John Tweedie - How Israel Blesses Other Nations

January 6, 2026 | 28:40

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 - How Israel Blesses Other Nations | January 6, 2026

The nation of israel was to be a blessing to all nations.
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That's what god told abraham or abraham
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When he initially called him.
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He said, i will make of you a great nation,
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And you will be a blessing to all nations, meaning the nation
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That is in your loins
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That comes from you will be a blessing to all nations.
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Why then, is there so much hatred and animosity
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Against israel?
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In fact, there always has been, but perhaps never more
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So than since october 7th, 2023,
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When hamas terrorists from gaza crossed the border with israel
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And massacred some 1200
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Jewish men, women and children.
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Why so much hatred against a nation
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That has given the world so much?
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I'll explain in this episode of the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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Who can explain why the world, the nations,
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Have failed to appreciate israel's
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Significant contributions to the world
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In every field of human endeavor in literature, science,
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Israel's influence in the new world,
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In the americas,
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Through the american constitution, medical research.
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And so many different ways,
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Israel has been a blessing to the nations.
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But the response, even today is hatred and animosity.
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But why?
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Why don't the nations recognize the blessing that israel is
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And has been to the nations?
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Today?
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The name einstein has become synonymous with genius.
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But if einstein was a genius, he was at the same time
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A jewish genius, and one who clearly benefited
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From being raised in a culture where education had value.
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Einstein's research breakthroughs and scientific
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Theories, which flowed from that,
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Set the stage for the most significant
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Scientific advancements of the 20th century.
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Although einstein is perhaps the most famous jew
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Of the 20th century for having shed
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Light on the mysteries of the universe,
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He was by no means the only jew whose research
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Brought illumination and blessing.
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Jews also held prominent places in the developing
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Discipline of psychiatry, which, initially speaking at least,
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Could have been viewed as a jewish monopoly
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Given the number of prominent jewish names associated with it.
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This particular field of medicine,
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Which sought to unlock the mysteries of the mind,
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Can be traced to the primary research
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Of the jewish neurologist sigmund freud.
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Freud began exploring the unconscious mind as a means
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Of relieving the psychiatric disturbances
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That plagued some of his patients.
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Motivated by his desire to help those others, could not.
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Freud psychoanalysis studies and suggested therapies
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Greatly influenced the entire study of psychology.
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This jewish inclination to help others evident in freud,
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Is a trait that appears in other jewish researchers as well.
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Jews seem to have a common desire to cultivate
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And use their abilities to make the world a better place.
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You know, in hindsight,
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According to history, israel's two major dispersions
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Are of the land the first in 586 bc,
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Under the babylonian armies, and the second in
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1870, caused by the roman legions.
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Those two dispersions
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Caused a scattering of the jews into all nations.
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But what can be seen as a disaster for the jews
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Can be seen as a blessing to the nations,
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Because wherever the jewish people went,
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They were always wanting to learn in the first instance
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And so their children could read and write.
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When some of the kings of europe
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Couldn't even sign their own names,
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The jewish children needed to be able
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To read and write to understand torah, the law of moses,
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The commandments of god, the festivals that god gave
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Israel that became part of the rhythm of the jewish year
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Celebrated even today, and after thousands of years.
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So everywhere the jewish people, when their hunger for learning
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Led to innovation, invention and influence.
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And they offered the world
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So many different blessings in so many areas of life.
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More recent research.
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Even as we're preparing
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To do this latest season of the prophetic connection.
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Recent research suggests that christopher columbus was,
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In fact of jewish descent, but his name is a variant
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Of jewish names common in spain at the time of the jewish
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Expulsion from spain in 1492, when king ferdinand and isabella
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Forced the jews either to convert
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Or force them into exile for that matter.
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But it said that christopher columbus was in fact a jew,
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A sephardic jew at that sephardic, meaning the spain
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And portugal area, as opposed to ashkenazi jews
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Who were in europe and then the us.
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The jews were scattered
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And reached the new world, the americas, as it were.
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Look at their influence in the past 100 years.
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I mean, we need
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Only think of hollywood and the major television studios
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And all of that that were owned or,
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Governed by jewish, entrepreneurs.
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But broader than that, levi jeans, so many different things
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Where jewish entrepreneurs and innovators
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Have blessed the world in so many different ways.
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But the world has failed to recognize that.
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How do we know?
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Look at the antisemitism that has arisen since october
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7th, 2023, that appears on university
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Campuses that is taught at the university level?
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Hatred against all things jewish.
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How do we explain it?
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Why doesn't the world appreciate all the jewish people?
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Are all they have given, all the blessings
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They have offered to the nations?
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With the drafting of the declaration
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Of independence in 1776, america raised a new standard
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Of equality and justice for all citizens, regardless
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Of their ethnic origins or religious preferences.
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Because the declaration also promised all citizens individual
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Rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Jews had many reasons to be optimistic
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About their future in the new world.
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Not surprisingly,
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Many jews viewed america as a new promised land,
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A place where their natural abilities
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And progressive instincts could flourish and where
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They would enjoy equal status with gentile citizens.
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The next century would bear witness to wave
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After wave of jewish immigrants between 1860 and 1870.
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Approximately 150,000 jews came to america
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From germany and poland between 1880 and 1914.
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2 million russian and 125,000
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Romanian jews immigrated to america.
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While these new americans were among the poorest of the poor,
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Their circumstances would quickly change for the better.
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The individual freedoms enshrined in the declaration
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Of independence gave all jews the same opportunity
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As their fellow citizens
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To excel and to rise above their poor circumstances.
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Many of these first jewish
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Immigrants were quick to seize these new opportunities
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And to cast off the chains of their impoverishment.
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Notable among them was a struggling dry goods
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Wholesaler called levi strauss, a german jew.
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This strauss name today is synonymous with blue jeans.
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Invented in 1873.
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This iconic piece of clothing can be found in most wardrobes
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Around the world.
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But levi strauss is only one example of how america's first
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Jews quickly became paragons of success.
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There were others who succeeded to influence culture
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And made significant contributions to the development
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Of the american nation as a whole.
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But once again,
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This jewish influence and impact on american culture
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Can be traced back
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Directly to the jewish emphasis on learning and education.
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Educated jews had a better chance of becoming
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Successful jews,
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And successful jews would enable jewish culture to become,
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And remained a vital part of america's mainstream.
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If america was not quite the promised land
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In most jewish minds, it was the next best thing.
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Nowhere else,
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During their many centuries of wandering,
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Had the jews found such freedom
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And the promise of a glorious future for their children.
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They were free to practice their religion
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Without fear, because religious rights
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Were guaranteed by the american constitution.
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America also offered the promise of compounding benefits.
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That is, one generation of jews could enjoy the status
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And wealth made possible by those who had gone before.
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But jewish progress also raised new questions
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About the jews and their biblical heritage.
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As jews prospered in the gardens of their newfound liberation.
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Would they also forget their eternal claim
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On a jewish homeland god once promised to abraham?
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And would their foray into the arts
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And entertainment inevitably obscure their calling?
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As carriers and purveyors of god's moral codes?
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The jews are often thought of, and all are in fact, as a group,
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A serious people and intellectual people
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Where education, becoming a doctor, a lawyer,
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A professor is very, very highly valued.
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A rabbi too. okay.
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But there's another side to the jewish people where,
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They can make people
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Give people pleasure, help people relax,
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Help people smile.
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What?
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What is what do the movies do?
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What do broadway musicals do?
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What do some of these tunes like white christmas do?
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Think about white christmas or easter parade.
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Ironically, these successful hits based upon
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Christian festivals were composed by irving berlin,
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A jew born isidor bailey.
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Berlin is known to have written at least 1500 songs.
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He is also credited with the musical scores
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For 19 broadway shows and 18 hollywood films.
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In fact, the popularity of berlin's
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Songs have outlived the composer himself.
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Today,
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Berlin is fondly remembered
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As one of the greatest songwriters in history.
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I remember thinking, oh, i'll.
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Jolson was yet another jew who left his imprint
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On the early 20th century entertainment industry.
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Jolson was reportedly the first openly jewish man
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To attain the status of a so-called american star.
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In fact,
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Because of jolson's versatility as a talented singer,
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Comedian, and actor, some referred to him
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As the world's greatest entertainer.
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Those who came after jolson.
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Entertainment icons such as bing crosby, judy garland, and bob
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Dylan are said to have been inspired by jolson's easy style
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And ability to connect with audiences.
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The first talking movie, was by al jolson,
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Whose original name was a very yiddish sounding name.
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His father was a cantor.
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He wanted him to be a cantor.
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Now, jolson is a very, very good example
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Because al jolson turned his singing ability
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Not into being a cantor in a synagogue,
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But into singing and burlesque singing before audiences
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And creating the first talking film.
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It wasn't all talking called the jazz.
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The influence of jews and the shaping of america's
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Arts and entertainment industry cannot be overstated.
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From songwriting to movies, from broadway to hollywood.
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Jewish names feature prominently throughout the 20th century.
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The people of israel
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Face significant challenges every day
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Due to the ongoing threat of war and random terror attacks.
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Resources are often redirected to the military
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Instead of helping the most
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Vulnerable children at risk and the elderly.
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Many children go to bed
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Many jews who are anxious to leave behind
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Their immigrant parents
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In the early 20th century in the united states
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Went as far as they could.
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United states, they moved from the lower east side
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In new york all the way to hollywood.
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And the jews actually created hollywood.
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Metro-goldwyn-mayer and the warner brothers and and,
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Any major film studio.
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And that was the time
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Of the film studios of 1920s and 30s, 40s into
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The 50s were all created by jews.
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Given all of this jewish
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Participation and influence in the arts and entertainment.
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One wonders if this too is intrinsic to jewish nature.
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If it emerges from
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An inclination to celebrate life, to find joy,
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Even under the shadow of persistent suffering,
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How are jews able to celebrate anything
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When they have suffered more than any other nation on earth?
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In the old
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Testament that says, jews are commanded to live.
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And if you think about life, if you think about your life to
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Living is not only sitting and reading a book all day,
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Or sitting and writing books all day, or what
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We call high culture, or contributing
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And getting a nobel prize to society.
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But life is also about, the pleasures of life.
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And, from a jewish point of view, life
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Is an all encompassing side.
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In this episode,
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We've traveled with israel through the centuries.
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We've seen the dispersion among the nations.
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We follow them into the nations.
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We've seen their ingenuity and innovation influence
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Wherever they went.
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And certainly the new world as we know it.
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America and jewish influence there,
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Where they had the freedom to be jewish
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Because of the freedom of a religion that america allowed,
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They prospered and rose to prominence in america.
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And we've also seen how god brought them back.
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In 1948, israel was reestablished again as a nation.
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After all the persecution which in part was,
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Natural in the sense that because they prospered,
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They were envied.
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And people in those nations where they prospered,
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Were envious of them.
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And of course, hitler used that to his advantage.
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He blamed the jews in germany, in europe,
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For creating the rest of the people, in a sense,
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As second class
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Citizens, because, in his view, the jews had all the influence.
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Of course, when he started to persecute the jews,
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He robbed them of their university positions.
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Their stores were attacked.
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And so we saw how anti-semitism in europe,
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Led to the holocaust.
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And behind all of that natural animosity, as it were,
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We have to remember that
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Satan was his work as well, against the jews.
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And i have a sense that there is a spirit of anti-semitism,
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A spirit of anti israel ism, that can sort of lay dormant
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In one generation only to arise with ever greater
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Veracity in the next generation.
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And we saw on october 7th, 2023,
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How that animosity, can lead to a massacre.
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But for all of it,
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For all the suffering and all the persecution,
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The jewish people are back in their homeland
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And they have been a blessing to the nations
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Wherever they went,
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Which is exactly what god said to abraham when he summoned him
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To be the father of this very special chosen nation.
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So where do we go from here?
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Well, the bible is our guide,
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And in order
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To look into the future, i want to look into the past
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To see something else that the prophets have said.
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And this particular prophecy is found on the lips of isaiah,
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Who live some 20, 720 800 years ago.
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And the prophecy reveals the heart of god
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For zion, israel for jerusalem.
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And it also speaks
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About the future, and as well it speaks about our role
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As christians, where israel is concerned
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Now that we're living in the 21st century
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And we're living in the midst of more animosity,
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More anti-semitism against the jewish people.
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God says through the prophet isaiah and isaiah 62, verse one,
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For zion's sake i will not hold my peace,
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And for jerusalem's sake i will not rest
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Until her righteousness goes forth.
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His brightness and her salvation is a lamp that burns.
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The gentiles shall see your
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Righteousness and all kings your glory.
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You shall be called by a new name,
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Which the mouth of the lord will name.
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You shall also be a crown of glory, and the hand of the lord,
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And a royal diadem in the hand of your god.
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Now listen to these words of hope, of promise.
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Verse four.
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You shall no longer be termed forsaken,
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Nor shall your land anymore be termed desolate.
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And that's what the land looked like when the jewish
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People were not in the land for all of those centuries.
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But you shall be called hephzibah and your land, beulah.
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Hephzibah means delight.
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Delight of the lord.
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If you want to think of it
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That way, and married, because god sees himself
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As married to israel and married to the promised land.
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And here's the explanation on the lips of isaiah.
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For the lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
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For as a young man
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Marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you.
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And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
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So shall your god rejoice over you.
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And then here's a word perhaps that applies to us
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Living as we do in the 21st century,
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When once and again israel is at war
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And the enemies of israel are rising up against her,
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God says, because he has a solution for this as well.
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I have sent watchmen on the walls of jerusalem,
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But i shall never hold their peace day or night.
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You who make mention of the lord, do not keep silent,
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And give him no rest till he establishes,
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Until he makes jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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We speak of ourselves as part of the christian church,
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But we know from history that there are times
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When the church has been all too silent,
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Where the suffering of the jewish
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People has been concerned, and once and again
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The jewish people are suffering in the 21st century.
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But god is saying he's summoning us
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Not to be silent, to speak up, and to speak out
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In support of the jewish people, the right to the promised land
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And the fact that they are his chosen nation.
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Let me remind you what god said again in verse seven of
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Isaiah chapter 62.
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Give him, gives god no rest.
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In other words, we must reverently petition god
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About all of this till he establishes,
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Until he makes jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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That's god's heart for the holy city we know as jerusalem.
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The ultimate battles to come
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Are going to be fought over jerusalem.
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And what we're seeing
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In the world today, these this is the prelude
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To what comes in the days that lie ahead.
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And then meantime, in the interim, he's summoned us
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To be watchmen on the walls of the holy city,
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Seeing when the enemies approach
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The holy city, as it were, or his people,
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And to summon the alarm and to petition him
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And give him no rest till he makes this
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Holy city a praise in all the earth.
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Israel has blessed the
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Nations in so many different ways.
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The nations have not acknowledged
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The blessing israel has been, but we can speak out,
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And we can remind
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The nations of all that israel has given them.
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And perhaps there'll be a change, a part
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Among the nations.
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Who can explain that?
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Although the jews represent barely point 3% of the world's
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Population, they have won 10% of the world's nobel prizes.
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How are we to understand how they have survived
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Successive persecutions and pogroms,
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And that for nearly 2000 years,
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From the destruction of jerusalem in 70 a.d.
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Until the miraculous rebirth of israel in 1948,
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They were a scattered people, at times segregated
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And more often than not persecuted.
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Yet, curiously, oppression did not diminish their influence
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Nor lessen their contributions to the well-being of humanity.
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The light of jewish resilience
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Seemed always to lift them above the yoke of dark oppression,
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While their creativity and progressive
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Ingenuity propelled them forward against all odds.
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The fact that the jews exist as a distinct nation today,
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That they have regained their biblical homeland
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Following centuries of wandering among the nations,
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Has everything to do with god's faithfulness
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And the promises he made to abraham.
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If so, then what god promised then is still valid today.
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God has more promises to keep where abraham's children
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Are concerned.
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We can explain the animosity toward all things jewish today
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By what is the propaganda machine of israel's enemies.
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We have to admit that hamas and hezbollah, their
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Cohorts, are very effective in the propaganda machine.
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And in fact, they probably planned for this
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And for years have been
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Using plants
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In the universities and so forth,
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And even at the university level.
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And of course, we could say that money from
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The enemies of israel has flowed into the universities.
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And so that's in part what has happened.
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But i want to go much deeper than that.
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It has to be that satan,
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The origin of all that
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Is evil in the world of hatred and war
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And all of those negative things is behind it all.
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And why?
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Because the jewish nation is the nation
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That gave us jesus of nazareth, who is jewish, a jewish
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Lord and savior, who came once, was crucified.
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Buried, but rose again from the dead, and has promised
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To come again to rescue us from all that is evil,
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In fact, even from ourselves and our sinful ways.
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But satan knows this, and he knows that this same
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Jesus is coming back to a nation called israel.
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So simply put, satan, for whatever reason, continues
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To exist and only under god's sovereignty.
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But he does exist,
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And i believe that he's behind all that is evil in the world
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Today, especially the animosity toward
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The jewish nation. why?
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To destroy this nation, in a sense, logically.
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So the savior of the world,
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To not come back to a nation called israel,
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But it's a fight that he's destined to lose
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Because the promises of the bible stand strong today.
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And god has promised that as long as the sun shines by day,
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And the moon and the stars by night.
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Jeremiah chapter 31.
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As long as those ordinances remain, israel shall remain.
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This two is god's promise to his chosen nation.
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John Tweedie - How Israel Blesses Other Nations

January 6, 2026 | 28:40

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