John Tweedie - Surviving Against All Odds

October 16, 2025 | 28:36

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 - Surviving Against All Odds | October 16, 2025
  • Why have the jewish
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  • People suffered so much throughout their history?
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  • Why is their very existence being threatened today?
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  • And why must they always fight just to survive?
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  • The answers to these questions next, in this episode
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  • Of the prophetic connection. to.
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  • God. oh! oh.
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  • Oh. oh.
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  • Oh. behind me you can see what remains
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  • Of an israeli tank facing the kingdom of jordan.
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  • A casualty in one of the many wars israel
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  • Has had to fight with the kingdom of jordan.
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  • And the tank sits where it was hit by shell.
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  • Here in the jordan valley.
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  • Why has israel suffered so much?
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  • And why is our history?
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  • One long series of wars.
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  • Of fights for survival.
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  • Well, moses gives us the answer
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  • In deuteronomy chapter 28, verse 15.
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  • But it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of
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  • The lord your god, to observe carefully all his commandments,
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  • And his statutes, which i command you today, that
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  • All these curses will come upon you and overtake you.
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  • And among the curses a constant
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  • Fight for survival.
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  • War after war.
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  • And even today, in the opening decades of the 21st century,
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  • Threats against the very survival of israel
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  • With her neighbors, threatening to wipe this tiny jewish nation
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  • Off the map.
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  • Who can adequately explain the modern miracle
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  • That is israel, reborn in 1948 as a jewish homeland on a narrow
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  • Slice of land at the eastern end of the mediterranean sea?
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  • Israel today can claim her rightful place
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  • Among the most progressive and developed nations on earth.
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  • Israeli scientific research continues
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  • To lead the way in virtually every field of human endeavor,
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  • Including high tech innovations such as the cell phone,
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  • Scientific advancements in the field of medicine
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  • So much to israeli researchers.
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  • Until israel's unilateral withdrawal from gaza in august
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  • 2005, israeli farmers were demonstrating again
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  • And again that they were agricultural masters
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  • Who could make even the sterile sands of gaza fruitful.
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  • So much accomplished by so few in such a short time.
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  • This is the mystery and miracle that is israel
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  • In the 21st century.
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  • While the nations world should be thankful for all that
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  • Israel has and is contributing for the benefit of humankind,
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  • There are still those who do not rejoice in israel's
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  • Success.
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  • The jewish people have survived centuries of anti-semitism,
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  • Brutal persecution, and at times, periods of mass
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  • Murder, such as the european holocaust.
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  • Yet today, israel survives and thrives.
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  • But how can this wave of prosperity be explained
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  • Against a backdrop of such horrendous suffering?
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  • Israel has survived as a nation against all odds
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  • Over the centuries because of god's sovereign plan.
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  • God has made commitments to israel in the form of covenants.
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  • And israel is working out god's end time plan,
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  • And god is committed to see that that plan is accomplished.
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  • Another reason for israel's endurance as a nation
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  • Is the intercession of christians over the generations.
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  • In isaiah chapter 62, god says, on your walls of jerusalem,
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  • I have appointed watchmen who will give me no rest.
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  • They will cry out night and day.
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  • And i believe there have always been christians
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  • Over the last 2000 years in every generation,
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  • Who would stand in the gap
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  • And pray for god's blessings on israel.
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  • Does israel have a secret means of enduring?
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  • Does israel have a secret means of enduring?
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  • I mean, there's a means of enduring.
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  • It's not secret.
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  • It's stated over and over again.
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  • It's the most oft repeated,
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  • Probably theme in the entire hebrew bible is our means of
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  • Enduring is the covenantal agreement
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  • We have with the creator of the universe.
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  • I mean, we keep our side of the bargain.
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  • God keeps his.
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  • But what is unique is that god says no matter what,
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  • They'll always be a jewish people.
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  • The difference is, to the extent that we keep our side
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  • Of the bargain, having that relationship
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  • With god and with each other and proactively
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  • Being that god squad, pushing this message of one god,
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  • One absolute values on the world.
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  • To the extent that we do that and push the darkness out,
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  • Is to the extent that we will get through this
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  • Incredible human history quickly and painlessly.
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  • You know, as a greek,
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  • There's a great rule in physics that nature abhors a vacuum.
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  • Vacuums don't like to exist.
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  • They'll be filled with something.
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  • And we understand that if we don't fill the world
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  • With the values that come from god, that we're the conduit for,
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  • The world is going to be full.
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  • The opposite values, the opposite values are evil,
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  • And evil comes into the world that will target us.
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  • So yes, there will always they'll always
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  • Be a jewish people.
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  • But the journey is up to us.
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  • How many will be left at the end of the story?
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  • How quickly, how slowly,
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  • How painfully, how painlessly that will go.
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  • That is up to us.
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  • But for better or for worse, we're told, will survive
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  • Because our great great grandfather, abraham,
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  • Signed into a contractual agreement
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  • 3700 years ago that the jewish people,
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  • When we went from a family to a nation,
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  • Stood at mount sinai and said, not saving this man,
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  • We will do it, and then we'll listen.
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  • Just we're in, guys, just god,
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  • Just tell us what our mission is.
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  • And we agree, no matter what,
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  • To stick to that mission throughout history
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  • Until the goal is finally reached,
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  • Are bringing the whole human
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  • Race back to that relationship with god.
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  • But what does the near term future hold for israel,
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  • Given that she exists
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  • In one of the most unpredictable and volatile regions on earth?
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  • Israel's near term future
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  • Looks like what jesus described in matthew chapter 24,
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  • When he said, there will be wars and rumors of wars.
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  • Nation rising against nation, kingdom against kingdom.
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  • But in those same passages, jesus also said, see to it
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  • That you are not troubled by these things.
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  • They must come to pass.
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  • And he called them the beginning of birth pangs.
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  • We are today in the birth pangs of the end times,
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  • And these birth pangs are surrounding israel.
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  • The conflict between ishmael and isaac
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  • Is now in the process of being resolved.
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  • And so the near term future of israel
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  • Will be wars and rumors of wars.
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  • A lot of challenges.
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  • And yet god's purposes will be triumphant.
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  • Don't go away.
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  • After this short break, doctor
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  • John tweedie returns with his teaching.
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  • Our media today is filled with
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  • Traveling reports and disturbing news everywhere you look.
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  • It seems that the world is falling apart.
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  • This could not be more true for the people of israel,
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  • Facing threats of destruction from the neighboring countries,
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  • And calls for sanctions against or around the world.
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  • Israel must deal with the challenges
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  • Few other countries will ever face,
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  • Making it even more difficult to provide for her
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  • Most vulnerable citizens. yet
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  • For. as
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  • We saw earlier in the introduction,
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  • Israel had a choice.
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  • Choice was to obey god and be blessed, or to disobey
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  • God and suffer the consequences of that disobedience.
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  • Moses made this plain in the book of deuteronomy,
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  • Which is known as the book of second law.
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  • And so he reiterated to israel what god required.
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  • And deuteronomy chapter 28 opens
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  • With a whole list of blessings that would fall upon israel
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  • If she walked in obedience with the lord her god.
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  • But after the blessings are announced,
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  • Then the consequences of sin and disobedience.
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  • And they're the opposite of what the blessings were.
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  • But let me just read the curses that would come upon israel.
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  • And that's what they were.
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  • Should they disobey the covenants and violate
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  • The ways of the lord?
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  • And we read in verse 15 of deuteronomy 28,
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  • But it shall come to pass.
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  • And this is god speaking through moses,
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  • But it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of
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  • The lord your god, to observe carefully all his commandments
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  • And his statutes, which i command you today, that
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  • All these curses will come upon you and overtake you.
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  • Curse in the sense that they come from god.
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  • Cursed child,
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  • You be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
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  • Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
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  • Cursed shall be the fruit of your body
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  • And the promised produce of your land,
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  • The increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
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  • Cursed shall you be when you come in
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  • And cursed shall you be when you go out.
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  • The lord
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  • Will send on you, cursing, confusion, and rebuke,
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  • And all that you set your hand to do until you are destroyed
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  • And until you perish quickly because of the wickedness
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  • Of your doings in which you have forsaken me.
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  • The lord will make the plague cling to you
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  • Until he has consumed
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  • You from the land which you are going to possess.
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  • So you be displaced out of the land.
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  • And this happened.
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  • There were two major dispersions.
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  • 1 in 586 bc at the hands of the babylonian armies,
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  • And a second, in fact, an even worse dispersion
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  • That would last
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  • For nearly 2000 years at the hands of the roman armies
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  • That came and plundered israel and destroyed jerusalem.
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  • And with it the great temple.
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  • And then, of course, the latin diaspora,
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  • Which means dispersion into all nations
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  • And a dispossession of the land for nearly 2000 years.
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  • Then this in verse 22,
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  • The lord will strike you with consumption, with fever,
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  • With inflammation, with severe burning fever,
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  • With the sword, with scorching, and with mildew.
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  • They shall pursue you until you perish.
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  • I mean, very strong warnings, to israel.
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  • And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze,
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  • And the earth which is under you shall be iron.
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  • The lord will change the rain of your land to powder, and dust
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  • From the heavens.
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  • It shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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  • The lord will cause you to be
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  • To be defeated before your enemies,
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  • And you shall go out one way against them,
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  • And flee seven ways before them.
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  • And you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms
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  • Of the earth.
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  • And we wonder today why israel is maligned, and
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  • Anti-semitism is so prevalent in our world today.
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  • And god saying, i'm going to cause trouble
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  • Between you and the nations where i send you and.
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  • And then we read on and
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  • We go down to verse 45
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  • And to 47.
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  • Moreover, all these curses will come upon you
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  • And pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed,
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  • Because you did not obey the voice of the lord your god
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  • To keep his commandments
  • 00:12:55.243 --> 00:12:56.911
  • And his statutes which he commanded you.
  • 00:12:56.911 --> 00:13:00.582
  • And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder.
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  • And on your descendants forever.
  • 00:13:03.818 --> 00:13:06.421
  • And implicit in that verse.
  • 00:13:06.421 --> 00:13:08.957
  • The mockery of the nations, saying of israel, well,
  • 00:13:08.957 --> 00:13:12.126
  • We thought you were the chosen people
  • 00:13:12.126 --> 00:13:14.329
  • Because you worship what you said was the one true god.
  • 00:13:14.329 --> 00:13:18.967
  • And how is it that you have suffered so much?
  • 00:13:18.967 --> 00:13:21.803
  • And of course, we know that, this slander against israel.
  • 00:13:21.803 --> 00:13:25.773
  • Well, god speaks of it in ezekiel 36
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  • When he talks about the restoration to israel.
  • 00:13:29.010 --> 00:13:32.080
  • And then he says, i haven't done it for your sakes, israel,
  • 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.816
  • Because you deserve everything the nations say about you.
  • 00:13:34.816 --> 00:13:38.453
  • But i've done it for my name's sake.
  • 00:13:38.453 --> 00:13:41.623
  • And then this verse 47,
  • 00:13:41.623 --> 00:13:44.459
  • Because you did not serve the lord your god with joy
  • 00:13:44.459 --> 00:13:47.262
  • And gladness of heart for the abundance of everything.
  • 00:13:47.262 --> 00:13:51.566
  • In other words, all that i have done for you, everything
  • 00:13:51.566 --> 00:13:54.502
  • I have given you, israel, so quickly you forgot.
  • 00:13:54.502 --> 00:13:59.040
  • And so quickly you turn from following me
  • 00:13:59.040 --> 00:14:03.077
  • And you turn to your own selfish and wicked ways.
  • 00:14:03.077 --> 00:14:07.482
  • Now i share those scriptures with you from the lips of moses
  • 00:14:07.482 --> 00:14:11.953
  • Speaking for god to help us all better understand
  • 00:14:11.953 --> 00:14:15.523
  • Why israel seems to have suffered so much.
  • 00:14:15.523 --> 00:14:19.594
  • There are reasons for her suffering.
  • 00:14:20.361 --> 00:14:22.697
  • The primary reason is disobedience.
  • 00:14:22.697 --> 00:14:25.700
  • Violation of the covenants that god made with her
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  • And with no other nation on earth.
  • 00:14:29.871 --> 00:14:31.706
  • A chosen, privileged people who should always
  • 00:14:31.706 --> 00:14:34.709
  • Have been thankful, but who so very often,
  • 00:14:34.709 --> 00:14:38.813
  • Violated that covenant relationship and offended god.
  • 00:14:38.813 --> 00:14:43.785
  • So this is how we explain in part,
  • 00:14:43.785 --> 00:14:46.554
  • Sadly, a history steeped in blood.
  • 00:14:46.554 --> 00:14:50.058
  • I'm standing on the golan heights.
  • 00:14:50.825 --> 00:14:53.761
  • Behind me, the sea of galilee.
  • 00:14:53.761 --> 00:14:55.330
  • So i'm on the east shore of the golan heights.
  • 00:14:55.330 --> 00:14:58.266
  • And north is not direction south.
  • 00:14:58.266 --> 00:15:00.702
  • The other way.
  • 00:15:00.702 --> 00:15:02.036
  • And these golan heights were held by syria
  • 00:15:02.036 --> 00:15:06.407
  • From 1948 with the rebirth of israel,
  • 00:15:06.407 --> 00:15:09.444
  • Which occurred actually 1878 years
  • 00:15:09.444 --> 00:15:13.081
  • After they were dispersed from the land in 1870 by the romans.
  • 00:15:13.081 --> 00:15:17.151
  • So it was nearly 2000 years, a very long period of exile,
  • 00:15:17.151 --> 00:15:21.923
  • Which explains how we have jews all over the world.
  • 00:15:21.923 --> 00:15:26.094
  • And so the syrians held on to the golan heights, beyond 1948.
  • 00:15:26.094 --> 00:15:31.699
  • In fact, they held on to 1967.
  • 00:15:31.699 --> 00:15:35.303
  • And in 1967, in six days of
  • 00:15:35.303 --> 00:15:38.139
  • War, a war that israel didn't seek
  • 00:15:38.139 --> 00:15:41.242
  • But was forced to fight israel tripled her territory.
  • 00:15:41.242 --> 00:15:44.712
  • Her armies crossed
  • 00:15:44.712 --> 00:15:46.080
  • The suez canal, took all of the sinai peninsula.
  • 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.884
  • They captured the gaza strip,
  • 00:15:49.884 --> 00:15:53.454
  • The last phase of the six-day war.
  • 00:15:53.454 --> 00:15:55.590
  • And we're only speaking of six days.
  • 00:15:55.590 --> 00:15:57.725
  • The last phase was to capture the golan heights.
  • 00:15:57.725 --> 00:16:00.895
  • But take a look at the vantage point the syrians had.
  • 00:16:00.895 --> 00:16:04.732
  • Anyone who
  • 00:16:05.033 --> 00:16:06.067
  • Holds the heights has an immediate advantage,
  • 00:16:06.067 --> 00:16:08.736
  • Because they're more easy
  • 00:16:08.736 --> 00:16:10.705
  • To defend and so much harder to attack
  • 00:16:10.705 --> 00:16:14.042
  • And all down the slopes from where i'm standing.
  • 00:16:14.042 --> 00:16:16.544
  • And in fact, even today, in the 21st century,
  • 00:16:16.544 --> 00:16:19.047
  • All around in these hills, there are minefields.
  • 00:16:19.047 --> 00:16:22.216
  • Now there are cows grazing, and the land has been cleared
  • 00:16:22.216 --> 00:16:25.420
  • In many places.
  • 00:16:25.420 --> 00:16:26.687
  • And kibbutzim, communal farms are found on the golan heights.
  • 00:16:26.687 --> 00:16:31.826
  • So the land has been cleared and you have vineyards
  • 00:16:31.826 --> 00:16:34.762
  • And orchards and cows and all manner of things up here.
  • 00:16:34.762 --> 00:16:40.268
  • But to capture this and to make this dream
  • 00:16:40.268 --> 00:16:43.538
  • A reality was paid for in blood.
  • 00:16:43.538 --> 00:16:46.541
  • And as the israeli soldiers climb these heights against
  • 00:16:46.541 --> 00:16:50.711
  • Intense fire, they had to do it by crossing minefields.
  • 00:16:50.711 --> 00:16:56.117
  • So it's a vantage point to explain the price in blood
  • 00:16:56.117 --> 00:17:00.721
  • That israel has paid for disobedience.
  • 00:17:00.721 --> 00:17:03.891
  • But you can think of the
  • 00:17:04.425 --> 00:17:05.526
  • Second world war, which isn't that long ago,
  • 00:17:05.526 --> 00:17:08.529
  • And you can think of the 6 million
  • 00:17:08.529 --> 00:17:10.498
  • Jewish men, women and children who were,
  • 00:17:10.498 --> 00:17:13.401
  • Systematically killed by the nazis.
  • 00:17:13.401 --> 00:17:16.938
  • And what an incredible price that was as well.
  • 00:17:16.938 --> 00:17:21.075
  • And all down through history, disobedience led to catastrophe.
  • 00:17:21.075 --> 00:17:26.347
  • And the curses of deuteronomy 28, were
  • 00:17:26.347 --> 00:17:30.685
  • Realized, in bloodshed.
  • 00:17:30.685 --> 00:17:35.756
  • A succession of wars since 1948.
  • 00:17:36.390 --> 00:17:39.193
  • And i could just list the major wars.
  • 00:17:39.193 --> 00:17:42.630
  • But certainly the war of independence two
  • 00:17:42.630 --> 00:17:45.967
  • Bring about the establishment of israel,
  • 00:17:45.967 --> 00:17:48.836
  • Because when the first prime minister of modern israel,
  • 00:17:48.836 --> 00:17:51.939
  • David ben-gurion, announced that the new state
  • 00:17:51.939 --> 00:17:55.977
  • Barring its old name, israel was born,
  • 00:17:55.977 --> 00:17:59.981
  • The very next day, five arab armies attacked israel.
  • 00:17:59.981 --> 00:18:04.318
  • And so the price began to be paid with the rebirth.
  • 00:18:04.318 --> 00:18:08.656
  • 1956 the suez canal crisis,
  • 00:18:08.656 --> 00:18:11.692
  • And once again israel was at war.
  • 00:18:11.692 --> 00:18:14.962
  • 1967 the six day war, when israel captured
  • 00:18:14.962 --> 00:18:19.400
  • Where i'm standing, the property of syria
  • 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.770
  • And pushed the syrians far back, and extended their
  • 00:18:22.770 --> 00:18:26.407
  • Eastern border.
  • 00:18:26.407 --> 00:18:27.675
  • Much farther back than where it was before.
  • 00:18:27.675 --> 00:18:32.813
  • Well, the syrians weren't happy about losing the golan heights.
  • 00:18:32.813 --> 00:18:36.884
  • And in 1973, on yom
  • 00:18:36.884 --> 00:18:39.987
  • Kippur, the holiest day in the jewish calendar.
  • 00:18:39.987 --> 00:18:43.958
  • Other than, we might say, the sabbath, the weekly sabbath,
  • 00:18:43.958 --> 00:18:47.195
  • Which is important as well.
  • 00:18:47.195 --> 00:18:48.763
  • But on yom kippur, also known as the day of atonement,
  • 00:18:48.763 --> 00:18:52.433
  • The whole nation was at rest.
  • 00:18:52.433 --> 00:18:55.136
  • People were in their synagogues.
  • 00:18:55.136 --> 00:18:56.637
  • This was before the era of cell phones and rapid communication.
  • 00:18:56.637 --> 00:19:02.243
  • And the syrians attacked, on a 20 mile front
  • 00:19:02.243 --> 00:19:06.047
  • With 2000 tanks, and they overran
  • 00:19:06.047 --> 00:19:08.916
  • The golan heights and their tanks
  • 00:19:08.916 --> 00:19:11.085
  • Were actually overlooking the sea of galilee.
  • 00:19:11.085 --> 00:19:14.956
  • And again, the price was paid in blood.
  • 00:19:14.956 --> 00:19:18.526
  • It took israel three days to get her armies together,
  • 00:19:18.526 --> 00:19:23.231
  • And have the units mobile.
  • 00:19:23.231 --> 00:19:25.866
  • And the story is told, and i can't say if it's true,
  • 00:19:25.866 --> 00:19:29.737
  • But i've heard this story more than once
  • 00:19:29.737 --> 00:19:32.573
  • That the commander of the syrian forces
  • 00:19:32.573 --> 00:19:35.710
  • Felt that our attack was too successful, too quick,
  • 00:19:35.710 --> 00:19:39.113
  • And too easy.
  • 00:19:39.113 --> 00:19:40.414
  • There should have been greater
  • 00:19:40.414 --> 00:19:41.549
  • Resistance than we encountered. and.
  • 00:19:41.549 --> 00:19:45.286
  • And he was old enough to remember that,
  • 00:19:45.286 --> 00:19:47.955
  • Six years earlier, in the sinai, israel surrounded
  • 00:19:48.956 --> 00:19:52.493
  • The egyptian third army with a pincer movement.
  • 00:19:52.493 --> 00:19:55.596
  • They let them advance, and then they went
  • 00:19:55.596 --> 00:19:57.231
  • Random and two sides
  • 00:19:57.231 --> 00:19:58.366
  • And came in behind them and cut off
  • 00:19:58.366 --> 00:20:00.201
  • Their supply line from egypt.
  • 00:20:00.201 --> 00:20:02.436
  • And he remembered that he perhaps even
  • 00:20:02.436 --> 00:20:04.171
  • Fought in those battles.
  • 00:20:04.171 --> 00:20:05.339
  • So for whatever reason, the syrian commander
  • 00:20:05.339 --> 00:20:08.743
  • Halted his attack.
  • 00:20:08.743 --> 00:20:10.444
  • This gave the israeli forces time to mobilize, counterattack
  • 00:20:10.444 --> 00:20:14.682
  • And then push the syrians back off the golan.
  • 00:20:14.682 --> 00:20:18.319
  • I used to have an israeli guide
  • 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:19.854
  • When he would explain these things to me.
  • 00:20:19.854 --> 00:20:21.589
  • He would simply say, the finger of god,
  • 00:20:21.589 --> 00:20:24.659
  • The unexplained things that make no sense in the natural realm.
  • 00:20:24.659 --> 00:20:28.996
  • But for us, positions tell us that for all our
  • 00:20:28.996 --> 00:20:32.833
  • Failings, god shows up and is with us, in times of strife.
  • 00:20:32.833 --> 00:20:39.106
  • And when we're at risk of losing everything.
  • 00:20:39.106 --> 00:20:43.144
  • And then, of course, today, in the opening decades
  • 00:20:43.144 --> 00:20:45.980
  • Of the 21st century, the ongoing terrorist wars of attrition
  • 00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:51.619
  • And even as i stand here this morning,
  • 00:20:51.619 --> 00:20:54.355
  • Iran is agitating in syria not very far from here.
  • 00:20:54.355 --> 00:20:58.125
  • And you will hear here
  • 00:20:58.125 --> 00:20:59.393
  • And there the sonic booms of israeli jets going overhead
  • 00:20:59.393 --> 00:21:02.997
  • Or the blast of artillery shells.
  • 00:21:02.997 --> 00:21:05.766
  • We are close enough to syria to hear these things when they
  • 00:21:05.766 --> 00:21:10.738
  • Occur.
  • 00:21:10.938 --> 00:21:12.106
  • So let me put it this way.
  • 00:21:12.673 --> 00:21:14.909
  • As we think of the suffering
  • 00:21:14.909 --> 00:21:16.110
  • Of israel and her survival against all odds.
  • 00:21:16.110 --> 00:21:19.814
  • A few points.
  • 00:21:20.181 --> 00:21:21.015
  • First of all, it can be said that
  • 00:21:21.015 --> 00:21:22.883
  • Israel is suffering is due in part to the fact
  • 00:21:22.883 --> 00:21:26.020
  • That there are self-inflicted wounds because of disobedience
  • 00:21:26.020 --> 00:21:30.324
  • Or even wrong choices down through history.
  • 00:21:30.324 --> 00:21:33.361
  • Secondly, they are and remain a chosen nation under god
  • 00:21:33.361 --> 00:21:38.332
  • To reflect heaven's
  • 00:21:38.332 --> 00:21:39.533
  • Light, god's standards, and the world in which we live.
  • 00:21:39.533 --> 00:21:43.404
  • And here today they observe the weekly sabbaths
  • 00:21:43.404 --> 00:21:46.040
  • And the other feasts of israel.
  • 00:21:46.040 --> 00:21:48.008
  • In fact, the feast of tabernacles,
  • 00:21:48.008 --> 00:21:49.543
  • The last feast of the year, ended just the other day.
  • 00:21:49.543 --> 00:21:52.947
  • And so they still honor god in that way.
  • 00:21:52.947 --> 00:21:56.183
  • And because they are chosen nations, satan hates them.
  • 00:21:56.183 --> 00:21:59.220
  • And that helps to explain anti-semitism as well.
  • 00:22:00.187 --> 00:22:03.691
  • They are hated because of their special relationship with god,
  • 00:22:03.691 --> 00:22:07.661
  • And the nations who hate them
  • 00:22:07.661 --> 00:22:08.829
  • Probably don't even understand why they hate them.
  • 00:22:08.829 --> 00:22:11.499
  • And i would say simply, it is a spirit, a satanic spirit
  • 00:22:11.499 --> 00:22:14.902
  • That is bred in the nations in every generation.
  • 00:22:14.902 --> 00:22:19.607
  • But it all leads to a very happy place
  • 00:22:19.607 --> 00:22:22.476
  • After all the suffering and why they will survive.
  • 00:22:22.476 --> 00:22:26.080
  • And that is one day their messiah, their promised
  • 00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:29.316
  • Messiah, will come and he will write what is wrong?
  • 00:22:29.316 --> 00:22:33.587
  • And righteousness will reign in israel.
  • 00:22:33.587 --> 00:22:37.825
  • And israel has god's guarantee of that very survival.
  • 00:22:37.825 --> 00:22:42.329
  • Bilal, explain more about that after this
  • 00:22:42.329 --> 00:22:45.266
  • Very short break.
  • 00:22:45.266 --> 00:22:56.010
  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:22:57.077 --> 00:22:59.513
  • The bible says,
  • 00:22:59.513 --> 00:23:00.581
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
  • 00:23:00.581 --> 00:23:03.451
  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
  • 00:23:03.451 --> 00:23:05.386
  • From the dead, you will be saved.
  • 00:23:05.386 --> 00:23:08.456
  • C4i, that simply means we are christians
  • 00:23:09.290 --> 00:23:12.460
  • Who care about israel,
  • 00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:14.662
  • And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
  • 00:23:14.662 --> 00:23:17.465
  • Because they are suffering so much.
  • 00:23:17.465 --> 00:23:19.500
  • First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
  • 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:22.503
  • 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
  • 00:23:22.503 --> 00:23:27.675
  • And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
  • 00:23:27.675 --> 00:23:31.445
  • We're here to help the less fortunate,
  • 00:23:31.445 --> 00:23:33.814
  • The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
  • 00:23:33.814 --> 00:23:36.784
  • Special children that need 24 seven care.
  • 00:23:36.784 --> 00:23:40.754
  • But we can't do it alone.
  • 00:23:40.754 --> 00:23:42.089
  • We need your help. please.
  • 00:23:42.089 --> 00:23:44.191
  • You'll see the numbers on the screen.
  • 00:23:44.191 --> 00:23:46.460
  • You'll see the websites that we have.
  • 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:48.596
  • Please go to the phone or go to the website.
  • 00:23:48.596 --> 00:23:51.732
  • Make a donation.
  • 00:23:51.732 --> 00:23:52.967
  • Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
  • 00:23:52.967 --> 00:23:58.539
  • Thank you. on.
  • 00:23:58.873 --> 00:24:07.248
  • As we've already seen in this episode.
  • 00:24:08.082 --> 00:24:11.118
  • Israel has paid a very heavy price
  • 00:24:11.118 --> 00:24:14.488
  • For disobedience,
  • 00:24:14.488 --> 00:24:16.290
  • But not only for that, for also being truly a chosen people,
  • 00:24:16.290 --> 00:24:21.028
  • A nation chosen by god to reflect his standards
  • 00:24:21.028 --> 00:24:25.132
  • In the world, to reflect heaven's light in the world.
  • 00:24:25.132 --> 00:24:29.403
  • Well, israel is back in the land once again and once again.
  • 00:24:29.403 --> 00:24:34.775
  • She's having to fight
  • 00:24:34.775 --> 00:24:37.111
  • To survive against all odds
  • 00:24:37.111 --> 00:24:39.680
  • And almost daily threats against her existence.
  • 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:43.317
  • We were on the border with syria yesterday,
  • 00:24:44.251 --> 00:24:46.053
  • Very close to the fence,
  • 00:24:46.053 --> 00:24:47.788
  • And a young israeli officer explained to us that
  • 00:24:47.788 --> 00:24:50.824
  • The defenses are all always being tested.
  • 00:24:50.824 --> 00:24:53.761
  • There are people who are coming
  • 00:24:53.761 --> 00:24:55.429
  • Close to the fence dressed as shepherds, with flocks,
  • 00:24:55.429 --> 00:24:57.898
  • But they're really being paid for their services
  • 00:24:57.898 --> 00:25:00.668
  • To see if israel has any blind spots
  • 00:25:00.668 --> 00:25:03.637
  • Or places of weakness where she could be attacked.
  • 00:25:03.637 --> 00:25:06.840
  • And so these are, people posing as shepherds, as it were,
  • 00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:10.744
  • But on behalf of iran and the other enemies
  • 00:25:10.744 --> 00:25:13.047
  • That are also in syria, building bases, drone bases
  • 00:25:13.047 --> 00:25:18.018
  • And other bases with infantry and armor and so forth,
  • 00:25:18.018 --> 00:25:22.590
  • Just waiting for the opportunity to attack israel once again.
  • 00:25:22.590 --> 00:25:27.561
  • So while she's back in the land and rejoicing in the promises
  • 00:25:27.561 --> 00:25:32.099
  • That have been fulfilled through the prophets,
  • 00:25:32.099 --> 00:25:34.268
  • She can never let our guard down.
  • 00:25:34.268 --> 00:25:35.769
  • Because
  • 00:25:35.769 --> 00:25:36.971
  • In that moment of weakness she will be attacked once again.
  • 00:25:36.971 --> 00:25:40.441
  • This is the story of israel, down through the centuries.
  • 00:25:40.441 --> 00:25:44.778
  • And satan, always trying to take advantage
  • 00:25:44.778 --> 00:25:48.649
  • Because he knows this is the nation
  • 00:25:48.649 --> 00:25:50.718
  • That gave the world a savior, a messiah figure
  • 00:25:50.718 --> 00:25:54.822
  • Who for christians is jesus of nazareth,
  • 00:25:54.822 --> 00:25:58.459
  • And who promised to be coming again.
  • 00:25:58.459 --> 00:26:00.995
  • And satan will do everything he can to prevent christ
  • 00:26:00.995 --> 00:26:04.465
  • Returning to israel,
  • 00:26:04.465 --> 00:26:06.233
  • Specifically to the mount of olives in jerusalem.
  • 00:26:06.233 --> 00:26:09.970
  • But israel has a guarantee
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  • That for all her enemies may plot and plan.
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  • This is found in jeremiah
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  • Chapter 31, verse 35.
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  • Thus says the lord who gives a son for a light by day
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  • The ordinances of the moon and the stars, for a light by night,
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  • Who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar.
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  • The lord of hosts is his name.
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  • If those ordinances depart from before me, says the lord,
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  • Then the seed of israel shall also cease
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  • From being a nation before me forever.
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  • So this morning the sun is shining just through the trees
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  • And casting her rays of sunshine over the golan heights
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  • And down the slopes onto the sea of galilee
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  • And on to the western shore.
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  • And the city of tiberius sits on the other side,
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  • A large, thriving city today.
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  • Simply put,
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  • God has guaranteed israel's survival against all odds.
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  • He has a glorious future in store for her.
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  • And as long as that sun shines and the moon
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  • And the stars by night, god's guarantee stands.
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  • And israel shall survive.
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  • Thanks for joining us today on the prophetic connection.
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