OPERATION EPIC FURY
We have Prophet Paul Bradford as our guest minister Sunday, February 29, 2026 – 10:30 a.m. I will be preaching this message at Sunday Evening Service, February 29, 2026. I preached this at NASA AGLOW 2/28/2026
OPERATION EPIC FURY
Sunday Evening Service 2/29/2026
(Preached at NASA AGLOW)
February 28, 2026
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
God bless United States of America. God bless President Donald J. Trump! God bless our soldiers.
In view of our military strike against Iran today and the time alignment with the Jewish festival of Purim beginning March 2nd through Tuesday, March 3rd, we the church align with the intercession of Queen Esther and pray for the peace of Israel, peace for the United States, peace for the church in Iran and the overthrow of the Iranian Ayatollah.
There is a New Day upon the earth. Nations and Kings are being overturned. And what of this new day? The Day of the Lord is a day of Overturning. Church great and awesome things are happening on the earth today. The frogs like unclean spirits are spewing out of the mouth of the beast. Heaven is invading earth. Prophecy is being fulfilled in our generation. It is a great day to be alive.
As God’s army today is waking up to proclaim the finished work of King Jesus, the Body of Christ stirs itself and arises to be overcomers positioning ourselves as we are watching Heaven invading earth in the metaphor of epoch glory – Operation Epic Fury.
There has never been a President who effectively pushed back Iran’s threats. Israel has been hamstrung (made powerless) by their dependence on the United States’ middle east policies. Our government operated in fear of starting a war in the Middle East, not to mention our alliances with the rich Arab oil nations. Since 1979, and probably before then, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been training, financing, and providing weapons as a chief sponsor of terrorism for Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Islamic Jihad, and Houthis. In November 1979, a radical group of students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took hostages. Iran has been a state sponsor of terrorist’s activities in Albania, Argentina, Bahrain, Denmark, France, India, Israel, Kenya, Shi’ite militias in Iraq, Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, Venezuela, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Taliban, etc. They were behind or in alliance with the 1998 United States embassy bombings, USS Cole Bombing, and aligned with Osama bin Laden with the September 11 attacks. All the United States Government ever did was negotiate and appease.
Operation Epic Fury: In January, Pastor Tim Sheets was before the LORD, praying and studying about the Glory of God. He asked the Holy Spirit to define “Glory.” The Holy Spirit answered: “Epoch.” “The Holy Spirit will be moving into epoch times propelled by greater and greater glory. A greater weight of God’s presence which will bring us into a pivotal time. Something big is now planned. There is a lot in the world against it. Something epoch is being led by the Holy Spirit through the Kingdom Ecclesia. Epoch revival is going to be seen this year. Epoch awakening
– world changing times. A greater weight of glory is going to be seen with manifest demonstrations. Signs, wonders, and miracles at levels we have never seen before.”
“Glory river is coming to flood stage. If we will host his presence, the river of God will be waters to swim in. Everything will live where the river flows.”
In the Old Testament the word used for “glory” is “kabod”: honor, glorious, abundance, riches, reverence, etc.,
In the New Testament the word used for “glory” is “doxa.”
However, the Holy Spirit chose to use the word, “epoch.” In answer to Tim’s request for a definition of the Glory.
Webster: “An instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. Epoch serves as a reference point from which time is measured.” Such as the Exodus or Pentecost.
The Jewish festival of Purim celebrats the providence of God saving the Jewish people from Haman (can we say Hamas) in the ancient Persian Empire. This is the sovereign LORD’S saving grace of the Jewish race and His promise to save His church from the gates of Hell from “In the beginning.”
The doors of history hinge on the extraordinary decisions of ordinary people. Obedience to God is not just for self and the moment, but for eternity, down to a thousand generations.
As the Lord used Esther to save the Jews exiled in Persia during the Dispersion, so we can walk in perfect peace that He has made provision for this time in our history. We can be assured that every evil work of men who plot to destroy this nation, the church and the Jewish race will be brought to justice.
Just as Israel is elect of God so is the church and the remnant in this nation who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and publicly acknowledge that we are “one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” The Church is the Bride of Christ and it is given unto us to fast and pray just as Queen Esther was called to fast and pray for the Jewish people. God used her to call the Jewish exiles to fast and pray and His instrument of deliverance.
Jeremiah 49: 35-39: Thus says the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of Heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says the Lord; and I will
send the sword after them, till I have consumed them; And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from there the king and the princes, says the Lord. But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, says the Lord.
In the time of Esther, the Lord uses major events as well as trifling circumstances, seeming coincidences, and plotting enemies, to serve His highest purposes. He does not deviate from the nature of His being and His divine purpose in the affairs of nations. He chose Esther for this specific assignment. Had she failed to obey for lack of courage and faith, the LORD would have chosen another.
Esther 4:13-14: Mordecai sent his answer, “Esther, think not with yourself that you shall escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Esther’s act of intercession extended to the people asking that they too fast and pray with her. There is a note of sacrifice and abandonment in her words, “If I perish, I perish.” (4:16)
Esther is the message of a burning bush aflame with the mysterious Presence of Jesus Christ.
We the church must burn with that same fire to come arise in this hour and press into the Presence of the King and Live. By so doing, cause others to live by bringing them deliverance and salvation! Break tradition, Esther! Get out of the boat and walk, Peter! All others are paralyzed with fear.
The Hand of God is seen here in the promotion of the man whom God intended to destroy. (This should be an encouragement to this nation). God uses means of Mordecai’s refusal to revere Haman, the wrath of Haman, the casting of the lot, the plans and schemes of Haman, and the King’s commandment.
The spirit of Haman is described in 3:10b: Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. Haman and Hamas are of the same spirit.
The Lord was never asleep are out of control of any of these circumstances. The Lord made the drunkenness of Xerses contribute to the crowning of Esther, and the gallows built for Mordecai to Haman’s own execution.
9:26: Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore, for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them.
Due to Daniel’s visions being centered on Persia, I feel we must consider the weighty positioning of Iran in God’s end-time judgments.
Esther 7: 9-10: and Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high which Haman had made for Mordecai, who has spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the King said, hang him thereon. So, they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
Esther was a “Star”. She was placed by Jehovah as light in a dark place, causing all to gaze toward the heavens.
It is the hope of this attack upon Iran (Elam) will not only knock out their nuclear capability and missiles but the strong Christian church in Iran will overthrow the Ayatollah and his government. We pray the Christians will arise and take the government for the Kingdom of God. That the LORD’S throne will be set in Elam/Iran.
The missiles of Iran can be identified with electromagnetic bows. The Elamites were long famous as bowmen against the western kingdoms. They have been called the anti-church militant.
The blowing of the four winds is an “anemos” (Mt. 6:48, a violent agitation and stream of air; the four cardinal winds; hence four corners of the earth). In Revelation 6: 12-13, we have the combination of a “seismos” and “anemos”. A great earthquake is a recurrent sign of divine visitation in the Bible.
When the King extended to Esther the golden scepter this denotes all authority of the King – the power of the name, the principle of the rod. and salvation.
King Jesus is extending the full authority of His Name to His Church as we stand in His Presence! We will not draw back but instead do take hold of Him (who is the top of the Scepter) and grow up in His headship.
10: 13-15: The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days; but lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to make you understand what shall befall your people in the latter days; for yet the vision is for many days.
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Cdhurch, 10115 West Hidden Lakes Lane, Richmond, TX.
Scripture from K.J.V. Bibliography: Principles of Present Truth From: Esther by: Kelley Varner. Comments, Conclusions and Comparisons to the challenges of this