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Greg Laurie - Israel: The Key To The End Times

July 16, 2026 | 27:30

Greg Laurie - Israel: The Key To The End Times
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Israel: The Key To The End Times | July 16, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg laurie: jesus is coming again.
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  • The signs are getting bigger and they're getting brighter and
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  • They're getting closer together and he could come at any time.
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  • "oh greg, i've been hearing this forever."
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  • Yeah, i know.
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  • The bible even says a sign of the end times will be people
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  • Saying, "oh, we've heard this forever," but one of these days
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  • It's gonna be the day and we'll be caught up to meet the lord in
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  • A moment in the twinkling of an eye.
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  • My question for you is, "are you ready?"
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  • ♪ this is the day ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: "israel: the key to understanding the end times."
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  • Okay, point number one if you're taking notes: the nation
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  • Israel is the key to understanding the end times.
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  • The nation israel is the key to understanding the end times and
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  • The bible makes bold and very specific predictions about her.
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  • And israel and the middle east in general have really been in
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  • The headlines a lot lately, haven't they?
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  • On october 7th, the people of israel were attacked by
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  • Hamas terrorists.
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  • These militants slaughtered 1300 people, men, women, and
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  • Children, and did unspeakable things.
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  • Plus, they took into captivity 250 more people, many of whom
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  • Are still in captivity.
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  • Now, this is in a nation with a population of less than
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  • Ten million.
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  • So, if we were to compare it to here, let's just say this
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  • Happened in america and let's extrapolate the number
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  • Proportionally so we can understand what it would
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  • Be like.
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  • This would be like waking up one morning and opening the paper,
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  • Going to your favorite news site, and reading that hamas
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  • Came in and murdered 40,000 americans.
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  • So, you could see how significant
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  • And horrific that would be.
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  • That's comparably what it was like for israel to have 1200,
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  • 1300 of their people murdered.
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  • Now you would think in the wake of something this awful and
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  • Unspeakable that there would be sympathy extended to israel and
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  • The jewish people, but instead the very opposite happened.
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  • Antisemitism exploded around the globe in the aftermath of
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  • October 7th.
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  • Protests happening, huge protests, in europe and in
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  • America and on our ivy league universities, people supporting
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  • Hamas and calling for violence and death for the jews.
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  • One of the slogans of the signs is, "from the river to the sea,
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  • Palestine will be free."
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  • And that's just another way of saying, "we don't want jews in
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  • The middle east.
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  • We don't want a nation israel in the middle east," because the
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  • River would be the jordan river, the sea would be
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  • The mediterranean.
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  • And so antisemitism, which is hatred of jewish people, has
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  • Risen 80% in germany since october 7th.
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  • Can you imagine that?
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  • Germany, germany, which was responsible for the holocaust
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  • Under adolf hitler, resulting in the loss of the lives of six
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  • Million jewish people.
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  • Even in a synagogue in los angeles this week, pro-hamas
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  • Terrorists were blocking jewish people from going into their
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  • Own synagogues.
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  • So, the question arises, "why is there such a hatred for the jews
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  • And for their homeland of israel?"
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  • Well, by the way, antisemitism is not unique to our time, it
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  • Goes all the way back to the book of exodus.
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  • Well, we see the pharaoh giving the order to kill all the jewish
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  • Baby boys.
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  • Then fast forward to the book of esther.
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  • They're in ancient persia.
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  • We see haman and his wicked plot to have all of the jewish
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  • People exterminated.
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  • Interestingly, in both of those situations, courageous women
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  • Stepped into the gap and saved the jews.
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  • In the case of pharaoh, the jewish midwives refused to obey
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  • That order and would not kill those little jewish baby boys.
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  • And in the case of the book of esther, it was esther herself
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  • Who was the queen that put it all on the line and spoke up for
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  • Her fellow jews.
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  • Now, let's talk for a few moments about why there is a
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  • Nation israel to begin with.
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  • How could such a thing even happen?
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  • It really seemed impossible, especially in the aftermath of
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  • The holocaust.
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  • But jews began to return to their homeland, as if on cue,
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  • And i think it was on cue because the lord was prompting
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  • Them to do so and they regathered there in the land,
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  • Bringing me to point number two: a sign of the end times is the
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  • Regathering of the jews in israel.
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  • Again, a sign of the end times is the
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  • Regathering of the jews in israel.
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  • It was to alert us specifically that we're in the last days.
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  • In matthew 24, jesus foretold the destruction of the temple
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  • And the dispersion of the jews, remember?
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  • The disciples said, "what would be the sign of your coming?"
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  • And he points to the temple.
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  • He says, "i tell you, there will not be one stone left upon
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  • Another that will not be taken down."
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  • What do they--what?
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  • Do you see the size of this temple?
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  • What are you talking about?
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  • Well, he was foretelling the destruction of the temple, which
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  • Happened in 70 ad when titus and the roman troops came in and set
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  • It all on fire, and it was dismantled stone by stone and
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  • Many, many jewish people were slaughtered and they dispersed
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  • From the land of israel.
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  • Fast forward throughout human history and we come to
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  • The holocaust.
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  • But then in the aftermath of that, a modern day miracle
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  • Happened and the prophetic clock began to tick.
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  • On may 14th, 1948, israel, against all odds, became a
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  • Nation again and i'm proud to announce that the united states
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  • Was the first nation to recognize them as a nation.
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  • So, this is very significant.
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  • But here's what we need to understand
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  • Because there's all kinds of false narratives out there.
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  • People say, "well the jews are colonizers."
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  • Give me a break, the jews are indigenous to the land.
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  • They are the original occupants of the land
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  • That god specifically gave to them.
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  • To the jewish people, god said in deuteronomy 1:8,
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  • "look, i'm giving all this land to you.
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  • Go in and occupy it for it is the land the lord swore
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  • To give to your ancestors, abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • And all their descendants."
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  • Okay, so that brings us now to ezekiel 37.
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  • Let's read it together, i'm reading from
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  • The new living translation.
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  • "the lord took hold of me,
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  • And i was carried away by the spirit of the lord to
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  • A valley filled with bones.
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  • He led me around the old dry bones that covered the
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  • Valley floor.
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  • They were scattered everywhere across the ground.
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  • Then he asked me, 'son of man, can these bones become living
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  • People again?'
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  • 'oh sovereign lord,' i replied, 'you alone know the answer
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  • To that.'
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  • Then he said, 'speak to these bones and say, 'dry bones,
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  • Listen to the word of the lord.
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  • This is what the sovereign lord says.
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  • Look, i'm gonna breathe into you and make you live again.
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  • I'm gonna put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin.
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  • I'll put breath on you, and you will come to life and you will
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  • Know that i am the lord.'"
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Now, i've spoken to some pretty dead audiences before but this
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  • Takes the cake.
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  • God says to ezekiel, "go to the graveyard and preach to
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  • The bones."
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  • And that's exactly what ezekiel does.
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  • But what does this mean?
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  • What do these dry bones represent?
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  • Drop down to verse 17 of ezekiel 37, excuse me, down to verse 11
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  • Of ezekiel 37.
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  • "he said to me, 'son of man, these bones represent the people
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  • Of israel.
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  • They're saying, 'we become old dry bones.
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  • All hope is gone.'
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  • Now give this message from the sovereign lord to my people, 'i
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  • Will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again.'"
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  • Look at this, "'i'll bring you back to the land of israel.'"
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  • Now verse 13, "'when this happens, so people know that i
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  • Am the lord.
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  • I'll put my spirit in you and you'll return--you'll live and
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  • Return home to your own land.'"
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  • It's their land, "'you'll return to your own land and you will
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  • Know that i am the lord.
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  • You'll see how i've done everything as i promised.
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  • I, the lord, have spoken.'"
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  • Stop there.
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  • This was written 2500 years ago.
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  • Very specific.
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  • So, what is ezekiel telling us?
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  • He's telling us a sign of the end times, israel will be
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  • Scattered, that's happened.
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  • Israel will be regathered, that too has happened.
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  • Israel will regain jerusalem.
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  • That also has happened.
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  • Israel will be isolated.
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  • That is happening.
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  • And the bible tells us, "in the last days, the final conflict of
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  • Men would be centered on jerusalem."
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  • Not in paris or rome or london or any other city, on jerusalem.
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  • Bringing me to point number three: the city of jerusalem
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  • Will be a focal point of the end times.
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  • Why does this tiny little city create such a stir?
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  • Why this hostility toward jerusalem?
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  • Because she plays a key role in the last days.
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  • The bible says, "she will be an intoxicating drink, a heavy
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  • Stone, and a burden for the whole world."
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  • Zachariah 12:2 says, god speaking, "i'll make jerusalem
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  • And judah like an intoxicating drink to the nearby nations that
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  • Send their armies to besiege jerusalem.
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  • On that day, i'll make jerusalem a heavy stone, a burden of the
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  • World," or for the world, "none of the nations who try will be
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  • Able to lift it."
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  • I mean, this tiny, little country.
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  • And in this tiny, little country called israel is this little
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  • City called jerusalem.
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  • Did you know that, at one point, the nation of israel is only
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  • Nine miles wide?
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  • It's incredible, but yet this little sliver of land plays such
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  • A key role in the end times.
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  • Now, here's where it gets interesting.
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  • After ezekiel 37 is ezekiel 38.
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  • Isn't that a profound insight?
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  • But what we read about in ezekiel 38 is significant.
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  • This chapter speaks of a large force from the north of israel
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  • Attacking her in the end times.
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  • After she's been regathered, this large force will attack
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  • Israel, along with her allies.
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  • And so this is very specific, bringing me to point number
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  • Four: after being regathered in her land, israel will
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  • Be attacked.
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  • After being regathered in their land, israel will be attacked.
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  • Let's go to ezekiel 38 now and speaking from the new king james
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  • Version, "son of man," god says, "set your face against gog, of
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  • The land of magog," you might underline gog and magog, we'll
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  • Come back to those.
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  • "the prince of rosh, meshech, and tubal, and prophesy against
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  • Him and say, 'thus says the lord god: 'behold, i am against you,
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  • O gog, the prince of rosh, meshech, and tubal.
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  • I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws and lead you
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  • Out with all of your armies, horses, horsemen, all
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  • Splendidly clothed.
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  • Persia, ethiopia, and libya are with them, along with shield and
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  • Helmet; gomer and all of his troops, the house of togarmah
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  • From the far north and all of its troops-many people are
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  • With you.'"
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  • Drop down to verse 10 of ezekiel 38.
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  • "this is what the sovereign lord says: 'at that time, evil
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  • Thoughts will come into your mind, you'll devise a
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  • Wicked scheme.'
  • 00:12:58.454 --> 00:13:00.055
  • You will say, 'israel is an unprotected land with
  • 00:13:00.055 --> 00:13:02.925
  • Unwalled villages.
  • 00:13:02.925 --> 00:13:04.293
  • I'll march against her and destroy those people who live in
  • 00:13:04.293 --> 00:13:08.097
  • Such confidence.'"
  • 00:13:08.097 --> 00:13:09.431
  • Okay, we'll stop there.
  • 00:13:09.431 --> 00:13:10.766
  • All right, so who is magog and the allies that march
  • 00:13:10.766 --> 00:13:15.070
  • With her mentioned here in ezekiel 38?
  • 00:13:15.070 --> 00:13:17.940
  • So, these tribes intermarried, became known as magog, they
  • 00:13:17.940 --> 00:13:22.278
  • Settled to the north of israel.
  • 00:13:22.278 --> 00:13:24.380
  • If you go to the north of israel, any map will show you,
  • 00:13:24.380 --> 00:13:27.082
  • That's where modern-day russia sits.
  • 00:13:27.082 --> 00:13:30.386
  • Magog today may represent the former underbelly of the soviet
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  • Union; pakistan, uzbekistan, turkmenistan, stan the man.
  • 00:13:36.025 --> 00:13:40.963
  • No, i don't know stan the man, afghanistan, and in other parts.
  • 00:13:40.963 --> 00:13:45.034
  • So, rosh is the remote part of the north, so a direct reference
  • 00:13:45.034 --> 00:13:50.206
  • To russia.
  • 00:13:50.206 --> 00:13:51.540
  • Most prophecy experts believe magog is russia.
  • 00:13:51.540 --> 00:13:56.011
  • Now, i don't think anyone can say with 100% certainty that
  • 00:13:56.011 --> 00:14:01.817
  • Magog is russia, but i think it's a really good
  • 00:14:01.817 --> 00:14:05.354
  • Educated guess.
  • 00:14:05.354 --> 00:14:06.689
  • Now having said that, i think you can say with absolute
  • 00:14:06.689 --> 00:14:09.725
  • Certainty who some of these allies that march with
  • 00:14:09.725 --> 00:14:12.962
  • Russia are.
  • 00:14:12.962 --> 00:14:14.563
  • We have gomer.
  • 00:14:14.563 --> 00:14:16.065
  • Gomer is modern-day turkey.
  • 00:14:16.065 --> 00:14:18.934
  • So, we have to ask the question, is turkey hostile toward israel?
  • 00:14:18.934 --> 00:14:22.404
  • Well, it always--it hasn't always been hostile.
  • 00:14:22.404 --> 00:14:25.507
  • But as recently as 2017, the state-run turkish newspaper
  • 00:14:25.507 --> 00:14:29.478
  • Called for a united army of islam to invade israel, so in
  • 00:14:29.478 --> 00:14:34.850
  • Recent days, in fact, turkey has become hostile toward israel.
  • 00:14:34.850 --> 00:14:40.456
  • Ethiopia is mentioned and libya is mentioned.
  • 00:14:40.456 --> 00:14:44.660
  • Persia is modern iran.
  • 00:14:44.660 --> 00:14:47.763
  • Now, all of these nations are islamic, okay?
  • 00:14:47.763 --> 00:14:52.468
  • And so, persia was persia until 1935 and they changed their name
  • 00:14:52.468 --> 00:14:58.340
  • To iran.
  • 00:14:58.340 --> 00:14:59.708
  • Now, if russia--if magog is russia and the bible
  • 00:14:59.708 --> 00:15:04.146
  • Specifically saying an ally of magog is persia, and it is
  • 00:15:04.146 --> 00:15:09.885
  • Saying that of course, that's a pretty remarkable statement.
  • 00:15:09.885 --> 00:15:12.888
  • I mean, that's really going out on a limb.
  • 00:15:12.888 --> 00:15:15.090
  • Historically, russia and persia/iran, have had no real
  • 00:15:15.090 --> 00:15:21.330
  • Relationship for the last 2500 years, but russia now has signed
  • 00:15:21.330 --> 00:15:25.601
  • A billion dollar deal to send missiles and other weapons
  • 00:15:25.601 --> 00:15:28.170
  • To iran.
  • 00:15:28.170 --> 00:15:29.538
  • Iran has provided drones for russia to use in their war
  • 00:15:29.538 --> 00:15:33.175
  • With ukraine.
  • 00:15:33.175 --> 00:15:34.810
  • And so, an alliance that was prophesied 2500 years ago has
  • 00:15:34.810 --> 00:15:39.481
  • Happened before our very eyes.
  • 00:15:39.481 --> 00:15:41.750
  • One expert on the middle east made this statement, and i
  • 00:15:41.750 --> 00:15:44.119
  • Quote, "iran clearly knows how to unlock the doors to a
  • 00:15:44.119 --> 00:15:47.823
  • Nuclear armageddon.
  • 00:15:47.823 --> 00:15:49.425
  • There's a growing sense in israel that jerusalem is quickly
  • 00:15:49.425 --> 00:15:52.795
  • Running out of time."
  • 00:15:52.795 --> 00:15:54.129
  • End quote.
  • 00:15:54.129 --> 00:15:55.497
  • So, iran--and let me say this about iran.
  • 00:15:55.497 --> 00:15:58.801
  • There are many wonderful persian people.
  • 00:15:58.801 --> 00:16:01.904
  • We have some in our church, many who have fled iran for freedom
  • 00:16:01.904 --> 00:16:07.509
  • And many of them are followers of jesus christ and i hear many
  • 00:16:07.509 --> 00:16:11.280
  • Stories about people in iran today coming to christ and
  • 00:16:11.280 --> 00:16:16.051
  • There's like an underground spiritual movement.
  • 00:16:16.051 --> 00:16:18.420
  • So, when i say iran, i'm not talking of the people of iran,
  • 00:16:18.420 --> 00:16:22.958
  • But i am talking about the evil regime that is in charge
  • 00:16:22.958 --> 00:16:27.162
  • Of iran.
  • 00:16:27.162 --> 00:16:28.497
  • And this group of people, they are funding terrorism around
  • 00:16:28.497 --> 00:16:33.235
  • The world.
  • 00:16:33.235 --> 00:16:34.570
  • And i can't think of one reason why we would send one dollar to
  • 00:16:34.570 --> 00:16:38.273
  • Fund terrorism around the world to iran.
  • 00:16:38.273 --> 00:16:41.577
  • Makes no sense.
  • 00:16:41.577 --> 00:16:46.015
  • And iran works with these proxy organizations, hamas and
  • 00:16:46.015 --> 00:16:50.719
  • Hezbollah, and so when you see hamas attack israel, when you
  • 00:16:50.719 --> 00:16:55.224
  • See hezbollah fire missiles into israel, they are being told to
  • 00:16:55.224 --> 00:17:00.662
  • Do so or cooperating with iran.
  • 00:17:00.662 --> 00:17:05.567
  • So, this is what is happening and they all hate israel.
  • 00:17:05.567 --> 00:17:10.773
  • And if that's not blatant enough, iran recently attacked
  • 00:17:10.773 --> 00:17:15.077
  • Israel herself.
  • 00:17:15.077 --> 00:17:16.445
  • Remember it was not long ago they fired 300 drones and
  • 00:17:16.445 --> 00:17:20.416
  • Missiles into israel.
  • 00:17:20.416 --> 00:17:21.750
  • But thankfully, technology that america provided for israel
  • 00:17:21.750 --> 00:17:25.554
  • Called the iron dome, which is a sophisticated missile system
  • 00:17:25.554 --> 00:17:29.425
  • That shoots these incoming missiles and drones out of the
  • 00:17:29.425 --> 00:17:32.995
  • Air, and another weapon system we help them with called the
  • 00:17:32.995 --> 00:17:36.999
  • Sling of david.
  • 00:17:36.999 --> 00:17:38.367
  • Okay, so this technology has helped them and and it's been
  • 00:17:38.367 --> 00:17:42.204
  • Very significant, but the iranian leaders make no secret
  • 00:17:42.204 --> 00:17:46.341
  • Of their dislike and hatred of israel and what their ultimate
  • 00:17:46.341 --> 00:17:49.978
  • Agenda is.
  • 00:17:49.978 --> 00:17:51.313
  • One leader of iran made this statement, and i quote, "is it
  • 00:17:51.313 --> 00:17:54.416
  • Possible for us to witness a world without america
  • 00:17:54.416 --> 00:17:57.252
  • And zionism?
  • 00:17:57.252 --> 00:17:58.687
  • You best know that this slogan and this goal is attainable and
  • 00:17:58.687 --> 00:18:02.925
  • Can be achieved.
  • 00:18:02.925 --> 00:18:04.259
  • The regime that is occupying jerusalem must be wiped off
  • 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:08.163
  • The map."
  • 00:18:08.163 --> 00:18:09.531
  • Pretty clear.
  • 00:18:09.531 --> 00:18:10.966
  • So, when we hear of a two-state solution, sounds good on paper,
  • 00:18:10.966 --> 00:18:14.403
  • What does it mean?
  • 00:18:14.403 --> 00:18:15.771
  • It means that two states live in peace with each other.
  • 00:18:15.771 --> 00:18:19.341
  • Israel would love to live at peace with iran.
  • 00:18:19.341 --> 00:18:22.144
  • They would love to live at peace with the palestinians.
  • 00:18:22.144 --> 00:18:25.314
  • The problem is how can you live at peace with someone who says,
  • 00:18:25.314 --> 00:18:28.650
  • "i want you wiped off the map."
  • 00:18:28.650 --> 00:18:31.186
  • It's like saying to someone, "can we be friends?"
  • 00:18:31.186 --> 00:18:32.888
  • And they say, "if you cease to exist, we can be."
  • 00:18:32.888 --> 00:18:36.892
  • How does that work, right?
  • 00:18:36.892 --> 00:18:38.393
  • That's literally what they're saying.
  • 00:18:38.393 --> 00:18:40.896
  • So--and jerusalem, of all things, it's mentioned
  • 00:18:40.896 --> 00:18:44.233
  • Specifically, there's that heavy stone again.
  • 00:18:44.233 --> 00:18:46.835
  • Now here comes the united states.
  • 00:18:46.835 --> 00:18:49.571
  • We have been a strong and staunch ally of israel
  • 00:18:49.571 --> 00:18:52.574
  • Historically, but more recently we have backed off from that.
  • 00:18:52.574 --> 00:18:56.612
  • Why should we support the nation israel?
  • 00:18:56.612 --> 00:18:59.615
  • Well, one would say, because they're the only real democracy
  • 00:18:59.615 --> 00:19:03.051
  • In the middle east, and that's true, but that's not the reason.
  • 00:19:03.051 --> 00:19:06.188
  • The primary reason we should support them--i think the
  • 00:19:06.188 --> 00:19:09.424
  • Primary reason we should support israel is because god has placed
  • 00:19:09.424 --> 00:19:13.195
  • Them in the land and we wanna stand with that, right?
  • 00:19:13.195 --> 00:19:20.903
  • So, magog, maybe russia, and her allies, we know persia is one of
  • 00:19:20.903 --> 00:19:25.908
  • Those allies, will march against israel.
  • 00:19:25.908 --> 00:19:29.144
  • What happens next?
  • 00:19:29.144 --> 00:19:30.479
  • Ezekiel 38:18.
  • 00:19:30.479 --> 00:19:31.847
  • "this is what will happen in that day when gog attacks the
  • 00:19:31.847 --> 00:19:34.183
  • Land of israel.
  • 00:19:34.183 --> 00:19:35.551
  • God says, 'my hot anger will be aroused.'
  • 00:19:35.551 --> 00:19:38.720
  • Declares the sovereign lord."
  • 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:40.956
  • Don't tick off god.
  • 00:19:40.956 --> 00:19:43.592
  • You don't want to get on his bad side.
  • 00:19:43.592 --> 00:19:46.028
  • He says, "you're gonna attack my people?"
  • 00:19:46.028 --> 00:19:48.931
  • Notice how the lord takes it personally.
  • 00:19:48.931 --> 00:19:51.700
  • Why?
  • 00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:53.068
  • Because israel, the jewish people, his chosen people, are
  • 00:19:53.068 --> 00:19:56.538
  • The apple of his eye.
  • 00:19:56.538 --> 00:19:59.174
  • And so now god decimates the armies of magog along with their
  • 00:19:59.174 --> 00:20:03.312
  • Allies and there's so many weapons there, it takes seven
  • 00:20:03.312 --> 00:20:06.882
  • Years to destroy them.
  • 00:20:06.882 --> 00:20:08.650
  • And then god promises to pour his spirit out on israel in
  • 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:13.255
  • Ezekiel 39:29.
  • 00:20:13.255 --> 00:20:15.190
  • So, a national revival takes place in israel.
  • 00:20:15.190 --> 00:20:18.660
  • Now, when will this happen?
  • 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:19.995
  • Let's go back to our map again.
  • 00:20:19.995 --> 00:20:21.964
  • When will this happen, chronologically.
  • 00:20:21.964 --> 00:20:23.765
  • Here's the answer, ready? i don't know.
  • 00:20:23.765 --> 00:20:26.635
  • Okay, but i'll take a guess.
  • 00:20:26.635 --> 00:20:28.570
  • Okay, so if they're going to burn the weapons for seven
  • 00:20:28.570 --> 00:20:31.940
  • Years, it seems likely to me that this attack of magog
  • 00:20:31.940 --> 00:20:36.178
  • Against israel could happen before the rapture, it could
  • 00:20:36.178 --> 00:20:39.381
  • Happen right after the rapture, perhaps a little bit later.
  • 00:20:39.381 --> 00:20:42.884
  • I don't know the answer to that.
  • 00:20:42.884 --> 00:20:44.519
  • But now let's go to our second passage, romans 11, verse 25,
  • 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:48.757
  • The apostle paul.
  • 00:20:48.757 --> 00:20:50.726
  • "i want you to understand the mystery, dear brothers and
  • 00:20:50.726 --> 00:20:53.428
  • Sisters," which brings me back to my point.
  • 00:20:53.428 --> 00:20:56.698
  • God wants us to understand bible prophecy, right?
  • 00:20:56.698 --> 00:21:01.503
  • Here's paul saying, "i want you to understand this mystery, so
  • 00:21:01.503 --> 00:21:05.974
  • You won't feel proud about yourselves.
  • 00:21:05.974 --> 00:21:07.676
  • Blindness in part is happened to israel but this will only last
  • 00:21:07.676 --> 00:21:12.881
  • Until the full number of the gentiles come to christ and so
  • 00:21:12.881 --> 00:21:17.719
  • All israel will be saved."
  • 00:21:17.719 --> 00:21:20.188
  • Okay, point number five: a spiritual awakening is going to
  • 00:21:20.188 --> 00:21:24.593
  • Happen to the jewish people.
  • 00:21:24.593 --> 00:21:27.129
  • A spiritual awakening is gonna happen to the jewish people.
  • 00:21:27.129 --> 00:21:30.999
  • There's a spiritual blindness among many jews when it comes
  • 00:21:30.999 --> 00:21:35.704
  • To jesus.
  • 00:21:35.704 --> 00:21:37.039
  • There's a resistance, but actually, there's been a
  • 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:39.441
  • Dramatic change even recently.
  • 00:21:39.441 --> 00:21:42.511
  • I read just the other day that requests for bibles in israel
  • 00:21:42.511 --> 00:21:46.214
  • Have risen dramatically since october 7th.
  • 00:21:46.214 --> 00:21:49.785
  • I can think of many conversations that i've had
  • 00:21:49.785 --> 00:21:53.055
  • With jewish people who have thanked me personally
  • 00:21:53.055 --> 00:21:56.458
  • For speaking up for them.
  • 00:21:56.458 --> 00:21:58.627
  • Listen, god made a promise to israel and god keeps
  • 00:21:58.627 --> 00:22:03.098
  • His promises.
  • 00:22:03.098 --> 00:22:04.433
  • And i wanna bring this up because there's something called
  • 00:22:04.433 --> 00:22:06.268
  • Replacement theology that has gained some popularity in
  • 00:22:06.268 --> 00:22:09.538
  • The church.
  • 00:22:09.538 --> 00:22:10.906
  • So, replacement theology basically says that all the
  • 00:22:10.906 --> 00:22:15.177
  • Promises given to the jews have now been transferred to the
  • 00:22:15.177 --> 00:22:18.580
  • Church and the promises given to the jews are no longer
  • 00:22:18.580 --> 00:22:23.251
  • Operative, they're all given to us.
  • 00:22:23.251 --> 00:22:24.986
  • That is wrong and incorrect and is refuted many times
  • 00:22:24.986 --> 00:22:29.024
  • In scripture.
  • 00:22:29.024 --> 00:22:33.161
  • God is a promise keeper, he's not a promise breaker.
  • 00:22:33.161 --> 00:22:36.998
  • And he's made promises to israel that he will keep.
  • 00:22:36.998 --> 00:22:40.802
  • Here's a promise he made to the jewish people in jeremiah 33.
  • 00:22:40.802 --> 00:22:44.673
  • It can't get any plainer than this.
  • 00:22:44.673 --> 00:22:46.742
  • "the lord gave another message to jeremiah.
  • 00:22:46.742 --> 00:22:49.044
  • He said, 'have you noticed what people are saying?
  • 00:22:49.044 --> 00:22:51.480
  • They're saying, 'the lord chose judah in israel and then
  • 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:54.816
  • Abandon them.'
  • 00:22:54.816 --> 00:22:56.184
  • They're sneering and saying israel is not worthy to be
  • 00:22:56.184 --> 00:22:58.854
  • Counted as a nation.'
  • 00:22:58.854 --> 00:23:00.489
  • And this is what the lord says.
  • 00:23:00.489 --> 00:23:02.257
  • 'i would no more reject my people than i would change my
  • 00:23:02.257 --> 00:23:05.360
  • Laws that govern night and day, earth and sky.'"
  • 00:23:05.360 --> 00:23:09.364
  • How's that for clarity?
  • 00:23:09.364 --> 00:23:11.199
  • It's so current.
  • 00:23:11.199 --> 00:23:12.567
  • And people are saying, "oh, god has broken his covenant with the
  • 00:23:12.567 --> 00:23:15.670
  • Jews and he doesn't care about the nation of israel."
  • 00:23:15.670 --> 00:23:18.039
  • God's saying, "are you kidding me?
  • 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:19.508
  • I'll never abandon my covenant with them."
  • 00:23:19.508 --> 00:23:23.044
  • Okay, so this is the way it is.
  • 00:23:23.044 --> 00:23:26.581
  • You see, i am a gentile, as most of you are, and we--the bible
  • 00:23:26.581 --> 00:23:31.153
  • Says, "we've been grafted into the promises of god."
  • 00:23:31.153 --> 00:23:33.855
  • Means he made the promises to them but through jesus, our
  • 00:23:33.855 --> 00:23:37.859
  • Messiah, we have been brought into these promises with the
  • 00:23:37.859 --> 00:23:42.531
  • Lord, not replacing them, but grafted in.
  • 00:23:42.531 --> 00:23:46.168
  • That's what the bible says.
  • 00:23:46.168 --> 00:23:49.771
  • God promises, of course, in genesis 12 to abraham and his
  • 00:23:49.771 --> 00:23:53.208
  • Descendants, the jews, says, "i'll bless those that
  • 00:23:53.208 --> 00:23:56.378
  • Bless you.
  • 00:23:56.378 --> 00:23:57.712
  • I'll curse those that curse you."
  • 00:23:57.712 --> 00:23:59.080
  • So, that's why we want to bless the jewish people.
  • 00:23:59.080 --> 00:24:01.716
  • Number six: god wants to use us to bless the people who have
  • 00:24:01.716 --> 00:24:04.786
  • Blessed us.
  • 00:24:04.786 --> 00:24:06.121
  • God wants to use you to bless the people who have blessed us.
  • 00:24:06.121 --> 00:24:09.524
  • Verse 14.
  • 00:24:09.524 --> 00:24:11.960
  • "i want somehow to make the people of israel jealous of what
  • 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:16.765
  • The gentiles have so i might save some of them."
  • 00:24:16.765 --> 00:24:20.769
  • Make them jealous.
  • 00:24:20.769 --> 00:24:22.103
  • Okay, so god keeps his promises and he's made a lot of promises
  • 00:24:22.103 --> 00:24:27.943
  • To us.
  • 00:24:27.943 --> 00:24:29.311
  • So many i could spend the next 20 minutes listing them for you,
  • 00:24:29.311 --> 00:24:33.315
  • But we'll have to do that at another time.
  • 00:24:33.315 --> 00:24:36.318
  • Bring me to point number seven: god is waiting for the complete
  • 00:24:36.318 --> 00:24:40.021
  • Number of gentiles to come to christ.
  • 00:24:40.021 --> 00:24:43.492
  • Look, let me just put a little bow on it now, we're done.
  • 00:24:43.492 --> 00:24:48.497
  • Jesus is coming again.
  • 00:24:48.497 --> 00:24:50.699
  • The signs are getting bigger and they're getting brighter and
  • 00:24:50.699 --> 00:24:54.436
  • They're getting closer together and he could come at any time.
  • 00:24:54.436 --> 00:24:58.106
  • "oh, greg.
  • 00:24:58.106 --> 00:24:59.608
  • I've been hearing this forever."
  • 00:24:59.608 --> 00:25:02.143
  • Yeah, i know.
  • 00:25:02.143 --> 00:25:03.512
  • The bible even says, "a sign of the end times will be people
  • 00:25:03.512 --> 00:25:06.114
  • Saying, 'oh, we've heard this forever,'" but one of these days
  • 00:25:06.114 --> 00:25:10.318
  • It's gonna be the day and we'll be caught up to meet the lord in
  • 00:25:10.318 --> 00:25:15.123
  • A moment in the twinkling of an eye.
  • 00:25:15.123 --> 00:25:17.092
  • My question for you is, "are you ready?
  • 00:25:17.092 --> 00:25:20.762
  • Are you ready to meet the lord?"
  • 00:25:20.762 --> 00:25:23.198
  • Are you?
  • 00:25:23.198 --> 00:25:24.533
  • I hope so.
  • 00:25:24.533 --> 00:25:25.901
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:25:25.901 --> 00:25:32.874
  • Greg: there are so many things to be worried about right now,
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  • Aren't there?
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  • Worrying about terrorism, worry about your personal safety,
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  • Violent crime, the economy, the list goes on.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
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  • "don't worry about anything.
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  • Pray about everything.
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  • Turn your panic into prayer."
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  • Jesus said, "come unto me all of you that are laboring and are
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  • Heavy laden.
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  • I will give you rest."
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  • Give your burdens, give your problems over to god and let him
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  • Give you his peace in your heart.
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  • Let me send to you at no charge what i call a new believer's
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  • Bible to help you grow in a relationship with god and learn
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  • How to turn your panic into prayer and your worry
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  • Into worship.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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  • Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
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  • We are all different.
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  • We have different interests, different personalities,
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  • Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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  • But here, we have a deep connection,
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  • And you are welcome here.
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  • This is harvest.
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  • Greg: you know, i've heard people describe a trip to israel
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  • As seeing the bible actually come to life.
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  • And having been to israel many times,
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  • I can say that's absolutely true.
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  • Listen, when you're walking on the same stones that jesus
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  • Walked on, there's something that's enriching to your faith.
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  • It's not just a travel experience;
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  • It actually energizes your study of the bible.
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  • Think of it this way:
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  • It's a vacation with a purpose,
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  • And you can find out more at israel.harvest.org.
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