Zechariah 2:5 ‘For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.’

DAILY READING –  2 Peter 3; Jeremiah 45-46; Psalm 141

The ‘intifadas’ were two Palestinian uprisings against Israel; the first was in the late 1980s and the second was in the early 2000s.

The second intifada, in particular was very bloody.  It started after the collapse of the peace process between Israel and Palestine.  When negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat broke down, the second intifada began. Palestinian tactics centered on suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and sniper fire — which Israel met with even deadlier force. The conflict petered out in 2005, but not before about 1,000 Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians were killed. The second intifada had a transformative effect on Israeli attitude towards the conflict. To keep out suicide bombers and other deadly intruders, the Israeli government deemed it necessary to construct a fence  around it’s nation’s borders. Israel started construction of the fence, in November 2010. And in two years, they constructed a 143-mile fence, which cost about $2.9 million per mile. The fence has been successful in cutting illegal immigration by 99 percent. The number of people illegally crossing the Israel-Egypt border was more than 16,000 in 2011, but in 2016, they were less than 20. Also the value of the fence in saving lives is evident: the year before construction started, 457 Israelis were murdered, but the year after the construction only 8 Israelis were killed. Indeed the fence has become effective in keeping out intruders. In the same way, spiritually, to keep out evil forces we need a wall of defense around us.

In Zechariah 2:5 God says ‘For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.’

From the Scriptures, we understand that we are living  in the endtimes, which like the days of Noah, will be characterized by violence. And pleading the Blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection is going to be needed by all Christians to keep away evil intruders. In the book of Job, we read of how God built a hedge around Job that forbade the enemy from touching him. Likewise through the blood of Jesus God builds a protective wall of defense around us, that marks us as ‘Touch not’ to every force of wickedness.

We have to understand that we live as sheep in the midst of wolves. The whole world lies in wickedness and this is why it becomes necessary to have a wall of spiritual defense around our lives. And we keep the enemy away from our environment by drawing the circle of the Blood of Jesus around our lives and all that belongs to us. Pleading the Blood of Jesus over our lives is the most powerful form of offensive prayer for divine protection. Indeed by the Blood we overcome every force of the enemy.

Revelation 11:12 says  ‘And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.’

When evil forces see Christ’s Blood on your door posts, they must pass over you.  Let us therefore constantly engage the power in the blood as a spiritual defense force around us. As we soak our environment in the Name of Jesus and His blood, we indeed become inaccessible to every evil force.

PRAYER: Father, I thank You for Your divine covering upon me and my family through the Blood of Jesus.  Indeed no weapon formed against us shall ever prosper in Jesus Name.

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For you to enjoy victory in the Kingdom of God, you need to develop a Kingdom mindset, that thinks in line with the Word of God.  – WORDBITE 222