Word of the Lord originally released on August 4, 2026:
Watchmen, I submit the following vision for prayerful testing and careful consideration.
For nearly the past two weeks, I have repeatedly been shown the same powerful vision in the spirit. I keep seeing what looks like a gallows, and hanging from the gallows is what I can only describe as a heavy-looking pendant. As the vision has come before me again and again, I have been shown greater detail each time. At first, what seemed to be a simple pendant then appeared to be a very large, and exceedingly heavy, gold/silver pendant. It looked to be a mixture of metals, the kind one would wear around the neck.
This was no ordinary pendant. It was formed from many different world currency symbols, all brought together into one. I could clearly see the U.S. dollar, the euro, the pound, and other major world currencies, all seemingly fused together into a single pendant.
Then I noticed something very significant: the pendant itself was not hanging from a chain,
but rather, the neck of the pendant was a hangman's noose. Immediately I was reminded of Haman. Haman constructed the gallows for another, but ultimately he was hanged upon the very structure he had prepared. "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai" (Esther 7:10 ESV).
The System Shall Be Caught in the Very Snare It Has Created
Suddenly I heard by the Spirit, "The system shall be caught in the very snare it has created." Immediately in this strange vision, I saw that there is coming a great global shaking within the financial and economic systems of the nations. It is a shaking that is unlike what has taken place in past decades. What will take place will be described as shocking, unprecedented, and even catastrophic because of the global ripple effect and its impact on the nations.
As I kept seeing glimpses of this strange vision during the last few weeks—which seemed to come with greater imagery and a greater understanding each time—I heard these words as I saw the heavy pendant suddenly drop in the vision, "the breaking of the neck of the Babylonian system that has controlled finance and economy!"
When I heard those words, I knew by the Spirit that what I was being shown was not only about individual currencies but about a far greater Babylonian system—one that has exercised influence and exerted power and control over the financial, economic, political, religious, and even pharmaceutical structures and institutions across the nations of the earth. It looked like a spider's web—an interconnected global system whose influence had reached into every sphere of society, and whose power had extended across the nations.
The Final Nail in the Coffin
Then the vision shifted, and my eyes were drawn away from the pendant and toward the main beam of the gallows. As I looked at the gallows, it became like a large nail, which seemed only partly driven into the ground. And I heard, "The final nail in the coffin."
Suddenly I saw what looked like a hammer at first, but as I looked again, I saw that it was not a hammer but a gavel—a gavel that a judge would strike upon a wooden block. I watched as the gavel came down hard upon the nail, and I heard these words: "His righteous right hand shall drive the final nail into the coffin!" (Photo via Public Domain Pictures)
Immediately there came an overwhelming weight of the fear of the Lord—a holy weight of Heaven's judicial power and authority descending upon the economies of the nations. As I watched this unfold in the spirit, I could feel the gravity of what I was seeing and hearing. It carried the unmistakable weight of a prophetic declaration of finality. A system will be brought to its appointed conclusion. And yet even as I watched judgment unfolding, I suddenly became aware that this shaking was not only unto destruction. But I heard the words, "Divine transfer."
A Divine Transfer: Heaven Is Asserting Ownership
Pay attention! God is revealing a prophetic timeline. When Babylon fell in Daniel 5, the kingdom did not disappear into nothingness. Authority changed hands: an old order ended and new order emerged.
"Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations...
"The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith the Lord of hosts!" (Haggai 2:6–8 KJV)
I clearly heard the Lord asserting ownership: "The silver is Mine. The gold is Mine." In this hour the courtroom of Heaven is in session, and the Judge is rendering His final decision. The sound of the Judge's gavel is about to go forth across the nations.
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN
"This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided." (Daniel 5:26–28 NKJV)
Watch! For I believe we are entering into a time when the handwriting of God shall be seen upon the walls of the financial systems of nations. It will be a time when that which has appeared untouchable, unshakable, and too powerful to fall shall suddenly be weighed in the balance. I heard again in my spirit, "Babylon has been weighed in the balances."
As I heard those words, I knew by the Spirit that this was not only speaking of a greater economic shaking but of divine judgment being rendered upon a financial system that has long exalted itself against the purposes of God. There was a deep knowing in my spirit that we are approaching a time of tremendous global financial shifts. We are about to witness the death of an old Babylonian financial and economic system and structure that has ruled the affairs of men.
I heard these words: "The breaking of its neck draws nigh; the final verdict is being rendered. The final nail will be driven into its coffin!"
Revelation 18 came up before me: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!" (v. 2). And again, "For in one hour so great riches is come to nought" (v. 17 KJV). "One hour" it says! That means it will happen suddenly, swiftly, and unexpectedly! What men believe would take decades to dismantle, God can bring down in one hour. What nations believe is too deeply entrenched to ever be moved can suddenly be shaken by the hand of God. What kings, merchants, and financial powers believe will endure from generation to generation can suddenly come under the gavel of the Righteous Judge.
The Ecclesia Must Strike the Final Blow
Let me try to articulate this in the best way that I can. When I saw the beam of the gallows become as a nail and the gavel come down upon the nail, and when I heard the words "The final nail shall be driven into the coffin," I saw by the Spirit that there had been many nails before now, many defining moments throughout history, and many divine interventions, shakings, and judgments. (Photo via Unsplash)
I saw each moment in history like another nail that had been driven into the same coffin. Even as I sat listening and writing, as the Spirit continued to give me understanding, Holy Spirit quickened to me the striking of the arrows in 2 Kings 13. The prophet Elisha instructed King Joash to take arrows and strike them upon the ground.
"And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it." (2 Kings 13:18–19 KJV)
I was reminded that every strike of the arrows represented another appointed blow against the enemy. Every strike declared the divine intervention of God. Every strike moved the victory nearer to its appointed time of full manifestation. However, we also know that King Joash had stopped short. He stopped striking before Heaven had finished speaking. As I prayed into this, I heard the Lord saying that there has been a striking of "arrows" through His governing Ecclesia that has repeatedly struck at the Babylonian systems of this world.
Each strike further weakened the system and brought the nations nearer to a divine tipping point. Each strike was like another nail driven into the coffin. But now I submit by the Spirit that we are approaching a defining moment, and the Ecclesia must not stop short. The Ecclesia must strike the final blow, the final nail.
Babylon the Great Is Fallen!
It was quickened to me as I wrote this that a few months ago—as I prayed a prayer concerning the new year ahead—the Spirit had said to me, "It's time to drive a sharpened stake into the head of the snake at the gate. It's time to cross over!"
Take heart. We know that the final verdict has already been written in the courts and is NOW moving toward its appointed manifestation in the earth realm. The Babylon system has survived many shakings, but we also know that the revelation does not end with Babylon being wounded; it ends with Babylon falling. "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen" (Revelation 18:2)!
Therefore, I believe the Lord is revealing again a powerful prophetic timeline. What is currently taking place in the nations is not a series of isolated events. They are successive death blows—strategic and successive judgments. Each strike of the arrows is building upon the former UNTIL we see the appointed fullness of time made manifest. Listen! That which has stood in arrogant defiance against the purposes of God shall finally come crashing to the ground, fully dismantled and destroyed!
This vision is revealing a greater economic shaking and instability, yes, but it is also revealing the outworking of divine justice, as the Judge of all the earth will render His righteous verdicts. We know that Heaven has set an appointed end for Babylon. A new time, a new season, is upon the nations. Heaven's judgments will bring an end to one order in preparation for the birthing of another.
A Season Marked by Greater Demonstrations of Divine Judgment and Supernatural Restoration
The Holy Spirit then showed me some things that I had not seen before in the striking of the arrows in 2 Kings 13 and the floating axe head in 2 Kings 6. I saw a powerful prophetic thread emerging. One speaks of the Ecclesia refusing to stop striking until Heaven's purpose is brought into full manifestation. The other speaks of God supernaturally restoring the cutting edge required for the remnant to build, reform, and establish in the season that is now emerging.
Interestingly, only days earlier, the Lord had already drawn my attention to the book of Judges. Then, in the new vision, He was shining a spotlight on the book of Kings. I believe this again speaks to the divine transition we are now in, and it is highly significant. As we move toward Rosh Hashanah and into the new Hebrew Year 5787, I believe we are entering a season marked by a greater demonstration of divine judgment and supernatural restoration.
It will be a tumultuous and chaotic season marked by many dangerous, unpredictable, and unprecedented events. Yet even in the midst of the shaking, we shall witness a simultaneous move of the Spirit in the earth realm. It'll be altar vs. altar, covenant vs. covenant, bride vs. bride, counterfeit vs. the real, and light vs. darkness. It will be a time and season where we will begin to see Babylon exposed and confronted in even greater ways. The courts of Heaven will begin to decree the dismantling while simultaneously restoring and redeeming that which belongs to the Kingdom. (Photo via Pexels)
The Axe Head Will Become the Cutting Edge Again
The analogy of the floating axe head, I submit, also speaks powerfully into this hour. The axe head was the "cutting edge." Without it, the work of building could not continue. Yet what had sunk beneath the waters, what had been lost and seemed impossible to recover, God supernaturally caused to rise again. This speaks prophetically to the coming season. That which has been lost—even stolen—that which has sunk beneath the surface, that which has lain dormant—even buried—is about to suddenly rise again. God is now beginning to redeem, recover, reclaim, restore, and reform the axe head that will become the cutting edge again.
Take note that the miracle of the floating axe head came during a time when the sons of the prophets were enlarging the place where they dwelt. Before enlargement came, God brought restoration. The redemptive heart of God brought restoration so that greater building could continue. The cutting edge had to be recovered. I believe, prophetically, this is where we now stand. We will see the gavel drive the nail of judgment into the head of the snake and the Babylonian systems begin to dismantle and fall.
God is going to simultaneously restore the cutting edge to His remnant, and the axe will come down upon the roots that have defiled the fruits. Furthermore, I submit that there is a powerful prophetic connection to the spirit and power of Elijah which shall come to rest upon an Elisha remnant that will rise from the place of obscurity. They are the Kingdom builders and reformers who carry the cutting edge to uproot and tear down, to build and plant. As we enter into this new season, I see a fresh manifestation of the double portion being released to those who are rightly aligned.
The double "7s" of the year 5787 prophetically speak to the divine restoration of Kingdom authority, the sharpening of the cutting edge of the prophetic, and the empowerment God's people for the work that lies ahead.
The Season of Judgment, Jubilee, and Divine Recovery
We are coming to a kairos time of separation and Kingdom reformation among the nations, where Heaven will move to restore what the powers of Hell thought had been permanently lost.
A word to the remnant watchmen: Watch and pray, for I see the Judge of all of creation is rendering His verdicts, and I hear these words: "The hour for reckoning, reconciliation, and reward. The gold crown, the sword, and the scepter. For the neck of Babylon shall surely be broken. The final nail shall be driven into the coffin of a perverse and corrupt Babylonian order. Watch, as the axe head floats again and the cutting edge is fully recovered!"
Warriors, get ready. I see a mighty, fearless, and God-fearing remnant rising to build and establish in the spirit and power of Elijah during a time of divine transition and a supernatural transfer of power in the days ahead.
I hear, "Prepare yourselves, for the mantle is moving and the oil is flowing. For there shall be a divine transition. There shall be a supernatural transfer. And there shall be a fresh commissioning of a fearless remnant who will confront the altars of Baal, and rebuild the altars of the Lord, and prepare the way for the coming move of My Word and Spirit!"
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Veronika West
Ignite Ireland Ministry
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Veronika West has been anointed and appointed by God as a prophetic voice to the nations. Veronika has a heart to see everyone in the body of Christ fully activated and released in their kingdom identity, purpose and destiny. Being born and raised in Africa, she also has a passion for deliverance ministry and seeing the hand of God set free the captives that are bound. She enjoys teaching the Word of God through practical application and supernatural impartation. Veronika heads up Ignite Ireland Ministries, and currently teaches a broad range of prophetic truths to those who are actively seeking to walk in deeper realms and dimensions of the prophetic ministry and office. Veronika is married to Andrew West, and together they have two children.
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