John Tweedie - The Jew Who Divided History

September 15, 2025 | 28:38

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Jew Who Divided History | September 15, 2025

Most people all over the world
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Have heard of jesus of nazareth.
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But how many of those people realize that
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Jesus is a jew?
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What about that?
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After this short introduction.
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Soft music
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We speaking of him as jesus of nazareth.
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That's where he was raised as a young boy.
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But he was actually born
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In bethlehem of judea, very close to jerusalem.
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Born, in fact, in fulfillment of prophecy.
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Something that the prophet micah said hundreds of years before
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Jesus is jewish.
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When he comes again,
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He'll still be jewish, as the bible prophesies.
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But there's more to jesus than that.
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He is as well.
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The jew who divided history or western calendar
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Is referred to as bc before christ.
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An ad from the latin i know domini in the year of our lord.
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A short three and a half
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Year ministry in israel transformed the whole world.
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And the effects are felt today in the 21st century.
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But jesus roots go back much
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Further back into the history of israel.
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And to a man named abraham, a man whose name
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God changed to abraham.
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But who was abraham?
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And why is he considered the father of judaism,
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Christianity and islam?
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Abraham first appears
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As abraham in genesis 1126.
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He was born in a year of the chaldeans,
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Which is now located in modern day iraq.
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The bible tells us that abraham, his wife sarai,
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And his father terah set out from earth of the child, begins
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To go to canaan. so.
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Canaan means low land.
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It was also the name given to one of noah's grandsons,
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Whose descendants settled on this lowland
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Plain along the coast of the great sea.
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Is better known
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Today as the mediterranean sea.
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The various branches of this family
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Became known as the canaanites.
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The book of genesis tells us in chapter ten that
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The canaanites lived in the land between sidon and gaza.
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Today, 4000 years later,
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These places still exist.
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The coastal plain was fertile
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And ideal for growing crops and fruit.
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It also had strategic importance as a land bridge
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Between three continents africa, asia and europe.
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Canaan was the place where the armies of egypt
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Often clashed with empires of the east.
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Among them the babylonians and persians.
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Each empire trying to achieve military and commercial
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Advantage over the other.
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Whoever controlled this narrow corridor between the mountains
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And the great sea also controlled
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Many of the trade routes between east and west.
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And so the narrow strip of
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The holy land is the only place that people could go through.
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To come from one center of civilization to another one.
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And hence this area becomes very much involved in all
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What happened in the ancient world.
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In roman times,
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This coastal plain was known as the vma's.
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The way of the sea.
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No empire with dreams of expansion
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Could ignore the importance of canaan or israel,
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As it was later called.
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Abraham was to be the father of many nations, but
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God called him to be the father of one nation in particular.
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Israel.
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And so god entered into a covenant relationship
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With abraham.
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From then on, his male descendants
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Would be circumcised as a sign of the covenant.
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From genesis 17 verse ten.
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In genesis 17, verse eight, god promised abraham
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It would be theirs as an everlasting possession.
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He would also bless those who bless them and curse
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Those who curse them.
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While abraham
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And his nephew lot prospered on the fertile plains of canaan.
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They also ran the risk
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Of being contaminated by canaanite practices,
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Which god looked upon as sinful abominations.
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The people of the land of canaan worshiped
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Bayle and dagon, among other false gods.
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Their practices of worship were sadistic rituals
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Of unspeakable acts, including the sacrifice of children.
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The lord spoke to abraham and told him that this is the reason
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He was giving the land of canaan to abraham's descendants.
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In all the land of canaan.
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Two cities stood out among the rest
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As being the most evil and wicked.
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Sodom and gomorrah.
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In genesis 18,
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The lord tells abraham that the outcry is too great
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And sends two angels to destroy the cities.
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While two major faiths now lay claim to the sacred ground
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Of what is known as the temple mount,
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It is important to realize
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That one is relatively new compared to the other.
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God called abraham to be the father of the jews
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Some 4000 years ago, around 2000 bc.
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Yet islam emerged less than 1400 years ago,
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Following the birth and influence of a man named
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Muhammad.
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Yet both claim abraham as their ancestral father.
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The jews, through abraham's son isaac by his wife sarah.
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The muslims through abraham's son ishmael
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By sarah's egyptian servant hagar.
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The effects of this dysfunctional family
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Continue to be felt today.
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The bible
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Teaches that god's covenant promises to abraham
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Were to be extended down through isaac and his son, jacob.
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The names of jacob's 12 sons
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Became the titles given to the 12 tribes of israel.
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Each tribe being comprised of the descendants
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Of each of jacob's sons and their families.
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In time they would be known as the chosen people
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And heirs of god's covenant promise to abraham.
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He is the lord our god.
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His judgments are in all the earth.
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He remembers his covenant forever.
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The word he commanded for a thousand generations.
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The covenant he made with abraham.
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The oath he swore to isaac.
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He confirmed it to jacob as a decree
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To israel, as an everlasting covenant.
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To you i will give the land of canaan
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As the portion you will inherit.
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Don't go away.
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After this short break, doctor
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John tweedie returns with his teaching.
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Our media today is filled with
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Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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It seems that the world is falling apart.
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This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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Israel must deal with the challenges
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Few other countries will ever face,
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Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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Most vulnerable citizens. yet
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Joseph, the favorite son of jacob.
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His story has fascinated the world
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For thousands of years.
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The son of israel, betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery.
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He is taken to egypt, where he eventually rises
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From the depths of prison to become ruler under pharaoh.
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Famine in the land of cain, and eventually forces
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Jacob and his sons to move to egypt,
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Where joseph can take care of them.
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The bible then enters a period of silence
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For 400 years until.
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Exodus wakens to find the israelites,
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The descendants of jacob,
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Now forced into slavery by a ruler in egypt
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Who did not know the history of joseph and the israelites.
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The first chapter of the book of exodus ends with the horrific
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Order of pharaoh to throw every baby boy into the river nile,
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On the banks of the nile,
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A hebrew woman places her son in a papyrus, basking
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In a desperate attempt to spare his life.
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Moses is found by the pharaoh's
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Daughter and taken to be raised as her own.
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Moses was born as a hebrew, but raised as a prince of egypt
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As god had been with joseph some 400 years earlier.
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Now he would be with moses.
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Then pharaoh's daughter went to the nile to bathe,
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And her attendants were walking along the riverbank.
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She saw the basket among the reeds
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And sent her slave girl to get it.
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She opened it and saw the baby.
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He was crying and she felt sorry for.
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This is one of the hebrew babies, she said.
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Then his sister asked pharaoh's daughter, shall i go
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Get one of the hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?
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Yes. go,
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She answered, and the girl went and got the baby's mother.
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Pharaoh's daughter said to her.
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Take this baby and nurse him for me, and i will pay you.
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So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
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Raised as a prince of egypt's royal household.
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Moses learned the ways of the egyptians.
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But he remained a hebrew at heart.
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One fateful day,
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He found an egyptian mistreating a hebrew slave.
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Moses intervened, and in an impulsive act,
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Killed the egyptian,
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Fleeing for his life.
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Moses spent 40 years in midian,
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Where he married his wife zipporah,
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And he would learn the ways of a desert shepherd, a nomad.
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But he would do so under the watchful eye of the god
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Of all creation and of israel.
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When time
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Had passed, god acted again.
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A bush burned in the wilderness, but surprisingly,
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It was not destroyed by the flames.
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Moses was curious about this
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Strange phenomenon and turned aside to see it.
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When the lord saw that he had gone over to
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Look, god called to him from within the bush.
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Moses, moses,
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And moses said, here i am.
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Do not come any closer.
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God said, take off your sandals,
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For the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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Then he said, i am the god of your father,
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The god of abraham, the god of isaac, and the god of jacob.
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At this moses hid his face
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Because he was afraid to look at god.
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The lord said, i have indeed seen the misery
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Of my people in egypt.
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I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers,
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And i am concerned about their suffering.
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So i have come down to rescue them
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From the hand of the egyptians,
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And to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious
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Land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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The home of the canaanites, hittites, amorites, parasites,
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Invites, and jebusites.
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God had heard the cries of his chosen ones
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As they labored in the slime pits of egypt.
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And moses appointed, time had come for them
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To be delivered out of bondage.
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Moses would be the instrument of that deliverance,
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But not before the ten plagues had humbled pharaoh's heart
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And forced him to respond to moses demand.
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Thus says the lord of israel, let my people go.
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The 10th and
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Final plague was the most costly of all for the egyptians.
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For a claim
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The firstborn of all living things,
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Including the firstborn of pharaoh.
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Only those hebrews who obediently applied lamb's
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Blood to the doorways of their homes
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Escaped the horrors of that dark night
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When death stalked the streets of egypt.
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From that night on, it would be called the passover.
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And each year, as israel remembered their exodus
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From egypt, children would ask, why is this night so special?
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Parents would answer by reciting the story of the miraculous
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Deliverance from bondage in egypt.
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And one generation would tell another.
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They would tell of night
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And days of god's miracles and provision.
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But if they were to tell the whole story,
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They would also speak of israel's
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Disobedience and rebellion
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And of the 40 lost years of wilderness wandering.
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Moses would live long
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Enough to see the promised land,
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But he would never enter it.
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The conquest of cain and would fall to joshua,
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Moses chosen successor.
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It would be under his leadership that the army of israel
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Would subdue the canaanite tribes and claim
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The land as their god given inheritance.
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After 40 years of wandering in the desert,
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The israelites were finally ready to take the promised land
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Under the leadership of joshua.
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Jericho was the first to fall.
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The 12 tribes of israel eventually took the land
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God promised and divided it among the tribes.
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In time,
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Kings would be appointed to rule the people,
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But not before
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There was a prolonged interlude when judges held sway.
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Violent times.
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When sin and rebellion were all too prevalent
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Among jacob's descendants,
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And when they eagerly embraced
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The idolatrous ways of the canaanites.
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Even so, god found
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Those who would speak and act for him.
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Men like gideon samson, and women
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Like deborah.
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It is toward the end of this dark period
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In the unfolding drama of israel,
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That a young gentile woman from moab named ruth enters
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The history of god's chosen people.
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Having married the son of a widow from bethlehem named
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Naomi, ruth suddenly finds herself widowed as well.
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It is then that she makes the momentous decision
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To leave moab and return with naomi to bethlehem.
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But ruth replied,
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Don't urge me to leave you, or to turn back from you.
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Where you go i will go, and where you stay, i will stay.
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Your people will be my people and your god, my god.
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Ruth could not have known then
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That by her decision
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To honor naomi and to be a blessing to israel,
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She would be among the first to reap god's promise to abraham.
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Ruth's blessing came in the form of remarriage
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To a relative of naomi, a wealthy landowner
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In bethlehem named boaz.
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Their union would produce a grandson named david,
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Who would become god's chosen king of israel.
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More importantly, it would be from among ruth
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And boaz, his descendants, that
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The long awaited messiah would arise.
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The one the prophet said was to come.
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He too would be from bethlehem, but his coming.
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His words and his influence would ultimately change
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The world.
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His name was jesus.
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The jew who divided history
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From.
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The period of the judges was ending
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Just as the prophets began to appear again in israel.
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And while an unnamed
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Prophet had spoken to israel during the period of the judges,
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Samuel was the first named among the major prophets to appear.
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It was as god's prophet that samuel anointed
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The first kings of israel, beginning with saul.
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But this did not occur until near the end of samuel's life,
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And not before
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He had appointed his sons to rule as judges in israel.
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But samuel's sons were corrupt in their ways.
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They were unacceptable
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To the people, who instead demanded their own king.
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God viewed this demand as a rejection of his own
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Sovereign rule.
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Yet he granted their wish anyway, coupled
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With a warning uttered on the lips of samuel.
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The people of israel would live to regret
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Their persistent pleas for a king to rule over them.
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And so it was that saul,
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A man of the tribe of benjamin, became israel's first king.
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And as god had solemnly warned
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Israel live to regret saul's rule,
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Which ended in bitterness marked by defeat
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At the hands of the philistines
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And the untimely deaths of his three sons in a battle
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With the philistines on the slopes of mount gilboa.
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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.
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See, for i, 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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Let us, the people of israel, still look upon
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The reign of david as israel's high watermark.
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While david had character flaws and at times
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Showed poor moral judgment.
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God nevertheless saw him as a man after his own heart.
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Because of david's leadership and popularity,
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Israel was united, established and prosperous.
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King david had a great mission, and that is to
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Take a group of tribes and make them a nation.
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And one of his estates was let me have a place
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That would serve the capital that i want.
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Emphasize the tribal structure the other way around.
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It's like building, say, washington, d.c.,
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Because it did not belong to any of the tribes
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And even was at the border between two of the tribes, judah
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To the stars and benjamin to the north.
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So his first step was conquering a place and deciding,
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Let me build here my cattle,
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Because that will serve the purp
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Make them relate to the
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Place as a unified, unified place,
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And not belonging to any one chosen tribe.
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Now, with jerusalem
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As its capital, david proposed to build a house for god.
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However, because he had blood
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On his hands from so many conflicts,
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The responsibility for building the temple became
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The mandate of david's son solomon,
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A man god blessed with unparalleled wisdom
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And whose fame spread far beyond the borders of israel.
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If israel had prospered under david,
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Its wealth compounded under solomon.
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But solomon was not david, and in time
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He too violated the will of god.
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And god stirred up adversaries against solomon.
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And from that time forward his kingdom knew
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No peace.
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Solomon reigned
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In jerusalem over all israel 40 years.
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Then he rested with his fathers
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And was buried in the city of david.
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His father and rebel.
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And his son succeeded him as king.
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Rebel and lacked his father's wisdom,
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Ignoring the advice of the older and wiser elders of israel.
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He chose instead
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To listen to the foolish counsel of his peers,
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With the result that had been the united kingdom under david,
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And solomon was now divided.
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From then on there would be two kingdoms,
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One consisting of ten tribes known as israel,
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Who possessed the northern half of the country,
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And two tribes, judah and benjamin, who remained
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In the south in the vicinity of jerusalem.
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Time passed, and in the eighth century bc
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The northern kingdom was conquered by the assyrians,
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While in 586 bc the armies of babylon under king
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Nebuchadnezzar captured the southern kingdom
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Consisting of judah and benjamin.
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In the process, the babylonians also destroyed
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Jerusalem and the temple solomon had built on mount moriah.
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Better known
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Today as the temple mount.
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This brought to an end israel's
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Most glorious days.
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Eventually, all of israel would fall to babylon.
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The survivors are captive in a foreign land for 70 years.
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During this time, daniel will be raised up
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And become a powerful prophet, predicting the end times.
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Israel never again soared to the heights of national pride
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And influence reached under david and solomon.
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In all this time, however, god
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Was never short of a faithful remnant in israel.
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Much less prophets who spoke to the nation in his name.
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But then one day, even the voices of the prophets
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Fell silent.
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Israel, the land and the people would struggle to exist.
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After this, the bible remains silent.
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For nearly 400 years.
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Until the strange appearance of a star in the sky.
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Noticed by wise men from the east.
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This was not just any star.
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This was a star that fulfilled ancient prophecies
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That told of a newborn king who would arise in israel.
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A messiah figure.
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Wise men from the east who studied the hebrew
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Scriptures, the bible were alert to the sign of this star.
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And when they heard of it, they and saw it.
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They followed it to the place where the child was born.
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They came to jerusalem, in fact, asking, where is he
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That his born king of the jews?
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Today, in the christian world.
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We celebrate their discovery of that child
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Where they presented gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
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It's all part of the christmas story celebrated each year,
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And stars are symbolized in the story of christmas as well.
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This is this same jesus.
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He's jewish.
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He's coming again one day in power and glory.
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He is the same jew who divided history
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Into bc before his birth, and a.d.
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After his birth,
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And what he accomplished in a short
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Three and a half years of ministry
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In israel reverberates down through the centuries.
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Until today.
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In the 21st century,
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John Tweedie - The Jew Who Divided History

September 15, 2025 | 28:38

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