John Tweedie - Israel Unique Among the Nations

September 1, 2025 | 28:41

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Israel Unique Among the Nations | September 1, 2025

What is it that is so special about israel?
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The people of this book.
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One of the smallest nations on earth in terms of population
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And geographical area.
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The answer next, on the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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What is so special about israel?
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We can ask the question in other ways.
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Why does this tiny nation of some 8 to 9 million people
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Grab so much of the world's time and attention?
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Why does it make the headlines day after day after day?
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And then this other profound question
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Why is it that the jewish people have suffered so much
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Throughout history, down through the centuries
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And brutalized in the 20th century and the holocaust
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In europe that claimed 6 million jewish lives?
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Men, women, children, 1.5 million children?
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The answer to all of these questions is bound up
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In the uniqueness of israel.
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Israel is recognized as a
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Unique nation within the broader community of nations.
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But why is this jewish nation also referred to
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As a chosen nation?
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We're chosen
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For a specific mission in the world,
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And we chose that mission for ourselves.
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The way i always explain it is abraham who's like the jew.
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He's the great grandfather of the jewish people.
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His uniqueness was in a world that was worshiping
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Idols and immoral and immoral.
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He was able to,
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As a radically transformative, freethinking human being,
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Think outside the box and connect
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To this infinite invisible intelligence.
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Know god and dedicate.
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He says to god, i choose you, god.
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I choose to dedicate my life and the life of my descendants
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To one mission,
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To teaching the world about the reality of you and the values
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And the rules and the morality and the spirituality
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That comes from relationship with you.
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It's basically i choose to be the conduit, the connector
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Between the creator and his creation.
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And god, so to speak, says back to abraham,
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You're choosing me, abraham.
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I choose you back.
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You and your descendants, the jewish people, us.
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And we're
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Chosen for not a privilege, but a unique responsibility
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To be that light to nations, to live and act in a way
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That inspires people and gets humanity back
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To its relationship
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With our father in heaven and gives us the morality
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And the spirituality and the rules and the morality
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And the worldview that enables us to
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Create a world that is as moral and perfect as possible,
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And to live in harmony like united under,
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You know, one, one humanity under our father in heaven.
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That has been our mission.
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So it's chosen for this unique responsibility.
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Why did god choose israel?
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Why did god choose abraham,
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Whose descendants became israel?
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Why choose that?
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Choose them of all the nations of the world
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That he could have chosen?
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That's that's the great question, is it goes like this.
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How out of god to choose the jews.
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That's that's basically the question you're asking.
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And the answer is it wasn't so odd.
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The jews chose god.
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And there's a famous a midrash which midrash or stories
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That are based on information that we say goes
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All the way back to the mount sinai experience.
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Some of them are literal, some of them are allegorical.
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So this is more of an allegorical one.
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But it says, before god gave the jewish people the torah.
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His rule book at mount sinai,
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He approached other nations of the world.
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It doesn't mean there was another
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National revelation experience where god appeared to them
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And they said, now we're not interested.
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It's more giving us insight
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Into the nature of these people was such
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That they would not have accepted this.
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And he said, it goes, for instance,
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As the midrash goes, first
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He goes to the children of asaph, who's jacob's
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Full brother, his twin brother,
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And he says, would you like my commandments?
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And they ask, what's in it?
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And it says, don't, don't murder.
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And esau, his descendants. you're like, are you kidding?
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We live for that stuff,
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You know, bloodsport, gladiators, we all want that.
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And it's a went to
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The descendants of ishmael, who was isaac's half brother.
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And they said, oh, what's what's in it?
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And god says, don't steal.
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Are they stealing? are you kidding?
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That's our major economic activity.
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Raiding and trading, you know. so we're not interested.
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They came to the jewish people. god says you want.
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And the jewish people say, nah, banishment will do it,
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And then we'll hear it.
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Meaning you have to explain it.
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Even if you say, this is what i should do, i'm going to do it.
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So it's the jewish people, so to speak.
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Had the right stuff,
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Beginning with our great grandfather
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Abraham, to recognize that if there's a god
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Who runs the world, what you get to question
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It, you're going to ask what's in it.
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No, god is perfect.
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And if you recognize that when he offers you something,
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You say, i'll take whatever you give me.
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Just tell me what you want me to do
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And then we'll we'll we'll talk about it later.
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But we sort of signed abraham kind of.
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It's kind of like when you buy a house
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On, you know, it's not built yet.
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You look at the blueprints, but israel is a chosen nation.
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Why is the history of the jewish people so full of suffering?
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So we have to understand that we're in a contractual agreement
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With the creator of the universe.
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That's the relationship between god and the jewish people.
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And a contractual arrangement has clauses in it.
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Basically,
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What god says to us is you keep your side of the bargain,
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Which is, you know, make your relationship with me
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The focus of who you are as a nation,
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Your mission in the world
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And you have a good relationship with me
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And also with each other, because the whole system we call
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The torah is a series of commandments that are
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Have two different facets to them.
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One is your relationship
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With god, the spiritual side, and one is the the human side.
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So as you as a nation and individuals
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Go on the right track and be balanced,
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That i promise you i'll keep
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My side of the bargain, which is what peace, prosperity.
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The world will not fight against you. they will.
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They will end up behind you and follow you.
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But if you break your side of the agreement,
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This is all about responsibility, which is a word
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You can't use in the word very much. the world today.
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Everyone's about entitlement and lack of responsibility.
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It's a big problem.
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But if you break that responsibility, there's no
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You can't
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Get out of this contractual agreement
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Because your role in history is too central.
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If you disappear, the world is going to be
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In really big trouble.
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So basically, when we jews have always understood
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When bad stuff happens to us, you know, on a micro-level,
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We don't know,
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You know,
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Two people could be in a car accident,
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One guy is killed instantly and one gets out without a scratch.
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That's something, you know,
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Between you and god.
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Why did this?
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But on a macro level, the jewish people,
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As generally always understand that since god is all powerful,
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All good and all knowing, and we don't believe that
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There's other forces, that sometimes the other forces win
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And sometimes god.
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No, no, it all comes from god, the good and the bad.
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It's always been.
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And you can see jews throughout history talking about this,
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That when best stuff happens to us, it's a consequence of us
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Not doing what we are supposed to do,
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Which is a very high level
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Intellectually, emotionally to live on.
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Because when a person is going through trauma and suffering
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And you don't necessarily see the direct connection,
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It's very hard to live with that reality.
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Like, why me? why is this happening?
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But it's a fundamental piece of jewish worldview,
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Is that we are in
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A contractual agreement
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With the creator of the universe,
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And if we violate that agreement,
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There are serious consequences for it.
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Who would who believe that israel,
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A nation long since buried under the sands of time,
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Would one day emerge to become one of the most advanced
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Nations on planet earth?
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For that, within 60 years of that rebirth,
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A nation without hope into which god
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Would breathe new life and new vision.
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Then he said to me, son of man,
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These bones are the whole house of israel.
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They say our bones are dried up and our hope is gone.
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We are cut off.
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Therefore prophesy and say to them,
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This is what the sovereign lord says, o my people,
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I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them.
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I will bring you back to the land of israel.
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Don't go away.
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When we
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Use the word unique, we mean one out.
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We mean that there is no other nation
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On earth quite like the nation of israel.
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But in what sense is israel a unique nation?
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Let me give you several points.
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First of all,
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Israel is a location formed a land bridge between continents,
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Between europe to the northwest and asia to the north east,
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And, of course, africa to the southwest.
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A land bridge between continents,
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Which means israel is a prized possession.
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It's the reason ancient empires fought over the land
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And the kingdom that was israel.
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Secondly, israel story is told in the bestseller of all time,
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This holy bible that i'm holding in my hand.
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And the old testament as we call it.
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The story of israel, has two primary themes.
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The first theme is the story of the nation itself,
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The uniqueness of the calling of a man named abraham.
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And his name, of course,
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Was changed to abraham by the almighty god.
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And god made promises to him.
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He said he would make of him a great nation,
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A nation that would bless all nations.
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And then god said
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He would bless those who blessed abraham's descendants,
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But he would also curse those who cursed.
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Abraham. descendants.
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So israel is unique in that sense as well.
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That's their story in this holy bible.
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The other theme
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That comes through the old testament
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Period is the coming of the messiah figure.
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And of course, he came in the person of jesus of nazareth,
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And his story is told in the old testament,
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But revealed
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Also in the new testament, because that
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Tells the story of jesus and his impact on humankind.
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The third thing is it israel is the only nation on earth
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To experience two major catastrophes
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Dispersions, if you like, and yet find its way home.
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The first occurred under the babylonians around 586 bc,
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And of course, that
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Babylonian conquest occurred in several stages.
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But the final stage that caused the exile of the jewish people
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From this land of israel occurred around 586 bc,
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With the destruction of the temple and of jerusalem,
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And the cream of israeli young people were taken captive
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To the land of babylon.
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But jeremiah
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The prophet had prophesied that the exile would last
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Only 70 years.
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He prophesied that in advance, and said they would return again
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To the land of israel.
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And they did, and they rebuilt that first temple of solomon.
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But then in 1870, the romans, who had been occupiers
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In the land, they destroyed jerusalem and the second temple
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And caused another mass dispersion of the jewish people
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That would last 1878 years,
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Until the rebirth of modern israel in 1948, when we date
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That from the destruction in 80, 70 to 1948.
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So two major conquests of israel, two major dispersions.
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But miraculously, israel is back in the land.
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And jerusalem that you can see behind
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Me, is once again recognized as the capital city
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Of this ancient and modern nation.
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An incredible story, a unique story
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Compared to all the other nations on the earth.
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The only thing
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I would say is that israel's history is recorded in advance,
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Because all the way through this
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Holy bible, there is a prophetic thread.
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The prophet spoke and the apostle spoke,
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Of course, later in the new testament period.
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But many of those prophecies have already been fulfilled,
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And certainly hundreds of concerning the coming
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Of the messiah figure in the old testament
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Period were fulfilled.
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And the coming of jesus of nazareth, born in bethlehem,
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Exactly like the prophet micah had predicted.
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And there are other prophecies yet to be fulfilled,
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But we know they will be, because we can stand
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On the strength of the prophecies already fulfilled.
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And now we can look back over history and say,
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God spoke through his prophets and their words.
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Their prophecies came true.
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So israel's history is recorded in advance.
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But the thing spoken by the prophets,
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The other thing is that the past, present
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And future of israel is defined by covenants,
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Because god made covenants with israel.
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And israel is again unique in that sense,
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Because she is the only nation
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On planet earth with whom the almighty god entered
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In two covenants, verbal and written
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Today is, approaching the sabbath in jerusalem.
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And you can feel the you might hear the birds
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Singing in the background, but this is a major city.
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But today there's a holy hush is coming over the city
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Because it's friday, and friday is sunset.
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The sabbath begins.
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But already the people are at home
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Preparing for the sabbath,
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And jewish families will sit down tonight,
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As they have done for thousands of years.
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They'll gather around the table, prayers will be offered,
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Candles will illuminate the room,
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And they'll recite again the ancient prayers
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And the scriptures of israel
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In a unique way that's unique only to israel.
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And imagine a 21st century nation
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On a major city the size of jerusalem,
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As it were, closing down.
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Well, there's no public transportation.
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The airline of israel will not fly on the sabbath.
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So a nation in the 21st century
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That takes time to honor god and remember his covenants
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And his commandments by recognizing and esteeming
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And holding and reverence the weekly sabbath, the seventh
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Day, where the bible says, on the seventh day god rested
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And therefore set a pattern for israel that israel should rest.
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But there's another way that israel is unique,
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And it's found in the scriptures.
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For example, in deuteronomy chapter seven, in verses
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Six and seven, the lord did not set his love on you.
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Nor choose you,
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Because you were more in number than any other people,
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For you were the least of all peoples.
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But because the lord loves you,
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And because he would keep the oath
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Which he swore to your fathers,
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Meaning the presumably the patriarchs of israel,
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Abraham, isaac, and jacob, and the elders of israel as well.
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The lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed
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You from the house of bondage, from the land of pharaoh, king
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Of egypt.
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So here in these verses we have god's
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Unique love for israel as the only nation on earth
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About whom he says he loves that nation.
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And even though they were pure in all other people,
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Still he chose them.
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So when we ask, why did god choose israel
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Among all other nations?
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Well, the answer is simple.
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He is a sovereign
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God who has the right to choose whomever he wills.
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Chapter 14 of deuteronomy.
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Verse one.
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You are the children of the lord your god.
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You shall not cut yourselves or shave the front of your head
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For the dead.
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And this is to set them apart from the canaanites
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Whose land they conquered.
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And the canaanites, of course, were displaced by joshua
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And the armies of israel when they came out of egypt.
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And then god says of them again,
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For you are a holy people to the lord your god.
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And the lord has chosen you to be a people for himself,
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A special treasure above all the peoples
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Who are on the face of the earth.
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And within these verses, the hint of why israel
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Has been persecuted throughout the centuries,
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Because they claim this special relationship with god,
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Because the blessing of god was over them wherever they went.
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And that caused jealousy among other nations and persecution.
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And because they were placed in this holy promised land,
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This land bridge between major continents,
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This is part of the reason they were attacked and displaced
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Time and time again.
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And unique is israel is unique again
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Because god entered into covenants with them,
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Something he did not do with any other nation on the earth.
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And when we go to isaiah chapter 54, we read these words
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In verse four, do not fear, for you will not be ashamed,
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Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame,
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For you will forget the shame of your youth,
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And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood
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Any more.
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For your maker is your husband.
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The lord of hosts is his name.
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God is speaking here about israel as his chosen wife,
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And your redeemer is the holy one of israel.
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He is called the god of the whole earth.
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For the lord has called you like a woman, forsaken
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And grieved in spirit, like a youthful wife.
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When you were refused, says your god.
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For a mere moment i have forsaken you,
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But with great mercies i will gather you.
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And then we
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Go to isaiah chapter 62.
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More about this marriage relationship
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That god has with this unique nation
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Called israel.
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For zion's sake i will not hold my peace,
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And for jerusalem's sake i will not rest.
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And you can see behind me today panorama with a temple mount
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At the center, signified by the golden dome
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And the mount of olives over my left shoulder.
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And this holy city, that special
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Above all cities on the face of the earth.
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And god's love for this holy place.
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And then it says, until her righteousness goes forth
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As brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns
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The gentiles, the non-jewish nations
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Shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory.
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And you shall be called by a new name
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Which the mouth of the lord will name.
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And then it goes on to say, in verse four,
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You shall no longer be termed forsaken,
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Nor shall your land any more be termed desolate.
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But you shall be called hephzibah, and your land.
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Beulah.
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Hephzibah means delight, meaning the lord delights
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In your land.
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Beulah means married,
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And that means that god consider himself married to this land
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And this special nation that lives here.
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And then god says this in verse five
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In jeremiah 62,
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For as a young man marries
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A virgin, so shall your sons marry you.
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And this a bridegroom rejoices over the bride.
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So children of god rejoice over you.
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I have set watchmen on your walls of jerusalem.
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They shall never hold their peace day or night.
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You who make mention of the lord, do not keep silent
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And give him no rest until he makes jerusalem
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A praise in all the earth.
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Now if israel is unique,
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Special, loved of god, what happens then
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When nations mistreat persecute israel?
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The answer after this short break,
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If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
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The bible says,
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If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ,
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And believe in your heart that god raised him
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From the dead, you will be saved, will see for i.
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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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Just before the break, i ask the question,
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If israel is special in the sight of god,
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What happens to empires or nations
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That mistreat the people of israel?
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The landscape of history is littered
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With the remains of empires who came against this land
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And persecuted the jewish people who lived here
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All the way back to the assyrians, the egyptians,
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The babylonian armies
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That conquered this land in the sixth century bc
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And were the first to destroy the temple of solomon
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That stood in the temple mount behind me.
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They carried away captive into marble on the cream of us
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Really young people, including daniel, who stood in the lion's
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Den and survived that night because god was with him,
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Because god is always with the jewish people.
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Yes, they have suffered much down through history.
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That's what it means to be chosen of god.
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But god promised he'd
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Bring them through the fire and the floods, and he did so.
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And now they're back here in the land of israel,
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And the temple mount is behind me.
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And this jerusalem is their capital city.
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And what of el idol for hitler and his third reich,
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Who systematically, kills
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6 million jewish men, women and children.
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And sadly, that occurred in what was supposed to be
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Christian europe.
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And it isn't that long ago, but hitler too, is gone.
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You see, god had already promised
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In the calling of abraham,
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Who is mentioned in scripture as the first hebrew.
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He was a gentile, but he began the hebrew or jewish race
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Because he had a son named isaac, who had a son
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Named jacob,
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Who had 12 sons, who became the 12 tribes of israel.
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So the nation of israel then was in abraham's
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Loins, and god called him uniquely.
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In genesis 12 verse one.
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Now the lord had said to abraham,
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Get out of your country from your family
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And from your father's house, to a land that i will show you,
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And i will make you a great nation.
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I will bless you and make your name great.
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And you, meaning the nation that comes from
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You, shall be a blessing.
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Then this god's promise.
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And god keeps his promises.
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I will bless those who bless you,
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And i will curse him who curses you.
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That means to utterly obliterate.
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And in you
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All the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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So israel suffered two major exiles,
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The first under the babylonians in 586 bc and the second
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Under the romans, who were here and laid siege to jerusalem.
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And in 1870 they destroyed the second temple
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And sent the jews into an exile that would
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Last 1878 years from the destruction of that
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Second temple until the rebirth of israel in 1948
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And the roman empire to disappeared
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Into the sands of time.
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But israel is back, and israel remains
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Just as god promised she would.
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Thanks for joining us of the prophetic connection.
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John Tweedie - Israel Unique Among the Nations

September 1, 2025 | 28:41

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