Rev. Dr. John Tweedie calls on Christians to express love in action to the people of Israel by presenting a biblical perspective of God’s plan for Israel and the church.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Beginning of Sorrows | July 14, 2026
- As we can all see from the evening news,
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- We are living through very distressing times.
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- Dare we hope things will improve as time goes on?
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- Or is it possible they'll get much worse answers next?
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- In this episode of the prophetic connection.
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- Soft music
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- Will things get better or worse?
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- Jesus answered the question for us
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- When he answered his disciples questions about the stones
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- Not standing one upon another.
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- What will be the sign of your coming
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- And of the end of the age?
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- And he gave them that long discourse
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- Of the signs of the times.
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- But among the things he said.
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- He said this in verse six,
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- And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
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- See that you are not troubled,
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- For all these things must come to pass.
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- But the end is not yet.
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- For nation will rise against nation
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- And kingdom against kingdom.
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- And there will be famines,
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- Pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
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- All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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- But what are the sorrows?
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- And why are these just the beginning?
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- What did jesus say
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- About signs in the world that would signal the nearness
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- Of his promised return at the end of days?
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- We all greatly anticipate the return of the messiah.
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- And we're very grateful that in the word of god,
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- Especially in the book of matthew,
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- Looking at chapter 24 and other places,
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- That yeshua himself gave us very specific things
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- To look for preceding his return.
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- Now, on the one hand, we might want there to be good
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- Signs, you know, fun, fruitful signs leading to his return.
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- And there will be some of that
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- In the last great harvest of the age.
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- But a lot of the warnings of the messiah preceding
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- His return are actually challenging.
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- The bible calls him a time of great distress.
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- In fact, you show himself described this time
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- Of great distress as the worst moment,
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- Humanly speaking, in the history of the earth.
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- It's worse than anything that's come before.
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- It's worse than anything that will come later.
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- This moment of great distress that he's speaking of
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- Is the worst.
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- In fact, he even says that if we didn't cut it short,
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- That even the elect could be deceived.
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- So when we're looking at signs of that period or signs to come
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- And precede the messiah's return, we have to look at
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- What happens on the earth.
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- Earthquakes, wars, nature itself is is being thrown into chaos.
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- But i think what you should
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- Was really wanting us to focus on is the deceptions.
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- At the end of the age.
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- He mentioned several times false teachers, false prophets
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- And even mentions false messianic figures,
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- Other people who claim to be the messiah, but it's not him.
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- And so as believers in yeshua, we we need to be on the
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- On the lookout, on guard for what areas
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- Is the enemy looking to deceive the people of god in?
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- Apparently it is possible
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- For even the believers to be deceived.
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- It is possible that the enemy will try to infiltrate
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- From the inside.
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- Change the actual original gospel.
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- Deceive the nations and deceive
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- Even believers and the worldwide church into what?
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- What does the bible really say, and what does it mean?
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- And how do we interact with that?
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- So when we're looking at the end of the age
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- And the signs, it's not just things like
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- The false prophets will do miracles
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- And people will be deceived by those miracles.
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- It's actually even a deception of the theology and doctrine
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- Of the church itself.
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- Yes, there will certainly be great signs
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- And wonders
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- That are coming from the believers,
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- Because we're going to need that kind of grace and power
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- At the end of the age.
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- But there's also signs
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- And wonders and miracles happening supernaturally
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- From demonic forces.
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- So those will oppose each other.
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- But the greater danger is that which is the deception
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- From the inside of the global church through false teachings,
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- False prophets and false messianic figures.
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- And you sure himself warns us greatly about this
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- In matthew chapter 24, when the disciples, ask
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- Jesus about the signs of the end times
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- And the things that would precede his return,
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- He spoke to them very directly and very,
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- Very in a very concise way and in a systematic way.
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- He started with deception.
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- He said, see to it that no one deceives you.
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- Then he went on to say
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- That there will be wars and rumors of wars,
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- And he warned them and and us not to be troubled
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- By these things, because they must come to pass.
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- Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.
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- And he said, this is not yet the end.
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- It's the beginning of birth pangs.
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- Included in that list or famines, earthquakes.
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- And, the luke, the gospel writer adds plagues.
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- Why did
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- Jesus call these signs the beginning of sorrows?
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- Jesus speaks about the beginning of sorrows.
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- Really? it's a reference to birth pangs.
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- A woman in labor about to give birth to a child.
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- And those, labor pains speed up near the end.
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- And i sense that things have sped up the changes in society.
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- And it seems like there is greater and greater.
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- Measures of famine, greater, frequency of earthquakes,
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- Greater frequency of all kinds of disasters, of various kinds.
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- I think we're getting close.
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- Does this mean we will see increasing catastrophic events
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- Such as famines, pestilences, and major earthquakes?
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- Many of these signs are only the beginnings of the sorrows.
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- So there is a great distress coming greater
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- Than any other time on the earth previously or into the future.
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- But i don't think you wanted us to be in fear about this.
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- He even says, do not be afraid of this.
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- Do not be concerned because it's part of god's redemptive
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- Atonement plan for humanity and for the earth.
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- And so what he's saying to us
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- Is, don't be surprised when these things happen.
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- It's only the beginning, which means there's more to come.
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- We what we want to do
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- Is encourage believers to be prepared for these things
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- So that even though we might have different
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- Interpretations of when will it happen?
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- Where will it happen? how long will it last?
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- What we want to do is to be prepared no matter what.
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- So that when it begins to happen,
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- Whether it's the beginning of the birth pains
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- Or it's the time of great distress
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- Or the days are cut short, all of the things that we read
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- In scripture that we as believers
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- Are prepared, but yeshua is telling us,
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- Don't be surprised about it.
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- Don't be in fear about it.
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- I'm giving you a head start on the knowledge, the revelation
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- Of the things that are going to happen.
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- And it's going to be hard.
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- But i don't want you to be worried or deceived about this.
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- That's why he's telling us it's only the beginning.
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- There are actually worse things to come later
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- As we grow progressively into the end times.
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- I believe that it will be progressively more difficult
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- And there will be an increasing intensity
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- In the crises that, that come upon the world.
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- Many people say, oh, i want to be there
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- When the lord returns.
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- And personally, that's going to be a really great, great day.
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- There's going to be no day
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- Like it or there, and there never will be again.
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- Nevertheless, it'll be a time of intense testing.
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- And personally,
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- I think the trials and difficulties
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- And the crises that we face today.
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- Well, personally, there are enough for me
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- If these more recent events mark the beginning of sorrows,
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- As jesus said, then wise men and women
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- Will recognize them
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- As markers pointing to the imminent return of christ,
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- Even as they recognize the truth
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- Of the prophetic words of jesus,
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- That he is precisely who he claimed
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- To be savior of the world and the only way into god.
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- The father's eternal presence.
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- Don't go away.
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- After this short break, doctor
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- When jesus answered his disciples questions.
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- He listed things that have been common
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- In all generations wars, rumors of wars,
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- Famines, pestilences, earthquakes.
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- I mean,
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- These have been in every generation down through history.
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- So there's nothing unusual about those signs in themselves.
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- But it is when jesus says, all these are the beginning
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- Of sorrows, that we have something much more important.
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- And it is within the words themselves and in the reference
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- That jesus gives to birth pains, because we can all identify
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- With a woman in labor, and he seems to be saying,
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- Yes, these signs have been with all generations,
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- But what i'm telling you is they're going to increase
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- In frequency and they're going to intensify
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- As the clock ticks, as it were,
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- And as more prophecies are fulfilled
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- And as my second coming draws near,
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- You can expect things will become much, much worse.
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- Now, let me share my context this morning,
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- Because i always like to give you,
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- The setting where i'm standing and what you can see,
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- And directly behind me is the sea of galilee and over
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- My shoulders, the north shore, where jesus began
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- His ministry in the galilee by calling his first disciples.
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- So you can see it from here.
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- But along that north shore is capernaum.
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- And it was really jesus headquarters in the galilee.
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- It was along that shoreline that he called simon.
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- We know as peter and andrew his brother.
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- He also called james and john along that shoreline.
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- And the scriptures say that it started in mark's gospel.
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- They immediately left their nets and followed him.
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- So much of jesus ministry occurred
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- In the setting behind me.
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- You're getting a panoramic view of the sea of galilee.
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- But understand this where i'm standing at the moment
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- Has been, in fact, is today a dangerous place at times?
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- I'm on the golan heights and behind the camera
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- In that direction a number of miles.
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- Syria.
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- And we've had a civil war in syria, and today
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- There are terrorist entities there.
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- And i just read the other day that the israeli air force
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- Is actually bombing in syria and bombing the damascus airport
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- And other things, and terrorists are active
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- And sometimes an errant shell will come in this direction.
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- It doesn't happen very often, but it can.
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- So this is disputed territory.
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- But let me tell you a little bit about its history.
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- In 1948, with the rebirth of the modern nation of israel,
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- Israel captured much of the land that is israel today.
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- But it did not capture where i'm standing.
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- But beyond 1948, the golan heights, where i'm standing
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- Still in much dispute, remained in the hands of the syrians.
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- So between 1948 and 1967, 19 years,
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- The syrian army was here where i am.
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- And on along these heights there were bunkers.
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- And look at the view they had of israel below
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- By the sea of galilee.
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- There were farmers down there
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- Who had to farm the fields under cover of darkness.
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- The children and those generations
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- Went to school in underground bunkers,
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- Because up here there were artillery, and,
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- And almost just for sport or to break the boredom of the day,
- 00:13:10.892 --> 00:13:14.696
- Syrian soldiers would shoot down at the farmers
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- And the fishermen, down on the sea of galilee below.
- 00:13:17.665 --> 00:13:21.302
- Well, everything changed in 1967 because the israeli army
- 00:13:21.302 --> 00:13:25.573
- And the last phase of that six-day war claimed
- 00:13:25.573 --> 00:13:29.010
- These heights and captured where i'm standing today.
- 00:13:29.010 --> 00:13:33.114
- And in fact, their border now
- 00:13:33.114 --> 00:13:34.616
- Is pushed along way back that way.
- 00:13:34.616 --> 00:13:36.818
- And you have to travel several miles
- 00:13:36.818 --> 00:13:38.486
- To get to the border of syria.
- 00:13:38.486 --> 00:13:40.421
- But that's one of the most
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- Defended borders in the world, because the threat remains.
- 00:13:41.623 --> 00:13:45.093
- And syria wants this area back.
- 00:13:45.093 --> 00:13:47.428
- And of course, israel is
- 00:13:47.428 --> 00:13:49.364
- Fighting to keep it because it provides a safety zone buffer
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- Between syria and the citizens of israel.
- 00:13:52.867 --> 00:13:56.738
- So when jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars,
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- That's exactly
- 00:14:00.909 --> 00:14:01.843
- What we've been dealing with
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- In a sense, ever since he said those things.
- 00:14:03.244 --> 00:14:05.813
- But we would have thought
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- That two world wars in the 20th century
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- And lesser wars
- 00:14:09.784 --> 00:14:11.586
- Would have brought us to the point of having enough of war.
- 00:14:11.586 --> 00:14:15.556
- But as we film this, there's a war
- 00:14:15.556 --> 00:14:18.159
- Going on in the ukraine, and it's another bloodbath.
- 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.996
- And so god has been honest with us.
- 00:14:21.996 --> 00:14:24.799
- And through the words of jesus, he's told us that
- 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:29.003
- Things will get progressively worse,
- 00:14:29.003 --> 00:14:31.239
- But they will soon get better in the sense
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- That it will culminate in the battle of armageddon.
- 00:14:33.274 --> 00:14:36.411
- And then his righteous reign will begin on earth.
- 00:14:36.411 --> 00:14:40.248
- And as we understand the scriptures,
- 00:14:40.248 --> 00:14:41.783
- That christ will rule and reign from jerusalem
- 00:14:41.783 --> 00:14:44.686
- For a thousand years in the first phase of all of that.
- 00:14:44.686 --> 00:14:49.324
- But let's go back to that
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- Scripture and just reinforce what he said to us
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- All. these
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- Are the beginning of sorrows.
- 00:14:56.631 --> 00:15:00.101
- But having said that, jesus said some other disturbing things,
- 00:15:00.101 --> 00:15:03.972
- Especially for christians, those that believe in him,
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- Verse nine of matthew 24,
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- Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you,
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- And you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
- 00:15:14.082 --> 00:15:17.085
- Now that would apply to jews as well as christians,
- 00:15:17.085 --> 00:15:20.722
- And many will be offended and will betray
- 00:15:20.722 --> 00:15:23.224
- One another, and will hate one another.
- 00:15:23.224 --> 00:15:26.394
- One of the sad things of will, any war time,
- 00:15:26.394 --> 00:15:30.431
- And certainly of the second world war,
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- Is that, friends betrayed other friends
- 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:36.204
- Just because of their own survival.
- 00:15:36.204 --> 00:15:38.873
- And there's numerous stories of, jewish people being given up
- 00:15:38.873 --> 00:15:43.644
- By other jewish people telling the nazis where
- 00:15:43.644 --> 00:15:47.015
- They were hiding or whatever.
- 00:15:47.015 --> 00:15:48.750
- And it was a matter of self-preservation.
- 00:15:48.750 --> 00:15:51.686
- And, it happened, and we can't deny that it happened.
- 00:15:51.686 --> 00:15:56.557
- And this i would suggest that that will happen
- 00:15:56.557 --> 00:15:59.694
- Every time there's a situation where people's
- 00:15:59.694 --> 00:16:02.363
- Lives are at risk, there's always the possibility
- 00:16:02.363 --> 00:16:05.500
- That a friend will betray another friend
- 00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:08.603
- As a means of self-preservation.
- 00:16:08.603 --> 00:16:11.372
- And that seems to be what jesus is alluding to here.
- 00:16:11.372 --> 00:16:15.443
- But let's think of our christian context in the 21st century.
- 00:16:15.443 --> 00:16:19.847
- In the opening decades, we have situations today where
- 00:16:19.847 --> 00:16:24.218
- Professors who believe in christ are being censored,
- 00:16:24.218 --> 00:16:27.655
- And even if they have ten years at the university level,
- 00:16:27.655 --> 00:16:30.758
- They are losing their jobs one way or another.
- 00:16:30.758 --> 00:16:34.429
- I mean, we live in very
- 00:16:34.429 --> 00:16:36.097
- Because the world has shifted dramatically.
- 00:16:36.097 --> 00:16:38.299
- We in the western world, we like to think we did live
- 00:16:38.299 --> 00:16:42.203
- In a judeo-christian world
- 00:16:42.203 --> 00:16:44.405
- Built on the foundations of the bible.
- 00:16:44.405 --> 00:16:46.941
- Well, we all know that over time, those foundations
- 00:16:46.941 --> 00:16:50.011
- Have been eroded, by erroneous thinking
- 00:16:50.011 --> 00:16:53.514
- And that the ten commandments are no longer,
- 00:16:53.514 --> 00:16:55.650
- Can be on display.
- 00:16:55.650 --> 00:16:57.418
- And and what christians have believed for 2000 years,
- 00:16:57.418 --> 00:17:01.222
- In fact, the churches are splitting over
- 00:17:01.222 --> 00:17:03.891
- Various opinions of practice and doctrine and other things.
- 00:17:03.891 --> 00:17:08.796
- And in many cases, it's
- 00:17:08.796 --> 00:17:10.098
- Open season on those who believe in jesus.
- 00:17:10.098 --> 00:17:14.001
- That's the world that we're living in today.
- 00:17:14.001 --> 00:17:16.037
- So it isn't just we have wars and rumors of wars and famines
- 00:17:16.037 --> 00:17:20.308
- And pestilences and all those things that have
- 00:17:20.308 --> 00:17:22.910
- Been common in the history of humankind today.
- 00:17:22.910 --> 00:17:27.048
- The persecution rate is rising.
- 00:17:27.048 --> 00:17:30.017
- In the past,
- 00:17:30.017 --> 00:17:30.818
- It was aimed at jews in particular,
- 00:17:30.818 --> 00:17:32.753
- And of course, still is today.
- 00:17:32.753 --> 00:17:34.922
- But now christians have
- 00:17:34.922 --> 00:17:36.591
- Come alongside and they're in the same position
- 00:17:36.591 --> 00:17:38.893
- As jews and in some cases, worse.
- 00:17:38.893 --> 00:17:42.063
- I mean, as we're filming in israel, there has been talk of,
- 00:17:42.063 --> 00:17:47.335
- Shutting down christians all over the country.
- 00:17:47.335 --> 00:17:51.205
- There are christians living in israel
- 00:17:51.205 --> 00:17:53.141
- And they go about their business.
- 00:17:53.141 --> 00:17:54.809
- But there are extreme elements within israel who would like,
- 00:17:54.809 --> 00:17:59.614
- Would prefer if there were no christians at all in israel.
- 00:17:59.614 --> 00:18:03.351
- So that's that's kind of the tone of our times.
- 00:18:03.351 --> 00:18:07.021
- But i think i know jesus saw
- 00:18:07.021 --> 00:18:09.891
- All of this coming and then remember this.
- 00:18:09.891 --> 00:18:13.728
- And i need to say this because it's
- 00:18:13.728 --> 00:18:15.396
- So crucial to all of this, behind all of the persecution,
- 00:18:15.396 --> 00:18:19.767
- All of the wars, and all of the destruction
- 00:18:19.767 --> 00:18:22.870
- Is the individual we call satan.
- 00:18:22.870 --> 00:18:26.240
- He, jesus called him, referred to him as the thief.
- 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.511
- And he said, the thief comes not
- 00:18:30.511 --> 00:18:32.513
- But for to steal, kill, and destroy.
- 00:18:32.513 --> 00:18:36.551
- And his agenda is destruction and death.
- 00:18:36.551 --> 00:18:39.954
- And when the antichrist appears on the scene,
- 00:18:39.954 --> 00:18:42.890
- That will be the agenda that he will follow.
- 00:18:42.890 --> 00:18:46.294
- But listen to this as far back as the birth of jesus
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- Recorded in matthew chapter two.
- 00:18:49.430 --> 00:18:52.466
- Herod the king, realizing that,
- 00:18:52.466 --> 00:18:55.970
- A baby king had been born in his own backyard.
- 00:18:55.970 --> 00:18:59.340
- Here's what he did then.
- 00:18:59.340 --> 00:19:00.775
- Herod, when he saw that he was deceived
- 00:19:00.775 --> 00:19:02.543
- By the wise men, was exceedingly angry,
- 00:19:02.543 --> 00:19:05.713
- And he sent forth and put to death
- 00:19:05.713 --> 00:19:07.448
- All the male children who were in bethlehem
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- And in all its districts, from two years old and under,
- 00:19:10.117 --> 00:19:13.854
- According to the time which he had determined from the wise men
- 00:19:13.854 --> 00:19:17.458
- And of course, they were the men who came from the east
- 00:19:17.458 --> 00:19:19.927
- In search of the newborn king.
- 00:19:19.927 --> 00:19:21.896
- And they had to be prophecy watchers and believers
- 00:19:21.896 --> 00:19:24.899
- To travel all that way, in search of the newborn king.
- 00:19:24.899 --> 00:19:29.270
- But when herod heard that
- 00:19:29.270 --> 00:19:30.771
- A new king had been born in his backyard,
- 00:19:30.771 --> 00:19:33.507
- He was livid and determined.
- 00:19:33.507 --> 00:19:35.176
- But remember, satan is always in the details
- 00:19:35.176 --> 00:19:38.813
- Where death and destruction are found.
- 00:19:38.813 --> 00:19:41.849
- Then we read, then was fulfilled, was spoken
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- By jeremiah the prophet, saying, a voice was heard in ramah.
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- Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning.
- 00:19:48.923 --> 00:19:52.193
- Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted
- 00:19:52.193 --> 00:19:56.731
- Because they are no more.
- 00:19:56.731 --> 00:19:59.634
- Now within the context of this end time teaching,
- 00:19:59.634 --> 00:20:03.037
- What we've called countdown to armageddon
- 00:20:03.037 --> 00:20:05.473
- And the discourses jesus gave about the end times,
- 00:20:05.473 --> 00:20:08.809
- We look far ahead now,
- 00:20:09.277 --> 00:20:10.911
- And perhaps not so far ahead in terms of where we are today.
- 00:20:10.911 --> 00:20:14.649
- But in the book of revelation, when john saw this great
- 00:20:14.649 --> 00:20:18.052
- A panorama of the future, among the things he said
- 00:20:18.052 --> 00:20:20.888
- Was this in revelation 12 verse ten,
- 00:20:20.888 --> 00:20:24.759
- Then i heard a loud voice saying, in heaven
- 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:27.295
- Now salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our god,
- 00:20:27.295 --> 00:20:30.665
- And the power of his christ have come
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- For the accuser of our brethren,
- 00:20:33.434 --> 00:20:35.403
- Who accuse them before our god.
- 00:20:35.403 --> 00:20:37.004
- Day and night has been cast down.
- 00:20:37.004 --> 00:20:39.407
- This is a reference to satan, who seemingly has access before
- 00:20:39.407 --> 00:20:44.345
- The throne of god to accuse us before god's throne.
- 00:20:44.345 --> 00:20:48.683
- He has access, it seems, until god denies him access.
- 00:20:48.683 --> 00:20:52.953
- That's what this verse is saying.
- 00:20:52.953 --> 00:20:55.156
- And it says that we can overcome him.
- 00:20:55.156 --> 00:20:56.991
- And this is a glorious, encouraging verse.
- 00:20:56.991 --> 00:20:59.994
- And they overcame him, satan, by the blood of the lamb, jesus,
- 00:20:59.994 --> 00:21:04.632
- And by the word of their
- 00:21:04.632 --> 00:21:05.666
- Testimony, what god has done for us in christ.
- 00:21:05.666 --> 00:21:09.637
- And they did not love their lives to the death.
- 00:21:09.637 --> 00:21:12.606
- Now, this is in the context of revelation
- 00:21:12.606 --> 00:21:15.176
- And the persecution of christians that will occur
- 00:21:15.176 --> 00:21:17.812
- During this terrible time
- 00:21:17.812 --> 00:21:19.613
- That jesus called time of tribulation.
- 00:21:19.613 --> 00:21:22.717
- Then we read, therefore rejoice, oh heavens, and you who dwell
- 00:21:22.717 --> 00:21:26.687
- In them, ward of the inhabitants of the earth and the sea.
- 00:21:26.687 --> 00:21:30.791
- For the devil has come down to you having great wrath,
- 00:21:30.791 --> 00:21:34.495
- Because he knows that he has a short time.
- 00:21:34.495 --> 00:21:38.866
- The beginning of sorrows, jesus said,
- 00:21:39.667 --> 00:21:42.336
- And it unfolds through the book of revelation,
- 00:21:42.336 --> 00:21:45.539
- And it's going to get worse according
- 00:21:45.539 --> 00:21:47.975
- What the scriptures teach.
- 00:21:47.975 --> 00:21:49.710
- And the devil's wrath
- 00:21:49.710 --> 00:21:51.045
- Is going to be poured out in the earth
- 00:21:51.045 --> 00:21:52.880
- Through the instrument of the antichrist.
- 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.150
- So we have been told what is to come now
- 00:21:56.150 --> 00:21:59.720
- After this short break, let me share
- 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:01.522
- A couple of real life stories of an experience i had recently.
- 00:22:01.522 --> 00:22:16.470
- If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
- 00:22:17.538 --> 00:22:19.974
- The bible says,
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- If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
- 00:22:21.041 --> 00:22:23.911
- And believe in your heart that god raised him
- 00:22:23.911 --> 00:22:25.846
- From the dead, you will be saved.
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- C4i that simply means we are christians
- 00:22:29.750 --> 00:22:32.920
- Who care about israel,
- 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:35.122
- And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
- 00:22:35.122 --> 00:22:37.925
- Because they are suffering so much.
- 00:22:37.925 --> 00:22:39.960
- First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
- 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:42.963
- 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
- 00:22:42.963 --> 00:22:48.135
- And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
- 00:22:48.135 --> 00:22:51.906
- We're here to help the less fortunate,
- 00:22:51.906 --> 00:22:54.275
- The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
- 00:22:54.275 --> 00:22:57.244
- Special children that need 24 seven care.
- 00:22:57.244 --> 00:23:01.215
- But we can't do it alone.
- 00:23:01.215 --> 00:23:02.550
- We need your help. please.
- 00:23:02.550 --> 00:23:04.652
- You'll see the numbers on the screen.
- 00:23:04.652 --> 00:23:06.921
- You'll see the websites that we have.
- 00:23:06.921 --> 00:23:09.056
- Please go to the phone or go to the website.
- 00:23:09.056 --> 00:23:12.193
- Make a donation.
- 00:23:12.193 --> 00:23:13.427
- Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
- 00:23:13.427 --> 00:23:19.033
- Thank you.
- 00:23:19.333 --> 00:23:28.409
- Jesus talked about the beginning of sorrows, and surely
- 00:23:29.443 --> 00:23:32.780
- There is more than enough sorrow these days to go around.
- 00:23:32.780 --> 00:23:36.617
- Now we are filming in march, but i was in israel
- 00:23:36.617 --> 00:23:40.221
- Just a few months ago, at the beginning of december,
- 00:23:40.221 --> 00:23:43.491
- And that visit to israel was to visit the projects
- 00:23:43.491 --> 00:23:46.460
- That we support
- 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:47.628
- To see how they were doing and really to assess
- 00:23:47.628 --> 00:23:49.830
- Their needs in december, as we approach
- 00:23:49.830 --> 00:23:52.500
- The end of the year and the beginning of a new year.
- 00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:54.869
- So when i was here, the war that's going on in ukraine
- 00:23:54.869 --> 00:23:59.073
- Became much more real to me because i met a number
- 00:23:59.073 --> 00:24:03.110
- Of refugees, ukrainian and russian refugees, jeez,
- 00:24:03.110 --> 00:24:07.248
- Who were in a shelter that we helped to support.
- 00:24:07.248 --> 00:24:10.951
- In fact, very recently and last year
- 00:24:10.951 --> 00:24:13.220
- We put in a commercial, washing machine
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- And a commercial fridge and a commercial freezer
- 00:24:17.324 --> 00:24:20.160
- Because they were the numbers were growing
- 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:22.530
- And they were just they were overwhelmed.
- 00:24:22.530 --> 00:24:24.431
- And it was a way that we could help
- 00:24:24.431 --> 00:24:25.966
- These refugees who find shelter in this place.
- 00:24:25.966 --> 00:24:28.903
- And but i sat one evening and i listened to a ukrainian mother
- 00:24:28.903 --> 00:24:33.674
- Who sat beside a russian mother.
- 00:24:33.674 --> 00:24:35.709
- I mean, there were wives and mothers,
- 00:24:35.709 --> 00:24:38.012
- And i heard their story.
- 00:24:38.012 --> 00:24:39.547
- The russian mother shared that she was in israel with
- 00:24:39.547 --> 00:24:42.983
- Her daughter,
- 00:24:42.983 --> 00:24:43.984
- But her other daughter,
- 00:24:43.984 --> 00:24:45.152
- She had to leave behind in russia with her husband.
- 00:24:45.152 --> 00:24:48.355
- Her husband was had a choice to make.
- 00:24:48.355 --> 00:24:51.825
- He could either go to prison or go to the frontline and fight
- 00:24:51.825 --> 00:24:55.195
- In the russian army.
- 00:24:55.195 --> 00:24:56.730
- Now remember, they are separated.
- 00:24:56.730 --> 00:24:58.766
- He's back there and she's here.
- 00:24:58.766 --> 00:25:02.369
- And then the ukrainian mother shared her story.
- 00:25:02.369 --> 00:25:05.306
- Now, the one good thing about that was that
- 00:25:05.306 --> 00:25:07.908
- She and her husband and her two daughters were all together.
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- If living in a small room, think of a motel room,
- 00:25:11.645 --> 00:25:16.183
- For people.
- 00:25:16.183 --> 00:25:17.851
- But at least
- 00:25:17.851 --> 00:25:18.986
- They had a roof over their heads and they had shelter.
- 00:25:18.986 --> 00:25:22.523
- And she shared her story.
- 00:25:22.523 --> 00:25:24.158
- In fact, she showed
- 00:25:24.158 --> 00:25:25.259
- Images of the beautiful home they had in the ukraine
- 00:25:25.259 --> 00:25:28.796
- That changed hands between the russians and ukrainians
- 00:25:28.796 --> 00:25:32.499
- And the the images that she showed, it was devastated.
- 00:25:32.499 --> 00:25:36.503
- And they can't go back there
- 00:25:36.503 --> 00:25:38.038
- Because the home is no longer there.
- 00:25:38.038 --> 00:25:40.140
- But she's a young mother,
- 00:25:40.140 --> 00:25:41.709
- Maybe in her 30s, and has a heart condition
- 00:25:41.709 --> 00:25:44.645
- And they don't have status in israel.
- 00:25:44.645 --> 00:25:48.048
- They they came in as refugees, but they're sort of in
- 00:25:48.048 --> 00:25:50.985
- Limbo land.
- 00:25:50.985 --> 00:25:52.086
- And because they don't have settled status,
- 00:25:52.086 --> 00:25:55.389
- Neither she and her husband can work
- 00:25:55.389 --> 00:25:58.292
- And she has a medical condition, a heart condition.
- 00:25:58.292 --> 00:26:01.362
- So she needs medicines
- 00:26:01.362 --> 00:26:03.263
- And monthly assessments and treatment
- 00:26:03.263 --> 00:26:06.567
- And let me tell you, there were a lot of tears shed,
- 00:26:06.567 --> 00:26:09.870
- Because these are
- 00:26:09.870 --> 00:26:11.138
- Heartbreaking stories, but these are only two stories
- 00:26:11.138 --> 00:26:14.942
- Out of hundreds of thousands of similar stories.
- 00:26:14.942 --> 00:26:19.346
- The world that we're living in today.
- 00:26:19.346 --> 00:26:21.682
- And when i, i mean, when i think of what hitler did, one man,
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- One evil man empowered by satan, the damage that he did.
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- And we would have thought, well, those
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- Hopefully those days are behind us
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- And we see every day the images coming from the ukraine,
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- And we see the russian leader wondering in the devastation
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- That his missiles have caused with a smile on his face.
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- But beyond him, i see something else.
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- I see the devil, satan,
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- And i know what the scriptures say and the prophecy say
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- That satan will come down to earth and wreak havoc.
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- Knowing his time is short.
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- But the glorious truth is this
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- That christ will come in his own time.
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- In fact, in his father's time and a new kingdom
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- Will be ushered in, and all this evil will be swept away,
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- And the perpetrators of the evil will be dealt with.
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- Now, in the next episode,
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- Why we should be on guard against false prophets.
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- Thanks for watching today.
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- Join us next time for beware of false prophets.
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