We get into a number of economic and financial developments that are interrelated. Firstly, the Iran peace deal and its impact on Israel. Also, the BOJ raising rates and how it impacts global debt burdens. SpaceX IPO makes it the 5th largest company in the world, but it loses tons of money.
Let’s get into it!
Iran
Peace Deal MOU – Where is Israel in this? What was the beef between PM Netanyahu and Pres. Trump? Mine clearing operation involving France and the UK. Are fees being charged in the strait?
Gathering in France – PM Emmanuel Macron and Pres Donald Trump bromance. Ukraine and Zelenski hanging around the hoop. Tariffs anyone? 10-12% tarrifs on forced labor.
Largest IPO of all time. Up 60% from $135 pricing. $3Tn valuation—does that make any sense?
USA and Anthropic
Anthropic was forced to shut down its top-AI model after the government said no foreign nationals are allowed to use it given jailbreak issues.
Looking for our Kingdom perspective on all things economic/financial? See the Storehouse Vision where we lay out the scriptures on “Facilitating Economic Relationships in Biblical Community.”
Dan Juster is a key leader in Messianic Judaism. He is a founder and director of Tikkun Global, an overtly Charismatic and 5-fold ministry-oriented network. He also provides the theological oversight for Grant’s Romans 911 book and project.
We have the honor to interview Dan on tomorrow’s live podcast. Bring your questions as we should have time for audience participation.BIO
Dr. Daniel Juster received his B.A. from Wheaton College and his M. Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary. He did two years in the Philosophy of Religion program of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and received his Th.D. from New Covenant International Seminary.
Dr. Juster has been involved in the Messianic Jewish movement since 1972. He was the founding president and then general secretary of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations for nine years; the senior leader of Beth Messiah Congregation, Rockville, MD for 22 years; and presently is a member of the apostolic team that governs Tikkun International Ministries. Dr. Juster is also the Director of Tikkun America, and as such, he provides oversight to 23 congregations and ministries in the USA. He ministers personally under the name of Restoration from Zion, a Tikkun International ministry.
Dr. Juster is also the co-founder of the Messianic Jewish Biblical Institute (MJBI) and a founding board member of Toward Jerusalem Council II.
Dr. Juster has authored many books, including Jewish Roots – a Foundation of Biblical Theology; The Dynamics of Spiritual Deception; Jewishness and Jesus; The Biblical World View – An Apologetic; Relational Leadership; The Irrevocable Calling; One People, Many Tribes; and Mutual Blessing. He has been a featured speaker at many conferences across the globe.
Dan and his wife, Patty, spend eight months a year in Israel near Jerusalem and travel four months a year, primarily in the United States. They have three married children and eleven grandchildren who all live in the Israel.
Combined with mass layoff announcements now becoming the Wall Street norm, achieving instant stock price lifts (pricing in future efficiencies and profit expectations): WSJ – The Era of Mega Layoffs What does it all mean?
We discuss the ethics of job creation vs. profits and automation. We examine the combination of such secular trends as: the depersonalization of finance, the obscuring and reduction of the value of human dignity and work ethic, relentless drive for shareholder profits, and automation.
How Storehouse Communities and local business can counteract the corporate trends and provide essentials like food sustainability. Even with help of A.I. and automation. But while maintaining and preserving the liberty and purity of the gospel (Fundamental Orders of Connecticut). Under our own “Vineyard and Fig Tree” (Washington’s letter to Hewbrew Congregation in Newport, RI) .
We had a discussion not that long ago about the post-pandemic hiring spree… The “Great Resignation” But oh, how things have changed…
Job Loss is Real
Now we see the opposite happening, especially among recent grads, entry level jobs and younger workers. Where AI has directly uncut job offers and job positions. One CEO even went so far as to say to shareholders that he planned to eliminate 8000 “lower value human capital” jobs. Wow. That’s cold.
A trend has emerged across college campus commencement ceremonies. Booing A. I. Why? Students can’t get entry level jobs now – directly related to A. I. disintermediation. Strange but true. See video and articles below.
Look at the blue line on the graph below. For the first time, young educated workers unemployment is higher than older experienced workers with or without college education. This undermines the value of a college education. At the very time student debt is at all-time highs.
UBI? UHI? Socialism?
Elon Musk has announced his concept of UHI (Universal High Income) – government monthly checks (think Universal Basic Income) because eventually people won’t have to work given improvements in A. I. and robotic tech: Business Insider – Musk’s UHI (Universal High Income)
Anthropic is unique in the AI space. They are one of the few AI pioneers who is actually sounding the alarm of moral ethical risks and have researched and written extensively on the topic.
Anthropic is also leading research on AI consciousness which in turn could lead to the more dystopian ideas of “Sentinet AI” and “Artifical General Intelligence.”
Right now, Anthropic is considered the market leader in having the top AI chat bot, Claude. It is incredibly effective in writing, coding, military applications, and finacial analysis.
The Amodei siblings have come out of VP development role in Open AI (Chat GPT) to found Anthropic. What they’ve built is so good, Open AI offered to merge their two companies together and give Dario Amodei, Sam Altman’s job. They turned the offer down.
Dario Amodei was born in San Francisco, California, in 1983. His sister, Daniela, was born four years later. His father, Riccardo Amodei, an Italian-American leather craftsman from Massa Marittima, Tuscany, died when Amodei was a young adult. His mother, Elena Engel, a Jewish American born in Chicago, worked as a project manager for libraries.
Discussion – Global Economic Impact of Iran War on Oil, Yen and Gold
In today’s discussion, we catch up on global financial markets and the economic impact of the war in Iran, and discuss in context of a Christian prophetic perspective.
Join us for an exciting discussion about the Jewish roots of Christianity and Messianic Judaism and the truth of gentiles being grafted into the olive tree of Israel as wild shoots (Romans 11).
My friend Eric asked me if I had read Dan Juster’s book Jewish Roots, as he wanted to lead his family into teaching as to why/how Christianity came out of Judaism, and what’s important to understand about that. He will join us for the discussion.
My response was, no I haven’t, but Grant has and even referenced it in his book Romans 911. In fact, Dan was the “Theological Oversight” for Romans 911.
What does the phrase Jewish Roots mean? (fruits)
What does it NOT mean? (attempting to fulfill requirements of the Mosaic covenant when it has already been fulfilled)?
What Messianic branches have gone too far and fallen into ditches of legalism (Jewish Roots, One Law, Dual Covenant)?
Which branches of Christianity consider any connection to Jewish roots to be “Judaizing”?
Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved… why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?
Acts 15:1,10
You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? … we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
We’re looking for connections to the banking system, and things that might, you know, result in contagion. We don’t see those right now… What we see is a correction … and certainly there’ll be people losing money and things like that, but it doesn’t seem to have the makings of a broader systemic event
Jerome Powell on Private Credit at Harvard, 3/30/26
But where there’s smoke is there fire?
Private Credit is a $2Tn global market where mostly non-bank institutional private investors provide private loans to less established small and mid-sized companies, both publicly traded and privately held. The problem is that many of these investors are now publicly traded companies, and they have also expanded their investor base to include individual “regular joe” investors through vehicles like 401k plans.Private Credit market is $2Tn which is similar in size to Crypto (also approx. $2Tn).
A credit collapse and liquidity risk are currently underway in the private credit markets as reflected in the above stock prices. One of the liquidity mismatches that has been created is in the greed of many asset managers developing retail products designed to increase capital inflows into private equity and credit alternative asset categories, the risk of redemptions was minimized. Now, they cannot match the withdrawal requests which creates a crisis of confidence. Such confidence can spill over in a contagion into a financial institution’s credit risk.
Recall Jamie Diamond’s “cockroaches” comment (where there’s one, there’s more) from late last year…https://newbreed.co/2025/11/19/a-i-bubble/ [scroll down to “Private Credit A.I. Lending Risk” section]. This “prophetic word” now coming to pass.
Here is what Jamie said in his recently released letter to JPM shareholders…
The leveraged private credit market totals $1.8 trillion. As a comparison, the U.S. high yield bond market totals $1.5 trillion, and the bank syndicated leveraged loan market totals $1.7 trillion. Taking a wider view, the total market size of investment grade bonds is $13 trillion. And the total market value of all residential mortgage securities and loans is also $13 trillion. In the great scheme of things, private credit probably does not present a systemic risk.
[A]ctual losses right now are… higher than they should be… if rates or credit spreads ever go up, the companies that borrowed will have to borrow at even higher rates, putting them under even greater stress… It has always been true that not everyone providing credit is necessarily good at it… We have not had a credit recession in a long time, and it seems that some people assume it will never happen… anything that gets sold to retail investors as opposed to institutional investors requires greater transparency, higher standards and fewer potential conflicts… Those who do not do this properly are likely to get into trouble.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:9
Here is a remarkable prophetic word fulfillment from Troy Black about Private Credit. “Lexington” Avenue – BlackRock, Blackstone, Blue Owl…all located in and around Park/Lex and 51st-53rd (345 Park and 375 Park Ave.). Question is, has the “A financial giant is going to come to ruin” word come to pass yet?
Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test everything; retain what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:19-21
Interesting to note that Ares Capital is also located same neighborhood – back of Lexington & 46/47th – 245 Park Ave, New York, NY 10167. All of these offices are addressed on swanky “Park Ave”, yet what’s “behind” the scenes going on would be the back of the buildings on less well presented “Lexington Ave.”
Video Explaining Private Credit
Storehouse Lending
So given all this, what does God think? Has he revealed it in his word? We think so. Is there a better, Kingdom building alternative? Yes. That’s why we pursue the Storehouse Vision.
Much has happened in crypto since our last discussion….
As the graph above shows, Bitcoin (the flagship cryptocurrency) has plummeted by nearly half. So what is driving this?
I want to highlight our August 2025 discussion about Bitcoin treasury companies. We discussed the leverage and the downside risk this posed (by creating artificially high prices through borrowed money – creating something from nothing). And sure enough, the recent drop in crypto (down) reflects this bubble bursting. But is the sell-off over? There are several market forces selling into price rallies…
Market Forces
ETFs are popular paper Bitcoin and can be shorted
Bitcoin treasury companies trading discount to NAV
Cost of Bitcoin mining (hardware and electricity)
Stablecoin companies holding Bitcoin on their balance sheets
Thought-provoking explanation by Glen Beck…
One more thing: Stablecoins
BVNK Stablecoins platform acquired by MasterCard announced 3/17/26
What is a Stablecoin? Under normal circumstances, a Stablecoins’ value isn’t supposed to change. It is pegged to the US dollar. It is used to quickly trade in and out of other speculative cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin to “lock in a sell price” without having to bring the dollar value into the banking system. But it affects the banking system and puts it at risk (read the articles below). Plus established payment companies are trying to enter Stablecoins to protect market share (such as Visa and Mastercard).
We can’t depend purely on the world’s systems for our resource and supply. Whether the USD based financial system or crypto. When we do, we are serving another god (spirit of this world – 1 John 4:4) and worshipping an idol of provision. The key to this is to trust in God, whether using the tech or not. Whether transacting in buy/sell structures of the world or not. We must exercise our faith in God and even supernatural provision (miracles, signs, wonders) no matter what. Otherwise we get conditioned to “accept the mark” (Revelation 13 verse 16) which is to say to bow the knee to Babylon when faced with no free-will alternative.
The Storehouse vision is where a Christian community operates in the heavenly economy of giving and receiving, instead of pure buy/sell transactions of the world. Trusting God rather than the “almighty dollar”.
It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name
Grant and Gregg review the biblical covenants (Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Jesus’ “New Covenant”) in the context of unsaved Jewish people, Messianic believers, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism today, even in the gentile churches.
Given the rancor surrounding Palestine, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Replacement Theology associated with all of that, we need to dig-in to scripture and understand the biblical Covenants. These help debunk many of the arguments presented.
We need to get wisdom and understanding!
These issues have really come to the fore lately with the public comments of Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens, representing a new type of conservatism that is anti-Zionist and anti-Israel (which is ultimately antisemitic no matter how you slice it). This builds upon existing antisemitic positions from progressive, secular and Islamic perspectives.
Specifically we will discuss:
1. Why Genesis 12:3 applies to the modern nation of Israel as well as unsaved Jews
2. God’s covenant with Abraham and his bloodline descendants of promise through Isaac and Jacob is both unconditional and irrevocable
3. This covenant was always with the Jewish people first (bloodline descendants of son of promise) and always included the promised land (the physical location of modern Israel)
4. The fact that gentiles were grafted-in to these promises as true sons of Abraham does not change this.
5. The Mosaic covenant and law were fulfilled through Yeshua. The “veil was torn” and the temple was destroyed. Yeshua’s resurrection ushered in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31) – and fulfilled the Mosaic covenant and law. There is “no other name by which men can be saved.” However, it does not replace the Abrahamic covenant. Instead, the Abrahamic Covenant and New Covenant run together (because both are irrevocable). The Abrahamic Covenant acts as a runway for Jewish people to return to the land (Aliyah) as well as returning to God (salvation by faith in Yeshua the Messiah).
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition… The old order is not coming back.” – Canadian PM Mark Carney
War, Japanese debt yields, Yen intervention, Gold and precious metals soring, comments at the World Economic Forum. Warnings are flashing across the board. Yet, US Equities are at all time highs?? We discuss. Doug Tjaden and Gary Crawford will join us from the Storehouse leadership team.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world
Obadiah’s Sephardic Prophecy with guest Joseph Torrez
Grant and Gregg interview our brother Joseph Torrez (we all met through 10 Days of Prayer) about the remarkable prophecy made by Obadiah the prophet (likely Babylonian exile circa 570 B.C.) regarding the Sephardic Jews returning to the Negev.
Joseph himself has Sephardic Jewish heritage.The Hebrew term, Sepharad (ספרד – Strong’s H5614 – means separated), which many roughly translate as Spain (Iberian Peninsula), is from the biblical book of Obadiah (1:20), and is a reference to a distinct Jewish ethnic group of exiles – further scattered during the Spanish Inquisition circa 1492 – returning to the Negev in Israel in the latter days.
The exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev
Obadiah 1:20 NIV
Portuguese Jewish Dispora
Bio
Yosef-Yhoshua Torrez de Cordova is a son, husband to Lady Mariam, father, grandfather and child of the Most High GOD. With over 3 Decades of Kingdom-building in the USA and in over 25-countries primarily in the 10/40 Window, he has focused on GenZ this decade with an emphasis on Empowering, Equipping & Enlightening by the Power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of GOD. By YAH’s Grace, in 2024 he pioneered FORTRESS (a Youth & Young Adults ministry impacting the Valley of Victory). He firmly believes in the full Restoration of Israel and has embraced his Sephardic Jewish heritage.
Debt Miracles with Amanda Mottola, Chris Adams and the Storehouse team. Part workshop, part testimonies, we will navigate the muddy waters of how to overcome crushing debt. It starts with coming out of Babylon and believing God can make a way where there otherwise would be years of slavery trying to repay.
Bring your questions!
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors
Matthew 6:12
Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt
Matthew 18:27
How can we trust God to get rid of debt in His power rather than just slaving away in our own strength to pay it off? We will present a live situation, and then we also will have Joel Frazier and Aaron Reeves give testimony as to how God helped them get out of debt by receiving miraculous settlements.
Joel FrazierAaron Reeves
How a Storehouse Community came around them to put together a loan and gift package to help settle the debts. Gregg will also share his family’s debt miracles, where God settled mortgages for $1 and even a bank who paid them $15k to extinguish a mortgage debt. How? By the power of God. Putting trust in Him for provision. To desire no longer to be a slave. Because Jesus has come to set us free!
According to historians, there have been 19 revivals on the campus of Yale in the city of New Haven since its founding in 1701. It can also be claimed that the first and second great awakenings in many ways originated or came through Yale and New Haven as well. Greats such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Timothy Dwight (grandson of Jonathan Edwards) and D.L. Moody were all part.
Could a 20th revival be part of catalyzing or even leading the next great awakening prophecied to sweep across New England, America and beyond? Some have termed this long anticipated end-time harvest as the 3rd great awakening…
1795 – Timothy Dwight became President of Yale. At that time there were 8 students out of 108 who were professing Christians. The French Revolution and enlightenment, universalism and Unitarianism movements had taken hold of the Nation and the student body. Post the Revolutionary war, the fires of the first great awakening were virtually gone. The campus climate was described one of scepticism, immorality, and disregard for religion.
1801 – Twenty-five students founded the Moral Society of Yale College
1802 – Early in the spring of 1802, two students were overwhelmed with conviction of their sins. That year nearly one third of the students came to Christ, which then spread more broadly to other universities. (beautiful feet)
1808 – another 100 students commit to Christ (think revival)
1812-1813
1815 – Students committed to pray for revival at 3:30am each morning
1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824 – every year had a unique revival (Revivals of Religion at Yale)
1825 – 30 saved and temperance movement
1827 – for every student saved that year, 9 New Haven residents saved (1991 Yale Standard)
1828 – James Brainerd Taylor revival
1830 – yet another revival – over 100 students saved from 1827-1830
1831 – the “Great Revival” contemporaneous with Charles Finney upstate NY. 104 students became members of the college church while 900 others in New Haven were converted (revival at Yale)
1857-1878 businessmen’s Noonday Prayer revival of NYC hits Yale (Yale Under God, p150)
These revivals helped to solidify Yale’s reputation as a centre of evangelical Christianity and contributed to the growth of religious fervour throughout New England
Origin Story
In November of 2010, I was making my way upstate Connecticut to pick up my friend Rick McKinniss. Rick invited me to join him for a Vision New England (NE Church Unity group) leaders gathering up at Grace Chapel in Lexington, MA. I happened to grow up next door in Concord, MA and had been to Grace Chapel a few times over the years with my folks.
Minuteman Statue, Lexington MA
Does God really care About America?
Before continuing, it’s worth noting how important America is to God! Why do I say that? It’s personal.
Back in 2008 the Holy Spirit said as clear as day to me “Put on a concert here.” (walking across Westport Connecticut Veterans’ Green going to Town Hall). I was like, God is that you? If so, when? “April” What day? “The 19th”.
My first conformation that God was indeed speaking was this date in 2009 was the third Sunday of the month – a day each month God had shown me to set aside back in 2005 for purposes of prayer.
After putting my hand to the plow organizing this Church of Fairfield County festival, months later I figured out this very date of April 19th was Patriots Day – the shot heard around the world in 1775.
April 19th
How did God reveal it? One day I walked into my house and saw a picture my folks had given us hanging in the vestibule. On the bottom, the title of the print says: “April 19th”. I was like – hey that is the date God gave me for the event! And of course, on that date in 1775, America began its journey to becoming a unique nation with biblical ideals, such as “all men are created equal” and “liberty and justice for all”.
But even more amazing, years later, I came to discover that Governor John Trumbull had prophetically declared a day of Prayer and Fasting ahead of time for – wait for it – April 19, 1775!
Let that sink in. All of Connecticut was praying and fasting the day the Revolutionary War broke out. God knew.
Now when America was founded, it was far from perfect. We had to fight a civil war to deal with not living up to these ideals, and we may be on the precipice of another. That is the very reason we need revival, to seek His face and His wisdom and to “turn from our wicked ways”. This starts in the church.
So, don’t let anyone tell you God has given up on America!
Westport CT is significant because it was the beachhead of the British raid on Danbury in 1777. Remember the infamous “separation of church and state” letter letter that came from the Danbury Baptists to President Jefferson?
It is one of the only locations a minuteman statue exists outside of Lexington and Concord MA – Compo Beach, Westport CT… I digress.
Compo Beach Westport Minuteman Statue
Back to November 2010… I made way up to Wellspring Church in Berlin Connecticut to collect Rick, taking the usual Route 15 which starts as the Merritt Parkway and changes over to the Wilbur Cross Parkway.
With Rick McKinniss in Lexington, MA
I was talking to the Lord about this VNE meeting and the New England Church, wondering: what is next Lord? We all were believing for revival. In Fairfield County had experienced an amazing measure of it over the previous decade in the 2000s.
Wilbur Cross Rt. 34 Overpass
As I passed the Derby Road overpass at exit 57/58, out of the corner of my eye I could have sworn I saw Hebrew letters passing overhead. I was like – that’s weird. I took note of it to research it later.
On the way up to Massachusetts, Rick and I spoke about what revival might look like in New England. One of my questions for the Lord was whether difficult economic times might relate to revival? (like what happened with Jeremiah Lamphere organizing the noonday prayer during the financial panic of 1857 in NYC)
One of the reasons Rick invited me was to meet his friend Jonathan Friz. Rick said, he’s like you – trusting God for provision by faith through prayer. I was like, OK that’s interesting, love to meet him. I had heard about Jonathan and later through the “60.12“ initiative which was done in partnership with Vision New England. 60 leaders meeting once a month for a year throughout New England.
Jonathan Friz with Jeremiah Lamphere
The meeting went well with leaders from across New England. Jonathan I met afterwards in the parking lot. He shared the 10 Days of Prayer vision God had given him in 2004 upon asking Lord, what do you want me to do with my life? He then proceeded to share the conversation he had with God about it hearing the phrase “Babylon refuses to mourn…” Jonathan responded, “but Your people will mourn before Your return.”
I was blown away by this and excitedly shared that I’d been pressing in to understand the meaning of Babylon in the Bible, as it intersected with my testimony via Isaiah 52.
The phrase Jonathan heard is a paraphrase of Revelation 18, an entire chapter about the great Harlot Babylon who has caused the “great men of the earth” to “drink the cup of her abominations” conducting iniquitous global trade and economy in the end-times.
Specifically, God’s command in Revelation 18:4 is “Come out of her my people!”
Light and Truth
After I was back home, I researched those Hebrew characters I saw on the Rt. 34 overpass. Sure enough, it was the crest of Yale. The Hebrew letters I saw are known as Urim and Thummim (אורים ותמים) which translates to Yale’s motto of Light and Truth. We could also say it means Jesus’ parable of you are the salt and light of the world (Matthew 5).
(On the other side of the bridge is Harvard’s crest Veritas, which translates to Truth. These crests were apparently installed as a prank on Harvard in the Harvard – Yale rivalry, with Yale on the “right side of the road” and Harvard on the “wrong side of the road”. The Derby Road overpass of Rt. 34 leads to Yale in downtown New Haven.)
As I prayed through this, I sensed the Holy Spirit highlighting that Yale New Haven will prophetically be a center of future revival. And to contend in prayer for it.
And indeed, upon research, it historically has been. Apparently there have been 19 awakenings on the campus, with several of them led by President Timothy Dwight. In fact you can make the case that the first and second great awakenings came through Yale and New Haven as Jonathan Edwards was trained here, George Whitfield and D. L. Moody preached here. Even David Brainerd was expelled from Yale in 1741 to go on and lead great missionary work to the Indians during the first great awakening.
2012 Newtown
After the Sandy Hook Tragedy December 2012, I was seeking the Lord regarding the importance of national repentance, starting in the church. The premise being – unless we turn back to God in America, these senseless killings will continue.
Just weeks prior to that tragic day Dec 12, 2012, I was on the way home from praying for Connecticut up at the Capitol with the CCPN team in Hartford. I was redirected home via Interstate 84 due to traffic. Normally that means turning south on Rt. 8 at Waterbury. But GPS took me to exit 10, which is the Sandy Hook exit. I had never gone that way home before.
Whenever this kind of thing happens, I pay attention, knowing that sometimes God has me on a prayer assignment. So that day for whatever reason I claimed the land under the soles of my feet (tires of my truck) in prayer, just as Joshua did in the bible (Joshua 1:3). It was not a coincidence. I drove through Newtown past the flagpole in the center of the pavement and prayed for the town (as an aside – I live off “Newtown Turnpike” the old road from Westport to Newtown).
Two significant things happened to me in the wake of the Newtown shooting and out of that season of pressing in with God in prayer…
One, Jonathan Friz reached out to me early in 2013 to ask if I would be interested in spearheading 10 Days of Prayer in Connecticut. I accepted right away, because it was the answer to my prayer about the importance of repentance in the Connecticut Church.
Two, at some point later I discovered that Route 34 is defined as beginning in downtown New Haven and ending at Sandy Hook in Newtown. Interesting. This is that same route 34 overpass (Derby St.) that was highlighted to me with the Hebrew letters standing out on the Yale crest.
It was like God was decrypting a message through Isaiah 35…
A highway shall be there, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness
Isaiah 35:8
Given that:
New Haven was a historic and future center of revival, and
Sandy Hook was a place of national death and tragedy
Route 34 from New Haven to Sandyhook
It’s like God is saying there shall be a highway of holiness (Rt. 34) for this nation to walk on. That out of revival (New Haven), comes healing and salvation (Newtown). This highway of holiness is traversed by the means of repentance as “the unclean shall not passover it.”
If we want healing, we must have revival. If we want revival, we must have repentance. And it starts in the church.
Fast Forward to 2020
So, we have held state-wide 10 Days of Prayer meetings every fall from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur now for more than 13 years in Connecticut…
Revival Trail… Jonathan Edwards attended Yale New Haven then pastored in Northampton, MA
In 2020 – our eighth year of 10 Days in CT – my friend Joellen Putnam created a 10 Days of Prayer walk along the Farmington canal trail – an old canal path that went from New Haven to Northampton Massachusetts.
We started the head of the year off by beginning our prayer walk in New Haven on the campus of Yale on September 18, 2020 at St. Mary’s Church.
St. Marys
We prayed in that old beautiful (if not old-fashioned) church. Impressive with it vaulted ceilings, stain glass windows, array of candle stations. No one else was there as it was a Friday morning.
St. Mary Church of Blessed Michael McGivney Parish
We rolled out onto the “canal trail” which began right on canal street adjacent to the church. This is in the heart of Yale all be it a few blocks from “old campus”.
We wound north through interesting neighborhoods of New Haven turning into North Haven. We passed many other Yale buildings in the beginning of the walk. We passed parks, a variety of churches (old and new, small and large), various neighborhoods.
We pressed on to reach south Hamden, the end of our journey day 1. As we reached the end of the walk, I received the phone call no parent ever wants to hear.
Bridgette was reporting to me what the doctors had just discovered. Ryan, our first born son, had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
What a gut punch. Everyone I was with prayed for us. But I quickly departed. Calling my parents and a few friends on the way back to Norwalk hospital. My task was now to help transfer Ryan from Norwalk Hospital to Yale Smilo Cancer Center in New Haven. Right back to where I just was.
I got Ryan loaded into the Ambulance and followed behind in my truck as an escort. The Ambulance pulled in to the emergency entrance. I gave my truck to an attendant. It was not the day I had assumed it would be. Rosh Hashanah 2020 (year 5781 in Hebrew Calander).
We prayed desperately for Ryan’s healing. At first, he improve drastically with his liver almost completely healed. Ryan fought valiantly and outlived his prognosis by 9 more months than the doctors originally thought. It was a gruesome and tortuous way to die.
Only 19 years young. (Recall those 19 revivals?) We fervently prayed for his healing.
Another woman at our church St. Paul Westport was miraculously and completely healed by God in 2003 of the same type of stage 4 cancer – which had so rotted her spine she couldn’t really walk. So we had faith that God could do the same for Ryan. “They will lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” Mark 16:18.
Yet, Ryan died at Yale New Haven hospital on June 30, 2021. The same New Haven I had received word of his diagnosis some 10 months earlier. We even prayed for him to be raised from the dead right there in the hospital. But it wasn’t meant to be.
“Cloud of Witnesses” – Day of Ryan’s Death out hospital room window at Yale
Later, I was given this scripture as a way of comfort and understanding, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” John 12:24. I felt the Lord was saying Ryan’s life was that seed in the ground for harvest at Yale and in New Haven for America’s sake, especially among his generation. I believe Ryan is interceding together with Jesus from heaven for his generation.
The Great American Prayer Revival
This year, revival prayers will be going up all across America in the first ever 50-state Great American Prayers for revival from March 1-4.
The first GAP initiative was in 2024. It was a non-partisan National prayer effort during election day that was live streamed all day across America’s time zones – prayers to return to God. Here was our contribution to those prayers recorded at the Statue of Liberty
When seeking the Lord about Connecticut’s role in GAP this year, it was quickened to me that the very revival we have believed in and prayed for at Yale New Haven these past 15 years, related to this Great American Prayer iniative. This is that. This is why we desire to pray for repentance and revival at Yale New Haven during this time. March 1-4. When a remnant all across America will be praying with us and for us. That the bowls of heaven will be full of the prayers of the saints (Rev 5:8).
Interestingly, March 4 was America’s inauguration day for nearly 150 years before it later became January 20th. Also, March 2nd-3rd is Purim on the Jewish calander. Remeber those Hewbrew characters on Yale’s crest?
The Great American Prayer is spearheaded by former State Senator from Alabama Hank Erwin, who was featured in his sons’ movie Woodlawn as the high school football team chaplain (played by Sean Austin). Hank’s sons, the Erwin brothers have made films such as Jesus Revolution, I Can Only Imagine and the current TV series on Amazon, The House of David.
Hank is a man of faith, who deeply believes we are in desperate need – and on the precipice of – a great turning back to God in America.
We discuss the recent downturn of tech stocks and crypto – specifically the investment hype around Artificial Intelligence and the Magnificent 7 “Hyperscalers.”
Remember Michael Burry? He was the hedge fund manager behind the movie “Big Short” who saw the flaw of assumptions in subprime housing lending that led to the financial crisis where he shorted CDOs and other derivatives.
Well, Michael Burry has issued another warning about A.I. investment valuation.
Understating depreciation by extending useful life of assets artificially boosts earnings -one of the more common frauds of the modern era.
Massively ramping capex through purchase of Nvidia chips/servers on a 2-3 yr product cycle should not result in the extension of useful… pic.twitter.com/h0QkktMeUB
His argument? Tech companies across the board are artificially inflating earnings by extending depreciation schedules of their massive GPU purchases from 1-3 years to 4-6 years (decreases cost, increases earnings). Nvidia itself only uses a 1 year depreciation for it prior generation of GPUs.
Here’s more on that front…
You can see on the graph below that the huge investment creates huge depreciation costs that are hard to have enough revenue to cover.
Friend of the New Breed Liz Adleta brought up the AI valuation issue this week and asked for my perspective on the stability of the financial markets. Her son Mark has thought quite a bit about it too. We will discuss as part. Here are some of the A.I. risks I see:
A.I. investment more than half of GDP growth (1.1% A.I. of 1.6% growth)
A.I. investment is circular (Nvidia, OpenAI, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft)
A.I. founders selling stock (Softbank, Nvidia)
A.I. financial assumptions are suspect (Burry)
A.I. valuations make no sense, starting with venture capital valuations
Private Credit A.I. Lending Risk
Here is a good Bloomberg podcast with Jeffrey Gundlach, founder of DoubleLine Capital, someone who has been in the market for 40+ years. He warns of “Garbage Lending” in the booming private credit market and likens it to the subprime lending crisis of the 2000s. The private credit market has been financing the A.I. boom with an explosion of junk-level credit lending that the banks won’t touch. YouTube Bloomberg Odd Lots with Jeffrey Gundlach
Cockroaches
Similarly, JPM Chase CEO and chair Jamie Diamond referred to private credit problem First Brands as a “Cockroach” Where you see one cockroach, there’s probably more.
And now less than one month later, his prediction came true: TriColor and Renovo Home Partners also both failed and became worthless.
Market Warnings / Systemic Risks:
Gold has consistently gone up, and now has separated from bitcoin in terms of price (challenging the idea that bitcoin is the new gold) – this is a warning sign as noted by Ray Dalio founder Bridgewater
Yields on long-term Treasuries have gone up for the first time in history during a Fed tightening cycle
The US Treasury is essentially only issuing T-Bills and short bonds in an attempt to lower interest expense. Only 1.5% of Treasuries issued in the past year or two have been 20 or 30 year duration. This is creating duration risk (the same problem SVB)
Japanese long bonds are not being issued much either (see Watch Japan series)
Private credit growth is like junk bonds squared, but no SEC reporting to verify the numbers (opaque)
Japan and USA debt levels and circular investments
Jared Kushner’s Two State Solution from 2020, resurrected in 2025
As part of the middle east peace deal President Trump recently negotiated in exchange for the return of the hostages, there were many side arrangements made promising pursuit of a Palestinian state formed out of the promised land.
Is the United States at risk of God’s judgment given the Trump administration’s renewed push to bring peace at the expense of dividing the promised land? Consider…
I will also gather all nations… And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.
Joel 3:2
It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem
Zechariah 12:9
I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed
Genesis 12:3
This is serious stuff! Are we entering into the danger zone?
Additionally, the US recently condemned the Knesset for voting to annex Samaria and Judea. Watch Michele Bachmann Video below
Camp David Peace Accords Example
My friend and mentor, Harald Bredesen, was like a type of chaplain to President Anwar Sadat, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and President Carter. When the Camp David Accords began, Harald got the inspiration to suggest to them, send a telegram asking other heads of state around the world to pray for the success of the peace accords. And they did it! Most gave the chance of a peace accord at near zero percent chance. But God!
The key to it was there was no land for peace in the deal. No giving up on God’s promised land to do a deal. How could God bless anything that goes against his Word?
That peace has lasted. It’s been 40+ years now and peace between Egypt and Israel remains. No further wars were fought.
History has also shown that, since 1750, about 80% of all currencies have disappeared and the other 20% have all been severely devalued
Ray Dalio
Inflation and Gold Discussion
Are we actually in a period of rampant inflation and we don’t know it? Are we in denial because assets like stocks, crypto and real estate keep going up and up when measured in dollar terms? What if we were to measure everything in terms of gold? Meaning, if gold is the standard of true value (or true money – see Ray Dalio article below), what’s a dollar really worth?
I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings
Luke 16:9
This chart shows that if gold were the preferred measure of inflation, we would see that the US Dollar is worth a lot less than the government reports using CPI. In fact, if measured in gold…$1 in 2000 is only worth $0.13 today
Contrast this to an inflation calculator which says $1 is worth $0.52 today by CPI. See the difference? It’s 4x.
Actual inflation may be four times reported inflation (CPI)
This chart shows that real estate prices have actually gone down, not up when purchased in gold, a “real currency”.
I think most people make the mistake of thinking of gold as a metal rather than as the most established form of money, and they think of fiat money as money rather than debt and they think that fiat money will be created to prevent debt defaults
Ray Dalio
What does this all mean for our economy? For our nation?
Grant and Gregg (together as the one new man) welcome Wayne Hilsden, founder of King of Kings Church in Jerusalem to Heartbeat Israel. We discuss the Messianic movement in the land and how current events and the situation on the ground are impacting the Kingdom advancing in Israel and beyond.
We praise God for the release of the hostages! The end of the Gaza war too will be part of our discussion.
On what day do we gather? Simchat Torah – which marks the beginning of the new year of traditional Torah readings. Oct 15th is also the second anniversary of the Oct 7th attacks on the Hebrew calendar.
And we will have Q&A from anyone who attends live via Zoom link above. Feel free to invite a friend by forwarding this email.
Intro from Grant
Wayne Hilsden is a servant leader out of the land of Israel, founder of King of Kings Church and King of King’s Network throughout the land of Israel. In addition, he has helped start other ministries such as One for Israel and FIRM. Wayne leads by example moving in a spirit of love and unity with all those he connects with in Israel and throughout the nations.
Thought this was a good article related to Simchat Torah and the end of the Gaza war by Asher Intrater…
What is called the “Gaza War” – in which Israel faced attacks on 7 different military fronts – started in 2023 on the Biblical Holy Day of “Shemini Atseret” (Eighth Day Assembly), also called “Simchat Torah” (Joy of the Torah).
After two years of horribly difficult, yet miraculously successful battles, the main part of the war has come to an end on the same day on the Hebraic calendar.
This is the day called, the “last great day of the feast” in John 7:37. It is the day in which we are commanded to “rejoice and only rejoice” – Deuteronomy 16:14-15, Leviticus 23:36. Numbers 29:35. Symbolically it represents the 8th millennium, called the New Creation, in Revelation 21, when there will be no more tears, pain or death.
This timing could not be a mere coincidence. It was not planned by any human agency. I see this as a sign of divine and sovereign guidance.
A National Resurrection Experience
On this day 20 living hostages were returned to Israel. They had been 2 years under the ground in tunnels in Gaza. It was a hellish experience – truly Gehinnom.
Their returning to Israel was like rising from the grave – a resurrection experience. It was felt by the whole country. At this moment we were one family, one soul. Everyone in the country felt that we were going through a resurrection together, from death to life, from darkness to light.
It was a tiny taste of what it will be like on the day of resurrection, when millions will rise together. Unfathomable.
Hosea 6:1-2
Come let us return unto the Lord for He has torn and He will heal us. He has struck us, and He will bind us up. After two days He will give us life. On the third day He will raise us up, and we will live before Him.
In a prophetic pattern, the history of the people of Israel reenacts the personal life of Messiah. And vice versa. For 2 days Yeshua was in the grave; on the 3rd day He rose. Israel was exiled for 2,000 years. On the 3rd thousandth year, the nation was reborn. There were 2 years in which our hostages were held under the ground. On the 3rd, they were raised.
The most repeated phrase in the media today in Israel is: ושבו בנים לגבולם – “and the sons will return to their border” – Jeremiah 31:17. The restoration of Israel is part of the wider promise of the coming of the “New Covenant” – Jeremiah 31:31.
Proportionality?
A painful aspect of this day is that almost 2,000 security prisoners were released from Israeli jails as part of the deal to receive back the 20 hostages. That is a 100 to 1 ratio. This includes a large number with “blood on their hands” – having murdered many innocent Israelis.
It made me realize why the Scriptures command a death penalty for murders: because if not, the murderers can be released to murder again. This ratio is better than the 1,000 to 1 in the return of Gilad Shalit in 2011. Included in the 1027 terrorists exchanged for Gilad was Yehia Sinwar, who led the attack on Israel in this current war.
The Two Together
This ceasefire agreement came as the result of cooperation between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Here again I see something symbolic of Yeshua. In their official position, the President of the United States is like the King of Kings, while the Prime minister of Israel is like the King of Israel. Yeshua is both King of Kings and King of Israel.
Success required both. It was like pliers – one tool with two prongs joined in the center. One-sided pliers will not work. Spiritually speaking, God is working today through both the nation of Israel and the international Ekklesia. Jew and Gentile together in Yeshua become “one new man” – Ephesians 2:11. It is through the two becoming one that the purposes of God are revealed to the world – Ephesians 3:10.
Will This Bring Peace?
We hope that this ceasefire will lead to a wider Abraham Accords. We know that this is not an “eternal” peace. There will be many wars yet to come, even Gog and Magog, and Armageddon. Then will come the wonderful period of peace on earth in the millennial messianic kingdom.
In the meantime, we as Jewish, Arab, and international followers of Yeshua hold that peace in our hearts. Our King has taught us how to love our enemies. He is still teaching us. Ultimately His love will bring peace to the whole planet.
Gold hit an all time high today closing above $4000 and ounce, while the US Dollar is down 10% and has been part of a strategy known as the “debasement trade”.
We talk about what is happening to fiat currencies around the world. And how gold has always been considered “real money” as Ray Dalio keeps talking about.
If you take a look at the graph below, you can see that perhaps the great returns of the bull market, maybe aren’t so great when measured in terms of adjusting for inflation in terms of gold instead of CPI
Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel (one of the largest market makers in the world) is highlighting that the price of gold, inflation climbing and the dollar dropping 10% in the quickest period of time for the last 50 years. All these things are a warning…
Silver and Gold have I none. In the name of Jesus rise up and walk!
Acts 3:6
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
The Storehouse Network is sometimes referred to as a “fishes and loaves” network of Storehouse Communities…
Storehouse Q&A with ICCC
This week we partner with the International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) to explore scripture and what God is saying to his Bride the Church today. The discussion will be centered around live examples of Storehouse Communities (Christian community’s economic and resource development, including banking, investing, agriculture and business) in New England and Florida.
At the present time your abundance will be for their need, in order that their abundance also may be for your need, so that there may be equality
2 Corinthians 8:14
We also address the Storehouse Network and how one storehouse can supply another as the Spirit leads. We explain how it is decentralized and each one is different in its implementation. It is not one size fits all, but rather best practices than can be shared and inspire another similar version.
Welcome Stephen Briggs, founder of HatikvahFilms. He shares his testimony, how he met his wife at King of Kings in Jerusalem (founded by Wayne Hildsen, our guest in October), how he worked with Lance Lambert and served on the ICCC board for several years. Stephen has been making films since 2008 and has also recently started a podcast called Israel Matters. Here is the premier episode: https://youtu.be/jVRFgDRIOhI?si=ShMYtGYGZXeujQnr
He will address the question “Why Does Israel Matter?” and share on the film project inspired by Genesis 12:3 “Blessing, Curse or Coincidence?”
According to scripture, we are to watch and pray
Bio
Stephen Briggs is the Executive Director of Covenant of Hope Media NfP, and the Executive Producer of the multi-award winning Hatikvah Films documentaries – America and the Israel Effect and Cyrus Nations? UK. He hosts a weekly podcast called ‘Israel Matters’ He is also the Producer of the ‘Dawn and Steve Plus’ Podcast, and currently sits on the Board of the International Christian Visual Media Association. Originally from the UK, Stephen met his wife in Jerusalem, they share a heart for foster care and a love for Israel. They now reside in Nashville. Stephen also serves as a Board Member for the Mount Moriah Trust, whose purpose is to help needy believers in the Holy Land.
This week we partner with the International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) to explore scripture and what God is saying to his Bride the Church today. The discussion will mainly focus on how do we practically come out of Babylon today?
(a Youth & Young Adults ministry impacting the Valley of Victory). He firmly believes in the full Restoration of Israel and has embraced his Sephardic Jewish heritage.
