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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
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- And his statutes which he commanded you.
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- And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder.
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- And on your descendants forever.
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- And implicit in that verse.
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- The mockery of the nations, saying of israel, well,
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- We thought you were the chosen people
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- Because you worship what you said was the one true god.
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- And how is it that you have suffered so much?
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- And of course, we know that, this slander against israel.
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- Well, god speaks of it in ezekiel 36
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- When he talks about the restoration to israel.
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- And then he says, i haven't done it for your sakes, israel,
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- Because you deserve everything the nations say about you.
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- But i've done it for my name's sake.
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- And then this verse 47,
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- Because you did not serve the lord your god with joy
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- And gladness of heart for the abundance of everything.
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- In other words, all that i have done for you, everything
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- 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
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- 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
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- Speaking for god to help us all better understand
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- Why israel seems to have suffered so much.
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- There are reasons for her suffering.
- 00:14:20.361 --> 00:14:22.697
- The primary reason is disobedience.
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- Violation of the covenants that god made with her
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- And with no other nation on earth.
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- A chosen, privileged people who should always
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- 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,
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- Sadly, a history steeped in blood.
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- I'm standing on the golan heights.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- From 1948 with the rebirth of israel,
- 00:15:06.407 --> 00:15:09.444
- Which occurred actually 1878 years
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- 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
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- But was forced to fight israel tripled her territory.
- 00:15:41.242 --> 00:15:44.712
- Her armies crossed
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- 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.
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- Anyone who
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- Holds the heights has an immediate advantage,
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- Because they're more easy
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- A reality was paid for in blood.
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- 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
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- That israel has paid for disobedience.
- 00:17:00.721 --> 00:17:03.891
- But you can think of the
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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
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- And pushed the syrians far back, and extended their
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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
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- 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.
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- As we think of the suffering
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- Of israel and her survival against all odds.
- 00:21:16.110 --> 00:21:19.814
- A few points.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Very short break.
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- If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
- 00:22:57.077 --> 00:22:59.513
- The bible says,
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- If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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- And believe in your heart that god raised him
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- From the dead, you will be saved.
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- C4i, that simply means we are christians
- 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.
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- 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.
- 00:26:12.272 --> 00:26:15.476
- 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.
- 00:26:27.454 --> 00:26:30.090
- The lord of hosts is his name.
- 00:26:30.090 --> 00:26:32.593
- If those ordinances depart from before me, says the lord,
- 00:26:32.593 --> 00:26:35.796
- Then the seed of israel shall also cease
- 00:26:35.796 --> 00:26:38.999
- From being a nation before me forever.
- 00:26:38.999 --> 00:26:42.403
- So this morning the sun is shining just through the trees
- 00:26:42.403 --> 00:26:46.907
- And casting her rays of sunshine over the golan heights
- 00:26:46.907 --> 00:26:51.178
- And down the slopes onto the sea of galilee
- 00:26:51.178 --> 00:26:54.915
- And on to the western shore.
- 00:26:54.915 --> 00:26:57.017
- And the city of tiberius sits on the other side,
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- A large, thriving city today.
- 00:26:59.753 --> 00:27:03.090
- Simply put,
- 00:27:03.090 --> 00:27:04.491
- God has guaranteed israel's survival against all odds.
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- He has a glorious future in store for her.
- 00:27:07.961 --> 00:27:11.031
- And as long as that sun shines and the moon
- 00:27:11.031 --> 00:27:13.701
- And the stars by night, god's guarantee stands.
- 00:27:13.701 --> 00:27:17.705
- And israel shall survive.
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- Thanks for joining us today on the prophetic connection.
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