John Tweedie - A Glorious Future Under God

November 20, 2025 | 28:39

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 - A Glorious Future Under God | November 20, 2025

On the day of jesus ascension into heaven,
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His disciples asked a profound question of him, lord,
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Will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel?
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His answer next, on the prophetic connection to.
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Soft music
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The disciples knew from prophecy
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That the kingdom of israel was to be an eternal kingdom.
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So they asked that profound question.
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But here is jesus answer in x one
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In verse seven.
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And he said to them, it is not for you to know times
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Or season which the father has put in his own authority.
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And then he said, this,
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But you shall receive power
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When the holy spirit is come upon you,
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And you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem, and in all judea
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And samaria, and to the end of the earth.
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Directly behind me through the tree.
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And by the way, that's an olive tree,
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Which is a symbol of the nation of israel.
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But beyond the trees.
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The camera can see mount zion somewhere there.
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An upper room where they held the last supper.
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But later still than that, many days later,
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The holy spirit fell on those first christian believers.
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120 of them gathered in that upper room.
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And this verse was fulfilled on that day
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When the holy spirit came, you will receive power
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With the holy spirit has come upon you,
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And you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem,
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And in all judea and samaria, and to the end of the earth.
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And they went out from that upper room
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And turned the world upside down.
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Since the
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Death of king solomon nearly 3000 years ago,
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Israel has never regained
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The same measure of power and influence
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She once enjoyed under solomon's reign.
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The question for today is will god
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Ever restore this promised kingdom to israel?
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The last question the jewish disciples of jesus asked him
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Before his ascension into heaven is recorded in acts
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Chapter one, verse six.
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They said, lord, is it now you are restoring the kingdom
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To israel.
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2000 years ago, jesus didn't say when that would happen,
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But today he would say, yes, i'm bringing my kingdom back
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To israel through the revelation of jesus as messiah and king.
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His kingdom is being established today in the land of israel,
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Through the reemergence of messianic believers
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And the establishment
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Of messianic communities throughout our land.
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Why is israel's rebirth in 1948 important for the whole world?
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When humanity lost connection with god, beginning with abraham
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3700 years ago, we basically reintroduced the world to god.
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And it took 2000 years for,
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You know, other faiths to spring up.
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Christianity being the first
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And basically brought into this idea of one god
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Who acts in
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History, has a loving relationship
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With creation, deterministic worldview.
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So it's it's said over and over again
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In the scripture that the jewish people are an eternal nation.
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We will always be around.
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It's one of the most oft
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Repeated prophecies which comes from more or less
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A god's commitment to abraham because of abraham's commitment
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To god to be sort of the god squad.
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But the idea is that our role in history has been so critical,
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We cannot disappear because of relationship with god is lost.
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Then humanity is doomed.
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And i think that's been shown very clearly
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Through the history of the last few thousand years.
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The other point is, of course, also how prophecy works.
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That prophecy is divided into good prophecy and bad prophecy.
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What's the difference between the two?
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Besides, you know one
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You need prozac to deal with, and the other one is smiling.
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That prophecy is contingent.
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It's a warning.
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Like your mother says to you. you know she serves.
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She makes her favorite chocolate cake for dinner, for dessert.
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But you also serve brussel sprouts
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And she's warning you the whole meal. eat.
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The brussel sprouts are no chocolate cake.
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It's up to you.
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Eventually get the cake.
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But you have to wait till tomorrow.
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But the good prophecy has to happen.
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And if god promises the jewish people,
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They will always be there.
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And god promises humanity that we will get back
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To relationship with god, which is what the end
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Game of the messianic era is about.
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And the jewish people's role in that story
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Is absolutely fundamental.
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And as part of our ability
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To actualize our mission in the world,
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We have to be back in the land of israel
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With the biblical government
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Reestablished, with the temple rebuilt.
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This is fundamental understanding
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Of getting back to where we came from,
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So the whole world can get back to where it came from,
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Came from in the garden of eden before it went into the fall.
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How can we describe this present age?
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I would describe our present age as an age of lawlessness,
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A lack of truth, a loss of god's sovereign rulership
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Over individual lives and over entire nations.
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Paul the apostle said in his letter to the thessalonians,
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He said that the mystery of lawlessness was already at work,
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And he identified the antichrist as the man of lawlessness.
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Our present age is characterized by this,
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And it will grow deeper and stronger as we go further
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Into the end times.
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So today,
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You know, in the biblical world,
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We had a close relationship with god, which is which is good
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And that we get immediate feedback.
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We had prophets who could tell us, you're in trouble.
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That's a huge thing.
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Just to have one minor prophet today. just don't bother.
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You get one chapter in the bible
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Is a game changer for humanity.
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But also, you know, you pass a threshold.
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God, good for us, has a lot more patience with us.
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He demands a lot more from the ancient hebrews of the bible.
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He holds them on a much higher level,
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Like you expect more from a 21 year
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Old than from a three year old today.
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He's happy if we get through the day and managed to stay dry,
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Which is good and bad, because he gives us a lot
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More wiggle room and a much longer leash,
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But enables us to do a lot more damage to ourselves.
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But i think from our own consciousness,
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The the litmus test, the barometer,
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Is looking at those values
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That we get from god in the bible and seeing how much
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We're in line with those and how much we're not.
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The further we stray away from those values
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And you see a lot of the world is strayed
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Very far from us values.
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That is the warning sign.
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The difference being is he's not going to hit us with a flood,
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And he may not get us with the plague,
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But he's going to get us with something.
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What happens
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When individuals or nations move beyond god's tipping point?
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The world is a scary place today in many ways that it wasn't
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In the ancient world.
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We have a lot of technology we don't have,
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Which is a blessing and a curse.
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It gives us medicine, but it gives us the ability
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To wipe ourselves out on a lot of different ways.
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So we're not going to
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Get a flood like we got in the time of noah,
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But we could go through a very rough stage
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Till we get to the end line. we could finish that.
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We could
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Sprint across the finish line or crawl across the finish line.
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And that is up to us.
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The human race
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And the jewish people would set
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Specific up to the jews because we started the story
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Having a unique responsibility
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As the point nation of history to bring humanity back to god.
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And that's a responsibility the jewish people cannot escape.
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So we have to get our act together,
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And the world has to follow
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In the right direction, which is all about
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Reestablishing that relationship and living with those values.
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And this, as i say amongst when i speak to jews,
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Because jews love fighting amongst themselves.
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You got to stop,
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You know, fighting and looking at what separates you.
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People who hate jews don't differentiate between
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What kind of jew you are humanity.
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You know, jews, christians, we get
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We got to get on the same page.
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We can agree to disagree on certain things
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Because that's the way human me.
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But we got to focus on what unites us.
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And any person
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Of faith recognizes this fundamental values
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That bring us very close together.
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We believe in that. the world is going in a certain way.
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There's a process of redemption.
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There's consequences to our actions.
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Just reward and punishment is a god who loves us.
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And he gave us a system of values.
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And to the extent that we can put our differences aside
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And share those values in common,
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Is the extent that we can work together
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To bring all of us to the end of the story
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And get there as quickly and as painlessly as possible.
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When jesus was asked by his disciples
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On the day of his ascension into heaven
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If he was about to restore the kingdom to israel,
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He answered by saying,
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It was not for them to know the day or the hour.
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It was not for them to know the times or the seasons
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That his father has put in his own authority.
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Curiously, jesus didn't say that the kingdom would not come,
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But only that if or when it did, it would be
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According to his father's time, will and purposes.
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Don't go away after this short break.
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Doctor 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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It's saturday
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In israel, the jewish sabbath, so you can see how quiet it is.
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Look at the immensity of this city of jerusalem.
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And yet you can hardly hear a sound other than perhaps
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The birds singing
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Or the occasional police siren running to an emergency.
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It's also the feast of tabernacles.
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It's the last festival in the rhythm of the jewish year
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That begins in the spring with passover,
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And the feast of first fruits and unleavened
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Bread, and follows right through the cycle
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That god gave israel.
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But the rhythm concludes in the fall with rosh hashanah,
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The feast of trumpets, then yom kippur,
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A day of self-reflection,
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And also called the day of atonement,
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And following that, the feast of tabernacles.
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So it's a very holy time in jerusalem.
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And of course, this is the holiest of cities now.
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It's past has been there have been many brutal
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Things that have occurred and much bloodshed,
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Has taken place in the city of jerusalem.
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And sadly, there are battles in the future as well.
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But god has a plan and purpose for this holy city
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And for the people that dwell here.
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It's found on the lips of isaiah the prophet.
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And it's a good way, in a sense, to conclude this
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Teaching in this series.
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But let let me read the words of the lord,
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Spoken through his prophet,
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About the city that you can see behind me.
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Now it shall come to pass in the latter days.
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These are the days preceding the coming of the messiah,
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And in fact his coming as well.
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But the mountain of the lord's house shall be established
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On top of the mountains,
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And shall be exalted above the hills.
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And many people shall flow to it.
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Many nations shall come and say, come, and let us go up
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To the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
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And that must be the third temple that is to be built
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On the temple mount,
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Which you can see in the distance
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As symbolized by the golden dome,
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A muslim islamic shrine that stands there today.
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But the promise here, the prophetic promise, is that a
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Jewish third temple will somehow, and only god knows
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How, be erected on that site over there.
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And the nations will say, come, let us go up
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To the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
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He will teach us his ways and we shall walk in his paths.
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For out of zion the lord shall go forth,
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And the word of the lord from jerusalem.
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Then this hopeful as well he shall judge
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Between many peoples, and rebuke strong nations afar off.
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They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
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And their spears into pruning hooks.
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Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
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Neither shall they learn war any more.
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It's a wonderful promise prophecy
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That has not yet been fulfilled,
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And it really alludes to the devait davidic dynasty,
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The dynasty of king david, and the promise that was given
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Through the prophet nathan to david himself.
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David was close to death,
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But nathan gave him a promise and said,
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Someone will always sit on your throne forever and ever.
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Now for us as christians,
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The only one worthy to sit on that throne of david
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Is jesus of nazareth, the soon coming king.
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But let me give it to you in the context.
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In second samuel in chapter seven,
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And what nathan actually said to david.
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Now it came to pass,
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When the king was dwelling in his house,
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And the lord had given him rest from all his enemies
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All around.
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But the king said to nathan the prophet, see, now
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I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of
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God dwells inside tent curtains.
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Then nathan said to the king, go to all
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That is in your heart, for the lord is with you.
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But it happened that night.
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But the word of the lord came to nathan, saying,
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Go and tell my servant david.
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Thus says the lord,
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Would you build a house for me to dwell in?
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For i have not dwelt in a house since the time that i brought
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The children of israel up from egypt, even to this day.
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But i moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle,
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Wherever i have moved about with all the children of israel.
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Have i ever spoken a word to anyone
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From the tribes of israel,
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Whom i commanded to shepherd my people israel, saying,
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Why have you not built me a house of cedar now?
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For therefore, thus shall you say to my servant david,
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Thus says the lord of hosts, i took you from the sheepfold,
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From following the sheep,
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To be ruler over my people, over israel.
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And i have been with you wherever you have gone,
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And i've cut off your enemies from before you,
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And have made you a great name, like the name of the great men
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Who are on the earth.
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Moreover, i will appoint a place for my people israel.
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I will plant them,
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That they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more,
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Nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore,
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As previously,
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Since the time that i commanded judges to be over
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My people israel,
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And have caused you to rest from all your enemies, also,
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The lord tells you that he will make you a house
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When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers,
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I will set up your seed
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After you who will come from your body,
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And i will establish his kingdom.
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He shall build a house for my name,
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And i will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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So this is the davidic kingdom, that we speak of
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That is eternal because of the promise of god
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Through nathan the prophet to david.
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Now, david was forbidden from building the house for god
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Because he was a warrior king with blood on his hands.
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The task fell to solomon, david's son.
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But david, before he died, raise the funds,
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The materials to build a house for god in jerusalem.
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And it stood over there on the temple mount behind me.
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And this is the eternal kingdom that we speak of.
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The kingdom of israel.
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It's why the disciples asked
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Jesus on the day of his ascension.
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And he was on the mount of
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Olives, which is to my left, signified by the tall tower.
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And they said to him that day,
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Just before he ascended into heaven, lord,
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Will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel,
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Because all the jews knew that the kingdom was
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To continue forever and ever, because god had promised it.
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And the prophets had prophesied that it would come to pass.
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They knew that,
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God had said to solomon that his eyes
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Would always be over the temple mount, night and day.
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They knew, that from psalm 132, verses 13 and 14,
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That the lord has chosen had chosen jerusalem
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For his dwelling place.
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Now today we are in the waiting period
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Before the messiah comes jesus
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To claim the throne of david, to sit on the throne of israel,
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Which is his rightful, place.
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Today he sits at the right hand of god the father in heaven.
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But a day will come
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When the father will say to him, my son, it is time.
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Go and claim your kingdom.
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Go and defend israel from her enemies.
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Now as we wait,
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We wonder, well, when will the messiah come?
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Well, the best answers we have are the answers that jesus
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Gave us in the discourses of
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Matthew 24 and luke 21.
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There will be famines, pestilences, earthquakes.
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Jesus said, and these things will increase
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In frequency and in intensity.
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He said, there will be a time of tribulation.
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Then his followers, his people, and the jewish
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People as well would be persecuted.
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Then he gave some other specific signs.
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In matthew 24 verse 11 he said,
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Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
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And we have many false prophets and false preachers
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In the 21st century, fulfilling that prophecy.
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Verse 12.
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And because lawlessness
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Will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
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And we see lawless acts today
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We see rebels in the streets of our major cities
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Protesting this, that, and the other thing,
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Ignoring the rule of law and challenging the enforcers
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Of the law, the police and other authorities.
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We have rebels running in the streets.
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And jesus said
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That would be the would be an age of lawlessness.
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And then he said, but he who endures to
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The end shall be saved,
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Which is to suggest it will not be easy to endure
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When lawlessness abounds and you want to walk
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In righteousness before your god.
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And then he said, and this gospel of the kingdom
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Shall be preached in all the world
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As a witness to all the nations.
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And then the end will come.
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When we
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Bring you god's word from jerusalem,
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We're proclaiming the good news, the gospel of jesus christ.
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But he was born in bethlehem of judea,
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Raised in the city in galilee.
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Nazareth actually probably a village at that time.
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But he came back to jerusalem.
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Here he was judged in sentence.
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He was nailed to a cross
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Erected outside the walls of jerusalem.
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That you can see in the distance,
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And placed in a tomb for three days and three nights.
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But the tomb could not hold him, and he rose
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From the dead, just as he had promised.
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And they did ascended into heaven.
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And today sits at the right hand of god the father.
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Until that day the father sends him back,
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Back here, and he will come here first of all, to jerusalem,
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To the mount of olives, over my left shoulder.
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And in that day he will claim the kingdom
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Of his ancestor, his father david.
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And he will sit on david's stone, and he will rule,
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Reign from jerusalem for a thousand years.
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The first phase of eternity, if you like.
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But a new jerusalem will come down from heaven,
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And it's all promised in the scripture, and jerusalem
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Will be exalted above all hills, above all nations.
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And when the king of righteousness comes,
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He will be jerusalem's exaltation.
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The only question remains when exactly will messiah come?
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If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
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The bible says,
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If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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And believe in your heart that god raised him
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From the dead, you will be saved.
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C4i that simply means we are christians
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Who care about israel,
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And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
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Because they are suffering so much.
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First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
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7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
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And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
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We're here to help the less fortunate,
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The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
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Special children that need 24 seven care.
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But we can't do it alone.
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We need your help. please.
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You'll see the numbers on the screen.
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You'll see the websites that we have.
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Please go to the phone or go to the website.
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Make a donation.
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Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
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Thank you. on.
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Why? we know that jesus is returning
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To this holy city of jerusalem to set up his kingdom
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Reign on earth,
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Which the book of revelation
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Says will last for a thousand years.
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The first phase of eternity.
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The question remains, then when will the messiah return?
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Well, we have answers, if not clues,
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On the lips of jesus himself.
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Let me read from the gospel of saint luke.
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In the 21st chapter, things that jesus said
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About his second coming,
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And of course, the parallel passages in matthew 24
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Where he speaks about wars, rumors of wars, famines,
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Pestilences, earthquakes in many different places,
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And the rise of false prophets in the last days.
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But in the parallel passage in luke,
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He says these things in luke 21, beginning in verse 25.
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And there will be signs
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In the sun, in the moon, and in the stars,
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And on the earth distress of nations.
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We're seeing that today
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With perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring.
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And we can quickly say, well,
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The seas and the waves have always roared.
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But i think you'll agree with me.
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We're seeing force five hurricanes
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In the west and typhoons in the east,
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With tremendous flooding and loss of life
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And people speaking about, 500 year floods,
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Phenomenal floods that are taking place.
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But, in 2017, there were three of those floods
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In quick succession with three major hurricanes.
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And so the seas seem to be angrier today than ever before.
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And because of all of this, luke says, verse 26,
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Men's hearts feeling them from fear
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And the expectation of those things
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Which are coming on the earth,
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For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
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Then they will see the son of man
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Coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
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So in the midst of all of this catastrophe, the hope, verse 28.
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Now when these things
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Begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads,
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Because you're redemption draws near.
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I'm actually standing on the mount of olives
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This morning with jerusalem as my backdrop.
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Zechariah chapter 14 prophesied that when messiah comes,
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He comes to this very place, and when his feet touch
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The mountain,
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There will be an earthquake, and the mount will split in two
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To the north that direction, and to the south that way.
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That's when messiah comes.
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Now the interesting thing is, in acts chapter one, jesus
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Ascended into heaven from here, from the mount of olives.
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And as he did so, two men appeared,
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Dressed in white clothing
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And said to the disciples, why do you gaze up into heaven?
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He who leaves you this way will so come in like manner.
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When we link that with zechariah 14 means
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Jesus is coming here to the mount of olives.
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So as we wait for his second coming.
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What is our task as christians in the world?
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Let the prophet isaiah
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Speak to us and instruct us with another prophecy.
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Isaiah 62, verse six i have set watchmen on your walls.
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Oh, jerusalem!
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They shall never hold their peace day or night.
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You who
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Make mention of the lord, do not keep silent and give him.
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Give god no rest till he establishes,
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Until he makes jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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So this is our task, spiritually speaking.
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We are watchmen.
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Watch women of prayer on the walls of jerusalem,
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Praying for the jewish people, praying for this holy city.
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Its name means peace, but praying that peace will come
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When the prince of peace finally comes to jerusalem.
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Thank you
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For watching this latest series of the prophetic connection.
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We'll see you next time here in the land of israel.
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We hope you enjoyed today's program.
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Join us next time for another exciting season of
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The prophetic connection.
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John Tweedie - A Glorious Future Under God

November 20, 2025 | 28:39

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