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Joel Rosenberg: Israel and Lebanon Talk Peace | The Rosenberg Report

May 28, 2026 | 23:18

Joel Rosenberg: Israel and Lebanon Talk Peace | The Rosenberg Report
On this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Joel Rosenberg breaks down what Bible prophecy says about peace better Israel and Lebanon.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Israel and Lebanon Talk Peace | The Rosenberg Report | May 28, 2026
  • Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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  • With hezbollah
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  • Severely escalating its attacks on northern israel
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  • This week and idf forces escalating in kind.
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  • Is there any hope for peace between israel and lebanon?
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  • If not,
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  • Why is the lebanese government just started historic, direct,
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  • Face to face talks with israeli officials in washington?
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  • Was there ever peace
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  • Between these two countries in ancient times?
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  • What about king david and solomon
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  • And their extraordinary friendship
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  • With the king of lebanon?
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  • And are
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  • There any bible prophecies that point to, or even hint at,
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  • True peace between israel and lebanon in the last days?
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  • Tonight, a deep dive into all these questions
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  • And you may be very surprised by the answers.
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  • Buckle up.
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  • It all starts right here, right now on the rosenberg report.
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  • Is peace
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  • Possible between lebanon and israel?
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  • That's the big question that's being asked in the midst
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  • Of all the challenges with iran.
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  • This is a huge new question, and i want to talk
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  • About it tonight.
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  • Good evening and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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  • Lots going on, but this is the focus tonight.
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  • Direct peace talks between the governments of lebanon
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  • And israel are underway.
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  • They began in washington.
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  • And this is not only historic.
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  • It also raises three critical questions.
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  • First, is there any serious chance, really, that
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  • Lebanon will really make peace?
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  • I mean, a real peace, a true peace, a warm peace,
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  • And abraham accords style peace and normalization
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  • Agreement with israel?
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  • Is that even remotely possible?
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  • After all, for decades, lebanon has been a slave state
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  • Under the merciless control of the wicked iranian regime
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  • And hezbollah,
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  • Iran's largest and most powerful terror proxy army.
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  • Second, does bible prophecy give us any hope of peace
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  • Between israel and lebanon in the last days of history?
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  • I mean, didn't jesus warn us that we would have wars
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  • And rumors of wars, kingdom rising into kingdom, nation
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  • Against nation in the last days? yes he did.
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  • And don't the prophecies like ezekiel 38 indicate
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  • Quite clearly that the forces of russia, iran, turkey
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  • And others
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  • Will be coming against israel in the prophetic future
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  • From the north and thus presumably through lebanon
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  • And syria?
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  • Yes, that is what the scriptures say.
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  • So we're going to ask that question.
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  • Well, is there any
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  • Prophetic biblical evidence that peace is possible
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  • Between these two countries?
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  • And third, was there ever peace and quiet
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  • Between israel and lebanon in biblical times?
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  • I mean, is there any president at all for common
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  • Quiet on israel's northern border?
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  • All great questions and timely ones.
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  • Given that peace talks,
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  • Like i say,
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  • Have just begun in washington and there are no shortage
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  • Of pessimists watching that process.
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  • Okay, let's take these questions one by one.
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  • First, is there
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  • Any serious chance of peace between lebanon and israel?
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  • And i want to put my cards on the table.
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  • I am an optimist when it comes to the possibility
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  • Of israel, of peace between israel and lebanon
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  • In the near or medium term, i mean long term.
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  • Yes, we're heading to very horrific, apocalyptic
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  • Prophetic wars, including, you know, armageddon
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  • And obviously gog and magog.
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  • But before that, is it possible?
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  • And i think, yes, it's possible that there could be quiet, calm
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  • And even a treaty.
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  • And that's not just because i have a lebanese evangelical
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  • Brother in law, which i do, and we love him very much.
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  • It's not just because
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  • Lin and i have many dear friends who are lebanese
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  • Born and raised there, some of them still there.
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  • And it's not just because that for nearly 20 years,
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  • The ministry that my wife and i started, the joshua fund
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  • Has invested in strengthening the evangelical arab church
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  • In lebanon and in lebanese ministries
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  • That preach the gospel and make disciples there.
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  • All true.
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  • But that's not only why we love lebanon.
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  • We love lebanon because god loves lebanon.
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  • The father loves lebanon so much that he speaks
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  • Of a prophetic future when he will save
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  • The people of egypt, israel, jordan, syria and wait for it.
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  • Lebanon. isaiah 19.
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  • Now jesus
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  • Loved the people of lebanon so much that the new testament
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  • Tells us, the gospels
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  • Tell us that jesus traveled there to lebanon.
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  • He said, he came for the, you know, for the
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  • To save the lost sheep of the house of israel.
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  • But he went to lebanon, and jesus ministered there in
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  • What i believe was a partial fulfillment of isaiah 35.
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  • Consider the first gospel account.
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  • The gospel according to matthew, chapter 15.
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  • Let's look at verses 21 through 28, okay.
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  • Now christians today make up
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  • Between 30 and 40% of the lebanese population.
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  • I think in part
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  • Because jesus
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  • Actually ministered there
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  • And he loves the people of lebanon,
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  • And it has been torn by civil war
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  • And all kinds of horrors over the years.
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  • But there are many christians there,
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  • Praying there, praying for peace there.
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  • We need to be praying for peace with them,
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  • And we need to be a blessing to the people of lebanon,
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  • Just like jesus was,
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  • Because we always follow his model, his lead.
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  • Right now,
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  • Just because we're praying for lebanon and we should, that's
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  • Not a guarantee that there'll be peace.
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  • Okay.
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  • But these are
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  • Some of the reasons that i'm an optimist.
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  • Because god loves
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  • Lebanon.
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  • The father loves lebanon, jesus loves lebanon.
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  • There are 30 to 40% of the lebanese
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  • People who love jesus, who love the lord
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  • And are calling out to him for mercy.
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  • And we should be doing that too.
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  • I certainly am, i hope you are.
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  • But there's more.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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  • Was there ever peace
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  • Between israel and lebanon in ancient times?
  • 00:08:20.747 --> 00:08:24.284
  • What about king david and solomon
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  • And their extraordinary friendship
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  • With the king of lebanon?
  • 00:08:28.355 --> 00:08:30.123
  • And do any bible prophecies point to or even hint
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  • At real peace between israel and lebanon in the last days?
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  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after this break.
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  • Right after this break.
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  • Welcome back to the
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  • Rosenberg report.
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  • I want to get right
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  • Back to the three questions that we've been asking one.
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  • Is there any hope of of peace between lebanon and israel?
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  • And i think there's
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  • A growing interest by the lebanese people for peace.
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  • And now direct historic talks are underway.
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  • But there's another question.
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  • Does bible prophecy give us any hope of peace
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  • Between israel and lebanon in the last days of history?
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  • That's a great question.
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  • And the answer is yes.
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  • The scriptures do tell us that in ezekiel 38 and 39
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  • That there will be a terrifying and apocalyptic war known
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  • As the war of gog and magog in in the last days of history.
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  • Okay, that's true.
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  • And that's that's going to be devastating.
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  • And yes, the russian, iranian, turkish alliance
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  • Against israel in the last days will come primarily
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  • Not exclusively, but primarily come from the north.
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  • Okay.
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  • So that means those troops and those forces will be coming
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  • Through lebanon and probably through syria.
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  • Two but before that war unfolds, the ancient
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  • Hebrew prophet ezekiel tells us that, number one,
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  • The jewish people will be regathered from exile
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  • Into the land of israel.
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  • Okay. that's important.
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  • That's what happened
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  • Starting in the late 1800s and right up to the present.
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  • And of course,
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  • The prophetic rebirth of the modern nation state of israel
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  • Happened on may 14th, 1948, which we are celebrating.
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  • And that's important.
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  • Okay, that's already underway. so that's good.
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  • Second, ezekiel tells us that god will help
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  • The nation of israel rebuild the ancient ruins.
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  • Okay. and that's clearly underway.
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  • We joke here in israel that the crane is the bird of israel,
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  • The national bird of israel.
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  • What we mean is the cranes that are building all these
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  • Apartments and factories and office buildings.
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  • It is happening.
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  • God is being merciful and helping israel rebuild
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  • The ancient ruins.
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  • Third, the hebrew prophet
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  • Ezekiel tells us in ezekiel 38 that god will also help israelis
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  • Not only resettle our ancient homeland, but the text says that
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  • We will be increasingly peaceful and prosperous.
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  • Yes, there are other prophecies of war
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  • Coming, including in ezekiel 38 the war of gog and magog.
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  • But before that happens, israel has to become a country again.
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  • Jews have to be regathered.
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  • We have to be becoming peaceful and prosperous.
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  • And then watch this.
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  • Verse 11, the text tells us that
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  • That's amazing.
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  • What that's telling us,
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  • In a sort of a poetic way, is israel's going to be quiet,
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  • Is is just going to have peace on all of its sides,
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  • At least for a season, at least for a period of time
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  • Before the gog and magog war kicks in.
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  • Now, i think that it's very possible that this horrific war
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  • That erupted on october 7th, 2023, has set into motion
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  • This exact prophetic future, a future in which israelis live
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  • Calmly and quietly and securely
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  • With all of our immediate neighbors.
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  • Now, i want you to study ezekiel 38 on your own.
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  • I want you to look at what's happening.
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  • I want you to look
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  • At the context of scripture, and i want you to ask for yourself
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  • Is am i right?
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  • Okay.
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  • I'm making an assessment, right?
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  • I can't prove it.
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  • But i'm saying i think all this devastation
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  • Is leading to peace and quiet on all of our all of our sides.
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  • But look, if this is the case, if my assessment, my analysis,
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  • My interpretation of ezekiel 38 is correct,
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  • Then imagining a calm border with lebanon
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  • Or even a formal peace and normalization
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  • Treaty, a deal like we have with the united arab emirates,
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  • Like we have with bahrain and morocco.
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  • It's not so far fetched at all.
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  • Again, if you think about when jesus says
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  • There's going to be wars and rumors of wars,
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  • Well, there certainly are. right.
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  • And nation will rise against the nation.
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  • Kingdom against kingdom.
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  • All those things are true.
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  • But ezekiel 38, before you get to the apocalyptic war,
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  • Tells us things will be quiet, things will be calm.
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  • I can't say that the abraham accords is going to
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  • Happen in every single country in the region, right?
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  • I can't tell you that the that reza pahlavi, the crown
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  • Prince, the exiled crown
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  • Prince of iran, is actually goin to come to power in iran.
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  • That'd be awesome,
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  • I think, and bring about a cyrus accords, maybe.
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  • Yes, i'm praying for that. i hope you are too.
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  • But the question is, do we at least get calm and quiet?
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  • Well, that would require iran's regime and its offensive
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  • Military capabilities to be crushed.
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  • Maybe not vanquished, but crushed.
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  • It would also mean that hezbollah
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  • Would have to be crushed.
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  • And hamas and the lebanese people
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  • To rise up and regain their sovereignty
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  • From their iranian and hezbollah slave masters.
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  • I think that's possible.
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  • More possible than ever.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report, was there ever peace
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  • Between israel and lebanon in ancient times?
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  • What about king david and solomon and their extraordinary
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  • And counterintuitive friendship with the king of lebanon?
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  • Can there give us any hope for the future?
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  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after this break.
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  • Right after this break.
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  • Was there ever peace
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  • Between israel and lebanon in biblical history?
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  • And the answer is a resounding yes.
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  • The bible
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  • Teaches us that in ancient times, god raised up king david
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  • To be the king of all israel and judah by the age of 30.
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  • Okay, that's pretty amazing.
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  • Now, the text of scripture tells us that david made peace.
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  • With whom?
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  • With lebanon's king hiram.
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  • Hiram was the king of tire,
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  • Which was the most powerful city in the country.
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  • We would call lebanon today,
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  • And then it had multiple little kingdoms around.
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  • But this is pretty amazing that david
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  • Not only becomes king, but he makes peace with lebanon.
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  • And david goes on to reign.
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  • For 33 years, god blessed the nation of israel
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  • As well as his david's alliance and his and his peace treaty
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  • With with lebanon through his his his friendship,
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  • His really devout
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  • And sincere deep friendship with king hiram of tire.
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  • Now consider second samuel chapter five,
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  • And let's look at verses ten through 12.
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  • Okay, now look at this.
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  • It's really fascinating.
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  • Part of the reason david knew that he knew that he knew that
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  • God was with him was because peace was established
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  • With lebanon under david's reign.
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  • But there's more.
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  • By god's grace, king solomon, the son of david,
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  • Who takes over the kingdom after
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  • David hands the the keys to the kingdom to him.
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  • By god's grace, solomon deepened and broadened
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  • That peace between israel and lebanon.
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  • Let's look at first kings chapter five.
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  • Okay.
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  • Just let's pause there for a second. what?
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  • What?
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  • Solomon is saying to his lebanese neighbor is
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  • God didn't let david build
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  • The temple for god, because david was a man of war
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  • And was trying to make peace by defeating israel's
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  • Enemies on every side.
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  • But but that's what david did.
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  • He did win all those wars, and he did establish peace.
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  • Picking up in verse four.
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  • I think there is reason for optimism.
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  • There's certainly
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  • Always reason to be concerned that war will erupt again,
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  • That this will get messier, it'll get more difficult.
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  • Yeah, i get that.
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  • So let's be praying for that too.
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  • But let's also be praying for the spiritual
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  • Blessing of lebanon, for the strengthening
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  • Of the church in lebanon and the growth and the maturity
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  • And the boldness of the christians of lebanon.
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  • It's a it's an embattled minority.
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  • The shia muslims have been dominating
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  • And terrorizing the people of lebanon,
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  • Terrorizing
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  • Shias, have been dominating the christians,
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  • But also dominating and terrorizing
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  • The sunnis and others.
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  • So let's be praying
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  • For the complete political and spiritual liberation of lebanon.
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  • Will it last forever?
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  • No. the scriptures have us more hard times or ten ahead.
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  • But maybe that's years away.
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  • Maybe that's decades away or more.
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  • So let's pray.
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  • Let's pray without ceasing.
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  • And that's what the joshua fund is about.
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  • Blessing israel and her neighbor
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  • In the name of jesus, including lebanon.
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  • And i'm encouraged.
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  • I'm an optimist, maybe a cautious optimist, but
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  • But i wanted you to know why.
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  • And that's our show for tonight.
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  • Thank you so much for watching.
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  • I'm so grateful that you're. with us. grateful that.
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  • You spent the time
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  • Kind of walking through these scriptures
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  • And walking through these issues.
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  • I pray that you would have a great week,
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  • You and your family and friends
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  • Spending time in the word of god,
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  • Walking with jesus, walking in the power of the holy spirit,
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  • Praying for the peace of jerusalem and peace
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  • Between israel and lebanon, and and peace and quiet throughout
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  • The rest of the region.
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  • And a full victory
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  • Over the wicked terrorists and their terror regimes.
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  • Have a great week, and lord willing,
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  • I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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