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Beloved,
As we write this note, we are driving to the airport from the Auschwitz concentration camp, the House of Life prayer house, and the Fountain of Tears, which are right across the street from the camp. We have been on the road for six weeks. In Italy, first with our children, visiting my mother celebrating her 90th year, and then cruising through the Mediterranean. It was a wonderful time with our family, filled with love and joy. At the end of September, we flew to London to celebrate 10 Days of Prayer throughout England, and we finished there in Poland. This past week, we joined together with an intercessory group from the United States, praying for spiritual life, forgiveness, and reconciliation to come out of the deaths of the concentration camps, both for Israel, the Nations, and the Jewish and Polish people.
It is difficult to know where to start, so we summarized our 10-day visit to the UK in our November Note and have outlined our visit to Poland below.
Worship & Watchmen Mission Poland – Poland, Auschwitz concentration camps, House of Life prayer house, and Fountain of Tears
For the last 9 days of our journey, we traveled to Poland with a group of mature watchmen/intercessors from the US to pray and intercede for Israel and the Church. Words cannot fully describe all we experienced during this week of intensive prayer. We had been preparing for this prayer mission for several months while also having a team of intercessors covering and supporting us daily. And we knew and felt strongly that our main focus was to pray for greater life to come out of the death and tragedy of the Holocaust. Remarkable to this focus, there are two new ministries the Lord has established right at the feet of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The first is an incredible exhibit crafted by Rick Wienecke, known as the “Fountain of Tears”. It uniquely depicts the suffering and death of Yeshua on the cross and the tragedy and deaths of the Holocaust.
The Second, is a House of Prayer called “The House of Life,” which was established by Mark and Cathy Warwick. We have attached pictures of The Fountain of Tears and the House of Life prayer house.
Before we visited Auschwitz, Mark encouraged us to first visit the Fountain of Tears, then tour the Auschwitz concentration camp, finally joining them at the House of Life. Below is brief description and some pictures that we sent to our family while we were visiting the camp. Below these pictures are images of the articles of clothing, glasses, suitcases, prayer shawls, and shoes that the Nazis stripped the Jews of as they entered the concentration camp.
Grant's Personal Text
This was just a glimpse of what we saw in Auschwitz. The wood from each block was taken by the poles after the war to build their homes that were destroyed by the Germans. And 3 million poles were killed as well during the same time, so lots to mourn. But some poles blamed the Jews for this so not much compassion for them, even after the war. And still no Israeli flag flying here. Identificational repentance is needed here between the Poles and the Jews and we have been praying about this.
You can see pics of the latrines, they were given 5 mins twice daily to go or be beaten or killed for more than the allotted time. You can see the large bunk beds in three stacks. 5 people per bed and in each stack and no socks, it was freezing in winter. The square piping going straight through the middle of the block was the only heat they got. And each block had a prefect prisoner that mostly ruled aggressively with severe punishment. These were either Poles or Jews who did this.
Many older people died on the trains before they even got to Auschwitz, some coming from Greece for several weeks with barely any food and nowhere to relieve themselves. 100 people per car and no windows. There was no grass or trees or sign of life in the camp, just death or work all around, as they worked them during the day with very little food rationing. The worst was the gas chambers seen at the end of our pictures, where 1.1 million Jews were gassed to death.
This is where we wept and prayed and took communion. The gas chambers were destroyed by the Germans but you can see the ruins. It was reported that many of the Jews going into the chambers were reciting Psalms 22 and 23. And we encourage you to read them. You can see the Israeli flag with the blood of communion we prayed over it, and the sisters buried Jewish emblems into the earth since none is allowed there yet.
This whole place is just unimaginable with the smell of death still being experienced. How low the depths of humanity can actually go is experienced in this place and it should never be forgotten, especially with our youth, which is why I took the photo of the many young Polish school groups that are now visiting here to remember these atrocities.
There is only one positive thing that came out of all of this death and that was a resurrection of the land of Israel. Please read Ezekiel 37 in the Bible for you to understand that in one day a nation would be born (see Isaiah 66:8).
Across the street from the House of Prayer we are working with here, there is a museum called the Fountain of Tears, which has been done by a gentile Israeli artist who we met. It compares the suffering of Christ with the suffering of the firstborn in the holocaust and there is something significant here that is difficult to put even into words between the suffering of Mashiach and the suffering of the firstborn in the family. Perhaps we need to meditate on this and ask God for a deeper explanation and understanding. I know we are doing this.
The house of prayer that has been erected here looks right over the camp and our focus has been to pray for the life that comes out of the death, the resurrection that comes after the cross for all those in the world who are yet to receive it. You can see the house of prayer pics at the end and the view from the balcony
We have been experiencing death and life in many of our prayer sessions and we know God has overcome death.
Lots of love,
Grant&Hali ❌⭕️
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Fountain of Tears
During the week, the Holy Spirit led us into some intensive prayer sessions on the property, in the Fountain of Tears, in the House of Life prayer house, and through early morning prayer. We have come away with a much deeper understanding of the significance of this death and suffering and how the rebirth of the nation of Israel has come out of it. And the Lord led us into specific assignments connected to this focus, some of which were prophetic in nature.
It is a paradox for sure and highly complex, but we have all sensed a deepening of this understanding in our spirits. Not just experiencing the horror of this death but also the life that is coming out of it. During the week, we also learned a lot more about Poland and its people, as well as the suffering that they experienced amidst their German and Russian occupations. We feel strongly to pray for the healing of a victim spirit that is over both the Jewish and Polish people, and there is a great need for greater forgiveness and deeper repentance and reconciliation between the two peoples and between the two countries.
It was no mistake that we were to be here during the Feast of Tabernacles. As we came to the end of our time in the House of Life prayer house, praying and worshiping, we were looking on and facing the Auschwitz camp from the balcony windows. Drawing close to the celebration of Simchat Torah, The Lord gave us an incredible sense of love, peace, and joy. The Lord then led us to dance before Him in the Spirit, which is also a tradition of Simchat Torah. It is comforting to know that in the greater scheme of things, it is all finished through the cross and the resurrection. He has overcome sin and death, leading us into spiritual life and freedom, yet Jacob’s Trouble and the judgment on the nations is still to come and we must learn and know how to navigate and pray for this period before the Lord’s return. We believe this is one of the main reasons why the Lord brought us here at this time and it’s going to take some time for this to process.
We want to leave you with five pictures that we took. One was on the day we visited Auschwitz, and the other four were during the week, and at the end of our mission.
The first is an image of a butterfly, which you can see in the clouds above the camp when we were visiting it. The butterfly speaks of new life and transformation, which the Lord has brought and is bringing. The second was a picture of the sky when we came together to take communion to complete our prayer mission. If you look closely, there are seven strands of light similar to the Menorah. The Menorah speaks of light and love and the seven stars of the Spirit, but also directives from the Lord for His Body that we find in Revelation. We felt these were prophetic signs given to our group as confirmations of our mission to pray for greater transformation, life, and liberty to come into the Body of Messiah/Christ and for the world.
The third picture is a painting in the House of Life prayer house, done by an anonymous artist who is already home with the Lord, which portrays the death of the holocaust but also the life that came from it, as Israel was re-birthed as a nation, marking the beginning of this Restoration period for Israel and the Church. And the reconciliation journey now we must all enter into, in His Body, in order for the Bride to be made ready for the Lord’s coming.
There is a depth of revelation and understanding here which we believe the Lord will unveil to us as we move deeper into this restoration, into John 17 love and unity in TONM. The fourth and fifth pictures are of our special Watchmen group and the precious Saints that were assigned to this mission. Please note in the dinner shot, our special guide, Jacek Brinbaum who truly helped us organize and navigate the prayer mission. A special prayer and blessing on each one of these saints.
There are so many more pictures of the week that we spent in Poland with our group in Warsaw and Kraków but we just wanted to focus on the main message and the life coming out of this horrific death.
We sense from the Lord that everything we experienced there needs to go deeper into our spirits, enabling us to communicate this understanding in a way that both the Body and Jewish people may more readily embrace it. Upon our return, however, we did meet with Gregg Healey on “Heartbeat Israel“ to share our experience, as well as in TONM + on The R911 Project WATCH. They were both very inspired meetings. (Click the blue links to see the meetings.)
A special thank you to all those who prayed and supported this mission.
Lots of love in Yeshua,
And for His Glory!
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