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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - Israel - A Long Journey Through Time

September 30, 2025 | 28:38

John Tweedie - Israel - A Long Journey Through Time
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 - Israel - A Long Journey Through Time | September 30, 2025
  • How does god view our
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  • World today in the opening decades of the 21st century?
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  • Some possible answers.
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  • Next, on the prophetic connection.
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  • Soft music
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  • I've asked the question about how god views our world
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  • Today against the backdrop of something
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  • Isaiah the prophet wrote.
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  • In fact, it's in a prophetic context.
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  • It is found in isaiah chapter 60, beginning in verse two.
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  • The prophet says, speaking of the future,
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  • For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
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  • And deep darkness the people.
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  • But the lord will arise over you,
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  • And his glory will be seen upon you.
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  • The gentiles shall come to your light, and kings
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  • To the brightness of your rising.
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  • But the mystery is about whom is isaiah speaking?
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  • Who is this one that is to come
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  • And step in to the darkness of this world?
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  • According to the biblical account.
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  • Israel's destiny was to serve god as a light to the nations.
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  • But in what sense can it be said that
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  • Israel has fulfilled her god given mission in the world?
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  • How can the jewish nation
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  • Continue to bring light into what is a very dark world?
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  • I would say the other way around, it's
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  • Because we're not bringing enough light into the world.
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  • It's getting darker.
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  • Which is a very interesting
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  • You know, there's a great
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  • There's a great statement by crime of evolution
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  • Who is a great european rabbi at the beginning
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  • Of the 19th century, in the early 1800s.
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  • And he said, when jews don't make kiddush,
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  • Gentiles make have della.
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  • And to explain to the viewers what that means.
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  • On friday night, when you enter the sabbath,
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  • Which is a higher level of spirituality,
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  • That seventh day is the way
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  • That you can connect as an energy in that day
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  • That enables us to connect and recharge.
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  • It's made on a cup of wine.
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  • It's called kiddush, which means to sanctify.
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  • And on saturday night,
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  • Because jewish days start and end at nightfall,
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  • When we leave that higher spiritual state,
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  • We may have duller, which is a ceremony
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  • Which is saying goodbye to the sabbath.
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  • And it's also making a cup of wine.
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  • But when when rabbi, home of a legend,
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  • Is saying this, he doesn't mean literally.
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  • He's saying when when we, the jews don't,
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  • Proactively push the values and the vision that come
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  • From god into the world, the opposite will happen.
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  • There's a basic rule of physics.
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  • Nature abhors a vacuum.
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  • Vacuums don't like to exist that we fill.
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  • They'll be filled with something.
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  • And if they're not filled with the light,
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  • They'll be filled with the darkness.
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  • So and this is a very heavy point because ultimately,
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  • You know, the abraham chooses for himself a responsibility
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  • We view ourselves as. not all jews are aware of this.
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  • I say this all the time because i'm a historian,
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  • A rabbi, and i like to kind of keep the big picture in mind.
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  • But when darkness fills the world, ultimately it's
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  • Because we, the jewish people,
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  • Are not being proactive enough in doing our job.
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  • That has come out of,
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  • A combination of historical factors,
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  • Which are all consequences of the mistakes we made.
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  • For instance,
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  • When you lose your homeland and go into diaspora,
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  • Which is the state of the jewish
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  • People for 2000 years until the rebirth of israel,
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  • You're in, you're on, you're in foreign soil.
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  • When you're living as a nation in your own country,
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  • Your ability to be strong, fight off threats and transform
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  • Actively, proactively change the world is much, much greater.
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  • The jewish world, because we have been,
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  • You know, wrong footed for so long
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  • As a consequence of the mistakes we've made.
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  • We have gone largely into reactive mode.
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  • If the world is getting increasingly darker,
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  • Does this mean israel has failed to fulfill her mission
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  • As the standard bearer of god's biblical truth?
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  • Jewish spirituality in
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  • A collective sense.
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  • The spiritual barometer is too low.
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  • It needs to be higher.
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  • So logically, i would say then does that mean that not enough
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  • Jewish people are living in a way of trying to live
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  • In a righteous relationship with the almighty god?
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  • That they're distracted by the world,
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  • They're pursuing pleasure instead of spirituality.
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  • But there's just there just aren't enough
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  • To lift the level of spirituality,
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  • To illuminate the world,
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  • Reflecting heaven's light, as it were.
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  • In other words, the nation is has become too secular.
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  • They're still jewish in in ethnicity.
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  • They're still jewish in their hearts.
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  • Is still jewish in their history.
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  • But they're not spiritual enough.
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  • They've they've lost the they've lost the connection
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  • With the almighty god that turns everything around.
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  • And which is also why you've said
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  • It is why they're living with the consequences of distraction.
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  • That leads to wars because they break covenant.
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  • They're not living in a covenant relationship.
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  • They're something.
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  • Something's broken.
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  • So i would tweak that and say it's a mistake to think that
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  • Because people think that to be more religious, more observant.
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  • The system again,
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  • Is, is a combination of commandments or 613.
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  • Some of them are our relationship with god
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  • Like dietary laws, sabbath observance, things like that.
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  • And an impurity in period and a spiritual level.
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  • And other things are in our relationship
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  • With our fellow human beings, the laws of marriage and divorce
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  • And property ownership,
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  • And respecting and loving your fellow human being.
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  • So i think it's a mistake to think
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  • That god's looking at us, saying,
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  • Why don't you look more religious
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  • And act more religious?
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  • I know some jews who look very religious,
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  • Who are not actually being
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  • A great role model of spirituality to the world,
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  • And i know
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  • Some israelis and jews
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  • Who are not observant in the traditional
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  • Sense of the word, but are very holy people.
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  • So i think it's a
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  • I think it's a little bit dangerous to say it's about.
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  • And also, by the way, most israelis, even
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  • Just because a person doesn't necessarily live by all
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  • The commandments doesn't mean they're not a spiritual person.
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  • You see this with the army today when you're watching
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  • All these soldiers, religious and secular, together,
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  • They're all, you know, they say no
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  • Atheists in the foxhole, but everyone is
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  • Praying and singing about god and asking god to protect us.
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  • So it's the message being you can be a very religious
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  • Looking jew,
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  • But still not be doing
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  • What you're supposed to be doing as a jew.
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  • And this goes back to what i was talking about previously.
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  • If it's just about keeping the foreign influences out
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  • So we can preserve our religiosity,
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  • Like don't interact with the non-jew, don't interact
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  • With that secular israeli, because that brings us
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  • To another really big point that god is always saying.
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  • He says, you're all one big family
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  • Is a very famous statement of the rabbis call
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  • You cyril are raving zealots.
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  • Every jew is a guarantor for every other jew.
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  • So it's not just like i'm on my lifeboat like noah
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  • And i got a bore and the rest of humanity drowns.
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  • You have to be proactively as a jew.
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  • Building your relationship with god, with your fellow jew
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  • And your fellow human being.
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  • You have to be balanced in that respect.
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  • But you have to recognize that
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  • If he's drowning and i'm not saving him,
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  • Daddy's going to take it out on me.
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  • Why do i think you know that? and that's that.
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  • You can extrapolate from that. all of humanity.
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  • If you're just trying to save yourself
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  • And build up walls or never works.
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  • By the way,
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  • One thing i learned is going into military
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  • History is like the romans say, seed patch and parabellum.
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  • If you want peace, prepare for war.
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  • The best defense is a good offense and offense.
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  • I don't mean militarily.
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  • I mean, if you have a product that works,
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  • You have to live it and be a role model
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  • For the world and spread the word.
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  • Not by conquering, not by converting.
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  • Those are not jewish things.
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  • We don't have empires. we make it very hard.
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  • But if you do it right, people will follow you.
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  • I always use that quote,
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  • You know, imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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  • And i always say that's the shortest class
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  • That you ever got on christianity. liberal democracy.
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  • That israel has survived centuries of persecution
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  • And exile and is once again
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  • Thriving in her ethnic and biblical homeland,
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  • Is perhaps the best evidence that israel is a favored
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  • Nation under god.
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  • If so,
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  • Then surely god will ensure that her light continued
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  • To shine among the nations, and perhaps more brightly
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  • Than ever before, when viewed against a backdrop
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  • Of increasing spiritual darkness.
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  • Don't go away.
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  • After this short break, doctor
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  • John tweedie returns with his teaching.
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  • Our media today is filled with
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  • Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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  • It seems that the world is falling apart.
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  • This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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  • Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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  • And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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  • Israel must deal with the challenges
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  • Few other countries will ever face,
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  • Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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  • Most vulnerable citizens. yet
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  • For. their.
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  • When isaiah
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  • Writes about spiritual darkness, deep darkness over the people.
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  • While he's writing prophetically,
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  • He could be speaking about any time in history.
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  • Since the human race, developed in the first place
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  • And in certainly in history itself,
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  • We have lots of examples of dark periods.
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  • But in the bible context, we're speaking of spiritually
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  • Dark periods
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  • When the heart of men, the hearts of men were wicked.
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  • And so as far back as the book of genesis
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  • In chapter six and verse five, the context is noah's day.
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  • We read these words in verse five.
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  • Then the lord saw that
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  • The wickedness of man was great in the earth,
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  • And that every intent of the thoughts of his heart
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  • Was only evil continually.
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  • So wickedness was a problem.
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  • But not that's not all.
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  • In verse 11, the earth also was corrupt
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  • Before god, and the earth was filled with violence.
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  • And so we read in verse 12, so god looked upon the earth,
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  • And indeed it was corrupt, for all
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  • Flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
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  • And the result of that corruption was a worldwide flood
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  • That killed the inhabitants of the earth.
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  • But for the immediate family of noah,
  • 00:11:45.299 --> 00:11:48.503
  • Who was considered by god to be a righteous, a righteous man,
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  • And a very wicked, spiritually dark society.
  • 00:11:52.774 --> 00:11:56.577
  • But we have other examples.
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  • In fact,
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  • By the time we get to genesis 18 now, we've moved into the
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  • Time of abraham, who's really the father of israel.
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  • And in verse one of genesis 18, we read these words.
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  • Then the lord appeared to him, abraham
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  • By the turban trees of memory, as he was
  • 00:12:13.594 --> 00:12:16.497
  • Sitting in the tent, or in the heat of the day.
  • 00:12:16.497 --> 00:12:20.301
  • So he lifted his eyes and looked,
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  • And behold, three men were standing by him.
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  • And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them,
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  • And bowed himself to the ground
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  • And said, my lord, if i have
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  • Now found favor in your sight,
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  • Do not pass on by your servant.
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  • Please let a little water be brought,
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  • And wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,
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  • And i will bring
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  • A morsel of bread that you may refresh your hearts
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  • After that
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  • You may pass by insomuch as you have come to your servant.
  • 00:12:51.666 --> 00:12:55.136
  • They said, do as you have said.
  • 00:12:55.136 --> 00:12:59.040
  • Now there is much in this story that i really don't have time
  • 00:12:59.040 --> 00:13:01.776
  • To elaborate on,
  • 00:13:01.776 --> 00:13:03.277
  • But i want to pick out something very specific.
  • 00:13:03.277 --> 00:13:06.380
  • Let me just say this.
  • 00:13:06.380 --> 00:13:07.515
  • There were three men who appeared to abraham initially,
  • 00:13:07.515 --> 00:13:11.652
  • But later on we read of two angels,
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  • And the third figure is not mentioned.
  • 00:13:14.789 --> 00:13:17.558
  • And i want to suggest by way of interpretation
  • 00:13:17.558 --> 00:13:20.294
  • That the third figure may have been the almighty god.
  • 00:13:20.294 --> 00:13:24.932
  • And even a further interpretation could suggest
  • 00:13:24.932 --> 00:13:27.468
  • That this was a theophany, that the appearance was of jesus,
  • 00:13:27.468 --> 00:13:32.506
  • The one that we know was jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:13:32.506 --> 00:13:34.909
  • But that's an interpretation of scripture.
  • 00:13:34.909 --> 00:13:37.311
  • But clearly god was speaking to abraham.
  • 00:13:37.311 --> 00:13:40.982
  • And that's one way of trying to understand
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  • Who this mysterious third
  • 00:13:43.651 --> 00:13:45.119
  • Figure was, other than the two angels who remained.
  • 00:13:45.119 --> 00:13:49.090
  • And then we read in verse 16, then the men,
  • 00:13:49.090 --> 00:13:52.627
  • These angels rose from there and looked towards sodom.
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  • And abraham went with them to send them on the way.
  • 00:13:56.330 --> 00:13:59.300
  • And the lord said, shall i hide from abraham what i am doing?
  • 00:13:59.300 --> 00:14:04.071
  • Since abraham shall surely become a great
  • 00:14:04.071 --> 00:14:06.374
  • And mighty nation,
  • 00:14:06.374 --> 00:14:07.642
  • Because this was god's promise in
  • 00:14:07.642 --> 00:14:09.810
  • Genesis 12 and verse three, it's what he said to abraham,
  • 00:14:09.810 --> 00:14:12.780
  • I will make of you a great nation.
  • 00:14:12.780 --> 00:14:14.548
  • So god has already promised that.
  • 00:14:14.548 --> 00:14:17.385
  • And and then he says, and it's also part of that same promise.
  • 00:14:17.385 --> 00:14:21.389
  • And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.
  • 00:14:21.389 --> 00:14:24.692
  • And god says in verse 19, for i have known him, in order
  • 00:14:24.692 --> 00:14:28.562
  • That he may command his children and his household after him,
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  • That they keep
  • 00:14:32.533 --> 00:14:33.701
  • The way of the lord to do righteousness, and justice, that
  • 00:14:33.701 --> 00:14:37.471
  • The lord may bring to abraham what he has spoken to him.
  • 00:14:37.471 --> 00:14:41.642
  • But then there's a reversal in what god says in verse 20,
  • 00:14:41.642 --> 00:14:46.781
  • And the lord said, because the outcry against sodom
  • 00:14:46.781 --> 00:14:49.350
  • And gomorrah, these two cities of the plain,
  • 00:14:49.350 --> 00:14:52.720
  • Is great, and because their sin is very grave,
  • 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.691
  • I will go down now and see whether they have done
  • 00:14:56.691 --> 00:14:59.460
  • All together, according to the outcry against it
  • 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:03.064
  • That has come up to me, and if not, i will know.
  • 00:15:03.064 --> 00:15:08.069
  • Then the men turned away from there and went towards sodom.
  • 00:15:08.069 --> 00:15:11.939
  • But abraham still stood before the lord, and whether
  • 00:15:11.939 --> 00:15:15.943
  • That was the physical presence of god incarnate before abraham.
  • 00:15:15.943 --> 00:15:20.648
  • This third mysterious figure we cannot tell.
  • 00:15:20.648 --> 00:15:24.185
  • But what we can say is
  • 00:15:24.185 --> 00:15:25.953
  • God is communicating with his servant abraham.
  • 00:15:25.953 --> 00:15:30.157
  • And abraham came near and said, speaking to god,
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  • Would you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
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  • Suppose there were 50 righteous within the city.
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  • Would you also destroy the place and not separate
  • 00:15:39.934 --> 00:15:42.803
  • For the 50 righteous that were within it?
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  • I'll call it a bargaining
  • 00:15:46.140 --> 00:15:47.341
  • Session, an appeal by abraham to god to spare the city.
  • 00:15:47.341 --> 00:15:51.545
  • Abraham appeals for 45 righteous,
  • 00:15:51.545 --> 00:15:55.783
  • And god at each time is whittling him down.
  • 00:15:55.783 --> 00:15:59.220
  • And so it goes all the way down to ten righteous.
  • 00:15:59.220 --> 00:16:04.025
  • Then god says,
  • 00:16:04.358 --> 00:16:06.627
  • Verse 32, abraham speaks to god and says,
  • 00:16:06.627 --> 00:16:09.630
  • Let not the lord be angry, and i will speak.
  • 00:16:09.630 --> 00:16:12.199
  • But once more, really, in a sense, he was testing
  • 00:16:12.199 --> 00:16:16.103
  • God's patience with these words.
  • 00:16:16.103 --> 00:16:18.639
  • Suppose ten should be found there, and he,
  • 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.209
  • God, said, i will not destroy it for the sake of ten.
  • 00:16:22.209 --> 00:16:26.480
  • So the lord went his way.
  • 00:16:27.048 --> 00:16:28.349
  • As soon as he had finished speaking with abraham,
  • 00:16:28.349 --> 00:16:31.018
  • And abraham returned to his place.
  • 00:16:31.018 --> 00:16:34.088
  • Now something very interesting to notice here.
  • 00:16:34.088 --> 00:16:36.624
  • Abraham is appealing for the inhabitants,
  • 00:16:36.624 --> 00:16:39.660
  • The citizens of sodom,
  • 00:16:39.660 --> 00:16:41.629
  • When he doesn't even live within the city.
  • 00:16:41.629 --> 00:16:43.764
  • We learned earlier that, he and his nephew lot prospered
  • 00:16:43.764 --> 00:16:48.069
  • So much that it was necessary to separate their flocks
  • 00:16:48.069 --> 00:16:51.238
  • And herdsmen.
  • 00:16:51.238 --> 00:16:52.239
  • And so abraham said to his nephew, lord,
  • 00:16:52.239 --> 00:16:55.776
  • You choose where you want to live,
  • 00:16:55.776 --> 00:16:57.244
  • And i'll go in the opposite direction.
  • 00:16:57.244 --> 00:16:59.280
  • Well, as the story unfolds, lot chooses to live in sodom
  • 00:16:59.280 --> 00:17:04.351
  • And abraham has his tent somewhere else.
  • 00:17:04.351 --> 00:17:07.822
  • And so his appeal is perhaps in behalf of his nephew, lot.
  • 00:17:07.822 --> 00:17:13.227
  • He doesn't want
  • 00:17:13.227 --> 00:17:14.295
  • Lot and lots family to be destroyed in the city.
  • 00:17:14.295 --> 00:17:17.198
  • So that's where the appeal comes from,
  • 00:17:17.198 --> 00:17:19.600
  • Because now when we move in to chapter 19, we read these words.
  • 00:17:19.600 --> 00:17:24.138
  • Now the two angels came to sodom in the evening,
  • 00:17:24.138 --> 00:17:27.408
  • And lot was sitting in the gate of sodom,
  • 00:17:27.408 --> 00:17:31.245
  • Which suggests that he was a noble figure,
  • 00:17:31.245 --> 00:17:34.915
  • A respected figure, perhaps even a judge,
  • 00:17:34.915 --> 00:17:37.084
  • Because in ancient times city elders sat in the gates.
  • 00:17:37.084 --> 00:17:41.422
  • They were respected and people could come to them,
  • 00:17:41.422 --> 00:17:44.391
  • Whether to pay their bills or their whatever
  • 00:17:44.391 --> 00:17:47.962
  • Or just to seek their counsel.
  • 00:17:47.962 --> 00:17:49.997
  • But we're being told implicitly here that a lot
  • 00:17:49.997 --> 00:17:53.601
  • Seems to have been an important figure in the city of sodom.
  • 00:17:53.601 --> 00:17:57.037
  • And then it says, when lord saw them, he rose to meet them,
  • 00:17:57.037 --> 00:18:00.040
  • And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.
  • 00:18:00.040 --> 00:18:02.476
  • Now they're complete strangers.
  • 00:18:02.476 --> 00:18:04.078
  • What moved him to bow down,
  • 00:18:04.078 --> 00:18:06.413
  • Except that it might have been an oriental greeting?
  • 00:18:06.413 --> 00:18:09.150
  • Or was it something deeper that he realized
  • 00:18:09.150 --> 00:18:11.919
  • Their holiness, before him?
  • 00:18:11.919 --> 00:18:15.122
  • And he said, here, now, my lords,
  • 00:18:15.122 --> 00:18:16.924
  • Please turn into your servants house and spend the night
  • 00:18:16.924 --> 00:18:20.161
  • And wash your feet.
  • 00:18:20.161 --> 00:18:21.462
  • Then you may rise early and go on your way.
  • 00:18:21.462 --> 00:18:24.231
  • And they said, no,
  • 00:18:24.231 --> 00:18:25.666
  • But we will spend the night in the open square,
  • 00:18:25.666 --> 00:18:28.669
  • Presumably to observe, what was happening in sodom.
  • 00:18:28.669 --> 00:18:33.440
  • But he insisted strongly, so that they turned into him
  • 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.310
  • And entered his house,
  • 00:18:36.310 --> 00:18:37.711
  • That he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread,
  • 00:18:37.711 --> 00:18:40.781
  • And they ate.
  • 00:18:40.781 --> 00:18:41.982
  • Now, as the story unfolds, men
  • 00:18:41.982 --> 00:18:44.518
  • Of the city crowd around his front door.
  • 00:18:44.518 --> 00:18:47.922
  • And they're going.
  • 00:18:47.922 --> 00:18:50.090
  • They're going to take the angels, these two men, by force.
  • 00:18:50.090 --> 00:18:54.061
  • It seems. but,
  • 00:18:54.061 --> 00:18:56.297
  • And it's a it's an incredible thing that we read
  • 00:18:57.231 --> 00:19:00.401
  • That lot offers them his two daughters,
  • 00:19:00.401 --> 00:19:03.370
  • Who have never been with men in a sexual sense,
  • 00:19:03.370 --> 00:19:08.776
  • But they don't want the daughters,
  • 00:19:08.776 --> 00:19:10.578
  • They want the what they believe are two men.
  • 00:19:10.578 --> 00:19:14.381
  • Well, as the story unfolds, the angels cause blindness,
  • 00:19:14.381 --> 00:19:18.719
  • And they give instruction to lotte and his family
  • 00:19:18.719 --> 00:19:21.255
  • To leave the city as quickly as possible
  • 00:19:21.255 --> 00:19:23.591
  • And not even look back.
  • 00:19:23.591 --> 00:19:25.526
  • Now we know the story from the bible that lot's wife
  • 00:19:25.526 --> 00:19:29.530
  • Seemingly gave a longing glance backwards,
  • 00:19:29.530 --> 00:19:33.667
  • And that was the end of her.
  • 00:19:33.667 --> 00:19:36.170
  • But the end of the cities came quickly, and sodom and gomorrah
  • 00:19:36.170 --> 00:19:39.840
  • And the other major cities of the plain were destroyed
  • 00:19:39.840 --> 00:19:43.310
  • When fire and brimstone fell from heaven.
  • 00:19:43.310 --> 00:19:47.114
  • God had stamped out the wickedness
  • 00:19:47.114 --> 00:19:49.483
  • And spiritual darkness of noah's day.
  • 00:19:49.483 --> 00:19:51.819
  • And now, a few chapters later in the chronology of genesis,
  • 00:19:51.819 --> 00:19:55.456
  • He does it again with these cities.
  • 00:19:55.456 --> 00:19:58.993
  • And so this has been god's practice in history.
  • 00:19:58.993 --> 00:20:01.895
  • And we could well ask the question, how deep
  • 00:20:01.895 --> 00:20:05.099
  • Does the spiritual darkness have to be before
  • 00:20:05.099 --> 00:20:08.469
  • God intervenes again and acts again?
  • 00:20:08.469 --> 00:20:12.239
  • Well, the bible answers this question for us.
  • 00:20:12.239 --> 00:20:15.209
  • In matthew 24, we have this reference.
  • 00:20:15.209 --> 00:20:20.281
  • But as the days of noah were, so also will
  • 00:20:20.281 --> 00:20:22.883
  • The coming of the son of man be.
  • 00:20:22.883 --> 00:20:25.319
  • For as in the days before the flood,
  • 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:26.954
  • They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
  • 00:20:26.954 --> 00:20:30.157
  • Until the day that noah entered the ark, and did not know
  • 00:20:30.157 --> 00:20:33.794
  • Until the flood came and took them all away.
  • 00:20:33.794 --> 00:20:37.097
  • So also will the coming of the son of man be.
  • 00:20:37.097 --> 00:20:40.834
  • So when we speak prophetically, we know that god's intervention
  • 00:20:40.834 --> 00:20:45.572
  • Will be when the spiritual darkness
  • 00:20:45.572 --> 00:20:48.242
  • Is again, as it was in the days of noah.
  • 00:20:48.242 --> 00:20:51.211
  • That's what jesus is clearly teaching us.
  • 00:20:51.211 --> 00:20:54.982
  • And he likened those days to his second coming.
  • 00:20:54.982 --> 00:20:59.253
  • He will come when the spiritual darkness is deep enough
  • 00:20:59.253 --> 00:21:03.357
  • To cause the intervention of god as he did it with noah's day,
  • 00:21:03.357 --> 00:21:08.462
  • With sodom and gomorrah, and at other times in history.
  • 00:21:08.462 --> 00:21:12.032
  • So he will come again in the messiah's day,
  • 00:21:12.032 --> 00:21:15.736
  • When the darkness is once again that deep.
  • 00:21:15.736 --> 00:21:19.740
  • Now i want to show something about israel's purpose
  • 00:21:19.740 --> 00:21:23.243
  • In calling in the world that's found in the prophet isaiah.
  • 00:21:23.243 --> 00:21:28.749
  • Thus says the lord,
  • 00:21:29.216 --> 00:21:30.918
  • Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
  • 00:21:30.918 --> 00:21:33.487
  • Who spread forth the earth, and that which comes from it,
  • 00:21:33.487 --> 00:21:36.824
  • Who gives breath to the people on it,
  • 00:21:36.824 --> 00:21:39.293
  • And spirit to those who walk on it.
  • 00:21:39.293 --> 00:21:41.729
  • I, the lord, have called you in righteousness.
  • 00:21:41.729 --> 00:21:46.333
  • We're back to this mysterious
  • 00:21:46.333 --> 00:21:47.735
  • Figure that i referred to earlier,
  • 00:21:47.735 --> 00:21:49.937
  • Who steps into the darkness and brings light
  • 00:21:49.937 --> 00:21:53.073
  • And will hold your hand.
  • 00:21:53.607 --> 00:21:55.142
  • I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people,
  • 00:21:55.142 --> 00:21:59.113
  • As a light to the gentiles.
  • 00:21:59.113 --> 00:22:02.116
  • But isaiah has more to say.
  • 00:22:02.116 --> 00:22:04.284
  • It's found in isaiah 49, in verse six.
  • 00:22:04.284 --> 00:22:09.156
  • And this really it has to do about the purpose of israel
  • 00:22:09.156 --> 00:22:12.826
  • Being a light to the nations, and specifically the one
  • 00:22:12.826 --> 00:22:16.830
  • Who came through the nation of israel.
  • 00:22:16.830 --> 00:22:19.199
  • The messiah figure.
  • 00:22:19.199 --> 00:22:21.101
  • And in fact, in our christian context,
  • 00:22:21.101 --> 00:22:23.404
  • The one who said, i am the light of the world.
  • 00:22:23.404 --> 00:22:26.640
  • But listen to this prophecy found in isaiah
  • 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:29.343
  • 49 and verse six.
  • 00:22:29.343 --> 00:22:31.345
  • Indeed, he god says, is it too small a thing
  • 00:22:31.345 --> 00:22:35.082
  • That you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of jacob,
  • 00:22:35.082 --> 00:22:39.386
  • Meaning the nation of israel,
  • 00:22:39.386 --> 00:22:41.588
  • And to restore the preserved ones of israel?
  • 00:22:41.588 --> 00:22:44.391
  • I will also give you as a light to the gentiles,
  • 00:22:44.391 --> 00:22:48.095
  • That you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth.
  • 00:22:48.095 --> 00:22:53.267
  • And one final scripture also in its prophetic context
  • 00:22:53.267 --> 00:22:57.237
  • That's found in isaiah chapter 60.
  • 00:22:57.237 --> 00:23:00.874
  • Arise, shine, for your light has come,
  • 00:23:00.874 --> 00:23:04.111
  • And the glory of the lord is risen upon you.
  • 00:23:04.111 --> 00:23:06.947
  • For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
  • 00:23:06.947 --> 00:23:09.082
  • And deep darkness the people.
  • 00:23:09.082 --> 00:23:10.951
  • But the lord will arise over you,
  • 00:23:10.951 --> 00:23:13.520
  • And his glory will be seen upon you.
  • 00:23:13.520 --> 00:23:15.823
  • The gentiles shall come to your light, and kings
  • 00:23:15.823 --> 00:23:18.826
  • To the brightness of your rising.
  • 00:23:18.826 --> 00:23:22.062
  • A prophecy about the coming messiah
  • 00:23:22.062 --> 00:23:24.865
  • Who comes as a son of israel.
  • 00:23:24.865 --> 00:23:26.733
  • He reflects heaven's light.
  • 00:23:26.733 --> 00:23:28.669
  • And the israel to which he comes also reflects heaven's lights.
  • 00:23:28.669 --> 00:23:33.574
  • By walking with god and keeping
  • 00:23:33.574 --> 00:23:36.343
  • His commandments to the best of their ability.
  • 00:23:36.343 --> 00:23:39.913
  • Messiah and a nation reflecting the glory of heaven
  • 00:23:39.913 --> 00:23:45.452
  • On earth.
  • 00:23:45.752 --> 00:23:49.756
  • Stay tuned for more from doctor
  • 00:23:50.390 --> 00:23:51.892
  • John tweedy after this break.
  • 00:23:51.892 --> 00:23:56.230
  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:23:57.297 --> 00:23:59.733
  • The bible says,
  • 00:23:59.733 --> 00:24:00.801
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
  • 00:24:00.801 --> 00:24:03.670
  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
  • 00:24:03.670 --> 00:24:05.606
  • 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.
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  • As we've already seen in this episode.
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  • Societies can drift between two polar opposites.
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  • The one side walking in righteousness with god
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  • And the opposite other polar side
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  • To walk in wickedness through unbelief
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  • And even denying the very existence of god.
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  • Which begs the question, how can any righteous
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  • Man or woman possibly remain faithful
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  • To god in the midst of deep spiritual darkness?
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  • Well, the bible tells us we can.
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  • It's possible.
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  • The psalmist in psalm 37, verse 23
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  • Puts it this way the steps of a good man or woman
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  • Are ordered by the lord, and he delights
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  • In their way.
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  • The other thing i would say is
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  • We're not alone in our struggle to walk with god.
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  • God is with us.
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  • In fact,
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  • Jesus promised that he would be
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  • With us always to the end of the age.
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  • Listen to what he said to his disciples.
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  • Following his crucifixion,
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  • He said he would meet them in galilee.
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  • Now you're seeing galilee through the camera lens.
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  • The sea of galilee itself.
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  • The region of galilee.
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  • I'm standing on the east shore on the golan heights.
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  • But you're facing the west shore.
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  • In the land of israel.
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  • And jesus said to his disciples
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  • That he would meet them in galilee after his resurrection.
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  • Here it is in matthew 28, in verse 16.
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  • Then the 11 disciples went away into galilee, to the mountain
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  • Which jesus had appointed for them.
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  • And when they saw him, they worshiped him.
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  • But some doubted.
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  • And jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
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  • All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
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  • Go therefore, and make disciples of all the nations,
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  • Baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son,
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  • And of the holy spirit.
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  • And they would
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  • Face many challenges in their discipleship journeys,
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  • Teaching them to observe
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  • All things that i have commanded you.
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  • And lo, i am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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  • Amen.
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  • Those disciples would face many struggles, even as we do.
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  • But they and we have his promise that he would be with us
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  • Always to the end of the age, to.
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  • Thanks for watching the prophetic connection.
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