Today we're gonna talk about Gaza: Are the IDF going to go inside the Gaza Strip again? Are we going to have an extension to the ceasefire agreement? Are we going to release more hostages? Are we going to transfer all the Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt or Jordan? Will we rebuild Gaza and create something better? Who knows?
The ceasefire of phase one has ended more than a week ago, but phase two has not started - nor will it start. And now, Israel finds itself in a really interesting situation, where there's been countless ideas that have been floating around by the US administration, by Israel, and by Hamas themselves. Yet, none of these ideas have materialized into anything more than that - an idea. And at this point, Hamas still has hostages: They have 59 hostages, out of which 35 are no longer alive.
"’No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD." Ezekiel 28:24
1) The biggest news is that the government has decided that within 4 - 6 weeks, the IDF is going to fully take over the entire Gaza Strip with an offensive of more than 50,000 troops! The IDF has publicly recruited this very large number of additional soldiers. More than was recruited at the height of the war, back in the end of 2023!
Reservists have been called up in a coordinated multi-front attack to remove Hamas entirely from power and clear them out of the north, the center and the south simultaneously, all at once!
How's this going to happen? It sounds very dangerous but now is the time to take this strong stance, otherwise Hamas will drag this on for as long as they can! We can't let this cycle repeat itself. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with Defense Minister Israel Katz, are leading the initiative.
They're saying that with the new chief of staff Eyal Zamir, who stepped into his new position yesterday, Wednesday March 5th, 2025, along with Col. (res.) Hezi Nehama, who publicly supports this strategy, are formulating the plan of this combined attack of epic biblical proportions!
Friends, something this big has never happened before, in Israel's entire history! And even in this current war Israel is fighting, nothing has ever happened on this level yet!
Amir Avivi, a former Brigadier General, has been advising the government on the implementation of this strategy, along with Kobe Michael, who's a former Strategic Affairs Minister.
Yaron Finkelman, head of Southern Command has been involved in planning this absolutely groundbreaking offensive on Gaza and on Hamas. The attack will deploy four to five divisions in multiple areas simultaneously to overwhelm them. The plan is going to be more aggressive and decisive than anything ever accomplished in Israel's entire history!
President Trump has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 150 day deadline for the completion of this plan. No more than 150 days. So the pressure is on Israel right now, to have everything ready, to go on the offensive, with this plan!
And because Israel currently has less active fronts; a ceasefire in Southern Lebanon, somewhat of a ceasefire in Syria, and the Houthis are not firing rockets at the moment; it didn't take too many reserve units and soldiers to battle the ballistic missiles, only a few airplanes. And nothing has yet started with Egypt. So it will be possible to achieve this plan with the focus on the two fronts: Hamas in Gaza, and Iran. And Israel has been rallying the troops to do exactly that!
LORD, we lift up this entire situation of the Gaza strip and ask for Your intervention! As you have promised in Your Word in Ezekiel 28:24:
"’No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."
ADONAI, we call forth the fulfillment of this Word that you promised Israel, into being! We call forth a complete dismantling of Hamas and all of the surrounding enemies of Israel, in YESHUA'S MIGHTY NAME, so that YOUR NAME may be glorified and all surrounding nations know that Your ADONAI T'ZVAOT (The LORD GOD of Heaven's Armies)!!!
2) At the same time, Steve Witkoff, the US Emissary to the Middle East, has been trying to negotiate directly with Hamas to release the Israeli American hostages. They have been trying to open an additional channel, understanding that things were not working in the ongoing channels with the intermediaries.
These are the remaining 24 hostages presumed alive in Gaza. Two dozen men - fathers, soldiers, security guards, tech workers, dreamers, dancers and more - are still held captive after over 500 days, along with the bodies of 35 others.
Witkoff came up with this new strategy of drawing attention to the fact that phase one was supposed to be a multi-week process where Israel released terrorists, and Hamas released hostages. However, by the middle of the first phase, Israel was supposed to be deep into negotiations on what phase two was going to look like. In particular, the details of what was supposed to be a more permanent end of the current war in the Gaza Strip, including the release of ALL the remaining hostages, but those negotiations never happened.
This has caused Israel to never fully end the first phase, and as a result, there is no official ceasefire. They're back to a state of not necessarily war, but not necessarily at a ceasefire either...The issue is that there are now ongoing conflicts happening between the IDF forces in the Gaza Strip, almost every day, against Hamas terrorists!
They are basically testing the limits of the IDF, approaching the forces, launching rockets, supposedly "by accident" from the Gaza Strip, and let's not forget; releasing videos of hostages, trying to get a reaction out of Israel. In other words, Israel is still fighting with Hamas, but on a more psychological level.
And now, Hamas has threatened to execute Israeli hostages if Israel intensifies military actions in Gaza. Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida warned that any escalation would result in the killing of captives. This follows President Trump’s ultimatum demanding the immediate release of all hostages.
LORD, give wisdom and discernment to Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump and the IDF in how to maneuver through this very delicate situation! Direct their steps so as to preserve the life of each hostage still in captivity! Cause non to perish, Oh GOD!! In YESHUA'S MIGHTY NAME!!
"1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners," Isaiah 61:1
3) In the midst of this, the IDF has stopped all entry of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip. It's important to explain what this means, because Israel has been fighting its enemies in the Gaza Strip, yet at the same time, allowed humanitarian aid trucks to come in and supply the civilian population with everything they need. We're talking about hundreds of aid trucks per day! 24,000 since the ceasefire started! That's more than what Gaza had - before the war began!
Hamas has already received months worth of equipment, months worth of fuel, months worth of food.
So, right now, they might not have fresh fruit in the same level that they had last week. But they have rice, they have all of the basic necessities that they need - and plenty of it!
It's necessary to explain that Israel, as it's fighting a war against Hamas terrorist, who want to destroy Israel and murder thousands of Israelis, still sent humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip for the civilian population throughout the majority of the war, until 2 days ago.
The problem is that Hamas automatically hijacks these aid trucks and sells the goods to the Palestinian people, receives more money, buys more weapons, recruits more terrorists, and launches more attacks against Israel. This then became an endless cycle of violence and death, that had to be stopped!
Now, the first time Israel had stopped the entry of humanitarian aid trucks, under the Biden administration, of course the international community began saying, "Israel, you shouldn't do this. You are harming the population of the Gaza Strip!"
But now that the current USA administration is on Israel's side, things are different now, and a SHIFT has taken place.
It's vital to understand that the halting of the aid trucks were done with the full knowledge and support of the US administration, AFTER it was made clear that Hamas had no intentions of continuing with the negotiations. Therefore, everything had to come to a screeching halt, in order to start applying pressure on Hamas, to let the hostages go!
LORD, just like You caused Pharaoh to let your people go, we call forth the turning of Hamas’s hearts to LET ALL REMAINING HOSTAGES GO, right now, IN YESHUA'S MIGHTY NAME!!
"Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me." Exodus 9:1
4) Clearly Hamas is still in control. Clearly. They still have the funds, the power, the munitions needed. Israel still has not finished the war against them. This is a really big issue for everyone involved.
Israel has two goals in this war, specifically as it relates to the Gaza Strip: One was to release all of the hostages - we're still not there yet. Most of them have been released, but there's still 59 to go. The second was to topple the Hamas government, which clearly hasn't happened yet either.
If we pull back into a bird's eye view, looking back a couple weeks ago, Hamas saw that an agreement was being made over their head, without their involvement. An agreement that was going to eliminate their relevance in the Gaza Strip. So what did they do? They completely disengaged from the negotiations.
They said essentially, "Whatever you offer us, we're not interested. Whatever offer is floated by the Saudis, by Israel, by the US, we don't care about. We're not the Egyptians, by the way. So we're not interested. We're not going be part of it. All we want is for Israel to cease to exist, and then we'll move forward with the agreement."
It's amazing how much leveraging power they have with kidnapping civilians. We all saw the horrific public spectacle they made of the Bibas family. Especially when not returning Shiri's body, and sending a random Palestinian woman's body instead. It was a terrible disrespectful act, on Hamas' part!
And part of the issue is that the Israeli people in the Israeli army, hold themselves back. They do not enforce their complete ability to overpower the enemy right away, because they uphold themselves to a moral level and a level of restraint on military actions that countries around the world do not. No other country that engages in war around the world, at this level of violence and arbitrary fire against a civilian population that the Israeli army find themselves in, even at the height of the war in the Gaza Strip, will not do what Israel does. Will not show the same kind of mercy that Israel shows.
Before the IDF attacks a particular location, Israel will always warn the civilian population ahead of time, sending text messages, dropping down leaflets, providing alternative areas for the people to move to, out of harms' way, so that the civilians will not be in jeopardy of losing their lives, when the IDF attacks that area! What other army in the world does that??
But at the same time, the sad reality is that this higher level of moral value has cost many IDF soldiers their lives. Because many times, the decision is made NOT to use a higher level of violence because of the fear of hurting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.
Israel could do so much more in the Gaza Strip, as a democracy, even at the height of war, at the most violent and critical moment in Israel's history. But time and time again, they choose not to use all the power that they have available to them.
It's not Hamas that has forced Israel into this particular scenario of enforcing morality above power. Israel has chosen to make this conscientious moral decision every time, because they don't want to hurt the civilian population of the area.
Even now with full US support from President Trump pushing Israel from behind, saying, "Do whatever it takes and at whatever level of violence needed", Israel will still NOT do it. This is considered a strength and a weakness to many, all at the same time. Hamas knows this, and is taking full advantage of it!
Psalm 64
"1Hear me, my God, as I voice my complaint; protect my life from the threat of the enemy.
2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers.
3They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.
4They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.
5They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see it?”
6They plot injustice and say, “We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.
7But God will shoot them with his arrows; they will suddenly be struck down.
8He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
9All people will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what he has done.
10The righteous will rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him; all the upright in heart will glory in him!
5) Part of Steve Witkoff's new ceasefire agreement is to have Hamas give up 50% of the hostages that remain in their hands, on day one of a 30 day ceasefire (making it a new phase one agreement). And then in the second phase of that agreement, Hamas is to release the final remaining hostages, while Israel withdraws completely from Gaza, from the Philadelphia corridor and from all other locations inside the Gaza strip. We don't know if this plan is actually going to come to fruition.
What's important to note, is that the vast majority of the people living in the Gaza Strip, over 70% of them were born AFTER Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, back in 1994. This means that they know nothing else aside from Hamas. As a result of this, they would vote for Hamas again, even if they had the option to choose someone else!
This tells us that Hamas still has the capability of receiving power and popularity to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel, even if they are completely destroyed in Gaza.
WHY? Because they still exist in Judea, Samaria, east Jerusalem - and Iran backs them up!
It's part of their culture. It's deeply embedded into the ideology of the people, from the eldest to the youngest!
Therefore, in the natural realm, the only thing that can really truly work, the only thing that can truly bring about permanent change, is to remove the population to an entirely different location and reeducate the people, for at least a generation. The root issue is that they have been brainwashed since birth, to hate -not only the Jewish people, but America too! When they enter into any kind of school system, from day one, they are taught to hate!
(Pictured on the right) Here's a very sad example of where Palestinian terrorists had their kids jubilantly pose against a backdrop with 9/11 terror attack imagery.
Palestinian protesters go around burning the American flag and calling for jihad using the word “intifada.” In other words, they are not only threatening Israel's existence, but our existence also, in the Western world!
At the forefront of it all, we must remember that this is all very much SPIRITUAL WARFARE, which can really only be won by engaging in the spiritual realm, with spiritual warfare prayers, tearing down strongholds and reestablishing ADONAI'S Kingdom and His strongholds, in the hearts of these people, transforming them from the inside out! Setting them free with the Truth of MESSIAH YESHUA! Teaching them to LOVE, teaching them to choose LIFE over death!
If Hamas is left in power in the Gaza strip, any kind of power, not just militarily, we're simply going to see more of the same. They use all the funds that come in to build terrorist infrastructure. They never build schools for the good of the people. They never educate the society on anything that isn't hatred or death. THIS NEEDS TO STOP!
Yes, Oh LORD, we uproot and cast down every evil thought that tries to raise itself up, against the knowledge of MESSIAH YESHUA in the minds of these Palestinians, according to 2 Corinthians 10:5, in YESHUA'S MIGHTY NAME!! And we loose upon them thoughts that are lovely that are true that are pure, noble, that brings glory and honor to YOUR NAME, Oh GOD!! Cause them to dwell on these things, in YESHUA'S NAME!!
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8
6) Meanwhile, as Israel waits for things to unfold in Gaza, another big news this past week, was seeing the United States and Israel on a joint military drill between the two Air Forces over the Mediterranean Sea.
This is a big deal for a few reasons:
Number one: this was a joint drill that included a USB 52 bomber, that can carry a very, very big payload, which could be used against Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is was a clear signal sent from Israel and the United States to the Iranian regime! We will most likely see more of these kinds of drills in the weeks and months to come as things ramp up surrounding the Iranian nuclear program, and pressures mount up there.
Number two: According to the Times Of Israel during the exercise, "pilots practiced operational coordination between the two militaries to enhance their ability to address various regional threats; the Iranian regime and its nuclear program."
Number three: According to the IDF, the exercise is aimed to strengthen and maintain the longstanding cooperation between the US and Israel while expanding connectivity and building integrated capabilities for a range of scenarios.
In other words, they are preparing for a prospective strike against Iran's nuclear weapons facilities. The drill is potentially aimed at readying the Israeli military for a potential joint strike with the US, on Iran.
In the past, Israel clearly used bunker busting bombs to great effect in Lebanon, taking out Hassan Nasrallah, a Lebanese politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, and taking out Hezbollah's elite force in Beirut with these very large bunker busting bombs.
Now, the main issue this time, is that in order for Israel to penetrate those deeply embedded underground Iranian nuclear sites, many of which are scattered throughout that vast countryside of Iran, Israel is going to need several of the US bunker busting bombs, in order to make it happen. Thankfully, with the new the Trump administration in power, they will be more than willing to supply Israel with the necessary equipment.
The second challenge is that Israel will also need mid-air refueling planes supplied by the United States, so they can make the journey o Iran and back safely.
Israel is planning strategic surgical airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites, which pose an existential threat not only to Israel and the entire region, but to the United States as well! There's a reason that Iran is working on Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM's). They're designed for one reason: They travel intercontinentally, just as their name suggests. They travel across continents, across oceans.
You build ICBMs for only one reason, friends, to mount them with a nuclear warhead. So those ICBMs are not for Israel, not for Saudi Arabia, they're not even for Europe. They're for the country that Iran refers to as the "great Satan": United States of America!
Therefore this military drill is NOT a coincidence. Iran has never been more vulnerable in its 46 years of tyrannical rule, than it is right now. There is no better opportunity for Israel to finish the job in Iran, for such a critical time as this!
The Trump administration is also pressuring Iran, giving them one last chance to disarm voluntarily by applying a maximum pressure campaign on their economic sanctions.
If, after having Iran's economy reduced to ashes and their people potentially rising up against Iran's regime, if even that doesn't convince the Iranian regime to abandon their nuclear program, then you know what? That's when Israel, together with the US military, will take action and neutralize all of Iran's nuclear sites.
One thing Trump has made very clear: At the end of it all, Iran will NOT have nuclear weapons. No if, ands or buts about it.
We thank You, Oh LORD, for unity amongst the two forces, clear communication and game plans with clear objectives! We thank You for bringing order into their strategies, favor, and open doors that no man can shut! In YESHUA'S MIGHTY NAME!
AMEN AND AMEN!!!
"1I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to slip;
your Protector will not slumber.
4 Behold, the Protector of Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper;
the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
6 The sun will not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will guard you from all evil;
He will preserve your soul.
8 The LORD will watch over your coming and going,
both now and forevermore."
Psalm 121
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(I am wondering now more then ever based now on that Ezek 28:24 verse and the following two verses, If this victory we so desperately desire Israel to achieve is only altimatly accomplished through them fully turning to Adonai with all of their heart ♥ ?
Ezk 28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, 👉🏼and shall be sanctified in them👈🏼 in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
Ezk 28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall buil…