days for Israel and gather the body of Christ 5 million plus praying for this specific time in Israel so we can see maybe God's God pulled things back at this point and God protected things at this at this point.

21:21 We don't know specifically because you don't know what you prevented but you know what you caused and so but Mike, thank you so much for for doing this and leading this charge. My question for you now is what's next good. I'll do this real brief. I mentioned it to you before we started this call together that if 5 million are praying for one hour a day in May, which I believe that's a fact they each have two friends who love Jesus and love the Bible because they're you know, the believers those that's in that that means another 10 million are not praying necessarily for Israel, but they're now for the first time many of them are in the conversation.

22:05 What does what's the biblical narrative of Israel? My church never did Israel many of them are saying we never talk about it. We're not against it. We just never talk about it. So we have 5 million that prayed an hour a day 10 million more saying where's that in the Bible and because if you ask the question there's so much information in the Bible on it that if you ask the question you run into it, but if you never ask the question it just stay silent. Now, let me just jump forward one more time frame three years from now. These are all hypothetical time frames to say no those 15 million each got three friends and in the next three years, they're going to say do you hear about that group in May 2023?

22:48 They prayed or they said they did an hour day 5 million. Are you kidding? So now these 15 million times three friends eats now we got 50 million going what are you talking about? They go look at the website 12,000 ministries and then they go. What are you trying to say? We're supposed to do that because they people almost always in little bit get defensive at first which kind of lays into the narrative actually. Well, who said I have to do that? Now my church isn't wrong because we don't do it. They go. Let's read these verses and they go, huh? Huh? When did that verse get in the Bible? There are so many passages that in I hop in our 24 years of I hop we've had near 25,000 people here in a full-time way and out of these 25,000 staff students interns one, you know, three months or three years or five years.

23:39 They're here 90% when they came here said my church didn't do Israel and the encouraging is that less 25,000 nearly within one hour when they saw these verses and when I never knew those verses are in there. It is a real easy shift because there's so much in the Bible on it. Okay, but the reason because the church isn't against it. They're just silent on it because pastor don't talk about it. They don't talk against it. If you do most are just silent, but the good news is that 5 million talking about it now Gentiles at the end of a 50 million in three years made up number. Replacement theology is on its way out of the global conversation the body of Christ is not out yet, but it's on a death March and that's good 10 years from now.

24:29 Oh, I don't know but replacement theology that Goliath got a head wound in May 2023 and the gospel I won't give a teaching on this but there's teachings out there. There's the gospel makes it clear the New Testament the glory of God when Gentiles pray for Jerusalem the glory of God on Jerusalem dying directly affects the major glory on the body of Christ in the nations when the Gentiles pray Israel Israel things happen in the glory of God increases. It absolutely impacts the nations in the spirit of revival. So the revival were believing for people call it the billion soul revival. Nobody knows the number of course.

25:10 That's a good number. That's it means it's big is big. That thing has been impacted by these five million praying for Israel more is happening. It's coming back on the Church of the nations. Wow, and we can't wait to see the results of this and I know as I have no doubt that there will be other times where God says fast again, but now you've got five million plus that are ready to do this because they've seen what happened in because fasting doesn't necessary it doesn't twist God's arm. It gets you aligned with his will. Yes, you're hearing his heart to pray and to intercede and so you're not twisting God's arm to do something that you want to do.

25:53 You're aligning your will with his will and you are coming in agreement with that and you will see results. So now we've just had five million plus that have said yes to fasting. Yes to prayer and yes to praying for Israel. And so the next time that that call comes and we blow that trumpet to and call everybody to prayer. We know that we've got an army of prayer warriors that have been trained that have been equipped and they are ready to see what God wants to do next. Even though we might not see what the results are in Earth. We will to see in heaven whenever God does show because you prayed this is what happened.

26:33 I want to say one more quick thing and then I'll be done that I'm so grateful for this five million, but I take a step back Derek Prince preached on this for 70 for the last, you know, starting 70 years ago. I just made up that number John Hagee. Thank you. I mean 50 years when a lot were saying why are you doing this Jack Hayford and Robert Stearns the Jerusalem Day of Prayer for Sunday in October. I went Shaw and I think I you know, Pat Robertson and Chris Mitchell and TV and Matt Crouch and Daystar these guys are got TV award Simpson got TV Ron Cantor these guys holding the line year by year by year.

27:18 And so we got this swirl in May, but we're standing on the shoulders of the John Hagee's and the Jack Hayford's and the Charisma magazines over the last 50 years. So I need to always stop and say thank you to the Lord for that history that we're building on today. Amen. Well, let's keep fasting. Let's keep praying and let's keep watching and waiting to see what God does next. Since the ancient mystery that held the secret to America's future was first revealed to Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, the Holy Spirit has continued to decode ancient biblical secrets from the Harbinger to the Paradigm from the Book of Mysteries to the Return of the Gods. Jonathan Cahn continues to shine the light on things to come prepare for what's next by reading these inspired books go to booksbyjohnathanconn.com to collect all the mysteries revealed.