John Tweedie - Israel: A Promised Land

December 10, 2025 | 28:39

Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Israel: A Promised Land | December 10, 2025

Why is
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The land of israel called the promised land?
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That's next.
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In this episode of the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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You know, i've been traveling to israel for 44 years,
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Sometimes three and four times a year.
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Now it's obvious to you that i'm filming this in our
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New studio.
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Because i can't get to israel easily.
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In fact, i can't film where i'd really like to film.
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So i'm using our studio, to bring the story
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Of israel to you through this latest season.
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Israel.
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A blessing to all nations.
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So this means i've been to jerusalem numerous times.
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In fact, i've filmed all over the holy city.
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They call it the holy city because there is no other city
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On earth quite like jerusalem.
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Today, the population is somewhere
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Close to 1 million people,
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And it's spread out over the hills and the valleys.
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But it radiates in the sunlight.
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And there's just something so special about jerusalem.
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I noticed this when i'm filming, especially if we film on
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Friday or after lunch on friday, because you can.
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It's like a holy hush comes over the city
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As busses stop running.
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Trains are part.
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The airline of israel refuses to fly
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Because the sabbath is approaching.
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With the sun set on friday, the weekly sabbath begins
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And it continues until sunset on saturday.
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And it's amazing to be there in the 21st century
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And to realize that this city of god
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Is shutting down, as it were, in reverence according to the ten
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Commandments that god gave moses.
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Now we're speaking some 3400 years later,
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From when moses received those ten commandments.
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So think about that.
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Think of the time span in between.
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And yet today, there is a nation on earth that still honors god
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By keeping the weekly sabbath as he commanded.
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But why is jerusalem, the subject of so much strife today?
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Because really, the nations ultimately are fighting over
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Who controls the capital city of israel,
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The city of jerusalem.
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And i've said, as i've said before, another series
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Of the prophetic connection.
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There are many verses i could use to show why
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Jerusalem is sacred to god, but i really need only one.
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And it's found in first kings
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In chapter nine, in verse three.
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And the context is the dedication, the consecration
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Of the first temple of solomon in jerusalem.
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And god then speaks to king solomon,
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And he says this to him.
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And the lord said to him, i have heard your prayer
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And your supplication that you have made before me.
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I have consecrated this house, which means the temple
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Which you have built to put my name there forever.
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And my eyes and my heart will be there, perpetual.
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That's the promise
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That god made to solomon.
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Now that promise must stand today.
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God said his eyes would be there perpetually
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So that they're in the 21st century.
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Which means god is watching over the holy city
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Night and day.
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And perhaps that helps to explain
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Why the struggle continues for the land of israel.
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And the fight for survival continues
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As before.
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Moses was and is still today,
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One of the most well-known of abraham's descendants.
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It was during this time
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They were known as the children of israel,
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And had moved into egypt
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To escape a famine and cain, and nearly 400 years earlier.
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Once there, however, they multiplied and prospered
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Until they were perceived as a threat to the status quo.
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Persecution in the form of slavery soon followed.
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Yet, through an unusual set of circumstances,
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Moses grew up in the house of pharaoh, king of egypt.
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In time, he became a powerful and respected
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Member of pharaoh's household and court.
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That is, until, in an impulsive moment,
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He killed an egyptian
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Who was persecuting one of his hebrew kinsmen.
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As a consequence, moses was
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Forced to flee for his life to the land of midian,
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A barren landscape where he would spend
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The next 40 years as a shepherd.
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But god had not forgotten moses, much less
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The future he had in store for him.
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According to the bible, it was in the land of midian
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That god first revealed himself to moses.
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It was as moses was tending flocks.
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He noticed a bush
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That was burning yet was not consumed by the flames.
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As he drew aside to see.
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A voice spoke to him.
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I am the god of your father, the god of abraham,
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The god of isaac, and the god of jacob.
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Come now, therefore,
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And i will send you to pharaoh, that you may bring my people,
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The children of israel, out of egypt.
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So, moses, i would say in terms of jewish people's
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Greatest superheroes, he would be number two.
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I would say, certainly in terms of prophets, he's number one.
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I mean, god explicitly says in the bible,
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There's no one like moses.
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He lives in my house, so to speak.
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I speak to him. pale pay.
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In other words, other prophets we know went into trance states
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Or had visions in their dreams.
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God speaks to moses.
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He hears the voice of god, whatever that means.
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While he's fully conscious and the greatest of moses.
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It's similar
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That he being raised as in in the royal household of egypt.
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You know, he's an amazing story.
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Even his name is egyptian.
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Like, we know there's a pharaoh named tut. moses.
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He that he's he stays loyal
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To the jewish people in that environment is incredible.
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He risked his life for the jewish people.
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But the greatness of moses is his ability,
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Of course, to connect to god on the highest level
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Humanly possible, according to jewish tradition.
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Moses not only received the ten commandments
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During his encounters with god on mount sinai,
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He also received torah or laws of god for israel,
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As explained in the first five books of the bible.
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Although other and earlier civilizations also had forms
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Of codified law, israel was unique in that
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The torah was based on belief in one supreme god.
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The torah introduced new and revolutionary
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Moral guidelines to humankind.
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I think judaism has made some
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Unique contributions to humanity,
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And i think a lot of it goes back to the understanding
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Of torah, the jewish law, as it's expressed
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In the first five books of the bible.
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And one of the things that the torah is, is
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That it's a comprehensive lifestyle.
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Torah really means law, but it's more a teaching.
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It's a guide.
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Or i like to translate it, the jewish lifestyle,
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And it's all embracing that.
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It includes the ten commandments.
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It includes ethics.
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It includes festivals.
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It includes keeping the sabbath.
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That includes how you eat, how you marry,
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And with whom you marry, how you spend your time.
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So tying, sexual interrelations,
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Ethical interrelations, how you interact
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With other people and with god himself.
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All of these are part of an encompassing lifestyle,
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Because the torah was
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Divinely inspired, as if written by the hand of god.
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It's detailed words of instruction facilitated
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The development of a moral and ethical society,
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Something that was unprecedented in the ancient world.
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The societies that we we venerate as being so much
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The source of our values today, you know,
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We look at the western world, we look at ancient greece
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And rome, when we look in reality at the
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The ethical moral systems in those societies.
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And of course, they had ethical moral systems.
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But these values, you know, value of life,
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Social responsibility, equal justice, were largely lacking.
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And, we have to appreciate that the term ethics
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Comes from the greek word ethos, which means custom.
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The term morals comes from the latin word mores,
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Which means custom,
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What was considered right or wrong,
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And even the most sophisticated societies
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Of the ancient world was largely what society
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Accepted and worked an expedient in terms of expedience.
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For instance, overpopulation is in danger.
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Society. how are we going to feed these people?
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We have to control population.
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So the logical conclusion reached by virtually
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Every single civilization in the ancient world,
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Including the most advanced ones, was infanticide,
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Killing of newborn babies,
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Which was a
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Completely acceptable practice not only for population control,
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But also for sex selection.
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Today, you hear about a baby killer
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You think is the most immoral person in the world.
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In the ancient world, talking about dumping your own
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Baby down the sewer was the same thing
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As talking about your vacation plans or the weather.
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So it's actually quite shocking to people,
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And some of it we're aware of because now we have
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That would be gladiator that came out.
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And we appreciate that the greatest empire in human
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History is number one source of entertainment
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Was watching people be killed live, either
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By each other or by animals, or to be publicly executed.
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No fake blood, no special effects.
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The real thing
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Schlepping little kids along to watch that
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They thought it was very edifying to have.
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This is the kind of stuff that shocks people
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When they aren't aware of that,
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Because we tend to get a little bit of a whitewashed
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View of what the ancient world was about.
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One of the reasons that today we don't appreciate,
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The, the revolution that the torah values brought to
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The world
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Is because most of the world today, or at least enlightened,
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The world has accepted, the values of the torah today.
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Not even
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Realizing where the source was
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From.
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The torah burst forth the first rays of heaven's light,
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Which called human societies
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To a higher standard of moral existence
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For the first time in history.
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Principles of the value of life.
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Mutual respect
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And social responsibility were clearly explained,
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But all have their source in man's relationship with god.
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You shall be holy, for i, the lord your god, am holy.
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You shall not steal nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
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You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him.
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You shall do no injustice in judgment.
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You shall not be partial to the poor,
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Nor honor the person of the mighty.
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You shall not hate your brother in your heart.
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Love your neighbor as yourself.
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If a stranger dwells with you
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In your land, you shall not mistreat him.
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Love him as you love yourself.
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When you reap the harvest of your land,
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You shall not wholly reap the corners of your field.
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You shall leave them for the poor and the stranger.
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Human
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Behavior was no longer determined by what was expedient
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Or in the best interests of society as a whole, but
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Rather by a moral and ethical code of god's choosing.
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From the pages of the torah came a universal standard,
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Which defined both right
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And wrong behavior as determined by the almighty god.
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In this sense,
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The torah reflected the righteousness of god himself.
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If god was righteous in all his ways,
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And man had been created in the image of god,
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Then it followed logically that man should be
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A reflection of god's righteousness in the world.
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According to the book of genesis,
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The first book of the torah, god created man in his own image.
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In the image of god, he created him, male and female.
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He created them.
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From this ancient jewish story of creation came
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The understanding that all men were created equal.
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This meant that every life had intrinsic value.
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One of the things that the torah makes clear
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Is that the individual person is tremendously important.
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The the human person, his soul,
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Her soul represents the breath of god.
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So every person becomes valuable and unique.
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And ideally, all of us
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Should fulfill our own potential within the community of,
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Who, whatever community we happen to live. it.
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It's very important that the individual be recognized
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And be educated and be developed as fully as possible.
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And that two comes through from the teachings of torah.
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In 1776,
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Thomas jefferson wrote the first draft
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Of the declaration of independence,
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A democratic system of government which was based
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Upon the inalienable rights of individual citizens.
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The foundational values spelled out in the declaration
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Have become an enviable standard for all western democracies.
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Jefferson wrote,
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We hold these truths to be self-evident,
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That all men are created equal, that they are endowed
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By their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among
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These are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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You can look at thomas jefferson, rousseau,
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Hobbes, kant, and even, going further back, plato, aristotle.
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Most of these thinkers, either
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Explicitly or sometimes implicitly,
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Pay respect to and acknowledge
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That the foundation of modern democratic liberal,
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Human rights fought is based on
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Not just the specific creation
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Of mankind in the image of god, but on all of the torah.
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There's no question that the references
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To taking that one example, thou shalt not murder,
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Form the
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Foundation of the principles that we take for granted today
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That it's wrong to kill another human being.
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Many of america's founding fathers
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Attributed their y system of government to principles
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Gleaned from studying the descendants of abraham
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And their moral and ethical standards,
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As set out in the torah.
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In his letter to adrian vander camp,
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The second president of the united states wrote,
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I will insist that the hebrews have done more to civilize men
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Than any other nation.
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If i were an atheist
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And believed in blind, eternal faith,
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I should still believe that paid had ordained the jews to be
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The most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
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If i were an atheist of the other sect who believe
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Or pretend to believe
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That all is ordered by chance, i should believe that chance
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Had ordered the jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind
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The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise,
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Almighty, sovereign of the universe,
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Which i believe to be the great essential principle
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Of all morality and consequently of all civilization,
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Whether it was through the christianity
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Or through
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Liberal democratic thought,
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The founding fathers of democracy in the west.
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Somehow or another, all these ideas
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That originated from god and came
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Through the bible, through the jewish people,
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Filtered out to the world
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And over a period of literally thousands of years,
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Became the ideal vision
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Of what the world should be.
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Clearly,
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God gave abraham's descendants a sacred trust.
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They were to carry his word and reflect his light
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To the nations.
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From abraham's call to leave his homeland,
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To moses divine encounters on mount sinai,
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To the scattering of israel among the nations,
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A clear if divine pattern emerges.
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God had chosen one nation among all others
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To be his light bearers.
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Yet god's promise to abraham remained
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Only partially fulfilled.
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While god's covenant promises involve
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Descendants and blessing, they also involved land.
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God had promised to give abraham and his descendants
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The land of canaan.
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Canaan was to be their everlasting inheritance, and
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It was from this promised land that they were destined by god
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To bless the world, even as they reflected heaven's light.
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Through.
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History
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Records that this part of god's covenant with israel remained
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Unfulfilled up to and until the death of moses.
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Before this, abraham's descendants had merely been
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Slaves or nomads, people without a homeland.
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It wasn't until after the
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Death of moses that this aspect of the covenant promise,
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The promise concerning
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The land, was fully realized by the children of israel.
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When joshua, moses appointed successor,
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Led the armies of israel across the jordan river
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In order to claim by conquest their god given inheritance.
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From this moment on, canaan would be their home
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And in time, jerusalem their capital.
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This eternal city, which god said
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Would be his dwelling place on earth,
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Would then become not only the heart of israel,
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But also the epicenter of future world events.
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For god had chosen jerusalem as the place on earth
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From which his light would radiate to the nations.
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Our media today is filled with
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Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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It seems that the world is falling apart.
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This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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Israel must deal with the challenges
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Few other countries will ever face,
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Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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Most vulnerable citizens. yet
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It's amazing to consider that the nation of israel,
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But began with the calling of the man abraham.
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Abraham commands so much of the world is attention these days.
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I mean, for its size and its little population of
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Something like 9 million people and a tiny strip of land
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At the eastern end of the mediterranean,
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This small nation commands so many of the headlines
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These days.
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How do we explain this?
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Well, for one thing, this isn't just any nation.
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It's a nation god chose, raised up
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Through the calling of the man abraham.
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And imagine the faith abraham had to have in the one
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True god to be chosen of the lord god almighty
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For this task of being the father of a nation
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That would eventually bless all nations.
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And of course, that's exactly why god chose him.
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In a pagan society where people worshiped numerous gods,
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Abraham somehow knew how to worship
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The one true god of all creation.
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This seems, on the basis of his faith, god chose him,
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But he would need that faith to step out in faith
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And go to a land that god said he would show him,
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Even though he didn't know where he was
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Going, much less what that land looked like.
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And abraham was 75 years of age
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When this incredible journey began.
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So we're following the story of abraham and his descendants
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Down through the centuries over the mountains,
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Through the valleys of their experiences,
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Some incredibly bitter, some amazing
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As they saw the miraculous hand of god
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Do things in their behalf, like the opening
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Of the waters of the red sea
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That stood
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Up on a heap on both sides so they could walk through
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On dry ground and escape those who had oppressed them.
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In the land of egypt.
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Our journey has begun, but it is only just begun.
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There is so much more to learn and to discover
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About this nation called israel
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That god said would be a blessing for all nation.
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History records
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That god did indeed bless abraham and his descendants.
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It was through them that he revealed himself,
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His laws, and his holy name
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By bringing the children of israel into the land of canaan,
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And by promising to dwell among them in jerusalem,
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God was choosing his home on earth, a place from which
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His glory would emanate to the ends of the earth.
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As the psalmist has it.
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For the lord has chosen zion.
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He has desired it for his dwelling place.
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This is my resting place forever.
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Here i will dwell for i have desired it.
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When god gave the children of israel the torah,
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He also gave them instructions on how to build a tabernacle,
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A sacred place where his holy presence
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Could be found on earth.
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The tabernacle, which was to be built
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According to a divine pattern,
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Was to be a portable place of worship,
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Containing the ark of the covenant
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That signified god's presence, and in the ark
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The ten commandments, among other sacred things.
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As the children
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Moved from place to place in their nomadic wanderings.
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So the tabernacle would move with them.
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Thus they would never be without god's presence in their midst.
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Later, during the reign of king david, the tabernacle
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Found a permanent resting place on mount moriah,
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The very place where centuries before,
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God had asked abraham to offer isaac as a sacrifice,
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The holiest object in the world for the jewish people
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The tabernacle, the mishkan, which is built
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After we leave mount sinai.
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At mount sinai, we build this prefabricated structure,
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Which is not a museum. it's not a synagogue.
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It's a tool to be used
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By the jewish people, individual collectively,
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To build a relationship with god.
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That structure we know we've carried
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On the desert for the next 39 years.
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We enter the land of israel.
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Joshua judges
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For 440 years
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After we conquer and settle the land, jerusalem remains
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A non-jewish city in the heart of a jewish country,
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And the tabernacles kept in four different locations
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Throughout the land of israel.
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Only during the reign of king david, second king of israel,
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And he knows it from him will come all future kings
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Of not just israel, but the messiah.
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Now we need a proper capital city.
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The only place would be jerusalem.
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The establishment of jerusalem as the capital city of israel
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Meant that abraham's descendants had come full circle
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In their journey of light.
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They had returned to the place
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Where god had first tested abraham's obedience.
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Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, if that's
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What god required, demonstrated that abraham could be trusted
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To do his best to carry out god's will upon the earth.
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Not only that, but abraham, the man of god's own choosing,
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Would be the means by which the nations would be blessed,
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And from the same sacred place on earth,
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The mountains of zion, heaven's light
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Would permanently and perpetually shine.
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If abraham's job is to be a light into nations,
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I always say, if he lived in walla walla,
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Washington, no offense to anyone living in walla walla.
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It would have taken 3000 more years
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For the world to find him.
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I by being by being smack in the middle of where israel is
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Between the greatest civilizations egypt
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In the south, the nile tigers, euphrates, mesopotamia.
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These syrian babylonian empires
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Were from the very beginning of earliest civilization,
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Right there, able to impact the world
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From the very beginning of human civilization.
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The downside is that everyone, as mother marches
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Through the land of israel to conquer it.
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But again, that's where we have to be one way or another.
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The word has to get out.
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But if jerusalem features prominently in israel's past,
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She is no less significant in israel's future.
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God has yet promises to keep
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Where this holiest of cities is concerned.
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The prophet isaiah has declared,
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Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
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That the mountain of the lord's house
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Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
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And shall be exalted above the hills,
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And all nations shall flow to it.
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Many people shall come and say, come, and let us go up
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To the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
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He will teach us his ways, and we shall walk in his paths.
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For out of zion shall go forth the law,
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And the word of the lord from jerusalem.
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Clearly isaiah is alluding to the coming
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Messianic age, when all roads will lead to jerusalem.
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In that day,
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Another of abraham's descendants will reign supremely
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From jerusalem.
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For christians, this will not be the messiah's
00:26:54.981 --> 00:26:57.550
First coming, but rather his second.
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For jews, whoever messiah may be,
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He will be the answer
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To seven millennia full of pain, times
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When they understandably question their unique calling,
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Yet still remain faithful to god as carriers of his torah,
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His light bearers to the nations.
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John Tweedie - Israel: A Promised Land

December 10, 2025 | 28:39

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