Jerusalem has been attacked, conquered and occupied numerous times during her long and painful history. But why has Jerusalem suffered so much and are there any hopeful, prophetic signs that point to a better future for the holy city?
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | Dr. John Tweedie - A City Lost and Regained | July 11, 2025
- Jerusalem means peace.
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- But this holy city has known
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- Virtually nothing but war down through its history,
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- With periods of calm, interludes of calm,
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- But then war again only recently.
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- Missiles were being aimed
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- At this holy city, and sirens were wailing
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- And people were running to bomb shelters.
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- Today, jerusalem is relatively peaceful.
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- But the prophets have said a day is coming when once and again
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- The armies are going to surround this glorious holy city.
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- They're going to attack it, perhaps out of frustration.
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- But the prophets have said that event is going to occur,
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- And jerusalem will once again be besieged
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- And under attack.
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- With the rebirth of israel in 1948.
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- Jerusalem became once again the capital city of the only
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- Jewish nation on earth.
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- But this also gave rise to never ending conflict,
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- As different factions
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- Struggled to gain footholds of control within the holy city.
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- From 1948,
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- The year the nation of israel was established, until 1967,
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- Jordan ruled over jerusalem, the ancient city,
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- The temple mount, and during
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- That rule of a muslim nation,
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- Jewish people were not even allowed
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- To go to the temple mount area to worship god
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- Denied full access to their holiest site, the temple mount.
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- Jews could only hope, pray and dream
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- That one day things would change in their favor,
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- That someday they would be allowed to visit, pray,
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- And freely worship where their temples once stood,
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- Exactly as their forefathers had done many centuries ago.
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- All of us.
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- We had a dream, and the dream
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- Was that one day we will be able
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- To visit those sacred places temple mount
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- And the kotel, which is part of it,
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- And all the other so well known
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- Sacred places to the jewish people is youth.
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- As children,
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- We were educated to
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- Dream about jerusalem,
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- To speak about jerusalem.
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- We were educated.
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- That part of jerusalem is missing
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- Because it is not under.
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- It was not under the sovereignty of the state of israel.
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- The dream to stand in the sacred places became a reality.
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- In the aftermath of the six day war in june 1967,
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- When israel defeated her enemies and regained
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- Sovereign control over all of jerusalem,
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- When we got the news
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- That our troops
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- Fighting in jerusalem in the six days
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- War captured the kotel,
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- The the part of the
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- The only existing part
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- Which is related to the temple
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- And unified jerusalem.
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- Not only me, but the entire nation
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- Entered into a joy.
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- And emotions became
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- Very high because for years
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- We were looking
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- At jerusalem, but not being able to enter into it.
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- I remember myself as a young soldier and later
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- On as a young officer, spotting by using binoculars
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- From the israeli side
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- Towards the jordanian side of jerusalem.
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- While the six-day war gave the people of israel
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- Full control over jerusalem.
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- This did not necessarily
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- Mean full and open access to all of their sacred places,
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- Especially the ancient temple site.
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- I think for jewish people everywhere,
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- For israelis and for jews abroad.
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- Jerusalem is is a heart and soul.
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- I mean, this city has been the capital of the jewish people
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- And since king david,
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- Since solomon built the temple here,
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- You know, according to jewish tradition,
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- When a jew praise to god, no matter
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- Where he is on this planet, he faces jerusalem.
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- It really is the center
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- Of our heritage and of our culture.
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- Today, jerusalem is once again
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- The undivided capital of the jewish nation.
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- Even so, there are those who say an internationalized
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- Or divided jerusalem
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- Is the only pathway to peace beyond what has become
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- A cauldron of conflict in the holy land.
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- I feel very strongly
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- That jerusalem should never be divided again.
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- I feel that
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- Jerusalem was promised by god to be the capital of israel.
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- It's the entire city of jerusalem
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- Belongs to the state of israel.
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- It belongs to the people of israel.
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- When jerusalem is divided, it's like your heart is divided.
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- It's like you feel like
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- You belong at the same time to two different nations.
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- That's not the case. the case.
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- The reality is that jerusalem belongs to this,
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- To the people of israel.
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- Jerusalem was where we prayed
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- All our lives
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- In the lives of all the generations that preceded us.
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- It is
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- Not as holy to any other nation as it is to the state of israel
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- And to the people of israel.
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- I don't believe that anything would be gained
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- By dividing jerusalem once again,
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- While the jewish heart's cherish a united jerusalem.
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- International pressure continues
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- To build in the opposite direction.
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- Prime minister benjamin netanyahu,
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- My boss, has been very clear on this.
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- He believes, and our position remains,
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- That in any possible peace arrangement in the future,
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- Jerusalem must remain, must remain
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- The united capital of the state of israel.
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- I think viewers have to remember
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- That the only time
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- That this city has been opened
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- And free for people of all faiths,
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- The only time the holy places
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- Have been open for pilgrims
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- Of all communities, of all denominations,
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- Has been.
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- When israel reunited this city in 1967.
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- Before that, jews were forbidden.
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- Other groups were forbidden only under israeli control.
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- Have we guaranteed
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- Freedom of worship,
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- Freedom of religion
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- And freedom for
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- Each religious community
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- To be in charge of its own religious sites?
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- Now, israel has done all this,
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- And i see no reason whatsoever to take that away
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- Today, because of israeli sovereignty over jerusalem,
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- All religious buildings
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- And sites are equally protected under the law.
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- This ensures open access for people of all faiths,
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- Regardless of their beliefs.
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- The jewish people have proven
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- That they believe that everyone has a right to believe
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- How they believe, and to worship god as they see fit.
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- So i believe it only makes sense to have the jewish people
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- Look after these holy sites to enable everyone
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- To have freedom of worship.
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- As the debate over jerusalem rages on,
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- With strong opinions
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- Being declared on both sides of the sovereignty question.
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- One thing is certain
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- Jerusalem will remain in the media
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- Spotlight as long as nations search
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- For an equitable solution to this enduring problem.
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- A solution that leads ultimately to a lasting peace
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- In the holy land.
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- Don't go away.
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- When we return, doctor john tweedie continues his teaching.
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- I'm
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- Standing on mount scopus, high above jerusalem.
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- When armies attacked jerusalem, they usually came
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- From this direction, going toward the holy city,
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- Because there were valleys on three sides of jerusalem.
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- But it was easier to attack the city from the north.
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- And this city has been attacked numerous times.
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- Two major attacks.
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- Two major dispersions.
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- The first in 586 bc, when the armies of babylon
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- Came here under king nebuchadnezzar and sacked
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- The city and destroyed the first temple of solomon
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- That stood on the temple mount.
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- Behind me, jeremiah was a prophet living in that time.
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- He warned the inhabitants of jerusalem of the disaster
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- That was going to come upon them,
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- Because they refused to listen to the prophets of god.
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- Listen to his words.
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- In jeremiah 25, beginning in verse one.
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- The word that came to jeremiah concerning all the people
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- Of judah in the fourth year of jehoiakim
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- The son of josiah came of judah, which was the first year
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- Of nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon.
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- So jeremiah gives us the historical context
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- Which jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of judah
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- And to all the inhabitants of jerusalem, saying,
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- From the 13th year of josiah, the son of ammon, king of judah,
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- Even to this day.
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- This is the 23rd year in which the word of the lord
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- Has come to me, and i have spoken to you
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- Rising early and speaking, but you have not listened.
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- And the lord has sent to you all his servants
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- And the prophets, rising early and sending them.
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- But you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear.
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- They said, repent now every one of his evil
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- And evil doings,
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- And dwell in the land that the lord has given to you
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- And your fathers forever and ever.
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- Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them.
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- And do not provoke me.
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- Meeting the lord to anger with the works of your hands,
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- And i will not harm you.
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- Yet you have not listened to me, says the lord,
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- That you might provoke me to anger
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- With the works of your hands to your own hurt.
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- Therefore, thus says the lord of hosts,
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- Because you have not heard my words, behold, i will send
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- And take all the families of the north, says the lord.
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- And nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon, my servant,
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- And will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants,
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- And against those nations all around,
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- And will utterly destroy them.
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- Actually, babylon is directly east of israel, in a sense.
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- But attacking armies always attack from the north,
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- Because first of all,
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- They had to go around
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- The deserts
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- That are part of the
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- Middle east,
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- So they would go around the desert
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- And come at jerusalem from the north.
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- Its weakest side.
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- And it
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- Says in this scripture, and make them in astonishment
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- And hissing and perpetual desolations.
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- Moreover, i will take from them meaning from jerusalem
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- The voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness,
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- The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
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- The sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamb.
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- God was going to change life here
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- By bringing an invading army because they wouldn't
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- Listen to jeremiah, the prophets god sent to them.
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- Verse 11, and this whole land
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- Shall be a desolation and an astonishment,
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- And these nations shall serve the king of babylon 70 years.
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- Now this is remarkable because, jeremiah actually places
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- A time limit on the exiles stay in babylon.
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- And we know that ezekiel the prophet
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- Was one of those exiles, as was daniel.
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- In fact, daniel understood
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- That it was only going to last 70 years because he knew
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- What jeremiah had already prophesied.
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- And jeremiah continues.
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- And in chapter 29 we read these words.
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- In fact, he tells the people, the exiles in babylon.
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- He sends a letter to them, and we read about it in chapter 29.
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- Now these are the words
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- Of the letter that jeremiah the prophet sent from jerusalem
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- To the remainder of the elders
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- Who were carried away captive to the priests,
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- The prophets, and all the people whom nebuchadnezzar
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- Had carried away captive from jerusalem to babylon.
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- And it goes on from there.
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- Verse four
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- Thus says the lord of hosts, the god of israel,
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- To all who were carried away captive, whom i have caused
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- To be carried away captive from jerusalem to babylon, build
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- Houses, and dwell in them, plant gardens, and eat their fruit.
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- He's telling them to enjoy life in babylon
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- While you're there, while you can,
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- Because you're only going to be there for a time.
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- And i want to bring you back as a whole, healthy people,
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- Back to jerusalem in the land of israel.
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- Verse six take wives and beget sons and daughters,
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- And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters
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- To husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters,
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- That you may be increased and not diminished.
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- So god wants them
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- To be preparing during the 70 years of exile,
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- Because he's already said they're
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- Going to come back to jerusalem and to the land of israel.
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- Verse seven and seek the peace of the city
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- Where i have caused you to be carried away captive,
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- And pray to the lord for it.
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- For in its peace you will have peace.
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- For thus says the lord of hosts, the god of israel,
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- Do not let your prophets and your diviners,
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- Who are in your midst deceive you,
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- Nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dream.
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- For they prophesy falsely to you in my name
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- I have not sent them, says the lord.
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- So god is telling them in advance
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- What his plans are for them, as exiles in babylon.
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- And jeremiah repeats the 70 years
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- Here in verse ten, for thus says the lord.
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- After 70 years are completed at babylon, i will visit you
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- And perform my good word toward you, and cause you
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- To return to this place, meaning jerusalem.
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- Well, in fact, they did return because the
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- Babylon was defeated by an alliance of the means.
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- And the persians and cyrus, who was a persian
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- King, was a benevolent king toward the jews.
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- And he allowed them to come back and to begin to rebuild
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- The temple that the babylonians had earlier destroyed.
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- So they came back to the land of israel, and again and again
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- They were attacked. the greeks came.
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- And then finally the romans came,
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- And there was a rebellion against the romans.
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- And in the year 8070, the romans, like the babylonians
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- Before them, absolutely destroyed jerusalem.
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- And in fact,
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- They destroyed the second temple
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- That the returning exiles had built.
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- And then the jews were dispersed a second time,
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- But not for 70 years, but this time for 1878 years.
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- We date that from 1870, when the romans destroyed
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- Jerusalem, to 1948, when in fact israel was reborn.
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- And the prophet isaiah had asked in chapter 66 and verse eight,
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- Shall a nation be born in the day
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- At once was a rhetorical question,
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- But it was answered on may the 14th, 1948, when david
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- Ben-gurion, the first prime minister of modern israel,
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- Declared the rebirth of the nation of israel.
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- But in 1948
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- Israel did not have possession of the old city of jerusalem,
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- So typified by the golden dome of the rock,
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- The temple mount that was still in jordanian hands,
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- And it would wait for another 19 years, from 1948 to 1967.
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- It would take a six day war.
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- In june of 1967 for the armies of israel to capture
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- What you see over my left shoulder, the temple mount.
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- And then the jews could rejoice.
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- And the voice of the bride, groom, and the bride
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- Could be heard again
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- On the ancient streets of the original jerusalem,
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- The one that was so familiar to jesus.
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- It would be nice
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- To think that all is well, and now peace will reign.
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- But we know from other prophets that yet again in the future,
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- There's going to be another attack against jerusalem.
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- Perhaps it will come out of sheer frustration
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- As the nations try to solve the problems of this land,
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- And they try to deal with the status of jerusalem.
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- Some suggested it should be internationalized.
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- Some say it should be divided between two peoples,
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- The people of israel and the palestinian people, and
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- Who knows?
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- But the debate continues,
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- And there are high levels of frustration, in fact,
- 00:19:13.715 --> 00:19:16.751
- Leading to regional wars, even in this land, over
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- The status of jerusalem and the people that live here.
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- So listen to the words of the prophet jeremiah in chapter 12.
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- He tells us jerusalem is again going to become
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- A stumbling block to the nations.
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- Now, this hasn't happened.
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- As i stand here this morning on mount scopus,
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- The temple mount over my left shoulder,
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- The mount of olives over my right
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- Shoulder, and down in the valley,
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- The valley of kidron and jeremiah
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- Or zechariah rather tells us jerusalem is going to be
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- A stumbling block.
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- And then he tells us that this will lead
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- To an attack on jerusalem by the armies of the nations.
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- Zechariah 14.
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- Hear the words of the prophet written more than 2400 years
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- Ago. prophecies that have not been fulfilled.
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- As i stand in jerusalem on this bright morning,
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- Behold, the day of the lord is coming.
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- Your spoil will be divided in your midst, for
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- I will gather all the nations to battle against jerusalem.
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- In this description the cities shall be taken,
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- The houses rifled, and the women ravished.
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- Half of the city shall go into captivity,
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- But the remnant of the people
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- Shall not be cut off from the city.
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- Then the lord will go forth and fight against those nations
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- As he fights in the day of battle.
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- And then this specific description
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- Of messiah is coming in verse four.
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- And in that day his feet will stand on the mount of olives,
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- Which faces jerusalem on the east,
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- And the mount of olives shall be split
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- In two from east to west, making a very large valley.
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- Half of the mountain shall move toward the north,
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- Meaning towards where i'm standing, and half of it
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- Toward the south, in the opposite direction.
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- Then you shall flee through my mountain valley,
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- For the mountain valley shall reach to israel
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- On the other side of the month.
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- Mount scopus, where i'm standing,
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- The desert begins all the way down to the jordan valley,
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- And then on the other
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- Side of the jordan river, the kingdom of jordan.
- 00:21:23.845 --> 00:21:26.815
- And god is saying through the prophet
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- That if you want to escape, you will go through this valley
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- That i'm going to create, presumably with an earthquake,
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- And that
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- Will be your means of escape, because jerusalem
- 00:21:35.457 --> 00:21:37.258
- Is under attack.
- 00:21:37.258 --> 00:21:38.827
- But the attack
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- Will be interrupted by the advent of the messiah.
- 00:21:39.928 --> 00:21:43.898
- The messiah is going to come in defense of jerusalem, and it is
- 00:21:43.898 --> 00:21:48.470
- When the nations surround this holy city and besiege it.
- 00:21:48.470 --> 00:21:52.006
- That's the trigger event that brings the messiah
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- To the land of israel.
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- And so it's all laid out for us in prophecy.
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- So here we are, standing here today
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- Thinking back to the days of jeremiah,
- 00:22:02.951 --> 00:22:05.620
- Who spoke to the inhabitants of the city.
- 00:22:05.620 --> 00:22:08.156
- They wouldn't listen.
- 00:22:08.156 --> 00:22:09.591
- Now, here we are in the 21st century, and god's word
- 00:22:09.591 --> 00:22:12.794
- Is going forth again to the nations and to jerusalem.
- 00:22:12.794 --> 00:22:16.965
- And are they listening?
- 00:22:17.465 --> 00:22:19.534
- But whether they are or not,
- 00:22:19.534 --> 00:22:21.169
- God has laid out the prophetic scenario.
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- We know
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- From the words of the prophet, the messiah is coming again
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- As the defender of jerusalem
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- And of the people of israel.
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- Stay tuned for more from doctor
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- You know, it's
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- Amazing to think that this holy city, jerusalem,
- 00:23:57.632 --> 00:24:00.034
- Where god placed his name and where he gave instructions
- 00:24:00.034 --> 00:24:03.037
- To build the first and second temples,
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- This city has known so much strife, war, hardship
- 00:24:06.074 --> 00:24:10.612
- And bloodshed all the way down through history,
- 00:24:10.612 --> 00:24:13.781
- Almost from her very foundation and even to then, today
- 00:24:13.781 --> 00:24:18.453
- And in recent days, missiles have been aimed at jerusalem.
- 00:24:18.453 --> 00:24:22.524
- The strife continues over this glorious city of god.
- 00:24:22.524 --> 00:24:26.995
- But we have good news from the lips of the prophets.
- 00:24:26.995 --> 00:24:30.498
- Hear what the prophet isaiah has to say.
- 00:24:30.498 --> 00:24:33.101
- And this, surely is a word of encouragement
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- To the inhabitants of jerusalem and of israel,
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- And for those who love this land and its people.
- 00:24:38.506 --> 00:24:42.443
- Isaiah chapter two.
- 00:24:42.911 --> 00:24:44.679
- The word that isaiah, the son of the moors saw concerning judah
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- And jerusalem.
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- Judah is the tribe of judah that was given to jerusalem
- 00:24:49.918 --> 00:24:53.588
- And the surrounding area.
- 00:24:53.588 --> 00:24:54.789
- In fact, jesus of nazareth is from the tribe of judah,
- 00:24:54.789 --> 00:24:59.227
- Not shall come to pass in the latter days,
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- Meaning the last prophetic days before messiah comes,
- 00:25:01.229 --> 00:25:05.133
- That the mountain of the lord's house shall be established
- 00:25:05.133 --> 00:25:08.469
- On the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
- 00:25:08.469 --> 00:25:11.739
- The hills, and all nations shall flow into it.
- 00:25:11.739 --> 00:25:15.043
- The prophet isaiah seems to be alluding
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- To the fact that the temple will once again
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- Stand on the holy mountain behind me.
- 00:25:19.847 --> 00:25:23.384
- Many people will come up and say, come, let us go up
- 00:25:23.384 --> 00:25:27.155
- To the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
- 00:25:27.155 --> 00:25:31.326
- He will teach us his ways, and we shall walk in his paths.
- 00:25:31.326 --> 00:25:35.597
- For out of zion, meaning jerusalem.
- 00:25:35.597 --> 00:25:38.600
- So go forth the law,
- 00:25:38.600 --> 00:25:40.268
- And the word of the lord from jerusalem.
- 00:25:40.268 --> 00:25:42.904
- And then this glorious, time of peace
- 00:25:42.904 --> 00:25:46.507
- After so much war and bloodshed, he, meaning messiah,
- 00:25:46.507 --> 00:25:52.146
- Shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people.
- 00:25:52.146 --> 00:25:55.650
- They shall beat their swords into plowshares
- 00:25:55.650 --> 00:25:58.119
- And their spears into pruning hooks.
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- Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
- 00:26:00.321 --> 00:26:03.424
- Neither shall they learn war anymore.
- 00:26:03.424 --> 00:26:07.895
- So the
- 00:26:08.096 --> 00:26:09.030
- Future is so much brighter than the past.
- 00:26:09.030 --> 00:26:12.333
- And the same prophets who predicted the destruction
- 00:26:12.333 --> 00:26:14.869
- Of jerusalem are now telling us that glorious days of peace
- 00:26:14.869 --> 00:26:19.707
- Lie ahead
- 00:26:19.707 --> 00:26:20.942
- When messiah comes and rules and reigns from this holy city.
- 00:26:20.942 --> 00:26:24.946
- And here we wait.
- 00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:26.648
- But now we have an opportunity, to take the word of the lord
- 00:26:26.648 --> 00:26:30.485
- From jerusalem.
- 00:26:30.485 --> 00:26:31.352
- Just like the prophet isaiah said,
- 00:26:31.352 --> 00:26:33.154
- Take the word of the lord to the nations
- 00:26:33.154 --> 00:26:35.323
- So we can sound the alarm in our own generation.
- 00:26:35.323 --> 00:26:38.793
- And those who listen can find the one true god,
- 00:26:38.793 --> 00:26:43.631
- And if not, peace in the world, yet certainly peace
- 00:26:43.631 --> 00:26:47.001
- Within, when they are reconciled with god
- 00:26:47.001 --> 00:26:50.071
- Through the lord jesus christ.
- 00:26:50.071 --> 00:26:52.840
- We need your help.
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- Go to the phone, go to our websites.
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- According to god's word,
- 00:27:07.622 --> 00:27:09.590
- The word that came through his holy prophets, the apostles,
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- And the lord jesus himself.
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- We do charity work in the land we are working.
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- As we wait for messiah to come.
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