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David Jeremiah - A Geographical Prophecy—Jerusalem

May 9, 2026 | 57:29

David Jeremiah - A Geographical Prophecy—Jerusalem
Jerusalem has played a pivotal role in world and biblical history. In the End Times, Jerusalem will once again play a role in the events surrounding the return of Christ.
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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - A Geographical Prophecy—Jerusalem | May 9, 2026
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  • Male announcer: find clarity and hope
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  • Dr. david jeremiah: are we living in the end-times?
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  • There may have never been another time in history
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  • I believe there are ten phenomena
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  • We are witnessing today that were recorded centuries ago
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  • In bible prophecy.
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  • Seeing our circumstances in light of these prophecies
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  • And ultimately, where do we go from here?
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  • Dr. jeremiah: what role does jerusalem play
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  • In the endtimes drama unfolding around us?
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  • Jerusalem is interwoven like a golden thread
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  • Into the tapestry of biblical history
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  • And future prophecy.
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  • So then, what are believers to do
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  • With this geopolitical and prophetic city?
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  • Dr. jeremiah: god loves jerusalem.
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  • Satan hates jerusalem.
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  • Jesus wept over jerusalem.
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  • The holy spirit descended into jerusalem.
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  • The nations are drawn to jerusalem,
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  • And one day christ will return to jerusalem
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  • And reign over the city.
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  • Jerusalem is a central city.
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  • Signs we are living in the end-times?
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  • Would you be surprised to know the decay of character
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  • Is a precursor for christ's return?
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  • ♪ who speaks to the sea ♪
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  • ♪ who stands in the fire beside me ♪
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  • ♪ he roars like a lion ♪
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  • ♪ he bled as the lamb ♪
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  • ♪ he carries my healing in his hands ♪
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  • ♪ oh, it's jesus ♪
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  • ♪ messiah ♪
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  • ♪ my savior ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ you're my rock and my redeemer ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in your name ♪
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  • ♪ in your name ♪
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  • ♪ you walk on the waters ♪
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  • ♪ you speak to the sea ♪
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  • ♪ you stand in the fire beside me ♪
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  • ♪ you roar like a lion ♪
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  • ♪ you bled as the lamb ♪
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  • ♪ you stand in the fire beside me ♪
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  • ♪ you roar like a lion ♪
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  • ♪ you bled as the lamb ♪
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  • ♪ you carry my healing in your hand ♪
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  • ♪ oh, it's jesus ♪
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  • ♪ there is no one like you, jesus ♪
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  • ♪ there is no one like you, jesus ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ i'm calling on the god of jacob ♪
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  • ♪ whose love endures through generations ♪
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  • ♪ i know that you will keep your covenant ♪
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  • ♪ i'm calling on the god of moses ♪
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  • ♪ the one who opened up the ocean ♪
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  • ♪ i need you now to do the same thing for me ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ oh god, my god, i need you ♪
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  • ♪ oh god, my god, i need you now ♪
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  • ♪ how i need you now ♪
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  • ♪ oh rock, oh rock of ages ♪
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  • ♪ i'm standing on your faithfulness ♪
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  • ♪ on your faithfulness ♪
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  • ♪ i'm calling on the god of mary ♪
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  • ♪ whose favor rests upon the lowly ♪
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  • ♪ i know with you all things are possible ♪
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  • ♪ i'm calling on the god of david ♪
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  • ♪ who made a shepherd boy courageous ♪
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  • ♪ i may not face goliath ♪
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  • ♪ but i've got my own giants ♪
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  • ♪ oh god, my god, i need you ♪
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  • ♪ o god, my god, i need you now ♪
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  • ♪ how i need you now ♪
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  • ♪ oh rock, oh rock of ages ♪
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  • ♪ i'm standing on your faithfulness ♪
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  • ♪ on your faithfulness ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ you heard your children then ♪
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  • ♪ you hear your children now ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you answered prayers back then ♪
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  • ♪ and you will answer now ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you were providing then ♪
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  • ♪ you are providing now ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you moved in power then ♪
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  • ♪ god, move in power now ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • ♪ you were a healer then ♪
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  • ♪ you are a healer now ♪
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  • ♪ you are the same god ♪
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  • "jerusalem: a geographical prophecy."
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  • Dr. jeremiah: history was humming in the air
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  • Like electricity on may 14, 2018.
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  • A blue ribbon crowd assembled in front
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  • Of the new american embassy in jerusalem.
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  • The event coincided with the 70th birthday
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  • Of the state of israel.
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  • The weather was mild and sunny, and the gallery
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  • Was filled with sunglasses and smiles.
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  • After years of vacillation, the united states of america
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  • Was officially moving its ambassador
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  • And diplomatic staff to the true capital
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  • Of the jewish state, to jerusalem, amen.
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  • There were 800 guests in attendance that day,
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  • Including members of the united states congress,
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  • The us deputy secretary of state,
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  • Members of the trump family, the us ambassador to israel,
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  • The middle east peace envoy, representatives
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  • Of 33 other countries, pastors and rabbis,
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  • And of course, israel's president
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  • And prime minister.
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  • Standing in the sunshine before giant flags
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  • Of the united states and israel,
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  • An emotional prime minister benjamin netanyahu
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  • Punched the podium with his finger
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  • And exclaimed, "what a glorious day!
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  • Remember this moment.
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  • This is history."
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  • Well, i've had the privilege of visiting jerusalem
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  • Many times.
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  • And each occasion has been memorable.
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  • As you drive in from the east,
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  • The sight just takes your breath away.
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  • Emerging from a tunnel, your attention leaps
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  • To the left.
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  • There, shimmering in the sunshine
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  • Is the temple mount, the wailing wall,
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  • The glistening dome of the rock,
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  • The al-aqsa mosque, the mount of olives,
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  • Church of the holy sepulcher.
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  • The walls around the old city reflect a golden hue,
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  • And at night they're burnished with an eerie glow
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  • From great spotlights.
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  • The sight of these walls day or night
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  • Almost brings tears to your eyes.
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  • This is the old city of jerusalem.
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  • By moving the united states embassy
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  • To this hallowed city, the united states
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  • Made an historic statement in support of israel,
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  • Illustrating a unique union between two
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  • Of the greatest democracies on planet earth.
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  • Since then, other nations have moved their embassies
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  • To jerusalem.
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  • Though the decision to do so is controversial,
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  • In fact, as you probably remember,
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  • Everybody predicted it would create a war,
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  • Which it did not do.
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  • It certainly asks a lot of questions
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  • And begs some answers.
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  • So here is the question: why should there be
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  • Such a deep emotion about a piece of real estate
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  • No bigger than the state of new jersey?
  • 00:20:43.825 --> 00:20:46.395
  • Why should love and hatred for jerusalem be so strong?
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  • One answer is that jerusalem is bound up with prophecies
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  • From almighty god.
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  • I can hardly believe that i was privileged
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  • To be alive when the state of israel
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  • Was reborn in 1948.
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  • I was 7 years old.
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  • Now i have had the privilege of watching
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  • Another prophetic domino fall with yet another elevation
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  • Of jerusalem.
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  • In the words of prophetic writer randall price,
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  • Jerusalem is now set to become god's stage
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  • For the final drama.
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  • The city of jerusalem, as you know, is sacred
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  • To christianity, sacred to judaism,
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  • And sacred to islam.
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  • It's the world's most significant city,
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  • And it's mentioned in the bible 811 times.
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  • Now that might not sound so awesome to you
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  • Until i tell you that the second most mentioned city
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  • In the bible is babylon.
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  • It's mentioned 200-and-some times.
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  • Once you realize how prominent jerusalem is,
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  • You'll see it everywhere.
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  • Almost every place you turn, there's something being said
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  • About jerusalem.
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  • It is god's city.
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  • The population of jerusalem is growing.
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  • It is moving toward a million people.
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  • When jesus was on this earth, 75,000 people
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  • Lived in jerusalem.
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  • And according to the bible, i don't know
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  • If you know this, there's a special blessing
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  • That resides upon anybody who was born in jerusalem.
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  • Here's what it says in psalm 87: "and of zion,"
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  • Or jerusalem, "it will be said, 'this one
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  • And that one were born in her; and the most high himself
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  • Shall establish her.'
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  • The lord will record, when he registers the people."
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  • Did you know that there are people
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  • Who when they find out they're pregnant,
  • 00:22:47.816 --> 00:22:50.185
  • Go to jerusalem so their children
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  • Can be born under the blessing of god,
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  • Because there is a special blessing
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  • Upon those who are born in jerusalem.
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  • Don't ask me to explain it.
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  • I'm just reporting it.
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  • So, jesus loved jerusalem.
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  • On one occasion he stood outside of jerusalem,
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  • And we read this in matthew 23.
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  • He prayed, "o jerusalem, jerusalem, the one
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  • Who kills the prophets and stones those
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  • Who are sent to her!
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  • How often i wanted to gather your children together,
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  • As a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,
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  • But you were not willing!"
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  • Jesus loved jerusalem and he cried over jerusalem
  • 00:23:29.758 --> 00:23:32.594
  • Because of their unwillingness to accept him as their messiah.
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  • And if you study the history of the early church,
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  • You know that it all started in jerusalem.
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  • The bible says we're to take the gospel
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  • To the whole world, from jerusalem to judea
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  • To samaria and the uttermost parts
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  • Of the world.
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  • Jerusalem is the center of world evangelism,
  • 00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:53.648
  • According to the book of acts.
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  • Now there's several main reasons why jerusalem is so important
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  • And why it's such a constant subject,
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  • Even in the secular news.
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  • First of all, jerusalem is a central city.
  • 00:24:06.528 --> 00:24:10.999
  • Jerusalem is the center of israel
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  • In the same way that your heart is the center of your body.
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  • No city on earth has captured
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  • The world's attention throughout all the centuries
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  • Like the city of jerusalem.
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  • Ezekiel the prophet put it this way: he said,
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  • "this is jerusalem; i have set her
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  • In the midst of the nations
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  • And the countries all around her."
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  • Yes, jerusalem is the city in the center.
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  • It is the center of man's hopes and god's purposes.
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  • God loves jerusalem.
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  • Satan hates jerusalem.
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  • Jesus wept over jerusalem.
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  • The holy spirit descended into jerusalem.
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  • The nations are drawn to jerusalem,
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  • And one day christ will return to jerusalem
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  • And reign over the city.
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  • Indeed, the destiny of the world is tied
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  • To the future of jerusalem.
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  • Jerusalem is a central city.
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  • Here's something i didn't realize
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  • At the depth that i now realize it.
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  • Jerusalem is a chosen city.
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  • Do you know that jerusalem was chosen specifically
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  • By god for her role in the history of israel,
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  • In the life of jesus, and in the events of his return?
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  • According to 1 kings 8:44, jerusalem is the city
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  • Which god has chosen.
  • 00:25:28.944 --> 00:25:32.080
  • In deuteronomy chapter 12, five times we are told
  • 00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:36.785
  • That god chose jerusalem for his name.
  • 00:25:36.785 --> 00:25:41.256
  • This is god's city, the city of jerusalem,
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  • Set in a place like no other city.
  • 00:25:46.061 --> 00:25:48.330
  • Here's a passage that uniquely helps you
  • 00:25:48.330 --> 00:25:50.599
  • To understand that.
  • 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:52.033
  • This is 2 chronicles 6:5-6.
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  • You might want to write this passage down.
  • 00:25:54.436 --> 00:25:57.005
  • "since the day that i brought my people
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  • Out of the land of egypt," god is speaking,
  • 00:25:58.974 --> 00:26:01.876
  • "i have chosen no city from any tribe of israel
  • 00:26:01.876 --> 00:26:05.046
  • In which to build a house, and my name might be there,
  • 00:26:05.046 --> 00:26:08.650
  • Nor did i choose any man to be a ruler
  • 00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:10.652
  • Over my people israel.
  • 00:26:10.652 --> 00:26:12.554
  • But i have chosen jerusalem, that my name may be there,
  • 00:26:12.554 --> 00:26:16.424
  • And i have chosen david to be over my people."
  • 00:26:16.424 --> 00:26:19.828
  • In other words, god said, "since the beginning of time,
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  • I never selected any city.
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  • There was no special city.
  • 00:26:23.865 --> 00:26:26.234
  • But i have selected jerusalem.
  • 00:26:26.234 --> 00:26:28.737
  • Jerusalem is my chosen city.
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  • Jerusalem has my special blessing upon it.
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  • It's the city that has my name connected to it."
  • 00:26:33.908 --> 00:26:38.079
  • And it helps me to understand what happens to me
  • 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.683
  • When i go to jerusalem.
  • 00:26:41.683 --> 00:26:43.718
  • I've been going there now for a number of years
  • 00:26:43.718 --> 00:26:45.620
  • And i've tried to explain even to my wife
  • 00:26:45.620 --> 00:26:48.089
  • How when i walk into that city, it's like a spell comes over me.
  • 00:26:48.089 --> 00:26:52.327
  • It's sort of almost surreal.
  • 00:26:52.327 --> 00:26:54.763
  • In those moments, it's like i've got one foot
  • 00:26:54.763 --> 00:26:56.865
  • In the past and the other in the future.
  • 00:26:56.865 --> 00:26:59.434
  • And the walls and the buildings
  • 00:26:59.434 --> 00:27:00.935
  • Are made of a kind of pale golden limestone
  • 00:27:00.935 --> 00:27:04.072
  • That's used a lot in the united states even now.
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  • It's called jerusalem stone.
  • 00:27:06.641 --> 00:27:09.978
  • There's always just a whiff of tension
  • 00:27:09.978 --> 00:27:11.813
  • In the city of jerusalem because everybody knows
  • 00:27:11.813 --> 00:27:14.582
  • That the ground beneath their feet
  • 00:27:14.582 --> 00:27:16.051
  • Is the powder keg of the earth.
  • 00:27:16.051 --> 00:27:18.453
  • I don't feel unsafe in jerusalem, that's not it.
  • 00:27:18.453 --> 00:27:20.689
  • I mean, everywhere you look, somebody's got a rifle
  • 00:27:20.689 --> 00:27:22.357
  • Slung over their shoulder.
  • 00:27:22.357 --> 00:27:24.125
  • It's the most armed city i've ever been in.
  • 00:27:24.125 --> 00:27:27.062
  • Everybody who's in jerusalem, if you're a citizen
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  • Of jerusalem, a young person in jerusalem,
  • 00:27:29.197 --> 00:27:31.533
  • You're in the army, you're a soldier.
  • 00:27:31.533 --> 00:27:33.601
  • You don't get to ask to be in the army, you are.
  • 00:27:33.601 --> 00:27:36.705
  • And the reason they're able to protect themselves
  • 00:27:36.705 --> 00:27:38.573
  • So wonderfully when they're attacked
  • 00:27:38.573 --> 00:27:40.241
  • Is the whole city is ready to respond.
  • 00:27:40.241 --> 00:27:44.612
  • It's the most prepared city to protect itself
  • 00:27:44.612 --> 00:27:48.316
  • That i've ever been in.
  • 00:27:48.316 --> 00:27:50.819
  • And there are places in jerusalem
  • 00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:52.253
  • Where i literally walk where jesus walked.
  • 00:27:52.253 --> 00:27:56.424
  • We see some of the locations
  • 00:27:56.424 --> 00:27:58.793
  • When we go there where jesus performed his miracles,
  • 00:27:58.793 --> 00:28:02.630
  • Where he debated his enemies, where he faced his execution.
  • 00:28:02.630 --> 00:28:06.501
  • Most of all, i love going to the quiet beauty
  • 00:28:06.501 --> 00:28:08.737
  • Of the garden tomb and visualizing how
  • 00:28:08.737 --> 00:28:11.873
  • It must have been on resurrection day.
  • 00:28:11.873 --> 00:28:15.243
  • So i've spent my whole life studying
  • 00:28:15.243 --> 00:28:17.345
  • And teaching the bible, and when i'm in jerusalem,
  • 00:28:17.345 --> 00:28:20.715
  • It's as though i were jumping through its pages,
  • 00:28:20.715 --> 00:28:23.952
  • Transported to the very scenes of action.
  • 00:28:23.952 --> 00:28:27.155
  • I hope you've been there. if you haven't, i hope you go.
  • 00:28:27.155 --> 00:28:29.858
  • When you come home, the bible is never the same.
  • 00:28:29.858 --> 00:28:32.794
  • You read something in the scripture, "oh,
  • 00:28:32.794 --> 00:28:34.496
  • I was there.
  • 00:28:34.496 --> 00:28:35.964
  • I walked on that place."
  • 00:28:35.964 --> 00:28:38.333
  • But having said all of that, i still haven't explained
  • 00:28:38.333 --> 00:28:41.269
  • To you why i now understand i have such an overwhelming aura
  • 00:28:41.269 --> 00:28:47.876
  • When i go to jerusalem.
  • 00:28:47.876 --> 00:28:49.911
  • I've discovered something that goes far beyond
  • 00:28:49.911 --> 00:28:52.113
  • Emotions and enjoyment.
  • 00:28:52.113 --> 00:28:54.716
  • Men and women, as never before,
  • 00:28:54.716 --> 00:28:56.351
  • I've realized that jerusalem belongs to god,
  • 00:28:56.351 --> 00:28:59.454
  • As no other city ever has or ever will.
  • 00:28:59.454 --> 00:29:04.192
  • There's a biblical sense in which jerusalem is eternal.
  • 00:29:04.192 --> 00:29:07.962
  • It will never die.
  • 00:29:07.962 --> 00:29:09.831
  • Jerusalem is god's own unique eternal city,
  • 00:29:09.831 --> 00:29:13.268
  • And that fact more than any other explains
  • 00:29:13.268 --> 00:29:16.971
  • The wonder of the holy city to me.
  • 00:29:16.971 --> 00:29:19.574
  • When i go there, i'm walking in god's city.
  • 00:29:19.574 --> 00:29:24.012
  • I'm moving around in the city chosen
  • 00:29:24.012 --> 00:29:27.148
  • By the almighty.
  • 00:29:27.148 --> 00:29:29.017
  • So jerusalem is a central city and it's a chosen city.
  • 00:29:29.017 --> 00:29:32.587
  • It's also a capital city.
  • 00:29:32.587 --> 00:29:34.789
  • Jerusalem became the capital of israel
  • 00:29:34.789 --> 00:29:36.858
  • By decree of king david over 3,000 years ago,
  • 00:29:36.858 --> 00:29:41.696
  • And it's remained israel's capital ever since.
  • 00:29:41.696 --> 00:29:45.500
  • Other nations have conquered and settled
  • 00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:47.669
  • In the land of israel, but no one
  • 00:29:47.669 --> 00:29:49.270
  • Has ever declared jerusalem their capital.
  • 00:29:49.270 --> 00:29:52.874
  • Over the past 2,000 years, even during times of occupation
  • 00:29:52.874 --> 00:29:56.044
  • And persecution, a jewish community
  • 00:29:56.044 --> 00:29:58.546
  • Has resided in jerusalem and maintained it
  • 00:29:58.546 --> 00:30:01.716
  • As their eternal capital.
  • 00:30:01.716 --> 00:30:04.686
  • For many years american opinion spoke
  • 00:30:04.686 --> 00:30:07.922
  • In favor of moving the united states embassy
  • 00:30:07.922 --> 00:30:11.759
  • From tel aviv to jerusalem, and politicians agreed.
  • 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:16.631
  • Presidential candidates promised to do it.
  • 00:30:16.631 --> 00:30:19.734
  • In october of 1995 the us congress called for
  • 00:30:19.734 --> 00:30:23.171
  • The move to occur by may 1999, but one after another,
  • 00:30:23.171 --> 00:30:28.142
  • Our american presidents deferred,
  • 00:30:28.142 --> 00:30:31.212
  • Citing the fear of security considerations
  • 00:30:31.212 --> 00:30:34.015
  • Should they do such a thing.
  • 00:30:34.015 --> 00:30:36.651
  • But in june of 2017, the united states senate
  • 00:30:36.651 --> 00:30:40.388
  • Unanimously passed a resolution
  • 00:30:40.388 --> 00:30:43.424
  • 90 to nothing that reaffirmed the 1995 congressional decision
  • 00:30:43.424 --> 00:30:49.764
  • And called upon the president to implement it.
  • 00:30:49.764 --> 00:30:52.967
  • And six months later, president trump
  • 00:30:52.967 --> 00:30:55.703
  • Recognized jerusalem as israel's capital
  • 00:30:55.703 --> 00:30:58.172
  • And moved the embassy away from tel aviv,
  • 00:30:58.172 --> 00:31:00.942
  • And critics whined and complained,
  • 00:31:00.942 --> 00:31:03.478
  • Saying he should have used the issue to work
  • 00:31:03.478 --> 00:31:05.413
  • With the palestinians, but in short,
  • 00:31:05.413 --> 00:31:07.982
  • The embassy was relocated to an area in western jerusalem
  • 00:31:07.982 --> 00:31:11.419
  • Where israel commands total sovereignty,
  • 00:31:11.419 --> 00:31:14.656
  • And it is now in jerusalem where you will find
  • 00:31:14.656 --> 00:31:18.993
  • The united states embassy.
  • 00:31:18.993 --> 00:31:25.333
  • With that event, another key has been turned
  • 00:31:25.333 --> 00:31:28.403
  • In the grand lock of biblical prophecy,
  • 00:31:28.403 --> 00:31:31.172
  • And i'll explain what i mean.
  • 00:31:31.172 --> 00:31:33.908
  • Here's the answer to that question,
  • 00:31:33.908 --> 00:31:36.077
  • What does this mean?
  • 00:31:36.077 --> 00:31:38.146
  • The second advent of jesus christ
  • 00:31:38.146 --> 00:31:40.214
  • Cannot happen without jerusalem.
  • 00:31:40.214 --> 00:31:44.352
  • Almost all the christ-centered events in the future
  • 00:31:44.352 --> 00:31:47.288
  • Will take place in jerusalem.
  • 00:31:47.288 --> 00:31:51.059
  • Without jerusalem these events would be impossible.
  • 00:31:51.059 --> 00:31:53.928
  • Were i living in jerusalem today,
  • 00:31:53.928 --> 00:31:55.763
  • If i was a citizen of jerusalem,
  • 00:31:55.763 --> 00:31:57.765
  • I would take these prophecies
  • 00:31:57.765 --> 00:31:59.701
  • With a great sense of reassurance
  • 00:31:59.701 --> 00:32:02.036
  • Because they assume the continual existence
  • 00:32:02.036 --> 00:32:04.205
  • Of this city, a fact that seems at odds
  • 00:32:04.205 --> 00:32:07.041
  • With the threats she continually faces
  • 00:32:07.041 --> 00:32:08.609
  • Every day.
  • 00:32:08.609 --> 00:32:10.445
  • Every time i've gone to jerusalem,
  • 00:32:10.445 --> 00:32:11.879
  • I've had the opportunity to preach
  • 00:32:11.879 --> 00:32:14.182
  • On the southern steps of the temple.
  • 00:32:14.182 --> 00:32:16.718
  • I looked over to my right and i could see
  • 00:32:16.718 --> 00:32:19.887
  • The mount of olives, the hilltop
  • 00:32:19.887 --> 00:32:22.256
  • Where jesus ascended to heaven
  • 00:32:22.256 --> 00:32:23.658
  • At the close of his gospel ministry.
  • 00:32:23.658 --> 00:32:26.327
  • To this very place we are told
  • 00:32:26.327 --> 00:32:28.096
  • In the prophetic scripture jesus will come again.
  • 00:32:28.096 --> 00:32:31.199
  • He will come again, and his feet will touch
  • 00:32:31.199 --> 00:32:33.668
  • The mount of olives from which he went back to heaven.
  • 00:32:33.668 --> 00:32:37.171
  • Not only will christ return to jerusalem
  • 00:32:37.171 --> 00:32:39.340
  • At his second advent, but that city
  • 00:32:39.340 --> 00:32:41.275
  • Will be the seat from which he reigns on the earth
  • 00:32:41.275 --> 00:32:43.878
  • During the whole millennium.
  • 00:32:43.878 --> 00:32:45.680
  • The thousand-year period of christ's rule
  • 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:47.482
  • On the earth will take place, and it will be centered, where?
  • 00:32:47.482 --> 00:32:50.451
  • In jerusalem.
  • 00:32:50.451 --> 00:32:52.453
  • Jerusalem will be the messiah's millennial capital
  • 00:32:52.453 --> 00:32:55.523
  • And the home of a temple
  • 00:32:55.523 --> 00:32:57.525
  • In which the sacrifices will be memorial.
  • 00:32:57.525 --> 00:33:01.162
  • That's only the beginning.
  • 00:33:01.162 --> 00:33:02.630
  • The everlasting capital city of jesus
  • 00:33:02.630 --> 00:33:04.866
  • Throughout eternity will be jerusalem.
  • 00:33:04.866 --> 00:33:07.235
  • In the bible we call it the new jerusalem.
  • 00:33:07.235 --> 00:33:11.039
  • Earthly jerusalem, to which jesus will return
  • 00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.741
  • And from where he will reign a thousand years,
  • 00:33:13.741 --> 00:33:16.144
  • Is the prelude to another jerusalem,
  • 00:33:16.144 --> 00:33:18.713
  • A city whose foundations and builder is god.
  • 00:33:18.713 --> 00:33:22.350
  • The new jerusalem is the city we read about
  • 00:33:22.350 --> 00:33:24.652
  • In the bible in revelation 20 and 21.
  • 00:33:24.652 --> 00:33:28.523
  • The bible says in 21:2: "the holy city,
  • 00:33:28.523 --> 00:33:32.026
  • The new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
  • 00:33:32.026 --> 00:33:35.263
  • From god."
  • 00:33:35.263 --> 00:33:36.664
  • And men and women, this is a real city.
  • 00:33:36.664 --> 00:33:39.367
  • The final two chapters of the bible
  • 00:33:39.367 --> 00:33:41.302
  • Use the word "city" 11 times to describe the new jerusalem.
  • 00:33:41.302 --> 00:33:47.108
  • This isn't a figure of speech.
  • 00:33:47.108 --> 00:33:48.476
  • This is not some spiritual thing.
  • 00:33:48.476 --> 00:33:51.446
  • Let's face it, because our resurrection bodies
  • 00:33:51.446 --> 00:33:53.981
  • Are going to be real--
  • 00:33:53.981 --> 00:33:56.117
  • The body of jesus was real after he came out of the grave,
  • 00:33:56.117 --> 00:33:59.320
  • We're going to have resurrection bodies
  • 00:33:59.320 --> 00:34:01.022
  • Just like jesus had.
  • 00:34:01.022 --> 00:34:02.990
  • Because our bodies will be real,
  • 00:34:02.990 --> 00:34:05.026
  • We're going to need a real place to live,
  • 00:34:05.026 --> 00:34:07.762
  • A real place in which to function,
  • 00:34:07.762 --> 00:34:10.098
  • And the new jerusalem will be just that.
  • 00:34:10.098 --> 00:34:13.101
  • It will be a physical location.
  • 00:34:13.101 --> 00:34:16.404
  • In the book of revelation we have our fullest glimpse
  • 00:34:16.404 --> 00:34:19.440
  • Of the details of that city.
  • 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:21.709
  • It is the capital city of heaven.
  • 00:34:21.709 --> 00:34:24.412
  • And i want to read to you a rather extended section
  • 00:34:24.412 --> 00:34:27.582
  • Of revelation chapter 21 so you can remember
  • 00:34:27.582 --> 00:34:31.052
  • What the bible says about this place,
  • 00:34:31.052 --> 00:34:33.688
  • Our eternal home.
  • 00:34:33.688 --> 00:34:36.023
  • "now i saw a new heaven and a new earth,
  • 00:34:36.023 --> 00:34:38.626
  • For the first heaven and the first earth
  • 00:34:38.626 --> 00:34:40.261
  • Had passed away.
  • 00:34:40.261 --> 00:34:41.762
  • And there was no more sea.
  • 00:34:41.762 --> 00:34:43.664
  • Then i, john, saw the holy city,
  • 00:34:43.664 --> 00:34:45.733
  • The new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
  • 00:34:45.733 --> 00:34:48.769
  • From god, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  • 00:34:48.769 --> 00:34:53.141
  • And i heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
  • 00:34:53.141 --> 00:34:55.643
  • 'behold, the tabernacle of god is with men,
  • 00:34:55.643 --> 00:34:59.313
  • And he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people.
  • 00:34:59.313 --> 00:35:02.683
  • God himself will be with them and be their god.
  • 00:35:02.683 --> 00:35:05.686
  • And god will wipe away every tear
  • 00:35:05.686 --> 00:35:07.555
  • From their eyes; and there shall be
  • 00:35:07.555 --> 00:35:09.056
  • No more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
  • 00:35:09.056 --> 00:35:11.659
  • There shall be no more pain, for the former things
  • 00:35:11.659 --> 00:35:14.328
  • Have passed away.'
  • 00:35:14.328 --> 00:35:16.164
  • Then he who sat on the throne said,
  • 00:35:16.164 --> 00:35:18.666
  • 'behold, i make all things new.'
  • 00:35:18.666 --> 00:35:21.469
  • And he said to me, 'write, for these words are faithful
  • 00:35:21.469 --> 00:35:24.705
  • And true.'"
  • 00:35:24.705 --> 00:35:26.040
  • Now that's a long section, but this description
  • 00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:28.943
  • Implies the holy city was designed and built
  • 00:35:28.943 --> 00:35:32.647
  • And made ready for the earth,
  • 00:35:32.647 --> 00:35:34.549
  • And john didn't see the new jerusalem being created.
  • 00:35:34.549 --> 00:35:38.486
  • It exists now.
  • 00:35:38.486 --> 00:35:39.987
  • The new jerusalem is heaven.
  • 00:35:39.987 --> 00:35:41.322
  • It's where my parents are.
  • 00:35:41.322 --> 00:35:42.957
  • It's where many of your loved ones are.
  • 00:35:42.957 --> 00:35:44.859
  • It's where we go when we die.
  • 00:35:44.859 --> 00:35:46.627
  • It's the new jerusalem. it's in heaven.
  • 00:35:46.627 --> 00:35:48.796
  • But the bible says in the end times
  • 00:35:48.796 --> 00:35:51.098
  • It will descend to this earth, this four square city,
  • 00:35:51.098 --> 00:35:55.036
  • And a lot of people say, "well, how could that city
  • 00:35:55.036 --> 00:35:56.804
  • Be big enough to handle all the christians
  • 00:35:56.804 --> 00:35:59.340
  • Who are going to be there?"
  • 00:35:59.340 --> 00:36:00.808
  • People who ask that question probably are overestimating
  • 00:36:00.808 --> 00:36:03.477
  • How many christians are going to be there.
  • 00:36:03.477 --> 00:36:07.381
  • And they're underestimating the incredible volume of space
  • 00:36:07.381 --> 00:36:11.652
  • In a four square city, the city of my god.
  • 00:36:11.652 --> 00:36:16.424
  • So try this exercise.
  • 00:36:16.424 --> 00:36:17.825
  • What do you think this is gonna look like?
  • 00:36:17.825 --> 00:36:19.994
  • I'm gonna give you a little experience
  • 00:36:19.994 --> 00:36:21.929
  • This morning.
  • 00:36:21.929 --> 00:36:23.664
  • Think of the most beautiful spot
  • 00:36:23.664 --> 00:36:26.467
  • You've ever seen on planet earth.
  • 00:36:26.467 --> 00:36:30.504
  • For me, it's an island in the aegean sea
  • 00:36:30.504 --> 00:36:35.209
  • Called santorini.
  • 00:36:35.209 --> 00:36:37.211
  • Here it is.
  • 00:36:37.211 --> 00:36:41.816
  • I've been there twice.
  • 00:36:41.816 --> 00:36:43.884
  • It's an amazing city because it's built
  • 00:36:43.884 --> 00:36:45.686
  • On the top of a volcano that obviously is dead
  • 00:36:45.686 --> 00:36:49.023
  • And everything is white.
  • 00:36:49.023 --> 00:36:51.626
  • And when you're in a ship coming toward the city,
  • 00:36:51.626 --> 00:36:54.462
  • It's up high.
  • 00:36:54.462 --> 00:36:55.963
  • You have to take an escalator to get up there.
  • 00:36:55.963 --> 00:36:58.866
  • And when you see it, i remember saying to donna,
  • 00:36:58.866 --> 00:37:03.137
  • "oh, it looks like we're floating toward heaven."
  • 00:37:03.137 --> 00:37:06.841
  • That's what it looks like.
  • 00:37:06.841 --> 00:37:08.709
  • And it is a beautiful city, unbelievable.
  • 00:37:08.709 --> 00:37:12.980
  • As we stood on the deck of the ship
  • 00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:14.515
  • And looked at the white little town
  • 00:37:14.515 --> 00:37:16.550
  • With its rounded roofs and quaint simplicity,
  • 00:37:16.550 --> 00:37:20.054
  • It looked like it was suspended in space.
  • 00:37:20.054 --> 00:37:24.492
  • But ladies and gentlemen, as breathtaking
  • 00:37:24.492 --> 00:37:26.994
  • As santorini is, it's nothing compared
  • 00:37:26.994 --> 00:37:30.531
  • To the beauty of the new jerusalem.
  • 00:37:30.531 --> 00:37:33.467
  • The new jerusalem will be so overwhelming,
  • 00:37:33.467 --> 00:37:36.437
  • You will not be able to take it in in one breath.
  • 00:37:36.437 --> 00:37:40.941
  • What's happened in jerusalem now
  • 00:37:40.941 --> 00:37:43.344
  • Is a prediction of the jerusalem that is to come.
  • 00:37:43.344 --> 00:37:46.781
  • Jerusalem in israel is a city
  • 00:37:46.781 --> 00:37:49.550
  • Which in essence never ends.
  • 00:37:49.550 --> 00:37:50.951
  • It's an eternal city.
  • 00:37:50.951 --> 00:37:52.953
  • The old jerusalem will be replaced
  • 00:37:52.953 --> 00:37:54.655
  • By the new jerusalem and continue on forever
  • 00:37:54.655 --> 00:37:57.892
  • And ever.
  • 00:37:57.892 --> 00:37:59.460
  • When you see the new jerusalem, you'll be overjoyed
  • 00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:02.229
  • With its beauty.
  • 00:38:02.229 --> 00:38:03.564
  • That's the first thing i want you to think about.
  • 00:38:03.564 --> 00:38:06.233
  • The bible describes the new jerusalem
  • 00:38:06.233 --> 00:38:08.035
  • As a city built on a foundation of precious stones.
  • 00:38:08.035 --> 00:38:11.739
  • Entry into the city will be through gates of pearl,
  • 00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:14.642
  • And the streets will be paved with gold.
  • 00:38:14.642 --> 00:38:17.411
  • The light of the city will come
  • 00:38:17.411 --> 00:38:19.046
  • From the lamb of god himself, who is the light of the world.
  • 00:38:19.046 --> 00:38:23.851
  • Near the city center, you'll find
  • 00:38:23.851 --> 00:38:25.386
  • The tree of life, which has been missing
  • 00:38:25.386 --> 00:38:28.122
  • Since the book of genesis in chapter 3.
  • 00:38:28.122 --> 00:38:31.158
  • The inhabitants of the city will be able
  • 00:38:31.158 --> 00:38:33.361
  • To eat the leaves of the tree of life,
  • 00:38:33.361 --> 00:38:35.730
  • And those leaves will somehow provide
  • 00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:37.732
  • A deeper sense of our well-being in heaven.
  • 00:38:37.732 --> 00:38:41.035
  • In the heart of the city is the river of life
  • 00:38:41.035 --> 00:38:43.904
  • Which will come from beneath the throne of god
  • 00:38:43.904 --> 00:38:46.307
  • And flow through the landscape and delight the whole earth.
  • 00:38:46.307 --> 00:38:50.511
  • This will be a beautiful river.
  • 00:38:50.511 --> 00:38:53.047
  • So, you'll be overjoyed with its beauty.
  • 00:38:53.047 --> 00:38:55.716
  • You'll be overwhelmed with its holiness.
  • 00:38:55.716 --> 00:38:59.553
  • Three times in revelation 21 and 22,
  • 00:38:59.553 --> 00:39:02.656
  • John calls the new jerusalem a holy city.
  • 00:39:02.656 --> 00:39:08.596
  • The wycliffe bible commentary says
  • 00:39:08.596 --> 00:39:11.065
  • That "a holy city will be one in which no lie
  • 00:39:11.065 --> 00:39:15.069
  • Will be uttered in 100 million years.
  • 00:39:15.069 --> 00:39:18.973
  • No evil word will ever be spoken.
  • 00:39:18.973 --> 00:39:22.476
  • No shady deal will ever be discussed.
  • 00:39:22.476 --> 00:39:26.013
  • No unclean picture will ever be seen.
  • 00:39:26.013 --> 00:39:29.483
  • No corruption of life will ever be manifest.
  • 00:39:29.483 --> 00:39:32.653
  • It will be holy because everyone in it will be holy."
  • 00:39:32.653 --> 00:39:38.459
  • In fact, john lists eight kinds of people
  • 00:39:38.459 --> 00:39:41.362
  • Who will never step foot inside the gates
  • 00:39:41.362 --> 00:39:43.264
  • Of the new jerusalem.
  • 00:39:43.264 --> 00:39:44.999
  • Here they are in revelation 21:8.
  • 00:39:44.999 --> 00:39:48.469
  • "the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers,
  • 00:39:48.469 --> 00:39:51.839
  • Sexual immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, all liars.
  • 00:39:51.839 --> 00:39:56.343
  • They shall have their part in the lake which burns
  • 00:39:56.343 --> 00:39:58.612
  • With fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
  • 00:39:58.612 --> 00:40:03.050
  • So when you see the new jerusalem,
  • 00:40:03.050 --> 00:40:05.486
  • You'll be overwhelmed by its beauty.
  • 00:40:05.486 --> 00:40:07.354
  • When you enter the city, you'll be overwhelmed
  • 00:40:07.354 --> 00:40:09.490
  • By its holiness.
  • 00:40:09.490 --> 00:40:11.759
  • And i say that today with some context
  • 00:40:11.759 --> 00:40:14.528
  • For where we are now.
  • 00:40:14.528 --> 00:40:16.030
  • Is there any place where you can go today
  • 00:40:16.030 --> 00:40:19.867
  • That's truly holy?
  • 00:40:19.867 --> 00:40:22.303
  • Where it hasn't been touched by the icy fingers of sin?
  • 00:40:22.303 --> 00:40:26.907
  • Oh, there's some good places.
  • 00:40:26.907 --> 00:40:29.310
  • I hope this is one of them.
  • 00:40:29.310 --> 00:40:31.779
  • But while this church is filled with good people,
  • 00:40:31.779 --> 00:40:34.949
  • It's not holy because sitting in this room
  • 00:40:34.949 --> 00:40:37.918
  • Today among us, maybe you're one of them,
  • 00:40:37.918 --> 00:40:43.390
  • Is unholiness.
  • 00:40:43.390 --> 00:40:45.392
  • But when you get to heaven, there won't be anything
  • 00:40:45.392 --> 00:40:48.395
  • That's unholy.
  • 00:40:48.395 --> 00:40:49.730
  • Everything will be perfectly holy.
  • 00:40:49.730 --> 00:40:52.266
  • There will be no sin, no thought of sin,
  • 00:40:52.266 --> 00:40:54.468
  • No death, no sickness, no crying, no sorrow,
  • 00:40:54.468 --> 00:40:58.405
  • None of the results of sin that we experience
  • 00:40:58.405 --> 00:41:01.909
  • In the world today, none of that will be present.
  • 00:41:01.909 --> 00:41:05.746
  • And so the new jerusalem will overjoy you
  • 00:41:05.746 --> 00:41:09.149
  • With its beauty.
  • 00:41:09.149 --> 00:41:11.151
  • It will overwhelm you with its holiness,
  • 00:41:11.151 --> 00:41:14.455
  • And it will overcome you with its savior.
  • 00:41:14.455 --> 00:41:17.625
  • You know, we talk about how beautiful the city is
  • 00:41:17.625 --> 00:41:19.693
  • And the pearly gates and walking
  • 00:41:19.693 --> 00:41:21.462
  • On streets of gold and all of that sort of stuff.
  • 00:41:21.462 --> 00:41:25.266
  • But i want to tell you something that i know.
  • 00:41:25.266 --> 00:41:27.935
  • Once you get to heaven, that won't be
  • 00:41:27.935 --> 00:41:29.837
  • What you care about.
  • 00:41:29.837 --> 00:41:31.639
  • You won't think about that, you'll see it
  • 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:33.274
  • And say, "oh, this is beautiful."
  • 00:41:33.274 --> 00:41:35.042
  • But the bible says that in the city
  • 00:41:35.042 --> 00:41:36.944
  • Of jerusalem, the new city of jerusalem,
  • 00:41:36.944 --> 00:41:39.914
  • You will find the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:41:39.914 --> 00:41:43.584
  • Seeing his face, glimpsing his smile,
  • 00:41:43.584 --> 00:41:46.420
  • Enjoying his fellowship, worshiping his glory,
  • 00:41:46.420 --> 00:41:49.323
  • Revelation 22:4 says, "they shall see his face,
  • 00:41:49.323 --> 00:41:53.093
  • And his name shall be on their foreheads."
  • 00:41:53.093 --> 00:41:55.129
  • I'm not really sure what that means.
  • 00:41:55.129 --> 00:41:56.931
  • Apparently we're going to have some little identification
  • 00:41:56.931 --> 00:41:59.166
  • Of jesus christ on our foreheads.
  • 00:41:59.166 --> 00:42:02.069
  • There's a hymn writer by the name of fannie crosby
  • 00:42:02.069 --> 00:42:04.305
  • Who's written a lot of the hymns that we sing.
  • 00:42:04.305 --> 00:42:07.041
  • She has a hymn about this moment
  • 00:42:07.041 --> 00:42:09.043
  • And she calls this hymn, "my savior first of all."
  • 00:42:09.043 --> 00:42:13.314
  • She writes about the mansion prepared for her,
  • 00:42:13.314 --> 00:42:15.883
  • Of the loved ones she longs to see,
  • 00:42:15.883 --> 00:42:18.485
  • And of the beautiful gates and the sparkling river.
  • 00:42:18.485 --> 00:42:22.423
  • But her song has as its chorus,
  • 00:42:22.423 --> 00:42:25.225
  • "but i long to meet my savior first of all."
  • 00:42:25.225 --> 00:42:29.396
  • Let me tell you what i know, men and women:
  • 00:42:29.396 --> 00:42:31.565
  • When you see the lord jesus christ,
  • 00:42:31.565 --> 00:42:33.400
  • It will almost make you forget about all the beauty
  • 00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:36.270
  • Of the city itself.
  • 00:42:36.270 --> 00:42:38.105
  • What a moment that will be to have fellowship
  • 00:42:38.105 --> 00:42:41.342
  • With the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:42:41.342 --> 00:42:46.380
  • So as we describe the city of jerusalem
  • 00:42:46.380 --> 00:42:49.817
  • And the new jerusalem and try to understand
  • 00:42:49.817 --> 00:42:52.620
  • How it relates to where we are today,
  • 00:42:52.620 --> 00:42:54.054
  • Let me just give you a couple of takeaways
  • 00:42:54.054 --> 00:42:56.624
  • Which are part of every one of these messages.
  • 00:42:56.624 --> 00:42:59.593
  • Here's where we are, here's what it means,
  • 00:42:59.593 --> 00:43:02.162
  • And now, where do we go from here?
  • 00:43:02.162 --> 00:43:06.066
  • First of all, let me encourage you
  • 00:43:06.066 --> 00:43:08.135
  • To stay fervent in your prayer for israel.
  • 00:43:08.135 --> 00:43:13.540
  • The psalmist tells us to do that.
  • 00:43:13.540 --> 00:43:15.643
  • The psalmist says, "pray for the peace of jerusalem:
  • 00:43:15.643 --> 00:43:19.847
  • 'may they prosper who love you.'"
  • 00:43:19.847 --> 00:43:22.683
  • The bible commands us to pray for israel,
  • 00:43:22.683 --> 00:43:25.819
  • This chosen city of god, this unique city of the future.
  • 00:43:25.819 --> 00:43:30.924
  • If you visit jerusalem and walk through the old city
  • 00:43:30.924 --> 00:43:33.460
  • From end to end, you will encounter
  • 00:43:33.460 --> 00:43:35.829
  • A labyrinth of languages and cultures and passions.
  • 00:43:35.829 --> 00:43:39.767
  • There are more religions in the city of jerusalem
  • 00:43:39.767 --> 00:43:42.302
  • Than you can imagine.
  • 00:43:42.302 --> 00:43:44.838
  • Only jesus christ can ever bring unity
  • 00:43:44.838 --> 00:43:47.341
  • To such a tangle of tongues and tempers.
  • 00:43:47.341 --> 00:43:51.045
  • We need to pray for the jews.
  • 00:43:51.045 --> 00:43:52.613
  • We need to pray for the palestinians.
  • 00:43:52.613 --> 00:43:54.782
  • We need to pray for the christians
  • 00:43:54.782 --> 00:43:56.684
  • And all the others who make this land their home.
  • 00:43:56.684 --> 00:44:01.188
  • But not only must we pray for the internal culture
  • 00:44:01.188 --> 00:44:06.593
  • Of israel, we must pray for the international safety
  • 00:44:06.593 --> 00:44:10.564
  • Of israel.
  • 00:44:10.564 --> 00:44:12.366
  • Modern israel has been faced and forced
  • 00:44:12.366 --> 00:44:16.070
  • To maintain a continual state of warfare
  • 00:44:16.070 --> 00:44:19.039
  • Almost throughout its entire existence.
  • 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.608
  • Someone described living in israel as
  • 00:44:21.608 --> 00:44:23.977
  • A very nice house in a very bad neighborhood.
  • 00:44:23.977 --> 00:44:28.749
  • Israel is in a fight for its very survival,
  • 00:44:28.749 --> 00:44:31.985
  • And not everybody is sympathetic to them.
  • 00:44:31.985 --> 00:44:34.855
  • We've noticed in this country,
  • 00:44:34.855 --> 00:44:36.256
  • Even in recent days and months,
  • 00:44:36.256 --> 00:44:39.126
  • A greater sense of antisemitism than we've had in the past.
  • 00:44:39.126 --> 00:44:42.863
  • It's a growing thing.
  • 00:44:42.863 --> 00:44:44.198
  • It should frighten us because you know
  • 00:44:44.198 --> 00:44:45.632
  • The bible says god will bless those
  • 00:44:45.632 --> 00:44:47.735
  • Who bless israel and he will curse those
  • 00:44:47.735 --> 00:44:50.304
  • Who curse israel.
  • 00:44:50.304 --> 00:44:51.972
  • If we take a stand against israel,
  • 00:44:51.972 --> 00:44:53.674
  • If we don't support them, if we're not israel's friends,
  • 00:44:53.674 --> 00:44:56.710
  • We put ourselves in great jeopardy.
  • 00:44:56.710 --> 00:45:01.648
  • If you don't think israel is under hostility,
  • 00:45:01.648 --> 00:45:04.618
  • I'm going to tell you something
  • 00:45:04.618 --> 00:45:05.953
  • That i know you wouldn't hear anyplace else
  • 00:45:05.953 --> 00:45:07.454
  • Because nobody will tell you this.
  • 00:45:07.454 --> 00:45:10.557
  • You'll be jolted by this, as i was.
  • 00:45:10.557 --> 00:45:12.626
  • Listen.
  • 00:45:12.626 --> 00:45:15.162
  • This statistic comes from the united nations.
  • 00:45:15.162 --> 00:45:19.633
  • Israel has been the single most discriminated-against state
  • 00:45:19.633 --> 00:45:23.637
  • At the united nations.
  • 00:45:23.637 --> 00:45:24.972
  • So here's the statistics: from 2012 through 2019,
  • 00:45:24.972 --> 00:45:31.311
  • The united nations has made 202 resolutions
  • 00:45:31.311 --> 00:45:37.184
  • Criticizing other countries.
  • 00:45:37.184 --> 00:45:41.355
  • Israel was the subject of 163 of those 202 resolutions.
  • 00:45:41.355 --> 00:45:48.428
  • 81% of the resolutions against other countries
  • 00:45:48.428 --> 00:45:53.000
  • By the united nations is against israel.
  • 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.903
  • Now, you and i know that's not possible.
  • 00:45:55.903 --> 00:45:59.339
  • That couldn't be real.
  • 00:45:59.339 --> 00:46:00.974
  • Israel is responsible for 81% of the hostility
  • 00:46:00.974 --> 00:46:04.444
  • In the world today?
  • 00:46:04.444 --> 00:46:05.913
  • That's not true, but it is true
  • 00:46:05.913 --> 00:46:07.948
  • That it represents the hostility
  • 00:46:07.948 --> 00:46:09.883
  • That the world still has for this little nation
  • 00:46:09.883 --> 00:46:13.086
  • We call israel.
  • 00:46:13.086 --> 00:46:14.755
  • So let me tell you again: pray for israel.
  • 00:46:14.755 --> 00:46:19.359
  • They count on us as their prayer partners.
  • 00:46:19.359 --> 00:46:23.697
  • I hope you will join me in doing that.
  • 00:46:23.697 --> 00:46:25.833
  • Number two, stay faithful in your service
  • 00:46:25.833 --> 00:46:29.236
  • And in your ministry.
  • 00:46:29.236 --> 00:46:32.339
  • 2 peter 3:11-12 says, "since everything
  • 00:46:32.339 --> 00:46:36.677
  • Will be destroyed in this way,
  • 00:46:36.677 --> 00:46:39.179
  • What kind of people ought you to be?
  • 00:46:39.179 --> 00:46:41.915
  • You ought to live holy and godly lives
  • 00:46:41.915 --> 00:46:44.718
  • As you look forward to the day of god
  • 00:46:44.718 --> 00:46:46.987
  • And speed its coming."
  • 00:46:46.987 --> 00:46:49.223
  • Peter said, "since it's true
  • 00:46:49.223 --> 00:46:51.525
  • That god's going to renovate this earth,"
  • 00:46:51.525 --> 00:46:54.127
  • It's not going to be destroyed, but it's going to be cleansed,
  • 00:46:54.127 --> 00:46:57.531
  • And it's going to all be made new.
  • 00:46:57.531 --> 00:46:58.999
  • We hear about the new heavens and the new earth
  • 00:46:58.999 --> 00:47:01.301
  • And the new jerusalem coming down.
  • 00:47:01.301 --> 00:47:04.037
  • Peter says, "since all this is true,
  • 00:47:04.037 --> 00:47:05.606
  • What kind of people should we be?"
  • 00:47:05.606 --> 00:47:08.242
  • Here is peter telling us where do we go from here,
  • 00:47:08.242 --> 00:47:11.612
  • And this is what he's saying.
  • 00:47:11.612 --> 00:47:13.080
  • This ought to solicit within us a greater sense
  • 00:47:13.080 --> 00:47:17.284
  • Of holiness and godliness than ever before.
  • 00:47:17.284 --> 00:47:21.688
  • There's an old adage that says
  • 00:47:21.688 --> 00:47:23.557
  • That sanctification, which is to be holy,
  • 00:47:23.557 --> 00:47:27.160
  • Sanctification is defined like this: it is being
  • 00:47:27.160 --> 00:47:31.265
  • In practice what you already are in position.
  • 00:47:31.265 --> 00:47:34.735
  • The bible says that when we accept christ,
  • 00:47:34.735 --> 00:47:37.304
  • We get the righteousness of jesus christ,
  • 00:47:37.304 --> 00:47:39.706
  • So before god we're just as righteous
  • 00:47:39.706 --> 00:47:41.975
  • As jesus is, but the reality is
  • 00:47:41.975 --> 00:47:44.945
  • We still have to live on this earth
  • 00:47:44.945 --> 00:47:47.047
  • And our responsibility is to live our lives
  • 00:47:47.047 --> 00:47:49.750
  • In such a way that we are living as if we really are holy.
  • 00:47:49.750 --> 00:47:56.089
  • We're to live lives that are representative
  • 00:47:56.089 --> 00:47:59.159
  • Of the holiness which god has given us.
  • 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:02.095
  • Oh, how important that is today, because we are being surrounded
  • 00:48:02.095 --> 00:48:06.600
  • With evil as never before,
  • 00:48:06.600 --> 00:48:08.802
  • And it has never been more important
  • 00:48:08.802 --> 00:48:10.871
  • That we as christians refuse to live our lives in a lie
  • 00:48:10.871 --> 00:48:15.108
  • And live our lives in the truth of who we are
  • 00:48:15.108 --> 00:48:17.711
  • In jesus christ.
  • 00:48:17.711 --> 00:48:19.479
  • So stay fervent in your prayer for israel.
  • 00:48:19.479 --> 00:48:24.418
  • And then stay focused on israel and jerusalem.
  • 00:48:24.418 --> 00:48:29.523
  • Of the 193 countries in the world,
  • 00:48:29.523 --> 00:48:32.025
  • Israel is in the bottom half in terms of its citizens.
  • 00:48:32.025 --> 00:48:36.763
  • It has a population of 9 million.
  • 00:48:36.763 --> 00:48:40.167
  • That's less than 1% of china's population.
  • 00:48:40.167 --> 00:48:43.937
  • Israel is 1% of china's population.
  • 00:48:43.937 --> 00:48:47.975
  • And yet israel's international influence
  • 00:48:47.975 --> 00:48:51.378
  • Far outweighs the number of people
  • 00:48:51.378 --> 00:48:53.714
  • That are living there.
  • 00:48:53.714 --> 00:48:55.415
  • "the new york times" reported that israel
  • 00:48:55.415 --> 00:48:58.385
  • Is the seventh most mentioned country
  • 00:48:58.385 --> 00:49:01.321
  • In their newspaper, just behind russia, england,
  • 00:49:01.321 --> 00:49:04.725
  • And germany, and way ahead of much larger countries
  • 00:49:04.725 --> 00:49:08.428
  • Like japan, india, and italy, and you know that.
  • 00:49:08.428 --> 00:49:11.999
  • You can't listen to the news without israel being mentioned.
  • 00:49:11.999 --> 00:49:15.235
  • It's in all the writings. it's in all of the news shows.
  • 00:49:15.235 --> 00:49:19.239
  • And as you witnessed the united states embassy
  • 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:21.541
  • Being moved to jerusalem, you see again
  • 00:49:21.541 --> 00:49:24.644
  • That israel's at the center of the geopolitical world.
  • 00:49:24.644 --> 00:49:28.882
  • Along with that are all of these nations
  • 00:49:28.882 --> 00:49:31.418
  • Which have now become a part of the abraham accords.
  • 00:49:31.418 --> 00:49:34.955
  • You probably know about this: the united emirates,
  • 00:49:34.955 --> 00:49:38.091
  • Bahrain, and sudan, all arab nations,
  • 00:49:38.091 --> 00:49:43.230
  • Have made accords with israel, and they now are trading
  • 00:49:43.230 --> 00:49:48.201
  • With them and working with them
  • 00:49:48.201 --> 00:49:49.770
  • And they've drawn close to israel.
  • 00:49:49.770 --> 00:49:51.705
  • I understand that there are more of these nations on the way.
  • 00:49:51.705 --> 00:49:56.610
  • So keep your eyes on the chessboard
  • 00:49:56.610 --> 00:49:59.212
  • Of the middle east.
  • 00:49:59.212 --> 00:50:00.647
  • Follow the news from there.
  • 00:50:00.647 --> 00:50:02.449
  • Become an expert on the land that god has marked
  • 00:50:02.449 --> 00:50:05.185
  • As the flashpoint of prophecy.
  • 00:50:05.185 --> 00:50:08.288
  • Many people around the world have enjoyed
  • 00:50:08.288 --> 00:50:10.490
  • The wit and personality of kathy lee gifford,
  • 00:50:10.490 --> 00:50:14.161
  • Who has been a tv host on "regis and kathy,"
  • 00:50:14.161 --> 00:50:17.731
  • As well as the "today show."
  • 00:50:17.731 --> 00:50:21.401
  • What many people don't know is that kathy lee
  • 00:50:21.401 --> 00:50:23.904
  • Is a dedicated student of the bible,
  • 00:50:23.904 --> 00:50:26.740
  • A huge evangelical fan of israel.
  • 00:50:26.740 --> 00:50:31.445
  • In her words, "my love affair
  • 00:50:31.445 --> 00:50:33.980
  • With the land of israel began the moment
  • 00:50:33.980 --> 00:50:35.615
  • I took my very first step onto the promised land
  • 00:50:35.615 --> 00:50:39.086
  • In june of 1971."
  • 00:50:39.086 --> 00:50:41.888
  • She writes, "i was 17 years old
  • 00:50:41.888 --> 00:50:44.491
  • And my father's high school graduation gift to me
  • 00:50:44.491 --> 00:50:47.828
  • Was a trip for me and my mother
  • 00:50:47.828 --> 00:50:50.363
  • To attend the first jerusalem conference
  • 00:50:50.363 --> 00:50:52.466
  • On biblical prophecy.
  • 00:50:52.466 --> 00:50:54.935
  • I missed my graduation ceremony, but i couldn't have cared less.
  • 00:50:54.935 --> 00:50:59.573
  • I was there where it all happened,
  • 00:50:59.573 --> 00:51:01.775
  • And all the stories i had heard, all the scriptures i had studied
  • 00:51:01.775 --> 00:51:05.212
  • Since i was a young girl, everything i believed
  • 00:51:05.212 --> 00:51:08.081
  • From the word of god had taken place
  • 00:51:08.081 --> 00:51:10.083
  • Thousands of years in this land,
  • 00:51:10.083 --> 00:51:12.786
  • And i was there experiencing it for the very first time.
  • 00:51:12.786 --> 00:51:17.257
  • That thought took my breath away
  • 00:51:17.257 --> 00:51:18.825
  • All those years ago," she wrote, "and it still does today."
  • 00:51:18.825 --> 00:51:22.762
  • Like me, kathy lee gifford has been a frequent visitor
  • 00:51:22.762 --> 00:51:26.099
  • To israel.
  • 00:51:26.099 --> 00:51:27.434
  • She even wrote a book called "the rock, the road,
  • 00:51:27.434 --> 00:51:30.837
  • And the rabbi: my journey into the heart
  • 00:51:30.837 --> 00:51:33.640
  • Of scriptural faith in the land where it all began."
  • 00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:36.977
  • That book hit "the new york times"
  • 00:51:36.977 --> 00:51:38.445
  • Bestselling list.
  • 00:51:38.445 --> 00:51:40.514
  • One trip in particular was especially memorable,
  • 00:51:40.514 --> 00:51:44.384
  • And that was when kathy lee's husband,
  • 00:51:44.384 --> 00:51:46.620
  • Frank gifford, agreed to join her in israel
  • 00:51:46.620 --> 00:51:49.723
  • For the first time.
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  • Frank had grown up in poverty
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  • And he later became a very famous football player
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  • And tv announcer.
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  • He also was a man of faith, or at least he thought he was.
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  • According to kathy lee, "what frank didn't realize
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  • Until our trip to israel is that he had a religion
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  • All of his life, but he never had
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  • A relationship with the living god."
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  • During that trip, the group visited
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  • The valley of elah, where david fought goliath.
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  • The leader explained that the miracle
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  • Of that story was not david's victory
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  • Over the giant.
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  • After all, david had already defeated a lion
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  • And a bear.
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  • Instead, the miracle of that story was david's
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  • Genuine personal relationship with almighty god.
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  • The leader then instructed everyone in the group
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  • To go down to the same brook david had visited
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  • And pick up a stone.
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  • He asked, "what is your stone?
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  • Where are you going to throw it?"
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  • In kathy lee's words, "i will never forget the look
  • 00:52:49.149 --> 00:52:52.619
  • In frank's eyes as this man who was in six halls of fame
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  • Obediently reached down to pick up his stone
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  • Just as a young shepherd boy had done 3,000 years ago.
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  • This experience lit a fire in my belly,
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  • And it satisfied a deep longing in frank's soul.
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  • Though the rest of the trip was profoundly moving
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  • And illuminating, it was this truth he learned
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  • In the valley of elah, that religion is nothing
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  • Without relationship, that gave frank
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  • A strong sense of peace and purpose
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  • Until the day he died.
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  • And finally at the age of 82 he had found his stone."
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  • What i learned from this is jerusalem
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  • Is the center of religion, but jesus christ
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  • Is the center of faith.
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  • Don't go to your grave a religious person.
  • 00:53:44.738 --> 00:53:48.875
  • Go to your grave a christian person.
  • 00:53:48.875 --> 00:53:52.746
  • Go to heaven.
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  • Don't go to the other place.
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  • Don't live all of your life
  • 00:53:56.516 --> 00:53:57.884
  • Under the facade of being a religious person,
  • 00:53:57.884 --> 00:54:01.254
  • As frank gifford did.
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  • Find jesus christ in a personal way.
  • 00:54:03.690 --> 00:54:06.626
  • Accept him as your lord and savior.
  • 00:54:06.626 --> 00:54:08.795
  • Invite him to come and forgive your sin
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  • And receive him into your life,
  • 00:54:11.431 --> 00:54:13.667
  • And you will be a person who has a relationship,
  • 00:54:13.667 --> 00:54:18.338
  • Not a religion.
  • 00:54:18.338 --> 00:54:20.040
  • Relationship is what gets you to heaven.
  • 00:54:20.040 --> 00:54:22.309
  • Religion will fool you into thinking
  • 00:54:22.309 --> 00:54:25.545
  • You're going there and you will be disappointed at the end.
  • 00:54:25.545 --> 00:54:29.516
  • So my appeal to you today is this: make sure
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  • Jesus christ is not only
  • 00:54:33.620 --> 00:54:35.922
  • The center of jerusalem and the new jerusalem,
  • 00:54:35.922 --> 00:54:39.192
  • But that he is the center of your life
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  • Because you have put him on the throne of your heart.
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  • Dr. jeremiah: jerusalem is mentioned in the bible
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  • More than twice as many times as the next most mentioned city.
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  • And the lord himself declared that jerusalem
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  • Was his own special city
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  • Upon which he had placed his name.
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  • So keep your eyes on jerusalem,
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  • Pay attention to this city that is so important to god
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  • And to bible prophecy.
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  • After all, it is the future capital of the world.
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  • It is to jerusalem that christ will return
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  • And inaugurate his thousand-year kingdom on earth.
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  • Are you prepared for his return to jerusalem?
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  • Well, the only way to be ready is to belong to him
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