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Allen Jackson - Prophecy Being Fulfilled (Part 1)

July 31, 2025 | 28:35

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Prophecy Being Fulfilled (Part 1) | July 31, 2025

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Allen jackson: and i know you know, but we're living in
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A chaotic world, things are changing globally.
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There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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But i wanna make a suggestion, don't focus on the negative,
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Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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It's not helpful.
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Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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It's called, "awaken us."
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It's a 30 day plan.
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Each day is directed at a different topic
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That's a part of our current world.
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It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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Around that topic.
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And then a prayer for that specific thing.
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The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation
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To awaken us to a new place of faith.
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You know, we need an awakening in the midst
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Of the people of god.
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And we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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Well, i get that, but, you know, i was awakened yesterday.
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But this morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is
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Tomorrow i'll be awakened yet again.
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We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god
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To find his best for us in this season.
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And i believe this book will help you.
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Allen: but i wanna take this session and talk a bit about
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Israel and a vantage point.
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My habit, when i've returned from israel for the last few
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Years, has been to try to give you a bit of an update or some
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Perspectives from what we gleaned.
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So i've been visiting the land of israel since i was a boy,
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Which now has been well over 20 years; don't heckle.
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I've seen amazing changes in that nation since then, and i
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Don't think it can be understood apart from the supernatural
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Involvement of god.
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About 9 million citizens in israel, a million and a half
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Arabs, the majority of the remainder are jewish, but
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They're surrounded by a couple of hundred million people who
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Were sworn to their annihilation.
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And yet tiny israel flourishes.
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And there really is not an adequate explanation from that
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Apart from god.
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So i'll start in matthew 24 with just a portion.
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I've done something that i wouldn't recommend that
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Technically isn't the best.
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You know, usually a text without a context is easily manipulated,
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And i'm gonna take a bit of liberty with that.
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We do a lot of life together, so, it's not a great pattern,
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But, in matthew 24, it's jesus's most lengthy
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Prophetic discourse.
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And he said, "you'll be handed over to be persecuted and put to
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Death, and you'll be hated by all nations because of me."
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And the question that had been put to him that elicited this
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Lengthy response from jesus, it's his longest prophecy, was,
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"what would be the sign of the end of the age and the
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Destruction of jerusalem?"
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Well, jerusalem was destroyed about 40 years after jesus made
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That presentation, and what he said came true in some very
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Literal, very specific ways.
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If i could visit jerusalem today, you can still see what
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Remains of the roman siege ramp built against some ancient
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Portions of the temple.
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And what jesus said there wasn't directly applied uniquely to the
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Jews, but it is certainly, at the moment, being expressed
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Towards the jewish people.
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They are being handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and
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They are most certainly hated by all nations.
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And it's because of their affiliation with god.
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They are very clearly known to be the people out of the book.
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And they are hated because of it, and they have been hated
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Because of that generationally.
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And it is on display today.
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We visited, we were the only, we were the largest tour group in
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The country.
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We were the only tour group of any of the [inaudible]-- there
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Was, there were some groups of a handful of people, but, apart
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From that, it looked like we had rented disneyland for ourselves.
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We would go to locations where it wouldn't be unusual to see 50
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Buses, and we were the only bus.
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And we visited place after place that had been closed for months,
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And they said, "we opened it because we heard you
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Were coming."
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By the time we'd been there three days, the street vendors,
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When we would arrive at a new location, they said, "are you
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The 80?
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We know where you're from."
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We would approach some places, and they would have their
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Cameras out facetiming us.
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And there were vendors that, we'd been there enough, they
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Would know us, and they would be waiting to give us messages
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On facetime.
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We went into place after place, and the owners would stand, and
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Tears would run down their faces, and say, "why are
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You here?
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Why is no one else here?
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Why are they saying the things about us they are on the college
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Campuses in the united states?
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Don't they care about our people?"
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And i couldn't help but think of what jesus said, "you'll be
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Hated by all people because of me."
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It's hard for us to imagine; it's very difficult for us to
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Imagine, it's so far removed from us.
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You know, we have categorized hate in very different ways.
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We search through our histories and review things to find
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Expressions of hate and microaggressions and reasons to
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Be offended.
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And we hold on to those because we imagine there's opportunity,
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No matter what the bible says about forgiveness and forgiving
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And being forgiven.
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And we hold those things because we imagine there's some
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Opportunity that we can gain from it.
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When you visit a place where the hatred is real and present and
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Overwhelming and stifling, it's a completely
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Different perspective.
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I wanna add to that one other verse; it's in romans chapter 2,
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Verses 9 and 10.
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Paul is writing to the church in rome; he said, "there will be
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Trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first
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For the jew, and then for the gentile; but glory, and honor
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And peace for everyone who does good: first for the jew, and
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Then for the gentile."
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I believe that pattern holds true.
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I've heard it said-- it's not original with me, but i think
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History would support it-- that, when god wants to discipline the
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Jewish people, he does it through the gentiles.
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And, when god wants to bless the gentile nations, he does it
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Through the jewish people.
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And so it captures my attention, and it holds a place of focus in
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My thoughts and in my systems of evaluation, that often time we
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Can anticipate what is before us by witnessing what is happening
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To the jewish people.
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I believe that the force behind the irrational hatred of the
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Jewish people is the spirit of antichrist.
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And i believe what will drive the hatred of all the people of
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God in the season that is before us is the spirit of antichrist.
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It will be irrational, it will be disproportionate, it will be
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Overwhelming, and it will be shouted with great emotion.
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I don't say that for you to be frightened or to
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Feel threatened.
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I want you to be prepared.
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You have a decision to make, whether you're willing to be
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Identified publicly and boldly and clearly with jesus of
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Nazareth, or whether you have the imagination that you can
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Somehow diminish that and maintain your faith.
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I'm of the personal opinion that you cannot.
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And so i wouldn't encourage you to cultivate that opinion
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For yourself.
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I believe that, in spite of great persecution and in spite
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Of great hatred and in spite of great opposition, because of the
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Presence of god, you can flourish.
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I believe tiny israel shows us that, that, in the midst of a
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Sea of hatred and a a globe filled with people shouting for
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Their destruction, that god can cause you to flourish.
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So i brought you a handful of just some simple observations;
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They're my lessons from this visit.
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I'm sure i could have made more, or perhaps refined them more
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Clearly, but it is what it is.
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I can tell you, right now in israel, there's a tremendous
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Sense of isolation, but also, in equal proportion with that, is a
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Recognition on their part of the great value of friendship.
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As i said, i've been visiting the land for quite a while.
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So i have generations of friends there, and sometimes we take
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That a bit for granted.
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We just imagine there'll be another visit or another
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Opportunity or we'll see one another here or there.
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And this time was different.
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There's a recognition of being tremendously isolated in the
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Midst of the global community.
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And with that comes a great appreciation for friendships.
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There were many expressions of gratitude wherever we went.
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As i said, within just hours of us being in the country, the
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Street vendors knew.
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It was a remark unlike anything i've ever seen there.
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We'd go to a restaurant to eat, and the owner of the restaurant
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Would come out and find a microphone and talk to us-- and
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With tears streaming down their faces.
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No sense of trying to maintain dignity.
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It's been months and months and months.
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The second leading industry in the nation is tourism, and it
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Is, it's completely closed.
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I mean, it's just a shadow of the-- i visited an agency that
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We worked with frequently when i was there last summer, and they
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Had about 150 employees.
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When we stopped by this time, there were six-- and that's
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Industry wide.
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It is having an enormous impact upon them, and the the media is
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Able to drive enough fear and anxiety and hatred and
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Whatever else.
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So there's a great sense of isolation.
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Secondly, there is a grief that is settled on the hearts of the
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People that i've never seen, over the great cost of freedom.
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After october the 7th-- israel's military is built overwhelmingly
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From reserves.
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The young people serve in the military when they graduate high
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School, universally, both men and women, a three-year term.
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And, after that, they serve in the reserves.
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And, after october the 7th, they began to mobilize the reserves,
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And 350,000 young israelis came from all over the world.
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There was story after story after story of business people
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Standing in the airport, jewish business people, and said they'd
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Buy a ticket for any israeli that walked up and said they
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Wanted to go home.
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They understand that their freedom and their survival is
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Not something that can be presumed upon.
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It's intriguing to sit in the midst of and watch.
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The third observation i gave you is a link to that.
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There's a very clear expression of generational leadership.
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I sat with the friends that are my age, many of whom i've been
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Interacting with for decades now, and they said to me, "we
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Were surprised."
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We've talked about the younger generations, and how they were
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Spoiled and they were brats and they were undisciplined
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And whatever.
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And they said, when the mobilization orders were issued,
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He said, "normally, historically, about an 80%
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Response is what's anticipated, and that's the supplies that are
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Ready, and the response exceeded 100%."
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I don't know how they do that, but that's the report they gave.
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They said, "we didn't have enough supplies; we weren't
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Prepared for that."
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And then my friends looked at me with tears in their eyes, and
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They said, "the truth is, they're better than we were."
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He said, "we didn't expect it."
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They said, "we believe we have a future because the young people
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Are better than we were."
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You see, my generation, they're the children of the
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Holocaust survivors.
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So they were the ones that came back and had built a nation
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Really from a, from a start up place to one of the most
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Celebrated economies in the world and one of the most
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Technically sophisticated places in the world.
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And they weren't sure what the next generation would do because
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Freedom barely survives multiple generations.
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So that was exciting.
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But, at the other end of the spectrum, i was shocked to hear
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That, because of the duration of this and the terrible toll it's
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Taken on them, they're putting together a regiment of soldiers
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That have aged out of the army.
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They'll take anybody.
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And a friend of mine who's older than i am-- so well into his
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30s-- had already filled out his paperwork.
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That's a sobering thought if you pause for a moment and think
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That they're mobilizing a group of people in their 60s.
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That's not a casual response.
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They've taken the best and brightest young men, one of the
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A known attorney in the city of jerusalem.
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He's brilliant, very successful businessman, works with the most
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Influential business people in the nation, and i was visiting
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With him for a moment, and he said, "yeah, i'm going back for
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Another term in the army in just a couple of weeks."
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They're all focused.
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They have generational leadership in a way that's
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Challenging to us.
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There was a fourth observation i took away, and it has to do with
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The presence of hate and evil.
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You know, we talk-- we use those words very casually here.
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We have hate speech, and we get all heated up about it, and i'm
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Not saying it doesn't happen, and words have a great value,
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And they can wound deeply; i understand all of that.
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But evil is something else.
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Evil has no boundaries.
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Evil has no regard for human life.
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Evil, it cares nothing about dignity or respect or fair play.
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Evil exists in our world.
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And evil gives rise to true hate, hate that
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Brings destruction.
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And, if you live pretending that it does not exist, or you call
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Things evil that are not, or if you blur the lines about what
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These are and you allow your definitions to be manipulated,
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Then you become a sponsor of those things.
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And, being in the midst of that place, walking through
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Neighborhoods where women were brutalized and children were
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Murdered and parents watched their children be brutalized,
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There's really no question that evil exists in our world.
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I'm not talking about the evil of when there's not enough
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Parking on the square, and it's raining; i know that's
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Uncomfortable and awkward and maybe not the planning you
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Would prefer.
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But evil exists, and the assignment we've been given is
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To overcome it.
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I give you a verse on that; it's romans chapter 12, in
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Verse 21.
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It's a very simple direct direction; it says, "do not be
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Overcome by evil."
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That's an assignment.
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Don't allow evil to overcome you.
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But then it gives us an instruction, proactive; it's not
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A defensive assignment.
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It says we have to "overcome evil with good."
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And i thought about that a good bit.
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How do you overcome evil with good?
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Well, first of all, it suggests that good is more powerful
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Than evil.
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So it's about, how do you give expression to goodness?
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We know what evil looks like; we recognize it when we see it.
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And i would submit to you that, in the simplest-- for me-- the
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The simplest way to understand that, the way i overcome evil is
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I'm gonna live through it.
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I will not give it the high ground.
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I won't yield to it.
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Allen: hey we have a tool that i think will help you
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God's moving in the earth, i wanna move with him.
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Allen: i'll tell you what i've observed in my israeli friends
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In the, during the intifada a few years ago.
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The tactics were different than they are these days.
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Right now, we have these proxy groups that are funded by iran
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And qatar-- or qatar, or, if you grew up in middle tennessee,
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From kaytar.
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I don't care how you say it; they sponsor evil.
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They use proxies to wreak destruction and evil
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Upon people.
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But, during the intifada, the tactics were different.
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They were using homicide bombers, terrorists; they would
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Recruit people who didn't have emotional stability and strap
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Sophisticated bombs to them.
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And then their instructions were to walk on public
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Transportation, buses, or public restaurants or to
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Public markets.
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And they do it at the busiest times of day or the holidays at
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The peak seasons, and hundreds of israelis were being blown
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Apart in the midst of their daily lives.
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When i visited israel during the intifada, and that my friends
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There, the wisest ones, i said, "what do you do?"
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And they said, "we're gonna go ride the buses, we're gonna go
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To the markets, we're gonna go eat in the restaurants.
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We can't allow them to take away the dignity of our lives."
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[congregation applauding]
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Now, they had the wisdom to build a fence.
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[congregation applauding]
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You know, some of you, have you ever had a problem in your life,
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And, you know, maybe it was just something simple that's been
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Annoying to you, and you visited a friend or you saw somebody,
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And they had a solution?
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And, when you saw it, it was so simple, you were embarrassed you
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Had the problem?
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You know, like, you couldn't forget how to organize your
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Tupperware lids, and you visited some add person, and they had
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Six solutions, and you thought, "i'm an idiot."
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Well, the longest border israel has is with jordan, and we spent
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A day, or part of the day, driving down that border from
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The northern part of israel to the south.
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And, i'm just reporting the news; i'm not making it.
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They have a fence.
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And, right next to the fence is a patrol road, and there is a
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Message that's been very clearly communicated, that, if you were
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To approach the fence, you will forfeit your life.
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No, i'm-- and it wasn't like it was littered with bodies because
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Apparently, if that's enforced, like, once, the message travels
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Pretty quickly.
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And i'm thinking, "we have enough chain link."
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[congregation applauding]
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"what we don't have is the intent."
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We have no intent, no will.
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Oh, we have words, and we want a committee and a debate and six
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Elections, and we wanna point fingers, and we want to redefine
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Compassion, and-- stop!
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It's not really that difficult.
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They have understood; you have to live through it.
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They are selling children at our borders because we allow it.
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They are pumping destructive drugs into our nation.
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The cartels are more powerful than our own border agencies.
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We're not overcoming evil.
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You see, we don't overcome evil by being good to evil.
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And that's, unfortunately, the message that has been
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More predominant.
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We should be kind to evil; we should be more understanding of
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Evil; we should study evil; we should perhaps have a conference
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With evil.
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I mean, we've taken every imaginable approach, other than
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Overcoming it, and drawing a boundary and say, "you cannot
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Transgress beyond this point or we will meet you with a force
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Greater than that which you're threatening us with."
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We overcome evil by doing what is good in the face of evil.
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And i would submit to you, the greatest good is protecting the
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Sovereignty of our nation.
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I promise you-- biblically, theologically, and
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Historically-- god is not going to be good to evil.
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If you're practicing evil, i would give you my strongest
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Encouragement to stop.
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Israelis today are living through the expressions of
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Hatred and anti-semitism and the promises of iran to destroy
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Them, and it's remarkable to watch.
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My fifth observation was that the children pay a
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Disproportionate price for our tolerance of evil.
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The weight that falls on the children is disproportionate to
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Their numbers.
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We visited the holocaust museum.
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More than a million children died in the holocaust, not
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Because of some failure of theirs in combat-- honestly,
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Because the values of the christian west collapsed in
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Europe, and the jewish people were hunted and rounded up
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And annihilated.
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But that's not just about the holocaust.
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That happens in our culture when we redefine marriage, when we
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Promote immorality, when we fill our libraries with pornographic
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Material, and we call it open mindedness.
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We are allowing our children to become prey for predators.
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And the destruction that comes to their lives will take years
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For them to sort through and overcome.
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And i believe we'll be accountable for that; children
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Pay a disproportionate price.
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We had lunch one day last week in the jewish quarter; the old
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City of jerusalem is divided into quarters, and, in the
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Jewish quarter, we were there having lunch.
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We had lunch in some of the other quarters, too, but that
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Day was there, and the whole area, the public spaces, were
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Filled with children playing, riding their bikes, young
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Children, teenagers.
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There were young families; there were mothers with strollers and
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Strollers and strollers.
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I think it's the national transportation of israel,
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The stroller.
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But we were about, oh, 75 miles maybe, from the border, a hot
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Border where we wouldn't visit, couldn't visit, shouldn't visit.
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And there's a war about to come, and it was completely lost on
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The faces of the people.
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They were having a great time, eating ice cream, celebrating,
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Playing, laughing.
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The parents were-- there was no impending sense of
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Tremendous anxiety.
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There wasn't great fear.
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They weren't lined up in the grocery store, buying milk and
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Toilet paper.
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Oh, seriously, i mean, the reports, i mean, i'm reading the
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Reports from our country, saying, you know, "the rockets
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Are coming."
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And they're having the time of their lives.
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And i thought, they've learned something that we haven't
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Learned, which leads me to the next one.
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It's, they have an understanding of peace that we have missed.
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Look at john 14; jesus said, "peace i leave with you; my
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Peace i give to you.
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I don't give to you as the world gives.
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Don't let your hearts be troubled and don't be afraid."
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This verse we've talked about before.
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Jesus didn't lead a life free of conflict.
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His life was filled with conflict, from his, the
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Circumstances when he was born in bethlehem and the murder of
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The babies until they killed him on a cross, and everything
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In between.
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Conflict is one of the characteristics of jesus's
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Journey through time.
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Satan himself tempting him, demons harassing him.
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I mean it's an endless-- so jesus wasn't free of conflict,
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And he says, "my peace i give to you."
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So we've got to define this a little differently.
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Jesus's understanding of peace is more about this calm
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Assurance of god's abiding presence.
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Yes, there are enemies.
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Yes, there are adversaries.
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Yes, there are forces who would wreak destruction.
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But god is watching over me.
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Allen: jesus was frequently in trouble because he wouldn't keep
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Ungodly rules.
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I don't intend to yield to ungodliness.
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I want the lord to be pleased with us.
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Let's pray, father, we want your approval more than we want the
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Approval of any person or any organization.
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May you be pleased with us, in jesus's name, amen.
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♪♪♪
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Allen: you know no matter what source of news you turn to
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It's hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair,
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The deception, the conflict in the earth,
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The suffering that's taking place in so many places,
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The struggling church in our own nation.
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But there are reasons for hope.
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God is moving in the most remarkable ways
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But we need to have a plan, a method, even a tool
00:26:43.684 --> 00:26:46.620
To help us give our thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
00:26:46.620 --> 00:26:50.357
Well, i have a suggestion, it's a little booklet
00:26:50.357 --> 00:26:51.792
We put together, it's called "awaken us."
00:26:51.792 --> 00:26:53.961
It's a 30-day plan.
00:26:53.961 --> 00:26:55.295
It's built by topic each day with a scripture,
00:26:55.295 --> 00:26:58.165
A little devotional, and a prayer topically directed
00:26:58.165 --> 00:27:01.402
To help focus our thoughts at an awakening
00:27:01.402 --> 00:27:04.238
To god's invitations to us around that specific theme.
00:27:04.238 --> 00:27:08.208
We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
00:27:08.208 --> 00:27:10.778
Well let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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Consistently to what he would have us doing
00:27:13.781 --> 00:27:16.483
In this most unique season.
00:27:16.483 --> 00:27:18.385
God is moving, i want to move with him,
00:27:18.385 --> 00:27:20.587
And i believe you do too.
00:27:20.587 --> 00:27:21.922
And i believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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♪♪♪
00:27:24.858 --> 00:27:29.797

Allen Jackson - Prophecy Being Fulfilled (Part 1)

July 31, 2025 | 28:35

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