Babylon
Category: Prophetic Reports, Middle East
In April of 2002, while I was in Norway ministering, the Lord spoke to me that the United States would go into Iraq. I felt that the build up would begin during the month of February, 2003. I also felt that the Lord gave me the following scripture:
Jeremiah 51:27-29
"Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts. Prepare against her the nations, With the kings of the Medes, Its governors and all its rulers, All the land of his dominion, And the land will tremble and sorrow; For every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant." (NKJV)
After reading this scripture, the Lord spoke to my heart that I was to do just exactly what this verse said, “Appoint a general against her” (Babylon). When I asked the Lord when to do this international gathering of generals, he told me, “January, 2003.” As I looked at the calendar, I sensed that we must begin on January 16th in Washington, D.C.
In asking the Lord why the United States would go into Iraq, one of the main reasons the Lord gave me was that He wanted us to protect Israel from a preemptive attack by Iraq. Another reason the Lord gave me was that He wanted the Middle East to crack open for the gospel. He wanted to humble the spirit of Islam.
The International Convocation of Generals meeting was attended by leaders from over thirty nations. This group of leaders paid their own expenses to come to Washington to receive God’s battle strategies. Among them were leaders of very large churches in Europe as well as Asia. Every continent of the world was represented.
We started the meeting with prayer points that we had received from a prophetic council that met the week before our gathering. The word of the Lord had been that if the United States should go into Iraq with a lack of humility and reliance on our military power, then we would be judged in return. This was a very sobering word.
As I prayed about this admonition from the Lord, I became deeply convicted about my own response to the allied victory during the Gulf War. The Lord showed me that I had only rejoiced in our victory, but had felt no sorrow for the 100,000 Iraqi’s who had died in the battles. Some reports also say that 300,000 were wounded and at least 60,000 more were captured.
In addition, as I studied the Gulf War, I began to feel that we had sinned against the people of Iraq through the sin of omission. Let me explain. The allies swept through Kuwait at such a fast pace that the Republican Guard, Saddam’s crack troops, never entered Kuwait. When the surrender was signed, they began a systematic elimination of Iraqi’s opposed to Saddam, at his command.
