May 10, 2003

Prior to the United States going to war with Iraq, out of deep concern I decided to lock myself away in prayer and hear what the Lord was saying that I might pray in faith and in agreement with His will. The first week was perhaps one of the most difficult weeks I have ever spent in prayer. Why the Lord allowed it to be so, I really do not know. But the time of seeking brought forth the fruit He desired so I am content.

He spoke to me through the instrumentality of over 50 visions, which I will not go into here. He not only spoke to me about the past and present but also a little about the future. I have a couple of prophetic ministries with whom I regularly share my insights, desiring to have correction or the witness of their very capable hearing ear. One of the prophets also happens to be a scholar. I say that as I want to make sure you know that everything I receive and release line up with the Word in the eyes of someone of stature and a certain caliber. This time, we delved deep into the general principles I was given to understand in my visions as they relate to the Word. Today, I want to thank them for their input.

I was originally scheduled to go to Israel in March when the Lord stopped

me. Something had shifted in the Spirit and He wanted me in the United States to pray. This step of obedience turned out to be very costly for me in some ways but very fruitful in other ways.

The big question in the Church was first of all: Are we going to go to war? The next question: Is it ever God's will for us to go to war with Iraq? Third: What will the ultimate outcome be? And fourth: Why were the prophets going crazy with "counsel from God?" Admittedly we had the biggest pot of Hungarian Stew composed of every kind of prophetic word about the situation. We also had those who were trying to justify all the prophetic differences by saying that too was God.

Although the Lord was speaking very clearly to me during the entire time, He forbade me to publish one word of what He was saying. In fact, I did not have a release until this very day to share even the basic consensus of His magnificent counsel.

To War or Not to War! The questions "Will we go to war?" and "What will be the initial outcome?" have already been answered in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Therefore we will begin with the second question; thereafter, we will go on to the question of the ultimate outcome.

Was it God's will for us to go to war with Iraq? This seemed to be the second most important question. When one considers the many nations in the world that are ruled by tyranny, why should we bother about Iraq, if in fact that was the reason we chose to invade?

Yes, it was God's will for us to invade Iraq and for us to wipe out the regime of Saddam Hussein. I wept and prayed for the Iraqi people and for Saddam. I prayed for mercy rather than judgment. I prayed for time. I prayed for understanding, but every prayer was ended with: "But, Lord I want Your perfect will more than all my sympathies realized." After many weeks of prayer, Messiah took me to heaven. I was taken to a room wherein I saw the heavenly Sanhedrin file in and take their seats. The last to enter the room was Messiah Himself. They had a very short debate about Iraq and the coming invasion. For some time before this divine council, they had been watching and waiting before deciding what to do. If repentance had occurred in Iraq, war would have been diverted. But that was not the case and now a decision had to be made, and it was made. When they all filed out they were sad. Every one of them wished they could have found a reason to make a different decision. But man's badly chosen ways had tied their hands. Even the Lord followed them out with this same concern on His countenance. America was going to war against Iraq! It was not God's best, but it became necessary. I had this experience just days before the invasion began.

Shortly before our invasion of Iraq, the Lord spoke to me in a vision that had a profound effect upon me. First, He spoke audibly: "Nita, I will destroy Babylon as we near the end of the age." Later, while in prayer, I saw a vision. I saw the nation of Iraq set up as a stage. Upon this dark stage fell three beams of very dull light. Out of the middle beam of light arose the spirit of the antichrist. He rose up and was looking over not only the Nation of Iraq but the nations of the world. He was watching over everything as though surveying His kingdom to insure that everything was still intact. He had a plan, a most evil and diabolical plan that he was about to implement. He was reassuring himself that nothing was taking place that would render that plan inoperative. I saw that Babylon (Iraq) was the fountainhead of the antichrist kingdom.

The Lord immediately let me know that if we did not invade Iraq, the plans of this evil spirit would shortly be fulfilled. I was horrified. I told the Lord from that time forward I would only pray that we would attack Iraq and destroy the current regime, but that He would have mercy on the innocent. I knew by now that I had both the heart and the counsel of God. His heart was tender, wanting that none should perish. His counsel was that those who were in authority had given themselves over to an evil far too insidious to be allowed to remain. Thus using America to attack Iraq was God's plan to implement a "measured judgment."

Another question that has arisen since the war is: Was Saddam a threat to America?

I saw several visions of European nations poised to attack America. I saw that they were working with Hussein. Many secret plans were being made for the purpose of our destruction. Although each of these nations also wanted Israel destroyed, their first priority was America. The reason for it is that we stand as an ensign disallowing the One World Government to come forth. We are a hindrance to the plans of the antichrist. Therefore not executing a preemptive attack would have ultimately meant disaster for us. Also, I saw that a very severe attack had been planned against Israel. Our invasion of Iraq has greatly diminished potential Israeli casualties in this planned attack by the Arab Nations. My remaining concern is about the weapons Saddam scooted out of Iraq. Where are they? Messiah did not tell me they were in Syria, but I nonetheless do have my concerns about this possibility. Syria is perhaps Israel's greatest enemy. It is certainly one of her most dangerous adversaries. For Syria to have these weapons would be as disastrous as Iraq having them. If the weapons were shipped into some other port of one of America's secret enemies, we would still face potential threats. What this war has since revealed is that America does in fact have a number of two-faced friends. So, I by no means believe it is time to forsake the prayer closet.

Was our attack in God's timing? I believe so. We may have even been a little delayed in His timing. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction that are now in a safe place because of our delay. However, even if it had turned out that Saddam never had such weapons, the Lord was among other things dealing with the future of America and Israel through this war, as I already mentioned. Further, in another vision I saw multitudes of people in Iraq who were being sealed by a blood sealing for destruction. Then I saw them destroyed as casualties of war. In hindsight I now understand. With such an appalling degradation of human rights as was present in Iraq, those in power who have perpetrated heinous crimes for a long time were ripe for destruction. With great pain and sorrow the Lord had made His decision. As I watched this sealing occur, standing in the minister's platform in Singapore at the time, I wailed in agony as the grief of the Spirit overtook me. For the truth will always remain that He does not wish that any should perish but that all men might come to repentance.

Those marked for death had lent themselves to the spirit of the antichrist. Therefore, it wasn't just what WMDs Iraq was storing; it was the plans of the antichrist with which God was dealing. While in Israel on a recent trip, I saw a huge whirling vortex travel across the desert and land upright on the Mt of Edom. Out of the center of this vortex arose evil princes. I knew they were there to set certain things in motion regarding the Middle East. This was a little disconcerting to me. Although I never mentioned it to the rest of the team, I could not get my mind off what I had seen and later came to understand about their presence. They are still there, formulating and manipulating things to accommodate their overall plans for the future of the world. They will not be removed until such time as it is time for the next level of satanic powers to take over. We are on course with respect to the times and seasons of the end of the age. (Read the article on my website by Annie Schisler entitled "Visions From on High." She gives a little more detail about these things as she saw them.)

We are quickly nearing the end of the age. Plans were and are being made that will affect all mankind. No one but the Lord's prophets has been privy to these things. Not even those that the enemy is going to use to facilitate his plans have been told. I agree with all my heart that my friend David Michael, who is a scholar as well as a formidable prophet, is right when he says that Satan never would have believed that America would violate his plans by actually going against public opinion and the many nations of the world and invade Iraq again at this time. He was in no way ready for stage two of the continuing saga of Iraq vs. America. In the vision I shared earlier, the antichrist was looking quite smug. He looked like he thought he had everything under control; he was just double-checking. With Operation Iraqi Freedom we have messed up Satan's plans just a bit. I promise you he won't be reeling from the surprise for long.

Although at the beginning of my seeking I felt we would be early to attack now, after about 10 days the Lord totally changed my heart. We were by no means early in our attack. We were sent over there to fulfill God's purpose by neutralizing a present threat. Now we need to quit second guessing ourselves and pray for God's covering and protection as we try to restore peace and order where anarchy now thrives. Further, we all need to pray that the Gospel will wash through Iraq and bring forth a great harvest, as that is God's next plan.

What will the future hold for America? America will be attacked in the future. This attack will not occur because we bombed Iraq. The plans have been in the making for a very long time, and in all honesty would have happened much sooner and in a far more devastating way had we not moved upon Iraq when we did. So, again, President Bush has saved America from great suffering in his obedience to the Father. Further, I believe we have not seen the last war on Iraq. The Lord said: "I will destroy Babylon as we near the end of the age." I believe Him because a clear picture of that is given in Rev. 18.

We will see war again on the shores of America. Satan has had it in his heart for a couple hundred years. In spite of our rather shameful beginnings, the Lord does have a beautiful purpose in raising up our Nation. A Nation that has been given the power and authority over and among the Nations cannot sit idly by when the Lord is unmistakably warning that danger is lurking ahead. We must with valor and simplicity act as we feel the situation demands. Consequently, we cannot fear what another nations might do to us if we do what is right. America really is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. We are a Nation that has been endowed with great power and authority. The Lord has given this to us to watch over His will in the earth, until such time as His Church is ready to take over that position together with the Nation of Israel, whose right it was as was promised many millennia ago. (The latter being made a reality in the next kingdom.) Satan is planning a One World Government. He has been working steadily toward this since the tower of Babel. Several times just when he thinks everything is ready and he can come forward to take his throne, the Father pulls the rug out from under him. Well, he has just been done in again for the time being, but he won't stay down for long.

Because America has a measure of moral goodness and stands with Israel, Satan hates us. We will not easily bow to world totalitarianism. Therefore we must be diminished of our superiority, so Satan had planned and hoped. Even if we never invaded Iraq, the European Nations such as Russia, Germany and her allies as well as China and her allies will not be content until we are no longer a threat. So, having said all that, I repeat: War is coming, but not because of Iraq; rather is still coming in spite of Iraq.

As I have warned many times in the past, following the firm warnings already listed in the Word, the day we perpetrate division of the land of Israel, war upon America will follow close on its heals. (Joel 3:2; Zech 12:2-4 and Zech. 14:2, 3)

The final question is: Why so many varying "Words from the Lord"?

We experience different pictures painted by different voices in part because the Lord is forming a puzzle for His Church to search out. We see the same scenario in the life of King Ahab. Elijah painted one picture of his death, Micah painted another. Elijah's picture made Micah look like a false prophet. However, when Ahab died, the total picture was made clear when both prophetic words came to pass without contradiction.

Messiah does not want His Church to live by the prophets. Rather, He wants us to live by His Spirit, who speaks through many voices and pictures. If we will take the words and pray that the Lord will reveal His truth through the many voices, He will begin to reveal the golden path of revelation. Before long, we will understand who is speaking-the prophet or the Lord.

When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord and the Lord does not speak to him, we are not to fear him. We are to pray for him or her. Many ministers are running to and fro doing a lot of things right now, not all those things coming from the Lord. Prophets and ministers need to sit down and get back into prayer and learn when to speak. and when not to speak.

Sometimes the pull from the body demanding a word from the Lord in moments of national crises can weigh so heavily on a prophet that he begins to feel obligated to give the first word that comes before sitting still and hearing the whole counsel of God. The confusion that follows is partly the fault of the prophet speaking prematurely, and partly the fault of the body demanding a sign/word. I went through a time myself when I fell into that trap so I am not judging anyone else. However, hopefully I have learned my lesson and will in the future always do what Messiah taught me to do this time: Wait upon the Lord; be still and know that He is God; and yield not to the demands of men, of which in my case are many.

What do we as a Church do now? We pray, and we live righteously before our holy God. We need also repent of our uncleanness and our errors with people, as part of the commonwealth of believers, and as a nation. If we will continue the process of preparing America for the coming of His glory, no power on earth will be able to cause serious damage to God's future plan for our nation.

Satan never forgets one thing my friends: God loves America! He cringes every time he hears it. I love to say that ... GOD LOVES AMERICA! I love to say it because the Lord loves to hear it, and I love to say it because you need to hear it, and finally I love to say it because I love that fact that Satan cringes when he hears it. So, while we do have a formidable foe, we have a greater Friend in God! That is where we need to keep our minds focused.

Shalom Nita