Zechariah 9:11 ‘As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

DAILY READING; • Hebrews 11:23-40; Exodus 15; Proverbs 6:1-7:5

In June 2016, the British Broadcasting Corporation[BBC], featured the story of Sara Davidson who was a Jewish hostage on Air France flight 139 which was hijacked by terrorists on 27 June 1976.
On that day Sarah, her husband and two sons had boarded a plane in Israel, to travel overseas for a holiday. However the dream of a holiday soon turned to a nightmare when suddenly the plane was hijacked in midair.
The armed hijackers flew the 250 terrified passengers and 12 crew to Entebbe in Uganda, where they were held hostage in the airport.
These terrorists then placed demands on the Israeli government, threatening to kill the Jewish passengers if their demands were not met. But the Israeli government had a policy of not negotiating with terrorists and so didn’t respond favorably. Rather what they did was to begin planning what would become one of the most daring rescue operations in history.

On the seventh night of the captivity, the Jews were roused by the sudden sound of gunshots everywhere. Believing the terrorists were coming to kill them, the Jews prepared for the worst. When an armed soldier, dressed like one of the terrorists burst into the airport lounge, Sarah Davidson, thinking they were about to be shot, used her body to shield her son. But to their greatest amazement the soldier said calmly in the Hebrew language: ‘Listen guys, we’ve come to take you home.’
Sarah couldn’t believe her ears! It turned out that the camouflaged soldier was part of the Israeli commandos who had successfully invaded Uganda to rescue them.
Recounting that moment to the BBC, Sara Davidson said “I didn’t believe what I was seeing, even now I can’t describe it – seeing the soldier, it was as if an angel had come down from the sky.”

These Israeli commandoes had flown for almost nine hours over 4,000km, through hostile territory and beneath the scope of enemy radar, to mount the surprise raid at Entebbe.
In under one hour they had completed what is now known as ‘operation thunderbolt’. They put the rescued passengers and crew into a waiting Hercules transporter plane and immediately flew them safely back home to Israel.

These Jewish captives experienced a miraculous rescue just when they least expected it. At the midnight hour of their ordeal, when all hope seemed lost, God suddenly showed up for their divine deliverance.

In the same way spiritually, when we were without hope in the world, Christ came and rescued us from the captivity of the enemy. Jesus came and shed His Blood at the cross to give us a new hope of eternal life.
Through the price He paid at Calvary we have been rescued from every oppression and delivered from every waterless pit.

Zechariah 9:11 says ‘As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Indeed through the Blood of Jesus, we are assured of divine rescue from every tight situation of life. Even in cases that may look hopeless, as we invoke the Blood, God will arise to scatter every enemy and break every chain of captivity around us.

Today, no matter what may be happening in the world, as a covenant child of God, always be assured that there is divine rescue for you. A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you.
As you keep pleading the Blood of Jesus around you and your household, a ‘touch not seal’ comes upon you. This mark of exemption ensures that no weapon formed against you shall ever prosper.
Indeed in these perilous times, we must begin to make much of the Blood. God has paid the ultimate price for our divine rescue and we must begin to utilize this power that has been made available to us.

Our security in these end-times is in the continual invocation of the Blood of Jesus. Through the Blood, the rod of the wicked can never rest upon our lot.
Through the power in the Blood, affliction cannot arise a second time in our lives. Because Christ has set us free, we are truly free indeed.

PRAYER: Father, I thank You for divinely preserving me and my family in these end-times through the Blood of Jesus. Thank You precious Lord for bringing to an utter end every oppression and captivity in my life in Jesus name. .
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It takes a heart for God to make a mark in the sands of time. – WORDBITE 201.