Join Rabbi Jason and special guest Erick Stakelbeck as they explore the miraculous history and prophecies of Israel on God's Appointed Times. From the epic battles fought for independence to the revival of Hebrew language, technological advancements, and the intricate parallels between Jesus and Israel, discover the deep spiritual significance and prophetic fulfillment surrounding the modern state of Israel. Uncover the intertwined destinies of Israel and Yeshua, and witness how God's hand has guided Israel's journey, making it a beacon of hope, innovation, and fulfillment of ancient prophecies.
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God's Appointed Times with Rabbi Jason Sobel | Jason Sobel & Erick Stakelbeck: Yom Haatzmaut | God's Appointed Times | February 12, 2026
- >> rabbi jason: israel is a miracle.
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- The way that the nation came into being is
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- Nothing short of epic.
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- Right now, we're discussing israel independence day.
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- Known as yom ha'atzmaut in hebrew.
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- The holiday that celebrates the nation of israel and its people.
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- This is a modern celebration.
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- But it has deep prophetic significance.
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- Let's explore israel together.
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- I'm rabbi jason sobel.
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- And this is god's appointed times.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- If you're an american,
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- I want you to think about the excitement we feel
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- On 4th of july.
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- There are fireworks, parades and families gathered together to
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- Celebrate our amazing country.
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- Now, i want you to imagine all of that, but on a holy scale.
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- That's what the israeli independence day
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- Yom ha'atzmaut is like.
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- You see, israel becoming an independent nation isn't just
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- Political, it's actually prophetic.
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- The restoration of israel is a huge prophetic sign post that
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- Points to god's ultimate plan.
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- Israel officially became an independent nation
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- On may 14, 1948.
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- That's when the modern state of israel was founded.
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- But the story of this land goes back thousands of years.
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- To understand exactly how miraculous this is,
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- You need to understand a little history.
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- After the holocaust, it was decided that the jewish people
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- Had the right to return to their ancestral homeland
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- And start a new life.
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- Jewish people had always lived in israel.
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- But their population had dwindled to a fraction of what
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- It had once been.
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- It was time to return home.
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- In 1948 the state of israel was officially declared.
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- After many exiled from their homeland for more than
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- 2,000 years, jews began to return to israel to rebuild.
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- All throughout this process, we're seeing miracle after
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- Miracle happening.
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- From the battles that they won to the way the land was
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- Revitalized, the hand of god is there.
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- We know that israel's spiritual restoration is prophetic.
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- As we can see, the ancient prophecy written in ezekiel that
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- Describes the two-fold restoration of israel,
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- You're probably familiar with it,
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- It's the valley of the dry bones.
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- God says to ezekiel, "can these bones live?"
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- And bones come back together bone to bone.
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- But there's no life in them.
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- Then he prophesies again.
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- And the breath comes into the bones,
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- And a great army stands to its feet.
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- This is referring to the two-fold restoration of israel.
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- The bones coming together with flesh represents israel coming
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- Together as a nation, being regathered from around the
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- World, but in unbelief.
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- That's the first stage of the restoration.
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- That is what we've seen so far.
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- Then there's a second stage
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- Where the breath of god comes in,
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- Like god breathed into the first man adam.
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- That is the spiritual regeneration of israel when all
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- Israel will be saved, a great revival,
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- When the jewish people recognize yeshua as their messiah.
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- Israel is full of life, beauty and agriculture.
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- The land is being restored.
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- And so will the people.
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- Let's explore these prophecies even more.
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- And discuss the incredible miracle that is israel.
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- And discuss the incredible miracle that is israel.
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- >> shalom.
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- Erick stakelbeck here.
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- Stacks for sure.
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- Host of stakelbeck tonight, every week night on tbn.
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- Also the very big youtube channel called the watchman,
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- Where we talk all things israel and middle east and why it
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- Matters to you.
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- Philadelphia where i grew up is a very diverse city with a lot
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- Of jewish friends, but also israel in my life.
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- My dad was a fascinating guy.
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- He knew the bible.
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- He knew bible prophecy.
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- He was in a bible study at his factory.
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- They were deep into the study of prophecy.
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- And i'm coming home for dinner,
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- And we're sitting around the dinner table with my dad,
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- I'm hearing about king david.
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- I'm hearing about solomon.
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- I'm hearing about jesus.
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- He would always say, israel is the apple of god's eye.
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- He would never just say god.
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- He would say the god of abraham, isaac and jacob.
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- The god of israel.
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- So that's how i was raised.
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- I knew and loved israel from a very young age
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- In my formative years.
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- I like to say god gave me that earthly father who had such a
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- Passion and heart for israel for a reason.
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- >> rabbi jason: erick, i'm so excited to have you here with me
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- And to be discussing the significance of israel.
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- I know you're passionate.
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- You're a lover of israel.
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- I've always loved being on your show, stakelbeck tonight,
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- Right here on tbn.
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- God is blessing it.
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- And thank you for being here.
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- I'm so glad you're here.
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- >> erick: rabbi, it's an honor.
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- Toda raba.
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- Thank you very much, as they would say in israel.
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- What an honor to be with you.
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- I love this.
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- I'm just here to learn and listen,
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- Like i always do with you, the one and only rabbi jason.
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- It's great to be with you.
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- For such a time as this.
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- >> rabbi jason: yes, for such a time as this.
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- It's more important now than ever.
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- You've got so much to add.
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- When i think about the modern state of israel,
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- It is a modern day miracle.
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- I love taking people to israel on the rock road rabbi tours.
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- One of the reasons for that, when you're in israel,
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- You're literally inside a miracle.
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- It's just so incredible.
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- The first prime minister of israel said, to live in israel,
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- In order to be a realist, you have to believe in miracles.
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- And he was not a religious person at all.
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- Yet, he understood that god performed so many miracles for
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- The jewish people for it to be birthed again as a nation.
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- I think the first place we see that is in all of the battles
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- That israel has fought throughout its history.
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- Going back to his first battle, the war of independence.
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- Israel declares independence after the british pull out.
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- And they're recognized by the united nations.
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- And what happens?
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- Six arab nations invade israel.
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- Israel has no standing army.
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- They are outnumbered about 31.
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- No modern military weaponry.
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- >> erick: many holocaust survivors who still hadn't
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- Gained all their weight back, quite literally,
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- Had to pick up arms to fight.
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- Just three years after the holocaust mercifully ended.
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- >> rabbi jason: it's incredible,
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- Because part of the u.n. partition plan
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- Was to give part of the territory back
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- To the arab people that were living there,
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- That had mostly come from other nations.
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- And for israel to have its own state.
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- And, of course, the arab peoples rejected that plan.
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- And instead of living peacefully,
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- They pursued war to drive israel into the sea.
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- And they wound up losing, and israel ended up as a result with
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- About one-third more land than they would have had
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- Under the u.n. partition plan,
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- Which is just incredible.
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- But israel did not start that war.
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- Then you have the 1967 war, known as the six-day war,
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- Why don't you talk a little bit about the miracle of
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- The six-day war.
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- >> erick: number one, i think a key point that is really
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- Relevant today, rabbi, for the six-day wars,
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- Israel struck preemptively.
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- The enemies were gathering on israel's border.
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- Egypt, syria, jordan, they are breathing threats
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- Of annihilation.
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- The whole world sees this happening.
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- For weeks this went on.
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- And the united states --
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- At the time lyndon johnson who was then the president,
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- Tried to tie israel's hands in a sense and say,
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- Don't do anything.
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- Finally israel said, we need to act on our own.
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- At the end of the day, only we can defend ourselves
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- And our citizens.
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- We can't rely on anyone other than almighty god.
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- And israel moved first in the six-day war,
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- And just a resounding stunning victory, rabbi.
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- The war was over on the first day when the israeli air force
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- Bombarded and destroyed the egyptian air force when it was
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- Still on the ground.
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- Egyptian fighter jets were on the ground.
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- And egyptian fighter pilots were actually having coffee on an
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- Early morning in early june 1967
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- And, in the blink of an eye, their entire air force
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- Is destroyed.
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- And that's why the war only lasted six days.
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- It was almost over before it started.
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- God's hand was on it number one.
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- Number two, you mentioned how israel gained more territory
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- Than was originally slated for in 1948 in
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- The war of independence.
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- 1967, rabbi, they take the golan.
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- They take the sinai peninsula, which they eventually gave back
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- To egypt in the peace treaty, but most crucially, jerusalem.
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- Jerusalem.
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- Jerusalem is reunified.
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- The ancient and ancestral capital israel and the jewish
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- Capital is whole once again.
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- And that's why you and i today can walk freely in jerusalem.
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- Look, under jordanian control before the six-day war,
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- For a jew or christian to go into jerusalem to attempt to
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- Pray at the western wall, that was pretty much a nonstarter.
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- That was a muslim controlled city and site predominantly.
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- It all changed in '67.
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- I think it was a major, major prophetic threshold
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- That was crossed.
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- >> rabbi jason: then you have israel attacked
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- In yom kippur war,
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- The holiest day of the year, led by the egyptians,
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- The syrians, israel seems like they're going to be destroyed,
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- But, yet, miraculously god gives them the ability to turn it
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- Around and to win that war.
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- >> erick: and in that case they were attacked rabbi.
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- Rabbi, i believe that the prayers of believers around the
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- Word are really making a difference.
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- As you know so well, prayer works.
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- And the fervent prayers for jerusalem for the peace of
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- Jerusalem for israel for the jewish people,
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- I think it's making a difference.
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- I truly do.
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- And that yom kippur war, like you mentioned, things got dicey.
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- Israel was attacked first.
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- Rabbi, i'm in israel frequently, as you are,
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- And you still hear veterans of that '73 war, they're debating.
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- There are still a lot of hard feelings about
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- The yom kippur war.
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- And what happened, why it happened.
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- At the end, israel won a resounding victory.
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- As you said, god won the victory.
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- And you hear miraculous stories,
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- Especially the battles in the golan of, people saw angels.
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- I mean, the syrian army, syrian tanks were blinded
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- Supernaturally.
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- Amazing ways in which god moved and led israel.
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- Went ahead of israel and helped them to attain the victory.
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- >> rabbi jason: it's really incredible.
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- And more recently when you had iran launch this rocket attack
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- Towards israel, and 99.9 percent of missiles were shot down,
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- And there was an israeli astrophysicist who also worked
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- In defense as well, said, this is a miracle on the level of the
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- Parting of the red sea, because the defense systems,
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- When they worked perfectly, could shoot down
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- 90 percent of the missiles.
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- But they shot down 99.9.
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- That means every single thing had to work better than perfect,
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- Which in war, never happens.
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- But again, i think that was god's hand miraculously
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- Protecting the people,
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- Which we see time and time and time again.
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- So we see the miracle of israel from its birth,
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- God protecting it, allowing it to be born.
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- We see it also with the revival of hebrew.
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- Hebrew was a dead language.
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- There had never been a language that had become unspoken.
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- Hebrew was used for prayer.
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- It was used for study.
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- But it was not used as an everyday spoken language.
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- >> erick: for thousands of years.
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- >> rabbi jason: for thousands of years.
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- So the fact that it was rebirthed as a modern tongue,
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- Eleazar ben yehuda helped that revival.
- 00:13:34.045 --> 00:13:38.115
- Again, just another sign of incredible miracle of the
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- Language being restored.
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- The language of yeshua.
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- The language of the disciples.
- 00:13:49.727 --> 00:13:51.896
- And then, of course, another key miracle that we see is all of
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- The modern, scientific and technological advancements.
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- And nobel prizes that had been won.
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- And, the contribution israel has made to the world as
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- Startup nation.
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- I don't know if you have any thoughts on that.
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- But it's incredible.
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- >> erick: 100%.
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- Rabbi, i'd say two things, through you all peoples on earth
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- Will be blessed.
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- God says in genesis 12:3.
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- And we're seeing it.
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- The advancements in israel, the medical breakthroughs,
- 00:14:22.593 --> 00:14:25.496
- Blessing people's lives.
- 00:14:25.496 --> 00:14:27.431
- Right now in israel, they're working on technology that would
- 00:14:27.431 --> 00:14:29.901
- Make kidney dialysis machines obsolete.
- 00:14:29.901 --> 00:14:32.203
- That is just a tip of the iceberg.
- 00:14:32.203 --> 00:14:33.738
- It is amazing, the cancer, the alzheimer's research,
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- And much deeper than that, artificial limbs made in israel.
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- God has harnessed and gathered the genius and the ingenuity of
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- The jewish people in this one tiny nation
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- For such a time as this.
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- It's blessing the world.
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- And, rabbi, i wanted to say too, you made a great point about the
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- Hebrew language.
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- That got me to thinking, whoever heard of such a thing,
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- By the way?
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- For a language to be essentially dormant for some 25-- whoever
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- Heard of such a thing?
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- >> rabbi jason: it's a fulfillment of prophecy.
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- >> erick: it is.
- 00:15:06.337 --> 00:15:07.638
- >> rabbi jason: there's more jewish people in israel today
- 00:15:07.638 --> 00:15:08.940
- Than there is anywhere else in the world.
- 00:15:08.940 --> 00:15:10.608
- Probably for the first time since the babylonian captivity.
- 00:15:10.608 --> 00:15:15.746
- So it's really incredible to see the dry bones
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- Coming back together.
- 00:15:19.283 --> 00:15:20.952
- Again, thinking about the technological advancement.
- 00:15:20.952 --> 00:15:24.755
- I'm going to reveal a deep secret and mystery to you that
- 00:15:24.755 --> 00:15:29.694
- Has been hidden for a very long time.
- 00:15:29.694 --> 00:15:31.762
- Did you know that jesus created gps?
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- >> erick: explain.
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- >> rabbi jason: he said i am the waze, the truth and the life.
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- [laughter]
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- >> erick: people need to know, waze is made in israel.
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- >> rabbi jason: that's why i'm saying that.
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- It's one of the technological advancements that israel brought
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- To the world was waze.
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- >> erick: take out your cell phone and send a text.
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- >> rabbi jason: that's right.
- 00:15:50.214 --> 00:15:52.950
- The usb drive, the firewall, there is a device now coming out
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- Of technology that can actually sniff disease.
- 00:15:57.288 --> 00:15:59.490
- Watergen, which can create water out of the air.
- 00:15:59.490 --> 00:16:05.463
- Advanced irrigation systems that literally has the ability to,
- 00:16:05.463 --> 00:16:09.667
- It is what helped cause, the deserts of israel to bloom.
- 00:16:09.667 --> 00:16:13.938
- It was a wasteland.
- 00:16:13.938 --> 00:16:15.239
- And literally, it's a fulfillment of prophecy.
- 00:16:15.239 --> 00:16:17.608
- God has once again caused the deserts to bloom.
- 00:16:17.608 --> 00:16:22.913
- There's a prophecy in jeremiah that there would once again be
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- Vineyards on the mountains in samaria.
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- And we see that being fulfilled today in our day
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- And in our time.
- 00:16:34.625 --> 00:16:37.328
- Partly what i think the practical significance for us is
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- That what god did for israel, he wants to do for each and every
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- One of us on a personal level.
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- Just like god took the barrenness of the land and
- 00:16:44.902 --> 00:16:47.838
- Caused it to bloom.
- 00:16:47.838 --> 00:16:49.440
- All of us have barren places in our life, but, god,
- 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:53.844
- When his hand comes upon us, will transform us.
- 00:16:53.844 --> 00:16:57.615
- Yeshua gave us a promise.
- 00:16:57.615 --> 00:16:59.350
- I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.
- 00:16:59.350 --> 00:17:02.720
- And the fruitfulness of the land of israel,
- 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.157
- And god bringing back that reality,
- 00:17:06.157 --> 00:17:09.093
- Israel's now an exporter of agriculture and produce to the
- 00:17:09.093 --> 00:17:15.399
- World, which is absolutely mind-blowing and incredible.
- 00:17:15.399 --> 00:17:18.369
- >> erick: a leader in water, like you said, water technology.
- 00:17:18.369 --> 00:17:20.738
- Israel is at the forefront.
- 00:17:20.738 --> 00:17:25.376
- And nations are coming to israel and seeking israel's assistance,
- 00:17:25.376 --> 00:17:27.344
- Including some unlikely nations.
- 00:17:27.344 --> 00:17:29.980
- Think of the abraham accords, bahrein, the uae, morocco, arab,
- 00:17:29.980 --> 00:17:32.616
- Muslim traditional rivals of israel,
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- Now they're starting to say,
- 00:17:34.485 --> 00:17:36.554
- Maybe we need to get in on the blessing.
- 00:17:36.554 --> 00:17:42.693
- >> rabbi jason: so one of the really incredible things is this
- 00:17:42.693 --> 00:17:46.330
- Connection between the old and the new.
- 00:17:46.330 --> 00:17:49.166
- One of the things many christians know is that jesus
- 00:17:49.166 --> 00:17:51.335
- Yeshua is actually the one-man israel.
- 00:17:51.335 --> 00:17:55.339
- That is a term a lot of people are not familiar with.
- 00:17:55.339 --> 00:17:57.908
- What it means is that the history and the destiny of
- 00:17:57.908 --> 00:18:03.814
- Israel gets relived in the person of jesus.
- 00:18:03.814 --> 00:18:12.022
- And he oftentimes has to get right, or what israel god wrong,
- 00:18:12.022 --> 00:18:17.394
- Or he has to relive what they went through in their history as
- 00:18:17.394 --> 00:18:20.931
- A nation, because he's going to bring it to its culmination and
- 00:18:20.931 --> 00:18:22.967
- Its ultimate fulfillment.
- 00:18:22.967 --> 00:18:24.235
- And one of the things that's really important about this,
- 00:18:24.235 --> 00:18:26.070
- It's meant to show that israel's destiny and jesus' destiny is
- 00:18:26.070 --> 00:18:31.108
- Inextricably bound together.
- 00:18:31.108 --> 00:18:33.511
- So, for example, think about the birth of jesus.
- 00:18:33.511 --> 00:18:36.780
- Herod tried to kill all the babies.
- 00:18:36.780 --> 00:18:39.116
- In the days of moses, pharaoh tried to kill the jewish babies
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- To destroy the first redeemer.
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- Herod tried to destroy the second redeemer.
- 00:18:45.823 --> 00:18:49.460
- Jesus has to flee to egypt.
- 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:50.361
- Why to egypt?
- 00:18:50.361 --> 00:18:52.029
- To fulfill prophecy.
- 00:18:52.029 --> 00:18:54.498
- Out of egypt, hosea says, i called my son.
- 00:18:54.498 --> 00:18:56.300
- Why does his son have to be called out of egypt?
- 00:18:56.300 --> 00:18:58.235
- Because moses, the first redeemer came out of egypt.
- 00:18:58.235 --> 00:19:01.672
- So jesus the second redeemer has to come out of egypt.
- 00:19:01.672 --> 00:19:05.142
- God parts the red sea for israel.
- 00:19:05.142 --> 00:19:07.344
- Jesus has to go into the waters for baptism.
- 00:19:07.344 --> 00:19:12.316
- And then the heavens break open and the voice of god comes out,
- 00:19:12.316 --> 00:19:15.886
- Just like the waters broke open at the red sea.
- 00:19:15.886 --> 00:19:18.822
- Just when they go through the red sea,
- 00:19:18.822 --> 00:19:21.659
- Israel goes into the desert 40 years.
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- What happens?
- 00:19:24.428 --> 00:19:25.462
- Jesus goes into the desert for 40 days,
- 00:19:25.462 --> 00:19:27.498
- Because he is reliving the history of israel.
- 00:19:27.498 --> 00:19:30.534
- They failed in the desert over most of the 40 years.
- 00:19:30.534 --> 00:19:34.905
- Jesus gets right in 40 days what israel got wrong.
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- His first miracle, water into wine.
- 00:19:41.045 --> 00:19:41.912
- Why?
- 00:19:41.912 --> 00:19:43.113
- Because moses first miracle was the water into blood.
- 00:19:43.113 --> 00:19:46.150
- Jesus feeds the 5,000, multiplies the bread
- 00:19:46.150 --> 00:19:50.721
- And the fish.
- 00:19:50.721 --> 00:19:51.255
- Why?
- 00:19:51.255 --> 00:19:52.323
- Because moses gives them manna from heaven.
- 00:19:52.323 --> 00:19:53.791
- Jesus is the greater than moses.
- 00:19:53.791 --> 00:19:56.427
- The last supper was a passover seder going back to moses,
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- And the coming forth out of the land of egypt.
- 00:20:00.464 --> 00:20:03.234
- So he dies on passover to fulfill the exodus story.
- 00:20:03.234 --> 00:20:07.371
- As he's on the cross, there's three hours of darkness.
- 00:20:07.371 --> 00:20:10.774
- Why three hours of darkness?
- 00:20:10.774 --> 00:20:12.843
- The ninth plague, there's three days of darkness.
- 00:20:12.843 --> 00:20:15.412
- The tenth plague, the first born son,
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- This is god's first born son hanging there on the tree.
- 00:20:18.148 --> 00:20:21.485
- And that places faith in him.
- 00:20:21.485 --> 00:20:23.887
- God passes over just like he did in egypt.
- 00:20:23.887 --> 00:20:26.724
- So we see all of these connections.
- 00:20:26.724 --> 00:20:31.295
- Even when israel goes out of egypt,
- 00:20:31.295 --> 00:20:32.029
- There is a mixed multitude.
- 00:20:32.029 --> 00:20:35.032
- Dies on the jewish holiday,
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- Raises on the jewish holiday of firstfruits,
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- Pours out the holy spirit on pentecost.
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- So all of this is connected.
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- >> erick: rabbi, it's amazing.
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- Number one, amazing.
- 00:20:42.940 --> 00:20:44.041
- I've never heard that parallel.
- 00:20:44.041 --> 00:20:46.844
- I follow this very, very closely as you do.
- 00:20:46.844 --> 00:20:48.712
- I never herds a teaching like that.
- 00:20:48.712 --> 00:20:50.080
- Amazing.
- 00:20:50.080 --> 00:20:51.081
- I've heard obviously the comparison between
- 00:20:51.081 --> 00:20:53.083
- Yeshua and joseph.
- 00:20:53.083 --> 00:20:54.885
- A lot of comparisons there.
- 00:20:54.885 --> 00:20:56.287
- But not the closely-bound intricacy of the relationship
- 00:20:56.287 --> 00:21:00.691
- And the parallels between yeshua and the land of israel.
- 00:21:00.691 --> 00:21:04.228
- To me, and it's frustrating to me, rabbi,
- 00:21:04.228 --> 00:21:06.263
- To see many christians who are not in touch with the jewish
- 00:21:06.263 --> 00:21:11.001
- Roots of the faith.
- 00:21:11.001 --> 00:21:15.706
- To me, what you just laid out, shows that israel looms large on
- 00:21:15.706 --> 00:21:17.541
- The heart of god.
- 00:21:17.541 --> 00:21:18.776
- On the heart of yeshua.
- 00:21:18.776 --> 00:21:20.311
- Somehow it seems in the church, in the gentile church,
- 00:21:20.311 --> 00:21:22.179
- That has gotten lost over the centuries.
- 00:21:22.179 --> 00:21:24.114
- The centrality of the land and the people of israel to yeshua.
- 00:21:24.114 --> 00:21:30.087
- Do you see that coming back?
- 00:21:30.087 --> 00:21:31.955
- I see it personally, rabbi.
- 00:21:31.955 --> 00:21:34.191
- I think you are at the tip of the spear in leading that
- 00:21:34.191 --> 00:21:37.061
- Movement, and educating gentile believers like myself,
- 00:21:37.061 --> 00:21:40.397
- About the jewish roots of the faith.
- 00:21:40.397 --> 00:21:41.498
- And the most important thing, yeshua and israel,
- 00:21:41.498 --> 00:21:44.234
- Which we don't hear enough about.
- 00:21:44.234 --> 00:21:46.670
- He was a jewish rabbi from the galilee,
- 00:21:46.670 --> 00:21:48.472
- Just a helpful reminder for people.
- 00:21:48.472 --> 00:21:49.773
- >> rabbi jason: no, it's a great point.
- 00:21:49.773 --> 00:21:51.809
- I mean, that's where our passion is with what we do with fusion
- 00:21:51.809 --> 00:21:56.380
- Global, and with our ministering and our tv shows.
- 00:21:56.380 --> 00:21:59.583
- And we do think, we see clearly, there is a great interest that
- 00:21:59.583 --> 00:22:03.020
- Is growing among christians.
- 00:22:03.020 --> 00:22:04.722
- There's also some challenges among younger christians who are
- 00:22:04.722 --> 00:22:12.830
- Being influenced in universities and are antagonistic to israel,
- 00:22:12.830 --> 00:22:14.732
- Which we want to see that shift as well.
- 00:22:14.732 --> 00:22:16.800
- But, i think an important point in all of this,
- 00:22:16.800 --> 00:22:20.838
- And the reason why we bring it up,
- 00:22:20.838 --> 00:22:21.972
- You can't say you love jesus who was born jewish,
- 00:22:21.972 --> 00:22:27.778
- Born a descendant of abraham, isaac and jacob,
- 00:22:27.778 --> 00:22:31.515
- Of the tribe of judah, king of israel.
- 00:22:31.515 --> 00:22:35.519
- Born in the holy land, born in the promise land.
- 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:39.189
- The jewish homeland that god promised going back to the
- 00:22:39.189 --> 00:22:43.961
- Patriarchs, how can you love the jewish jesus,
- 00:22:43.961 --> 00:22:46.764
- Who is still jewish today, not that he was jewish,
- 00:22:46.764 --> 00:22:48.866
- He is jewish.
- 00:22:48.866 --> 00:22:50.868
- That is the reason for the genealogy in the gospels,
- 00:22:50.868 --> 00:22:53.404
- And hate the jewish people?
- 00:22:53.404 --> 00:22:55.606
- It's like someone saying they love me,
- 00:22:55.606 --> 00:22:57.941
- But they hate my wife and my children.
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- >> erick: rabbi, it's impossible.
- 00:22:58.942 --> 00:23:00.744
- He was the lion of the tribe of judah, number one.
- 00:23:00.744 --> 00:23:05.582
- I don't know how people miss this.
- 00:23:05.582 --> 00:23:09.686
- But thank god we have you lifting those scales,
- 00:23:09.686 --> 00:23:12.189
- Helping to lift those scales and educate and enlighten people.
- 00:23:12.189 --> 00:23:14.010
- Helping to lift those scales and educate and enlighten people.
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- >> rabbi jason: i hope now you can see why israel is so
- 00:23:15.660 --> 00:23:18.563
- Incredibly valuable.
- 00:23:18.563 --> 00:23:21.266
- Celebrating the independence of israel is a celebration of
- 00:23:21.266 --> 00:23:25.036
- Prophecy being fulfilled today.
- 00:23:25.036 --> 00:23:28.273
- For gentile believers, it is so important to understand
- 00:23:28.273 --> 00:23:31.843
- The beauty and significance of israel.
- 00:23:31.843 --> 00:23:34.946
- Because you've been grafted in.
- 00:23:34.946 --> 00:23:37.549
- And this is your inheritance too.
- 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:39.984
- Israel is so much more than its government or political leaders.
- 00:23:39.984 --> 00:23:44.155
- It's the spiritual center of the earth.
- 00:23:44.155 --> 00:23:46.958
- And god has incredible plans for the land.
- 00:23:46.958 --> 00:23:49.494
- If you haven't been to israel,
- 00:23:49.494 --> 00:23:52.697
- I would encourage you to make it a priority.
- 00:23:52.697 --> 00:23:54.098
- It is one of the greatest ways you can show support for the
- 00:23:54.098 --> 00:23:58.336
- Jewish people and see the bible come alive.
- 00:23:58.336 --> 00:23:59.737
- And think about coming with me on one of our rock road rabbi
- 00:23:59.737 --> 00:24:03.575
- Tours to israel.
- 00:24:03.575 --> 00:24:05.076
- For all of us who follow yeshua jesus,
- 00:24:05.076 --> 00:24:08.847
- It is a piece of our history and a piece of our inheritance.
- 00:24:08.847 --> 00:24:13.318
- I'm rabbi jason sobel.
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- And this is god's appointed times.
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