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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - The Genesis of Israel

September 13, 2025 | 28:44

John Tweedie - The Genesis of Israel
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Genesis of Israel | September 13, 2025
  • Is it possible for any nation
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  • To be born on a single day in a moment of time?
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  • The answer next on the prophetic connection.
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  • Soft music
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  • Can a nation be born in a day?
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  • The answer to the question is found in genesis
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  • Chapter 12, the call to abraham,
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  • Who would be later named abraham.
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  • Abraham meant exalted father abraham,
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  • Father of a multitude or father of nations.
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  • And here's what god said to this man.
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  • Now abraham was living in year of the chaldees.
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  • Behind me you can see the deserts of israel.
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  • The camera is facing east.
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  • So a thousand miles beyond this desert there are other deserts.
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  • And that's where abraham was
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  • When god summoned him and called him in this way.
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  • In genesis 12 verse three, now the lord had said to abraham,
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  • Get out of your country from your family
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  • And from your father's house, to a land that i will show you.
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  • And this is that land, the land of israel.
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  • I will make you a great nation.
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  • I will bless you and make your name great.
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  • And you shall be a blessing.
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  • I will bless those who bless you.
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  • And i will curse him who curses you.
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  • And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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  • These were god's promises to abraham.
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  • But how and when were they fulfilled?
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  • Why, israel?
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  • That is the question
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  • That people have been asking for generations.
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  • But what are the origins of this only jewish nation on earth?
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  • The actual ethnic geographic origins of the jewish people are
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  • What's a place called or
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  • Which is the bottom of the euphrates river.
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  • And that is what is today iraq.
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  • So our our progenitor.
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  • Because the other thing is interesting today,
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  • When you look at a canadian, for instance,
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  • Canada is a melting pot like america.
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  • There's no one common ethnic origin of canadian people,
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  • No other the americans.
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  • The ancient nations of the world with large extended families.
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  • A couple had children who had children had children.
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  • You make a family tree that gets large enough
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  • Until they become a nation of people.
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  • You don't see this in the west, by the way.
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  • A place like japan has this where it's 98%
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  • Ethnically pure japanese, and you can't get citizenship
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  • Unless you're ethnically japanese.
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  • You don't see this in the west anymore.
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  • So our origins are as a nation that accepts upon itself
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  • A faith also.
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  • And you can. and you, by the way,
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  • You can never opt out of that faith.
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  • You're always jewish.
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  • You mean a jew can marry out of the jewish
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  • Faith and have children who are not jewish?
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  • But you're born into a a ethnicity
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  • Or a, a people and a faith at the same time.
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  • So we are both
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  • Our beginnings are iraq, and we know abraham
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  • Migrates from iraq through
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  • What is called harun, which is today in turkey,
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  • And then into the land of israel.
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  • And this is a story that goes back about 3700 years ago.
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  • Israel's story
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  • Began with a man named abraham.
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  • Amid the clatter of the ancient world
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  • With its many gods and religious rituals.
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  • Abraham heard the voice of one god.
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  • God told abraham to leave the comfort of his home
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  • And familiar surroundings,
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  • To go to a new land that god would show him.
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  • Once there,
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  • He would become the father of a new and special nation.
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  • And so it was that abraham, together with his wife sarah,
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  • And their fellow nomads, set off on their long
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  • And arduous journey toward a land called canaan.
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  • Just as god had commanded them,
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  • According to the biblical account in genesis,
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  • Abraham obeyed god and left his homeland in awe of the child.
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  • In ancient mesopotamia, known
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  • Also as the fertile crescent, because of the two great rivers,
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  • The tigris and euphrates, that passed through the region.
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  • The journey led eventually
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  • To the valley of moreh in northern canaan.
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  • But that is our origins.
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  • And, by the way, interesting.
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  • Interestingly enough, genetically,
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  • This thing called a haplotype, it's kind of like your
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  • Genetic signature.
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  • Different parts of the world have,
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  • You know, different genetic signatures.
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  • All jewish communities around the world,
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  • Even though we've lived for thousands of years outside
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  • Our land and intermingled with other populations,
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  • Which is why you get jews of many different.
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  • We're not a race because anyone can join the jewish people.
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  • You can't join a race.
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  • And and, we've mixed with other peoples.
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  • But when you look at the genetic core of who we are
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  • As jews today around the world, all jewish communities
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  • Around the world have a common sort of genetic signature,
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  • Which indicates that even though i like
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  • Don't look very middle eastern, i have
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  • I have that genetic origin in the middle east.
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  • So that's who we are.
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  • From our inception,
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  • Why did god establish the jewish nation in the first place?
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  • So what was so special about abraham, who became abraham,
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  • That god chose this man out of
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  • How many
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  • People chose this individual,
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  • From whom would come the jewish nation?
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  • Why this man?
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  • When i speak about abraham, who is our great
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  • Grandfather, he's
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  • Not just the father of the jewish
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  • People, is the father of either spiritually
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  • Or literally other faiths, christian islam.
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  • God tells him, you're going to be of human goyim.
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  • You're gonna be the father of many nations,
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  • And the descendants
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  • Will be as numerous as the stars of the heaven
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  • In the sand, on this, on the seashore.
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  • But abraham has like that book they made
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  • About the space program, the right stuff.
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  • He has he has the combination of personality
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  • Traits and spirituality.
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  • They're not exclusive to abraham and the jewish people,
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  • But he has them in the proper amounts.
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  • And i say the way i describe abraham's uniqueness is,
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  • First of all, he is radically transformative
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  • To be able to think outside the box.
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  • If you want to be a transformative human being,
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  • You have to be willing to go against the flow.
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  • As a matter of fact, abraham is called every
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  • You know,
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  • And it comes from the term
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  • Of being over
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  • On the other side of the river, which doesn't
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  • Mean he's geographically living on one side of a river.
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  • It means his worldview,
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  • Even though the whole world is believing something else.
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  • He's on the other bank of the river.
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  • So he's radically transformative.
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  • The other trait that it takes
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  • Is, you know, to push radically transformative ideas
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  • On the world.
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  • History is full of people who create great ideas
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  • And have visions, but lack the drive to push them.
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  • Abraham is incredibly driven.
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  • Now, non-jews can be radically
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  • Transformative thinkers, and they can be driven.
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  • But until today,
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  • Speaking about the common like jewish personality,
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  • Jews tend to be radically transformative,
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  • Disproportionately so, and movements to change the world
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  • And and driven.
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  • We see this all the time.
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  • The fact that jews are a teeny tiny portion
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  • Of the world's population, yet, you know, 0.2% of the world's
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  • Population, but of 22% of all the nobel prizes since 1901,
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  • That goes back to the abraham personality.
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  • To what truth, regardless of consequences, to be living,
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  • To be willing to live, and if necessary, to die
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  • For what you know to be truth.
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  • I mean, god doesn't need us to die for him.
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  • He's infinite.
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  • He doesn't need anything from us.
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  • But you have to be willing to put him on the line
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  • And make that your focus. that's the second trait.
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  • The third trade is
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  • That he has the godlike personality of think about it,
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  • If god,
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  • God can give us everything, he does nothing from us.
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  • He's all about just giving.
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  • And abraham is all about the word in hebrews cursed.
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  • It's being godlike.
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  • And just as god is kind and merciful,
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  • You have to be kind and merciful.
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  • And his original outreach technique
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  • To bring people back to reality and god was hospitality.
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  • If abraham was not jewish, then why is he called a hebrew?
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  • Yeah, non-jews can have these traits,
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  • But he had them very strongly and in the right combination
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  • To make him the person who was the right man.
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  • For what is the ultimate responsibility in human history.
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  • The clear record of biblical history
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  • Is that israel is the only nation on earth
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  • Uniquely called into being by the almighty god, a nation
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  • Whose origins traced back through that time to god's
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  • Call upon the life of one man, abraham,
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  • A man the bible refers to as the first hebrew.
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  • Don't go away.
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  • After this short break, doctor
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  • John tweedie returns with his teaching.
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  • Our media today is filled with
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  • Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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  • It seems that the world is falling apart.
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  • This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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  • Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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  • And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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  • Israel must deal with the challenges
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  • Few other countries will ever face,
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  • Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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  • Most vulnerable citizens. yet
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  • Well, we speak about the origins
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  • Of the nation of israel or its genesis.
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  • It's interesting.
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  • The bible begins with the book of genesis,
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  • Which tells us not only about the creation
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  • Of the heavens and the earth,
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  • But also about the birth of a nation called israel
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  • That occurred with the calling of one man named abraham.
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  • Our english word genesis comes from a hebrew word, beresheet,
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  • Which means literally in the beginning.
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  • So the story of israel begins in the book of genesis
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  • With god's call upon the man abraham.
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  • And we saw that in the introduction in genesis
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  • 12 verse three.
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  • But god made promises to abraham, and god
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  • Promised him, first of all, he would be a great nation,
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  • But the nation that would come from him would be a nation
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  • That would bless all nations.
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  • Now, as christians, we could quickly see that
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  • Jesus of nazareth, who was and is jewish,
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  • Came through the nation of israel,
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  • A promised savior, a messiah of the whole world.
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  • But there was another aspect of god's promise to abraham,
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  • And that involved land, in fact, a land covenant
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  • Because god called him from earth, the chaldees
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  • Thousand miles beyond the desert,
  • 00:11:08.902 --> 00:11:11.205
  • You can see behind me and called him from there
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  • To a land that god said he would show him.
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  • The journey led eventually to the land of canaan,
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  • Which then became known as the land of israel.
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  • And god made a covenant with abraham about the land.
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  • And in genesis 17 we read these words in verse one.
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  • When abraham was about 99 years old, the lord appeared
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  • To abraham and said to him, i am almighty god.
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  • Walk before me and be blameless, and i will make my covenant
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  • Between me and you, and i will multiply you exceedingly.
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  • Then abraham fell on his face, and god talked with him, saying,
  • 00:11:46.974 --> 00:11:51.278
  • As for me, behold, my covenant is with you,
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  • And you shall be a father of many nations.
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  • No longer shall your name be called abraham,
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  • But your name shall be abraham.
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  • For i have made you a father of many nations.
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  • Abraham means exalted father abraham, father of a multitude,
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  • Or as the text says, father of many nations.
  • 00:12:10.330 --> 00:12:14.301
  • And then in verse six,
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  • I will make you exceedingly fruitful,
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  • And i will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
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  • And i will establish my covenant between me and you.
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  • And your descendants
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  • After you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant
  • 00:12:28.182 --> 00:12:32.152
  • To be god to you and your descendants after you.
  • 00:12:32.152 --> 00:12:35.889
  • So this is the relationship that god desired
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  • With the people of israel.
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  • But then this which which concerns the land itself.
  • 00:12:40.994 --> 00:12:44.798
  • Verse eight.
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  • Genesis 17 also i give to you and your descendants
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  • After you the land in which you were a stranger.
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  • All the land of canaan as an everlasting possession.
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  • And i will be their god.
  • 00:12:57.077 --> 00:12:59.580
  • So we're in the opening decades of the 21st century.
  • 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:03.350
  • I'm standing in israel, actually, on mount scopus,
  • 00:13:03.350 --> 00:13:07.321
  • With a desert behind me and jerusalem behind the camera.
  • 00:13:07.321 --> 00:13:11.692
  • The capital city of this nation god called into being.
  • 00:13:11.692 --> 00:13:15.729
  • And god has kept his promise.
  • 00:13:15.729 --> 00:13:17.197
  • And even though israel has suffered exile down
  • 00:13:17.197 --> 00:13:20.334
  • Through history,
  • 00:13:20.334 --> 00:13:21.368
  • She has returned to the land that god promised her.
  • 00:13:21.368 --> 00:13:24.271
  • In fact, the return is
  • 00:13:24.271 --> 00:13:25.639
  • The fulfillment of promises that god also made.
  • 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.610
  • And then god said to him to abraham in verse nine,
  • 00:13:29.610 --> 00:13:32.813
  • And god said to abraham, as for you,
  • 00:13:32.813 --> 00:13:34.948
  • You shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants
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  • After you throughout their generations.
  • 00:13:37.985 --> 00:13:41.221
  • Now, as we continue on,
  • 00:13:41.722 --> 00:13:43.490
  • There is the promise of a son, a covenant son.
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  • And the covenant would be continued
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  • Through this particular son.
  • 00:13:50.497 --> 00:13:52.633
  • Verse 15 then god said to abraham,
  • 00:13:52.633 --> 00:13:55.869
  • As for sarah, your wife,
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  • You shall not call her name sarah, but sarah shall be her
  • 00:13:58.238 --> 00:14:01.909
  • Name, and i will bless her, and also give you a son by her.
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  • Then i will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations.
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  • Kings of peoples shall be from her.
  • 00:14:09.816 --> 00:14:13.120
  • Then abraham fell on his face and laughed,
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  • And said in his heart,
  • 00:14:16.556 --> 00:14:18.091
  • She'll a child be born to a man who is 100 years old.
  • 00:14:18.091 --> 00:14:22.095
  • And shall sarah, who is 90 years old, bear a child.
  • 00:14:22.095 --> 00:14:25.632
  • And abraham said to god,
  • 00:14:25.632 --> 00:14:27.301
  • Oh, that ishmael
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  • Might live before you, because ishmael was abraham's
  • 00:14:28.568 --> 00:14:32.205
  • First born son by the egyptian handmaiden hagar,
  • 00:14:32.205 --> 00:14:36.743
  • Whom sarah gives to abraham so that because she thought
  • 00:14:36.743 --> 00:14:40.681
  • She's too old for childbearing, she didn't trust god.
  • 00:14:40.681 --> 00:14:44.351
  • And so abraham had a son
  • 00:14:44.351 --> 00:14:47.020
  • By hagar, but he was not the son of promise.
  • 00:14:47.020 --> 00:14:51.758
  • But notice abraham's appeal where he is concerned.
  • 00:14:51.758 --> 00:14:56.196
  • And abraham says in verse 18 said to god,
  • 00:14:56.196 --> 00:14:58.899
  • Oh, that ishmael might live before you.
  • 00:14:58.899 --> 00:15:01.735
  • Then god said, no, sarah, your wife shall bear you a son,
  • 00:15:01.735 --> 00:15:06.440
  • And you shall call his name isaac.
  • 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:08.809
  • And i will establish my covenant with him
  • 00:15:08.809 --> 00:15:11.445
  • For an everlasting covenant, and will,
  • 00:15:11.445 --> 00:15:14.314
  • And with his descendants after him.
  • 00:15:14.314 --> 00:15:17.684
  • Now as we continue this covenant line, it takes us
  • 00:15:17.684 --> 00:15:20.887
  • From abraham to isaac, but then to a grandson
  • 00:15:20.887 --> 00:15:25.392
  • Named jacob, the son of isaac.
  • 00:15:25.392 --> 00:15:29.129
  • And so when we move to genesis chapter 32,
  • 00:15:29.129 --> 00:15:32.466
  • In verse
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  • 28, god says to this
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  • Grandson named jacob,
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  • Your name shall no longer be called jacob, but israel.
  • 00:15:39.740 --> 00:15:44.244
  • For you have struggled with god and with men,
  • 00:15:44.244 --> 00:15:47.447
  • And have prevailed.
  • 00:15:47.914 --> 00:15:50.350
  • So now we can see that the covenant line that was first
  • 00:15:50.350 --> 00:15:52.886
  • Established with abraham continued through his son isaac,
  • 00:15:52.886 --> 00:15:57.057
  • And to his son jacob, or abraham's grandson,
  • 00:15:57.057 --> 00:16:01.361
  • And from jacob came 12 sons.
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  • And they would give their names to the 12 tribes of israel.
  • 00:16:04.631 --> 00:16:08.902
  • So now we have the nation called israel,
  • 00:16:08.902 --> 00:16:12.939
  • Because jacob's name was changed to israel,
  • 00:16:12.939 --> 00:16:16.710
  • Because god chose it that way.
  • 00:16:16.710 --> 00:16:19.713
  • Now it's interesting.
  • 00:16:19.713 --> 00:16:21.081
  • 800 years later in the book of psalms,
  • 00:16:21.081 --> 00:16:24.651
  • The psalmist records this genealogy
  • 00:16:24.651 --> 00:16:28.422
  • And this covenant line through abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:16:28.422 --> 00:16:32.426
  • And he puts it this way in psalm 105,
  • 00:16:32.426 --> 00:16:34.995
  • Beginning in verse seven, he is the lord our god.
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  • His judgments are in all the earth.
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  • He remembers his covenant forever.
  • 00:16:41.234 --> 00:16:43.437
  • The word which he commanded for a thousand generations,
  • 00:16:43.437 --> 00:16:47.040
  • The covenant which he made with abraham and his oath to isaac,
  • 00:16:47.040 --> 00:16:50.811
  • And confirmed it to jacob for a statue
  • 00:16:50.811 --> 00:16:54.247
  • To israel as an everlasting covenant,
  • 00:16:54.247 --> 00:16:56.650
  • Saying to you, i will give the land of canaan
  • 00:16:56.650 --> 00:17:00.420
  • As the allotment of your inheritance,
  • 00:17:00.420 --> 00:17:04.291
  • When they were few in number, indeed very few,
  • 00:17:04.291 --> 00:17:07.227
  • And strangers in it.
  • 00:17:07.227 --> 00:17:09.362
  • Well, they went from one nation
  • 00:17:09.362 --> 00:17:10.597
  • To another, from one kingdom to another.
  • 00:17:10.597 --> 00:17:13.366
  • He permitted no one to do them wrong.
  • 00:17:13.366 --> 00:17:15.869
  • Yes, he rebuked things for their sake, saying,
  • 00:17:15.869 --> 00:17:19.172
  • Do not touch my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
  • 00:17:19.172 --> 00:17:24.077
  • So we can see that throughout the old testament,
  • 00:17:24.077 --> 00:17:26.813
  • In the old testament period, in fact,
  • 00:17:26.813 --> 00:17:28.815
  • God made many promises to israel and he kept his promises.
  • 00:17:28.815 --> 00:17:33.053
  • He had entered into covenants with them, and god would always
  • 00:17:33.053 --> 00:17:36.523
  • Keep his side of the covenant, even if israel failed.
  • 00:17:36.523 --> 00:17:40.694
  • And she did again and again to keep her side of the covenant.
  • 00:17:40.694 --> 00:17:44.764
  • And israel was worn as far back
  • 00:17:44.764 --> 00:17:47.467
  • As the book of deuteronomy, the book of second law.
  • 00:17:47.467 --> 00:17:50.904
  • Moses reiterated for israel the blessings
  • 00:17:50.904 --> 00:17:54.908
  • That flowed from the beatings, but also the curses
  • 00:17:54.908 --> 00:17:57.978
  • That would come upon them if they were disobedient
  • 00:17:57.978 --> 00:18:01.181
  • Or violated the covenants they had made with almighty god.
  • 00:18:01.181 --> 00:18:05.218
  • For example, in deuteronomy in chapter 28
  • 00:18:05.218 --> 00:18:08.722
  • And beginning in verse 63, moses says this,
  • 00:18:08.722 --> 00:18:14.094
  • And it shall be that just as the lord rejoiced over you, to do
  • 00:18:14.094 --> 00:18:17.397
  • You good and multiply, you,
  • 00:18:17.397 --> 00:18:19.466
  • So the lord will rejoice over you,
  • 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.002
  • To destroy you, and bring you to nothing.
  • 00:18:22.002 --> 00:18:25.205
  • And you shall
  • 00:18:25.205 --> 00:18:26.339
  • Be plucked off from the land which you go to possess.
  • 00:18:26.339 --> 00:18:29.409
  • Then the lord will scatter you among all peoples
  • 00:18:29.409 --> 00:18:32.112
  • From one end of the earth to the other.
  • 00:18:32.112 --> 00:18:34.414
  • And there you shall serve other gods,
  • 00:18:34.414 --> 00:18:36.416
  • Which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  • 00:18:36.416 --> 00:18:39.219
  • Wood and stone.
  • 00:18:39.219 --> 00:18:41.521
  • And among those nations you shall find no rest,
  • 00:18:41.521 --> 00:18:44.391
  • Nor shall the soul of your foot have a resting place.
  • 00:18:44.391 --> 00:18:47.694
  • But there the lord will give you a trembling heart,
  • 00:18:47.694 --> 00:18:50.230
  • Failing eyes, and anguish of soul.
  • 00:18:50.230 --> 00:18:53.767
  • So we can say that israel was adequately warned
  • 00:18:53.767 --> 00:18:57.470
  • What disobedience could bring upon her.
  • 00:18:57.470 --> 00:19:01.274
  • Your life shall hanging down before you.
  • 00:19:01.274 --> 00:19:03.743
  • You shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.
  • 00:19:03.743 --> 00:19:07.380
  • And surely, sadly, that could be applied
  • 00:19:07.380 --> 00:19:10.016
  • To the years of the european holocaust,
  • 00:19:10.016 --> 00:19:12.352
  • When so many jewish people lost their lives
  • 00:19:12.352 --> 00:19:15.322
  • At the hands of the nazis and didn't know what the next
  • 00:19:15.322 --> 00:19:19.059
  • Day might bring.
  • 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:21.661
  • In verse 67,
  • 00:19:21.995 --> 00:19:23.396
  • In the morning you shall say, oh, that it were evening,
  • 00:19:23.396 --> 00:19:26.266
  • And in the evening you shall say, oh, that it were morning,
  • 00:19:26.266 --> 00:19:29.903
  • Because of the fear which terrifies your heart,
  • 00:19:29.903 --> 00:19:32.439
  • And because of the sight with your eyes. see?
  • 00:19:32.439 --> 00:19:36.376
  • And then this and the lord will take you back to egypt
  • 00:19:36.376 --> 00:19:39.613
  • And ships by the way of which i said to you,
  • 00:19:39.613 --> 00:19:42.315
  • You shall never see it again.
  • 00:19:42.315 --> 00:19:44.117
  • And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies
  • 00:19:44.117 --> 00:19:46.820
  • As male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
  • 00:19:46.820 --> 00:19:52.659
  • So in the old testament there are ample
  • 00:19:52.659 --> 00:19:56.129
  • Blessings that will flow to israel.
  • 00:19:56.129 --> 00:19:58.565
  • But contrary to that, there will be judgment and pain.
  • 00:19:58.565 --> 00:20:03.403
  • If they fail to follow the covenants
  • 00:20:03.403 --> 00:20:06.339
  • That they entered into with the almighty god.
  • 00:20:06.339 --> 00:20:09.376
  • Now, history
  • 00:20:09.376 --> 00:20:10.443
  • That teaches us that because of their disobedience,
  • 00:20:10.443 --> 00:20:13.046
  • There were two major dispersions.
  • 00:20:13.046 --> 00:20:15.282
  • The first under the babylonians in 586 b.c.,
  • 00:20:15.282 --> 00:20:20.487
  • And the second major dispersion under the romans in 1870,
  • 00:20:20.487 --> 00:20:25.225
  • When the roman army laid siege to jerusalem, destroyed
  • 00:20:25.225 --> 00:20:29.429
  • The temple that stood there, the second temple,
  • 00:20:29.429 --> 00:20:32.065
  • And killed hundreds of thousands of jewish people
  • 00:20:32.065 --> 00:20:34.934
  • Within the streets of the holy city.
  • 00:20:34.934 --> 00:20:38.938
  • But remember, that was the judgment
  • 00:20:38.938 --> 00:20:41.574
  • That would fall upon them because of their disobedience.
  • 00:20:41.574 --> 00:20:44.611
  • But god would still keep his side of the covenant
  • 00:20:44.611 --> 00:20:48.948
  • And the promises of the land, and to bring them
  • 00:20:48.948 --> 00:20:51.518
  • Back to the land, to which he had brought them.
  • 00:20:51.518 --> 00:20:56.589
  • And we read in isaiah in chapter 43.
  • 00:20:56.589 --> 00:21:01.695
  • But now thus says the lord
  • 00:21:02.262 --> 00:21:03.730
  • Who created you, o jacob, and he who formed you, o israel.
  • 00:21:03.730 --> 00:21:08.301
  • Fear not, for i have redeemed you.
  • 00:21:08.301 --> 00:21:10.603
  • I have called you by name.
  • 00:21:10.603 --> 00:21:12.038
  • You are mine.
  • 00:21:12.038 --> 00:21:13.506
  • When you pass through the waters, i will be with you.
  • 00:21:13.506 --> 00:21:16.142
  • And through the rivers they shall not overflow you.
  • 00:21:16.142 --> 00:21:18.878
  • When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
  • 00:21:18.878 --> 00:21:21.548
  • Nor shall the flame scorch you.
  • 00:21:21.548 --> 00:21:23.650
  • For i am the lord your god,
  • 00:21:23.650 --> 00:21:25.318
  • The holy one of israel, your savior.
  • 00:21:25.318 --> 00:21:27.854
  • And then it goes on to say in verse five,
  • 00:21:27.854 --> 00:21:30.323
  • Isaiah 43, fear not, for i am with you.
  • 00:21:30.323 --> 00:21:34.027
  • I will bring your descendants
  • 00:21:34.027 --> 00:21:35.228
  • From the east and gather you from the west.
  • 00:21:35.228 --> 00:21:37.897
  • I will say to the north, give them up, and to the south.
  • 00:21:37.897 --> 00:21:40.900
  • Do not keep them back.
  • 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:42.469
  • Bring my sons from afar,
  • 00:21:42.469 --> 00:21:44.704
  • My daughters from the end of the earth.
  • 00:21:44.704 --> 00:21:47.173
  • Everyone who is called by my name, whom
  • 00:21:47.173 --> 00:21:49.843
  • I have created for my glory, i have formed him.
  • 00:21:49.843 --> 00:21:53.113
  • Yes, i have made him.
  • 00:21:53.113 --> 00:21:56.349
  • God had promises to keep concerning israel.
  • 00:21:56.349 --> 00:21:59.786
  • God kept those promises.
  • 00:22:00.320 --> 00:22:03.189
  • The only
  • 00:22:03.456 --> 00:22:04.524
  • Thing in question was when or how, down through
  • 00:22:04.524 --> 00:22:07.761
  • The centuries of suffering would god keep his promises.
  • 00:22:07.761 --> 00:22:13.400
  • More about that after this short break.
  • 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:21.074
  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:22:22.142 --> 00:22:24.577
  • The bible says,
  • 00:22:24.577 --> 00:22:25.645
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
  • 00:22:25.645 --> 00:22:28.515
  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
  • 00:22:28.515 --> 00:22:30.450
  • From the dead, you will be saved.
  • 00:22:30.450 --> 00:22:33.520
  • C4i, that simply means we are christians
  • 00:22:34.354 --> 00:22:37.524
  • Who care about israel,
  • 00:22:37.524 --> 00:22:39.726
  • And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
  • 00:22:39.726 --> 00:22:42.529
  • Because they are suffering so much.
  • 00:22:42.529 --> 00:22:44.564
  • First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
  • 00:22:44.564 --> 00:22:47.567
  • 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
  • 00:22:47.567 --> 00:22:52.739
  • And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
  • 00:22:52.739 --> 00:22:56.509
  • We're here to help the less fortunate,
  • 00:22:56.509 --> 00:22:58.878
  • The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
  • 00:22:58.878 --> 00:23:01.848
  • Special children that need 24 seven care.
  • 00:23:01.848 --> 00:23:05.819
  • But we can't do it alone.
  • 00:23:05.819 --> 00:23:07.153
  • We need your help. please.
  • 00:23:07.153 --> 00:23:09.255
  • You'll see the numbers on the screen.
  • 00:23:09.255 --> 00:23:11.524
  • You'll see the websites that we have.
  • 00:23:11.524 --> 00:23:13.660
  • Please go to the phone or go to the website.
  • 00:23:13.660 --> 00:23:16.796
  • Make a donation.
  • 00:23:16.796 --> 00:23:18.031
  • Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
  • 00:23:18.031 --> 00:23:23.603
  • Thank you. on.
  • 00:23:23.937 --> 00:23:27.507
  • The. isaiah
  • 00:23:27.841 --> 00:23:33.146
  • The prophet prophesied nearly 2800 years ago that israel
  • 00:23:33.146 --> 00:23:38.351
  • Would return from her long exile
  • 00:23:38.351 --> 00:23:41.421
  • In chapter 43 of isaiah.
  • 00:23:41.421 --> 00:23:43.890
  • We read these words in verse five.
  • 00:23:43.890 --> 00:23:46.359
  • Fear not, for i am with you.
  • 00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:48.528
  • I will bring your descendants
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  • From the east and gather you from the west.
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  • I will say to the north, give them up, and to the south.
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  • Do not keep them back.
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  • Bring my sons from afar
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  • And my daughters from the end of the earth.
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  • Everyone who is called by my name, whom
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  • I have created for my glory, i have formed him.
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  • Yes, i have made him.
  • 00:24:08.882 --> 00:24:12.752
  • But isaiah also asked another rhetorical question
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  • That's found in chapter 66, in verse eight.
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  • Who has heard such a thing?
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  • Who has seen such things?
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  • Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
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  • Or shall a nation be born at once?
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  • Isaiah asks the rhetorical question,
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  • Can a nation be born at once in a single day?
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  • The answer to the question
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  • Came in a sense when god called abraham,
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  • Who became in the sense the first hebrew, the first jew,
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  • Because he started the nation of israel when god called him.
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  • But that question of can a nation be born in one day
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  • Is answered again?
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  • When, in november 29th of 1947, the united nations met
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  • To consider the status of this holy land.
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  • And votes were taken, and by a very narrow vote,
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  • The nations voted for the reestablishment
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  • Of a jewish nation
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  • In its ancient homeland here in the middle east.
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  • And that new nation was given its ancient name
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  • When it was born again, as it were, on may the 14th,
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  • 1948, just a few months after that united nations vote.
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  • And the name was given is real.
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  • And so god kept his promises to this nation,
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  • Though they were in exile, he summoned them back.
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  • According to isaiah 43, the sons and daughters of israel
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  • Were called back to their proper homeland.
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  • Known as the promised land.
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  • But israel's fight to be light continues as before.
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  • And we know that according to the bible,
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  • There will be more battles fought over jerusalem.
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  • And even today in the middle east.
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  • There are enemies around israel threatening to wipe
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  • This only jewish nation off the map.
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  • But israel has something that other nations do not have.
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  • She has god's guarantee that she will survive.
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  • In the days that lie ahead, listen to the words
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  • Of another prophet of israel, this time, jeremiah.
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  • And he says in chapter 31, beginning in verse 35,
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  • Thus says the lord who gives the sun for a light by day
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  • The ordinances of the moon and the stars, for a light
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  • By night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar.
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  • The lord of hosts is his name.
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  • If those ordinances depart from before me, says the lord.
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  • Then the seed of israel shall also cease
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  • From being a nation before me for ever.
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  • Now consider what the prophecy says.
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  • As long as the stars shine by night, and the moon
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  • And the sun by day.
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  • And the sun this morning
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  • Is shining on the temple mount directly behind me.
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  • As long as those ordinances remain.
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  • The seed of israel shall remain.
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  • This is god's guarantee.
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  • The can be no better guarantee
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  • Than the guarantee of the god
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  • Of all creation.
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  • Thanks for watching.
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  • The prophetic connection.
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