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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - The Looming Battle for Jerusalem

November 17, 2025 | 28:40

John Tweedie - The Looming Battle for Jerusalem
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Looming Battle for Jerusalem | November 17, 2025
  • The bible says that all the
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  • Battles over jerusalem and the days that lie ahead.
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  • That's next.
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  • On the prophetic connection.
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  • Do you?
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  • Soft music
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  • You know, it would be nice to think that this holy city,
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  • Basking in the morning sunlight, would know nothing but peace.
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  • Jerusalem means peace.
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  • So in a sense, it's supposed to be the city of peace.
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  • But down through the centuries, it is known nothing but war,
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  • Empires of all was clashed over jerusalem.
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  • It would be nice to think
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  • That those battles are behind jerusalem.
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  • But according to the prophecies, there are battles to come.
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  • Listen to the words of zechariah writing in chapter 12.
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  • In verses two and three, behold, i will make jerusalem
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  • A cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples
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  • When they lay siege against judah and jerusalem.
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  • And it shall happen in that day, that i will make jerusalem
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  • A very heavy stone for all peoples.
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  • All who would heave it away.
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  • That simply means change its status before god.
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  • All who would give it away will surely be cut in pieces.
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  • The wall nations of the earth are gathered against it.
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  • But how can we be sure that this scripture
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  • Is about a future battle,
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  • And not about a battle that has already happened?
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  • When we link chapter 12 of zechariah with chapter 14,
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  • We discover that there will be, an earthquake here
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  • In that day.
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  • And it's because the messiah's feet touch the mount of olives,
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  • And he comes in that day in defense of jerusalem.
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  • So we put zechariah 12 and zechariah 14 together.
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  • We get a much broader scenario, and it really is of a battle
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  • To come.
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  • While
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  • Jerusalem was a neglected city for nearly two millennia.
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  • Today she is seen as the crowning jewel
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  • Of the middle east,
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  • A beautifully transformed city that has become the desire
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  • Of nations.
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  • But why this 21st century resurgence in interest
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  • Among the nations
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  • With this most ancient of cities is concerned.
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  • Over the millennia, empires
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  • Have fought at and over jerusalem.
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  • Because, first of all, geographically,
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  • Jerusalem represents a center in the world.
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  • It's where the european
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  • Continent meets the continent of asia and africa.
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  • And so it was the convergence of many important
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  • Trade routes since ancient times.
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  • But more than that, jerusalem represents a spiritual center
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  • And has become a stone of stumbling,
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  • A rock of a fence to all the nations that oppose
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  • God's plan and god's sovereignty in the world.
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  • If you can hold jerusalem, in a sense,
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  • You can hold god's plans hostage.
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  • And this is one of the reasons why powers and principalities
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  • Contend for control over jerusalem, even to this day.
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  • You know, it's interesting in the word
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  • Jerusalem in hebrew is yerushalayim,
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  • And in the word you wish to
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  • Is the word shalom, which is one word
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  • That almost everyone knows as peace.
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  • I always say, whoever name jerusalem city of peace
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  • Has like the worst sense of humor in human history.
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  • In my reckoning, the city has been conquered
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  • And destroyed about 36 times in 3000 years.
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  • Probably the most fought over piece of real estate
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  • In human history.
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  • Now, in ancient times, it was often fought over
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  • Because israel strategically is a land bridge
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  • Between not only africa and the rest of the world,
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  • But has always sandwiched between
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  • The great ancient empires of egypt and mesopotamia,
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  • Which is just a greek word for the land between the two rivers.
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  • But first, the assyrians were there,
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  • Then the babylonians, then the persians.
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  • So it's sort of like a battle ground for empires to fight on.
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  • That's a strategic point.
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  • But in more modern history,
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  • When i say modern modern, in the case of israel's
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  • Last couple thousand years, largely the conflict has been a
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  • Religious one.
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  • Certainly there's empires and strategic realities
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  • And the british coming in, the turks,
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  • And we've been swallowed up by many empires
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  • As part of their desire to build empires and control territory.
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  • But in the deepest level, you've had a struggle
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  • That's been going on since the birth of christianity
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  • And then the birth of islam.
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  • These two offshoot faiths of judaism have been duking it out
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  • For literally over 1300 years.
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  • Over the who is the one true faith
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  • And controlling jerusalem has always been a key
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  • Component of that.
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  • So the land of israel has changed hands
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  • Certainly in the last,
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  • You know, since islam came onto the scene
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  • We're talking about since the seventh century,
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  • Largely under the control of muslims.
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  • But crusaders were here, british were here.
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  • So it continues to be fought over and until today.
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  • Now modern
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  • Politics has entered it also with the arab-israeli conflict.
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  • But it has been a point of conflict for various reasons.
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  • But primarily,
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  • I would say nowadays, really, it's the it's
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  • The importance of jerusalem
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  • Is the center of the conflict on a very deep spiritual level,
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  • Certainly between the jewish people and islam.
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  • That is the core issue today.
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  • Has jerusalem ever been the capital of any other nation
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  • Or of any of the numerous empires that have conquered her
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  • Since the days of melchizedek,
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  • When, as king of salem, he came out and blessed abraham?
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  • Jerusalem has not been the capital city
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  • Of any other conquering people throughout history.
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  • Jerusalem belongs to israel alone.
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  • And it was to an israeli king
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  • That god said, that's my city,
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  • And i will have my name there forever.
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  • Jerusalem is a part of israel's inheritance,
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  • And it is unique to the nation and the people of israel.
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  • No city in
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  • Israel, or in the entire world, for that matter, has seen more
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  • Bloodshed and death than the one known as the holy city.
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  • Jerusalem is a city which stands
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  • At the crossroads of the ancient and modern worlds.
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  • When ancient empires fought for world supremacy,
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  • They inevitably clashed at jerusalem, the focal point
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  • Where the continent of africa, asia and europe meet.
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  • As a result, jerusalem has known many masters who saw her
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  • As the ultimate prize the jewel in the crown.
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  • This is no less true in the 21st century,
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  • To the fact that jerusalem, as the capital city
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  • Of a jewish state,
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  • A democracy at the very center of an otherwise arab middle east
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  • Governed for the most part by dictators, is an anomaly.
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  • The enemies of israel must remove,
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  • Whether by deceptive diplomacy or by military force.
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  • If the sworn
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  • Enemies of israel are no match militarily for israel,
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  • As successive arab-israeli wars have demonstrated,
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  • They are now resorting to a terrorist war of attrition
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  • By aiding and abetting terrorist organizations
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  • Such as hamas and hezbollah.
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  • Several years of cafe, restaurant and bus bombings
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  • In jerusalem during the years 2000
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  • To 2006, popularly characterized as the intifada
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  • Or palestinian uprising, which exacted a heavy
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  • Toll in israeli dead and maimed, may be seen as the visible
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  • Outworking of attempts to break the israeli will while coercing
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  • Israel into pursuing peace at any price.
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  • The past, current and future
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  • Struggles of jerusalem have a spiritual component.
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  • As jesus wept over jerusalem on palm sunday,
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  • He declared, o jerusalem, jerusalem, the one who kills
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  • The prophets and stones those who are sent to her.
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  • This, too is jerusalem, a city chosen
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  • By god, yet a city which at the same time
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  • Rejected god when he came to her as a king riding on a donkey.
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  • Why is it so important that
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  • Jerusalem be recognized
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  • As the capital city of the only jewish nation on earth?
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  • So if people don't appreciate
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  • Because of historical revisionism,
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  • Is that we jews, being a people and not just a religion,
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  • Are the indigenous people to here
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  • The only people who claim to be here
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  • Longer than us are the canaanites,
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  • Which is a generic term used for seven nations
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  • That were here until the time of joshua and afterwards.
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  • But they've disappeared thousands
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  • And thousands of years ago.
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  • But since king david's
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  • Time, we're talking about about 3000 years ago,
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  • When jerusalem was conquered and made the political
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  • And spiritual capital of the jewish people,
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  • No nation has had jerusalem as its capital.
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  • No empires had, except for one.
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  • By the way,
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  • In the seventh century, the omar the muslims will conquer
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  • The land of israel.
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  • And for the next 1300 years, jerusalem will be part of,
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  • Albeit a little the side,
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  • A little kind of backward out of the way.
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  • Corner community of larger islamic empires.
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  • Omega deposits a few bits.
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  • Mamluk. seljuks. ottomans.
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  • None of these people will have a capital here.
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  • Their capitals will be in cairo, baghdad, istanbul or damascus.
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  • But there will be one people
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  • Besides us who will have a capital here.
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  • Only one from from 1099 to 1187.
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  • The crusaders will conquer the city, slaughter
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  • All the muslims in the city, burn all the jews alive,
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  • And set up the latin kingdom
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  • With the crusaders, with baldwin the first as the first king.
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  • And they will have this as their capital city
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  • Until 1187, when salahuddin al-jubeir,
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  • Saladin will reconquer the city
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  • And will return to muslim control.
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  • So only one people decide the jews crusaders.
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  • What could be seen in jerusalem's prophetic future?
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  • According to long standing prophecies,
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  • The prophetic future of
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  • Jerusalem includes a great deal of conflict.
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  • The prophets say that jerusalem will be a stone of stumbling.
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  • A cup that causes reeling among the nations
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  • That contend for sovereignty in jerusalem.
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  • It will be the center
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  • Of god's plans as they unfold in the end times.
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  • And we know from the book of revelation
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  • That the new jerusalem will come down out of heaven from god,
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  • And i personally believe
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  • It will come down in alignment over the jerusalem of today.
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  • So jerusalem has an incredible prophetic destiny
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  • Yet to be fulfilled here in the land of israel.
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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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  • On december 6th,
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  • 2017,
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  • President donald trump announced to the whole world
  • 00:12:43.831 --> 00:12:47.601
  • That he fully intended to open a us embassy in jerusalem.
  • 00:12:47.601 --> 00:12:53.340
  • Now, the law about the embassy move had been on the books
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  • Since 1995, passed by the congress
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  • And endorsed by the united states senate.
  • 00:13:02.115 --> 00:13:05.319
  • But the law, even though enacted,
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  • Tarried a six month waiver.
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  • And so each president,
  • 00:13:11.692 --> 00:13:13.060
  • Each six month period, could sign off and postpone
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  • The move of the embassy for another six months.
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  • Several presidents in succession did just that.
  • 00:13:20.467 --> 00:13:24.438
  • Every six months they signed that postponement.
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  • Waiver.
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  • But donald trump had promised that he would not do that.
  • 00:13:29.243 --> 00:13:32.279
  • And so on december 6th, 19 seven, 2017,
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  • He announced that he would enact the law.
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  • And lo and behold, a few months later, on may the 14th, in fact
  • 00:13:39.019 --> 00:13:42.956
  • Israel's birthday,
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  • The embassy was opened in jerusalem.
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  • Now, the announcement created reverberations around the world,
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  • And the opening of the embassy added to those reverberations.
  • 00:13:53.367 --> 00:13:57.871
  • But the decision was made and the die was cast.
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  • And today, as i stand in holy jerusalem,
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  • The united states flag is flying over its new embassy.
  • 00:14:05.245 --> 00:14:10.050
  • Before the embassy was in tel aviv
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  • And the hotel where our camera crew
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  • Usually stayed, we would see it every trip.
  • 00:14:13.921 --> 00:14:17.124
  • We would walk past that u.s.
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  • Embassy in tel aviv.
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  • In fact, there were no embassies in jerusalem at that time
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  • Except a christian embassy which represented
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  • All the nations, but in a sense didn't represent any nation
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  • At all, but simply an embassy called the christian embassy.
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  • That represented what christians understood about jerusalem
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  • As the rightful capital of the jewish nation.
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  • President donald
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  • Trump became the first president of a nation
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  • To formally recognized that jerusalem is
  • 00:14:49.289 --> 00:14:52.726
  • The jewish capital, and always has been.
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  • Although there have been long periods of exile, and between
  • 00:14:55.862 --> 00:14:58.665
  • When jerusalem and israel were conquered by other empires,
  • 00:14:58.665 --> 00:15:02.302
  • But no nation in history ever chose jerusalem
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  • As its capital city, it was, and remained until 1948,
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  • And the rebirth of israel,
  • 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:13.780
  • Always seen as the capital of the jewish state.
  • 00:15:13.780 --> 00:15:17.784
  • Now other embassies have followed the united states
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  • Example,
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  • And others are talking about moving their embassies here.
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  • But it is a slow process because it is full of criticism,
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  • And there is much pressure for nations not to open embassies
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  • In jerusalem.
  • 00:15:35.135 --> 00:15:36.403
  • This is israel's fight to exist.
  • 00:15:36.403 --> 00:15:39.039
  • Her fight to be light.
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  • Her fight to have her legitimate capital
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  • Recognized by the other nations of the world.
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  • Now, the fact that the u.s.
  • 00:15:48.148 --> 00:15:49.383
  • Embassy is here now has muted for a time the broader debate,
  • 00:15:49.383 --> 00:15:54.488
  • But just for a time, because there are prophecies
  • 00:15:54.488 --> 00:15:56.690
  • That tell us
  • 00:15:56.690 --> 00:15:57.924
  • That eventually there will be more battles over jerusalem,
  • 00:15:57.924 --> 00:16:01.595
  • Because the recognition of the embassy is all about legitimacy
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  • And the status of jerusalem as a capital of the jewish state.
  • 00:16:05.999 --> 00:16:11.071
  • And time will pass.
  • 00:16:11.538 --> 00:16:13.206
  • And prophecies, other prophecies will be fulfilled
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  • That tell us that
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  • Jerusalem will be a stumbling block to the nations.
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  • But first of all, let's understand
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  • God's heart for jerusalem and for this holy land,
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  • As it's described in the psalms, in psalm 102,
  • 00:16:28.088 --> 00:16:31.825
  • Beginning in verse 12.
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  • But you, o lord, challenger forever, and the remembrance
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  • Of your name to all generations, you will arise and have mercy
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  • On zion, synonym for jerusalem and israel
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  • For the time to favor her.
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  • Yes, the set time has come, for your servants
  • 00:16:46.306 --> 00:16:49.810
  • Take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to her dust.
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  • So even the stones that i'm
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  • Surrounded by stones in this olive grove,
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  • Or even the dust of the stones of the holy city,
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  • Are the dust that blows in the streets.
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  • Even that, is favored by the servants of the lord
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  • Because it is the dust of holy jerusalem.
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  • So the nations shall fear the name of the lord,
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  • And all the kings of the earth.
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  • Your glory.
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  • For the lord shall build up zion.
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  • He will appear in his glory.
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  • He still regard the prayer of the destitute,
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  • And shall not despise their prayer.
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  • This will be written for a generation to come,
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  • That a people yet to be created may praise the lord.
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  • For he looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
  • 00:17:34.821 --> 00:17:37.324
  • From heaven the lord viewed the earth
  • 00:17:37.324 --> 00:17:40.427
  • To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
  • 00:17:40.427 --> 00:17:42.195
  • To release those appointed to death, to declare his name
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  • Of the lord in zion, and his praise in jerusalem.
  • 00:17:46.533 --> 00:17:51.872
  • All the way through the scriptures.
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  • We have the heart of god for this holy city.
  • 00:17:53.907 --> 00:17:59.212
  • But god's heart for jerusalem is different than
  • 00:17:59.212 --> 00:18:03.717
  • The hearts of the nations,
  • 00:18:04.284 --> 00:18:06.019
  • For they desire jerusalem for different reasons, and
  • 00:18:06.019 --> 00:18:09.556
  • Not just to possess this land and this holy city,
  • 00:18:09.556 --> 00:18:13.527
  • But to rob the jewish people of their inheritance.
  • 00:18:13.527 --> 00:18:17.197
  • And that's why anti-semitism,
  • 00:18:17.197 --> 00:18:19.432
  • Which tends to lie dormant in one generation
  • 00:18:19.432 --> 00:18:22.702
  • But can suddenly arise in the next generation.
  • 00:18:22.702 --> 00:18:26.706
  • And we saw what happened in europe
  • 00:18:26.706 --> 00:18:28.909
  • During the second world war, when demonic spirits,
  • 00:18:28.909 --> 00:18:33.747
  • Functioning through, the nazis, the third reich,
  • 00:18:33.747 --> 00:18:38.952
  • Systematically killed
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  • 6 million of god's jewish sons and daughters.
  • 00:18:41.254 --> 00:18:45.725
  • And among them, well, the creme of jewish
  • 00:18:45.725 --> 00:18:48.828
  • Young people, 1.5 million jewish children
  • 00:18:48.828 --> 00:18:52.999
  • Who never got to realize their full,
  • 00:18:52.999 --> 00:18:56.803
  • God given potential.
  • 00:18:56.803 --> 00:18:59.573
  • And sadly, the prophets tell us that
  • 00:18:59.573 --> 00:19:03.243
  • Jerusalem will become again a stumbling block to the nations.
  • 00:19:03.243 --> 00:19:07.180
  • Listen to the words of the prophet zachariah in chapter 12.
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  • This hasn't happened.
  • 00:19:11.551 --> 00:19:12.686
  • This is future.
  • 00:19:12.686 --> 00:19:14.554
  • The burden of the word of the lord against israel.
  • 00:19:14.554 --> 00:19:17.023
  • Thus says the lord, who stretches out the heavens,
  • 00:19:17.023 --> 00:19:19.759
  • Lays the foundation
  • 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:20.994
  • Of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
  • 00:19:20.994 --> 00:19:24.464
  • Behold, i will make.
  • 00:19:24.931 --> 00:19:26.666
  • God is going to make jerusalem a cup of drunkenness
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  • To all the surrounding peoples
  • 00:19:30.337 --> 00:19:32.172
  • When they lay siege against judah and jerusalem.
  • 00:19:32.172 --> 00:19:35.609
  • And it shall happen in that day,
  • 00:19:36.243 --> 00:19:38.311
  • That i will make jerusalem a very heavy stone
  • 00:19:38.311 --> 00:19:41.381
  • For all peoples, all who would give it away.
  • 00:19:41.381 --> 00:19:44.718
  • And that really means how do you heave away, jerusalem?
  • 00:19:44.718 --> 00:19:48.321
  • But what you do is you try to change its status.
  • 00:19:48.321 --> 00:19:52.025
  • All who will give it away will surely be cut in pieces.
  • 00:19:52.025 --> 00:19:55.829
  • All the nations of the earth are gathered against it.
  • 00:19:55.829 --> 00:19:59.966
  • You see, the people of the nations will be coming against
  • 00:19:59.966 --> 00:20:02.969
  • What is god's heart and desire,
  • 00:20:02.969 --> 00:20:05.772
  • Where even the dust of the city has favor.
  • 00:20:05.772 --> 00:20:10.143
  • Joel is another prophet who speaks of the end of days
  • 00:20:10.143 --> 00:20:14.014
  • And reveals again the heart of god in joel chapter three.
  • 00:20:14.014 --> 00:20:19.286
  • For behold, in those days, and at that time,
  • 00:20:19.286 --> 00:20:21.888
  • When i bring back the captains
  • 00:20:21.888 --> 00:20:23.590
  • Of judah and jerusalem, i will also gather all nations
  • 00:20:23.590 --> 00:20:27.627
  • And bring them down to the valley of jehoshaphat
  • 00:20:27.627 --> 00:20:30.563
  • And jehoshaphat is another word for judgment.
  • 00:20:30.563 --> 00:20:32.966
  • The valley of god's judgment.
  • 00:20:32.966 --> 00:20:35.669
  • And i will enter into judgment with him there
  • 00:20:35.669 --> 00:20:38.238
  • On account of my people, my heritage,
  • 00:20:38.238 --> 00:20:41.708
  • Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.
  • 00:20:41.708 --> 00:20:45.478
  • They have also divided up my land.
  • 00:20:45.478 --> 00:20:48.982
  • You know, there have been for a while movements afoot
  • 00:20:48.982 --> 00:20:52.919
  • To change the status of jerusalem,
  • 00:20:52.919 --> 00:20:55.722
  • Whether to divide it into, a palestinian,
  • 00:20:55.722 --> 00:20:59.893
  • A capital on the east side, which is the ridge you can see
  • 00:20:59.893 --> 00:21:03.630
  • In the distance by so symbolized by the tall towers.
  • 00:21:03.630 --> 00:21:07.467
  • That's actually east jerusalem.
  • 00:21:07.467 --> 00:21:09.602
  • But it would also include the all city of jerusalem,
  • 00:21:09.602 --> 00:21:12.739
  • Where you can see the golden
  • 00:21:12.739 --> 00:21:14.174
  • Dome of the rock, an islamic shrine.
  • 00:21:14.174 --> 00:21:17.977
  • That is where the old first city of jerusalem really was,
  • 00:21:17.977 --> 00:21:21.848
  • Well below it. the city of david,
  • 00:21:21.848 --> 00:21:23.583
  • The very first city, but the temple mount.
  • 00:21:23.583 --> 00:21:25.919
  • The expanded part of that city
  • 00:21:25.919 --> 00:21:28.755
  • Where the temples once stood.
  • 00:21:28.755 --> 00:21:31.758
  • And there are movements in the united nations
  • 00:21:31.758 --> 00:21:33.927
  • And elsewhere to take that part of jerusalem
  • 00:21:33.927 --> 00:21:36.963
  • And make it the capital of a palestinian state.
  • 00:21:36.963 --> 00:21:40.633
  • And where i'm standing in west jerusalem, then,
  • 00:21:40.633 --> 00:21:43.203
  • Would be the capital of the jewish state.
  • 00:21:43.203 --> 00:21:45.572
  • In other words, jerusalem would be divided into
  • 00:21:45.572 --> 00:21:49.509
  • And the land itself then would be divided in two.
  • 00:21:49.509 --> 00:21:53.680
  • But that is not the heart of god written
  • 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.149
  • Plain in scripture, as joel tells us.
  • 00:21:56.149 --> 00:21:59.319
  • God's judgment falls on account of the fact
  • 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:02.422
  • Of his people, my heritage israel,
  • 00:22:02.422 --> 00:22:05.191
  • Whom they have scattered among the nations.
  • 00:22:05.191 --> 00:22:07.660
  • They have also divided up my land.
  • 00:22:07.660 --> 00:22:11.131
  • And as i stand here today on the jewish sabbath
  • 00:22:11.131 --> 00:22:14.234
  • During the feast of tabernacles,
  • 00:22:14.868 --> 00:22:16.403
  • The last feast in the jewish year,
  • 00:22:16.403 --> 00:22:18.772
  • It would be nice to think that jerusalem's troubles are
  • 00:22:18.772 --> 00:22:22.542
  • Behind her.
  • 00:22:22.542 --> 00:22:24.010
  • But the scriptures paint a very different scenario.
  • 00:22:24.010 --> 00:22:29.048
  • But i want you to understand that god hasn't
  • 00:22:29.048 --> 00:22:30.917
  • Changed his mind about this holy city.
  • 00:22:30.917 --> 00:22:33.286
  • His purpose always was that it should be the capital
  • 00:22:33.286 --> 00:22:36.623
  • Of the jewish nation that came from the loins of abraham,
  • 00:22:36.623 --> 00:22:40.460
  • And that he should dwell among his people, specifically
  • 00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:43.430
  • In temples that stood on the temple mount behind me.
  • 00:22:43.430 --> 00:22:46.766
  • And where
  • 00:22:46.766 --> 00:22:47.967
  • The hope is.
  • 00:22:48.301 --> 00:22:49.469
  • And the prophecy tells us, a third temple will be erected
  • 00:22:49.469 --> 00:22:53.139
  • Somehow, some way in the future.
  • 00:22:53.139 --> 00:22:58.111
  • There are lessons of history of nations that tried to change
  • 00:22:58.111 --> 00:23:01.414
  • The status of jerusalem, or who persecuted the jewish people.
  • 00:23:01.414 --> 00:23:05.318
  • Empires that have come and gone
  • 00:23:05.952 --> 00:23:08.521
  • And are no more.
  • 00:23:08.521 --> 00:23:11.891
  • And we could ask, why would any nation
  • 00:23:11.891 --> 00:23:14.360
  • Understanding what happened to those empires
  • 00:23:14.360 --> 00:23:17.096
  • Want to change the status of jerusalem
  • 00:23:17.096 --> 00:23:20.133
  • In the 21st century?
  • 00:23:20.600 --> 00:23:23.169
  • More about that after this short break.
  • 00:23:23.169 --> 00:23:34.881
  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:23:35.949 --> 00:23:38.384
  • The bible says,
  • 00:23:38.384 --> 00:23:39.452
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
  • 00:23:39.452 --> 00:23:42.322
  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
  • 00:23:42.322 --> 00:23:44.257
  • From the dead, you will be saved.
  • 00:23:44.257 --> 00:23:47.327
  • C4i, that simply means we are christians
  • 00:23:48.161 --> 00:23:51.331
  • Who care about israel,
  • 00:23:51.331 --> 00:23:53.533
  • And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
  • 00:23:53.533 --> 00:23:56.336
  • Because they are suffering so much.
  • 00:23:56.336 --> 00:23:58.371
  • First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
  • 00:23:58.371 --> 00:24:01.374
  • 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
  • 00:24:01.374 --> 00:24:06.546
  • And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
  • 00:24:06.546 --> 00:24:10.316
  • We're here to help the less fortunate,
  • 00:24:10.316 --> 00:24:12.685
  • The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
  • 00:24:12.685 --> 00:24:15.655
  • Special children that need 24 seven care.
  • 00:24:15.655 --> 00:24:19.626
  • But we can't do it alone.
  • 00:24:19.626 --> 00:24:20.960
  • We need your help. please.
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  • You'll see the numbers on the screen.
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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.
  • 00:24:31.838 --> 00:24:37.443
  • Thank you.
  • 00:24:37.744 --> 00:24:46.319
  • When we ask the question, why
  • 00:24:46.953 --> 00:24:48.688
  • Would the nations want to change the status of jerusalem?
  • 00:24:48.688 --> 00:24:51.891
  • Today, jerusalem is recognized
  • 00:24:52.492 --> 00:24:55.128
  • As the capital of the jewish nation.
  • 00:24:55.128 --> 00:24:58.097
  • The united states recognized it as such.
  • 00:24:58.097 --> 00:25:01.334
  • So why then, would the nations want to change that status?
  • 00:25:01.334 --> 00:25:05.438
  • The answer is that the leaders of the nations can be
  • 00:25:05.438 --> 00:25:09.175
  • And will be deceived according to the word of god.
  • 00:25:09.175 --> 00:25:13.546
  • We know that an antichrist figure is coming.
  • 00:25:13.546 --> 00:25:16.649
  • He may even be in the world today, and this man
  • 00:25:16.649 --> 00:25:20.053
  • Will be the instrument of satan.
  • 00:25:20.687 --> 00:25:22.956
  • He will carry out satan's evil agenda.
  • 00:25:22.956 --> 00:25:27.126
  • Now listen to the words of the apostle paul.
  • 00:25:27.126 --> 00:25:29.796
  • He says this the coming of the lawless one,
  • 00:25:29.796 --> 00:25:32.999
  • Because he is a man of lawlessness,
  • 00:25:32.999 --> 00:25:35.435
  • Is according to the working of satan,
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  • With all power signs and lying wonders,
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  • And with all unrighteous deception
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  • Among those who perish,
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  • Because they did not receive the love of the truth.
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  • This gospel message of christ.
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  • That they might be saved.
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  • And for this reason god will send them strong delusion
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  • That they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned
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  • Who did not believe the truth but had pleasure
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  • In unrighteousness.
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  • In other words, an age of deception is coming.
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  • And in fact, i believe it is already upon us.
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  • And we see corruption in high levels of government
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  • Among people that, in fact, were in some cases
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  • Were surprised that of the lies that they tell us
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  • And can do it to the camera.
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  • Etc..
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  • John the apostle says something similar
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  • Who is a liar, but he who denies that jesus is the christ,
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  • He is antichrist who denies the father and the son.
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  • Whoever denies the son does not have the father either.
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  • He who acknowledges the son has the father also.
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  • We produce the prophetic connection
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  • In our battle to proclaim god's truth.
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  • While we have time and opportunity
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  • Before things in the world go rapidly worse.
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  • And until the coming
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  • Of the messiah figure promised in the bible.
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  • But before that happens, we go through an age of deception,
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  • A time when even the leaders of the nations will be deceived
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  • And they will be influenced
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  • And will come against this holy city, jerusalem.
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  • The people of this land, the jewish nation,
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  • All of it, prophesied in the word of god.
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  • We're so glad you joined us today.
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