Yesterday during worship at church, the Lord invited me to lift up my arms in worship, which I do all the time, but this was a specific invitation. As I raised my arms, I felt a lightness and as I sang, there was no sense of my arms even being raised. The song went on for close to 4 minutes and I kept my arms raised the whole time without effect. At one point, there was slight soreness from keeping them raised so long and I wanted to put them down, but I heard the Holy Spirit say, “Keep them raised, the battle is being won!”

Immediately, I knew this was the story of Moses in Exodus 17, when Aaron and Hur kept the arms of Moses raised for when he put them down the enemy would prevail over Israel, but as long as they were raised, Israel prevailed over the enemy. Church ended, I went home, but this experience is still with me, so I opened to Exodus 17 to hear what the Lord would say.

Exodus 17 tells us that the enemy Israel was fighting were the Amalekites. This enemy came after Israel, unprovoked and the Bible says they are the same enemies that King Saul defeated but did not destroy, which is what caused him to lose the throne. It was King David who destroyed this enemy of Israel. But listen to Exodus 17, “Then the LORD said to Moses, Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

What our forefathers only defeated, we are called to destroy, so their memory is blotted out forever. We are living in this time. Enemies of the nations have been defeated by our predecessors but not destroyed. God is in the middle of destroying enemies we are not going to see any longer nor have any memory of on earth. This is causing great shaking and many are in transitions of the like they have never been in before. Fear not!

Thus says the Lord, “Keep your hands up, the battle is being won!” I would add, fear not, for the Lord our God is with us and we are seeing the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven and it is happening everywhere with everyone, this is global glory we are experiencing.