Allen Jackson: Underground Church | Allen Jackson Now

March 2, 2026 | 21:51

Christ Mitchell joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.

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  • The talking point in the media
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  • Is that in some is that israel should just ignore iran.
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  • It's hard to ignore somebody
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  • That says they intend to destroy you.
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  • Just imagine if every night you came home, your neighbor
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  • Knocked on your door,
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  • Said, i intend to destroy you and your family.
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  • And they told anybody who would listen.
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  • I mean, it's that's the current reality.
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  • I don't know what the future holds, but it's complicated.
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  • And your prayers matter,
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  • So please don't stay neutral on this.
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  • Chris has been
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  • Reporting the news from the middle east
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  • For more than 25 years.
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  • He's been there through the intifada as
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  • Through the wars, through so many
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  • Things, changes of government, changes of the region.
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  • He his home is in jerusalem, but he travels throughout
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  • The region.
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  • I've often been concerned for him. i'll see video clips.
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  • And he's in egypt in the middle of regime change and
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  • They can't even find a clean place to do a video shoot.
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  • And you can feel the tension and he has a gentle spirit,
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  • But the heart of a lion.
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  • And i'm very grateful.
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  • In a season when it's not easy to interpret
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  • Everything that we're hearing
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  • And it's being said and there's so many voices.
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  • I don't know if a finer person to help you understand
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  • What's unfolding in the middle east than chris mitchell.
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  • So if you will help me welcome him back to world
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  • Outreach church.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Well thank you.
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  • The negotiations have been failing
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  • Only because iran is intractable about
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  • They do not want to stop their nuclear program.
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  • They don't want to stop building ballistic missiles.
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  • They don't want to stop funding proxies all around the region.
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  • So it seemed like even
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  • From the very beginning of the negotiations,
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  • That really
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  • Was never going to succeed in changing their hearts or minds.
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  • Part of this is all happening because on december 28th, in
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  • Iran, the people of iran started protesting.
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  • And these protesters grew.
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  • They mushroomed not only to tehran, which where they began,
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  • But literally hundreds of cities around, around
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  • Iran, from tehran to to isfahan and other places.
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  • And how the islamic regime responded
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  • Was a demonic and a barbaric, way of responding to this,
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  • Literally, probably by now.
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  • President trump said 30, 2000 the other day.
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  • There are estimates at 40, 50, maybe even 80,000,
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  • Of iranians have been killed, murdered by the regime.
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  • Some of the accounts coming out of there are horrific.
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  • What is,
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  • Just barbaric that
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  • They are shooting people in the eyes to blind them?
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  • They are doing horrific things to the women, and taking them.
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  • And sometimes destroying the evidence or burning the bodies.
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  • So if you can imagine a regime that literally has killed
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  • Tens of thousands of its own citizen injured maybe
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  • 3 or 400,000 of its citizens,
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  • And yet in the midst of this, and i'm sure you may know this,
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  • That there is a burgeoning underground church within iran
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  • Right now where maybe more than a million believers.
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  • Have come to faith in jesus.
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  • And, and many of them through dreams and visions,
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  • Literally jesus appearing to them.
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  • A man in white, where?
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  • And then they come to faith.
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  • They may meet another believer, they may get a bible.
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  • And, it's just an extraordinary phenomenon
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  • Of the holy spirit right now that is growing a church
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  • In the midst of tremendous persecution and oppression.
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  • And he's invading hearts and minds there.
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  • And we talked to an underground
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  • Church leader the other day and one of our podcasts.
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  • And he was just saying that
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  • That the church there is being the hands
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  • And the heart of jesus in the midst of this, horrific
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  • Oppression by the government.
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  • So i'm just going to take a moment here
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  • And pray for those people right now, our brothers and sisters.
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  • Father, we pray right now.
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  • Your church is crying out to you for freedom.
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  • For, liberty
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  • From this, this tyrannical oppression.
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  • And we know that there are there are ministries right now
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  • Prepared to go in to spread the gospel.
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  • So we pray for our brothers and sisters
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  • Right now that are going through such crisis.
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  • Strengthen them and help them reach out to their neighbors
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  • The good news of jesus christ that they could, even
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  • In the midst of this crisis, that your church would grow.
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  • Protect them, father, and give president with
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  • President trump great wisdom right now.
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  • He's making a historic, even biblical decision
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  • Of life and death that will change the middle east
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  • One way or the other.
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  • So we pray give great wisdom to president trump and prime
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  • Minister benjamin netanyahu in these difficult days.
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  • In jesus name,
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  • Amen.
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  • So what i wanted to come to share with you
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  • Was about, last august, 20, 25,
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  • We mark 25 years of reporting, in israel.
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  • We came on august 17th, 2000.
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  • My wife liz, our three children, philip, kathleen and grace.
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  • Philip was 16.
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  • Kathleen was 11, grace was eight.
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  • We experienced, what's called the second
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  • Intifada, just about five weeks after we arrived.
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  • And, and then we have live for that 25 years,
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  • On the front lines of israel's history,
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  • And so many different things that have happened.
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  • The second intifada, the,
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  • Gaza disengagement, where 9000 jews were evicted
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  • Out of, the gaza strip, which actually led
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  • To october 7th, the second lebanon war
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  • And then the wars with, hamas, which is in
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  • 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2021.
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  • And, so i thought, well, let's do a video series
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  • On all these things that we've reported on.
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  • But the more i prayed about it
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  • And the more i thought about it, i thought
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  • It was important to do
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  • A video series on.
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  • What people are hearing for the last,
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  • Especially since october 7th, many people are getting lies,
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  • Disinformation, misinformation of what actually is happening.
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  • To israel.
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  • Ellen pastor allen referred to that,
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  • The way that anti-semitism is growing
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  • And so many lies are happening even in the church right now.
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  • The video series is called israel under fire.
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  • History, prophecy, and what you need to know.
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  • And, let's, nick, if we can show the promo to,
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  • Israel under fire.
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  • Since october 7th, israel has been under fire,
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  • Not just from rockets and terrorist, but some lies,
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  • Misinformation and growing hatred around the world,
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  • From university campuses to international courts
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  • That we stop to social media, a war for truth is raging.
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  • But this is a spiritual battle at its root.
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  • In this new seven part series, israel under fire,
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  • It goes to the frontlines and back to the bible
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  • To answer the questions the church must understand.
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  • Right now, israel is important because god says it is
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  • What is really behind the chants,
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  • The accusations, the calls for israel's destruction.
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  • Is this just politics?
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  • Something far deeper?
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  • There is no doubt that there is a fight going on
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  • For western civilization.
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  • Israel is on the front lines from abraham to today's
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  • Headlines, from october 7th to the battle for truth.
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  • This series reveals
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  • The biblical, historical
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  • And prophetic foundations of israel's rebirth,
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  • Featuring voices from israel's leading experts,
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  • Survivors of terror,
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  • Eyewitnesses reporting from the land
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  • Where the bible comes to life at a time when many pastors
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  • Don't know how to respond and believers are confused
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  • By the noise, israel under fire equips the church
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  • To stand with clarity, courage and compassion.
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  • People don't believe our voices if you're a person,
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  • Unless you're a jew.
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  • And that's still true.
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  • Now is the time to understand the truth.
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  • Now is the time to stand with israel.
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  • Now is the time to understand the times
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  • We are living in a moment.
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  • The prophecies are being fulfilled daily
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  • In front of our eyes.
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  • Join us and help spread the truth
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  • Before the next headline is written.
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  • Before the next headline is written.
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  • God made a covenant with himself
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  • In genesis 15 where he said, he
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  • Where god's never going to go back on his own covenant
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  • Account is what many people have been calling replacement
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  • Theology, where the church has replaced israel
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  • And it's the understanding that the promise made
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  • By god nearly 4000 years ago is still valid today.
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  • And i said, the battle for is the land of israel is a battle,
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  • That is still valid to but still in contention.
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  • The world calls some of this land the west bank,
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  • Which is actually the biblical heartland of judea and samaria.
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  • We also talk about, october 7th and the battle for truth,
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  • How the worst day in the history of the jewish people
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  • Since the holocaust became a battle over truth.
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  • We talked to two survivors of october 7th.
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  • One you'll see in just a bit.
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  • Cover a fellow tribesman.
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  • She actually survived, that day by fleeing the dover
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  • Music festival and going to a bomb shelter,
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  • Which typically would have been
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  • A safe haven with rocket attacks.
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  • But at that time, it really became a death trap.
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  • 37 people went into that bomb shelter.
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  • Only ten survived,
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  • And she only survived because she was buried
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  • Under the bodies that had already been died.
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  • We also talked to an idf reserve sergeant major.
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  • He's called tyrone kader.
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  • He actually served more than 450 days inside gaza.
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  • And we talked to him about
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  • Is israel really committing a genocide?
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  • The answer is no.
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  • And the fact that how difficult it was to fight hamas,
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  • Hamas had a network and has a network of tunnels
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  • Larger than the london underground.
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  • So you're fighting a, an enemy that not only is above ground,
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  • But below ground that can come out
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  • Many different, different places.
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  • Also an enemy that uses women and children as human shields.
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  • Time sometimes uses women and children
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  • Actually, as part of their battle plan.
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  • So we talk about that in,
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  • October 7th in the battle for truth.
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  • We also talk about palestine from the river to the sea.
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  • And what is behind this slogan that has become
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  • One of the most deadly slogans, in the world heard from places
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  • Like sydney or new york city, san francisco.
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  • What does it really mean?
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  • What does palestine mean?
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  • So we go into that about helping people understand.
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  • And the whole purpose of
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  • This series is to help give believers and give pastors
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  • A firm biblical, historical and prophetic foundation
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  • Of what is happening, in the land right now.
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  • We also talk about the miracle of israel, about how,
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  • On may 14th, 1948, a miracle was born.
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  • After nearly 2000 years,
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  • The people of the chosen people have come back from the
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  • Four corners of the earth to establish a state
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  • For the first time, since nearly the first first century
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  • Prophets told about that ezekiel,
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  • Isaiah, jeremiah all said that one day his people would return.
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  • We also talk about christian
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  • Persecution, christian revival, and antisemitism.
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  • Our brothers and sisters, as i talked about
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  • In, in iran, are suffering persecution.
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  • We saw that firsthand as well.
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  • And it's in the two books that you have their destination,
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  • Jerusalem.
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  • How much of the persecution of isis by isis, but al-qaida
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  • By other islamic groups has really dramatically reduced
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  • The number of christians
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  • That actually living, in the middle east right now?
  • 00:12:58.973 --> 00:13:02.009
  • We're also they were given four choices.
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  • Many of the people we talked to then they could either convert,
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  • They could pay the jisa tax for demi's or non-muslims,
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  • They could leave or they could die by this, by the sword.
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  • We also see the exponential rise of anti-semitism
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  • Around the world, especially after october 7th.
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  • You would think that there be a lot of empathy, sympathy
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  • For the jewish people after october 7th.
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  • But almost immediately on october 8th,
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  • There became this cry.
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  • In fact, in sydney, australia, there's video of a gathering of,
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  • Pro palestinians that are calling gassed the jews kill.
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  • The idea of it happened just immediately after october 7th.
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  • Talk about the bondi massacre.
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  • Just a few couple of months ago, in december.
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  • We have a friend of mine.
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  • His name is arsen ostrovsky.
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  • He's an international human rights lawyer.
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  • He went to australia just two weeks before,
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  • To help the jewish people.
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  • And i had seen him just a couple of weeks
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  • Before that in houston square in tel aviv.
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  • And, when i saw the video of the
  • 00:14:08.108 --> 00:14:11.245
  • The massacre, i saw his picture.
  • 00:14:11.245 --> 00:14:14.081
  • He was shot in the head. you may have seen a picture.
  • 00:14:14.081 --> 00:14:16.583
  • He literally had blood all over his head and all over his face.
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  • He took a selfie.
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  • And, and that kind of went viral.
  • 00:14:21.622 --> 00:14:23.791
  • But that's what happened to arson.
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  • And that's just emblematic of the anti-semitism
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  • That has gone all over the world.
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  • And there's also a sense that it's not just the jewish people.
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  • It's not just the saturday people, it's the sunday people.
  • 00:14:34.735 --> 00:14:38.973
  • And if there's anything that i keep hearing about
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  • Is that this is not just for the jews alone.
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  • It may start with the jews, but it does not end with the jews.
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  • And i think that's something we need to
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  • Internalize.
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  • We need to understand that, that we, the believers
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  • In jesus, are many times the target for this,
  • 00:14:58.592 --> 00:15:02.963
  • This against our own faith, against the jews and against us.
  • 00:15:02.963 --> 00:15:07.267
  • But there's also christian revival.
  • 00:15:07.267 --> 00:15:08.869
  • As i mentioned in iran, there's an amazing revival is going on.
  • 00:15:08.869 --> 00:15:12.806
  • And, i was getting ready in our, hotel room.
  • 00:15:12.806 --> 00:15:15.809
  • My wife and i, we saw pastor allen on fox news.
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  • Maybe you saw him as well.
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  • And i believe.
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  • And i know last year
  • 00:15:26.620 --> 00:15:27.955
  • You had, an event called make heaven crowded.
  • 00:15:27.955 --> 00:15:31.025
  • So there is a growing sense there going,
  • 00:15:31.025 --> 00:15:34.161
  • Turning to the bible for many and even in gen z.
  • 00:15:34.161 --> 00:15:37.731
  • And so we need just pray that that revival, that,
  • 00:15:37.731 --> 00:15:41.402
  • Spread of the gospel just continues, exponentially.
  • 00:15:41.402 --> 00:15:45.372
  • We also talk about prophecies unfolding in our time.
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  • Jesus said there would be signs in our time.
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  • Wars and rumors of wars, nation rising against nation.
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  • There'll be earthquakes in various places.
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  • In 2023,
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  • We had the opportunity to report on two of those earthquakes.
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  • One was in turkey,
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  • Followed by not too long after that in morocco.
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  • The one in turkey was catastrophic.
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  • It had a, a zone earthquake zone
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  • That went all the way, say, from new york to washington, dc.
  • 00:16:13.534 --> 00:16:17.504
  • Just a massive earthquake.
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  • Sometimes whole neighborhoods were wiped out
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  • And just one time.
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  • But also we see the jews returning to the land of israel.
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  • We see the desert blooming,
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  • And we see israel becoming a light to the nations. and.
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  • And we see israel becoming a light to the nations. and.
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  • God has a plan for israel and his people.
  • 00:16:47.964 --> 00:16:50.467
  • And a lot of people are
  • 00:16:50.467 --> 00:16:51.801
  • Questioning about the jewish people.
  • 00:16:51.801 --> 00:16:54.270
  • Some the one of the questions has been, are the jews of today
  • 00:16:54.270 --> 00:16:57.674
  • The same jews as the jews of the bible?
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  • And has god, you know, forgotten his, covenant with israel?
  • 00:17:00.143 --> 00:17:03.913
  • Well, jeremiah chapter 3135 and 36 says,
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  • Thus says the lord, who gives the sun for a light
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  • By day the ordinance of the moon
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  • By night, who disturbs the sea and its waves roar.
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  • The lord of hosts is his name.
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  • If those ordinances depart from before me, says the lord,
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  • Then the seed of israel shall also cease from being a nation
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  • From before me.
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  • And romans 11 says, concerning the gospel, they,
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  • The jews, are enemies for your sake.
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  • But concerning the election
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  • They are beloved for the sake of the fathers,
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  • For the gifts and calling of god are irrevocable.
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  • So the question is, where are we right now?
  • 00:17:40.316 --> 00:17:43.019
  • Just before the nrb, attended a conference called the judeo
  • 00:17:43.019 --> 00:17:47.357
  • Christian zionist congress, it was modeled after the first
  • 00:17:47.357 --> 00:17:51.294
  • Zionist congress back in 1897
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  • With, started by theodor herzl,
  • 00:17:54.097 --> 00:17:57.200
  • Who actually said that was the beginning
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  • Of the birth, that he said in 50 years
  • 00:17:58.902 --> 00:18:01.337
  • The state of israel would be born in almost to the year.
  • 00:18:01.337 --> 00:18:04.841
  • The state of israel was born.
  • 00:18:05.475 --> 00:18:07.877
  • And what marked this, remarkable event was that jewish
  • 00:18:07.877 --> 00:18:11.748
  • And christian leaders came together. why?
  • 00:18:11.748 --> 00:18:14.717
  • Because they believe that western civilization itself
  • 00:18:14.717 --> 00:18:18.488
  • Is at risk right now, at risk because of an unholy
  • 00:18:18.488 --> 00:18:22.192
  • Alliance of radical islam rising global
  • 00:18:22.192 --> 00:18:25.261
  • Anti-semitism and leftist ideologies.
  • 00:18:25.261 --> 00:18:29.399
  • And right now, they say that we're on actually
  • 00:18:29.399 --> 00:18:31.901
  • An eighth front that began on october 8th.
  • 00:18:31.901 --> 00:18:35.805
  • And the seven fronts were hamas, hezbollah,
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  • The hutus, iranian militias in iraq and syria,
  • 00:18:39.542 --> 00:18:42.979
  • Terror groups in judea and samaria and iran itself.
  • 00:18:42.979 --> 00:18:45.715
  • Those are the seven fronts.
  • 00:18:45.715 --> 00:18:47.951
  • But the eighth one was this, this idea
  • 00:18:47.951 --> 00:18:51.421
  • That is an information war.
  • 00:18:51.421 --> 00:18:54.691
  • That we have just entered and just perhaps
  • 00:18:54.691 --> 00:18:57.060
  • Beginning an information war for the first time
  • 00:18:57.060 --> 00:19:00.363
  • Began on october 8th, even before israel had entered
  • 00:19:00.363 --> 00:19:03.933
  • Gaza, social media had said had campaigns
  • 00:19:03.933 --> 00:19:07.737
  • Using the word genocide hashtag stopped the genocide.
  • 00:19:07.737 --> 00:19:12.408
  • Two months later, south africa filed a genocide case
  • 00:19:12.408 --> 00:19:15.845
  • Against the international court of justice.
  • 00:19:15.845 --> 00:19:19.082
  • And also,
  • 00:19:19.082 --> 00:19:20.316
  • We see that in news reporting at the very beginning of the war,
  • 00:19:20.316 --> 00:19:24.020
  • There was a misfire by palestinian islamic jihad,
  • 00:19:24.020 --> 00:19:28.124
  • The idf,
  • 00:19:28.391 --> 00:19:29.926
  • Supposedly it was reported that they had bombed
  • 00:19:29.926 --> 00:19:33.162
  • This hospital deliberately, and 500 people had died.
  • 00:19:33.162 --> 00:19:37.500
  • What really happened was
  • 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:38.668
  • It was a misfire by palestinian islamic jihad.
  • 00:19:38.668 --> 00:19:42.739
  • Only 50 died tragically, but still in the nearby parking lot.
  • 00:19:42.739 --> 00:19:47.010
  • Parking lot.
  • 00:19:47.010 --> 00:19:48.478
  • This is just an example of what has been happening
  • 00:19:48.478 --> 00:19:51.047
  • In the news media, since october 7th especially.
  • 00:19:51.047 --> 00:19:54.784
  • And also right now we're seeing rising voices on the right.
  • 00:19:54.784 --> 00:19:57.854
  • We're seeing
  • 00:19:58.187 --> 00:19:59.289
  • In the book of nehemiah, it says that nehemiah came
  • 00:19:59.289 --> 00:20:02.659
  • To rebuild
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  • The walls of jerusalem,
  • 00:20:03.326 --> 00:20:04.994
  • And it says in the book of nehemiah
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  • It says, now what happened
  • 00:20:07.130 --> 00:20:08.564
  • When sanballat, tobiah, the arabs, the ammonites,
  • 00:20:08.564 --> 00:20:11.401
  • And the estimates heard that
  • 00:20:11.401 --> 00:20:13.169
  • The walls of jerusalem were being restored
  • 00:20:13.169 --> 00:20:15.872
  • And gaps were being closed in the wall, that they became
  • 00:20:15.872 --> 00:20:19.509
  • Very angry, and all of them conspired together
  • 00:20:19.509 --> 00:20:22.779
  • To come and attack jerusalem and create confusion.
  • 00:20:22.779 --> 00:20:27.050
  • And like the sand ballots and tobias of ancient days,
  • 00:20:27.050 --> 00:20:30.620
  • Modern day voices are rising to discourage and divide.
  • 00:20:30.620 --> 00:20:35.491
  • And that's really the reason behind
  • 00:20:35.491 --> 00:20:37.193
  • The series that i've been working on that,
  • 00:20:37.193 --> 00:20:40.296
  • That many of these voices
  • 00:20:40.296 --> 00:20:41.864
  • Are leading a generation in the wrong direction.
  • 00:20:41.864 --> 00:20:45.568
  • They're trying to demonize israel,
  • 00:20:45.568 --> 00:20:47.570
  • They're creating confusion, and they're wrong biblically.
  • 00:20:47.570 --> 00:20:51.574
  • They're wrong historically, and they're wrong spiritually.
  • 00:20:51.574 --> 00:21:02.001
  • They're wrong historically, and they're wrong spiritually.
  • 00:21:02.001 --> 00:21:05.496
  • We live in
  • 00:21:05.796 --> 00:21:06.897
  • Amazing, historic biblical days, and i believe the lord
  • 00:21:06.897 --> 00:21:11.235
  • Is calling us to rise up, to speak up,
  • 00:21:11.235 --> 00:21:14.538
  • And to be a defender of israel and the jewish people.
  • 00:21:14.538 --> 00:21:17.742
  • For this is the day, i think many people say
  • 00:21:17.742 --> 00:21:20.344
  • We're living in the days like before,
  • 00:21:20.344 --> 00:21:23.347
  • World war two, when many times at that time,
  • 00:21:23.347 --> 00:21:26.851
  • Sadly, the church didn't stand with his people
  • 00:21:26.851 --> 00:21:29.987
  • And they didn't speak out or stand up.
  • 00:21:29.987 --> 00:21:32.490
  • But i think these are the days
  • 00:21:32.490 --> 00:21:34.091
  • And i think you're in a wonderful church
  • 00:21:34.091 --> 00:21:36.427
  • Who teaches about israel, understands
  • 00:21:36.427 --> 00:21:39.296
  • Israel prophetically, historically, and, and lives
  • 00:21:39.296 --> 00:21:43.534
  • That out here in the world outreach center.
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