Joel Rosenberg: God is Moving in Israel and the Middle East | Praise

March 26, 2025 | 55:40

Erick Stakelbeck sits down with best-selling author and political analyst Joel Rosenberg. Together, they’ll unpack the latest developments in Israel and explore the profound impact on the world stage.

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Praise | Joel Rosenberg: God is Moving in Israel and the Middle East | Praise | March 26, 2025
  • Coming up tonight on praise...
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  • Most israelis either don't believe or don't care or
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  • Forgotten that god is our shepherd.
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  • And what we're seeing is more israelis are talking about god.
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  • Everyone wants to talk about the scriptures and many,
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  • Not all, many wanna talk about yeshua.
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  • Why do you guys believe in jesus?
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  • God is moving.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Tonight on praise from dallas, american-israeli
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  • Evangelical christian, author and nonprofit executive,
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  • Joel rosenberg.
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  • ♪♪
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  • And now your host, erick stackelbeck.
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  • Welcome to praise.
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  • I'm erick stackelbeck, and it is very clear that israel
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  • Stands at the very epicenter of global events.
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  • Politically, militarily, spiritually, there's
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  • No place like it on earth.
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  • Israel is god's prophetic timepiece and the key player
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  • In shaping the future of the middle east and beyond.
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  • So why does israel matter to you?
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  • How is god moving today among his people and in his land
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  • During a very troubled time?
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  • And what comes next in the world's most pivotal and
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  • Prophetic region?
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  • Joining us tonight to break it down is joel rosenberg, host of
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  • The rosenberg report right here on tbn, best-selling author
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  • And editor in chief of all israel news.
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  • Joel, great to see you, my friend.
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  • Great to have you with us.
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  • It's great to be here, first of all, in the united states
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  • At all. yeah.
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  • In texas at tbn and with you.
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  • Great we're usually together in your hometown
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  • Of jerusalem. yeah.
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  • It's been a painful year, as you know.
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  • But let's talk about it.
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  • No doubt, very painful, joel.
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  • That's why i'm so glad you're here from october 7 on,
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  • But god is moving right now in israel.
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  • I said that in the lead in real quick.
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  • God is really moving.
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  • God is up to something.
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  • Amid all the tragedy and the pain, things are happening.
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  • Prophetic things are happening.
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  • You have a front row seat.
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  • Break it down for us a bit.
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  • Yeah. well, let's start in a personal way.
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  • You know, our ministry, the joshua fund, we, my wife and i
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  • Started eighteen and a half years ago to do what?
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  • To, to bless israel and her neighbors in the name of jesus.
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  • Most ministries, even if they have a full biblical view,
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  • Yes, god loves israel.
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  • He loves the jewish people.
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  • He has a special unique plan for us, but he also loves
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  • The whole world.
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  • And he certainly loves the palestinians and the lebanese
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  • And the syrians and the jordanians, iraqis and the
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  • Egyptians and so forth.
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  • All true.
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  • But most ministries don't try to do both simultaneously.
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  • But that's what god has called us to do. over the last
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  • Eighteen and a half years,
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  • God has given us the mercy to invest a hundred million
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  • Dollars more actually than, to strengthen the church in the
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  • Middle east, in israel, starting with in all those
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  • Arab countries, humanitarian relief and pastor support
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  • And training and so forth.
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  • Why? because he loves the people of the epicenter.
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  • Now, i don't believe that god sent
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  • This horrible october seventh war.
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  • This is satanic.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Satan is trying to rob, kill, and destroy.
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  • Right?
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  • God sovereignly has let it happen.
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  • And so we'll we can unpack that over the course
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  • Of the show.
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  • But i will say that one of the things about living in israel,
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  • Lynn and i live in jerusalem, we're dual
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  • Us-israeli citizens.
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  • Two of our sons have served in the military, but we're also
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  • Involved in ministry day to day, not just in reporting, but
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  • Also day to day on the ground with the pastors ministry
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  • Leaders in the country and with unbelievers.
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  • And what we're seeing is more israelis are talking about god,
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  • Are talking about the bible and even willing to
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  • Talk about yeshua, jesus, is he, isn't he,
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  • Than ever in all of modern israeli history.
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  • We like every pastor and ministry leader we talk to,
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  • Especially those who are on the front lines, either they're on
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  • The gaza border or near it, or they're on the lebanon border
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  • Or near it, they're the ones who say everybody wants to
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  • Talk about god.
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  • Everyone wants to talk about the scriptures and many,
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  • Not all, many wanna talk about yeshua.
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  • Why do you guys believe in jesus?
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  • We don't, but you do.
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  • But now if you get to the center of the country, sort of
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  • The high-tech corridor, tel aviv, haifa, what we would
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  • Call the silicon wadi, right?
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  • That's very secular, hypersecular.
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  • And there you talk to pastors, ministry leaders, there's less
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  • Interest in talking about god.
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  • But the country and the army, almost everyone in the army is
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  • Reading psalms, they're singing,
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  • Singing before they go into battle.
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  • They go into battle. yeah.
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  • So, think, i think we're in an amos 9:9 moment in
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  • Israel where god said prophetically through the
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  • Hebrew prophet amos, chapter nine, verse nine, i will shake
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  • The whole house of israel among the nations.
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  • I don't think israel's under judgment.
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  • I don't think that's why god's sovereign will let this happen,
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  • But we are being shaken.
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  • Why? cause we're a country that's not--
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  • Most israelis either don't believe or don't care or
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  • Forgotten that god is our shepherd.
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  • This is what david, our greatest king told us, right?
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  • The lord is my shepherd, right?
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  • Ezekiel 34.
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  • And throughout the scriptures, the idea that god says,
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  • I'm, you are the sheep of my pasture.
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  • You're my sheep.
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  • I am your shepherd.
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  • And of course, yeshua, jesus himself, right?
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  • John chapter ten, i am the good shepherd.
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  • Now, even if you set that aside for the moment-- now we don't,
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  • But as jews, as israelis, many of them are not ready to
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  • Talk about that yet.
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  • But first they've forgotten that god is our shepherd,
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  • The israel shepherd.
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  • And if you forget or you don't care, or you think god's too
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  • Mean, or he's incompetent or he's impotent or whatever
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  • You think, you're like, i don't need a shepherd.
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  • Oh, okay.
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  • That means you've forgotten that there are ravenous wolves
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  • Lurking throughout the countryside waiting to
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  • And i think what happened on october 7
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  • Is we just dropped our guard.
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  • Not just at the political and military level, but overall it
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  • Was a country that's saying, i don't need a shepherd.
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  • There's no shepherd.
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  • And somehow thinking that the middle east had changed and
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  • That there are no ravenous wolves trying to devour us.
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  • And this was a very
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  • Painful awakening.
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  • And now everybody's rethinking.
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  • Some religious that i talked to, orthodox, they're like,
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  • I don't believe in god anymore, or how could god be there
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  • If he let this happen?
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  • They're taking no responsibility as a nation.
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  • Maybe we let this happen.
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  • Maybe god wanted us to protect us.
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  • He wants to be our shepherd.
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  • We didn't want him to be our shepherd.
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  • So you got secular people
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  • Saying, i want to talk about god.
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  • I've never paid attention to god.
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  • I've met people from the nova music festival.
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  • This one woman said to me, i was a secularist.
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  • I didn't care about god.
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  • I've never read a psalm.
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  • I never picked up the bible
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  • A day in my life, now i'm reading the psalms.
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  • Now i'm searching.
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  • I need god.
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  • I need to find him.
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  • I don't know how to find him.
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  • So this is some of the things that are going on that we need,
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  • You know, the tbn audience to be praying about.
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  • God is moving, but you're not getting that on cnn.
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  • You're not getting that on msnbc or the new york times.
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  • You really have to turn to tbn
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  • To go, what is really happening?
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  • Yeah.
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  • God, under the darkness and there's a lot of darkness.
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  • God is moving.
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  • The light of christ, the
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  • Messiah is actually starting to shine.
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  • And it's a really interesting time.
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  • Challenging, exhausting, but actually kind of exciting.
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  • Yeah. you're in the middle of it and the harshest, obviously,
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  • Joel, of all wake up calls, october seventh.
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  • But you've been living in israel for a while.
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  • You've been following it for years.
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  • Do you sense now a greater openness among the jewish
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  • People and the people in israel in particular towards jesus,
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  • Towards yeshua, than ever before?
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  • Ever before.
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  • That's true of jews worldwide.
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  • We've done a lot of research, and the joshua fund has
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  • Funded a lot of research.
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  • And we found that since i was born in 1967,
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  • At that time, there were only two thousand jewish people on
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  • Planet earth that believed that jesus is the messiah.
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  • Less than two thousand or fewer.
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  • Today, we're at about a million.
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  • Now, most of those, close to nine hundred thousand are
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  • Here in the united states.
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  • Then you've about thirty thousand in israel and then
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  • Europe and brazil and other places around the world.
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  • But we're at about a million right now.
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  • Now, when you think of going from two thousand to a million
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  • In fifty seven, in almost fifty eight years, wow, that is
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  • Tremendous growth that even
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  • Much of the church isn't aware of.
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  • Yes. even jews for jesus and chosen people ministries and
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  • Others were shocked when that research began to emerge
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  • Because a lot of people didn't believe it.
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  • I didn't believe it.
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  • I believe that there were many more jews in the kingdom than
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  • Most people thought, but jewish ministries were shocked because
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  • They were looking at messianic congregations in the united
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  • States and around the world and
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  • Thinking, there's not that many.
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  • And how many jews worldwide, by the way, in the
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  • United state? so, yeah, right.
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  • Right. so, there's about
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  • Fifteen or sixteen million jews total.
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  • So, now we're talking about a million out of fifteen
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  • Or sixteen million.
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  • This is the highest number in
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  • Sheer numbers in two thousand years.
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  • It's the highest percentage of
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  • Jews who believe in jesus as messiah.
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  • When my father came to faith in jesus as an orthodox jew from
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  • A jewish, orthodox jewish background, he came to faith
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  • In 1973.
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  • He thought he was he was the first jew since the apostle
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  • Paul who believed this.
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  • He never met a jew who believed in jesus.
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  • He never heard of a jew who believed in jesus.
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  • And in 1973, there weren't that many.
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  • But now we're at about a million.
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  • The reason most of the messianic ministries didn't see
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  • It is because most jews who believe in jesus don't go to
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  • Messianic congregations.
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  • They just go to regular bible churches or evangelical
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  • Churches of different denominations.
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  • And so they sort of blend into
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  • The rest of the evangelical culture.
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  • They don't distinguish themselves as hebrew christians
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  • Or messianic per se.
  • 00:10:14.770 --> 00:10:16.305
  • Now, in israel, it's certainly much fewer than in america.
  • 00:10:16.405 --> 00:10:20.910
  • Well, why would that be?
  • 00:10:20.910 --> 00:10:22.078
  • Well, it's because here in america, there's so many
  • 00:10:22.178 --> 00:10:24.313
  • Evangelicals who are loving on their neighbors and praying
  • 00:10:24.313 --> 00:10:27.283
  • For their neighbors.
  • 00:10:27.283 --> 00:10:28.584
  • Jews in america have much more contact with people who love
  • 00:10:28.584 --> 00:10:31.787
  • Jesus here than they do in israel.
  • 00:10:31.787 --> 00:10:34.657
  • But that body is growing.
  • 00:10:34.657 --> 00:10:36.926
  • In 1948, our research shows that there
  • 00:10:37.026 --> 00:10:40.062
  • Were only twenty three
  • 00:10:40.062 --> 00:10:42.565
  • Jewish followers of jesus, of yeshua, in israel in 1948
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  • When the country was prophetically reborn.
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  • Twenty three.
  • 00:10:48.404 --> 00:10:49.205
  • Now we're at about thirty thousand or so.
  • 00:10:50.139 --> 00:10:53.342
  • Okay, that's positive, but you're talking about a
  • 00:10:53.442 --> 00:10:57.680
  • Country of ten million people.
  • 00:10:57.680 --> 00:10:59.081
  • Yeah. probably eight million jews.
  • 00:10:59.081 --> 00:11:01.150
  • So you're thinking, well, that's not enough.
  • 00:11:01.150 --> 00:11:03.285
  • No, it's not.
  • 00:11:03.285 --> 00:11:04.854
  • The question so right now you're not seeing in israel
  • 00:11:04.954 --> 00:11:07.656
  • A mass harvest.
  • 00:11:07.656 --> 00:11:08.924
  • If you're looking for people coming to faith in jesus,
  • 00:11:08.924 --> 00:11:11.160
  • Go to communist china, right?
  • 00:11:11.160 --> 00:11:12.394
  • They've gone from a million to a hundred million in the
  • 00:11:12.394 --> 00:11:14.930
  • Last forty years.
  • 00:11:14.930 --> 00:11:16.198
  • Or go to iran where they went they had five hundred shia
  • 00:11:16.198 --> 00:11:18.901
  • Converts to jesus in 1979.
  • 00:11:18.901 --> 00:11:21.570
  • Now they're at several million.
  • 00:11:21.570 --> 00:11:23.672
  • Brazil, sub saharan africa,
  • 00:11:24.406 --> 00:11:26.142
  • These are where the greatest
  • 00:11:26.142 --> 00:11:27.176
  • Spiritual awakenings are going on.
  • 00:11:27.176 --> 00:11:29.311
  • But there is a great spiritual awakening going on among the
  • 00:11:29.411 --> 00:11:32.314
  • Jewish people, but most of it's in the states.
  • 00:11:32.314 --> 00:11:34.550
  • So, the question is when are we gonna start seeing people come
  • 00:11:34.650 --> 00:11:38.454
  • To faith in yeshua in israel? and
  • 00:11:38.454 --> 00:11:40.923
  • I think what we're watching now, but it hasn't really been
  • 00:11:41.023 --> 00:11:43.526
  • Reported. it's not getting noticed in the midst of all
  • 00:11:43.526 --> 00:11:45.895
  • This horror of this war, is people are really processing it
  • 00:11:45.895 --> 00:11:50.666
  • In israel like never before.
  • 00:11:50.666 --> 00:11:52.902
  • So, that's encouraging.
  • 00:11:52.902 --> 00:11:54.370
  • I can't predict when
  • 00:11:54.904 --> 00:11:56.572
  • Open ears and open hearts will turn to decisions.
  • 00:11:57.640 --> 00:12:00.810
  • We got to keep praying for that.
  • 00:12:01.577 --> 00:12:03.412
  • Do you see a deeper prophetic meaning behind it, behind this
  • 00:12:03.412 --> 00:12:06.649
  • Move of the jewish people?
  • 00:12:06.649 --> 00:12:08.050
  • Gradually, it's not all at once, obviously, as you laid
  • 00:12:08.050 --> 00:12:10.152
  • Out, joel, but gradually, more and more jews are coming to
  • 00:12:10.152 --> 00:12:13.289
  • Know yeshua, jesus, as their messiah.
  • 00:12:13.289 --> 00:12:15.558
  • Do you see a deeper prophetic significance in it, especially
  • 00:12:15.658 --> 00:12:18.694
  • Considering the prophetic time we're living in right now?
  • 00:12:18.694 --> 00:12:21.263
  • Absolutely. i first of all,
  • 00:12:21.263 --> 00:12:24.700
  • There's only one country where god says, when the end of the
  • 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:28.771
  • End comes, right before jesus comes back, i'm going to save
  • 00:12:28.771 --> 00:12:31.574
  • That whole nation.
  • 00:12:31.574 --> 00:12:32.508
  • That's israel.
  • 00:12:32.508 --> 00:12:33.475
  • Romans 11:26, all israel will be saved.
  • 00:12:33.475 --> 00:12:37.012
  • Now, i don't believe that from this moment all the way to the
  • 00:12:37.012 --> 00:12:40.015
  • End of the tribulation that
  • 00:12:40.015 --> 00:12:41.283
  • Every single jewish person gets saved.
  • 00:12:41.283 --> 00:12:43.219
  • I think that is talking about a very specific moment that is
  • 00:12:43.319 --> 00:12:47.056
  • Connected to zechariah 12 and to other prophecies that
  • 00:12:47.056 --> 00:12:51.026
  • Say that god's gonna save every single jew that survives
  • 00:12:51.026 --> 00:12:53.762
  • Through the tribulation, and just before jesus comes back,
  • 00:12:53.762 --> 00:12:58.033
  • He's gonna open up the fount of grace and a blessing that
  • 00:12:58.133 --> 00:13:01.704
  • Zechariah speaks of.
  • 00:13:01.704 --> 00:13:03.038
  • He's gonna pour out his grace on everybody that's left, and
  • 00:13:03.038 --> 00:13:05.541
  • He's gonna save all of them for his glory, for their good, but
  • 00:13:05.541 --> 00:13:10.512
  • Not that they've been really listening that much through.
  • 00:13:10.512 --> 00:13:13.315
  • But my point is, how ever
  • 00:13:13.415 --> 00:13:16.886
  • A viewer looks at what does romans 11:26
  • 00:13:17.786 --> 00:13:21.390
  • Exactly mean,
  • 00:13:21.390 --> 00:13:22.391
  • How do we get to all israel being saved,
  • 00:13:22.391 --> 00:13:24.460
  • Well, fifty years ago, there was almost no jews saved.
  • 00:13:24.560 --> 00:13:27.763
  • So you'd think, well, i don't even know how that's--
  • 00:13:27.763 --> 00:13:30.165
  • Maybe that doesn't mean what it says.
  • 00:13:30.165 --> 00:13:32.568
  • Maybe that's-- i don't know what that means, right?
  • 00:13:32.568 --> 00:13:35.037
  • People were like, there have barely been any jews in all of
  • 00:13:35.037 --> 00:13:37.706
  • Two thousand years who got saved since the first century.
  • 00:13:37.706 --> 00:13:40.910
  • Now that we know that there are a million, that is telling us
  • 00:13:41.010 --> 00:13:46.181
  • The scales are coming off our eyes.
  • 00:13:46.282 --> 00:13:48.851
  • The block of ice around our hearts as jews is melting,
  • 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:54.456
  • That the curtain of jewish awakening is going up.
  • 00:13:54.456 --> 00:13:59.428
  • And this should encourage us.
  • 00:13:59.528 --> 00:14:01.263
  • Yes, we have the rest of the world to reach as well.
  • 00:14:01.263 --> 00:14:04.099
  • But romans 1:16, right?
  • 00:14:04.199 --> 00:14:06.368
  • God is really serious about don't be ashamed.
  • 00:14:07.403 --> 00:14:10.940
  • Paul says, i'm not ashamed of the gospel.
  • 00:14:11.040 --> 00:14:13.309
  • Why? because it's the power of god for salvation
  • 00:14:13.309 --> 00:14:16.912
  • For everyone who believes,
  • 00:14:16.912 --> 00:14:17.880
  • To the jew first, also for the gentiles.
  • 00:14:17.880 --> 00:14:21.917
  • Unfortunately, too much of christendom doesn't try to
  • 00:14:22.017 --> 00:14:25.521
  • Witness to or tell us as jews about jesus at all.
  • 00:14:25.521 --> 00:14:29.892
  • Roman catholicism mostly doesn't have any interest in,
  • 00:14:29.892 --> 00:14:34.063
  • Express any interest in sharing the good news of god's love
  • 00:14:34.063 --> 00:14:37.633
  • For, and or plan of salvation to the jews.
  • 00:14:37.633 --> 00:14:42.037
  • Liberal modern protestantism doesn't do it, right?
  • 00:14:42.137 --> 00:14:46.175
  • A lot of reformed theology doesn't believe that current
  • 00:14:46.175 --> 00:14:49.812
  • Israel has anything to do with biblical prophetic israel.
  • 00:14:49.812 --> 00:14:53.148
  • Doesn't mean they don't have a heart for evangelism, but it's
  • 00:14:53.148 --> 00:14:55.284
  • Not a priority for most.
  • 00:14:55.284 --> 00:14:57.219
  • That's not true of everybody.
  • 00:14:57.319 --> 00:14:59.021
  • And then you've got what i would say, you know,
  • 00:14:59.021 --> 00:15:02.024
  • I love christian zionists.
  • 00:15:02.024 --> 00:15:02.758
  • I'm a christian zionist.
  • 00:15:02.758 --> 00:15:03.859
  • You're a christian zionist meaning we biblically
  • 00:15:03.859 --> 00:15:06.895
  • Understand that god has a place for israel and the
  • 00:15:06.895 --> 00:15:08.664
  • Jewish people, and it's in zion.
  • 00:15:08.664 --> 00:15:10.165
  • It's in israel.
  • 00:15:10.165 --> 00:15:11.467
  • But there is something called, i would call hyper christian
  • 00:15:11.467 --> 00:15:14.803
  • Zionism, which is so focused on giving political support to
  • 00:15:14.803 --> 00:15:19.441
  • Israel that they, that some of these leaders will also say,
  • 00:15:19.441 --> 00:15:23.012
  • But don't worry, i will
  • 00:15:23.012 --> 00:15:24.913
  • Never tell a jewish person about jesus.
  • 00:15:24.913 --> 00:15:27.216
  • Now that's disappointing because the good news is
  • 00:15:27.316 --> 00:15:30.886
  • They're standing with israel.
  • 00:15:30.886 --> 00:15:31.887
  • This is a good thing.
  • 00:15:31.887 --> 00:15:33.255
  • Yeah. but to say, i'm standing with israel, but don't worry, i
  • 00:15:33.255 --> 00:15:36.158
  • Won't share jesus and the gospel and the good news with
  • 00:15:36.158 --> 00:15:41.530
  • God's chosen people.
  • 00:15:41.530 --> 00:15:42.865
  • That's not, that's not only not good, but i wouldn't want to
  • 00:15:42.865 --> 00:15:45.300
  • Have that conversation with the jewish messiah face to face
  • 00:15:45.300 --> 00:15:48.203
  • In heaven one day.
  • 00:15:48.203 --> 00:15:48.771
  • Don't worry.
  • 00:15:48.771 --> 00:15:49.438
  • I stood with your people.
  • 00:15:49.438 --> 00:15:50.539
  • Don't worry.
  • 00:15:50.539 --> 00:15:51.673
  • I never told them about you or how to get here.
  • 00:15:51.673 --> 00:15:54.309
  • There's a flaw and the flaw is a, it's a fissure in
  • 00:15:54.410 --> 00:15:59.515
  • Romans 1:16 theology.
  • 00:15:59.515 --> 00:16:00.949
  • Remember the, you and i are old enough to remember the space
  • 00:16:01.050 --> 00:16:04.019
  • Shuttle challenger blowing up.
  • 00:16:04.019 --> 00:16:05.554
  • I was in college at that time.
  • 00:16:05.554 --> 00:16:07.990
  • And when they tracked, how did this space shuttle,
  • 00:16:08.090 --> 00:16:09.691
  • This billion dollar, whatever it was, spaceship blow up?
  • 00:16:09.691 --> 00:16:12.795
  • They tracked it down to these little o rings that were
  • 00:16:12.895 --> 00:16:15.764
  • The size of cheerios.
  • 00:16:15.764 --> 00:16:17.466
  • And they had gotten cracked.
  • 00:16:17.566 --> 00:16:19.034
  • They'd gotten dried out, they'd gotten cracked and just a
  • 00:16:19.034 --> 00:16:21.537
  • Little fissure in a little tiny element of the fitting together
  • 00:16:21.537 --> 00:16:26.642
  • Of this spaceship under heat, under pressure, under speed,
  • 00:16:26.642 --> 00:16:31.580
  • Those fissures failed.
  • 00:16:32.147 --> 00:16:34.883
  • Those o rings, as they were called, failed and it caused
  • 00:16:34.883 --> 00:16:38.153
  • A massive explosion.
  • 00:16:38.153 --> 00:16:39.721
  • I believe there are some in christendom, they may
  • 00:16:39.822 --> 00:16:43.659
  • Truly love jesus, but whether they're on, i don't really care
  • 00:16:43.659 --> 00:16:47.529
  • About the jews or they're on, i totally care about the jews,
  • 00:16:47.529 --> 00:16:50.899
  • But i'm not gonna, i don't want to risk my relationship with
  • 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:54.570
  • Them by talking about god's plan of salvation.
  • 00:16:54.570 --> 00:16:58.273
  • There's a fissure somewhere in there, there's a flaw.
  • 00:16:58.273 --> 00:17:01.643
  • The flaw is, i am a little ashamed of the gospel.
  • 00:17:01.643 --> 00:17:05.581
  • I don't really believe that it's the power of god for
  • 00:17:05.581 --> 00:17:10.452
  • Salvation for everyone who believes, including the jews.
  • 00:17:10.452 --> 00:17:12.955
  • And i don't want to risk that.
  • 00:17:12.955 --> 00:17:14.690
  • That's, that is where some christian leaders actually, a
  • 00:17:14.790 --> 00:17:18.694
  • Lot actually come out.
  • 00:17:18.694 --> 00:17:21.330
  • And what is so tragic about that, erick, is this season that
  • 00:17:21.330 --> 00:17:25.767
  • We're in, the last fifty years, but definitely the last ten,
  • 00:17:25.767 --> 00:17:29.004
  • More jews are open.
  • 00:17:29.538 --> 00:17:31.140
  • They see the love of the christians.
  • 00:17:31.140 --> 00:17:33.408
  • Even christians who aren't sharing with them, they at
  • 00:17:33.408 --> 00:17:35.277
  • Least feel the love, the
  • 00:17:35.277 --> 00:17:36.645
  • Affection, the support, the identification.
  • 00:17:36.645 --> 00:17:40.149
  • You're not alone in the world.
  • 00:17:40.149 --> 00:17:41.416
  • Yeah, the world may hate you, radical islam may hate you,
  • 00:17:41.517 --> 00:17:44.386
  • We don't hate you, we love you.
  • 00:17:44.386 --> 00:17:46.188
  • But that's prompting our team,
  • 00:17:46.288 --> 00:17:48.457
  • The jewish team to say, okay, why?
  • 00:17:48.457 --> 00:17:50.692
  • Why do the people who love jesus, why do you who love
  • 00:17:50.692 --> 00:17:53.028
  • Jesus, why do you love us?
  • 00:17:53.028 --> 00:17:54.429
  • We need an answer.
  • 00:17:54.930 --> 00:17:56.565
  • We have an answer, but we need to be ready to share that
  • 00:17:56.665 --> 00:17:59.568
  • Answer with everyone who asks.
  • 00:17:59.568 --> 00:18:01.537
  • And you're providing those answers, joel, not only
  • 00:18:01.537 --> 00:18:03.572
  • For the jewish people.
  • 00:18:03.572 --> 00:18:04.873
  • By the way, you mentioned at the top, the joshua fund also
  • 00:18:04.873 --> 00:18:06.642
  • Focuses on the arab and muslim peoples of the middle east.
  • 00:18:06.642 --> 00:18:09.845
  • Folks, if you're just joining us, we're here with our good
  • 00:18:09.945 --> 00:18:12.014
  • Friend joel rosenberg, host, of course, of the rosenberg report
  • 00:18:12.014 --> 00:18:15.284
  • Right here on tbn, editor in chief of all israel news,
  • 00:18:15.284 --> 00:18:18.320
  • Best-selling author many times over.
  • 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:20.389
  • And one of the topics that joel has really broken down in all
  • 00:18:20.389 --> 00:18:23.692
  • Of his work is how god is moving among arabs and muslims
  • 00:18:23.692 --> 00:18:28.163
  • In the middle east as well.
  • 00:18:28.163 --> 00:18:29.898
  • For the first time in a long time, joel, it seems like
  • 00:18:29.898 --> 00:18:31.767
  • We've got some good news quite literally
  • 00:18:31.767 --> 00:18:33.702
  • In the arab and muslim world.
  • 00:18:33.702 --> 00:18:35.037
  • Talk about that, joel.
  • 00:18:35.037 --> 00:18:36.271
  • You've shared how muslims in the middle east are having
  • 00:18:36.271 --> 00:18:39.408
  • Dreams and visions of jesus.
  • 00:18:39.408 --> 00:18:41.643
  • Yeah. talk more about that.
  • 00:18:41.643 --> 00:18:42.778
  • People may not know about that.
  • 00:18:42.778 --> 00:18:44.179
  • Well, so more muslims have come to christ, have left islam,
  • 00:18:44.179 --> 00:18:48.784
  • Renounced islam, and come to saving knowledge of faith in
  • 00:18:48.784 --> 00:18:52.321
  • Jesus christ as not just messiah.
  • 00:18:52.321 --> 00:18:54.890
  • Even the quran says jesus is the messiah, but the quran
  • 00:18:54.890 --> 00:18:58.393
  • Says jesus isn't god.
  • 00:18:58.393 --> 00:18:59.561
  • Yeah. that the quran says that jesus didn't die on a
  • 00:18:59.561 --> 00:19:03.065
  • Cross and he didn't rise again.
  • 00:19:03.065 --> 00:19:04.800
  • But muslims who revere jesus, in fact, jesus has spoken of
  • 00:19:04.900 --> 00:19:10.405
  • A lot in the quran.
  • 00:19:10.405 --> 00:19:12.341
  • Born of a virgin, did miracles, great teacher, and a prophet.
  • 00:19:12.441 --> 00:19:16.278
  • Okay. that's the beginning, but it's not enough.
  • 00:19:16.278 --> 00:19:18.914
  • But millions and millions and millions of muslims are
  • 00:19:18.914 --> 00:19:22.818
  • Discovering that their love for jesus from the quran isn't
  • 00:19:22.818 --> 00:19:26.188
  • Enough, that they've actually been misled by the quran and
  • 00:19:26.188 --> 00:19:29.524
  • They are coming to true saving knowledge that jesus is god,
  • 00:19:29.524 --> 00:19:33.662
  • That not just the messiah, that he is the savior, that he is
  • 00:19:33.662 --> 00:19:36.765
  • Lord, that he is the crucified and risen savior of the world.
  • 00:19:36.765 --> 00:19:41.036
  • And the only way to get to god, whom they describe as allah,
  • 00:19:41.036 --> 00:19:45.407
  • Is through jesus.
  • 00:19:45.407 --> 00:19:46.408
  • This is huge.
  • 00:19:46.508 --> 00:19:47.676
  • We are seeing the greatest spiritual awakening among
  • 00:19:47.676 --> 00:19:49.578
  • Muslims ever in history, and more muslims have come to faith
  • 00:19:49.578 --> 00:19:54.650
  • In jesus christ in the last fifty or sixty years
  • 00:19:54.650 --> 00:19:58.387
  • Than in the last fourteen centuries combined.
  • 00:19:58.387 --> 00:20:01.990
  • This is how dramatic it is.
  • 00:20:02.658 --> 00:20:04.026
  • It's incredible.
  • 00:20:04.026 --> 00:20:04.726
  • It's a mighty move of god,
  • 00:20:04.726 --> 00:20:05.927
  • Joel, and it's a great untold story.
  • 00:20:05.927 --> 00:20:08.063
  • Yeah. that's why we're telling it right now.
  • 00:20:08.063 --> 00:20:09.264
  • Yes, that's right.
  • 00:20:09.264 --> 00:20:09.898
  • Please proceed.
  • 00:20:09.898 --> 00:20:10.732
  • Well, so it's so astonishing.
  • 00:20:10.732 --> 00:20:14.770
  • And you think, well, how come 1350 years of
  • 00:20:14.770 --> 00:20:19.141
  • Ministry missions to the muslims bore so little fruit.
  • 00:20:19.141 --> 00:20:23.945
  • And why in the last fifty years is it bearing enormous fruit,
  • 00:20:23.945 --> 00:20:29.284
  • Like astonishing amount of fruit?
  • 00:20:29.284 --> 00:20:31.286
  • I mean, literally we're probably at fifteen or
  • 00:20:31.286 --> 00:20:35.324
  • Twenty million muslims who've come to christ.
  • 00:20:35.324 --> 00:20:37.893
  • Now, we're talking about a world of
  • 00:20:37.893 --> 00:20:39.895
  • 1.8 billion people.
  • 00:20:39.895 --> 00:20:41.396
  • So are you saying, joel, that's enough?
  • 00:20:41.396 --> 00:20:43.065
  • No. i'm not saying that's nearly enough.
  • 00:20:43.065 --> 00:20:44.766
  • I'm saying we've gone from almost none to, you know,
  • 00:20:44.766 --> 00:20:47.936
  • Ten million, fifteen million, twenty million.
  • 00:20:47.936 --> 00:20:49.538
  • This is huge.
  • 00:20:49.538 --> 00:20:50.772
  • When you look at that dynamic, you ask why?
  • 00:20:51.773 --> 00:20:54.509
  • Well, i think it's the same reason that jews are coming
  • 00:20:54.509 --> 00:20:56.411
  • Into the kingdom.
  • 00:20:56.411 --> 00:20:57.012
  • The spirit is moving.
  • 00:20:57.012 --> 00:20:59.014
  • God has sovereignly decided to remove the scales from the
  • 00:20:59.014 --> 00:21:03.385
  • Eyes of people who just don't see it.
  • 00:21:03.385 --> 00:21:05.654
  • Muslims are very devout about god.
  • 00:21:05.654 --> 00:21:07.889
  • Oh, yeah.
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  • They have a zeal.
  • 00:21:10.425 --> 00:21:13.595
  • It's very much like romans nine--
  • 00:21:12.694 --> 00:21:14.930
  • Yes.
  • 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:16.398
  • Where the apostle paul, who, of course, was a jewish extremist
  • 00:21:16.398 --> 00:21:18.433
  • Terrorist, really, was a religious terrorist as saul,
  • 00:21:18.433 --> 00:21:21.903
  • Until he got radically saved on the road to damascus.
  • 00:21:21.903 --> 00:21:25.540
  • As he writes the book of romans, he's describing of
  • 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.276
  • His own passionate, zealous compatriots within the jewish
  • 00:21:28.276 --> 00:21:32.781
  • Israelite world, hey, i love my people.
  • 00:21:32.781 --> 00:21:36.284
  • They are so zealous for god.
  • 00:21:36.284 --> 00:21:38.553
  • They just don't know that jesus is god.
  • 00:21:38.553 --> 00:21:41.790
  • They don't understand who he is.
  • 00:21:41.790 --> 00:21:44.059
  • Well, you take the same language and you say, this is
  • 00:21:44.159 --> 00:21:46.561
  • Very much true about muslims
  • 00:21:46.561 --> 00:21:48.330
  • And what god is doing is
  • 00:21:48.330 --> 00:21:50.799
  • He's decided that prophecies from the book of joel-- not my
  • 00:21:52.033 --> 00:21:56.405
  • Books, just to be clear, you're not gonna do it. not gonna.
  • 00:21:56.405 --> 00:21:59.808
  • Wouldn't be-- i'm not talking about my book, but the
  • 00:21:59.808 --> 00:22:02.411
  • Actual biblical book of joel.
  • 00:22:02.411 --> 00:22:04.079
  • Those, it's now time to activate those, right?
  • 00:22:04.179 --> 00:22:07.549
  • And those prophecies were about how in the last days
  • 00:22:07.549 --> 00:22:10.519
  • Of history, people will see dreams and visions.
  • 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.289
  • Old men, young men, women,
  • 00:22:14.389 --> 00:22:16.525
  • People will see dreams and visions.
  • 00:22:17.392 --> 00:22:19.194
  • And so, what god has done is said, muslims know a
  • 00:22:19.194 --> 00:22:24.299
  • Little bit about jesus.
  • 00:22:24.299 --> 00:22:25.600
  • They actually have a tender spot in their heart for jesus.
  • 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:29.271
  • They just don't know the real jesus.
  • 00:22:29.271 --> 00:22:30.939
  • But they are so hardened against jesus by everything
  • 00:22:30.939 --> 00:22:34.943
  • They're taught in the mosque and the madrasas and in their
  • 00:22:34.943 --> 00:22:38.914
  • Culture and the media, that god says, i'm gonna
  • 00:22:38.914 --> 00:22:42.284
  • Supernaturally kickstart this.
  • 00:22:42.284 --> 00:22:43.185
  • And jesus is appearing
  • 00:22:43.185 --> 00:22:45.320
  • To muslims in dreams and visions.
  • 00:22:46.154 --> 00:22:48.824
  • I wrote a book called inside the revolution.
  • 00:22:48.824 --> 00:22:52.027
  • Yeah. now that book is sixteen years old.
  • 00:22:52.027 --> 00:22:55.464
  • And so the story has moved a long way from when i wrote it.
  • 00:22:55.564 --> 00:22:58.767
  • But when i wrote it, i crisscrossed the middle east
  • 00:22:58.767 --> 00:23:00.936
  • From afghanistan to morocco and all through iraq and meeting
  • 00:23:00.936 --> 00:23:06.074
  • People who'd say, who'd had these dreams and visions.
  • 00:23:06.074 --> 00:23:08.577
  • I'd say, talk to me.
  • 00:23:08.577 --> 00:23:10.412
  • Because it's easy in the west to be skeptical.
  • 00:23:10.512 --> 00:23:13.415
  • Really? a muslim comes to jesus
  • 00:23:13.515 --> 00:23:15.383
  • Through a dream, through a vision.
  • 00:23:15.383 --> 00:23:17.352
  • Maybe the audience of praise isn't skeptical.
  • 00:23:17.452 --> 00:23:20.288
  • The more you're
  • 00:23:20.288 --> 00:23:21.957
  • Swimming in the spiritual, the theological
  • 00:23:21.957 --> 00:23:27.262
  • Streams that the spirit is moving, he's alive and he, and
  • 00:23:27.262 --> 00:23:30.899
  • He, and this isn't-- you know, the spirit of god in the
  • 00:23:30.899 --> 00:23:34.536
  • Book of acts is the same spirit of god today.
  • 00:23:34.536 --> 00:23:36.204
  • Yeah. we're all more open to thinking, oh, god
  • 00:23:36.204 --> 00:23:39.774
  • Could work that way.
  • 00:23:39.774 --> 00:23:40.976
  • But there are streams of christendom theological views
  • 00:23:40.976 --> 00:23:44.579
  • That, no, the spirit doesn't really work that way anymore.
  • 00:23:44.579 --> 00:23:47.649
  • He did, and that was awesome, but he doesn't today.
  • 00:23:47.649 --> 00:23:50.785
  • I don't believe that.
  • 00:23:50.785 --> 00:23:52.287
  • And even if i did, but i don't,
  • 00:23:52.387 --> 00:23:54.456
  • Crisscrossing the middle east and meeting muslims who've
  • 00:23:55.657 --> 00:23:57.659
  • Seen division of jesus, did it make them more deadly?
  • 00:23:57.659 --> 00:24:00.562
  • No. did i mean, i've met, as you have met, terrorists.
  • 00:24:00.562 --> 00:24:04.165
  • These were terrorists.
  • 00:24:04.266 --> 00:24:05.133
  • They would have cut my head off.
  • 00:24:05.133 --> 00:24:06.301
  • They would have shot me in the
  • 00:24:06.301 --> 00:24:07.269
  • Face as they did to other people.
  • 00:24:07.269 --> 00:24:09.638
  • Yeah. but they got radically
  • 00:24:09.638 --> 00:24:11.306
  • Saved through dreams and visions.
  • 00:24:11.306 --> 00:24:13.575
  • Now, that's not a strategy.
  • 00:24:13.575 --> 00:24:14.910
  • I want to be clear.
  • 00:24:14.910 --> 00:24:16.311
  • Dreams and visions aren't a strategy for the church.
  • 00:24:16.411 --> 00:24:19.414
  • Paul, who records seven dreams and visions,
  • 00:24:19.514 --> 00:24:23.785
  • Including his vision on the road to damascus of seeing
  • 00:24:23.885 --> 00:24:26.521
  • Jesus and getting radically saved.
  • 00:24:26.521 --> 00:24:28.456
  • But he does not tell the church to depend on god's supernatural
  • 00:24:28.456 --> 00:24:36.064
  • Dreams and visions scenarios to be the way jews, muslims,
  • 00:24:36.164 --> 00:24:41.036
  • Hindus, anyone else, buddhists get saved.
  • 00:24:41.036 --> 00:24:43.705
  • We're supposed to share the gospel, right?
  • 00:24:43.705 --> 00:24:45.907
  • Paul says in romans, how are they supposed to call on the
  • 00:24:45.907 --> 00:24:48.643
  • Name of someone they haven't heard of?
  • 00:24:48.643 --> 00:24:50.145
  • Jesus. how are they supposed to hear unless someone tells them?
  • 00:24:50.145 --> 00:24:53.315
  • How is someone gonna tell them
  • 00:24:53.415 --> 00:24:54.783
  • Unless they're sent to tell them?
  • 00:24:54.783 --> 00:24:56.284
  • And that means they're called, they're trained,
  • 00:24:56.284 --> 00:24:58.553
  • They're funded, right?
  • 00:24:58.553 --> 00:24:59.688
  • And that's a big part of what the joshua fund does.
  • 00:24:59.688 --> 00:25:02.424
  • So our job is to tell the gospel, to share the gospel and
  • 00:25:02.524 --> 00:25:06.895
  • To live the gospel so people say, wow, i see christ's
  • 00:25:06.895 --> 00:25:11.800
  • Changes in you.
  • 00:25:11.800 --> 00:25:13.034
  • There's something loving and kind and generous, flawed.
  • 00:25:13.034 --> 00:25:15.971
  • We're still flawed people, but i see god in you.
  • 00:25:16.071 --> 00:25:19.541
  • Can you tell me
  • 00:25:19.641 --> 00:25:20.842
  • How to know the god that you know?
  • 00:25:21.676 --> 00:25:23.511
  • That's our job.
  • 00:25:23.511 --> 00:25:24.846
  • God's in supernatural--
  • 00:25:25.447 --> 00:25:26.414
  • Peter says always have an answer.
  • 00:25:26.414 --> 00:25:27.449
  • Amen. always have an answer.
  • 00:25:27.449 --> 00:25:28.683
  • Amen. and so the question is, so the church needs to be
  • 00:25:28.683 --> 00:25:33.521
  • Sharing with jews and with muslims knowing that the
  • 00:25:33.521 --> 00:25:37.158
  • Results aren't up to us.
  • 00:25:37.158 --> 00:25:38.660
  • You know, bill bright of campus crusade back in the day,
  • 00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:42.664
  • He built this great movement of
  • 00:25:42.664 --> 00:25:44.466
  • Young people sharing the gospel.
  • 00:25:44.566 --> 00:25:45.934
  • He said, share christ in the power of the holy spirit and
  • 00:25:45.934 --> 00:25:49.404
  • Leave the results to god.
  • 00:25:49.404 --> 00:25:51.206
  • Now that being said, right, stephen shared the gospel
  • 00:25:51.206 --> 00:25:55.143
  • With paul, who was then saul, and all of the pharisees
  • 00:25:55.143 --> 00:25:58.513
  • That were stoning him to death.
  • 00:25:58.513 --> 00:25:59.948
  • Saul didn't get saved through that.
  • 00:26:00.815 --> 00:26:03.451
  • Now, had an effect, but it
  • 00:26:03.451 --> 00:26:05.887
  • Needed a supernatural jumpstart.
  • 00:26:05.887 --> 00:26:08.156
  • Yes. it was like the battery was in the car, the wires were
  • 00:26:08.156 --> 00:26:11.259
  • Connected, but it was not the engine was not turning until
  • 00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:14.796
  • The lord supernaturally jumpstarted the spiritual
  • 00:26:14.896 --> 00:26:18.533
  • Engine inside of saul.
  • 00:26:18.533 --> 00:26:20.035
  • Saul gets saved.
  • 00:26:20.035 --> 00:26:21.670
  • So our job is to witness, to share, to preach the gospel
  • 00:26:21.770 --> 00:26:26.574
  • And to answer everybody's questions.
  • 00:26:26.574 --> 00:26:28.410
  • But we need to be praying and we need to be aware that within
  • 00:26:28.410 --> 00:26:31.780
  • The jewish world, but especially among the muslim
  • 00:26:31.780 --> 00:26:34.449
  • World right now, dreams and visions are god's way, as he
  • 00:26:34.449 --> 00:26:38.887
  • Said it would be in the book of joel in the last days to
  • 00:26:38.887 --> 00:26:41.656
  • Jumpstart these spiritual movements.
  • 00:26:41.656 --> 00:26:44.325
  • And wow, again, when you think of more muslims coming to faith
  • 00:26:44.426 --> 00:26:47.262
  • In jesus in the last fifty or sixty years than in the last
  • 00:26:47.262 --> 00:26:51.032
  • Fourteen centuries combined, you say, god's on the move.
  • 00:26:51.032 --> 00:26:54.436
  • And so even though, radical islam is worse than ever, true,
  • 00:26:54.436 --> 00:26:58.440
  • But in many ways, the wars we're seeing in the middle
  • 00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:01.409
  • East, i would say, are physical manifestations of the spiritual
  • 00:27:01.409 --> 00:27:06.281
  • War that's actually going on in the unseen world.
  • 00:27:06.281 --> 00:27:08.783
  • There are battles for the souls of muslims and a
  • 00:27:08.783 --> 00:27:13.021
  • Battle for the souls of jews.
  • 00:27:13.021 --> 00:27:14.289
  • God's winning this war.
  • 00:27:14.889 --> 00:27:16.558
  • He is winning more and more.
  • 00:27:16.658 --> 00:27:18.193
  • He's fighting more and more.
  • 00:27:18.193 --> 00:27:20.161
  • He's been going ahead israel.
  • 00:27:20.161 --> 00:27:22.097
  • Literally, joel, seems that he's on the battlefield.
  • 00:27:22.197 --> 00:27:25.066
  • He's going ahead of israel.
  • 00:27:25.066 --> 00:27:26.134
  • Yes. and he's fighting the battles.
  • 00:27:26.134 --> 00:27:27.535
  • There's been some miraculous victories for israel since
  • 00:27:27.535 --> 00:27:30.405
  • October seventh, not only in a physical sense on the
  • 00:27:30.405 --> 00:27:33.441
  • Battlefields, but in a diplomatic realm even.
  • 00:27:33.441 --> 00:27:35.643
  • And part of that, which really goes back to 2020,
  • 00:27:35.643 --> 00:27:38.580
  • The abraham accords.
  • 00:27:38.580 --> 00:27:39.447
  • Yes.
  • 00:27:39.447 --> 00:27:40.715
  • You and i were there at the white house for the signing
  • 00:27:40.715 --> 00:27:42.150
  • Ceremony, september 2020.
  • 00:27:42.150 --> 00:27:43.551
  • And folks, we've covered this extensively here on tbn.
  • 00:27:43.551 --> 00:27:46.187
  • We've had an abraham accords documentary series you can
  • 00:27:46.187 --> 00:27:48.523
  • Check out at tbn+ right now.
  • 00:27:48.523 --> 00:27:50.558
  • But look, bahrain, the united arab emirates, morocco, coming
  • 00:27:50.658 --> 00:27:54.529
  • Into these peace agreements
  • 00:27:54.529 --> 00:27:56.030
  • With israel, absolutely historic.
  • 00:27:56.030 --> 00:27:58.166
  • But now that donald trump's back in office, and we're
  • 00:27:58.266 --> 00:28:00.535
  • Talking about god moving in the muslim world and doing
  • 00:28:00.535 --> 00:28:03.138
  • Unprecedented things, saudi arabia and israel, there's a
  • 00:28:03.138 --> 00:28:08.143
  • Lot of talk, joel, that we could see a normalization
  • 00:28:08.143 --> 00:28:11.179
  • Of relations between these two countries.
  • 00:28:11.179 --> 00:28:13.515
  • Saudi arabia is the birthplace
  • 00:28:13.515 --> 00:28:14.783
  • Of islam, the site of mecca and medina.
  • 00:28:14.783 --> 00:28:17.185
  • This would be absolutely earth shaking-- yeah.
  • 00:28:17.285 --> 00:28:19.521
  • To see a saudi-israel peace deal,
  • 00:28:19.521 --> 00:28:21.156
  • A revival of the abraham accords.
  • 00:28:21.156 --> 00:28:23.324
  • Do you think that's possible?
  • 00:28:23.324 --> 00:28:24.659
  • A hundred percent, i do.
  • 00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:26.161
  • In fact, i would i would describe an israeli-saudi
  • 00:28:26.161 --> 00:28:29.898
  • Peace agreement as the deal of the millennia.
  • 00:28:29.898 --> 00:28:32.133
  • That's how big it is.
  • 00:28:32.133 --> 00:28:33.535
  • When president trump was in his first term, he talked about
  • 00:28:33.535 --> 00:28:36.771
  • The deal of the century.
  • 00:28:36.771 --> 00:28:37.906
  • Yeah. and that would be wonderful.
  • 00:28:37.906 --> 00:28:39.908
  • He was talking about a deal between israel and the
  • 00:28:39.908 --> 00:28:41.910
  • Palestinians, which has gotten farther away at the moment than
  • 00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:46.147
  • Closer, but he was trying.
  • 00:28:46.147 --> 00:28:48.183
  • But the deal between israel and the custodians of mecca and
  • 00:28:48.283 --> 00:28:53.555
  • Medina, the custodians of islam, the epicenter of islam
  • 00:28:53.555 --> 00:28:58.893
  • And the epicenter of judaism getting together and saying, we
  • 00:28:58.893 --> 00:29:01.396
  • Don't agree with each other
  • 00:29:01.396 --> 00:29:02.530
  • On everything, but let's make a deal.
  • 00:29:02.530 --> 00:29:04.666
  • Let's make peace.
  • 00:29:04.666 --> 00:29:05.400
  • Let's normalize.
  • 00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:06.267
  • This is the deal of the millennia.
  • 00:29:06.267 --> 00:29:07.769
  • And i believe it's not only gonna happen.
  • 00:29:07.769 --> 00:29:09.804
  • I believe that president trump, i mean, he's been pretty clear.
  • 00:29:09.904 --> 00:29:12.574
  • He wants to make it happen.
  • 00:29:12.574 --> 00:29:14.475
  • But let's start with one premise.
  • 00:29:14.576 --> 00:29:16.911
  • I was speaking to some senior arab officials, including saudi
  • 00:29:17.011 --> 00:29:21.783
  • Officials recently, and they said something
  • 00:29:21.783 --> 00:29:24.519
  • Very interesting to me.
  • 00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:25.286
  • They believe that
  • 00:29:25.386 --> 00:29:27.155
  • Saudi arabia has made a, they made a mistake in the summer
  • 00:29:28.389 --> 00:29:32.160
  • Of 2020 three by being so public and open that they
  • 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:37.699
  • Were just about to make a deal with israel.
  • 00:29:37.699 --> 00:29:40.034
  • Yeah.
  • 00:29:40.034 --> 00:29:40.535
  • Now they were.
  • 00:29:40.535 --> 00:29:41.135
  • They were excited.
  • 00:29:41.135 --> 00:29:41.769
  • Even the crown prince,
  • 00:29:41.769 --> 00:29:43.204
  • Mohammed bin salman, went on a very dramatic--
  • 00:29:43.204 --> 00:29:46.541
  • Who you've met with, by the way.
  • 00:29:46.641 --> 00:29:47.809
  • Went on fox news program with brett bear.
  • 00:29:47.809 --> 00:29:49.777
  • Yeah. i've met with him twice for hours and hours,
  • 00:29:49.777 --> 00:29:55.149
  • And i came away with a very strong impression,
  • 00:29:55.149 --> 00:29:56.951
  • This is a guy who wants to move in the right timing towards
  • 00:29:56.951 --> 00:30:00.555
  • Peace with israel.
  • 00:30:00.555 --> 00:30:01.623
  • But by the time he sat publicly with bret baer,
  • 00:30:01.623 --> 00:30:04.659
  • He was basically saying the deal is very close.
  • 00:30:04.659 --> 00:30:07.428
  • I think we can get it done.
  • 00:30:07.428 --> 00:30:09.330
  • Now the assessment of some senior saudi officials is now
  • 00:30:09.430 --> 00:30:13.768
  • That, well, that was a mistake.
  • 00:30:13.768 --> 00:30:16.404
  • We probably made a mistake to say it.
  • 00:30:16.404 --> 00:30:18.072
  • We did it with good intentions, but the iranians saw it.
  • 00:30:18.072 --> 00:30:21.309
  • The iranian regime decided to they had to move quickly
  • 00:30:21.409 --> 00:30:24.679
  • To blow up.
  • 00:30:24.679 --> 00:30:25.914
  • Yeah. you had to sabotage that deal because that deal is
  • 00:30:25.914 --> 00:30:29.884
  • Gonna change the middle east forever.
  • 00:30:29.884 --> 00:30:31.386
  • And the iranian regime was so terrified of that.
  • 00:30:31.386 --> 00:30:36.057
  • So, just imagine for a second, i think what we're seeing
  • 00:30:36.157 --> 00:30:41.429
  • In the last few years, last half century for sure,
  • 00:30:41.429 --> 00:30:45.400
  • But the prayers of evangelical christians
  • 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:49.537
  • Are being heard by god and are being answered.
  • 00:30:50.571 --> 00:30:53.408
  • In other words, more jews are coming to faith in jesus
  • 00:30:53.508 --> 00:30:56.411
  • Than ever before in all of human history.
  • 00:30:56.411 --> 00:30:58.012
  • More muslims are coming to faith in jesus than in any
  • 00:30:58.012 --> 00:31:01.516
  • Time in human history.
  • 00:31:01.516 --> 00:31:02.550
  • And peace treaties that seemed
  • 00:31:02.550 --> 00:31:05.053
  • Completely, you know, impossible
  • 00:31:05.153 --> 00:31:07.689
  • Even ten years ago,
  • 00:31:07.789 --> 00:31:09.123
  • Ten years ago, have happened, four of them under brokered by
  • 00:31:09.123 --> 00:31:13.561
  • President trump in just the last four months
  • 00:31:13.561 --> 00:31:15.897
  • Of his administration-- yeah.
  • 00:31:15.897 --> 00:31:17.465
  • When everybody said it couldn't happen.
  • 00:31:17.565 --> 00:31:20.034
  • I remember john kerry, the former secretary of state, when
  • 00:31:20.034 --> 00:31:22.904
  • He heard about president trump's vision of bringing
  • 00:31:22.904 --> 00:31:25.773
  • Peace to the middle east, he's like, you know, he basically
  • 00:31:25.773 --> 00:31:28.776
  • Said, anybody who says that israel can make peace with the
  • 00:31:28.776 --> 00:31:34.415
  • Outside arab world first rather than with the palestinians
  • 00:31:34.415 --> 00:31:38.453
  • First, i'm telling you, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:31:38.453 --> 00:31:43.024
  • That's right.
  • 00:31:43.024 --> 00:31:43.524
  • Four no's.
  • 00:31:43.524 --> 00:31:44.325
  • The infamous four no's speech.
  • 00:31:44.325 --> 00:31:46.260
  • Exactly. and then how many
  • 00:31:46.260 --> 00:31:48.162
  • Abrahamic accords did we get?
  • 00:31:48.162 --> 00:31:51.699
  • Four. four.
  • 00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:52.900
  • As you mentioned, united arab emirates,
  • 00:31:52.900 --> 00:31:54.402
  • Bahrain, morocco, and sudan.
  • 00:31:54.402 --> 00:31:57.205
  • Sudan's a little troubled, right,
  • 00:31:57.205 --> 00:31:58.706
  • Because the country's imploded.
  • 00:31:58.706 --> 00:32:00.141
  • So yeah.
  • 00:32:00.141 --> 00:32:01.309
  • But still, they're not at war with israel right now,
  • 00:32:01.309 --> 00:32:04.012
  • So that's a good thing.
  • 00:32:04.012 --> 00:32:04.846
  • So we're seeing i think that evangelicals don't christians
  • 00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:09.884
  • Generally don't i'm not sure that with all that's been else
  • 00:32:09.884 --> 00:32:13.021
  • Has been going on in the world, ukraine and covid and all
  • 00:32:13.021 --> 00:32:17.392
  • There's a lot going on in the last five years.
  • 00:32:17.392 --> 00:32:19.961
  • I'm not sure they, we all really fully understand
  • 00:32:21.029 --> 00:32:24.932
  • How powerful god is answering our prayers.
  • 00:32:24.932 --> 00:32:26.768
  • We often forget to zoom in and say, that's these big tectonic
  • 00:32:26.768 --> 00:32:35.410
  • Shifts spiritually and geopolitically, these are
  • 00:32:35.510 --> 00:32:39.313
  • Not just happening.
  • 00:32:39.313 --> 00:32:40.548
  • These are happening because of years and years of praying.
  • 00:32:40.648 --> 00:32:43.785
  • We're praying for the peace of jerusalem.
  • 00:32:43.785 --> 00:32:45.153
  • Yep. people forget, oh yeah.
  • 00:32:45.153 --> 00:32:47.688
  • Yeah. that's the peace
  • 00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:48.756
  • That's helping the peace of jerusalem.
  • 00:32:48.756 --> 00:32:50.024
  • I can't tell you, erick, i know this happens to you too.
  • 00:32:50.024 --> 00:32:52.560
  • I meet so many people, including on this speaking
  • 00:32:52.560 --> 00:32:55.396
  • Tour, i'm on a two month speaking tour,
  • 00:32:55.396 --> 00:32:57.665
  • People say, the saudis and the israelis peace, isn't that the
  • 00:32:57.765 --> 00:33:01.536
  • Antichrist deal of daniel nine?
  • 00:33:01.536 --> 00:33:02.904
  • I'm like -- made a lot.
  • 00:33:02.904 --> 00:33:03.638
  • Yeah.
  • 00:33:03.638 --> 00:33:04.038
  • No. okay.
  • 00:33:04.038 --> 00:33:04.806
  • Hold on.
  • 00:33:04.806 --> 00:33:06.040
  • There will be an antichrist deal for israel that'll be
  • 00:33:06.040 --> 00:33:08.810
  • Deceptive and false at some point.
  • 00:33:08.810 --> 00:33:11.145
  • But that happens after the rapture.
  • 00:33:11.145 --> 00:33:13.281
  • That happens at the beginning of the tribulation.
  • 00:33:13.281 --> 00:33:15.283
  • Church is still here.
  • 00:33:15.283 --> 00:33:16.451
  • We're not there.
  • 00:33:16.451 --> 00:33:17.552
  • And if every deal, i say this to people.
  • 00:33:17.652 --> 00:33:19.787
  • I said this yesterday at a church i was speaking of.
  • 00:33:19.787 --> 00:33:22.190
  • If every deal that's a peace deal between israel and its
  • 00:33:22.190 --> 00:33:25.026
  • Neighbors is demonic and
  • 00:33:25.026 --> 00:33:26.828
  • Deceptive and driven by the antichrist,
  • 00:33:26.828 --> 00:33:30.231
  • Why does the bible tell us to pray for peace?
  • 00:33:31.265 --> 00:33:34.202
  • Jesus said, blessed are the peacemakers.
  • 00:33:34.302 --> 00:33:36.404
  • The apostle paul said, make peace with every man to the
  • 00:33:36.404 --> 00:33:40.441
  • Extent it depends on you.
  • 00:33:40.441 --> 00:33:41.909
  • The psalmist in psalm thirty four says, seek peace
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  • And pursue it.
  • 00:33:44.946 --> 00:33:45.546
  • Obviously david in
  • 00:33:45.646 --> 00:33:47.181
  • The psalms also, of course, talks about pray for the
  • 00:33:48.282 --> 00:33:51.519
  • Peace of jerusalem.
  • 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:52.753
  • So if we're supposed to do it and jesus is blessing it,
  • 00:33:52.753 --> 00:33:55.656
  • How can it all be deceptive?
  • 00:33:55.656 --> 00:33:57.391
  • It doesn't mean it's gonna be perfect.
  • 00:33:57.391 --> 00:33:59.260
  • Peace trees are not perfect,
  • 00:33:59.260 --> 00:34:01.062
  • But we are supposed to pursue peace.
  • 00:34:01.162 --> 00:34:03.931
  • And when we pray for it, let's not then, when god says yes,
  • 00:34:04.031 --> 00:34:08.436
  • Think, ah, that's from the devil.
  • 00:34:08.436 --> 00:34:10.404
  • No, it's not from the devil.
  • 00:34:10.404 --> 00:34:12.440
  • It's we need more jews and muslims in the region are more
  • 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:17.645
  • Likely to listen to the lord and spend time reading the word
  • 00:34:17.645 --> 00:34:21.916
  • And spend time talking to people when things are calmer.
  • 00:34:21.916 --> 00:34:24.285
  • Now sometimes in crisis, yes, people turn to god in crisis,
  • 00:34:24.285 --> 00:34:28.022
  • But sometimes the crisis is so
  • 00:34:28.022 --> 00:34:29.390
  • Bad, you're in total survival mode.
  • 00:34:29.390 --> 00:34:32.260
  • You can't really think outside that box.
  • 00:34:32.260 --> 00:34:34.428
  • Often when it's a little bit quieter and things are a little
  • 00:34:34.428 --> 00:34:37.165
  • Bit calmer, can you have those types of conversations?
  • 00:34:37.165 --> 00:34:40.434
  • So i believe, yes, god is
  • 00:34:40.434 --> 00:34:42.036
  • Allowing the reason to be shaken.
  • 00:34:42.036 --> 00:34:44.038
  • Yes, that's true.
  • 00:34:44.038 --> 00:34:45.640
  • And that's helping spiritually.
  • 00:34:46.407 --> 00:34:47.942
  • But he also gives times of
  • 00:34:47.942 --> 00:34:50.144
  • Reprieve and rest so people can process
  • 00:34:50.144 --> 00:34:54.081
  • What they need to, which is, is jesus who he says he is?
  • 00:34:55.283 --> 00:34:59.687
  • Is he god?
  • 00:34:59.687 --> 00:35:01.022
  • Is he the only savior?
  • 00:35:01.022 --> 00:35:02.390
  • Is he the only way to heaven or isn't he?
  • 00:35:02.390 --> 00:35:05.026
  • People need to hear it, they need to process it, and they
  • 00:35:05.026 --> 00:35:08.930
  • Need to either receive it or reject it.
  • 00:35:08.930 --> 00:35:12.967
  • Living in the middle east is a complicated environment,
  • 00:35:14.135 --> 00:35:16.904
  • But we're seeing huge, huge answers to prayer.
  • 00:35:16.904 --> 00:35:20.041
  • And i believe we're heading towards a saudi-israeli deal.
  • 00:35:20.041 --> 00:35:24.278
  • Gaza is, i think, now become
  • 00:35:24.946 --> 00:35:27.415
  • The linchpin of that whole process.
  • 00:35:27.415 --> 00:35:29.183
  • I wanna ask you about that.
  • 00:35:29.183 --> 00:35:30.318
  • You mentioned outside the box thinking, joel.
  • 00:35:30.318 --> 00:35:32.286
  • I think of president trump, of course, his new gaza plan.
  • 00:35:32.286 --> 00:35:34.822
  • We wanna break that down.
  • 00:35:34.822 --> 00:35:35.890
  • And any prophetic implications there as well.
  • 00:35:35.890 --> 00:35:38.059
  • But, folks, you may be shocked to learn that, yes, good things
  • 00:35:38.059 --> 00:35:41.762
  • Are happening in the world's most volatile and chaotic
  • 00:35:41.762 --> 00:35:44.198
  • Region, the middle east, as
  • 00:35:44.198 --> 00:35:45.299
  • Joel has been laying out for us.
  • 00:35:45.299 --> 00:35:47.068
  • This is joel rosenberg, of course, host of the rosenberg
  • 00:35:47.068 --> 00:35:49.537
  • Report, seen here every week on tbn, best-selling author many
  • 00:35:49.537 --> 00:35:53.307
  • Many times over, editor in chief of all israel news.
  • 00:35:53.307 --> 00:35:56.010
  • And joel mentioned gaza and how gaza could be the
  • 00:35:56.010 --> 00:35:59.947
  • Next big thing, so to speak.
  • 00:35:59.947 --> 00:36:01.816
  • President trump puts his plan forth, joel, essentially
  • 00:36:01.916 --> 00:36:05.453
  • Saying, look, we're gonna relocate the
  • 00:36:05.453 --> 00:36:07.955
  • Palestinians out of gaza.
  • 00:36:07.955 --> 00:36:09.190
  • It's been a terror hotbed, a hornet's nest for decades
  • 00:36:09.190 --> 00:36:12.760
  • And surrounding arab muslim countries.
  • 00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.029
  • Now, we're gonna do something new in gaza.
  • 00:36:15.029 --> 00:36:16.897
  • Behold, i'm doing something new, right.
  • 00:36:16.897 --> 00:36:18.666
  • And rebuild gaza.
  • 00:36:18.666 --> 00:36:20.368
  • What are your thoughts on it?
  • 00:36:21.135 --> 00:36:22.536
  • I mean, there's a lot of different opinions on this.
  • 00:36:22.536 --> 00:36:24.438
  • It's outside the box, number one.
  • 00:36:24.538 --> 00:36:26.274
  • It is.
  • 00:36:26.274 --> 00:36:27.541
  • Because we've been banging our heads against the wall for
  • 00:36:27.541 --> 00:36:29.410
  • Decades doing the same thing over and over in gaza.
  • 00:36:29.410 --> 00:36:32.179
  • Billions of dollars, terror groups pocket it, use it to
  • 00:36:32.179 --> 00:36:35.316
  • Launch attacks against israel, then we rebuild gaza
  • 00:36:35.316 --> 00:36:38.519
  • And the beat goes on.
  • 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:39.320
  • Right. this is certainly an
  • 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:40.688
  • Outside the box kind of proposal.
  • 00:36:40.688 --> 00:36:44.225
  • Do you believe there are some prophetic implications here
  • 00:36:44.325 --> 00:36:47.662
  • Even with this gaza proposal from president trump?
  • 00:36:47.662 --> 00:36:51.132
  • Probably. probably.
  • 00:36:51.666 --> 00:36:53.534
  • Let's let's set some context
  • 00:36:53.534 --> 00:36:55.536
  • Because most people are like, okay.
  • 00:36:55.536 --> 00:36:57.271
  • What's going on again?
  • 00:36:57.271 --> 00:36:58.472
  • So let's you know, you and i are sort of area experts,
  • 00:36:58.472 --> 00:37:02.009
  • So we--
  • 00:37:02.009 --> 00:37:02.677
  • Let's broaden this out.
  • 00:37:02.677 --> 00:37:03.678
  • I want my mom to understand it.
  • 00:37:03.678 --> 00:37:05.012
  • I want my my friends, you know,
  • 00:37:05.012 --> 00:37:06.814
  • Who this is not their day to day.
  • 00:37:06.814 --> 00:37:08.282
  • Okay. so a couple of things.
  • 00:37:08.282 --> 00:37:09.950
  • So during this last sixteen, seventeen months, one of the
  • 00:37:09.950 --> 00:37:14.055
  • Big refrains from the arab leadership, but also from the
  • 00:37:14.055 --> 00:37:18.059
  • Biden administration and from all of european government is,
  • 00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:23.164
  • Prime minister netanyahu, what's your day after plan?
  • 00:37:23.264 --> 00:37:25.700
  • What's your day after plan?
  • 00:37:25.700 --> 00:37:28.202
  • After gaza, after, you know, after the war is over, what
  • 00:37:26.934 --> 00:37:30.805
  • What are you gonna do?
  • 00:37:30.805 --> 00:37:31.539
  • What's your day after plan?
  • 00:37:31.539 --> 00:37:34.308
  • And netanyahu is like, listen,
  • 00:37:32.306 --> 00:37:36.043
  • My plan right now is to win.
  • 00:37:36.143 --> 00:37:38.646
  • I mean, they were asking this, like, on october eighth.
  • 00:37:38.646 --> 00:37:41.082
  • Yeah. exactly.
  • 00:37:41.082 --> 00:37:41.849
  • Exactly. every day since.
  • 00:37:41.949 --> 00:37:43.384
  • And they're he's like, look,
  • 00:37:43.384 --> 00:37:44.452
  • My idea is to win.
  • 00:37:44.452 --> 00:37:45.686
  • And by the way, you're not helping me.
  • 00:37:45.686 --> 00:37:47.688
  • Yeah. you know, he would, you know, he would try to say it as
  • 00:37:47.788 --> 00:37:50.524
  • Respectfully as he could, but, like, you know, president biden
  • 00:37:50.524 --> 00:37:54.428
  • Briefly wanted us to fight in gaza with one hand tied
  • 00:37:54.428 --> 00:37:59.300
  • Behind our back.
  • 00:37:59.300 --> 00:38:00.568
  • He was, the biden's view was you're gonna stop fighting.
  • 00:38:00.568 --> 00:38:05.840
  • That's how you're gonna get your hostages out.
  • 00:38:05.940 --> 00:38:08.008
  • And then you're not gonna go back to fighting.
  • 00:38:08.008 --> 00:38:10.144
  • That's the deal.
  • 00:38:10.144 --> 00:38:11.178
  • That's the biden plan of may of last year.
  • 00:38:11.178 --> 00:38:13.547
  • Prime minister netanyahu was like, look, you know, joe, you
  • 00:38:13.647 --> 00:38:16.817
  • And i have known each other fifty years and we like each
  • 00:38:16.817 --> 00:38:19.153
  • Other, but i just, you know, i hear you.
  • 00:38:19.153 --> 00:38:21.655
  • I just disagree with you.
  • 00:38:21.655 --> 00:38:22.890
  • You're asking me to surrender.
  • 00:38:22.890 --> 00:38:24.258
  • Yeah. we cannot surrender.
  • 00:38:24.258 --> 00:38:25.893
  • Hamas had already said, we're going do this again and again
  • 00:38:25.893 --> 00:38:28.763
  • And again and again and again.
  • 00:38:28.763 --> 00:38:31.098
  • You know, the genocidal ambitions
  • 00:38:31.198 --> 00:38:34.568
  • Of hamas leadership is not a secret.
  • 00:38:35.403 --> 00:38:39.940
  • No. it's in their charter from 1987,
  • 00:38:39.940 --> 00:38:43.010
  • And it's part of their plan.
  • 00:38:43.010 --> 00:38:43.778
  • It's a demonic death cult.
  • 00:38:43.778 --> 00:38:45.279
  • It is.
  • 00:38:45.279 --> 00:38:45.813
  • Modern-day nazis.
  • 00:38:45.813 --> 00:38:46.814
  • Absolutely. no doubt.
  • 00:38:46.814 --> 00:38:47.948
  • A hundred percent.
  • 00:38:47.948 --> 00:38:49.049
  • So, so what, what president biden and his team
  • 00:38:49.049 --> 00:38:51.519
  • Were offering was surrender.
  • 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:53.521
  • And, and netanyahu was, no.
  • 00:38:53.521 --> 00:38:55.289
  • Now netanyahu in may of last year, he didn't know that
  • 00:38:55.289 --> 00:38:59.560
  • Biden wasn't gonna keep running.
  • 00:38:59.560 --> 00:39:01.095
  • He didn't know that harris was gonna lose and he didn't know
  • 00:39:01.195 --> 00:39:03.764
  • That trump was gonna win.
  • 00:39:03.764 --> 00:39:06.700
  • But he made a gamble and that is, i can't, i want the
  • 00:39:06.700 --> 00:39:11.806
  • Hostages back, but i cannot surrender.
  • 00:39:11.806 --> 00:39:14.175
  • At the end of the day, we've got to win a hundred percent.
  • 00:39:14.275 --> 00:39:19.146
  • It's going be total victory in gaza.
  • 00:39:19.146 --> 00:39:21.515
  • Okay. so that's what that's the context.
  • 00:39:21.515 --> 00:39:24.452
  • Now, the dramatic reversal of biden harris to trump vance
  • 00:39:24.552 --> 00:39:32.159
  • Is the biggest game changer on the planet right now.
  • 00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:34.929
  • Yeah.
  • 00:39:34.929 --> 00:39:35.729
  • Right? and it is the answer to
  • 00:39:35.729 --> 00:39:37.932
  • Tens of millions of christians' prayers.
  • 00:39:38.032 --> 00:39:39.633
  • So that's a big moment too.
  • 00:39:39.633 --> 00:39:41.135
  • And it's having an effect already in the middle east.
  • 00:39:41.135 --> 00:39:43.137
  • Now, president biden
  • 00:39:43.137 --> 00:39:46.073
  • Refused to even
  • 00:39:46.073 --> 00:39:48.142
  • Invite prime minister netanyahu,
  • 00:39:48.142 --> 00:39:50.211
  • America's main ally, in a hot
  • 00:39:50.911 --> 00:39:52.913
  • War being attacked from seven directions,
  • 00:39:52.913 --> 00:39:55.316
  • Biden refused to invite netanyahu to the white house.
  • 00:39:55.416 --> 00:39:57.818
  • So trump says, we're not gonna do it that way.
  • 00:39:57.818 --> 00:40:03.190
  • And he invites netanyahu as the first foreign guest,
  • 00:40:03.290 --> 00:40:06.760
  • The first foreign leader in.
  • 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:07.928
  • And then he shocks netanyahu.
  • 00:40:08.028 --> 00:40:10.264
  • Netanyahu would never have asked this in a million years.
  • 00:40:10.264 --> 00:40:13.033
  • I've known him for a quarter of a century.
  • 00:40:13.033 --> 00:40:14.535
  • I'm telling you, it never dawned on benjamin netanyahu to
  • 00:40:14.535 --> 00:40:18.706
  • Ask trump, would america just take responsibility for gaza?
  • 00:40:18.706 --> 00:40:23.811
  • But trump comes out and he, know, he-- i'm paraphrasing.
  • 00:40:23.911 --> 00:40:27.515
  • He's like, we're gonna make gaza great again.
  • 00:40:27.515 --> 00:40:29.950
  • Erick, you didn't you're probably thinking gaza was
  • 00:40:29.950 --> 00:40:32.453
  • Never great and it wasn't, but we're gonna make it great.
  • 00:40:32.453 --> 00:40:35.055
  • I'm gonna take it.
  • 00:40:35.055 --> 00:40:35.789
  • I'm gonna own it.
  • 00:40:35.789 --> 00:40:36.524
  • I'm gonna clear it.
  • 00:40:36.524 --> 00:40:37.291
  • I'm gonna build it.
  • 00:40:37.291 --> 00:40:38.025
  • It's gonna be fantastic.
  • 00:40:38.025 --> 00:40:39.159
  • We're gonna have trump tower.
  • 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:40.194
  • We're gonna have gaza-a-largo.
  • 00:40:40.194 --> 00:40:41.762
  • We're gonna have disney gaza.
  • 00:40:41.762 --> 00:40:43.163
  • It's gonna be great.
  • 00:40:43.163 --> 00:40:44.098
  • We're gonna have boardwalks and ski ball.
  • 00:40:44.098 --> 00:40:45.566
  • It's gonna be fantastic.
  • 00:40:45.566 --> 00:40:46.700
  • You're gonna wanna vacation there.
  • 00:40:46.700 --> 00:40:48.536
  • Alright. i'm paraphrasing a little bit.
  • 00:40:48.536 --> 00:40:50.671
  • But the heart of what he said was
  • 00:40:51.405 --> 00:40:54.508
  • Everybody's been saying, where's
  • 00:40:55.276 --> 00:40:57.177
  • Netanyahu's plan?
  • 00:40:57.177 --> 00:40:59.313
  • Trump comes in, he says to the arab world, where's your plan?
  • 00:40:59.413 --> 00:41:02.716
  • To the europeans, where's your plan?
  • 00:41:02.816 --> 00:41:05.152
  • You guys have no plan.
  • 00:41:05.152 --> 00:41:06.287
  • The month the war is sixteen months old.
  • 00:41:06.287 --> 00:41:08.689
  • Where's your plan?
  • 00:41:08.789 --> 00:41:10.190
  • Okay. i have a plan.
  • 00:41:10.291 --> 00:41:11.659
  • You guys don't have one.
  • 00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:13.027
  • I have one.
  • 00:41:13.027 --> 00:41:14.061
  • I'm in charge.
  • 00:41:14.161 --> 00:41:15.663
  • You could see the smile on netanyahu's face.
  • 00:41:16.664 --> 00:41:18.532
  • Oh, yeah.
  • 00:41:18.532 --> 00:41:18.966
  • I'm sorry.
  • 00:41:18.966 --> 00:41:19.633
  • What? you're in charge?
  • 00:41:19.633 --> 00:41:20.301
  • You're gonna take over?
  • 00:41:20.301 --> 00:41:21.068
  • He was shocked too. shocked.
  • 00:41:21.068 --> 00:41:21.902
  • At the podium.
  • 00:41:21.902 --> 00:41:22.636
  • I think he heard it maybe
  • 00:41:22.636 --> 00:41:24.038
  • An hour or two before, but just astonished.
  • 00:41:24.038 --> 00:41:28.008
  • It never dawned on him.
  • 00:41:28.008 --> 00:41:29.843
  • So what's trump's plan?
  • 00:41:30.444 --> 00:41:32.446
  • Well, he sends in steve witkoff.
  • 00:41:32.446 --> 00:41:34.148
  • Steve witkoff is the new top middle east envoy, the jared
  • 00:41:34.148 --> 00:41:38.953
  • Kushner of the second term.
  • 00:41:38.953 --> 00:41:41.155
  • Witkoff is jewish.
  • 00:41:41.655 --> 00:41:43.557
  • Steve witkoff has no middle east experience.
  • 00:41:43.557 --> 00:41:45.826
  • But what does he have?
  • 00:41:45.826 --> 00:41:46.760
  • First, he has trump's trust.
  • 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:49.663
  • Second, he's a negotiator par excellence.
  • 00:41:49.763 --> 00:41:52.766
  • Yeah. mean, he's just world class.
  • 00:41:52.766 --> 00:41:54.268
  • He's a real estate developer, like trump, in new york.
  • 00:41:54.268 --> 00:41:57.538
  • Not easy.
  • 00:41:57.538 --> 00:41:58.539
  • Right? and
  • 00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:00.107
  • So the first thing witkoff does is he gets sent by trump to go
  • 00:42:01.408 --> 00:42:04.178
  • Negotiate the hostage deal.
  • 00:42:04.178 --> 00:42:05.913
  • And lo and behold, all the hostages that were supposed to
  • 00:42:05.913 --> 00:42:09.283
  • Come out in the first phase, they came out.
  • 00:42:09.283 --> 00:42:12.119
  • Biden couldn't get it done.
  • 00:42:12.786 --> 00:42:14.088
  • Trump and witkoff do.
  • 00:42:14.655 --> 00:42:16.323
  • The next thing trump asked witkoff to do is go to gaza.
  • 00:42:16.323 --> 00:42:20.894
  • No american official has gone into gaza in fifteen years.
  • 00:42:20.894 --> 00:42:25.165
  • I went as a reporter, but i'm not a i'm not an official.
  • 00:42:25.165 --> 00:42:29.536
  • Like i don't have any
  • 00:42:29.536 --> 00:42:31.305
  • Diplomatic experience or anything.
  • 00:42:32.139 --> 00:42:33.941
  • So, what does steve witkoff see?
  • 00:42:33.941 --> 00:42:36.810
  • He sees what i saw.
  • 00:42:36.910 --> 00:42:38.312
  • Apocalyptic wasteland as far as the eye could i mean,
  • 00:42:38.412 --> 00:42:41.815
  • Almost every building is damaged or destroyed.
  • 00:42:41.815 --> 00:42:44.018
  • Why? because almost every building had rockets coming out
  • 00:42:44.018 --> 00:42:47.021
  • Of and had to be bombed or had terrorists shooting out of it
  • 00:42:47.021 --> 00:42:50.190
  • And had to be bombed or had weapons stored in it.
  • 00:42:50.190 --> 00:42:54.528
  • And then it was booby trapped.
  • 00:42:54.528 --> 00:42:55.896
  • So israeli soldiers couldn't safely get in there.
  • 00:42:55.896 --> 00:42:58.832
  • So they bombed them.
  • 00:42:58.932 --> 00:42:59.933
  • Gaza was essentially one big booby trap.
  • 00:42:59.933 --> 00:43:02.436
  • Absolutely. nothing like it.
  • 00:43:02.436 --> 00:43:04.772
  • A base camp for terror.
  • 00:43:04.772 --> 00:43:05.906
  • Yeah. okay.
  • 00:43:05.906 --> 00:43:07.574
  • So trump says, okay, steve, what did you see?
  • 00:43:07.574 --> 00:43:10.177
  • Apocalyptic wasteland.
  • 00:43:10.177 --> 00:43:12.046
  • Unexploded ordinance, weapons everywhere, and of course,
  • 00:43:12.146 --> 00:43:15.282
  • Terrorists running amok.
  • 00:43:15.282 --> 00:43:16.383
  • Okay, steve, what do we do?
  • 00:43:16.383 --> 00:43:18.152
  • Well, anyone who's saying it's gonna take three years to
  • 00:43:18.152 --> 00:43:20.954
  • Rebuild this, they're smoking crack.
  • 00:43:20.954 --> 00:43:23.190
  • Again, paraphrasing.
  • 00:43:23.190 --> 00:43:24.925
  • Witkoff says it's going to take ten to fifteen years, but the
  • 00:43:25.025 --> 00:43:27.261
  • First thing he has to do is get people safe.
  • 00:43:27.261 --> 00:43:29.263
  • They have to, we have to remove them to safety so that
  • 00:43:29.263 --> 00:43:32.433
  • We can clear the ruins and the
  • 00:43:32.433 --> 00:43:35.035
  • Wreckage and the bombs and the bullets.
  • 00:43:35.035 --> 00:43:36.770
  • Yeah. and then start to have
  • 00:43:36.770 --> 00:43:38.405
  • Engineers assess what's possible.
  • 00:43:38.405 --> 00:43:41.842
  • They got 500 miles of tunnels that some of them have
  • 00:43:41.942 --> 00:43:44.812
  • Blown up, others are sagging.
  • 00:43:44.812 --> 00:43:47.214
  • Can you build on top of them?
  • 00:43:47.314 --> 00:43:48.816
  • You have to assess it.
  • 00:43:48.816 --> 00:43:50.084
  • And then you need a plan and then you need money and then
  • 00:43:50.084 --> 00:43:52.453
  • You need to start to build.
  • 00:43:52.453 --> 00:43:53.787
  • So witkoff says to trump,
  • 00:43:53.787 --> 00:43:56.356
  • I don't see that there's enough space in gaza to take two
  • 00:43:56.457 --> 00:43:59.660
  • Million people that are destitute and, you know, shell
  • 00:43:59.660 --> 00:44:03.831
  • Shocked and grieving and traumatized and leave them
  • 00:44:03.831 --> 00:44:07.801
  • There, what,in tents for the next ten to fifteen years?
  • 00:44:07.801 --> 00:44:10.904
  • I mean, that's not compassionate.
  • 00:44:10.904 --> 00:44:12.139
  • We're gonna have to move them out.
  • 00:44:12.139 --> 00:44:14.675
  • So this is where trump on air force one
  • 00:44:14.775 --> 00:44:16.176
  • Starts floating out,
  • 00:44:16.176 --> 00:44:18.011
  • We're gonna move them to egypt.
  • 00:44:18.011 --> 00:44:19.780
  • We're gonna move them to jordan and the saudis
  • 00:44:19.780 --> 00:44:22.950
  • Are gonna pay for it.
  • 00:44:22.950 --> 00:44:23.784
  • Now the egyptians and the
  • 00:44:24.384 --> 00:44:25.953
  • Jordanians are like, i'm sorry, what?
  • 00:44:25.953 --> 00:44:27.955
  • And they would they're not happy about this.
  • 00:44:27.955 --> 00:44:29.957
  • No.
  • 00:44:29.957 --> 00:44:31.558
  • Now then brett baer asked the question on fox news,
  • 00:44:31.658 --> 00:44:36.430
  • Mr. president, you've said you want to rebuild gaza.
  • 00:44:36.430 --> 00:44:39.533
  • Okay? and it's going to take ten to fifteen years.
  • 00:44:39.533 --> 00:44:42.536
  • Okay? and that you want to move everybody out while you build.
  • 00:44:42.536 --> 00:44:45.939
  • Now, what i want to ask you, brett baer said, was then
  • 00:44:45.939 --> 00:44:50.644
  • The palestinians from gaza have the right to go back, right?
  • 00:44:50.644 --> 00:44:53.981
  • This was the game- changing conversation,
  • 00:44:54.081 --> 00:44:56.150
  • The moment where everything changed, where trump says,
  • 00:44:56.150 --> 00:44:59.887
  • No, they're not going to go back.
  • 00:44:59.887 --> 00:45:01.455
  • And baer was like, but you wanna build
  • 00:45:01.555 --> 00:45:07.261
  • This beautiful place.
  • 00:45:07.261 --> 00:45:08.395
  • So that's for the palestinians.
  • 00:45:09.163 --> 00:45:11.331
  • Right? they're not gonna wanna go back because they're already
  • 00:45:11.331 --> 00:45:14.201
  • Gonna have great houses, you know, in egypt or jordan
  • 00:45:14.201 --> 00:45:17.271
  • Or syria or--
  • 00:45:17.271 --> 00:45:18.172
  • And joel, hold the phone, folks.
  • 00:45:18.272 --> 00:45:20.407
  • I should have mentioned joel also hosts a stand up comedy
  • 00:45:20.407 --> 00:45:23.443
  • Show every saturday night.
  • 00:45:23.443 --> 00:45:25.145
  • Clear enough.
  • 00:45:25.145 --> 00:45:25.913
  • Incredible right here on tbn.
  • 00:45:25.913 --> 00:45:28.148
  • But, joel, go ahead.
  • 00:45:28.148 --> 00:45:28.916
  • In all seriousness, go ahead.
  • 00:45:28.916 --> 00:45:30.317
  • Who needs snl when you have tbn?
  • 00:45:30.317 --> 00:45:32.653
  • Come on.
  • 00:45:32.653 --> 00:45:33.120
  • Right? okay.
  • 00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:33.954
  • I'll stop that.
  • 00:45:33.954 --> 00:45:34.555
  • But the point being
  • 00:45:34.555 --> 00:45:35.823
  • So then that really changed the dynamic.
  • 00:45:36.824 --> 00:45:39.259
  • First, it was a sort of a trump's compassionate approach
  • 00:45:39.259 --> 00:45:42.896
  • To just what do you do?
  • 00:45:42.896 --> 00:45:45.165
  • Then it became to the arab ear, oh, you just want to get rid
  • 00:45:45.265 --> 00:45:50.804
  • Of everybody and never let them come back.
  • 00:45:50.804 --> 00:45:53.207
  • Now that has been done in most wars.
  • 00:45:54.041 --> 00:45:57.511
  • Okay.
  • 00:45:57.811 --> 00:45:58.278
  • Oh, yeah.
  • 00:45:58.278 --> 00:45:59.546
  • So this is when, when you have an aggressor who does a sneak
  • 00:45:59.646 --> 00:46:03.383
  • Attack and, and then is unrepentant, when they lose,
  • 00:46:03.383 --> 00:46:09.223
  • They usually don't get to have their own terms.
  • 00:46:09.323 --> 00:46:12.292
  • Especially as you said, if they initiate the war,
  • 00:46:12.392 --> 00:46:15.262
  • There's consequences for exactly.
  • 00:46:15.262 --> 00:46:16.930
  • Exactly. so where does this leave us?
  • 00:46:17.030 --> 00:46:19.399
  • And your central question is, could this be prophetic?
  • 00:46:19.399 --> 00:46:22.936
  • And it could.
  • 00:46:23.036 --> 00:46:23.937
  • And i want to explain quickly how.
  • 00:46:23.937 --> 00:46:25.539
  • So there's two things that could be happening here.
  • 00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:28.075
  • The first thing is that trump could be saying all of this
  • 00:46:28.075 --> 00:46:31.912
  • That i just walked through as an early negotiating position
  • 00:46:31.912 --> 00:46:37.517
  • To get a saudi-israeli deal.
  • 00:46:37.517 --> 00:46:39.286
  • Yeah.
  • 00:46:39.286 --> 00:46:40.387
  • Trump's approach, well, so that's one option.
  • 00:46:40.387 --> 00:46:43.891
  • I'll explain that.
  • 00:46:43.891 --> 00:46:45.125
  • The second option is that this is prophecy, that this is
  • 00:46:45.125 --> 00:46:46.894
  • Zephaniah chapter two.
  • 00:46:46.894 --> 00:46:48.428
  • Zephaniah chapter two, most people have never studied it.
  • 00:46:48.428 --> 00:46:52.032
  • I would encourage people to dust it off, go look at it.
  • 00:46:52.032 --> 00:46:55.936
  • In the last days before the tribulation, the bible says
  • 00:46:56.036 --> 00:47:00.540
  • That gaza will be abandoned and basically uninhabited anymore.
  • 00:47:00.540 --> 00:47:06.413
  • And then god is going to give the land back to judah, the
  • 00:47:06.413 --> 00:47:09.683
  • Tribe of israel.
  • 00:47:09.683 --> 00:47:11.251
  • Is that what trump's about to do?
  • 00:47:12.052 --> 00:47:13.954
  • I don't know.
  • 00:47:14.388 --> 00:47:15.789
  • So, if we have another moment, i'll, i'll, i'll walk
  • 00:47:15.889 --> 00:47:19.159
  • Through the, the-- but this is possible.
  • 00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:20.694
  • We don't i never even imagined it.
  • 00:47:20.694 --> 00:47:22.262
  • Yeah. we don't nor did i.
  • 00:47:22.262 --> 00:47:23.931
  • And in today's middle east
  • 00:47:24.031 --> 00:47:25.766
  • Though, joel, expect the unexpected.
  • 00:47:25.766 --> 00:47:27.634
  • That's the one constant in the middle east.
  • 00:47:27.634 --> 00:47:29.303
  • I guess.
  • 00:47:29.303 --> 00:47:29.903
  • But there is
  • 00:47:29.903 --> 00:47:31.305
  • Unexpected and then there's wow,
  • 00:47:31.305 --> 00:47:33.273
  • This is totally unexpected.
  • 00:47:33.273 --> 00:47:34.942
  • I've read those verses.
  • 00:47:34.942 --> 00:47:36.276
  • I never thought, i never imagined an american president
  • 00:47:36.276 --> 00:47:40.280
  • Would say, we're going move two million people out of gaza
  • 00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:43.784
  • And they can't come back.
  • 00:47:43.784 --> 00:47:45.452
  • Now i will say, i believe that
  • 00:47:45.552 --> 00:47:47.054
  • The people of gaza are under judgment.
  • 00:47:47.054 --> 00:47:49.456
  • Why? i say that with sadness, but they're under judgment
  • 00:47:49.556 --> 00:47:53.427
  • Because for eight decades they have cursed israel and the
  • 00:47:53.427 --> 00:47:56.663
  • Jewish people.
  • 00:47:56.663 --> 00:47:57.898
  • And genesis chapter twelve verse three says, i mean, is
  • 00:47:57.898 --> 00:48:01.535
  • Part of the abrahamic covenant.
  • 00:48:01.535 --> 00:48:02.903
  • God said, regarding israel and the jewish people, i will bless
  • 00:48:02.903 --> 00:48:06.707
  • Those who bless you, but those who curse you, i will curse.
  • 00:48:06.707 --> 00:48:10.544
  • If you curse israel for eight decades and you are given back
  • 00:48:10.644 --> 00:48:16.683
  • All your land. in 2005, israel withdraws and
  • 00:48:16.683 --> 00:48:20.320
  • Ariel sharon, the prime minister at the time says,
  • 00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.656
  • Go build a palestinian paradise.
  • 00:48:22.656 --> 00:48:24.291
  • You have beachfront property.
  • 00:48:24.291 --> 00:48:25.425
  • You have natural gas right off your shores.
  • 00:48:25.425 --> 00:48:27.694
  • You've got smart, industrious people.
  • 00:48:27.694 --> 00:48:29.696
  • Build a palestinian paradise.
  • 00:48:29.696 --> 00:48:31.164
  • But instead, your first election, you don't choose the
  • 00:48:31.164 --> 00:48:35.068
  • Moderate though corrupt palestinian authority.
  • 00:48:35.068 --> 00:48:37.537
  • You choose a genocidal terror group called hamas, who takes
  • 00:48:37.537 --> 00:48:41.041
  • All the money and all the
  • 00:48:41.041 --> 00:48:42.409
  • Weapons and builds a genocidal machine.
  • 00:48:42.409 --> 00:48:45.312
  • Yeah.
  • 00:48:45.312 --> 00:48:46.046
  • There are consequences.
  • 00:48:46.146 --> 00:48:47.547
  • And i believe that gaza is under judgment.
  • 00:48:47.647 --> 00:48:50.650
  • That's why this is so bad.
  • 00:48:50.650 --> 00:48:53.520
  • Now the question is, does that judgment include?
  • 00:48:53.520 --> 00:48:57.057
  • Are we now at zephaniah two or approaching it quickly where
  • 00:48:57.057 --> 00:49:00.260
  • God's gonna say, yeah, part of your judgment is you don't
  • 00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:02.696
  • Get to live there anymore.
  • 00:49:02.696 --> 00:49:03.930
  • You were given eight decades of peace treaty scenarios.
  • 00:49:03.930 --> 00:49:08.769
  • And in fact, you were actually given the land back,
  • 00:49:08.769 --> 00:49:12.272
  • Not the west bank.
  • 00:49:12.272 --> 00:49:13.373
  • Gaza was given to all thousands, not a single
  • 00:49:13.373 --> 00:49:16.510
  • Israeli soldier, not a single israeli civilian.
  • 00:49:16.510 --> 00:49:19.212
  • And that's been that way for 18 years or so. let's see,
  • 00:49:19.312 --> 00:49:23.517
  • Twenty, no, twenty years now.
  • 00:49:23.517 --> 00:49:25.152
  • Twenty years ago, gaza was given to the people of gaza,
  • 00:49:25.152 --> 00:49:29.890
  • Go build your paradise.
  • 00:49:29.890 --> 00:49:30.857
  • And they built a genocidal terror machine.
  • 00:49:30.857 --> 00:49:34.061
  • So we may be at, or rapidly approaching the moment where
  • 00:49:34.161 --> 00:49:37.431
  • God's like, not only are you facing the judgment of this
  • 00:49:37.431 --> 00:49:41.034
  • Horrible war, but you forfeited the right to even live there.
  • 00:49:41.034 --> 00:49:45.439
  • And god has moved out people in other times, just as the
  • 00:49:45.439 --> 00:49:50.143
  • Enemies of israel have forced jews out of their way.
  • 00:49:50.143 --> 00:49:53.180
  • That's possible.
  • 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:54.681
  • But it's also possible, let's go back to option one.
  • 00:49:54.781 --> 00:49:58.185
  • President trump likes to put out scenarios at first that
  • 00:49:58.285 --> 00:50:02.823
  • Seem extreme to his negotiating partner.
  • 00:50:02.823 --> 00:50:06.293
  • We're gonna take panama back.
  • 00:50:06.393 --> 00:50:08.762
  • We're not giving it to the chinese.
  • 00:50:08.762 --> 00:50:10.664
  • Right? and then secretary of state rubio heads down to
  • 00:50:10.664 --> 00:50:13.400
  • Panama and the president of
  • 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:14.568
  • Panama goes, we surrender, we surrender.
  • 00:50:14.568 --> 00:50:16.403
  • Alright. we were with the chinese.
  • 00:50:16.403 --> 00:50:17.938
  • We're abandoning the chinese.
  • 00:50:17.938 --> 00:50:19.272
  • We're back with america.
  • 00:50:19.272 --> 00:50:20.307
  • Okay. okay.
  • 00:50:20.307 --> 00:50:21.274
  • We won't invade maybe.
  • 00:50:21.274 --> 00:50:22.576
  • So, so the question--
  • 00:50:22.576 --> 00:50:24.578
  • Leverage works.
  • 00:50:24.578 --> 00:50:26.313
  • And trump started with his friends.
  • 00:50:25.445 --> 00:50:28.915
  • He didn't do this with china and russia and iran on day one.
  • 00:50:29.015 --> 00:50:32.385
  • He did this with mexico, china, greenland, and panama.
  • 00:50:32.385 --> 00:50:35.388
  • Yeah. why did he do this?
  • 00:50:35.388 --> 00:50:37.324
  • Because he wanted to show that america's back, and we're
  • 00:50:37.324 --> 00:50:40.026
  • Not gonna get bullied by our friends.
  • 00:50:40.026 --> 00:50:41.261
  • We're certainly not gonna get bullied by our enemies.
  • 00:50:41.261 --> 00:50:43.196
  • Now with the saudis, what does he want?
  • 00:50:43.196 --> 00:50:45.198
  • He wants a saudi-israeli deal of the millennia.
  • 00:50:45.198 --> 00:50:48.335
  • So how do you get that?
  • 00:50:48.435 --> 00:50:50.036
  • Well, one way might be to say all the palestinians have to
  • 00:50:50.137 --> 00:50:55.142
  • Leave and never get to go back and you're going to pay for it
  • 00:50:55.142 --> 00:50:57.911
  • And we're going rebuild gaza.
  • 00:50:57.911 --> 00:50:59.513
  • Now, what if the saudis counter with, well, we'll pay for it
  • 00:50:59.513 --> 00:51:03.517
  • And we can rebuild it with you, but the palestinians
  • 00:51:03.517 --> 00:51:06.820
  • Have to go back if they want to.
  • 00:51:06.820 --> 00:51:08.622
  • Trump might take that deal.
  • 00:51:09.289 --> 00:51:11.324
  • Yeah. and the people that can't come back might be anybody
  • 00:51:11.424 --> 00:51:15.662
  • He considers a terrorist.
  • 00:51:15.662 --> 00:51:17.297
  • And others might truly, genuinely want to live
  • 00:51:17.397 --> 00:51:19.766
  • Someplace else.
  • 00:51:19.766 --> 00:51:20.834
  • Not many people would want to live in gaza.
  • 00:51:20.834 --> 00:51:22.402
  • Yeah. and then those who are
  • 00:51:22.402 --> 00:51:25.172
  • Peaceful minded, great, go, you know, let's go build it into
  • 00:51:25.272 --> 00:51:29.009
  • Singapore and dubai.
  • 00:51:29.009 --> 00:51:30.677
  • So i don't know how this is going to play out, but i'm
  • 00:51:30.777 --> 00:51:34.281
  • Saying we are at the precipice of, i believe what is a
  • 00:51:34.281 --> 00:51:38.318
  • Prophetic moment in which every time, almost every, almost
  • 00:51:38.318 --> 00:51:41.454
  • Every time that gaza mentioned the bible, twenty mentions,
  • 00:51:41.454 --> 00:51:44.558
  • Almost every time it's related
  • 00:51:44.658 --> 00:51:46.660
  • To gaza's wickedness and god's judgment.
  • 00:51:46.660 --> 00:51:50.330
  • So we're definitely in that moment.
  • 00:51:50.330 --> 00:51:53.099
  • Gaza's being judged.
  • 00:51:53.633 --> 00:51:55.435
  • Whether they're being judged that they'll literally be moved
  • 00:51:55.535 --> 00:51:58.271
  • Out in our lifetime as opposed to the millennial kingdom
  • 00:51:58.271 --> 00:52:01.908
  • Or something, i actually don't know.
  • 00:52:01.908 --> 00:52:04.144
  • But these are some of the things i'm watching.
  • 00:52:04.144 --> 00:52:05.912
  • At the same time, we need to be preaching the gospel to the
  • 00:52:06.012 --> 00:52:08.782
  • People of gaza because, yeah, they're under judgment,
  • 00:52:08.782 --> 00:52:12.018
  • But so were the people of nineveh.
  • 00:52:12.018 --> 00:52:13.687
  • God sent jonah to nineveh.
  • 00:52:13.787 --> 00:52:15.789
  • Jonah didn't want to do it.
  • 00:52:16.456 --> 00:52:17.958
  • But it's not just about judgment.
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  • God has, says to jonah, shouldn't i have compassion?
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  • These people did repent.
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  • Shouldn't i relent?
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  • So these are some tough things
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  • For us to process as christians.
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  • And no one to help is better to
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  • Process than you, joel rosenberg.
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  • Joel, this was a great conversation.
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  • Folks, you may say, wow, the middle east, it's all crazy.
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  • It doesn't make well, now it does.
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  • After those great insights from our good friend, joel
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  • Rosenberg, you can hear more of this every week,
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  • Thursday night, saturday night, right
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  • Here on tbn on the rosenberg report.
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  • Joel, just incredible,
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  • Incredible break breakdown and encouraging.
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  • God's moving among jews, among muslims.
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  • It's amazing.
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  • We live in exciting times, prophetic times.
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  • Can you take us out in prayer before we go?
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  • Absolutely. happy to do it.
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  • Father in heaven, thank you that you love us, and thank you
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  • That you love israel and the jewish people.
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  • You're so clear about that in the scriptures.
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  • Thank you that current israel is part of the biblical
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  • Prophecies laid out in isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, and other
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  • Old testament prophecies.
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  • Thank you, father.
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  • Thank you that the apostle paul reaffirmed that these promises
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  • You made to israel and the jewish people, they're
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  • Irrevocable, they cannot be revoked.
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  • You made promises, and you're a
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  • God of your word, and we're so grateful.
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  • You're showing compassion on israel, and you're showing
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  • Compassion, not just geopolitically and helping us
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  • To win this war,
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  • But you're drawing more and more of us into your kingdom,
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  • And we're so grateful.
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  • Lord, you also teach us to be loving to our neighbors
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  • And even to our enemies.
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  • Lord, you love the palestinian people.
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  • You love the people of gaza.
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  • You love the people of lebanon and syria and jordan
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  • And iraq and egypt and iran.
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  • More muslims are coming to faith in jesus christ in iran,
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  • Father, than we've ever imagined was possible.
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  • And you love all the people of that region.
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  • And so show us how we can be faithful to you.
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  • Show us how to pray for israel and her neighbors.
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  • Give us a heart of compassion.
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  • Help us to be involved and strengthen the church in israel
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  • And in the arab muslim world to be strong, to be a light,
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  • To be a witness, in dark times, lord.
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  • I thank you that you've raised up the joshua fund to be one of
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  • Your tools, and, but i know there are others as well, and
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  • We're grateful for all the ministries that serve.
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  • Lord, thank you for erick.
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  • Thank you for the crouches.
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  • Thank you for this praise
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  • Program and how you're using it on tbn.
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  • What an honor to be here today.
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  • Lord, we just ask for your wisdom for american leaders,
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  • Israeli leaders, arab leaders, and we pray for boldness,
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  • And courage for the church.
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  • We love you, and we thank you for this time.
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  • We pray in jesus' name,
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  • Amen.
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  • Joel, this was great.
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  • Thank you so much, my friend. we will do it again soon.
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  • Folks, remember the rosenberg report every thursday
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  • And saturday night here on tbn with
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  • The one and only joel rosenberg.
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  • For joel, the entire praise team, our entire tbn family,
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  • God bless you, and we'll see you soon.
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  • ♪♪
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