Jerusalem today is seen as the ultimate prize in a tug of war between nations. Dr. John Tweedie connects Jerusalem’s troubling past and present with ancient prophecies and current signs in the world that may point to the soon coming of the Jewish Messiah to Jerusalem.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | Dr. John Tweedie - The Time of Jacob's Trouble | July 4, 2025
- Jerusalem has had a long history,
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- But she's only ever been the capital of one nation.
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- Next, on the prophetic connection.
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- Jerusalem
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- Has been conquered and occupied many times.
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- Down through her long history.
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- No nation ever claimed her as her capital.
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- Only one nation has done that.
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- The nation of israel.
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- And yet israel lost jerusalem in the year 1870.
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- When the roman armies came here.
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- Laid siege to the city and destroyed it,
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- Including the temple which stood roughly
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- Where the golden dome is in the scene behind me.
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- That occupation by rome
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- Caused a dispersion of the jews among all nations.
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- It lasted 1878 years and was broken in 1948.
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- With the rebirth of the nation of israel.
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- 400 years before that, the turks were here.
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- The ottoman empire occupied the land of israel
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- From approximately 1517 to 1917.
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- But even they did not claim jerusalem
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- As the capital of the ottoman empire for nearly 2000 years.
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- In fact. 1878 years.
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- Jerusalem was here,
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- And no one was really that much interested in her.
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- No nation claimed her as a desert, their capital,
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- And she just remained here, waiting for the day.
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- When, in 1948,
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- Israel was reestablished as a nation in the land,
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- Choosing the name of israel for this reborn nation.
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- If you like, today this capital is much in dispute.
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- There are many suitors vying for jerusalem's
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- Affection, claiming sovereignty over her.
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- And this is the struggle of jerusalem down
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- Through history, a struggle that continues to this day.
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- Jerusalem.
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- City of peace that has not known
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- Much peace.
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- One of jerusalem's titles is city of peace.
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- In fact, the hebrew name of the city
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- Means literally foundation of peace.
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- Unfortunately, peace is as elusive as ever.
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- Where jerusalem is concerned,
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- Even though this holy city is at the center of god's universe,
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- The only place on earth god said he would place his name.
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- Jerusalem has become the fascination,
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- Almost a thorn in the flesh for the nations,
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- Because all these nations
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- Have a little bit of piece of property
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- And have an interest in this city.
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- And then, of course, we could take the position.
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- Well, let's international the city of jerusalem.
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- That would set everybody at peace
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- If we only give it to the vatican to administrate
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- A future jerusalem slum, then everybody would be happy.
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- The palestinians would be happy,
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- The jews would be happy, the christians would be happy.
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- And everybody who's not happy seemingly would be happy.
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- Only the problem with all of this
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- Is it's entirely contrary to the written word of god.
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- And i think there is this interchange between israel.
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- But more particularly jerusalem, which, by the way, in hebrew
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- Is referred to as tavira, the center of the earth.
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- The belly button or the navel to some understanding
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- That is the city of jerusalem.
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- Jerusalem is the center of the earth.
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- Even some of the rabbis, traditionally
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- It's been said
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- They actually believe that the garden of eden,
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- Or the center of the garden of eden,
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- Actually took place at mount moriah,
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- And would have been the exact place
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- Where all life went forward from there.
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- Obviously, it was a big place in those days.
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- But jerusalem is referred to specifically
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- Throughout scripture and in ezekiel
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- And in other places as the center of the earth.
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- Now, what does that mean?
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- That means that it is also god's holy mountain.
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- And it's so significant that he himself will intervene
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- Into the affairs of jerusalem in the end times.
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- While jerusalem has known long periods of seeming neglect,
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- Times when god seemed far away.
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- The hebrew prophets and psalmist of israel consistently
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- Declared god's love and concern for this holiest of cities.
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- Jeremiah was one of those prophets,
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- But he not only prophesied the destruction of jerusalem,
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- He witnessed it.
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- When the armies of babylon
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- Sacked jerusalem and destroyed the first temple.
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- More than 2500 years ago,
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- Jeremiah's prophetic insight also allowed him to see
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- Difficult days that lay ahead for israel and for jerusalem.
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- He called this awful period of suffering
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- The time of jacob's trouble.
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- So in jeremiah chapter 30, which is well into the book,
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- When he's discussing the time of jacob's trouble,
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- And we have to appreciate that
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- Jacob is synonymous with the jewish people.
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- He's the one who has his name changed to israel.
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- So when the prophet is referring to jacob,
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- He's talking about collective with the jewish people.
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- Not a single personality,
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- But clearly how it's understood from the jewish perspective is
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- This is the process
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- That takes place
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- During the time of the messiah,
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- That transitional period of time,
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- Which could be a very rocky road.
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- The ending is good,
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- But we know that the common theme of not just jeremiah,
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- But all the prophets is all the tumultuous
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- Events and challenges they're going to face.
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- The jewish people as they as we come close to this process
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- Of redemption, messianic redemption, and the end of days.
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- And specifically,
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- He's talking about as the ingathering of the exiles
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- And the attempt of the nations of the world
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- To try and hinder that from actually happening.
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- And he says it'll be a very, very difficult period of time.
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- And despite the fact it's going to seem very dangerous.
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- We don't have to worry because we're going to get through it.
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- The jewish
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- People will survive and make it to the end,
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- But nonetheless, it's going to be scary.
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- And the scary stuff is, again, a wake up call.
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- It's designed to get the jewish people
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- To wake up and do what's called tuva, to repent and come back,
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- Not just physically to the land of israel,
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- But come back to the torah and their relationship
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- With god and relationship with god,
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- And create the jewish people
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- That are supposed to be that light to nations.
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- But just how much
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- Trouble will jacob or israel experience?
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- Well, certainly jacob has had many troubles already.
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- And, you know, when i go to the holocaust
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- Memorial and museum, it's hard for me not to think
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- That the jewish people have already entered
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- Into a time of jacob's trouble.
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- And yet, i think the scripture is clear
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- That there is, more trouble yet to come.
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- And i think we're in between those two.
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- I believe that the holocaust represents
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- The death of the people of israel as a nation and, the
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- The resurrection of the people of israel.
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- Really is portrayed in the, in the existence
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- Today of modern israel.
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- But it seems to me
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- That before the end,
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- There will be a time of peace and security for israel.
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- And i believe that will lead us
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- To a national pride and a national arrogance.
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- Unlike anything that can be seen today.
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- Well, when you study, jeremiah 30, the time of jacob's trouble,
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- Everybody says
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- So many theologians and christian say, well,
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- That's so terrible what the jews are going to go through.
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- Yeah, it is going to be difficult while we go through.
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- But what he clearly says there
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- That the nations that come against him,
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- They're going to get wiped out totally.
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- And we will be, judge in measure here.
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- So the time of jacob's trouble for me is much more
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- Dangerous for nations
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- That come blatantly against israel,
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- And god is going to deal with them.
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- We read about the nations
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- Partaking of a cup of wrestling is oftentimes
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- Spoken of in some bibles, but actually in hebrew
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- It says curse real, which means a cup of poison.
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- Could this prophesied time of jacob's trouble really be worse
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- Than anything
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- The jewish people have experienced until now,
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- Including the loss of 6 million jews
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- In what is known as hitler's final solution.
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- The european holocaust?
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- Well, when i've, as i've studied this,
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- Some people say is from zechariah
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- That two thirds of the jews will be killed.
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- Two thirds of the jews were destroyed by the romans.
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- Two thirds of the jews were killed by hitler.
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- And so there have been times
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- When two thirds of the jews have already been decimated.
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- So i don't necessarily buy into this literal.
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- Two thirds of the jews are going to get wiped out
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- When jacob's trouble comes.
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- What i believe is, is going to get very,
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- Very difficult
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- And israel is going to cry out for help from the lord,
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- And he's going to respond to them
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- In the midst of the terror of the trouble.
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- Reasonable people will argue that the jewish people
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- Have suffered enough already.
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- Surely there can't be worse suffering in their future.
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- Sadly, it is the hebrew prophets themselves
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- Who declare that things will get worse
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- For israel before they begin to get better.
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- I believe there will be a time of great,
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- Great trouble again for israel before the return of the lord.
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- There will
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- Also be persecution and, believers.
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- I believe in this country will be persecuted
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- Even more harshly than than, we have experienced in the past.
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- And so part of our role here in israel, i believe,
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- Is to produce a next generation
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- That in some ways is stronger than us.
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- We came as pioneers and we came as immigrants,
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- And we came bringing the gospel
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- And fighting against the stream.
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- But, but our children and, those who come after us
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- Will have to face, even more intense opposition.
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- Right here in this land.
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- So all i can say is
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- We pray, for the peace of jerusalem.
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- And we pray that the prince of peace will rule in the hearts
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- Of the people of jerusalem, both jews and arabs.
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- And that we rely on god's promise of faithfulness,
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- That he will watch over israel as a shepherd, keeps his flock.
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- But i do believe
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- Even more intensely dangerous and difficult times
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- Are yet to come.
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- Thankfully, the biblical narrative
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- Doesn't end with the time of jacob's trouble.
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- Beyond it lies the messianic age.
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- Here, the old testament prophets and new testament
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- Apostles find common ground of agreement.
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- One day, israel's troubles will be behind her.
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- On that day, the rightful judge of the nations,
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- The long awaited messiah, will rule and reign
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- Over the whole earth from jerusalem.
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- And in that day, the holy city will experience
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- The peace that has for so long eluded her.
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- Don't go away when we return.
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- Doctor john tweedie continues his teaching.
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- There has been much
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- Suffering in israel's long and turbulent history, and
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- Some of it has been self-imposed because of wrong choices.
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- When the nation came
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- Out of egypt and stood poised to enter the promised land,
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- Moses reiterated warnings and blessings that would fall
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- Upon them based upon the choices they would make.
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- Listen to his words as they're found in deuteronomy.
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- In chapter 28, he first begins with the blessings
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- Which come from obeying god and walking with god.
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- But he goes on from there to list the curses
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- That will come upon israel
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- Should she fail to follow the ways of the lord.
- 00:13:45.590 --> 00:13:48.860
- He says to them that in verse 61 also every sickness
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- And every plague
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- Which is not written in this book of the law,
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- Will the lord bring upon you until you are destroyed?
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- You shall be left few in number.
- 00:13:59.337 --> 00:14:01.306
- Of course, that's happened
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- To the people of israel down through the centuries,
- 00:14:02.374 --> 00:14:05.377
- Whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude,
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- Because you would not obey
- 00:14:08.146 --> 00:14:09.281
- The voice of the lord your god, and shall be.
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- But just as the lord rejoiced
- 00:14:11.883 --> 00:14:13.418
- Over you, to do you good, and multiply you,
- 00:14:13.418 --> 00:14:17.155
- So the lord will rejoice over you, to destroy you,
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- And bring you to nothing.
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- And you shall be plucked
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- From the land off the land which you go to possess.
- 00:14:22.794 --> 00:14:26.131
- Then the lord will scatter you among all peoples
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- From one end of the earth to the other.
- 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:31.136
- And there you shall serve
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- Other gods which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- 00:14:32.570 --> 00:14:36.207
- Wood and stone.
- 00:14:36.207 --> 00:14:38.510
- And among those nations you shall find no rest,
- 00:14:38.510 --> 00:14:41.579
- Nor shall the soul of your foot have a resting place.
- 00:14:41.579 --> 00:14:44.849
- But there
- 00:14:45.150 --> 00:14:46.084
- The lord will give you a trembling heart,
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- Failing eyes, and anguish of soul.
- 00:14:47.485 --> 00:14:49.854
- Your life shall hang and doubt before you.
- 00:14:49.854 --> 00:14:52.691
- You shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.
- 00:14:52.691 --> 00:14:56.194
- In the morning you shall say, oh, that it were evening,
- 00:14:56.194 --> 00:14:59.564
- And at evening you shall say, oh, that it were morning,
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- Because of the fear which terrifies your heart,
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- And because of the sight which your eyes see.
- 00:15:05.670 --> 00:15:10.608
- Israel suffered
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- Much because of her disobedience.
- 00:15:12.811 --> 00:15:17.282
- And it would be great to say that all of the suffering
- 00:15:17.282 --> 00:15:20.318
- Is behind her
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- Now that she's back in the land and prospering,
- 00:15:21.319 --> 00:15:24.289
- Albeit in the face of all of the enemies that are round about.
- 00:15:24.289 --> 00:15:28.193
- But the prophets
- 00:15:28.593 --> 00:15:29.728
- Have not painted that kind of peaceful picture.
- 00:15:29.728 --> 00:15:33.765
- The prophet jeremiah tells us that a time
- 00:15:33.765 --> 00:15:37.335
- Called jacob's trouble is to come.
- 00:15:37.335 --> 00:15:40.472
- Now these are the words of the lord's
- 00:15:40.472 --> 00:15:42.540
- Spoke concerning israel and judah.
- 00:15:42.540 --> 00:15:44.743
- For thus says the lord, we have heard
- 00:15:44.743 --> 00:15:46.745
- A voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
- 00:15:46.745 --> 00:15:49.981
- Ask now and see whether a man is ever in labor with child.
- 00:15:49.981 --> 00:15:55.020
- So i do.
- 00:15:55.286 --> 00:15:56.254
- I see every man with his hands on his loins,
- 00:15:56.254 --> 00:15:59.424
- Like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale.
- 00:15:59.424 --> 00:16:04.529
- That's a strange picture, because men don't bear children.
- 00:16:04.529 --> 00:16:07.399
- Women do.
- 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:08.366
- So why is it that he sees every man in his
- 00:16:08.366 --> 00:16:11.336
- With his hands in his loins, as if in labor?
- 00:16:11.336 --> 00:16:14.672
- This is a picture of israel
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- And the suffering of israel that is to come in
- 00:16:16.741 --> 00:16:19.844
- Jeremiah continues to explain what he sees.
- 00:16:19.844 --> 00:16:22.981
- Verse seven, alas, for that day is great,
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- So that none is like it, and it is the time of jacob's trouble,
- 00:16:26.017 --> 00:16:30.955
- But he shall be saved out of it.
- 00:16:31.589 --> 00:16:34.092
- So there is doom and gloom, but there is also the hint,
- 00:16:34.092 --> 00:16:38.129
- The promise of hope that jacob will be delivered.
- 00:16:38.129 --> 00:16:42.767
- But who is jacob?
- 00:16:43.201 --> 00:16:45.637
- And why is this referred to as the time of jacob's trouble?
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- I'm standing directly in front of the road
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- To bethlehem, the road that runs from bethlehem to jerusalem.
- 00:16:53.178 --> 00:16:57.849
- And along that road jacob came with his wives
- 00:16:57.849 --> 00:17:02.320
- And one of his wives was named rachel and rachel.
- 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:06.458
- We are told in the book of genesis,
- 00:17:06.458 --> 00:17:09.661
- Bore him
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- A son along this road,
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- And his name was benjamin.
- 00:17:14.766 --> 00:17:17.335
- But let me describe it as it is found in the book of genesis
- 00:17:17.335 --> 00:17:21.339
- In chapter 35, beginning in verse 16.
- 00:17:21.339 --> 00:17:25.276
- Then day, this is jacob and his family journeyed from bethel.
- 00:17:25.276 --> 00:17:29.914
- And when there was but a little distance to go to a flat,
- 00:17:29.914 --> 00:17:33.418
- Meaning bethlehem,
- 00:17:33.852 --> 00:17:35.587
- Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.
- 00:17:35.587 --> 00:17:38.823
- This was a very difficult pregnancy and delivery.
- 00:17:38.823 --> 00:17:41.826
- Obviously.
- 00:17:41.826 --> 00:17:42.894
- Now it came to pass when she was in hard labor.
- 00:17:42.894 --> 00:17:45.363
- But the midwife said to her, do not fear,
- 00:17:45.363 --> 00:17:48.933
- You will have this son also.
- 00:17:48.933 --> 00:17:51.769
- And so it was as her soul was departing.
- 00:17:51.769 --> 00:17:54.339
- And then it is explained that she died.
- 00:17:54.339 --> 00:17:56.875
- In fact, rachel's tomb is not far from here,
- 00:17:56.875 --> 00:18:00.078
- Just down the road, you see, in the distance
- 00:18:00.078 --> 00:18:01.913
- Behind me, just at bethlehem, actually.
- 00:18:01.913 --> 00:18:05.817
- And then we read.
- 00:18:06.251 --> 00:18:07.552
- And so she called the son.
- 00:18:07.552 --> 00:18:09.320
- She wanted to call the son ben on eve,
- 00:18:09.320 --> 00:18:12.023
- Which means the son of my sorrow.
- 00:18:12.023 --> 00:18:14.159
- She knows she's dying,
- 00:18:14.159 --> 00:18:15.960
- And she thinks this is the appropriate name
- 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:17.962
- For this new son that's just to bear.
- 00:18:17.962 --> 00:18:20.965
- But his father, this is jacob called him benjamin.
- 00:18:20.965 --> 00:18:25.136
- And benjamin meant the son of the right hand.
- 00:18:25.136 --> 00:18:29.374
- So rachel died and was buried
- 00:18:29.374 --> 00:18:31.409
- On the way to a front that is bethlehem.
- 00:18:31.409 --> 00:18:34.913
- The jewish people say beit lakum, which means
- 00:18:34.913 --> 00:18:38.917
- House of bread.
- 00:18:38.917 --> 00:18:40.885
- And jacob set a pillar on her grave,
- 00:18:40.885 --> 00:18:43.188
- Which is the pillar of rachel's grave to this day.
- 00:18:43.188 --> 00:18:46.958
- But you see, jacob is a synonym
- 00:18:47.592 --> 00:18:50.295
- For israel, which means prince with god.
- 00:18:50.295 --> 00:18:54.299
- And just before they journeyed here, god met jacob
- 00:18:54.299 --> 00:18:59.537
- And changed his name to israel.
- 00:18:59.537 --> 00:19:02.774
- And of course, he bore 12 sons.
- 00:19:03.408 --> 00:19:06.144
- They became the 12 tribes of israel.
- 00:19:06.144 --> 00:19:08.213
- And so therefore jacob in that sense is the father
- 00:19:08.213 --> 00:19:11.382
- Of the nation of israel.
- 00:19:11.382 --> 00:19:14.752
- So a time of jacob.
- 00:19:14.752 --> 00:19:16.955
- Israel's trouble is to come,
- 00:19:16.955 --> 00:19:19.357
- And it's going to be unprecedented.
- 00:19:19.357 --> 00:19:21.359
- There's been nothing like it in the history of israel.
- 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.429
- And we've seen israel through so much suffering.
- 00:19:24.429 --> 00:19:27.332
- But none of that compares with the time of jacob's trouble.
- 00:19:27.332 --> 00:19:30.702
- It seems that that's what the prophets are telling us
- 00:19:30.702 --> 00:19:34.038
- When we go to the,
- 00:19:34.472 --> 00:19:36.641
- Book of daniel
- 00:19:36.975 --> 00:19:39.143
- In daniel chapter 12, the very last chapter, which
- 00:19:39.143 --> 00:19:42.146
- In which daniel talks
- 00:19:42.146 --> 00:19:43.281
- About the end of days before the coming of the messiah.
- 00:19:43.281 --> 00:19:46.951
- We read this in daniel 12
- 00:19:47.518 --> 00:19:51.055
- And the second part of the first verse,
- 00:19:51.055 --> 00:19:54.692
- And there shall be a time of trouble,
- 00:19:54.692 --> 00:19:56.361
- But the same word that is used by jeremiah, such as never was,
- 00:19:56.361 --> 00:20:01.699
- Since there was a nation even to that time.
- 00:20:01.699 --> 00:20:05.003
- And once again the hope,
- 00:20:05.003 --> 00:20:07.538
- The cloud with the silver lining.
- 00:20:07.538 --> 00:20:10.975
- And at that time your people shall be delivered.
- 00:20:10.975 --> 00:20:14.312
- Everyone who was found written in the book, the book,
- 00:20:14.312 --> 00:20:17.882
- Presumably of god's grace, the book that records
- 00:20:17.882 --> 00:20:22.186
- The names of those who are truly his.
- 00:20:22.186 --> 00:20:26.024
- This is what jesus seems to be referring to as well.
- 00:20:26.024 --> 00:20:29.093
- In matthew 24.
- 00:20:29.427 --> 00:20:31.829
- And of course, he quotes daniel the prophet,
- 00:20:31.829 --> 00:20:35.500
- As in what he says in matthew 24.
- 00:20:35.500 --> 00:20:39.170
- In verse 15,
- 00:20:39.504 --> 00:20:42.340
- Therefore, when you see the abomination of desolation
- 00:20:42.340 --> 00:20:45.943
- Spoken up by daniel the prophet standing in the holy place,
- 00:20:45.943 --> 00:20:50.081
- This may be a reference to the new temple.
- 00:20:50.081 --> 00:20:52.283
- It's to be built in jerusalem,
- 00:20:52.283 --> 00:20:54.319
- The abomination of desolation, an image of some sort.
- 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:57.422
- But the antichrist figure will place there that doesn't
- 00:20:57.422 --> 00:21:00.525
- Belong there, that desecrating the holy temple of god.
- 00:21:00.525 --> 00:21:03.928
- Whoever reads, let him understand.
- 00:21:04.662 --> 00:21:06.331
- And then the words follow the sense of urgency.
- 00:21:06.331 --> 00:21:09.834
- Then let those who are in judea flee to the mountains.
- 00:21:09.834 --> 00:21:12.503
- Let him
- 00:21:12.503 --> 00:21:13.705
- Who is on his housetop not go down to take anything out
- 00:21:13.705 --> 00:21:16.941
- Of his house.
- 00:21:16.941 --> 00:21:17.875
- In our modern context, that would be like,
- 00:21:17.875 --> 00:21:19.711
- The house is on fire
- 00:21:19.711 --> 00:21:20.978
- And we want to go in and get the family
- 00:21:20.978 --> 00:21:23.281
- Photograph albums, but there isn't time for that.
- 00:21:23.281 --> 00:21:26.217
- The times are urgent and we need to flee as quickly as possible
- 00:21:26.217 --> 00:21:29.287
- And let him
- 00:21:29.620 --> 00:21:30.722
- Who was in the field not go back to get his clothes.
- 00:21:30.722 --> 00:21:33.424
- And of course, the warning
- 00:21:33.424 --> 00:21:34.492
- To women
- 00:21:34.492 --> 00:21:35.626
- Who are nursing in those days because they can't move
- 00:21:35.626 --> 00:21:38.196
- Very quickly.
- 00:21:38.196 --> 00:21:39.831
- And then jesus says in verse 21 of matthew 24, for then
- 00:21:39.831 --> 00:21:43.735
- There will be great tribulation and trouble,
- 00:21:43.735 --> 00:21:46.704
- Such as has not been since the beginning of the world
- 00:21:46.704 --> 00:21:49.507
- Until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- 00:21:49.507 --> 00:21:53.411
- And unless those days were shortened,
- 00:21:53.411 --> 00:21:55.546
- No flesh would be saved.
- 00:21:55.546 --> 00:21:58.015
- These times are going to be so terrible that the whole world,
- 00:21:58.015 --> 00:22:01.452
- All of humanity, is going to be at risk
- 00:22:01.452 --> 00:22:04.655
- To complete, annihilate, and
- 00:22:04.655 --> 00:22:07.492
- But god in that moment is going to intervene
- 00:22:07.492 --> 00:22:11.396
- For the sake and the elect are those that are his.
- 00:22:11.396 --> 00:22:15.700
- It could be in some senses, the jewish people,
- 00:22:15.700 --> 00:22:18.336
- Those that are christian, but those that walk with god
- 00:22:18.336 --> 00:22:20.972
- And believe in god, those that love god and god loves them.
- 00:22:20.972 --> 00:22:24.475
- In return, god is going to intervene
- 00:22:24.475 --> 00:22:27.245
- For their sakes to save them out of this time of awful trouble.
- 00:22:27.245 --> 00:22:32.016
- And this is the hope that's contained in the word of god.
- 00:22:32.016 --> 00:22:36.187
- So what are all of these scriptures, collectively
- 00:22:36.187 --> 00:22:38.956
- Speaking, saying to us, they're telling us that
- 00:22:38.956 --> 00:22:42.994
- A time of unprecedented trouble is coming to israel.
- 00:22:42.994 --> 00:22:47.765
- But when is the time of jacob's trouble?
- 00:22:47.765 --> 00:22:50.435
- How do we identify it?
- 00:22:50.435 --> 00:22:52.670
- I believe that it has to do with the rebirth of israel in 1948,
- 00:22:52.670 --> 00:22:56.641
- Because since then israel has been fighting war after war,
- 00:22:56.641 --> 00:23:00.144
- And today threats against israel are intensifying.
- 00:23:00.144 --> 00:23:04.182
- And so israel is threatened on
- 00:23:04.782 --> 00:23:06.984
- Every side, boxed in,
- 00:23:06.984 --> 00:23:08.719
- If you like, in this tiny little strip of land.
- 00:23:08.719 --> 00:23:11.322
- And so perhaps we have entered
- 00:23:11.322 --> 00:23:14.192
- The time of jacob's trouble, and we'll see events accelerate
- 00:23:14.192 --> 00:23:18.062
- As this biblical drama plays out.
- 00:23:18.062 --> 00:23:21.866
- That points to the second coming
- 00:23:21.866 --> 00:23:24.302
- Of jesus of nazareth.
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- Jerusalem, the holy city on this day.
- 00:24:45.850 --> 00:24:48.886
- Seemingly tranquil.
- 00:24:48.886 --> 00:24:51.188
- But this could be the calm before the gathering storm.
- 00:24:51.188 --> 00:24:55.493
- Listen to what the prophet zechariah has to say
- 00:24:55.493 --> 00:24:58.596
- As he speaks about the future surrounding jerusalem.
- 00:24:58.596 --> 00:25:02.199
- He's talking about the day of the lord.
- 00:25:02.199 --> 00:25:04.201
- The coming of the messiah.
- 00:25:04.201 --> 00:25:06.571
- And in zechariah 14 verse one,
- 00:25:06.571 --> 00:25:09.040
- Behold, the day of the lord is coming,
- 00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:11.042
- And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
- 00:25:11.042 --> 00:25:13.811
- For i will gather all the nations to battle
- 00:25:13.811 --> 00:25:16.480
- Against jerusalem.
- 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:18.149
- The city shall be taken, the houses rifled,
- 00:25:18.149 --> 00:25:20.585
- And the women ravished.
- 00:25:20.585 --> 00:25:22.019
- This is not a pretty picture.
- 00:25:22.019 --> 00:25:24.021
- Half of the city shall go into captivity,
- 00:25:24.021 --> 00:25:26.390
- But the remnant of the people
- 00:25:26.390 --> 00:25:27.992
- Shall not be cut off from the city. why?
- 00:25:27.992 --> 00:25:30.895
- Because i believe the the intervention
- 00:25:30.895 --> 00:25:33.230
- Of the lord of the lord jesus christ.
- 00:25:33.230 --> 00:25:35.399
- He will come with the armies of heaven.
- 00:25:35.399 --> 00:25:37.368
- When jerusalem is at the point of absolute annihilation.
- 00:25:37.368 --> 00:25:40.972
- Destruction. christ will intervene.
- 00:25:40.972 --> 00:25:43.808
- I believe that's what the prophet is alluding to,
- 00:25:43.808 --> 00:25:47.044
- Because he says in verse three very clearly,
- 00:25:47.044 --> 00:25:48.913
- Then the lord will go forth and fight against those nations
- 00:25:48.913 --> 00:25:53.084
- As he fights in the day of battle.
- 00:25:53.084 --> 00:25:55.419
- And in that day his feet will stand on the mount of olives.
- 00:25:55.419 --> 00:25:59.390
- That's exactly where i'm standing on the mount of olives,
- 00:25:59.390 --> 00:26:02.927
- Overlooking jerusalem.
- 00:26:02.927 --> 00:26:04.195
- Below me the kidron valley that jesus crossed on palm sunday.
- 00:26:04.195 --> 00:26:08.466
- Coming actually from this direction.
- 00:26:08.466 --> 00:26:10.701
- And when he would have come over the hill,
- 00:26:10.701 --> 00:26:12.503
- He wouldn't have seen what we see, but
- 00:26:12.503 --> 00:26:14.138
- He would have seen the old city as it was then, 2000 years ago.
- 00:26:14.138 --> 00:26:19.143
- And he describes it, zechariah
- 00:26:19.143 --> 00:26:20.645
- Says, which faces jerusalem in the east,
- 00:26:20.645 --> 00:26:23.414
- And the mount of olives shall be split
- 00:26:23.414 --> 00:26:24.815
- In two from east to west, making a very large valley.
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- Half of the mountain shall move
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- Toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
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- So this is jerusalem's future.
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- And of course, the struggle
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- Of this taking place today seemingly leads to this
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- Grand finale where the armies, the nations,
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- Come against jerusalem one last time.
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- But that will bring the lord as the defender
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- Of israel and of the jewish people.
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- This is their struggle.
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- But you can help us help them in this struggle.
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- We need your support
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- To take this message of god's truth, of what the future holds
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- Through television
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- To the nations, so that many more people would come aware
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- And will stand on the lord's side.
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- Go to your phone.
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- Make the call.
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- Make the donation and stand with us.
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- But you'll be standing for god, for israel.
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