Join Matt and Laurie Crouch as they sit down with Rabbi Jason Sobel to honor Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Together, they explore the prophetic significance, the miraculous rebirth of the nation in 1948, and the ongoing relevance of Israel in God’s redemptive story. Experience powerful insights, biblical connections, and a celebration of God’s faithfulness.
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Praise | Jason Sobel: From Prophecy to Promise: Celebrating Israel’s Independence Day | Praise | May 14, 2025
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- - today is the 77th birthday of israel on our calendar.
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- Seven years ago, this became the embassy.
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- You're standing here now,
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- Just your general thoughts before we go into the show.
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- - the only explanation for the state of israel,
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- The only explanation
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- For what's happened in this country in 77 years
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- Is that there is a god and he intervened
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- And he's still intervening,
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- And he will continue to intervene.
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- And so, i wouldn't bet against israel.
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- - okay, first of all, it was may 14th,
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- Seven years ago that you and i were here.
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- A little bit of a different occasion.
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- This was a consulate, this was not an embassy,
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- And it was just being dedicated.
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- Seven years later, mr. ambassador,
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- Your chances in your mind back then of you standing here,
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- Standing in this office as the ambassador
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- To israel from the united states?
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- - well, i was expecting
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- To still be hosting a television program on tbn
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- For the rest of my life, so.
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- - well, look at this. - yeah, there it is.
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- That's that my little keepsake, look.
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- - yeah. - from the show.
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- - so. - which is pretty,
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- And i didn't just put that there for you, just so you know.
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- - all right, so the ambassador job,
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- What do you need to get done right here, right now
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- On behalf of the israeli people, the world in general?
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- - getting the hostages out,
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- Launching a humanitarian effort to get food into gaza
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- And keep it in the way from hamas,
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- Ending that incredibly horrible conflict
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- By rid ourselves of hamas,
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- And then trying to work to expand the abraham accords
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- And see that other countries in this region
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- Would make peace with israel for everyone's benefit
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- And everyone's better future.
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- - you've hosted a few tv shows.
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- Could you just do a little kind of look into the camera
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- And kind of welcome everybody and just say, you know,
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- "welcome to 'praise,'" you know?
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- - just like old times. - [matt] just like old times.
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- - welcome to 'praise.'
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- And if this job doesn't work out,
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- Maybe i'll be able to get another one.
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- - [announcer] tonight on "praise" from israel,
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- Founder of fusion global
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- And "new york times" bestselling author, rabbi jason sobel.
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- And now your host, matt and laurie crouch.
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- - my very favorite thing to do in the whole world
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- Is to sit in jerusalem, israel
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- With jason sobel, rabbi. - that says a lot.
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- - wow, i love this.
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- And you gotta verify one thing for our audience
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- That are viewing, this really is jerusalem
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- And it really is may 14th, the 77th birthday of israel.
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- Come on, everybody. - happy birthday.
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- - [jason] whoo! (audience applauding)
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- - and we're in jerusalem.
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- Okay, that's true, right? - [jason] that is true.
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- - [matt] at least on our calendar.
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- - that's right. - [matt] all right.
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- - on the calendar i looked at this morning.
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- - 77 years ago today,
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- There was a vote in the united nations in america
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- That set a chain of events off that led to today.
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- Here we sit.
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- Tell us a little bit of that story
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- And what really started happening 77 years ago today.
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- - yeah, let's rewind a little bit.
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- - [matt] let's do it. - so after world war ii,
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- The turks, who had the ottoman empire, fought with germany.
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- And so they had controlled this region before that.
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- And as a result of the allies winning,
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- The british were given the mandate
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- In what was called palestine at the time,
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- To govern this land and to come up with a solution
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- To how this land should be divided
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- Now that the ottoman empire
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- Was no longer the controlling power in this region.
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- And so they began to create many of the little nation states
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- That we see today throughout the middle east.
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- But there was a question about what to do with this land.
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- Initially, the british had signed what was known
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- As the balfour declaration, which was the acknowledgement
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- That the jewish people had a right to a homeland
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- In the place where the jewish people had always lived,
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- Where the bible had been written,
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- Where the great men and women of faith had come from.
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- They kind of backed away from that throughout the years
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- And kind of were retracting
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- From that commitment that they had made.
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- But things became so untenable for them to manage here,
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- They decided they were going to pull out,
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- They did not want to deal with the situation here anymore.
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- And so, it was brought before the united nations.
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- And in 1947, the united nations voted
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- On the un partition plan for palestine.
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- And basically that was approved
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- And what that said was that about 50% of the land
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- Would be given to create a jewish state in palestine,
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- And then the other half would be given
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- To the arab peoples that were living here
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- To create an independent arab state.
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- Well, the.
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- - there are peoples that were living here
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- Rejected the partition plan.
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- The jewish people here accepted the partition plan.
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- And then on the gregorian calendar, may 14th, 1948,
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- It was, i believe, the fifth of hebrew month of er, okay?
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- Ben-gurion and tel aviv declared,
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- They accepted the un partition state,
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- And they declared formally a jewish state
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- Known as medinat yisrael, the state of israel,
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- Here in the historic land of our people.
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- And there was great celebration.
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- Finally, after thousands of years against all odds,
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- There was finally an independent jewish state,
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- Not since before the first century
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- In the maccabees and the hasmonean empire,
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- Had that been the case.
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- And so this was historic, it was biblical, it was prophetic.
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- But then of course, the very next day,
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- We went from joy to oy.
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- And on may 15th,
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- A number of the arab nations around here,
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- Six arab nations came against israel
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- Who did not have a formal military.
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- And against all odds, supernaturally,
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- Without weaponry,
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- Without formal military training, coming not too long
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- After the end of world war ii and the holocaust,
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- The shoah, the death of 6 million jews, against all odds,
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- Everyone thought the israel be driven into the sea,
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- Wiped out, another holocaust.
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- Yet by god's hand, by god's grace,
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- We prevailed, and we're living here,
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- We're in the land of promise 77 years later.
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- And israel is not just surviving, it is thriving.
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- - wow, beautiful. - yeah, wow.
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- (audience applauding)
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- - i'm gonna have you continue the history lesson.
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- If you kind of look back at the calendar,
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- 1948, of course, you've just kind of given us
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- That whole history piece.
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- But then '56, then '67, then '73,
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- All significant things were happening.
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- Kind of walk us through that history,
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- And your thought in regard
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- To what kind of got us here today, may 14th, 2025.
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- - yeah, i mean, couple things even before we say that,
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- Because i think, you know, i love numbers.
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- - [host] okay.
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- - and i think god loves numbers,
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- We live in a mathematical universe.
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- And so i think there is something very significant
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- About the fact that it's may 14th, 1948.
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- - [host] okay.
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- - so 14 in hebrew is a very significant number.
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- 14 is connected to redemption.
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- The passover happens on the 14th day of the month
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- Of the hebrew calendar of nisan.
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- So passover, the great redemption, the
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- Day yeshua, jesus,
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- Died as the passover lamb as well,
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- 14th day of the month of nisan.
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- What is significant about the number 14 besides redemption?
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- The way we write 14 in hebrew.
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- So as i've shared with you many times,
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- Hebrew is alphanumeric.
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- There are no roman numerals in the bible.
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- The way that you write numbers is with letters.
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- And so chapters in the hebrew bible
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- Are written with letters.
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- So if i say open the chapter 14 of genesis, bereshit,
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- I'd say open to yud-dalet, okay?
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- Yud, 10, dalet, 4, equals 14.
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- And guess what?
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- The letters that represent 14
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- Literally spell hand in hebrew, yad.
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- - my goodness. - 14 is the number
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- Of the hand.
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- God redeemed israel out of egypt with a yad chazakah,
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- With a mighty hand, okay?
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- And so the birth of israel was a miracle,
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- But it was also assigned to the entire world
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- That god's hand was once again working in history.
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- And it was by god's hand that this nation was established.
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- And it was by god's hand that it's still here today.
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- And i think that's very significant,
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- Because it's the hand of god in history
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- That we see with israel becoming a nation in may 14th, 1948,
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- No other people ever lost their sovereignty,
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- Were largely dispersed from their land,
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- Lost their language as a living language.
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- Hebrew was only a holy language for prayer and study,
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- But not spoken as the everyday vernacular.
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- And you know, and yet all of this,
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- The state is rebirthed, the language is rebirthed.
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- After 2000 years, unheard of in history.
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- Only the yad hashem, the hand of god, could accomplish it.
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- - wow, beautiful. - wow, beautiful.
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- (audience applauding)
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- - but there's more.
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- - yeah. - of course, there's more.
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- (audience laughing)
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- The year 1948, no coincidence.
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- Listen, 1948 on our western gregorian calendar.
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- But do you know what's significant?
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- Who is the father of the jewish people?
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- Who is the first great patriarch?
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- It's who?
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- - abraham. - abraham.
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- Do you know what year abraham
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- Was born on the hebrew calendar?
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- Abraham was born 1948, counting from creation.
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- The same day abraham avinu, father abraham, was born,
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- Israel was born 1948 as a nation in this land.
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- Only god could do that.
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- - my goodness. - wow.
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- - wow.
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- Okay.
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- (guest laughing)
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- Geez.
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- - and no doubt, it was may 14th, what he bet.
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- - okay, walk us on forward, get us moving.
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- - so 1948, israel becomes a state
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- They did not won a war.
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- They were happy to live at peace with their arab neighbors.
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- They had lived that peace for decades
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- Before israel was formerly declared
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- As an independent nation.
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- And then the next thing we have going on
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- Is there is a surprise attack against israel.
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- It's known as the six-day war, 1967.
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- Okay, israel gets intelligence that the arab nations
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- Are again planning to attack israel, led by egypt,
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- Wanting to wipe israel off the state of the map.
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- Israel launches a preemptive strike, destroys the majority
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- Of the egyptian air force while it's still on the ground.
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- And in six days, israel won a war.
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- - having been known they were going to be
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- Invaded and then were invaded.
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- But again, a miracle in six days,
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- Israel won that battle.
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- Again, it's god's goodness.
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- And there was a historian at west point
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- Who said, we study all the histories
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- Of all the conflicts around the world.
- 00:12:48.624 --> 00:12:50.059
- But with israel, it's difficult
- 00:12:50.059 --> 00:12:51.927
- Because how do you study miracles. (laughs)
- 00:12:51.927 --> 00:12:54.396
- - right? - wow.
- 00:12:54.396 --> 00:12:55.831
- - so israel wins that battle.
- 00:12:56.432 --> 00:12:59.068
- Obviously israel is feeling very confident.
- 00:12:59.068 --> 00:13:02.471
- They've done it twice now,
- 00:13:02.471 --> 00:13:04.573
- But sometimes, you know, pride comes before the fall.
- 00:13:04.573 --> 00:13:08.911
- And then one of the worst conflicts in israel's history,
- 00:13:08.911 --> 00:13:12.882
- I believe it's 1972, yom kippur war,
- 00:13:13.682 --> 00:13:17.086
- Again egypt mobilizes in the south,
- 00:13:17.086 --> 00:13:22.524
- Invades syria in the north,
- 00:13:23.092 --> 00:13:27.463
- And israel was caught unprepared.
- 00:13:27.463 --> 00:13:29.865
- It was on yom kippur, the holiest day of the year.
- 00:13:29.865 --> 00:13:34.303
- Now remember, israel is a tiny nations,
- 00:13:34.303 --> 00:13:37.907
- You know, millions of people versus,
- 00:13:38.707 --> 00:13:42.344
- You know, tens of millions.
- 00:13:42.344 --> 00:13:44.113
- There are a hundred of millions,
- 00:13:44.113 --> 00:13:45.047
- So arab peoples that surrounded.
- 00:13:45.047 --> 00:13:47.082
- So they were vastly outnumbered.
- 00:13:47.082 --> 00:13:49.385
- In israel, it's a people's army.
- 00:13:49.385 --> 00:13:52.488
- Every, 18-year-old serves in the military
- 00:13:52.488 --> 00:13:56.659
- To defend the nation.
- 00:13:56.659 --> 00:13:58.594
- So israel did not keep a large standing army.
- 00:13:58.594 --> 00:14:02.698
- They had to be mobilized.
- 00:14:02.698 --> 00:14:04.533
- And so they were caught unaware, army not mobilized,
- 00:14:04.533 --> 00:14:08.871
- Golda meir helping to lead israel at the time,
- 00:14:08.871 --> 00:14:12.207
- The real hero, galvanized the troops.
- 00:14:12.207 --> 00:14:17.546
- And it seemed as if israel was going to lose the war.
- 00:14:18.614 --> 00:14:21.383
- But again, their stories of miracles,
- 00:14:21.383 --> 00:14:24.486
- Israeli soldiers fought hard.
- 00:14:24.486 --> 00:14:27.056
- Many israeli lives were lost.
- 00:14:27.056 --> 00:14:28.657
- One of the greatest loss of lives in israeli history
- 00:14:28.657 --> 00:14:31.293
- As far as in wartime.
- 00:14:31.293 --> 00:14:33.329
- But yet, by god's grace, israel was able,
- 00:14:33.329 --> 00:14:37.499
- You know, managed to survive and turn it around
- 00:14:37.499 --> 00:14:39.935
- And win the battle and weren't overrun,
- 00:14:39.935 --> 00:14:43.572
- But they were outnumbered,
- 00:14:43.572 --> 00:14:45.274
- Both in the north and in the south.
- 00:14:45.274 --> 00:14:47.643
- We were just in the north and yom hazikaron
- 00:14:47.643 --> 00:14:50.713
- The day of remembrance.
- 00:14:50.713 --> 00:14:52.348
- It's incredible to think how a few tanks
- 00:14:52.348 --> 00:14:55.084
- Fended off hundreds of tanks.
- 00:14:55.684 --> 00:14:57.920
- I think it was like four to one.
- 00:14:57.920 --> 00:14:59.288
- They were outnumbered.
- 00:14:59.288 --> 00:15:00.856
- And they refused to give up the line.
- 00:15:00.856 --> 00:15:04.626
- If they would've given it up,
- 00:15:04.626 --> 00:15:05.894
- It would've been destruction for the galilee.
- 00:15:05.894 --> 00:15:08.530
- So one of the things that's important to mention
- 00:15:08.530 --> 00:15:11.033
- Is that before the yom kippur war in 1967,
- 00:15:11.033 --> 00:15:15.671
- What happened as a result of that war,
- 00:15:16.505 --> 00:15:18.207
- That great military victory,
- 00:15:18.207 --> 00:15:21.276
- Israel captured the sinai greatly expanding its territory,
- 00:15:21.276 --> 00:15:26.615
- Expanding the negev, the south of israel.
- 00:15:27.483 --> 00:15:31.286
- And in addition to that,
- 00:15:31.286 --> 00:15:33.155
- Israel captured what is known today as the west bank
- 00:15:33.155 --> 00:15:38.494
- With jewish people called judea and samaria.
- 00:15:39.428 --> 00:15:41.764
- But probably most significant,
- 00:15:41.764 --> 00:15:44.400
- Before 1967, you had east jerusalem and west jerusalem.
- 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:50.172
- - [host] right.
- 00:15:50.572 --> 00:15:51.874
- - west jerusalem was the newer construction
- 00:15:51.874 --> 00:15:54.309
- That was controlled by the jewish people,
- 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:56.945
- The eastern side, which contained the entire
- 00:15:56.945 --> 00:16:00.616
- Old city of jerusalem,
- 00:16:00.616 --> 00:16:03.052
- The temple mount, the har habayit, the kotel,
- 00:16:03.052 --> 00:16:06.522
- The western wall, you know,
- 00:16:06.522 --> 00:16:09.425
- All of the important biblical historical sites
- 00:16:09.425 --> 00:16:12.361
- That we love to take people on
- 00:16:12.361 --> 00:16:14.797
- When we come and visit to israel on our tours
- 00:16:14.797 --> 00:16:17.332
- Like we're doing here now.
- 00:16:17.332 --> 00:16:19.268
- That was all in the hands of the jordanians
- 00:16:20.202 --> 00:16:23.272
- And the dividing line was mount zion.
- 00:16:23.272 --> 00:16:26.175
- You can still see the bullet holes on mount zion
- 00:16:26.175 --> 00:16:29.011
- Just over our shoulder. - right here.
- 00:16:29.011 --> 00:16:30.712
- - and mount zion is where the tomb of david is,
- 00:16:30.712 --> 00:16:34.116
- The ke de david that was in israeli control
- 00:16:34.116 --> 00:16:37.453
- But then just a few meters from there,
- 00:16:37.453 --> 00:16:40.422
- The old city that was all in the jordanian control.
- 00:16:40.422 --> 00:16:44.259
- But in that, in 1967, in that war,
- 00:16:44.259 --> 00:16:47.863
- We recaptured and we reunified jerusalem.
- 00:16:47.863 --> 00:16:51.533
- It was no longer divided.
- 00:16:51.533 --> 00:16:53.402
- And to this day, jerusalem remains and is
- 00:16:53.402 --> 00:16:58.740
- The historic and eternal capital of the jewish people
- 00:16:59.741 --> 00:17:03.112
- Never to be divided once again.
- 00:17:03.112 --> 00:17:06.014
- And we have a special day that celebrates it.
- 00:17:06.014 --> 00:17:08.517
- Yom yerushalayim, jerusalem day.
- 00:17:08.517 --> 00:17:10.853
- It's a great time in the summer to be in israel.
- 00:17:10.853 --> 00:17:12.654
- - it's interesting that you basically,
- 00:17:12.654 --> 00:17:16.325
- When we bought the property that we're sitting at now,
- 00:17:16.325 --> 00:17:21.330
- There was a map that was provided to us
- 00:17:21.330 --> 00:17:24.433
- In the escrow and all of this.
- 00:17:24.433 --> 00:17:26.668
- So we started looking at this and researching it.
- 00:17:26.668 --> 00:17:29.872
- And moshe dayan, my dad
- 00:17:29.872 --> 00:17:32.007
- Would tell me about stories about him.
- 00:17:32.841 --> 00:17:35.110
- And he was a big hero in the israeli army,
- 00:17:35.110 --> 00:17:39.081
- When east and west jerusalem was divided,
- 00:17:39.081 --> 00:17:42.284
- The marker pin literally went through the property
- 00:17:42.284 --> 00:17:47.122
- That we're sitting in, okay?
- 00:17:47.122 --> 00:17:48.457
- Right here.
- 00:17:48.457 --> 00:17:49.791
- The line went through, i think prophetically
- 00:17:49.791 --> 00:17:53.328
- Saying that what we're charged to do
- 00:17:53.328 --> 00:17:55.898
- Is much bigger than, you know,
- 00:17:55.898 --> 00:17:58.734
- Something just for these, this group of people
- 00:17:58.734 --> 00:18:01.136
- Or that group of people.
- 00:18:01.136 --> 00:18:02.538
- But the earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof
- 00:18:02.538 --> 00:18:05.174
- And all they that dwell, they're in.
- 00:18:05.174 --> 00:18:07.042
- And so the message of the gospel goes out to anybody
- 00:18:07.042 --> 00:18:11.113
- And everybody from here, literally a dividing line.
- 00:18:11.113 --> 00:18:14.750
- But the...
- 00:18:14.750 --> 00:18:16.752
- Here we sit 77 years later
- 00:18:16.752 --> 00:18:20.422
- And there's a whole bunch of brand new challenges.
- 00:18:21.456 --> 00:18:24.059
- We know the historical ones.
- 00:18:24.059 --> 00:18:26.228
- We can open a book, we can watch a documentary piece.
- 00:18:26.228 --> 00:18:31.466
- But as we were planning this trip to be here now
- 00:18:32.401 --> 00:18:36.772
- There's a whole new set of challenges.
- 00:18:37.606 --> 00:18:39.408
- Take us, rabbi,
- 00:18:39.408 --> 00:18:42.411
- Really kind of just prophetically where
- 00:18:42.411 --> 00:18:45.547
- You want to go.
- 00:18:45.547 --> 00:18:46.682
- I mean, we could talk about an active war, you know,
- 00:18:46.682 --> 00:18:51.086
- In gaza we could talk about, you know, trouble in the north.
- 00:18:51.086 --> 00:18:55.824
- We could talk about iran, which always seems to come up.
- 00:18:55.824 --> 00:19:01.196
- I happen to be interviewing benjamin netanyahu
- 00:19:02.130 --> 00:19:04.166
- And said, "you've just been elected to your sixth term,
- 00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:07.302
- Historically elected to your sixth term as prime minister.
- 00:19:07.302 --> 00:19:11.740
- What's your day one look like?"
- 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:13.809
- And he said, "iran, iran, iran."
- 00:19:13.809 --> 00:19:16.278
- So kind of give us the give may 14th, 2025
- 00:19:16.278 --> 00:19:21.817
- Kind of update prophetic look.
- 00:19:22.451 --> 00:19:24.353
- We just want to kind of hear you teach for a while.
- 00:19:24.353 --> 00:19:27.456
- - [rabbi] yeah.
- 00:19:27.456 --> 00:19:28.690
- - and thank you for being with us in.
- 00:19:28.690 --> 00:19:30.092
- - jerusalem today. - wow.
- 00:19:30.692 --> 00:19:32.394
- I always love being with you both.
- 00:19:32.394 --> 00:19:34.529
- You are two of my favorite people in the world,
- 00:19:34.529 --> 00:19:36.765
- And it's always a joy and an honor to sit down with you.
- 00:19:36.765 --> 00:19:40.569
- And i love being part of the tbn family
- 00:19:40.569 --> 00:19:44.239
- And all the wonderful things
- 00:19:44.239 --> 00:19:46.241
- That we've been able to do together.
- 00:19:46.241 --> 00:19:49.044
- And i just appreciate you and your support.
- 00:19:49.044 --> 00:19:51.613
- - and by the way, you're looking sharp today.
- 00:19:51.613 --> 00:19:53.715
- (rabbi sobel laughs) and so just...
- 00:19:53.715 --> 00:19:55.117
- You're looking sharp.
- 00:19:55.117 --> 00:19:56.385
- - well, you know- - i'm glad to be here
- 00:19:56.385 --> 00:19:57.486
- With you. - yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 00:19:57.486 --> 00:19:58.487
- Thank you. thank you.
- 00:19:58.487 --> 00:19:59.888
- And we're living in prophetic times.
- 00:19:59.888 --> 00:20:02.090
- Okay? - yes, we are.
- 00:20:02.090 --> 00:20:03.058
- - very significant.
- 00:20:03.058 --> 00:20:03.959
- And while we were here,
- 00:20:03.959 --> 00:20:05.294
- (rocket whooshes) you know,
- 00:20:05.294 --> 00:20:06.628
- Like just the other day,
- 00:20:06.628 --> 00:20:08.764
- Houthis are firing rockets into israel
- 00:20:08.764 --> 00:20:14.069
- And shutting down the airport,
- 00:20:14.703 --> 00:20:16.605
- Creating all sorts of problems-
- 00:20:16.605 --> 00:20:19.141
- - there were the fires. - (chuckles) for us.
- 00:20:19.141 --> 00:20:20.776
- There were the fires.
- 00:20:20.776 --> 00:20:21.777
- There were many things going on.
- 00:20:21.777 --> 00:20:23.879
- But there's something very significant.
- 00:20:24.713 --> 00:20:26.515
- - [matt] please.
- 00:20:26.515 --> 00:20:27.949
- - the rabbi say this, "turn it, turn it, turn it.
- 00:20:27.949 --> 00:20:31.386
- Because everything's in it."
- 00:20:31.386 --> 00:20:33.355
- Everything is in god's word.
- 00:20:33.355 --> 00:20:35.257
- Right, he knows the beginning from the end.
- 00:20:35.257 --> 00:20:37.526
- Nothing takes him by surprise.
- 00:20:37.526 --> 00:20:39.995
- The scriptures are god's supernatural,
- 00:20:39.995 --> 00:20:42.931
- Prophetic guidebook to history.
- 00:20:42.931 --> 00:20:45.400
- So let me tell you what, the houthis are in the bible.
- 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.237
- - [matt] okay.
- 00:20:49.237 --> 00:20:50.138
- - and very significant.
- 00:20:50.138 --> 00:20:52.708
- So there's a prophet, we all know him,
- 00:20:52.708 --> 00:20:54.476
- He's the prophet known as obadiah,
- 00:20:54.476 --> 00:20:57.446
- Obadiah in hebrew.
- 00:20:57.446 --> 00:20:59.548
- And concerning him,
- 00:20:59.548 --> 00:21:01.049
- There's a tradition that comes from the rabbis that says,
- 00:21:01.049 --> 00:21:04.119
- "no one could fully prophecy
- 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.256
- What would happen in the end times
- 00:21:08.256 --> 00:21:11.793
- With one of the great end times enemies of israel
- 00:21:11.793 --> 00:21:15.997
- Known as edom who came from esau,
- 00:21:15.997 --> 00:21:18.633
- Except the prophet obadiah."
- 00:21:18.633 --> 00:21:21.103
- Because he was someone who came to faith out of...
- 00:21:21.103 --> 00:21:25.240
- He was a descendant of esau
- 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:26.842
- And came to faith in the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
- 00:21:26.842 --> 00:21:29.678
- So the book of obadiah has a historical context,
- 00:21:29.678 --> 00:21:33.749
- But it also has a prophetic context
- 00:21:33.749 --> 00:21:36.051
- For the (speaks in foreign language),
- 00:21:36.051 --> 00:21:37.986
- For the end of days.
- 00:21:37.986 --> 00:21:39.488
- It's the shortest book in the bible.
- 00:21:39.488 --> 00:21:41.990
- It's only one chapter with 21 verses.
- 00:21:41.990 --> 00:21:45.293
- And there's a verse, verse 9,
- 00:21:45.293 --> 00:21:47.796
- This is what it says.
- 00:21:47.796 --> 00:21:49.598
- "then your mighty men, o teman,
- 00:21:49.598 --> 00:21:52.934
- Man will be shattered or be dismayed."
- 00:21:52.934 --> 00:21:56.505
- Okay?
- 00:21:56.505 --> 00:21:57.706
- And then it goes on to say,
- 00:21:58.306 --> 00:21:59.741
- "so everyone will be cut off
- 00:21:59.741 --> 00:22:01.476
- From the hill country of esau by slaughter
- 00:22:01.476 --> 00:22:05.514
- Because of your violence to your brother jacob."
- 00:22:05.514 --> 00:22:08.917
- This verse connects edom and esau,
- 00:22:08.917 --> 00:22:13.388
- But it connects something very else.
- 00:22:14.189 --> 00:22:16.558
- The hebrew, (speaks in foreign language).
- 00:22:16.558 --> 00:22:21.596
- So the word teman in this verse 9,
- 00:22:22.364 --> 00:22:25.867
- Teman is the hebrew word for yemen.
- 00:22:25.867 --> 00:22:29.604
- - oh. - so this says,
- 00:22:30.172 --> 00:22:31.139
- "your mighty man o yemen
- 00:22:31.139 --> 00:22:34.309
- Will be shattered."
- 00:22:34.309 --> 00:22:36.845
- - wow. - will be dismayed.
- 00:22:36.845 --> 00:22:38.580
- So this verse is talking about these warriors,
- 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:41.483
- These (speaks in foreign language),
- 00:22:41.483 --> 00:22:42.951
- Who are from yemen.
- 00:22:42.951 --> 00:22:45.654
- And it says this,
- 00:22:46.087 --> 00:22:47.522
- The first verse is, (speaks in foreign language).
- 00:22:47.522 --> 00:22:49.791
- (speaks in foreign language) in hebrew
- 00:22:49.791 --> 00:22:51.560
- Can refer to the (speaks in foreign language),
- 00:22:51.560 --> 00:22:53.662
- Which are the houthis in hebrew.
- 00:22:53.662 --> 00:22:56.565
- So this verse connects yemen with the houthis,
- 00:22:56.565 --> 00:23:01.870
- With an attack on israel,
- 00:23:02.437 --> 00:23:05.574
- With god's judgment upon yemen and the houthis for...
- 00:23:05.574 --> 00:23:10.846
- It's an allusion to the houthis and the hebrew
- 00:23:11.813 --> 00:23:13.081
- For the word dismayed, i should clarify.
- 00:23:13.081 --> 00:23:15.150
- Okay?
- 00:23:15.150 --> 00:23:16.451
- And it connects back to esau and the edomites
- 00:23:16.451 --> 00:23:21.623
- Who had the same (speaks in foreign language),
- 00:23:22.524 --> 00:23:24.726
- The same spiritual root, the same spirit.
- 00:23:24.726 --> 00:23:28.930
- And we have to understand is that in jewish thought,
- 00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:32.434
- Esau is part of the gog-magog alliance,
- 00:23:32.434 --> 00:23:37.038
- That's part of this great end time battle.
- 00:23:37.038 --> 00:23:40.242
- And the houthis and yemen
- 00:23:40.242 --> 00:23:42.677
- Are a sign of the times in which we're living, okay?
- 00:23:42.677 --> 00:23:46.715
- But of course there is more,
- 00:23:46.715 --> 00:23:49.384
- Because the very next verse, verse 10 says,
- 00:23:49.384 --> 00:23:51.920
- "it's because of your violence to your brother jacob."
- 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.490
- The word for violence
- 00:23:55.490 --> 00:23:57.158
- That this verse begins with in the hebrew is the word hamas.
- 00:23:57.158 --> 00:24:01.296
- - [matt] what?
- 00:24:01.296 --> 00:24:02.130
- - so in verse 9,
- 00:24:02.130 --> 00:24:03.565
- It speaks about yemen
- 00:24:03.565 --> 00:24:05.800
- And the houthis, the (speaks in foreign language).
- 00:24:05.800 --> 00:24:08.203
- And in the very next verse,
- 00:24:08.203 --> 00:24:09.871
- It talks about hamas.
- 00:24:09.871 --> 00:24:12.807
- And this is exactly what we're dealing with.
- 00:24:12.807 --> 00:24:14.776
- - yeah. - we're dealing with-
- 00:24:14.776 --> 00:24:15.844
- - today. yeah. - hamas today,
- 00:24:15.844 --> 00:24:17.779
- And we're at war with hamas
- 00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:19.714
- And we're at war with the houthis in yemen.
- 00:24:19.714 --> 00:24:23.485
- And it's right here, alluded to by the prophet obadiah.
- 00:24:23.485 --> 00:24:28.790
- - wow. i never knew that. (matt chuckles)
- 00:24:29.691 --> 00:24:31.359
- - [rabbi sobel] okay, but there's more.
- 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:32.427
- (all laughing)
- 00:24:32.427 --> 00:24:33.662
- - [matt] jeez.
- 00:24:33.662 --> 00:24:35.163
- - why is it important that we connected...
- 00:24:35.163 --> 00:24:39.668
- Because obadiah is prophesying against edom.
- 00:24:39.668 --> 00:24:42.671
- So the houthis, teman,
- 00:24:42.671 --> 00:24:45.373
- Which literally means south in hebrew
- 00:24:45.373 --> 00:24:47.042
- 'cause they're in the southern part of the middle east,
- 00:24:47.042 --> 00:24:50.211
- Yemen is the southern most part geographically,
- 00:24:50.211 --> 00:24:54.482
- They are literally a clan that broke off from esau,
- 00:24:54.482 --> 00:24:57.953
- From the edomites.
- 00:24:57.953 --> 00:24:59.187
- So historically, teman is from yemen.
- 00:24:59.187 --> 00:25:03.124
- Yemen is from the edomites historically, okay?
- 00:25:03.124 --> 00:25:07.629
- From esau.
- 00:25:07.629 --> 00:25:09.297
- Now, esau winds up having several sons.
- 00:25:09.297 --> 00:25:14.636
- One of those sons is eliphaz.
- 00:25:15.236 --> 00:25:18.106
- Same guy, according to jewish tradition,
- 00:25:18.106 --> 00:25:20.208
- Who's in the book of job, okay,
- 00:25:20.208 --> 00:25:21.943
- Who comes in and speaks to job, okay?
- 00:25:21.943 --> 00:25:25.714
- And why is that significant?
- 00:25:25.714 --> 00:25:27.949
- Eliphaz has six sons.
- 00:25:27.949 --> 00:25:31.086
- The first son is teman.
- 00:25:31.086 --> 00:25:35.190
- The first son of eliphaz, the son of esau, is teman,
- 00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:42.564
- Whom the houthis are connected to
- 00:25:43.231 --> 00:25:46.234
- Based on the geography of where they live.
- 00:25:46.234 --> 00:25:49.037
- But there's something significant here.
- 00:25:49.037 --> 00:25:51.339
- The last son, the youngest son of eliphaz...
- 00:25:52.273 --> 00:25:55.777
- So the first son is yemen, teman,
- 00:25:55.777 --> 00:25:58.513
- The last son is amalek.
- 00:25:58.513 --> 00:26:01.182
- - jeez. (chuckles)
- 00:26:01.616 --> 00:26:03.685
- - the last son of esau, of the six sons, is amalek.
- 00:26:03.685 --> 00:26:08.957
- Amalek, the first person to attack
- 00:26:09.724 --> 00:26:13.128
- The weak, women, stragglers, infirm.
- 00:26:13.128 --> 00:26:16.064
- When israel comes out of egypt,
- 00:26:16.064 --> 00:26:18.366
- That of the (speaks in foreign language).
- 00:26:18.366 --> 00:26:19.901
- And god says he's always gonna be at war with amalek.
- 00:26:20.902 --> 00:26:24.706
- He tells king saul to wipe out the amalekites.
- 00:26:24.706 --> 00:26:28.009
- Saul compromises.
- 00:26:28.009 --> 00:26:30.145
- - he doesn't.
- 00:26:30.478 --> 00:26:31.479
- So generations later,
- 00:26:31.479 --> 00:26:33.581
- There arises a man by the name of haman, haman.
- 00:26:33.581 --> 00:26:38.520
- Haman wants to commit genocide against the jewish people
- 00:26:38.520 --> 00:26:41.523
- In the days of esther.
- 00:26:41.523 --> 00:26:43.725
- And where is haman from?
- 00:26:43.725 --> 00:26:46.361
- Paras, persia, which is modern-day iran.
- 00:26:47.228 --> 00:26:51.499
- - [matt] my goodness.
- 00:26:51.499 --> 00:26:52.667
- - so haman, the descendant of amalek,
- 00:26:52.667 --> 00:26:55.470
- Who wants to commit the first genocide
- 00:26:55.470 --> 00:26:57.539
- Against the jewish people is from iran.
- 00:26:57.539 --> 00:27:01.176
- He's a descendant of esau,
- 00:27:01.176 --> 00:27:04.145
- Of the youngest son of eliphaz.
- 00:27:04.145 --> 00:27:06.247
- His older brother is yemen.
- 00:27:06.247 --> 00:27:08.650
- And so today, the older brother, teman, the houthis,
- 00:27:08.650 --> 00:27:13.922
- And the younger brother, iran,
- 00:27:14.556 --> 00:27:18.193
- Have joined forces once again in the spirit of amalek
- 00:27:18.193 --> 00:27:23.498
- To destroy the jewish people,
- 00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:25.667
- To finish what they tried to do in the days of haman.
- 00:27:25.667 --> 00:27:29.404
- And that same spirit is active and alive today in the world.
- 00:27:29.404 --> 00:27:34.576
- And that is the spiritual reality
- 00:27:35.343 --> 00:27:37.145
- That is going on behind the scenes.
- 00:27:37.145 --> 00:27:39.481
- It is not just political, it is spiritual.
- 00:27:39.481 --> 00:27:42.016
- So when you look on the banner of the houthis,
- 00:27:42.016 --> 00:27:45.186
- The flag of the houthis,
- 00:27:45.186 --> 00:27:46.287
- It's more like a list of slogans.
- 00:27:46.287 --> 00:27:49.758
- The first is, allah is great.
- 00:27:49.758 --> 00:27:52.427
- Then it goes on to say, death to america,
- 00:27:52.427 --> 00:27:55.697
- Death to israel, death to the jews.
- 00:27:55.697 --> 00:27:59.067
- Okay. these are all,
- 00:27:59.067 --> 00:28:01.402
- These are some of the things listed literally
- 00:28:01.402 --> 00:28:03.404
- On the houthis flags.
- 00:28:03.404 --> 00:28:05.206
- There were a country, a small country,
- 00:28:05.206 --> 00:28:07.842
- Famine, tons of problems.
- 00:28:07.842 --> 00:28:10.445
- And instead of turning their nation around
- 00:28:10.445 --> 00:28:12.714
- And making it prosperous,
- 00:28:12.714 --> 00:28:14.115
- They want to partner with iran to destroy israel.
- 00:28:14.115 --> 00:28:16.651
- Why? it is the irrational spirit of amalek,
- 00:28:16.651 --> 00:28:20.822
- Of the amalekites, what we're seeing today.
- 00:28:20.822 --> 00:28:23.224
- - oh my goodness. - whew.
- 00:28:23.224 --> 00:28:25.026
- - and amos 1:12 is this.
- 00:28:25.026 --> 00:28:26.227
- "so i will send fire in teman."
- 00:28:26.227 --> 00:28:29.731
- - wow. - wow.
- 00:28:30.131 --> 00:28:31.733
- - fire in teman. what are we seeing in the news headlines?
- 00:28:31.733 --> 00:28:35.436
- Yemen is on fire from the attacks
- 00:28:36.104 --> 00:28:38.807
- Of the coalition of israel,
- 00:28:38.807 --> 00:28:41.543
- Led by the u.s., britain, and israel,
- 00:28:42.310 --> 00:28:45.180
- Attacking the houthis.
- 00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:46.214
- Literally, we're seeing prophecy
- 00:28:46.214 --> 00:28:48.683
- Being fulfilled in our times.
- 00:28:48.683 --> 00:28:50.785
- - it feels like we're sitting here
- 00:28:50.785 --> 00:28:53.888
- And this history certainly answers a lot.
- 00:28:54.689 --> 00:28:59.861
- And we're sitting here for a moment thinking
- 00:29:00.795 --> 00:29:04.265
- That, you know, what is the ramifications
- 00:29:04.265 --> 00:29:08.937
- Of not obeying god, you know?
- 00:29:08.937 --> 00:29:11.739
- Think of, you know, this idea, you know, we,
- 00:29:11.739 --> 00:29:16.511
- Laurie and i did a movie on queen esther.
- 00:29:16.511 --> 00:29:21.850
- And we made it a part of the storyline
- 00:29:22.617 --> 00:29:27.455
- That he spared some of the amalekites
- 00:29:28.289 --> 00:29:33.428
- And that they were going to, later, of course,
- 00:29:34.329 --> 00:29:37.332
- You know, kind of turn into something.
- 00:29:37.332 --> 00:29:40.835
- We connected haman to the, in essence,
- 00:29:40.835 --> 00:29:46.174
- The incomplete mission that saul,
- 00:29:46.908 --> 00:29:49.844
- I think the biblical term was leave none breathing.
- 00:29:49.844 --> 00:29:53.281
- And that didn't happen.
- 00:29:53.281 --> 00:29:56.251
- It's a wake up call that centuries and millennia later,
- 00:29:57.318 --> 00:30:02.090
- We're dealing with the incomplete
- 00:30:02.090 --> 00:30:05.126
- Obedience of one person
- 00:30:05.126 --> 00:30:07.962
- At, you know, how many years ago
- 00:30:07.962 --> 00:30:09.797
- Would that decision have been?
- 00:30:09.797 --> 00:30:11.199
- When did, roughly, saul live?
- 00:30:11.199 --> 00:30:16.104
- - about 3000 something years ago.
- 00:30:16.104 --> 00:30:18.339
- - 3000-ish years ago.
- 00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:20.775
- We're cleaning up a mess made 3000 years ago.
- 00:30:20.775 --> 00:30:24.579
- - listen, i think it's a spiritual principle.
- 00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:27.815
- Compromise is costly.
- 00:30:27.815 --> 00:30:30.018
- - [laurie] yeah.
- 00:30:30.018 --> 00:30:32.320
- - obeying is costly,
- 00:30:32.787 --> 00:30:34.622
- But compromise will always cost you way more in the end.
- 00:30:34.622 --> 00:30:39.928
- - [laurie] choose your hard.
- 00:30:40.495 --> 00:30:41.396
- - yeah. right? if you cut.
- 00:30:41.396 --> 00:30:42.263
- - doing right is hard.
- 00:30:42.263 --> 00:30:43.698
- Doing wrong is hard.
- 00:30:43.698 --> 00:30:44.699
- Choose your hard. yeah.
- 00:30:44.699 --> 00:30:46.601
- - yeah. so i think it's really important.
- 00:30:46.601 --> 00:30:48.770
- And my hope is this,
- 00:30:48.770 --> 00:30:50.672
- Is that president trump and prime minister netanyahu,
- 00:30:50.672 --> 00:30:55.944
- That they would not take the saul solution.
- 00:30:56.878 --> 00:31:00.148
- You can't compromise with evil.
- 00:31:00.148 --> 00:31:03.384
- It's death to america, the big satan,
- 00:31:04.185 --> 00:31:06.921
- Death to israel, the little satan.
- 00:31:06.921 --> 00:31:10.458
- First for the saturday people, the jews.
- 00:31:10.458 --> 00:31:12.760
- Then for the sunday people,
- 00:31:12.760 --> 00:31:14.162
- We're talking about those that are radical.
- 00:31:14.162 --> 00:31:17.999
- Here we're not, you know, those that are truly radicalized.
- 00:31:17.999 --> 00:31:21.669
- It's something we need to be aware of.
- 00:31:21.669 --> 00:31:22.937
- It's something that's very serious.
- 00:31:22.937 --> 00:31:24.272
- But at the same time,
- 00:31:24.272 --> 00:31:26.074
- You see god's chen, you see god's grace.
- 00:31:26.941 --> 00:31:29.811
- Because, think about it for a moment,
- 00:31:30.578 --> 00:31:32.847
- God delivers the jewish people
- 00:31:32.847 --> 00:31:36.017
- From the genocidal plans of haman, haman,
- 00:31:36.017 --> 00:31:40.288
- The descendant of amalek, the amalekites, king agag.
- 00:31:40.288 --> 00:31:44.425
- But, okay, think about this:
- 00:31:44.425 --> 00:31:48.229
- What tribe was,
- 00:31:48.229 --> 00:31:51.933
- What tribe was esther and mordecai from you?
- 00:31:52.867 --> 00:31:55.737
- - you said there'd be no quiz.
- 00:31:55.737 --> 00:31:57.805
- - [jason] okay. okay. i won't do that.
- 00:31:57.805 --> 00:32:00.441
- - here's your audience.
- 00:32:00.441 --> 00:32:01.309
- - listen. listen.
- 00:32:01.309 --> 00:32:02.977
- You're from the tribe of benjamin.
- 00:32:02.977 --> 00:32:05.346
- - yay, we won.
- 00:32:05.346 --> 00:32:07.015
- Woo! (chuckles)
- 00:32:07.015 --> 00:32:08.883
- Thank you for that.
- 00:32:08.883 --> 00:32:09.717
- - why is that important?
- 00:32:09.717 --> 00:32:11.619
- What tribe was king saul from?
- 00:32:11.619 --> 00:32:16.491
- - benjamin. - benjamin.
- 00:32:16.491 --> 00:32:17.458
- - benjamin.
- 00:32:17.458 --> 00:32:18.693
- So listen, the descendants of benjamin
- 00:32:18.693 --> 00:32:22.764
- Get a second chance to make right
- 00:32:23.498 --> 00:32:26.868
- What their ancestor got wrong.
- 00:32:26.868 --> 00:32:29.537
- God is the god of second chances.
- 00:32:30.304 --> 00:32:31.639
- - yes, he is. thank you, lord.
- 00:32:31.639 --> 00:32:32.540
- - he's the god of grace.
- 00:32:32.540 --> 00:32:34.342
- - thank you jesus.
- 00:32:34.342 --> 00:32:35.543
- - saul, because of his disobedience,
- 00:32:35.543 --> 00:32:38.012
- It was the final straw.
- 00:32:38.012 --> 00:32:39.847
- God says, "kingdom is being ripped from you,
- 00:32:39.847 --> 00:32:42.917
- Given to another."
- 00:32:42.917 --> 00:32:44.419
- That was ultimately david, king david,
- 00:32:44.419 --> 00:32:47.789
- From the tribe of judah.
- 00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:50.091
- So kingship is given to judah through the family of david,
- 00:32:50.091 --> 00:32:53.428
- David melech.
- 00:32:53.428 --> 00:32:55.363
- Okay. from that point on,
- 00:32:55.363 --> 00:32:57.465
- There would never be a benjamin knight
- 00:32:57.465 --> 00:32:59.367
- On the throne ever again.
- 00:32:59.367 --> 00:33:01.903
- But generations later,
- 00:33:01.903 --> 00:33:03.404
- What was lost in a sense by god's grace was restored.
- 00:33:03.404 --> 00:33:07.742
- There would never be a king on the throne,
- 00:33:07.742 --> 00:33:09.977
- But there was a queen on the throne
- 00:33:09.977 --> 00:33:12.013
- From the tribe of benjamin, not ruling from israel,
- 00:33:12.013 --> 00:33:15.650
- But ruling from the nations over
- 00:33:15.650 --> 00:33:18.853
- Most of the known world at that time,
- 00:33:18.853 --> 00:33:21.122
- Who god positioned and used to save her people.
- 00:33:21.122 --> 00:33:24.826
- And like her forebearer, king saul,
- 00:33:24.826 --> 00:33:27.895
- She had to make a decision.
- 00:33:27.895 --> 00:33:30.098
- - was she going to risk her life and go before the king
- 00:33:31.165 --> 00:33:32.834
- And take the risk, there was a real cost,
- 00:33:32.834 --> 00:33:35.536
- Or was she going to try and hide?
- 00:33:35.536 --> 00:33:38.039
- We know the story.
- 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:39.841
- Salvation will come.
- 00:33:39.841 --> 00:33:41.642
- You know, perhaps god has raised you up
- 00:33:41.642 --> 00:33:43.444
- For such as time as this,
- 00:33:43.444 --> 00:33:44.979
- And if not, if you don't go before the king,
- 00:33:44.979 --> 00:33:47.748
- Salvation will come from somewhere else,
- 00:33:47.748 --> 00:33:49.283
- But you and your family will not be spared.
- 00:33:49.283 --> 00:33:52.220
- I think we're in an esther moment.
- 00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:53.754
- We have to make a decision.
- 00:33:53.754 --> 00:33:54.889
- - yeah, wow. - well, think of it,
- 00:33:54.889 --> 00:33:56.124
- In 2025, we have a benjamin netanyahu,
- 00:33:56.124 --> 00:33:59.460
- (dramatic music) (all laugh)
- 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:00.995
- Who might grab this kind of third chance at redemption.
- 00:34:00.995 --> 00:34:06.033
- Because what i think you learn from history
- 00:34:06.934 --> 00:34:11.506
- Is that it's, you know, destined to repeat itself
- 00:34:11.506 --> 00:34:14.809
- Until something changes it.
- 00:34:14.809 --> 00:34:17.778
- - absolutely.
- 00:34:17.778 --> 00:34:19.180
- And i think, again, going back to the numbers,
- 00:34:19.180 --> 00:34:21.983
- If we're going to write the number 77 in hebrew
- 00:34:21.983 --> 00:34:26.821
- You know, one way to write it is like this,
- 00:34:27.722 --> 00:34:29.557
- (speaks hebrew), which is 70 and literally means the eyes.
- 00:34:29.557 --> 00:34:33.661
- And then you have the (speaks hebrew), okay,
- 00:34:33.661 --> 00:34:37.064
- Which equals seven.
- 00:34:37.532 --> 00:34:39.700
- The two hebrew letters that equals,
- 00:34:39.700 --> 00:34:42.036
- That you write 77, (speaks hebrew)
- 00:34:42.036 --> 00:34:44.739
- Spells the hebrew word (speaks hebrew),
- 00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:47.441
- Which means strength.
- 00:34:47.441 --> 00:34:49.110
- (speaks hebrew), the lord will give his people strength.
- 00:34:50.244 --> 00:34:53.915
- (speaks hebrew) shalom,
- 00:34:53.915 --> 00:34:56.484
- God will bless his people with shalom.
- 00:34:56.484 --> 00:34:59.520
- (gentle music)
- 00:34:59.520 --> 00:35:00.888
- So i believe that israel's existence here today
- 00:35:00.888 --> 00:35:04.792
- Is a sign of god's strength. - yeah.
- 00:35:04.792 --> 00:35:08.029
- - that he has strengthened his people
- 00:35:08.029 --> 00:35:10.097
- Against all odds, against all these nations
- 00:35:10.097 --> 00:35:13.167
- That have tried to destroy, tried to invade,
- 00:35:13.167 --> 00:35:16.504
- Against all the attacks that has happened.
- 00:35:16.504 --> 00:35:19.307
- 77 (speaks hebrew),
- 00:35:19.307 --> 00:35:20.741
- It's the strength of god that has kept israel.
- 00:35:20.741 --> 00:35:24.545
- 77, it says the name of the lord is a strong tower.
- 00:35:24.545 --> 00:35:29.050
- (speaks hebrew), strength equals 77.
- 00:35:29.817 --> 00:35:33.254
- But guess what? (speaks hebrew) equals 77.
- 00:35:33.254 --> 00:35:36.424
- (speaks hebrew), strength, okay, can be read as,
- 00:35:37.391 --> 00:35:42.296
- There's a phrase in hebrew
- 00:35:42.296 --> 00:35:45.933
- That's connected to physical strength.
- 00:35:45.933 --> 00:35:48.236
- It says this, (speaks hebrew),
- 00:35:48.236 --> 00:35:50.304
- His great strength, judges 16:5, equals 77.
- 00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:57.178
- It's his great strength,
- 00:35:57.678 --> 00:35:59.647
- His name is the great strong tower, 77.
- 00:36:00.481 --> 00:36:05.486
- And what is his source of strength?
- 00:36:06.287 --> 00:36:07.688
- (speaks hebrew) israel.
- 00:36:07.688 --> 00:36:09.457
- The god, the god of israel.
- 00:36:09.457 --> 00:36:10.992
- God, god of 77, (speaks hebrew).
- 00:36:10.992 --> 00:36:15.363
- The covenant of kindness with (speaks hebrew),
- 00:36:15.363 --> 00:36:18.299
- God's covenantal loyalty equals 77.
- 00:36:18.299 --> 00:36:21.702
- Because of his great (speaks hebrew),
- 00:36:21.702 --> 00:36:23.704
- His covenantal loyalty, he will keep israel,
- 00:36:23.704 --> 00:36:26.974
- He will keep his strength to israel.
- 00:36:26.974 --> 00:36:29.944
- All my goodness call to thee, equals 77.
- 00:36:29.944 --> 00:36:33.714
- All god's goodness can be seen in this land
- 00:36:34.615 --> 00:36:37.218
- Because of his strong hand.
- 00:36:37.785 --> 00:36:39.887
- (speaks hebrew), give thanks to the lord equals 77.
- 00:36:39.887 --> 00:36:43.491
- So what should we do when we experience
- 00:36:43.491 --> 00:36:46.227
- The strength of god, all of god's goodness?
- 00:36:46.227 --> 00:36:49.063
- We should give him strength.
- 00:36:49.063 --> 00:36:50.464
- And in fact, the name of the jewish people
- 00:36:50.464 --> 00:36:52.233
- Comes from the word (speaks hebrew), judah,
- 00:36:52.233 --> 00:36:54.201
- Which means to praise or give thanks to god.
- 00:36:54.201 --> 00:36:56.671
- And strength has always come
- 00:36:56.671 --> 00:36:59.140
- From giving thanks and praise to god.
- 00:36:59.140 --> 00:37:01.842
- - my goodness. - wow.
- 00:37:01.842 --> 00:37:03.177
- You just never get tired of that.
- 00:37:03.177 --> 00:37:04.512
- (all laugh)
- 00:37:04.512 --> 00:37:05.946
- - 77, there's gotta be something unique
- 00:37:05.946 --> 00:37:11.619
- (gentle music)
- 00:37:11.986 --> 00:37:13.721
- In regard to 77 that pertains to the physical land.
- 00:37:13.721 --> 00:37:20.561
- Keep going. - yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 00:37:21.262 --> 00:37:22.730
- It's god giving strength, spiritually and physically
- 00:37:22.730 --> 00:37:28.035
- For the nation of israel to continue to flourish,
- 00:37:28.969 --> 00:37:31.339
- For it to continue to have its victories
- 00:37:31.339 --> 00:37:34.041
- Over those that would seek its destruction.
- 00:37:34.041 --> 00:37:37.478
- Israel is an exporter.
- 00:37:37.478 --> 00:37:39.613
- Like, this was a barren wasteland.
- 00:37:39.613 --> 00:37:41.982
- When mark twain came here, he said it was desolate.
- 00:37:41.982 --> 00:37:44.418
- There was nothing here.
- 00:37:44.418 --> 00:37:46.087
- Now it is a fertile nation
- 00:37:46.087 --> 00:37:50.091
- That has abundant produce that comes from here,
- 00:37:50.091 --> 00:37:53.627
- Exported to other parts of the world.
- 00:37:53.627 --> 00:37:56.330
- Your grain in hebrew equals 77 showing that,
- 00:37:56.330 --> 00:37:59.800
- You know, israel's going to continue
- 00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:02.236
- To be prosperous in the abundance,
- 00:38:02.236 --> 00:38:04.338
- That it's going to flow to and from israel as a nation.
- 00:38:04.338 --> 00:38:09.377
- The phrase (speaks hebrew), in the night, equals 77,
- 00:38:10.411 --> 00:38:14.215
- 'cause even in the dark hours, even in the moments,
- 00:38:14.215 --> 00:38:17.651
- God is still going to be our strength and our strong tower.
- 00:38:17.651 --> 00:38:22.490
- And it's him that we have to run to and find refuge in
- 00:38:22.490 --> 00:38:26.627
- Even as the missiles are flying over,
- 00:38:26.627 --> 00:38:29.663
- Even as the rhetoric around the world condemning israel,
- 00:38:29.663 --> 00:38:33.567
- It can be dark.
- 00:38:33.567 --> 00:38:35.169
- Many israelis wrestle with feeling
- 00:38:35.169 --> 00:38:38.038
- The world is against them.
- 00:38:38.038 --> 00:38:39.740
- But you know what? god is their strength.
- 00:38:39.740 --> 00:38:42.309
- - yes. - mm.
- 00:38:42.309 --> 00:38:43.677
- - (speaks hebrew), god is my strength and my song,
- 00:38:43.677 --> 00:38:47.615
- And he has become my (speaks hebrew), my salvation.
- 00:38:47.615 --> 00:38:50.985
- And that's his promise to the jewish people
- 00:38:50.985 --> 00:38:53.187
- Now and forever more. - amen.
- 00:38:53.187 --> 00:38:56.056
- - and that should be encouraging.
- 00:38:56.056 --> 00:38:58.292
- And i think that when you think about israel,
- 00:38:58.292 --> 00:39:02.696
- I think it could be summarized by this,
- 00:39:02.696 --> 00:39:04.465
- And this would be like my word of encouragement
- 00:39:04.465 --> 00:39:06.367
- To everyone who's watching.
- 00:39:06.367 --> 00:39:08.202
- For 2000 years, israel was exiled as a nation,
- 00:39:09.170 --> 00:39:12.039
- (gentle music)
- 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:14.375
- But they never lost the hope.
- 00:39:14.375 --> 00:39:17.945
- God made promises.
- 00:39:18.379 --> 00:39:20.147
- Can a nation be born in a day?
- 00:39:20.147 --> 00:39:23.184
- A promise that the desert would bloom,
- 00:39:23.184 --> 00:39:25.820
- It seems ridiculous.
- 00:39:25.820 --> 00:39:29.790
- It seems like fantasy.
- 00:39:29.790 --> 00:39:31.425
- - [matt] can dry bones live again, you know?
- 00:39:31.425 --> 00:39:33.928
- - can dry bones live again?
- 00:39:34.495 --> 00:39:35.796
- Ezekiel 37 prophecy, the valley of dry bones.
- 00:39:35.796 --> 00:39:39.567
- God's promises to us are so good it borders on fantasy.
- 00:39:40.634 --> 00:39:43.938
- - [matt] wow.
- 00:39:43.938 --> 00:39:45.339
- - but we've never lost that hope.
- 00:39:46.106 --> 00:39:48.142
- And that's why what became the national anthem of israel
- 00:39:48.142 --> 00:39:53.013
- Is called "hatikva", the hope.
- 00:39:53.013 --> 00:39:55.783
- - [matt] hmm.
- 00:39:56.116 --> 00:39:57.351
- - and the amazing thing about the word
- 00:39:57.351 --> 00:39:58.853
- (speaks hebrew), the word for hope
- 00:39:58.853 --> 00:40:01.388
- Is it comes from the hebrew word (speaks hebrew),
- 00:40:01.388 --> 00:40:04.024
- Which means to braid or to twist.
- 00:40:04.024 --> 00:40:07.261
- Now you remember the story.
- 00:40:07.828 --> 00:40:09.697
- ♪ joshua fought the battle of jericho, jericho, jericho ♪
- 00:40:10.798 --> 00:40:14.935
- - i was hoping you were going to sing on the podcast.
- 00:40:14.935 --> 00:40:16.103
- - that's right, you're hoping i was...
- 00:40:16.103 --> 00:40:17.505
- This is my musical debut right here.
- 00:40:17.505 --> 00:40:20.241
- Tbn, you guys, the first.
- 00:40:20.241 --> 00:40:22.576
- Listen, when joshua was told to take the city,
- 00:40:22.576 --> 00:40:25.779
- March around the wall,
- 00:40:25.779 --> 00:40:27.414
- There was only going to be one woman.
- 00:40:27.414 --> 00:40:29.950
- - and one family that was going to be spared, right?
- 00:40:31.018 --> 00:40:34.121
- That was gonna be rahab.
- 00:40:34.121 --> 00:40:35.956
- And you remember what god told her to hang in the window?
- 00:40:35.956 --> 00:40:39.159
- He told her to hang a what?
- 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:40.628
- - [laurie] red scarf.
- 00:40:40.628 --> 00:40:41.462
- - a red scarlet cord.
- 00:40:41.462 --> 00:40:44.064
- In hebrew, in the joshua passage, it
- 00:40:44.064 --> 00:40:47.201
- Uses the word tikvah,
- 00:40:47.201 --> 00:40:49.870
- The same word for hope.
- 00:40:49.870 --> 00:40:52.773
- - my goodness. - wow.
- 00:40:52.773 --> 00:40:54.174
- - listen, hope is a rope.
- 00:40:54.174 --> 00:40:56.877
- - yeah. (matt laughing)
- 00:40:56.877 --> 00:40:58.112
- - literally hope is a rope.
- 00:40:58.112 --> 00:41:02.116
- It pulls us out of the pits, the problems
- 00:41:02.116 --> 00:41:06.487
- And the pains of the past.
- 00:41:06.487 --> 00:41:09.356
- And it pulls us into our future.
- 00:41:09.356 --> 00:41:12.526
- It pulls us into our destiny.
- 00:41:12.526 --> 00:41:15.629
- It pulls us out, it pulls us up,
- 00:41:15.629 --> 00:41:18.999
- It pulls us into the promises and plans of god for our life.
- 00:41:18.999 --> 00:41:24.338
- The problem is when we talk about hope,
- 00:41:25.205 --> 00:41:27.541
- It's more of a wishy-washy kind of,
- 00:41:27.541 --> 00:41:29.743
- Oh, i really hope that happens.
- 00:41:29.743 --> 00:41:31.278
- When the bible talks about hope, when it talks about tikvah,
- 00:41:31.278 --> 00:41:34.548
- It is a 100% certain expectation.
- 00:41:34.548 --> 00:41:38.485
- Israel, although it seemed crazy, always believed
- 00:41:38.485 --> 00:41:42.823
- That god would do what he said he would do,
- 00:41:42.823 --> 00:41:46.026
- And god's faithfulness to israel,
- 00:41:46.026 --> 00:41:47.661
- They never lost that hope.
- 00:41:47.661 --> 00:41:48.862
- And it pulled them out of the despair
- 00:41:48.862 --> 00:41:50.698
- And the ashes of auschwitz
- 00:41:50.698 --> 00:41:52.299
- And brought us to our independent homeland.
- 00:41:52.299 --> 00:41:54.635
- And the good news is that because god keeps his promises
- 00:41:54.635 --> 00:41:57.605
- To israel, he will keep his promises
- 00:41:57.605 --> 00:41:59.840
- To each and every one of us because he is a promise keeper,
- 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:04.178
- And he has the power to fulfill
- 00:42:04.178 --> 00:42:06.180
- Everything that god has spoken.
- 00:42:06.180 --> 00:42:08.616
- And i hope that that hope will be your rope
- 00:42:08.616 --> 00:42:11.018
- In your dark moment and pull you into the best
- 00:42:11.018 --> 00:42:14.154
- That he has for you, for your future.
- 00:42:14.154 --> 00:42:15.623
- - [laurie] beautiful. - [matt] beautiful.
- 00:42:15.623 --> 00:42:16.457
- Beautiful, love it.
- 00:42:16.457 --> 00:42:17.524
- (congregation clapping)
- 00:42:17.524 --> 00:42:19.093
- - [laurie] beautiful.
- 00:42:19.093 --> 00:42:20.427
- - you know, it is just an absolutely beautiful
- 00:42:20.427 --> 00:42:26.166
- Evening here in jerusalem.
- 00:42:26.734 --> 00:42:29.803
- The temperature couldn't be better.
- 00:42:29.803 --> 00:42:31.605
- It's fresh, clean, soft, little cool breeze blowing,
- 00:42:31.605 --> 00:42:36.844
- Warm in the sun.
- 00:42:37.211 --> 00:42:39.880
- We figured out how to get this platform in the right place,
- 00:42:41.048 --> 00:42:43.751
- And your chair in the right place.
- 00:42:43.751 --> 00:42:45.252
- And we have a israeli flag flapping over your shoulder,
- 00:42:45.252 --> 00:42:49.056
- Just because i'm enjoying this and the weather's perfect,
- 00:42:49.056 --> 00:42:52.526
- And it's just a beautiful time right now.
- 00:42:52.526 --> 00:42:56.597
- We've got about 10 or 15 minutes.
- 00:42:56.597 --> 00:42:58.399
- Why don't you kind of go where you want to go on this,
- 00:42:58.399 --> 00:43:02.336
- A little piece of something.
- 00:43:02.336 --> 00:43:04.271
- I'll give you a chance to collect your thoughts here
- 00:43:04.271 --> 00:43:07.174
- And then pray if you would,
- 00:43:07.174 --> 00:43:09.910
- Because you've touched on quite a few things.
- 00:43:09.910 --> 00:43:13.147
- That 77 is a very sweeping kind of thing.
- 00:43:13.147 --> 00:43:17.885
- It talks about protection, it talks about this,
- 00:43:17.885 --> 00:43:20.187
- But it talks about the fact that if somebody needs hope,
- 00:43:20.187 --> 00:43:25.159
- That they're usually in some kind of a despair situation.
- 00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:28.195
- Everybody has so many different things
- 00:43:28.195 --> 00:43:30.531
- Going on in their lives and we want to always be concerned
- 00:43:30.531 --> 00:43:35.869
- About israel,
- 00:43:36.203 --> 00:43:37.571
- But we sometimes are concerned about ourselves.
- 00:43:37.571 --> 00:43:39.073
- We've got issues going on,
- 00:43:39.073 --> 00:43:41.008
- Medical issues, this, that, the other.
- 00:43:41.008 --> 00:43:42.509
- Okay, so kind of go wherever you wanna go,
- 00:43:42.509 --> 00:43:46.113
- But just wrap this up in a few minutes in prayer
- 00:43:46.113 --> 00:43:50.050
- And go wherever you wanna go.
- 00:43:50.050 --> 00:43:52.352
- - yeah i mean, there's so many different things
- 00:43:53.287 --> 00:43:55.022
- That we can speak of.
- 00:43:55.022 --> 00:43:57.925
- You know, i think something that's deeply on my heart
- 00:43:57.925 --> 00:44:01.962
- Is this, you know, there on the college campuses,
- 00:44:01.962 --> 00:44:08.969
- The universities, much of mainstream media,
- 00:44:09.870 --> 00:44:14.408
- There is this continued attack upon israel.
- 00:44:15.342 --> 00:44:21.482
- Saying that israelis are occupiers of this land,
- 00:44:22.416 --> 00:44:27.788
- That we don't have a right to be here,
- 00:44:28.622 --> 00:44:31.258
- Yet god made a covenant with abraham
- 00:44:31.258 --> 00:44:34.495
- And promised him this land.
- 00:44:34.495 --> 00:44:37.731
- In genesis chapter 17, there's the covenant
- 00:44:38.632 --> 00:44:42.436
- Between the parts.
- 00:44:42.436 --> 00:44:43.937
- God puts abraham to sleep, he passes between the parts.
- 00:44:43.937 --> 00:44:48.776
- That covenant, usually both parties would walk
- 00:44:49.743 --> 00:44:53.380
- Between the sacrifice saying both of them
- 00:44:53.380 --> 00:44:55.716
- Are taking on responsibilities and obligations.
- 00:44:55.716 --> 00:44:58.986
- And that if either one of those parties
- 00:44:58.986 --> 00:45:01.155
- Breaks that obligation,
- 00:45:01.155 --> 00:45:02.389
- They should end up like that sacrifice
- 00:45:02.389 --> 00:45:04.024
- That had been cut into pieces.
- 00:45:04.024 --> 00:45:06.126
- But abraham was passive, he was sleeping.
- 00:45:06.126 --> 00:45:08.695
- God passes through.
- 00:45:08.695 --> 00:45:10.564
- It shows that it was an eternal, unconditional covenant
- 00:45:10.564 --> 00:45:14.868
- That god made with the jewish people to give them this land
- 00:45:14.868 --> 00:45:20.040
- As an eternal inheritance.
- 00:45:20.607 --> 00:45:23.310
- There's no other way to understand this.
- 00:45:23.310 --> 00:45:26.146
- This prophecy of ezekiel 37 ties into it,
- 00:45:26.947 --> 00:45:30.050
- As you mentioned, the valley of the dry bones.
- 00:45:30.050 --> 00:45:31.985
- The bones are rattling, and god says, ezekiel,
- 00:45:31.985 --> 00:45:35.622
- "can these bones live?"
- 00:45:35.622 --> 00:45:37.324
- The bones come back together
- 00:45:37.324 --> 00:45:39.626
- And they're regathered as a nation.
- 00:45:39.626 --> 00:45:42.062
- And then only later does the breath of god come into it.
- 00:45:42.062 --> 00:45:45.065
- And there's a spiritual revival and regeneration
- 00:45:45.065 --> 00:45:47.935
- Among the people of israel.
- 00:45:47.935 --> 00:45:50.938
- Friends, 1948 was the beginning of that regathering.
- 00:45:50.938 --> 00:45:54.741
- There are now more jews in israel
- 00:45:55.475 --> 00:45:57.678
- Than there are any place in the world.
- 00:45:57.678 --> 00:45:59.713
- The first place, it's the first time since probably
- 00:45:59.713 --> 00:46:02.583
- The babylonian captivity significant.
- 00:46:02.583 --> 00:46:06.286
- I lost most of my family in the holocaust
- 00:46:06.286 --> 00:46:08.488
- Because they had nowhere to go.
- 00:46:08.488 --> 00:46:10.524
- You know, if israel would've existed then
- 00:46:11.391 --> 00:46:14.228
- Maybe my family would be alive here today.
- 00:46:14.228 --> 00:46:16.830
- This is god's covenant, its promises, but it's real.
- 00:46:17.865 --> 00:46:21.335
- Antisemitism is rising around the world.
- 00:46:21.335 --> 00:46:24.438
- We need a place that can be a refuge for the jewish people.
- 00:46:24.438 --> 00:46:28.642
- But christians need to understand,
- 00:46:29.409 --> 00:46:32.613
- Don't believe the propaganda.
- 00:46:32.613 --> 00:46:35.249
- God promised this land.
- 00:46:35.249 --> 00:46:37.517
- Israel has not started one war, they've not stolen the land.
- 00:46:37.517 --> 00:46:41.855
- Abraham bought the land in hebron,
- 00:46:41.855 --> 00:46:44.224
- David bought the temple mount.
- 00:46:44.224 --> 00:46:47.294
- He didn't take it as a gift, he didn't steal it.
- 00:46:47.294 --> 00:46:50.264
- And so we're not the occupiers, we're the rightful owners
- 00:46:51.398 --> 00:46:55.202
- Who god promised this land to according to scripture.
- 00:46:55.202 --> 00:46:59.339
- You can't say you believe in the god of the bible
- 00:46:59.339 --> 00:47:03.443
- And the bible as the word of god
- 00:47:03.443 --> 00:47:06.079
- And not believe in god's promises to israel
- 00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:10.083
- That he's made, going back to abraham
- 00:47:10.083 --> 00:47:12.953
- Throughout the centuries,
- 00:47:12.953 --> 00:47:14.621
- You can't hate the jewish people and love jesus,
- 00:47:14.621 --> 00:47:18.558
- Who was the king of the jews from the tribe of david.
- 00:47:18.558 --> 00:47:23.330
- Doesn't mean everything israel does is right,
- 00:47:23.330 --> 00:47:25.232
- Doesn't mean we have to agree with everything
- 00:47:25.232 --> 00:47:27.467
- Israel does politically.
- 00:47:27.467 --> 00:47:29.403
- - you need to stand with god
- 00:47:29.970 --> 00:47:31.805
- Who created this land and brought it into existence
- 00:47:31.805 --> 00:47:34.308
- And the promises that he made that were eternal,
- 00:47:34.308 --> 00:47:38.578
- And that's a key word: eternal and unconditional.
- 00:47:38.578 --> 00:47:41.148
- - [speaker] yeah.
- 00:47:41.148 --> 00:47:42.416
- - so what's really interesting is
- 00:47:42.416 --> 00:47:43.717
- Paul writes the book of romans,
- 00:47:43.717 --> 00:47:45.519
- And there are these three chapters,
- 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:46.820
- 9, 10, and 11, that focus on israel.
- 00:47:46.820 --> 00:47:49.423
- But it seems strange that he just kind of drops israel
- 00:47:49.423 --> 00:47:52.726
- Into the middle of one of the greatest theological,
- 00:47:52.726 --> 00:47:55.395
- Probably the greatest theological-discourse
- 00:47:55.395 --> 00:47:58.231
- In history,
- 00:47:58.231 --> 00:47:59.433
- Certainly the source of theology in the new testament.
- 00:47:59.433 --> 00:48:04.104
- He talks about jew and gentile,
- 00:48:04.738 --> 00:48:07.374
- All people have fallen short.
- 00:48:07.374 --> 00:48:09.710
- All people can never be righteous on
- 00:48:09.710 --> 00:48:11.979
- Their own before god.
- 00:48:11.979 --> 00:48:13.547
- God sent the messiah to die for us.
- 00:48:13.547 --> 00:48:16.516
- We are justified by faith.
- 00:48:16.516 --> 00:48:18.885
- Justification leads to sanctification,
- 00:48:18.885 --> 00:48:21.888
- Of us being conformed to the image
- 00:48:21.888 --> 00:48:24.291
- And likeness of the messiah.
- 00:48:24.291 --> 00:48:26.393
- His life gets lived out in us,
- 00:48:26.393 --> 00:48:28.562
- And then culminating in glorification.
- 00:48:28.562 --> 00:48:30.731
- One day, when we see him,
- 00:48:30.731 --> 00:48:32.065
- We will be completely transformed.
- 00:48:32.065 --> 00:48:34.067
- We will be like him.
- 00:48:34.067 --> 00:48:35.002
- We will be fully new creations.
- 00:48:35.002 --> 00:48:37.738
- And then he says nothing can separate you
- 00:48:37.738 --> 00:48:39.940
- From the love of messiah, not height nor depth,
- 00:48:39.940 --> 00:48:41.975
- Nor width or principality nor power.
- 00:48:41.975 --> 00:48:43.543
- And then all of a sudden he talks about israel
- 00:48:43.543 --> 00:48:45.979
- In the very next verse.
- 00:48:45.979 --> 00:48:48.648
- What the heck does that have to do
- 00:48:48.648 --> 00:48:50.350
- With this great train of thought
- 00:48:50.350 --> 00:48:52.452
- And "nothing can separate us?"
- 00:48:52.452 --> 00:48:54.588
- Here's the point paul was making:
- 00:48:55.255 --> 00:48:57.691
- Romans 11, israel's past riches.
- 00:48:57.691 --> 00:49:01.428
- Theirs is the patriarchs, the covenant,
- 00:49:01.428 --> 00:49:04.464
- The torah, the ark, the temple, all of these things.
- 00:49:04.464 --> 00:49:08.835
- Romans 10, the messiah came according to the flesh, jewish.
- 00:49:08.835 --> 00:49:14.508
- Jewish people have not embraced
- 00:49:15.142 --> 00:49:18.545
- Most yeshua as the messiah.
- 00:49:18.545 --> 00:49:21.014
- Chapter 11, the good news is one day,
- 00:49:21.014 --> 00:49:23.984
- All israel is going to experience the salvation of god,
- 00:49:23.984 --> 00:49:28.288
- The redemption of god,
- 00:49:28.288 --> 00:49:30.023
- Physically, spiritually delivered from our enemies.
- 00:49:30.023 --> 00:49:32.826
- All of these things.
- 00:49:32.826 --> 00:49:33.994
- All the promises.
- 00:49:33.994 --> 00:49:35.796
- The point is this:
- 00:49:36.229 --> 00:49:38.231
- There were some in rome
- 00:49:38.765 --> 00:49:40.200
- That were saying that god was done with israel.
- 00:49:40.200 --> 00:49:42.736
- - [speaker 2] wow.
- 00:49:42.736 --> 00:49:44.137
- - and here's the point:
- 00:49:44.137 --> 00:49:45.705
- How can we be certain that god will keep his promises to us
- 00:49:45.705 --> 00:49:50.377
- If he doesn't keep his promises to israel?
- 00:49:51.278 --> 00:49:52.045
- - mm.
- 00:49:52.045 --> 00:49:53.346
- - how can we be sure, if israel was separated,
- 00:49:53.346 --> 00:49:55.482
- If the natural olive branch was broken off,
- 00:49:55.482 --> 00:49:58.718
- Thrown away and forgotten,
- 00:49:58.718 --> 00:50:00.987
- How can the wild branches, the wild olive branches
- 00:50:00.987 --> 00:50:04.157
- That god grafted into the jewish olive tree,
- 00:50:04.157 --> 00:50:08.028
- How do we know that when those people or nations disobeyed,
- 00:50:08.028 --> 00:50:11.731
- God won't do the same?
- 00:50:11.731 --> 00:50:13.433
- How do we know nothing will separate us
- 00:50:13.433 --> 00:50:15.168
- From the love that is in messiah?
- 00:50:15.168 --> 00:50:16.870
- It's only because no matter what,
- 00:50:16.870 --> 00:50:20.273
- God has been faithful to the jewish people
- 00:50:20.273 --> 00:50:22.742
- That we can take it to the bank
- 00:50:22.742 --> 00:50:24.678
- That god will be faithful to us.
- 00:50:24.678 --> 00:50:27.013
- The birth of the modern state of israel
- 00:50:27.013 --> 00:50:29.216
- Is a birth of promise.
- 00:50:29.216 --> 00:50:30.650
- It's the birth of tikvah.
- 00:50:30.650 --> 00:50:31.818
- It's the birth of hope,
- 00:50:31.818 --> 00:50:33.220
- But it's a sign of hope to every single believer
- 00:50:33.220 --> 00:50:37.858
- In the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
- 00:50:37.858 --> 00:50:41.161
- And hope is the belief that your future
- 00:50:41.161 --> 00:50:43.697
- Is going to be better than your past.
- 00:50:43.697 --> 00:50:45.765
- The jewish people have gone through a lot of oys,
- 00:50:45.765 --> 00:50:48.468
- But this is one of our great joys.
- 00:50:48.468 --> 00:50:50.537
- - wow!
- 00:50:50.537 --> 00:50:51.671
- Beautiful. (audience applauding)
- 00:50:51.671 --> 00:50:54.641
- Close this out in prayer, jason.
- 00:50:54.641 --> 00:50:56.343
- - all right. - that'd be awesome.
- 00:50:56.343 --> 00:50:57.277
- Thank you, rabbi.
- 00:50:57.277 --> 00:50:58.778
- - abba, father, (speaking in foreign language).
- 00:50:58.778 --> 00:51:03.984
- You are our king.
- 00:51:04.417 --> 00:51:06.686
- You are our savior.
- 00:51:06.686 --> 00:51:08.622
- - [speaker] thank you.
- 00:51:08.622 --> 00:51:09.890
- - you are our helper and you are our shield.
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- I thank you, abba, that you are a ma'agen to america,
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- That you are a ma'agen, ma'agen avraham.
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- You are the shield of abraham.
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- And you will be a shield to israel
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- And you'll be a shield to each one of us as well.
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- You are our protector.
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- We lift our eyes to you.
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- We thank you, god,
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- That even as israel is a sign of promises made
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- And promises kept,
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- That it is a sign of hope fulfilled.
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- And we know that hope is a rope.
- 00:51:49.996 --> 00:51:52.832
- So i pray, god, for everyone who is struggling,
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- Everyone who feels their life is in the pit right now,
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- I'm asking that the rope of hope
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- Would be lowered into their lives.
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- You're lowering it right now,
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- That they would grab hold of the hope,
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- And most importantly, of the blessed hope of the fact, god,
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- The jew are returning to this place.
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- You will wipe every tear from our eyes.
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- - [speaker 2] thank you, lord.
- 00:52:23.396 --> 00:52:24.564
- - but even now, you've made a promise:
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- Our future is going to be better than our past.
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- That you are with us in the pits,
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- That you are with us in the prisons.
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- You are with us in our pain.
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- And you promise to take that which is broken
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- And you promise to make it whole.
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- You promise to give strength to the weary.
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- You promise to give strength to your people
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- And bless them with shalom,
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- Nothing missing and nothing broken.
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- So we pray for hope that strengthens, that those
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- Who hope in the lord will renew their strength.
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- They will run and not grow weary.
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- They will mount up on wings like eagles.
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- So we pray, god, for a new hope
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- That leads to renewal of body, mind, and spirit,
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- And the strength we need
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- To run the race that is before us, to fight the good fight,
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- To finish the good race.
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- We ask that for everyone who is watching now.
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- We say shalu shalom yerushalayim,
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- We pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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- We pray blessings on the united states of america
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- And upon president trump,
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- And upon ambassador huckabee, as you said to abraham,
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- "i will bless those who bless israel."
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- And for all of you who love and bless israel,
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- May his blessings be upon you in yeshua, jesus' name.
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- Amen.
- 00:53:46.513 --> 00:53:47.347
- - oh man.
- 00:53:47.347 --> 00:53:48.181
- Beautiful.
- 00:53:48.181 --> 00:53:49.015
- - amen. - amen.
- 00:53:49.015 --> 00:53:49.883
- - beautiful. - woo!
- 00:53:49.883 --> 00:53:50.884
- - i like it.
- 00:53:50.884 --> 00:53:52.452
- (audience applauding)
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- I like it, i like it.
- 00:53:53.286 --> 00:53:54.287
- - wow!
- 00:53:54.287 --> 00:53:55.288
- - happy birthday, israel.
- 00:53:55.288 --> 00:53:57.057
- - yeah.
- 00:53:57.057 --> 00:53:58.024
- (jason speaking indistinctly)
- 00:53:58.024 --> 00:53:59.292
- - 77th birthday not only to israel, but to jason.
- 00:53:59.292 --> 00:54:02.295
- You look great for 77.
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- (everyone laughs)
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- We'll see you next time.
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- Bye-bye.
- 00:54:05.799 --> 00:54:07.267
- - bye-bye.
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- (upbeat music)
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