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Awaken conference salvation12/21/2023 “They pray for the salvation of the Jews, for protection over the city and nation and for End-Times prophecy regarding Israel to be fulfilled.”īickle, who has 79,000 Instagram followers and 69,000 Twitter followers, is not opposed to Jews. “In most charismatic and a lot of American evangelical circles there’s a really big focus on Israel being key to Jesus coming back,” said Brad Christerson, a sociologist at Biola University who co-wrote with Richard Flory a 2017 book, “The Rise of Network Christianity,” that features Bickle’s ministry. Among them is Lou Engle, also of Kansas City, who has a prayer group called TheCall Ministries. He then became part of a group called The Kansas City Prophets. The 67-year-old evangelist was originally a megachurch pastor in the Vineyard Fellowship movement. All three Abrahamic faiths make claims to parts of Jerusalem. Holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City, including the Western Wall and Dome of the Rock, on March 13, 2019. Anyone can tune in online.īickle did not respond to requests for interviews. The prayer room is staffed intermittently by some 600 worship leaders, called missionaries, who lead musical prayers around the clock. Since 1999, Bickle, a self-proclaimed prophet, has led a prayer room in Kansas City devoted to nonstop 24/7 prayer. And the Jews saying yes to Jesus is related to the gentiles standing for God’s purpose for Israel.” “The Second Coming is actually connected to the Jews saying yes to Jesus. “When Israel wakes up spiritually, Jesus says, I will come down from heaven,” Bickle said in a YouTube segment with evangelical singer and activist Sean Feucht. The purpose of the fast is to awaken Jews to the God of Israel, which they believe took on human form as Jesus. The event is named for a passage from the Book of Isaiah that says, “I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem they will never be silent day or night.” It did not appear that anyone was traveling to Israel in person. The Christian holy day commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles following Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection.īickle said the fast is part of a network of thousands of evangelical ministries across the world who are mobilizing their followers to join for the three weeks of prayer and fasting. The prayer and fast, which began Sunday (May 7), will conclude on May 28, which is Pentecost. The Isaiah 62 Global 21-Days of Prayer and Fasting, organized by the International House of Prayer Kansas City and its leader, Mike Bickle, is being billed as a historic gathering that will bring together as many as 1 million “intercessors” who will take turns praying an hour a day for what they call “the salvation of Israel.” (RNS) - An independent charismatic ministry has launched a 21-day prayer and fast for Israel, which its leaders believe will hasten Jesus’s return as part of the Second Coming.
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