going live yet. There we go. Alright. This is Charisma News
and I'm John Matarazzo and with me today is Josh Hamstra, the
executive pastor at V1 Church with Pastor Mike Signorelli
that a lot of people know and love and Josh is in Israel
right now. He's in Jerusalem and we are live. We're streaming
this live. So, if you are watching this live with us
right now, comment in wherever you are, where you're watching
from and if you have anything that you wanna say, put it in
the comments because we'll try to we'll try to bring those in
if they're appropriate but Josh, thank you so much for
taking some time out of your schedule there. You've been in
in Israel since October 1st. You actually got to experience
some of the bombings that have happened. Tell us about your
experience there from then. Yeah and thanks again, John and
Charisma for having me on here. It is a pleasure to be with you
guys and I'll just start right off the bat because my first
night, I I stayed in a bomb shelter in a bunker as Iranian
missiles were coming to the city that I was in which is
Tel Aviv and it was the most unique experience of my life.
I've never had any type of danger in that way in my life
and being the literally the first night here and hearing
the sirens and then seeing all the the children that we were
with and we're rushed down to this bomb shelter and there was
about 60 of us in the shelter and we were all it was it was
really tight and we were able to find a little bit more room
in this and something immediately that I saw was the
resilience of these people and they began to sing. They began
to dance and I'm and I was thinking wait a minute. We're
in a bomb shelter like if if this was any other place if
this was in America, people would be losing their minds.
It would you know, but but it but it showed me that they're
actually used to this right. It's like they've been
desensitized to this and they and they spent time in prayer
and there was both Christians and Jews in this room and I'm
on a pastor's trip here with many other pastors sent from
Eagles wings with shout out to Eagles wings and Bishop Robert
Stearns and their team has been such an amazing experience
here, but it was something that I that seeing them and seeing
them dance and seeing them sing. I said wow they're
they're accustomed to this happening a lot and what one
quick thing I wanna say I was I was I ended up sitting down
and sitting next to someone that lives there and I just
said man are you are you should I be scared? Are you
scared? You know that we're hearing that there's 150 to
200 missiles coming and he said Josh, let me tell you in
this country, we don't believe in miracles. We rely on them
and that stuck with me to even right now today in in the
things that we've done throughout this whole trip. I
said wow that is a level of of faith in God saying man it's
that we don't just believe them here. We have to rely on
the miracles from heaven from God in this country to to
survive and that that that moment marked really my whole
life. Yeah. Wow. We don't need we don't believe in miracles.
We rely on them. I mean that that takes faith to a whole
different level. You know the Bible says that faith comes by
hearing and hearing the word of God and so you experiencing
that you are hearing the word of God come to life in in a
new way. Josh, how have you what are some of the other
experiences that you've that you've had so far on this trip?
I know you you were actually just just on the border of
Gaza. Tell us about that. Yeah. So today we spent you know
it's October 7th and this is the 365 days is a one year
anniversary since the attack that came out of Gaza from
Hamas and you know they they slaughtered and killed I I
wrote the number down so I didn't get it wrong 1165 people
in this country and the the first stop that we went to we
went to three different places and the first stop was at a
they call it a Kaboots and and I think I'm saying that right
but it's basically like a co-op living you know about
five hundred to seven hundred people living there. They farm
there and then where Hamas the first place that they went to
was the place the first stop and we talked to this woman
that that has been there for for over 25 years and she runs
it and she was there that day and to see the atrocities, you
know, it's they are unspeakable. I mean, I mean if
you say them on a live stream wherever we're streaming from,
it would be cut off by the things that they did and and it
just absolute crimes upon humanity here to babies,
children, mothers, elderly, and the stories that she was
telling us one quick thing that she and I just want to for
people listening to get the terror that is coming from
Hamas is they would break into a family's home and she told us
one story of two daughters, a boy, and a and a mom and a dad
and they they put them all on the ground. They tied them up
and they took their phones and they weren't allowing them to
text and they actually went on their Facebook and live
streamed from their own Facebook account their murders
and so as this woman who who we were with today, she said the
only thing we were seeing was social media because we no one
was texting each other and she said the first thing that pops
up is oh, they're my friend. I wonder what's happening and she
sees an entire family get murdered in in in front of her
eyes in real time in the same area that she's in and hearing
that story and and knowing that she came back and she's now
rebuilding the ground and most almost everyone that didn't
make it a lot of them aren't coming back, but there's
families that are coming back saying no, this is our land.
This we will rise again and and it shows the resilience of
the people that live in this nation of the Jewish people and
it's to me. I was speechless and as that's happening, so
this is about 300 to 400 yards from Gaza. I mean we're on the
border. You can see the wall you can see you know you look
over at the horizon and there's smoke everywhere and about
every two to three minutes, you would hear a shelling you
would hear a missile a bomb go off literally the entire time
we went to we were there and then we were in at the Nova
Music Festival, which was one of the main places where they
were killed 364 young adults goodness that were that were
partying and they were it was a celebration. It's it's the
celebration of when they read the entire Torah, you know the
the first part the books of Moses and they and they were
coming together. It was a holiday and 364 were killed and
many were taken as from that festival and as we got to that
festival, we arrived there and we learned that Hamas was
actually planning an attack today on Israel from the city
that was on the border that we were in into the same place
that we were at and the IDF found out and they were
actually the the the shelling was was increasing so much so
that we we actually got in our bus and headed you know back
to the mainland to Jerusalem and but to hear bombs going off
every 2 minutes to me, I've heard fireworks in my life.
I've heard you know you you you when you have a mortar that
goes off and you hear the and then it goes off hearing a bomb
go off. It's you you hear the the it's like you hear the
mortar go off the base of it, but then the massive shock of
the bomb going off at the same time and to me, I've never I've
never witnessed. I've never experienced that I've never I've
never in my life and and with everyone else there, it was a
first experience and we're looking over into Gaza and
we're seeing and it's it's so sad because the what Hamas is
doing is they're hiding in hospitals and they're doing this
in schools and they're doing this in places where they say
well, if you're going to catch us, you're going to have to
do and so hearing from the from the from the Jewish people and
from the people in this land. It's it is a song of peace
that they sing. It's it's it is a it is a message of peace
that they that they are saying in this land and we met with
the mayor of Jerusalem. We met. I mean we were with the the
the minister of defense which is the just underneath the
prime minister today and seeing him walk through Nova and
people were weeping. I mean you're walking through this.
Some of them are weeping because people died and some
are weeping because they're hostages still and they don't
know if they're alive, right? They don't know and so to to
hear this unspeakable terror, there there are principalities
at work that this it's it's not just saying well, it's and I
don't want to get into geopolitical, you know, it's
like sure sure talk about Palestine and Palestinians and
Israelites and and that but it's truly Hamas and Hezbollah
are our death cults. It's it's not it's it's like even being
with the Jews here. It's like we are pro-Palestinian people.
We are we are pro of pro peace but it's those death cults that
that it's it's it's like they only want terror. They reign on
terror. Wow. You know, people are commenting right now.
They're asking when or which festival was this when was this
and I'm just going to quickly respond to that today is the
one year anniversary of the attack on the on the the attack
from Hamas where they came in and they attacked the Nova
music festival. Pastor Josh was explaining about his
experience this morning where they were planning another
attack and they were still sending out mortar shells.
They're still bombing from there and there is there is
constant threat and so when was this it was a year ago and it
is today as well and so Pastor Josh, there's a lot of things
that are happening in Israel right now. I know this this
might not be really pertinent to this question to this
conversation, but even the the red heifers that have been
brought to Israel for the purpose of sacrificing for the
red heifer sacrifice, which would then be used to cleanse
and and tradition or ritually make make clean the temple
implements. There's a lot of prophetic things that are
happening. I want to hear from you prophetically. What is God
saying and what's the message that he's given for you to
share right now? Yeah, thanks for saying that you know we
went to the temple Mount and I stood on those steps and I said
a prayer even though they were like you're not you're not
allowed to pray in this area and I'm thinking what do you
talk this is you know the western wall is right there.
The wailing wall is there. I'm I'm standing on the temple
Mount on the stairs, you know looking at where the Ark of the
Covenant was and you know II began to prophesy on those
steps and they said no one has prophesied here in over 2000
years on these steps. They and and when I when I was doing it,
there was a woman that came behind me reading the Quran and
she was screaming at me from from the top above the stairs
and I turned around and I started to speak in tongues and
that woman literally ran away II was like this the fire of God
filled me at that moment but I just wanna share something you
know being here and and seeing the places that Jesus actually
walked and seeing you know you come here with both Christians
and Jews and you see the Jews praying and you see them at the
wailing wall and you know doing all the the the the rituals and
all the things and we had this moment where we went to the
the Mount of Olives and we were at the top and you're looking
all over. It's a amazing view of of the Temple Mount and and
the walls of Jerusalem. You see it all the way down to to
Nehemiah. You know you can see the the layers of Haredi and
stone and the Nehemiah and Hezekiah and you're you're
seeing these things that you that I've read about my whole
life and I and this II started to read Psalm twenty-four and I
believe this is the word of the Lord for the for the Christian
Church in America. This is for pastors and this is for
Christians who live in the west Psalm twenty-four. It says
this who may ascend the mountain of the Lord who may
stand in his holy place. The one who has clean hands and a
pure heart and I was reading that over and over and thinking
this is where this scripture was written when you're thinking
about going up the mountain. You know you're at the Mount of
Olives. It goes all the way down into the valley and then
it goes all the way back up to to Jerusalem to the old city
and I was thinking them ascending the mountain of the
Lord and saying who can do this. It's the ones who have a
clean hand and a pure heart and this is what I believe is that
there has been a shaking in America. There has been a
sifting in the in in the in western churches and I believe
what that sifting is is the Lord calling his church up the
mountain in the same way that he comes down on the mountain in
front of Moses and all the Israelites and I love this
because he comes down and it says in smoke and in fire and
in it's it's trembling and it says that God calls Moses up
and then the very next scripture it says Moses goes up
and as I was flying into into Tel Aviv and I'll be as fast as
I can but I saw an image. I saw a picture. I saw a vision
and I said man, what exactly does this mean and when I was
at the Mount of Olives, it I saw it so clearly and I wanna
read this because it's it's short but I wanna make sure I
say it right but this this is from my notes of what flying
in this is from seven days ago. I saw people at the base of a
mountain like Moses. Some went up some tried and were shaken
and fell down and some stayed at the base. Those that went up
met with the Lord. Those that fell down stayed in the same
place and those at the base, they made a golden calf and
what I believe and I've heard so many prophetic words from so
many prophets. There's a sifting. There's a shaking
happening and I've always thought yeah but what what is
it? What is the sifting? What is the shaking? I've heard a
thousand prophecies like that since COVID. You know, I've
heard them over and over and over again. It's like okay but
what's the context? What exactly does that mean? This is
what I believe it means is that there are people that God is
calling to himself saying, come up the mountain with me but
they don't have clean hands and they don't have a pure heart
and either they were shaken on the mountain because it says
what all the other Israelites weren't even allowed to touch
it. It said if you even with if you touched it, you would be
you would fall to death and it's almost like we've there's
something about losing the fear of God in the church. There's
something about the holiness that he is calling us into.
There's something about the church saying Lord Jesus, I
will have clean hands and a pure heart and it's not a
religious message. It's not it's not something saying well
not this isn't a works message. This isn't well you gotta do
more and you gotta sacrifice now and it's like no this is the
this is the message of Jesus Christ that he is the one that
purifies us that cleanses us that makes us white as snow but
then he calls us into a purity of living. He calls us into a
sacrificial awe of God to say I'm not gonna be like the other
if if it's like for me in my house, I will serve the Lord
and I think this this is what something that that I've that
I've I feel like it has been emboldened in me. I feel a
courage and a inside of me to say church wake up church get
yourself together and and and as you read that verse and so
you might say well, what does it mean to have a clean heart and
you know pure hands and a clean heart? What exactly does that
mean? What what it talks about there it says who has not
appealed to what is false and who has not sworn deceitfully
and I believe that part of the problem within the Christian
church within within pastors that have fallen is there is an
idolatry. There is the golden calf that of self a golden
calf of of things a golden calf of of of a golden calf of of
them wanting something more than than than Christ and so
what I believe is the sifting that has taken place and the
and the shaking that's happening in the kingdom is the
Lord calling us into a purity. Just like David where David was
a sinner among sinners, but guess what he was called a man
after God's own heart. Why because he wasn't after his own
heart. He was after God's heart and I believe that the church
today the shaking that's happening the sifting that's
happening is that he is calling us to a purity of heart. He is
calling us to go up the mountain once again and this
isn't the same mountain that Moses went to we all it's like
that it says in Hebrews Hebrews twelve it says for you
have not come to what could be touched to a blazing fire to
darkness to gloom to storm, but you have to arrived at the new
Zion a heavenly city through the blood of Jesus and so for us
as pastors as Christians as people that love Jesus, I want
to encourage you but challenge you today. Are you living with
a mixture in your heart where you have where you're not
crucifying your flesh? You're not picking up your cross
because I stood at Galgotha. I looked at the skull in the
face and I said that's where Jesus looked out at me and he
said forgive them for they do not know what they do and I
stood at that empty tomb and I celebrated and I took communion
and we sang nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh what can
wash away our sins and there's something that I believe
Christians. It's like we have to get back to the purity of
Jesus in our heart. We have to get back to the to us to say
lord Jesus for me in my house, I will serve the lord man and so
I want to encourage everyone listening if you're desperate
for Jesus right now that I believe I'm I'm hearing
prophetically that there's people watching right now.
There's people listening to my voice right now listening to
John's voice that need a touch of heaven II even as I as I've
seen it. I saw backs being healed. I saw people with
chronic pain. I saw even fingers and elbows and knees of
chronic pain. I saw it being healed. I saw we stood at the
pool of Bethesda. We stood there and I said this is where
Jesus healed. He healed then and he heals today and I believe
that if you're listening to my voice and you need a healing
body today is your day today. Everything changes with Jesus.
Everything changes in his name and so I want to I want to say
if it's okay John, I just want to pray of healing. I believe
and this is what I saw. I saw backs being realigned. I saw
backs coming back together like lower vertebrae. I saw
people with neck issues with with like like people that have
been dealt year after year after year and and some of you
have even just given up on the thought that it can be healed,
but we serve a god who moves mountains still. He's still
called the sea. He still does it to this day and so chronic
illness, chronic pain, arthritis. I believe even
people that were born with diabetes. There are people that
have diabetes right now that you've been taking insulin and
taking shots your whole life and and there is going to be a
miracle that comes out of this live stream. There's going to be
a testimony. There is going to be something that comes so I
want you if you're watching live right now, send this to
somebody say if you need if you know someone who needs a
healing, I want to see their name in the comments. If it's
your mother, if it's your son, the other thing I've been
hearing is that the prodigal sons and daughters. This is the
season October, November, and December the prodigal sons and
daughters that I've been praying for they are coming
back in this season not next year not in 2026. I believe
the next three months there. It's there. There is a grace on
the miraculous in this season. It's I want to give you time if
you need to send this to someone if you need to if you
gotta put someone's name, I want to see the names of the
people put put your son's name put your daughter's name put
your son's name. I believe that this is the moment that
they've been waiting for and it's not because I'm powerful.
It's not because John's powerful. It's because Jesus is
all powerful and he sits on the throne and he's the alpha and
the omega the beginning and the end and so Lord Jesus, I pray
right now in your name, I pray for healing over backs. I pray
for healing miraculous healing over arthritis and knees and
neck. Father, I pray for people that have chronic headaches.
Some of you have headaches. I just heard it. The Lord says
you've been waking up in the morning with headaches and
you've had to try to take medicine and ibuprofen every
single day and the Lord says there is a healing coming for
you in the name of Jesus. So Lord, I just pray right now
that you would have a divine appointment father in their
room wherever they're watching from if they're in their
bedroom in their kitchen in their vehicle wherever they're
watching father, I pray that you would touch them from heaven
and I pray for every pastor that has fallen. I pray for
every Christian that has deconstructed. I pray that
there would be a revitalization of their faith now in the name
of Jesus. I pray right now father for every single
stronghold. I pray for every principality over this nation.
Lord, we pray for the nation of Israel. We pray for the safety
of those hostages that they will be brought back Lord Jesus
that they would be safe in the name of Jesus and I pray that
there wouldn't be one more lost life that there would be peace
in Jerusalem. Peace father in this nation and we pray for
every Christian and pastor that comes here. I pray for
blessing over them Lord Jesus because you bless those who
bless you father and so Lord, I just pray this in the name of
Jesus. Amen. Amen. You know Pastor Josh as you were saying
about that about those captives coming back, I was remembering
there was a song that was that's from a verse but it's
when the Lord brought back the captives of Zion, they were
like those who dreamed and I just want to declare that right
now that those that are brought back that they would be like
those that dreamed that that would just be a bad dream that
they've been able to wake up from and that they would have
the dream of the Lord restored in their heart that the dreams
that have been stolen from them would be restored by the dreams
of the Lord by the destiny of the Lord that they the captives
that were brought back to Zion. They were like those who
dreamed and I just want to declare that right now. That is
something that the Lord just put on my heart and let's just
declare altogether put in the comments that bring them back
and they are like those who dream that it's God's dream for
them. Just put in the comments that you're agreeing with this
and Pastor Josh as we're wrapping up here and I thank
you so much for taking the time out of your out of your
schedule being in Israel and Jerusalem right now just to be
able to tell us what is going on even kind of the breaking
news of today that there was another attack that was planned
but the IDF was able to thwart that at least at at least at
this point and we just pray a hedge of protection around
people there but Pastor Josh is any any closing things that
you have to say. Yeah, first, I just want to quickly say I'm
here with Eagles wings Bishop Robert Stearns. You could look
him up Eagles wings is an amazing organization. They
have something called the Bonhoeffer Declaration the
Bonhoeffer Declaration and he was someone that stood up to
the Nazis. He was someone that said for no I will stand on
the right side of history. I want to encourage you if you're
listening to this, you could go to the Eagle Eagles wings
website or Bonhoeffer.org and you could sign that
declaration and and what when you sign that what you're
saying is I will stand on the right side of history. I will
stand with Israel. I will stand with the promised people in
the promised land that that the Lord had for them for
thousands and thousands of years and as Christians as
Christians, we could stand on the right side of history. One
other thing I want to shout out Pastor Mike Signorelli, my
lead pastor who sent me here who allowed me to be here for
2 weeks as we have a conference coming up called the
Breakers Conference October 26th. You could go to Ticket
Master. You could get those two. I think there's literally
only a couple hundred tickets. We're going to fit 10,000
people in Chicago in just a couple weeks and we have Isaiah
Seldar. We have apostle Bugani. We have Pastor Vlad
Softchuk. We have Jared Prophet Jeremiah Johnson. We have
Jenny Weaver coming. I'm we we got the the alumni of Charisma.
We got the whole gang coming to to and I'm going to throw down
a prophecy during that event and I and I believe I'm going
to there is something that the Lord has been stirring in me
and so if you want to receive a prophetic word of God like
you've never received before, get yourself to the Breakers
Conference in Chicago and we will see you there and John.
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Josh, it's been great to be able to hear the word of the
Lord from you. The updates that that that you have been able to
share with us even breaking news of today and most
importantly, what God is saying and how we need to be able to
respond. There's some powerful words. I want to encourage
people if you just tuning into this or you you missed part of
this, go back and listen to the word that Pastor Josh delivered
about coming up the mountain. Which spot are you on? Are you
down on the down in the valley? Are you halfway up? Are you
coming up the whole way? There's a purpose for that place
and we gotta get up there. So Pastor Josh, thank you so much
for joining us today. It's my pleasure. Really appreciate it.
God bless. Thank you, John.