Plunder Hell, Populate Heaven

On Pentecost Sunday 2026 a room full of believers in Hamilton did something the Church has done since the book of Acts: we prayed, we worshipped, and we stood up to be sent. The Outpouring was glorious. But a night like that is not a finish line — it is a starting gun. This is the invitation that comes after it.

The evangelist Reinhard Bonnke used to sum up his whole life in five words: plunder hell to populate heaven. It is a phrase that makes some people uncomfortable, and it should. It assumes that heaven is real, that hell is real, and that the distance between them can be crossed by an ordinary believer with a Bible and a willingness to talk to a stranger. That is exactly what we believe — and it is why Katie and I have given our lives to it.

Hell has gates — and gates don't attack

When Jesus first spoke about His Church, He did not describe a fortress under siege. He described a Church on the move:

…on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

Matthew 16:18

Gates are defensive. Nobody has ever been chased down the street by a gate. Jesus was telling His followers that they would be the ones advancing, and that the strongest defences of darkness would not hold. That is what plundering hell means. It is not a slogan about winning arguments — it is about people. Paul put it plainly: God "has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13). Jude says to "save others by snatching them from the fire" (Jude 23).

Every rescue has a name and a face. A man on King Street who hasn't heard his own name spoken kindly in months. A student who has never once been told that God is not angry with her. A neighbour three doors down who has been in Canada for a year and has never been invited into a Canadian home. Heaven gets populated one of those conversations at a time — and Jesus said all of heaven notices:

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Luke 15:7

It starts on our knees: God, heal our land

Before a single note was played at The Outpouring, we called people to three days of prayer and fasting. That was not a programme detail. It was the whole foundation — and it is the same foundation behind God Heal Our Land, a national call to prayer for Canada built on one verse:

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Read the chapter around it and you notice something most banners leave out. Those words were spoken the night after fire came down from heaven at the dedication of the temple (2 Chronicles 7:1). God answered prayer with fire first — and then told His people how to come back to Him when the fire seemed far away. Four conditions: humble yourselves, pray, seek His face, turn. Three promises: He hears, He forgives, He heals the land.

The book of Acts follows the same order. The first believers "all joined together constantly in prayer" (Acts 1:14). Ten days later the Spirit fell like fire, Peter preached, and "about three thousand were added to their number that day" (Acts 2:41). Prayer, then fire, then people. That is what a healed land looks like in the New Testament: not first a better government, but a city full of people who have been forgiven.

Then it goes to the streets

Prayer that never leaves the building isn't revival. It's a meeting. So since 2014, through Love on Hamilton, we have taken the Gospel to the streets of our city every single week — street evangelism alongside practical care for Hamilton's homeless community. Today 50+ believers are out on those streets each week, and we have watched chains of addiction break, lives healed and hearts set on fire for God.

That work became Love on the World, and our goal now is to help establish 100 multiplying outreach groups around the world — ordinary believers in their own cities, doing what we do in Hamilton: loving people, sharing Jesus, and training the next person to do the same. Multiplication is not a strategy we invented. It is the math of Matthew 28.

Revival that never leaves the building isn't revival. It's a meeting.

Why partnership is the New Testament strategy

Katie and I serve on staff with e3 Ministry Canada — the ministry that hosted The Outpouring alongside I Am Second Canada. Our mission is simple: to see souls saved and Canada set ablaze for Christ. And like every missionary since the apostles, we can only do it because people choose to stand with us.

That is not a fundraising afterthought. It is how the Gospel has always travelled. Paul asked the question every sending church has to answer:

And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"

Romans 10:14-15

The people who sent Paul were not spectators. He called them partners: "I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now" (Philippians 1:4-5). Every person who heard the Gospel through Paul in Thessalonica and Corinth was, in part, fruit on the account of believers in Philippi who never left home. When you partner with a missionary, every rescue on those streets is shared fruit.

Four ways to stand with us

1. Pray. Make 2 Chronicles 7:14 your daily prayer for Canada. Start with the guide at God Heal Our Land, and pray for us by name — for open hearts on the streets and for every outreach group being planted.
2. Give. Become a monthly partner through our e3 Canada staff page. One-time and monthly gifts are both welcome; gifts are made to e3 Ministry Canada and receive a Canadian charitable tax receipt each February.
3. Go. Don't just fund the harvest — work in it. Find or start a Love on the World group in your city, or join a mission trip with e3 Canada.
4. Share. Send this to one person who was in the room at The Outpouring — or one who should have been. Read our story and follow along at KD-Ziedins.com.

Seven years

We held The Outpouring on Pentecost 2026 — seven years before Pentecost 2033, two thousand years since the Spirit first fell in Jerusalem. We don't treat that date as a prophecy. We treat it as a horizon: seven years in which every one of us can either keep attending meetings, or start multiplying.

So here is our ask, as plainly as we know how to say it. Pray with us. Give with us. Go with us. Let's spend the next seven years taking ground the gates were never able to hold.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

Isaiah 6:8

Let's plunder hell and populate heaven — together, in Jesus' name.