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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - The Sacred Temple Mount

November 6, 2025 | 28:40

John Tweedie - The Sacred Temple Mount
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 Sacred Temple Mount | November 6, 2025
  • Directly behind me, the temple mount.
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  • But what is the temple mount?
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  • And why is it so important to the people of israel?
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  • The answers next.
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  • In this episode of the prophetic connection,
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  • Soft music
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  • I need only one verse to answer the question of why
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  • The temple mount is important to the people of israel.
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  • It's found in the book of kings, first kings chapter nine,
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  • Verse three.
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  • And the context for the verse is the consecration
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  • Of the first temple of solomon
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  • That stood on the temple mount behind me.
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  • But listen to what god says when he spoke
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  • To solomon, and this verse records it.
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  • Verse three.
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  • First kings nine and the lord said to him, to solomon,
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  • I have heard your prayer and your supplication
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  • Which you have made before me.
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  • I have consecrated this house, meaning the first temple
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  • Which you have
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  • Built to put my name there forever,
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  • And my eyes and my heart will be there
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  • Perpetually.
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  • So god says that he watches over this sacred
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  • Holy temple mount.
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  • That's why it's also important
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  • To the jewish people.
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  • The temple mount in jerusalem
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  • Is the holiest site on earth to the jewish people.
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  • It's also the most contested piece of real estate
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  • In the entire world.
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  • But why has this 20 acre parcel of land
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  • Being so important to all jews everywhere
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  • And in all generations?
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  • Why is it really non-negotiable?
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  • Because it is non-negotiable.
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  • You can talk about a palestinian state.
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  • You can discuss it, but not in the context of the jewish people
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  • Giving up the rights
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  • To the temple mount and even access to it. why?
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  • It's non-negotiable.
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  • Because it's central to are the system called the torah.
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  • And our mission in history would be the nation.
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  • That's a light to nations.
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  • If you go to the 24 books of the hebrew bible
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  • And the book of genesis
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  • And the five books of moses, jerusalem is mentioned.
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  • And a lot of that story takes place
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  • Outside the land of israel.
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  • But in genesis, chapter 12 and chapter 14,
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  • It talks about, first of all, the the victory of abraham's
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  • Battle over the four kings, over the five kings.
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  • And he goes and melchizedek, the king of salem, salem
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  • Comes out to meet abraham with bread and wine,
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  • And he was a priest to god most high.
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  • That is the priest, you know, jewish name for the city,
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  • You know.
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  • And fast forward to the story of the binding of isaac story,
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  • Where god tells abraham
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  • Was living in the south of the country
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  • To take your son, travel three days and off
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  • And upon one of the mountains, that i will tell you.
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  • And people always ask me,
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  • Why did abraham pick that little insignificant hill?
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  • And if you stand at the top where the gold dome is today,
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  • The hills that are round you, the mount of olives in there,
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  • And the upper city, which is the jewish quarter
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  • And jaffa gate, or higher, it says in the psalms,
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  • Jerusalem, the mountains surround you.
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  • So what that little hill might lack in size,
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  • It makes up for in spiritual spirituality and intensity.
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  • It is the natural point of connectivity.
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  • Some people ask me, why did abraham pick the spot?
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  • I say abraham didn't pick the spot.
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  • God picked the spot.
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  • And then they asked me, why did god pick the spot?
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  • And i said,
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  • I don't know
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  • Why god picked that specific spot,
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  • But that little hill is the place
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  • Where you can connect better than anywhere else.
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  • Like the you're looking for the place for the best wi-fi.
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  • When you're on
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  • Traveling around europe to upload your instagram videos,
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  • You don't want to stand outside the cafe
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  • Which has one little bar.
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  • You want to be one near the coffee house
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  • That has five bars lit up because it's high speed upload.
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  • So that place is a place we obsess on jewish tradition,
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  • Says the top of mount moriah, where today that islamic shrine,
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  • Which is called the dome of the rock
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  • Stands, is over the piece of rock
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  • Which was the site of the binding isaac
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  • Isaac story,
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  • Which god himself designates as the place of connectivity.
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  • Once we get past the five books of moses
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  • Jerusalem, we mentioned 669 times.
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  • Zion.
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  • Mount zion, which is today, is a place
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  • Outside of the zion gate called mount zion.
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  • It's actually not mount zion.
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  • The real mount zion is mount moriah.
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  • It's the exact same spot that's mentioned 158 times.
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  • And then shalem was salem and maria moriah
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  • Almost a thousand times.
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  • We mentioned this hill. we're obsessed on it
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  • As the intrinsically holy spiritual site.
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  • And since we jews are not just a nation, we're also a faith.
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  • We're and we're a religious nation.
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  • We pick our capital city not for political reasons
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  • Or trade, like every other major city
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  • Is on nearby water london, paris, rome, new york.
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  • But because of the spiritual,
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  • The intrinsic spirituality that the created,
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  • The universe embeds in that spot.
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  • So combine that with
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  • Understanding of the holiest object
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  • In the world for the jewish people is this tabernacle
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  • Is prefabricated structure, which is a courtyard with a tent
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  • With two rooms.
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  • The inner room is the holy of holies,
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  • In which the ark of the covenant was kept,
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  • Which is that wooden box with gold on
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  • The inside, gold on the outside, in which the tablets
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  • That moses brings down to mount sinai are in.
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  • That structure is unbelievably important.
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  • Part of the system of judaism.
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  • A huge chunk of the commandments of the 613 commandments
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  • That judaism have are related to that building.
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  • Without that building, only 369 of the 613 are applicable
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  • That structural.
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  • We will wander around the desert for 40 years,
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  • Whether it will cross the jordan river
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  • Under joshua conquer and of the land
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  • Leaving jerusalem as a non-jewish city
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  • In the heart of a jewish country
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  • For 440 years, for the entire period of time
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  • Of judges, only in the reign of the second king of israel.
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  • Who is david, from whom all future
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  • Kings will come, including the messiah.
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  • He says, now that we have a royal bloodline dynasty,
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  • Now we need a proper capital city
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  • And the only place we can pick being a spiritual nation
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  • With a unique mission to be a light to nations,
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  • Is going to be that seemingly insignificant hill.
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  • And we're going to take
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  • What is the holiest object that tabernacle
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  • And make a permanent version of it,
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  • Like an appliance with a unique plug
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  • That only plugs into one outlet.
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  • It's like taking it's like greatly magnifying
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  • The spiritual impact of that object in that place.
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  • Holiest object and holiest site.
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  • And from zion will go forth torah
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  • In the word of the lord from jerusalem.
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  • And what judaism has always understood,
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  • Because there was a temple there.
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  • First temple was there for 810 years, 70 year break,
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  • Second temple period of 800 and an excuse me,
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  • 410 years and then 420 years, 830 years.
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  • There was a building on that spot
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  • The romans destroyed in the year 70,
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  • But with or without a temple existing
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  • With or without a jewish state,
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  • Existing with or without jewish sovereignty on jerusalem.
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  • That site is absolutely intrinsic
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  • To our historical mission,
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  • And which is why wherever we are in the world
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  • As jews, we pray towards israel and israel,
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  • We pray towards jerusalem.
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  • In jerusalem, we pray towards the old city.
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  • And then the old city were praying towards
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  • Where the gold dome is.
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  • We are jerusalem obsessed people because that site
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  • And the building that stood on that site
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  • Is absolutely essential to us fulfilling our mission.
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  • And while jerusalem may today be holy to other people,
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  • We deem in going to the connection,
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  • The koran, by the way, does not mention jerusalem anywhere,
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  • And it might be holy to the offshoot.
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  • Face it later come from judaism, christianity
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  • And islam, but it's only holiest to us, the jewish people.
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  • So there can be
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  • No compromise on that, because a nation that gives up
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  • Its holiest spot to another people has no right to exist
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  • And will not survive.
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  • So there's nothing to talk about on that one.
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  • So any discussion then about a two state solution?
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  • Obviously, the temple mount
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  • As being given over to the other side.
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  • It's just it's a nonstarter.
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  • Absolutely.
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  • And by the way, the vast majority of israelis hold by
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  • That jerusalem has to remain under jewish sovereignty.
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  • Could a day be foreseen
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  • When a new or third temple will be erected on the site?
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  • Do you believe that
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  • A new temple will one day be erected on that site?
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  • Because my understanding is
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  • A temple cannot be erected anywhere else.
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  • That it it it has to be built
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  • In the original location that god chose.
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  • So the question then,
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  • Do you believe there will be a third temple
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  • Since the second temple was destroyed, in the year 8070,
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  • The short answer is yes.
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  • Since that building in what was done inside it
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  • Comprises a huge chunk of the whole system of torah,
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  • Which is the
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  • Spiritual legal system that's designed to enable us
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  • To function and elevate ourselves in the world.
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  • Without it,
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  • The system is incomplete, and it's part
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  • Of our understanding of the messianic era.
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  • That part of the job of that
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  • Individual who's a descendant of king
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  • David, who has the knowledge, the spiritual connection,
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  • The leadership skills to unite
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  • The jewish people, bring us back spiritually to our faith
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  • And physically back to our land.
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  • One of the things that
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  • The messiah has to do from a jewish perspective
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  • To get the title, because you don't get the title
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  • Until you complete the job, is to rebuild
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  • Not just the building, but to reinstitute
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  • All the practices that came in that building,
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  • Which are the animal sacrifices.
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  • The priesthood is put back into play. priest still exists.
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  • Cranium the name cohen katz,
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  • But they're not doing the job anymore.
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  • So it's absolutely
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  • A fundamental part of our whole idea of redemption.
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  • And that messianic period,
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  • Which is the great transitional period
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  • Between the way the world is now
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  • And and the world to come in the future is that that
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  • That has to be back in place again.
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  • Absolutely. so in your view,
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  • The messiah has to
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  • Come first for that temple to be built.
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  • I know there are
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  • There's talk today of the temple being and preparations
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  • For the temple to be built today.
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  • But your your point of view as a jewish person,
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  • Which is probably held by the majority of jewish
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  • People, is this is messiah's job to build the temple.
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  • So we have to wait until the messiah comes for the temple
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  • To be built.
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  • Don't go away.
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  • For. in the distance
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  • The jewish temple mount in jerusalem.
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  • One of the most controversial if not the most controversial
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  • Piece of real estate on planet earth.
  • 00:11:47.676 --> 00:11:51.013
  • It is that because it's there that the jewish temples
  • 00:11:51.013 --> 00:11:53.949
  • Once stood?
  • 00:11:53.949 --> 00:11:55.017
  • First of all, the temple of king solomon
  • 00:11:55.017 --> 00:11:57.153
  • And then the second temple, the refurbished temple
  • 00:11:57.153 --> 00:11:59.922
  • Of king herod, both of them built there
  • 00:11:59.922 --> 00:12:03.659
  • On the threshing floor that david purchased.
  • 00:12:03.659 --> 00:12:07.229
  • And david said that he he was offered the land free of charge.
  • 00:12:07.229 --> 00:12:10.733
  • But he said, no,
  • 00:12:10.733 --> 00:12:12.034
  • I must pay a price for it, so that we can erect a house
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  • For our god.
  • 00:12:15.271 --> 00:12:16.438
  • So david paid the price and bought the land
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  • Legitimately from its original order.
  • 00:12:19.775 --> 00:12:23.412
  • But all down through the centuries
  • 00:12:23.412 --> 00:12:24.880
  • That has been a place of controversy.
  • 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:26.982
  • It represents the heart of the jewish nation
  • 00:12:26.982 --> 00:12:29.952
  • Because it represents the heart of god.
  • 00:12:29.952 --> 00:12:33.189
  • Listen to these words on the lips of the psalmist
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  • In psalm 132.
  • 00:12:36.525 --> 00:12:38.594
  • In verses 13 and 14, which answers the question,
  • 00:12:38.594 --> 00:12:42.498
  • Why jerusalem?
  • 00:12:42.498 --> 00:12:44.166
  • For the lord has chosen zion, and zion is a synonym
  • 00:12:44.166 --> 00:12:47.770
  • For jerusalem, and for israel for that matter.
  • 00:12:47.770 --> 00:12:51.040
  • He has desired it for his dwelling place.
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  • This is my resting place forever.
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  • Here i will dwell, for i have desired it.
  • 00:12:55.811 --> 00:12:59.849
  • Now those words were written, about 3000 years ago,
  • 00:12:59.849 --> 00:13:03.986
  • In the time of the psalmist of israel.
  • 00:13:03.986 --> 00:13:07.189
  • But sometime after that, the first temple was built there
  • 00:13:07.189 --> 00:13:11.427
  • Because the jewish people realized that this was
  • 00:13:11.427 --> 00:13:14.463
  • The place god had chosen.
  • 00:13:14.463 --> 00:13:17.800
  • And this is why every synagogue,
  • 00:13:17.800 --> 00:13:19.401
  • Wherever it is in the world, faces jerusalem.
  • 00:13:19.401 --> 00:13:23.372
  • It's why why jews, whether in jerusalem or
  • 00:13:23.372 --> 00:13:26.642
  • In places of exile, would direct their prayers
  • 00:13:26.642 --> 00:13:30.079
  • Toward this holy place, the temple mount
  • 00:13:30.079 --> 00:13:33.949
  • Daniel, was taken as a young man captive
  • 00:13:33.949 --> 00:13:38.254
  • From jerusalem by the babylonian armies
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  • In the year 586 bc.
  • 00:13:41.257 --> 00:13:44.293
  • More than 2500 years ago, he was the cream of israeli
  • 00:13:44.293 --> 00:13:48.264
  • Young people taken by the babylonians to be assimilated
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  • Into the empire that was babylon at that
  • 00:13:52.134 --> 00:13:55.170
  • Time, and daniel remained faithful.
  • 00:13:55.170 --> 00:13:58.574
  • It's an amazing thing.
  • 00:13:58.574 --> 00:13:59.942
  • He was taken as a very young man,
  • 00:13:59.942 --> 00:14:01.410
  • Probably a teenager, probably from a priestly family.
  • 00:14:01.410 --> 00:14:04.980
  • But even in babylon, a thousand miles or more across
  • 00:14:04.980 --> 00:14:08.550
  • The deserts, beyond jerusalem, on the horizon,
  • 00:14:08.550 --> 00:14:12.221
  • He remained faithful to god for the rest of his life.
  • 00:14:12.221 --> 00:14:15.758
  • The truth is, he never returned to jerusalem.
  • 00:14:15.758 --> 00:14:18.661
  • He served successive empires, but always his god.
  • 00:14:18.661 --> 00:14:23.065
  • And his prayers toward
  • 00:14:23.065 --> 00:14:24.300
  • Jerusalem were the priorities of his life.
  • 00:14:24.300 --> 00:14:27.569
  • But it pleased the rulers that ruled over him.
  • 00:14:27.569 --> 00:14:30.506
  • And he always found favor because god's anointing was upon
  • 00:14:30.506 --> 00:14:34.410
  • Him. and yet there was jealousy in the babylonian court
  • 00:14:34.410 --> 00:14:38.047
  • Because of daniel's a favor with the king.
  • 00:14:38.047 --> 00:14:41.650
  • And so they set different snares for him.
  • 00:14:41.650 --> 00:14:44.119
  • And in daniel chapter six, they set a snare that if anyone
  • 00:14:44.119 --> 00:14:48.090
  • Worships, any other god other than the king of babylon,
  • 00:14:48.090 --> 00:14:52.094
  • He should be placed in the lion's den.
  • 00:14:52.094 --> 00:14:54.663
  • Well, as the story unfolds in daniel chapter six
  • 00:14:54.663 --> 00:14:58.267
  • That we read in verse ten.
  • 00:14:58.267 --> 00:15:00.169
  • Now, when daniel knew that
  • 00:15:00.169 --> 00:15:01.270
  • The writing was signed, meaning the edict of the king,
  • 00:15:01.270 --> 00:15:04.306
  • Which couldn't be changed after it was signed, he went home
  • 00:15:04.306 --> 00:15:07.710
  • And in his upper room, with his windows open toward jerusalem,
  • 00:15:07.710 --> 00:15:11.347
  • He knelt down on his knees three times
  • 00:15:11.347 --> 00:15:14.516
  • That day, and prayed and gave thanks before his god.
  • 00:15:14.516 --> 00:15:19.021
  • As was his custom since early days.
  • 00:15:19.021 --> 00:15:21.857
  • So even in the moment of peril, when his life was at stake,
  • 00:15:21.857 --> 00:15:25.661
  • Daniel's first response was to direct his prayers, open
  • 00:15:25.661 --> 00:15:29.498
  • His windows toward jerusalem far to the west,
  • 00:15:29.498 --> 00:15:32.735
  • And get down on his knees and pray to his god.
  • 00:15:32.735 --> 00:15:35.671
  • And of course, they caught him praying to the god of israel,
  • 00:15:35.671 --> 00:15:39.341
  • And because of it could accuse them. then.
  • 00:15:39.341 --> 00:15:41.944
  • And he was placed in the lion's den.
  • 00:15:41.944 --> 00:15:44.680
  • And of course, the thought was, he will not survive the night.
  • 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:48.150
  • But it's a wonderful story, because daniel did survive that
  • 00:15:48.150 --> 00:15:51.120
  • Night, and the king, who was sad and sorry that he had signed,
  • 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:55.424
  • That he was actually tricked into doing it, got no rest.
  • 00:15:55.424 --> 00:15:59.261
  • That night, was up early the next morning
  • 00:15:59.261 --> 00:16:01.463
  • And rushed to the lion's den to see if daniel was still alive,
  • 00:16:01.463 --> 00:16:06.301
  • And then daniel called out to him.
  • 00:16:06.301 --> 00:16:08.037
  • Do not trouble yourself, o king.
  • 00:16:08.037 --> 00:16:09.972
  • I'm fine, because the angel of the lord stood by me this night.
  • 00:16:09.972 --> 00:16:15.344
  • This is the story of the people of israel in times of peril,
  • 00:16:15.344 --> 00:16:20.282
  • God's anointing upon them, god's favor with them,
  • 00:16:20.282 --> 00:16:24.553
  • And jews in exile, like daniel always said,
  • 00:16:24.553 --> 00:16:28.023
  • Next year in jerusalem they longed to come back.
  • 00:16:28.023 --> 00:16:31.226
  • But jews today
  • 00:16:31.560 --> 00:16:32.528
  • Who have come back now say perhaps next year
  • 00:16:32.528 --> 00:16:36.198
  • A new temple can be built in jerusalem,
  • 00:16:36.198 --> 00:16:39.368
  • And they long for the establishment of a new temple.
  • 00:16:39.368 --> 00:16:43.672
  • We read this promise prophecy, actually, of the new temple
  • 00:16:43.672 --> 00:16:47.309
  • That's to come in the book of ezekiel, in ezekiel 37
  • 00:16:47.309 --> 00:16:51.580
  • And verses 26 to 28.
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  • Moreover, i will make a covenant of peace with them,
  • 00:16:54.750 --> 00:16:57.719
  • And it shall be i never lasting covenant with them.
  • 00:16:57.719 --> 00:17:00.756
  • I will establish them and multiply them, and i
  • 00:17:00.756 --> 00:17:03.525
  • Will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
  • 00:17:03.525 --> 00:17:06.562
  • More so within this verse,
  • 00:17:06.562 --> 00:17:08.864
  • The promise of a new temple to be built on the temple mount.
  • 00:17:08.864 --> 00:17:13.402
  • The word forevermore suggests that it can't be
  • 00:17:13.402 --> 00:17:15.904
  • The first or second temple because they were destroyed.
  • 00:17:15.904 --> 00:17:19.341
  • But this temple will be there forevermore, permanently.
  • 00:17:19.341 --> 00:17:23.112
  • In other words, my tabernacle also shall be with them.
  • 00:17:23.112 --> 00:17:26.381
  • Indeed, i will be their god, and they shall be my people.
  • 00:17:26.381 --> 00:17:31.320
  • And the distinction between the tabernacle
  • 00:17:31.320 --> 00:17:33.288
  • And the sanctuary, or
  • 00:17:33.288 --> 00:17:34.656
  • The temple would be that
  • 00:17:34.656 --> 00:17:36.024
  • The tabernacle is more of a temporary dwelling,
  • 00:17:36.024 --> 00:17:38.627
  • While the temple is a permanent place for the almighty god.
  • 00:17:38.627 --> 00:17:43.565
  • And then god says, by this
  • 00:17:44.133 --> 00:17:46.502
  • The nations also will
  • 00:17:47.002 --> 00:17:48.370
  • Know that i, the lord, sanctify israel
  • 00:17:48.370 --> 00:17:51.373
  • When my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.
  • 00:17:51.373 --> 00:17:55.144
  • So when this third temple is finally built,
  • 00:17:55.144 --> 00:17:58.680
  • It will be a declaration to the nations that god
  • 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:01.917
  • Has been faithful to israel.
  • 00:18:01.917 --> 00:18:04.119
  • And the temple is symbolic of that.
  • 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.321
  • And the fact that once again
  • 00:18:06.321 --> 00:18:08.790
  • Dwell god dwells at the heart of his people.
  • 00:18:08.790 --> 00:18:12.528
  • Now it's interesting, these, these verses,
  • 00:18:12.528 --> 00:18:16.165
  • Are prophetic in nature.
  • 00:18:16.698 --> 00:18:18.534
  • And as we look at the temple mount today,
  • 00:18:18.534 --> 00:18:20.402
  • There are two mosques of islam there,
  • 00:18:20.402 --> 00:18:23.505
  • The golden dome of the rock, the mosque of omar,
  • 00:18:23.505 --> 00:18:26.975
  • And then to the south of it and closer to where i'm
  • 00:18:26.975 --> 00:18:30.312
  • Standing, the gray
  • 00:18:30.312 --> 00:18:31.480
  • Dome of the al-aqsa mosque, actually a working mosque
  • 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.450
  • Where muslims gather on fridays to worship their god.
  • 00:18:35.450 --> 00:18:40.088
  • And it's interesting that they're there today.
  • 00:18:40.088 --> 00:18:42.424
  • And yet this promise of a jewish temple,
  • 00:18:42.424 --> 00:18:45.494
  • Is found in the prophecies of the bible as well.
  • 00:18:45.494 --> 00:18:48.997
  • Now, how on earth is that going to come about?
  • 00:18:48.997 --> 00:18:52.234
  • The answer is that god knows.
  • 00:18:52.234 --> 00:18:54.803
  • But more importantly, god has promised that one day
  • 00:18:54.803 --> 00:18:58.740
  • A third temple will be on that holy site
  • 00:18:58.740 --> 00:19:01.476
  • And a temple cannot be erected anywhere else
  • 00:19:01.476 --> 00:19:04.112
  • But on that holy sacred site we call the temple mount.
  • 00:19:04.112 --> 00:19:08.750
  • And there's the irony in the story
  • 00:19:08.750 --> 00:19:11.320
  • Today.
  • 00:19:11.520 --> 00:19:12.221
  • It's called the temple mount.
  • 00:19:12.221 --> 00:19:13.722
  • And yet there are no temple standing on that temple mount.
  • 00:19:13.722 --> 00:19:18.227
  • But we have god's
  • 00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:19.795
  • Promise of a day to come when that will be the case.
  • 00:19:19.795 --> 00:19:23.532
  • And perhaps in realizing that different religions vie
  • 00:19:23.532 --> 00:19:27.135
  • For that holy site, it suggests to us
  • 00:19:27.135 --> 00:19:30.939
  • A future scenario where there will be again
  • 00:19:30.939 --> 00:19:33.809
  • A clash of kingdoms, the clash of religions.
  • 00:19:33.809 --> 00:19:36.912
  • And this has happened throughout history,
  • 00:19:36.912 --> 00:19:39.381
  • As people have fought over the land of israel
  • 00:19:39.381 --> 00:19:41.583
  • And over the temple mount itself.
  • 00:19:41.583 --> 00:19:44.253
  • Now, in the midst of all of that, we have other prophecies,
  • 00:19:44.253 --> 00:19:48.557
  • That tell us that the lord will come
  • 00:19:48.557 --> 00:19:51.960
  • As the defender of israel.
  • 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.862
  • The zechariah chapter 14.
  • 00:19:53.862 --> 00:19:56.231
  • We read these words, behold, the day of the lord is coming,
  • 00:19:56.231 --> 00:20:00.936
  • And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
  • 00:20:00.936 --> 00:20:03.939
  • For i will
  • 00:20:03.939 --> 00:20:05.007
  • Gather all the nations to battle against jerusalem.
  • 00:20:05.007 --> 00:20:08.310
  • Now this has happened many times before,
  • 00:20:08.310 --> 00:20:11.179
  • But as we read on in the context of zechariah 14,
  • 00:20:11.179 --> 00:20:14.916
  • We realize that there are events taking place in this scenario
  • 00:20:14.916 --> 00:20:19.354
  • That have not taken place before in the history of israel.
  • 00:20:19.354 --> 00:20:23.692
  • The city shall be taken, the houses rifled,
  • 00:20:23.692 --> 00:20:26.628
  • And the women ravished.
  • 00:20:26.628 --> 00:20:28.363
  • Half of the city shall go into captivity,
  • 00:20:28.363 --> 00:20:30.932
  • But the remnant of the people
  • 00:20:30.932 --> 00:20:32.434
  • Shall not be cut off from the city.
  • 00:20:32.434 --> 00:20:34.703
  • Why god intervenes.
  • 00:20:34.703 --> 00:20:37.773
  • And the next verses explain what god does.
  • 00:20:37.773 --> 00:20:41.610
  • Then the lord will go forth and fight against those nations
  • 00:20:41.610 --> 00:20:45.080
  • As he fights in the day of battle,
  • 00:20:45.080 --> 00:20:47.749
  • And in that day his feet will stand on the mount
  • 00:20:47.749 --> 00:20:50.252
  • Of olives, which faces jerusalem on the east.
  • 00:20:50.252 --> 00:20:53.755
  • Now i'm standing in west jerusalem and over my shoulders.
  • 00:20:53.755 --> 00:20:58.026
  • You have a panorama of the temple mount,
  • 00:20:58.026 --> 00:21:00.295
  • Mount scopus, and also the mount of olives.
  • 00:21:00.295 --> 00:21:03.699
  • I don't know if the camera can see them in this moment,
  • 00:21:03.699 --> 00:21:05.801
  • But we will give you a panoramic shot of all of this,
  • 00:21:05.801 --> 00:21:09.037
  • Because that's exactly what, zechariah is describing.
  • 00:21:09.037 --> 00:21:12.841
  • What the lord comes.
  • 00:21:12.841 --> 00:21:14.142
  • He comes to the mount of olives that you can see in the
  • 00:21:14.142 --> 00:21:17.646
  • Distance, and it's represented by the very tall tower,
  • 00:21:17.646 --> 00:21:21.416
  • Which is in fact the summit of the mount of olives.
  • 00:21:21.416 --> 00:21:25.387
  • And we're told that when in that day
  • 00:21:25.387 --> 00:21:27.456
  • His feet will stand in the mount of olives,
  • 00:21:27.456 --> 00:21:29.925
  • Which faces jerusalem on the east,
  • 00:21:29.925 --> 00:21:32.060
  • And the mount of olives shall be split in two
  • 00:21:32.060 --> 00:21:33.929
  • From east to west, making a very large valley.
  • 00:21:33.929 --> 00:21:37.833
  • Half of the mountain shall move toward the north,
  • 00:21:37.833 --> 00:21:40.302
  • And half of it toward the south, meaning the ridge
  • 00:21:40.302 --> 00:21:44.740
  • That you can see in the distance will be split into.
  • 00:21:44.740 --> 00:21:48.410
  • My own interpretation
  • 00:21:48.910 --> 00:21:50.112
  • Is that there will be a valley created on an east-west axis,
  • 00:21:50.112 --> 00:21:53.882
  • Right through the mountain, that you can see behind me,
  • 00:21:53.882 --> 00:21:56.818
  • And probably that will create a gap that leads right
  • 00:21:56.818 --> 00:22:00.355
  • Up to the golden eastern gate, which today is sealed.
  • 00:22:00.355 --> 00:22:04.659
  • But perhaps in that moment would be miraculously opened,
  • 00:22:04.659 --> 00:22:08.463
  • Triggered by the messiah's feet touching
  • 00:22:08.463 --> 00:22:12.267
  • The mount of olives.
  • 00:22:12.267 --> 00:22:14.936
  • So, to put it in perspective, if there are battles
  • 00:22:14.936 --> 00:22:17.672
  • Ahead, more struggles over jerusalem. but
  • 00:22:17.672 --> 00:22:21.109
  • There is also hope more about that after this short break.
  • 00:22:21.109 --> 00:22:35.991
  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:22:37.058 --> 00:22:39.494
  • The bible says,
  • 00:22:39.494 --> 00:22:40.562
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
  • 00:22:40.562 --> 00:22:43.432
  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
  • 00:22:43.432 --> 00:22:45.367
  • From the dead, you will be saved.
  • 00:22:45.367 --> 00:22:48.437
  • C4i, that simply means we are christians
  • 00:22:49.271 --> 00:22:52.441
  • Who care about israel,
  • 00:22:52.441 --> 00:22:54.643
  • 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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  • Throughout the
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  • Bible, god is depicted as the defender of israel,
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  • And the scenario in zechariah chapter 14 is that god
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  • Intervenes when jerusalem and israel for that matter,
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  • When they are at the point of annihilation once again,
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  • And it is this time it is the messiah who comes,
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  • And his feet touch the mount of olives and
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  • As zechariah describes what happens next,
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  • He does it prophetically.
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  • And there is what sounds like a description
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  • Of a thermonuclear war.
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  • But it could also be just as easily
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  • The fire and brimstone
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  • That falls from heaven as has happened in times past.
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  • But beyond all of that carnage, remember,
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  • This is god's intervention
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  • Against the nations that come against his holy people, israel.
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  • But beyond that, there is hope.
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  • And we read these words in zechariah 14
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  • Beginning in verse 16.
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  • And it shall come to pass that
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  • Every one who is left of all the nations
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  • Which came against jerusalem shall go up from year
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  • To year to worship the king, the lord of hosts,
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  • And to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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  • Ironically, we're filming these episodes
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  • During the feast of tabernacles.
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  • The last feast in the rhythm of feast in the jewish calendar.
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  • It's the final ingathering harvest.
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  • It's giving thanks to god
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  • For what he has provided in the harvest
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  • That have been part of that of past,
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  • But also, in a sense,
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  • Paying homage to him for the harvest to come.
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  • And in our christian context, we could liken it to the final
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  • Great ingathering
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  • Harvest of the believers before the messiah comes.
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  • But it's interesting that zacharias says
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  • This is the one feast of all, the feast
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  • That will be celebrated by the nations year after year,
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  • Jews and gentiles together.
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  • And it's so important to god that any nation that refuses
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  • To come will fall under condemnation and judgment.
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  • And it shall be the whichever.
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  • The families of the earth
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  • Do not come up to jerusalem to worship the king for us.
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  • This is jesus of nazareth, king of kings, the lord of hosts.
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  • And then there will be no rain.
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  • If the family of egypt
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  • Will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain.
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  • So there's choice in this.
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  • The the freedom to choose to worship the king,
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  • Or the freedom to choose not to worship the king.
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  • But judgment will fall on those
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  • Who will not worship the king of kings.
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  • They shall receive the plague with which the lord strikes
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  • The nations
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  • Who do not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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  • And this shall be the punishment of egypt,
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  • And the punishment of all the nations
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  • That do not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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  • And then this, as the book of zachariah ends
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  • In that day, holiness to the lord
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  • Shall be engraved on the bells of the horses.
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  • The pots in the lord's house
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  • Shall be like the bowls before the altar.
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  • Yes, every pot in jerusalem and judah
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  • Shall be holiness to the lord of hosts.
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  • Every everyone who sacrifices will come
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  • And take them and cook them.
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  • In that day there should no longer
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  • Be a canaanite in the house of the lord of hosts.
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  • So the prophecy says that only the righteous
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  • Will dwell before the lord our god,
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  • And it will be those who are summoned to come and worship him
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  • At the feast of tabernacles will be celebrated year after year,
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  • As the nations, as the people pay homage to the king.
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  • Thank you for watching the prophetic connection.
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