John Tweedie - Why Jerusalem

June 15, 2026 | 27:29

Rev. Dr. John Tweedie calls on Christians to express love in action to the people of Israel by presenting a biblical perspective of God’s plan for Israel and the church.

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Why Jerusalem | June 15, 2026

Why jerusalem?
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And why do people call it the holy city?
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We will examine these questions
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And more in this new season of israel.
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The prophetic connection.
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Our focus this time, jerusalem, the eternal city.
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As the sun rises higher in the sky.
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Over the mount of olives.
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Where i'm standing. she casts her
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Rays on the golden, beautiful city of jerusalem.
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Jerusalem means peace.
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But what a turbulent history this holy city has had.
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The year a.d. 70.
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The romans destroyed the city completely.
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And with it
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The temple that stood on the temple mount behind me.
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In the seventh century a.d., the armies
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Of the muslims came here, and they captured the city.
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And in the distance you can see the golden dome of the rock.
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And just to the over my right shoulder, the al-aqsa mosque.
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Two symbols of islam and of the fact that they were here
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And also conquered the city.
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Around 1517, the ottoman turks
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Captured jerusalem, and their empire controlled
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This land for 400 years, ending in 1917,
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With the british army under general allenby rode in triumph
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Into the city and relieved it of its occupation back in 1917.
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This city stands at the crossroads of continents
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That's why it was so strategic, and that's why the nations
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Always fought over it.
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And it was a tug of war down through history over jerusalem.
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But none of these conquering nations ever
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Claimed jerusalem as their capital city.
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She was and remains until this day,
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The capital of only one nation.
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In history.
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And that nation is israel.
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But why?
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Today,
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In the opening decades of the 21st century,
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Jerusalem has become the focus of the nations.
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But why?
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What is it about this 4000 year old city
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That has captured the attention of world leaders
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Who argue that it should be divided, or alternatively,
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Internationalized for the benefit of all peoples?
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For me, jerusalem is the heart of it.
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It's the heartland. that's a great word. heartland.
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You know, people use the word heartland.
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Well, if there's a heartland in this world, it's jerusalem.
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Obviously, it's the capital of israel.
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It's the capital of modern day israel,
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But it's also the heartland of the yearnings
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Of the jewish people.
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For the last 2000 years, since we were evicted from this land.
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God was not happy with us.
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The romans came in and kicked us out,
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And now we're coming back.
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At the same time, there's another meaning
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For that word heartland.
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It's also the heartland for all humanity.
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This is where all the prayers around the world come in.
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When you pray to god.
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It goes up
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And then it takes a right or left, and it travels to
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Jerusalem and travels to that temple mount over there.
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And it goes up to god.
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This is the communication hub for spirituality between heaven
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And earth.
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The bible has more than
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800 references to jerusalem 3000 years ago.
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King david, israel's second king, was directed by god
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To choose jerusalem as the capital city of his kingdom.
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But this newly formed united kingdom of israel
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Was to be ruled by god's laws, with jerusalem at its center.
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Well, israel was chosen by god to be an example
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For all time of his kingdom.
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And it was god's intention from the beginning
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That he would rule israel as king.
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And he reveals, through his prophet moses,
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That he, intends and chooses to rule in a lawful way.
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However, in modern times, israel has has been
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Reestablished as a nation. and of course,
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We're reestablished as a democratic nation.
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But that doesn't mean that god has changed his desire
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To, have this nation be an example of his kingdom.
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And we're seeing that through the introduction of
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That, rather the restoration of messianic faith
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To the jewish people and to the people of israel,
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That there is this establishment,
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Once again, of god's kingdom in the hearts of people.
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And, prince to his laws of the spirit.
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First of all, laws that set us free to obey him fully
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And from from our hearts.
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And, with all of our strength
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And all of our our will and all of our mind.
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But these laws now have to work through the people of israel
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To bring about, a change in the in the culture
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And in the way the nation operates.
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But can an earthly kingdom based upon god's
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Righteous laws be properly ruled by mortal men?
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Governments have to do a lot of things.
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They have to mostly take care of their citizens,
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Keep them safe and throw out the garbage.
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Okay?
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Democracy is a great system for that.
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It lets you know when there's a problem
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In different parts of the country.
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People speak up and the government hears it.
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It's very useful way of doing business in terms of governance.
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Theocracy means that we're related to god.
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We hear his laws. we hear his ideas.
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We hear his spirit.
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Israel is a combination of those things on the one hand,
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It's a modern country with a modern army
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And modern sewage and busses and all the things that you need
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In order to run a real flesh and blood country.
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But on the other hand,
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Like on the sabbath, like on the seventh year,
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That we keep fallow, like on the jubilee,
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Like on the three festivals, we have cultural ideas,
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Spiritual ideas that need that you call theocracy.
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What many people forget
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In the debate over the status of jerusalem is that
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This holiest of cities has no parallel on earth.
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The bible declares that jerusalem was chosen
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By god as the capital city of an earthly kingdom,
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But this was to be a kingdom governed by heaven's laws.
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In other words, a theocracy.
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Jerusalem was to be the capital of a spiritual nation
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That would reflect god's righteous rule in all
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Matters of human existence.
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Obviously, it also has tremendous
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Spiritual implications.
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When you try to divide away
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The temple mount from the jewish people,
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When you
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Make a racially divided city, that's just not a loving city.
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See, jerusalem is supposed to be
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A house of prayer for all nations.
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It's supposed to be a place that unites and not divides.
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So the ideas of division are regressive, retrograde,
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And need to kind of pass by the wayside
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When you talk about it, about a big, united, strong city
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That encompasses all of its inhabitants.
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In other words, while jerusalem may have a diverse population,
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It must be governed according to the standards
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Of the one true god.
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The god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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Personally, i believe that god will rule israel completely,
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And you'll have something like a theocracy when he returns.
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And up until that time, god is ruling
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Through the hearts of people
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And through the political systems of our day.
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To bring about justice,
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To bring about righteousness and peace in society
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Through the organs of society, god's
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Working through society today and by establishing his kingdom
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In our hearts.
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But i believe the day is coming when god himself
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Will come to the new jerusalem
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And will rule not only israel, but all nations.
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Personally,
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And i believe then we can begin to talk about theocracy.
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Really, at the end of the day.
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It's what the people really want.
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The people do want to come back to judaism.
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They want to come back to the bible.
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And so this is their opportunity to do it in a modern state.
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So on the one hand, we got to have business as usual.
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We got to have the busses running.
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We've got to get the garbage taken out.
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On the other hand, we have a bigger goal.
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So somehow those things have to be fuzed.
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How exactly is it going to work out? we'll see.
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We believe that king david's descendant
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Is going to come back, that there's going to be a messiah.
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There's going to be a temple in jerusalem.
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How exactly is that going to work?
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We'll have to see.
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It's going to it's going to be exciting times.
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But the hybrid of a real country
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And the great destiny and goal of messianic times has
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To work together.
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As the prophetic clock ticks down
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Toward the coming of israel's messiah
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And the establishment of his messianic kingdom on earth.
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It isn't difficult to see that
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Jerusalem will continue to be a cauldron of conflict,
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Especially when the desires of many nations clash with god's
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Will and purposes for jerusalem and israel.
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Don't go away when we return.
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Doctor john tweedie continues his teaching.
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If israel is the center of god's universe
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And jerusalem is the center of that center,
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Then the temple mount, which is directly behind me,
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Is the very heart of the things god loves.
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I'm standing on the temple steps.
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These are the steps that the pilgrims would have used
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As they ascended up onto the temple
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Mount above, and walked through the colonnades
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Toward the glorious temple that stood up there,
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Nearly 2000 years ago, the second temple period,
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And then a thousand years
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Before that, the temple of king solomon stood there.
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It was destroyed by the babylonians in 586 bc,
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Before christ.
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And then the second temple that king herod refurbished
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Was destroyed by the romans in the year 8070.
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Now there are no temples up there,
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And yet it remains to this day the temple mount.
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Just up in the corner behind me, you can see an archway,
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And that presumably
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Was one of the entrance doors unto the temple mount.
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We know that jesus must have walked this way
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Because people entered the temple on these steps.
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Now i'm standing on an original step,
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But some of the other steps have been fixed
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And replaced of necessity.
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But many of the original steps are here.
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So jesus and his disciples came this way, entering the temple
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And it's very probable that jesus sat on these steps
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And taught his disciples and the rest of the people.
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But how did the temple get there in the first place?
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We read in the book of second samuel
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In chapter seven, beginning in verse 12.
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David is at a very advanced stage
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And near death, and we read these words.
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Nathan the prophet speaks to david, and he says to him,
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When your
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Days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers,
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I will set up your seed after you.
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Who will come from your body?
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And i will establish his kingdom.
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He shall build a house for my name.
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David was forbidden from building the temple
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Because he was a warrior king with blood in his hands,
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But it would fall to one of his sons.
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In fact, solomon, his son.
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He would build the temple,
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But david would make the preparations.
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He would raise the funds and organize the materials
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For the preparation
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So that solomon, his son, could build the temple.
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And then we read in verse 14, i will be his father,
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And he shall be my son.
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If he commits iniquity,
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I will chasing him with the rod of men,
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And with the blows of the sons of men.
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But my mercy shall not depart from him,
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As i took it from saul,
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Meaning the first king of israel, who sinned against god,
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Whom i removed from before you and your house
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And your kingdom shall be established forever before you.
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Your throne shall be established forever.
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So this is a covenant that god made with king
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David, that his dynasty would be eternal.
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And of course,
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We know that through one of his descendants, jesus of nazareth,
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The eternal dynasty carries on.
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So we read on from there.
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And now solomon, who's an experienced,
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Has a an incredible task on his hand.
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How will he build a house suitable for god,
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And to which the ark of the covenant can be brought
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And given a permanent home?
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Well, solomon had natural wisdom because he could ask of god
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The right questions.
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But then god gave him godly or heavenly wisdom.
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And here we read in first kings in chapter three and verse six,
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And solomon said to god,
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You have shown great mercy to your servant david my father,
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Because he walked before you in truth and righteousness,
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And in uprightness of heart with you.
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You have continued this great kindness for him,
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And you have given him a son to sit on his throne,
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As it is this day.
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Now hear the humility in solomon's prayer and plea.
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Now, o lord my god,
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You have made your servant king instead of my father david.
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But i am a little child.
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I do not know how to go out or come in, and your servant
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Is in the midst of your people, whom you have chosen,
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A great people too numerous to be numbered or counted.
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Therefore, give to your servant an understanding heart
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To judge your people, that i may discern between good and evil.
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For who is able to judge this great people of yours?
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Well, we're told in this passage that his plea,
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His prayer pleased the lord.
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And because he had asked, he didn't ask for riches.
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He asks for the wisdom
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And the understanding to govern god's people, israel.
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And because he asked for that, here's what god says in
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Verse 12.
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See, i have given you a wise and understanding heart,
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So that there is has not been anyone like you
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Before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.
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And i've also given you what you have not asked,
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Both riches and honor,
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So that there shall not be anyone like you
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Among the kings all your days.
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So if you walk in my ways
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To keep my statutes and my commandments
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As your father david walked, then i will lengthen your days.
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And it goes on from there.
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And it says in first kings chapter four and verse 29,
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And god gave solomon wisdom and exceedingly
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Great understanding,
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And largest of heart, like the sand on the seashore.
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Thus solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom
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Of all the men of the east, and all the wisdom of egypt.
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For he was wiser than all men.
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And it continues.
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And his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
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He spoke 3000 proverbs, and his sons were 1005.
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And people came from all over.
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It says in verse 34, came
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To hear the wisdom of solomon.
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And then we go on, and solomon sets about
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Building the house to the glory of god.
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And we read in chapter nine of first kings.
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And it came to pass,
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When solomon had finished building the house of the lord
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And the king's house,
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And all solomon's desire which he wanted to do.
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But the lord appeared to solomon the second time,
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As he had appeared to him at gibeon.
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And the lord said to him, i have heard your prayer
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And your supplication that you have made before me.
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I have consecrated this house which you have built,
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And listen to these words, the words of almighty
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God to solomon the king.
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I have consecrated this house which you have built,
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To put my name there forever.
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And my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
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So as i stand this morning
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On the entrance steps to the temple mount.
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And what was the temple itself?
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2000 years ago.
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And solomon's temple 3000 years ago.
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I'm standing in the very place.
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The place? the only place on earth.
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God said he would place his name, certainly at jerusalem.
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More than likely at the temple mount,
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And probably
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The temple site itself, and maybe even the holy of holies.
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And god said, promise.
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Solomon, solomon, my eyes will be there perpetually.
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So today god is watching over jerusalem,
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And he's watching over the holy site
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Just beyond the walls of the holy city.
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And solomon built that house to the glory of god.
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Now his fame reached the ends of the known world.
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And when we move into chapter ten, we read these words.
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Now the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon
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Concerning the name of the lord.
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She came to test them with hard questions.
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She came to jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels
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That bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones.
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And when she came to solomon, she spoke with him about all
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That was in her heart.
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So solomon answered all her questions.
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There was nothing so difficult for the king
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That he could not explain it to her.
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I like to call her the african queen because sheba
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Was in the region of what today is ethiopia and eritrea.
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But sheba was a larger kingdom than those two countries
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Put together.
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It covered a lot of east africa.
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So the queen of sheba, the african
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Queen, traveled a very long way just to meet solomon
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And to ask questions of him having heard of his wisdom
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And the splendor of of his kingdom in those days.
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Verse four.
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And when the queen of sheba had seen all the wisdom of solomon,
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The house that he had built, the food on his table,
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The seating of his servants, the servants
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Service of his waiters and their apparel,
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His cup bearers and his entryway by which he went up
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To the house of the lord, perhaps.
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I mean, there were several ways to go to the temple,
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But we may well be standing on the entryway
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Because this obviously was a grand entranceway
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Capable of accommodating thousands of people at one time.
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And perhaps the queen of sheba
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Ascended these very steps herself.
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And when she saw all of that, it says in the scripture,
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There was no more spirit in her, i think.
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She was so emotionally, spiritually overwhelmed.
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She was at a loss for words.
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And then verse six, then she said to the king,
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It was a true report, which i heard in my own land
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About your words and your wisdom.
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However, i did not believe the words
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Until i came and saw with my own eyes.
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And indeed the half was not told me your wisdom
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And prosperity exceed the fame of which i heard.
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And then she says,
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Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants
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Who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom?
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And this incredible profession of faith
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On the lips of the queen of sheba
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In verse nine.
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Blessed be the lord your god, who delighted in you,
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Setting you on the throne of israel,
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Because the lord has loved israel forever.
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Therefore he made you king
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To do justice and righteousness.
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Well, we know from biblical history
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That after this solomon he made errors in judgment.
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He multiplied to himself, wives and concubines.
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These were violations of the commandments of god
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And the kingdom was taken from him.
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In fact,
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It was divided in the days of the sun
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Between the northern kingdom of israel
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And the southern kingdom of judah, the kingdom,
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The grand kingdom of solomon fell apart.
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But remember what god had earlier said to david.
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Yours will be an eternal dynasty.
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Well, as we look at the ruins of jerusalem today,
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And we realize
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There is no longer a temple on the temple mount,
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We have to look to the words of the other prophets,
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And we have to realize that there was a descendant
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In david's line who came and who also, like david,
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Was born in bethlehem, not far from here.
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His name was jesus of nazareth, because he was raised
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In nazareth, but he was born in bethlehem.
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He is the king who rightfully can ascend the throne of david.
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And one of these days he'll be here again.
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And perhaps again.
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He'll walk on these ancient steps onto the temple mount
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And a glorious new kingdom will begin.
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When jesus of nazareth returns to the holy city that his father
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Loves, and where he has placed his name forever.
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Stay tuned for more from doctor
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Perched high on the hill behind me
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And currently under renovation is the israeli parliament.
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Better known as the knesset.
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A symbol of the only democracy in the middle east.
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Because israel as a democracy is surrounded by dictatorships.
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But in fact, israel is a unique nation called into being
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By god.
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When he called the man abraham, who became abraham.
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God, in fact, never intended israel would simply
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Be a democracy,
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But rather that this nation would be a theocracy,
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Which means a nation under god governed under god's laws.
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Now, ironically, this is the jewish sabbath saturday.
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There's very little traffic.
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There are some, but very little traffic.
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Many, in fact, probably most jewish people in jerusalem
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Have parked their vehicles and they will walk a short distance
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To get to the synagogue.
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But while there are some traffic,
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Most jews are honoring the sabbath.
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They have parked their vehicles.
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So in a sense, today at least, israel is as a theocracy.
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She's functioning under the laws of almighty god.
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Listen to these words.
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When moses was called to go to pharaoh and command
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That the children of israel be allowed to leave egypt.
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He asked god.
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He said, what shall i tell pharaoh?
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And god said, thus says the lord, israel
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Is my son, my firstborn.
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So i say to you, let my son go, that he may serve me.
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But if you refuse to let him go, indeed
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I will kill your son, your firstborn.
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And of course, because the pharaoh refused
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To let the people of israel leave egypt,
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God brought upon them
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Ten plagues, and the last plague was the worst of all.
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For it claimed the firstborn in the house of the pharaoh,
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And the firstborn of all living things in the land of egypt.
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God meant business with egypt.
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And when they refused to listen to him,
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Then they brought the judgment upon themselves.
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But there are other scriptures that we can look at.
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And this
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This one in the in psalm 121, which speaks
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Of the special relationship god has with this nation
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In verse four of psalm 121.
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Behold, he who keeps israel.
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Speaking of the lord god almighty.
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So neither slumber nor sleep.
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So that's a word on the lips of the psalmist, which tells us
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God has a very special relationship with israel.
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He looks upon israel as his firstborn son and,
00:26:23.508 --> 00:26:26.544
Like a concerned parent, watches over israel night and day.
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Israel today is under threat.
00:26:32.250 --> 00:26:34.619
Very recently under attack, with missiles landing
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Even on the city of jerusalem, the holy city itself.
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These are precarious times
00:26:42.027 --> 00:26:44.062
In the middle east for this democracy.
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If you like this theocracy,
00:26:46.398 --> 00:26:49.601
And the day is coming
00:26:49.601 --> 00:26:50.669
When jesus of nazareth will come to this holy city
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And he will rule and reign for a thousand years.
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That will be a true theocracy.
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Israel living, serving under the almighty god.
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We need to stand with israel today.
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I encourage you. go to our website.
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You'll see it on the screen.
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There are numbers you can call to pledge your support to help
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Israel survive as a nation,
00:27:13.992 --> 00:27:17.062
A very special nation under god.
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John Tweedie - Why Jerusalem

June 15, 2026 | 27:29

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