Dear Friends and Intercessors,

We have a Phone Gathering of the Eagles next week, September 17-19!

Wednesday-Friday 4:30-7PM PT

Blessings & love,

Ricci

Last time I closed with the following:

With that in mind…

Media has been a source of corruption in governments throughout the world for centuries. Remember, the reason our Founding Fathers granted Freedom of the Press was because the Crown controlled the information released to the people under its rule. They did not want this for the United States of America. They wanted the government kept in check by media, not funding media.

I just want to take us back to WWII where antisemitic propaganda served as a catalyst that turned much of the world against Israel. This resulted in the slaughter of millions of Jews, however, dictators the world over used this period as a catalyst for massive genocides in their own nations. The total death toll from WWII is upwards of 50-55 million non-military.

And it all began with propaganda intended to snuff out the Jews. Then the whole world suffered.

Another word for “Propaganda” today is “Marketing”. If you can control the minds and ideas of your audience, you have power over them.

Propaganda is a powerful tool used by governments throughout history to shape public opinion and maintain control. By circulating biased or misleading information, authorities can influence citizens’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, ultimately impacting political landscapes and social structures. Understanding how propaganda functions is crucial for fostering critical thinking and safeguarding democratic values in an increasingly information-saturated world. From subtle messaging in public service announcements to overt manipulation through state-controlled media, the methods employed are diverse and often deceptive.

Governments and the meme masters employ a wide array of propaganda techniques to manipulate public perceptions, let’s look at four of them:

Appeal to emotion, this bypasses logic and reason by triggering fear, anger, and even patriotism. Fear-mongering through exaggerated threats can garner support for aggressive policies, while evoking national pride can create a sense of unity and discourage dissent. When it’s international, fear and anger over those perceived injustices is particularly powerful, especially when targeting those social justice warriors. This is used in both Ukraine/Russia and Hamas/Israel conflicts, abortion, covid, politics, race-baiting, and so on.

Bandwagoning, this creates the impression of widespread support for a particular policy or ideology. This can pressure individuals to conform and silence opposing viewpoints. We see this in a variety of ways from “likes” or “shares” to “more people liked than disliked this article” messages that appear when you hover your mouse over the thumbs up/down icons under the article title. Interesting fact, that you can add your like or dislike whether or not you read the article or watch the video, which again creates an impression of widespread acceptance of the topic.

Demonization this portrays enemies as inherently evil or subhuman to justify oppressive measures and fuel public animosity. We saw this prior to WWII when Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who is historically known as a “master at wordsmithing” and who played a crucial role in shaping Nazi ideology and disseminating propaganda to promote the regime's agenda. He was solely responsible for controlling all forms of communication in Nazi Germany. This included newspapers, films, radio, and the arts. This was prior to TV-but they used film stars to promote agendas even then. He orchestrated massive campaigns that vilified Jews, glorified Hitler, and consistently presented the Nazi Party as the savior of Germany. His campaigns were so successful, the Church itself remained silent while week after week, trainloads of screaming Jewish men, women and children went hurling down the track behind their church buildings on Sunday, and the burnt ashes of its occupants softly floated down on the streets they traversed to work each Monday.

Simplification and slogans reduce complex issues to easily digestible soundbites, effectively stifling critical analysis and promoting nuanced thinking. This barrage of carefully crafted messaging seeks to bypass critical thinking and foster unquestioning acceptance of the narratives. Think memes, TikTok, Instagram. Joseph Goebbels was highly effective in his propaganda campaigns against the Jews in WWII, imagine what he could have done with the technology we possess in 2025.

When we understand techniques used to manipulate and control us, we can become more adept at identifying and hopefully resisting manipulative tactics.

While traditional media outlets like newspapers and television remain susceptible to government or owner influence, the digital age has ushered in new avenues for propaganda dissemination. Social media platforms, with their vast reach and potential for viral spread, have become potent tools for shaping public discourse. Considering the impact of memes that are shared every day, Instagram estimates an average of 1 billion memes are uploaded daily, X estimates 500 million, and TikTok estimates 34 million uploads, and Telegram tops them all with estimates of 12 billion messages uploaded every day! Studies show that people are 20% more likely to share a meme and only 6% share news articles. In 2022, when Roe v Wade was on the cusp of being overturned, memes about the “tragedy and impact of reverting back to the dark ages in women’s health care” dominated social media platforms to sway public opinion and force the Supreme Court Justice’s decision. People share these not even knowing if they are true and death threats were unleashed on conservative Justices.

It's sad to say, but mainstream media is working feverishly to catch up in this realm of mass distribution. Add to this fake news and alternate media, coupled with the onslaught of government-controlled narratives, it can be challenging to discern truth from falsehood.

As I shared last time, we need to keep our critical thinking caps on amid this ever-evolving environment.

In America, we once had strict guidelines in our nation that were set to protect us from government or “state run” media. However, America could still propagandize the whole world to keep America in the good graces of other nations, but our government was not allowed to propagandize Americans themselves thanks to the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act. What is that? The Act was developed to regulate broadcasting programs for foreign audiences produced under the guidance of the State Department, and it prohibited domestic distribution of materials produced by such programs as one of its provisions. Truman signed the original which was coined “The dirty tricks doctrine” into law in 1948 just days after the CIA dumped 250 million dollars into the Italian elections to ensure a candidate, favorable to the United States, would win that election.

Again, this was run by the State Department, only used in other countries, and ultimately became part of greater CIA backed operations around the world.

Then, to reverse this, in 2012, President Barak Obama lifted the ban on its use here in America. Sixty-four years after its conception, Obama in some sort of sick poetic justice moment, while Americans celebrated our freedom during this particularly long July 4th weekend, sat in the Oval Office and repealed 1948 Smith-Mundt Act, repealing the ban on the Dirty Tricks Doctrine, as he signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Meaning, from that day forward, the State Department would now be allowed to regulate and disseminate domestic programming. Practically speaking, this means that Obama authorized and would proceed to direct, the State Department to propagandize American citizens through media. These are methods used by Communist nations, China, North Korea, Russia, Iran and every Middle Eastern nation except Israel, along with many other Communist or dictatorial governments. It is now employed here in America. This is why President Trump calls media “fake news.” It’s a lot of propaganda.

We can see how this action impacted us, the media, social media, etc., suppressed and twisted information and for 13 years now, we have been propagandized. We see the truth now, especially today with so much truth coming out from the FBI, NSA, CDC and so on. Think of the damage that’s been done.

Consider key issues we’ve faced in the last decade, many of which we prayed on this line over: Covid, the 2016 Russia Hoax, the 2020 Election, Ukraine/Russia war, transgender crisis among minors, corruption in government, DOJ, FBI, human trafficking and abortion and we can see how the media has either suppressed truth or lied to the American people in each of these areas. The truth about covid has come out; this was financed through USAID. So are the media outlets in America, Ukraine, and Gaza. This is why that organization must be completely shut down.

The truth about the Ukraine/Russia Conflict has come out, again, every overthrow of the Ukrainian government has been financed by the likes of George Soros who received funds through USAID for his NGOs: Open Society Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy. Soros himself set up the network to broadcast live from Ukraine in the 2013-2014 Maidan protests in Ukraine which ultimately led to the overthrow of a duly elected president in 2014.

Those networks are still place, still active, still propagating conflict between Russia and Ukraine that’s now cost a million lives. How many Americans flew the Ukrainian flag on their social media pages? Probably the same ones flying the Palestinian flags today.

Who supports these things? Depending on the scenario I think we have to get into the habit of asking ourselves questions. For starters:

-apart from Bankers and Globalists, who profits from me believing the information I just received is true?

-how does this information make me feel? Angry, happy, fearful, manipulated?

-does it promote man’s plans or God’s plans?

They manipulated the American people, they still are. Remember, our enemy here is Media. Mainstream media and Social Media.

What about Free Speech? That went out the window after WWII.

How do they control Social Media? Aren’t our posts our posts?

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a subdivision of the US Department of Homeland Security responsible for protecting the nation's critical infrastructure from physical and cyber threats.

With the spotlight on USAID – remember, this is United States Agency of International Diplomacy. Propagating conflicts is not aid. Through USAID, the State Department took control of the information fed to not only Americans, but the world. Social media is a network without borders. Globalists and NWO proponents like George Soros must be so thrilled to see the advent of “a media without borders”.

I saw an octopus sitting over DC controlling the world, it actually had tentacles that spread across the entire earth sucking the life out of nations and it fed back into this grotesque tar-like octopus. When President Trump and Elon came forward with the order to shut USAID down, the Lord immediately spoke to me, “that’s the octopus!” This is a corrupt organization, it is the swamp, it is the octopus that uses our taxpayer dollars to overthrow governments around the world via corrupt and nefarious activities. They promote divisive agendas and will do anything and everything to divide to conquer the population. In the last decade, we’ve seen this run rampant throughout our own nation. It must come down.

I firmly believe the USAID Controlled Media is the lifeblood of this octopus, both MSM and social media and we as Christians need to be seeking the Lord over media outlets for our answers. People watch media and have a “sense” or “feel a witness” when they watch something and then everything that person says becomes like the gospel truth to them. We are not called to align with man’s opinions; we are called align ourselves with God. When we entangle ourselves in media personalities, we are shifting our trust and allegiance from God to man. (Mark 4:24-25 warns of this very thing)

The media is our enemy; it is not our friend. The majority of media is funded by globalists. They hire people who push narratives, propaganda, to sway public opinion in order to divide us and conquer us. Never forget this fact.

I want to add something here in terms of our desperate need to protect ourselves from deception. The Spirit of the Lord resides in everyone who confesses the Name of Jesus Christ. When you accept Him into your heart, the Spirit enters and that grain of faith ignites within you. This houses the Dunamis power of the Living God. The greater your faith, the greater the power of the Living God that resides within you, increases. If a faith, to the tune of a tiny mustard seed within the believer is enough to uproot a mulberry tree, imagine the impact of the words that come from a person who mature in Christ. (Luke 17:6) The more you nurture your faith, through prayer and spending time in the Word of God, surrounding yourself with truth, the greater measure of the Spirit of the Living God you will house. Your anointing will increase, your discernment will expand, and the authority of God that resides within you will grow.

God’s authority is over Satan’s kingdom.

Even as a babe in Christ, we house a significant amount of God’s presence. However, we do not have God’s discernment, nor do we possess more than that mustard seed’s value of the wisdom of God. If we, as Christians, enter the realms of the kingdom of darkness such as social media, YouTube, TikTok, Telegram, Entertainment, the realms in which the world finds their pleasure and their distractions—and we choose to reside there or spend a disproportionate amount of time in this place—the Light within will begin to diminish until without realizing it, we are hiding it under a bushel where it can, and will, be snuffed out. Even if we delay that process, or God in His mercy delays it, we will come to see all information through the lens of Satan’s kingdom. We become what we consume.

Conversely, when we spend time in the Word and prayer, the wisdom, understanding, knowledge and discernment that comes only from the Spirit of the Living God takes that tiny mustard seed of faith and causes it to expand within us until we are filled to overflowing. When this happens, we will begin to see all information that comes at us through the lens of the Living God.

Last time I encouraged a social media detox. Social media can serve as a benefit, but I would argue, without discernment, we are being sucked into a vacuum of information that may or may not be true. How will we know without discernment?

In terms of Israel, social media posts have, more often than not, amplified unverified claims in terms of the conflict. TikTok and Telegram house the largest vacuum of misinformation (misleading) and disinformation (intentional) campaigns. There are Pro-Palestinian videos on TikTok with billions upon billions of views. In fact, Pro-Palestinian posts outnumber pro-Israel posts 15:1 in an October 2023 Humanz study and that was immediately following the October 7th attack! Yet, those posts are still circulating today in addition to the new posts being created every single day.

We see this on X as well, with the spread of misinformation, e.g., fake BBC reports and even movie and video game clips spread across the interwebs as war footage every single day. Hamas have been quite adept at using Telegram to spread their propaganda, not only pro-Hamas but anti-Israel misinformation and disinformation. The same can be said of Iran, the primary funder of Hamas.

Years ago, I noticed multiple discrepancies coming out of both Telegram and TikTok on a variety of different issues, things that were contrary to what I was seeing with my own eyes, I learned then that I could no longer trust the content. It is so full of misinformation and disinformation. That’s why I stopped posting our ministry articles and messages on Telegram. We’ve never been on TikTok. These are avenues of deception.

We should all ask ourselves: why would I subject myself to routine injections of deception? It’s kind of like taking allergy shots, they eventually cause you to be desensitized to the allergen that once assaulted your system and made it sick. Do we really want to be desensitized to deception? Routine injections of it will indeed have this effect.

When we see deception, it should shock us, our spirit-man should rise up like a shield from within to protect us from its impact, its wiles, its ways. This has been a battle since Satan deceived Eve in the Garden. God has given us the tools in His Word, when will we learn to use them, every single time Satan comes our way with his deception?

Another side of this is the participation in the enemy’s plans against God’s plans. When we embrace the enemy’s deception and spread that deception, we are participating in the enemy’s plans rather than God’s. So, not only are we desensitized to deception, but we also become part of propagandizing deception.

What is God saying? That is what I want to know. What is He saying to me? What is He saying for America? For Israel? What is the Biblically based timeline we need to be following?

The Christian’s responsibility to Israel in 2025 is to reject replacement theology and embrace Biblical truth. We must reject the deception of the Media. We must pray for the Lord to intervene according to His will and His ways. We must see the events in front of us through His lens and not our own.

I’m going to share two visions I had with you and then next week, I’d like to share the history of Israel’s forced land-for-peace deals which never brought peace. I also want to share about Hamas and their rise to power. Spoiler alert, Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its primary funding is through this network with $100 Million annually being sent to Hamas for their terrorist efforts.

Israel Surrounded Vision 8/30/25

I was in prayer and saw Israel surrounded on all sides by her enemy. From the north to the south, the east to the west, these nations seemed to be swelling up like thick black silicone material filled with liquid. I have this outdoor shower bag. It holds 5 gallons of water. Empty it lays flat, but it expands as you fill it up with water. That’s what these nations looked like as they expanded, they were moving closer to Israel, encroaching upon her borders and then trying to climb up over her borders and move inward. The goal was to snuff Isarel completely out of existence.

I sought the Lord on this and began praying fervently for Israel. Those bags just got fuller… Suddenly, I saw an angel shoot up from the center of Israel and thrust those bags, those surrounding nations, backwards and completely drain them of their power.

I asked the Lord how to respond, He said “push back their plans and they will not succeed.” That confirms what He showed me when I prayed.

This is viewing the things through the lens of the Lord. I had to put down my own natural fears for Israel to hear what God’s will was for this situation.

Why would I fear for Israel?

This is not just about Israel. The globalists are pushing for WWIII and they have a deep-seated hatred for Israel. Israel is their focal point to push for a great and horrific world-wide massacre. There was a time, decades ago, where Jews, Arabs, and Muslims could walk the same streets in peace. The division we see today, is part of a greater plan to snuff out Isarel.

Today, with Israel surrounded by her enemies and those nations being propagandized to hate Israel, blame Israel for their poverty, their suffering, their misery, etc., it simply reeks of the propagandizing of the world against the Jews in WWII. I can promise you, just like dictators and communist leaders used the persecution and genocide of the Jewish people as a catalyst to turn on their own unwanted citizens thereby committing horrific genocides within their own borders during WWII, they will do so today.

6 million Jews were killed under the Nazi-led Holocaust but sucked into this vacuum of murderous rage were an additional 5 million Christians, political prisoners, minorities, disabled, and so on.

This was a catalyst of death. In the end, 50-55 million were killed in genocidal massacres in the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Yugoslavia, Japan, throughout Asia and Eastern Europe because one man’s hatred, provoked another, and another, until the world was bathed in the blood of the innocent.

The Church must stand against this, we must. The fate of untold millions depends upon it.

Let’s pray…

Blessings in Him,

Ricci