John Tweedie - Nearly Extinguished

September 30, 2025 | 28:43

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Nearly Extinguished | September 30, 2025

If israel is a
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Special nation under god, then why so much
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Jewish suffering throughout the centuries?
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The answers next on the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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Why so much jewish suffering down through history
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And even today, in the opening decades of the 21st century.
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The answer, in part, at least, is found
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In the special relationship.
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With it came responsibility to be obedient
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To the ways of the lord.
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And if israel failed, then there were consequences.
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Listen to the words of moses
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In deuteronomy chapter 28, beginning in verse 63,
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As moses outlined some of those consequences.
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And this will be that just as the lord rejoiced over
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You, to do you good and multiply you,
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So the lord will rejoice over you, to destroy you,
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And bring you to nothing.
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And you shall be plucked
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Off from the land which you go to possess.
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Then the lord will scatter
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You among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other.
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And there you shall serve other gods,
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Which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Wood and stone.
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And among those nations you shall find no rest,
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Nor shall the soul of your foot have a resting place.
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But there the lord will give you a trembling heart, failing
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Eyes, and anguish of soul.
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Your life shall hanging down before you.
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You shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.
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This, too, is the story of israel.
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If israel is truly a nation chosen by god,
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And all jews are a part of this chosen race,
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Why then have they suffered so much throughout the centuries
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And never more so in the 20th century
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With its infamous european holocaust?
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Hitler, by amplifying germany's latent xenophobia,
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Was able to cause a war which resulted in the deaths
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Of over 6 million jews and 15 million russians.
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And he did it in the name of white aryan christianity.
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Even children were not spared from this horrific reality,
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Risking their own lives and the lives of their families.
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Some good people did try to help the jews by hiding them
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And even taking their children as their own.
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Leah de lange was one such child,
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And those people tried to do whatever they could.
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They couldn't do very much.
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They could take one jewish child
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And try to save her or him.
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That's what happened to me.
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We stayed in our home until the very last day.
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The next day.
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Anyone
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Who saw a jew,
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Voss had the obligation
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To kill him.
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One day before
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We had to leave for the concentration camps.
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My father had arranged that
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With friends of his
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With whom he had been in the dutch army.
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We were dutch. that's jews.
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My father had been a soldier in the dutch army
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And friends of his.
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You know, army buddies.
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They came to take away
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His little daughters.
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Me? i was three years old and i had a baby sister.
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And people came to take me.
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Take the baby.
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And that was in 43.
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But i knew that this was not real.
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They were not really my family, but
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I had forgotten.
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I did not know any more.
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I did not know who my family was.
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Everything that had happened because i had been told
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So often that i should forget.
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I should forget about all of that.
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No, i should stop talking about it.
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It was very dangerous to remember,
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And it was even more dangerous to talk about it.
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I should forget.
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That's what they told me.
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I had tried to
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Cooperate, and i tried to forget.
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And now
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The war was over.
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That's how it looked.
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We had to stay inside our home.
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We could not go outside.
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And you could very clearly see
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That the german soldiers had lost the war somewhere.
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I still knew that they had made everyone i loved cry.
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Everyone had always been crying all around me.
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And it was because of those horrible soldiers.
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And they were marching.
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Now they were defeated.
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And it made me very happy.
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And then all of a sudden, i saw a couple,
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A man and a woman on bikes.
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There was a curfew.
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How could they be outside? it was very dangerous.
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Someone could shoot them and they didn't seem to care.
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They were cycling through the streets all alone.
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And i was standing in front of this big bay window
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Looking at them.
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And they looked at me.
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And when they looked at me.
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It shocked them.
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This woman fell from her bike.
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And men also dismounted from his bike.
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And he helped a woman to to to get up again.
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And it gave me a horrible feeling of a drama.
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A drama was coming near me and i didn't want any more drama,
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So not ever again.
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So i fled from this room and i fled to
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The only place which i where i could lock the door.
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And that was the closet.
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That was the bathroom.
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People knocked on my door and wanted me to come out,
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And i could hear voices and i could hear screams,
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And i decided i never could come out.
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But in the end, of course, i had to open the door.
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And i came out
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And there was this man, and there was this woman.
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And the woman
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Looked at me.
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And she came nearer to me,
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And she fell on her knees,
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And she put her hands on my head,
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And she spoke words
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That i saw, that i had forgotten,
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But i had not really forgotten them,
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Because when she spoke to him, i understood it again.
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I understood it immediately.
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She said
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With her hands on my head.
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She made him conservative.
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Garfield, india.
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And may god make you
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Like sara, like rebecca,
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Like as i feel and the.
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Which are israel's models,
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Arch models.
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And when i heard it's
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I knew immediately.
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And i said, mama, mother,
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This was my model.
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And i looked at the crying man standing there.
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And that's
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Daddy.
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Yeah, that was my daddy.
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My mother.
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It's a very, very great thing.
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After all she had been through.
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And after all, we all, all of us had been through.
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She kind of renewed
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The covenant that god made us and we with him.
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Can jewish suffering be explained in part, at least,
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Because they were chosen
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And then hated because of their favored nation status?
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Does being chosen necessarily lead to bad consequences?
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You know, there's
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A line in that famous musical, fiddler on the roof,
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Where tevye, in the quintessential
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Kind of shtetl jew of eastern europe, living
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In those little settlements that she has lived in.
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You know, in the late
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19th, early 20th century, he says, god, you chose us.
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Couldn't you have chosen someone else?
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So first of all, we have to understand that
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Jewish people are chosen for responsibility.
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It's a contractual agreement.
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And if we keep our side of the bargain and live according
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To that covenantal arrangement,
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Having a good relationship with god and with each other,
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Things will go smoothly for us, but if not their consequences.
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Everyone in negotiation understands that,
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Which means on the deepest level,
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I know it's hard to digest emotionally.
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But we jews, we always understood.
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And you can have letters of jews
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Throughout the ages talk describing horrible things
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Like your children being killed in the crusade.
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And it's funny, you never hear them saying it's
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Not really funny, but you never hear them saying,
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Where's god?
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They're always saying it's because we're not doing
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What we're supposed to do, that this is happening.
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So we we understand that with that very unique
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Responsibility and mission we have in this world
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Comes a very heavy price if we don't keep it.
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And the reality is, is that ultimately has to do
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With that relationship.
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Evil comes against us all the time,
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And it hides behind many different excuses for hating us.
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Whether it's the modern day accusation of israel's
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Occupation of the indigenous palestinians land,
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Or whether it's poisoning wells or bringing the black death
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To europe or whatever else we're accused of.
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But bottom line, we jews have always understood
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That we have a unique mission in the world
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To bring a certain reality to the world.
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We have been pushing the world towards that.
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And ultimately, all this suffering
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Is just a pushback against that mission.
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Why, then, do the
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Nations of the world continue to strive against israel,
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And in some instances also threaten her extinction?
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But the question is a very serious
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Question, like, why is everyone so against us?
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And you see, even today,
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You know, you can look throughout history.
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We were accused of so many things.
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Some of them are so crazy, irrational.
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But even today you look at israel, this teeny
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Tiny liberal bastion
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Of liberal democracy in the middle east,
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Which is the worst neighbor in the world
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With, with,
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With incredible intolerance and no rights and strife and its
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Unbelievably violent place and little israel,
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This free market, capitalist, open, liberal, multiracial,
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Multi-religious state.
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Yet the world goes nuts on israel.
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I don't know if people realize, but every year
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The united nations basically has 26 or 27 condemnations.
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General assembly, human rights council, security council.
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And every year
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Of those 26 or 27, 21 of them are against israel.
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I mean, no nation for its size has contributed
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More to the world in terms of innovation.
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You know, the jewish people have done
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So much for the human race.
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Don't go away after this short break.
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Doctor john tweedie returns with his teaching
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Our media today is filled with
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Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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It seems that the world is falling apart.
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This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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Israel must deal with the challenges
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Few other countries will ever face,
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Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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Most vulnerable citizens. yet
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For. one.
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As we've already seen in earlier episodes.
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Israel was in a special relationship with god,
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A chosen nation, a nation
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Defined by covenants that god made with israel.
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But israel's weakness was that time and again
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She violated the ways of the lord
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And swung into rebellion and idolatry,
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Which were an affront in the sight of almighty god.
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One of the earliest examples of this, and amazingly, it
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Occurs soon after god delivers them out of bondage in egypt.
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After they've seen the miracles of the waters
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Of the red sea opening and standing up on either side,
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And of god's privilege of providing food
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In the wilderness and water out of the rocks.
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Still, israel could question the ways of the lord.
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Then moses said, consecrate yourselves today
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To the lord, that he may be stolen.
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You are blessing this day.
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For every man has opposed his son and his brother.
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In other words, it was a civil war
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Within the camp of israel.
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But that wasn't all.
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There would be other times when israel would fall short
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Of the standards of almighty god, and judgment
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Would come again and again.
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And we find another judgment occurring in the book
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Of the prophet jeremiah.
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In the time of the kings of israel, in jeremiah chapter
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Three.
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Here is jeremiah's lament.
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Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband,
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So have you dealt treacherously with me?
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O house of israel, says the lord.
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A voice was heard on the desolate heights,
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Weeping, and supplications of the children of israel.
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For they have perverted their way.
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They have forgotten the lord our god.
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And when we moved to chapter 25 of jeremiah,
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Specific judgment falls upon israel.
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And these words jeremiah 25, in verse
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Eight, therefore, thus says the lord of hosts.
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Because you have not heard my words.
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This is the judgment of god
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Spoken through the prophet jeremiah.
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Behold, i will send and take
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All the families of the north, says the lord.
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I, nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon, my servant,
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And will bring them against this land.
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Against its inhabitants.
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And against these nations all around,
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And will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment
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Rising on a perpetual desolations.
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Moreover, i will take from them the voice of mirth,
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And the voice of gladness,
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The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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The sung sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
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And this whole land shall be a desolation.
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And as an astonishment.
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And these nations shall serve the king of babylon.
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70 years.
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That's how specific this judgment was.
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The first destruction of jerusalem.
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The temple
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By the armies of babylon under king nebuchadnezzar.
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But jeremiah says that that dispersion
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Will last for 70 years, and then israel
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Will return to her nation, her homeland.
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And we know from history
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That after that the temple would be built again.
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But first the judgment.
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First the dispersion.
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But then the return will come.
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And we read about the return.
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In fact,
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It was prophesied that god would raise up a persian king
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Named cyrus, who would bring about help israel
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To return to her ethnic homeland, the promised land.
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In ezra chapter one, these words.
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Now in the first year of cyrus, king of persia.
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But the word of the lord
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By the mouth of jeremiah might be fulfilled.
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The lord stirred up the spirit of cyrus, king of persia.
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He was a pagan persian king.
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And he is the king whose empire displaced the babylonian empire
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That had been ruled
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By nebuchadnezzar the great, the king who conquered jerusalem
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And caused that first dispersion of israel out of the land.
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So now god is using another pagan king,
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This time to bring about the restoration of israel.
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So god says, the lord stirred
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Up the spirit of cyrus, king of persia.
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So they made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
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And also put it in writing, saying, thus says cyrus,
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King of persia.
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All the kingdoms of the earth,
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The lord god of heaven has given me, and he has commanded me
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To build them a house at jerusalem.
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Edom, which is in judah, meaning in the holy land.
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Who is among you of his people?
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May his god be with him.
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And let him go up to jerusalem, which is in judah,
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And build the house of the lord god of israel.
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He is god, which is in jerusalem.
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This is the amazing proclamation on the lips of a pagan king
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Who was not jewish.
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Ezra chapter one, verse four.
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And whoever is left in any place where he dwells.
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Let the men of his place help him with silver and gold,
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With goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings
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For the house of god which is in jerusalem.
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So this persian pagan king
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Wants to see this temple rebuilt in jerusalem,
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But it's because the lord has touched his heart.
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And throughout history,
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God can use pagans who don't even believe in him necessarily.
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But we read here
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And there in this text that cyrus at least believed
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In the god of israel and was willing and believe that
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His heart had been stirred up by the god of israel
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To help the people of israel out of their dispersion
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And back to the holy land, were they belonged.
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Now, the amazing thing is that cyrus was named
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Some 150 years before he was even born.
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God saw the future, and god was going to raise him up
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And have him help israel.
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And we find the record, this time on the lips of the
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Prophet isaiah in chapter 44.
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Thus says the lord your redeemer, and he who formed you
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From the womb, i am the lord, who makes all things.
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Who stretches out the heavens all alone,
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Who spreads abroad the earth by myself,
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Who frustrates the signs of the battlers and drives
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Diviners mad, who turns wise men backward
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And makes their knowledge foolishness,
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Who confirms the word of his servant
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And performs the counsel of his messengers.
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Who says to jerusalem, you shall be inhabited
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To the cities of judah you shall be built,
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And i will raise up her waste places.
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Who says to the deep, be dry, and i will dry up your rivers?
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Then this verse, this prophecy of cyrus, the persian king
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Who hasn't even been born, but isaiah prophesies his birth.
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Verse
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28, who says of cyrus, he is my shepherd,
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And he shall perform all my pleasure,
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Saying to jerusalem, you shall be built,
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And to the temple your foundation shall be laid.
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Thus says the lord to his anointed, to cyrus,
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Whose right hand i have helped to subdue nations
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Before him, and list the armor of kings
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To open before him the double doors,
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So that the gates will not be shut.
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And this of cyrus,
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I will go before you and make the crooked places straight.
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I will break in pieces
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The gates of bronze, and cut the bars of irons.
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I will give you the treasures of darkness
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And hidden riches of secret places.
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Because god was raising up cyrus to be his instrument.
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In the same way nebuchadnezzar was used to bring judgment
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On judah and jerusalem.
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Cyrus is going to be a benevolent
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King, raised up at another time.
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His birth prophesied in advance,
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And he would be a friend of israel and the jewish people.
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So that completed the first dispersion of israel
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By the babylonians, but their return under cyrus.
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But there was another major
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Dispersion to come much later in israel's history.
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Behind me, an aqueduct of rome
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That's been standing here for nearly 2000 years,
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Bringing water
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From the mountains of carmel to the north in that direction,
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And carrying the water south
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To the roman port city of caesarea,
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Which had an estimated population
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Of some 20,000 people.
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Now the aqueduct still stands.
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Nearly 2000 years later, but the empire of rome
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Has long since disappeared under the sands of time.
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And yet, here i am, standing by this roman aqueduct,
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A symbol of the roman empire that no longer exists.
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But i am giving this teaching by the mediterranean sea.
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In the land of israel that today, in the opening
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Decades of the 21st century, is prospering as never before.
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And this, in its fight to survive in a very tough
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Neighborhood and against all odds.
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And of course, as we think of
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The 20th century and the second world war
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And the incredible price that israel paid
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In blood in that terrible european holocaust,
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When the nazis tried to wipe out
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All of the jews of europe as a first step,
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And had they conquered europe and the rest of the world, then
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There would have been no jews left.
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But god had plans and purposes for israel written large
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In the pages of scripture.
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And as i stand here today,
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Even though there have been dispersions and difficult times,
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And israel has time
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And again nearly been extinguished, but not quite.
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Here she sits, the jewel at the end of the mediterranean sea.
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And reflecting still
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The glory of heaven, representing here
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And around the world the god of israel, who.
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Stay tuned for more from doctor john tweedy after this break.
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If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
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The bible says,
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If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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And believe in your heart that god raised him
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From the dead, you will be saved.
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C4i, that simply means we are christians
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Who care about israel,
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And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
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Because they are suffering so much.
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First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
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7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
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And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
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We're here to help the less fortunate,
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The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
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Special children that need 24 seven care.
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But we can't do it alone.
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We need your help. please.
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You'll see the numbers on the screen.
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You'll see the websites that we have.
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Please go to the phone or go to the website.
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Make a donation.
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Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
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Thank you.
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With so much suffering in israel's past
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With two major dispersions, the first in 586 bc,
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Under the hand of nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon,
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The second under the romans in 1870
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That included the destruction of the temple.
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Much bloodshed in the streets of jerusalem, and a dispersion
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That tossed the jews out of israel into all nations,
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And in fact lasted from 1870 with the destruction
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Of the temple by the romans
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Until 1948 and the rebirth of israel.
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That second dispersion lasted 1878 years.
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But today israel is back in the holy land.
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The promised land,
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According to god's covenant, promises to her.
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How do we explain that?
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Well, we could say in part it was jewish determination.
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It would.
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We could say that the people of the book, of this holy book,
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That they kept the book in their dispersion
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And the book kept them.
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That would be one explanation, a determination to
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And probably, we would say, a god
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Given determination to find their way home.
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However long it took them, even
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Almost 20 centuries, but determined to come home.
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Which is why,
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They would say, down through the centuries
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And even probably during the holocaust, when things were
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Bleak.
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Next year in jerusalem, because they knew the promises
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Of their prophets
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And they believed that god would keep his word.
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But let me conclude this episode with just one promise.
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It's found again on the lips of jeremiah in chapter 32.
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In verse 41, these words.
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Yes, this is god speaking through jeremiah.
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Yes, i will rejoice over them.
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To do them good.
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I will assuredly plant them in this land, in this holy land,
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With all my heart and with all my soul.
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As far as i know, that's the one verse
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In all of the bible where god reveals his heart and soul
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As it concerns the people of israel.
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I will surely plant them in this land
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With all my heart and with all my soul.
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And if they understood that
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Scripture, then they could cling to hope
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And know that one day they would return
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To zion, to israel.
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