#123: "Iron Dome of Prayer" For the Nations of the World

      As a seriously wounded soldier in the Vietnam War, the conflicts and killings in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza bring back very vividly to me the horrors of war! These three locales, much less what I understand are a total of approximately thirty worldwide conflicts, are lands where combatants and families are suffering immeasurably. I remember from June 17, 1967 in Vietnam my own excruciating pain, causing both legs to be amputated, when my Special Forces camp was pounded by a North Vietnamese Communist mortar and rocket barrage. 

     I have always wondered about the Iron Dome system in Israel and how it operates. The system has a radar that very detects incoming missiles from the Hamas or Hezbollah territories and shoots up its own missile to destroy the incoming deadly missiles. 

     It is time for the Christians of our world to set up an "Iron Dome of Prayer" for the nations of the world to have peace. I know it is expected that there will always be "wars and rumors of wars," especially in the End Times, prophesied in Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation. However, we cannot just sit in our comfortable and peaceful living rooms and turn on the news and view the disgusting ravages of warfare, especially the barbaric attack on Israel by the Hamas! I feel totally powerless. However, in the Evidence Bible page 1157 there is something all of us, who believe in prayer, are capable of committing to prayer, which our Lord God taught us through the life of His Son, Jesus, when he walked, talked and ministered in today's Holy Land, embattled and besieged by enemies on every side. 

      Ezekiel 22: 30-31.

Stand in the Gap. We must stand in the gap and plead for this world. Had it not been for the prayers of the godly, the wrath of God may have already judged many nations. Never underestimate the power, influence, and authority God has given you through faith in Jesus. Through His name you have the ear of the Father in heaven. See Psa. 106:23.

E.M. Bounds wrote: "Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to intervene in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything."

     Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and all peoples impacted by warfare, brought on by the evil forces of our adversary, constantly prowling around to bring his death and destruction to satisfy the greed and deceptions of the evil ones of this world.