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Joel Rosenberg: Training Future Pastors | The Rosenberg Report

May 14, 2026 | 22:7

On this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Joel Rosenberg tours a seminary training future pastors.

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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Training Future Pastors | The Rosenberg Report | May 14, 2026

On the rosenberg report, we begin a new series,
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The discover series, as we discover exciting
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Christian ministries and godly ministry leaders in israel
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And the arab muslim world, advancing the kingdom of christ.
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I'll take you to an extraordinary
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Evangelical seminary in jordan that's training future pastors
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To share the gospel,
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Make disciples, preach the word, and shepherd the flock
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Throughout the middle east and north africa.
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It's a conversation on mount nebo with the founder
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Of the jordan evangelical theological seminary.
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And it all starts right here, right now on the rosenberg
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Report.
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God is moving so powerfully in the epicenter,
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Not just here in israel and not just in iran.
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We're actually in iran.
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Millions of muslims are leaving islam
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And coming to faith in jesus christ.
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I love that, and we're going to be talking
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More about that in the weeks and months ahead.
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But god is also moving in the arab world.
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And tonight i want to begin a new series,
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A series called discover.
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I want to take you inside a series of ministries
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In israel, in the arab world and in the iranian world,
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So you can discover what god is doing
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And how he's raising up all kinds
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Of very interesting leaders to preach the gospel,
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Make disciples,
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Train and encourage other pastors and ministry
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Leaders, and raise up future leaders
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To advance the kingdom of jesus christ
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Right here in in the epicenter in the middle east.
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Now, tonight, we're going to take you into jordan.
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Recently, i went to the kingdom of jordan and spent time
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With a wonderful friend of mine, doctor imad shehadeh.
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Doctor is the founder and the president of jets,
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The jordanian evangelical theological seminary.
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It's an amazing institution that's training
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Future pastors and ministry leaders.
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They train them in jordan, in amman, jordan, in the capital
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And then deploy them all over the all over
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The region, all over the world.
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It is not easy work.
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There are lots of challenges, lots of reasons
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To be praying for this ministry.
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But i want you to see it.
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I want you to
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Hear the heart of doctor and what god is doing to train
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Future pastors and ministry leaders in the arab world today.
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Let's go discover jets.
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Doctor, thank you so much.
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For spending time on the rosenberg report.
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Why don't you begin with your passion for teaching the bible
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To christian students from jordan,
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But from all over the region?
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At the jordanian evangelical theological seminary,
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You call it jets.
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Talk to me about your passion for teaching the scriptures.
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Well, of course i came to know the lord in the us and
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And then went to seminary in the us, the dallas theological.
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But you were born and raised here.
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I'm born and raised.
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I'm a jordanian, fully fledged jordanian, and
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With a passion and a burden to train
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Men and women for ministry.
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And that was really the cry of the leadership
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In the whole middle east country.
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So we started the seminary about 35 years ago. wow.
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Which is an amazing story of god answering prayer.
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I was curious to know from which countries
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Around the arab world students are coming to study at jets.
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They come from mostly north africa.
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Okay.
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That would be mostly egypt, sudan, south sudan
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And then iraq, syria, lebanon
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And then other countries further away like morocco,
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Algeria, yemen, the emirates, as much as we can,
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As much as we're allowed. you know.
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I was also curious to know what percentage of the students
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At jets are actually jordanian citizens themselves about.
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At the most, 30% would be jordanians.
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And now we've really saturated jordan.
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About 70% of leadership
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Of the churches in jordan are graduates of jets. wow.
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And we have graduates in 26 countries.
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Okay.
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And we just it's amazing to watch them come.
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And they have all sorts of ideas that they've gotten raised.
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When they were raised up like i was,
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All i heard was the majority religion did not go to church,
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Although i'm from an orthodox, greek orthodox background.
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But then they come to us with these, this worldview
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And it's wonderful to watch them just respect the scripture
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As inspired texts from god and learn
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Principles of sound hermeneutics and just respect inspired text
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And try to understand how it all fits together.
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It was so encouraging to me to learn that 70%
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Of the evangelical churches in jordan are pastored by jets
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Graduates. that's amazing.
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And that they have graduates serving the lord in 26
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Arab countries. praise god, that was amazing.
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So i asked doctor
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How christian young people in the region
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Know about the seminary
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And why do they come if they're not from jordan?
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Well, it's been really by word of mouth.
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Okay, so we've had success with the first team of graduates,
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And then they tell others and we've not had a problem
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Of applicants.
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So but we accept so many and so many get in
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Because we're not allowed unlimited numbers.
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So we have to be careful with that.
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So it's been it's been that way.
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So the seminary is known now
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And throughout the middle east and north africa.
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We were meeting in a museum on mount nebo
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Overlooking the jordan valley.
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What a cool place to run a bible seminary in a country
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That has such biblical, historic places like mountain nebo.
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So i had to ask doctor to share with us
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Some of what he and his
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Colleagues teach the students about the biblical history
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Of jordan.
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Jordan, of course, has a history.
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You know, we have the tent city, the decapolis in jordan.
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We have petra and jordan.
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We have just
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Some of the biblical history
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Of the israelites coming through the jordan.
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Exactly.
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Yes. we have the baptismal site.
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Of course,
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There's disagreement on which side of the jordan was.
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Right.
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Well, he was baptized in the middle.
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He was in the river.
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But now, obviously, teaching israel's
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Biblical history
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Is a very sensitive issue in the arab muslim world
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And certainly in jordan and certainly during wartime.
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But i noted that
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The jordanian government has venerated and built museums,
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Even church buildings, on a number of holy sites,
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Including right there on mount nebo,
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The very place where moses stood and looked
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Into israel, into the western half of the promised land.
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So i asked doctor,
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How the jordanian government in general approaches
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Such biblical sites,
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And the
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Whole question of christians who want to study and believe
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In the bible and christianity's relationship with jordan?
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Here's what he said. yes.
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And jordanian government with sites like this,
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They really want to encourage it,
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Encourage visitors and tourists to come.
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Another one like it is a baptismal
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We just spoke about,
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And jordan is getting ready to have a big event in 2030,
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Which would be what, 2000 years since jesus was baptized.
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So have a big event that would be inviting
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Tourists to come.
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And so churches
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Of the various denominations
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Are having trying to have a footprint
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Right there of some structure or church buildings
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At the baptismal site.
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Now, as you may know,
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Lynn and i have
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Had the great joy in honor of meeting jordan's monarch,
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His majesty king abdullah the second, a number of times.
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And we
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We have enormous respect for him, for his family, and for
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His wise and steady leadership over these many decades.
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And we were encouraged that a number of years ago,
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The king actually established a national park
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At the baptismal site,
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The very place where many historians
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And archeologists believe that john the baptist established
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His ministry and where he baptized jesus.
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There are, i believe, about a dozen church buildings
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Of various denominations
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That have been built there in recent years,
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And there's even a pavilion where born again evangelical
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Arab believers can baptize new believers
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By immersion in the jordan river today.
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It's amazing.
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Coming up
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Next on the rosenberg report, who is doctor imad shehadeh?
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How did he come to faith in jesus christ and why?
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For the past 35 years, has he invested his life in building
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A seminary in jordan to train and equip future
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Pastors and ministry leaders
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To preach the word and shepherd the flock
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Throughout the arab world?
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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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I absolutely love what the jordanian evangelical
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Theological seminary jet is doing to teach the word
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Of god and train future pastors and ministry
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Leaders in the arab world to know the scriptures,
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First of all, from genesis to revelation,
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And to truly be able to preach the word and shepherd the flock.
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So i asked doctor, the founder and president of jets,
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To tell me more about his story
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And how god gave him a passion and a calling for this work.
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Well, i grew up, as i mentioned,
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As a greek orthodox, but i rarely went to church.
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You know,
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All i learned was islam and islamic history and so forth.
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That was my all i knew.
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And and it wasn't until i went to college in the,
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In the us, i was in medicine.
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I was pretty med student
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And going to med school went into med school.
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But then right there, somebody shared the gospel
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With me and this, this christ i knew
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About from the greek, or suddenly i know personally.
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And i grew very quickly in knowing
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He became the center of everything i did.
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So i and felt a calling.
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So i left medicine, went into theological education, and was.
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With what intent?
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What were you hoping
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Or what did you sense the lord was calling you to be?
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Or to do?
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You know when you have
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A burden on your heart that's biblical and stays there?
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It's an indication he wants you to follow that
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Burden, which was going back home, going back to jordan,
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To that middle east, to give them what i received.
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And i'm indebted to the u.s.
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Because not only did i know the lord in the us,
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But i was trained there, i was sent from there.
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I've been supported from there to do the work intimately,
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And it's been a marvelous story of so many backing us up
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To do this work. it's difficult.
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We've had so many times we were almost shut down.
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It's.
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But then we've been here 35 years, seeing god answered
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Prayers and continue in this work
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And watching the students just develop
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Conviction and vision for their countries and the
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Knowledge of the scripture,
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And balance and understanding the whole council of god.
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Knowing ministry issues, spiritual life matters,
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Marriage issues, and in addition to the whole bible.
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Now, i was especially curious to understand what are some of
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The challenges faced by incoming students to jets?
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What are their spiritual
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And intellectual needs coming into the seminary?
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Their worldview about god is so un-christian.
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Unbiblical? is that right there?
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Look at the scripture is so much mixed with a look like that.
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The truth is in between the lines.
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It's not the lines, it's not what's written.
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So you need to find
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What is god really saying in between the lines.
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So a lot of the
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Literal message is not conveyed because they're looking.
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And then that's colored so much by the political situation,
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The cultural situation.
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So there's some words they don't like in the scriptures.
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They don't like the word israel, for example.
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You know, they prophet passages on prophecy.
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What's going to happen in the future?
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Bible prophecy is not taught much in the church.
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You know.
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And, you know,
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You can see, of course, we we have to change the crisis.
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The center of all scripture is gospel.
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What he did for us, that's us.
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And he wants to bless all nations.
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But there's a history in there.
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Did not start suddenly out of nowhere.
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That's a real deep history.
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And that's,
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You know, we're called to believe
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Not just the new testament, but the old testament.
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And christ is not come to to negate moses.
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He came to establish moses and support moses.
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And so we have to believe
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The whole bible and to see them look at the bible and discover
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So much there that they have missed,
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You know, and to be freed from so much untruths
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Sometimes, sometimes bitterness, hatred
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That comes from politics, maybe even a victim mentality.
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You know, our problem is because of such a such a nation.
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And if it wasn't there, we would be much better off.
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And that kind of thinking and just watching them be stronger.
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Now, i learned that there are some very specific
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Biblical principles that jets professors seek to
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Impart into the students.
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One of them is the evangelical concept of solar scripture.
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So i asked doctor,
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What does this actually mean and why is it so important?
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Yeah, solid scripture, of course, is from the
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Reformation.
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One of the key words in the reformation.
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One of them is scripture alone, and it's the highest authority.
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It means we believe
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That it's inspired, and because it's
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Inspired, its inherent and because it's inspired,
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It's also has highest authority on all matters of life.
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So that's the starting point.
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Otherwise, where are we going to go for the final word?
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People look for a message that has authority.
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It has to come from somewhere that says this is the way it is.
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Throughout the gospels, it says that
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Jesus people were amazed
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That jesus taught with authority, right?
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Because he is the word of god.
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And how so?
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So yeah, souls of choice that it's not that there aren't
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Traditions or teachings that might might be helpful,
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But the question is, do they?
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The standard is, is the bible right?
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And that's that's how we test everything.
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Our young people coming into your seminary,
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Knowing that, believing that, or are they kind of fuzzy
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On some of those issues? they're pretty fuzzy.
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Yeah, they're they think maybe there is something outside
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The scriptures that has equal or some similar authority.
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Okay. like tradition.
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So some of the principles of, of sound hermeneutics
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Is to know the difference between figurative
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Interpretation and figurative expression.
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What does that mean?
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The bible is full
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Of figurative expressions like the mountains clap, joy.
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That means joy.
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You know i am the door.
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It's not a literal door.
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He's just saying he's the only way to.
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Yes, you know, and so on.
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These are beautiful ways
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To express a truth behind the expression.
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But figure interpretation would be different.
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It would be putting a meaning
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On the words that the words do not carry.
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For example, to say,
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Oh, mordecai was really the holy spirit,
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And esther was a church.
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And you know, like that, or the four men that lowered the
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The sick man in front of, you know, the four gospels.
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So you're putting a meaning
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To the words that the words do not carry these meanings.
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Okay.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report, do arab churches
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Study and teach bible prophecy,
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Including the book of revelation?
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Why should they?
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And how does the jordan evangelical theological seminary
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Prepare them to teach it well?
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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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But what.
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About the book of revelation?
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Doctor has actually written an academic book in arabic,
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Teaching through the prophecies of revelation
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And helping students understand revelation.
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So i want to understand from him
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How much of the book of revelation is taught in the arab
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Church today, and what key points from that book do?
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Jets professors try to teach their students well.
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You know, in the west, a lot of church,
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They talk about how important it is
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To study revelation, but they don't study it.
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So anyway,
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So it's a difficult book, not difficult
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Because it's difficult to understand.
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It's just different.
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And it's a kind of it really challenges your hermeneutic.
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Do you really believe it's inspired?
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If you do, you stay there until you understand it.
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And once you stay at a difficult text
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And you stay there and stay there,
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Then it becomes clearer and clearer.
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So you have the
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You know, the first chapter is about god himself
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And about jesus, the revelation through christ and his his
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Vision of him.
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He saw him in his spiritual
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And some in his spirit and his glorified state.
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Then there's the letters to the seven churches in chapter
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Two and three, which is which speak of the state of the church
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Throughout history.
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And what it is
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Today is a description of the weaknesses of the church.
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But then it begins in chapter four and five were the vision
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Of heaven and what?
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What the plan of christ is for the future.
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Time when there would be
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An unprecedented time of tribulation.
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Okay.
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And that takes us from chapter 6 to 18
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Explaining that and judgments that are coming in.
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But then, you know, the thing
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Is, when you look at it, i found in doing that, really
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The book of revelation is it's only 25% speaking about
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Judgment and 75% talking about the attributes of god.
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The context is what god is like, what is he trying to do?
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And that climaxes in the second coming of christ,
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A glorious coming
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And establishing the promised kingdom,
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Which prepares for an eternal state
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In the new heaven and earth and the coming down of the
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Heavenly jerusalem.
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And there are beautiful lessons there.
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What what it means the marriage of the land, winning
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And and all that, leading to the to
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The heavenly jerusalem with
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12 gates, having the names of the 12 tribes, and in
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12 foundations having the names of the 12 apostles.
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That's saying that all the, all the,
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The bodies of redeemed people will be in heavenly.
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And that's god's intention for the.
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World.
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As we wrapped up our conversation.
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And i so wish that it could have gone on longer.
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But i asked doctor shehata, what does he most excited about?
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What are some of the challenges
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That believers in jordan and the arab world face,
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And how can we pray for him
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And for the students and the staff at jets?
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Well, you know,
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I'm excited about the lord jesus and what he does to a person.
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That's a that's the most exciting thing.
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But then we wish we could do more.
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There are some limitations.
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Wish we had a little bit more freedom.
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But at the same time, because we are limited
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By so many rules and so just by the culture,
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We move forward and answer to prayer.
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You know, miracle after miracle we move forward.
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So please pray that these obstacles, when they come
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And they're here, we have many examples of them
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That we would stay strong and trusting
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That the lord would see us through somehow and
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Pray for the incoming students.
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There will be choice
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Men and women that would come, and then outgoing students
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As they go to difficult countries,
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Poor economies and wanting help.
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And they're just excited about planting
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Churches and developing.
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So that's what we're all about.
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Amen. amen.
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Thank you so much for spending some time sharing with us,
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And i hope that my viewers will will pray not only for you
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Personally and for the ministry of the seminary,
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But for the entire church
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Throughout the arab and islamic world.
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Thanks for having me. it's an honor. it's an honor for me.
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Thank you.
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Well, i hope you enjoyed discovering
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The jordan evangelical theological seminary jets.
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I love this ministry. i've known them for years.
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I've known doctor for years.
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And i'm so grateful
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For the chance to spend some time with him.
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I did meet with him
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In his office and met with his staff
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And had a wonderful working lunch with them in amman.
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But but just to go up to mount nebo, such a biblical site,
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And spend time with one of these wonderful, humble,
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But very effective leaders
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In the arab evangelical christian world,
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I want to encourage you to pray for doctor imad.
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This is not easy work.
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It's very challenging for lots of reasons.
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They need prayer, they need encouragement.
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Of course they need support.
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But i also want you to just discover them to understand
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What god is doing, how powerful he is moving in the arab world,
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Not just here in israel, not just in iran.
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And that is our show for tonight.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Thank you so much for praying for jets, praying
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For us, praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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May god give you a wonderful week
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As you continue to walk with the lord jesus christ
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And the power of the holy spirit. spend time in the word.
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Spend time in prayer and worship,
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And in fellowship with other believers.
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May god just give you a wonderful
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Blessing as you bless
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Israel and her neighbors in the name of jesus.
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As you care for widows and orphans
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And those who are less fortunate.
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And of course, as you pray for all
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What god is doing here in the middle east. thank you.
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Thank you for watching.
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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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Joel Rosenberg: Training Future Pastors | The Rosenberg Report

May 14, 2026 | 22:7

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