Our Guest Jon Hamill
SID: My guest, Jon Hamill has such a unique call and situation in Washington, D.C. It sounds like your location is so picked by God, is strategic.
JON: It is remarkable. In fact, it came by a vision. And we’re on the 21st floor of a condominium that overlooks all of Washington, D.C. There’s very few places, even in D.C. where you can actually see the White House. We can see the White House. We can see the Capitol. We can even see the Supreme Court, as well as all the monuments.
SID: You have so many stories of what God has shown you about the political environment in the US and the world for that matter. But you also have relationships with very strategic people and you can piece all this stuff together. I think it’s fascinating. Sometimes I bet you feel like you’re a detective.
JON: I do. To be behind the scenes and behind the veil at the same time is an honor. And it’s sometimes a little overwhelming, but we’ve seen some of the most extraordinary turnarounds, I believe, in modern American history.
SID: We’re going to talk about some of them, but in 2014, you heard a most important term. It really is the story of your life and your purpose. You heard the word turnaround. Tell me the context.
JON: Yes sir. We’re praying over Washington, D.C. from our perch and the Holy Spirit spoke to me about the turnaround he wanted to bring to the United States of America and to the US government. And he gave me a chapter from the book of Daniel. In Daniel 7:22, he sees a picture of the Court of Heaven. The Ancient of Days takes his seat and judgment is rendered in favor of the saints. We felt like the Lord was quickening to us, just to call it the turnaround verdict, Daniel 7:22, judgment in favor of the saints, restraining the enemy, releasing the saints to possess the kingdom.
SID: Now, why were you in Jerusalem during the election?
JON: Yeah, of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
SID: What year was that?
JON: That was 2015. We had been invited to go to Jerusalem just to spend some downtime with a friend who has a place that overlooks all of Mount Zion. And we were praying on when to go. And the Holy Spirit spoke to go and represent the body of Christ in Jerusalem. The former administration was really coming against Prime Minister Netanyahu, even sent its top political operative to work for Netanyahu’s opposition to topple Netanyahu. And we really felt that Washington, D.C. has no right to rule Jerusalem or rule Israel, that’s God’s covenant land. It’s the throne—only place on earth where God says, “This is my throne.” And so we went for the final 10 days of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s election with this Daniel 7:22 verdict. And I got to tell you, the folks that we are friends with, they said, “This is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard, except there’s no way it’s going to happen because there’s too much pressure on Israel to acquiesce to the administration.”
SID: The United States administration?
JON: Yes.
SID: The Obama administration.
JON: The Obama administration, that’s correct.
SID: Isn’t that awful that our United States President sent people to overturn an election in Israel?
JON: It is awful. It’s horrific. And of course, Prime Minister Netanyahu was standing against President Obama’s nuclear accords with Iran and which we perceived to be a covenant with death itself. And so we really felt like God wanted to bring a turnaround, but the ground zero of it wasn’t the White House. Even before the White House, it was Jerusalem in Israel. And he quickened into us that the same verdict that shifted the American political world, he was employing to shift Jerusalem and to shift Israel.