Fully Alive: Pastor Mark Ivey on Revival, Righteousness, and a Church on Fire
About this episode
Pastor Mark Ivey of Christ Alive Church in Newton, North Carolina joins Philip Cameron for a revelatory conversation about one of the most dramatic — and least-reported — spiritual stories of our time: the explosive growth of Christianity inside Iran. Mark unpacks how the 1979 Iranian Revolution, far from silencing the gospel, actually ignited it. "When they showed the full face of Islam," Mark explains, "the people of Iran said, 'We don't want it. There has to be something better.'" From nine Bibles sold in a single year to an estimated two million underground believers, the transformation is staggering. Mark shares a hidden prophetic word — literally concealed from secret police in a private home — foretelling a coming window of liberty for the gospel in Iran, a season he believes has now arrived. He draws a direct parallel to the post-Soviet revival in Russia, warning the Church that these windows open and close: "The body of Christ has to be ready… we've got to be instant in there with the gospel." The conversation also covers the historical truth about Palestine, the significance of America's recent military action against Iran's nuclear program, and Mark's firsthand account of preaching to 15,000 people in Pakistan — where a visible cloud formed over the congregation during the altar call. For more from Mark Ivey, visit www.christalive.com.
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Quotes worth sharing
“When they showed the full face of Islam — and it was really a result of Khomeini's effort to turn Iran into the full face of what the worship of Allah really is — the people of Iran said, we don't want it. There's got to be something better. When they saw what Islam was really about, they didn't want it. They said, there has to be something better. In a year's time, my friend sold a million Bibles.”
“We talk about Israel going into Iran — it's prophetic. Because then when America went in and bombed the nuclear sites, we think this is a political, governmental thing. God is arranging the circumstances, not just for something that is governmental, but that is spiritual. And the nation is going to open up again. Many of the spiritual battles of the day are fought on the political battlefield.”
“I was just in Pakistan in March. And I was preaching to about 15,000 people. And while I'm preaching, a cloud forms over the congregation. Now they saw it behind me — we have pictures of this. I was preaching so I didn't notice it. A cloud forms over the congregation and then disperses across everyone. And we had this massive response to salvation. I'm telling you, it isn't about us. It is about the mind of God to reach the nations of the world. And all we have to be is present. If we'll just show up, God will do it.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Mark Ivey of Christ Alive Church (Newton, NC) details how Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution paradoxically sparked the world's fastest-growing house church movement — now estimated at two million believers. He recounts a friend's journey from selling nine Bibles in a year to distributing one million after Iranians rejected the full face of Sharia. Mark references a hidden prophetic word predicting a short window of gospel liberty in Iran following regime disruption, comparing it to the post-Soviet spiritual awakening in Russia. He also addresses the historical absence of a Palestinian state, citing Emperor Hadrian's renaming of the region as 'Palestina,' and shares a miraculous account of a cloud forming over 15,000 worshippers in Pakistan. Website: www.christalive.com.
- Iran's Fastest-Growing House Church Movement
- The 1979 Revolution and Its Spiritual Aftermath
- Nine Bibles to One Million: A Gospel Explosion
- Hidden Prophecy and the Coming Gospel Window
- Lessons from Russia's Post-Soviet Revival
- Pakistan Miracle: A Cloud Over 15,000
- The Biblical Truth About Palestine
- Emperor Hadrian and the Myth of Palestinian Statehood
Episode Transcript
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Intro
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Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith 30. My name is Philip Cameron, and you may have just, it seems by chance, that you've switched on today and you're wondering what we're doing. Listen, we've got a word from the Lord for you today. And my dear friend, a great man of God, Mark Ivey, is with me. He pastors a church in North Carolina and he's got something to share about Israel. We are living in the most amazing times. If you told me 10 days ago, two weeks ago, that Israel would've done to Iran what it has done, and that America would've done what they've done — do you understand the magnitude of what those bombers did? Leaving America, never touching the earth, all the way there.
Philip:I think we were over in Iran airspace with three or four minutes, that's all they were there. Not a bullet shot and not a missile launched, in and out and on the way home. And literally in just a few moments changed the entire focus and form of the Middle East. Presidents upon presidents have been too afraid to do what's just been done because they thought that Iran was such a beast and such a monster that they couldn't control it.
Philip:Thank God for President Donald J. Trump. If another candidate had been the president, Iran may have by this time spun up their material and their stuff to make bombs. And they were literally working it up to the point of it being ready for a nuclear device. And it was one of those moments — I only think that history will show us how close we were to Iran having a bomb. And unlike other nations that have bombs, including Israel and America and Great Britain and all the others, they are too scared to use it. When you are driven by such ideology as this radical Islam, as soon as they got it, they were compelled to destroy — their whole reason for existence is to remove Israel from the face of the earth. And there is no better guest today to have on our program than Mark Ivey. He'll be coming to you in a moment.
Philip:So if you watch this, if you like the program, share it. If you would, please hit the share button and share this, because this is a good one. You need to share this. If you love your pastor, call him right now and say, listen, watch Daily Faith. Just go to DailyFaith.tv. We are on there right now and you can be a part of today's program. And I promise you, you will hear information today that you can share, that your pastor can share with his congregation this weekend, that will educate the church. Because I am amazed at how remiss the church is in preparation for the great harvest that we are expected to see.
Philip:If you don't prepare, you're going to be caught out every time. So stay tuned. You're gonna be blessed today. Remember, we are on YouTube. If you go to youtube.com/dailyfaith — I'll get it right eventually. And by doing so, you can be a part with us. And I do a reel every couple of days and we'll change it, and it's just a thought for the day you can carry in your mind and your spirit that will maybe help you and activate you.
Philip:Do a closer walk with Jesus. Daily Faith is here to help you have a daily, a closer walk with the Lord Jesus. Because when you walk with him, there's no standing still in your daily walk with the Lord. You're either moving forward or you're going back. And we sure want to be part of your forward momentum towards the great day when you see him face to face. Enough of me blathering on — blathering is a good Scottish word, isn't it? But we have got a great program and I'm glad you're here, and you'll be meeting my friend Mark Ivey in a couple of minutes. And he's got information that will enrich your life. I'm delighted you're with us. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron and I am delighted to have you with us. We've got a great friend today on the program, a real friend of our ministry that has been part of what we've done in Moldova for many, many years. One of the founding supporters of our ministry there. He's a great man of God. He's one of those pastors that refuse to settle. A lot of churches in the world today just kind of go through the motions and they have a set thing and they just wanna go through it. And you almost think that the pastor's just waiting for retirement to come.
Philip:Mark Ivey is not one of those. He's got a church, Christ Alive, that is really alive, and he's constantly sounding out in the depths of God for more. He wants more. And every time I talk to him, he makes me hungry, because I see hunger in him. Iron sharpens iron and he's just a great friend and a great man of God. I can't wait for you to meet him.
Philip:My son Andrew just got back from Moldova. For those that don't know — most of you do, watching the program — 35 years ago I adopted a wee boy in an orphanage in Timișoara, Romania. I wasn't looking to adopt anyone. I had two kids. I told everyone any more than two kids, you can't educate them properly, you can't spend time with them, et cetera, et cetera. And when I walked into this room, I was made to go to Romania by my dad. He'd watched on the BBC this revolution that had taken place and babies were being warehoused in these orphanages. And he kept calling me, saying there are babies dying.
Philip:And he finally said — he was recovering from cancer, a melanoma that had been cut from his back, and the wound had burst, it was a mess — and he said, I'm going. If you won't go with me, I'll go by myself. And he did. He pushed me into going. And I flew home to Scotland, the whole town heard about it, and we got there. I walked into this room — and I'm writing a book just now called Moments, oh, I can't wait for you to get this book — you are the end result of a million moments of your life. Tiny moments that can move your trajectory by just, by nothing. It seems nothing at the time, but over the years the diversity of where you've gone to where you could have been.
Philip:This is one of those moments. I'm walking around this place with my dad. I was so sick, I hated it. The smell of human waste and the babies screaming and rocking in their cribs. I wanted out. And we walk around the bottom floor and he says, oh, there's an upstairs. I says, no, no, no, no. He says, let's go upstairs. I says, dad, it's the same as down here. Leave it alone.
Philip:Well, he paid no attention. He got up the stairs, I'm walking behind him complaining, and he gets up the stairs and into salon number five. And he opened the door and walked in. And I walked in behind him and he stopped. And as I walked behind him, I'm looking through this glass wall and there's a whole bunch of kids, filthy. And in the middle of all this mess, there's a wee face looking at me.
Philip:And his cheeks were sucked in and he's looking up towards where I was. And the Holy Ghost spoke to me and he said, that's your son. As clearly as I've ever heard his voice. I walked into the room, went down the aisle, picked this little one up, covered in waste, hair matted. And I said, I don't know who you are, but I promise you I will never stop until I get you a home. And that moment has set the course of my whole life.
Philip:Find a moment. Believe God for a moment. Get a moment. We now have homes in Ukraine and Moldova. And one of the great problems we're facing is little kids. The orphanages are closing down. The government is giving people money to take an orphan into their house. And all they're getting is booze money and someone they can work in the fields, and it's terrible. And we had a horrible situation. A young girl called Maria, 14, came from a terrible family and came to us.
Philip:And the government, because she was underage — we could only take, in the homes we have now, 16 years and up — we put her back. And she was gang raped a week or two after she went back. And it absolutely devastated us. And Nadia, one of our head girls, took her back to the village and she called me. She said, I'll never do that again. And we've been working and trying to find a place ever since, several false starts. And we finally found a place. We've signed the documents, we've paid the first payment, and we have a place in a town called Ungheni.
Philip:And Andrew was just there. I said all that to say this — Andrew was just there and he sent me a video. My granddaughters that you'll see in the video are staying on the floor in the bathroom of this house because they're having camps on the grounds of the camp. Watch this. A new report from Ungheni. Watch this.
Andrew:Hey, this is Andrew from the Orphan's Hands. Right now I am standing in our newest project that we're believing God for — Promise House. And Promise House will help kids ages four to 16. And our hope is that we can save all kids that don't have a place to go, a place of safety. And also when they come here, they'll learn about the love of Jesus through family. Our kids from Vara will be able to come on weekends and pour into them and hang out with them and basically become big brothers and big sisters to these younger kids as well.
Andrew:We walked around the property and looked at the area that we're gonna make a camp. And so our kids from Vara will host summer camps and impact kids all throughout this region. We learned recently — Nadia just had a meeting with Child Protection Services and there's over 70 villages tied to this city that need help. They don't have a great assistance program for young children. And so Promise House will become a key part and an impact point to help kids.
Andrew:So we ask you to pray for us. It's a big challenge, something that we've prayed about. God led us to this property. There's two homes that are gonna help over 50 kids. We're asking you to pray for what we're doing here in Ungheni. And hopefully, you know, one day you'll be able to stand here and see the kids and the lives that what you're giving has impacted. So we thank you very much for what you're doing on a continual basis and supporting this ministry. God bless you.
Philip:Wow. It's amazing to watch your own son that you adopted from an orphanage. And that's the boy that I was looking at in the orphanage 35 years ago. And to watch him have the same passion as I do, it's just an amazing thing. And now my grandkids, the two young girls, 16 and 13, are there right now. They've spent the whole summer and will be spending the whole summer doing youth camps all over Moldova. And my prayer with all my heart is that God uses these moments to cement in them a desire and a hunger for the lost.
Philip:Nadia, the girl that took Maria back to the village — she was standing in the picture. I found her 17 years ago in an orphanage. She is handicapped. She only has a thumb on her right hand. And boy, if you tell her she's handicapped, she'll tell you straight that she's not. But I remember talking to her — I didn't speak any Romanian, she didn't speak any English — but I remember telling her the promise of God, how God could use her. And she has now become the head, the leader of the ministry in Moldova. Fearless girl goes to Ukraine with supplies right past all the army checks. No fear.
Philip:And one day I said to her, I says, you know, aren't you afraid? She says, no, I died in an orphanage a long time ago. Everything I've had since that point has been a blessing. And that's more faith than I have. One of those two houses is finished, apart from the horrible pink paint which we're gonna paint. That house is ready to be opened today. I could open that house today. We found a couple. All of the stuff, all the elements to start, is in place, except one thing. We don't have the funds to open it. We are stretched at the moment to keep what we're doing going.
Philip:And every house that will be opened in Ungheni will take 300 people giving a dollar a day. That's what it'll cost. That'll pay for all the salaries and the transportation costs and all the running costs that we have. And we need 300 people. If you are one of 300 people, could you, for $30 a month, open up a whole new ministry in Ungheni that would rescue 50 little boys and girls from horrendous — beyond your imagination horrendous — circumstance, and take them at their formative years and put them into a family where Jesus is just part of life? It's in the air. And by the time they get to 16, we can take them to Vara, which is our amazing place.
Philip:It's a fabulous place, was built for rich people on the largest lake in Moldova. And the kids are 16 and they go to college there. And the work that they're doing is incredible. But I can't open these houses until we have the funds to keep it open. And if I could say to you, we could open up this whole place for a dollar a day, would you do it? All I need is 300 people to think that thought and we'll be able to do it. So let the Lord speak. We've just made a payment of $150,000 and we need to make another payment in the next couple of weeks, and we have half the money towards that. So please be praying. If you feel led, make a one-time gift. Let the Lord speak to your heart. We need a miracle today. And God's never failed us.
Philip:PO Box 25, the Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. You can also go to DailyFaith.tv — there's a giving page there — also OrphansHands.org. Or you can dial 833-DAILY-FAITH and a live person will pick up your call and you can make a miracle happen for a wee girl like Maria. I never want to do that again, ever. And you can have that power.
Philip:I am delighted to have with me a man who loves what we do and has been such a great support over the years to us. Mark Ivey pastors Christ Alive in Newton, North Carolina, with his wife Tiffany — an amazing church. If you are ever in that area, if you live in that area, drive a hundred miles to go and be a part of the worship and the praise and the ministry that is part of that church. Every single time he's been with us in Moldova, he knows what I'm talking about. And I'm honored to have him with us today on Daily Faith. Mark, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. And I couldn't think of a better guest to have on today than you, because of what's taking place in Israel. Thank you for coming with us.
Mark Ivey:I'm honored to be here again with you, Philip. Love your family, love your friendship, and love what God has done over the years with the Orphan's Hands. It's just really amazing.
Philip:Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's what I'm saying — you've been there, you've met these kids, you know Nadia. I've never seen kids like them in my life.
Mark Ivey:Yeah, it's really, you cannot put it into words. You can only experience it. And the hand of God is just on what is taking place there. And I don't want to put any pressure on you on TV — far be it from me — but they still talk about you and Ashton being there, and they're asking when you're coming back. So you better get your calendar out and start planning, because they loved the times of ministry when you were with them.
Philip:Yeah, it was good. And I need to send Ashton, my son, back there because they loved Ashton. I think if you let him go there by himself, he is not coming back.
Iran's Fastest-Growing House Church Movement
Mark Ivey:Send his wife. That's likely to be true. And you'll never see him again.
Philip:I want to talk to you today in the time that we have about what's going on in Israel. Could you give us an education — which I think the church surely lacks — in what's going on there right now?
Mark Ivey:Well, with everything that is taking place with Israel and Iran right now, what a lot of people don't know is that Iran has the fastest growing house church movement in the world.
Philip:That's amazing.
Mark Ivey:By estimates, there are like 2 million believers now in Iran. And the reason that took place, it wasn't random. I did not know this, but in 1979 when the Iranian Revolution took place, that was the end of a 60-year agreement between Iran, Great Britain, and other nations for oil profits. There was a 50-50 split on the profits.
The 1979 Revolution and Its Spiritual Aftermath
Philip:Yeah.
Mark Ivey:And in 1979, the leaders in Iran decided that they were going to kick all foreign entities out. And that's what happened. There were 80,000 Americans living, working, prospering in Iran itself at the time. So Iran was becoming the Japan of the Middle East at the time.
Philip:Yeah. So explain to folks — Iran wasn't always like it is today. I mean, it was a cosmopolitan, western-style dress. They went to the beach with their families. I mean, they were literally like Paris. It was a gorgeous country.
Mark Ivey:Yes, it was. And it was becoming the Middle Eastern place to be. And it was gorgeous. And they kicked 80,000 Americans out. They were making money, they loved living in Iran. In 1979 when the Iranian Revolution took place, they removed all foreign entities and held all the oil for themselves.
Mark Ivey:Then within a five-year period of time — and I'll explain why the five-year period of time is when this crackdown on Christianity occurred — it didn't happen immediately. You couldn't get somebody in Iran to purchase a book. And I have a friend that was there living in Iran, he was brought up in Iran, born there. And the Lord spoke to him and said, I want you to publish books and I want you to sell Bibles.
Philip:Wow.
Mark Ivey:He said, God, nobody here is buying books. Well, he obeyed God. The first year, before the revolution, they sold nine Bibles the whole year. And he said, God, this isn't working.
Nine Bibles to One Million: A Gospel Explosion
Philip:That's a bad business model there.
Mark Ivey:And when the revolution happened, he said for about the first five years the mullahs and everyone were fighting one another and they didn't really care what Christianity did. Well, what happened was when they showed the full face of Islam — and it was really a result of Khomeini's effort to turn Iran into the full face of what the worship of Allah really is — the people of Iran, and this is what individuals need to understand, the people of Iran said, we don't want it. There's got to be something better. When they saw what Islam was really about, they didn't want it. They said, there has to be something better.
Mark Ivey:In a year's time, my friend sold a million Bibles. And what began to happen was that from the underground believers, this rise of Christianity began to happen.
Philip:That's unreal.
Mark Ivey:Two out of every three Muslims in the world right now are coming to Jesus through supernatural experiences, dreams, visions. Jesus is appearing to them. And when the full face of Islam was shown in Iran, the church — you could share Jesus before the Iranian Revolution but nobody cared. After the Iranian Revolution you could not share Jesus, but they saw the real Jesus.
Philip:Hallelujah.
Mark Ivey:The church went underground. There are 2 million Christians that are serving Jesus passionately for God. Many of them — my friend's sister, she was martyred. They poisoned her because she was a fearless advocate for Jesus. And a prophetic word was given a number of years ago in Iran. It was written on a piece of paper. They hid it in a house because they knew that the secret police were going to enter these homes. And if they found the prophetic word, they would lose their lives. Here's what the word said — that there was going to be a regime change in Iran. And for a period of about two to three years thereabouts, Iran was going to open up to the gospel again.
Hidden Prophecy and the Coming Gospel Window
Philip:I think we've lost Mark. I never knew about this revolution that's taking place. You see, we only see the monolithic front of Islam. And you think — you see all the ladies with burkas and everything — oh, nothing will change. God has his church. And the more that you persecute and the more that you pressure the church — nine Bibles the first year, millions the next year.
Philip:And I just want you to understand that this thing that's taking place today is prophetic. And I just know, and I hope we get Mark back on, because it is so important to understand what God is doing. And this document, this prophecy that was written down and hidden, was that there's going to be a season, an amazing season of liberty to preach the gospel. And I believe we are coming into that right this minute.
Philip:And Mark was sharing with me just before the program that he had a pastor minister at the church there this last weekend. And what you think you know is not what's taking place — a whole move of God is taking place. I believe we got Mark back. Are you with us again, Mark?
Mark Ivey:I think I'm here. Am I there, Philip? I don't know what happened.
Philip:We lost you for a second, but go ahead.
Mark Ivey:So there are groups — Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, other religions — that have learned Farsi, the language of Iran. They are surrounding the nation, waiting for the nation to open up. Now Christians are a little behind in this, but the nation of Iran is going to open up. I plan on going, because there's a soccer stadium there that seats a hundred thousand people, and we're gonna get a window to preach the gospel in the nation of Iran. God is going to do this. And Muslims are coming to Christ by the millions around the world.
Philip:You're not just talking — this is a phenomenon that's happened everywhere.
Mark Ivey:Yes. And we talk about Israel going into Iran — it's prophetic. Because then when America went in and bombed the nuclear sites, we think this is a political, governmental thing. God is arranging the circumstances, not just for something that is governmental, but that is spiritual. And the nation is going to open up again. And what we're seeing right now is the hand of God. You know, many of the spiritual battles of the day are fought on the political battlefield.
Philip:Oh, so true. And we have a hard time understanding the connection between the two.
Mark Ivey:That's why the Bible says to pray for leaders, so that they can make good decisions. And I know that there's a lot of disagreement — well, should America be involved or whatever. Look, this is a prophetic moment in time when God is doing something that is gonna result in millions of people coming to the Lord. Now the prophetic word also said this — it's a window of time. And that window's gonna close and it's gonna get worse than ever. So when Jesus said, you didn't know the time of your visitation — he spoke to Jerusalem — there is a time of visitation. The Bible calls it a kairos moment in time.
Philip:Absolutely.
Mark Ivey:And the body of Christ has to be ready in order to be able to take advantage of what God is doing in America and around the world. We can't take five, ten years to get going. We've gotta be instant in there with the gospel. And the same thing happened in Russia when the Soviet Union fell apart. There was this whole — churches sprang up. And now when Putin came in, he began to control the church again. He outlawed a whole bunch of ministries because they didn't align with his orthodox view.
Lessons from Russia's Post-Soviet Revival
Mark Ivey:When that whole thing happened in Russia, Philip, I had a man here tell me — he was over there — he said a move of God happened. You didn't hear this on the news. When the wall fell, it not only fell politically, it fell spiritually. And there was a rush of the presence of God. He said it was easy to get people saved, easy to get people baptized in the Holy Spirit. Now that persisted for a period of time and then it died down. The same thing is going to happen in the Middle East. It's gonna happen in Iran, it's gonna happen in Iraq, it's going to happen in Israel among God's people.
Philip:Oh, grant it, Lord. And we're gonna see one of the greatest moves of God that we have ever known in human history. I love talking to you because you give me such hope. Because when you do what we do and we travel in churches and we see a broad scope, and you go to so many churches that have got no vision and they're in a survival mode — and I talk to someone like you and you have a worldview, thinking the whole earth can be filled with this glory. And this is not a time to sit back on the fence and say, oh well, there goes another country. This is the season for the church to get ready to go into Iraq, to go into all these countries with the living gospel.
Mark Ivey:Philip, I was just in Pakistan in March. And I was preaching to about 15,000 people. And while I'm preaching, a cloud forms over the congregation. Now they saw it behind me — we have pictures of this. I was preaching so I didn't notice it. A cloud forms over the congregation and then disperses across everyone. And we had this massive response to salvation. I'm telling you, it isn't about us. It is about the mind of God to reach the nations of the world. And all we have to be is present. If we'll just show up, God will do it.
Philip:I've taken off the back end of the program to give you another minute to share with us, because this is so important. Tell me what's going on in Palestine. People don't understand in the church. And you sent me something yesterday that I wanna make available to anyone that will contact us and say, send me Mark Ivey's white paper on Palestine. Tell us, give us a synopsis, a Reader's Digest on it.
Pakistan Miracle: A Cloud Over 15,000
Mark Ivey:What most people don't understand — we love the Palestinian people — but there is no such place as Palestine. There's not really a Palestinian people. There's never been a Palestinian capital. There's never been a Palestinian king. The Emperor Hadrian renamed the area Palestina. And most people don't understand the history of this, because you'll hear individuals say, well, Israel is occupying territory that doesn't belong to them. That's not true. That territory belonged to Israel from day one when God gave it to Abraham. And the whole history of Israel has been reimagined by people who don't know the actual history of Israel.
The Biblical Truth About Palestine
Mark Ivey:It belonged to Israel then, it belongs to Israel now. They're not occupying anything. And because of political wrangling over the years, we now have this place known as Palestine. It doesn't belong to any group of Palestinians because that group never really existed. It was formed by the Emperor Hadrian.
Philip:We are running up against the clock. Will you come back again and teach us on this? Because unless we understand this, we'll fall into the political trap of the hogwash that the world's talking about. There's no such thing as river to the sea. It doesn't exist. It's a figment of political imagination. If you would like to get in contact with Mark, his church is Christ Alive. The website is www.christalive.com. Get in contact with him if you want that information on Palestine. Do it. Thank you for watching Daily Faith today. Time's gone. We'll talk to you again. Bye-bye.
Common questions
Why does Mark Ivey say Iran has the fastest-growing house church movement in the world?
According to Ivey, when the 1979 Iranian Revolution brought the full face of radical Islam into everyday life, ordinary Iranians rejected it and started searching for something better. That spiritual hunger drove a massive underground turn to Christianity — a Bible publisher who sold only nine Bibles in his first year sold a million within a year of the revolution. Ivey estimates there are now around 2 million believers in Iran.
What does the hidden prophetic word from Iran say, according to Mark Ivey?
Ivey describes a prophetic word that was written down and concealed in a house in Iran because discovery by the secret police would have meant death. The word said there would be a regime change in Iran and a window of roughly two to three years during which the country would open up to the gospel — followed by a period worse than before. Ivey believes that window is opening right now as a result of recent military events.
How does Mark Ivey connect the military strikes on Iran to Bible prophecy?
Ivey argues that what looks like a political or governmental event is actually God arranging circumstances for a spiritual purpose. He draws a parallel to the fall of the Soviet Union, when the collapse of the wall triggered an easy, rapid move of God across Russia — and says the same pattern is about to repeat across the Middle East, including Iran, Iraq, and Israel.
What is Mark Ivey's position on whether Palestine is a real country?
Ivey argues there has never been a Palestinian state, capital, or king — the name 'Palestina' was simply imposed on the region by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. He says the land belonged to Israel from the time God gave it to Abraham, and that Israel is not occupying foreign territory. He attributes the modern framing of a Palestinian people to political maneuvering rather than historical fact.
What happened at Mark Ivey's preaching event in Pakistan?
While Ivey was preaching to roughly 15,000 people in Pakistan in March, a visible cloud formed over the congregation — caught on camera — and then dispersed across the crowd. He says the meeting produced a massive salvation response, and he uses it as evidence that God is actively moving to reach Muslim nations right now.
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