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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - Israel: Blessed To Be A Blessing

April 7, 2026 | 27:29

John Tweedie - Israel: Blessed To Be A Blessing
Dr. John Tweedie hosts a biblically prophetic exploration of Israel, past, present and future.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Israel: Blessed To Be A Blessing | April 7, 2026
  • We have come a very long
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  • Way in our journey through time with the people of israel.
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  • In early episodes, we saw that the journey began
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  • With the calling of one man named abraham.
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  • 30, 800 years ago.
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  • God chose this man
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  • And asked him to leave where he was.
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  • His family and friends,
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  • And to move to a land that god said he would show him.
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  • And abraham lunched out in faith, and god made covenants
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  • With this man that involved land, descendants, nationhood.
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  • Now, in this final episode, let's ask again
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  • How and when were these promises
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  • Fulfilled?
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  • Soft music
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  • God gave abraham and his descendants
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  • What we know today as the promised land.
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  • The name is israel.
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  • But this promised land has also been a burden,
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  • Because there has been a never ending struggle to keep the land
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  • And to defend it against all manner of enemies.
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  • You know, we are a charity
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  • And much of our charitable work occurs in the border areas
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  • That have been subject to incessant rocket attacks.
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  • You know, i knew the former security leader
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  • In that area responsible for the security of the region,
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  • And he explained to me that either he or his wife
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  • Had to stand by the bathroom door
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  • When their teenage daughter was taking a shower.
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  • Can you imagine this?
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  • And they had to leave the door open.
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  • And of course, with discretion.
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  • But in case of a rocket attack from gaza,
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  • Because it took only 15 seconds from launch to landing,
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  • And they would have to be there to say to their daughter
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  • The alarm has sounded, we need to get to the safe room
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  • As soon as possible.
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  • Our charity is active in that area.
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  • We have been for years helping the less
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  • Fortunate, helping special children.
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  • A variety of things that we do to make a difference,
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  • To encourage the people to stay where they are
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  • And their rightful inheritance in these communities
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  • Along the border.
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  • And of course, the whole world had a wake up call on october
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  • 7th, 2023,
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  • When hamas terrorists stormed across the border
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  • And claimed killed some 1200 innocent people.
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  • This, too, is israel's struggle.
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  • Yes. god gave her the land by covenant promises.
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  • But what a terrible price she has had to pay in bloodshed,
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  • To remain in the land
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  • And to claim her rightful
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  • Inheritance.
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  • Said a road is just one of many israeli communities
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  • That have endured endless rocket attacks from enemies
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  • Whose purpose is to kill or maim indiscriminately.
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  • What can be said,
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  • However, is that this town of 24,000,
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  • Which sits
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  • Less than one kilometer from the gaza fence, has taken
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  • The brunt of these attacks in recent years.
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  • Today, the road is made up predominantly of jewish
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  • Inhabitants, with a smaller contingent of arab residents.
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  • For the last eight years.
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  • All of them have lived with the constant
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  • Fear of hearing the sounds of red color or light that
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  • Signal incoming rockets.
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  • Said a rocket is at the forefront of the battle lines
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  • That separate israel from her enemies.
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  • Israel's unilateral withdrawal from gaza in august 2005
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  • Was an attempt to bring peace to this area.
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  • However, israel's enemies within gaza quickly
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  • Interpreted the withdrawal as a sign of weakness.
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  • Increased rocket barrages soon followed, until in late december
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  • 2008, israeli military forces entered gaza in an attempt
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  • To stop or at the very least reduce the number of attacks.
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  • Our life is old.
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  • You know, we want that our children will live
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  • And we will success and we will achieve
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  • The good that we have in our life.
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  • The fundamental people wish
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  • The them children will died as a shaheed.
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  • No you cannot.
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  • You cannot understand something like this.
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  • Nobody can understand
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  • Something like, oh, you can deal with mother that,
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  • You see her in the in the tv
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  • And she is she said, i wish that they will have
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  • The luck and my children will die. it.
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  • It's something that we cannot understand because we
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  • We have different culture.
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  • We think that we have to, to, to to prayer,
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  • That our children will live and will success.
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  • Living as they do in close
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  • Proximity to gaza, the citizens of cedar road
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  • Have chosen to stand firm in the face of an evil onslaught
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  • Whose source is the culture of death
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  • That currently holds the citizens of gaza in its grip.
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  • Under such circumstances,
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  • One might expect israeli parents not only instead of rote,
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  • But throughout the land, to project onto their children.
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  • Feelings of resentment and bitterness.
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  • Surprisingly,
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  • The opposite is true.
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  • There's an israeli schoolbook
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  • For i think it's third and fourth graders, and the,
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  • One of the it's a reader, and one of the stories in
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  • The school book is called the greatest seaman in jaffa.
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  • Now, turns out the greatest seaman in joppa was an arab
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  • Named abu thomas.
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  • And, a boy in the story
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  • Goes out in a rowboat with a girl, an israeli boy.
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  • And there the storm comes and they're drowning.
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  • And, abu hummus comes and he saves them.
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  • And then the boy says, i knew he wouldn't let us down.
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  • I knew he would save us.
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  • And then you see an illustration with an arab with a campfire.
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  • Throwing a rope to save
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  • These two is two jewish israeli children.
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  • What's the message in the israeli scope of one
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  • Jaffa, which is a jewish city?
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  • The most famous seaman of jaffa can be an arab
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  • First important message.
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  • And the second message is not only aren't arabs
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  • Your enemies, but if you're in trouble,
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  • An arab is going to save your life.
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  • When israelis are teaching, their children stands in stark
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  • Contrast to what palestinian parents are teaching theirs.
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  • The bible is the source of this value,
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  • Which emphasizes respect for human life.
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  • According to the torah,
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  • All men have been created in the image of god.
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  • It follows
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  • Logically, therefore, that all men have intrinsic value.
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  • It is for this reason that god commands all of israel
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  • To treat strangers in their midst with love and respect.
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  • If the stranger dwells with you in your land,
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  • You shall not mistreat him.
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  • The stranger who dwells among
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  • You shall be to you as one born among you,
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  • And you shall love him as yourself.
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  • For you were strangers in the land of egypt.
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  • I am the lord your god.
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  • They say we love death more than these jews love life.
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  • And you know, it's very possible they love death a lot.
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  • They don't love death more than we love life.
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  • We love life.
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  • And for us, you know, we will go as far as is necessary
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  • To protect human life.
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  • Jewish life, non-jewish life.
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  • Life is paramount. life is sacred.
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  • You know.
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  • It is sacred because this is the greatest gift
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  • That god can give.
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  • And it's our job to make life, you know,
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  • As beautiful and as positive and as fulfilling as possible.
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  • When these rocket barrages increased instead of decreasing
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  • Following israel's unilateral withdrawal from gaza in 2005,
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  • It became clear that stronger action was necessary.
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  • But even then, israeli forces showed incredible restraint
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  • And respect for life in the face of unusual provocation
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  • By terrorist enemies such as hamas in gaza.
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  • Israel for the war
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  • In gaza against the hamas
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  • That, like, has never been fought before.
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  • When in history did a country drop leaflets
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  • Down on houses warning
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  • Not just the civilians who were there,
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  • But the terrorists that israel was about to attack that house?
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  • When did this happen before? never.
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  • Israel with call. israel got the telephone numbers.
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  • They called the civilians.
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  • They said we know the terrorists in your house.
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  • Get out because we're coming in an hour or two.
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  • We're talking about
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  • Using modern technology developed in israel to send
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  • Cellular phone messages by sms
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  • To people living in those buildings
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  • Saying, leave, we're about to attack.
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  • And of course, the terrorists had the same warning
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  • And many of them escaped because of that.
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  • No one has ever fought a war
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  • As clean as israel did.
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  • The fact that there were casualties in the war.
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  • War is hell.
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  • War is terrible. you should never have war.
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  • But if someone's killing you people, you have an obligation
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  • To eliminate that source of the evil.
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  • Time and again, israel has demonstrated
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  • An unusual determination to avoid civilian casualties,
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  • Even when this meant placing her own troops at greater risk.
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  • She has used inventory for door to door advances,
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  • When it would have been easier to bomb
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  • Whole neighborhoods from the air.
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  • But she has done so.
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  • When to do otherwise would have resulted in civilian deaths.
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  • And she has paid a heavy price,
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  • Sacrificing our own soldiers lives,
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  • Putting those lives at risk and sacrificing those lives
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  • Not to achieve a military
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  • Objective where, of course, we all know that we must,
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  • Unfortunately, sacrifice the lives of our boys and girls
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  • In military operations to achieve a military objective.
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  • But sacrificing the lives of our soldiers
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  • In order to protect the innocent civilians, men,
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  • Women and children on the other side,
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  • In a conflict that we're operating
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  • Under rules of engagement that are inconceivable
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  • For america, canada, britain or other western nations.
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  • Of course,
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  • Israel's moral stance in war means nothing to terrorists,
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  • Who are only too glad to take up
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  • Firing positions among their own civilian populations.
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  • They know that dead or injured civilians provide fodder
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  • For their propaganda initiatives.
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  • In a world where anti-semitism is all too prevalent
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  • And where there are always those who are quick to point
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  • Accusing fingers at israel, regardless of her morality.
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  • Also often forgotten or overlooked in this long
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  • History of conflict
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  • Is the fact that israel had jurisdictional authority
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  • Over gaza and the west bank for many years.
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  • In fact, in 1996,
  • 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:14.069
  • After nearly 27 years of israeli oversight,
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  • A ball was taken throughout the palestinian territories.
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  • Palestinians were asked
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  • To express who they considered to be the greatest advocates
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  • In the world for democracy and human rights.
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  • When faced with this question,
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  • A majority of palestinians placed israel at the top of
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  • The list.
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  • 78% of
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  • Palestinians gave israel a positive rating in democracy.
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  • Human rights.
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  • United states
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  • Only got 65% positive rating, in france, only 55% positive,
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  • And the palestinians themselves only 50.
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  • In other words, palestinians.
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  • After 27 years of israeli administration, realized
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  • That israel was the best country in the world
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  • In democracy rights.
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  • And what's so interesting and important?
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  • The next year, scott
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  • King did the same poll, and israel
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  • Had shifted from 78% positive to 77% positive, which meant
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  • That it was really being proven.
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  • The next year, it was 76% positive.
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  • So that here we see that the contact
  • 00:13:12.027 --> 00:13:15.130
  • That israel had with the palestinian population,
  • 00:13:15.130 --> 00:13:18.467
  • They just appreciated and they respected israel.
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  • Israeli concern for the well-being of others
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  • Is also reflected in palestinian society.
  • 00:13:25.207 --> 00:13:28.544
  • Indeed, most items of infrastructure
  • 00:13:28.544 --> 00:13:31.080
  • In the palestinian areas that could be considered good
  • 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.916
  • Whether universities, hospitals, clinics or economic
  • 00:13:33.916 --> 00:13:37.386
  • Institutions were inevitably built under israeli jurisdiction
  • 00:13:37.386 --> 00:13:42.424
  • When the palestinians were into jordan and egypt.
  • 00:13:43.425 --> 00:13:45.895
  • The life expectancy was 47 and israel went up to almost 70,
  • 00:13:45.895 --> 00:13:50.599
  • Under, under the jordanians and egyptians.
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  • They had no university.
  • 00:13:53.903 --> 00:13:54.904
  • Israel opened 11 universities for them.
  • 00:13:54.904 --> 00:13:57.339
  • Israel started the economic infrastructure.
  • 00:13:57.339 --> 00:14:00.342
  • The west bank was the fastest growing of the fourth fastest
  • 00:14:00.342 --> 00:14:03.412
  • Growing economy in the world in the 1970s.
  • 00:14:03.412 --> 00:14:05.581
  • In other words,
  • 00:14:05.581 --> 00:14:06.715
  • Everything good the palestinians had came from israel,
  • 00:14:06.715 --> 00:14:08.684
  • And the polls show that the palestinians appreciated.
  • 00:14:08.684 --> 00:14:13.989
  • The problem all palestinians face
  • 00:14:14.757 --> 00:14:17.226
  • Is that they have
  • 00:14:17.226 --> 00:14:18.494
  • Become the victims of extremist elements and terrorist militias
  • 00:14:18.494 --> 00:14:21.897
  • Who have indoctrinated the population
  • 00:14:21.897 --> 00:14:23.799
  • By demonizing israel as the primary hindrance
  • 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.635
  • To palestinian political aspirations.
  • 00:14:26.635 --> 00:14:30.039
  • Under this scenario, palestinians are forced
  • 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.875
  • To see israel as an enemy,
  • 00:14:32.875 --> 00:14:34.743
  • One that has no right to live among the arab muslim peoples
  • 00:14:34.743 --> 00:14:38.247
  • Of the middle east.
  • 00:14:38.247 --> 00:14:41.317
  • If the other side
  • 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:43.619
  • Will stand up and declare.
  • 00:14:43.619 --> 00:14:46.789
  • Not to us.
  • 00:14:47.089 --> 00:14:50.092
  • Not to washington, not to europe,
  • 00:14:50.092 --> 00:14:53.329
  • But do their own people in arabic.
  • 00:14:53.329 --> 00:14:57.266
  • And say, we recognize
  • 00:14:57.766 --> 00:15:01.236
  • The legitimacy of israel
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  • As the nation state of the jewish people.
  • 00:15:05.107 --> 00:15:11.714
  • That we are not here as conquerors
  • 00:15:12.481 --> 00:15:14.817
  • And as colonialists, and as examples in the strange.
  • 00:15:14.817 --> 00:15:19.822
  • To die history,
  • 00:15:20.189 --> 00:15:23.158
  • As roots so deep in this land
  • 00:15:23.158 --> 00:15:26.929
  • That without it we do not have a jewish identity
  • 00:15:26.929 --> 00:15:30.065
  • As a people. and.
  • 00:15:30.499 --> 00:15:34.370
  • When that happens,
  • 00:15:34.803 --> 00:15:37.706
  • Within a week.
  • 00:15:37.706 --> 00:15:40.542
  • We shall have peace not only for our benefit, but for us.
  • 00:15:40.542 --> 00:15:45.614
  • We shall have peace when our enemies will
  • 00:15:45.614 --> 00:15:49.451
  • Grieve
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  • For every loss of their soldier child.
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  • As we grieve for us.
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  • The people
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  • Of israel 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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  • Vulnerable children at risk and the elderly.
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  • And so the jews
  • 00:17:25.581 --> 00:17:26.748
  • Continued to pray, watch and patiently wait for that day.
  • 00:17:26.748 --> 00:17:30.619
  • The prophets said, would surely come
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  • When messiah would reign from jerusalem,
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  • And when israel's light
  • 00:17:35.290 --> 00:17:36.625
  • Would radiate to the ends of the earth.
  • 00:17:36.625 --> 00:17:39.761
  • The prophet isaiah expressed that hope this way.
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  • Now it shall come to pass in the latter days,
  • 00:17:43.932 --> 00:17:46.502
  • That the mountain of the lord's house
  • 00:17:46.502 --> 00:17:48.137
  • Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
  • 00:17:48.137 --> 00:17:50.806
  • And shall be exalted above the hills.
  • 00:17:50.806 --> 00:17:53.475
  • And all nations shall flow to it.
  • 00:17:53.475 --> 00:17:56.345
  • Many people shall come and say, come, and let us go up
  • 00:17:56.345 --> 00:17:59.948
  • To the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
  • 00:17:59.948 --> 00:18:03.952
  • He will teach us his ways, and we shall walk in his paths.
  • 00:18:03.952 --> 00:18:07.623
  • For out of zion shall go forth the law,
  • 00:18:07.623 --> 00:18:10.292
  • And the word of the lord from jerusalem.
  • 00:18:10.292 --> 00:18:13.095
  • He shall
  • 00:18:13.362 --> 00:18:14.429
  • Judge between the nations and rebuke many people.
  • 00:18:14.429 --> 00:18:17.166
  • They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
  • 00:18:17.166 --> 00:18:19.768
  • And their spears into pruning hooks.
  • 00:18:19.768 --> 00:18:22.371
  • Nations shall not lift up sword against nation.
  • 00:18:22.371 --> 00:18:24.873
  • Neither shall they learn war anymore.
  • 00:18:24.873 --> 00:18:28.844
  • The prophet was declaring that light and peace would come
  • 00:18:28.844 --> 00:18:32.681
  • At the end of the journey with messiah's advent.
  • 00:18:32.681 --> 00:18:35.851
  • In that day, the dark night of israel's
  • 00:18:35.851 --> 00:18:38.687
  • Suffering would end,
  • 00:18:38.687 --> 00:18:40.222
  • And the darkness of our circumstance
  • 00:18:40.222 --> 00:18:42.057
  • Would give way to the brightness of a new dawn.
  • 00:18:42.057 --> 00:18:44.960
  • Only then would israel's light be at its brightest.
  • 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.230
  • And only then would the nations of the earth know
  • 00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:51.733
  • The abiding peace that had eluded them for so long.
  • 00:18:51.733 --> 00:18:56.205
  • We invented the notion of international disarmament.
  • 00:18:56.205 --> 00:19:01.877
  • Through our prophets.
  • 00:19:02.377 --> 00:19:05.681
  • Who envision the future?
  • 00:19:05.681 --> 00:19:07.983
  • Indeed, whether lies lie down within that
  • 00:19:07.983 --> 00:19:11.753
  • Where
  • 00:19:11.987 --> 00:19:14.256
  • Souls shall be beaten
  • 00:19:14.256 --> 00:19:15.724
  • Into plowshares
  • 00:19:15.724 --> 00:19:18.994
  • And spears into pruning hooks.
  • 00:19:18.994 --> 00:19:22.698
  • These are the words of our prophets.
  • 00:19:22.698 --> 00:19:25.667
  • All these beautiful expressions of the prophets
  • 00:19:25.667 --> 00:19:28.837
  • And all the prophets are, you know,
  • 00:19:28.837 --> 00:19:31.406
  • All of their prophecy is a it's
  • 00:19:31.406 --> 00:19:33.775
  • A criticism of the jewish people.
  • 00:19:33.775 --> 00:19:35.110
  • It all ends positively.
  • 00:19:35.110 --> 00:19:36.411
  • It's all about what will be in the end.
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  • Don't despair.
  • 00:19:37.946 --> 00:19:38.914
  • Many of them are writing at very difficult
  • 00:19:38.914 --> 00:19:40.115
  • Times like jeremiah or, you know, isaiah,
  • 00:19:40.115 --> 00:19:42.618
  • Who didn't witness
  • 00:19:42.618 --> 00:19:43.719
  • The destruction of the temple, but he witnessed the,
  • 00:19:43.719 --> 00:19:44.953
  • You know, the
  • 00:19:44.953 --> 00:19:45.887
  • The spiritual decline of jerusalem, the
  • 00:19:45.887 --> 00:19:47.689
  • The assyrian siege of the city.
  • 00:19:47.689 --> 00:19:49.591
  • They all appreciated the end game.
  • 00:19:49.591 --> 00:19:51.193
  • They understood very clearly what
  • 00:19:51.193 --> 00:19:52.861
  • The jewish people were about to.
  • 00:19:52.861 --> 00:19:53.962
  • A history is about that. we have to get
  • 00:19:53.962 --> 00:19:55.897
  • Back to the garden, that it will end up there.
  • 00:19:55.897 --> 00:19:57.799
  • And their final vision was always even the prophets
  • 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.302
  • Who witnessed the destruction of jerusalem.
  • 00:20:00.302 --> 00:20:01.637
  • And jeremiah was that ultimately god doesn't change his mind.
  • 00:20:01.637 --> 00:20:05.440
  • He doesn't forget his people, that the jewish people
  • 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:07.743
  • Will be back into the land of israel.
  • 00:20:07.743 --> 00:20:09.144
  • Jerusalem rebuilt physically and spiritually.
  • 00:20:09.144 --> 00:20:12.381
  • And this idea of the ultimate state
  • 00:20:12.381 --> 00:20:15.050
  • That jerusalem is in is again,
  • 00:20:15.050 --> 00:20:16.251
  • Not not a beautiful city physically,
  • 00:20:16.251 --> 00:20:17.753
  • Although it is a beautiful city physically,
  • 00:20:17.753 --> 00:20:19.154
  • But it is a
  • 00:20:19.154 --> 00:20:20.322
  • It's the spiritual power that radiates out of jerusalem.
  • 00:20:20.322 --> 00:20:26.094
  • The clarion cry for the hebrew prophets
  • 00:20:26.895 --> 00:20:28.997
  • Was that at the end of days,
  • 00:20:28.997 --> 00:20:30.832
  • The promised
  • 00:20:30.832 --> 00:20:32.000
  • Messiah would come and rule and reign from jerusalem.
  • 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.437
  • When he did, jerusalem's light would be greater than it was
  • 00:20:35.437 --> 00:20:38.674
  • At any point in her long and turbulent history.
  • 00:20:38.674 --> 00:20:42.678
  • Until then, this holy city, and all of israel for that matter,
  • 00:20:42.678 --> 00:20:47.082
  • Would struggle to be light amid the surrounding darkness.
  • 00:20:47.082 --> 00:20:50.752
  • This was the nation's calling.
  • 00:20:50.752 --> 00:20:52.854
  • This had always been her calling,
  • 00:20:52.854 --> 00:20:54.956
  • Whether in the land or in exile among the nations.
  • 00:20:54.956 --> 00:21:00.028
  • Israel is told to be a light.
  • 00:21:00.662 --> 00:21:02.297
  • What's a light
  • 00:21:02.297 --> 00:21:03.432
  • When there's darkness and you just do what's right?
  • 00:21:03.432 --> 00:21:06.001
  • You behave according to values.
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  • Everyone will benefit from the light.
  • 00:21:08.337 --> 00:21:10.038
  • Everyone will see it on their own.
  • 00:21:10.038 --> 00:21:12.808
  • And that, i think, is israel's goal to create the
  • 00:21:12.808 --> 00:21:16.445
  • The best society that we possibly can on all levels.
  • 00:21:16.445 --> 00:21:19.881
  • And i mean morally, socially, culturally and technologically.
  • 00:21:19.881 --> 00:21:24.519
  • And then it will be a light, a light that everybody benefits
  • 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:27.856
  • Just by looking, say, i want to be like that.
  • 00:21:27.856 --> 00:21:31.259
  • For millennia
  • 00:21:31.626 --> 00:21:32.694
  • Have come and gone since god first called abraham.
  • 00:21:32.694 --> 00:21:35.664
  • Much has happened to the people of israel during this time.
  • 00:21:35.664 --> 00:21:38.734
  • But one thing has never changed.
  • 00:21:38.734 --> 00:21:41.002
  • They're calling to be a reflection of god's light
  • 00:21:41.002 --> 00:21:43.705
  • In a world that knew not god.
  • 00:21:43.705 --> 00:21:47.242
  • The position of the jewish people in the world was never
  • 00:21:48.377 --> 00:21:51.847
  • A, supremacist position.
  • 00:21:51.847 --> 00:21:55.250
  • Israel was chosen to be a part of the world,
  • 00:21:55.250 --> 00:21:58.353
  • Not to be above the world.
  • 00:21:58.353 --> 00:21:59.988
  • Israel is,
  • 00:21:59.988 --> 00:22:02.057
  • I like to use the image of holding a map,
  • 00:22:02.057 --> 00:22:05.160
  • And the goal is to get everybody to cross
  • 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.429
  • And to reach the to reach the end.
  • 00:22:07.429 --> 00:22:09.731
  • Judaism wasn't given for the jewish people.
  • 00:22:09.731 --> 00:22:11.333
  • The values were human values, of decency,
  • 00:22:11.333 --> 00:22:15.237
  • Of goodness, of everything that the prophets talk about
  • 00:22:15.237 --> 00:22:17.506
  • That was given to the world.
  • 00:22:17.506 --> 00:22:19.107
  • And god chose one person to hold the map
  • 00:22:19.107 --> 00:22:21.676
  • That was abraham and his descendants.
  • 00:22:21.676 --> 00:22:23.378
  • But it wasn't for abraham. it was for the whole world.
  • 00:22:23.378 --> 00:22:26.615
  • And and the the chosen.
  • 00:22:27.115 --> 00:22:29.451
  • This was not to be chosen separate.
  • 00:22:29.451 --> 00:22:31.520
  • It was to be chosen
  • 00:22:31.520 --> 00:22:32.521
  • With more responsibility, a bigger headache.
  • 00:22:32.521 --> 00:22:34.456
  • You have to make sure that the whole world
  • 00:22:34.456 --> 00:22:37.025
  • Understands these values. that's what jesus was.
  • 00:22:37.025 --> 00:22:39.394
  • That's the message of the of judaism.
  • 00:22:39.394 --> 00:22:43.432
  • The prophet isaiah foresaw a time when israel
  • 00:22:44.366 --> 00:22:47.068
  • Would radiate her light to the ends of the earth,
  • 00:22:47.068 --> 00:22:49.438
  • And when jerusalem would become a praise, and all the world.
  • 00:22:49.438 --> 00:22:52.607
  • Jews throughout history
  • 00:22:53.108 --> 00:22:54.609
  • Were well aware of isaiah's words,
  • 00:22:54.609 --> 00:22:56.445
  • Even as they dreamed of that day,
  • 00:22:56.445 --> 00:22:58.213
  • When his prophecy would come to pass.
  • 00:22:58.213 --> 00:23:00.449
  • For many, it was the hope they held on to in the darkest
  • 00:23:00.449 --> 00:23:03.652
  • Of circumstances.
  • 00:23:03.652 --> 00:23:07.222
  • For zion's sake i will not hold my peace.
  • 00:23:07.222 --> 00:23:09.991
  • And for jerusalem's sake i will not rest
  • 00:23:09.991 --> 00:23:13.228
  • Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
  • 00:23:13.228 --> 00:23:16.665
  • And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
  • 00:23:16.665 --> 00:23:19.468
  • I have said, watchmen on your walls, or jerusalem,
  • 00:23:19.468 --> 00:23:22.270
  • They shall never hold their peace day or night.
  • 00:23:22.270 --> 00:23:25.474
  • You who make mention of the lord,
  • 00:23:25.474 --> 00:23:27.275
  • Do not keep silent, and give him no rest till he establishes,
  • 00:23:27.275 --> 00:23:31.446
  • Until he makes jerusalem a praise into your earth.
  • 00:23:31.446 --> 00:23:34.950
  • This, then, is israel's hope and jerusalem's destiny.
  • 00:23:34.950 --> 00:23:38.954
  • From the moment god promised abraham that he and
  • 00:23:38.954 --> 00:23:42.257
  • His descendants would bless the world until now,
  • 00:23:42.257 --> 00:23:45.293
  • It is the words of the prophets that have kept israel
  • 00:23:45.293 --> 00:23:47.929
  • Going in her journey through time,
  • 00:23:47.929 --> 00:23:49.698
  • Prophetic promises which have sustained her
  • 00:23:49.698 --> 00:23:51.867
  • As she struggled to reflect god's light beneath the long
  • 00:23:51.867 --> 00:23:54.636
  • Shadows of the obstacles that stood in her path.
  • 00:23:54.636 --> 00:23:57.472
  • Nor had these challenges diminish
  • 00:23:57.472 --> 00:23:59.174
  • With the dawn of a new millennium.
  • 00:23:59.174 --> 00:24:01.343
  • There are still those
  • 00:24:01.343 --> 00:24:02.644
  • Whose stated goal is to wipe israel off the map.
  • 00:24:02.644 --> 00:24:05.747
  • Will they succeed?
  • 00:24:06.181 --> 00:24:07.782
  • Can they succeed where others before
  • 00:24:07.782 --> 00:24:09.985
  • Them have tried and failed?
  • 00:24:09.985 --> 00:24:12.587
  • The bible describes
  • 00:24:13.054 --> 00:24:14.222
  • Us as a, an eternal nation.
  • 00:24:14.222 --> 00:24:17.826
  • And,
  • 00:24:18.026 --> 00:24:21.129
  • The fact is, we
  • 00:24:21.129 --> 00:24:23.064
  • We have lived for an eternity.
  • 00:24:23.064 --> 00:24:26.535
  • We are one of the oldest
  • 00:24:27.068 --> 00:24:28.670
  • Civilizations in the world.
  • 00:24:28.670 --> 00:24:32.908
  • One speaks of three
  • 00:24:33.375 --> 00:24:35.043
  • Ancient great civilizations, a chinese,
  • 00:24:35.043 --> 00:24:38.480
  • The indian and the jewish.
  • 00:24:39.047 --> 00:24:41.716
  • The chinese are well over a billion.
  • 00:24:41.716 --> 00:24:44.853
  • The indians are a billion.
  • 00:24:44.853 --> 00:24:48.256
  • And we are maybe 12 million.
  • 00:24:48.256 --> 00:24:53.128
  • How did.
  • 00:24:53.395 --> 00:24:56.698
  • Push from pillar to post from century
  • 00:24:56.698 --> 00:25:00.268
  • After century.
  • 00:25:00.268 --> 00:25:04.639
  • And yet
  • 00:25:04.873 --> 00:25:06.875
  • Every single one of our detractors,
  • 00:25:06.875 --> 00:25:09.945
  • Every single one of those
  • 00:25:10.512 --> 00:25:14.182
  • Who sought to destroy us,
  • 00:25:14.182 --> 00:25:18.553
  • Are themselves been obliterated.
  • 00:25:19.187 --> 00:25:22.958
  • And the people of israel lives on.
  • 00:25:22.958 --> 00:25:26.194
  • I think it's one of the great mysteries
  • 00:25:26.194 --> 00:25:29.531
  • Of history itself.
  • 00:25:29.965 --> 00:25:46.881
  • As i wrap up this final episode in this new series,
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  • There's a lingering question
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  • After all the hardship, the struggle, the never ending
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  • Attacks against this jewish nation.
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  • Will israel survive?
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  • Can we be sure that israel will survive?
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  • Well, i could go to jeremiah chapter 31
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  • And read the scripture,
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  • But let me just summarize it for you in this way.
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  • Within the covenant promises god has made to israel.
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  • There is also this promise where god says to the prophet
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  • Jeremiah, as long as the sun shines by day, and the moon
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  • And the stars by night, israel shall remain.
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  • There can be no greater guarantee
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  • Of israel's survival than that.
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  • The words of almighty god, who has promises to keep
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  • What has already kept so many promises
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  • To this chosen nation.
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  • God says, i have plans
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  • And purposes for israel, and they will be fulfilled.
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  • This is his promise.
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  • So we know from the bible
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  • These holy sacred scriptures
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  • That everything that god has promised this nation,
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  • In spite of all of the struggles and all of the bloodshed, god
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  • Says this nation will survive.
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  • Thank you for coming on this journey with us
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  • Where we have examined israel.
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  • A blessing to all nation.
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